The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-09 00:00:00

- .• • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBR VARY 9, 1861. _,.. ___ BARommTER-29.68 ; rising. WIND—South -Easterly—rather fresh; with dull rainy, sirocco sort of weather. It rained in the night partially. 4!Z 1114. " 4 : 4 , 44 . • , 21:0 n • 4 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1861. It has been remarked as a circumstance of a most interesting and exceptional charater that the Prime Minister of England, the present Leader of the House of Commons, is likewise all but the Father of the House of Commons. Lord PALMERSTON, in truth, as it appears upon the , history of that august assembly, is actually only two removes from the venerable dignity here indicated. The veteran Premier having first entered the House at the general election which took place four and fifty years ago, i.e. in 1807, has above him in seniority as members of the popular branch of the Legislature, only two other rept esentatives, namely, Sir CHARLES BURRELL (the Father of the House) and Mr. HARCOURT, both of them having first taken their seat in Parliament only the very year (1806) prior to the entrance into the House of Commons of our perennial First Lord of the Treasury. It is really in a manner due to Lord PALMERSTON that, thus early at the commencement of this his lordship's fifty-fourth session, his position as all but the Father of the House of Commons should be indicated, and, thus indicated, coupled with his twofold positions in Parliament as Leader of the House of Commons and the responsible chief of her MAJESTY'S Government. As was said in regard to him, long since, We are all proud of him." And, remembering his indomitable energy and unfading youthfulness of spirit, we have certainly still greater reason than ever to be so. The statement of Lord PALMERSTON in regard to ANDERSON, whose extradition is demanded by the Slave State of Missouri, will be read with plea sure by all. It will be seen that the case is in hands as safe as could be wished. First, the Duke of NEWCASTLE wrote on the 9th of January to the Governor-General of Canada that he was not to surrender ANDERSON to the United States except under positive instructions from our Government. Next, Lord PALMERSTON corrected the preva lent but erroneous impression that the deci< sion of the Court of Queen's Bench in Canada involved necessarily the surrender of ANDERSON ; whereas, it merely affirmed that he was lawfully in custody. The refugee could be surrendered only by the warrant of the Governor-General of Canada. Lord PALMERSTON thought it did not belong to him to give any opinion on the view the Canadian Court would take of a Habeas Corpus issuing from our Queen's Bench in England, but it was certain that if AN DERSON came to England he could not come through American territory. He used rather strong terms respecting the ASHBURTON Treaty, saying that in reference to this subject, it was "imperfect and unintelligible ;" but he thought it quite clear that it required that the offence should be recognised by the laws of this country, and that such proof of it must be given as would warrant a justice of the peace here in committing him for trial. Without entering into the question whether lawyers here would regard a free man's killing apother who attempted to reduce him to slavery as murder, manslaughter, or justifiable homicide, he thought no English lawyer could regard it as mur• der ; if so, no case for extradition could be made out. It is now, therefore, little more than a mat ter of legal curiosity to see how the courts will arrange their jurisdiction in the business. It is also not a little amusing to think of the position of a Slave State urging Mr. LINCOLN to demand the surrender of a fugitive slave from England ; Mis souri,. perhaps, being one of the border States, and h comparatively few slaves, only about a seventh of the Population, is not likely to persist very long in the original demand. " Spare Austria"—is the now earnest, now pathetic, tone of the despatches which we find in the Italian blue-book, at least of those in which the nervous tremour of our Government would easily appear. If a story told in Fraser's Magazine this month be true, this is hardly to be wondered at. The writer says, " We have heard, and we believe, that when the Sardinian Ambassador asked Lord PALMERSTON for an explanation of the former de spatch (the memorable one of the 31st of August, asserting the right of Austria in Venetia, and lecturing so unbecomingly and threateningly the Government of Sardinia)—he received a frank reply—that her MAJESTY'S Government would be delighted to see Austria freely hand over Venice to Sardinia ; but a war between the two Powers could not be confined to the area of Venetia ; it would necessarily overflow into Austria, and would give Hungary an opportunity of separating her self from Austria. This would be hostile to Eng lish interests, and this is what her MAJESTY'S Government would resist." Whatever the writer's authority for this statement, no cne who has watched the course of Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL can deny that it is altogether in accord ance with the long past and the recent past. In 1848 the two lords were very sorry that Russia should intervene in Hungary, and that Austria should, to use their own expression, crush her ow n r i g ht arm ; still they preferred much to see her w ith th e arm i n a sling to witnessing its amputation. Especially, because the arm possessed Nothing remains now to be done by the French troops in Syria but to evacuate it. The sti pulated period of six months, set apart by the general agreement of the chief Powers of Europe tvs the interval during which that province of the Turkish E mp i re should be occupied by the soldiers of France, is at this time upon the evre of expiring, And the obj e ct of the occupation has not only long since been accomplished quite effectually , but iti may be said to have been virtual2y accomplished before the first portion of the French expeditionary force had been disembarked upon those shores of the Levant. It was virtually already as s iL vd to Europe eYn then by the - energetic course pursued lq the the monstrous and abnormal power, if amputated, SULTAN'S Government in dealing with the re creant of springing to life a l and iving and mightto , a y man, n inde one hordes of the fanatical Druses of the Lebe- abundantly worthy of, competent n on, the perpetrators of those hideous mas- p e ndent life. sacres of the unfortunate Maronites p eopling Oa the 21st of August, discussing in a letter to the track of country l y i n g between. the Mr. FANE the subject of an United Italy, and unable range of the Lebanon and the waterS of the to deny the right of the inhabitan forts to unit eAust if they M e dit e rranean. In the subjugation of those tribes pleased, Lord JOHN yet fears his pet ria. of murderers, the Ottoman Porte has in no ca se "It is impossile," he says, however, g, nocora- t to from first to last stood in need of actual assistance. fear that Italy, b formed into one kingdom, The Christian Powers of Europe had consented to prising Naples, Sicily, and the States of the POPE, the occupatio n of Syria for a period not exceeding i n addition to the present dominions of the King half a year in its duration, upon the consideration of