The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-14 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, L COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE SONG OF - HIAWATHA, Miss Matilda 'l.-ron, Madame Palmieri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. Waliworth. Followed by tialfe's SATANELLA. Mi , s Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. H. Corti, Mr. H. Wharton, etc. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. THEATR - g-RO YAL, HAYMARKET. tagßee,, Mr. J. B. Backstono. THIS EVENING, the pertormanoes will onmtnpuee with TFIE RIVALS. Sir Lulus O'TrLoer, Mr. John Brougham; Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimista by the un rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE..-- Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, DON CIESAR DE BAZAN. D on F. Matth M Csesar. r. Pechter. Supp Messrs. Basl Potter. ewf, J. G. Shore, Miss orted N. by Harris, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Weston. Alter which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRIJSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Kind of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres will appear. Clown, Sir. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE, - ROYAL LYCEUM. So.e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. ' THIS EVENING the new drama. THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOT RE DAME. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vining, Mr .T..T o h ns tone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford, Mr. John Rouse. Mr. Forrester, Mr. M and Madaismorris • Mse Celestern M Tean, Miss K. Saville, Miss 1.. Thompson, . Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing ruF: VISIO •T OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia Thompson, Arc. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 14, 1861. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Role proprietor and Manager, Mr. Bent. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thome. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonsicanit, D. Fisher, BillinErton, 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 FIUE. i Messrs. L. Toole. P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Boa-oflice open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, ; Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm.. Smith. STI FY'S ROYAL AMPH ITHEATRE.- A „ Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Was. BATTY. Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York." A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday, Feb. 15, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime. THIS EVENING. will be rerodneed TUR PIN'S RIDE TO YORK, AAD THE DEA TH which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated Steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes In the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding. with Batty's Prize Equeetian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comic scenes lilatty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley. Box-oflice open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. Was?. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!!! A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, consisting of the following Morceaux Preludio. Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto rarca Sorridere" Coro di Odalisehe. Cayatina "Vola talor dal Carcere" Corn ed inno Scena ed Aria. " Cento Teggiadre Vergini" Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete lo non" will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian lanniacTe—the first time of performance in this country—in addition to the usual attractions. Mr. F. JONGHMANS, Musical Director. Also in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas, 'lin Ballo in Maschera." "Simon I3occane;ra ;" and Flo tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsui" DAY.—Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 53m. To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 10m.—Afternoon, sh. 24m. THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, FEB. 14, 1861 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 29 —lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. _ _ _ BluomuTEß-29.57. Wirm—Variable ; dull weather. - . , W,t.- . ;:.;' , .:4-- , .....,..,,,,:,.. - , ,, , ,,,_ 4 ., r ., Vi • 1, 0 ' '' '' ' brFol . '" , --"' THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1861. So, then, Gaeta has really at last fallen The capitulation, it will be seen, took place yesterday. Early this morning General CIALDINI was to occupy, has, of course, by this time, occupied Mont Orlando and all the fortifications. The departure of the young ex-King and the Royal Family would follow immediately afterwards with all reasonable expedition. And when the fallen Monarch, his young Queen-wife, and their suite should have really left that last stronghold of the Sicilian Sovereignty, quitting the shores of their late kingdom on board the Imperial French line-of battle ship La Mouette —then was to follow in like manner the occupation of the city of Gaeta by the victorious Sardinians. Now that the conflict has actually terminated — while we still cannot do otherwise than regret from our inmc st heart the lamentable waste of life which has been fruitlessly caused by the long and stubborn stand made there at Gaeta by the fugitive Bourbon ruler of the Neapolitans—it is impossible not to recognise, it would be unjust not to admit that, so far, this unhappy young man has fallen, sword in hand, as became a soldier. In quitting Gaeta he will have to pass under no Caudine Forks of ignominy. He leaves the city and the citadel with the honours of war. Sardinia and France alike evidence in this, plainly enough, their recognition of what is due there to a valiant defence, however bootlessly prolonged— France by sending a vessel thither to receive the youthful couple who are again fugitives—Sardinia by the very terms consented to in this final treaty of capitulation. It is especially noticeable in regard to the course taken in these later proceedings by General CIALDINI that that gallant officer, as best became him, maintains all the honourable conditions which he offered before having obtained these, his latest, successes. This is as it should be. It is the conduct of a heroic foe— of a victor who knows not only how to triumph, but how to triumph most magnanimously. One of the most sagaciously conceived conditions that could well have been extorted from the van quished Bourbon soldiery, is the one requiring that the defeated garrison at Gaeta shall remain prisoners of war—until Messina and Civitella del Tronto shall have been surrendered up to the Sardinians. Mat la something like a "material guarantee" for the final settlement of that " lengthened [contest] long dr awn out" there in the South between the ex- Rin g'd few fa' ithfal adherents and his revolted people, headed in their successful revolt now by the Sardinians, butoriginally by the Garibaldians. It was with reason, then, that we spoke yesterday of those latest doing s at Gaeta being nothing less than the " beginning of the end" of the great movement for the liberation of the Roman Pea insula. Eritherto it has been to Gaeta that the aspirants of the cause of reaction have looked for the encourage ra ent of their fast faded hopes. The flame of the de fence made there behind those strong ramparts by FRANCIS H., and the last remnant of his other wise defeated and scatt ered f orces , was the ph aros still burning, as it were, upon a conspicuous m on ,. tain top in the sight of all. And it was still being hoped against hope, by the Reactionists in Europe, that the flame of that Royal pharos might - Amilmm lim••••••• erw eventually r eki iK ic the far-spreading cor ,flagration of a counter revolutionary movement. 