The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-04 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, rHE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. H. Corti. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. After which, the Grand Oriental Pantomisie 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. 11. 'Payne, Harry Boleno, Henry Payne, Hildyard, Milano, Fred, Payne, Tanner, J. Barnes, the Zelinskis, 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. R OY AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. - Harrison, Sole Lessees, THIS EVENING, the MARRIAGE 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, 11. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, 3lessrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdmc. Bolenn and Clara Morfs.an. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T'" TR t!,-ROYAL. H AY MARKET. Lemee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony, lumplcin, Mr. Buckstone ; Young Marlow, Mr. Howe; Miss Ilardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND TIER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. B OIT AT, PR TNC F, S S'S THEATRE, Leasee and Manafrer. Mr. A. Tfarris. THIS EVENING, Jan. 4, ERNESTINE. Messrs. J. G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car lotta Leclorci, WestOn, and Murray. After which, a new Christman comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Kina of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie numilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. A DELPHI, NYW THEATRE-ROYAL. 9ute Pennrfetor nnd Monaper, Mr. Rent. Wehgter, TITIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, TTIF, COLLEEN RA WN. D. Roncie,anit, D. Fisher, Billinelon, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. BURS Agnes Robertson, Miss Wookrar, Mrs. Billington. and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FKOM A NEW POINT OP DUE. Messrs. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, X. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Thorne. Doers open at half-past s—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charc;e for booking. Private boxes. £2 25.; Family Boxes, £l. Orahestra ;3talls. Sc. • Amphitheatre, ; Front l isleC Stalls, Is. • Pit StallS, 25.; ed. ; Amphitheatre, Gallery, 6d: Acting Manarter—Mr. Wm. smith, THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr. John Drew. Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTA BEL LE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showin , ram VIsTON" OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BL9OM OF THE WILD BRIAR. Followed by the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, Butler, and John Drew: Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss Ternan, and Miss Neville. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- 1- 3. Proprietor and Minazer, Mr. WM. BATTY. This Evening", a new Spectacle, entitled TTTE 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 Bri`ish Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime. for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled ITARLEQUTN 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 coinie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. ;• Harlequin k Columbine hiss Hariet Dalton. Pantaloon 'fir. G. Perks. Clown ' Mr. James Cooke. Spritel—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons, Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Rios-offloe open daily from 11 till 4 ' - : Stage Manager-LMr. W. WEsT. - Director of the Arena;-Mr. Pearson. ANTERTIU;BY. HALL. 0 t • Open Every Evenipg at Seven. GRAND SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FIGTJA DEL RECITIIFNTO(DOIaizetti), , NOR 3 IA, SONNAMBIILA, and MARTHA. Principal Artistes Miss Missy:Li, Madame MARTA, Miss TYRnELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C. BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI. Musical Director...., Mr:F. JoNonmxiss. The Comic :Department COITIpri-e9 Me9ST9. J. BLANcrtAnn, A. B. ItotrANoswoam, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL, CITARLEY Fox. and E. MARRITALL. _ _ _ The Pine Arts Gallery his‘beert enriched by the addition of the late John Martin's three Grlnd Pictures—viz., " THE GREAT DAY of HES "THE PLAINS of HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view until 12 o'clock at Night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. PTurs DAY.—Morning, 6h. 56rn.—Afternoon. 7h. 22m Tn=moßnow.-Morninvs. 7h. 48m.—Afternoon. Bb, 20m THE WEATHER.—Sow:OFFicr., JAN. 4, 1561. TH2II.3IOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 32—highest since noon yesterday. 25r-lowest this morning and during the night. 32—this day at noon. BAnomETER-30.18 ; falling." WlND—North-Easterly—light ; with foggy weather in the morning —now sunshine. THE SUN. • t. 'LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 18fq (i , • teil and trouble" for poor Mr. H0R.314-N., His Stroud constituents have carefully reconsidered and deliberately reiterated their most erriphaile 'condemnation. As if the vote passed una,nimously. on Wednesday, and to which we re ferredin dur leading columns yesterday, were not in' every way sufficientanother resolution quite as explicit and positive in its terms of condemnation as" its predecessor, was passed at a second meeting in StrOnd, held there last evening, and if not passed this time/tem. con., at any rate passed by a very consider able majority. The resolution thus carried upon " second thoughts" against the right hon. member for Stroud, by the Stroud constituency, was in effect couched in language no less unmistakeable than the subjoined That this meeting having heard Mr. HORSMAN'S explanation of his votes and speeches in the late session of Parliament, are decidedly of opinion that his views and conduct are so much at variance with the Liberal constituency of Stroud, that he no longer represents them in Parlia ment." It w ill be seen from this t h a t Mr. HORSMA Was again present a nd had a g ain N addressed his former supporters —again, of course, to no purpose in the way of con vincing them that be was right and they were wrong. Unlike the Resolution of Wednesday, the Resolution of Thursday ended with a very distinct notice to quit. Mr. HORSMAN virtually may be said to have received in this second resolution, condemnatory of his Parliament conduct, his exequatur. The telegram from Stroud, in reference to lasi'riiibt's proceedings down there, intimates briefly that a warm discussion ensued immediately upon the proposal of the resolution, that it was eventually carried by a very large majority, but— that Mr. HORSMAN refused (we presume it ought to be read "declined") to resign! His position before the House of Commons during the ensuing session—and it will be remarked that yesterday Par liament was further prorogued pro forma by Royal Commission until the sth of February, " then to meet for the despatch of business"—Mr. HonsmAres position hefo"e the House of Commons during the ensuing session will nevertheless, in spite of this resolution of his (supposing him still to persist in it) ?-rove to have been very considerably modified by these peremptory proceedings on the part of the Stroud constituency. The right hon. gentleman will still address the House as a very able man, as one of its most brilliant debaters, as an ex-Minister full of crotchets, but with his mind full also of very rare , abilities—but he will certainly not address . . ...• ..... „,-.41. ... ~ , •.,...- , , r .