The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

TSQR.-FALL'ING SAFETY RODS, TO SHIPS! BOATS, FOR FOOTING, WHEN UPSET, 1. AS FIT'D TO THE HEAD & STERN-SHEETS. [See NO. Miodel. RED SEA,. MINED.YA swan MEDAL' y ROTEB EIS BA is xEcirfn. MEMO To. IRON STEAMERS, &c. The Lord High Admiral (late William LIT.) descended from his yacht into the Crown deputy's Lt. Ackerley's Cano'boat for the state trial in Ha moaze of his, invention:for THE WHALE FISHERY, as above, as the Seareeh's float footing rest; When upset. These -1 square forelocked gravitation- rod's being fitt'd to the. Quarter life, boat of 1111/.S. Ocean <soy, at. Plymouth. .Their utility caused WM. , IV.'s transmission. to .Admiral Campbell, -at Alexandria, the 'MEDAL homage' for ingenuity, prior to .the Crown's surrogatorial Lieu-tenant (of.43riton's 1530 in Sir Thomas More, on j.i76.t0 1824 - succession of "§Ursa Major Cart'r glag„being "Annie in. 1819, branth arbiter, betwixt. _the `Greek-RuS-Na.va.ritiO Codrington, and Ati, Viceroy of-Egypt's Thrko agency of the Sultan 'Etcher Nap:0%105471-de" rEnatribuc Mahomed 11., father of Abd + ul Medjid's,'for 'the Vesfasrannic VTR ties of Afric's-Greece. -PIERRIff BAEQUET de Brant. CiraaLes " " ACKERLEY,* of Marius /3oadiceA (69) in Coell-Lucius-marcomir-IV. in (129)—Carle-MagnZ-(880),-in Malcolm 111. (1070)-in.Tudor-Courtenay, Atkin-Chamber layne's lineal young-flaw trust. *llre,!: : chatel's "Ober-kirk'nrath" Nave * seite-propopc., as the States general's oath-incorporator, as England itself'— its Crown receiver of Mexico's IMP. give up' by Pedro 1., 1825-6,— , for atandarditZTEß bearing aft'r VICT.' 1837 by 1-2 WE. IV., 54, as Stil'lord protector of the natives of Asiatic- America, &c., under the 21, March, - & 29 Sept°mbre's trea sury year of no Church ormyth. * Oath , fix'd" state-suppporter by 59 Geo. 111., in 1821-2 ; of the Medal-lien'd Indian zenith-planted Crown. 11. officer of Bri tain's criminal writ (by retaining fee of R•N.'ve Lt. a pay 35 years), under the ASHBURTON Commission, "for Native base" in 1812-yet, unpaid now, six years of Waneleg cruelty—for Indian Peter Bsk's death, as in-victim'd populac'd 'for pa rental sympathy, in the Shipping Gazette of WedneSday, Dec. 10, 1856. II The flag-stone 'lb. cwt' man of the Luivreal Anglo Mexi Spanish UTRECHT trust under Paragaay-geral Inca's " Mix't Commission" Policy Court of Trinidad, and its 'B7 terra firma Indian " Orders in Council," touching the 1799-United States (Art. 1, sec. 3, Indian expulsion-'3O; till'42 recognition of the principle of jurymens' A B c-right in 'B7) Treaty, with Prussia to 1842-give UP to the Ocean'ique L'ank.er star red flag, of fx,dcal conservancy in Sidereal time. The ‘das hang'n En Rey a'und /chair sight-fisc being a Nef x-tell-Tale for all, by,1661-173 0 's CHAIN to 1814-'42 for U.S legislation, on the Ostend manifesto in Alpha, Oeta p as the 4 spirit of Western Heaven save the mark'—o'er Eastern will, thro' etconaa Bengal IMP. flag-meter display, in 1780" 1809-'l4, '42, Stc. tar The King of Prussia, as Papal Teutonic Kt. "regis ter'd Peter Basquet at 'Windsor Castle, as witnessed by MURRAY and CARTER ; and at Buckingham Palace ratified His election for the , Queen's Minister's "Medal and Flag Union," 'anker-zollverein, as issued by the Ordnance, 31st Jan. 1842—for Columbia, Mexico, and Quebec, as Civic- Roman Colonies of Briton's, notwithstanding the shameful usage of the I constable in being sent to St., James's workhouse, and rescued therefrom by C ' A. as by Indian office bound.: : : tho' never given by the Church .1 party the Oss'sington official estate of £3,060 a.year, now in Denison. hold by heraldic index * crest. as Crannser's assign from the Abbey lands" § by Queen Elizabeth's Sed'runt-parliament„ Nineveh's-e/ Centaur'ian Anatomy, ken--. No. 5, Swallow-st. N.B.—The ship RESOLUTE, as the Crown tie-relict of the Sahara9osa waste, will hoist the water-flag of P. Basquet de Branat, as delivered up by § Aberdeen-Napier in 1845, namely, Red 'at the main " en droit de Timbr,"--he being the EARTH ship of state's husband's in law now, within the meridian of Greenwich, for "Nautical purposes, byforce of the Washington" treaty—his Chain colleague of 730, to give receipt for " Her," by reason of "the Geographicall line of limitation" o'er Briton by art. 14, of Mr. Ihetor Pierce's bye law Message of Dec., 1856. § SwiffaTatfordCa'ng 15, Palmerst'n 40, Aberdeen 42, Jesuitz'er-Cong,resprit's. To —, Justie's Dallas and BrnnO,of Labrador-Sitka, Russia, as 'La Duan2 factors on x. and xx. Will. 111. of 1699 [except SURAT, &c., on ARBAR'S 1582 and Sneces;zar Firman 1716-7], 1725.' 1825-'4O-t by Firman, John SURMAN & Armenian, Kh'jah SERHAD of E. Ind. Co.s " Ist Resolute trust on and under the first Al Coa-n-wall ducal creation. A. D,1337. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— M. JII LLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last Night positively.—Miss Dolby, Miss A. Goddard, the cele brated Pianist, and M. Sainton. Programme for THIS EVENING (Saturday, Dec. 20): — Part I.—Overture, Egmont—Beethoven ; Quadrille, from Verdi's- "Il Trovatore " Jullien ; Symphony, Andante Cantabile, from the Pilgrim's March—Mendelssohn ; Fan tasia, Violin, from Verdi's Rigoletto, M. Saintla—Sainton ; Polka, My Mary Ann—Jullien ; Song, The green trees whispered, Miss Dolby—Balfe ; Valse, Excelsior—Jullien ; Cornet Obligato, Herr Kcen'g Jullien ; Rondo, Pianoforte, from Fourth Concerto, (introducing the British Grenadiers) Moschelles"; Quadrille, the French Quadrille, with varia tions for flute, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, ophieleide, and cornet, performed by MM. De Folley, DeYong, Collinet, Pratten, Lavigne, Hughes, and Koenig; Final Partant pour la Syrie, Vive I'Empereur—Jnllien. Part 2.- Opera, Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's opera of " La Traviata," with solos by Herr Koenig, MM. Lavigne, De Folly, Sonnenberg, Duhem, Le Hon, and Hughes ; scotch Song, Come ferry me o'er, Miss Dolby—Mrs. Groom ; Polka, Flirtation—Jullien ; Fantasia, Pianoforte, Les Pati news (from Le Prophete), Miss Arabella, Goddard—Liszt ; Valse, Faust—D'Albert ; Solo, Flute, on Airs from Verdi's opera of Il Trovatore, Mr. Sidney Pratten—Pratten ; Gallop, Atlantic—Jullien. Conductor—M. Jullien. To commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of admission :—Promenade, Is. ; Dress circle, 2s. &I. ; private boxes, ICis. 6d., £1 Is., and upwards. Private boxes to be secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre ; at all theprineip4l libraries and musicsellers'; and at Jullien and Ws 214' Regent-street. r_TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M. . JULLIEN'S ANNUAL BAL MASQUE, Monday, December 22. M. JELLIEN has the honour to announce that his GRAND ANNUAL BAT., MASQUE will, this year, take place at her Majesty's Theatre, on Monday, December 22. Under ordinary circumstances, M. Jullien would have felt that the patronage hitherto bestowed on his Annual Enter tainment. and the general satisfaction evinced on every occa sion, rendered it unnecessary for him to add one word to the mere announcement of the Ball. A recent event, however, makes it imperative on him to draw the attention of his kind patrons to the fact, that after 17 years of constant labour and care, he has succeeded in transforming the trivial entertain ment, formerly known as the " Masquerade," into the mag nificent Fete of the Bal Masqu6, and in placing it on a level with those gi ven in the largest establishments of Europe—at the Academic Imperiale of Paris, the Imperial Theatres of St. Petersburg and Vienna, and the Theatre Royal of Berlin— Fetes..which the Sovereigns of those capitals do not disdain to honour with their presence. Having thus raised the cha-- racteT of those Entertainments, M. Jullien