7 chose hopes have now—with the pharos itself— -been Extin guished. The defence of Gaeta ' is; no longer continued. The ex-King she a thing his sword, is allowed to take it away with him untarnished. His Queen goes with him as a matter of course, and, together with. his Queen, his suite, or personal entourage. The garrison alone remains behind—held, no less aware ly than the city and the fortress they have been so long defending, in the possession of thei r conquerors, CIALDINI and his Sardinians. Almost immediately prior to thti final capitula tion of Gaeta another powder magazine, it appears, was blown up by a successful hit on the part of the Sardinian bombardment. Another incident of the siege, which also occurred directly before the close of it, was the total destruction of the Tran sylvania bastion. But worse almost than any of those occurrences to the defenders ; far more dis heartening and discouraging to the councils of the young KING, must have been the total and absolute failure of every attempt made to light anew in Calabria and the Abruzzi the flames of the reactionary insurrection, supposed by some to be still smouldering there, but really long since trampled out, and to all appearance finally ex tinguished. According to the last advicea iceived from Naples under date only yes terday, an emissary was said to have been despatched very recently from Gaeta by the Court—to call upon the Calabrians to rise in behalf of their ancient sovereign. This emissary, captured on his way thither, was found upon his arrest near Cozenza to be the bearer of papers of some importance—the next line of the telegram bringing us these tidings being simply the intima tion " Calabria is tranquil." Rather an anti-climax considering the purpose of the expedition. Yet there is the fact—Calabria is tranquil. And there, too, is that other fact—not like the news from Calabria, an indication of negative good to the popular cause, but as clearly as any evert, warlike or pacific, could be, the attestation of a positive and instantly appreciable advantage—Gaeta has fallen, and has been taken possession of by the Sar dinians. Everything goes well for the cause of Italian Unification. Difficulties are one after another dis appearing. Matters are everywhere being sim plified. And what is most remarkable in all this. is the conspicuous truth that events in Italy seem in this way to be righting themselves. It is as if they were being shaken together so happily, so opportunely, that according to the whimsical symbolism of the late witty and reverend SYDNEY SMITH, the mild man drops into the round hole, the square man into the square hole, the oval into the oval, the poly gon into the polygon. And now at Gaeta an oddly-shaped little man, who fitted nowhere, not even into that queer out of the way hole (in the corner) yonder at Gaeta, has been opportunely shaken out of Italy altogether as positively obnoxi ous—a nuisance and a superfluity. The capitulation, recently arranged at Gaeta, must have been agreeable news to the Hermit of Caprera. It is an event that completes what he himself so magnificently commenced, and with a few lightning sweeps of his great sword, to all intents and purposes, so far as he wished it, at the time, triumphantly accomplished. The rest will follow—and by the rest we mean (be sure of that) something better than the fall of Gaeta and Messina, and Civitella del Tronto. Yet, the next will follow in due course—including the solution of the problem of Venetia, of the Qua drilateral of the whole question of Italian uni fication. Little lessons for little folk. On this well known principle the House of Commons is now com mencing afresh its Reform education. Hitherto, the RUSSELL and DISRAELI teaching has proved to be in advance of its capacities, and very prudently it is now undergoing a course of "preparatory" instruction, under the care of Messrs. DIGBY SEY. YOUR, BAINES, COLLIER, LOCKE KING, Sir G. C. LEWIS, and Lord ENFIELD ; other professors will doubtless make their appearance, and if they do but show themselves in sufficient number, we shall see our House of Commons educated almost to the comprehension of a RUSSELL Reform Bill without knowing it. All who have ever attempted to in struct the slow of comprehension well know how often, • when baffled in endeavouring to impart knowledge in a mass, they have succeeded bp break ing it up into fragments of dimensions adapted to the powers of the pupil. We cordially wish suc cess to the gentlemen who have commenced such a useful and unpretentious course this session ; and we almost venture to hope that the House will mas ter some of the elements which they are endeavour ing to impart. Mr. KING'S lesson it has almost learned twice, but forgotten it again,—" All men of ten pounds rent should have a vote alike." Mr. SEYMOUR'S it has never yet mastered; it talked over it, like other idle scholars last year, instead of learning it,—" Six pounds of rent should have a vote in a bo-rough (pronounce burrow)"—between Mr. BAINES and Mr. SEYMOUR why should not the lesson be learned this session ? Lord ENFIELD, whom Sir G. C. LEWIS desires to push aside we suppose, has a very moderate little lesson in geographical electoral reform,—" Four seats have been lost by two bad bo-roughs, give two of them to Ken-sing-ton and Chel-sea." Next comes Mr. COLLIER, he would teach the members for great boroughs and cities how to save a gent part of their expenses,—" No man shall pay for a cab to car-ry a vo-ter to the poll." Mr. BERKELEY will, we may anticipate, be the last instructor ; but be has found the house hitherto intolerably stupid under his teaching. GROTE and MOLESWORTH tried to communicate the lesson by the most perfect and easy reasoning ; Mr. BERKELEY has given it seasoned with funny little jokes, but the house is sadly dull, at least so it seems to us who have learned it so long—it is, however, possibly, a kind of political " pons asinorum," for some of our legislators seem as if they never couli " see it" or " catch it"—yet how easy it looks. " All shall fold up their votes, and put them through a slit into a box, so that no one can see how they vote; then no bad men can buy their votes, or can hurt them for vot-ing as they think right." Mr. BERKELEY has, however, made no sign yet of renewing his course of entertain lessons on the Ballot, though we have no doubt he will do so. Mr. COLLIER has already put the house through his lesson a first time. For ourselves we cordially approve of Mr. COLLIER'S measure, and strongly advise that it should be pressed as a short and separate bill. Our House of Commons is too great for great acts. Were it a smaller body, a committee of half a dozen or so, it might carefully consider and get through with a large measure ; but to think of more than six hundred men, most of them anxious to show what they can say on a subject, discussing any large and complete bill, and getting through with it in decent time, is hopeless. Sir RICHARD BETRELL has found this out to his cost in a matter altogether non political; and though it cannot be doubted that last year's Bankruptcy Bill, with a few amendments, was the best one, he yet finds that he must be content with what he calls a fragmen tary Reform ; for his consolation, however, we can assure him that all regard it as a noble fragment, and worthy of him. Mr. COLLIER'S will also be a useful fragment of electoral reform, a word we adhere to, though Sir G. C. LEWIS does not like to apply the term "reform" to lessening the evils—the corruption and bribery —of elections. We differ from him. While we hold that, in theory, every male adult ought to have a vote, and that, practically, a vastly greater number of the population should receive the suffrage at once, we yet think that the puri fication and liberation of the existing constitu encies, were that possible, would leave little to be desired. We mean, that so far does the pre sent million of electors