SARDINIA, might threaten the position of Aus of the possible contingency that during those six trig in Yenetta, and any menace of this kind might months the troops of the Sublime Porte might re- be supported by discontent and even by insurrection quire aid in bringing to justice the authors or in Venice, and in the Italian towns in the province inst i ga tors of that appalling series of atrocitie s, of Venetia." He would, therefore, discourage, by as well as those chief perpetrators who had been all means in his power, such a movement of an actually taken red-handed in the midst of United Italian kingdom. On the 7th of December, the smouldering ruins of the towns and he wrote again in the same strain to Lord villages recently inhabited by the butchered COWLEY, deprecating an attack on Venetia, Maronites. It had not unnaturally been con- and almost invoking curses on the King of SAR jectured that the Turk, under whos e enervate DINIA if he attempted it. Then followed the rule a national crime of so stupendous a magnitude, famous despatch of the 31st, which will never be and of an infamy so heinous and preternatural, had forgotten ; its lecturing, bullying tone, when the been perpetrated, might prove inca p able unaided Noble Lord found that between GARIBALDI and of extorting from the arch-criminals anything VICTOR EMMANUEL Venetia was in danger of libe -1 approaching even to an . adequate expiation. ration, will long be remembered as perhaps the HafTilY the event speedily enough began to prove very worst, if not the worst, escapade of our letter quite Otherwise. The Moslem Power at Constan- writing Lord. Nothing could ex opl in it, but I the Oused for once into unwont ed activit y , Noble Lord's un-En h loveglisf Austria. tis tinople, conscious for once apparently that the dignity of fair, however, to confess that Lord JOHN did the SULTAN and the authority of the Divan, hardly attempt, good man, to teach his cruel pet a better less than the maje st y of all the Christian Powers way. He fancied he might give her an idea of of Europe, had been wantonly .outraged, and that something better than the rule of the the bull et, bastinado, and the mor eover to the very la s t de g ree, by the wholesale stick, the torture, the dungeon, and diabolical murders, arsons, te nd pillagings per- the scaffold, in Italy ; and he did set to work once petrated (without the smallest provt,'cation) by the —and it was while he was at Coburg last year—to Druses upon the Maronites—Turkey, however wash the Ethiopian white, and to change the spots incited to action, at any rate for once did ac,,,, and of the Leopard. This gentle little homily, so eet:' different in tone to that sent to Sardinia, thou g h that, too, in veritable earnest, dealing with assassins of the Lebanon as it alone became an I icing , we gladly give entire : Thi s respite should be employed by Austria in rev isin g European Power to deal under circumstances so 7d2 supreme, and in every way extraordinarv. The o_ t l e Government system in r e have ard toher o It a a e l e ian med su t b o je th ct . s. The herthat h et rid of a truth by concealing or overlooking result has been—as Europe knows, as Europe dur- Atith.useytTreihEleyd: he sydd now look the real . state of affairs boldly in in g the last few months has been witnessing, through the face. If they do so they . . will perceive that, where a her diplomatic emissaries, in the midst of the very treaty is confirmed by national feeling and opinion, it scene of these remarkable occurrences—the result is easily upheld and maintained ; but where it has no of this energetic action of the Turkish Government such sanction, it is like a decayed tree, that only waits for has been that order has long since been effectively a B gTt o h f i w h ind to secures s e th ov , er in th d r e or end . enTeehuos,f Switzerland,trty of and securely re-established in Syria. The Druses is confirmedw by the a tt ac hinent of the Swiss people to have been lashed into subm ission . The p rin cipa l their liberty and thet integrity of their territory. Thus criminals amongst them have, months back, died the the t ntrel. one aty d of by 1 St3hle, attachmentp ti n g Boefl the people it I s e t strengthened g i t i he Belgium d and to death, perishing ignominiously by summary execu - their s na ti on ality, their King, and their institutions. It tions.. The soldiers of France all the while stand- may be disagreeable to Austrian statesmen to remark the ing by as mere spectators—never once having been t c he ontlesson rast whis a ch these fl ()facts pne. Trehseenatutthootrihteysetafttehoefpletapley,tbhuatt called upon to draw one sword, to fire one shot, to fix of the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, and lastly, that of the King one bayonet for the speedier punishment of the of NAPLES, having no root in the affections of their sub assassin tribes of the Lebanon. If shame , if almost f or th e have A tfalienrian G b e fore the Government blast. o d 0 " n thisa worth position infamy, was reflected upon the Ottoman Govern- Genoa and Venice. In 1815 one of those cities was given ment by the ever execrable deeds of the Druses— to Sardinia, the other to Austria ; but while the annexation honour is due to that same Government now that it o f r f o V ra e w r i i i c t e h i t a o orAAustria withoutncoun, e i t n h c e o u u t n t t e h r:l ef l i G t t e l e no o a p It 3 o o e s i a r t i o d n i n , i either e has evidenced so determined a resolution to avenge, strongly opposed. The ancient independence of the Genoese so far as any earthly power is permitted to do, the Republic, the principles of public law, the violent antipathy poor murdered, buried, almost forgotten Maronites, existing bee an t d w i n e v n o k G e e d n i o n e s t e he a E n and i t 1; a * h e d r m a o r n li t a e m s e e , n w t a e a r e m urged ua i v i n e men, women, and children. Such having been the reasons against this union. But at the end of forty-five sequel to the dreadful history of the Syrian mas- years what do we find ? The dominion of Austria in Venetia sacres—the last shadow of a pretext has faded out, i T s pr . e c a n i s r i o o e u s t n e a n n t and unpopular, edandoo w o h d ile l t f h w e o un lo i o o k n f o o f r G t h e en reason a ad n ur the last faint shadow of a pretext has melted into of this instructive example, we shall find that, whilst the thin air, and utterly vanished, according Austrian Government has done everything to depress, to irritate, and to humble the national feeling , the Pied to which France might have h o p ed t o j ustif y mt ese G over nment, on the other hand, has done every the continuance of her occupation. It rests thing to cherish, to flatter, and to exalt it." now with Europe, it rests especially with England It is followed by a passage relating to Hungary as the intimate ally of Imperial France, to see that which we willingly quote also, both will be the stipulation of the European agreement in found in No. 138, date 29th of October : " Something of the same policy may be observed in regar d regard to the six months' inter val here referred to as the extreme period for the French occu p ation of to c Hungary.ontralise a n d to The aim Germaniseof the PrinceHungarianSch nwar ze be rg Administration. Syria, shall be loyally attended to and faithfully How ill he succeeded, the