The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-11 00:00:00

VOY AL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. bider the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, !Miss Matilda 'crop, Madame Palm i er i, Mr. St. Alb y n, Mr. Corri, Mr. Wallworth. Followed by BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE : !Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, .1' Wharton, H. Corti, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T Distin, Lyall, and W. Harrison. • Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T HEATRE -ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. TFTT4 EVENING the Dertorrartneee will commons. with THF, RIVALS. Sir Lu , ius O'Trigger, Mr. John Brougham; Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leelereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. ROY AT. PR TNCES S'S THFATRE.— T,essee and Manstrer, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with DON C/ESAR DF, BAZAN. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter. F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq , and Mrs. Weston. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled POBINSON CRITqOE ; or, H arlequin Friday, and the King of the Caribhe Islands , in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dfnilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres will appear. Clown, Ur. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sore Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. TATS EVENING, a new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOTR el DAME. Principal charrtutters iff bY or d, Mr. G. Vinin , , Sir J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, M. Cl Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. orris MISS M.Ternan, Miss T. Saxon, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing THE VISIO' OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE STAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with a new Divertissement. Mies Lydia 1 Thompson, &c. A - 1 - ) F,T,PITT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, P►nrrintor an I Vanaaer. Ifr Renf Wehater. - - TUTS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. Atter which, TITE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Tioueleanit, D. Fisher, BillinEtton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss AT.nes Robertson, Miss IYoolgar, Mrs. Billing,ton. and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravarranza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole. P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and V. Thorne. Doors open at half past 5--Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for bookinrr. Private boxes, £2 25.; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. . • Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle ?tabs, Is. • Pit Stalls, 2a.; Pit, Is. Ad. ; Amphitheatre, le ; Gallery. Ad. -'" Antinz Manager —Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manafrer, Mr. WM. 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 EVKNING. will be reprodu••ed TI7RPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, A,./D THE DE %TH . OF BLACK BESS, in which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated Steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and Bri ish Artistes. Concludin,Q• with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ,• or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gor2vous Scenery. by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing In the comie scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley. Box-of f ice open daily from 11 till 4 Stai'e Manarzer—Mr. W. WEST. • 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 Seena ed Aria "Tutto r arca Sorridere" Coro di Odalische. " Oh gnat perenne" Cavatina Vola talor dal Carcere" Coro ed inno Scena ed Aria. " Cento 'eggiadre Vergini" T e rzettorinale "Voi tacete io non" will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian lancruace—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, Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccane4ra ;" and Flo w's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 3h. Bm.—Afternoon, 3h. 26m. TO-MOUROw.-Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, - 3h754m. THE WEATHER.-SUN OPFICE, FEE. 10, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44 —highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.29 ; a rise of nearly three-quarters of an inch since yesterday. WlND—North-Easterly—fresh and cold ; with fino sun shiny weather. FEn. 11. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during. the night. 15—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.94; falling rapidly. WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh ; with bitter cold weather, and large flakes of snow occasionally, with sunshine. 44 6 • fAt „.,,4 r_s i ot7.tr 4, 1, a .C. 1'- _ 1 ...1,A. , 4 77 ,iSN /1“ I • i . ' .. 0 - __;;-- - -S - Dr.101T:L,.4 44 - ~~~ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 11, 1861. The Government has dropped Reform. It has at last subsided into its own natural self on this subject. Ever since Lord JOHN RUSSELL began his Reform Act Amendments, it was pretty certain that not inclination but party necessity was the reason. His heart was in Reform Act Finality, not Reform Act Amendment ; but the straits of the Whigs compelled them to hoist again the Reform flag, till they even drove the Tories to follow their example, and we now look back with a smile at the thought of the Right Hon. BEN JAMIN DISRAELI actually standing on the floor of the House of Commons with a Reform Bill in his hands. But time has unmasked the whole thing. Not even Lord JOHN'S tears, when one of his innocents was sacrificed, can convince us that his sorrow went beyond grief for the loss, or apprehended loss, of political influence or Power. And we believe, as he sarcasti cally remarked in his recent speech, that, no man is better content than he, that his Act of 1832 should, up to this time at least, have the stamp of finality. When all were unwilling or cold, why should he trouble himself further. His colleagues in office, with an exception or two, hated Reform— the House of Commons as a body hated it, as the death-warrant of this Pat liament—the Whigs hated it as Whigs—the Tories hated it as Tories, and through their leader even absolved Lord JOHN on the point of honour though he had turned them out on the question—the greater part even of the ad vanced Liberals were glad to get rid of it, and did most of all to talk it out of the House last session b--the populous towns and places deserving more re presentatives, did not even petition for better distri bution of seats—above all, the working classes whom it was proposed to enfranchise, thought it better to ;strike and ruin themselves for nine hours a day, than to ask for the privilege of sending representa tives to the House of Commons—even the county £lO householders were mute. If, therefore, Mr. btsRAELT will excuse Lord JOHN, we know not }lnv any one else can throw a stone at him. Least or all, certainly Mr. BRIGHT—he had a Reform I; ill ready in his pocket in 1859 which was to have "'tended with Lord DERBY'S, but we have heard othing of it from that day to this. We believe t he truth to be that Mr. BRIGHT finds the middle lasses, who, under the aristocracy, have now all F ower, opposed to the enfranchisement of their orkmen. Whether wisely for themselves, may Si - ell be doubted ; but the fact that they arc so ardly admits of dispute. However, the course the Government has taken h as one good consequence. It clears the ground ff )1- the men who propose substantial Reforms, not a mbitious Reform Bills. Two of these have cer precedencee of all others, one in virtue of its png standing before the House—the Ballot ; the Aber, has the prestige of having been propos e d as of being off ere d by two Cabinets, as we ll ..