contain fair samples, as it were, of all classes of Englishmen, although with an excess of county and agricultural borough electors, that could all electors vote really " freely indifferently," we should get a real representation of the Empire. Were no unfair arts resorted to by those who now can bribe or coerce others, we might enlarge the area of the franchise, but we should alter the result very little. We therefore regard every attempt like that of Mr. COLLIER'S as an attempt so far to reform our representation—to render it what it would be if persons voted from calm judgment, uninfluenced by external consi derations. Mr. COLLIER'S proposal has, however, for its chief merit, the enlargement of the sphere of elec toral choice. The expense of contesting a large borough, especially a metropolitan borough, is enor mous. A heavy part of this is the foolish charge for conveying members to the poll. Now, we all of us know that the polling booths are brought so near us that to make a difficulty of walking to them would convict us of effeminacy; and if sur time should be too valuable, and an extra ten minutes could be with difficulty spared, then of course it would pay of itself for us to take our own cab. It surely ought to be the object with respectable electors to save the candi date expense, and those who cannot contribute directly towards the cost of an election, might be glad to contribute their walk to the polling-booth. In counties the case is, in details, different. We need not discuss them just now ; we merely hint that sensible men on both sides will, we imagine, soon come to the conclusion that, as both sides would gain and lose in equal proportion by not being allowed to pay for conveying the non-resident county ♦oters, both sides would do well to save themselves bills which do not affect the result. We repeat that we hope Mr. COLLIER will not consent to allow his " little bill" to form a part of Sir G. C. LEWIS'S promised bill. Any WLig Government` bill on electoral corruption is sure to be, not an act for the prevention, but for the en couragement, at least for the shielding of corruption. It were better that a bona fide pro posal, however small, should stand on its own merits, and not be mixed up with a Whig or Tory bill. We have the best of testimony—that of Sir W. HAYTER—that such bills are meant to be laughed at—meant to become a dead letter; and we beg to tell our sneering Home Secretary that his bill, like all its worthless predecessors, has one great object—to avoid lessening the power of land and money at elections—to preserve to the wealthy the means of purchase and control of votes under the cloak of prevention of corruption—to hinder the enactment of the only known remedy for electoral abuses—in a word, Whig and Tory bills for the prevention of bribery and corruption are one and aII—BALLOT EVASION BILLS. Lord PALMERSTON'S little majority seems to be rapidly becoming less. It is already diminished by four in the very short time which has elapsed since the opening of Parliament ; the two seats for Lei cester and South Wilts, counting of course double on a division. The causes of the mishap, if such it is to be considered, are not far to seek. At Leicester the Old Whigs did, what they do in the House of Commons, they expected the Radicals to vote with them and for them, to do them humble suit and service, while the Whigs were to run away with the spoils. Could the Radicals be so mad as to divide the Liberal interest ?it was asked. But of course the Radicals could ask with equal propriety—can the Whigs be so mad as to divide it ? The Radicals, we understand, were the more con ciliatory ; they offered, we are told, to refer the question between the two Liberal candidates to a ballot of the Liberal electors, and to abide by the result. If this be so, the whole blame of losing the seat to the Liberal party must fall on the shoulders of the Whigs. The small majority which the Whig had over the Radical—the former polling 1,030 votes, the latter 977, while the Tory polled I,s97—shows where the fault lay. Had the two parties united their nearly balanced votes, they could have beaten the Tory by a majority of 413. It was a fair occasion for a ballot between the two sections. It is time, howeVer, that this half Tory section of electors should learn that the country would as soon see the Tories in office as men who have not the tact or the courage to carry liberal measures through the House of Commons, much less to force them through the House of Lords. The South Wilts election is of quite another cast. The landlords, who of course are the real electors there, are doubtless as Conservative as the burgesses of Leicester are Liberal, and it need surprise no one that when a Tory •of Lord HERBERT'S mild type retires, it should be quite easy to put in his place a good reactionist sort of Tory. The difference is really between a Tory who will support Lord DERBY, and a Tory who will support that excellent Tories' friend, Lord PALMERSTON. This time Lord DERBY has it ; and with the encouragement Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his chief are giving the electors to think it a matter of perfect indifference which side they support, we have little doubt that other places will follow the example of South Wilts. There is one way to restore real Liberalism in the coun ties, but our present Government likes neither such Liberalism nor the way to get it. Happily seme boroughs are wiser than Leices ter. The Bradford electors had before them three Liberal candidates, all of them on different grounds, men well worthy of a liberal constituency. They assembled and discussed the subject till they agreed on one of them, and that one then walked the course. Mr. FORSTER has been long desirous of a seat in the House, but has always been ready to yield to the fair claims of others. We congratulate the hon. member on the position he has so well earned. Mr. CROOK also has been returned for Bolton with out a contest—but both these gentlemen are any thing but mere Palmerstonians. Each of them will act as far as possible with the present pro fessedly Liberal leader, but they are not the men to be his Whig serfs. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have arrived in town from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery are expected in town shortly from Dalmeny Park, N.B. Lord Henley has taken a residence in Chesham place for the season. THE LEEDS CHAMBE2 OF COMMERCE AND THE BANK CURTER ACT. TO TIIE EDITOR OF rHE SUN. Sru,—England expects every min to do his duty. Did the Leeds Chamber of Commerce do its duty, at its late annual meeting, in not saying me word respecting the aggravating effects of the Act of 1E44 on the present severe monetary pressure, so detrimental ,o the interest of com merce. This omission is the more rerthensible, after having passed in 1858, a resolution celibate t• the abolition of the very principle of the Act—restriciJlA The following ex tract is from their minutes : " Bank Charter Act.