The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (Incorporated by Act of Parliament). 71, Lombard-street, London. Notice is Hereby Given, That the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, 71, Lombard-street, on TUESDAY, the 26th inst., at two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to declare the Dividend for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1860. MARTIN PRATT, Secre,ary. Loudon, February 1,1861. ft 0I AL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. TO - MORROW, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, Miss Matilda ' - feron, Madame Palmieri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. B. Corn. Mr. Wallworth. Followed by Balfe's SATANELLA. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall; Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. H. Corti, Mr. H. Wharton, &a Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T I-1 EA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. twee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. TO-MORROW, the periormancea will comment* with THE RIVALS. Sir ',Witt!! O'Trigger, Mr. John Brougham; Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling. Alter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantom imists by the un- Tivalled Leclercqe, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. jiOTAI , PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. 'Harris. TO-MORROW, the performances will commence with DON C hews, DE DE BAZAN. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter, F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Rise C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Weston. r which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled After ROBINSON CR USOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King' of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dnmilatre, of the F . principal cantinental theatres w ill appear. Clown. Forrest TH EATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. TO-MORROW, the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE i mi - DGE OF NOTR DAME. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan, Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, cRYSTABELLE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing r m VISION/ OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. --.- To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia► Thompson, ,tc. A DELPHT, NF,W THEATRE-ROYAL. .7: I L sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. TO-MORROW, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Belly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN SAWN. D. Roncicault, D. Fisher, ritllington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Sm lli ith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson , Miss Woolgar,Bington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. P r i v ate boxes, £2 2e. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, ss. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit , ls. 6 d. ; Amphitheatre , is ; Gallery, ed: Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. CANTERBURY HALL , WESTMINSTER-ROAD. The GOVERNOR and COMMITTEE of the LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL beg respectfully to announce to the friends of the Institution and the public in general, that they have accepted the kind InvitAtion of Mr. CHARLES MORTON, the Proprietor of the above celebrated Establish ment, for the CHILDREN of the SCHOOL TO ATTEND A MORNING PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW, (THURSDAY), 14th February inst., on which occasion a variety of Entertainments will be given by the talented Company. Mr. Morton has generously signified his intention to allow the Governor and Committee to appropriate the Receipts for Admission in Aid of the Funds of the School. Admission ........................ Ope Shilling, Children under 12 years of age .... Sixpence. Doors to be opened at One, and the performance to com mence at Two o'clock. The JUVENILE BAND, from the School, accompanied by their Instructor, Mr. Bl.ckman, of t e Blackfriars-road, will h a tt e nd, and perform various popular Airs. Tickets may be obtained o Mr. MORTON, Canterbury Ball ; and at No. 127, Fleet-street, of WILLIAM SMALLEY, Secretary. }UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ting DAY. —Morning, 4h. Bm.—Afternoon, 4h. 26m To-moultavr.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 53m THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, FEB. 13, 1861. INEXMONETEN, IN THE SHADS. 35—highest since noon yesterday. 32 —lowest this morning and during the night. 35—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.65, still falling. WIND —Southerly ; light, with dull weather, and snow, The Defenders of Gaeta are evidently at their last gasp. Another Telegram may now bring us the tidings so long looked for that the struggle has ended, after all this useless bloodshed, as humanity could alone hope that it might rather have ended before so many lives had been sacrificed, before so many months had been wasted, before so much gunpowder had been burnt, and so much treasure squandered ! And all this in order simply that the old Neapolitan Sovereignty might die game in the last corner of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. REUTER'S Tele gram received this morning gives to western Europe clearly enough intelligence of the "begin ning of the end." We learn by these latest advices from that scene of conflict, that little fortified hole-in-the-corner, that grimly little cul-de-sac, where the fugitive Monarch who had been scared away from his capital by the mere rumour of the approach of General GARIBALDI fled for shelter behind stone walls and there turned at bay upon his pursuers—we learn now by these last tidings from Gaeta, that a parley is going on once more between the beleaguered and the beleagurers —although the firing is still continued from with out and from within, from the investing camp and from the battlements. Another armistice has been demandeo by the garrison, an armistice of fifteen days, during which may be negotiated the terms of the final capitulation. A tolerably cool request, under the circumstances, remembering that little affair of the repairs done to the breaches during the last truce—in magnanimous return of course for the present of ice and of drugs sent in by the Sardinians for the use of the wound e d i n th e Gaeta Hospitals. Having a vivid and very recent remembrance of which rather discreditable incident, General CIALDINI is understood now to have given a prompt refusal to this modest request for a fresh armistice to last over a fortnight. Negotiate, if you will—is the Sardinian Commander's reply—but no further armistice! And so the firing continues —the batteries of the besiegers, says ene of the last telegrams, causing very considerable devastation. Apart from all which, as tokens that King FRANCIS 11. has only now to give in, and make the best of it in the latest moment of his surrender —there are two little French incidents that have just come to light, and that are neither of them without their significance. Firstly, we learn that "M. DEPUNES, Attaché to the French Embassy at Rome, has demanded permission of General CIAL DINI to convey a letter from the Empress of the FRENCH to the young Queen at Gaeta "—which permission has, as a matter of e "rso,because really only a matter of courtesy, been granted. And next, we learn, also that "The French steamer Muette is said to have