„ , .. rk 70 SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1861. it (otherwise than merely in name) as the m,val ber for Stroud. The Stroud electors, by the resolution they I have now carried against Mr. HORSMAN, after mature deliberation, have declared in so many words, as we have seen, that that right hon. gentle man no longer represents them inParliament. By his absolute refusal now to yield to the extremely urgent request for his resignation, Mr. HORSMAN tells them, to all intents and purposes, in so many words, that if he no longer represents them. he is determined to mis-represent them in Parliament ! His resolve not to resign as requested, really and truly, amounts to that. And whenever any mem ber, no matter who that member may be, impor tant or unimportant, gifted or the revenue, stands up before the House in that anomalous and, as one might say, even ridiculous position— his character is lowered before Parliament, his opinions are depreciated in value, his support or his opposition in debate come to be looked down upon by all parties, or sections of parties, with comparative indifference. We say this without any reference to the merits of the misunderstand ing between a member of the House of Commons and his constituents. For our own part, we write thus of the particular squabble which has occurred between Mr. HORSMAN and the Stroud electors with the utmost possible impartiality. For we cannot but remember in regard to this their contention, that our views have been in a very great measure coincident with those expressed by Mr. HORSMAN, and in direct opposition to those maintained in opposition to him by the majority of the electors Who sent him to Parliament as their representative. Mr. HORSMAN'S contempt for the " poor Little Bill" for Parliamentary Reform introduced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL last year only to be withdrawn— Mr. HORSMAN'S incredulity as to the excellence of that vaunted Commercial Treaty with France, whether viewed in the interest of Peace or in those of Free Trade—Mr. HORSMAN'S opposition to the abolition of the Paper Duties during a time of deficit, as, to say the least of it, a proceeding in every particular most ill advised and inopportune —Mr. HORSMAN'S still more resolute opposition, if that were possible, to the continuance, and, still more, to the increase of the Income Tax, and that too (of all years!) in 1860, and that, moreover, by (of all Financiers !) the Right Hon. W. E. GLAD STONE as Chancellor of ' the Exchequer—Mr. HORSMAN'S conduct in all these particulars we re gard as perfectly rational, manly, honest, and independent. Observe—we regard it as such —we estimate thus the course pursued bythis independent member,v in g that course ourselves calmly and dispassionately as independent Journalists. Not thus is it, how ever, that Mr. HORSMAN'S conduct during the past session has been viewed—by his own constituency. THEY regard his conduct during last session indeed very differently. They condemn it. We may deem them mistaken in their judgment in so condemning it, but there is the simple and positive fact that they DO condemn it, as they have a perfect right to condemn it, if they so please. And they condemn it not vaguely or in one or two particulars, but abso lutely,unreservedly, and throughout. And now the Stroud Electors have added to their resolute and re iterated condemnation the very pointed request that Mr. HORSMAN willoinder the circumstance, think proper formally to tender his resignation. Thi s Mr. HORSMAN as pointedly declines to do. And it is in the attitude of defiance he has thus assumed towards his constituents throughout the whole of these recent proceedings that we certainly deem him to be so entirely in error. His going down at all to Stroud, under the circumstance, we cannot but feel disposed to regard as a piece of political foolhardiness. But having thus gone down and met his Stroud friends of yesterday, his Stroud foes of to-day and avengers of to-morrow, he ought certainly, in mere consistency, and with a due regard to his own dignity—having been allowed (as he was right nobly) a fair hearing, and having been thereupon, again, and yet again, met by a sweeping vote of condemnation—Mr. HORSMAN ought certainly, in mere consistency, and with a due regard to his own dignity, to have yielded, however unwillingly, to the demands of the Stroud electors, and to have tendered his resigna tion. Many another constituency NV 0111 a be proud to have him, in spite of all his crotchets and all his impracticability. His stubborn retention of his seat in defiance and in despite of his former sup porters, who are supporters of his now no longer, can' possibly gain him nothing either from Stroud' before the Country, or in Parliament. By a rather singular coincidence, at the very moment when the larger and more intelligent half of the United States have achieved their first vic tory in the conflict with slavery, slaveholders have gained a sad victory on British soil in Canada. We may hope, indeed, that the triumph is but a tem porary one, since, being a question of law, it has yet to be argued through two appeals, if necessary —the last being to our Judicial Committee of Privy Council. Sad, indeed, would it be if, when the better Free States of America have, by Personal Liberty Laws, nullifying as far as they can the ope ration of their Fugitive Slave Law, Canada, the England of America, should be found to have retro graded on the subject of delivering the escaped slave into the hand of his master. It was the great Bostonian, Dr. CHANNIN a, if we remember rightly, who declared that he envied our position, when, on some one asking Lord MORPETH (now the Earl of CARLISLE) whether nothing would induce Great Britain to surrender a fugitive slave, the noble lord replied—" No, rather let all Canada go first." We hope the highest court of appeal in Canada itself will, by reversing the decision of the court below, prove that it belongs to the nation of Lord MORPETH. We say so, be cause we think in a question of extradition, the broadest international principles must be applied, and the benefit of any perplexity be given to the ' 1 fugitive. The facts of the case are these. So long back as September, 1853, a slave named ANDERSON escaped 1 from Missouri to Canada. In escaping he had killed a planter named DIGGES, who, officiously, required him to produce his " pass"—and, finding he had nonerendeavoured to seize him, by the help of four negroes of his own, and to send him back to be half cut to pieces by the being who called himself his owner, and to the slavery from which he fled. Poor ANDERSON was suffering under one of the most villanous of the characteristics of American slavery; he had been sold thirty miles away from his wife and chip, and was probably, at that moment planning to carry them all off with him to Canada. DIGGES, with the instinctive and infernal malice of a slaveholder towards negroes, must needs show his sympathy with men whom in this country we should esteem the worst of felons, and quite gratuitously fight for slavery against freedom—he, with a club, A NDERSON, with a knife. DIGGES received wounds whichNEllNy S O he certainly richly deserved, and died of them three weeks afterwards. ANDERSON contrived to escape to Canada, and has lived there, industriously a n d respectably, seven years. The Missouri authorities at length claimed, under the ASHBURTON Treaty, his extradition, as a_ man charged with murder . The W3e Wad " argued before the Canadian Court of Queer s Bench, and the Chief Justice, with one other judge, were in favour of extradition; the L vtird judge, in a judgment which the whole