The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last Night but Five.—Tnis Evening, a Mendelssohn Night—Miss Dolby, and Miss Arabella Goddard, the celebrated Pianist.- 32d time of the 'New Grand French Quadrille. Programme for THIS EVENING (Monday, Dec. 15): — Part I.—Overture, Ruy Blas—Mendelssohn ; Song, " The Song of Night," Miss Dolby (accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr. Land)—Mendelssohn ; Concerto, in G minor, Piano forte, Miss A. Goddard—Mendelssohn; Symphony in A minor —Mendelssohn ; Song, " The First Violet," Miss Dolby —Mendelssohn ; Concerto, Violin, M. Le lion—Mendels sohn ; March, Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's ream—Mendelssohn. . years. He, however, takes a very one-sided view, regarding matters with coloured glasses, which have been framed in accordance with an exclusively Southern aspect. Like NELSON, when the signal of recall was displayed, the telescope when directed northwards wag placed to the damaged eye—while to the opposite point of the compass every appearance was minutely in• spected. Part 2.—The French Quadrille (12c1 tirae), with varia tions for flute, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, ophiclei , ie, and cornet, performed by MM De Folley, DeYong, Collinet, Pratten, Lavigne, Hughes, and Koenig ; Finale : Partant pour la Syrie, Vive l'Empereur—Jullien ; Fantasia, Pianoforte, Les Patineurs (Le Prophete), Miss Arabella Goddard (by desire)—Liszt ; Polka, The Minnie Polka (by desire) --Jul lien ; Song, Come ferry me o'er, Mi.s Dolby—Mrs. Groom ; Polka, My Mary Ann (by desire)—Jullien ; Solo, Cornet, the River and the Star, written expressly for and per formed by Herr Koenig Angelina ; Galop, Atlantic— Jullien. Conductor—M. Jullien. To commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of admission :—Promenade, ls. ; Dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d., £1 ls., and upwards. Private boxes to be secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre ; at all the principal libraries and musicsellers'; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. He also speaks of the People having empha tically condemned the idea of organising in the United States any mere geographical parties." Is he oblivious of the fact that every Southern vote was given to BucnANAN, and that it was to the differences of the Northerns that the new President is indebted for his election ? It was the favoured district that recognised the " Geo graphical" distiketion, and had the Freesoilers been similarly united, the Planters would not have had a chance, despite their well-disciplined organisation. Had he directed his attention to the other side of the picture, he might much mere graphically have depicted the formidable conse quences of such an "organisation." But, while dwelling forcibly on the Northern " mote," he is apparently insensible of the beam that obstructs the Southern vision. But he does not even rest there. He himself enters into tke " geographical" point with a keen gusto, making it completely his own. He feelingly dwells on Southern wrongs (!), or what he is Pleased to term " the long series of aggressions against the rights of one-half the States-Ist, In reference to negro emancipation ; 2d, the proceed ings relative to the extradition of fugitive slaves ; and 3d, the proceedings relative to the organisa tion of the territorial Government. On this latter point - he rides off on the Kansas difficulty, vindi cating so far as possible his own partiality on that interesting subject. This, however, will scarcely bear the test of unprejudiced examination to which it may be safely left. The other matters referred to are of compara tively trivial importance. Financial affairs are stated to be in a satisfactory condition. The Central American difficulty has been happily got rid of, so far as Great Britain is concerned. He should indeed have been fastidious, if discon tented with the concessions already made. But there is a little cloud displayed in reference to the Sound Dues that may lead to a future tempest in the political atmosphere. On the whole the Mes• s Ige is what might have been anticipated, consi dering the antecedents of the outgoing Presi dent. He does all he can for his party, but fortunately on the present occasion the power is by no means equal to the will. It is a display of petty spites and impotent malevolence. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, will ba performed Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's comedy of MONEY. The cha racter of Evelyn by Mr. Murdoch ; Sir John Vesey, Mr. Chippendale ; Mr. B. Stout, M.P., Mr. Buckstone ; Sir Frederick Blount, Mr. W. Farren ; Graves, Mr. Compton ; Lady Franklyn, Miss Talbot ; Georgiana, Mrs. E. Fitzwil liam ; Clara Douglas, Miss Reynolds. After which, the successful new farce, A FAMILY FAILING, in which Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chip pendale, and Miss Blanche Fane will appear. With Perea Nena and her umivalle I Company of Spanish Dancers, in THE ALHAMBRA, being the last week of their final engagement. To conclude with MY LITTLE ADOPTED. THEATRE ROYAL, A D ELPFIL Genuine Success.—llnpreeedented. Attrae tion.—Re-appearance 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 appear as the Statue Bride every night. THIS EVENING will be performed the celebrated drama of. JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, Paul Bedford, C. S'elby, Pal-sell; Garden, Bland; Mesdames Celeste and M. Keeley. After which, with new scenery and appointments, the new fairy ballet extravaganza, nailed THE ELVES, or the Statue Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform ing with unexampled success at the Theatre Imperiale de ]'Opera at Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha racters by Madame Celeste, Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley, Kate Kelly, Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Weght, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Le Barr, die. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING and clarinet the week will he presented Shakspeare's play of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dei Franchi, Mr. C. Kean. Mendelssohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under thr+ Mari ,cf,ement of Mr. Phelpg. THIS EVENING, MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Phelps ; Macduff, Mr. H. Marston ; Banquo, Mr. A. Rayner ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Atkinson. To conclude with POOR PILLICODDY. ROYAL OLYMPIC TH.EATRE. T. 4 4FIA, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. Messrs, Addison, G. Vining ; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Svranborongh and Herbert. And the new farce, JONES THE AVENGER. Messr4, F. Robson, J. Rogers, and Miss Marston Commence at half-past Seven. ROYAL SURRNIY THEATRE. Lesseos, Messrs. Sheph.ri an'i erPswiek. THIS EVENING, ROMEO IND JIiLIET. Romeo, Mr. Creswick ; Mercutio, Mr. Shepherd. To conclude with THE OUTCAST BROTHER. Whatever advantages may attend the possession of duplicate copies of any given work of literature, it would be difficult, we imagine, to point out any in having two streets with but one name between them. On the other hand, the disadvantages of such possession are so obvious and so great that the most ordinary understanding must readily perceive them, and concur in the propriety of 'greater liberality of nomenclature, and consequently variety in our streets. You have business to tran sact with some one in George -street—naturally you enquire where George-street is, and having the locality pointed out, and being provided with the required number, you set about your task as the easiest in the world. So much time you allot in your arrangements for the interview, and any possible disturbance of these arrangements is probably the last thing in your thoughts. You arrive at the number in the street pointed out to you, and to your chagrin, no such person is to be met with. In the course of inquiry it is suggested that there is another street . bearing the same name, and probably you will find him there. Off you start, and after a mile or more walking you reach the given number in George-street No. 2. To your intense sur prise the individual you are in search of is not to be found there either. To add to your provoca tion, if not to your bewilderment, you are informed the George -street you want is probably at some distance from either of the streets you have been beguiled into visiting. Who shall picture your indignation if on reaching George-street No. 3 you are as much at a nonplus as ever, and ascertain of streets bearing the time-honoured name of the champion of England there are not less than sixty. You have wearied yourself and spent your valuable time so far in rain, and the chances are greatly in favour of your giving up your task as hopeless, and with it all intention of prose cuting a business transaction which might have turned out profitable to both parties had it been carried out, as it would have been but for this unexpected multiplication of George-streets. General PIERCE has delivered another message Again--imagine a country cousin, confident to Congress as President--positively his last ap- in the possession of your address, on arriving at a pearance in that character on any political stare, late hour at the railway terminus being informed or, considering the locality, we should say "plat- there are a dozen streets of the same name as that form." He uses the power conferred on him by he seeks for—how painful must he his perplexity ; the Constitution with an unsparing hand—striv- if a female, her position under these circumstances jug to the beat of his ability to elevate the party would be such that the very porters themselves by whom he was repudiated without any scruple would pity her ! Again, imagine a letter ad as to the facts of the case. Bat, unfortunately, dressed to an individual residing in a duplicate the " glory has departed from his house." It is street. The chances are greatly in favour of its be the tendency of mankind to look chiefly to the inn carried to the wrong street, in which case it rising sun. Political gratitude has been very ac will be carried bask to the distributing office, and defin e d . to curately consist of " a lively sense of much delay and needless labour and loss of time favours to come," and our transatlantic brethren will be the consequence. Possibly there may be form no exception t o the general rule. He is no an individual of the same name in the street the more thought of than a Lord Mayor of London CD letter is first carried to, in which case he may in the eve of the fatal 9th of Nov., when his last advertently open it, and thereby become ac banquet has been given, the turtle duly digested, qrtainted with circumstances of a private and con and the fumes of the last champagne and curious fidential nature most unpleasant to have revealed. old wines completely evaporated. A single It is all very well to say more precise information speech may be tolerated , twaddlingbut that is should have been sought for—these are events all ; while every hint from his successor will be which will happen under such arrangements, and examined and dwelt on with the most flattering the obvious course is to have them altered. Were consideration. it only for the sake of the authorities at th e P os t- He has, however, rema ined " faithful to the office whose efforts to facilitate rapid and certain end." He speaks of the late Presidential e l ection communication are most praiseworthy, this course as "the explicit and sole ac t of the popular will, cannot anywhere be too soon adopted. Well, in the sole sovereign authority of the Union." For the metropolis alone—the evil we know to have hi own purposes he chooses to ignore the powe r f u l , existed elsewhere—there are upwards of sixty although unconstitutional, influences that hav e George streets, and no fewer of each known as been brought into operation, and to disr egard Charl es J o h n, K i ng, Q ueen, Ch urch, New, the unquestionable fact that, notwithst andin g all Willia m , High, Union, North, Duke, James, these notorious transactions, Colonel FREMONT, i York street ; while the same fact is predicable of the Republican " standard-bearer," had a very Park and York places. What an infinity of con- ! fusion considerable majority over the successful ca , . annoyance, waste of valuable time, and despite the FILLMORE decision in his favour ; tionvaried injury to individuals, does not this revela adding,"lt is impossible to misapprehend the great ;things suggest The wonder is that this state of ings has principle which the votes of the people have sane-been allowed to continue so long as it . Years a has tioned an d susta i ne d . They have asser t e d the g Viscount CANNING; when at the head of the Po s t -offi ce equality of the States, and of th©. -office, called attention to the citizens in • dwell, or evil, an d now we find his , whatever region they present able successor ssor doing the same thin wherever they received their birth ; and they g. Surely this time the ; have proclaimed their determination to maintain recommendation of the post-office will be attended the rights of t to. So far the Metropolitan Board of Work s all th e diff eren t sec ti ons o f the Union !" man if ests an inclination to d o sorn ething, if it be Now, with all deference to Mr. PIERCE • , this IS only to get rid of duplicate n ames of streets in precisely what has not the same districts. More, perha • been accomplished. Were perhaps, is not to be it so, the vote of a Northern f reeman wou ld b e looked for at its hands, but there t. be DO equivalent to that of a Southern slaveowner But difficulty about this—the Board possessing ample such has not been the case —or FREMONT, who powers to effect the required change. Unfortus received the votes of the absolute maj o rity, nately, between talking about a thing and doing would be " the coming man"—the future Presi- it, there is a wide interval—and no public body dent, tohavedirecte.d and controlled theaffsars of the has stretched that interval further than the Board It public for th e next Presidential term of feur —but, having done-nothine, and the present task ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH, with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses, &e. 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 ; commence at seven o'clock. Pox•oflice open from Eleven till Four Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CA NTERI3I7 RY HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dtc., viz. —Miss E Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmana, R. Grover, T. Rodno T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, and P. Cowie ; Masters Austin, Ben nett, and Corri; Mr. Sam Correll and E. Mackney. Piano forte, J. Hapreway, R. A. ; armonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pro &gels , . Suppers, drc.. until twelve o'clock. In addition tr , the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec tions.. W A.TM ft AT LO N 11) 0 N 1311,T DCIR. THIS Dvf—Morn. 2 min. aft. 4 — 7 ,vening 24 ink, aft. 4 TII-M:mmow—Morn. 45 min. aft. 4—Evrning 10 'nil, aft. 5 Trig WEA:I7IIFIR—SurN OFFICE, DECEMBER It. THETIMOMETER, IN Tf-T.P4 52 -- , !f!!iert sinet noon resteriay. 