The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

ROYAL :ENGLISH. OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. The great Pantomime of BLUE BEARD, universally pronounced to be the hit of the season. Never surpassed for Magnificence of Scenery, Costumes, Decorations, Dances, Processions, and surpassing beauty of the Fairy Transforma tion Scene. Commence at Seven. Doors open at Half-past Six. THIS EVENING and during the week, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corr'. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. After which, the Grand Oriental Pantomine of BLUE BEARD. The opening writ ten by J. V. Bridgman, Esq. Supported by a combination of talent unequalled in the annals of pantomimic art. Mr. W. H. Payne, Harry Boleno, Henry Payne, Hildyard, Milano, Fred. Payne, Tanner, J. Barnes, the Zelin skis, Miss Clara Morgan, and Mdme. Boleno. The Pantomime produced by Mr. Edward Stirling. The MORNING PERFORMANCES each week, WED NESDAY and SATURDAY, commencing at Two o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. Acting Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. - Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. son, Sole THIS EVENING,arri the MARRIAGE Lessees. OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H, Corrie. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mallon. Commence at Seven. THEA TRil'-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Les4ee, Mr. J. B. Baekstene. THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony, bumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Young Marlow, Mr. Howe ; Miss Hardeastle, Miss Fanny Stirling After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,—Lessee, and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.—A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the Pantomime, ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the C9,tlb bee Islands, on MONDAY, Jan. 7, commencing at Two o'clock. Again acknowledged to be the best Pantomime in London. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Hants, THIS EVENING, Jan. 5, ERNESTIN.T. Messrs. J. G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car lotta Leclercq, Weston, and Murray. After which, a new Christmas comhal pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlea•,un Friday, and the King' of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. P. Forrest. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Pernrir,tor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Serby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. Atter whirih, THE COLLEEN PAWN. D. 'Ronde:mit, D. Fisher, Millington, 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 BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar•, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and k,. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. tiel. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THISVEVENING THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr. John Drew. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic F.xtravazanza, CRYSTABELLE •. or, The Rose without a Thorn, showinz VIsTONT OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF TUE WILD BRIAR. Followed by the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, .Tohnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, 1 :11liers, Butler, and .Toon Drew; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Tertian, and Miss Neville. A gTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE...-. ...LP. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION 'CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe 'of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HART.EQU DI AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE • or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comic scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Ilarlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Harlequin Mr. Sylvester. Columbine Mlliss Hariet Dalton. Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks. Clown Mr. James Cooke. Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons. Doors open at half-past C, performance commence at 7. Box-office ope'.l daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT. • Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. HALL CANTERBURY Open Every Evening at seven. GRAND SELECTIONS from LA FIGLIA DEL REG MENTO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA and MARTHA. Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARIA, Miss TYJIRELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C. W BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI Musical Director Mr. P. JONGTIMANS. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. J. BLANCHARD, A. B. HoLLrNoswouTn, Master BARRY, and E. MARSHALL. The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE GREAT DAY of HIS WRATH." " THE PLAINS of HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view until 12 o'clock at Night. CH RES TMA S HOLIDAYS. OPERA, DRAMA. BURLESQUE, and PANTOMIME. EVERY EVENING. Clown . 'qr. E. MARSHALL. Harlequin.. .. Pantaloon Mr. F. BELL. SPRITES, by the celebrated BROTHERS CONRAD. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIN DAY.—.Morninz, 7h. 48m.—Afternoon, Bh. 20m, To-monnow.-Morning, Bh. 56m.—Afternoon,' 9h. 30m THE WE A T HEE,— StrxOFFT cm, JAN. 5, 1861, TlizamoNrwrzn, IN THE SHADE. 35—highest since noon yesterday. 32—lowest this morning and during the night. 3—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.04. WlND—North-Easterly—light ; with dull hazy weather, and slight snow. 1 *r 1 . ---- '_ 2l:t 1 .4 2 1...„..., ~ A •$e `. '. * * c., -1: ' -" I - 1 -1 t741 -. „ ci +l , . nr, - .t, 0 ? -•..":::-',,i,r,,,,.. ' t . ,& , ,4 „ . 04 . w . ,q...,-,y•-•.f:z F. .., 4b:r.A.. - r~~ L THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1861. The political "situation" all over Europe is every day becoming more and more significant. Every thing gives indication of a coming collision. The thunder clouds are still quietly but ominously in movement—hither and thither, right and left, here, „there, everywhere, in more and more inextricable confusion. From what point the lightning bolt will first flash as th© signal for the inevitable storm of war is yet left vaguely to our conjecture. But that 1861 will not pass over without that looked for tempest breaking over the nations of Christen dom is fast becoming the universal conviction. All that NAPOLEON 111. has said at the dawn of the year is that h e " wishes " for Peace. He acknow ledges while so speaking that be can recognise no better or more reliable assurance of its continuance than the friendly relations subsisting at this moment among the various Governments. Building upon which is certainly building upon a most sandy foundation. Yet in this amiable understanding we are alone to look for a guarantee of the maintenance during 1861 of European tranquillity. The Regu lator of Europe, the Moderator of the Revolution, has said it. And in so saying, he has said truly though in a different sense than that in which he would fain have his words unders+ood. Designed, doubtless, by his Imperial MAJESTY upon the Jour de ran to be enigmatically auspicious, they are, when looked at