received orders to b e in readiness to receive the family of FRANCIS n. at Gaeta." An intimation followed up with the ominous assurance that the surrender of the place cann o t, in reason, be expected to be now much longer delayed. When the history of these Italian doings shall come to be written by the future SISMONDI, it will be said by that probably now unborn annalist, that if the " Libe rator of Italy," as the French EMPE ROR at one time ass umed to be, that if the Liberator of Lombardy (as he unquestionably is) contrived indirectly t o knock down (among other princes of the Em u , peninsula) the KING of the Two Sicilies, that 1-Z4- ,T ; -- tr; - THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, 1861 perial enigma of modern Europe, that inconsistent ' and incomprehensible Moderator of Revolution, threw down at last a feather bed or two to break the fall of young BOMBINA. The last of these feather beds is now visible in the French line•of battle ship, the Muette, and all that we can at length hope is that FRANCIS 11., late of Naples, soon to be late also of Gaeta, may sleep well on it. Since the above was written we have received yet later news from Gaeta entirely confirmatory of our anticipations, that the beleagured garrison has nothing left now to do beyond yielding the place up to the besiegers upon the best terms they can contrive to negotiate. Under date 12th February, that is yesterday, RETYrnes last telegram from Mola di Gaeta in forms us, that--" General CIALDINI and the Com mandant of Gaeta have appointed a mixed com mission for the discussion of and drawing up the capitulation of the fortresses of Gaeta." In accordance with what we have already intimated above, moreover, it is added, "The firing has not, however, been suspended, but has only slackened until the conditions of surrender shall have been arranged." So that the next tidings that can be looked for from that last standing ground of FRANCIS 11. will be the news that Gaeta has been yielded up by its garrison to the Sardi nians, and that the young KlNG—Monarch then no longer even of Gaeta—has again (this time on board the French ship Muette) become a fugitive and wanderer. In the absence of anything whatever in the shape of a Parliamentary reform bill, large er small, good, bad, or indifferent, it is satisfactory even to note an intimation like that down among the notices of motion for to-morrow evening—Sir GEORGE LEWIS to ask for leave to bring in a bill for the appropriation of the seats formerly occu pied by the representatives of the disfranchised boroughs of Sudbury an St. Albans ! There is hope then, at last, for Chelsea and Kensington. At any rate, to whatever locality in the three Kingdoms those long vacant seats may be awarded it is time that the hiatus long since left—here by St. Albans, there by Sudbury—should be filled up with the elect of semi constituencies ! Our Parliamen tary system, it might be said—hardly less than Nature herself—abbors a vacuum. Yet how many sessions have we not seen elapse since Sudbury on one hand and St. Albans on the other suffered the ignominy of their disgraceful disfranchisement! It cannot certainly be pronounced a precipitate movement on the part of the Right Hon. the Home Secretary, to move now, formally, in the House of Commons, for the appropriation of those long vacant seats in the popular branch of the Legislature. We shall look with eager curi osity for the right hon. gentleman's proposal for their apportionment—sanguine that the need may no longer be overlooked for the creation, at the wes tern extremity of the capital of the empire, of another great metropolitan constituency. If wealth, if intelligence are to be accepted as criterions in the distribution of the election franchise, in regard to what locality in the kingdom can they be more readily applied than in the direction of that highly educated and wealthy portion of the community peopling the districts of Chelsea and Kensington ? The claims advanced by those localities for a voice in the councils of Parliament have been reiterated more than once or twice, have been heard of further back than merely yesterday. We are now anxiously awaiting the announcement to be made to-morrow evening by the Home Secretary—sanguine that those claims will no longer be ignored, but that the House of Commons may soon count among its frequenters the hon. members for the metropolitan borough of Chelsea and Kensington. Singular indeed is the aspect now presented by the American Union, as it was formerly called— and the last advices render it more so than ever. So far as we remember the present quarrel between the States is the first of its kind in history. The first in which an odious moral wrong, seen in its true light by one half the federation, but caressed as a Divine institution by the other half, creates a repulsion of moral judgments, which manifests itself in social and political life, till complacent corruption separates itself from its judges. We cannot say that the North is unimplicated, and untainted. New York, the city at least, cherishes as unchristian and unmanly sentiments towards the African race as do the Southerners, though it will not have them as slaves. And worse, if pos sible, than that—Philadelphia and New York cities are almost crazy to carry some compromise, are willing to put up with a fugitive slave law, and to allow of the extension of slavery south of 36 deg. 30 min. north, provided they can but save their mortgages on their trade in the South. We have noticed, in more recent news from the States, what we feared from the first, mean efforts at compromise. The work has begun in several States. Large meetings, and combinations of bankers and merchants in the North are busy striving to bring the many to believe that union by compromise with slavery is essential to the preservation of the New York shipping interest and commerce, of Massachusett's cotton manufac tures, and of Pennsylvanian iron works. They have a plausible case to make out. All these interests have been sustained by a narrow•minded protectionist policy, through which the agricul tural districts in the North, and the Slave States in the South, have had to purchase, bad and dear, in the Northern States what they might have had better and cheaper in quality from Europe. The numerous workmen, whose votes are as good as any others in the ballot box, are taught that protection is their bread, and that if secession be accomplished, the South will declare its ports free ports—will supply itself on better terms from England and France—and will drive a splendid trade in smuggling along the whole river frontier, till the North must give up protection, and its artisans migrate as farmers to the prairies and the far West. Already the wealthy men of the North are suffer ing sadly. The following extract from a letter by a Boston clergyman lets us behind the scenes a little i n a quarter of which we know but little in this country : You have no idea how strong the influence brought to bear upon us in the North is. The business of the country demands compromise, The Northern conscience cannot compromise, and the pressure on the pulpit just now is fearful. Many of the wealthy men in our congregations will be bankrupt if things do not change, and the pastors of our churches are placed in a very uncomfortable position. All our pro-slavery divines are being brought out by the crisis, and some who have been known as anti-slavery men are yielding to the pressure. If things go on at the present rate, I do not know but our English brethren will be jus tified in sending us an address on the subject. Every bunker minister has gone to work preaching up compro mise, and urging the North to give in to the South. Dr. CooKE, editor of the Boston Recorder, has preached a sermon, in whieh he lays much of the blame on Northern clergymen who have preached abolition." The Border Slave States also, are naturally making great efforts to effect a compromise. Vir ginia especially is taking the lead. No other Southern State has anything like her influence and Prestige in the Union, and she has gone so far as to THE I SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1861. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WILTS. Mr. Thomas Fraser Grove, of Fern-house, the Liberal Conservative candidate for the representa tion of the southern division of the county of Wilts, in the room of Lord Herbert of Lea, has just retired frmn the contest. Lieut.-Colonel Hervey Bathurst, the Conservative candidate, will, there fore, be returned without opposition to-morrow (Thursday), the day appointed for the nomination. As Mr. Grove has had several weeks' start of the lieutenant-colonel, and was very influentially sup ported, it was generally believed that, notwith standing the numerously signed requisition to the latter, the contest would be an exceedingly close one. It seems, however, upon careful considera tion, that the result was so uncertain that Mr. Grove and his committee have come to the deter mination not to proceed further in the matter. organise a plan, appoint commissioners, ex-Presi dent TYLER at their head, to settle a scheme of compromise. Mr. BUCHANAN has given it his ap proval, but wanting the powers to accept its pre sent suggestions, he has sent it with a third message to Congress, recommending it to their favourable consideration. The present and pressing recom mendation of Virginia is that both sides should abstain from acts likely to produce collision, pending the meeting of commissioners deputed from all Northern and Southern States willing to send them, who shall then consult with the object of effecting a satisfactory and permanent re-union. Perhaps we may add to the influences tending to re-union the outspokenness of a few bold men in the South, who will not yield to mob intimidation. Thus— "Mr. Etheridge, of Tennessee told his Southern friends that they could not live out of the Union. He told them, in language that made them shrink before him, that ' every foot of soil that had been acquired at the instance of the South, the Noah, with its numerical power and strength overshadowing the South, has willingly yielded. Florida and Louisiana had been thus purchased at the instance of the South. Florida had been purchased at a cost of 5,000,000 dole., and at a cost of 50,000,000 dole. more to remove the savages, millions more to build fortifi cations and towns along the deep to guard Southern com merce. And, after all this, little Florida, with less than half the population which he represented, goes out of the Union, with the fortifications, with the public lands, with untold millions, and, worse than all, carries with her the prestige of the unity of these States. Little Florida secedes, which could not at the present moment protect herself from the alligators without the aid of the Federal troops—this very Florida, purchased at the instance of the South, with Northern money and Northern blood.' " Few of us, probably, supposed that Southern orators dared to tell the truth thus plainly. No doubt, also, the stagnation of trade in the South, the costs of warlike preparations, the tyranny of the "mean whites," and their remorseless levies on their richer neighbours' property, and all, of course, to defray the cost of this gallant militia, who, till secession began, got their livelihood by inciting negroes to rob their masters. But if such things, and others which might be mentioned, point towards, all does not look in the same direction. In the North it was not the votes of the great cities, but of the great country which elected Mr. LINCOLN, and, so far as we can yet observe, the country districts remain staunch Free- Boilers, and will never consent to allow slavery to be optional in any part of the territory of the United States out of which new States might be formed. They will not allow slavery to extend to the south more than to the north of the now famous parallel of latitude. Mr. SEWARD'S lan guage had led many to suppose that Mr. LINCOLN was wavering. But if Mr. LIN COLN'S recognised organ is to be trusted, Mr. LINCOLN is committed to no compromise, will give them a thoroughly republican Govern ment, and stand immoveably on the Chicago—that is, the thorough Republican—platform. Then, again, the South does more than talk ; South Carolina has completed her secession by acts. Louisiana has voted for secession by a large majority, and makes the sixth which has done so. We may give here a statement of what we learn to be the cost, and number of lien and guns in the Federal ports which have been seized : Cost. Dols. Men. Guns. Fort Macon, Beaufort, N.O 460,000 300 61 Fort Johnson, Wilmington, N.C 5,000 60 10 Fort Caswell, Oak Island, N.O 571,000 400 81 Castle Pinckney, Charleston, S.C 41,000 100 25 Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.O 75,000 300 54 Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Ga 923,000 800 150 Fort Jackson, Savannah, Ga Fort Barrancas, Pensacola 315,000 250 49 Fort Mcßea, Pensacola Fort Morgan, Mobile ..1,214,000 700 132 Fort St. Philip, Mouth Mississippi ..14 3 ,000 600 124 Fort Jackson, Mouth Mississippi....Bl7,ooo 600 150 Fort Pike, Rigolets, La 472,000 300 49 Fort Macomb, Chef Montour 447,000 300 49 Totals.. This looks like a tolerable an nouncement of a great rebellion ; and should the quarrel really come to a war, we may be pretty sure that the war will be a bloody and deadly one. The character as well as frequency of duels in America raise a shudder at the thought of what Americans would be to each other if engaged in general and fratricidal combat. May a merciful Heaven avert such a catastrophe. If the South secede, infinitely better that she should be left to herself. Commerce, by its own interests, would soon right itself. The North would be still far the most powerful State; and if she chose to purchase liberty for the slaves of the border States would form with them a confederation mighty as ever. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. The revivial of " Satanella," in conjunction with the attraction of " Hiawatha," drew a large audience at this theatre last evening. The soprano, tenor, and baritone parts were, as formerly, in the hands of Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. H. Corrie, and Mr. W. Harrison ; whilst the chief novelties of the cast, namely, Miss Leffler, in the part originally performed by Miss Susan Pyne, and Mr. Wharton, in lieu of Mr. Weiss, as Arimanes, were received with unqualified approval. All the well-known musical "points" of the opera met with due recognition, and neither encores nor recalls were wanting to render the success complete. Miss Louisa Pyne was specially hon oured, as she well deserved to be, for her beautiful render ing of " The power of love." The great English soprano was encored twice, but she declined to repeat the pretty melody a third time. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The original five act version of " Don Ctesar de Bank has been produced at this theatre, for the purpose of intro ducing Mr. Fechter in another of his celebrated characters. We must confess we expected great things from this talented artist, and we are bound to say our anticipations were fully realised. Mr. Fechter does not make the Don the drunken, duel fighting, and ruined hidalgo that many of our readers have hitherto seen, but he places before us a purse-drained, careless gentleman, low in the scale of outside respectability, bat not so degraded as to render the regaining of his nobility an impossibility. A s the action of the play proceeds the reck less spendthrift becomes awake to his true position, and in the last act he rises to the high bred Spanish hidalgo, jealous to a degree of his honour. Mr. Basil Potter was an in different Don Jose. Miss Maria Harris made a very excel lent Lazarillo, and Miss Heath, as Maritana, acted with her accustomed sweetness. The play was admirably put upon the stage, and will, no doubt, attract large audiences to the theatre. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street, from Swithland Hall, Leicestershire. The Earl of Dudley is entertaining a large party at Willey Court, near Worcester. The Earl of Selkirk has arrived at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street. Lady Harry Vane has arrived in town from Battle Abbey. His lordship comes to town on Saturday. Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild enter tained a select party at dinner last evening at Kingston House. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore, the Earl of Lovelace, the Countess of Kinnoull, Viscount and Vis countess Malden, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord and Lady Lyveden, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour, the Hon. Captain Vivian, and Mr. Hayward. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (MARIA) OF HAD DINGTON.—We regret to announce the death, after a very brief illness, of Maria, Countess of Haddington, widow of Thomas, ninth Earl of Haddington, formerly Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland and First Lord of the Admiralty, who expired on Monday night at her residence in Berkeley square. The late Countess, who was only daughter of George Parker, fourth Earl of Macclesfield, by Mary Frances, second daughter and co-heir of the Rev. Thomas Drake, D.D., was born in 1781. Her ladyship married in 1802 the late Earl of Haddington, who died in 1858, leav ing no issue. A hostile meeting, originating in a dispute at place two days since at Paris, betwee n the m. d J o ie G k ra ey m C m lu o b n , took t.ca derousse and M. Herisson, in which the former was wounded in the arm, BATH. A vacancy has occurred in the representation of this city by the resignation of Mr. Arthur E. Way, the Conservative member. The hon. gentleman had been for some time suffering from ill health, and is at present:in Germany. The rumour of Mr. Way's intention first obtained general currency in Bath on Monday, and both political parties were immediately on the qui vine, although on that day no direct communication of the resignation had been made. It is said that the Conservatives intend to bring forward Lord Loughborough. At a numerously attended meeting of the committee of of the Liberal Association it was determined to contest the seat, but the candidate has not yet been named. The contest, it is expected, will be a very close one. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND BLACKWALL. It appears that the directors of this company intend to propose a dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for the past half-year ending De cember 31. CALEDONIAN. It is stated that the directors of this company intend to declare a dividend for the past half-year on the ordinary stock of this company, at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, carrying over a balance of £lO,OOO. Letters from Barcelona to-day mention the failure of the mercantile house of M. Rosendo Noviega, in the Havannah trade, with liabilities for £140,000, and very unfavourable prospects of liquidation. Another house had also stopped—Messrs. Lopez and Lemonier—but with small engagements. " The negotiations for the Franco-Belgian treaty of commerce," says the Independance, " have reached the article of wines. The French Government, it appears, wishes to obtain a reduction of the excise duty, which has recently replaced the dues in towns. The Belgian Govern ment, howeVer declares that it cannot dispense with the produce of that tax for some time to come. There can be no doubt that this obstacle will soon be removed. A letter from Virton of the 9th, in the Mode of Brussels, says :—" Jud—the notorious Jud—was arrested this morning at seven o'clock by two gendarmes, named Mathieu and Alexis. The Procureur du Roi was sent for from Arlon to prove the idontity of the personage before making the arrest known to the superior authorities."— [This arrest will probably prove a mistake, like so many instances of the same kind with respect to Jud.] RETIREMENT OP PROFESSOR WILSON FROM OxronD.—The President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, have presented the valuable rectory of Great Hollend, Essex (worth nearly £1,200 a year) to the Rev. John Matthias Wilson, third fellow of the society, a member of the Hebdomadal Council, and Professsor of Moral Philosophy in the University. Mr. Wilson graduated in Easter term, 1836, as second classman in the classical school of honours, and was for many years tutor and vice principal of Corpus. He was public examiner in the classical school in 1844, 1845, and 1846, in Mi&aaelmas term, 1850, and from Easter term, 1853, to Easter :erm, 1854. He was elected Professor of Moral Philosophy for the term of four years (according to the statute) ; in 1846 and in 1851 was re-elected for a like term. The office was vacant for two years (between 1856 and 1858) in consequence of two can didates having an equal number of votes, and in 1858 Mr. Wilson was elected professor for life under the new statute. The Bank of Belgium has reduced its rate of discount from 5 to 4 per cent. THE BANK.—In the report just laid before Par liament on the relations between the Government and the Bank of England, it is stated that the bank-note paper costs above £ll,OOO a-year. Upwards of ten millions of notes were paid in the year 1859, which would be an average of above 32,000 a-day ; the increase between 1841 and 1859 was 88 per cent. In another department of the Bank—the management of the public debt—it is very satisfactory to find that owing to improved measures adopted for prevent ing and detecting fraud, the annual loss under this head during the last 10 years has been under X 2,000. An average carried many years back would show a much greater loss; the net loss in the single year which included Fauntlero),'s frauds, was 214,000. With regard to still another depart ment—the management of the public accounts—in which the Bank discharges simply the functions of banker of the Government, it is remarked that the item of " public de posits," the weekly balances whereof averaged £6,646,000 in 1860, does not include several accounts of magnitude which might be supposed to be covered by it since they substan tially consist of public moneys, though treated as private deposits in the Bank return—moneys held in trust by public functionaries under regulations laid down by Parliament, such as the Chancery and Bankruptcy accounts. The rent or annual value of the Bank is estimated by the Blnk archi tect at £60,000 a-year, and £lO,OOO more for the branches ; In 1832 the valuation was £35,000 a-year, with £5,000 a year for the use cf fixtures. MORE LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the heav3 gale which visited the coast on Saturday the brig Roman Empress, from Sunderland to Naples, was driven on shore on Marsk Sand. No sooner was her perilous position seen than the Redcar lifeboat, belonging to the National Life boat Institution, was immediately manned and launched. After reaching the wreck the lifeboat took off the crew of 10 men, and afterwards brought them safely ashore. During the height of the fearful storm which visited the east coast of Ireland on Friday the brig Now Draper, of Whitehaven, drove on shorn near Wicklow. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution immediately put off to the rescue of her crew, and, after some difficulty. succeeded in bringing the whole of the poor follows, eight in number, safely ashore. A GIRL SCALDED TO DEATH.—A shocking acci dent occurred yesterday morning at the residence of Mr. Appleby, Upper Smith-street, Clerkenwell. Miss Mary Ann Appleby, aged 12 years, was passing the fireplace, when her foot slipped. In falling she caught hold of a kettle of boiling water standing on the fire and upset the contents, which went completely over her. She was so frightfully scalded that, though taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and treated with every care, she died shortly after her admission. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Saturday night, when the last train for London reached Bishopstoke, on the South-Western line, from Dorchester, a man's cap was found on the engine. The next morning the man to whom the cap belonged was found about three miles below Bishopstoke, lying dead by the side of the rail, with his skull fractured, his left arm and ribs broken, and one foot cut off. The poor fellow was a pauper named Johnson. He must have been struck while crossing the rail, and his cap shaken off his head by the blow, and thrown upon the engine. It is curious that neither the engine -driver nor stoker noticed that any accident had happened. THE EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO MURDER IN DUBLIN.—The case of Joseph Dwyer, who stood charged with the extraordinary attempt to murder a porter, for the sake of stealing the goods which he carried, by inveigling him into a stable and shooting at him with a pistol over a yawning grave, again came before the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Dublin on Saturday. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and affidavits were put in with a view to show that he was at the time of the atrocious act, and had been for some time past, labouring under insanity. On Monday the prisoner was again brought up, and Mr. Justice Christian, after dwelling at some length on the extraordinary nature and atrocity of the crime with which the prisoner was charged, sentenced him to 20 years' penal servitude. The prisoner was quite unmoved during the delivery of the sen tence, and walked firmly out of the dock. SAD ACCIDENT TO A LADY. — About half-past three o'clock of the afternoon of yesterday, as a young lady (Miss Hardinge), the daughter of a medical practitioner, who resides in Welbeek-street, Cavendish-square, was pass•. ing from Upper Charles-street, Westminster, into Parlia ment-street, the skirt of her dress became entangled in the wheel of a brougham which was being driven from Charing Cross in the direction of Palace-yard, and she was dragged forward with so much impetus, that, unable to keep her feet, she fell in the roadway, when the wheel of the vehicle passed over one of her legs, fracturing it just above the ankle. The driver immediately pulled up, when Dr. Rad cliffe, one of the physicians of Westminster Hospital, his master, immediately sprang from the brougham, and as sisted the police in raising the unfortunate lady from the ground, and conveying her to Dr. M‘Cann's surgery, where in company with that gentleman and Mr. J. M'Cann, sur geon, he examined the injured limb, and had it properly treated. CHARGE OE EMBEZZLEMENT.—It has been dis covered that a confidential clerk recently in the service of an eminent mercantile firm in the city, who absconded in September last, after embezzling about £12,000, the money of his employers, sailed on the 10th of December for Port Natal by the vessel The Lady of the Lake. A warrant for his apprehension has been issued and placed in the hands of Sergeant Spittle, a detective other, who took a pas sage in the screw steamer Celt, which sailed about a ueek ago for the Cape. A reward of £lOO has boon offered for the cipreileasion of the delinquent, NEWS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SURRENDER OF GAETA. MOLA DI GAETA, FEB. 12. General Cialdini and the Commandant of Gaeta have appointed a mixed commission, for the discussion of and drawing up the capitulation of the fortresses of Gaeta. The firing has not, however, been suspended, but has only slackened, until the conditions of surrender shall have been arranged. PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Moniteur says :—M. de Quelen, orderly officer of the Emperor, went to Rome solely on account of his private affairs, and has not brought back any autograph letter for the Emperor. PESTH, FEB. 13. The Assembly of the Comitat at Pesth has unanimously voted an address to the King, which says :-- " The Royal Rescript has destroyed the confidence which had been created by the Imperial Diploma of October last. " The law prohibits the payment of taxes until they have been voted by the Diet. Force alone could remove the citizens from the lawful ground they have taken up. An unreserved return to constitutional life tone can save the king and the country." VIENNA, FEB. 13. It is stated that the subscriptions to the new loan amount altogether to 30,091,400 florins. CALCUTTA, JAN. 16. Government paper, 51 per cent., 1011, 1011 Money easy. Exchange on London, 218. Freights have improved two shillings and sixpence, closing firm. Shirtings, very dull market, with few buyers and drooping prices. Yarn inactive, small sales. Metal market very quiet; the little business done has been at late prices. Indigo is more quiet, but prices are steady. In sugar there is nothing doing, but prices are maintained ; shipments considerable. Saltpetre, about 500 tons, have been sold for ship ment and speculation, at late prices. Linseed is unaltered; shipments comparatively small. Silk, a little doing in native. Jute maintained. Export usual to the season. Hides, more doing and prices firm. Shellac lower. BERNE, FEB. 13. It was through the medium of the Swiss Consul at Algiers that Mr. Richard Cobden proposed that the Federal Council should mediate between the contending States of America. The Federal Council dgclined the proposition on the ground that it was not qualified for such an office, but at the same time expressed its thanks to Mr. Cobden. MARSEILLES, FEB. 12. Letters from Naples to the 9th inst. state that there were 100 dead in Gaeta. The Sardinian fleet bombarded the place with good effect on the night of the Bth inst. The frigate Monarco, how ever, suffered some damage. The mail from Calabria has not arrived. Troops had been sent to suppress a reactionary movement which had broken out at Reggio. The Minister Liborio Romano had ordered the drawing of lots for the mobilisation of the National Guard and for the office of captains. Letters from Rome to the 9th inst. state that the insurgents had withdrawn from Ascoli into the kingdom of Naples. TURIN, FEB. 12. The garrison of Gaeta has demanded an armis tice of 15 days, in order to negotiate for the surrender of the place. The demand has been rejected by General Cialdini, who has, however, declared himself ready to enter into negotiations. During the last few days the Sardinian batteries have caused great devastation. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 12. Thirty-nine students from Schleswig have pre sented an address to the Minister of War stating that they place themselves at his disposal in the event of war breaking out. The Minister, in expressing his thanks, said : "It is possible that an occupation of Holstein by the Federal troops would cause war with Germany, and might perhaps involve all Europe in war." VIENNA, FEB. 12. The Oesterreichische Zeitung announces that the statutes concerning the organisation of the empire and the Imperial Diet were adopted by the Council of Ministers on Sunday last, and have since been submitted for his sanction. BERNE, FEB. 12. Mr. Richard Cobden has proposed that Switzer land should act as a mediator in the differences between the States of America. The Federal Council has declined the proposal, declaring it to be impracticable. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 12.—Business continues very limited in amount, but the market has been firm. Threes, for the account, commenced at 68f 45c, and are now at 681 60c. The following are the last quotations 41 per per Cents 9B Do end month 97 95 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 50 Bank Shares 2890 Credit Mobilier 7lO Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1413 75 .. 1416 Northern New ditto Credit Folder — Belgian 41 — Piedmontese Fives 75 95 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 471 Home Debt Lyons and Mediterranean 930 . ; 933 75 Geneva 395 392 50 Southern 533 75 .. 533 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 378 75 .. 380 Austrian Losrbard 2 . ITALY. A Turin letter of the 9th says :—" It is stated here that King Victor Emmanuel, in his speech at the opening of Parliament, will make mention of the Venetian question. His Majesty will be anxious to assure Austria that neither Venetia nor Venice will have to fear any attack on the part of Pied mont. Freat preparations are being made for the opening of the new Parliament. The square in front of the Palace is covered with posts, columns, ladders, and scaffolding, for preparing the decorations and illumination. The town is so full of visitors, that it is not easy to find a lodging, and the municipal authorities have even requested private families to cede their spare rooms as lodgings for depu ties and senators, who would otherwise be house less. It i 3 evident that this small town no longer suffices as the capital of a•State which has under gone such rapid aggrandisement. The Govern• went, however, does not seem inclined to change its seat, but there is a probability that some mem ber of the Parliament will take up the question and compel the Government to select, as capital of the new kingdom, a town placed in rather less unfavourable geographical conditions than Turin, where, besides other drawbacks, the mild climate of Italy sometimes assumes quite a Siberian charac ter. The new Parliament will scarcely really enter on its labours before the middle of March. The verification of the elections will be a long and tedious operation ; there will be many questions raised leading to long discussions. Some elections will probably be subjected to strict inquiries, owing to charges of corruption having been made." Another letter from Turin, 9th, says : ." Many complaints have reached this place from Umbria, of the French having established a mili tary post at Ponte Correse, beyond the Tiber, and on the territory occupied by the Sardinians. The following document from Perugia removes all ap prehensions on the subject :—‘ Monsieur I'lnten dant—l am able to inform you that the Pontifical troops, in consequence of the measures taken by the King's Government, and of observations made by General de Goyon, have quitted our territory, and are in march towards Rome. On the opposite side of the Tiber there are no longer any Papal troops of any kind, but only a French post under the French fIag.—GIIALTERIO." GAETA. A correspondent of La Presse writes as follows, under date of Castellone, Feb. 7 : " Already the other day a powder magazine burst at the south extremity of the Philippstadt Battery, causing con siderable loss to the enemy ; but I have now to record a far more terrible explosion. Yesterday, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a shell from the Piedmcntese lines on the right penetrated into one of the powder magazines, which blew up and set fire to the great reserve store of projectiles, which blew up likewise. " The explosion was so terrible that the report was re echoed from the moat distant valleys for a long time. A French vessel, klthough six miles from Gaeta, felt the shock. " I had left the village about 4 o'clock to take a stroll through the mountains leading to Castello Onorato, when, reaching the summit of a small hill which commands a v'ew of the gulf and the whole neighbourhood, I was almost thrown to the ground by the effect of the explosion which had just taken place to my left. T turned my gaze towards Gaeta, and was horrified at the immense masses of ruin, some pieces high in the air, amidst a black smoke and tongues of flame which lighted up the spires of the town. " It was something horrible, and reminded me of Pliny the Younger's description of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a letter to Tacitus, narrating the destruction of Hercu laneum and Pompeii. " I hastily descended into the valley, and on reaching Castellone I was informed that the explosion had not only caused the death of some hundred Neapolitan soldiers, but that also a considerable number of living beings were still under the ruins. " During the stillness of the night we could discern the stifled cries of those unfortunate men, as General Cialdini had humanely ordered all firing to cease. " A Neapolitan messenger arrived requesting an armis tice of 48 hours. He asked for it in the name of humanity, for, he said, it was impossible to ascertain the number of victims buried in the ruins caused by the explosion. You will easily agree with me that cool reason of interest might have advised Cialdini to refuse the request of the military Governor of Gaeta. For a bold and daring General like Cialdini, it was an admirable opportunity to attempt a coup .4-main, which probably Night have succeeded. "Not list i ening to the voicrof interest; the Piedmontese General did not hesitate for a moment to granta suspension of hostilities, on the sole condition that the besieged should not work at repairing the breach made recently by the Piedmontese. We shall thus have an armistice, which will terminate to-morrow morning, and in 48 hours T may have great results to recold. Ido not believe, as is reported here, that Francis, 11. has made proposals fora capitulation, which must follow sooner or later. " The battery on the sea side hakbeelEumuch damaged by the fire from the Sardinian frigate Garibaldi. Her daring captain took up a position only 1,000 metres from the cur tain, and kept up a continual fire for an hour-and-a-half." 211 E GALE. HARTLEPOOL, FEB. 11. Names of vessels on shore and wrecked on Satur day, Feb. 9:—The brig Duncombe, of Seaton Sluice, the ship Rimswell, Hull ; the brig Richard Foley, the schooners