The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

j Et 0Y AL EN GLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING. and during the Week, Balfe's New Xezendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE miss Louisa PraC, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, J. Wharton, Hi d , A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T. j)istin, Lyall, W. Harrison. With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle irmin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Moleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, 3tdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. J.amoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T ITEATRI3-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lssmee, Mr. J, B. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING the rtertortnotwee. will Ampule/1.0 with Irby desiriSHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Nardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone. After which. a new Pantomime. QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.--, Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. TUTS EVENING, the, performance% will commence with RUY BLAS. Messrs. Fechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray nond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday. and the King. of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Soie Lessee and t Directress, Madame CELESTE. TM'S EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH 'EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vinintr. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, and John Drew; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart, and Mrs..T. Rouse. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing THE VISION OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE, Larry Hoolagan, Mr:John Drew. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, „F`k Sole Proorletor and Manaver, Mr. Bent Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Hiss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Beneicault, D. 'Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. 14ie...1m J. L. Toole. P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly , Laidlaw, and V. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 6. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 Is. ; Family Boxes, Al. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, -FA- Proprietor and Manaeer, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Immense success of the Pantomime. Re-engagement of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions. A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Fridap, Jan. 25, rommencinz at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding with the Lions.' This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World. " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr, J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE. WONDERFUL HORSE: or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy Kim produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comae scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Hsrlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at T. CANTERBURY -HALL PANTOMIME, " THE ENCHANTED HASH," EVERY EVENING. ENTERTAINING PEOPLE. Mr. MARSTI*L and Mr. BELL. • GOOD TEOPLE. Wildrose,l Fairies, with the usual accom- j 1 Mr. Marshall Primrose, j plishments. Mr. Bell. COMMON PEOPLE. Farmer Thickhead (a husbandman, with a Wife and Child, who make a fool of him) 'fir. Bell. Giles Gosling (the mysterious Orphan, who runs after every Miss, and afterwards Harlequin)Mr. Marshall. Dame Thickhead (who. having worn out the breeches, takes to Pantaloons) .. „Mr. Bell. Dolly (the bell of the village, which Giles in tends to ring the—changes to Columbine)..Mr. Marshall. BAD PEOPLE,. ITowleygrowley,l Demons of the blackest dye Mr. Marshall Growleyhowley, 5 and brightest Magenta. j Mr. BalL COMIC PEOPLE. harlequin Mr. F. BELL. Columbine Mr. E. MARSHALL. Clown •. • .. • Pantaloon Seene, CANTERBURY (that's) HALL !—Time A.D. 1881, a 1 half-past nine. Mr. B. A pack of nonsense ! Mr. M. What we want— Mr. B. Pooh ! pooh ! The idea! a Pantomime played by two ! HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 53m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 11h. !9m.—Afternoon, 11h. 46m. THE WEATHER.—Surr OFFICM, JAN. 22, 1561. THZ/LMOMETEIt, IN TUN SHADE. 44—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. _ • BAROMETER-30.43. WlND—Viresterly—rather fresh ; with cold, dull weather, LONDON, TUESDAY, lAN. 22, 1861. We learn from a long report in the Northern Whig that the town of Derry has been the scene of another of those disgraceful disturbances for which the Orangemen have become so notorious, and so infamous. The occasion was as inexcusable an one as could well be conceived ; but, nothing seems to come amiss to these semi -barbarians, if they can but make it the opportunity for the most brutal and violent displays of their party zeal. Mr. PEEL DAWSON, the county member, had kindly consented to deliver a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute in the place, on " The Historical and Antiquarian Remini scenees of the city and county of Londonderry," and it will appear surprising that a topic so congenial with the locality, and the non-party character of mechanics' institutes, should not have secured a hearing, and a grateful one to any man. Bat Mr. DAWSON had, it seems, committed the unpardonable sin. After the sad affair at Derry mace* Mr. DAWSON, we are told, had spoken in Parliament, now some five months ago, "in al verse, though very temperate, terms of Orange societies and their irritating party displays." From that time he seems to have become a marked man pith the Orangeme n . A s t h ey did not re -0 pect the rank and position of the heir apparent to the Crown in Canada, nor of a Bishop in Ireland, we cannot be much surprised that a county M.P. who had been guilty of uttering a word of truth respecting the maniacal fraternity, ekould be dealt with in the approved Orange style. But certainly these hypocritical shouters for the Bible made very summary work of one of its plainest precepts—for, instead of not " letting the sun go down on their wrath," they have had no difficulty in "keeping it warm," through five months of sun-sets, and not only warm, but boiling. No sooner, it seems, was Mr. DAWSON'S inten tion to deliver the lecture known, than the leaders of the Orange mob began to devise measures to in vade and take possession of the hall in which the lecture was to be delivered ; and partly by means of forged orders, partly by means of a crush, they succeeded in packing the hall with apprentice boys and Orangemen. When the Mayor, who presided, and the lecturer entered, they found the place already well filled with an audience evidently bent on mischief. "As soon," we arc told, "as the front door opened, the building was almost immediately filled by a crowd, of whom the most prorrcinent were well-known apprentice boys and Orangemen. Their excited looks gave promise of comiag disturbances as they pressed up close to the platform. Some confusion took place at the door, it having been discovered that some of the admi3sion tickets were forgeries. At eight o'clock the hall was literally crammed, the audience being principally composed of Orangemen, the apprentice boys, and their sympathisers. They generally stood on the seats, and Ittausttd themselves by shouting, clapping hands,' &c. A local celebrity, Paddy Gaol,' a poor, half-witted lad who runs about the streets, was got on his legs to make a speech, and for some time harangued the audience, amid great cheering and laughter." Such were the promising