of Env: ‘nd will assent to, first on some technical and legal gm 'unds, but. mainly and chiefly on the broad view of the Case, was decidedly against it. The words of the Treaty relevant to the case are—" That the surrender shall be made upon such evidence as, according to the laws of that part of her Majesty's: dominions would justyy the appre hension and committal for trial of the per. son so accused, if the crinw of which he shall be so accused had been there committed," and these words appear to us to be entirely in favour of the accused. We should have thought, indeed, that they were chosen by Lord ASHBUR TON to prevent escaped negroes from being dealt with according to the laws of the State whence they had escaped, and to ensure that they should not be delivered up by Canada on trumped up charges, tht real object being to recapture men who had used no other means to obtain their freedom than the necessity of the occasion required. Now, certainly in Canada, or in any other part of the British empire, any' British subject who, by force, felonious prevent any man's escaping from the oppression of slavery must take the to conseq uences of his act. If he were killed the endeavoured homicide would be held to be perfectly justifiable. The law under which ANDERSON could be charged with murder is not, we believe, even the national law of the United States, with which, and not with Missouri, our treaty is made. By Missouri law he is guilty of a crime, for which, should he be sent back, he would probably be put to death with tortures too horrible to think of. Flayed alive perhaps there, here he can but be regarded as one of nature's nobles; one of the many illustrations of the " stuff which thousands of Africans are made off ;" that he could fight for dear liberty with five men, his only weapon a knife, and beat them all. How would all civilisation gaze with admiration on the exploits of a thousand or two such men with a coloured GARIBALDI to lead them, against infinitely worse tyrants than the Bourbon of Gaeta. It is, however, a case of dry law, we shall be told—it is nothing to us whether a man, who was for seven years a peaceable and industrious sub jest of the British Crown, shall, if we surrender him, be roasted alive over a slow fire ; nothing to us that he killed a man only because that man, out of malice prepense against all freedom-loving negroes, sought to kidnap him; nothing to us, that he, according to English law and English feeling, legally and rightly killed the villain who was endea vourinito rob him of the most precious of human treasures, life itself hardly excepted, all these things are nothing to us ! The Treaty says murderers must be delivered up, and ANDERSON was a murderer ! Even, however, should the nine Judges of the Court of Appeal in Canada, or a majority of them, think that these things are nothing to us—we may be confident that our Judicial Committee of Privy Council will not think so. We could almost wish the case to come so far, that American Judges might hear the withering invectives of our aged DEMOS THENES against such. law. But there is a considera tion we have not seen mentioned. To us, the ran * guage of the Treaty seems plain, but were it not so, we should still say that it was morally impossible that Lord ASHBURTON could have intended that such fugitives should be delivered up. As an Eng lishinan his feelingi would not have allowed it; as a public man he would have known that this coun try would have execrated such a Treaty and its author; indeed, that the Crown dared not have signed it. We deny, therefore, ab initio, the possibility of any language ex isting in the ASHBURTON Treaty by which it could be meant, that a man who had killed another, not in revenge, but because the slain man had interfered with his most righteous efforts to be free, could be delivered up on a charge of murder. Several of our contemporaries, we are glad to see, have argued the case as Englishmen must do ; some of them with good • illustrations. Thus the Morning Post writes : • As slavery deal not exist in Canada, it is imposiible to imiiene a precisely parallel case. But other illustrations are not wanting. Robbery is an offence within the treaty. According to the law of the Southern States no slave can possess property. A negro runs away from South Carolina or Missouri in clothes which belong to his master. He reaches Canada, but according to Chief Justice ROBINSON' he has committed the crime of felony, and must therefore be surrendered. The American tribunals and Government have acted upon a more sensible theory. Desertions from the British army constantly occur in Canada, and the fugitives, when across the boundary, know that they are safe. On one occasion the British authorities demanded the restoration of certain deserters, not on the ground of any military offence, but on the ground that they had committed felony by taking with them uniform and accoutrements which were Government property. The United States Government declined to interfere. They said that the imputed felony was only an incident of deser tion, and that it could not be considered as coming within the meaning of the term felony' used in the treaty. Upon exactly the same principle the Chief Justice and Mr. Justite BURNS; we submit, ought to have held that ANDERSON, in killing, without malice prepense, the man who attempted by force to restrain his freedom, simply did an act which, if it had been committed in England or Canada, would bo considered justifiable homicide. In fact, if we wished to apply to 'Sir J. B. ROBINSON'S argument the reductio ad absurdum, we should say that, as every negTo in the Southern States is a mere chattel—as much a piece of goods as a bank-note or a purse of money —an escaped slave may be surrendered for stealing himself. There are eome twenty thousand of these people in Canada. Are they all to be relegated to the whip and the tortures of the planter because a majority of the Canadian judges think that the word murder' in the treaty is to be inter preted according to the laws of Missouri, and not in ac cordance with the enlightened and humane principles of English freedom? ANDERSON, however, is not to be surrendered." The latter half also of Mr. Justice M'LEAN'S judgment is a noble vindication of English law and sentiment, and we hope it will be soon found that, let the South do what it will, Canada shall never, by any Fugitive Slave Treaty, be converted, like the Free States of America, into the slaveholders' hunting ground. The Duchess of Inverness gave a grand enter tainment last night to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, at her grace's apart ments in Kensington Palace. There was a select party in vited to meet their royal highnesses. The Duke of Rutland and Lord John Manners, M.P., have returned to Belvoir Castle from visiting the Earl and Countess of Scarborough at Sanclbeck Park, near Ticknell, Yorkshire. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who have been staying on a visit to the Earl of Sandwich, atHinchin brooke, returned yesterday to Kimbolton Castle. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith are expected shortly at the Duke of Buccleuch's mansion in Be'grave square, from Dalkeith Palace, in anticipation of her lady ship's accouchement. Lord and Lady Delamere arrived in town yester day from Lord Deere's seat, the Hoo, in Hertfordshire, and leave to-day for Vale Royal, Cheshire. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, accompanied by Lady Jane Hay, arrived in White hall-gardens yesterday from Nice. Sir Edmund W. Head, Bart., Governor-General of Canada, and Lady Head and the Misses Head, have re turned to Farrance's hotel from visiting the Duke of New• castle at Clumber Park, Notts. The Hon. Francis and Mrs. Baring have arrived in town from ♦isiting the Duka and Duchess of Grafton at Waketeld Lodge, and will leans to-day for Paris, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in grateful remem brance of the escape of the Prince Consort from the dan gerous accidea which befel his royal highness during the recent visit of the Queen to Coburg, has forwarded a sum of money which is to be devoted towards the foundation of a charitable institution in that place. The Prussian Minister and the Countess Bern storff, who hxd been staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, returned to town on Wednesday morning, on the receipt of the melancholy intelligence of the death of the King of Prussia. The Earl of Sandwich has been entertaining a succession of visitors at Hinchingbrook, his seat in Hun tingdonshire, curing the festive season. The installation of Alderman Atkinson, Conser- Tative, as Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year, took place on Tuesday. The suspension has been announced yesterday of Messrs. Whistler, Dawson, and King, colonial produce agents, with liabilities for about £25,000. A fall of between 4 and 5 per cent. took place yesterday in London Dock Stock on the publication of the accounts of tha past half-year, showing the balance on the 30th of November to have been £186,632, or £14,231 less than at the corresponding period of 1859. The revenue returns appear to have diminished £19,790, while the reduc tion in expenses has been only £3,295. The dividends will be paid to the public on Wed nesday, the 9th. On the same day all the advances made by the Bank during the shutting of the transfer books will have to be repaid. The Pope gave a State dinner on the 27th ult. to the two Dowager Queens of Spain and Naples, at pre sent in Rome. Four Neapolitan cardinals and a number of distinguished persons were present. The banquet took place in the pavilion in the gardens of the Vatican. The London Glee and Madrigal Union, under the direction of Mr. Land, whose entertainments at the Dudley Gallery, Egyptian Hall, last season, obtained so large a share of public favour, will resume their performance of glees, madrigals, and old English ballads on Monday even ing next. THE GALL—SHIELDS, Jan. 2.—The gale has completely abated, and the sea is falling. It has done a considerable amount of mischief at the pier works at the north and south of the mouth of the Tyne. Two Goliah cranes wera completely smashed. A vessel named the Timbuctoo, of Scarborough, one of the lades ships running befor the gale for shelter in Leith Roads, has been lost off Holy Island. Her crew were saved by the Athens, of Blyth. CHATHAM, Jan. 3.—The screw frigate Undaunted, 51, has been lashed alongside the sheer-hulk preparatory to being fitted with engines and machinery. It is not yet decided whether she to be taken to Sheerness to be fur. nished with her engines, but should it be decided to fit her at this dockyard she will have, to wait a considerable time until one of the docks has become vacant. The Isis, 44, sailing-frigate, has been placed in the second dock, where the caulkers have already commenced caulking her, and preparing her for a coal depot on the African coast. The interior of her hold is to be lined with sheet iron, and some considerable alteraticns are to be effeoted in her to adapt her for the service on which she is to be employed. The Rattlesnake, 21, screw corvette, building on the first slip, is very nearly completed, and will be the next vessel launched at this dockyard. THE IRON-PLATED FRIGATE DEFENCE.—The large iron-plated frigate ordered by the Government of Messrs. Palmer, Brothers, Jarrow-upon-Tyne, is in course of construction at the works of these gentlemen, and is now making very rapid progress, and, though inferior in size to the Warrior, she promises to be equally formidable in pro portion to her bulk. Upwards of 1,000 men are at present constantly employed upon her, and they work almost under cover, while the whole exterior of the fabric is lit up by gas, so that the workmen mayprolong their labours after sunset. Notwithstanding all the efforts which are being made to hurry on to completion this gigantic undertaking, it will be fully four months before the work will be-complete. A Go- vernment inspector is in attendance in the yard to see that the timber which underlies the iron plates, and which con sists of Indian teak, is perfectly seasoned. PLYMOUTH, Thursday, Jan. 3. The paddlewheel steamship Trent, Commander Jas. Moir, from St. Thomas's Dec. 6, put into the Sound this morning. She left with the disabled paddlewheel steamship Shannon, Commander Abbott, in tow, but was compelled to abandon her during a heavy gale from the north-west on the 20th of December, in lat. 35 58 N., long. 40 58 W. The Shannon is coming along under canvass, and when the Trent is coaled she will probably go in search of her. After the 18th of December the Trent experienced continual gales from the west, vary ih g occasionally from the north and south. Yesterday, when entering the Channel, it blew a heavy gale from the north-east. Spoke, on the 27th of December, in lat. 42 13 N., long. 20 39 IV., the ship Indus, from Madras for London. THE WEATHER IN ESSEX.—The heavy fall of snow on Saturday night, followed by the rapid thaw and showers of rain on the succeeding day, has resulted in one of the deepest floods in this county which has been expe rienced for many years. In the immediate neighbourhood of London nearly all the marsh land is submerged, and the ice in the various rivers which at first re§isted the fall in the temperature having prevented the melting snow from flowing down to the sea, immense tracts of land, comprising several thousand acres, are under water. The rich deposit thus cast upon the meadow land will be highly beneficial, but to the young corn great mischief will ensue wherever it is flooded, as the return of the severe cold will probably cover all such land with thick ice. In Chelmsford and Col chester, and various other towns throughwhich the railway passes, houses are flooded and rendered uninhabitable, and in those spots where the railway crosses the streams, im mense bodies of water and ice have been formed, jeopard ising the safety of the bridges and sapping the foundation of the embankments. The lee having, however, now all broken up in the rivers, it is thought the flood will gradually subside. During the intense cold of the past week no less than three persons were frozen to death in various parts of the county, and there now threatens to be a return of the severity of the season, the thermometer having fallen several degrees below freezing point, with a strong north easterly wind of piercing coldness, which still continues. NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.