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OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, Mellon's Opera of VICTORINE. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall. Mr. 11. Corrie, Mr. H. Haigh, Mr. A. St. Albyn. and ?tlr. G. Horn astle. With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Bolen°, FL Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes rites, Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. ;Sp the Zelhiski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. TTIEA TRF-R0 YAI4, HAYMARKET. Lamee. Mr. J. B. Baaketone. THT.3 EVENING the reriormknoes will nomm.umP with (by desir , ) SIT STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss ilrardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND TIER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Lecleroqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. poYAL PRINCESS'S THEATR.E.— Logee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Messrs. Fechter, Harris, Meadows, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Murray. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime. entitled ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Lind of the Carfbbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown. Kr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. So',a Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. TATS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vining. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, and John Drew ; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart, and Mrs. Rouse. Atter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing THE visioNT OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAT-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE. L a zry Hoolagan, Mr. John Drew. 0-11. A DETJPTIT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL , SoTe Pmrrletor and Manwer, Mr. BeAL Wehmter. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roncicault, D. rsher, Billington, Falooner, Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF 1113 E. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, R. Kelly, Laidlaw, and v. Thorne. Doors open at half past e--Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 6. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family BOXPS. XI. Orchestra Stalls, gs. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 2g, ; Pit Stalls, 2B• • Pit, Is. Bd. ; Amphitheatre. is ; Gallery, Ed. Acting• Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. • A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wx. BATTY. Immense success of the Pantomime. me-engagement of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions. A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Fridap, Jan. 25, commencin, at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding with the Lions. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled 'ME LION CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Gronpe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Betty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime. for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE. WONDERFUL TrOfiSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comle scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harleouinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Loors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL PANTOMIME. "THE ENCHANTED HASH," EVERY EVENING. ENTERTAINING PEOPLE. Mr. 3L&BSITALL and Mr. BELL. GOOD TEOPLE. W'ildrose, 1 Fairieg, with the usual ELOOOM- 1 Mr. Marshall Primrose., plishments. f Mr. Bell. COMMON PEOPLE. Farmer Thickhead (a husbandman. with a Wife and Child. who make a fool of him) Mr. Bell. Giles Gosling (the mysterious Orphan. who runs after every Miss, and afterwards Harlegnin)Mr. Marshall. Dame Thickhead (who. having worn out the breeches, takes to Pantaloons) Mr. Bell. Doll(the bell of the village, which Giles in tends to ring the—changes to Columbine).. Mr. Marshall. BAD PEOPLE. Howleygrowley, ) Demons ofthe blackest dye Mr. Marshall Growleyhowley, 5 and brightest Magenta. Mr. Ball. COMTC PEOPLE, Harlequin Columbine Clown. ... • Mr. F. MARSHALL. Pantaloon .. Mr. F. BELL. Scene, CANTERBURY (that's) HALL! — Time A.D. 1861, at half-past nine. Mr. B. A pack Of nonsense! Mr. M. What we want— Mr. B. Pooh! pooh! The Idea! a Pantomime played by two - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIe DAY.—Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 19m To-mottnow.-Morning, 12h. 50m.—Afternoon, lh. 15m THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, JAN. 24, 1561. VIEEMOMETER, IN THIS SHADS. 44 —highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 44 —this day at :Loon. BAnomwrntz-30.04; falling rapidly. WIND South-Westely light ; with fine sunshiny weather. The finest day this year. LONDON, THURSDAY, lAN. 24, 1881. One of the most important meetings that has been held anywhere in England of late years upon the subject of popular education—of what is, in the best measing of the phrase, really and truly National Education—was held yesterday at one of the great hotels (DEE's Hotel) in Birmingham. It would have warmed the heart of old JOHN POUNDS, the Cobbler. It cannot but gladden every one of the now happily numerous supporters of the Ragged School System throughout the United Kingdom. The meeting referred to, and of which we pub lish a copious report elsewhere in our impression of this evening, was avowedly and explicitly an Educational Conference, for the purpose of discus sing the question of providing for the education of neglected and destitute children ! Surely the class of little ones most needing instruction in all our vast population—surely, surely, those whose education one might have expected to have seen most eagerly cared for among all the various sections of the community, both by the Legislature and the Government. Yet actually this identical class is least thought of, least regarded, by both one and the other. Common sense would seem to dictate at once a suggestion of the adaptability, rather, we should say, the absolute and imperative necessity of—at any rate in regard to education, if in reference to nothing else—beginning with th e b eg i n ning . It was the appreciation of this great need which first of all incited the benevolent WILDERSPIN to set cm foot the Infant School 'System—that lowest rung in the ladder of the intellectual improvement of the general multitude. A little higher i n this wise and instructive gradation coming th e humane scheme born of the at first rival but even tually harmonized systems of juvenile instruction suggested by BELL and LANCASTER. Higher yet in the graduated ascent towards merely the lowliest and humblest approaches to the remote Parnassian heights diversified in the far distance by the great public schools, and crowned at the loftiest summit of all by the ancient universities—modestly in advance of the juvenile seminaries of BELL and LANCASTER, as those were also modestly in advance of the infant schools of WILDERSPIN, came those ingenious and alluring academies of the untutored adult population, the admirable "Mechanics' Institutions found e d y Pr. JARCKBECK. It was not to there, however —greatly as he prized ;them, earnestly as he promoted their multiplication 11.nd development—it was not to these later, and in any rate mor e am