~, by the House of Commons—Mr. LOCKE KING °A motion for the £lO franchise in the counties:, Besides these, two Members have given natio of Bills for extension of the Franchise in Boroughs ; they will, we suppose, combine thee bills into one , for Mr. BAINES and Mr. DIGDY Sirraioun are not likely to differ seriously in their views on e uch a subject. We venture to submit to our leading Reformers,. as distinguished from those who merely desire to make political capital, the desirableness of a con certed plan to carry one or two reforms, to which they shall agree to give their strength. Those who would. from natural inclination support the mea sures just mentioned, might assemble and discuss their relative importance, the relative probability of their being carried, and the course which they ought to adopt to carry the measures agreed on through the House of Commons. If all can be successfully pressed, we can have no possible objection, to all of them we should give our hearty support, and nothing would please us better than to see all of them become the law of the land this session. But we rather surmise that at a conference it might be found that practically more could be effected by a more limited effort. Our readers well know our opinion on the claim of the Ballot as a part of Parliamentary Reform. To us it appears, alone, to be worth all the Whig and Tory Reforms of the Reform Bill which have been proposed since 1832, It It would really enfranchise more than will be gained by any proposed extension of the franchise, and it will practically consign to the waste basket all the Bills and Acts relating to electoral bribery and corruption. On social, moral, and, we might almost say, religious as well as political grounds, we should give the first-place to the Ballot. It . is an essen tial to the good working, indeed, of the other re forms—Mr. LOCKE KING'S and Mr. D. SEYMOURS, New voters would be but so many additions to the Free but dependent electors, unless they exercised their new privilege under the shield of secrecy. They would consist, in towns, chiefly of the work men who dare not contravene the political orders of their employers ; and, in counties, of those who would be dependent on the landlord and the clergy man. " Mechanics, tradesmen, farmers, and so forth, Are copy paper," on which their superiors may scribble their names and claim them as their political own. On this ground we should strongly urge on the better part of the Liberal party to make the Ballot their object, and to avow their intention of refusing, on questions at all of a party character, their support to the Government if it did not support them in giving independence to the electors. We know the difficulty of this course—that we could not refuse to support Government in all its good practical measures, and that it would there fore bring forward only those which, on their merits, deserved support ; but it will be a singular session if the ingenuity of Mr. DISRAELI does not devise some motion which shall be a party resolution, and on which, if the honest Liberals only quit the House, they will not leave the Whigs in the lurch. A few such defeats will teach them their real position. They will show the professedly Liberal party that that party cannot be expected to hold together if one third of it will not concede to two-thirds in pro moting an advanced Liberal policy. The annual BERKELEY motion, introduced by pleasant jokes and amusing humour, has become an annual farce ; we cannot doubt that the Ballot Society feels it, in its present form, to be rather an incubus than a help. No one in the House, or out of it, thinks of it as intended to lead to action. It never even provokes debates, and is hardly treated by the house as seri ous business. There is no question probaby on which the evidence both from home and abroad is so com plete—it is ripe for settlement. It is the one mea sure which would be the political fortune of any Government which really wished to confer the power of " doing each his own voting" on the pre sent electors, and we must think that Lord JOHN has, by retiring with his sham Reform Bill from the field, left the course clear for the friends of the Ballot, with 'their real Reform Bill, to tell the Government —now, give us your support, or on the next party motion we shall fail you to a man. It is time that the policy of the Whigs, beating the Liberals by Tory help on this and other Liberal questions, were put an end to• Let Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOUN RUSSELL see that we will he made tools of no longer. Should, however the other measures be brought forward, they have, of course, much to be said in their favour. The Horses of Commons, and the Lords too, would much prefer them. They would prefer them as extensions of the area of political serfdom. They do not, indeed, wish just that, but they would infinitely prefer it to liberating their present serfs, and making provision that none who might acquire the franchise in future should ever become serfs. Let our Liberal members, however, meet, and with them some leading Reformers out of doors, and let them fairly consider the whole question. This seems to us to be the first step. I However it may perchance be modified this evening, Lord PALMERSTON'S Select Committee upon Public Business appears to have been chosen in every respect most judiciously. As might have been anticipated, the full compliment shows, as nearly as possible, the two sides equipoised. At any rate, " parties " are balanced as impartially as such a balance could well be managed in a groupe altogether yielding those " odd numbers" in which, according to RORY O'MoRE, " there's luck." Twenty-one members—that is the first intimation (in this particular) upon the papers of the House of Commons for to-night—twenty-one members to constitute the Premier's proposed Select Commit tee upon Public Business. Five to be the quorum— is there also, in the committee's regard the concluding scrap of information. Inetrmediately between those two announcements the names of the chosen one and twenty are enumerated. They are as follows, viz.— " Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Disraeli, Sir J. Graham, Lord Stanley, Sir F. Baring, Sir J. Pakington, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Bright, Mr. S. Est court, Sir G. Lewis, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Bouverie, Colonel W. Patten, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. K. Seymer, Mr. Massey, Mr. Deedes, and Mr. W. E wart." So that the com mittee, besides including, as a matter of course, the Leader of the House and of the Government, and the Leader of the Opposition, will include also almost the two foremost men among the Independ ents—namely, a great ex-Ministei like Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and the most eminent among the popular Tribunes, the member for Birmingham. Besides, these there are two other Cabinet Ministers to share the responsibility with the veteran First Lord of the Treasury : there is Sir GEORGE LEWIS, the Home Secretary, and there is Sir GEORGE GREY, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Counterbalancing these, there are no less than four of Mr. DISRAELI'S colleagues in the last Administration, whose names are recorded above among the twenty-one select committee-men —to wit, Lord DERBY'S two ez-Home Secretaries, Mr• SPENCER WALPOLE and Mr. SOTHERON EST• i COURT, together with Lord DERBY'S own son, successively the noble Earl's colleague in the late Cabinet as Colonial Secretary and as Indian Secretary, and with these Lord DERBY'S inde fatigable and laborious First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir JOHN FAKINGTON, one who has of late years made good for himself a foremost place among the ablest of our administrators. Ten . out of the twenty-one members of the Committee I have thus been here, one by one, particularised. The emaining eleven, leading off with Sir FRANCIS BkARING,are, for the most part, thoroughly business men who will, if accepted by the House, thoroughly well acquit themselves of the responsibility de volved upon them by their selection. Of this, judging from their character as members of the Legislature, we may rest asured. No matter how little sanguine we may be as to the result of the labours of the Select Committee when all has been said done—at any rate we may rest confident of that, that the members of it will devote them selves seriously to the consideration of the momentous problem as to whether the Business of the Session may or may not in any way be ap preciably faci:itated. As to the actual state of things in regard to the progress of the Business of the Session in the House of Commons, the Committee may judge how far a change has become desirable from their own very recent recollections, Not, of course, that any light can be thrown upon the question by their immediate experience. We are only now to be , sure in the second week of the Session of 1861— , and last week, the initial week of the Session, was minus one sitting—beginning the parliamentary labours as it did only on Tuesday evening. Out of the whole four days of that first week, that week of mere ceremonials, preliminaries, and preparations, out of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (Saturday being, for the chief part at least of each ,session, a dies non no less than the sacred day-of res',t itself, the Sunday—and Wednesday, again, being, according to custom, the weekly half-holi day of both Lords and Commons)—out of the first four days' sittings of the session, or rather the first three nights' and one day's sittings, there are twenty hours of actual work already set down " to the good" in the new year's annals of the popular branch of our Parliament. Examining the way in which this score of hours came to be consumed in the House of Commons, we find that on Tuesday, from four p.m. to very nearly two o'clock, they were debating the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. On Wednesday, from about noon till past three, they were discussing Foreign policy ques tions for the most part. On Thursday evening, from five o'clock until nine, they were debating this very subject of the Committee proposed by Lord PALMERSTON, with a view to the facilitation of the business of the session, and the saving of that " time" which is more than its proverbial equiva lent of money to the nation at large, when squan dered. On Friday evening, to complete the analysis of the business of the House of Com mons during its first week in '6l, the occu pation of the members was a little more diver sified in its character—relating in succession to a variety of miscellaneous topics " ventilated" in the first instance in the form of questions addressed to Ministers, and secondly, in that of running comments Apropos to the formal hebdomidal motion for the adjournment of the House until Monday; and after this, to three subjects of curiously contrasting interest and importance, i.e., Mr. VILLIERS' motion for a committee on the Poor Laws—Mr. GLADSTONE'S motion for the amendment Bill respecting the guarantee for the Red Sea Telegraph, and that other proposition, the proposition relating to the establishment of Post-office Savings Banks submitted to the House at the close of its last sittings by the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It can hardly be said, therefore, that much time has been wasted in the first week of the New Session, in which first week it was idle to expect that anything practical could very well be accomplished. It will be necessary for the committee to look further back for " cases in .point"—but not in any way further back than last session, that long wasted session of 1860 in which the Lords and Commons, but in which the Commons especially, made good the etymological accuracy of their title as a House of Parliament. That one session alone of 1860 is a complete justi fication of the appointment of this Committee upon Public Business—and we yet hope that the depres sing remembrance of its " much cry," in the way of debate, and its " little wool" in the shape of actual legislation, will act as a wholesome incentive to the labours of the one-and-twenty committee men. It will be seen that judgment is again adjourned lin that lamentable PATERSON-BONAPARTE case which is just now so much of a scandal in the two hemispheres. It was adjourned thus for another week (we may at length presume of course positively for the last time) at the conclusion of the proceedings at Friday's sitting in the First Cham ber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. Upon that occasion, at that last sitting, the conclusions were broaght for ward by the Imperial Public Prosecutor, M. MERVEILLEUX-DUVIGNAIJX. And certainly they are "conclusions"in their way sufficiently significant, conclusions not very likely now to be foregone ly for the simple reason that they are already fore gone conclusions. It is noticeable in the