46 -lowest this morning and during the night. 48 coif; fink *t noon. BAROMETER, 29 65-3 rise of nearly three-quarters of an inch since yesterday. WIND, N. to N.N.W.—Light, with fine, cold weather, inclining to.frost. DECEMBER 15. 4R hieteat sincf, noon yesterday. 39 - 'DV/Ott this morning arid clurin4 the night. 43 day at DOOTT. FARO 4 fZT FTR. 30•31—a very great rise. WIND, N. Light, with very fine, cold we.ither. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Alpha a anggeation will be attended to. r fC__ L' - )v MONDAY, DECENTBER 15, 1856 : being easy, weincline to thehope that the Board will commence doing something with the undertaking of this necessary work. As to the aesthetical por: tion of the task, it is to be hoped some enlightened ADAM will be found to supply the Board with new names, which will neither offend the ear by the want of euphony, nor the understanding by con veying the notion of flunkeyism or servility. comely, welcome, delightful—doubly all this, we are nearly tempted to say, from all her queer, fantastic changes—changes quaint, eccentric, and grotesque. It should be observed in regard Mr. Reed's share in the Entertainment, that he has the arduous task of remaining upon the stage uninterruptedly from the time of his first appear ance. Taking his part in the Dialogue, indulging occasionally in Soliloquy, lending an air of veri similitude to the incidents by his by-play, and accompanying on the piano, with an ever ready finger and a sparkling touch, the various Songs introduced by his lively partner in the course of the Entertainment. For, of course, Mrs. German Reed sings —and equally, of course, when she sings, she sings delightfully. There are no less than five new ditties in all, worthy of note—the "Echo Song," the " Violet Song," the " Travel ler's Lay," "Love makes a Home," and a droll Irish Ballad about " Judy of Killarney." Remembering which, and remembering also the laughter provoked on Saturday evening by the performance, then first exhibited to a select few —we cannot hesitate to predict a decided success to Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's novel and most amusing Entertainment. MR. AND MRS. T. GERMAN REED, AT THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. We enjoyed the privilege on Saturday evening of attending at the above Gallery, among a select circle, to witness the private performance of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed in their new and very sparkling Entertainment. An entertainment which will be publicly inaugurated this evening —and which, we doubt not for one moment, will rival its predecessor in popularity and success, if it does not actually eclipse it altogether by at once ex tending and enhancing the reputation of the two artistes, artistes as lively and amusing as they are versatile and indefatigable. The scheme of the new Entertainment is soon told. It resembles in some measure the old and laughable stage-equivoque —known far and wide as 'The Manager in Distress.' That capital bit of affected reality so bewildering to every one not " up" to the secret at the first moment—bringing the Manager apologetically to the footlights—arousing the indignation of an irascible gentleman in the Pit—kindling the ire of another irascible gentleman in the Boxes—and waking up at last the dormant wrath of a third still-more-irascible " gentleman" (in his shirt sleeves) up in the Top Gallery ! Until the House rings with their wrangling voices—and there is a notion at last among the uninitiated part of he audience that the Police will -have to be called in to put a stop to the disturbance. When— lo, and behold ! an explanatory whisper somehow gets abroad ! People begin to look at one an other with a gradually dawning consciousness of having been " played upon," or "Sold," or " Roasted," or " Hocussed," or whatever else you may like to call it ! Those who have been all the while laughing in their sleeves —now fairly laugh outright ! And the jest comes to an end, at last, in the midst of very general hilarity with the eclairicssement that the Abusers of Mr. Mana ger are after all really and truly among the Stars of his Company—that the gentleman in the Pit is Mr. So and-So, the Light Comedian ; that the gentleman in the boxes, is Mr. What-d'ye call-em, the Tragedian ; and that the gentleman (in his shirt sleeves) up in the three-penny gallery, is Mr. Thinggummee, who sang the comic song just now (in a red wig), and danced the frog-dance with the lady's-maid at the tail end of the interlude ! Well, the old old joke of " The Manager in Distress," it seems, has furnished a capital notion of a new entertain ment to Mr. and Mrs. German Reed. The last mentioned—better known by her familiar came as Miss Priscilla Horton, or, best of all, indeed by the mere initial of it as Miss P. Horton —after a moment's pause, on the drawing up of the curtain, suddenly appears upon the stage or platform (the said stage or platform being de corated, as usual, after the fashion of an elegant, gilded, armolu'd buhl-adorned apartment), with an appearance of considerable "flurry," " worry," " hurry," and general puzzlement. The Murder comes out in a minute or two through divers gasps of apology—Mrs. Reed incoherently hinting to her audience her extreme regret that her husband's unexpected non-appearanc e upon the scene prevents the forth-coming of their newly projected entertainment—" The Lady of Lucerne." In the midst of these stammered ex planations, on comes Mr. Reed, to be dragged into them, as it were, neck-and-heels, in due course, to his apparent bewilderment ! Mutual explanations of another kind then take place before the footlights as to the cause of this general want of punctuality—when the lady announces to her astonished lord the magnificent proposal held out to them both by some new Gye or Lumley, Bunn or Barnum— tempting them with a promise of 60,0001. (and all expenses paid) to a world-wide tour like that recently made by Miss Catherine Hayes, here, there, and everywhere ! A young-lady-Ward is the only incumbrance calculated in any way to preclude them from at once snapping at the pro position. With a view to the ridding them selves of which incumbrance, Mrs. Ger man Reed, it then appears, has inserted an advertisement, in that day's Times, for a Gover ness. Having explained which preliminaries with delightful volubility, and handed to her still rather bewildered mate a copy of the paper con taining her advertisement—Mrs. German Reed hastens away to the City in the hope of com pleting her negotiations with the aforesaid G. L. B. Barnum, Esq., leaving Mr. German Reed, Times in hand, seated before the open piano, with a look of comic surprise in his eyes— co await the arrival, there and then, of the pro bable candidates for the office of Gouvernante. There is the " cue" of the whole Piece 1 Au obvious " cue " enough. Mrs. German Reed that Is—Miss P. Horton that was —appearing, of course, anew upon the scene in all sorts of novel lisguises as the applicants for the filling up of the " vacant-place " advertised. A Proteus in Petti coats ! A Chamelion in Crinoline ! A Female Woodin ! Anyhow you may like to express it, so _ as to afford the most vivid notion conceivable of a SEAFORD, SUSSEX.