debates of the Reichsrath abun carried out to the very letter b y NAPOLEON'S Go- dantlyrance isfhtohw. e British o h u G ld s avour of t the pr were t esum o ption of igno vernment. That such shall be done is due t o t he attempt to o g point t t be out the mea sures by which Hungary and Venetiam dignity of the contracting Powers of Christendom. made the strength, and not the weakness of the Austrian It is to the honour of France herself, Monarchy. But the most superficial observation enables and to the honour of the rest of the t fe h e e l m in t g o t s h e a e t t t h h a e t it is b a ffe et 3i o c n o a n t o e f m i p i t u n a g n a d ry disregard o f Venetia nati l have European Governments. It is due also to Turkey, been alienated, and they naturally conclude that by regard if only in consideration of the energetic and and respect for those national feelings a way may be found eg honourable course pursued by her in vindication for ßri ti r sz a G in o in v g ern th m o o s n e t essatryanegveednatffheisctimenns. much, N w o or r o w t o h u e l y d the honourable course pursued by her in vindication British Government say even this much, were they not of her character as an independent Government. deeply convinced that the maintenance of the Austrian Let the speedy evacution of Syria by the soldiers mon d arc . hy ve t is t s h o e bound up with Europ uro ean interest t;; a t n t d h so of France be accepted now , be regarded vi g ilantl y ought not to n e g lect an y opportunity') for P u r g ing on Ausy now, as the earliest test of the French EMPEROR'S trian statesmen considerations which, in their opinion, sincerity in avowing as he did the other day his belong to her peace, herprosperity, and even to her safety." We have extracted thus much because it shows solicitude in procuring the general tranquillity. that Lord JOHN RUSSELL could be, to a certain extent, faithful to Austria, and tell her unwelcome truths. It also shows that he knew well enough how absolutely Austria had forfeited all moral right to the kingdoms she so maltreated, and pre ferred to enslave, rather than to assimilate, as Pied mont did Genoa with its own good-will. It is all the more important, at the present crisis, that every one should understand that if Ministers betray England in Hungary, they do it with their eyes open to the moral wrong they are doing that noble people. They have really but one plea, that strange one we have already quoted from Lord PALMERSTON—that Hungarian independence and undeniable natural rights, are, " hostile to English interests." We should like to know to what interests ? We shall be told—that it is our interest to have a Power in the south of Europe to balance that of Russia and of France. A Power ! Austria will never be that again. Italy may, Hungary may. A strong kingdom of Hungary, released from the repressive incubus of Austria, and developing its immense capabilities for furnishing raw produce by free trade, would soon become a Power Russia would not dare to meddle with again,—but Austria is a fiction, a tradition, a legend, nothing else. She is, as GARIBALDI says, crumbl i n g to pieces, and let her crumble—the earth will have one grievous burden less. But we accept Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S own doctrines. First we agree with him that nations have a right to redress the wrongs they suffer at the hands of perverse rulers. Second, that they have a right to invoke both moral and physical aid in their struggle. Third, that GARIBALDI'S presence in Croatia and Hungary can do no harm, if, as at Naples, the Government has not weakened itself by its own atrocities. These are Lord JOHN'S own principles—each of them applies to Hungary—the calm document we have shows that he knows they do—and we demand, therefore, in the name of our country, that he proclaim to the world the rights of Hungary. What those rights are the admirable reply of the moderate and venerated M. PEAK to the Imperial reactionary rescript—shows most plainly. We gave it yesterday, and need not repeat it—Lord JOHN is fond of history—let bim, if he can, deny two things-Ist, that the Pragmatic Sanction is the only title of FRANCIS JOSEPH to be King of Hungary, and that, therefore, he himself is compelled in his haughty rescript to appeal to it, 2dly, let him deny cguol gone er . i h beyond eyl he fo n c hd a e n et that ahnant the o agreement g eminent deny ceenmyenthteis jurist rotit things, ien : s i. si PEAK gt single ha rltei. s t him, like an Englishman, tell Austria that our country asserts the right of the Hungarians to all their claims. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.— Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, her Royal Highness the Princess A lice, and her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. Colonel de Ros, honoured the representation of Balfe's opsra of Bianca with their presence last evening. THE Bp.:11)GB Hous ESTATES. --Yesterday, at a meeting of tho committe of the Bridge House Estates, composed of the aldermei and Common Councilmen of the corporation of the City of London, Mr. Alderman Cope land in the chair, Henr Wellington Valiance, Esq., was elected by a large majoity as chairman for the ensuing r t 311...) rui 1 k) Ful 124 tk.. • year. THE QUEEN'S COINSEL.—It is reported that an addition is about to be made to the number of Queen's counsel, and that six earned gentlemen will be called within the bar previous u the commencement of the spring circuit. The gentlemerspoken of are Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Karslake, of the western circuit ; Mr. Digby Sey mour and Mr. Menem, of the Northern circuit ; Mr. Phipsson, of the Oxfoal circuit ; and the Hon. George Denman, of the Home crcuit. Mr. Phipson was called to the bar in 1845 ; Mr. Nlellersh in 1848, and the other learned gentlemen in 186. Accounts received in Paris from Berlin state that the greatest activiV is displayed in the Prussian ar senals in casting rifled onnon. The workmen are employed at night as well as by d(y, and pressing orders have been sent to the proprietors e, mines in Silesia to supply large quantities of iron and steel. The Prussian Minister of War expects to be able lext spring to supply not only the L artillery of the regular my with rifled cannon, but like wise the landwehr. Tht garrison of Rastadt, as well as those of several other of the federal fortresses, is being re -1 inforced. It is further laid that troops are to be stationed in the villages on the let bank of the Rhine. THE VOLIINTEERSAND THE WAR-OFFICE.----The following circular has ben issued to officers commanding volunteer corps :—" ZVu-office, Pall-mall, Jail. 29, 1861. —Sir,—With a view to t further consideration of the cir cular of the 7th instant,addressed to her Majesty's lieute nants of counties, I am directed by Lord Herbert to request you will have the gooduss to furnish the information re quired by him on the enclosed form. lam to add that the purchase by the Governuent of the private arms of volun teers will not be carried into effect until the Secretary of State has had an opportinity of considering these returns ; but that in future corps rill, on being newly raised or aug mented, or requiring a renewal of their arms, be provided with them from the Government stores.—l have, &c., T. G. BAILING." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PESTH, FEB. 9. The municipality has resolved upon changing the public school (Realsehule) into a Hungarian school, and has ordered the dismissal of those of the elementary teachers who are not acquainted with the Magyar language. The directors of the German college have received notice to leave the premises belonging to the muni- cipality. FIUME, FEB. 9. The Obergespann has issued a proclamation against such demonstrations and violent popular proceedings as have taken place within the last few days. ROME, FEB. 8. The official Giornale di Roina publishes the following telegram, dated Gaeta, Feb. 6 : On Tuesday last, a bomb thrown by the Sar dinians blew up a powder magazine which had been provisionally established for the use of two cannons. BAPTISM OF. A JMISH LADY.—The Jewish Herald of this month quotes the annexed letter from the Rev. W. B. Pope, of Xanchester :—" In the month of August last, I publicly btptised Mrs. in the Wesleyan Chapel, Charlton-cum-Ma - 4. Her life sine() her hnpasm has been irreproachable, and ticr .otil in her Master's ser vice exemplary. I have no hesitation in saying that I be lieve her to be a genuine fruit of Evangelical labour among the Jews." The explosion caused the fall of several walls of ,he third interior enciente. Two men were killed. The damage, which was trifling, is being re• The fire of the Sardinians is rather brisk. During the night of Monday last a mysterious encounter took place between two steamers off Gaeta. An address from the ladies of Bavaria has been received by the young Queen. THE PRINCE'S NEWFOUNDLAND Do&.—An ex tract from a letter to a person in Quebec is forwarded to us, and is as follows :—" You remember the Prince had a large dog presented to him by the people of Newfound land. When on board the ship a boy was put to look after it. Ho got so fond of the boy that he would not take notice of the Prince. The morning they came into Ply mouth, the Prince gave the boy £5, and took the dog out of the ship; but as fast as they did so, the dog jumped on board again. The Prince was at last obliged to take the boy to London, and he stopped there five days. The Queen gave him £l5 and a suit cf clothes. He returned to Ply mouth, and was there but one day, when he was sent for, because the dog would not eat."— Wiltshire Mirror. THE ANNEXATION OF MONACO.—La Patrie has the following:—" Since 1848 the districts of Menton and Roquebrtme, belonging to the principality of Monaco, had been occupied by Sardinia. When the question rela tive to the occupation was incidentally brought befure the Congress of Paris in the sitting of the Bth of ,April, 1856, it was established that in consequence of the disturbances which broke out in the Principality in 1848, the Sovereign Prince of that country was not capable of upholding his authority except in the town of Monaco, and that it was under those circumstances that Sardinia placed a small detachment in each of the two districts we have just named. The Prince of Monaco, however, never ceased to protest against this state of things, which ho considered contrary to his rights and to the stipulations of treaties. These protests are now terminated by the Convention, which cedes the territories of Menton and Roquebrune to France for a pecuniary indemnity, Prince Honore IV. retaining only, with the title of Sovereign Prince, the town of Monaco." VIENNA, FEB. 8. The official Wiener Zeitung gives a denial to the report that differences of opinion on questions of principle prevail in the Ministry. PARIS, FEB. 8. The news contained in the telegrams received here to-day from Congtantinople, dated Feb. 7, announcing that France had addressed a note to the Porte in reference to the mission of the Grand Vizier, has been denied in official quarters. THE FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT.—Last night, a few minutes before nine, the body of Ward was discovered in the sewer near the grating entrance of Union-street, Blackman-street. Four men are now known to have perished by the accident. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A PANTALOON IN NOTTINGHAM.—For the last .seven weeks Mr. Leslie has taken an active part in the successful pantomime, " The Sleeping Beauty, as Pantaloon. On Monday evening last on the termination of the performances, he repaired to his dressing-room, took up a pistol, and deliberately lodged the contents of the barrel in his face. Fortunately, the weapon was only loaded with gunpowder, and had not the effect contemplated by the unhappy individual. Medical assistance was shortly rendered, and upon examination, it was found that he had sustained no serious injury beyond the disfigurement of his face by wadding,—Era. THE NORFOLK POISONING CASE.—The inquiry into the singular case of supposed poisoning at Diss, Nor folk, which was noticed in this journal a few weeks since, was concluded on Wednesday. The jury returned the fol lowing verdict :—" That the deceased, Albert Aldrich, died on the 12th January from violent vomiting and purging, with perforation of the coats of the stomach, from some unknown cause." The jury also requested that the following obser vations should be attached to the verdict: —"The jury respect the opinion of Mr. Amyott "—the surgeon who made the post mortem examination—" but with him consider the term `poison' so vague as to be indefinite, and regret that the refusal of the coroner to grant an analysis hasieft them in ignorance of the actual Cause of death." THE EXPLOSION AT THE ROYAL ENGINEERS' ESTABLISHMENT AT CHATHAM.—DEATH OF ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.—The unfortunate explosion which re cently occurred at the Royal Engineer establishment, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, by which several sappers belonging to the Royal and Indian Engineers were seriously injured, has, we regret to say, terminated fatally to one of the sufferers, Sapper George Smith, one of the men most injured, having died at the Royal Engineer Hos pital at a late hour on Wednesday night last. Sergeant James Douglas, who was employed in the laboratory at the time of the accident, though fortunately not at the instant of the explosion, has also died in the hospital of consump tion. The deceased was as old non-commissioned officer, and had served with the Royal Engineers throughout the Crimean campaign. Boa. men are to be interred with military honours. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH. —Last night between the hours cf 6 and 7 o'clock a serious acci dent, by which two persons were seriously injured and one killed, occurred at Woolwich. It appears that a horse in a cart. the property of Messrs. Bayly and Mewman, provi sion dealers, of Green's-eni, was standing in the road front ing the premises of the fits named, when by some means the animal took fright, and galloped through Beresford square, to the main entrance gate of the Royal Arsenal. Unfortunately at least 5,00) workmen and lads were leaving the establishment at the time, the road of course being crowded, and numbers before they were able to escape were knocked down and more or less injured. Two men and a lad were run over by the vehicle, and received such in juries that they were conNeyed to the Royal Arsenal Hos pital, where they received svery attention from the medical authorities, but one of the sufferers, whose ribs were broken and who was much injuredinternally, expired shortly after admission. After the accident the animal galloped for several miles until exhausted, and was stopped near Eltham. A COTTON MILL BURNT DOWN IN PRESTON About nine o'clock on Thursday night an alarm was given at the fire brigade station that Mr. Hawkins's mill, in Adelphi street, in that town, was on fire. The hose reel imme diately proceeded to the spot, followed by two engines. On their arrival the hose belonging to the factory had been already got into play, and some hopes were entertained of saving the building, but at half-past nine the flames had extended to the third storey, and it soon became evident that it was impossible to save the spinning mill from total destruction. At 20 minutes to 10 a portion of the roof and the floors fell in, followed in about five minutes by the re ma'nder of the roof and a portion of the walls. At five minutes to 10 the north wall fell outwards, and the east wall inwards. The exertions of the firemen were chiefly devoted to the saving of the adjoining weaving shed, the whole of the spinning mill being completely destroyed, a very small portion of the walls only remaining. The damage is estimated at from £20 5 000 to £30,000, which is partially covered by insurance. Tho origin of the fire is not known. PROGRESS IN WEALTIL—An income-tax return has been issued which shows what progress this kingdom has been making within the last few years. The total amount of income and annual value of property assessed to the income-tax in the United Kingdom has risen from £308,317,656 in 1854 to £335,730,254 in 1860. The increase of taxable income in England in the six years has been £26,348,685, and in Ireland, £1,701,993, but in Scotland there has actually been a decrease of £638,080. This de crease has arisen solely from a very largo falling off in the returns under Schedule D—the profits of trades and pro fessions, Sm. The income taxed under that schedule in Eng land rose from £76,215,936 in 1851, to £81,921,267 in 1860, and in Ireland from £4,621,069 to £4,891,652, but in Scotland. it fell from £12,185,924 in 1851, to £8,626,141 in 1860 ; in 1858, after the commercial crisis at the end of 1857, it fell 02,500,000--below the previous year, and has never re • covered. The income assessed under Schedule A, the an nual value of lands, houses, Sic., has risen greatly in all three kingdoms ; in England it was £99,274,309 in 1854 and £112,082,749 in 1860; in Scotland £11,947,791 in the for mer year, and £13,974 080 in the latter ; in Ireland £11,767,810 and £12,893,82 9 respectively; an increase of almost £16,000,000 in the whole, nearly half of which is from houses, and another quarter from an increase in the profit of railways. A very large increase has taken place also in Schedule B (public offices, pensions and stipends), from £14,445,552 in 1854 to £10,636,220 in 1860. The total income assessed to the income tax in 1860 was, in England, £282,718,049; in Scotland, £29,913,124 • in Ireland • 423,0991081 i : OYAL ENGLISH OPER A, COVENT RGARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA FYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. On MONDAY, Feb. 11, and during the week, at seven, to 00Mmence with an Indian Legend, ellow, TH E the SO M N usic byG OF HIAWATHA, the Words by Longf Robert Stoe •el. The Poem will be read by Mis s. s Matilda Heron, Principal Tragedienne of the United State Balfe's SATANELLA will be produced, for the first time Obi season, on Tuesday, the 12th. ROY AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. ',Judea' the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Hare'son, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Flalie's New Legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, J. Wharton, H. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth , T . Lyall, and W. Harrison. With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom iv her Island Home. Clow ns, Messrs. H. Boleno, H. Payne. Fliidyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, 'Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbineti, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, Rze. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. rTHEA TR E-ROYAT..., HAYMARKET. Leamee, Mr. J. 1 Buokstownne. nommerap with M' ' TS "EVEN cu ING the Derioritnoes THE RIVALS. Sir Lirins O'Trh:rger, Mr. John - Brough am ; Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pank!'ornimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Faun/ Wright. Commence at 7. VOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- 1 t Lessee and Man,,:er, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with 7RUY BLAS. Messrs. Fechter, Harrisßasil P . otter, Garden, Ray • mond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Atter which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled 'ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King of the Caribbe Islands in which Monsieur Espinosa and Marie Dnmilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, -will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F Forrest. THF.ATRF - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sore Lessee and G eetress, Madame CELESTE. 13,..apnearance of Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING, the new drama, ADRIENNE; or, THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining M Forrester, M.. Campbell, Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing . AND VISIOV OF A ROSE. ITS AT EVE, THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILDFADING BRIAR. Followed by THE YOUNC WIDOW. Miss M. Ternan ar d Mr. H. Neville. A DELPHT, NEW THEATRE -ROYAL. rile Sole Provrietor and Manager, Mr. - Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boneicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Mies Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza. entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. .T. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. Laidlaw, and F. Thorne. Doors open at half past s—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. Bd. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, ed. Acting► Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THIC WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, FEB. 9, 1561. TITERMOMETER, IN TIM SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this mo rnin g and during the night. 43—this day at noon. . . A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. THIS EVENING. will be.renroduced TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, Ara) . THE DEATH OF BLACK BESS, in which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated Steed Black Bess. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, tor 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 Ratty's Prize E qu estrian Harlequinade, a nd the celebrated Old Bob Ridley. Box-office open tage M daily from 11 till 4 Sanazer—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. Commence at T. PANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS ! ! j A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, ponsisting of the following Morceaus : Preludio. Coro Ocena ed Aria. "Tutto parca Sorridere" Coro a Odalische. "Oh qual perenne" Cavatina Coro ed trio° Sceneed A d "Vol tacete io non" T erz etto Finale will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian lanzuaze—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 Boccanegra ;" and Flo w's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TAM 'DAY. —Morning, Ih. 55m.