first place that the Public Prosecutor avowed quite plainly that he deemed it necessary "to set aside from consideration the decrees issued by the Emperor Napoleon 1., which had been mentioned in the pleadings, and which had for object to annul the marriage of his brother JERomE, those decrees not having any legal authority ! " M. DUTIONAUX'S expression of his opinion immediately afterwards that the marriage contracted at Baltimore, in 1803, between PRINCE JEROME and ELIZABETH PATERSON, " must be looked on as clandestine, in consequence of not having been acccomplished with all the conditions of publicity:required by the French legislation, and must, consequently, be declared null, the object of such proceedings being to evade the law"— that surely is rendered, as an opinion, "utterly valueless by the remembrance of the simple fact that one whole year had elapsed before Madame .0 ere, the mother of the bridegroom, entered her protest against the marriage ! A lapse of time altogether invalidating that protest, and rendering legitimate (even if had not been so originally) the public ceremonial of the marriage at Baltimore by the Catholic Bishop of Baltimore. Insisting, how ever, that (in the recollection of the facts of all that publicity !) the marriage there was nothing less ' than clandestine—the Imperial Public Prosecutor admits on Friday, " nevertheless, as Miss PATER SON acted with good faith in espousing Prince JEROME, the marriage ought in that respect to pro duce its civil effects as regards her." Allowing this much, however, only to add immediately thereupon, "but on looking at the decision come to by the imperial family council, the whole affair was already decided. That council, in fact, had not confined itself to judging the question of name, but had added, in express terms, the nullity of the mar riage, and refused to it even the civil effects whi c h might appear attendant on it. Consequently, the application of the plaintiff must be rejected, on the plea of decision having been already given." Bearing in mind this extraordinary argu ment. of the Imperial Public Prosecutor, not inaptly named M. Aterrcilleux•DuslGNAux, are we not justified in anticipating little else than a foregone conclusion in the shape of the judgment of the Court when it shall eventually come to be pro nounced ? SEMI-OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. Her Majesty has signified her intention to enrol the King of Prussia in the list of Sovereigns who are Knights Ex traordinary of the Illustrious Order of the Gartar. A special mission, at the head of which will be a nobleman of high rank, will proceed to Berlin to assist at the investi ture of his Majesty William I. The Queen has appointed the Marquis of lluntly Lord- Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of the county of Aber deen. The Queen has appointed the Rev. Andrew Wilson, as sistant and successor to the Rev. David llarris, a minister of the church and parish of Fearn, in the presbytery of Fearn. Mr. Edward John Stapleton has been appointed a junior clerk at the Home-office, Whitehall. The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench has made the following arrangements in the Masters' Office on the Crown side of the court : Mr. Norton will be promoted to the office of Queen's Coroner ani Attorney, in the place of the late Mr. Corner. Mr. J. G. Malcolm, of the Home Circuit, will succeed Mr. Norton as Master. The place of Assistant Master of the Crown Office has been abolished. The list of new Queen's Counsel, as published, is incom plete,:and in some respects incorrect, although most of the names mentioned will be found in tho new additions to the ranks of her Majesty's Counsel. BILL TO ABOLISH CHURCH RATES. The following is the bill prepared and brought in the House of Commons by Sir J. Trelawny, Mr. Dillwyn, and Sir Charles Douglas : " Whereas church rates have for some years ceased to be made or collected in many parishes by reason of the opposition thereto, and in many other parishes where church rates have been made, the levying thereof has given rise to litigation and ill feeling: And whereas it is expedient that the power to take church rates should be abolished : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excel lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows :-1. From and after the passing of this act no church rate shall be made or levied in any parish in England or Wales. 2. Provided always, that in any parish where a sum of money is at the time of the passing of this act due on the security of church rates to be made or levied in such parish under the pro visions of any act of parliament, such rates may still be made and levied pursuant to such provisions for the purpose of paying off the money so due, but not otherwise, until the same shall have been liquidated. 3. Any church rate made at any time before the passing of this act may be collected and recovered in the same way as if this act had not been passed. 4. This act may be cited as " The Church Rate Abolition Act, 1861." The Speaker will give his first parliamentary dinner on Saturday next, at his residence in the New Palace at Westminster. Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party on Saturday, at their residence in Chesham-place. BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—The fol lowing order relating to private and judicial business before the House of Lords was agreed to on the 7th instant : "Ordered, that this house will not receive any petition for a private bill after Tuesday, the 26th day of March next, unless such private bill shall have been approved by the Court of Chancery ; nor any petition for a private bill approved by the Court of Chancery after Thursday, the 16th day of May next. Ordered, that this house will not receive any report from the judges, upon petitions presented to the house for private bills, after Thursday, the 16th day of May next. Ordered, that the said orders be printed and published and affixed on the doors of this house and West minster-hall. THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH.—The name of the unfortunate man who was killed by the acci dent which occurred near Woolwich Arsenal, on Friday night, is 'William Anner, a tailor employed at the Royal Artillery clothing store, and who was waiting at the Arsenal main gate to meet his son, who is employed at the establishment, when he was knocked down and frightfully injured by a horse and cart. Several other persons who received serious injuries are now progressing favourably. The owner of the horse and vehicle is Mr. Newman, of New-road, Woolwich, and not Messrs. Bayly and Newman, as previously stated. PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The Orient, Capt. Law rence, belonging to Messrs. James Thompson and Co., of London, from Adelaide, November the 3d, which arrived in the Channel on Thursday, rounded the Cape of Good Hope December the 20th, called at St. Helena on the 29th, and left on the 31st. She brought 30 cabin and 40 steerage passengers, and 500 ounces of golddust, valued at £2,000. Her cargo consists of 2,600 bales of wool, 160 tons of cop per ore, and a few sundries. She spoke, December the sth, lat. 26 S., long. 61 E., the Dutch brig Maria, from Padang for Amsterdam, with loss of maintopmast ; 16th, lat. 33 S., long. 33 E., the Dutch ship Foss Smit, from Batavia for Rotterdam ; 21st, lat. 33 S., long. 16 E., the French ship Osiris, from Mauritius for Nantes ; 24th, lat. 25 5., long. 6 E„ the Albatros, from Mauritius for Lon don ; 29th, lat. 4 W., long. 17 S., the Danish ship Arab, from Amoy for New York; January 6th, lat. 4 S., long. 17 W., the French ship Bretagne ; 13th, lat. 6 N., long. 18 W., the Austrian ship Joaquina Victoria, from Bristol for Manilla ; 16th, lat. 4 N., long. 22 VT., the ship Marian, with loss of figurehead and part of bulwarks ; and, 18th, lat. 13 N., long. 28 W., the ship Ceylon, frcm Foo-chow foo for London. PLYMOUTH, Sunday, 6 pm.—The paddle-wheel steamvessel Spitfire, 6, Lieut. and Commander Constantine 0. D. Ailingham, from the west coast of Africa, has just arrived in the Sound. THE INDIAN LOAN.—It appears that the total amount of the tenders for the £3,000,000 Indian Loan was £13,270,800, of which about £6,000,000 was at prices at and above the minimum fixed by the Council-981—and about £7,000,000 below it. Nene of the tenders at the minimum have been successful, the lowest tender accepted in full being at £9B Ils. 4d., while of tenders for £681,000 at £9B Ils. 3., the proportion to be taken is only £108,200. Nho-RspOitAaDl wase— H of o t S h P e l G TA ov L e , held on Thursday, in the Board-room, the Rev. J. B . The R annual °YAL m F e R e E t in g E Owen in the chair. From the report read by the S ecre t ary r n G o r ß s A o Y f ' s t N s (Mr. Stanford Smith) it appeared that the income for the last year amounted to .£7,351 7s. 10d.—including donations, £1,866 19s. 4d. ; subscriptions, £1,642 75. 6d. ; legacies, £3,842 ls. The expenditure was—hospital expenses for 1860, £4,726 Bs.; paid debts incurred in 1858, £150; ditto in 1859, £605 10s. ld.; paid on account of mortgage, £1,800; making a total of £7,281 18s. Id. The medical report shewed that the number of patients admitted to the benefits of the hospital during the year was—in patients, 1,193; out-patients, 38,976, making a total of 40,160. The reports were adopted, and the committee of management elected for the ensuing year. The customary votes of thanks to the medical officers, the weekly Board, and the chairman concluded the proceedings. Loss OF A BRIG.—GREAT YARMOUIfH, WED NESILY.—Yestorday evening the brig Charles, of and for Loudon from Sunderland with coals, Reynolds master, was totally lost on the Corton Sands, off this ceast. The Charles left Sunderland on Saturday, and brought up out side Aldborougla on Tuesday, when it came to blow hard from the S.S.W., with a heavy sea. She made for the Yarmouth Roads, but on entering Hewitt's Gat she sud denly lurched against her port helm, and came to the ground on the Corton Sands, striking very heavily. She hove down on her side, and the sea made clean breaches over her. The crew of eight immediately took to the boat, leaving everything behind, and had quitted the brig on:y a few minutes when she went over, and was buried in the sands. The wind was now blowing a gale, and the crew with great difficulty reached a vessel in the Roads, which picked them up almost exhausted. They were landed here next morning, and were received into the Sailors' Home. The Charles was 190 tons register, her estimated value £l,OOO, and cargo £2OO, and was insured. Cargo uncertain. TILE GREAT SKlP.—Since the great ship was put upon the gridiron in Milford Haven she seems to have passed away from the public mind, but the announcement of the intention of the shareholders to hold their annual meeting upon the 28th inst. has again worked a general feeling of curiosity in respect to her and the prospects of the company, which may make the following facts interesting. She has been within the last fow weeks considerably altered and modified under the immediate superintendence of the Board of Directors, who are at present putting in an entirely new deck, and in compliance with the requirements of the Board of Trade, bushing the screw with brass, or rather gun-metal bearings. No additional capital will be required to defray the expense of these alterations, which will be completed by the end of the month, so that the vessel may again go to sea in March. It is probable her next voyage will be to New York. The three actions which Mr. Scott Russell has brought against the company have, by order of the Court of Common Pleas, been consolidated intoone. Mr. Russell's claim is in all X 60,000. The company have against that gentleman a cross action for £130,000. Both causes will come on for trial next term, when it is probable they may be referred to arbitration, Mr. Hope has resigned his seat at the board, and as yet no one has been nominated to suc ceed him, L E T NE%V S. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURIN, FEB. 10, The King will go to Milan to-morrow. The Opinione gives a denial to the report that Garibaldi had made a journey to Turin in order to confer with King Victor Emmanuel. ROME, FEB. 10 , The following official telegram, dated Gaeta, 6th February, has been received here :—" Yesterday a gunpowder magazine exploded near the Porti di Terro. The cause of the explosion is not known. A general and 50 men were buried in the ruins. This explosion opened a breach at the extremity of the fortifications facing the sea." The Sardinians bombarded the city by land and sea, with great violence, until midnight. The bom bardment proved, however, a second failure. The place suffered less damage from the fire of the besiegers than on the 22d January. Many houses have been burnt. The resolution of the King and the garrison to continue the defence is still un shaken. General Ferrari and Duke Sangro are dead. A French priest has also been killed. Count Averspere and Majors Sangro and Sanseverino have had their legs amputated. GAETA, FEB. 9. The armistice expires at 10 o'clock to-day. Several persons remained buried in the ruins. M. Jacquermine, commander of a battery recently received from Rome, has died suddenly. A Sardinian steamer has conveyed 200 Neapoli tan wounded from Gaeta to Mola di Gaeta and Naples. NAPLES, FEE. 9, 3 P.M. General Cialdini sent ice, leeches, and medicine to Gaeta, hut the Neapolitans having violated the armistice by working at their batteries, and repair ing the breaches caused by the bombardment, he has declared that he must break off all communication with the garrison. Hostilities will therefore be resumed, and the Sardinians will in all probability succeed in widen ing the breach in the course of to-morrow. Henceforth no flag of truce will be received un less it should come to propose the capitulation of the