—On Saturday last, at midday, this series of total and rapid transformations. Plea- town was visited by a terrible storm from the south .tant, charming Mrs. German Reed, no longer—. w est. The lightning was sev erer th an h as b een seen for many years, and incessant fla s h es li t up t h e b ay d ur i ng our artiste, step s f or th f rom b e hi n d t h e side-scenes a spice of ten minutes. Three men employed in dress entirely a nd al mos t distressingly " transalogri. ing the stone in Mr. Thotiaas Ade's mill were struck by find." Dowdyfied acidulated and prae er l e o u for i na half the electric fluid, and frightfully b urn t. I t i s suppose d matical, as one Mi ss Lucret i a Mint, a drab thatithhe steel instrument in us e . for this pu r po se a tt racte d dressed spinster, w ith a po k e b onnet and a remained lt t e ofa . lly un y co w ns c us p an hour a ter and dressed spinster, with a poke bonnet and a remained totally uncon scious for half an hour alter the green veil, and the reddest imaginable tip to the accident. They are, we are glad to say, now doing well, leanest possible nose Altogether spiteful, waspish, but it was at first feared they would be deprived of the and in every way, as Dogberry hath it, " very n o s eof thei h r asd l e t e wa w s o a uo m d ir i acle nh th e y were not killed. tolerable and not t o b e en d ure d . " Another while, wis e r, man much scor w ch e ed ; p another ssuffteres f e r c o k m , aan dwound h er n Mrs. German Reed is hocus-poeus'd before the the side and breast. The third has not been so greatly footlights, in the rather more portly and decidedly damaged. Their outer clothing was little injured, and more agreeable, though at the same time be it in blackened, a case n w where e otherthe stockings dam ao,e than are a hle ho burst tt to shreds is d i and said, the horribly vulgarised--tawdry—free-and- verable in the t rous ers. The m ill s t an d s intact, and easy character of Mrs. Carrickfergus O'Connelly. sulphurous odour in the loft alone tells of the visitation. Speaking with a brogue of preternatural breadth ! Some fishermen in the boat-house on the b eac h h a d a Clad in chintz of th e ver y l ou d est pattern ! Help- doornarro a w nd es w ca e p n e t . offTahgealiinghattanoinganeonhteorrehdatohgroiog up withughtheoena ing herself to wine, to a chair, to anything and report like that of a pistol. The end of a rope, as if everything, with a relish of delightful self- dipped in gunpowder, witnesses to the fact of fire. possession ! And yet after all quitting the Beane w D e l a NNER IN e H i O ti NQIIR t OF h S t IR H ill o a u ff s e T r o d er i ST h Bw r AßT atifi --. ca when she finds s h e h as altogether Wei in wi n - tion t r o e a s l u l r o e ur w rea n der re s, a w e h w en a we w announce tnat g Admiral ning from Mr. Reed the covetted place of Sir Houston Stewart, K C. 8., yesterday cordially ac governess (for her dau g ht er ) w i t h a snap of the cepte d an i nv i tat i on, a dd resse d to by 1 fingers and a general i nso l ence of demeanour king the the request of anumbe a r t a public dinner in of our tow worthy to the full, we mi g ht say , e i ther of Bil- Greenock th ock e plineaosrudreer o f his company affor the citiz-ns an opportunity lingsgate or of Donnybrook Afterwards, on of giving expression to the feelings of respec t and kind cometh—sweepingly, sailin g ly, a wa lki ng balloon n's which they entertain for him personal ly, and their of petticoats, or rather it should b e sa id a veritable a app d reciation and T admiration admiral's his services to our Queen long and close con • moving parachutein crinoline—Claudine Delacour, nn e t ioo country . w with hGreenock, e ga and his valuable labours in the in the Extreme (literally) of the Fashion ! Scarcely Black Sea combine to give peculiar i h ntere h st ve to he t e h a e able to squeeze in at the doorway 1 Unable to meeting. In all parts of t t h h e e co u ti h n i t i r o y s t ense of gratitude a opportunities of expressing find room for herself in an ordinary chair ! En -bled the • this to the soldiers who fought an d in war , sconcing herself at last upon an ample settee, and will be, we believe, the first banquet in honour of the hiding it entirely by the sweep of her portentous navy ; and a large seaport like Greenock a. i is most o a m P apparel ! Claudine Delacour, who is up to every- Ip reprint imeot th ey o haves it so well dose a v y e d o! r Our e r s eaders are thing—makes herself perfectly at home with aware that, since Sir Houston's return from the Black everybody—.—has be e n, in a manner so to speak, Sea, he has received from her Majesty's Government everywhere ! "Been up Monte Rosa ? Thought t t h h eh e ir,rth American a n d West Indian sta t i on —t h e and impor t ant command of the fleet on p you hadn't—/ have !" " Climbed to the to of highest mark o f con fid ence which they coul d bestow the Groat Pyramid, before breakfast ? Thought upon him. As we believe it impossible to say when the you hadn't—/ have !" " Gone down in a ' admiral may receive orders to assume his command, diving-bell ? Thought you hadn't—/ have will t d h . er n e e f r o ries b t e o o t e a e k e e s e p a l r a y ce for ur, a o l n l w F b r o ida w 3i e n b e t ic o t, be an p d re t . And so on, in regard to all sorts of sur- sent to give early intimation of their intention. It will prising situations ! At last she too goes off be seen that a preliminary meeting is to be held at noon to-day to make arrangem e nts.—G reenoc k Ad v ertiser of in spite of the nar row d oorways — sweep i ng away with her, as she goes, a gold watch and a few Frjcl4l. ACCIDENT TO THE PENINSULAR .AND ORIENTAL COM other trifles of that kind—proving herself, in point PANT'S STEAM-SHIP Azor,—SOUTHA.SIFTON, Sunday.— of fact, a Prig, both in her proceedi ngs an d i n h er Th e steam - sh i p C leopatra arrived at; Devonport early deportment ! Yet another adventurer (husband this morning, and for4arded intelligencte to So ; tha i m os p oa t l oi r i of the last-mentioned) is pr esen t e d t o v i ew a by Oriental telegraph that she had steam - sh i p f I en in A withzifl t o he 0 miles north few moments afterwards by Mrs. G erman Reed and, west of Cape Company ' s Finisterre, leaky and in. a sinking state. under the extraordinary half-length disguise of,:j. The Cleopatra placed six marines on board her, an d re one AL e Viscomte Fanfaronnade--voluble in m a in e d by her four days, having left " t a h er m at to 7 nThe o'clock French-E ng li s h as we m i g ht f anc y M. d e Florae company ye s terday'smeourpoei r u i g nt e e e nd her t cuss eain Sot' Engledue, imni a would b e if su dd en ly c h ange d i n t o a so r t o f in- diately ordered the steam-ship Madr id, Captain Brad dignant demirep of a Prince de Moncontour ! sha,w, to be got ready, and procee..l il.ll search of the After the withd rawa l o f w hich same M. L e Vi s - i A li z e of . , az to of render her hampton any as o si o st t a h n e ce esth :lost., eosmti-ght very require, deep ly o a Mute de Fanfaronnade re-appears upon laden, t t k teup a temporary sonic,' from - Mauritius to I the scene Mrs. German Reed herself, Aden. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Saturday evening the Beethoven performance took place, and a large assemblage of visitors were present. The attendance was hardly so vast as upon the occasion of the Mendelssohniau night, but still it was immense, and the audience of the same earnest and enthusiastic character. Although many hundreds were present the attention given to the works of the great master, which constituted the first part of the concert, was close and profound. No audience, even at the Philharmonic, could have exhibited superior interest, or manifested their delight more unequivocally. A curious change is this compared with the state of the popular feeling a few years ago, when Beethoven was a sealed book, or if opened, only to be listened to with endurance or impa tience. The programme began with the " Leonora " overture, which was very finely and picturesquely played, with a force and brilliancy that left nothing to be de sired. But one of the most interesting events of the evening was the first movement of the violin concerto. this was so admirably performed by M. Sainton, with such richness of tone, grandeur of style, and suggestive ness of expression, as not only to enrapture the " pro menaders " thoroughly, but to make it clear that the remainder of the concerto might have been given with out the slightest probability of its being felt tedious. Many as have been the exponents of this matchless concerto—the only one that emanated from the pen of Beethoven —none that we remember have ever ren dered it with the vigour and beauty of the distin guished French violinist, whose renown has not been earned without the amplest reason, for he has all the essentials that appertain to pure classical play ing. Another of the most striking incidents of the selection was the pianobrte concerto in E fiat— entrusted to Miss Arabella Goddard—who also occu pies a proud pre eminence as an illustrator of these large and magnificent inspirations of genius. The whole of the concerto was vouchsafed in this instance. Miss Goddard executed it with extraordinary finish. No work ever written for the pianoforte presents a greater variety of difficulties than this ; but our clever Engli sh artiste overcame them, as she does everything of the same sort, with the most consummate realiness, infusing at the same time into the music all its appropriate sentiment indicative of the supreme mastery which she has acquired over the instrument, and indicative also of the high and cultivated quali ty of her taste. The performance, in a word, was exquisitely interesting, notwithstanding the somewhat rough and unequal style in which it was ac companied. Miss Goddard was universally applauded at the termination, and was resummoned into the orches tra to receive further praises. And honestly she deserved them. The symphony in A closed the programme. Miss Dolby was the vocalist. This able and conscientious singer gave an impassioned reading of that fine burst of gloomy despondency, "In qoesta tomba," and was loudly encored. Her other songs were, "youthful towers," and "The wakened earth." In the course of z.be evening the quaint "Chorus of Dervishes" was per formed, but with faint and imperfect effect. SURREY THEATRE. A young lady, stated in the bills to be "of great pro. vincial celebrity," appeared as Juliet in Sbakspere's play on Saturday night at this theatre. The debutante is tall and well formed, and in many personal respects is well qualified for the stage. That she had considerable experience is betrayed in the ease with which she moves, and the knowledge which she seems to have acquired of the traditions of the art. The impression Miss Leslie made upon the house was unquestionably favourable. The excellence of her efforts in the tomb scene, the quiet misery of which was eminently judicious, and the general appropriateness of her elocu tion, were not unobserved. Miss Leslie, in a word, proved herself more than once to be an actress of inter ligence and discernment ; and in parts where the loftier aspects of the drama are concerned she is likely to take position. She was louJly complimentsl at the close of the play, and received an encouraging ovation before the curtain. In speaking highly of this lady, it will be sufficient explanation that she is a niece of the late Mrs. Warner, and entitled to a warm welcome even under circum stances less favourable. We may also mention that a short provincial engagement has to be concluded, and that Miss Leslie will, wa trust, become a permanent addition to the London boards. Mr. Creswick sustained the part of Romeo with more than his usual ability. Throughout the whole of the tragedy there was an absence of point•making, which cannot be too highly commended ; and, taken as a whole, the delineation of the character may justly be termed the effort of a scholar and a gentleman. Mr. Shepherd was the diercutio, Mr. Riad Potter the Friar Laurence, and Mrs. Moreton Brookes the Nurse—all of whorls were respectable. LATEST YEWS. NAPLES, DEC. 13. The soldier who attempted to assassinate the King was hanged this morning. It is alleged against him that he was an insur gent in 1848, was amnestied in 1852, and entered the army by means of forged papers. All is quiet. MARSEILLES, DEO. 4. Despatches from Constantinople of December 4 have arrived. The English Queen's messenger has been robbed of his despatches. The papers speak of letters from Herat, written after the taking of that town. The Neuchatel question appears to be assum ing a more serious aspect. The Prussian Govern ment is said to have communicated a note to the French Cabinet, and no doubt to the other parties to the Protocol of 1852, intimating that as diplomatic negotiations have been of no avail in bringing the Federal Government of Svfitzerland to a sense of their injustice, and as no amicable arrangement was any longer to be hoped, the King had resolved on trying other measures in defence of his rights as Prince of Neuchatel. His Majesty is no doubt apprehensive of disclosures which may be produced during the trial of the prisoners. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The royal mail steam ship Niagara, Captain Wickman, arrived in the Mersey this morning, with advices from Boston to the 3d, and Halifax to the sth inst. She brought 61 passengers and 415,600 dole. in specie. The Arabia arrived at Halifax on the 3d instant. The Niagara brings the President's Message. The President commences by remarking that in performing the constitutional duties of giving Congress information on the state of the Union, he does not do it merely to express his personal convictions, but as the executive minister of the Government, called upon to scan impartially the interests of the whole country. The condition of these great inter ests, the steady progress in private and public well-being, attests the predominant spirit of intelligence which has characterised the Ame rican people. Since the last session a Presidential election has taken place, the explicit and sole act of the sovereign authority of the Union. It is impos sible to misapprehend the great principles which the people have sanctioned and sustained. They have asserted the constitutional equality of the States and the citizens, whatever region or wher ever their birth, and proclaimed their devotion to rights of the different sections of the Union. In doing this\ they have condemned emphatically the idea of organising in the United States mere geographical parties. The pretences put forth to justify such unor ganisation are examined at length, and the con. sequences to which it inevitably leads are forcibly portrayed. The long series of aggressions against the con stitutional rights of one-half the States are next reviewed—the first step in the question of negro emancipation ; the second step in the proceedings