The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OP BA, COVENT-GARDEN. .. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Balfe's New Legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, T. Wharton, A. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T. Distin, Lyall, and NV. Harrison. With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Doleno, H. Payne, Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. TiIEATRY.-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Legaro. Mr. J. R. numirgtime. TO-MORROW, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss rardeastle, by Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lnmpkin, by Mr. Buckstone. After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD ANn HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. HOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lowe and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. TTTTS EVENING, the performances will commence•with RITY BLAS. Messrs. Pechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray mond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime. entitled ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Kim , of the aribbe 'lslands : in which Mons ieur Espinosa and C Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal ciptinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. So,e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vininr. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, and John Drew ; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart, and Mrs. .T. Rouse. ceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, Alter which, the Ly CRYSTARELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing ANDVISIONT A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVF, T HE MAY-OF BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR To conclude with 3TORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE. L ar ry Hoolagan, Mr. John Drew. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY ‘, 4 EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1861. lADELpHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. s o le. Promletor and Mower. Mr. Rm.!. Webater. - - THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. .T. L. Toole, C Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. 13oncicanit, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Affriel Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, S. Kelly, Laidlaw, and F. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, els. • Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, le ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Was. BATTY. Last week of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions. A Grand Juvenile ete will take place on Friday, Feb. 1, commencing, 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 Groclosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comfe scenes liatty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Doors open at half-Fast 8, performance commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERT S ! !! A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, consisting of the following Morceaux : Preludio. Coro Soena ed Aria. "Tutto narca Sorridere" Coro di Odalische " Oh qual perenne" CaTatina "Vola talor dal Carcere" Coro ed inno Scena ed Aria. " Cento leggiadre Vergini" Terzetto Finale "Voi tacete io non" will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian lamrua 'c—the first time of ➢erformance in this country—in addition to the usual attractions. Mr. F. JONGII'MANS, Musical Director. Also. in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas, "Un Ballo in MasChera," "Simon Boccanegra ;" and Flo tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 26m. To-MORROW. -Morning, sh. 46m.—Afternoon, 6h. 13m. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, JAN. 31, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45 —highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAnomrrnit-30.20. WIND—South -Westerly—light ; with very fine weather. • . fle k \ A ve A, • , . . " 7 1i • • • ray 2_1:011_ TETE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1861. Hungary wants to possess now what she pos sessed once—an independent Government. She is desirous of assuming to herself again that entirely separate political existence which she enjoyed un interruptedly during very nearly two hundred years prior ' l to the: formal definition of her rights by what is known in history as the Pragmatic Sanction! The significance of that memorable document lying in the fact that it solemnly and deliberately confirmed to the Hungarian nation the various rights and privileges then belonging to it— all those various rights and privileges which had for two wnturies previously, under the House of HAPSBURG, appertained to the Hungarians. The Pragmatic Sanction, in effect, was no other than a sacred compact entered into between the dynasty of Hapsburg and the people of Hungary. It abrogated the old salique law in favour of MARIA THERESA, the daughter and only child of the then reigning SOVEREIGN —a potentate having two designations in the annals of Europe (like our own JAmEsVI. of Scotland and JAMES I. of England) — being at once the Emperor