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OY A 1., ENISLISII OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. e and Mr. W. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyn Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, Miss Matilda AeroneMadame Palmieri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. H. Corr', Mr. Wallwortb. Followed by Balfe's SATANELLA. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. Win. Harrison, Mr. H. Cord, Mr. H. Wharton, tze.. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. THEATRE -ROYAL, B. Buck H s to AneYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. . TATG 'ETRNINn, the performances will commence with THE RIVALS. Sir Lucius O'TrLger, Mr. John Brougham; Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD ANI) HER CHILDREN. The Paotomimists by the un rivalled Leclenge, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. VOYAI , PR TNCE SS'S THEATRE.- t Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, DON C/ESAR DE BAZAN. Don pp Cmsar. Mr. Fechter. Su Messrs. Basl Potter, F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss orted M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Weston. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomme, en King titled ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Eos tapinos theatres a and Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinenl will appear. Clown. Mr. A. F. Forrest THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sots Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EV KNING the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOTE 141 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. Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showinw ruE visioNi OF A ROSE. ITS FADIN G AT EVE , AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia Thompson, &C. A D FILPITT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. s n ip proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. 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. Bouokault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE EARD FRM A NW POINT OF HUE. Messrs... L. Toole. P. O Bedford. C. E J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and L!. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle GSt allery, alls, Od. is. Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; /toting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STT,EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY. rIL, Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York." A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday, Feb. 15, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime. THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TUR PIN'S RIDE TO YORK, ArID THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated Steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto— mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, •entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL _HORSE ,• or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by - Mr. Cnthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comie scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley. Boa-office open aily from till 4 Stage Manager II Mr. W. WERT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. Commence at 7. C ANTE IRBURY-HALL CONCERTS !! ! A Grind Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, consisting of the following Morceaux:— Prelndio. Coro Scena "Tutto parca Sorridere" Coro di Odalische •• . " Oh qual perenne" Cayatina ... "Vola talor dal Carcere" Coro ed inno Scena ed Aria " Cento leg,giadre Vergini" T erz etto Finale "Vol tacete io non" will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian language—the first time of performance in this country—in addition to the usual attractions. Mr. F. JONGHMANS, Musical Director. Also in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas, Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccanegra ;" and Flo tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY. —Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 53m Todmoßßovi.-Morning, 612. 10m.—Aftemoon, sh. 24m TIIIC WEATHER.—Sun Orrin, FEB. 14, 1361. THERMOMETER, IN TSB MAIM 41—highest since noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. Bsnownrint-29.57. Wtxr.--variable; dull weather. - ite,), ki•,,_ .0,./.. .. ~,-,.„:•.,,..„E„r 4--, , J• k ~, 7, .4 .L....„4,,.....,2.2.2i.L..:Ftfit5›,14. F '~?! ` i THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1881 So, then, Gaeta has really at last fallen ! The capitulation, it will be seen, took place yesterday. Early this morning General CIALDINI was to occupy, has, of course, by this time, occupied Mont Orlando and all the fortifications. The departure of the young ex• King and the Royal Family w )uld follow immediately afterwards with all reasonable expedition. And when the fallen Monarch, his young Queen-wife, and their suite should have really left that last stronghold of the Sicilian Sovereignty, quitting the shores of their late kingdom on board the Imperial French line-of battle ship /a Mouette—then was to follow in like manner the occupation of the city of Gaeta by the victorious Sardinians. Now that the conflict has actually terminated — while we still cannot do otherwise than regret from our inmost heart the lamentable waste of life which has been fruitlessly caused by the long and stubborn stand made there at Gaeta by the fugitive Bourbon ruler of the Neapolitans—it is impossible not to recognise, it would be unjust not to admit that, so far, this unhappy young man has fallen, sword in hand, as became a soldier. In quitting Gaeta he will have to pass under no Caudine Forks of ignominy. He leaves the city and the citadel with the honours of war. Sardinia and France alike evidence in this, plainly enough, their recognition of what is due there to a valiant defence, however bootlessly prolonged— France by sending a vessel thither to receive the youthful couple w ho are again fugitives—Sardinia by the very terms consented to in this final treaty of capitulation. It is especially noticeable in regard to the course taken in these later proceedings by General CIALDINI that that gallant officer, as best became him, maintains all the honourable conditions which he offered before having obtained these, his latest, successes. This is as it should be. It is the conduct of a heroic foe— of a victor who knows not only how to triumph, but how to triumph most magnanimously. One of the most sagaciously conceived conditions thit could well have been extorted from the van quished Bourbon soldiery, is the one requiring that the defeated garrison at Gaeta shall remain prisoners of war—until Messina and Civitella del Tron to shall have been surrendered up to the Sardinians. That is something like a " material guarantee" for the final settlement of that " lengthened [contest] long drawn out" there in the South between the ex few faithful adherents and his revolted People, headed in their successful revolt now by the Sardinians, butoriginally by the Garibaldians. It was with reason, then, that we spoke yesterday of those latest doings at Gaeta being nothing less than the " beginning of the end" of the great movement for the liberation of the Roman Peninsula. Hitherto it has been to Gaeta that the aspirants of the cause of reaction have looked for the encourage ment of their fast faded hopes. The flame of the de fence made there behind those strong ramparts by FRANCIS 11., and the last remnant of his other wise defeated and scattered forces, was the pharos still burning, as it were, upon a conspicuous moun tain top in the sight of all. And it was still being hoped against hope, by the Reactionists i n 1 Europe, that the flame of that Royal pharos might eventually rekindle the far-spreading conflagration of a counter re volutionary movement. Those hopes have now—vi ith the pharos itself—been extin guished. Th e defence of Gaeta is no longer continued. 