relative to the extradition of fugitive slaves ; the third stage the question relating to the organisa tion of territorial governments. In connection with the latter is the Kansas question. The Message vindicates in a strong and unanswerable manner the action of Congress in relation to the organisation of the Nebraska and Kansas territories; goes over the causes of the dif ficulties in the latter, which were not owing to the provisions of organic law, but to the unjust inter ference of persons not inhabiting the territory. Such interference, wherever it has exhibited itself by acts of an insurrectionary character, or of obstructions to processes of law, has been repelled or suppressed by all the means which the con stitution and the law placed in the hands of the executive. The President states that he has no power to interfere in local elections to see to their freedom, to decide on the legality of the votes ; he has no more power in the territories than ho has in the States. If he had such power the Government might be republican in form, but it would be a monarchy in fact ; and if he had undertaken to exercise it in the case of Kansas he would have been justly subject to the charge of usurpation, and of violation of the dearest rights of the people of the United States. This very able portion of the Message closes by expressing the confident trust, that as the restored peace in Kansas affords opportunity for wise legislation, either the Legislative Assembly of the territory or Congress will see that no act shall remain on its statute-book violative of the constitution, or subversive of the objects for which it was ordained, and will take all other necessary steps to assure to its inhabitants the enjoyment, without obstruction or abridgment, of all the c onstitutional rights of citizens of the United States, as con templated by the organic law of the territory.T The financial exhibit is a proud one. The for the here ceipts into the Treasury, from al sou e 76, 918,141 fiscal year ending July 1 , 1855, dol., which, with the balanceTwhteehex r en in hand, peuditure, a m o u n ted to 92,250,117 dol. üblic debt 01. p, was including 12,776,390 d 72,948,79 2 del- The total of the i public debt i s now reduced to 30,737,129 ci 0., the whole o f which m ight be paid in one year without embar rassment t o the public service, but being not yet due, the Government cannot press the holders of stock to par t with it. The annual exp en dit ures for the past five years have been 48,000,000 dol., and the average expenditures for the next five years need not exceed this amount. Now the revenue from Customs has reached the great figure of 64,000,000 dol., and the President recommends such a revision of revenue laws, according to the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, as will prevent the receipts from the Customs from exceeding 50,000,000 dol. These are facts that speak volumes to old world Governments. The army during the past year has found constant employment against the Indians in the Oregon and Washington territories, and with so much r u th ch e effect as to warrant the hope of peace future. Additional legislation is renewedly re commended to remedy defects in organisation, and to increase the military armament. The navy ex hibits most gratifying evidence of increased vigour, the execution of the law of 1855 t o promote its efficiency having been attended with advantageous results. Suggestions are made for its further i m p rove ment. The sales of the public lands lasi ) year amounted to 9,227,878 acres, yielding 8,821,414 dols. The whole number of acres locat ed were 30,100;230- -Various improvements sug gested by the Secretary of the Interior are recom mended. The Post-office expenditure for the past year was 10,407,868 do's., the receipts 7,620 801 dols., the deficit 2 ,787,045 dols. This deficit is ascribed to the law of 1854, gi ving increased compensation to postmasters, to the increase of mail routes a n d railroad service, and the reduced rates of postage. Recommendations are made of new mail contracts on the routes to the Pacific. The Message then treats of our foreign relations, and states that the United States are on terms of amity with all other nations. The relations with Great Britain are of a satisfactory character. The enlistment question is settled. A treaty just concluded by the Minister in London, if ratified, will settle the Central Americau question. The exports to Canada last year exceeded those of the year previous by 7,000,000 dols., and im ports 6,000,000 dols., there is now an export and import trade of 42,000,000 dols. The efforts made to relieve our trade to the Baltic from the Sound dues have not been suc cessful ; but the strong appeal made by Den mark for temporary suspension of definite action was acceded to, upon the condition that the sums collected for a year, from June 16, 1856, should be matter of future adjustment. With Spain there had been new difficulties, and no adjustment of old ones. The circum stances are detailed attending the submission of the question to the European powers, that private property, except it be contraband, shall be exempt from seizure by public vessels. This proposition, which has been submitted to the maritime powers, has not been rejected by any, and is favourably entertained by all, and Russia has explicitly approved of it, and will co operate in getting the assent of the powers. Such is the aspect of negotiations as to warrant hope that the principal feature in its character, so just and equal in its operations, so essential to the prosperity of commercial nations, and so consonant to the sentiments of this enlightened period of the world, will command the approbation of all mari time powers, and thus be incorporated into the code of international law. The relations between this country and Mexico, Nicaragua, and New Grenada continue to be embarrassed by these fre quent revolutions. Mexico continues to refuse reparation for past injury. Diplomatic intercourse is suspended between this country and Nicaragua, because of the difficulty of deciding upon the de facto Government, and the most serious questions have arisen with New Grenada growing out of its recent tonnage and postage laws, the latter of which, the imposition of three dollars on every pound of mail matter going across the Isthmus would take 2,000,000 dollars annually from our citizens, in addition to the sum paid by the Panama Railroad Company. As these laws violate treaty stipulations it will be a duty to resist their execution. In addition to these complaints is the demand for reparation on New Grenada, for injury done to our citizens in the recent riot. So precarious is protection to life and property there, that we have a naval force in those waters which it would not be prudent to withdraw until these questions are settled. The Message closes with congratulations on the peace, greatness, and felicity which the United States now enjoy. We have reached the stage of the national career when dangers and efforts are incidents, not of weakness, but of strength. In our foreign relations we have to temper our power to the less happy condition of neighbouring republics, and to place ourselves in the conscious dignity of right, by the side of European em pires. In our domestic relationships we are to guard against the internal shocks of interest and ambition which are the natural results of our political elections. The President closes with the expression of profound gratitude to the good Providence