—Afternoon, 2h. 16m. To-mon-Row.-Moraing, 2h. 34m.—Afternoon,!2h. 50m, paired. FRANCE. A Paris letter in the Independance gives the following details of the recent reception of the bureau of the French Academy by the Emperor : " His Majesty, first approaching M. Guizot, said : ' I always see with pleasure persons of such great talent as yours, even when they are among my adversaries !' M. Guizot bowed respectfully, but did not answer. Next, turning to Father Lacor daire, the Emperor said, I know all your works, and I have in particular read with great pleasure your fine funeral oration on General Dronot !' The reverend gentleman answered, ' I am happy to have been able to celebrate one of the purest glories of the Empire!' Afterwards, addressing M. Ville main, his Majesty said that he had been glad on a recent occasion to be agreeable to him by giving promotion to the husband of one of his daughters. M. Villemain expressed his thanks." OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE FRENCH NAVY. The marine has continued to fulfil its mission of protection in all points of the globe where French interests are engaged. Independently of its ordi nary obligations, it has had to satisfy all the exi gencies of the China expedition. In less than two months this expedition has been decided and organised. Transport vessels have been repaired and armed, and the embarkation effected of a corps of 8,000 men, together with the enormous material necessary for troops about to act at a distance of 6,000 leagues from the basis of their operations. Notwithstanding the haste of preparation, this un• exampled expedition touched the coasts of the Celestial Empire six months after, without having sustained any serious loss during a pas sage so long and so laborious (1). Whilst our sailors and marines took a brilliant part in the successes which forced the Court of Pekin to accept the propositions of the Emperor, and re established the Cross in the capital, a handful of men, maintaining themselves in Saigon against the attacks of the whole Annamite army, preserved for us an advantageous position in the midst of the richest and most fertile provinces of Cochin China. Finally, the maintenance of a fleet of 68 ships in the China Seas, the victualling required for itself and for the expeditionary army, did not prevent the marine from being ready, at the first command of the Emperor, to transport to Syria 6,000 men and 1,100 horses. A naval division remains per manently on this coast, where the presence of our flag revives the confidence of the Christian popula tions, and secures the tranquillity of all the cities on that coast. The activity displayed at sea has not caused the labours of our arsenals to be slackened. For the special requirements of the China expedition twenty small steam gunboats have been constructed, easy to take to pieces, and which have been trans ported there in fragments. Many of them, after having been rapidly put together on the coast of China itself, joined in the attack of the Peiho forts, and then reascending the river beyond points acces sible to shipping, powerfully contributed to secure a communication between the corps of disem barkation and the fleet. The work of transformation of the fleet is carried in conformity with the credits regularly allotted in the budget of each year. Oar steam fleet has been augmented in 1860, without counting transport vessels, so indispensable to the services imposed on us, by two ships of war and four screw frigates; finally, by a cuirassed frigate, the first of its kind, the trials of which, still going on, give presage, in the art of naval constructions, of a progress due to the personal initiative of the Emperor. In presence of results already obtained, the Government could not hesitate to adopt the cuirass system for ships of the line not yet put on the stocks. At the end of 1860, indeed, our building S ards were more dismantled than they had been for many years. In fact, with the exception of a few transports, some coastguard batteries, gunboats, and light craft, we had nothing on the stocks at that time but two ships of the line and eight ordi nary frigates, with five frigates destined to be plated. We are therefore far from having given to our new constructions, up to this day, the importance which has been on many occasions pronounced to be necessary for the maritime forces of France. In fact, in the year 1646, after a unanimous vote of the Chambers, the composition of our fleet was to be 40 ships of the line, 50 frigates, 40 corvettes, and 50 bricks or avisos, without including vessels on local stations and transports. At a later period the Government of the Emperor thought it necessary to reduce to 20 the number of frigates, and to 30 that of the corvettes and avisos ; and, in fact, in 1855, we possessed 146 war vessels for steam or sailing (2). But at this day, when the only war ships worthy of the name are steamers, our real force is reduced to 88 vessels, even including those of a mixed order, which are but of secondary value. These 88 vessels are thus classed : New Ship. Mixed. Liners .. .. 12 23 Plated frigates 1 Ordinary frigates 11 Corvettes .. 7 Avisos Total. 6 17 This reduction in the number of our war-vessels is the inevitable consequence of the transforma tion and of the greater cost of our new marine. To reach the rank which we must gain, on pain of declining, we must then continue to devote to new constructions at least the credits foreseen in 1857, (l) The mortality during the voyage was only 0.8 per dent. (2) 39 liners, 38 frigates, 30 corycttcs 4 38 first-ciass ayisoo, the annual interest of which is attributed to the Budget of 1861, as to those preceding. Like all foreign marines, the French marine has had to occupy itself with putting its artillery in harmony with the new discoveries of science. But *llilst persevering in its efforts to discover guns of still greater perfection, it has laboured at ameliorating, at trifling cost, the arms already in its possession. Provision has been made for the expenses of the fleet (apart from the Chinese and Syrian expeditions), by means of the ordinary budget, without diminishing the estimates for the normal supplies of our ports. The timber service in particular has been worked with entire success, owing in part to the resumption of marking trees in the State forests. All the maritime arsenals of the Empire call for notable ameliorations. The new steam marine requires considerable ateliers, and engines of great power ; the old docks for refitting want extension, and new ones must be created. Hydraulic works have, by force of circumstances, acquired great importance; they are zealously pursued. It is also important to put our arsenals in direct communication with the great lines of railroad. The arsenal of Toulon has, therefore, been connected by a railway with the line from Paris to the Mediterranean. An analogous line is being executed to connect the arsenal of Cher- bourg with the Western line. Finally, the exe• cution has been commenced of a chain of tele. graphic and semaphoric posts, destined to connec reciprocally, and with the interior, all the coasts of the Empire, whether in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean. The