1 The ex-King sheathing his sword, is allowed to take it away with him untarnisheki. His Queen goes with him as a matter of course, and, together with his Queen, his suite, or personal entourage. The garrison alone remains behind—held, no less securely than the city and the fortress they have been so long defending, in the possession of their conquerors, CIALDINI and his Sardinians. Almost immediately prior to the final capitula tion of Gaeta another powder magazine, it appears, was blown up by a successful hit on the part of the Sardinian bombardment. Another incident of the siege, which also occurred directly before the close of it, was the total destruction of the Tran sylvania bastion. But worse almost than any of those occurrences to the defenders ; far more dis heartening and discouraging to the councils of the young KING, must have been the total and absolute failure of every attempt made to light anew in Calabria and the Abruzzi the flames of the reactionary insurrection, supposed by some to be still smouldering there, but really long since trampled out, and to all appearance finally ex tinguished. According to the last advices received from Naples under date only yes terday, an emissary was said to have been despatched very recently from Gaeta by the Court—to call upon the Calabrians to rise in behalf of their ancient sovereign. This emissary, captured on his way thither, was found upon his arrest near Cozenza to be the bearer of papers of some "importance—the next line of the telegram bringing us these tidings being simply the intima tion " Calabria is tranquil." Rather an anti-climax considering the purpose of the expedition. Yet there is the fact—Calabria is tranquil. And there, too, is that other fact—not like the news from Calabria, an indication of negative good to the popular cause, but as clearly as any event, warlike or pacific, could be, the attestation of a positive and instantly appreciable advantage—Gaeta has fallen, and has been taken possession of by the Sar dinians. Everything goes well for the cause of Italian Unification. Difficulties are one after another dis appearing. Matters are everywhere being sim plified. And what is most remarkable in all this is the conspicuous truth that events in Italy seem in this way to be righting themselves. It is as if they were being shaken together so happily, so opportunely, that according to the whimsical symbolism of the late witty and reverend SYDNEY SMITS, the round man drops into the round hole, the square man into the square hole, the oval into the oval, the poly gon into the polygon. And now at Gaeta an oddly-shaped little man, who fitted nowhere, not even into that queer out of the way hole (in the corner) yonder at Gaeta, has been opportunely shaken out of Italy altogether as positively obnoxi ous—a nuisance and a superfluity. The capitulation, recently arranged at Gaeta, must have been agreeable news to the Hermit of Caprera. It is an event that completes what he himself so magnificently commenced, and with a few lightning sweeps of his great sword, to all intents and purposes, so far as he wished it, at the time, triumphantly accomplished. The rest will follow—and by the rest we mean (be sure of that) something better than the fall of Gaeta and Messina, and Civitella del Tronto. Yet, the . next will follow in due course—including the solution of the problem of Venetia, of the Qua drilateral of the whole question of Italian uni fication. Little lessons for little folk. On this well known principle the House of Commons is now com mencing afresh its Reform education. Hitherto, the RUSSELL and DISRAELI teaching has proved to be in advance of its capacities, and very prudently it is now undergoing a course of " preparatory" instruction, under the care of Messrs. DIGBY SEY MOUR, BAINES, COLLIER, LOCKE KING, Sir G. C. LEWIS, and Lord ENFIELD ; other professors will doubtless make their appearance, and if they do but show themselves in sufficient number, we shall see our House of Commons educated almost to the comprehension of a RUSSELL Reform Bill without knowing it. All who have ever attempted to in struct the slow of comprehension well know how often, when baffled in endeavouring to impart knowledge in a mass, they have succeeded bp break ing it up intoiragments of dimensions adapted to the powers of the pupil. We cordially wish suc cess to the gentlemen who have commenced such a useful and unpretentious course this session ; and we almost venture to hope that the House will mas ter some .of the elements which they are endeavour- ing to impart. Mr. KING'S lesson it has almoSt learned twice, but forgotten it again,—" All men of ten pounds rent should have a vote alike." Mr. SEYMOUR'S it has never yet mastered ; it talked over it, like other idle scholars last year, instead of learning it,—" Six pounds of rent should have a vote in a bo-rough (pronounce burrow)" —between Mr. BAINES and Mr. SEYMOUR why should not the lesson be learned this session ? Lord ENFIELD, whom Sir G. C. LEWIS desires to push aside we suppose, has a very moderate little lesson in geographical electoral reform,—" Four seats have been lost by two bad bo-roughs, give two of them to Ken-sing-ton and Chel-sea." Next comes Mr. COLLIER, he would teach the members for great boroughs and cities how to save a geat part of their expenses,—" No man shall pay for a cab to car-ry a vo-ter to the poll." Mr. BERKELEY Will, we may anticipate, be the last instructor ; but he has found the house hitherto intolerably stupid under his teaching. GROTE and MOLESWORTH tried to communicate the lesson by the most perfect and easy reasoning ; Mr. ' BERKELEY has given it seasoned with funny little jokes, but the house is sadly dull, at least so it seems to us who have learned it so long—it is, however, possibly, a kind of political " pons asinorum," for some of our legislators seem as if they never could " see it" or" catch it"—yet how easy it looks. " All shall fold up their votes, and put them through a slit into a box, so that no one can see how they vote ; then no bad men can buy t h e i r votes, or can hurt them for vot-ing as they Mr. BERKELEY has, howev er , ma d e of renew i ng his co urse o f entertain nthoinskigrnigyhett." lessons on the Ballot, though we have no doubt he will do so. Mr. COLLIER has already put the house through his lesson a first time. For ourselves we cordially a pprove of Mr. COLLIER'S measure, and strongly advise that it should be pressed as a short and separate bill. Our House of Commons is too great for great acts. Were it a smaller body, a committee of half a dozen or so, it might carefully consider and get through with a large measure ; but to think of more than six hundred men, most of them anxious to show what they can say on a subject, discussing any large and complete bill, and getting through with it in decent time, is hopeless. Sir RICHARD BETHELL has found this out to his cost in a matter altogether non political ; and though it cannot be doubted that last year's Bankruptcy Bill, with a TAB SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 14, IS6I. few amendmem ts, was the best one, he yet finds that he must be content with what he calls a fragmen tary Reform.; for his consolation, however, we can assure him that all regard it as a noble fragment, and worthy of him. Mr. COLLIER'S will also be a useful fragment of electoral reform, a word we adhereto, though Sir G. C. LEWIS does not like to apply the term " reform" to lessening the evils—the corruption and bribery —of elections. We differ from him. While we hold that, in theory, every male adult ought to have a vote, and that, practically, a vastly greater number of the population should receive the suffrage at once, we yet think that the puri fication and liberation of the existing constitu encies, were that possible, would leave little to be desired. We mean, that so far does the pre sent million of