auspices under which the business of the meeting began; it was only to be expected that when the offender himself made his appearance, the disturbance should become ' " fast and furious." Several ladies were with him as well as gentlemen, but the report says, in pro ceeding up to the platform, the honourable mem ber was received with cheers and counter cheers, and tremendous groaning, mingled with cries of " Lift him, lift him!" meaning to carry him bodily off his feet. " Take Governor WALKER'S coat off him," and " put him out," were also liberally shouted, with cheers, groans, catcalls, cock-crow ing, cries of order, and noises of every descrip tion—stamping of feet, rapping of sticks, ringing of bells, and the shrieks of a railway whistle. Most of the " audience" got up on the chairs. But how shall we describe the meeting itself dur ing the lecture; perhaps it might be su'fficient to say that the beginning, middle, and end were alto gether in keeping, for sheer senseless noise and vulgar cries of every description were continued with ever renewed vigour; and all in spite of attempts to soothe, to provoke to laughter, to enlist their sense of propriety, if they had anything of that quality, or, on the part of the Mayor, to threaten them with his civic displeasure. One person endeavoured to persuade them that they were respectable and gentlemen, bat they well knew better than that, and only laughed :at the courteous untruth. Others appealed to the fair fame of Derry, but they thought their conduct quite worthy of Derry boys; wherein they assuredly formed a perfectly correct estimate of themselves. The Mayor singled out one prominent disturber, and informed him that he recognised him as Mr. JOHN ROULSTONE, but Mr. ROULSTONE seemed to have no objection to being recognised as the fugleman to the apprentice boys. The Lecturer, who kept his temper admirably throughout,—and who conquered in so far as, that, without any show of perturbation, he read the whole lecture—tried various tricks on his part to coax them into quietness; now he had a funny story or two, he said, to read ; now a lady's name to dwell on ; now the great siege of Derry itself to describe ;—but tales, and ladies, and the exploits of WALKER himself were all the same to these stupid madmen ; they were enlisted to make a disturbance, to hoot, to call the hon. member all the ill names their low, but not very inventive, fancy could suggest, and never did any regiment more faithfully discharge the duties for which it was enlisted. Not satisfied indeed with hall duty, they waited and watched till the ladies, whom their fury had frightened from the platform, rejoined Mr. DAW SON, and all went together to a friend's house. These fellows, the cream of Protestantism, actually hustled and hooted the party all the way, and were with no little difficulty kept by; the police off the persons of the objects of their wrath. What strikes us first in reading such accounts as these coming so thickly on each other, is, that bad as the mobs are they are not the worst. That a set of illiterate apprentice boys and men of the I lowest order can be easily inspired to create any amount of disturbance required, unfortunately needs no proof. We have had GORDON Riots here, and but the other day BRYAN KING riots, and any man who will lend himself to such things may easily multiply such feats in any populous place. But to us it seems a most unfortunate state of society, in which persons whom we are accus tomed to speak of as respectable, and gentlemen, clergymen even, and members of Parliament, and ' county squires, and well-to-do tradesmen, can per mit themselves to belong to an institution whose actions have now become so utterly disgraceful. These persons are the life of the social nui sance of Orangeism. If they refused any longer to lend their names to it, the penniless and illiterate would soon cease to trouble themselves about the glorious memory of the founder of our Na tional Debt. It is really time that the nuisance of Orangeism were got rid of. Mr. WHITESIDE himself must think so. Law probably can do little more than it has done—the remedy is now in the hands of the noble lords and gentlemen who still hold connec tion with this social abomination. Can it need any longer time to open their eyes to the evil they are doing ? Are not half-a-dozen outrages, all within a few months, enough to warn off all persons, who have any respect for their character, from such associations ? We beg to suggest that some steps should be taken to withdraw from Orangeism all who have any position to sustain, and thus to leave the evil to die out of itself. Theoretically nothing can be better than the pre- ference of Direct for Indirect Taxation. An equitably assessed Property-tax, for example, is the very ideal perfection of the most just among all just taxes. But—the Income-tax! Particularly the Income-tax, according to its present mode of assessment ! Nothing can be more inequitable, nothing can be more unjust, nothing can be more cruel, more harsh, more injudicious, or more de moralising, than the substitution of this kind of direct taxation for that old-fashioned system of indirect taxation drawing the chief part of Ithe national revenues from Customs and Excise, or, in other words, from inappreciable imposts placed upon an immense variety of articles of more or less general consumption. Conscious of this, Mr. M'Crixocrt, one of the greatest among our recognised mercantile authori ties, has very recently—through no less conspicuous a medium than through the latest (revised) edition of that noble standard book of reference, his world famous Commercial Dictionary—Mr. M'CuLLocu (of all men !) has put forward authoritatively (recol lect it is in the last edition of his " Commercial Dictionary l" ) the following startling, and emphatic opinion of his upon—shall we say the efficacy? —no, We ought rather to say the absolute and imperative necessity f or t h e ma i ntenance of Indirect Taxation—rathe r than the substitution for it of an Income-tax as cruelly unjust as it is grindingly oppressive and flagrantly and most lamentably demoralizing. Speaking of Indirect Taxation as preferable, Mr. M'Cruoca has said—" UNLESS IT BE MAINTAINED, AND TO A VERY GREAT EXTENT TOO, A FINANCIAL CONVULSION, INVOLVING THE MOST SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES, CANNOT BE VERY FAR DISTANT !" The House of Commons will do well to bear in mind this deliberate judgment, pronounced upon a matter of the most vital importance, by no tyro in the science of political economy, but by a great master of that science, by a worthy successor of ADAM SMITH, such as TORRENS M'CULLOCH, the author of the " Commercial Dictionary." In justification of his argument, the great political economist goes on to analyse a few of the items, furnishing their quota to that aggre gate of more than half a million, the duties upon which have been repealed in the recent treaty with France —duties yielding altogether in 1859-- £573,447 ! He recalls to mind—very pleasantly of , " • t 4 . . 4, '. n " , -I . .11;41P.r" • . , •• •1 „;' reiohl w 4;7 slAr • •M ,.4 f.n. • ^ .4 tut 01. •! , •••- sir ffl ik ~ ty,„0441.41'.., THE SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY `EV_ENING, JANUARY 22, 1861. coui Ne, now that for the following remissions we have a tenp anny tax upon our incomes ! that during 1859 , in the shape of those duties now repealed—i Butteri-..produced £104,000 Cheese 49,000 Eggs Tallow* . . 85,000 . . . . 