is satisfied that the public will not hold him responsible for the ill-directed efforts of plagiarists and imitators. M. Jullien'sßal Ilasqu4 will be given this year with the same splendour as before, and will take place at her Majesty's Theatre,--an establishment already famous for the magnificent Balls which have, under the most distingnislyed patrona g e, been given within its w a ll s . M. J u lli en feelr; confident that this, his Seventeenth Bal Masque in England, will, for bril liancy and splendour, have never been eejualled. The Orchestra will comprise one brindred and ten musi cians. Principal Cornet-a-Pistons—Herr Koenig awl M. Duhem. Conductor—M. JUL LIEN. • The newest and most fo.shior‘able music will be played, in cluding several new polkas, waltzes, and quadrilles, compesed expressly by M. Jullien for his concerts, and for this occasion. The dances will be regulated by fourteen Maitres des Ceremonies, whose arrangements will be strictly carried out. No one will be admitted except ir. evening dress or fancy costume. The whole theatre will be orna'tnented by a new and superb decoration. Mr. Nath an, of Castle-stre.et, Leicester-square, has been appointed Costumier to the -Bal. Harlequins, Clowns, and Pantaloons not admitted. TiCKETS F r ill THE BALL, 10s. exl- The Prices of aam ia 4 ' en for spectators (for whom the audi ence portiponre:fsteihe,„t.lr eatre will be set apart) wi ss. ll od be— . Gape'? V ital s 2s. 6d. Galley Is. 6d. Priv4tf ,1,*(;;;, ********* * ****and* 'upwards. Persons tak , , n from rivateml; • • s• ill have the privilege of passing to aue, the ball . rO x On a l without w extra charge. Tickets t% ir the ball, places, and private boxes may be secured at 'the box.offte of Her Majesty's Theatre; of the principal 'tibrarians and m usiesellers ; and at Messrs. Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. The "ioors will be opened at Half-past Nine, and the Danc ing cArmmence at Half-past T en. Refreshments will be supplied during the evening, and at One 'o'clock the supper will be served. r7ANHEATRE ROYAL, RAY MARKET. THIS EVENING, , iii L i- MARKET. endale ; Sir THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, ~,,t a, nsi performed Charles Surface; Sir Peter Teazle, mr. Mr. Murdoch as Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabt r e ,, hi PP . 34. . Farren ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Su r f a e r • Compton; Moses, Mr. Clark; Sir Harry (with a song), V r M . l . l v . . Rogers ; ,Mr Chi Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candou r Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss B. Sabine Talbot ; After which, the successful new farce, A I,° FAILING, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe pendale, and Miss Blanche Fane will appear. • Chip. With Perea Nena and her unrivalled Company o f spa . il Dancers, in THE ALFIAMBRA,,being the last we ek of Spanish final engagement. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. THEATRE. ROYAL, A DEL PRZ Genuine Success.—Unprecedented Attrae tion.--Second Week of Mr. Benjamin Webster, and re. vival of the Great Adelphi drama of Janet Pride.—The grand New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will aear as the Statue B ride every night. THIS EVENING will be performed the celebrated drama of JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden, Bland; Mesdames Celeste and M. Keeley. • After which, with new scenery and appointments, the new fairy ballet extravaganza, called THE ELVES, or the Statue Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform ing with unexampled success at th e Theatre Imperiale de l~pel Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha- Z7,, e by Madame Cel e st e , Mi sses Wy n dh am , Mary Keeley, e. se l UY, Chatterly, Ard en , M essrs . Weght, Paul Bedford, "Y. Le Barr, Etc. OyA L OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lemsee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS BEYA.RE. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining ; Mrs. Stirling. y Amea swanboron gh and Herbert. After whielts,ValbTOLlNE. And the new farce, JONES THE AVENGER. Messrs. P. Robson, J. Pbogers, and Miss Marston. Commence at half-i4ast Seven. westminster-road.— C ANTERBII It Y HA LL, _ OPEN EVERY EVENING,--The. follow ing company of Vocalists are eng aged re madrigals, Choruses, Selections from all the popular o peras ' 43 l_the performance of Glees, Duets, &c., viz. : —Miss E. Pe:: 3 . , Mrs, J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], and bliss Snmmers ; m r. p Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Eaino. T, Austin, Ben- Parker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; NtuartZt, S. Jones, J. Ben nett, and Corri; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mae Piano forte, J. Haproway, Caulfield, R.A. ; harmonium, J. lc' 4) , , e1d, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven SPANISH to eisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition pre he usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated ' O, IIENSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Agelvenn dock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec tions. 1 OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 111) THIS EVENING and during the week will be presented Shakspeare's play of A MIDSLDIBIER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which will be produced a new petite comedy, in two acts, called OUR WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Princi• pal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher,; Misses Murrry and C. Leclercq. Mendeissohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7. 113 OYAL SURREY THEATRE Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. irkas EVENING, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Creswiek ; Ghost; Mr. B. Potter; Ophelia, Miss Biddies. Followed by. the Fißis Family. After "which, THE WAITER: AT CREMORNE. AST LE Y'S - -ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. ..C1 Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH, with . Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses, Sze. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the Equestrian ACTS in the ARENA, in troducing Miss Kate Cooke and Miss Emily Cooke. To conclude with AN AMUSING FINALE. Doors open at half-past six ; commenee at seven o'clock. Rox.office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EvENING, JIECEMBEJ 20, 18 G; WATES AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEIER DAY—Mona. 53 min. aft. 7—Evening 24 rain. aft. 8 TII-MoP.Bow—Morn. 57 min. aft. B—Evening 26 min. aft. 9 THE WEATHER—Sum OFFICE, DECEMBER 20. THERMOMETER, IN TER SHAM 47—highest slue noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 49 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 51. WIND, W.N.W.