which has carried the country though many difficulties, and enabled him to contemplate the spectacle of amicable and respectful relations between ours and all other Governments, and the establishment of constitutional order and tranquillity through out the Union. FRANCE. The Monit eur o f y es t er d a y p u bli s h es th e follow ing : 1 ' On Saturday, at one o'clock, the Emperor re viewed in the Court of the Tuileries, and on the Place du Carrousel, nine regimentb of the line and three battalion s of Chasseurs pied. who went through the Crimean campaign. The regiments were the 7th, 10th, 11th, 35th, 46th, 47th, 79th, 95th, and 96th, and the Ist, 4th, and 7th battalions of Chasseurs. "All these troops were commanded by Marshal Magnan, having under his orders Generals of Division Bourgon and de Ladmirault. " His Majesty was accompanied by his Royal highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, by• Marshals Valliant, 13araguay d'Hilliers, Canrobert, and Bosquet, by Generals Niel and Fleury, and by the Prussian officers of the Prince's suite. " A detachment of the Ceut Gardes and a de tachment of the Guides brought up the rear of the Imperial cortege. ' 1 The Empress, surrounded by the officers and ladies of her household, witnessed the review from the balcony of the Salle des Marechaux. " After having passed along the front of each line the Emperor, followed by his cortege, placed himself with his Royal Highness in front of the Pavillon de I'Horloge. " His Majesty then ordered the flags of the dif ferent regiments and battalions to be 'collected to gether, and in presence of these glorious colours, torn to shreds by grapeshot, he with his own hands distributed medals to the men. " The troops then filed off in columns by divi sions with remarkable precision and ensemble amid unanimous shouts of Vivo l'Empereur Vivo l'lmperatrice !' " During the review the Prince Imperial, who was leaving the Tuileries, passed the ough the lines of the soldiers, who loudly cheered him." RUSSIA AND PERSIA. The Nord of Brussels contains a leading article on the recent statement that a Russian army, 50000 strong, was prepared to march on the Persian fron tiers. The Nord, whilst expressing its doubt of this intelligence, alludes to an artiecle in the trede aty. of Gulistan, wherein Russia engagd herself to fend Persia in any case of urgent necessity, and it thus states the intentions of the Russian govern meat :—" Doubtless th e Shah of Persia might, in the event of his being attacked, claim the execu tion of Article 4 of the treat y of Gulistan, and we are convin ced that Russia would exercise ll her infl uen ce in order to establish a good under standing, in which all parties have an equal stake, We, moreover, believe that this result is flow what could — she -- is seeking to bring about at Teheran. Th menace which is said to be directed against R,., 1 ,,, e land by Russia on the Persian frontiers therefore alone become a reality ' England forgetting her ancient in the event of friendship towards Persia, and relations of good the latter a threatening and ' h maintaining towards and then alone, do we believehostile attitude. Then be forced to fill with loyalty that Russia might ' part which England has pretended to play in the respect to the Sultan." NEUCHATEL. BERLI DEC 11. The Neuchatel affair progresses very slowly; and, " like a wounded snake, drags itsslow length along." Herr von Sydow, the representative of Prussia, has received orders to withdraw to Signaringen, where he occupies a post in connection with the ad ministration of the Principality of llohenzollern. This withdrawal of the Prussian Representative is, however, not a diplomatic recall, but serves only to show to Switzerland that as long as the prisoners are not released Prussia cannot treat ; the personnel of the Prussian mission at Berne are still there. About a week back the Representatives of France and Russia, in conformity with the example of those of Austria, Bavaria, and Baden, made fresh represeil_ tations to the Federal Government of the danger and impolicy of the course it had adopted, and renewed their remonstrances for the liberation of the prisoners. The Federal Council refused again to listen to these well-meant representations of the foreign Governments, and in so doing was backed and encouraged by our diplomatic representative there. The next step that this Government will take is to present a report to the German Buud, showing what little effect its cumulative representations have had in Berne, and this report, backed with similar and corroborative reports from the Governments of Austria, Bavaria, and Baden, will then probably be referred to a committee to consider what further steps the Bund may find it expedient to take in the matter. The Nord contains the following :—" Russia being thus far the only power which has a resident minister at Pekin, .France, England, and th e United States also wish to hav e representat i ves there. With that view, the French, English, and American governments have combined an expedi tion. A flotilla, composed of some of the flat bottomed French vessels from the Black Sea, is about to join the French squad ron i n th e China Seas, and to penetrate into the interior of China. Ministers will be established by fair means or by foul Empero r o f Chi na h as such need protectioneinThe against the insurgents who for at of Pk some years past have been threatening his throne, so that he will perhaps be glad to place himself under the protection of the mariti me powers of Europe and America. This will be a new step towards the opening of China to modern civilisa tion." The Phare de la ivanche of Cherbourg state that the Russian squadron will shortly leave that port for the Mediterranean, and after stopping some rime at Genoa, will disperse for the service of the Russian legations at Naples, Athens, Constanti nople, and Alexandria. It is said that the Grand Duke Constantine, who is to join his mother at Nice, will visit the coast of Italy in the screw line of battle ship, the Viborg. The French officers who gave the ball to the Russian ►flicers having a sum of 600 fr. left after all expenses had been paid divided it among the different charitable institutions of the town. During the last few days a heavy gale from the S.S.E. had been blowing, and from 70 to bO vessels bound to the westward had put in at Cherbourg from stress of weather. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. By the Niagara, whten. left 13 , ,5t0n on the 3a we have received the following additional intelligence : Con — great , assembled on the Ist. In qualifying its newly-elected members, the House repo,.ted Mr. Whitfield, the delegate from Kansas. The Illinois had arrived at New York with the California mails and $2,000,000 in sreeie. The advices report that sufficient returns of the election, had been received to warrant the belief that Mr. Buchanan had carried the State by 6,000 over Fillmore and by a much greater number over Fremon t. The Governor had withdrawn his proclamation declaring the city of San Francisco in a state of siege, and the Vigilance Committee had surrendered the captured State arms. Two opposing parties of Chinese, numbering in all upwards of 2,000, had been engaged in a battle near Mound Spring, on the Sonora road. Advices received in New York state that the difference between Great Britain and the New Granadian Government bad been settled. Advices from Kansas report the escape of 39 Vree State prisoners at Lecompton. The New York Herald now speaks of the " Anglo-American alliance on Central American questions." The British residents in Bogota had petitioned Lord Clarendon not to carry out the Mackintosh claim blockade. The Royal mail steamship Dee, from Grey Town, had arrived at Aspinwall. Her advices de scribe Nicaragua as being quiet, and contradicts the report of a contemplated blockade by the San Juan River, by Walker's troops. He had been rein forced, and occupied San Carlos and Seraguina. In the port of Aspin wall, at anchor, were her Majesty's ships Orion and Arrogant and one gun boat. It was reported at Cuba that General Concha had been reappointed Captain-General for a term of three years. Trade was active. Sugar was firm. Exchange on London, 2i to 2/ pm. H.M.S. Atalanta was in port. The Solent left on the 25th for Vera Cruz. From Mexico we learn that Vidaurri and Garza had fought a battle near Mon teroy ; the latter was totally defeated. General Gandara had captured the town of nor casi tag. Costa Rica accounts state that President Mora was again elected. All the war bonds issued dur ing the struggle against Walker were to be paid in na ional money. Congress had voted a sum in order to carry on the next campaign, and a special envoy had been sent to Peru and Chili, in order to perfect the allied league against Walker. Nearly 3,000 ino o were about to embark at Realejo for the purpose of reinforcing the allied army. The weal her was fine, and the coffee crop of Costa Rica promised to be large. The New York commercial advices state that, con rary to expectation, the Bank statement s howed a diminution of specie to the extent of $BOO,OOO. The last arrival from California will appear in the statement of the week following. There was steady business doing at their stock board, and an advance in prices, which, however, was scareelY sustained at the second board. Money was quite easy at 7 to 8 per cent. on ca ll, and abundant facilities for negotiating first-class paper. Sterling exchange was heavy at 109 to 1. 09, 1* Bills on Paris were quoted sf. 20c. to sf. 1 8 t e ' Cotton, which had been firm, closed dull. The flour market was heavy, and prices without altera tion. Provisions were nominal. Tobacco was quiet. Iron firm, with sales of Scotch pig a t 4' dols. to 30 dols. Freights were steady a t 1918 t quotation. NEW YORK, THURSDAY EVENING, DU G ' , 4 ,;, The European news telegraphed from lia, l '7 was published here this morning, but it b a "..% effect on cotton, flour, or corn ; wheat, howev e r - slightly lower. There is no later from the southern markets. The Arago is not yet arrived. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, 2 A.M. The Washington, with the American mail, and advices from New York to and inclusive of the 29th ult., has arrived. Cotton market firm. Fl ou r firm, with a good demand ; freights easier. From Northern Mexico we learn that Vidaurri and Garza were e ngaged in a pitched battle on the 10th ult. The forces of the latter were completely rea l c t h is ed v President put his Message i n t o th e hands of ro u T t h e e d . en a c v o a l n u the printers o n the 28 ult. of importance. D a tes from uersyulpentogthohe 26th ult. Nothing oc N cu e p w y s in fro se m v Santa Fe to the 25th wt. The Indians were qui et. The barque Thr ee B the East Indles . Broth ers , from New York t , has been wrecked. A ship id o New Orleans o t for Walker's n the 26th ult., with 300 recr uit° army. No news of Le L yonnaise. THIS AM 5 RIC AAT MAILS. 1 - SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY EIENINC 1 aft e rnoon W e ereg roefttthoe United announce States' the mail l u s r t n e a m to s steamship this t rrratuttahoila which left Southampton with the English, French, a n d German mails for New York on the 3d inst. The Hermann has encountered the most terrific w, es ; ther in th e Atl an ti c , the wind for most part of the bill_ blowing a perf e ct hurricane, accompanied by Bess Vnuo ning literally mountains high. When abou t 900 or Luen miles from S iutbampton, the ship labouring heavily .T: but just able to make headway against the gale, ins! centre shaft qi:rrying the side levers of one of the eng!_; - . broke, and the shock damaged the piston of the pc . rt . ' l ., gine, entirely disabling it, thus making theshipeon?iryt del:Kndent upon the power of the remaiuing en e,, is a most providential circumstance that the perfgeiacti; pli , ie Rrevailing on board the Hermann and in the jury department caused this serious disaster to be ofnonaivic to theship. The slightest delay in ungearing an d t PV re the n i m n g a c e h n i g n i e n r e y , a would e probably ship wo wou l d i dhavebap s left thtea the of fc the broken mercy of the waves ; as it was, the wreck e bead o f t he machine was quickly disengaged, and th w ith one ship put about for Southampton, steam i' g engine driving both paddlewheels, rgo has 815. It is believed that neither the p ca d a teatimes tamed damage. The passengers have s ign 'admiration of nial to Capt. Higgins, expressing his skill and conduct in the trying he had been placed , will be forwarded from this The mails and passengers __ h -United States' mail steamer port on Wednesday bY Le of the cargo, which consists Fulton tons, after a surTy French, German, and British of 650 of valuable cirtchuemirstances in which company, will be taken by the ag ents of the merchand i se, measures and C o ,, to co n vey it to its Messrs. Cr oske y d es ti na ti on without un nec e ssar y delay. •••..m mm...- • THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LWERPOOL, Saturday.-- The British and North American Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Capt. J. Leitch, sailed at 11 o'o.ock steam The for the for New York with the usual mails and vices for the United States and British North American pro vinces, 60 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight. CAPE MAILS.—The following notice was issued from the General Post-office on Saturday, viz. of Good Hope and Tne Ireland, which sailed from Dat' mouth on the 10th inst., has put into Plymouth Sound to repair damage, and, as she is expected to sail agai° on Sunday, the 14th inst., Landopementary mail for the Cape will be made up in ,to be forwarded . , by this evening's post." AUSTRALIAN MAILS. —The European and Australia° Company's steamer European left Southampton 00 Sa' turday with the Australian mails, and about 70 paaEl ti e r®. The mails consisted of 218 sacks of letters ae tie wspapers. There were 85 sacks for Melbourne, 45 for Sydney, 26 for Adelaide, 12 for Geelong, 17 for A r a a „ Diernen's Land, 9 for Auckland, 11 for Wellingbon• v for Launces ton, and 3 for King George's Sound, --The Royal Mail C om p any's steamer Atrato, Capt. WoolleYl with the nelrt,outward West India mail, leaves ou Wed" aesday. The Magdalena, Capt. Abbott, with the home ward mails from the %Vest Indies, is due on Tue-,daY• b y Highness Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, accompanied by Sir John Logan, embarked from the Docks yester day on board the Royal yacht Fairy, Master-Coro wander Welch, on a visit to her Majesty at Osborne. Captain Crispin was in attendance on the Prince. TEE EXECUTIONER OF PALMER.—George Smith, w ll . O execu ted Palmer, has become insolveiat. H e filed Ws ' pet i t i o n on Friday, and was thus described .—" Georgeia Saab, lace of Oakham, in the par ish of Rowley Reg in the county of Stafford, in lo d g ings, labourer,drover, ca ttle salesman, and public elc eut i one r for the con Stafford."l:lty 01