number of the highest officers was insufficient for the wants of the marine. The rank of contre-amiral was closed against officers of high merit, by reason of the disproportion between the number of captains of ships and that of general officers ; the lists of the general etat-major of the marine have therefore been slightly enlarged by a legislative measure rendered indispensable. The daily increasing importance of the steam fleet has determined the modification of the dispositions which regulate the personnel of the engineers. To give satisfaction to legitimate aspirations, and to improve the condition of valuable persons entrusted with the management of costly machinery, posts of engineer-in-chief and of upper engineers have been created, offering to the engineers of the fleet the advantages of rank, pay, and retiring pension, and of a nature to attract and preserve for the State servants of a superior class. Two special institutions, that of the gun-boat brigade of sailors, and that of the rifle brigade, have produced the best results. Another category, not less important, has been constituted by the decree of the 4th August last, that of the steerage brigade. The obligation imposed on those re gistered to serve in the fleet or in the arsenals, whenever required, has attracted the attention of the Emperor. His Majesty has wished to give a new proof of his solicitude for the populations of the coast, so devoted, so laborious, and so useful, by deciding that henceforth the registered sailors who have passed six years in the service of the State shall no longer be summoned but in virtue of a decree. Shipwrecks and other accidents at sea have too often occasioned considerable losses to capitalists engaged in maritime commerce; measures have been taken to discover the cause of these events, and to admit of the disciplinary punishment of such captains as should not have fulfilled all their duties. The service of the fisheries and of maritime domains has been assigned to a special bureau. This bureau, rendered necessary by the growing importance of numerous interests engaged in ope rations connected with fishery, is destined to give to one of the most precious of French industries an impulse, indispensable both in regard to our naval force and to the alimentation of the country, whilst it protects our maritime domain from dangerous encroachments. That the results obtained from experiments made for some years past in different points of the coast, with the object of creating oyster-beds, permit a hope that with the concurrence of science the administration will be able to open a new source of well-being to the population. The reorganisation of the depot of maps and plans, the regulations made for the use of instru ments, maps, and tide-indicators, have had the effect of giving a more active impulse to the labours of this establishment, where all the scientific ser vice of the marine is now centralised. Finally, the Administration of the Invalides has continued to render to the great maritime family all the services contemplated by this noble institu tion, whose protection, really paternal, is extended to all our sailors, in whatever part of the globe 'they may be. BOURSE, Feb. B.—The firmness visible in the market yesterday has continued to-day, and prices have obtained a slight further improvement. Threes, for the Account, which opened at 68f 45c, are now at 68f 55c. Railway shares are also firm. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 95 , Credit Foncier .... 930 Do end month 97 90' , Belgian 41. 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 551 Roman Bank Shares 2895 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 698 7:5 I Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 7Ol 251 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1412 50 .. 1415 Northern Now ditto 895 897 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 931 25 Geneva 395 387 50 Southern 528 75 533 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 3BO .. 381 25 Austrian Lowbard AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FEB. 4. The address of the city of Pesth to the Emperor, which was drawn up by M. D.eak, who is one of the most moderate of the Hungarian Liberals, is calculated to dispel any illusions in which the Im piria.l Government may hitherto have indulged. In substance the address is as follows : " Your Imperial Royal Majesty,—As your Im perial Royal Majesty referred to the Pragmatic Sanction when you announced your resolve to restore the Hungarian Constitution, we cannot doubt that every law which was legally given is to be valid until it has been repealed by the common consent of the Sovereign and the nation. In the Pragmatic Sanction and in the Coronation Diploma it is stipulated that all laws which have been made with the concurrence of the Diet shall be strictly observed. " We consider the diploma of the 20th of October with the Royal resolutions which accompany the same, an incontrovertible proof that your Majesty has completely re-established (in's leben gertffen) the Pragmatic Sanction, which secures the rights of the monarch and the rights of the nation ; and we feel convinced that it must be your Majesty's will to pacify the nation by restoring the Hungarian Constitution, which during 12 long years has been set aside, but can never be annulled (nie zu annul liren). We should be faithless to the principle of constitutionalism and to the fundamental principles of the Pragmatic Sanction if we did not firmly hold to our laws. We will make use of the weapons of right and truth in their defence. A Sovereign can have no confidence in his people if they easily forget their lost liberties and readily agree to changes in their political institutions. ' A nation which readily relinquishes its r i g ht s an d privileges will as readily relinquish (wechseln) its ruler.' The laws of 1848, which were made in a con stitutional way, have never been repealed in the same way. We will not overstep the limits of the law while maintaining our rights, but we should grossly violate it if we acted contrary to resolutions taken by the Diet and sanctioned by the Crown. We know not whether any Hungarians have entered into an alliance with the enemies of the empire, but we do know that none of the members of our body (the municipality of Pesth) are plotting mischief against the State. If we had elected any of our fellow-citizens who are in exile, we should him done so in the hope that they would be allowed to return to their native country from which they were driven by sentences passed in an unconstitu tional way by foreign judges, who used foreign laws.' In respect to the taxes we must declare that none can be imposed in a constitutional coun try without the consent of the nation. We can, therefore, only consider those taxes lawful which have been approved by the Diet. The weapons which we shall oppose to force and violence are truth and law. The latter may be violated and set aside, but they cannot with justice be anni hilated. In regard to the administration of justice, we are of opinion that any provisional arrangements which may be made by the .Tudex Curley and the Septemviral Tafel (Supreme Court of Justice) should be accepted by the nation, but we hope and expect that justice will soon be administered in a way which shall be in accordance with our consti tutional rights, ' and