—Light, with dull, hazy weather. r (1) , , c :flfle L)NDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 185 e. The Times wishes the People patiently to en- , dure the iniquitous Income Tax for another year. It says—" In our:own sober judgment it is rather too late to commence a movement against a one year's tax which has stood the ordeal of a Session, and which the nation has acquiesced in without much remonstrance for nearly nine months." It adds—" On the Eve of 1857, and for one year only, there is so little hope of any result, that we feel it to be mere loss of power and time to attempt it. The amount of the tax is necessary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial arrangements, and when every sixpence of it has been paid in the late war will still have left the addition of many millions to the National Debt, and, consequently, of many hundred thousands to our annual outgoings. Nor is this a time to be stinting the Treasury !" Now, we earnestly and emphatically protest against this " dilatory plea." We have seen too much of the evil consequences of shelving a subject on which the popular enthusiasm has been thoroughly aroused. We say to the People, " Agitate ! Agitate 1 ! Agitate !! r Redouble your exertions. Send up indignant protests from every town and village from every district throughout the length and breadth of the land. Unsparingly expose the gross fraud of continuing the burden longer than the time for which it was granted by Parliament and sanctioned by, the People. Explain the palpable injustice of placing in the same category, and charging at the same rate, the hardly acquired and precarious earnings of industry, and the proceeds of carefully selected investments of accumulated and realised property. Show all these matters plainly forth, multiply petitions, and call on your representa tives to support them, and Sir G. C. LEWIS must yield, even as Sir CHARLES WOOD yielded before a similar pressure. The impost will be consider ably modified ; and although it may not be ren dered perfectly equitable, there will be so great an approximation thereto that the nation will be contented to bear the burden patiently and sub missively. There is not, so far as we have seen, the slightest desire "to stint the Treasury." Every legitimate demand will be cheerfully responded to. But we are not children. We shall not tolerate deception or foul play in any form. Let Sir G. C. LEWIS come forward honourably and manfully. Let him open his budget distinctly ; showing the supplies that are required, and the ways and means by which they may be obtained. Let the whole question of Income Tax be fully discussed, and he will have no cause to regret the result. His evil counsellors are those who recommend a " Fabian," policy—who fancy that by vexatious procrastina tion he can wear out the spirit of the Eng lish people. The necessary funds will be provided ; the national establishments main tained in full efficiency ; and every public liability promptly and unhesitatingly discharged. But we cannot listen to the plea of necessity when it runs counter to the demands of honesty and good faith. We do not wish to see a Cabinet Minister putting forward a whining appeal more becoming a pickpocket awaiting his sentence in a court of justice. The great excitement already manifested, the numerous and influential meetings held, the firm but temperate expression of public opinion, has alarmed the Times, and the clique of which it is the representative. Had it been otherwise it would not have offered such insidious advice, or endeavoured to postpone the evil day. Despite its positive assertions, we declare unhesitatingly that the Income Tax will not die a natural death in April, 1858. It is too convenient an instrument to be dispensed with by any Chan cellor of the Exchequer. From listening to similar arguments in 1853 we have been saddled with the incubus ever since. Had the People then persevered in the spirit and with the zeal and energy in which they entered on the contest, it would long since have been placed on a just and substantial foundation, and each man would have contributed fairly and according to his means to the national exigences. But the Times, which following sed longo intervallo, the popular opinion, had proved the palpable unfairness of the !w -eaned " equal apportionment," grasped at the de ceitful and hypocritical professions of Mr. GLAD "ONE. It expatiated on the blessings of the gradual reduction and ultimate extinction of the tax. In vain we uplifted a warning voice. The CERBERIIS was drugged b y th e me dicated sop, so dexterously admi nistered. The object was attained, and the iniquito us • impost was continued without change, or modification, for five years longer, in place of three years, the longest term previously granted.A similar attempt Will now be made. Th e article in the Time s shad ows forth the naturo a the tac tics about to be adopted. But if the p eople be on ly true to themselves the tri c k w ill b e s i gna lly and decisively defeated, and its i: roe:like, o ess rs will have bitter cause to deplore the experi ment on public credulity. The Times clearly, albeit . that can eon imandnoconaciousiy, it tdicates the class for whi ch it writes, its sympathies. It says--" The tax:-aa• therer comes and takes 501. or 1001. out of L yon at once, just what you had destined for a trip to 33x18 hton ' or Master TOMM Alas, Y'S schooling !" 0 speak to others. To those to whom the pure whole some sea-breezes are hermetically Sea l ed __ who must be contented to see their "Master • Tom- MIES " receiving the plainest elements of corn . mercial education, such as will qualify hin to as sist the domestic Exchequer, to enlarge ti Le " res angusta, domi," and the earliest moment tha he can be qualified for entering on "The Battle of Life." We speak for the hard-working clerks, the small tradesmen, the country clergymen, medical prac titioners, and comparatively briefless barristers, who earn from 1001. to 5001. a year, and who, between the indispensable obligations of maintain ing a respectable position, making some slender provision for the future maintenance of their families, and possibly of liquidating old incum brances, are driven to their wits' end to make both ends meet. These are the classes who possess our sympathies, who are grievously wronged by the inquisitorial and searching investigation into their most secret affairs, and the stringent man ner in which the tax is levied. We have pro claimed our principle fearlessly. A judiciously apportioned Property Tax in the best of all others for the country. It is alike just and politic ; but mere income arising from a man's own unassisted exertions should be totally exempted. Industry should be altogether liberated from its bonds. It is by no means difficult to show how this desidera tum may be accomplished. It is by no means a task of extraordinary difficulty, nor requiring a `very brilliant genius in the Financial Minister. Great as is the start whioh the United States have gained, there are two elements of future prosperity for Canada which the great mongrel Confederation wants. The Union is a Slave Republic, and has a Protectionist policy. Canada is a nation of freemen, and her trade is free. Hitherto Canada-has worked in fetters. Thai nest for aristocratic incompetence, the Colonial office, was her bane, as it was of all the colonies. The motto of its seal might well have been, Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, Ignorance, dis trust, intermeddling, perpetual provocation, had well nigh alienated the most loyal of populations. All that, however, has happily passed away. We believe that now every Colonial Minister, whatever his politics, sincerely desires to gratify the colonies in everything ; and only to advise in such purely Imperial concerns that the colonists would recognise the desirableness of the mother country having a voice in the arrangement. No Tory Minister here would dream of aiding a Tory minority in Canada, and no Whig Minister would move a straw to hinder its becoming the majo rity. The colony is politically as free as it likes to be. It prefers a President, by whom it is politically connected with the mother country of nearly all civilised freedom : and all the rest is in its own hand—it can get " the Charter" and its Five Points made law if it wishes. Canada, therefore, is free. The States are not. Three millions of human beings degrade the Union by working its soil beneath the lash, and by occupying in its markets the same position which homes, cattle, and pigs do here. What should we think to see one-eighth of our popula tion working in deeper ignominy than ticket-of leave men ? One person in every eight forced by law to