—This clamber having been re quested to depute some gentleman practically conversant with the working of the above At, and its effects on the monetary system and trade of tle country, a meeting of the council was held on the 121 i of May last, Darnton Lupton, Esq., the president, in Its place, when, after con siderable discussion, the meetin: passed a resolution in favour of the following views : " ' Ist. That the clause in the let which limits the Bank of England directors to an issue )f £14,000,000, excepting against gold, ought to be abolishd, and that the directors should have a discretionary powe to exceed that limit as necessity may require. " 2d. That the Bank directon should also be allowed to issue £1 Bank of England note, convertible into gold in London in times of pressure anddifficulty.' " Mr. John Smith, of the firm cf Messre. Beckett and Co., was deputed, and gave the sticagest evidence possible in condemation of the Act. He mid— "That the act is inoperativeia ordinary times, and fails in times of pressure and panic —that it induces a want of confidence, which causes mosey to be hoarded—that al though in the district of Leedsin 1857 there was no excess of credit to any great extent, no accommodation bills, as far as ho could find out, and nd one in his own bank—that trade was apparently very sowd, and there was not the slightest reason to apprehend a ianic—that only one failure in the district connected with tte crisis occurred—yet that, if the Treasury Letter suspending the Act had not been issued on the 12th of Novenber, the entire commer cial body of this important dstrict' must have gone to the wall." And when he was asked if he umembered that an issue of Bank of England £1 notes stoped the panic in 1825, re • plied, "Yes, perfectly; they sipplied the place of bullion, and would do so again ; they %Amid do so at any time." Why, then, does not the feeds Chamber of Com merce, in conformity with their ro.<o...fion, urge now the issuing of £1 notes to supply the place of bullion? We have in this country, according to an elaborate statement in the Mechanics' Xagazine, gold coin to the amount of £100,000,000, that smell notes issued to serve as substitutes for sovereigns, some 20 or 30 millions of gold might be set at Iberty for exportation, which would at once put an end to the extra pecuniary pressure in Englaul, France, and America, arising from a scarcity of bullion. These countries have plenty of property to exchangs for both their home and, foreign trades, but are short of the medium of exchange ; they have the money's worth or value, but not money, the instrument for transferring it : they have property and services enough, and with these at bottom all debts are paid, but being contracted :n money, must be legally discharged in money, of which tiey are short. The act of 1844, by contracting the supply of 'money, when gold leaves the country, sacrifices the goose which lays the golden eggs for the sake of the eggs ; stops the trade which produces the wealth to buy the gold. Its prin ciple of cure is homoeopathic ; w:len gold is drained from the Bank, and the quantity of money thereby reduced, it makes it still less by canceling Bank-note money to an equal extent. This applicaioa of the homceopathic principle, similia similibia curantur," will not answer in this case ; the void in the domestic currency should be filled fp and not made greater. And for what purpose is this absurd principle adopted ? Avowedly to ensure the convertibility of the Bank of Eng land note, which has never bens doubted, and about which tradespople never think or tnable themselves. A Bank of England note is a perfect security for the transfer of equivalent values, and this is all that is wanted in money of any kind. It is remarkable that country editors in general are in favour of the Act of 1844, wiilst in London it is the re verie. May not this difference be accounted for by the cir cumstance that country homers having the privilege of issue, partake of the monopdy which the Act gives them, whilst London bankers co not. Editors commonly ask the opinion of merthants as to the working of the Act ; these consult tbir bankers, who, of course, in general, very naturally stpport the Act which benefits them. Again, if the editor svears by the Times, which many do, he is following the leas of an official of the Bank of England—if the report be tine that the writer of the City Article in the Times is the lecretary of the Treasury Com mittee of the Bank of England. Thus, even in the press, he safeguard of our rights and liberties, we may trace tie action of the all-powerful monied interest, from whom meshes it is difficult to escape. To examine into the effect of our monetary laws and com merce is peculiarly the dutyof Chambers of Commerce, and England expects them to 4:13 their duty.—l am, sir, your obedient servant Highfield, Windermere. HAMER STANSFELD. Maria Marchioness .of Ailesbury entertained at dinner on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in Hertford street, his Royal Highnes.s the Duke of Cambridge, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, and Captain Falbe. Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for their seat, Drake hwe, Burton-on-Trent. General Sir James and Lady Chatterten have arrived at Howchin's Hotal, from Folkstone. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—A classical examiner ship in this university has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Donaldson. The senate will proceed to the election of a successor in April. THE DEANERY OF EXETER.—A rumour is afloat in clerical circles, believed to be well founded, that the Rev. Dr. Scott, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is to be the Dean of Exeter, in the room of the Very Rev. Dr. Thomas Hill Lowe, deceased. It appears that the average price at which the new India Loan of £3,000,000 Was taken is £9B 14s. 51d., producing £2,961,655 18s. 4d. The total amount of the first instalment, to be paid to-morrow, is £501,655 18s. 4d. The Attorney-General's Bankruptcy Bill has been printed. It occupies 77 pages, and contains 256 clauses. The dates from Adelaide, South Australia, by the present mail are to December 26th. The Colonial Par liament had been further prorogued to the 11th of January. Mr. Stuart's exploring party had arrived at Moolooloo, and left for Chamberb' Creek on the 29th of November, all in good health, and confident of success. St. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL—The following Preachers have been nominated by the Lord Bishop of London for the special services at St. Paul's :—Sunday, Feb. 17, the Lord Bishop of Cork ; Feb. 24, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; and March 3, the Rev. Thomas Dale, Canon of St. Paul's. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Captain E. Christian, left for London at noon to-day, to be lengthened at out 35 feet at the building-yard of Messrs. Wigram and Green, by which firm the Ripon was built. Her Majesty the Queen, in appreciation of the important and philanthropic character of the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has signified her in tention to become an annual subscriber of £5O to its funds. The Countess de Persigny will leave Albert-gate House on or about the 25th inst. for Paris. ANOTHER SHOCKING CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.- Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a most frightful accident occurred to Miss E. Hill, aged 18 years, who re sides at Sutherland-terrace, Caledonian-road, Islington. It appeared that she was sitting alone by the side of the fire, her crinoline hanging over the fender, when a piece of red hot coal fell on her dress, which became ignited, and she was enveloped in fire. Her screams brought assistance, when the flames were extinguished. Th€ unfortunate lady was conveyed to the hospital, where she now remains without the slightest hope of recovery. EXPORT OF G•LD TO THE UNITED STATES.- The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Edinburgh Castle, Captain Brooks, sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York, taking out the United States' mail and a fair amount of cargo; besides which she took out 20 cabin passengers, and had £43,420 in gold on freight. THE BONAPARTES.—The Paris correspondent of the Brussels Independanee states that an interview has taken place within the last few days between the Emperor and the young Bonaparte, grandson of Jerome by his first wife, Miss Paterson, and whose father is the plaintiff in the action which has occupied so much:attention. This interview has led to the supposition that before the deci sion of the Court is pronounced some friendly arrangement will be effected. RESTORATION OF THE CHAPTER-HOUSE, WEST- MlNSTER.