bi t i ous mule respects loftier, at i nstitutions, that Lord BROUGHAM referred in that I 'w " u s apostrophe of his, in which, during one of I is great speeches upon the subject of Parliamentary ?Reform, he enunciated the grand truth that the -schoolmaster was aVoad ! Lord BROT.IGHAM, in that ever memorable burst of eloquence, referred neither to the juvenile schools in which were being thumbed the grAinmar and the dictionary, nor . yet to the adult schools where the mechanic and the artisan, after their daily toils were over, could turn to the popular treatises ofsetteira-wocitty as the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. "Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON might appear," he said, " at the head of his victorious battalions, but—the schoolmaster armed with his primer would prove stronger than the soldier with his bayonet !" National Educa tion, in fact, ought, in reason, to begin ab initio. The callow knowledge must be cared for, warmed, and fostered ab ovo. The first consideration should, in truth, be among the promoters of the great cause of popular instruction, the imparting of that instruction at the earliest period, and to the class most in need of it, anywhere discoverable throughout the community. It is so manifest all this, so clearly obvious, so glaringly apparent, that the mere statement of the fact sounds like a truism, the simple enforcement of it reads, when we come to put it on paper, like little less than a succession of platitudes. Yet that even this notorious and transparent necessity, this necessity meeting us upon the very threshold when we go forth, any one of us, to the discussion of the grand and vital question of National Education, even this plain, initial truth has remained until now so far overlooked and neglected—certainly by the Legis• ture, certainly by the Government—that for the very purpose of insisting upon the urgent need for its recognition, there was assembled together that important meeting, yesterday, at Birmingham— a meeting, as we have seen, expressly convened for the purpose of its enforcement. As the Chairman of this great and good assem blage, there appeared in that post of responsibility, one no less admirably qualified to preside over any meeting of the kind than the Right Hon. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. Around him on the platform were grouped men of wide and varied reputation among the zealous advocates for the better educa tion of the masses. Ecclesiastics and laymen, peers and commons, humane and earnest men, gifted and benevolent women, all bent upon aiding, so far as might be practicable upon an occasion like this, in bringing the truths they have so dearly at heart vividly and recognisably before the general community, before the Legislature, and before the executive Government. Conspicuous among those present was the Rev. Dr. GUTHRIE, of Edinburgh, the honoured Father, as he may with perfect jus tice be designated, of the whole of the great Ragged School Movement. There, too, beside Dr. GUTHRIE, close beside the Chairman, were the two chief originators of yesterday's demonstration— Mr. CHARLES RATCLIFF, the able and devoted Sec retary of the Conference, and Mr. M. D. HILL, the warm-hearted, clear-headed Recorder of Birming ham. It was in answer to the joint initiation of these two gentlemen last-mentioned that those who yester day attended the meeting were assembled together. The particular object they had in view in thus assembling together being succinctly expressed in that pithy quotation from a paper relating to the subject, that lucid and sententious passage read in the course of his speech to the meeting by Sir JoAN PAKINGTON, as about the clearest and shortest declaration that could well be made of the policy and opinions held in view by the originators of this particular Educational Conference at Birmingham. The quotation putting the matter thus forcibly in the words subjoined :—" The welfare of society requires that all its members should be educated. There fore, it is the duty of the State, both as regards society in general, and each individual composing it, to provide education for those who cannot obtain it for themselves. This duty is recognised by the State, since it provides education for those who are in gaols and reformatories, and therefore come compulsorily ender its care, and for those who are thrown on society for support, i. e., paupers. The same duty exists, but has not been discharged by the State towards children who are not as yet either criminals or paupers, but whose natural guardians will not or cannot provide for their education. It is the object of the conference to lay before the executive government and the legisla ture, as a consequence of the principle above stated, the imperative duty of its providing education for this portion of the community." Who will not subscribe to the perfect reasonableness of this argu ment ? Perhaps not Mr. LOWE—certainly not, unhappily not Mr. Lowe, or any of that eccentric political clique who pin their faith to the Right Honourable Member the Chairman of the Board of Education. And yet the truth that Mr. Lows contravenes lies absolutely in a nutshell. It is expressed with all the force and lucidity of a syllogism in the foregoing quotation. Denying it however to the last, the Legislature and the Exe cutive Government leave the poor little gamine of the streets without a hand to help them out of their native slough of ignorance, until they can matri culate through crime into their only one college of education—the Reformatory ! At last there is news from Gaeta—rather meagre, to be sure, still it tells us what line things will take for a little while—it may be for rather longer than we think. The ex-KING does not mean to flee at once. He gave full notice to that effect on the morning of the 22d by renewing hostilities. After hearing nothing of movements by either side for three days, some hope began to arise that the Royalists were preparing to give in, and that pre liminaries might be in course of arrangement, or that, at least, something like an understanding was established which should lead to some pacific settlement. FRANCIS 11. and his advisers have dispelled that hope. They saw the fleet, fourteen vessels in all, drawn up in line to enforce the blockade, and to do something more, too, at the proper moment ; they knew that the Piedmontese i had already 150 pieces of artillery ready to com mence with, and were yet preparing new batte ries ; but, nothing daunted, they opened a - Vigorous fire on the besiegers, who, we are told, promptly replied, and so effectually, that the fire from the garrison soon ceased. As the Wiedmontese are working hard at new batteries, they appear, how ever, not to purpose beginning their grand fire yet. They probably mean that it should be a conclusive attack when it does commence—a fire which shall leave little for the assaulting companies to do but to march into the place. If this be the plan of CIALDINI, it may be even weeks yet, before we hear of operations meant to be decisive ; and then, should these fail, nothing will remain but to reduce the place by regular approaches. The worst injury to Italy of the fortress holding out is that indicated by other telegrams, as stilt continuing—the Royalist disturbances in the Abruzzi especially. These districts lie conveniently