—A decision of interest to tanners was on Saturday given by the Imperial Court. Some years back a person named Durand caused sales by auction of hides to be naade by a broker in a building at Paris belonging to him, and these sales continued regularly at intervals of a month, until a short time since, when one Pelletreau, finding that they injured his business, had a prosecution instituted before the Tribunal of Correctional Police against M. Pouillet, a broker, for having made the sales, and against M. Durand for having allowed them to take place in the building, the two. having thereby, as he contendet, violated a law of the 28th of May, 1858, on pub lic sales,which enacts that sales by auction shall be effected "in places specially authorised for the purpose," whereas no authorisation had been accorded for the edifice in ques tion. The defendants raised the objection that the Cor rectional Tribunal could not entertain the case inasmuch as a clause in the said law reserved to the Tribunals of. Com merce the decision 'Of all questions arising under it. The Tribunal, taking that view of the question, declared itself without jurisdiction. Against that decision an appeal was presented, and the Imperial Court heard the matter argued on Saturday. The Court declared itself to be of opinion that, in virtue of certain regulations, made by an imperial decree of 1859, for carrying out the law of 1848, which had force of law, the Tribunal of Correctional Police had power to try the case presented to it, and it therefore quashed the previous decision; but, judging the affair itself on the merits, the Court declared that the complaint was not proved under the said decree, and accordingly ordered it to be dis missed with costs. THE SCOTCH PIGIRON TRADE. —This important trade has remained in a state of comparative sluggishness during the past year, and stocks have accumulated to the extent of 97,000 tons. Nevertheless, an immense business has been done, 903,000 tons having been taken into con sumption. The state of the trade during the last 11 years is shown in the following table : Year. Make. Consumption. Stock. 1845,t0n5.. 475,000 .. 390,000 .. 245,000 1846, ~ 570,000 .. 666,000 .. 149,000 1847, ~ 510,000 .. 579,000 80,000 1848, „.. 580,000 .. 562,000 98,000 1849, „ .. 690,000 .. 578,000 .. 210,000 1850, ~ .. 595,000 .. 535,000 .. 270,000 1851, „ .. 760,000 .. 680,000 350,000 1852, ~ 775,000 .. 675,000 .. 450,000 1853, ~ • • 710,000 950,000 .. 210,000 1854, • • 770,000 .. 860,000 .. 120,000 1855, .. 825,003 .. 847,000 .. 98,000 18 56 , • • 832,000 .. 842,000 .. 88,000 1857, )9 • • 915,000 .. 843,000 .. 160,000 1858, ~ • . 945,000 .. 810,000 .. 295,000 1859, ~ • . 950,000 815,000 .. 330,000 1850, ~ • . 1,000,00 .. 903,000 .. 427,000 At the close of last year the number of furnaces in blast was 131 (44 were ont of blast), as compared with 125 in 1859, 132 in 1858, 123 in 1857, 128 in 1856, 121 in 1855, 117 in 1854, 114 in 1853, 113 in 1552, 112 in 1551, 105 in 1850, 112 in 1849, 103 in 1848, 100 in 1847, 98 in 1846, and 88 in 1845. Of the 427,000 tons at present estimated to be in stock, 164,000 tons are in warehouse-keepers' stores, and 263,000 tons in the hands of makers. The exports foreign and coastwise last year were 563,000 tons, and 340,000 tons were consumed in local foundries and malleable ironworks and sent by railway. The malleable ironworks consumed 170,000 last year as compared with 150,000 tons in 1859 ; and the foundries 185,000 tons as compared with 190,000 tons in 1859, the orders last year having been principally for light goods. France last year took 50,013 tons as com pared with 51,345 tons in 1859; Germany and Holland, 69,469 tons as compared with 63,215 tons in 1859; Russia, 3,925 tons as compared v,ith 5,669 tons in 1859 ; Spain and Portugal, 9,934 tons as compared with 8,629 tons in 1859; the United States, 77,632 tons as compared with 55,187 tons in 1859; British America. 15,255 tons as compared with 10,777 tons in 1859; and Italy, 15,255 tons as com pared with 10,470 tens in 1859. The growth of the trade may be strikingly illustrated by the fact that while the production last year was 1,000,000 tons, in 1639 it was only 197,000 tons; in 1825, 4000 tons; and in 1805, 9 1 060 to ne, THE ALLEGED ROBBERY IN A FRENCH CAFE. —ln our MarlbDrough-street Police-court report yesterday the "Cafe Itegence" was by mistake mentioned as the place where the alleged robbery of a silver wreath ()conned —it should have been " Cafe Riches." THE RECORDER OF HULL.—The Hull Epiphany Quarter Sessions were opened yesterday by the Recorder, Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., and many persons filled the court in expectation of hearing the learned recorder deliver one of his customary charges. From some cause or other, however, Mr. Warren uttered but a few sentences and the business of the day proceeded. THE RETURN OF THE FROSTS—Yesterday tiv3 water in the parks was again crowded with people deter mined to enjoy, while they may, the exhilarating pastime of skating. The day was very fine and clear. Thousands of people filled the promenades and covered the lakes ; but we do not learn that any accident terminated fatally. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S-CROSS.— Number of patients for the week ending 29th Dec., 994, of which 522 were new cases. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN, &c.—There were imported into Hull last week—Wheat, 19,559 qrs. ; barley, 8,398 yrs. ; oats, 328 qrs. ; beans, 3,153 qrs. ; peas, 2,368 qrs. ; tares, 427 qrs.; linseed, 7,861 qrs. MR. COBDEN ON THE CLIMATE OF ALGIERS.— Mr. Cobden, writing from Algiers on the 28th of Dec., says :—" The weather here is a complete contrast to what you are experiencing. On Christmas-day the English residents met at church, and on coming away everybody remarked, ' How warm it is We have green peas every day for dinner and ripe strawberries, and beautiful roses and flowers in the gardens. With good British steamers to Marseilles we ought to be only 72 hours from London. It is a wonderful change of climate with so short a time and distance." GRACE DARLING'S FAMILY.—The venerable Wm. Darling, who has passed the greater part of his long life upon the outer Fern island, or Longstone, on the bleak coast of Northumberland, as keeper of the lighthouse, and who is best known to fame as the father of the heroic Grace Darling, has been pensioned off by the Corporation of the Trinity-house, London, and has left the Fern Islands, in order to reside with his only surviving daughter at North Sunderland. Mr. Darling is succeeded at the Longstone by his son, Mr. Wm. Darling, and another of his children, Mr. Brooks Darling, is keeper of the Coquet Island light house, also on the Northumbrian coast. A SHARK AND A. SEAL.—A bottle-nose shark was caught a few nights since in Christchurch Bay, in a sprat net, and damaged the fishing smack with its tail before it was killed. It was seven feet long. A seal was shot a short time since at the back of the Isle of Wight. Two of them were together basking close to the beach. A comparison of the cost of living in hotels, on either side of the Atlantic, is undoubtedly in favour of America. For the excellent accommodation, and the sumptuous fare which I have described, the charge is 21 dollars, or 10s. English, per day eack person, including everything except wine, spirituous liquors, and washing. It is a fixed charge, paid whether the lodger takes his meals in the hotel or elsewhere. At all the best hotels in the United States the same rate obtains, and the style and quality of the provisions are superior to anything known in similar establishments in England. But if the visitor deviates from the ordinary routine of the esta blishment, the advantage, in point of cheapness, is no longer on the side of America. A private sitting-room, for example, is charged from five to ten dollars per day.— "America as it Is," by John Cassell, in Cassell 's Illustrated .Family Paper. EMIGRATION.