closely, only most ominously sig nificant. The Peace of Europe does rest—not a doubt of it—upon this hollow amity, this affected friendship among the different powers of the European Continent. Upon nothing else It rests alone upon that shifting quicksand. It has no more stable basis than that specious and variable, that simply assumed and pretended good under standing between the Governments. How much of the electricity of war there is a+, this moment in the political atmosphere, we may very readily perceive through a multitude of very comprehensible indications. Looking abroad over Europe, It is as impossible not to recognise the warn ings of the storm as it would be impossible not to I'OJvaA~ n like adrent in the physical world, were the magnetic needle to fluctuate under our gaze and the quicksilver to fall and fail in the tube of the barometer. It is not alone in Europe either that those startling signs of the times ara ♦isib le. It was only yesterday that the citizens of the great North American Republic were, in an swer to the summons of their PRESIDENT, plead ing to Heaven, as it were, in sackcloth and ashes, with fasting and prayer, with all the evi deuces of patriotic solicitude and national humiliatiion, for some Divine intervention in their behalf—t o ward from them so many impending, and formidable, and otherwise apparently inevitable perils—pleading thus for the beneficent interposition in their fa•vour of an ever-watchful and all-merciful Pro vidence. From the opposite extremities of the earth too, from the eastern borders of China come the sounds of the recent struggle between the Tartar hordes and the Anglo-French Expeditioa under the walls of Pekin—a strife nominally resulting in a rapid negotiation of Peace between the recent bekligerents, but—through the tidings of which— come to us at the same time, audibly enough, the resounding intimations of the downfall of the old Tartar Government, and of the rising and spreading wider and wider over that Immense empire of the great LUPINO Revolution. Reverting to Europe, however, looking exclu sively for a time over thebroad expanse of our own quarter of the globe, what are the truths we there chiefly recognise ? They are truths so visible, so glaring, that in the familiar words of H " those who run may read." Everywhere oliyt W rit, is tho Bran everywhere there is perceptible a calm but resolute preparation. It is not alone, however, that this note of preparation is sounded in the arsenals and in the dockyards. It is observable also here and there throughout Europe in the inner changes making themselves manifest in the various adminis trations. It was only the other day that in France herself the whole ministerial organisation was trans formed. Among ourselves, still more recently, while the Cabinet remains unaltered, there has yet been introduced into it within the last few hours a modi fication of some significance. The Secretary of State for War—with a view to his disembarrass ment from the arduous labours devolving upon a Ministerial leader of a great department who has his seat in the House of Commons—the Secretary of State For War (to this end) is removed to the Upper House, so that his energies may be directed uninterruptedly and undisttarbed to the more energetic direction and governance of his all important and solemnly responsible department. As a consequence of which eminently judicious and manifestly most significant elevation of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT to the House of Peers, that right hon. gentleman's (or, as we shall soon be able to call him, that noble lord's) present lin& tr-Secretary in the War Department, to wit, Lord: DE GREY, will have to give place to a successor occupying a seat in the lower branch of the Legish;ature. By that successor of Lord DE GREY'S in the Under Secretaryship of State for the - War Department the business of the Department in relation to the Commons will now be of course entirely . transacted —leaving the chief of the Department, the new Peer, to devote, as we have said, his. undiiided attention, his wholly undisturbed energies, to the conduct during this year of grace, 1861, of the affairs of the War Department. High and lo , w, it is the same, looking all over Europe, lookiran either to the more important or the less imeportant of the States of Chri9tendoni i Nay, ev+en without the pale of Christendom, though still within the boundaries of Europe, these charges, 'by way of preparation, are apparent. From Con aitantinople, under date the 29th of December, arria re tidings of the abrupt dismissal of SAAFETI PACMI., President of the Council of State. Even looking to the cen tral point of Europe, to the core of the I fallen ques tion, to that Gordian Knot, for the severance of which so many are now awaiting the s'qord-sweep of some new ALEXANDER, even looki ng to that State, which, among all the States of lc.':nrope, has become, in a novel way, so especially remarkable, namely, by collapsing from a territory to, :little better than a town—even turning to Rom e —what is the last news we read of thence, of a pure ly political character ? Why, oddly enough, no other tidings than that the retirement of Monsign,cm MIRODE was then, when the last despatches left, being hourly looked for, and that hi& successor there as Minister of War was confidently expected to be (by a ludicrous cokncidence of names) no other than Monsignor BEix...a.—shall we say " BELLti, horrida BELLA P" It is not, how ever, from deductions drawn from xnore or less notable changes, or from more or le i significant tokens all over the European Continent of unostentatious, but steady and rapid pre paration, that we derive the conviction now fast becoming universal that war in. 1861, is all but unavoidable. War has been plan nised in ex press words, by the man of all men living who has shown himself qualified to speak trumapet-tongued to the Europeans? GARIBALDI has said it. He has promised to emerge in the early sl raring from his island-farm at Caprera, and to sum mon a million soldiers to his banners—for what achievement ? For the realisation—if ever that is to be—of the golden day-dream of his life, the dre I.m of Italian Unity ! For the wresting froanKthe grasp of Austria of the last of her bra aitiful Italian Provinces ! For the establish to tent of the Italian Kingdom, " one and visible," from the Alps to the Adriatic, from the - foot of the Car pathian range to the southernmoA;; spur of Cape Spartivento. That, if the signal comets not sooner,will be the clarion sounding the Charge, it rying " Havoc I and letting slip the Dogs of War!" for 1861, over the nations of Christendom. Italy m 21y then rise and take her place among the great Po c ers of Europe ! Austria may then fall, dissolve, and disappear ! Turkey, on this side the Bosphon ts. , at least, may then lapse at length, after an anomalous existence of four hundred years, may then lapse at length, and permanently, from the power oof the SULTAN CALIPH of the Mussulmans ! C Paddy and Popery are such persistent com plainers that even their just complaints are likely to be overlooked. They are always wronged—out wronged. Now the Sa snenach, now the ra,geously Protestant, or more commonly evlytebre zr persecuting and nt