—Arrangements are on foot for the restoration of the Chapter-house of Westminster Abbey, which is justly regarded as one of the finest examples of early English architecture. It was built by Henry 111. about the year 1250, but it has been reduced to a mere wreck in conse quence of the everyday uses to which it has been applied. The Chapter-house was made over by the Convent of Westminster for the use of the House of Commons early in the reign of Edward 111., with the express condition that the Crown should keep it in repair. In the time of Edward VI., the Commons having removed to St. Stephen's Chapel, the Chapter-house came into the hands of the Government. It has since been employed as a record-office, but in consequence of the erection of the new general repo sitory for records the public documents have been removed, and nothing is wanted but funds to enable its restoration to be accomplished by Mr. G. G. Scott, to whom the work has been entrusted. CRYSTAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING DAY.- Wednesday, Feb. 13.—Admissions on payment, 815; ditto by season tickets, WO ; total visitors, 1,324. L. R r3 T .NEWeS • (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MOLA DI GAETA, FEB, 12 (Evening). Gaeta has capitulated. General Cialdini will to-morrow occupy the Monte Orlando and all the other fortifications. Francis H. and the Queen, with their whole family, are now embarking. After their departure General Cialdini's troops will occupy the town. The garrison remain prisoners of war until the surrender of Messina and Civitella del Trout. NAPLES, FEB. 13. The French corvette Mouette has left for Gaeta, in order to receive Francis 11. and his family. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 6. The Porte has replied to the Russian note, re asserting the truth of the Grand Vizier's report. Sir Henry Bulwer takes the part of the Porte. The Montenegrins have made an attack on Nickisch, but have been repulsed. The Redifs are to be embodied in the spring. FIUME, FEB. 13. The city of Fiume and the surrounding district have been declared in a state of siege. PESTH, FEB. 13. The Assembly of the Comitat of Odenburg has resolved to pay the taxes as heretofore until the Diet shall have taken its resolution. II A.p.T.gRITRCL FEB. 13. The Conference of Karlsburg has resolved upon expressing their wishes in an address to the Go vernment, containing three clauses, namely :- Ist. Execution of the laws of 1848. 2d. A new electoral law. 3d. Establishment of a separate Constitution, and representation of Transylvania in a special Diet. The project for the union of Transylvania with Hungary was violently opposed. PARIS, FEB. 13. The Patrie says : " A pamphlet, entitled France, Rome, et Italie, by M. de Laguerroniere, will be published on Fri day next. This pamphlet will complete the insight into the negotiations between France and Rome, given by the publication of documents, and will make France and Europe judges of the Imperial policy. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb.l3.—The market has been heavy, and stock having been rather offered, prices are lower. Threes, for the account, which opened at 68f 55c, are now at 68f 45c. Railways also dull. The following are the last quotations:- 4i per per Cents ... 97 93 i Credit Fancier 940 Do end month.... !Belgian 4t 99 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 40 Roman Bank Shares 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 700 Spanish Threes 47 Do. Account .. 7OO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1412 50 .. 1408 75 Northern .. New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 930 Geneva 392 50 .. 390 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard PRUSSIA. Fourteen members of the Right Centre have thought it necessary to publish an explanation why they voted in favour of M. de Vincke's amendment on the Italian question. In this explanation they state that they voted for the amendment, not because they were opposed to the explanations given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the policy of the Government, but, on the contrary, be cause they approved them. They looked upon a posi tive declaration of the Chamber on the most important question that agitates Europe as indispensable on account of its gravity and of the dignity of the National Parliament. They consider the principle of non-intervention in Italian affairs as necessary, because they desire that this principle shall be re spected by foreign Powers in German affairs. They believe that a strong Italy, independent of all foreign influence, will be advantageous to the interests of Germany and of the whole of Europe. They wish to remove the supposition that Prussia assumed an attitude unfavourable to the constitu tion of Italy, because in the contrary case Italy would be thrown into the arms of France, whose power would thus be increased. It was their wish that the adopted resolution should strengthen the position of the Government on this question without prejudice to ulterior com binations and decisions should they be called for by events touching the interests of Prussia and of Germany by the overthrow of the balance of power in Europe or from any other cause. GAETA. A letter from Gaeta, in the Augsburg Gazette, has the following :—" The King and Queen inhabit three low and damp rooms in the casemates, arrived at by a narrow staircase terminated by a kind of anti-chamber, in which it is necessary to keep a lamp burning all day. Adjoining is another room rather larger, in which no furniture is to be seen but a writing table, two beds, and some arm chairs. This is now the residence of a Sovereign who only a short time ago possessed the most splendid palaces in the world, The streets of Gaeta almost resemble newly ploughed fields. As to walking in them, it must not be thought of. The Queen visits the hospitals at least once a day ; she goes from bed to bed, takes a memorandum of the requests of the wounded and dying; assists the surgeons i❑ applying bandages, and if perchance a shell bursts near, she pays not the slightest atten tion to it." A letter from Turin mentions a very untoward incident, in consequence of which General Pinelli, commander of the column operating in the Abruzzi, has been superseded. The general, having been violently attacked by the clerical journal, the igrmenta, thought proper to reply by forwarding to it the copy of an order of the day which he had recently addressed to his troops, and expressing the hope that it would render him still more worthy of the hatred of that journal and its supporters, The extreme violence of this order will be seen from the following extract : " Officers and Soldiers,—You have accomplished much ; but nothing is done so long as anything remains to do. A remnant of that race of robbers is still lurking in the mountains; hasten to dis lodge them, and be as inexorable as fate. Towards such enemies mercy is a crime. Mean and sub missive when they see us in numbers, no sooner do they see us weak than they traitorously at tack us from behind, and massacre our wounded Indifferent to all political principles, eager only for booty and rapine, they are for the moment the salaried brigands of the Vicar, not of Christ, but of Satan, ready to sell their poignards to any others when the gold extorted from the stupid credulity of the faithful shall no longer suffice to satisfy their greed. We will annihilate them ; we will crush the sacerdotal vampite which with its foul lips has for centuries sucked the blood of our mother; we will purify with fire and sword the regions infected by its filthy slaver, and from its ashes liberty shall rise with renewed vigour for this noble province of Ascoli also." Language so outrageous could not be allowed to pass unnoticed by the Sardinian Government, and Gen. Pinelli has consequently been removed from his command, as announced by telegraph. LITERATURE. The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second