with the private rights ac quired by others.' " We are of opinion that the laws of 1848 can only be revised or altered by the Diet. It is not absolutely necessary to submit them to the Diet, but it may be well to subject them to a revision, as some of them are less precise than could be wished, and others are provisional in their character. Until the laws of 1848 have been altered by the Diet, we are bound in duty to uphold and obey them. " Given by the General Assembly held at Pesth on the Ist of - February." The foregoing address has produced an exceed ingly disagreeable impression, as it clearly proves that the Hungarians do not intend to relinquish any of their rights. When first the diploma was published it was here believed that the Hungarians would not insist on having independent and re sponsible Ministers of War and Finance, but during the last six or eight weeks it has become obvious that Hungary is not inclined to entrust the management of her military and financial affairs to Imperial functionaries. "We are willing," say the Hunga rians, " annually to grant any reasonable number of recruits and any reasonable sum of money, but we will never voluntarily permit the Austrian Go vernment to raise soldiers and impose taxes without our concurrence." Baron Yay and Count Szechen will leave for Pesth this evening, but there is no good reason for believing that anything of impor tance is about to occur in that city; It is thought probable that the two Hungarian Ministers go to Hungry in order to make preparations for the meet ing of the Diet, and to persuade Count Apponyi to remain at his post, which he is much inclined to quit. It is here said that the rescript of the 16th January was issued by the Emperor at the instiga tion of the Minister of State, and contrary to the advice of Count Rechberg, Count Szechen, and Baron Vay, and it is not unlikely that the report is well founded, as M. Von Schmerling is not favourable to the claim made by the Hungarians to an exceptional position in the empire. By means of placards the Government has made known to the Hungarian soldiers on furlough and to the so-called "reserves" that they will be considered deserters, and treated as such, if they do not present them-. selves to the military authorities by the 10th of this month. The Protestant community at Verocri (Verovitz), in the Slavonian County of the same name, has made the " weli-deserving Louis Kos suth " honorary curator of the parish. This demonstration against the Austrian Government is the more worthy of notice, as it tends to confirm the current report that the Croats and Slavonians intend to make common cause with Hungarians: On Jan. 28 the county of Warasdin, in Croatia, humbly petitioned the Emperor to convoke the Provincial Diet without delay, in order that it might pronounce in favour of a union with Hun gary. On the following day the General Congre gation of Warasdin protested against the " instruc tions"which had been received from Vienna, and re solved to form a Croatian " Sedria" instead of the Imperial Royal Court of Justice. The inhabitants of the kingdom of Croatia have expressed a wish that their brethren on the military frontier may be allowed to send delegates to the Diet, but the Go vernment has declared that the borderers, being 'soldiers, cannot elect representatives. M. Bartho lomew Szemere, who was Minister of the Interior in Hungary in 1848, has addressed a third letter to his fellow -countrymen ; but he gives himself un necessary trouble, for no one reads his lueubrations. In fact, the Pesth papers tell the public that the ex-Minister is ignorant of the actual state of affairs in his native country. The law for the regulation of the affairs of the Protestants has long been drawn up, but it is still in the Cabinet of the Emperor, and there it is likely to remain for some time to come, as the Ultramontane party at Court is strongly opposed to its publication. Much is said here of the " liberal principles and intentions" of the Emperor, but I shall have no faith in his con version to constitutionalism until it has been an nounced in the Wiener Zeitung that the Concordat is to undergo a revision. Feldzeugmeister Count Coronini, an Ultramontanist of the deepest dye, who was formerly one of the tutors of the Emperor and his brothers, now has the command of the first army (its head quarters are in this city), and he will not fail to have recourse to very violent mea sures should any attempt be made to disturb the public peace. When he commanded the Aus trian corps of occupation in the Danubian Princi palities he ruled the unfortunate Roumans with a rod of iron, and when Governor in the Banat and Voivodina he ruled with the stick. He was re called from Croatia and Slavonia, where he was sent after his return from the Banat, because he was so exceedingly unpopular, and now that Austria is to be governed constitutionally he has been summoned to the metropolis. * The meaning of this passage is, that all the contracts entered into during the last ten or eleven years shall be binding. A great deal of real property has changed hands since the revolution, and some of the largest estates in the kingdom have been mortgaged. THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BOMBAY 111AI_LS. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Ellora, Capt. Joy, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 38 passengers, pearls (value 40,500 rupees), diamonds (8,500 rupees), precious stones (3,400 rupees), and jewellery (2,700 rupees); also 37 cases silk, 303 packages sundries, and 1,363 bales raw silk, value £130,000 sterling. The Ellora experienced on the 24th and 25th of January a strong N.E. gale, and on the 29th and 30th, between Alexandria and Malta, encountered a gale, with heavy sea; hove to - under close reefed main trysails. The strength of the gale continued for 12 hours, during whicirthe port lifeboats were carried away. - The Ellora sailed from Gibraltar on the 4th; on the sth exchanged signals with the British barque Borelia, running S.W., and with the Norwegiag brig Mogador. The Himalaya left Gibraltar for England on the 4th. Her 1\ lajesty's ship Orion arrived at Gibraltar on the 2d from the lonian Islands. Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted on London, 90 days' date, 501; Paris, 5f 33c ; Marseilles, 5f 34c ; Genoa, 5f 30c ; Madrid, eight days' sight; par; Cadiz, par ; Malaga, eight days' sight, dis ; Seville, 1 dis ; Valencia, par ; Barcelona, il preen ; Spanish pillared dollars, Ferdinand, 3 per cent premium, no demand ; Spanish pillared dollars, Carolus, 22 per cent. premium, in demand. Freights un altered. ABRIyAL OF THE _HIMALAYA. PORTSMOUTH; SATURDAY MORNING. Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya has arrived at Spithead, from the Mediterranean, with invalids and passengers, and the steam transport Impera triz, from China, with invalids, to land here, and valuable cargo of tea and silk for London. The Marquis of Huntly will in all probability succeed to the Lord-Lieutenancy of Aberdeenshire, vacant by the death of the Earl of Aberdeen. THE CUARTERIIUUSE SCHOOLS.—The new wing in connection with these schools, in. the Elizabethan style of architecture, has just been completed, and will be opened next week. The additional structure has been built by Mr. liesheth, architect, and will accommodate 200 children. 3