electors contain fair samples, as it were, of all classes of Englishmen, although with an excess of county and agricultural borough electors, that could all electors vote really " freely indifferently," we should get a real representation of the Empire. Were no unfair arts resorted to by those who now can bribe or coerce others, we might enlarge the area of the franchise, but we should alter the result very little. We therefore regard every attempt like that of Mr. COLLIER'S as an attempt so far to reform oar representation—to render it what it would be if persons voted from calm judgment, uninfluenced by external consi derations. Mr. COLLIER'S proposal has, however, for its chief merit, the enlargement of the sphere of elec toral choice. The expense of ebntesting a large borough, especially a metropolitan borough, is enor mous. A heavy part of this is the foolish charge for conveying members to the poll. Now, we all of us know that the polling booths are brought so near us that to make a difficulty of walking to them would convict us of effiminacy ; and if our time should be too valuable, and an extra ten minutes could be with difficulty spared, then of course it would pay of itself for us to take our own cab. It surely ought to be the object with respectable electors to save the candi date expense, and those who cannot contribute directly towards the cost of an election, might be glad to contribute their walk to the polling-booth. In counties the case is,in details, different. We need not discuss them just now ; we merely hint that sensible men on both sides will, we imagine, soon come to the conclusion that, as both sides would gain and lose in equal proportion by not being allowed to pay for conveying the non-resident county voters, both sides would do well to save themselves bills which do not affect the result. We repeat that we hope Mr. COLLIER will not consent to allow his " little bill" to form a part of Sir G. C. LEWIS'S promised bill. Any WLig Government bill on electoral corruption is sure to be, not an act for the prevention, but for the en couragement, at least for the shielding of corruption. It were better that a bona fide pro posal, however small, should stand on its own merits, and not be mixed up with a Whig or Tory bill. We have the best of testimony—that of Sir W. HATTER—that such bills are meant to be laughed at—meant to become a dead letter; and we beg to tell our sneering Home Secretary that his bill, like all its worthless predecessors, has one great object—to avoid lessening the power of land and money at elections—to preserve to the wealthy the means of purchase and control of votes under the cloak of prevention of corruption—to hinder the enactment of the only known remedy for electoral abuses—in a word, Whig and Tory bills for the prevention of bribery and corruption are One and aII—BALLOT EVASION BILLS. Lord PALMERSTON'S little majority seems to be rapidly becoming less. It is already diminished by four in the very short time which has elapsed since the opening of Parliament ; the two seats for Lei cester and South Wilts, counting of course double on a division. The causes of the mishap, if such it is to be considered, are not far to seek. At Leicester the Old Whigs did, what they do in the House of Commons, they expected the Radicals to vote with them and for them, to do them humble suit and service, while the Whigs were to run away with the spoils. Could the Radicals be so mad as to divide the Liberal interest ?it was asked. But of course the Radicals could ask with equal propriety—can the Whigs be so mad as to divide it ? The Radicals, we understand, were the more con ciliatory ; they offered, we are told, to refer the question between the two Liberal candidates to a ballot of the Liberal electors, and to abide by the result. If this be so, the whole blame of losing the seat to the Liberal party must fall on the shoulders of the Whigs. The small majority which the Whig had over the Radical—the former polling 1,030 votes, the latter 977, while the Tory polled I,s97—shows where the fault lay. Had the two parties united their nearly balanced votes, they could have beaten the Tory by a majority of 413. It was a fair occasion for a ballot between the two sections. It is time, however, that this half Tory section of electors should learn that the country would as soon see the Tories in office as men who have not the tact or the courage to carry liberal measures through the House of Commons, much less to force them through the House of Lords. The South Wilts election is of quite t apother cast. The landlords, who of course are the real electors there, are doubtless as Conservative as the burgesses of Leicester are Liberal, and it need surprise no one that when a Tory of Lord HERBERT'S mild type retires, it should be quite easy to put in his place .a good reactionist sort of Tory. The difference is really between a Tory who will support Lord DERBY, and a Tory who will support that excellent Tories' friend, Lord PALMERSTON. This time Lord DERBY has it ; and with the encouragement Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his chief are giving the electors to think it a matter of perfect indifference which side they support, we have little doubt that other places will follow the example of South Wilts. There is one way to restore real Liberalism in the coun ties, but our present Government likes neither such Liberalism nor the way to get it. Happily some boroughs are wiser than Leices ter. The Bradford electors had before them three Liberal candidates, all of them on different grounds, men well worthy of a liberal constituency. They assembled and discussed the subject till they agreed on one of them, and that one then walked the course. Mr. FORSTER, has been long desirous of a seat in the House, but has always been ready to yield to the - fair claims of others. We congratulate the hon. member on the position he has so well earned. Mr. CROOK also has been returned for Bolton with out a contest—but both these gentlemen are any thing but mere Palmerstonians. Each of them will act as far as possible with the present pro fessedly Liberal leader, but they are not the men to be his Whig serfs. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have arrived in town from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery are expect e d in town shortly from Dalmeny Park, N.B. Lord Henley has taken a residence in Cheaham place for the season. THE LEEDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE BANK CHARTER ACT. . ~, LAI E:.,T NEWS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MOLA DI GAETA, FEB, 12 (Evening). Gaeta has capitulated. General Cialdini will to-morrow occupy the Monte Orlando and all the other fortifications. Francis 11. and the Queen, with their whole family, are now embarking. After their departure General Cialdini's troops will occupy the town. The garrison remain prisoners of war until the surrender of Messina and Civitella del Trout. NAPLES, FEB. 13. The French corvette Mouette has left for Gaeta, in order to receive Francis 11. and his family. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 6. The Porte has replied to the Russian note, re asserting the truth of the Grand Vizier's report. Sir Henry Bulwer takes the part of the Porte. The Montenegrins have made an attack on Niekisch, but have been repulsed. The Redifs are to be embodied in the spring. FIUME, FEB. 13. The city of Fiume and the surrounding district have been, declared in a state of siege. PESTH, FEB. 13. The Assembly of the Comitat of Odenburg has resolved to pay the taxes as heretofore until the Diet shall have taken its resolution. KARLSBURG, FEB. 13. The Conference of Karlsburg has resolved upon expressing their wishes in an address to the Go vernment, containing three clauses, namely :- Ist. Execution of the laws of 1848. 