for the POPE to retaliate on his Sardinian Majesty for accepting the Government of his revolted provinces. We cannot well be surprised that his HOLINESS and ANTONELLI should enjoy a little of the pleasure of revenge when so tempt ing an opportunity offers itself, as some thousands of disbanded Royalist troops of a class ready for any mischief, wanting nothing but arms, a little money, and a free pass through the Papal territory. We may well be indignant, however, that the French, who now occupy the whole of the States of the Church yet in the hands of the POPE, should . c9nllive A t all this brigandage. They cannot call it non-interference, eince but for their presence at Rome, 'VICTOR EMMANUEL would long ago have been the elected King of the Pontifical States as well as of the rest of Italy. If therefore Louis NAPOLEON choose to hold the Papal territory in his own hands, and yet to permit the collection and passage of armed bands into the still unsettled territories lately the Kingdom of Naples, he must be held distinctly responsible for all the 1 disturbances there. It is evident to every one that he thus makes troublesome work for the Sardinians. We read that 2,000 Piedmontese troops had been disembarked at Civita Nova, and were march ing on Teramo ; and that they had put down disturbances at Ascoli. The meaning of this is, that in the Northern Abruzzo and the March of Formo, which joins it, both of them not far from Rome itself, though on the Adriatic coast, the Royalist emissaries, aided by the POPE, and con nived at by General GOYON, are doing all they can to keep up uneasiness by petty insurrections. A process we quite understand in English his tory—indeed, almost within living memory— expelled dynasties or pretenders, having always local adherents ready for any mad attempt to reverse by foreign aid what the vast majority of the nation has fully accepted. We are told that this sort of work continues, and that numbers of Royalist officers, and Roman peasants continue to enter the Abruzzi in this way. The better part of the inhabitants and the Piedmontese have been, indeed, too strong for the reactionary bands which had already entered, and they have had to recross the frontiers ; yet, the EMPEROR manages in this way to keep a perpetual blister on the side of Italian unity. We can, indeed, attribute his con duct to nothing else than the unworthy desire to see Italy unsettled. He has the means in his hands of giving quiet to Italy at once—and those the easiest in the world, for he has only to let Italy quite alone, and no one doubts that in six months from the Alps to the hills of Calabria, order and pros perity would soon be universal. The Piedmontese soldiers and the great body of well-affected inha bitants, with their national guards, would soon rout out the disturbers, and give confidence to agriculture and commerce by the certainty of peace, and the grand result would soon be a com plete social renovation of the country. Italian Statisticians inform us, giving full details of it, that the trade of the eld State of Piedmont, during the twenty years of Constitu tional Government subsequent to 1848, rose to more than double its former amount; they tell us that it was more than five times that of the Two Sicilies, although it had but half the population, a compara tively infelicitous soil and climate, and nothing like the same advantages of coast line and harbours. What will be the effect of freedom, peace, settle ment, and security under the same government throughout Italy we may easily conjecture. Already the towns of the Romagna and other provinces which have united themselves to Piedmont are feeling the difference in their growing trade and business. Nor can it be doubted, that if Louis NAPOLEON would terminate his own unrighteous intervention in Rome, and notify to Austria that she too must quit Venetia, we should soon see such a commercial state in Italy as would abundantly requite this country for all our efforts on her behalf. Italy may remember, too, that these efforts have not cost us nothing; if we have not sent troops and ships to her aid, our enormous naval and military expenses for the last few years, have been, we fully believe, the real reason why Louis NAPOLEON has not vexed them ten times more. The temper he has shown in spite of all our remonstrances, and after having pro claimed to us and Europe that he desired to see Italy settle down into a united and strong kingdom, proves that but for our Mediterranean fleet, and another in the Channel, he would have done some thing more than prevent the blockade of Gaeta, bad as that was. If Italy ever become free, it will be because England is strong—to that she owes a great part of all the freedom she has acquired south of the Po. The time must, however, soon come when Louis NAPOLEON will be called to account at Rome. He may keep Austria in the Quadrilateral as long as he can, as the excuse for retaining possession of Rome, but it may be hoped that events will bring the Arch-Intervener to account. Should Austria escape this year, both in Hungary and in Italy, she cannot well survive another year. A united and settled Italy will be too strong for her in March, 1E62, if it be doubtful whether it be strong enough in 1861; and what may come of Hungarian determination to be free, and of GARIBALDI'S pro ject of attacking Austria through Hungary, it is im , possible to conjecture even for the present year. Movements in such cases as the present are fear fully sudden. When a whole empire, as is now the case with Austria, is but a mine of combustible materials, none can foresee where and when a spark may fall, which would change in a moment the whole political aspect of things. Come what may, however, LOUIS NAPOLEON must not be allowed for ever to curse a whole province of Italy by en slaving its inhabitants to the butchers of Perugia, merely to gratify Imperial ambition and French vanity. His Excellency the Sardinian Minister comes to town to-day from Broadlands. Viscount Palmerston will give a Parliamentary dinner on the 4th proximo to the leading supporters of the Government in the House of Commons. The noble vis count and viscountess come to town to-morrow. Lord and Lady Saltonn and family have arrived in Hereford .street from Ness Castle, N.B. Lord Ashley, M.P., arrived in town on Tuesday, from Torquay. His lordship has since left for Northampton. Her ladyship remains at Torquay. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH WILTS.—The con test is fairly begun, and the canvass is being prosecuted with great activity on both sides. Mr. Grove has issued a second address, in the course of which he states that "the result so far has been of the most encouraging and gratify ing character, and that with the prospect of almost cer tain success, he has determined to afford to every elec tor an opportunity of recording his vote." Backed as they are by a requisition signed by upwards of 1,200 elec tors out of a constituency of little more than 3,000, the sup porters of Lieutenant-Colonel Bathurst are equally san guine; but it is somewhat doubtful whether the whole of those who signed the requisition consider them selves pledged to support the Conservative cause on the day of election. The contest undoubtedly will be severe, the present Lord Herbert not having polled more than 1,500 votes in the contest of himself and Mr. Wyndham with Lord Henry Thynne in 1857. The latter polled between 1,200 and 1,300. Lieut.