fortress. TURIN, FEB. 9. The official Gazette publishes the following tele gram, dated " Mola di Gaeta, Bth February " : " Thl garrison of Gaeta having demanded a pro longation of the armistice for twelve hours, General Cialdini granted it, and besides offered to take charge of 400 sick and wounded Bourbon soldiers, as the hospitals of Gaeta were overcrowded. " Two steamers were on the point of leaving to fetch 200 wounded, when Cialdini learned that the breach was being repaired. He immediately broke off all communication with the place, declar ing that he would make no more concessions, and that he would recommence the bombardment on the following day." ROME, FEB. 6. (VIA MARSEILLES). Strong columns of Piedmontese troops are marching through Umbria towards Naples. A portion have already arrived at Perugia. ... The committee at R ome f or annexation to Sar dinia has advised the citizens to participate in the gaieties of the Carnival, as the aspect of affairs is satisfactory. MARSEILLES, FEE. 9. Letters from Naples to the 6th inst. annource that disturbances had taken place at Nota, Ascoli, and Avellino. Advices from Rome state that the Russian Minister, M. de Walkouski, being detained in that city by illness, another Russian diplomatic agent was about to convey to Gaeta the Grand Cordon of the Order of the White Eagle conferred on Francis 11. and the Bourbon Princes by the Em peror of Russia. PARIS, FEB. 9. The Patrie and the Pays say : " We have received communications from several friends of Garibaldi, stating that he has not entered into engagements to act, at least in Hungary. " Several Frenchmen, enrolled in the Garibaldian free corps, and who are at present in France, have received orders to join their corps at Genoa." PESTII, FEB. 10. The Municipality has, by 48 against 28 votes, resolved upon re-establishing, without any modifi cations, the laws of 1848 in reference to corpora tions and guilds. PESTH, FEB. 9. The Court Chancellor has addressed a rescript to the Municipality of this city, in which he refuses to comply with its request to assemble the Hunga rian Diet at Pesth. The Diet is to assemble at Buds. VIENNA, FEB. 10. The Oesterreichische Zeitung says :—"The statute concerning the organisation of the Council of the Empire has been adopted by the Council of Ministers. The legislative power of the Reichsrath will extend to the economical questions and the taxation of the whole empire ; but as regards all other questions, to those only which concern non- Hungarian provinces." COPENHAGEN, FEB. 10. The Berlingske Tidende says :—" The statement of the Patrie that Denmark had sent commis sioners to Frankfort-on-the-Maine, for the purpose of endeavouring to arrange the differences with the German Federal Diet, is totally unfounded. " A long time ago, it is true, it was proposed that commissioners should negotiate, but the pro position was rejected, and nothing of the kind has since been heard of here." BELGRADE, FEB. 10. A formal and positive denial has been given to the news, published by some Continental journals, that Austria and Servia had signed a treaty for the extradition of political refugees. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Euxine with the above mails arrived at Marseilles at midnight on Sunday. The mails left for London at 10 this morning. The Ceylon with the heavy portion of the above mails left Malta at noon on the Bth, and may be expected at Southampton on the 17th inst. The Jeddo brought the Australian mail to Ceylon, arriving there on the 14th January (two days earlier) and the Nemesis conveying the mails from Calcutta and China, reached Suez on the 3d inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta from Southampton on the 27th Jan., _ - reached Malta at 9 a.m. on the sth inst., and left I merchants had arrived at Washington in order to for Alexandria on the same day at 6 p.m. endeavour to facilitate a compromise. CHINA. TIEN-TSIN, DEC. 2 (P 12). There is no news of importance. The weather is intensely cold, but the condition of the troops is satisfactory. SHANGHAI, DEC. 23. Lord Elgin is still here, The rebels are quiet. The second instalment of the indemnity has been paid. Trade is generally very dull. News from Japan announces that the state of affairs was not satisfactory. The Prussian Envoy to Japan had not attained the objects of his mission. CANTON, DEC. 31. The revised tariff is now enforced. The man darins are levying heavy inland duties. POINT DE GALLE, JAN. 18. • The Loyal Lily has been lost on the island of Bintang. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YoRK, Jan. 29.—The st oc k mar k e t is steady. New York Centrals are quoted at 80, Illi nois Central 791, Erie NI. Money and exchange are steady ; sterling bankers' bills are quoted 107, Cotton sales to-day 4,000 bales, at previous rates. Wheat irregular, corn buoyant. Sugar, coffee, and provisions brisker. - NEW ORLEANS: Jan. 29.—Cotton sales to-day 22,000 bales ; middling 11c. to 1 Freights for cotton to Liverpool, ld. LITERATURE. Egypt. in its Biblical Relations and Moral Aspect. By J. Foulkes Jones, B.A. Smith and Elder. This book offers some valuable suggestions con cerning the Egyptians. There is no people of ancient days who attract more interest than they do, and when we read of their marvellous works, whose remnants still remain to astonish the world, we feel that we are dwelling on the records of a race who in the infancy of time seemed to anticipate the triumphs of civilisation in its zenith. In de scribing Alexandria, reference is made to the de struction of the literature of the time. The Ptole mies were great patrons of learning. "Their schools were temples of science and fame, and their library boasted of the collected literature of the East. Of course there was no printing then, and writing was by no means common. What marvels of lite rature and art must those seven hundred thousand manuscripts have been at this age of the world. One's heart swells with admiration and enthu siasm as one thinks of the rolls of papyri that graced the shelves of the Ptolemies, and what if we had them now ? We should then be in posses sion of the literature of the early Pharaohs, and the history of Ekypt would not have been what it now is—a labyrinth of darkness and doubt. What if the destroyer had stayed his hand, we should then have known something about the mysteries of the priesthood ; some of us in our childhood would have been learning to parse hieroglyphics, just as we used to do Greek and Latin, and reading, perhaps, from an old papyrus some Egyptian account of Joseph, or what the Pharaohs thought of Moses and the " Land of Goshen," and the marvellous things in the field of Zoan; but the Saracen came with fire and rapine, and spoiled the world of its richest treasure." It is remarked that though in the nineteenth century one can scarcely realize travelling by rail in Egpyt, but that what ever becomes of the Suez Canal, the Suez Railway is an accomplished