2d. A new electoral law. 3d. Establishment of a separate Constitution, and representation of Transylvania in a special Diet. The project for the union of Transylvania with Hungary was violently opposed. PARIS, FEB. 13. The Patrie says : " A pamphlet, entitled France, Rome, et Italie, by M. de Laguerroniere, will be published on Fri day next. This pamphlet will complete the insight into the negotiations between France and Rome, given by the publication of documents, and will make France and Europe judges of the Imperial policy. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb.l3.—The market has been heavy, and stock having been rather offered, prices are lower. Threes, for the account, which opened at 68f 55c, are now at 68f 45c. Railways also dull. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 97 93 Credit Foncier 940 Do, end month.... —1 Belgian 4/ 99 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 Roman Bank Shares 2890 ; Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 700 ! Spanish Threes 47 50 Do. Account 7OO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1412 50 .. 1408 75 Northern New ditto B9l 25 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 930 Geneva 392 50 .. 390 Southern 532 50 .. 533 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4BO .. 480 PRUSSIA. Fourteen members of the Right Centre have thought it necessary to publish an explanation why they voted in favour of M. de Vincke's amendment on the Italian question. In this explanation they state that they voted for the amendment, no t because they were opposed to the explanations given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the policy of the Government, but, on the contrary, be cause they approved them. They looked upon a posi tive declaration of the Chamber on the most important question that agitates Europe as indispensable on account of its gravity and of the dignity of the National Parliament. They consider the principle of non-intervention in Italian affairs as necessary, because they desire that this principle shall be re spected by foreign Powers in German affairs. They believe that a strong Italy, independent of all foreign influence, will be advantageous to the interests of Germany and of the whole of Europe. 'They wish to remove the supposition that Prussia assumed an attitude unfavourable to the constitu tion of Italy, because in the contrary case Italy would be thrown into the arms of France, whose power would thus be increased. It was their wish that the adopted resolution should strengthen the position of the Government on this question without prejudice to ulterior com binations and decisions should they be called for by events touching the interests of Prussia and of Germany by the overthrow of the balance of power in Europe or from any other cause. GAETA. A letter from Gaeta, in the Augsburg Gazette, has the following :—" The King and Queen inhabit three low and damp rooms in the casemates, arrived at by a narrow staircase terminated by a kind of anti-chamber, in which it is necessary to keep a lamp burning all day. Adjoining is another room rather larger, in which no furniture is to be seen but a writing table, two beds, and some arm chairs. This is now the residence of a Sovereign who only a short time ago possessed the most splendid palaces in the world, The streets.of Gaeta almost resemble newly ploughed fields. As to walking in them, it must not be thought of. The Queen visits the hospitals at least once a day ; she goes 4 from bed to bed, takes a memorandum of the requests of the wounded and dying; assists the surgeons in applying bandages, and if perchance a shell bursts near, she pays not the slightest atten tion to it." A letter from Turin mentions a very untoward incident, in consequence of which General Pinelli, commander of the column operating in the Abruzzi, has been superseded. The general, having been violently attacked by the clerical journal, the A rmonia, thought proper to reply by forwarding to it the copy of an order of the day which he had recently addressed to his troops, and expressing the hope that it would render him still more worthy of the hatred of that journal and its supporters, The extreme violence of this order will be seen from the following extract " Officers and Soldiers,—You have accomplished much ; but nothing is done so long as anything remains to do. A remnant of that race of robbers is still lurking in the mountains; hasten to dis lodge them, and be as inexorable as fate. Towards such enemies mercy is a crime. Mean and sub missive when they see us in numbers, no sooner do they see us weak than they traitorously at tack us from behind, and massacre our wounded Indifferent to all political principles, eager only for booty and rapine, they are for the moment the salaried brigands of the Vicar, not of Christ, but of Satan, ready to sell their poignards to any others when the gold extorted from the stupid credulity of the faithful shall no longer suffice to satisfy their greed. We will annihilate them; we will crush the sacerdotal vampire which with its foul lips has for centuries sucked the blood of our mother; we will purify with fire and sword the regions infected by its filthy slaver, and from its ashes liberty shall rise with renewed vigour for this noble province of Ascoli also." Language so outrageous could not be allowed to pass unnoticed by the Sardinian Government, and Gen. Pinelli has consequently been removed from his command, as announced by telegraph. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin., —England expects every man to do his duty. Did the Leeds Chamber of Commerce do its duty, at its late annual meeting, in not saying one word respecting the aggravating effects of the Act of 1844 on the present severe monetary pressure, so detrimental to the interest of com merce. This omission is the more reprehensible, after having passed in 1858, a resolution calling for the abolition of the very principle of the Act—restriction. The following ex tract is from their minutes : " Bank Charter Act.—This chamber having been re quested to depute some gentleman practically conversant with the working of the above Act, and its effects on the monetary system and trade of the country, a meeting of the council was held on the 12th of May last, Darnton Lupton, Esq., the president, in his place, when, after con siderable discussion, the meeting passed a resolution in favour of the following views : " Ist. That the clause in the act which limits the Bank of England directors to an issue of £14,000,000, excepting against gold, ought to be abolished, and that the directors should have a discretionary power to exceed that limit as necessity may require. " 2d. That the Bank directors should also be allowed to issue £1 Bank of England notes, convertible into gold in London in times of pressure and difficulty.' " Mr. John Smith, of the firm of Messrs. Beckett and Co., was deputed, and gave the strongest evidence possible in condemation of the Act. He said— " That the act is inoperative in ordinary times, and fails in times of pressure and panic—that it induces a want of confidence, which causes money to be hoarded—that al though in the district of Leeds in 1857 there was no excess of credit to any great extent, no accommodation bills, as far as he could find out, and not one in his own bank—that trade was apparently very sound, and there was not• the slightest reason to apprehend a panic—that only one failure in the district connected with the crisis occurred—yet that, if the Treasury Letter suspending the Act had not been issued on the 12th of November, the entire commer cial body of this ' important district' must have gone to the wall. ' And when he was asked if he remembered that an issue of Bank of England £1 notes stopped the panic in 1825, re plied, "Yes, perfectly; they supplied the place of bullion, and would do so again ; they would do so at any time." Why, then, does not the Leeds Chamber of Com merce, in conformity with their resolution, urge now the issuing of £1 notes