CHARLES VI. of Austria and King CHARLES 111. of Hungary. As a mag nificent and magnanimous concession to his Im perial and Royal MAJESTY, the Hungarian people, as we have intimated, waived in favour of his MAJESTY'S only child, the then Princess or Arch duchess MARIA THERESA, that old ungallant salique law which must otherwise have altered the succession to the diadem of St. STEPHEN. The Hungarians, chivalrously setting aside the salique law in favour of that young and beautiful aspirant to the cluster of crowns worn by the Princes of the House of HAPSBrßG—consented to do so upon the distinct understanding deliberately defined in the articles of the famous compact between Monarch and People known thenceforth as the Pragmatic Sanction. First and foremost among th e stipulations there set forth was that one of vital importance to the Hungarian race the stipulation guaranteeing to the people of Hungary the continuance of their ancient right and privilege of a separate and independent Government. A Government that is 'wholly- apart from the central Imperial Government of Austria —the Hungarians regulating their own affairs en tirely, without any reference whatever to the remote administrative system at Vienna, the Magyars them selves conducting their own administration. Gradu ally, little by little, were all these rights and privileges abstracted from the Hungarians in spite of their almost immemorial antiquity, in spite of the solemn agreement and the positive stipulations of the Pragmatic Sanction aforesaid. The treachery with which all this was accom plished by the Rouse of Hapsburg consti tutes about the blackest among the many damning blots upon its etentcheon. As a very able and sagacious correspondent of our chief morning con temporary takes occasion to intimate in one of his latest communications , the th in end of the we d ge appears to have been inse r t e d in this Way at the time of the establish ment in Vien na of that seemingly innocuous, but really perillous and for midable office—the Hungarian Aulic Chancellerie. At every adverse movement afterwards adv en . tured upon by the faithless and ungrateful dynasty, the wedge was slowly driven home, and the ancient barrier of separation between the Government of Austria' ant Vie Government of Hungary riven asunder; until it eventually lay prostrate in the dust : and Hungary, through the treachery and illgrAtitigiaaaLthat race of Kings for whom she had done so much, for whom she had fought so bravely, to whom she had adhered through all the great Napoleonic wars with such devotion, Hungary, in return, found herself stripped of her ancient inda- pendence. At length, in 1848, came her opportunity. And nobly, gloriously did she avail herself of that same opportunity. It was then, at that great crisis in the history of the nations of Europe, that the stipulations contained in the ever memorable Pragmatic Sanction were, to all intents and purposes, revived, renewed, reiterated. Austria, in other words, was then driven, in regard to Hungary, to make an act of immense restitution ! Again were defined all the great national rights and privileges of Hungary and the Hungarians. Again were the people of Hungary reinvested with their ancient prerogatives. No more talk, then, of building up anew in Vienna the detested Hungarian Aulic Chancellerie. The administration of the affairs of Hungary was to rest, not with the Imperial Go vernment, but with the Hungarians themselves. A constitutional Cabinet of Ministers—it was arranged then, in 1848, as it had been arranged more than a century and a quarter previously, i.e., in 1723, through the terms of the Pragmatic Sanc tion—a constitutional Cabinet of Ministers was to govern Hungary in Hungary (not fromVienna)—w as to be responsible to the Hungarian Diet (not to the imperial councils of Schoenbrun). The Hungarian forces were thenceforth, once more, to belong to the kingdom of which they were the recognised de fenders, and that army was only to cross the fron tiers of Hungary in obedience to the mandate, or rather with the express compliance of the Hunga rian Diet. Hungary, again, according to those laws, which echoed in 1848 the sacred principles and solemn stipulations embodied in the Pragmatic Sanction—Hungary thus again reclaimed to herself the right of regulating her own finances apart from those of the long embarrassed and now virtually bankrupt empire. In 1848, in fact, as previously in 1723, as it had been visibly and avowedly and con tinuously from 1527 to 1723, in reality from the very beginning of the anxious—and at length (as events have proved it to be) the fatal period when the Princes of the House of HAPSBURG have reigned over the Hungarians—again, after years of treachery and misfortune, the people of Hungary reclaimed to themselves in 1848, in those famous laws of 1848, their ancient and really inalienable rights, but above everything the arch-right of all, that of possessing and enjoying, altogether apart from Austria, a strictly independent and truly national Government. That was their right as defined in the Pragmatic Sanction. That was their right reclaimed through the laws of 1848. It is their one ambition now to reconquer it again—it is their one sole aspiration. And