295,000 53,000 Oranges and lemons . . Silk . . Leather gloves . Artificial flowers . Musical instrument's Watches 20,000 10,000 15,000 Having enumerated which, and a variety of other duties levied upon articles of a similar charac ter—Mr. M'CtiLLocli sa)rs, "We are 'blear that not one of these articles should have been exempted from .duty." It is not Mr. BUSFIELD FERRAND, or M - r. BIISFIELD FER RAND'S ghost, who is pronouncing this opinion to us oracularly. It is Mr. M'CuLLoca who writes the words deliberately in his last edition of his great " Commercial Dictionary ;" and he adds, " The duties on butter, cheese, eggs, and tallow, were so very moderate that their influence over the prices of the articles was practically imperceptible." Observing still further- 1 ' We have yet to learn that there are any articles better fitted to be taxed than silks, gloves," and so forth, than artificial flowers, let us say ! ! or musical instruments !! ! Nay, Mr. 11PCIILLOCII goes on to lay it down axiomatically that—" No article, unless it be the raw material of a manufacture, should be allowed to be imported except under a duty of 10, or 12, or 15 per cent. This," writes Mr. MTTILLocEt, " would not only be a much safer, but also a much sounder policy than the accumulation of oppressive duties on a few leading articles"—[such, for example, as TEA or TouAcco]—" or on Income." Particularly upon INCOME mulcted to the tune of 10d. in the £1 —and this tenpence drawn from it according to the present cruel, unjust, grinding, and demoralising mode of assessment. Take into account for a moment the mere ques tion of the demoralising influence of the Income 'Mx as at present assessed. The income tax in the old war time, Mr. PITT'S income tax, the income tax raised to carry on that tremendous struggle during fifteen years against France, under the Consular and Imperial rule of the Great NAPOLEON—that old Income-tax of the famous war time went as low as incomes of £5O per annum. Our present Income tax going no lower than incomes of £lOO per annum. Well, more than half a century back, when England was already oppressed by this coarse, clumsy, brutal device of " raising the wind" for an emergency caused by the neces sities of a vast warlike expenditure—what was the result produced ? Let the currant num ber of the Quarterly answer with one trenchant sentence—a sentence that is two• edged— that cuts both ways—at our fathers and at ourselves! " Under Mr. PITT'S income tax, " writes the Reviewer, " the limit of exemption was first fixed at £6O, but it was found necessary to lower it to £5O in consequence of the extraordinary number of people whose incomes, by a strange coincidence, happened to amount to £59 10s. ! " And now with the income tax, not of Mr. PITT, but of Mr. GLADSTONE with this cruel, unjust, grinding, demoralising Income tax of tenpence in the pound—what is the calcula tion made by Mr. M'CuLLocH in regard to this ? Why, Mr. M'CuLLocEt estimates that false returns are given in by more than one half of the classes assessed under Schedule D l Mr. BABBAGE'S Cal culation, going the length of asserting that, in re gard to the same schedule D, when the income tax was fixed at 7d. in the £l, the whole schedule D, taken together, did not pay more than at the rate of Fourpence ! Authenticated instances are given, in fact, by the Quarterly Reviewer, illustrative of the flagrant character of these false returns. It is said, for example (p. 242), that "one gentleman (?) had returned £3,000 to the income tax, having actually earned £9,000 !" Another case is instanced in which—" A respectable (?) firm returned £B,BOO as their earnings in five years, having really earned £31,432 !!" But—beyond even this—" Another legal worthy," we read, "took a still higher flight of genius, and, having earned £2,000 in the year, returned £2OO to the income tax, and claimed compensation of the Treasury on an income of £3,000 !!!" These astounding contrasts, it may be observed, were brought to light in reference to the Proctors' incomes—at the time when the Proc tors of the old Probate Court sent in their claim for compensation. We all know perfectly well, besides, what the conscience money means—the conscience money sent from time to time to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from repentant letters of the alphabet ! It is a cruel system altogether : a cruel, unjust, grinding, demoralising system, and it behoves us that we should have done with it ! The recent rise in the rate of discount to seven per cent. now begins to show its ruinous conse quences on commerce, and the producing interests of the country very generally. We have so often pointed out the injurious effects of PEEL'S currency crotchets of 1844, that we shall now only direct attention to Mr. HAMER STANSFELD'S letter on the subject. It will be seen thereby that the great apostle of the Bullionists one day says that the excessive rise in the dis counts is of no consequence to people in trade while but yesterday he states that a firm of long standing has been compelled to stop payment to the tune of some £400,000 ! Now which opinion is right ? THE PRINCE OF WALES.—CAMBRIDGE, Monday. His Royal Highness, with the Hon. Major-General Bruce and Captain Grey, attended Divine service on Sunday morning at Madingley Church. The Rev. Thos. Field, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and vicar of Madingley, officiated. The church, which is within the demesne of Madingley Hall, contains many monuments to the mem bers of the Hinde and Cotton families. His Royal High ness remained at Madingley throughout the day. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.—The bulletin received from Trentham yesterday announces that "the duke is going on well, and had an excellent night." During the illness of hiti grace a despatch has been daily forwarded to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, conveying a medical report of the condition of the noble invalid. THE LATE LORD ELPHINSTONE.—This deceased nobleman, who died a few days since at Bournemouth, only succeeded his uncle, the late Governor of Bombay, in July last, in the Scottish barony. The late peer was the only son of the Hon. Admiral Chas. Fleeming Elphinstone, son of John, 11th Lord Elphinstone. He was born 11th Dec., 1819, and was unmarried. His lordship was formerly in the 17th Lancers, and at the close of the late war held the rank of Lieut.-Colonel commanding the 2d Light Dragoons of the German Legion. The deceased nobleman is suc ceeded, we believe, by Commander Wm. Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, of her Majesty's ship Hornet, now 15th Baron Elphinstone, eldest son of the late Lieut.-Colonel James D. B. F. Elphinstone, by his second marriage with Anna Maria, only child of the late Sir Edward Buller, Bart., of Trennant, Cornwall. The present peer is in his 33d year. THE RIPER STEAMBOAT TRAFFlC.—Yesterday the steamboat traffic both above and below bridge, which was totally suspended during the severe frost, was resumed, and large numbers of persons availed themselves of the accommodation, in order to avoid the muddy streets, in pegging between the City and the West-end. The half peqiny boats bad a full share of passengers, but the iron boats and those of the City Company had a decided advan• tage, in consequence of their calling at all the intermediate piers. 18 THE SEVEN PER CENT. BANK JILLYIIIfIff BATE OF DISCOUN 2 NOT AN EVIL ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. SlR,—Does the Times truly represent the times when, in its City Article of the 11th instant, it says " The absence of inconvenience with money at 7 per cent. is a subject of remark on all sides; but it would be hard for anyone to point out a reason why the existing rates should be regarded as an evil ?" Is it not inconsistent in the Times, whilst showering down blessings on the destitute, whose afflictions are aggravated by the unusual severity of the season, over which the hand of man has no control, to allow its noble exertions on behalf of suffering humanity to be counteracted by the assertions of its City Editor that a 7 per cent. rate of discount, which must inevitably increase the number of unemployed, is no evil ? Do we not find in the same columns reports from the manufacturing districts such as the following : " LBICESTER.