to supply the place of bullion? We have in this country, according to an elaborate statement in the Mechanics' Magazine, gold coin to the amount of £100,000,000, that were £1 notes issued to serve as substitutes for sovereigns, some 20 or 30 millions of gold might be set at liberty for exportation, which would at once put an end to the extra pecuniary pressure in England, France, and America, arising from a scarcity of bullion. These countries have plenty of property to exchange for both their home and foreign trades, but are short of the medium of exchange ; they have the money's worth or value, but not money, the instrument for transferring it : they have property and services enough, and with these at bottom all debts are paid, but being contracted in money, must be legally discharged in money, of which they are short. The act of 1841, by contracting the supply of 'money, when gold leaves the country, sacrifices the goose which lays the golden eggs for the sake of the eggs ; stops the trade which produces the wealth to buy the gold. Its prin ciple of cure is homoeopathic ; when gold is drained from the Bank, and the quantity of money thereby reduced, it makes it still less by cancelling Bank-note money to an equal extent. This :application of the homoeopathic principle, :" similia similibus curantur," will not answer in this case ; the void in the domestic currency should be filled up and not made greater. And for what purpose is this absurd principle adopted ? Avowedly to ensure the convertibility of the Bank of Eng land note, which has never been doubted, and about which tradespople never think or trouble themselves. A Bank of England note is a perfect security for the transfer of equivalent values, and this is all that is wanted in money of any kind. It is remarkable that country editors in general are in favour of the Act of 1844, whilst in London it is the re verse. May not this difference be accounted for by the cir cumstance that country bankers having the privilege of issue, partake of the monopoly which the Act gives them, whilst London bankers do not. Editors commonly ask the opinion of merchants as to the working of the Act ; these consult their bankers, who, of course, in general, very naturally support the Act which benefits them. Again, if the editor swears by the Times, which many do, he is following the lead of an official of the Bank of England—if the report be true that the writer of the City Article in the Times is the secretary of the Treasury Com mittee of the Bank of England. Thus, even in the press, the safeguard of our rights and liberties, we may trace the action of the all powerful monied interest, from whose meshes it is difficult to escape. To examine into the effect of our monetary laws and com merce is peculiarly the duty of Chambers of Commerce, and England expects them to do their duty.—l am, sir, your obedient servant HAMER STANSFELD. Highfield, Windermere. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury entertained at dinner on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in Hertford street, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, and Captain Falbe. Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for their seat, Drake bwe, Burton-on-Trent. General Sir James and Lady Chatterten have arrived at Howchin's Hotel, from Folkatone. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—A classical examiner ship in this university has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Donaldson. The senate will proceed to the election of a successor in April. THE DEANERY OF EXETER.—A rumour is afloat in clerical circles, believed to be well founded, that the Rev. Dr. Scott, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is to be the Dean of Exeter, in the room of the Very Rev. Dr. Thomas Hill Lowe, deceased. It appears that the average price at which' the new India Loan of £3,000,000 was taken is £9B 14s. 51d., producing £2,961,655 18s. 4d. The total amount of the first instalment, to be paid to-morrow, is £501,655 18s. 4d. The Attorney-General's Bankruptcy Bill has been printed. It occupies 77 pages, and contains 256 clauses. The dates from Adelaide, South Australia, by the present mail are to December 26th. The Colonial Par liament had been further prorogued to the 11th of January. Mr. Stuart's exploring party had arrived at Moolooloo, and left for Chambers' Creek on the 29th of November, all in good health, and confident of success. St. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The following Preachers have been nominated by the Lord Bishop of London for the special services at St. Paul's :—Sunday, Feb. 17, the Lord Bishop of Cork ; Feb. 24, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; and March 3, the Rev. Thomas Dale, Canon of St. Paul's. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Captain E. Christian, left for London at noon to-day, to be lengthened at out 35 feet at the btilding-yard of Messrs. Wigram and Green, by which firm the Ripon was built. Her Majesty the Queen, in appreciation of the important and philanthropic character of the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has signified her in tention to become an annual subscriber of £5O to its funds. The Countess de Persigny will leave Albert-gate House on or about the 25th inst. for Paris. ANOTHER SHOCKING CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.— Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a most frightful accident occurred to Miss E. Hill, aged 18 years, who re sides at Sutherland-terrace, Caledonian-road, Islington. It appeared that she was sitting alone by the aide of the fire, her crinoline hanging over the fender, when a piece of red hot coal fell on her dress, which became ignited, and she was enveloped in fire. Her screams brought assistance, when the flamas were extinguished. The unfortunate lady was conveyed to the hospital, where she now remains without the slightest hope of recovery. EXPORT OF GOLD TO THE UNITED STATES.— The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Edinburgh Castle, Captain Brooks, sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York, taking out the United States' mail and a fair amount of cargo; besides which she took out 20 cabin passengers, and had £43,420 in gold on freight. THE BONAPARTES.—The Paris correspondent of the Brussels Independance states that an interview has taken place within the last few days between the Emperor and the young Bonaparte, grandson of Jerome by his first wife, Miss Paterson, and whose father is the plaintiff in the action which has occupied so much !attention. This interview has led to the supposition that before the deci sion of the Court is pronounced some friendly arrangement will be effected. RESTORATION OF THE CHAPTER -HOUSE, WEST- MlNSTER.—Arrangements are on foot for the restoration of the Chapter-house of Westminster Abbey, which is justly regarded as one of the finest examples of early English architecture. It was built by Henry 111. about the year 1250, but it has been reduced to a mere wreck in conse quence of the every day uses to which it has been applied. The Chapter-house was made over by the Convent of Westminster for the use of the House of Commons early in the reign of Edward 111., with the express condition that the Crown should keep it in repair. In the time of Edward VI., the Commons having removed to St. Stephen's Chapel, the Chapter-house came into the hands of the Government. It has since been employed as a record-office, but in consequence of the erection of the new general repo sitory for records the public documents have been removed, and nothing is wanted but funds to enable its restoration to be accomplished by Mr. G. G. Scott, to whom the work has been entrusted. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE ►SHILLING DAY.— Wednesday, Feb. 13.