-Col. Bathurst's expenses have been guaranteed by his supporters, and between £2,000 and £3,000 was subscribed at a meeting at Salisbury on Tuesday, some of the leading agriculturists of the district putting down their names for £5O and £lOO each. The nomination will not take place until after the meeting of Parliament, so that both parties will have ample opportunity for a trial of their strength. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mule premium, and the _short exchange on London is 25.221 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates with the English mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standaid gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price in Paris as it is in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark ; the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £ sterling. Standard gold at the English mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sixty days' sight is about 104/ to 1051 per cent., which, as compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against England. The loss of interest oc casioned by the delay in receiving back gold from the American Mints leaves little, if any, profit now on the transmission of gold to the United States, L A'IEbT NEW S. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, JAN. 24. General IVillisen was received yesterday by the Emperor, to whom he remitted a letter from the King of Prussia announcing the death of his brother and his own accession to the throne. NAPLES, JAN. 23. Troops have been despatched to the Abruzzi and Calabria, where they were cheered by the inhabitants. The reactionary movement has been everywhere suppressed. The batteries of Gaeta have slackened their fire. The Official Gazette of Naples publishes a declaration of the blockade of Gaeta. NAPLES, JAN. 22, A.M. The batteries of Gaeta opened fire against the Sardinians this morning. The latter are actively working at the new batteries. The blockade of the bay is being rapidly carried out. MOLA DI GAETA, JAN. 22, P.M. At eight o'clock this morning the batteries of Gaeta unexpectedly commenced a very heavy fire. Our batteries promptly replied, and compelled the place to remain silent. The fleet placed itself in line at twelve o'clock. The fire of the besiegers continues. TURIN, JAN. 22. The bombardment of Gaeta commenced to-day. Fourteen vessels are stationed before Gaeta. The reactionary bands in the Abruzzi have recrossed the frontiers. COPENHAGEN, lAN. 22. The Minister of Marine has ordered the equip ment of a steam squadron of 22 vessels, including gun-boats and mortar boats. A reserve force of 890 sailors is ordered to assemble on the Ist March. A large popular meeting has been held at Oden see, when addresses were voted to the King for the entire exclusion of Holstein and Lauenburg from the joint State. A committee has been appointed for the purchase of gunboats. SAN. 23. The Minister of Marine has announced that a certain number of captains of merchant vessels can be received into the naval service, if they are prepared to undergo a course of instruction in the Government training schools, which will be opened at the beginning of February. PESTH, JAN. 23. The General Assembly of the Comitat of Gran has voted a reply to the last imperial resolutions communicated by the Chancellor of Hungary to the Government at Buda. The following is a sum mary of this reply : The permanent conflicts with the Government have rendered Hungary distrustful. The imperial diploma of October 20 is in con tradiction with the pragmatic sanction, which is binding on the King as well as on the ration. The oath taken by Charles 111. is binding on his successors. Taxes not sanctioned by the Hungarian Diel are illegal. The Comitat demands guarantees for the right of the Diet to sanction or to reject taxes, and wishes that the King (Emperor of Austria) should reside 407 , sc A --" • 1 , 14 ) ' , ROI C 6 ;. • THE SUN. in Hungary. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 16. The new commercial treaties are advancing to a conclusion on the expected basis of unform duties of eight per cent. on imports and exports. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 23.—The market, at the commence ment of business, had rather an upward tendency, in consequence of the first telegraph from London bringing a rise of / per cent. As the second despatch, however, wiped that improvement away, prices again receded. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 40c; Mobilier, 658 f 75c; Orleans, 1,378 f 75c ? Northern, 960 f; Mediterranean, 910 f; Austrian, 470 f; and Lombard, 467 f 50c. The fol lowing were the last quotations:- 4i per per Cents 97 —, Credit Fancier Do end month 96 901 Belgian 44. — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 45' Roman — Bank Shares' 2870 — f Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 657 50 I Spanish Threes 47 50 Do. Account 658 75 I Home Debt .. — ItAILV►AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3Bl 25 .. 1380 Northern 956 25 .. 957 50 New ditto B9O Lyons and Mediterranean 910 908 75 Geneva 367 50 .. Southern 5OB 75 .. 507 50 Western ... 551 25 .. 551 25 Eastern ....... 592 50 .. 588175 Sardinian 373 75 .. Austrian Lombard ...... 466 25 .. 466 25 AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 20. The Wiener Zeitung of this date contains an Imperial ordinance for the raising of a loan of 30,000,000 of florins. The subscriptions to the loan are to begin on the 21st of January, 1861. The conditions are as follows ;-1. Each subscriber of 88fi, Austrian currency will receive a State bond for 100f1. 2. The bonds to bear 5 per cent. interest. 3. The sum subscribed will be repaid in five years, and in five equal parts. The first-part (one•fifth) will be paid on the let December, 1862; and the last on the Ist December, 1866. In the proem to the ordinance, which is counter signed by the eight members of the Cabinet, it is said that a loan must be raised " because the neces sity for protecting the frontiers has rendered an increased outlay for the army necessary ; and the Hungarians are in arrear with their taxes." It is added, that the necessary steps for getting in the outstanding taxes is Hungary have been taken. The day before yesterday a very energetic rescript was sent by Government to the Lord- Lieutenants of the Hungarian counties, but it has not yet found its way into the public papers. DEATH OF SIR HUGH LYON PLAYFAIR.