co bination of the two, are for afflicting Paddy and hispriestisan grievance, the'Thegreatwork house gri evance , the great pr great eviction grievance—the worst of Irishmenal all; the great Cabinet an d Mi n i stry gr i e vanceof not being adequately valued by evcry new Premier ; the great Italian grievance, especially that of Spoleto—the grievances are really so innumerable and so perennial that we have c pane to look upon them as a matter of course. We turn to the Irish columns or paragraphs in the newspapers, in wardly saying, what grievance now ? We look for some account of toes trodden . on till they ar4 crushed, expecting to find, after a few mails, that they were but accidentally toughed, as the suf ferer squeezed along in the crowd. If, therefore, poor Paddy sometimes cothplains, with reason, that he is not attended to when he ought to be, he must really thank himself for it. Bishop PLuNii.LT.'s ar tize grievance of Ireland. They have been before the public with assertions and counter-asser tions for some time ; but at length we have the authentic evidence of the Lord Bishop and of the Roman Catholic priest, Mr. LAVELLE, to deal with, as given before a court of justice; and, beyond all doubt, a hard case on the poor peasantry it seems to be. On two points the evi dence is as clear as it could well be—that the Bishop, through his agent, required his tenants-at-will to send their children to the Irish Mission schools,' where the Bible was taught, on pain of eviction ; and that Mr. LAVELLE had emptied these schools of the children, and encouraged the people to keep possession of their holdings, though possession of them was demanded by the Bishop's agents. The Bishop and the priest were, in fact, at open war. The Bishop had determined that all the children on his estate should be taught the Bible—the priest had resolved that the Bible they should not learn; but the Bishop wielded temporal weapons, the priest spiri tual weapons, in this battle for children. The Bishop gained his temporal battle, for the strong arm of the law was with him, The priest gained his spiritual battle, for the children have been with drawn from all danger of Mission school and Bible corruption. But we ought to give the substance of the evidence. The processes were against two tenants for over-holding and non-title ; Lor d PLUNKET was examined—to the question, whether " In this terrific weather he was purposing to fling seventy unfortunates on the snow-covered mountains in Partry, and specially, whether it was really for purposes of eviction, and not merely for non payment of rent, he had brought these actions," he answered "certainly ;" and in several forms he firmly answered that "the sole object he had in view was to evict these wretched people and drive them on the world." The remark of the Bishop, that LALLY (now sought to be ejected) was a " bad character," led to a series of questions designed to show that his "badness" consisted in not sending his children to the Bible schools. These questions the Bishop fenced ; and said that his object was to "stripe the land," and to "prevent the interference of Mr. LAVELLE, who was acting as landlord." Subsequent questions showed that the land, with insignificant exceptions, was "striped" already; and to the question how, therefore, the object could be to "stripe the land," the Bishop would not return an answer P The questions then aimed at eliciting from the Bishop his knowledge that the exertions of Mr. LAVELLE had reduced the attendance in the Bible schools to three, " the Master, the Mistress, and the Piggery Boy." These questions the Bishop also fenced. Finally, came the questions, intended to prove, what in an English county election we should call " undue influence" of tenants-at-will, or of any tenants. As a Tory or Whig almost never says in direct terms, vote blue or vote yellow, or quit next year—se Bible school Bishops in Ireland do sot, personally, at least, employ the threat direct. The examiner, therefore, dropped the plain word " force," and put to the episcopal landlord of the poor potato•growers, the question, " Did you ever express your ' earnest desire' to the parents, that the children should attend your school, and did you impress this ' earnest desire' on them, at every op portunity :" BISHOP (warmly), " I did, and I will continue to do so." The question, with some appearance of surprise, was repeated, and the Bishop firmly repeated his answer, " I did and I will." Undue influence is, indeed, a thing hard to define, but were this an election ease, we imagine that the most Tory judge and jury in England would agree, that this, at least, was "undue influence," The Bishop, however, could not perceive that it was equivalent' to a command—" No," said he, "it is no command," which was not the question; and fairly enough his examiner retorted—" No, my lord, not in words; but every right-minded man will pronounce it nothing less than a most stringent command." After some attempts by the examiner to instruct the Bishop in episcopal duties from the Apostle PAUL'S charge to Bishop TIMOTHY, which the judge stopped—the examination of the Lord Bishop was concluded. Mr. LAVELLE'S examination followed, and as Lord PLUNXET had virtually attacked his charac ter he was, very fairly, allowed to give his own explanation. Its substance has been given in the statements we have already made. His "acting as landlord" resolved itself into advising the tenants not to quit voluntarily. But to a Roman Catholic priest the circumstances were not a little provoking. After he had resealed the Roman Catholic children from the teaching of the Bible, twice, with a short interval, several members of the Bishop's family and the agent present in court, assembled the tenants at the school-house, and demanded of each of them separately, that he should send his children to the school. On both occasions the tenants re fused, and were told on the spot they should be evicted. The agent came the day following that of the second refusal to take possession of the land, because " Lord PLUNKET would have no tenants who did not send their children to the school." Hereupon Mr. LAVELLE advised the people' to refuse; which he—firm as the Bishop—said he would do again. Such is the sum of the evidence as given by the Dublin Morning News, and, assuming the correctness of the report, very little can be said for Lord PLUNKET. It must have been very annoying to find his schools, previously full, dwindle down to one scholar, " the Tour makeady piggery boy." For an Anglo-Irish Bishop to be beaten by an unauthorised Dissenting parish priest, of whom no one ever heard before, was mortifying enough to Episcopal flesh and blood ; but it was a religious battle ; .the Bishop had no moral right to " impress his desire" on his tenants, and to permit his family and agent to follow up non-complianee with that desire by the severest of temporal penalties to an Irishman short of death. It is like a soldier using his bayonet or swordbelt in a struggle with a civilian. We recently had occasion to reprobate similar conduct on the part of a Welsh lady, at, the instigation of her clergyman, towards English Protestant Dissenters; it is equally unchristian and equally unrighteous towards Roman