—Admissions on payment, 815; ditto by season tickets, 50) ; total visitors, 1,324. LITERATURE. The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second Series. Parker. We have so often had occasion to speak highly of these essays when meeting them in the pages of Fraser's Magazine, that their appearance in a collected form is very welcome. The high repu tation which their predecessors have secured to the author will suffer no diminution by their appearance. The reader will at once recognise the sound sense, the pleasant humour, the keen discri mination, and genial kindliness and sympathy which have so long rendered the initials A. K. H. B. familiar friends to many. While deeply imbued with a sense of the vital influence of religion, and of what its effect on our lives ought to be, the writer is entirely free from any approach to prejudice or bigotry, although belonging to a church not gene rally remarkable for tolerance. But, though ani mated throughout by a kindly Christian spirit, the essays are not in the least of a doctrinal or sermonising character. They bear out their title of being " Recreations," both to the writer and reader ; such as might pleasantly vary the sterner labours of the author, and such as might be turned to for mental refreshment at the close of the day's toil. As he himself tells us in the introductory paragraphs of his discourse "ConcerningtheWorries of Life, and how to meet them," essays may be read by the wrong people and at the wrong time and place, and there are some to whom the whole tone and tenour of these moralisings will be totally antagonistic. The essf.yist, he observes, has to contend against a difficulty unfelt by the preacher, who knows exactly the class for whom he prepares his discourse, and the time and place where it will reach them. But the writer of discursive pages like the present has to pi °- vide for a mixed and uncertain public; " for people he has never seen ; who will read his essay in chambers unknown to him ; in comfortable easy chairs by warm fires; on stiff chairs with no arms; in cold corners; in lonely lodg ings; amid a great shouting of little children,with the accompaniment of a stupid old woman talking ; with their hard hats on their heads in the reading rooms of royal exchanges, athen mums, and philo sophical institutions ; in a great hurry, and stand ing; quite leisurely, and reclining; beside a window that looks out on evergreens and roses ; beside a window, seldom cleaned, that commands a slushy street, depressing with its brown, half melted snow." And he asks in despair, how the same thing can be adapted to all these varying circum stances. He solves the difficulty, however, prac tically, if not theoretically, by treating of the sub jects that come home to us all ; of the joys and sorrows that chequer the days of most of us ; of the petty griefs, petty perplexities, disappointments, and annoyances that form so large a share of the troubles of life ; of the hopes and aspirations which we all set out with, but which grow fainter and fainter on the road. Yet there is nothing morbid in these glimpses of human sorrows. The whole tone of the writings is vigorous, straightforward, and practical. One of the best essays in the volume is that "Concerning Giving Up and Coming Down," and the writer's definitions of what he means by these terms is so characteristic that we give it in his own words : GIVING UP AND COMING DOWN. I fancy my reader wondering at my excitement, and doubtful of my meaning. Let me explain my terms. What is meant by Giving Up ; what by Coming Down ? By Coming Down I understand this : Learning from the many mortifications, diappointments, and rebuffs which we must all meet as we go on through life, to think more and more humbly of ourselves, intellectually, morally, so cially, physically, aesthetically : yet, while thinking thus humbly of ourselves and our powers, to resolve that we shall continue to do our very best : and all this with a kindly heart and a contented mind. Such is my ideal of true and Christian Coming Down : and I regard as a true hero the roan who does it rightly. It is a noble thing for a manto say to himself, " I am not at all what I had vainly fancied myself ; my mark is far, very far lower than I thought it had been ; I had fancied myself a great genius, but I find I am only a man of decent ability : I had fancied myself a man of great weight in the county, but I find I have little influence indeed : I had fancied that my stature was six feet four, but I find I am only five feet two : I had fancied that in such a competition I never could be beaten, but in truth I have been sadly beaten : I had fancied [suffer me, reader, the solemn allusion] that my Master had en trusted me with ten talents, but I find I have no more than one. But I will accept the humble level which is mine by right, and with God's help will do my very best there. I will not kick dogs nor curse servants: I will not try to detract from the standing of men who are cleverer, more eminent, or taller than myself : I will heartily wish them well. I will not grow soured, moping, and misanthropic. I know I am beaten and disappointed, but I will hold on manfully still, and never Give Up 1" Such, kindly reader, is Chris tian Coming Down I And what is Giving Up ? Of course you understand my meaning now. Giving Up means that when you are beaten and disappointed, and made to understand that your mark is lower than you had fancied, you will throw down your arms in despair, and resolve that you will try no more. As for you, brave man, if you don't get all you want, you are resolved you shall have nothing. If you are not ac cepted as the cleverest and greatest man, you are resolved you shall be no man at all. And while the other is ch,-i3 tian Coming Down, this is un-Christian, foolish, and wicked Giving Up. No doubt it is an extremel natural thing. It is the first and readiest impulse of the undisciplined heart. It is in human nature to say, "If I don't have all the pud ding, I shall have none." The grand way of expressing the same sentiment, is, Aut Caesar nut nullus. Of course the Latin worsts stir the youthful heart. You sympathise with them, I know, my reader under five-and-twenty. You will see through them some day. They are just the heroic way of saying, I skill Give Up, but I never shall Come Down 1 They state a sentiment for babies, boys and girls, not for reasonable women and men. For babies, I say. Let me relate a parable. Yesterday I went into a cottage, where a child of two years old sat upon his mother's knee. The little man had in his hand a large slice of bread and-butter which his mother had just given him. By words not intelligible to me he conveyed to his mother the fact that he desired that jam should be spread upon the slice of bread-and-butter. But his mother informed him that bread and bu , ter must suffice, without the further luxury. The young human being (how thoroughly human) considered for a moment; and then dashed the bread-and• butter to the further end of the room. There it was : Ant Caesar eat nullus I The baby would Give Up, but it would not Come Down ! Alexander the Great, look at yourself ! Marius among the ruins of Carthage, what do you think you look like here ? By the time the youthful reader comes to understand that Byron's dark, mysterious heroes, however brilliantly set forth, are in conception simply childish ; by the time he is able to appreciate Philipran Artevelde (I mean Mr. Henry Taylor's noble tragedy) ; he will discern that various things which look heroic at the first glance, will not work in the long run. And that practical principle is irrational which will not work. And that sentiment which is irra tional is not heroic. The truly-heroic thing to say, as well as the rational thing, is this : If I don't get all the pudding. I shall be content if I get what I deserve, or what God sends. If I am not Cesar, there is no need hat I should be nullus; I shall be content to be the highly respectable Mr. Smith. Though I am not equal to Shak - speare, I may