—LittIe progress made in business for the new year. The state the money market has assumed, and the increased rate of discount, with the prospect of a still further advance before us, creates in the manufacturer a tardiness in resuming making ; therefore the operatives are to a great extent short of employment. There is no giving way either in the yarn or wool markets, which are at pre sent uninfluenced by these causes.—Leicester Journal ?" Is it no evil for manufacturers to be obliged to discharge their work people, because, with money at 7 per cent., manufacturing is not remunerative ? Is it no evil for the operatives to be thrown out of work at this bitter season? Is it no evil to the owners of the Funds and other interAst-bearing securities to have their property depre ciated some £50,000,000, in consequence of the advance of the rate of discount, and, if under the necessity of realising, of haying their loss made the gain of the owner of money? Is it no evil for the public to be called upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay additional taxes, to make up a revenue which must become deficient from the stoppage of trade, consequent on the medium for carrying it on being at 7 per cent. ? Supposing that only bills of three months' date, to the amount of £20,000,000, had to be discounted at 7 per cent., being 2 per cent. higher than the almost uniform maxi mum rate of the Bank of England prior to the Act of 1844, there would be a transfer of £lOO,OOO from merchants and manu facturers to owners of money, from productive to non productive classes. Is that no evil I' When such outrageous fallacies are published by the leading journal, and circulated in most of the country newspapers, it is time for the opponents of the Act of 1844 to disabuse the public mind, and to make use of the power which that law foolishly gives them. Were but a few such firms as Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. to claim notes for their deposits and gold for their notes, the act would have to be suspended and then re pealed, as Ministers would have to apply to Parliament for a bill of indemnity, and no Parliament could uphold a law which in that case would have been suspended three times in 15 years. And what would be the immediate conse quence of suspending the act of 1844 f The directors of the Bank of England would be at liberty to compete on equal terms for gold with the Bank of France, by being enabled to issue the same proportion of notes to gold, which they can ; and further, they would be at liberty (as they were before the Act of 1844) to issue any amount of notes which they thought prudent, considering their liability to convertibility, and the public would only be too glad to take them as perfectly good securities for the transfer of equivalent values of property. It is with property and services that debts are at bottom liquidated, for money (the the legal instrument for dis charging a debt) has first of all to be obtained by giving property and services in exchange for it. Empower the direct ors at the same time to issue one pound-notes to serve as substitutes for sovereigns, on the terms of the annexed petition, so as to set at liberty some 120,000,000 of gold, and tie rate of discount will rapidly fall to 5 per cent. ; commerce will revive, manufactures floxrish, and operatives again be fully employed. I am, sir, you.: obedient servant, HAME R STANSFELD , Hightield, Winderm ere, Jan. 17, 1861. " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "We the undersigned bankers, merchants, and other liege subjects of the realn, considering that the present foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the domestic currency of the country, ;hereby paralysing trade, throw ing the industrious chase; out of employment, depreciating property, and increasing unnecessarily the burdens of the people, most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graci ously pleased, with a vim to counteract these evils, by Order in Council, to emperor the Bank of England, until the sense of Parliament c►n be taken, to issue one pound notes to serve as substitxtes for sovereigns whenever the Bank minimum rate of discount shall exceed five per cent., on depositing Government Stocks for two-thirds and gold for the remaining one-third of the amount of such issues as a guarantee for the convertibility of the notes, and on pay ing interest at the rate of four per cent. to the Exchequer for the benefit of the State, on the two-thirds of which they would have the beneficial use, of on such other terms as to your Majesty shall seem ft. " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." A suspension, which it is hoped and believed will prove only temporary, took place on Saturday of one of the oldest and most respectable firms in the Levant trade —Messrs. Francis Ede, Son, and Co. Their liabilities are supposed to range between £250,000 and £400,000, but an impression prevails that in the course of a day or two arrangements may be effected by which all engagements will be provided for. The difficulty is understood to have arisen matnly frost the means of the firm being at this period of high rates of discount locked up to some extent in the local loans to the Turkish Government on the security qf Customs' duties, which come in slowly.—Times City Article of yesterday, 21st January. ROYAL LYC.EUM THEATRE. It is at all times a very grateful part of the duties of the journalist, in matters theatrical, as in every other depart ment of literature or art, to draw attention to those in stances, which axe unfortunately but too few, where suc cess and public support follow upon the steps of merit. With very rare exceptions, the theatres of the metropolis have, during the past six months, realised but a poor return for the large outlay, the great anxiety, and the constant and unwearying attention, which public taste exacts from those who court its favours, or strive to follow its caprices. It is certain, however, that since the turn of Christmas a favourable change has taken place (at all events as far as the Lyceum is concerned), and public taste has in this instance, unequivocally pronounced a correct judgment, which in no case could be better deserved. It is absolutely exhilarating to witness the thorough and heartily-expressed enjoyment of crowded hoxses with the representation of the magnificent extravaganza, which reflects at once the most artistic combination of pictorial skill, with a lavish expenditure controlled by a most refined taste ; or to " laugh and weep by turns" at the admirable delineation of Irish character by Mr. John Drew, who has completely secured the applause of a London, as ho had previously won the enthusiastic praise of a Dublin audience. We have noticed Mr. Drew's impersonations en previous occasions, and every successive representation confirms our original opinion of his very high qualities as an actor. Mr. Drew is now completely at home with his audience, who thoroughly enter into the life and soul of his unaffected humour. Besides—to parody a well-known passage in Beaumon; and Fletcher—" he carries with him an infectious grief (or gaiety, as the case may be) which strikes all his beholders," and which is shared in by those who are acting with him. The value of this in fluence can scarcely be overrated on the stage, and when we