let us rest perfectly well assured of this—sooner or later, that glorious hope of theirs will be realised. A contemporary, who professes to make public what Mr. EDWIN JAMES has told his friends in private, tells us that the hon. member, in the event of the QUEEN'S Speech making no allusion to the Reform question, will move an amendment to the Address. We do not profess to have had any pri vate conversation on the subject with Mr. JAMES which we can report ; but, we can say that the member for Marylebone will have the cordial approbation of his constituency, and of all liberal constituencies in England, if he really intend to act in the manner just mentioned. Should the Government advise her MAJESTY to be silent on the subject of Reform, some one must be found to do more than merely advert to it in a speech ; the onizobiuu must be *loaned by a vote of approval or censure ; and Mr. JAMES, who, as an advanced Liberal, censured so severely the Bill of last session for its shortcomings, and is even said to have done more than others to bring it to an untimely end, is in some respects the most fitting man to demand a better Bill. It is not for him to lie under the charge of having got rid of one Reform Bill, without having settled his plan for securing a better. He ought indeed to get us a much better one, if he and those of the Liberals who joined him in talking and amending the Bill of last year out of the House, are to atone for that mistake. Lgistake, we say, because our policy has always been to take any reform offered us, little or great. We would have squeezed an objectionable clause or two out of Lord DERBY'S, and taken that, and we held it to be pure faction which rejected it altogether. In like manner we would have accepted Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S and made the best of it, though none could deem it a " poorer little Bill" than we did. But the member for Portsmouth has told us the true reason why that Bill was pushed aside; the very personal one —that members did not like a new election. That reason, however, will not do for ever. If we are first to be told that a Parliament towards the end of its term is not the Parliament to legislate on Reform, but that a Parliament must be elected ad hoc — and then that the Parliament elected ad hoc cannot be expected to do the work for which it was elected, because it would ensure its own early dissolution ---when are we to get a Reform Bill at all ? r We have not the slightest ground for conjecturing what will be the course of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment next Tuesday on this subject ; but we have ample ground for judging what, both in honour and expediency, it ought to be. On the point of honour we do not see how there can be a shadow of a doubt. The present Government first super seded Lord DERBY'S on the question of a Reform Bill. Next it introduced its own new Reform Bill, and carried it to a second reading. Lastly, not a single hostile vote was given against it in the House of Commons ; there is no formal or technical censure of the Government proposals on record, and the fact of the case is now plainly stated to be, by a member who must know the House thoroughly, that its progress was obstructed by endless speeches and amendments to spare the speakers and movers 1 of amendments another appeal to their constituents. Lord J. RUSSELL gave up his Bill re infecta, not re rejecta, and he has not therefore the pretext to allege that he has been repudiated in hii character of Reformer. While the present Government exists it is obviously either in office by a factious proceed ing, or it must assert its position as a Reforming Government. It were political cowardice and meanness to desert the colours under which it ejected Lord DERBY. As to the expediency of proceeding with Reform, at a time which all tell us is so remarkable for quietness on the subject, one would suppose that among the aristocratic classes there could hardly be two opinions on the subject. They may naturally like to put off the evil day as long as they can, still, after so many lessons within the last thirty or forty years, it must be supposed they are become alive to the danger of compelling a popular agita tion to carry measures, which cannot be resisted for ever, and of which, when carried, they lose all the credit by their resistance, indeed, rather incur now feel to be grea t b ene fits. What Tory likes now to be lenlinded that his party opposed Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, Negro Emancipa tion, Mu micipal Reform, Repeal of the Corn Laws, and Fm e Trade ? With hardly an exception, they ' are compelled, practically, to confess their errors, and to se .y, we are all Free Traders, all Reformers, at least a noderate Reformers, now. Mr. SCHOLE FIELD expressed, what we cannot doubt to be the general feeling, well in his speech at Birmingham last Tuesday—" The question," he said, " now pro pounded in many quarters is whether we shall have a Reform Bill during the ensuing session of Parlia ment or not. I know nothing about that, but Ido know that if the Government of this country brings in no Reform Bill during the ensuing session, it will have committed one of the greatest offences a