labour without wages ; forced to live on such food as his gaoler, or master, sees fit to furnish ; hunted by bloodhounds if he ventured to leave his unrequited toil ; flogged, imprisoned, and half-killed when caught ? Yet this is the condition of Washington's Republic ! This is the precious heir-loom handed down to BUCHANAN ! This is The Union so belauded by the successors of WIL LIAM PENN ! The Union to preserve which, as they imagined, the Pennsylvanians at the late election acted, unworthily indeed of the PENN of popular belief, but just worthily of the PENN of MA.CAULAY. From Maine, all along the boundary of our territory, to Wisconsin, perhaps to Oregon, the slave remains a slave ; but the magic line of British rule once passed, he becomes a freeman. One day, if there be reality in moral principles, this hideous pollution will be the political and social ruin of the States. There is no alternative. Religion and humanity will either, as with us, make any requisite sacrifice to the Moloch and Mammon partnership of slaveholders, or some catastrophe will consign the great Slave Republic to the con dition of all nations of which slavery was the basis of the State. There is something ennobling to a country when a noble principle is tho boast of every peasant. This is felt in Canada. Every citizen there is proud of the difference between himself and the Yankee. The latter may be very 'cute ; may boast of the 4th of July, and of the War of, Independence ; but the Canadian can point to the negro, who has just leaped with convulsive joy on the shore of liberty, and remind the citizen of the "Union" of kidnappers that not one inch of his country can restore his birthright to man. The citizens of Britain and her colonies must ever be a nobler race'politically than citizens whose con sciences are burdened with the guilt of practising or abetting slavery. We believe intelligent Ameri cans are perceiving this. Opposition to the South was not, in the late election, the high-toned love of freedom, which abolished slavery in the British possessions ; it was little more than hatred of Southern domination. Even this was better than Pennsylvanian truckling ; but it is not to be men tioned with the nobler spirit which is mould ing the future of Canada. Canada, moreover, does what America does not : she buys in the cheapest market and sells in the dearest. She does not pay 30 per cent. more for her commodities to bolster up some half bank rupt cotton mills or iron manufacturers which could not otherwise pay their way at all. The whole community are not taxed to protect the indolence or cupidity of a few. Judge HALIBUR TON tells us in his interesting address at the Man chester Athenaeum, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, that all their articles of consumption are literally English ; from the bowl in which the new-born babe is washed, and the flannel in which he is placed, to the coffin-plate which at last tells his name and age, and the shovel which throws the earth upon it. They have the sense to know that their raw produce will purcha:se these things cheaper than their hands could make them. JONATHAN, 'cute as he is, taxes luxuries and necessaries alike. Canada knows better. America will, of course, be driven by circumstances to un restricted competition. Her over-full exchequer will repeal, at least gradually, her absurd tariff. But while she is afflicting herself in the style of France, Austria, or Russia, Canada is taking the full benefit of the wholesome laws of nature, and her commerce will advance proportionally in com parison with that of the States. Her new rail roads have opened the far West to winter as well as summer communication with England ; and nothing is wanting but a full stream of emigra tion. This must soon be largely swelled. The superiority of the country for the adventurous and aspiring men will be generally known ; and a real New England will in time occupy the most vigo rous portion of the American continent, a country one quarter larger than all Europe. But here, as the Judge reminds us, the great question arises, of the nature of the connection between the two countries. Already the popula tion outnumbers that of Scotland ; but Canada retains to England the general relation which Scotland and Ireland had before the Union. It has its own Parliament, and its own Viceregal Representative, but no representation in the Im perial Parliament. This, in fact, is the relation of all the important colonies to the mother coun try. How long it will last, and how it will ter- minate, are questions not to bo solved by. conjec ture. Will it even be that the present Parlia ment will become a federal one, and a second Parliament for purely British business be also elected, the colonies choosing their own Governors, and the Crown of Britain remaining hereditary ? Or will the colonies prefer independence, Canada and Australia each becoming new Empires ? The Judge himself prefers that Canada should become part and parcel of England. He acknowledge 3 difficulties, but regards them as not insurmount able ; and he boldly claims that, with this thorough union, the full share of the honours and einOluments of place, and even of the Peerage, should be freely open to colonial men. We think that so entirely conciliatory, we may say, maternal, is the spirit of the old country, that as we trust nothing will alter this, all must end happily, both for England and her colonies. j France, or rather the Emperor of the FRENCH, has spoken, and Prussia is emboldened. Switzer land, it is new seen, has nothing to hope from Imperial gratitude, and apparently everything to dread the Prussian arms can accomplish. " Fire and sword " is now the watchword in military circles at Berlin. The invasion of Switzerland is there spoken of as a settled affair. Two or more corps d'armee, it is said, are to be employed instructions for the commanding officers are lying at the War-office—the Com mander-in-Chief of the expedition is already de signated. We are in no hurry to believe all this; it being quite possible, indeed probable, the wish is father to the assertion. One thing, however, is tolerably certain—the independence of Switzer land is seriously menaced. If the Confederation can be coerced by threats, coerced it will be ; if threats fail, the probability is recourse will be had to arms, provided no intervention sufficiently formidable be found in the way, or the Prussian King is really as mad as he appears to be at pre sent. Fortunately, we trust, for all parties, cer tain preliminary forms are to be gone through before an invasion can be attempted. The King of PRUSSIA is pledged to bring his case before the Congress at Paris, and has yet to obtain the sanc tion of the German States through whose territories his troops must march to get at Switzerland. In either case the result will be a work of time, and should the Diet at Frankfort approve of his request, it is not impossible the Congress at Paris may bring him to reason. The worst feature in the case is the attitude assumed by the Emperor NAPOLEON. Anything more unwise or reprehensible than this it would be dif ficult to conceive. It is both a blunder and a crime, and not unlikely carries its own punishment with it. Whether he meditates treachery to Prussia, or, what is more likely, is swayed by a miserable dynastic ambition, either . way, if perse vered in, it involves hazard to his throne. The result may be a European war ! What prophet is there to assure him of the result, so far as his dynasty is concerned ? Bad, however, as this feature of the affair is, there is another more pain ful still to Englishmen. Concurrently with, or rather preceding, the assumption of this menacing attitude—practically it is so—towards the free Swiss States, we have the young Prince of