use the conventional expression of a dramatic company, " working well together,"'we pay the very best compliment that can be paid to the organisation of the corps dramatique of the Lyceum Theatre. There is a singular evenness of tone, if we may be permitted the use of the expression, in all the compositions which Madame Celeste has put upon the stage of this theatre—not the evenness of inferiority, but of a very high standard. In illustration of this, we direct attention to the sedulous nicety which distinguishes all the accessories of the extravaganza of " Crystabelle." It may not be out of place, also, to note that although this spectacle has now been on the stage for thirty nights, the costumes of the ballet and the dramatis persona, without exception, are as scrupulously delicate, and without a soil, as on the occasion of the first representa tion. Not even " the crumpling of a leaf" out of place is to be observed in the " Rose wltheut a Thorn." The costumes of the Princes and of their valets are of most artistic design, and we know of no theatre in London where three such pretty princes as Miss Neville, Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Stewart coUd be found, uniting so much beauty and personal grace, with so large an amount of dramatic ability. Miss Lydia Thompson, as the roguish valet of Prince Expedient (Miss Hudspeth), is exquisitely charming, and infuses into the part all that cspivlsrie, so necessary to give vitality to the conception of the author. Miss Turner, as the valet of Prince Finesse (Miss Stuart) leaves no point untold ; whilst Miss Ternan, as the Princess Chrystabolle, is unquestionably the most elegant and lady like representative of the " Majesty of the Extravaganza," on the stage. The subdued and unpretending tone which this young lady infuses into the part of the Burlesque Princess, and the Fairy Queen, Titania, stamps her as an actress of great judgment and ability, in being able to relieve two very different characters from the dan gerous vulgarity which might attach to them in less skilful hands. The buffo ohamberlain of Mr. Rouse is an admirable performance, and merits the highest praise; and too much commendation cannot be be stowed on the very careful manner with which the con certed pieces were rendered by the vocalists, ably supported as they are by a most efficient orchestra, under the judi cious baton of Mr. G. Loder. We should enlarge too much our catalogue of praise were we to use every one according to his or her deserts, but we must not omit to notice the exquisitely graceful dancing of the two Misses Collinson, who have achieved a perfect triumph at this theatre, or the impression made by a youthful debutante, Miss C. Denvil, a name inseparably associated with the representation of ono of Lord Byron's most remarkable compositions some years ago. This very young lady has a powerful contralto, reading with correctness and judgment, and has a most pleasing and engaging manner. Her reception has been very flattering; and the little songs assigned to her have, we understand, been nightly honoured with an encore—a well deserved recognition of the ability displayed. With so many, and such varied claims to the support of the public, we are truly gratified to find that, at the Lyceum, success has, indeed, followed merit. LATE:,-3T NEWS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Wellesley, Captain Smith, from Melbourne on the 4th Nov., has arrived in the Channel, en route for London. She brings 33,000 ounces of gold. She landed 11 passengers. A great robbery has been committed on board. She left Melbourne November 4, rounded Cape Horn December 13, and crossed the Line Decem ber 29. Much ice, some of a very gorgeous appearance, was observed in the South Pacific. One ice island seven miles long was passed, and one berg grazed. In fact, the ship was obliged to heave to on several occasions to avoid collision. The golddust brought by the Wellesley is 33,000 ounces, valued at . X 132,000, and with passengers 100 ounces, valued at £4OO. The cargo consists of 1,274 bales wool, 114 casks tallow, 42 casks hides, 269 bales leather, 59 bales sheep skins, 2,550 bags copper ore, and 60 packages right wish to maintain it undiminished. If, however, in opposition thereto, the education of their children in the public schools, and their religious worship, are denied to them by vexatious regulations—if the Government appears possessed of the wish to oppress the nationality of their subjects of German birth—there can only evil consequences arise. Should the German Diet endeavour to carry out with force their resolutions of last March, as surely the neighbouring duchy of Schleswig will become the scene of agitation, perhaps of disturbances and insurrection. Then the King of Denmark would himself make known the value of such conditions on the Schleswig people, and he might in their eyes be suspected of a breach of faith, and might be open to the charge of having led an intelligent and industrious portion of his subjects into an odious and insubordinate position. " Read this despatch in connection with the one addressed to Mr. Lowther to M. Hall, and leave a copy with him. " J. RUSSELL." The Mr. Lowther alluded to was the British representative at Berlin during the absence of Lord Bloomfield, and to that gentleman his lordship also addressed a despatch on the same day, but this is not given in a complete form. It, however, is stated to express Lord John Russell's opinion respecting the rights of Germany in respect of Denmark. TILE DISTUABANCES IN NEW ZEALAND. The following is a despatch from Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., to Governor Gore Browne, C. 8., on the sub ject of the disturbances in New Zealand : Downing-street, July 26, 1860. Sir,—l have received, and her Majesty's Govern ment has very carefully considered, your recent despatches respecting the disturbances in New Zealand. The present posture of affairs I collect to be this :—that William King and the Taranaki tribes have receded from the immediate neighbourhood of New Plymouth, discouraged apparently by Capt. Cracroft's successful attack on the pah ; that no other tribes have as yet declared themselves on the side of the insurgents ; and that there is reason to hope that none will so declare themselves. But you point out as a matter of much import ance, that the position taken by the Waikatos is one which if persevered in will be inconsistent with the due maintenance of the Queen's authority in the islands. The reinforcements sent from other points of Aus tralia have raised the number of troops in New Zealand to about 1,800 men, besides volunteers,and a naval brigade of about 500 men, furnished from the ships of war which are now on the coast of New Zealand. There are now four, and will shortly be five such ships. Ido not, however, collect from your despatches that any volunteers have offered to come forward in aid of her Majesty's Government, except those per sons whohave armed in defence oftheir own homes, or have been compelled to leave them. Under these circumstances you and your advisers request that three regiments of infantry and one of artillery may be sant out, partly in order to pro vide against the possibility of a general rising of the natives, and partly in order to enable you to take, under any circumstances that may occur, a commanding tone respecting the various questions at issue between the settlers and the Maories. The native secretary, I observe, has remarked that with less than 5,000 troops (involving an ex pense of about £150,000 per annum) it would not be possible to defend all the outlaying settlements in the colony ; Mr. Richmond closes his able and interesting Memorandum with the following