—The severe and protracted illness of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair terminated fatally at his residence, St. Leonard's, at a quar ter-past 11 o'clock on the evening of Monday last, and has cast a deep gloom over the whole community of St. An drew's. Sir Hugh was the son of the distinguished Prin. cipal Playfair, of the United College, St. ;Andrew's, and was born at the manse of Meigle and Newtyle, of which parishes his father was then minister, on Nov. 17, 1786. He was thus at the tine of his death in his 75th year. In 1804, having previously joined the volunteers, in the colo nel's staff of which he occupied a distinguished place, he received an artillery appointment in Bengal, and his career as a soldier in the East India Company's service was of a somewhat eventful Bind, and led to repeated promotions. In 1815 he was appointed captain, and in 1827 major, which rank he held when, in '34, he left the service and returned to St. Andrew's. He was subsequently honoured with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. It is, however, more for what he has done for St. Andrew's during the 18 years he has filled the chair of Provost of that city that he has been more generally esteemed. He was elected Provost in 1842, and from the hour of his appointment he devoted himself with great aad appreciated energy to the improve ment, physical, social, and intellectual, of his native city. The surviving members of his family are Lady Playfair, three sons, and four daughters, with whose be reavement the highest sympathy is felt. For his varied ser vices the Queen was pleased to confer on the late Provost the honour of knighthood in 1856, in which year the uni versity also conferred on him the degree of L L.D. By his death and that of Sheriff Monteith there are now two va cancies in the trusteeship of the Madras College,—Scots• man. THE UNITED STATES. LONDONDERRY, J A.. 23. The Canadian screw steamer North American, Captin Aiton, from Portland, Maine, on the 12th inst., has arrived. She brings news via Cape Race to the loth inst. The Nova Scotian and Glasgow had arrived out. Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida had seceded. The excitement at Charleston had abated in conse quence of Pacific news from Washington. The Federal troops had abandoned all the forts at Pen sacola except Fort Picken (?). Three hundred men had gone from Mobile to take possession of this fort. Several forts and the Baton Rouge Arsenal had been taken in Louisiana by the Secessionists. New York had offered the whole State force to the general Government. A Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that the Virginia delegation in the Con gress had, with three exceptions, signed a call for a Convention in Virginia, with a view to immediate secession. It was intimated that the Brooklyn and the Harriet 'Lane would accompany the Star .of the West in the next attempt to enter Charleston har bour. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, JAN. 11. Stocks dull, and lower. Illinois, 77 ; New York Central, 77 ; Erie, 371. Money inactive. Exchange yesterday was firm, at closing quotations by last steamer. Cotton rm—Sales to-day, 2,500 bales ; Middling Upland, 13kc. Breadstuffs and provisions firm. Rice steady. Freights quiet. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.—Sales of cotton to-day, 27,000 bales. The news by the last steamer from Europe has caused an advance. Middling is quoted 111 c. to 121 c. [LATEST RV TELEC4RAPII VIA CAPE RACE.] KEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Stocks higher. Illinois, 781, ; Erie, 391; New York Central, 781. The cotton market is heavy. Middling Upland 121-e. to 12t-c. Breadstuffs a trifle lower. THE PROTOGRAPRIC SOCIETY. EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION. But a very few years since and this exhibition of the Photographic Society would have been looked upon as little less than miraculous. Having sauntered round the large apartment of the gallery at SA, Pall-mall East, where (upon the four walls and upon the four screens together) there are exhibited now, in this eighth year of the Society's existence, no less than 622 Photographs and Daguerreotypes—we turn back, for a reason immediately to be mentioned, to one of these re markable specimens, to the one, namely, marked (No. 56) in the printed catalogue. It is the produc tion of one of the most skilled photographers of the age—Roger Fenton—whose " magic glass" has perpetuated for the wondering gaze of posterity almost all the incidents and localities of the Crimean War. The picture here presented to us by the Collodion process, delicately manipulated by this master of the Photographic Art, is a charming little view of a " Bridge in Patterdale." Pausing before it, and looking into its wonderful lights and shadows, we hear the lake poet whispering to us through the quotation— " Thus having reached a bridge that overarched The hasty rivulet where it lay becalmed In a deep pool, by happy chance we saw A double image." Not content with giving us this poetic mor eau, we read further in the copious but far from correctly printed catalogue—and we wince as we read Veluti in speculo ! Grammatically put, the three familiar words might be applied not one jot less appositely than it is applied to No. 50—to every one of the 622 specimens of photography in the Exhibition. Veluti in speculum ! It is the very motto for the perfection of the photograph ! For there truly—whether it be through the col lodio-album, or waxed paper, or Fothergill process, or malt process, or Taupenot's process, or metage latine, or through the exquisitely translucent medium or agency of pure collodion—there assuredly (by some means or other, it matters little which com paratively), there, through the perfection of the photograph, everything is Reflected as in a Mirror or looking-glass ! How accurately, how wondrously these reflections can be produced and perpetuated through this extraordinary art—art though it is but of yesterday—let the present collection at test, this eighth of the Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition. Out of the whole number of 622 pictures die played upon the walls and rooms of the Society's gallery, we have failed to discover even one of a really inferior character. There is not a single photograph in the apartment, we believe, but is in some way or another meritorious. There are many of them in the highest degree entitled to our admi ration, and every kind of test appears to have been applied to the art. Every process seems to have been tried in turn by the exhibitors. Every kind of object seems to have been selected in turn for experiment. " The human face divine " in abundance. Me face of nature in all her varying aspects—winter and summer, shower and sunshine, land and sea, garden and moorland. Art too has been marvellously imitated by this most marvellous of all the arts of imitation. Sculptured masterpieces from the Elgin marbles are here shadowed forth, as in No. 163, by Caldesi, Blandford and Co.—faithfully copied in every flaw and crack, in every tint and granulation of the original material ! Elaborate engravings are here repeated in a twinkling, as in No. 51, by H. Her ring—a copy of an engraving by Dominechino. Yonder, in No. 65, is Bingham's photographic transcript of a painting by Rembrandt. The Earl of Caithness (No. 78) gives us a snow scene. Mr. Robinson (No. 136) affords us a glimpse of a Holi day in the Greenwood. Not only oil paintings are copied by the sunbeam as above instanced, but water-colour drawings—as in No. 172, the Fisher man's Children, photographed by Mr. Ponting, is copied with a charming exactitude. There are Studies of Fruit, too, in the gallery—a number of them from the hand of Roger Fenton, as Nos. 148, 149, 150, and 157—that must make George Lance look to his laurels, or ought we not rather to say of this Prince, or, at any rate, Duke of Fruit Painters, must make him look well to his straw berry leaves. And, then, turning from small things to great, from the tiny and delicate productions of nature, to the gigantic and symmetrical fabrications of art—what shall we say of such astounding photographs as those two