fact. " Soon all Indian travel lers will be threading their iron way through the sands of the Desert. If Joseph had been living now what would he have thought of journeying through the Land of Goshen in a first class rail way carriage." There is a very interesting chapter of the Napoleon of the East—Mehemet Ali. The career of this remarkable man was a surprising one. The following passage is worthy of notice, as it makes mention of the continuous rule of strangers in the land : " What Mehemet Ali got after all his victories, was the Pashalic of Egypt for himself and children: another proof of the continued subjection of this country to foreign rule. There has always been a throne in Egypt, but no native prince has sat upon it since the last of the Pharaohs— nearly twenty-five centuries ago. First, the Persian came and spurred his horse to victory; then came Alexander and the Ptolemies; and no sooner had the latter become natu ralised in the country, than there was a change of masters again. Then the Caliphs came with fire and sword, and the Sultans, and the Memlooks, and the Turks ; and now the Pacha is an Albanian—but no Egyptian. There is no parallel example of such long-continued foreign domination on the face of the earth, in a country still having a national existence, or still possessing an independent civil constitu tion. But the Hebrew prophets had seen it all, and had told us that Egypt should not exalt itself any more among the nations ;' that there should be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, but that the sceptre of Egypt should depart away ;' and they told us this, too, long before Cambyses had set his foot upon her sands." One of the most majestic and melancholy pictures here drawn is that of Carnak. There must be some thing peculiarly interesting to the mind of the tra veller when he gazes on the relics of such remote antiquity. " Beautiful for situation" is the city of ancient Thebes. The limestone ridges of the Ara bian chain stand considerably back here, and form quite an amphitheatre of hills, as if on purpose to invite some bold adventurers to come and settle in the plain below. The old Egyptians took the hint and built Thebes here. When this was nobody knows. It was some time in the infancy of the world, before Greece was born, before Troy flourished and fell. I wonder if old Homer ever was here—there is no telling ; but he heard of its mighty temples, and he sang of its hundred gates. We know that Strabo was here; but he only saw what we saw to-day—its grave. Dust to dust is the fiat that has gone forth against ancient 'Thebes, and now its clay-built streets lie buried in their primeval earth." In nothing does this ancient race seem more peculiarly distinct from others than in the way in which they regarded a future state. It is truly observed that we might have expected such a superstitious people would have shrunk afraid from the approach o the king of terrors, but we find the contrary to have been the case. The Egyptians knew death, looked out for it with calm, thoughtful demeanour —they met it like men. They ordered their coffins and their tombs early in life—they called their houses inns, where they sojourned for a while— the tomb was the long home, and they hewed it out in the rock. This feeling was general all over Egypt. It was this that touched the peasant's heart as he trudged along the banks of the Nile, when out of his scanty earnings he saved what he could to get some decent place to pillow his head in death, and to rest his bones in a neat and comfortable tomb." Further on it is stated that the idea of the grave to them was not what it is to us, and the bodies were, by being embalmed, preserved from. decay. Hence their remains were very dif ferent from our corpses. The strange idea of the human frame being preserved so long while gene rations that have since existed have long since mingled with the dust could not have been more forcibly expressed than in the lines on the mummy in Belzoni's exhibition : " Antiquity appears to have begun Long after thy primeval race was run. Since first thy form was in this box extended We have above ground seen some strange mutations; The Roman Empire has begun and ended, New worlds have risen, we have lost old nations, And countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled." The main reason which suggested this work was the desire to dwell on the religious aspect of Egypt, which is a subject to which few travellers give their attention. The readers of this book will therefore be presented with an additional at traction, as it must be with all thinking people a source of inter es t t o " note t h ose points in the life and history of ancient Egypt which serve to illustrate its connection with religion and the Book of God." The work concludes with the following eloquent remarks on the Pyramids. Those mighty creations of old days are an everlasting source of wonder to all who dwell upon them, whether through the medium of description or with remembrance to aid them in realising the vision. The great conqueror of mo dern days, ever prone to seize on all calculated to impress his followers, exclaimed to his surrounding army—' Soldats, du haut de ces pyramides qua ran te siecles vous con templent,' " and all thoughtful and enlightened minds will agree in the majesty and glory of the matchless and marvellous creations that stand now as they stood before the Christian worlds had birth : "At the same time, there is a wrondrous charm in con• templating such mighty erections; and, of all others, there is the charm of antiquity. Here is a link that connects us with the remotest past, and associates us with men that one can scarcely think of as belonging to our race and kindred. It seems an effort to grope one's way back to the days of Herodotus • but, having reached here, what a way we should still be from the era of the Pyramids ! The Egyp tians of the time of Herodotus, is speaking of Cheops and Chephren, must have thought of them much as we do of Hengist and Horsa. Indeed, some of the heroes of Greek Mythology look almost young by the side of Old Father Cheops, for the pyramid kings long preceded beings whose existence we have been taught to regard as fabulous. It seems, in fact, as if we had in some monuments of Egyptian art the source and substance of some of the grandest ideas of ancient Greek poetry, while to the Greeks themselves these ideas existed only in semblance and shadow. We can here think of the old fable of the Giants over again, and almost realise it as a living fact. We had before heard of piling Ossa upon Pelion, and what is this but something like These men are the real Titans—those old pyramid builders, men that have achieved works of such vastness and power that it looks as if, in their mad rebellion, they were warring against Heaven I" Life of the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B. By Joseph Allen. Routledge. The first two vols. of " The Autobiography of a Seaman," by the )ate Earl of Dundonaid, recapitulating as they did the chivalrous exploits of their gallant author in bis own straightforward and honest style have, to a certain extent, lifted up the veil of years and brought back to the memory of Englishmen the glory of our old navy, when Armstrong and Whitworth guns were not thought and cutlass vindicated England's supremacy. But a lth oug h th e ga ll an t of, and the boarding pike Cochrane has furnished a most interesting narra tive of his exploits and vici s sit u d es , together with an ex position of Admiralty patronage and neglect, still I.2is death has, for a time at least, deprived the public or .