write a good play. Though inferior to Bishop Wilberforce, I shall yet do my best to be a good preacher. It is a fine thing, a noble thing, as it appears to me, for a man to be content to labour hard and do his utmost, though well aware that the result will be no more than decent mediocrity, after all. It is a finer thing, and more truly heroic, to do your very best and only be second rate, than even to resolve, like the man in the Iliad, ALEY etpLcrreidecv, ;cal Irreipoxov '4242.evat iaXcov. There is a strain put upon the moral nature in contentedly and perseveringly doing this, greater than is put upon the intellectual by the successful effort to be best. And what would become of the world if all men went upon Homer's principle; and rather than Come Down from its sublime elevation, would fling down their tools and Give Up ? Shall I, because I cannot preach like Mr. Melvill, cease to write sermons ? Or shall I, because I cannot counsel and charm like Mr. Helps, cease to write essays ? You may rely up on it I shall not. I do not forget Who said, in words of praise concerning one who had done what was absolutely but very little, " She hath done what she could 1" And what would become of me and my essays, if the reader, turning to them from the pages of Huila or Charles Lamb, should say, " I shall not Come Down ; and if I find I have to do so I shall Give Up ?" What if the reader refused to accept the plain bread-and-butter which I can furnish, un less it should be accompanied by that jam which I am not able to add ? " Disappointment and Success" and " Growing Old" are two other subjects which give full lati tude for the author's powers ; and his attack on the supporters of the " Dignity of Dulness " will be fresh in the memory of its readers. He happily confutes the absurd theory, firmly believed in by many, of the soundness and value of what is pon derous and tedious, and the necessary superficiality , of all that is brilliant and attractive. " Con cerning Churchyards " is another characteristic topic, in considering which he discusses the relative merits of burning or burying as a means of disposing of the dead, a question which has recently been raised among the scientific. One of the advocates of the funeral pyre suggests that the ashes of the departed might be preserved in elegant urns, " replacing on our consoles and mantelpieces the ornaments now found there." Notwithstanding all the attendant solemnities of the ceremony, we fully agree with our essayist, who says it would be impossible for the survivors to divest themselves of the feeling of sacrilegious violence. " And only think," he indignantly ex claims, "of a man pointing to half-a-dozen vases on his mantelpiece, and as many more on his chef. fonier, and saying, There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary are at rest.' No, no ; the thing will never do !" In his list of epi taphs he cites some new and curious ones. The gloomy fancy some have had to dwell on the cir cumstances of their own dissolution he condemns as morbid, but goes on to say : Not but that such thoughts are well i n th e i r d ue ti me .isdese4dlt,ito:otiiodsneeavttlehyry, years Navfionhltdda,itth:io andt meant ts w ha yeeA houseolwu k l h d ne aon a pw l pe ta s o h o c: nh m a tt e e ord t if i , ouo e urs s an d place. f try to bring n e w a go l r i r a we l i l pl l te i a v b bt ino . .." Even with a ll suc h remem b rances b roug ht home 'to him by means to which we are not likely to resort, the good priest and martyr Robert South well tells us how hard he found it, while in buoyant life, to rightly consider his end. But in perfect cheer fulness and healthfulness of spirit, the human being who knows (so far as man can know) where he is to rest at last, may oftimes visit that peaceful spot. It will do him go, d ; it can do him no harm. The hard -wrought man may fitly look upon the soft green turf, some day to be opened for him; and think to himself, Not yet, I have more to do yet ; but in a little while. Somewhere there is a place appointed for each of us, a place that is waiting for each of us, and that will not be complete till we are there. Well, we rest in the humble trust, that " through the grave and gate of death, we shall pass to our joyful resurrec tion." And we turn away now from the churchyard, re calling Bryant's lines as to its extent. Tine essay entitled " Concerning Summer Days," affords ample evidence of the writer's peculiar power of ranging " from grave to gay, from lively to severe," without the reader's being sensible of any incongruity or abruptness in the transition, In the article in question he touches on a wide range of subjects, suggested by the thought of summer days, in somewhat of the fashion in which a rambling train of thought presents itself to the mind. He reflects on the varying aspects of the gorgeous midsummer noon in the crowded city court of law and marketplace, and in leafy wood land shades or lone moorland wastes. We quote the following passages, both from the same essay, as affording fair specimens of the author's varied style : A NEW ASSOCIATION. I am persuaded that if half-a-dozen clever young men were to form themselves into a little association, each mem ber of which should be pledged to lose no opportunity of crying up the other five members in conversation, through the press, and in every other possible way, this would mate rially further their success in life and the estimation in which they would be held wherever known. The world would take them at the value so constantly dinned into its ear. When you read on a silver coin the legend one shilling, you readily take it for a shilling; and if a man walks about with great genius painted upon him in large red letters, many people will accept the truth of the inscription. Every one has seen how a knot of able young men hanging to gether at college and in after life can help one another even in a material sense, and not less valuably by keeping up one another's heart. All this is quite fair, and so is even the mutual praise when it is hearty and sincere. For several months past I have been possessed of an idea which has been gradually growing into shape. I have thought of getting up an association, whose members should always hold by one another, be true to one another, and cry one another up. A friend to whom I mentioned my plan highly approved it, and suggested the happy name of the Mutual Exaltation Society. The association would be limited in number : not more than fifty mem ' bers could be admitted. It would include educated men in all walks of life; more particularly men whose success in life depends in any measure upon the estimation in which they are commonly held, as barristers, preachers, authors, and the like. Its purposes and operations have already been indicated with as much fulness as would be judicious at the present juncture. Mr. Barnum and Messrs. Moses and Son would be consulted on the details. Sir John Ellesmere, ex-solicitor-general and author of the " Essay on the Arts of Self-Advaneement," would be the first president, and the general guide, philosopher, and friend of the Mutual Exaltation Society. The present writer will be secretary. The only remuneration he would expect would be that all the members should undertake, at least six times every day, to make favourable mention of a recently published work. Six times a day would they be expected to say promiscuously to any intelligent friend or stranger, " Have you read the 'Recreations of a Country Parson' ? Most wonderful book I Not read it I Go to Mudie's and get it directly"—and the like. For obvious reasons it would not do to make public the names of the members of the association; the moral weight of their mutual laudation would be much diminished. But clever young men in various parts of the country who may desire to join the society, may make application to the editor of Fraser's Magazine, enclosing testimonials of moral and intellectual