Catholic Dissenters, According to his own statements, we can perceive not a shadow of justification for Lord PLUNKET'S conduct; nor do we see how the evidence can easily be explained away. Accepting the un contradicted facts, we can only say that the conduct of Lord PLUNKET, in the Partry evictions, would justify any persecution whatever for conscience sake ; for if landlords have a moral right to turn out of house and off the land, those whom they cannot convert to their own views of religious duty, Roman Catholic proprietors on the continent would be justified in doing the same—the great landlord, the Government, might plausibly follow them ; and Roman Catholic countries might adopt Rome towards om e towards Pr ote stants early Christians—" s t lan gu age ian s— roonf ic A e t n c vol 6 n is t e e s x s p e i , a — na y t o jo u n a s r , ebuntoNtelittle vepmrinusitttecd onf t e o ss ex w is i t th . ahNko-paeit. A morning contemporary, in an article on the Canada extradition case, in which the impossibility or a , -ertrri, ret leers to TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV ENING, JANUARY 5, 1861. the view that legally the fugitive ought to be surrendered, The writer does not appear to us to meet the strong legal objections to surrender from the fact that the homicide was not culpable homi cide, according to the law of the place in which the refugee was found. Our law knows of no such crime as that of killing, in self-defence, the man who endeavours to kidnap you—while social law or sentiment exalts the homicide into a duty. But the strong point, our contemporary thinks, is that DIGGES was acting according to the law of his State, Missouri. By the State law "it is the duty of every man to arrest a slave found distant more than 20 miles from his master's plantation." DIGGES, therefore, was constituted, by Missouri law, a policeman, and was lawfully engaged in the capture of ANDERSON when be was killed. The inference is, we are legally bound to deliver up a man who killed another, the latter being in the discharge of a duty imposed on him by law. The fallacy seems to us plain. The argument assumes that we are to take the slaveholder , s code as our test of crime, The crime was a black one, according to that black code; but according to English law and judgments, that code is itself a crime. We denounce making a man a slave, selling him as a slave, keeping him as a slave, preventing his escape from slavery, as a series of crimes—as nothing better than land piracy. Slaveholders, in their slaveholding relations, are outlaws, according to British law. It seems therefore plain that on the facts before the Court—namely, that DIGGES was killed in obstructing a slave while escaping from his kidnappers —we are bound to protect the refugee. Those who made the treaty on both sides well knew that Great Britain would no more concede that homicide necessary to an escape from bondage is a crime, than that the Americans would concede the Right of Search; and no accidental phraseology could possibly admit of such a construction. It is'a solemn thought, that when the ALMIGHTY once undertook the emancipation of an enslaved people, and could not otherwise coerce the stubborn will of the great Egyptian slaveholder, he deemed the homicide of all the first-born not too high a price for the delivery of the Israelites; and when the Monarch afterwards attempted to stop the refugees, he drowned him and his host in the Red Sea. JUVENILE BALL. The members of the Whittington Club offer their usual attractions at this festive season to the lovers of Terpsichore, by giving a Juvenile Ball at their rooms on Tuesday, January 8. Owing to the destruction of the old building by fire, the club house has been entirely rebuilt, and now contains a great hall well adapted for these reunions. The juvenile part of the entertainment will conclude at 11 o'clock, but the evening's amusements will be prolonged till 2 o'clock for the benefit of the older visitors. GLEES AND MADIUG.ALS. The lovers of our fine old English music will see with much pleasure the announcement just made by Mr. Mitchell of the resumption of the per formances of the London Glee and Madrigal Union. The entertainment consist, as usual, entirely of glees, madrigals, and old ballads, interspersed with literary illustrati'ns by Mr. Oliphant. Those who attended the former concerts given by this associa tion will remember the lively and interesting anecdotes which afforded a pleasant interlude to the musical performances. Miss Wells and Miss Eyles, Messrs. Baxter, Cumming, Lawler, aud Land are the vocalists, and the concerts will be given for one month only at the Dudley Gallery, Egyptian Hall. Tickets may be obtained at the Royal Library, Old Bond-street, and we should recommend all who ap preciate this delightful class of music to avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing it to advantage. REPI?ESENTAIION OF SOUTH WILTS. Yesterday a candidate for the representation of South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, appeared in the person of Thomas Fraser Grove, Esq., of Fern House, Wilts. Mr. Grove is a magistrate for the county, and a deputy-lieuten ant, and it is more than probable that he will obtain the support of the House of Pembroke. No candi date has yet been spoken of in the Conservative interest, the difficulty being to find a fitting - man with sufficient influence to obtain even a chance of the vacant seat. In his address Mr. Grove says : " As a resident landowner in this division of the county, where my family has been so long settled, I conceive that I shall be in a position, should I be so fortunate as to be elected your representative, to act in furtherance of the local and agricultural in terests of the community. A sincere member of the Church of England, I am desirous of securing perfect liberty of conscience to the members of every religious persuasion. Although Ido not sympathise with the ultra-Tory party, I am, never theless, far removed from the so-called Manchester School, whose doctrines I consider both delusive and dangerous. I. am prepared to give a general and independent support to Lord Palmerston's Government, believing as I do that it represents the views of the majority of the thinking public, and has deserved well of the eountry. It will be probably out of my power personally to canvass every voter in so large a constituency, but I shall endeavour to visit as many as possible, and thus give the electors an opportunity of learning more fully my political sentiments. Should you place me in the honourable position of your representa tive, it will be my object, by a faithful attention to the business of the country, to merit your perma nent confidence, and thus prove that on this occasion it has not been misplaced." VACANCIES. APPOINTMENTS, §•c. India Office.—Mr. Ashley Francis Brereton and Mr. Henry Lawrence Ventries have been appointed temporary clerks in the India Office, London, and passed their examinations. Customs.