‘lll account of his adventures in the New World, where his talents were, if possible, called into more play uzider adverse circumstances than they were under the !Inion Jack. The victim of a conspiracy, his character traduced, and his pros pects in the service, the pres*: of which he had Ads ...._ ~..., , , or AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, DEC. 26. Advices from New Zealand state that there had been no further aggressive movements. The arrival of the Robert Lowe bad infused confidence. Trade at Melbourne is quiet. The following are the departures of gold ships since last mail ;—The Hebe, with '7,309 ounces ; Moravian, 2,418 ditto ; the Lincolnshire, 13,096 ditto ; Thames, 17,261 ditto; Ydale (?), 5,778 ditto; Monarch, 22,407 ditto ; and the Ocean Chief, 22,970 ditto. The total exports of wool amount to 30,104 bales. The Wallaroo copper mines have proved rich beyond all expectation. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 9.—The market opened with an upward tendency, and for a time prices kept im proving. Later in the day, however, some little reaction was caused by sales for realisation. Threes for the Account, which opened at 68f 60c, were done at 68f 70c, and are now at 68f 50c. Railways firm. The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 97 80 Credit Fonder — Do end month.... 97 85 I Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 55 I Roman Bank Shares 2897 50 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 702 50 I Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 705 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l4lO .. 1410 Northern 967 50 .. 967 50 New ditto 895 .. 895 Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 931 25 Geneva 385 .. 382 50 Southern Western .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lotrbard PRUSSIA. A letter, dated Berlin, Bth inst., says : " The declarations made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Chamber of Representatives on the Italian question are generally well received by the Liberal papers at Berlin. It is true they applaud the criticisms made in the Tribune upon the Go vernment agents in the affair of the Lorley, and upon the measures taken at Paris to keep the French squadron before Gaeta; but apart from those inci dents, the Liberal journals approve, on the whole, the policy of non-intervention proclaimed by the Government, and its declarations that Prussia in the question of Venetia has taken no engagements to bind it to any course of action whatever. " The National Gazette says—' The debate has shnwn the accordance which exists between the Italian policy of the Government and the sentiments of the country, and it is the fault of the Govern ment it that accordance has been at times obscure and doubted. •" It has been observed that the Feudal party did not take any part in the debate on the Italian question, and that the Catholics only sent one speaker to the tribune." GARIBALDI. A letter from Turin says :—" Garibaldi, who has been stated by certain journals to have gone to Montenegro, London, Naples, or on a visit to King Victor Emmanuel, has never stirred from Caprera, and everything leads to the belief that he does not think at present of throwing his sword into the balance. Garibaldi, be assured, has no fixed pro jects; he acts on the spur of the moment. When he left Genoa for Sicily he did not know whether be should land at Melazzo, Marsala, or Syracuse ; and when he crossed the Straits he could not say whether he should go to Reggio or to Naples. Garibaldi, for the moment, is not in correspondence either with the King or with Count Cavour. He fishes and shoots in his island, but says little; no one can say what he will do—neither Bixio, nor Deideri, nor Bertani, any more than Cavour. It is true that in the South of Italy, some persons made a sort of military organisation by nominating officers, and even proceeding to enrol men; but when they went to Caprera to tell Garibaldi what they had done, he answered that it was useless, and that when the propor time arrived for action, all Italy would take up arms. In a letter to the president of the Garibaldian committees he has declared that all the enrolments made up to the present have been without his consent. Why, then, should attempts be made to diminish his political importance by representing him as a seeker after adventures, or as a political Don Quixote, to whom nothing comes amiss—Hungary, Turkey, the Principalities, or Montenegro ? The Garibal dian committees are for the present inactive, and observe the strictest legality." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamer Asia, Capt. Lott, from New York on the 30th ult., has arrived here. A summary of her news has been telegraphed from Queenstown. The following additional items have been received : The secession ordinance had been passed in the Louisiana Convention by a vote of 113 yeas against 17 nays., A resolution declaring the navigation of the Mississippi to be free to all friendly powers, was also passed unhnimously. The Louisiana State troops had seized the United States Marine Hospital at New Orleans, and had ordered the immediate removal of the patients, the hospital being required for the troops of the States. It was asserted that Colonel Hayne had again been instructed peremptorily to demand the sur render of Fort Sumter. QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 10, The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott, from New York on the 30th ult., arrived here at 6 a.m., landed all mails, except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 6.15 a.m. All well. She brings 37 passengers. The steamships Etna and Arabia had arrived out. The W ishington correspondent of the New York Herald states that in consequence of the mediation of Virginia, the President had sent despatches to the commander of the Brooklyn, ordering him not to enter Pensacola harbour, but to act strictly on the defensive, unless Fort Pickens should be attacked. The Republicans had taken active measures for an adjustment on the basis of Mr. Crittenden's propositions. It was expected that the Anti-secessionists would have a majlrity in the Virginia Convention. The Texas Legislature was in favour of imme diate secession. A large deputation of New York bankers and I k 'r