PRUSSIA (in the wake of the Prussian KING'S present of horses to the Empress EUGENIE) at Paris. What are Englishmen to think of such a concatenation of circumstances as this ? The most satisfactory expla nations will be required to dissipate the suspicions to which it has given rise ; more than this, deeds must be forthcoming as well as words. In the interests of her MAJESTY and her Royal Consort, as well as of Europe, the English Government must do its utmost to avert the peril with which Switzerland is threatened. The right is on the side of the Swiss, and it will never do to have it supposed, with any show of reason, that England was at all a party to the outrageous wrong con templated by absolutism against so gallant and orderly a confederation of free men. Switzer land must be supported, German instincts to the contrary, notwithstanding. WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE. RUSSIA--ITS PEOPLE AND ITS PALACES. A magnificent Diorama has recently been added to the many attractions already accumulated in that world's wonder, " The Great Globe," erected in Leicester-square by the genius and enterprise of Mr. James Wyld, her Majesty's Geographer. A Dioramic view, illustrative of that other world's wonder Russia ! It is supplementary, of course, to that more general one previously on view at the Great Globe—the one conducting the visitor by " easy stages," in a stray half-hour or so, through the Tour of Europe I Here, however, in the new Russian Diorama, is a spectacle of a more definite charaoter. An exhibition revealing to the spectator, in very natural sequence, a grand series of pictures—pictures strung together, if we may so phrase it, upon the Thread of the Lecturer's Discourse—ehowing one by one, in amazing succes sion, the marvels of the Russian Empire, both Asiatic and European. The lecturer waves his wand of magic and hey ! presto—we are in the Baltic—we are at Riga—we go on from port to port : until, carr i e d onwards by a daring greater than that of our grand Sea Fire-Eater, we glide boldly into the harbour of Cronstadt, and under the frowning tier upon tier of its vast and formidabl e f or tifi ca ti ons ! Further still we proceed gliding past the gates of the imperial City of St. Peters burg ! .Beholding upon the f rozen sur f ace o f the . Neva in mid-winter a national pas des patineurs, as charmingly picturesque in its way as the famous one familiar to opera-goers in the Prophets of Meyerbeer. There—in the moonlight —among the snow, and glidin g sw iftly over the ice, are the inhabitants of the great Rus sian capital, skating and sledging to their heart's content, muffled up in furs that would smother a tropical savage merely to look upon ! Yonder, again, are the motley and splendid sights of St. Petersburg—the Public Places ; the Winter Palace of the Czar ; the Statue of Peter (called) the Great in front of the Admi ralty. Onwards still we are driven pertinaciously by that very voluble and agreeable " Peeler," the Lecturer —" moving on" at his ever-welcome bidding until we reach another very notable goal—in Moscow, the Mecca of the Muscovites ! Moscow — risen anew, Phoenix-like, from its ashes, forty-four years t) rsagaol,i-scinoncleutehring N the .date a o p f o it le s o c n ap l tu m re os b c y ow th — e w (t i i t l h l then its countless gilded domes and cupolas. Moscow— where every uewly-acceding Czar solemnly becomes the Lord's Anointed, assuming the purple , g ras p in g the sceptre, placing upon his own head the diadem which crowns him for life the irre sponsible despot of 60,000,000 of the hu man race ! And here, of course, .in this Dioramic View of Moscow, is a superb incidental illustration of the recent enthronement of Alexan der vivid and resplendent picture of his Majesty's gorgeous and memorable coronation. A portion of the new Diorama, which is greeted (and no wonder) with the loudest acclamations : not for its political significance, of course, we may presume, but simply by reason of its remarkable and arresting magnificence. The Kremlin visited—we next pro ceed to Nishni Novgorod, emerging afterwards upon Anapa, and traversing in due course the vast and barren steppes down to the Danube, to Giur gevo, to Kalafat, and to Silistria—names of fame and glory alike to Osmanli and English men ! A glimpse (across the Euxine) into the har bour of Sinope, shows to us—there, calmly moored and at anchor, the ill-fated Turkish fleet, the victim of a dastardly and ever-exe crable massacre. Trebizonde is not over looked—neither, for that matter, is Varna, Th nor yet Odessa, nor yet Constantinople. e whole t survey ion of the closing renownedwith Battleo . heart stirringf g len o the Alma, one of those heroic struggver w m h our young poet Gerald Massey, in a truly Tyrt an outburst, has chaunted that noble refrain . " 0 Victory, joyful Victory, Like love thou bringest sorrow, But 0 ! for such an hour with thee, Who would not die to-morrow I" And so with this grand rush up " red Alma's hill termination. t Globe tborogulgohryt'(' t t w h i e ce a new w day) to r a Di a Diorama is a work of art which cannot fai l to command for itself au ample and protracted share o f p o pu larit y. a l brilliant a t n h t e Great o LATEST NEWS. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. Letters from Vienna of the 14th state that the question of holding the Conferences his now entered on a new phase. Count Buol has received a despatch, informing him that the Cabinet of the Tuileries, after mature reflection, cannot accept the interpretation of the Bolgrad question and that of the Lsle of Serpents in the absolute terms propounded by England, Austria, and Turkey. Count Buol has sent this unexpected declaration to the Emperor of Austria in Italy. No one can now predict when the new Confer ences will be opened. The second Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, and Russia have ap prised Count Walewski that they have received their instructions, and that they are ready to take part in the Conferences. The instructions for the second Turkish Plenipotentiary are all that are now waited for, and they are expected to arrive about the 23d or 24th of December. The Con ferences may consequently commence on the 26th or 27th. The mission of Admiral 'Virgin to Copenhagen has been considered one of great importance. It - is rumoured to be only one of preparation for a further mission to London with regard to a revi sion of the treaty of London of 1852, by which the fear of Russian political supremacy in the Baltic states generally will be at once set at rest. Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th state that some French vessels were expected in the Bosphorus. The Russians have landed arms and ammunition at Zella. The works in the arsenals of Petsia'are going on with great activity, accord ing to instructions received from Teheran. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin, says :—" Count Y. Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, has had within the last few days an interview with Prince Gortuchakoff, in which some conversation took place on the subject of the reply of the Cabinet of "Vienna to the Russian memorandum. The Prin.;:e remarked that the pretension of Austria to occupy the Principalities until the question of the frontiers should be settled was inadmissible for two motives—first, from the declaration of Count Buol. at Paris that the evacuation of the Turkish terril;ory by Austria presented less difficulty than that by France and England, and that it should take place before ; and secondly, because the proj!lcted instructions drawn up at Paris for the members of the Commission for the organisation of the Principalities declared expressly that the Divans could not meet until the foreign troops should have evacuated the Principalities. The Austrian Ambassador confined himself to replying that; Russia could not invoke the Treaty of Paris so long as she occupied any point of the Bessara biaii territory, which she was bound to cede to Turkey. This conference was consequently with out result ; and it is probable that the Russian Cabinet will reply in writing to that of Vienna, which may perhaps cause a new delay in the meeting of the Conference of Paris." A letter from Berlin of the 16th says :—" No reply has yet been received to the note of the Bth, addressed by Prussia to the great powers, on the affair of Neuchatel. The cabinet here expects that the' English Government will advise it to abstain from military measures. Austria also does ,not appear favourable to a Prussian expedition, if we may judge from the language of her semi-official organs, but it is confidently believed that France and Russia will approve of the last resolutions of Prussia. It is said, besides, that the Prussian cabinet does not intend to cause its acts to depend on the replies of the great powers ; as, after having communicated to them its decision, it will pursue the recognition of its right without allowing itself to be influenced by objections." Accounts have been received from Naples to the 15th. All the English in that capital, residents and visitors, had signed an address of congratula tion to the King, and had gone to the palace to present it ! His Majesty showed great emotion at receiving the address, and expressed his gratitude for the proceeding. All foreigners of distinction, as well as the population, have visited the King to offer their congratulations ! The Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige says it is rumoured that the Emperor Napo leon has written an autograph letter to the King of Naples, there being at present no official repre sentative of France at Naples, to congratulate him ou his escape from assassination. A letter from Vienna in the Boersenhalle, of Hamburg, says :•—" It is announ ced as positive that the Porte is preparing fresh difficulties by obstinately opposing the incorporation of the Delta oi the Danube with the territory of Moldavia, and that Gliolib Paella, a son of Reschid Paella, has left for Pariu on a private mission relative to this affair." PRUSSIA. The Nord, of Brussels, contains a letter from Berlin, which says:--"I have heard in well-informed circles rumours of the partial mobilisation of two corps d'armee having been ordered. Our mili tary organisation requires that course of pro ceeding in cases of military operations on a large scale. Each corps d'armee is composed of 4 regiments of infantry and 4 of cavalry, of a regi ment of artillery, one of infantry of the reserve, a battalion of riflemen, and a detachment of pioneers —altogether a force of 21,000 men ; but on being mobilised 4regiments of infantry and 4 of cavalry of the landwehr are added to the corps d'armee, and it thereby becomes 36,000 strong. lam assured that several battalions of carbineers, which are equal to the best troops of that description in Europe, will form part of the expedition. Be cer tain that at this moment the plan of a military ex pedition is positively settled, and that it will be carried out with rapidity, unless indeed incidents of another kind should happily occur to prevent the effusion of blood." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received Count de Hatz feldt, the Prussian Minister, who delivered to his Majesty a letter from kis sovereign, thanking him for the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Emperor has received a letter from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, notifying the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, to the Princess Ann, daughter of the King of Saxony. On the Ist January, on the occasion of the new year, the Emperor will receive in the morning the diplomatic corps and the constituted bodies. On the 2d the Emperor and Empress will hold a grand reception at nine o'clock in the evening of the ladies of the diplomatic corps, and of such others as had been already presented to their Majesties. The ladies will have to wear full court dress. The Prince of Prussia leaves Paris, it is said, on Sunday. At a recent dinner given at the Prussian embassy, Prince Frederick William proposed a toast to " the duration of friendship between Prussia and France." The Patrie thus takes notice of the possibility of a new war between England and Russia : . . Russia, who has promised Persia effective support in case of an attack, sees perhaps without repugnance an opportunity, if not to take revenge upon one of the Powers that took part in the siege of Sebastopol, at least to show that the colossal war from which she has just emerged has not rendered her impotent to act in favour of an ally. Whatever foundatio❑ there may or may not be for these ,conjectures, we cannot but perceive the gravity of the Persian question ; and while we Ltd' maintain that the apprehension of a march of the Russo- Persian forces towards the north-west of India is purely fantastical, we would not take upon ourselves to affirm that a rencontre between the Company's troops and the Russian regiments, somewhere about the banks of the Persian Gulf, is absolutely beyond the bounds of proba bility." BOURSE, Dec. 19.—The following were the lasi quotations : Cash. IY. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 66 55 66 95 New Loan Bank Shares 4,150 Roman (id) Credit Mobilier 1,455 50 Austrian Belgian Fives Piedmontese (5) 9l 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c Orleans 1,312 50 Western Northern 932 50 Strasburg Lyons 1,370 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,750 Grand. Central Lyons Geneva, — Teste Cette AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail steam-ship Persia has arrived, with advices from New York to the 10th inst. She has bronght 863,926 doll. specie on freight. The United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic hence had arrived at New York. On the 9th inst. the discussion on the President's Message in the Senate and House of Representatives had been again adjourned. In the former, in answer to a question relative to the policy of r. Buchanan, Mr. Begler stated that the people of Kansas must settle the question of slavery for them selves; in the latter, Mr. Campbell, Know-nothing, of Ohio, characterised the Message as a budget of inconsistencies, containing serious charges against a large portion of the people which were without foundation. Mr. Whitfield had been allowed to take his seat for Kansas by a majority of four. Great excitement existed at Franklin, Tennessee,e from the expectation of an insurrection among th d shaves. 