—The fol lowing officers have been placed on the compen sation list :—Mr. C. Watson, controller, Grange mouth; Mr. S. Christopherson, controller, Preston. Inland Revenue Department. —Mr. William Llewellyn, collector, Sarum collection, has been appointed collector, Sussex collection ; Mr. George Thorne, collector, Wales middle collection, has been appointed collector, Stourbridge collection ; Mr. Richard Dance, collector, Sligo collection, has been appointed collector, Isle of Wight collection•; Mr. Alfred Sherriff, supervisor of Hull first district, Hull collection, has been appointed supervisor of Lynn district, Lynn col lection. Mr. Henry P. Prescott, supervisor of Thurles district, Birr collection, has been appointed supervisor of Hull first district, Hull collection. Mr. Edward S. White, supervisor of Bally shannon district, Sligo collection, has been appointed supervisor of Diss district, Lynn col= lection. Mr. James Aikenhead, supervisor of Shaftesbury district, Dorset collection, has been appointed supervisor of Poole district, Dorset collection. Mr. Nathaniel Robinson, supervisor of Bunerana district, Londonderry collection, has been appointed supervisor of Shaftesbury district, Dorset collection. Mr. Henry G. Chubb, supervisor of Crediton district, Exeter collection, has been ap pointed supervisor of Ironbridge district, and Salop collection. Mr. Win. S. Colegate, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Ballyshannon district, Sligo collection. Mr. Thos. Stott, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Bunerana district, Londonderry collection. Mr. Wm. Watson, exa miner, has been appointed supervisor of Brentwood district, Middlesex collection. Mr. Wm. B. Wood ward, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Thurles district, Birr collection. Ireland.--A vacancy has occurred in the Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, caused by the death :of Mr. John Young, second class clerk. — Civil &rvice Gazette. The Canada Club entertained the Governor- General of Canada, on Wednesday last, at the Albion Tavern. A numerous and distinguished party assembled to meet his excellency. THE DEFENCE OF SCARBOROUGH.—Detachments of the Royal Artillery from Carlisle and Tynemouth have been engaged during the week at the Castle in dismounting the long-silent and useless old guns, clearing away the old metal, and making other preparations for the construction of new batteries for the defence of the town, which Go vernment are about to erect. The old guns were conveyed on sledges over the ice and snow to the pier, where they were shipped in a vessel specially selit for them, The Prince di Carriccialo, with the Count and Countess Castellac, and Chevalier Miniati, have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on their way to Rome, The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Sulby Hall. Miss Nightingale has returned to her residence at the Burlington Hotel. THE LATE COUNTESS OF EGLINTON.—The death of this lamented lady took place in Edinburgh, and not at Eglinton Castle. Her ladyship's illness was scarcely of a sudden nature, having supervened on her confinement, which took place on the 7th ult., when she gave birth to a daughter, which, with another infant born in August, 1859, survives its parent's premature decease. Major David Mortimer Murray, eldest son of the Rev. David Murray, rector of Brampton-Bryan, county Hereford, was married, on Thursday last, to Ida, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Fenton, M.P., of Spring-grove, county York. The bride was attended to the altar by six bridesmaids, and given away by the Hon. R. Chetwynd. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. Margesson, assisted by the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge. The happy couple afterwards, accompanied by a small circle of friends and relatives, pro ceeded to Ford's Hotel, Dover-street, where a dcjeuner was provided. In the aftrnoon Major and Mrs. Murray left for Southampton, en route for the Isle of Wight. THE NEW PEER.—The Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, about to be called to the House of Peers, by one of the subsidiary titles of the earldom of Pembroke, to which he is heir presumptive, was born on the 16th of September, 1810. He married,:on the 12th of August, 1846, Eliza beth, daughter of Major-General Charles Ashe a'Court, and niece of Lord Heytesbury. He was educated at Har row, and afterwards entered Oriel College, Oxford, in which university he graduated. in 1831, taking a fourth class in classics. At the same time Mr. W. B. Gladstone, Christ Church, the present Chancellor of the Excheo:aer, took a " double first"—Mr. F. D. Maurice, of 'Exeter College (whose name has of late been so mwah before the public), and Dr. Robert Phillimore taking respec, tively a second class in classics. His first connection with otllcial life was under Sir Robert Peel's Government in 1841, when he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, the duties of which office he discharged until Feb., 1845, when he became Secretary at War. He has represented the southern division of Wiltshire uninterruptedly since 1832. PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION. —Yesterday the Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury was prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by Dr. Travers Twiss, the Vicar General of the province, under a commission from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, pursuant to the Royal writ, until Wednesday, the 6th of February. Mr. F. H. Dyke, her Majesty's proctor, having read the schedule of proro gation, the proceedings were brought to a close. DR. MARK AND HIS LITTLE MEN.—This distin guished impressario took his annual benefit at the Man chester Free Trade Hall on Wednesday and Thursday last, giving on the first day a morning and evening concert, with his Little Men as the instrumentalists, and Mr. Frank Reid and Master Tendall as the vocalists; and on the second his annual juvenile ball. On the second occasion the hall was splendidly decorated by Mr. Tyrer, of Man chester, and every effort was made to secure the comfort and enhance the delight of all present. Two immense Christmas trees were erected at the end of the hall, and the " Doctor" distributed their fruits to the juvenile dancers. There were about 300 dancers present, and upwards of 1,800 spectators. Dr. Mark will appear with his "Little Men" at the St. James's Hall, London, for the first time, on January 14th.—Era. NARROW ESCAPE NEAR WiTnAlie--As the Rev. G. P. Bennett and his lady, accompanied by a friend, were returning to Kelvedon from Rivenhall Rectory, on Tues day evening, owing to the darkness of the night and the flooding of the road near Rivenhall Fox, the carriage was driven into deep water, and their lives were placed in great danger. Happily their cries of distress wore heard by some men, who promptly came to their rescue, and con veyed them on their backs to land. Had the carriage progressed a yard further, the party, in all probability, would have met with a watery grave.—Chelmsford Chro nicle. A CHAPEL BURNT DOWN AT BURTON-ON TRENT.--On Monday last, an alarming fire broke out in Salem Chapel, Station-street, which has completely de stroyed the interior wood work and both vestries, some portion of the roof excepted ; and the injury the roof has sustained, in order to get at the fire within, will, it is thought, render its entire removal necessary. The chapel is insured for .