brought to us from Rome by P. Donizielli ; No. 30, the Coliseum, the grand old ruined Coliseum, and No. 52, St. Peter's sub lime and world-famous Cathedral ? What—Lbut that they are the very paragons of architectural photography ! Yonder it is the very effigies of that grim and wondrous pile, before the mere idea of which poor Edgar Poe thus mused in poetic contemplation— " Here, where a hero fell a column falls, Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold, A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat I Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle I" Yonder it is the veritable shadowing forth of that marvellous masterpiece of the Titanic intellect of Buonarotti before the &pile of which the two gigantic fountains are, as Robert Browning has sung— " - growing up eternally, Each liko a musical water-tree." Having sauntered round the gallery to survey the miscellaneous contributions there exhibiting, let us turn now once more, and retracing our steps, round the apartment and about the screens, examin ing more particularly the sufficiently abundant specimens of the human countenance here reflected upon glass, or paper, or metal by the magic art of the photographer. As we have already intimated, we have in this special department a really abundant variety of specimens. The majority of them won derfully full of interest. Hardly one portrait among them all without its particular attraction. And yet scarcely one of them, scarcely one at least of the pure photographs what we might mention without any mental reservation at all as completely: satisfactory. There are some very striking photo graphic portraits, for example, by those well known and deservedly popular photographers, the Megfill! Maull and Polyblank. Almost always effective— yet scarcely one, as we have said, of photo graphic portraits generally—scarcely one com pletely satisfactory. One only out of all the numer ous portraits that we remember to have seen from this firm —one only taking all is there, that we should call, without any hesitation, com pletely satisfactory. It is their portrait of George Cruikshank, the greatest of all caricaturists. And that, of course, is not among their contributions to the gallery in Pall-mall, being amongst their ear liest, as it is still to this day, to our thinking, about the happiest of all their photographic achievements. The photographic art, in point of fact, lacks almost invariably that magic touch—the je ne sail quoi of expression" imparting animation, vitality, identity, to the otherwise lifeless effigies drawn upon canvass or wood, upon ivory or cardboard, by pencils guided by the hands of master painters of portraits and miniatures. Combine the two arts together—the miraculous art of photography and the still more miraculous art, if that be possible, born of the genius of the true portrait painter— and you have the very perfection of the miniature, the ne plus ultra of vraisemblance. Is any one desirous of recognising this now as suredly indisputable truth at a glance ? That wish may be realised now any day, and that, moreover, upon the instant after crossing the threshold of the Photographic Society's Gallery. Turning, there— upon that threshold—to his right hand, the visitor to the Gallery will come immediately upon a series of some eight-and-twenty portraits (several of them precisely of the duplex character we have indi cated) half painted, half photographed—eight-and twenty portraits clustered together, all of them ft om the same hand, a hand long familiar to the frequenters of the miniature-room of the Royal Academy as that of one of the most gifted and popu lar among all our miniature painters—the hand of Thomas Carrick, now achieving to himself a new reputation as Artist Photographer ! Several of Mr. Carrick's portraits in the present exhibition are really and truly nothing less admirable than simple, veritable masterpieces. We will in stance but a few of them that have more particularly caught our fancy. No. 362, George Routledge, the eminent publisher; No. 364, J. W. Carmichael, the well•known sea painter; and No. 366, Major Elliot, one of the young heroes of the heavy Cavalry Charge at Balaklava. Dr, Charles Mackay, too (No, 346) is excellent—about the hap piest portrait we have yet seen of our charming and world-famous song-writer. Capital, also, are Mr. Car rick's portraits of (No. 352) Frederick Goodall, the Academy's Associate, and of (No. 365), Samuel Lover, the witty Irish novelist. These and others in the same frame really leave nothing to be de sired—the brush of the artist has there given warmth, and life, and expression to the cold, dead outline of the original photograph. THE DUCHY 01 SCHLESWIG. A writer in a contemporary states that the population of the Duchy of Schleswig is about 400,000. The northern and central part is occupied by Danes, the southern part by Germans, and the islands on the west coast, as well as a narrow strip of land along that shore, by Frisians. It is estimated by German writers that the population numbers 146,500 Germans, 33,000 Frisians, 135,500 Danes, 85,000 mixed nationality. Danish authorities give the population as follows :-116,000 Germans, 33,000 Frisians, 167,000 Danes, 84,000 mixed. The Danish nationality originally extended over to where the river Eider, from time im memorial, has formed the geographical and political boun dary separating Denmark from Germany, and where the Dannewirke, the ancient rampart thrown up by the Danes as a bulwark against German encroachments, still stands, even now, as it was of old, the military frontier of the Scandinavian races towards the south. The Danish nationality has, however, gradually receded, and can now only be traced as far south as the districts contiguous to the arm of the sea called the Schlei. The Duchy of Schleswig having from various causes for a long period been subjected to the administration of German functionaries, the German language introduced into the duchy by German settlers, and favoured by Ger man rulers, acquired an official supremacy in the Danish province, and was adopted, not only as the language of the courts of law throughout the duchy, but also of the church and the schools in the greater part of the country, and even in parts where the language of the people had continued to be pure Danish. The injustice of this state of things was felt long ago, but every attempt to reinstate the Danish nationality and language in its ancient rights met with a passive but effective resistance on the part of the German functionaries entrusted with the administration of the duchy. Thus, in the year 11810, the then reigning sovereign of Denmark - , King Frederick VI., published a royal resolution, declar ing that, "whereas in our duchy of Sohleswig the inhabi tants of some of the islands, and of the greater part of the prefectures and districts on the mainland, speak Danish, it is our will that in those islands and prefectures where the Danish language is the language of the people the German language shall cease to be used in the church, the schools, and in the courts of law, and the Danish language take its place." But this resolution was suffered to become a dead letter, and it was not till after the events of 1848 had taught the Danish nation what disastrous political consequences tho gradual Germanisation of the duchy entailed, that efficient measures were taken to give effect to the royal resolution of 1810, and to stay the further Germanisation of the population of the duchy. A series of ordinances issued in the years 1850-51 regulated the question of language in Schleswig on the principle of respecting, on the one hand, the acquired rights of the German nationality and language in the duchy, and of upholding, on the other, the Danish nationality and lattguage there, where it had still main tained itself. —.