24 muskets and two keg s of powder had been found in the possession o f a g ang of negroes at Columbia, Tennessee. In Perr y , Tennessee, negroes had been killed by their owners. There was much excitement in the neighbour hood of Dover, on the Cumberland River, among the negroes. Ma n y of the ringleaders had been arres ted, and 11 h a nged. One whi te man, dis guised as a negro, bad been sente nced to 000 lashe s, t ru t he died before penalty was fully inflicted. The whites were arming and organising for defence, and the opinion p revailed that a general u p risin g wo uld take place among the negroes during the holiday. Escapes of slaves were unusually numer- ous- The G oF ernor of lowa had clai me d, i n hi s mes sage, the protection of the F e d era l G overnment for the citizens of lowa. There was rather a more active demand for money in New York, though with a pretty free supply of unemployed capital rates had not under gone any material change, but long paper did not pass so:readily as at the corresponding date the previous week. The supply of paper was more abundant, and the indications were that money would still be in active request, as usual in De cember. The current quotations were 71 to 8 per cent. for prime 30 and 60 days' commercial notes, 8 and 9 per cent. fo three and six months' ditto, and 10 and 15 per cent. for single names and second-class bills. The exchange market was freely supplied with bills for the Persia, and, with a fair business, prices closed less firm. On London, 9 to 91 per cent. pre- IniUtlq. The stock market ruled in favour of buyers, owing to the withdrawal of a leading buyer, who had become insolvent. State and bank stocks, however, formed an exception to the rule, being well held. The Bank statement showed a smaller specie increase than was expected from the large Californian receipts at the close of the previous week. Cotton was quiet, without change in quotation. The market closed very tamely. The market for flour was very firm, with a rising tendency, until the receipt of the advices from Europe ; then the improvement was lost ; same ,with wheat. The demand for iron was moderate. Tobacco was in fair request. Freights without change. The New York _Herald states that the new British treaty concluded by Mr. Dallas will shortly be laid before the Senate. It believes that the treaty, while affirming the old principle of the Clayton- Bulwer Convention, that neither the United States nor England desire to colonise or fortify for their exclusive benefit any part of the territory on the isthmus or in Central America, contemplates a much larger field of operation ; it is, in fact, a commercial treaty. Mexican advices report the defeat of Vidaurri, and his submission to Comonfort. Communication between Vera Cruz and the in terior was nearly suspended. The siege of Peubla continued. The steamship Manchester, out 20 days hence, had not arrived at Philadelphia. Considerable uneasiness had been created. It is said that Judg e L ecomp l e was to be removed, is alleged, of his partial administra on account, it tion of the law in Kansas. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19. The United States' mail stesm-ship Ericsson, Lawler, Commander, has arrived with advicos from New York to the Gth inst., and $50,000 in specie. The steam-ship Arago, from Havre, arrived at N e w York, and the Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia at Boston, on the sth inst. The Senate had resumed the slavery question and the objects of the Re publican party without any result. Iu the How3o of Representatives the ( - Doti= of Mr. Whitfield's admission had been deferred unti the 9th inst. The Washington correspondent of the .Ncto York Herald states that the Virginia electors had re commended ex-Governor Floyd for a post in Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. At a banquet one of the sentiments declared the " Ostend Manifesto to be but the eternal law of nature and of nations—self-preservation. All hon our to the statesmen who will execute the princi ples!" - Governor Wise had declined to leave his present post. Mr. Buchanan is said to have offered him any station within his gift, as he is desirous of having the benefit of his counsel. The Democratic members of Congress from Virginia object to Floyd. The same authority states that the new Com missioner to Bogota had been sen t f or t o N e w York by a special messenger, and that Mr. Morse was expected to leave on the sth for Aspinwall. He states that the Commissioner is to reiterate the emand already made by Judge Bowlin for indem nity to the sufferers by the Panama riot ; will ask for a proposition from the New Granadian Go vernment for a final settlement of the mail transit question, for which a respectable bonus will be paid - and will insist upon some substantial secu rity for the transit across the Isthmus in future. Wall -stroet had been thrown into a state of great excitement by the announcement of the failure of Mr. Jacob Little, a large stock speculator ; his outstanding contracts are said to be to an enormous amount. The failure of Messrs. Henshaw and Son, the well know bankers of Boston, had been announced. The liabilities are large. T negroes had been arrested in Charles County, Maryland, charged with plotting insurrection among the slaves. The Portuguese authorities at Benguela had seized the schooner Flying Eagle, from New York, for having a slave cargo on board, and for the pay ment of a cargo of slaves landed in Cuba by an other vessel. Dates from Kansas to the 26th ult. report that the grand jury had found bills of indictment against several pro-slavery men. At Lawrence the Kansas Aid Society had been denounced as a speculating concern. Advices from Santa Fe to the 22d ult. report that the Indians continued their depredations. The gold deposits on the Gila are said to exceed those in the richest portions of California. A large number of the citizens had already left Santa Fe for the mines. Money was ,again easier, at a reduction in the week of fully one-half per cent., with a decreased demand, and the supply of capital seeking invowt ment was considerably in excess of the amount of paper offering at the banks and discount houses. The rates for first-class 30 to 60 days' bills were 7i to 8 per cent. ; three to six months, 81 to 91 ; and longer dates, and first-class bills 10 to 12 per cent. In exchange there was nothing doing for the Ericsson. The foreign advices being more favourable, the market for cotton, with an increased demand for export and moderate receipts, was in favour of the sellers, but no advance had been obtained. In the flour market, the unfavourable advices taken out by the Arabia had been received, but their effect upon the market had been counteracted by the rather abrupt closing of the Erie Canal and the de cline on freights. Canada flour more abundant, with a limited de mand, and steadily increasing stocks. Southern has advanced a trifle. In the grain market wheat was unchanged, with the exception of inferior de scriptions, which were scarce. The dulness of Scotch pig iron was increasing. Crude turpentine quiet. Spirits of turpentine in fair request. Eosin scarce, and wanted. Tar dull. Pork advanced 250. to 50c., the stock being moderate. Beef better, with a pretty good demand and moderate supPlio Bacon in-good request, and firm. Freights easier to Great Britain. From Mobilo and New Orleans the rates to Liver' pool were ad. Grain to Liverpool, 6d. to 7d• ; flour, 2s. • cotton, 5-32 to 3-16. Wheat to Lew don, 101E1; flour, 2s. 10id. to 3s. REMARKABLE VOYAGE OF THE SHIP DREADNOUGHT. LIVERPOOL, DEc, 19. The clipper ship Dreadnought, Capt. Satnue ls ' arrived in the Mersey this afternoon with advice° from New York to the4th inst. This ship, hitherto noted for her quick passages, has in this Distance made the run from New York to Liverpool in the short space of 15 days. In the Senate, ht ee a i tsrd t nwre Since tendered then understood e . l the memory of the late Mr. Clayton. ' The Washington correspondent of the Ne iv Yor.k _Herald charges the President with falsehood is stating that after Padre Vigil's return he re fused to recognise a Minister from either Walker or Rivas. He says : " This is false in fact. After Vigil's departure, Ma or Heiss was, on July 5, recognised as Charge d'Affairese,_ by Mr. Marcy, and this recognition was again endors , d g by President Pierce on August 25, long. afters Walker's election was known here ; and again, in n the al e s ra b' e l Marcy was consulted by the President anyrenco recorded credentialsu facts.jen of the rights of neutrals. Since then no Minister from the Walker Governumennitt: talk with the . . Preside t tt e , his being a citizen of in the way of his recognition.hirself a native of the country,. has a rrived in New York, of the time Major Major Heiss has be4? . : 1 11 , but has not