-C3OO, but this amount will not nearly cover the injury sustained. As to the origin of the fire nothing certain is known.—Derby Reporter. SINGULAR CASE OF CONCEALMENT OP SEX.— Last week died in Rigby's-yard, Scholes, Wigan, aged 97, a woman, whose name is believed to have been Betty Lavin. For about 60 years Betty has resided in Wigan, and during the whole of that period she has been known as John Murphy, having appropriated the garb and assumed the habits of a man, and this so successfully, that none die covered the deception. During her residence in Wigan she has followed the occupation of a hawker, and as such has become known to a large circle of customers ; she has also been on the relieving officers' books for the last 12 months, and having been ill, she has been visited by Mr. Heaton, union surgeon. To all these she has been known as the man John Mirphy, and, what is still more singular, she did not previous to her decease inform any person of the disguise sho had so long assumed. As John Murphy she lived and died, as John Murphy her death was registered by the surgeon, and it was only when the final offices previous to interment were being performed that her sex. was discovered. STREET SLIDES.—Every one knows how the perils of pedestrians are incre ase d by suc h frosts as we have recently had, but few are aware of the number of persons who are thus injured. The records of the Accidental Death Insurance Company show no less than 22 serious accidents from this cause alone in the space of the last fortnight, in cluding throe broken legs and two spinal concussions. We believe the whole number of persons insured in this corn pony does not exceed 50,000, and, consequently, if out of that number 22 have been injured, the whole number of persons in this country who have been injured by falls from the frost during the past fortnight cannot be much under 10,000. DEATH OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN.—Sir Peter Fairbairn, Knight, of Woodsley-house, Leeds, who has beeu extremely ill for the last two months, expired at his residence at, an early hour yesterday morning, in the 62d year of his age. Sir Peter Fairbairn, youngest son of the late Mr. Andrew Fairbairn, was born on the 11th Sept., 1799, at Kelso, in Roxburghshire. Mr. Andrew Fairbairn had a large family, of whom only three now survive—Mr. William Fairbairn of Manchester, and two daughters. As an inventor and improver of machinery applied to the useful arts, Sir Peter stands high in the estimation of his country, which opinion is endorsed by the whole mechanical world, for his machines are known and appreciated in eTery part of the globe where such implements are required. He was one of the improvers of the roving-frame, and assisted Mr. Henry Houldsworth in the application of tho differential motion so admirably adapted and so uzefully employed in that machine. Although not the original inventor, he it was at any rate, who worked out and rendered really valuable the motion known by the name of " screw gill," by making it of easy practical application. He moreover introduced the rotary gill, which has been most extensively applied in tow machinery. Theta improvements effected almost a revolution in flax and hemp-preparing machinery, and enabled spinners to produce a very superior article at less cost than formerly, although from the same quality of ma terial. In addition to the above, Sir Peter had of late years entered largely into the construction of engineering tools of all descriptions. At the beginning of the Crimean war the firm of which he was the head was invited by the English Government to commence making special tools, and has since constructed a large number of machines for the manufacture of firearms and other warlike implements both at Woolwich and Enfield. Sir Peter for many years took an active part in the local affairs of Leeds, and his fellow-townsmen showed their appreciation of his charac ter and conduct by electing him a member of the corpora tion, or "local Parliament"—first, as a councillor for one of the largest wards of the borough, and subsequently as an alderman. He was also appointed one of liar Majesty's justices of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for the borough of Leeds. Sir Peter was married in 1827 to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Kennedy, of Glasgow, by whom he had his present family, one son and two daughters. His first wife havieg died in 1843, he was married, in 1855, to Rachel Anne, fourth daughter of the late Mr. Robert William Brandling, of Low Gos forth, Northumberland, who survives her respected hus band. FLOODS IN THE EAST.—The thaw in the early part of the week produced a great accumulation of water in Suffolk and many parts of the adjoining counties, the low lands in the neighbourhood of the rivers being covered in some pltces to a considerable depth. Much damage has been done to property in many cases ; but there appears to have been no loss of life, although one or two narrow escapes are reported. Mrs. Brown, of Brant Eleigh Hall, while returning in her carriage from Tostock, was placed in a perilous position in crossing the river Brent at a ford near Brettenham Mill. The vehicle and horses became im mersed, and Mrs. Brown and the coachman were only rescued by means of ladders and ropes. A youth in the employ of Mr. Davis, butcher, of Great Baddow, while Ericing from Danebury to Sandon, was also capsized in a stream running by the side of the road. The stream was much swollen, and the youth only managed to save him self by climbing up a tree. The pony which ha was driving was drowned, and the whole contents of the cart, which consisted of household goods belonging to a young woman about to be married, were sacrificed with the almost ludi crous exception of a pair of bellows. The driver of the . - Haverhill mail cart also met with a serious accident on his return to Halstead. At Hepworth-bridge the road was flooded to the depth of three or four feet, and the torrent carried the horse off his legs. While the animal was strug gling the shafts brolt , , and both man and horse saved their lives with difficulty. The mail bags were lost. Up to yesterday great sheets of water—now frozeu over—met the eye ou every side, A rr F ‘ a • i N W ‘,4 _. • 0-- (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME, JAN. 1. This being New Year's Day the Pope received the French officers. General Goyon, following orders from his Govern ment, made no political allusions in his speech on the occasion. His Holiness expressed his approval of the expe. ditions to Syria and China. His Holiness also said that in defending Gaeta the French fleet serves a just and holy cause. The Pope avoided making any other political allusions, and said nothing concerning the Emperor Napoleon. TURIN, SATURDAY. The Opinione says :—Prince Carignan and M. Nigra will probably leave for Naples on Tuesday next. The same paper publishes a telegram from Palermo, stating that the Lieutenancy Council had tendered its resignation. BERNE, SATURDAY. The reply of the Federal Council to Count Cavour's note of the 20th Nov. last will be despatched to Turin to-day. The Federal Council maintains the sequestration of the property in the Canton Ticino, the revenues of