words : " Justice, therefore, and humanity require that England should freely recognise the onerous duties cast upon her by the colonisation of New Zealand. To avert such calamities as seem to impend, it is indispensable to place at the disposal of the gover nor a military and naval force adequate to support him in a policy of equal justice to the two races which have been placed by Providence in a relation to each other so singular and difficult." I must at once say that in the present position of affairs, and with the demand for troops which exists, or may be expected in other quarters, it is impossible for her Majesty's Government to comply with your desire to receive 3,000 or 4,000 soldiers in addition to your present force. Measures, how ever, have been taken to despatch the 14th Regi ment at once for the relief of the 65th, which will be allowed to remain in the colony for the present in case on the arrival of the 14th the immediate danger should not have passed over. I trust that it will have passed over, and if this should p rove the case, I cannot but believe that wise govern ment and prudent conduct on the part of the set tlers will do far more than increased military force to maintain the relations between the Europeans and natives on a satisfactory footing. Meantime I must observe that although it is the desire of her Majesty's Government to provide fully for the performance of those duties which the coun try owes to her colonies, I cannot silently accept what appears to be the colonial estimate of their re sponsibilities. England cannot undertake the defence, against a nation of warlike savages, of a number of scattered farms or villages, selected not with any view to such defence, but the profitable pursuit of peaceful in dustry, and subject to the risks which naturally attend the occupation of land in the midst of an uncivilised population. Nor can fiei Majesty's Government undertake to provide such a force as will secure the colonies against prospective difficulties. Immediate and imminent dangers must be met as they arise. But the policy which requiries the continual presence of a large force carries in most cases its condemna tionon its face. What is the degree of protection which the in habitants of a British colony are entitled to expect from the home government is a matter on which it is impossible to speak in the abstract. It is no doubt necessary to punish aggression, to defend the cen tres of population, to maintain a hold upon the keys of the country. But beyond this the amount of as sistance given must depend on the demands to which the military and naval forces of the country are subjected elsewhere, and on the urgency of the case, as shown not merely by demands for assistance but by the disposition of the colonists to adopt their share of the necessary expenses ; to incur for the defence of their neighbours the dangers and incon veniences of personal service, and to place in the hands of the Home Government the power of con trolling the treatment of those whom they are called upon to subdue. And I connot refrain from observing that neither of your despatches nor Mr. Riehmond's memoran dum indicate any definite intention on the part of the colonists to contribute to the expense of the troops whom they demand—that the volunteering appears to be confined to the particular localities threatened—and that Mr. Richmond, while calling upon the Home Government to adopt the expenses of the war, does not even hint at the propriety of investing it with any larger powers than they at present possess for dealing with the native ques tion out of which these expenses arise. I may add that a bill introduced into Parliament to provide an effectual machinery for the exercise by the Crown of the powers reserved to it by the Constitution Act is threatened with a determined opposition by a gentleman professing to represent the feelings of the colonists. This you will perceive on perusing a pamphlet which I enclose in another despatch. I allude to these circumstances not, of course, as relieving the Home Government from the duty of supporting the colony against a pressing danger, but because they must materially affect the dispo sition of the British Government and people to un dertake that indefinite expenditure of blood and treasure to which Mr. Richmond invites them.—l have, &c., " G. C. LEWIS. Governor Gore Browne, &c." ALGIERS AND TOULON SUBMARINE CABLE.—We noticed on a recent occasion the accident to the screw ship William Cory by collision with the French frigate Gomer, on the 15th December, when in the act of laying down the submarine cable from Toulon to Minorca. On the evenir‘ of the 11th inst. the William Cory, after having underelle the necessary repairs, proceeded from Toulon, accomr4nied by the French Gove rnment corvette the Caton, in E.'arch of the buoy which h a d b een attac h e d to the ca bl o aft er th e accident ; and fou r d ays a ft er f oun d it w ith thd flag shaft and flag flying ab ove . Th e Willi am Cory waited ori e d a y for fine weath er , an d th en p i c k e d u p the buoy, whi c h was safely got on board. The rope att.ated to it w as a t once connected with the steam-engine placed on boa r d express l y for the purpose, which was then put in motion, and in a short time the rope was limited on board to a length of 1,000 fathoms, when suddenly it appeared to lose the strainwhich it had been bearing, and when 400 fathoms more were raised, the discovery was made that a kink had been formed at which spot it had p ar t e d a t a d ep th o f the depth of th e sea at that point. It the breaki ng o f the buoy rope, which h a to t sho appears fpa b pt u he o ao y rms r st o , hpaet, beingby was attached to the part of the cable that had been cut, the cable itself is lost. This experiment relative to the p l ac i n g of a buoy, although not entirely successful, is a very important fact in favour of deep sea telegraphs, hav ing established that a buoy and its necessary appliances far the purpose of raising a cable, can be so constructed as to survive most tempestuous weather for an indefinite period, in water nearly two miles d'ep, thereby affording an oppor tunity for repairs in the event of an accident, whilst lay ing. It is firmly believed that the cause of the present failure is at present so clearly understood that a remedy against the recurrence of such an event will in future ope• rAtigAs be adequately provided against. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Last evening Mr. Fechter repeated the character of Ruy Blas, the novelty of the evening, however, being the first appearance of Mr. Basil Potter in the part of Don Sallust. The character, it will be remembered, was originally sus tained by Mr. Walter Lacy with much success ; and, as it was supposed he had made the part his own, much curio sity was excited as to the manner in which Mr. Potter would acquit himself of his by no means easy task. On his first appearance he betrayed a slight nervousness, but as he warmed in the part he improved in every sentence he uttered. The whole part was performed with such an artistic finish as to literally take the audience by surprise, and to leave no room to regret the absence of Mr. Lacy. Mr. Potter we only knew, until last night, as the bad genius of transpon tine melodrama, but immediately he became possessed of a fair opportunity of displaying his real talent, he has done so in such a manner as to advance him instantly to the front rank of his profession. He, with Mr. Fechter and Miss Heath, had to bow their acknowledgments at the fall of the curtain. The house was crowded to excess. MR. BRIGHT AND CO-OPERATIVE S OCIETIES.