—According to the report of the London directors of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, the following is a comparative statement of the number of emigrants who arrived at the port of Quebec from 1857 to 1860 inclusive:—ln 1857, from England 15,471, from Ire land 2,016, from Scotland 3,218, from the COntisent of Europe 11,368, and from the Lower Provinces 24, making a tltal of 32,097. In 1858, from England 6,441, from Ireland 1,153, from Scotland 1,424, from the Continent of Europe 3,578, and from the Lower Provinces 214, making a total of 12,810. In 1859, from England 4,749, from Ireland 417, from Scotland 724, and from the Continent of Europe 2,723, making a total of 8,683. In 1860, from England 6,481, from Ireland 377, from Scotland 979, and from the Continent of Europe 2.326, making a total,of 10,163, and showing that the total number of emigrants who had arrived at Quebec during thelait four years amounted to 63,753. It appears that during the last two years no emigrants have arrived from the Lower Provinces. MAN FOUND.—On Tuesday last a young man, about 28 or 30 years of age, was found lying in 'a ditch at Dulwich, in an insensible state, either from the effects of violence or in a fit. Medical attendance was immediately procured in the neighbourhood, and he was afterwards conveyed to Camberwell workhouse, where, notwithstand ing every attention has been paid to him, ho still remains quite unconscious. He has never spoken since he was dis covered, and nothing has been found on him to lead to his identity. A small memorandum book was taken from his pocket, which contained memoranda that would lead to suppose he resided, or had friends at or near Vine-street, or in the vicinity of Higbbury Tavern ; also a stonemason's chisel, and two pawnbrokers' duplicates given in the name of Anst or West. RATING THE VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the Representative Council of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, met at the Vestry hall, Mount-street, to consider a special report in reference to rating the terminus and premises of the above company situated in the parish. The Rev. H. Howarth, 8.D., pied the chair. Mr. Chappell, the vestry clerk, submitted for approval the special report of the committee, which recommended the immediate appointment of Mr. Charles Lee, surveyor, of Golden-square, to assess a proper rating to the poor of the said premises, inasmuch as he was an experienced assessor of extensive works. A resolution having been moved that the report be adopted, an amend ment was proposed that Mr. Roberts, of Cavendish-square, be employed to assess the property. Upon the sense of the meeting being taken, the amendment was negatived, and the resolution carried. The meeting shortly afterwards adjourned. THE EASTERN CHIIRCFIES..—SPREAD OF PRO TESTANTISM.—For some months past Bishop Costandios, of Brousa, has been in the capital under ecclesiastical arrest on very grave ethical charges, brought against him by a large number of his people. With these, however, untried, the Patriarch has sent the bishop back to his diocease. A numerous deputation of the most respectable portion of the Greek community of Brousa immediately left with a pro test to the Porte against this act of episcopal whitewashing. We further learn, that in consequence of all this scandal to religion and morals at Brousa, as also of the other clerical administrative abuses which flourish there, more than 500 of the most respectable families of the local Greek commu nity are on the eve of publicly embracing Protestantism. Protestant tenets, indeed, are said to have made most sin gular progress both amongst the Greeks and Armenians of Brousa, notwithstanding the counter efforts of a number of zealous Lazarists and other Roman Catholic missionaries who have done their best to draw the waverers into their fold, with, besides other promised advantages, the assur ance of prompt and effective French protection.—Levant Herald. CHINA.—The Marquis de Moges, who formed part of the Embassy of Baron Gros in 1857 and ,1858, mentions several striking contrasts between Chinese and Western civilisation. In China the magnetic needle points south ; there are five cardinal points ; the left is the place of honour ; white is the symbol of morning; good breeding requires every man to remain with his head covered in presence of a superior or any person he wishes to honour ; they read from the right hand side of the page ; they begin their repasts with fruit and end with soup ; in schools, boys are punished for silence as a sign of idle ness ; and nobility conferred on a man does not descend to his children, but ascends to his ancestors. At Pekin, the streets are narrow and crooked. The public buildings and the yamottn, or princely residences, have alone some appearance of grandeur. All the other houses are small and cramped. The shops present little variety ; there are some for skins, coloured paper, fans, furniture, lucifer matches, porcelain, grotesque figures, Bouddbas ; sweet meat, twisted sugar, crystallised aniseed, and preserved fruit. All these establishments have rather shabby out sides, but very pompous signs, which greatly puzzle inter preters. Over the entrance to inns and lodging-houses may be seen'such signs as Hotel of the Four Felicities,' The Palace of Happy Dreams,' The Celestial Table.' Con fectioners are very recondite in their signs, as the following specimens will show :—' The Rivers of Milk,' The Candid Isles,' The Delights of Confucius.' " SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER COMPANY.—A meeting of the Great Northern Copper Mining Company of South Australia was held yesterday, Mr. C. Bonney in the chair, when the report was adopted unanimously. It was stated that, in consequence of certain allegations ques tioning the accuracy of the prospectus on the mineral capa bilities of the various properties, the chairman proceeded to South Australia, and by personal examination and from in dependent testimony proved that the announcement origi nally put forth were substantially correct. At one of the mines alone 1,000 tons of ore are in sight, and three fair average samples have been assayed, showing respectively 34 per cont, of pure copper, 51.2 and 82.8. No time has been lost in carrying on the works, and a large quantity of rich ore is already in course of transit to this country. It is hoped 11 that better terms than the present lease of the property may be obtained from the Government, including the right of purchase for a reasonable sum. The colony have offered liberal concessions for the construction of railways. In answer to questions it was mentioned that the distance from the mines to Port Augusta is by road about 120 to 125 miles. The ordinary means of carriage are by bullock drays, and the contract price for the conveyance of ore is 108. per ton. In a favourable season an ample supply of drays can be gradually hired, but when the pasturage on the road has been destroyed by drought —a very unusual occurrenco—as in the past year, it is very difficult to obtain carriage at ali. It was suggested that a traction engine miuht be sent out, and it appears that the directors have already had this 'step u,near consideration. The sum of £250 was voted, to, Mr. Bonney for the remuneration of hie services in going out to Australia, his absence from Eng baud h4ving myptilot r" L E s N E i •'t (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Illoniteur announces the death of Don Per• nando de Bourbon at Vienna. The Constitutionnel says : Such bonds of the Turkish loan as may not be subscribed for on the sth of January will be taken by a company of bankers. VIENNA, JAN. 4. M. Richter, Director of the Creditanstalt, died yesterday afternoon. The Oesterreichische Zeitung says :—A deputa