which belong to the bishopric of Como, and expresses the hope that the supervision of that property by the Federal Council may be considered as offering sufficient guarantee until the final settlement of the affair. MADRID, JAN. 4. The Correspondeneia Autografa gives a denial to the report that the Moors refuse to pay the remaining portion of the War indemnity. It also denies the rumour that the Minister Fomento had tendered his resignation. BERLIN, lAN. 4. A deputation from the municipality presented to-day, in the name of the City of Berlin, an address of condolence to the King. His Majesty, in reply, expressed his deep grief at the heavy loss which had been sustained by the Royal family; and recalled how the late King, in addition to his high intellectual attainments, always took the most heartfelt interest in the wel fare of his people, and how the Princes of Hohen zollern had always entertained feelings of affection for their subjects, whose interest they considered identical with their own. The King continued as follows:—" Perhaps you have already discovered that in this respect I hold the same opinions. Formerly, perhaps, I was mis understood, but I can assure you that I have always had the same love for my people. I should not be misunderstood. I stated the principles of my government when I assumed the regency on the Bth November, 1858. I shall invariably and in violably maintain those principles during my future government. I gladly accept the expression of your loyalty. A time may come when I shall remind you of those expressions, for I reckon on the fidelity of my citizens, as the loyalty of my people has extri cated us in situations of difficulty, Many changes have taken place in the course of the past year, and all that has been done has not always been done rightly. No one shall induce me to abandon the principles which I have pronounced, and I give you the assurance that I shall, with true affection for my people, abide by these principles.' I autho rise you to communicate to the citizens of Berlin the sentiments which I have expressed to you, and I thank you for what you have expressed in the name of the municipality. MILAN, JAN. 4. The Perseveranza publishes a despatch, dated Rome, Jan. 2, stating that a manifestation was attempted by the Sanfedisto party on the 31st of December, but failed. Pontifical and French patrols were traversing the streets of the city. " Order and tranquillity prevailed at Rome." The same journal also states that Count Trapani was organizing the reactionary movement in the Abruzzi, and had published proclamations. Two hundred Bourbonian volunteers had arrived at Frosinone, and had been despatched to the Abruzzi by permission of the Papal authorities. General Goyon had ordered the inhabitants of Frosinone to be disarmed. The French authorities had seized several chests filled with arms. PARIS, JAN. 4. The Patrie says : Two vessels hoisting the Sardinian flag have bean stopped at Galatz. Their cargoes have been seized, and deposited in the Custom-house. It is assorted that 12 rifled cannon and 15,000 muskets, ammunition, and gunpowder, formed part of the cargo. Russian, Turkish, and Austrian guard Tessels are keeping a strict watch at the mouths of the Danube. The same journal states that the retirement of Mgr. Merode from the Papal. Cabinet is looked upon as decided, and adds :—" It is said that M. Bella will succeed him in the office of Minister for War. The Patrie also asserts that the Neapolitan royalists have succeeded in supplying the small fortress of Civitella with provisions. BERLIN, FRIDAY. A telegram has been received here from Naples, dated Jan. 3, according to which negotiations had been opened between the Sardinian Government and King Francis 11. for the conclusion of an armistice of longer duration. INDIA. BOMBAY, DEC. 12. Campbell's force has been repulsed from Sikirs with the lois of between 30 and 40 men, and one gun. Darjeeling is in a state of alarm. Income tax riots have taken place at Surat and Bassein; the tax collector was beaten. Capt. Cox and Lieutenants Alexander, Brown, and Patten have been brought to trial for the outrages committed at Cairo, in Egypt. The import trade is wholly suspended. FRANCE. The following is the letter of the Times Paris correspondent, dated yesterday (Friday), 6 p.m. : In the leading article, or, as it is called, " bul letin" which the Illoniteur publishes since the Ist inst., occurs the following paragraph : "The English papers of to-day publish and comment on the words spoken by the Emperor in reply to the compli ments addressed to him by Lord Cowley in the name of the Diplomatic Corps. Generally they concur in admitting that these words are of a nature to disaipate disquietude, and to make us hope for the maintenance of peace." The Illoniteur is too positive. It is not the fact that the English papers are as unanimous on. this point as the Moniteur would lead the French pub lic to suppose. But, if they 'we l t% agreed among themselves, they certainly are not in perfect accord with the Parisians, who are not, incompetent to form an opinion on the subject. affirm, without fear of serious contradiction, thAlt the Emperor's words, as reported in the Moniteur, do not iusp fro all the co ,, fida z:ee desinil - N'r , . What people alwt:ys colui , l4in of is, thnt his whether from design or from natural inde cision which he cannot overcome, is unwilling or unable to utter a sentence which shall be perfectly intelligible, and the meaning of which no one can understand. I incline to the belief that it is less from any desire to deceive than from an uncertain and hesitating nature that this deplorable ambi guity arises. With the present speech I have not heard a single individual express either positive satisfaction or positive dissatisfaction. It may mean any or nothing ; but, whatever feeling it has inspired, that feeling is assuredly not one of abso lute confidence. I gee that in Brussels the im pression seems to be the same as in Paris—at least if we may judge by the Nord, which says :-- "The first impression produced in Paris by the words pronounced by the Emperor Napoleon at the reception of the corps diplomatique was a slight feeling of disappoint ment at the absence of a positive assurance with respect to the maintenance of peace. The expression of a wish was observed in it in which everybody participated, but the public would have desired to find in it a declaration which might be interpreted as a formal and certain pledge." It is asked whether the Emperor, when he ex pressed the conviction that the friendlyunderstand ing of the Great Powers would maintain peace, had Syria as well as Italy and Austria in his mind. It is desirable to know this, because it is affirmed that the English Government has within the last few days communicated a note to the French Govern ment against any longer occupation of Syria by French troops than is warranted by the treaty with the Porte. That occupation was limited to six months and will expire very soon. The note in ques tion is also said to be couched in strong terms—so strong, indeed, that no answer has as yet been returned. The question is one in which not France alone is concerned ; it equally regards all the great Powers to which the