— The Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society held their annual meeting on Saturday. Mr. Alderman Hey wood was in the chair, and delivered an interesting ad dress. The Rev. Canon Richson was also present. Apo logetic letters for non-attendance were read from Mr. Bright, Mr. Bazley, and other gentlemen. Mr. Bright's letter was as follows :—" Rochdale, Dec. 24, 1860.—Dear sir,—l have to thank you for the kind invitation you have forwarded me on behalf of your Co-operative Society. lam not able to accept it and to be present at your approaching annual meeting, owing to many engagements, and to the fact that I do not wish to appear to undertake any responsibility with regard to co-operative societies. I wish them all suc cess, and I am anxious they should be managed in all cases by prudent and honest men ; and I strengthen my argu ments in favour of giving the suffrage to working men by showing what they are doing in co- operative societieg, and in other directions, to justify their demand for a share of political power; but, as I can take no part in the manage ment of those societies, so I am unwilling to appear upon their platforms to induce others bo join them. I think you will understand my position, as I have thus described it ; and I am, very respectfully yours,—Jonx BRIGHT." From the report it appears that the profits of this society have advanced from £67 in December, 1859, to £648 in December, 1860. The sales receipts were in the same periods £1,569 and £11,883, and the number of members respectively 300 and 1,600. THE DROWNED WALLSEND COALFIELD.--A large and influential meeting of the coal owners of the north of England was held on Wednesday last at the Turf Hotel, Newcastle-on -Tyne, for the purpose of considering the de tails of a scheme for the drainage of the coalfield east of Newcastle, which is now under water. The chair was oc cupied, in the absence of Lord Ravensworth, by Mr. M. Bell, a large colliery owner. Mr. T. J. Taylor, in laying before the meeting the scheme, stated that the coalfield east of Newcastle measured about 30 square miles. Tho whole of which was, in mining language, " drowned." Water had been permitted to accumulate till it had risen more than 100 fathoms above the high main seam, so that, in point of fact, there was a lake of 100 fathoms deep under ground, and the consequence was that the high main seam was en tirely submerged, while the lower seam could only be worked by a system which, though ingenious, was very uncertain. Cast iron caissons, or tubbing, were used in segments of 20 inches in height and 4or 6 feet long. These were wedged together, and thus formed a sort of dam, which was not, however, to be depended upon. At Hebburn a fracture in the tubbing had occasioned the entire loss of the colliery, aad might have also occasioned great loss of life. Cast iron was therefore not to be depended upon. Under these circumstances it was desirable to adopt some general plan of drainage. It. was therefore proposed to drain a district of 22,000 acres, bounded by the main dyke on the aorth, the sea on the east, and the town of Newcastle on the west. This might be accomplished by placing drain ing engines at Jarrow, Howden, and other places in the district. They did not need to go to the bottom of the bas in all cases, but to intercept the feeders would do as well. He need not go into details, but, considering the vast amount of mineral wealth which was lying unemployed, he thought that they were fully justified in adopting a scheme, however extensive it was, which would utilise that wealth. In answer to various questions, Mr. Taylor stated that the quantity of water was so great in the pits that at Percy Main Colliery, before it was abandoned, 18 times more water than coal was raised at it. The sum which was re quired to carry out the proposed scheme was only £60,000, and the barriers of coal which were now left in the high main seam only amounted in themselves to more than double that sum. After several gentlemen had expressed their opinion respecting the proposed scheme, a committee of citalowners and others was appointed for the purpose of considering it and examining the bill to be presented to parliament in its favour. A FACTORY 6PERATITE'S LEGACIES. The Sf'aekport Advertiser says that a factory operative, named William Smith, late of Wellington-road South, in that borough, has left by mill, in the shape of legacies, property to the following amount :—£ll to the Stockport Sunday School, £lO to the Stockport Infirmary, £lO to the Stock port Mechanics' Institution, £lO to the Vernon Park, £lO to the Temperance United Alliance Association, £l2O each to two brothers ausi *ter, and over £7OO to his widow. I RISE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. On Monday, the Bank raised the rate of discount from 6 to 7 per cent. the highest rate to which it has gone since the panic of 1857. The Bank of France raised its rate of discount, on the following day from 51 to 7. A great diminut ion, from £3,000,000 to X 4,000,000, in the stock of bulion of the Bank of France, is reported to have taken place since the last month's return. Considerable sums are being withdrawn also from this country for America, as the reserve of notes, on which the Bank of England relies for discount purposes and to meet its demand, was diminished by no less than £1,024,260 by the last return, the bank is again forced into this step of raising the rate. The effect is immediate. It is reported from Manchester that there is a decided suspension of all but indispensable business in yarns and goods. In Staffordshire it is said that the depression in the iron trade " is as great as it has ever been." Throughout the country a feeling of distrust and anxiety will spread day by day. Thus we begin the year 18G1 under anything but cheer ful commercial circumstances. Every hope for the future arising from our successes in China is depressed, and every cause of alarm, fromthe bad state of the finances in India, is exaggerated by a rise in the rate of discount. Trade was quiet and steady. Speculation dormant. But the moment the rate is raised and the circulating medium con tracted, the commercial machine is then out of gear. There is, as we have repeated again and again, no reason why this should be. It is only from the idiotic system which Peel's Bills have established that the exportation of a few paltry millions of gold is made to affect the whole commercial relations of the nation. We ask Mr. Gladstone how he expects to raise the enormous amount of taxation with paralyzed trade and de clining commerce ? And this as perfectly unnecessary as it is disastrous.—. Derbyshire Courier. The report from Liverpool this morning shows that the news by the Canada of Mississippi and Louisiana having committed themselves to immediate secession has increased the prevailing excitement in the cotton-market, large transactions having taken place at a further advance of id. per lb. The Roxburgh Castle has arrived from Melbourne with 41,708 ounces of gold, worth about £167,000. The other ships known to be out are the Wellesley, 79 days at sea with £131,000; the Strathdon, 67 days, with £196,000; the Clutha, 66 days, with £95,000; the Essex, 65 days, £59,000; and the Champion of the Seas, 59 days, with £36,000. THE REPRESENTATION OF BOLTON.—On Friday evening a large and influential meeting of the members of the Reform Registration Association met in the Tempe rance Hall, Bolton, for the purpose of adopting measures for filling the vacancy in the representation of the borough, which will take place on the assembling of Parliament, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Crook. Mr. Hey.. wood, president of the association, occupied the chair, and read a note he had received from Mr. Crook, stating his intention of resigning as soon as Parliament meets. It was then resolved that a requisition should be got up to Mr. Thomas Barnes, who formerly represented the borough, and when sufficiently signed by the electors, that the chair man should present it. On Saturday last the requisition was in course of signature, and was receiving many names. REPRESENTATION OF ABERDEENSHIRE.