tion from Gallicia, composed of three members, namely, M.M. Smolka, Saphiea, and Dzieduzychi, was received yesterday by Baron Schmerling, and presented an address, the principal demands of which are indivisibility of the province, convoca tion of a diet fur provincial affairs, use of the Polish language in official affairs, and in schools ; and finally, that Gallicia may send no members to the Council of the Empire. TURIN, JAN. 3. The report of the nomination of Prince Carignan as Lieutenant of the King for the Neapolitan pro vinces has been fully confirmed to-day. M. Nigra will accompany the Prince in the quality of Coun cillor and responsible Minister. The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes a royal decree convoking the electoral colleges for the 27th instant. It also announces that the voting for the election of the members of Parliament will take place on the 3d of February, and that the sittings of the Parliament will commence on the 18th of February next. DRESDEN, JAN. 3. The official Dresden journal publishes a corre spondence from Frankfort-on-the-Maine, stating that Austria and all the other States of the German Confederation have declared themselves ready to agree unconditionally to the Proposals of Prussia in reference to Holstein, which are now expected to be formally brought forward by Prussia. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : FRIDAY MORNING. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at Mar seilles at 5 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, &c., would probably leave Malta on the evening of the Ist, and may be expected at South ampton about the 11th instant. OUTWARD MAILS. The Indus, from Southampton, on the 20th of December, reached Malta on the 30th at 6 p.m. Left at midnight for Alexandria. The Valetta (from Marseilles 28th) arrived at Malta on the 31st, at 10 a.m., and left at 2 p.m. for Alexandria. The Ganges delivered the London mail of the 20th (26th) of September in Hong Kong on the 14th of November. The Colombo, with the English mail of the 20th (26th) of October reached Calcutta on the 29th of November. The Emeu, with London mail of the 4th (10th) of November, left Ceylon for China on the 7th of December. The Nemesis, with tie same dates, left Madras for Calcutta on the, 10th December. THE DECREE. OF AMNESTY IN THE NEAPOLITAN STATES. On the day before his departure for Turin Vic tor Emmanuel signed the following decree : "Considering that the political sentences passed in the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, from May 15, 1848, to June 25, 1860, were repugnant no less to the public right solemnly sanctioned in the king dom than to the statutes, and laws established and valid in it, "Considering in consequence that it was neither suitable nor just that the pains and punishments pronounced in the aforesaid sentences, offending as they did the laws and public conscience, should still preserve a trace of their presence in the con= dition of the, citizens, and under a free Government should be able on any pretext whatsoever to be cited for creating any special detriment or other consequences depending on or occasioned by the said judgments : " On the proposition of our. Keeper of the Seals, Ministers of Grace and Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, the King has ordered that the sentences for political crimes passed in the Neapolitan or Sicilian provinces, from May 15, 1848, to June 15, 1860, shall be cousidered null and void' as, regards forfeiture and pains, and the interdiction of civil or political rights, and also all the consequences indicated in the 17th article of the penal lavirs valid in the said provinces. ADDRESS TO KING FRANCIS 11. The following address from the officers of the garrison of Gaeta was presented to King Francis 11. on Christmas-day:— " Sire,--In the midst of the unfortunate events, of which we have been made the afflicted and indignant spectators through the sadness of the times, we, the undersigned, officers of the garrison of Gaeta, come, united in one firm will, to renew the homage of our faith before your throne, rendered as it is more venerable and splendid through misfortune. " In girding on the sword we swore that the flag confided to us by your Majesty should be defended by us even at the cost of our blood. To this oath we mean to remain faithful, whatever the privations, sufferings, and dangers may be, to which the voice of our chiefs oalls us ; we shall sacrifice our fortunes joyfully, our lives and every other possession, for the success or needs of the common cause. Jealous guardians of that military honour which alone distinguishes the soldier from the bandit, we wish to show to your Majesty and to all Europe that, if many amongst us have by treason and cowardice sullied the name of the Nea politan army, great, too, was the number of those who endeavoured to transmit it pure and spotless to posterity. " Whether our destiny be near its decision, or whether a long period of sufferings and contests still awaits us, we shall brave our fate with docility and without fear ; with the proud and dignified calm that becomes soldiers; we shall herald the joys of triumph, or shall go to the death of the brave, uttering our old cry of Long live the King !' THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION. _ . The Frankfort Post Zeitung has the following:— " It is asserted that, in an early sitting, a question will be put to the Diet respecting the decree of the Governor of Ancona, in which Trieste is declared to be an Italian city. The Diet will ask for cate gorical explanations from the Cabinet of Turin on the assertion of the Governor of Ancona." FRANCE. " The alarming aspect of affairs in the United States," says the Moniteur, " the raising of the rate of discount in England, and the downward tendency of the public funds at Vienna, have, within the last few days, produced an unfavourable affect on the Freneh market. But to these facts, the importance of which has perhaps been exaggerated, it is wrong to add pretexts of depreciation which are altogether unfounded. Within the last few days a report has been set afloat that the Gov6rnment would be ol liged to have recourse to a loan ; there is no ground for such a rumour. T reasury bonds, which, on the Ist January, 1859, amounted to 195 millions, and on the Ist January, 1860, to 141 millions, do not exceed 75 millions at the present moment." A Paris letter in the independance says : " M. Troplong, President of the Senate, in his address to the Emperor on New Year's Day, made known to his Majesty that the usual feelings of devotedness of that body were doubled by the gratitude with which they were inspired by the decree of the 24th November. The Emperor replied that he relied on the co-operation of the Senate to second him in the reforms with which he was occupied for the improvement of the constitu tion. Such was the sense if not the exact words of his Majesty. I do not exactly know what language was made use of by Count de Morny in the name of the Legislative Body, but I can state that his Majesty replied by a phrase speaking of his pre occupations for the grandeur of France." BOURSE, Jan. 3.—The market has shown more buoyancy, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at improved quotations. For the account, Threes are now at 67f 65c ; Mobilier, 725 f ; Orleans, 1,362 f 50c; Northern, 977 f 50c; Mediterranean, 897 f 50c ; Austrian, 480 f ; Lombard, 467 f 50c. The following were the last quotations 41 per per Cents 96 60 Credit. Foncier 945 Do end month.... ——l Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 45 1 Roman Bank Shares .. 