Series. Parker. We have so often had occasion to speak highly of these essays when meeting them in the pages of Fraser's Magazine, that their appearance in a collected form is very welcome. The high repu tation which their predecessors have secured to the author will suffer no diminution by their appearance. The reader will at once recognise the sound sense, the pleasant humour, the keen discri mination, and genial kindliness and sympathv which have so long rendered the initials A. K. H. B. familiar friends to many. While deeply imbued with a sense of the vital influence of religion, and of what its effect on our lives ought to be, the writer is entirely free from any approach to prejudice or bigotry, although belonging to a church not gene rally remarkable for tolerance. But, though ani mated throughout by a kindly Christian spirit, the essays are not in the least of a doctrinal or sermonising character. They bear out their title of being " Recreations," both to the writer and reader ; such as might pleasantly vary the sterner labours of the author, and such as might be turned to for mental refreshment at the close of the day's toil. As he himself tells us in the introductory paragraphs of his discourse "Concerning the Worries of Lite, and how to meet them," essays may be read by the wrong people and at the wrong time and place, and there are some to whom the whole tone and tenour of these moralisings will be totally antagonistic. The essayist, he observes, has to contend against a difficulty unfelt by the preacher, who knows exactly the class for whom he prepares his discourse, and the time and place where it will reach them. But the writer of discursive pages like the present has to pro vide for a mixed and uncertain public; " for people he has never seen ; who will read his essay in chambers unknown to him ; in comfortable easy chairs by warm fires; on stiff chairs with no arms; in cold corners; in lonely lodg ings ; amid a great shouting of little children,with the accompaniment of a stupid old woman talking ; with their hard hats on their heads in the reading rnotnp of royal exchanges, athenaeums, and philo sophical insinutious ; in a great hutiy, aria stana ing ; quite leisurely, and reclining; beside a window that looks out on evergreens and roses ; beside a window, seldom cleaned, that commands a slushy street, depressing with its brown, half melted snow." And he asks in despair, how the same thing can be adapted to all these varying circum stances. He solves the difficulty, however, prac tically, if not theoretically, by treating of the sub jects that come home to us all ; of the joys and sorrows that chequer the days of most of us ; of the petty griefs, petty perplexities, disappointments, and annoyances that form so large a share of the troubles of life ; of the hopes and aspirations which we all set out with, but which grow fainter and fainter on the road. Yet there is nothing morbid in these glimpses of human sorrows. The whole tone of the writings is vigorous, straightforward, and practical. One of the best essays in the volume is that "Concerning Giving Up and Coming Down," li and the writer's definitions of what he means y these terms is so characteristic that we give it in his own words : GIVING UP AND COMING DOWN. I fancy my reader wondering at my excitement, and doubtful of my meaning. Let me explain my terms. What is meant by Giving Up ; what by Coming Down ? By Coming Down I understand this : Learning from the many mortifications, diappointments, and rebuffs which we must all meet as we go on through life, to think more and more humbly of ourselves, intellectually, morally, so cially, physically, resthetically : yet, while thinking thus humbly of ourselves and our powers, to resolve that we shall continue to do our very be-t : and all this with a kindly heart and a • contented mind. Such is my ideal of true and Christian Coming Down : and I regard as a true hero the man who does it, rightly. It is a noble thing for a man to say to himself, " I am not at all what I had vainly fancied myself ; my mark is far, very far lower than I thought it had been ; I had fancied myself a great genius, but I find I am only a man of decent ability : I had fancied myself a man of great weight in the county, but I find I have little influence indeed : I had fancied that my stature was six feet four, but I find I am only five feet two : I had fancied that in such a competition I never could be beaten, but in truth I have been sadly beaten : I had fancied [suffer me, reader, the solemn allusion] that my Master had en trusted me with ten talents, but I find I have no more than one. But I will accept the humble level which is mine by right, and with God's help will do my very beat there. I will not kick dogsnor curse servants : I will not try to detract from the standing of men who are cleverer, more eminent, or taller than myself : I will heartily wish them well. I will not grow soured, moping, and misanthropic. I know I am beaten and disappointed, but I will hold on manfully still, and never Give Up 1" Such, kindly reader, is Chris tian Coming Down 1 And what is Giving Up? Of course you understand my meaning now. Giving Up means that when you are beaten and disappointed, and made to understand that your mark is lower than you had fancied, you will throw down your arms in despair, and resolve that you will try no more. As for you, brave man, if you don't get all you want, you are resolved you shall have nothing. If you are not ac cepted as the cleverest and greatest man, you are resolved you shall be no man at all. And while the other is Chris tian Coming Down, this is un-Christian, foolish, and wicked Giving Up. No doubt it is an extremely natural thing. It is the first and readiest impulse of the undisciplined heart. It is in human nature to say, "If I don't have all the pud ding, I shall have none." The grand way of expressing the same sentiment, is, Ant Cesar ant nullus. Of course the Latin words stir the youthful heart. You sympathise with them, I know, my reader under five-and-twenty. You will see through them some day. They are just the heroic way of saying, I shall Give Up, but I never shall Come Down! They state a sentiment for babies, boys and girls, not for reasonable women and men. For babies, I say. Let me relate a parable. Yesterday I went into a cottage, where a child of two years old sat upon his mother's knee. The little man had in his hand a large slice of bread and-butter which his mother had just given him. By words nut intelligible to me he conveyed to his mother the fact that he desired that jam should be spread upon the slice of bread-and-butter. But his mother informed him that bread and bu , ter must suffice, without the further luxury. The young human being (how thoreughly human) considered for a moment; and then dashed the bread-and butter to the further end of the room. There it was : Ant Cccsar act nullus! The baby would Give Up, but it would not Come Down! Alexander the Great, look at yourself ! Marius among the ruins of Carthage, what do you think you look like here ? By the time th youthful reader comes to understand that Byron's dark, mysterious heroes, however brilliantly set forth, are in conception simply childish ; by the time he is able to appreciate Philip Van Artevelde (I mean Mr. Henry Taylor's noble tragedy) ; he will discern that various things which look heroic at the first glance, will not work in the long run. And that practical principle is irrational which will not work. And that sentiment which is irra tional is not heroic. The truly-heroic thing to say, as well as the rational thing, is this : If I don't get all the pudding, I shall be content if I get what I deserve, or what God sends. If I am not Caesar, there is no need that I should be nullus; I shall be content to be the highly respectable Mr. Smith. Though I am not equal to