Emperor's speech. refers. I have said that the Moniteur regularly pub. lishes a sort of leading article, or summary of news, since the Ist instant. It is remarked with surprise and dissatisfaction, that the Moniteur commits a flagrant infraction of the law by publishing those articles without any signature. The omission of the signa ture, however involuntary, would expose any other journals to pains and penalties more or less serious ; and the example of a daily violation of the law should not be set by the Moniteur. If it be alleged that the Moniteur, being the official organ, of the Government, is exempt from this necessary' formality, I may observe that we were re peatedly informed when the colonels' " addresses," af4;er the Orsini affair, filled its columns, that the portion of the paper they occupied did not in any way come under the control of the Government, being the " non-official" portion ; and that the columns headed "official" are the only ones it is responsible for. This, as I think I showed at the time was untrue. But whether true or untrue it is now no defence. The law is positive on the point. Every article, summary of news, faits divers, &c., that fill a French newspaper, must bear the signature of th© writer, or of the person who stands for him ; and the Government ought to be the very first to set the example. Baffler's lithographic sheets state that, at an audience granted by the Emperor to one of the most eminent Archbishops in the south of France, his Majesty spoke with great frankness on the Italian question. He explained to the Archbishop the difficulty of his position. He said : " France has been placed for the last 18 months between England, which is urging the establishment of a united Italy—between Piedmont, encouraged by the Cabinet of St. James's in its revolutionary course, and the Pope obsti nately opposed to any compromise." Napoleon 111. finds himself alone and against all. He is compelled to serve the interests of France, and of Italy, in spite of Italy and of the Italians, and even in spite of a section of Conservative Catholic Frenchmen. The Emperor, in conclusion, assured the venerable Prelate that his affection for Pius IX. is unalterable—that he will protect his Holiness, and that he would already have done so had he not been embarrassed by ill-timed pro ceedings. Since the massacres in Syria several youths have arrived from that country to be educated in France. The inhabitants of Langres were surprised at the arrival there last week of two Syrians, dressed in their national costume, on their way to the semi nary of Chatel, in the Vosges, where they are placed under the protection of the Bishop of St. Die. One of them is the son of a dragoman at Damascus, who was murdered by the Druses. He is 13 years of age, and speaks French fluently, having been taught by the Lazarists at Damascus. His comrade is younger, he is a native of Deir-el-Kumar, and had been only a few days at the Jesuits' school when the massacres commenced. The Minister of Public Instruction has made several improvements in the public schools in France. Among other changes he has appointed professors of natural philosophy, history, and grammar where they were deficient. The Minister has likewise considerably ameliorated the position of the teachers. He has lost no opportunity of adding to the salaries of some and to the hopes of others by creating more places and thus adding to their chance of advancement. The Franco-Belgian Conference on the treaty of commerce held a new sitting the day before yester day. As some of the journals have stated erro neously the names of the gentlemen composing the Conference, it may be well to state that there are four plenipotentiaries—MM. Th ouven el and Rouher for France, and MM. Firmin-Rogier and Leidts for Belgium. The Commissioners who assist the Fresck plenipotentiaries are not the same as those who took part in the negotiations with England, Count de Lesseps having been raised to the dignity of Senator and M. de Foroade to the post of Minister of Finance. They are M. Herbet, Director-General of Consulates; M. de Clercq, Minister Plenipoten tiary ; M. Barbier, Director-General of Customs; and M. Baroche, Director-General of Commerce. The Belgian plenipotentiaries are assisted by Baron Beyens, Councillor of the Belgian Legation, and M. Vanderstraten, Inspector of the Department of Finance in Belgium. The duties of Secretary are performed by a gentleman ofthe Ministry ofForsiga Affairs. Many of the provincial journals' contain accounts of the rising of rivers or of inundations, caused by the melting of the snow and of heavy rain. The Loire at Orleans, the day before yesterday, rose con-. siderably—that is, to nearly three metres. The Vienne at Chatellerault also rose to 3m. 85c, At Lyons, the same day, the Rhone was so high that the ports on its banks were under water, and the cellars of several houses in the Cour-des-Brosses were inundated. At Chalons-sur- Saone the Saone suddenly attained sm. 45c. by the scale, and was advancing; the large meadows of St. Marie and St. Cosme, and the Plaine de la Bresse, in the vicinity of the town, were inundated ; most of the other rivers and streams in the department of the Saone et-Loire have also caused inundations. In the department of the Calvados the inundations are very extensive. By the overflow of the Tougueo the greater part of the town of Pont l'Eveque was under water, and the inhabitants had to employ boats to go from one street to another; the vicinity of the town was also inundated. The waters came in with such extraordinary rapidity that the inun dation of the town was caused in the space of one hour. At Caen and the neighbourhood the Orne overflowed, partly covering with water the Grania. Cours, the Rues de Lengannerie, Guilbert-de s- Carmes, Jean Romain, and des Jacoblins, entirely inundating the racecourse. Yesterday, the waters were subsiding there. In the departments of th.e Par-de-Calais and the Meurthe there also have bee a inundations. 'I he Rhine likewise has risen cons i derably, especially at Huminguen and Stra s b urg . BOURSE, Jan, 4.—The English funds arriving with an impr ove m e nt has given a li▪ ttle firmn ess to this market, an d quotations are hi▪ gher. For do account, Threes are now at 67f 60c; Alobilier, 720 f ; Orleans, 1,352 f 50c; Northern, 977 f 50 c; terrar.ean, 89 8 f; Austrian, 475 f; Lombard, 465 f. The following were the last quotations 41 , per per Ceuta ... 96 75 1 Credit Fonder . Do end month.... Belgian 4f 3 per Cents ...... 67 40__ Pied . montese Fives 7B ".r 5 50 Do. end month.... 67 Homan - Bank Shares 2 890 --l Austr ian C re dit Alobther.... 720 — lBpanish Threes 5O Do. Account 7lB 75' Home Debt Al " The cessio it doe influe over t Lope/ that t first tc of the cast it are re so, in them of the .&t 01 Tim 2d of The I Stater -while the It two I notes sterlii active officia have I were PaYm Yariot they strini inde Asia dull San 23; bay 'Wei cha 8 pe ICON Ind RAILWAYS. Cash. .• Account. Orleans . .... 1357 50 .. 1357 50 Northern 982 50 .. 978 75 New ditto „• BBl 25 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 G eneva 365 .. Southern Western • 552 50 .. 550 Eastern Sardinian Au strian J.,don'bs.rd 'I , ~.,.I ? , , , , , 465 - el 466 25