Yacht, Seaham, and Chalonge, St. Malo ; the brigs Hull, Maldon ; the William, South Shields; the Belina, Aberdeen ; and the Express and the Laing, Londurt ; the scooner Spring, Al chester ; the barks Ellen Oliver, Newcastle, the Bosphorus, Shields ; and the Manlovice, London ; a French schooner; the brig Sicily, Southampton ; the Una, Newcastle ; the Integrity and the William and Mary, Guernsey; the bark Atalanta, Sunder land; the brigs Barbara, Sunderland, and the Dr. Winterbottom, South Shields • the schooner Sarah Ann, Ipswich the brig Tanerta, Whitby ; the schooner Eliza and Ellen, Port Madoc ; the brigs Legatus, Weardale, and Eleanor, South Shields ; the Union, Newcastle, and the William George Sunderland; the Plenty, the Province, the Aibert, and the Isis, and the schooner Patriot, Port Madoc. A ship from Sunderland sunk near Longscar rock, bound for Hongkong, cargo said to be worth £50,000; crew, 20 in number, all saved, except a boy, who was washed overboard before she struck. SHIELDS, MONDAY NIGHT. The weather is wild to-night, with showers of sleet and snow. The clouds were banked up in the eastward, and the sky had a dirty appearance before nightfall; the wind is E., and likely to draw to S.E. ; the sea on the bar rising. In fact, there ap pears to be a very poor prospect of getting many of the wrecked vessels off the rocks and sands, except in pieces, if this weather continues. The following is a list of Shields vessels stranded, according to intelligence that has reached the clubs. Some of them are full-rigged ships, and of very consider able value :—The Weardale, Promise, Integrity, Orbit, Roman Emperor, Una, Kelso, Juno, Magna Charta, Ruby, Indus, Koh-i-noor, Ellen Oliver, Albert, Rambler, Bosphorus, Jones, Dr. Winter bottom, Plenty, Princess, Sarah Ann, Duncombe, and Memnon. The crews of all these vessels are saved, but the larger proportion of the vessels have been broken up almost to match-wood. The losses sustained by the Tyne insurance clubs through the gale are likely to turn out ' very severe. There can be no doubt but that several vessels not yet reported have sunk bodily in the North Sea, and taken every soul on board down with them. The master of the Una, before his vessel ran ashore at Hartlepool on Saturday, saw three vessels founder with all hands, and it seems to be almost certain that the brig Wansbeck, of North Shields, foundered on Satur day morning, and that all her crew were drowned. This gale will be another terrible blow to the sea men's benefit societies. They had sustained great losses by the gales of the winter, and these disasters will weaken them sadly. The frightful effects of the late gale will furnish a strong argument for the advocates of a harbour of refuge on the north-east coast. The vessels, light and laden, were caught in a trap by the gale on Friday night, and were embayed and driven into land ; but if there had been a harbour of refuge open to them at the Tyne, Hartlepool, or Filey, very few of the terrible dis asters which are crowding the columns of the papers, in all human probability, would have occurred. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. The county of Northumberland has resumed its wintry mantle. The snow has covered the ground, and is falling in showers. The sea is high, and has an angry appearance; the wind blowing from the north-east, a fresh breeze. The prospects of the vessels ashore on the coast have not. improved during the night. What remains of the Indus, the Fow ler, the Minerva, and the Mariner—vessels wrecked and broken up at our harbour mouth--has been sold by auction to-day. The impression has been confirmed this morning that the great force of the gale was spent upon the line of coast ranging from Berwick to Flamborough Head ; and that the fright ful calamities that have arisen by shipwreck origi nated to a large extent through fleets of laden vessels having injudiciously sailed from the north east ports on the Friday afternoon, notwithstand ing there was every appearance of a gale of wind. The ships that sailed from the Tyne on Thursday have reached the Thames. The melan choly loss of the lifeboat's crew a t Whitby is causing very profound sympathy in the north east ports. Some of th e finest fellows in Whitby, we are informed by private letters, are gone, and 40 poor children are left orphans. Mr. Armstrong, the agent for the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society at Hartlepool, has had upwards of 300 applicants either for bread or money from shipwrecked men. The loss of life at that place is calculated at 50 men and lads; and the value of shipping destroyed, £lOO,OOO. FRANCIS 11. IN GAETA.—A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels, says :—I have received from a sure source some details relative to the interior of Gaeta. An Envoy of the Count de Chambord succeeded, by means of a boat, in getting into the place. On arriving before a battery, he addressed himself to a man having on a soldier's grey greatcoat, and asked him to call his officer, as he wished to speak to him. Now this person was the King himself, to whom the messenger, in the end, delivered despatches, addressed to the Minister of the Interior of Francis 11. The King is said to have avowed to this messenger that, fearing treason of all kinds and from every quarter, he and the Queen came every day to take their meals at the soldier's canteen. For the honour of hu manity, it is to be hoped that those apprehensions of the courneoUli)3 l ut olotinate monarch are completely imaguarY, ANOTHER FRENCH PAMPALLiIT. A most in§tructive pamphlet on the "Finances of the Empire," from the pen of M. Casimir Per rier, has just appeared. In his introductory remarks the writer says " Countries long subjected to despotism have invariably their finances in a bad condition. It is only with a free people that credit is solidly esta blished, and imposts easily collected, and the public wealth administered with prudence. To be con vinced of this fact, compare Austria, Spain, and Turkey with England, constitutional France, and Belgium. Whatever be the form of the Govern ment, all to whom it belongs, or who are its dele gates, Sovereigns and Ministers, are inclined to expense. It ought to be ch arge d as a crime to no one. The tendency is natural, and, when it does not lead too far, is legitimate. Great things cannot be done but with money. Baron Louis used to say to his colleagues, ' Carry on a good policy, and I will give you excellent finances.' On the other hand, good finances are a powerful auxiliary to good policy. In a well-balanced Government a constant and salutary opposition subsists between those who are charged with the expenditure and those whose business it is to control it. The Mini ster of Finance ought to be the intermediate agent, advising the one not to ask for more than is indis pensable, and trying to convince the other of the necessity of according it. When these elements do not exist—when M inisters have to render an account of their administration to him only from whom they receive orders—when the same hand which expends can at will plunge into the treasury, it is the duty of an enlightened Government to employ, instead of rejecting, all the forms of control, all the means of security, by the want of which the ex travagance of those who surround it, as well as its own extravagance, becomes dangerous knd produces fatal consequences. . . • After having shown in what state our finances are, and what dangers threaten them, I shall examine what influence the restrictions placed by the Constitution of 1852 on the voting of the laws relating to finance have exercised on them." For the present, I will observe that M. Casimir Perrier shows that during the 18 years of the free Government of July only 12 millions of Rentes were entered on the Great Book of the Public Debt; whereas, since the fall of that Government to the present day—that is to say, in the space of 12 years —nearly 139 millions of Rentes have been inscribed. Of this enormous sum the four years of the Repub lican Government are accountable for 53,923,000 f., and the eight years of the Imperial Government for 84,533,000 f. M. Casimir Perrier asks whether this heavy burden imposed on the future generation lightens the load on the present. The answer is, that the Budget of 1861 exceeds by 352 millions that of 1852. The conclusion naturally is that all Budgets, even those really or ostensibly balanced, should be submitted to the most minute and the most absolute control which a Representative Assembly can exercise.