character. Applications will be received until the First of April, 1861. SUMMER DAYS. Pleasanter scenes come up this afternoon with the men tion of summer days. I see depths of wood, where all the light is coolly green, and the rippling brook is crystal clear. I see vistas through pines, like cathedral vaults ; the space enclosed looks on a sunshiny day almost black, and a bit of bright blue sky at the end of each is framed by the trees into the likeness of a Gothic window. I see walls of gray rock on either side of a river, noisy and brawling in winter time, but now quiet and low. For two or three miles the walls of rock stretch onward ; there are thick woods above them, and here and there a sunny field : masses of ivy clothe the rock in places ; long sprays of ivy hang over. I walk on in thought till I reach the opening of the glen ; here a green bank slopes upward from a dark pool below, and there is a fair stre: ch of champaign country beyond the river ; on the summit of the green bank, on this side, moul dering, gray, ivied, lonely, stand the ruins of the monas tery, which has kept its place-here for 700 years. I see the sky- framing eastern window, its tracery gone. There are masses of large daisies varying the sward, and the sweet fragrance of young clover is diffused through all the air. I turn aside and walk through lines of rose-trees in their summer perfection. I hear the drowsy hum of the laden bees. Suddenly it is the twilight, the long twilight of Scotland, which would sometimes serve you to read by at eleven o'clock at night. The crimson flush has faded from the bosom of the river; if you are alone its murmur begins to turn to a moan ; the white stones of the churchyard look spectral through the trees. I think of poor Dr. Adam, the great Scotch schoolmaster of the last century, the teacher of Sir Walter Scott, and his last words, when the shadow of death was falling deeper--" It grows dark, boys ; you may go." Then, with the profes sional bias, Igoto a certain beautiful promise which the deepening twilight seldom fails to suggest to me ; a pro mise which tells us how the Christian's day shall end, how the day of life might be somewhat overcast and dreary, but light should come on the darkened way at last. "It shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear nor dark. But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night ; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light." I think of various senses in which it might be shown that these words speak truly; in which its great principle bolds good, that signal blessing shall come when it is needed most and ex pe,ted leest ; but I think mainly how, sometimes, at the close of * t } l , te . 4t , q t u h e o re y cLa and andsobermdaadye, the ee flaming Better purple and gold. I think how always the purSewunreslitghahalstl comes, if not in this world, then in a better. Bowing his head to pass under the dark portal, the Christian lifts it on the other side, in the presence and the light of God. I think how you and I, my reader, may perhaps have stood in the ehamber of death, and seen in the horizon the sum mer sun in glory going down. But it is only tous who remain that the evening darkness is growing --only for us that the sun is going down. Look on the sleeping features, and think, " Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw herself; for the Lord shall be thine ever lasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." And then, my reader, tell me—as the evening falls on you, but not on him ; as the shadows deepen on you, but not on him ; as the darkness gathers on you, but not on him—if, in sober reality, the glorious promise has not found its per fect fulfilment, that "at the evening time there shall be light I" In the volume itself there are many other passages full of fun or of feeling, which we have not space to quote. The reader of cultivated taste and thoughtful mind cannot fail to be gratified with its perusal, however he may differ from theories, or dissent from opinions, or even if he occasionally discover too great a tendency to discursiveness and. diffuseness. Such productions, as the author truly says, cannot always be equal. Let us be thankful, amid the abundance of mediocre and indifferent publications, when we meet one so far above the average, so true in its experience, so sound in its teaching, and so fresh and captivating in its style, as this volume of "Recreations." TIIIS _DAY'S MAREETS. CORN EXCHANGE. iMI ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 54s Od ; barley, 39s 8d ; oats, 22s 6d ; rye, 36s 3d ; beans, 39s Od ; and peas, 42s 7d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 56a lel ; barley, 40s 3d ; oats, 22s 10d ; rye, 35s lld ; beans, 42s Od ; peas, 42s 10& ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 57,621; barley, 71,966 ; oats, 23,768 ; rye, 22; beans, 5,168 ; peas, 1132 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with beasts, nevertheless all breeds moved off slowly at Monday's currency. Prime Down sheep were very scarce, and in re • quest at full prices, Long- woolled sheep moved off heavily, and in some instances the quotations gave way 2d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was limited, changed hands freely at full prices. Pigs were firm, but milch cows wore very dull. Per 81bs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. e. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 4 Primecrs-wool do. 5 0 5 8 Second qualitydo. 3 6 4 0 Pme.Sithdown do 5 10 6 2 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Large arse. calves 4 8 5 2 Prime Seats, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 4 5 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 2 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 4 2 4 8, Small porkers Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 198 to 22s ; end quarter •old store pig, 23s to 3)s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 940 Sheep and lambs 3,960 Calves Pigs FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .............. 120 Sheep .............. 700 ICalves ........ I Pigs .... MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. - The supplies of meat, are only moderate, and trade is inactive as follows :-- Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Feb.l3 .—A fair average business doing, as follows : Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 10d , mutton, 4s Od to 5s 10d ; lamb, Os Od t@ Os Od ; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 2d; pork, 4s Od to 5s 04 p er 81b s to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Feb. 13. —A steady sale, as follows Beef, from 3s 64 to 4s Od; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 48 Od to 5s Od per Blbs ; suckling calves, 14s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and milch cows, £l4 Os to £l9 Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITTIFIELD.—MoatIow hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; clover dn., £3 Os to £slss ; and straw, las to £1 18s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND..-- Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £5 8s ; clover, £3 Os to £ss 12s Od ; and straw, £1 lOs to £2 Os per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; cloves, £3 Os to £5 16s Od ; and straw, lOs to £ 1 18s per lead. Trade dull. KET—FEB. 13. t the close of the market Walls End. P, d. South Hetf on 22 3 Russel's Hetton 21 0 Pensher Cassop 2l 6 Hartlepool—. . 2l 9 Acorn Close 19 6 Eden v Vyv 20 6 Hedley 20 0 Peases West .16 6 Low Bitehburn l6 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 2l 0 COAL MARI (rrioes of Coal per Ton al B. d. Byass's Bebside West Hartley • 3 Bower's West Hartley.l7 3 Davison's West Hart ley ....17 3 Tanfield Moor ...16 :3 Canfield Moor Butes .. 16 3 Wylam ...... ... .18 0 Londonderry Gas 14 6 H olywell ...18 6 Ryhopo Nuts.... 14 0 Walls End. Framwellgate 20 6 Ships at marker, 45, sold, 22.