—The Aberdeen Herald of Saturday says :—" We are glad to see that the Liberal cause in Aberdeenshire is not to be left in the lurch after all. The Hon. Arthur Gordon who, owing to peculiar circumstances, has a much better chance of suc ceeding against the combinations of Tory lairds than any other man in the county, is to come forward as a Liberal candidate in compliance with a requisition which is now in the course of signature. The enthusiasm with which this intimation was received yesterday in the market, and throughout the comity, as well as the number of signatures to the requisition that have already been volunteered, gives ample promise of success to this spirited and judicious movemont. Of the qualifications of Mr. Gordon it is hardly necessary to say a word. He possesses all the kindness, courtesy, and gentlene ss , an d 'much of the ability and b us i ness knowledge a n d h a bit s , o f hi s l a t e father, combi ne d w i th sound lib era l an d i n d epen d ent pr i nc iples; and we know that he h as en d eare d hi mself greatly t o th a tenant farmersthrougho u t a very l arge port i on of t h e co u n ty. R e is much liked by the volunteers of the district to which he belongs, and we have no doubt he will speedily become a universal favourite in this part of the country. Of the certainty of his willingness and desire to come forward there need nut be the slightest doubt, whatever attempts May be wady tv create a contrary impression," - - sundries. She embarked 50 passengers, one of whom, Mr. Henriquez, died on the passage. She also lost Mr. Eyre, a midshipman, by death. A considerable numer of small vessels were seen in the South Atlantic. The Bucephalus, homeward bound, from Valparaiso. The Wellesley has landed three mail bags here. The Roxburgh Castle, from Melbourne, has passed up Channel. PARIS, JAN. 22 The Moniteur in its bulletin of to-day says : " The presence at Gaeta of the Ministers of Austria, Spain, Saxony, Bavaria, and Portugal, was not foreign to the resolution of the King to continue his resistance." The Moniteur also states that all the foreign vessels, even those chartered by the King, have left Gaeta. PARIS, lAN. 2 The Patrie says : A rumour is current that England, France, and Russia are on the point of coming to an under standing in order to bring about a solution of the Danish question by amicable means. Up to this time there has been no manifesto from Francis IL, to the effect that he refuses to surrender Gaeta ; but as the fire was yesterday resumed on both sides, his intention to resist to the last can no longer be doubted. It is by mistake that a despatch announces the corvette Mouette as still remaining on the Gaeta station. There is now no station at Gaeta, and the Mouette has gone to Naples. ROME, lAN. 21. The Russian, Prussian, and Portuguese Ministers hare returned here from Gaeta. There now remain at Gaeta the Papal Nuncio and the Ministers of Austria, Spain, Bavaria, and Saxony. PESTH, JAN. 2 The following resolutions of the Emperor have been despatched to the Stadtholder of Buda by the Chancellor of Hungary. " The election to the Committee of the Comitat of those persons who are refugees from the country for political reasons is null and void. Severe punish ments are to be inflicted on all persons who refuse to pay the taxes. "The Comitata aro prohibited from making any ordinances in reference to taxes, "A vote of the Diet alone can bring about a change in the tribunals now existing, or in the pre sent civil and penal codes. "The practical establishment of the institutions granted by the Constitution of, 1848 is prohibited, and the public functionaries are ordered to oppose it by the most severe measures. In case of refusal the Commitees of the Comitat are to be either sus pended or dissolved. The assemblies of the Comitat have no executive power, and are consequently not to be allowed to issue ordinances. " The Imperial diploma of October 20 will, how ever, undergo no modification, and the concessions granted to Hungary will remain unabridged." PESTH, JAN. 22, The Imperial manifesto of the 16th inst. was read in yesterday's sitting of the Committee of the Comitat. It was unanimously resolved to adjourn the dis cussion of the same to the General Assembly of the Comitat on the 11th February. VIENNA, JAN. 22. The Grand Cross of the Order of St. Leopold has been conferred on Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador at the Court of St. James. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 21. BOURSE, Jan. 21.—The amount of business still continues very limited, but the market remains firm at the quotations of Saturday, notwithstand ing the arrival of the English funds with a decline of y per cent. Threes are now at 67f 25c; Mobilier, 652 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,371 f 25c ; Northern, 952 f 50c; Strasburg, 590 f; Southern, 503 f; Medi terranean, 905 f; Austrian, 463 f 75c; Lombard, 462 f 50c. The following were the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents 97 Credit Fonder 925 Do, end month.... 96 80 Belgian 41 9B 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 40 Roman Bank Shares: 2875 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 662 50 Spanish Threes 47* Do. Account 660 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean Cash. Account. 1372 60 .. 1375 957 50 .. 957 50 885 890 908 75 .. 908 75 367 50 .. 505 605 555 .. 555 .- 595 .. 595 372 50 .. 375 465 .. 468 75 467 50 .. 467 50 Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard DENMARK. The Greuzboten, a jo urna l p u bli s h e d on th e Prus sian borders, near Schleswig-Holstein, contains a despatch addressed by Lord John Russell to Mr. Paget, British Minister at Copenhagen, from whioh it will be seen that the position of Lord John Rus sell relative to the Prussian Government is less unfriendly than certain incomplete information published in the Frankfort Postzeitung and some Berlin correspondence has imagined to be the case. The despatch alluded to says : " FOREIGN OFFICE, Dec. 8, 1860. " Sir,—Enclosed I send you the copy of a d espatch from Baron von Schleinitz to Count Bernstorff, and the answer which I have sent thereto to Mr. Lowther. " You will observe that, in this despatch, I have indi. cated the obligations which, according to the views of her Majesty's Government, the King of Denmark is bound in honour to fulfil. I have said—' He is bound not to incor porate Schleswig in Denmark, to maintain the represents.. tive States of Schleswig, as well as to protect the German and Danish nationality in the Duchy of Schleswig.' " Whatever the legal value of the obligations towards Austria and Prussia may be, the Government of her Ma jesty has no doubt that the King of Denmark is bound in honour to fulfil these relations. lie has pttblicly pro claimed them ; and he has made known not only to his subjects, but to the representatives of foreign Powers, that their fulfilment is not only his duty but his interest. " His German subjects should perceive that under b rule they stand in the same legal tight as other Dani,h fellow-citisens. They will then possess the feeling of a loyal dependence 011 the Danish Glovernoient, and the UP" tr aait 1 , 1) 4 bitt - Pazie 11 44 Vitt bitt , )3 it uittt ban Ntl Gra / of Ci Grea Ja eat. LCIn 4( lifin Laric CO Ro bit ti e ,„ Tur t6 I sp y 24