presented d States M r ear s r i t r t nd o . ph im o Fffi a d l e h. ec ci n a r, r t ut d h l t at a i o ry a t , faunlylywraeYct:oegl:ninfsrneidnhgfassinpCenchsktaergt.e d l 'A hi ff s a r i e r c e o s g , n b i a ti v o i n ng i h h i a s v o e fE s c e i ett recogni i and read. - Under this state of facts how could the Pre' sident of the United States make the declaration he do" in his message ? The President compliments Minister Wheeler —who is direct from Nicaragua, and at the Pre' - sident's elbow while writing —when he says he has but, imperfect information touching the condition of thing ° there. The personage alluded to as the representa ti" here of the Rivas Government is Jose De-Yrisarri) tb ° Guatemalan Minister, residing in New York. Fact' are stubborn things." General Smith, commanding the military deP art. meat of the West, had reported to the War De partment the complete resumption of law and order in Kansas. Th e troops in the territory, wit h th e exception of a squa d ron o f d ragoo ns and °i d company of infantry, who are to remain an guard the State p r i soners , are henceforth to de vote themselves to making preparations for a camPalt; against the Cheyennes Indians in tbe spring. t ,„ winter in Kansas has commenced with sever' J much earlier thau usual. ba °'d The Portuguese authorities at Benguela _, seized an American schooner for having a cargo slaves on board. In the New York stock market there vrao„t ri upward tendency, with large trans actions.l. flour market was heavy, with light transactions'.l- Cotton was firm. Freights were steady. RUSSIA AND PERSIA. BERLIN, Dec. I.—lt will doubtless have been already observed the Nord has been instructed to deny that 50,000 Russians, under General Birju loll, are standing ready to follow the first invita tion of the Shah of Persia, and cross the frontier to his assistance. We must therefore a ssume t h at the news is not literally correct. On the other hand, we learn from various organs of the Ru ss i an r press that bodies of troops are being directed upon the confines of the Persian territory. Thus, for instance, the Caucasus states that a second body s of 3,000 men has been detached from the reserve h division of the Caucasian corps and been despatch. ed to Kstrengthening the for the purpose of t the flotilla on the Caspian Sea, whil e 3,000 1)e - vious body of the same strength, men, had been forwarded from Astrachan to the various Russian stations on the south-east coast of the C as _ pian Sea. All the information that reaches us from Russia on the subject of the military movements in the south-east of the empire coincides in these two points—first, that troops are being concentrated upon the shores of the Caspian Sea f or the purpose of being ready for any events that m to supervene ; and, secondly, that Russia has no intention of in tervening unless directly appealed by the Shah. One letter from St. Petersburg, for instance, men tions that a very considerable force is collected in the neighbourhood of .Balkh (according to the context the troops spoken of should be Russians, bat I know of no place of that name in Russia, while on the eastern Coast of the Caspian Sea there is a place of a similar name opposite to Bakou). Of this considerable force, however, it is said that its destinatio n remains to be fixed by the course of events. Russia would not mix herself up in the conflict between the Persians and the Affth e ghans unless Court of Teheran should find itself hard driven by an English intervention, and apply to her for help. The writer of this St. Peters burg letter expresses the opinion that, however the mßauttßeariamhayy turn, it will accrue to the advantage of increasing her influence in the East. Ile mentions further that there is just now an un usual number of staff officers staying in the capital, whose experience and. advice were, it was be lieved, being consulted with reference to the eventualities in the south-east ; among them are the commander of the second division of the Black Sea_ fleet , Rear-Admiral Tebrikoff, and General ossnik, the commander of the Cossack army of Astrachan. An expedition in the direction of • Khiva and Bukhara is mentioned as one of the subjects of discussion. This last report harmonises with the statement of a strong force being already stationed in the neighbourhood of Baiku. This portion of the country, which is to our apprehen sion little more than a myth, has been made toler ably familiar to the Russian military authorities by Count Perowski's repeated excursions and in cursions with the Orenburg corps d'armee, which, however richly they may have resulted in military experience and topographical infor mation, seem to have brought in nothing else. The breaking up of the second army under Luders is spoken of as having set a con siderable number of able officers free from their previous destination, and made them keenly anxious for a new field of activity, such as this opening in the south-east would readily afford. Among these are mentioned by name Generals Tschersputowski, Konstantiuoff, Niepokojtschicki, and Tschervinski as about to repair to St. Petersburg and take part in the military deliberations. THE OVERLAND MAIL• SOUTHAMPTON, S ATURDA Y, 9.3 0 . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's s tela' ship Columbo, Captain Field, has just arrived with the heavy portion of the East India and China mails, in charge of Lieutenant Bolton, Gibraltar, and data from Alexandria, Dec. 7 ; Malta, 10th ; 15th. She brings 74 passe n g ers, 30 packages of specie value 20,886/. 18 s. 9d., and a cargo comprising 160 boxes of oranges, 2,051 bales of silk, and 205 pack ages of general merchandise. g r I beTtwheeen C om lo a m lt b a o n ex d p G e i r b ienees z tronwesterly ingt , i g n a n l i e s s terre she encountered very heavy weather, the wind veering round on nearing the Channel to the ualls and sea. The Colu mbo N.E., w ith heavy squalls has, notwithstanding, made the passage from Alexandria in less than 12i days. On the voyage home the Columbo spoke, on D e c. 11, the Peninsular and Oriental ConapsuY '° steamer Candia, homeward bound ; mouth snalled the Royal Mail steamer Avon off theof the Tagus, which reported the Ripon having put in 0 , Corunna on the 16th. Peninsular and Oriente' steamer Tagus at Alexandria, and her Majesq'ti steamer Tartarus. At Malta, her Majesty's 0 11 0 Princess Royal, Conqueror, Brunswick, Hibernia, Wanderer, Ariel, Osprey, and Weser. The Candia left Malta the day after the Colombo, but is not expected to arrive here before a vree lc hence. G ib ra lt ar exchanges—London, 90 days' date, 50 Paris ditto, s f. 30c. The ship Sea Q ueen, which left Gibraltar on the 2d for New Yo rk, returned on the 14th in cons& quenc e of a tre mendous gale from W.S.W., ja which she sustained damage ; is leaky. Her Majesty's steamer Oberon, from Malta, a rrived at G ibraltar on the 14th, having enewl"' t ere d a severe g ale, and had her rudder and boate carried away. O n the morning of the 10 th , a British brig, l a den with codfish, from Terranova, for the Medi terraneau, went ashore on the coast o f Couil, n eat Cadiz ; crow saved. .—.— -- Th e suspension was announced yesterday of 1518 5511 ' Robert Johnson and Co., warehousemen, in Wot lizl ii street. The house was old and respectable, and,altboug,4 p h e a c s is tr o a i n their transactions have of late years gradually diminiskon their liabilities are likely to prove rather considerable! probably nut less than 50,000/. or 60,000/, At presentr th noth ing pros tsli:eirecdredrietgoarrst.ling the precise amoun t 0 The failure, also, of the manufacturing firm of gess.ro• George Ashworth and Co. was mentioned this moral in the letters from Alanch ester. In this case the liab' ties are supposed to be within 30,0001.