— According to these ordinances the Danish language was declared the language of the church, of the schools, and of the courts of law in those parts of the duchy where Danish continues to be the language of the people ; and the Ger man language, on the other hand, was maintained in all its acquired rights where the population had become com pletely Germanised or nearly so. The ordinances treat as purely Danish that part of the duchy extending south-east as far as the Frith of Flensburg, and south-west to the neighbourhood of Tondern, with a population of about 135,500, excepting therefrom the towns of Apenrade, Hadersler, Sonderborg, and Tondern, which, from having a partially German population, are assimilated with the districts having a mixed nationality. German writers fully acknowledge the purely Danish nationality of this portion of the population ; but Danish writers, who have thoroughly investigated the matter, maintain that the purely Danish element extends much further south. On the other hand, the ordinances treat as purely Ger man the southern portion of the duchy, extending north east some distance beyond the Schlei, and prolonged north west about half the length of the coast, with the adjoining islands, thus including the entire Frisian population, and numbering altogether 177,000 souls. Danish writers complain that the Frisian population of about 30,000 are treated as pure Germans, although their language has amalgamated more with the Danish than the German. As containing a population of a mixed nationality, and using indiscriminately Danish and German as medium of intercourse, the ordinances treat the tract of country situated between the purely Danish and purely German districts as above defined, and containing a population of about 85,000, excepting therefrom the town of Flensburg, which, f rom having a larger German than Danish population, is assimi lated with the pure German districts. In regard to the population of this tract of country, th e ordinances have decided that Danish and German shall alternately be used in the churches, that both languages shall be taught in the schools, that baptism, marriage, the Lord's Supper, and other church ceremonies shall be per formed by the clergy in the language preferred by the par ties, and also that litigants before the courts of law shall decide as to what language they wished to be used in the proceedings there, or in application to Government autho rities. . In all general measures concerning the whole duchy, both languages are used. The members of the Provincial Assembly of Schleswig can express themselves either in Danish or German ; the president of the Assembly and the royal commissary are bound to use both languages ; and all laws are published both in German and Danish. It was unavoidable that in deciding upon what part of the population of Schleswig should be treated as being of a mixed nationality, neither wholly Danish nor wholly Ger man, both the Danish and German party in the state should feel aggrieved, both respectively claiming the majority of the population as belonging exclusively to their own respective nationalities. On referring to the linguistic maps of Schleswig published i n Germany, and designed by partisans of the Ger man interest, it will be seen that the Danish Government in its anxiety not to overstep the bounds of moderation, has almost followed the very lines of demarcation laid down in these maps; in fact, the entire variance is limited to four or fivo parishes. The ordinances have thus confined the Danish and mixed districts to limits far narrower than those claimed by Professor Allen, the distinguished Danish historian, who has thoroughly and conscientiously investi gated the question of nationalities in Schleswig. Accord ing to him the Danish element actually extends as far south as the town of Schleswig and the ancient Danne wirke. When complaints are now made in Germany about the German nationality and language being oppressed in Schleswig, it would be well to call in mind that the ordi nances of 1850.51, regulating the question of language in the duchy, were promulgated eayl %/tried into act Pedld-t ing the negotiations between Denmark and Germany, without any of the parties to these negotiations finding occasion to address remonstrances to Denmark on the sub ject, and further, that the King of Denmark, in order to testify the sincerity of his desire to treat his German sub jects in Schleswig with all possible indulgence, entrusted, at the express wish of Prussia, the administration of the duchy to a distinguished Holstein nobleman, Count Charles Moltke, who gave to the new ordinances his full approval , and exerted himself to bring them into prompt and com plete execution. How much reason Danish patriots have to complain at the scant justice done the Danish nationality in Schleswig by the ordinances of 1860-51, and how little reason the German party has to be dissatisfied with the present order of things, will moreover be evident by comparing the sta tistical returns:for the population of Schleswig with the limits fixed by the ordinances to the different nationalities The Duchy of Schleswig, or South Jutland, as it was anciently called, comprises 164 geographical square miles, with a population territorially thus distributed :-106 square miles, Danish language; 14 square miles, Danish and German united ; 3 square miles, Danish and Frisian mixed ; 14 square miles, Frisian ; 27 square miles, German. According to the ordinances of 1850.51 the territorial distribution of the population is, however, made as follows : —B2 square miles, Danish ; 31 square miles, mixed; 5 1 square miles, German. The Danish district is thus reduced by 24 square miles, and the German territory increased to the same extent. The census of 1855 gives the population of the duchy see 394,000 souls, and distinguished by nationality and lan guage as follows :-167,000, Danish language; 77, 000 , Danish-German and Danish-Frisian; 160,000, German. and German-Frisian. The ordinances of 1850-51 on the contrary establish that only 135,000 are to have the Danish language ; 82,000 to be treated as of mixed nationality; 177,000 to have the German language. By this arrangement upwards of 30,000 Schleswigers, whose vernacular is the Danish language, are treated as being of a mixed nationality, and at least 27,000 Schles wigera speaking both languages are classed with the popu lation having German as the exclusive language of the church, the schools, and the courts of justice. The opposition of the Provincial Assembly of Schleswig affords no fair criterion of the wishes of the people of the duchy ; for that assembly is, by its very constitution, en tirely controlled by the German party, who will tot be satisfied with anything short of the'complete supremacy of German nationality and language throughout the entire duchy. The electoral law of Schleswig renders the