— Letter from Paris. TRADE IN FRANCE. There is no improvement worth notice in the state of trade. The accounts from the manufactur ing districts speak of working short time. Some attribute This stagnation to the high rate of discount and to the scarcity of money. To this remark the reply is, that if there was a good demand for pro duce manufacturers could very well afford to pay 7 per cent. for any accommodation they might require. The fact is, that trade is depressed because the armaments in progress have considerably shaken public confiderce in the maintenance of peace. There is no doubt that the American crisis has deprived French manufacturers of some of their best customers. It Qmbarrassed them likewise in another respect, for it forced them to pay cash for the raw material used in their manufactories. The French Government is, in the mean time, en deavouring to open new markets for French pro duce.,. It has extended the p re liMi nary convention of co mmerce and navigation concluded with the republic of Uruguay for a farther period of two years. A letter from Charleroi states that the iron trade in that town is in.a state'of transition. The iron masters are waiting to see the result of the projected treaty of commerce between France and Belgium. Until the treaty is concluded the masters will not execute any orders except at short date. They appear the less disposed to depart from that system as they expect a rise in the price of iron after the conclusion of the treaty. There is a great firmness in the price of wool, and it would appear that the manufacturers have no large stocks on hand. The arrival of oleaginous seeds at Marseilles during the month of January being insufficient to satisfy the demands of the soapboilers in that town, there is a rise on all mer chandise of that description disposable. The prices of flour has become more firm within the last eight days in Paris. The price of flour of the same marks disposable, which has been quoted for some weeks under the quotations for bakers' flour, has now risen nearly the level of the other. It was quoted on Saturday at 66f. the sack of 157 kilogrammes. Bakers' flour is sold at from 64f. to 68f. It is to be remarked that flour was cheaper for some weeks past in Paris than in the provincial markets. It is not extraordinary that the price of flour should now become firm, when we consider the immense reduction in the stock on hand. The stock of flour in the Paris stores has decreased in the month of January alone by 23,172 quintals, while the stock on the Ist of the month was less by 143,340 quintals than the stock in the Paris stores on the Ist of February, 1860. The factors declared on Saturday 3,788 sacks of flour, of which 100 of first quality sold for delivery within 30 days at from 65t. to 67f. 50c. the sack. The Paris corn market was firm last week. The offers of wheat were not over abundant, and prices were well maintained at from 30f. 50c. to 37f. the sack of 120 kilogrammes, according to quality. The corn market at Nlarseilles is quiet, and prices slightly declined last week. The corn markets on the Saone are supported by a demand from Lyons and the valley of the Rhone. The corn markets in Alsace, Bourgogne, Doubs, and the Jura are quiet, but without any decline in prices. The farmers will not yield, and all the corn brought to market is gradually disposed of. Accounts from Odessa state that 100,000 hectolitres of wheat have been pur chased there, to be delivered in spring. C/71 CO UR? OF SETTERS. The Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London held their usual weekly meeting at Guild hall yesterday, under the new commission. Mr. Deputy CHRISTIE, the Chairman, was unani mously re-elected to that office, as were also the other officers. SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY. Dr. Letheby's report has reference to 215 houses, which had been inspected duaing the week, and he submitted a list of 53 places for sanatory improve ment. Dr. LETHEBY reported that the officers had seized 5,815 pounds, or rather more than two tons and a half, of meat as unfit for human food ; 3,592 pounds were seized in Ne wgate -market by Mr. Fisher, 1,317 pounds in Leadenhall by Mr. Davidson, and 906 pounds in Aidgate and elsewhere by Mr. New man. By far the largest proportion of this was seized on account of its being diseased, and, with seven exceptions, the salesmen of the market directed the attention of the officers to it. The mortality returns are fast falling into their normal proportions. During the last month the weekly returns have ranged from 90 to 97, b u t i n the week which has just expired the number of deaths was 62, 3 the average for the corresponding period of the fast five years being but 55 ; 27, or nearly half of the deaths, were among children of less than five years of age, and 15 were among o ld persons. The number of deaths from respiratory diseases is fast diminishing. Last week there were but five deaths from pneumonia, five from phthisis, and 11 from bronchitis. Of the zymotic class there were 16 deaths, namely, four from continued fever, four from measles, three from croup, three from whooping cough, and two from scarlet fever. None of these are much above the average. 69 births were registered during the week, namely, 47 boys and 22 girls. THE ACCIDENT IN THE SLEET SEWER. Dr. ABRAHAM moved the following resolution, viz. :—" That this Commission deeply r egre t s th e recent melancholy loss of life in the Fleet Sewer, and that it be referred to the Gen era l P urposes Committee to watch the inquiry before the coroner, with power to engage further scientific advice if it should be deemed requisite." Dr. Ross seconded the motion, Considerable discussion took place on the subject of engaging further scientific assistance, and most of while expr e ssi ng th e ir regret h t e tv, .at members of the accident t the not see the necessity of such a proceeding. Mr. Deputy FARRAR said he did not much like the terms of the motion. He thought it might go to the General Put p - mes Committee; but whatever additional evidence might be wanted, that the coroner would prc.cure. Mr. ABRAHAM said that Dr. Letheby, the Medi cal Officer of Health for the City of London, had said that the accident was caused by the presence of some extraneous matter. for which he could not account. and he wanted to find out what that was. The motion was, on being put to the Court, negatived. After transacting some further business of minor Importance, the Court adjourned. I I