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilier.. 712 50 Spanish Threes 49 75 Do. Account 712 501 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash.' Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1357 50 Northern New ditto BB7 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 890 .. 890 Geneva 366 25 .. Southern 5lO 610 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard GAETA. We find the following in a Turin letter of the 31st ult. :—" Accounts from Mola di Gaeta, of the 26th, state that things continued in the same situa tion. Gen. Fanti, before his departure for Turin, visited the works of the siege, and expressed him self highly satisfied both with the intelligence with which they had been planned and the rapidity with which, in spite of the difficulties of ground and of weather, they had been executed. An officer of the general's staff, who accompanied bim in his visit, assures me that about the 15th January next the Sardinians will be able to open such a fire that the Neapolitan Artillerymen will be obliged to abandon several of their batteries. CHRISTMAS IN NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the 24th, in the Debats, says :—" The battalion of the National Guards of Brescia has arrived, and been feted, and that of Milan is expected to-morrow. The treasury is empty, for the money of the small loan, which M. Scialoja represented as in his pocket, is still at Brussels, and God knows when and on what conditions it will come. Yesterday evening, after a banquet given to the National Guards of Brescia by those of Naples, there was .a striking demonstra• tion by torchlight. Cries of ' Garibaldi for ever !' were raised, and his hymn sung. But little is cared about those things at this particular moment at Naples. The great affair of the day is to eat eels, it capitorrs, and brocoli with oil and garlick. We are on the eve of Christmas. This year the Virgin and the infant Jesus have become revolutionary. The latter, in almost all the places where his status is placed, has been dressed as a Garibaldian ; the Virgin wears a magnificent tri coloured dress over an incredibly expansive crinoline, and St. Joseph wears moustachios a la Victor Em manuel. The ox and. the ass are decorated with tricoloured ribbons. The three Magi are dressed like Bixio, and: they have a suite in red blouses and in National Guard uniform. Francis 11. plays the part of Herod; and among the other personages are to be remarked Father Gavazzi, Bertani, and other Garibaldian heroes, The Neapolitans every year dress up a crèche rather more Catholic, it is true, than the present one, and they are in the habit of sending for a zampognaro from the Abruzzi to play some plaintive air, such as Abel, the first shepherd, might have sung. This year the tradi tional air has been abolished, and women and children have required that Garibaldi's hymn should be played. I leave you, to imagine the noise which has been .the consequence. In the house where I live there dwells a coachman, who engaged two bagpipers to march in front of his horsei playing the hymn ; a servant on the third floor has pasted an image of the Sacre-Cceur on the bottom of a tin saucepan, on which she begins drumming the same tune as early as six o'clock in the morning ; and at • seven the marquis, my landlord, has a band of harps, • key bugles, &c., regaling us with the hymn, before an altar which he has placed in his bedroom. At eight o'clock an English• family amuse themselves with a zampagnaro and a dancing bear, which per forms its .pranks to. the sound of the music. .HORSMA.II ,- AT ST.ROUD. ANOTHER VOTE OF WANT OF CONFI DENCE PASSED. STROUD, THURSDAY NIGHT. A crowded meeting was held here to-night, for the purpose of enabling Mr. Horsman a second time to address his constituents. At the close of the right hon. gentleman's speech a resolution was proposed, to the effect—" That this meeting having heard Mr. Horsman's explanation of his votes and speeches in the late session of Par liament, are decidedly of opinion that his views and conduct are so much at variance with the Liberal constituency of Stroud that he no longer represents them in Parliament." A warm discussion ensued. The majority for the resolution was very large. Mr. Horsman refused to resign. THE REPRESENTATION OF WILTS. The following address has been issued to the electors of South Wilts by the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, on his elevation to the House of Lords: 66 To THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. " Gentlemen,—lt is with pain and regret that I find my self compelled to relinquish the seat in the House of Com mons which I have so long filled as your representative. " The incessant attendance and late hours unavoidable to a member of Parliament seeking thoroughly to discharge his duty, sad aggravated in my case by the labour of repre senting a heavy department, have proved too much for my strength, and I have at last most reluctantly arrived at the conclusion that I must not risk theresult of another year of so much fatigue. " I entered Parliament a very young man. Through your favour, I have represented the division uninterruptedly for 28 years: I have never had to seek for another consti tuency. " Neither has this uninterrupted honour been the result of a complete identity of opinion, nor have I purchased it by any dishonest submission of my opinion to yours. " Not doubting my earnestness, you have left me a free agent, and, though differences have existed and been unre servedly expressed, you have treated me with a confidence and an indulgence which I can never forget. For myself, I can truly say that I have never made a toy or a pastime of the position you have given me, but I have looked upon it as a solemn trust, and have laboured constantly, assiduously, and to the utmost of my ability so to discharge its duties as best to insure what appeared to me to be the public good. `!Through the favour of the Crown I hope still to be enabled, though at the cost of less physical exertion, to take a part in the councils of the nation, and the interests which you have hitherto committed to my hands will not be less sacred in my eyes when no longer directly confided to me . by you. • "In bidding you farewell, I must offer to the many and ✓ true friends who have given me so generous and constant a support my most warm and heartfelt thanks. " I must thank also those who have been opposed to me for a forbearance and courtesy honourable to them and now most gratifying to me to remember. To all I offer my best wishes for the future, and I pray for a continuance to you of every blessing. 4; / have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most grateful and faithful servant, " S. HERBERT, " Wilton, Jan, 1." DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—On Saturday night Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson, residing at 22, Hamilton•street, Greenock, died at the patriarchal age of 102 years. She had resided in Greenock duce her birth. Unite( 1)o. 5 Kentu Pena Illinoi Illinoi Do. sl Do. dc New -7 gage Do. (lc Mo Share taken takinl shire, South 10s., and D ties 1 rates. rather In of im Ven et San Thi Trunl of Ca Joi condi Char Ame: were heav Beak 3 per New Amuu Dit India Dian e )3, ri al ~. ~_ sligh 60s. Cc Cott The TI modl duel ratef con Eil the( land dram Meu payn £20,1 Coßs( India Da Exnb, Dit Meat D;i Po'74 Dii Itu SS Dii Span Turk Ven — E Di trc;st for I pha( taaii Balt El DIG Lt East frost the Riv and bur, ape( frog Ab( Jae dee