Shak - speare, I may write a good play. Though inferior to Bishop Wilberforce, I shall yet do my best to be a good preacher. It is a fine thing, a noble thing, as it appears to me, for a man to be content to labour hard and do his utmost though well aware that the result will be no more than decent mediocrity, after all. It is a finer thing, and more truly heroic, to do your very best and only be second rate, than even to resolve, like the man in the Iliad, AUv cipterrei,stv, Kai inrEipoxov Ejzl. EVaa i/XXwv. There is a strain put upon the moral nature in contentedly and perseveringly doing this, greater than is put upon the intellectual by the successful effort to be best. And what would become of the world if all men went upon Homer's principle; and rather than Come Down from its sublime e l eva ti o n, would fling down their tools and Give Up ? Shall I, because I cannot preach like Mr. Melvill, cease to write sermons ? Or shall I, because I cannot counsel and charm like Mr. Helps, cease to write essays ? You may rely upon it I shall not. I do not forget Who said, in words of praise concerning one who had done what was absolutely but very little, " She hath done what she could I" And what would become of me and my essays, if the reader, turning to them from the pages of Meat or Charles Lamb, should say, " I shall not Come Down ; and if I find I have to do so I shall Give Up ?" What if the reader refused to accept the plain bread-and -butter which I can furnish, un less it should be accompanied by that jam which I am not able to add ? " Disappointment and Success" and " Growing , Old" are two other subjects which give full lati tude for the author's powers; and his attack on the supporters of the " Dignity of Dulness " will be fresh in the memory of its readers. He happily confutes the absurd theory, firmly believed in by many, of the soundness and value of what is pon derous and tedious, and the necessary superficiality of all that is brilliant and attractive. " Con cerning Churchyards " is another characteristic topic, in considering which he discusses the relative merits of burning or burying as a means of disposing of the dead, a question which has recently been raised among the scientific. One of the advocates of the funeral pyre suggests that the ashes of the departed might be preserved in elegant urns, " replacing on our consoles and mantelpieces the ornaments now found there." Notwithstanding all the attendant solemnities of the ceremony, we fully agree with our essayist, who says it would be impossible for the survivors to divest themselves of the feeling of sacrilegious violence. " And only think," he indignantly ex claims, "of a man pointing to half-a-dozen vases on his mantelpiece, and as many more on his chef. fonier, and saying, There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary are at re s t.' N o, no • the thing will never do !" In his list o f epi taphs he cites some nel,7 and curious ones. The gloomy fancy some have had to dwell on the cir cumstances of their own dissolution he condemns as morbid, but goes on to say : Nor but that such thoughts are well in their due time and place. It is very fit that we should all sometimes try to realise distinctly what is meant when each of us repeats words 4,000 years old, and a ay's," I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all li v ing." Even with all such remembrances brought home to him by means to which we are not likely to resort, the good priest and martyr Robert South well tells us how hard he found it, while in buoyant life, to rightly consider his end. But in perfect cheer fulness and healthfulness of spirit, the human being who knows (so far as man can know) where he is to rest at last, may oftimes visit that peaceful spot. It will do him go.,d ; it can do him no harm. The hard -wrought man may fitly look upon the soft green turf, some day to be opened for him; and think to himself, Not yet, I have more to do yet ; but in a little while. Somewhere there is a place appointed for each of us, a place that is waiting for each of us, and that will not be complete till we are there. Well, we rest in the humble trust, that "through the grave and gate of death, we shaltpass to our joyful resurrec tion." And we turn away now from the churchyard, re calling Bryant's lines as to its extent. The essay entitled " Concerning Summer Days," affords ample evidence of the writer's peculiar power of ranging " from grave to gay, from lively to severe," without the reader's being sensible of any incongruity or abruptness in the transition. In the article in question he touches on a wide range of subjects, suggested by the thought of summer days, in somewhat of the fashion in which a rambling train of thought presents itself to the mind. He reflects on the varying aspects of the gorgeous midsummer noon in the crowded city court of law and marketplace, and in leafy wood land shades or lone moorland wastes. We quote the following passages, both from the same essay, as affording fair specimens of the author's varied style : A NEW ASSOCIATION. I am persuaded that if half-a-dozen clever young men were to form themselves into a little association, each mem ber of which should be pledged to lose no opportunity of crying up the other five members in conversation, through the press, and in every other possible way, this would mate rially further their success in life and the estimation in which they would be held wherover known. The world would take them at the value so constantly dinned into its ear. When you read on a silver coin the legend one shilling, you readily take it for a shilling; and if a man walks about with great genius painted upon him in large red letters, !many people will accept the truth of the inscription. Every one has seen how a knot of able young men hanging to gether at college and in after life can help one another even in a material sense, and not less valuably by keeping up one another's heart. All this is quite fair, and so is even the mutual praise when it is hearty and sincere. For several months past I have been possessed of an idea which has been gradually growing into shape. I have thought of getting up an association, whose members should always hold by one another, be true to one another, and cry one another up. A friend to whom I mentioned my plan highly approved it, and suggested the happy name of the Mutual Exaltation Society. The association would be limited in number : not more than fifty mem bers could be admitted. It would include educated men in all walks of life ; more particularly men whose success in life depends in any measure upon the estimation in which they are commonly held, as barristers, preachers, authors, and the like. Its purposes and operations have already been indicated with as much fulness as would be judicious at the present juncture. Mr 'Barnum and Messrs. Moses ana ion uvula no consulted on the cletana. John Ellesmere, ex-solicitor-general and author of the " Essay on the Arts of Self-Advancement," would be the first president, and the general guide, philosopher, and friend of the Mutual Exaltation Society. The present writer will be secretary. The only remuneration he would expEct would be that all the members should undertake, at least six times every day, to make favourable mention of a recently published work. Six times a day would they be expected to say promiscuously to any intelligent friend or stranger, " Have you read the ' Recreations of a Country Parson' ? Most wonderful book I Not read it I Go to Mudie's and get it directly"—and the like. For obvious reasons it would not do to make public the names of the members of the association; the moral weight of their mutual laudation would be much diminished. But clever young men in various parts of the country who may desire to join the society, may make application to the editor of Fraser' s Magazine, enclosing testimonials of moral and