Provincial Assembly a representation of class interests alone, and not of the people at large, the constitution of the duchy being modelled on the mediaeval principles of representation, by the four estates of the nobility, clergy, yeomanry, and burghers. The assembly is thus composed of 43 members, of whom nine are elected by the nobles or equestrian order, five by the clergy, 17 by the farmers and small freeholders of the country, 10 by the burghers, and two by the popu lation of the islands of Aero and Femern, forming separate electoral districts by themselves. The nine votes allotted to the equestrian order are so many votes given to the German party over and above what the popular strength of that party otherwise would be, for the members of this equestrian order are, without exception Germans, and have all their estates in the southern or German part of the duchy. The Danish party is consequently reduced to a minority in the assembly, even though it may have as many members returned by the popular vote of the duchy as the German party. Nothing but the abrogation of the existing electoral law and the introduction into the duchy of universal suffrage as noW practised in Denmark would afford a fair test of what the real wishes of the people are. An assembly elected by universal suffrage would enable the Danish Schleswigers to contend on equal terms with their German opponents, whereas now the Danish members of the Provincial Assembly are constantly outvoted by the representatives of the nobility, whose sympathies are all for aristocratic Germany and against the constitutional rule of Denmark. THIS DAY'S NA.RRETB. CORN EXCHANGE. lALEERIAL WEEKLY AYERAGTS..-- Wheat, 57s 3d; barley, 40s 6d ; oats, 23s 2d ; rye , 348 9d ; beans, 419 10d ; and peas, 43s Od. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 54a 9d ; barley, 398 8d ; oats, 228 5d ; rye, 35s sd; beans, 44s ; peas, 43s U.& ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST Wm.—Wheat, 82,675; barley, 90,600 ; oats, 16,755 ; rye, 181; beans, 2,983 ; peas, 1248 quarters. :METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market was seasonably-well supplied with beasts, both as to number and quality. All breeds moved off slowly, and, in some instances, prices were a shade lower than on Monday—the extreme value of the best Scots being 55. per Sibs. We have to report a fair, but by 11 0 means active, inquiry for sheep, at full prices. The supply was moderate. The few calves in the market were disposed of freely, at fully previous rates. Pigs were a slow sale, but not cheaper. In mulch cows very little was doing. Per 81bs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Primecrs-wool do. 4 10 5 8 Second quality do. 3 8 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo 6 10 6 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Largo orse. calves 4 4 4 lu Prime Scets &c. 4 10 6 0 Prime small do 5 0 5 , Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 424 6' Small porkers Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 19s to 225; and quarter •old store pigo , 238 to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 1,160 B eas t s Sheep and lambs 3,120 Sheep Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NriVGATE AND LEADENFIALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5 . Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per 81bs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Jan. 23.—There was a moderate supply of stock on offer to-day, and the trade ruled steady, as follows : Beef, 3 s 6d t o 5s Od , mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 10d ; lamb, O s Od to Os Od; veal, 4s 4d to 5s 6 d; pork, 4 0 Od to 4s 10d per 81bs to sink the offal. ROMPORD, Jan. 23 . —Prime beasts and sheep were in good request, at full prices. Otherwise, trade ruled heavy Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; mutton, 3s 6d to 6s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 48 4d to 5/1 Od ; and pork, 40 Od to 4s 10d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 14s to 19s ; qua rter old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and railch cows, £l4 00 to £lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 08 to £slos Od ; clover do., £3los to a 15s ; and straw, - £l. 105 to £1 18s per load. A dull trade. CUMBERLAND..--. Meadow hay, £2 10e to £5 12e clover, £3 10s to £ss 153 Od ; and straw, £1 10s to £2 00 per load. A slow sale. WHIT CHAPEL. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £1 10s Od; clover, £3 lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 10s to £1 if per lead. Trade heavy. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Jan. 24.—Wind this day at noon—South - Westerly ; light breeze, with fine weather, and ems' sional sunshine. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 23.—Wind stone, from London for Calcutta, to atop a leak. DEAL, Jan. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cindorellsl from Calcutta. RAMSGATE, Jan. 22.—Wind S.W.—.A.rrived—Vriendo° chap, from Shields for Bilboa. OTT DARTMOUTH, Jan. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived -- Queen of the South, from St. Michael's ; Jane Lucy, from Sulina for Falmouth. WATERFORD, Jan. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eliza B. Jackson, from New York OFF PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 23.—Arrived--Weatutinstert from China.... SHIELDS, Jan. 23,—Wind N.W.--sailed—E. D. T., for Colombo. JERSEY, Jan. 22.-" Wind S., foggy—Arrived-00eany from Newfoundland. (i ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 23.—Novellzelia, from Nantes; North Pole, from Sunderland; Alarm, from New York; Princes Royal, from Shields - Charles, from Charente; Southamp ton, steamer, from Jersey; Edward Barnett, from New port ; Effort, from Sunderland. Sailed—Rienzi, for Poole; Atalanta, steamer, for Jersey; Havre, steamer, for Havre ; Hannah, for Shields. A telegram just rec e i ve d from Bremen announces that the New York steamer sailed thence at 8 o'clock this morn' ing. Ship and engines all right. Sh e ma y be expected here on Friday night, an d will leave for Now York on SafurdaY night... (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 23—Confidence, from Olnao ; Maauke, from 111auritius. Arrived, Jan. 24—Wolf, from Piston ; Randolph, from Algoa Bay ; Rosebud, from Havre; Ida Opigler, from Cal' cotta ; Johanna Caroline, from Para ; Ann Eliza, and Golde n R oc k e t, f rom New York; M ax Max, from St. Michael's. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Her MajAsty's ship Niagara, from the river, for the westward ; Thames, from the Cape of Good Hope; Wellesley (in tow), from Melbourne; Oporto of Glasgow, from Rio Grande; Angela B. Coutts, from Calcutta • P. S. K. L. Commercial Code, from Foo-Choo-Foo—all y for London. _ Anchored—Assn, for St. Michael's; Constance, for St. Thomas's—both from London. THE SCOTT AND POWELL BANKRUPTCY.-0 11 Tuesday Mr. Commissioner Perry, of the Liverpool Bank ruptcy Court, appointed Mr. Blease, accountant, to prepare the balance-sheet of the firm of Scott and Powell, one meta" ber of which, V. Powell, is in Kirkdale gaol, convicted of forgery, and Scott is outlawed. The bankrupts' deficienoi!! are £4,000, and there are no traces of a cash balance of X 1, 7011 agtkilZst rowell, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; JANUARY 24, 1861