intellectual character. Applications will be received until the First of April, 1861. SUMMER DAYS. Pleasanter scenes come up this afternoon with the men tion of summer days. I see depths of wood, where all the light is coolly green, and the rippling brook is crystal clear. I see vistas through pines, like cathedral vaults; the space enclosed looks on a sunshiny day almost black, and a bit of bright blue sky at the end of each is framed by the trees into the likeness of a Gothic window. I see walls of gray rock on either side of a river, noisy and brawling in winter time, but now quiet and low. For two or three miles the walls of rock stretch onward ; there are thick woods above them, and here and there a sunny field : masses of ivy clothe the rock in places ; long sprays of ivy hang over. I walk on in thought till I reach the opening of the glen ; here a green bank slopes upward from a dark pool below, and there is a fair stre ch of champaign country beyond the river ; on the summit of the green bank, on this side, moul dering, gray, ivied, lonely, stand the ruins of the monas tery, which has kept its place here for 700 years. I see the sky-framing eastern window, its tracery gone. There are masses of large daisies varying the sward, and the sweet fragrance of young clover is diffused through all the air. I turn aside and walk through lines of rose-trees in their summer perfection. I hear the drowsy hum of the laden bees. Suddenly it is the twilight, the long twilight of Scotland, which would sometimes serve you to read by at eleven o'clock at night. The crimson flush has faded from the bosom of the river ; if you are alone its murmur begins to turn to a moan ; the white stones of the churchyard look spectral through the trees. I think of poor Dr. Adam, the great Scotch schoolmaster of the last century, the teacher of Sir Walter Scott, and his last words, when the shadow of death was falling deeper—" It grows dark, boys ; you may go." Then, with the profes sional bias, Igoto a certain beautiful promise which the deepening twilight seldom fails to suggest to me ; a pro mise which tells us how the Christian's day shall end, how the day of life might be somewhat overcast and dreary, but light should come on the darkened way at last. " It shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear nor dark. But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light." I think of various senses in which it might be shown that these words speak truly; in which its great principle holds good, that signal blessing shall come when it is needed most and ex pected least ; but I think mainly how, sometimes, at the close of the chequered and sober day, the Better Sun has broken through the clouds, and made the flaming west all purple and gold. I think how always the purer light come; if not in this world, then in a better. Bowing his head to pass under the dark portal, the Christian lifts it on the other side, in the presence and the light of God. I think how you and I, my reader, may perhaps have stood in the chamber of death, and seen in the horizon the sum mer sun in glory going down. But it is only tons who remain that the evening darkness is growing—only for us that the sun is going down. Look on the sleeping features, and think, " Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw herself ; for the Lord shall be thine ever lasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." And then, my reader, tell me—as the evening falls on you, but not on him ; as the shadows deepen on you, but not on him • as the darkness gathers on you, but not on him—if, in sober reality, the gloriou s promise has not found its per fect fulfilment, that " at the evening time there shall be light I" In the volume itself there are many other passages full of fun or of feeling, which we have not space to quote. The reader of cultivated taste and thoughtful mind cannot fail to be gratified with its perusal, however he may diff er f rom th eor i es , or dissent from opinions, or even if he occasionally discover too great a tendency to discursiveness ald diffuseness. Such productions, as the author truly says, cannot always be equal. Let us be thankful, amid the abundance of mediocre and indifferent publications, when we meet one so far above the average, so true in its experience, so sound in its teaching, and so fresh and captivating in its style, as this volume of "Recreations." THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. 1311 ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 54s Od ; barley, 39s 8d ; oats, 22s 6d ; rye, 36s 3d ; beans, 39s Od ; and peas, 42s 7d. THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 56s ld ; barley, 40s 3d ; oats, 22s 10d ; rye, 35s lld ; beans, 42s Od ; peas, 42s 10d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 57,621; barley, 71,966 ; oats, 23,768 ; rye, 22; beans, 5,168 ; peas, 1132 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with beasts, nevertheless all breeds moved off slowly at Monday's currency. Prime Down sheep were very scarce, and in re quest at full prices, Long-woolled sheep moved off heavily, and in some instances the quotations gave way 2d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was limited, changed hands freely at full prices. Pigs were firm, but mulch cows were very dull. Per Sibs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. f.3rse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 4 Second quality do. 3 6 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 2 Second quality do. 4 2 4 8 a. d. s. d. ' Primecrs-wool do. 5 0 5 8 Pme. S'thdown do 5 10 6 2 I Large arse. calves 4 8 5 2 Prime small do 5 4 5 8 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Small porkers )d to Os Od. - - Lambs, Os I Suckling calves, 198 to 22s 238 to 3)8. and quarter •old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 940 Sheep and lambs 3,960 Calves Pigs FOILEIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .............. .120 Sheep .............. 700 Calves Pigs ........... ... - - MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. - The supplies of meat, are only moderate, and trade is inactive as follows : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; v ea l, 4 s 4d to 5s Od ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Feb.l3 .—A fair average business doing, as follows : Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 10d , mutton, 4s Od to 5s 10d ; lamb, Os Od te , Os Od ; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 2d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs to sink the offal. RomroßD, Feb. 13. A steady sale, as follows : Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s Od; u.utton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 4s Oil to 5s Od per Blbs ; suckling calves, 14s to 19s; quarter old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and mach cows, £l4 Os to £l9 Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 08 to £5 5s Od ; clover do., £3 Os to £slss ; and straw, lOs to £1 18s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, £2 10.4 to £5 g s clover, £3 Os to £ss 12s Od ; and straw, £1 10s to i 2 Os per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; clove,, Os to £5 16s Od; and straw, £1 108 to £1 18a per lead. Trade dull. COAL MARKET--FEB, 13. close of the market Walls End. (rrices of Coal per Ton a s. d. 13yass's Bel9side West Hartley••..l7 Bower's 'West Hartley.l7 3 Davison's West Hart ley • ...17 3 Tantield Moor ........ 16 3 l'anfield Moor Butes ..16 3 wylam .......... 18 0 Londonthrry Gas ....14 6 Ilolywell ............ 18 6 nyhope Nuts.... 14 0 Walls End Framwellgate 20 6 1 Ships at marke s, d. South Hett on 22 3 Russel's lletton 21 0 Pensher lB 0 Cassou 2l 6 Hartlepool.... 2l -9 Acorn Close ..19 6 Eden 20 6 Hedley 2O 0 Peaces West .16 6 Low Bitchburn l6 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting ;t, 45; sold, 22. __--- , . --~, ~.