Go vernment can commit—it will have neglected a great opportunity. Let them beware lest the time should come when we shall have to say— you are too late. Let them refuse Reform now, and let a time of war come—let a time of commercial distress come—then would the responsibility of the Government which had neglected such an oppor tunity be great indeed. Government after Govern ment has promised a Reform Bill, and Government after Government has failed to keep its promise. Now one of two things must be the case ; either Government does not wish Reform, and if they do not, the false pretensions are a blot upon their hon our no subsequent conduct can remove; or they do wish for it, and are not competent to frame and to carry a measure of Reform, and in that case it is their bounden duty to resign their place to abler and to stronger men." The dilemma in which Mr. SCHOLEFIELD places the Government is one from which we do not see how they can escape, except by the manly and straightforward course of persisting in what they made their ground of taking office, namely, :the necessity of such a Reform Bill as they could pro vide. We might, like many earnest Liberals, deprecate moving on the subject till we could see a good storm aroused which would carry a bill worth having ; but we adhere to our practical view of always getting every practical instalment of Reform, in any department whatever. - And,lin the present case, we regard the Government as bound by every consideration to de something worthy of their position. If Ministers give is in the Law Department a good Bankruptcy Bill, and and in that of Politics a Reform Bill worthy of the men who refused the DERBY Reform Bill as too little, they may get through next session with credit. Neither of these can they afford to pass by. *lf, in addition to this, they can initiate arrange ments by which they may save a few millions now wasted by mal-administration, without impairing the efficiency of our navy or lowering our military security, they will well deserve the thanks of the country. Lady Molesworth has left town, on a visit to Sir Anthony and Lady Rothschild, in Buckinghamshire. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham are prolonging their stay at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are sur• rounded by a family circle at Motcomb. Among the guests are Mr. Algernon Greville, Miss G. Greville, Major Greville, Mr. Algernon Cox, and Sir James Elphinstone, M.P. ELECTION OF THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.- WORCESTER, Wednesday.—To-day the Dean and Chapter of Worcester assembled at the Chapter-house in the Col lege precincts, for the purpose of proceeding to the election of a bishop of the diocese in the room of the late bishop, Dr. Pepys. The conge d'elire directing the Chapter to pro ceed in the election recommended as the successor of the late bishop the Rev. Dr. Henry Philpott, Canon of Nor wich, Master of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Prince Consort, and he has accordingly been formally elected to-day. The usual formalities of election having been gone through, the certificates of such election were made under seal and forwarded to her Ma jesty, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop Elect. The new bishop will not, according to the act constituting the Bishopric of Manchester, be entitled to a seat in the House of Lords until a vacancy arises in a see other than Canterbury, V‘ , *lr, Durham, or Winchester. EMBEZZLEMENT AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Carter received information of the suicide of a young man, named Pope, under the following painful circumstances : Having been instructed a few days since by his father, a stonemason and beershop-keeper, in Park-road, Clapham, to pay some money to a tradesman in the vicinity, the young man did not pay the money, but told his father he had done so, and upon being rebuked for such conduct, after admitting he had spent the money, ho left his father's house and went to his home, and on going upstairs delibe rately loaded a gun that hung over the mantelpiece, and which was always kept unloaded, and, putting the muzzle to his mouth, blew the upper part of his head and face completely away. The deceased, a fine young man of about 24 years of age, has left a wife, who is enceinte, and one child to lament the sad catastrophe. THE BODY OF A CHILD IN A RAILWAY PARCEL. —A few days since an extraordinary discovery was made at the terminus of the London and North-Western Rail way, which shows the facilities which railways themselves afford for the perpetration and effectual concealment of the most diabolical murders. On the 26th November last a tin box arrived at the Euston Station from Liverpool, ad dressed to P. P. Williams, 60, Regent-street. The box, which from its size appeared somewhat heavy, was duly conveyed to Regent-street as directed, but it was discovered that no such person as P. P. Williams resided there. On being brought back to the station it remained in the un claimed parcels office till Friday last, in the expectation that there would be some claimant who would describe it. It was, however, then opened by the authorities, and was discovered to contain the remains of a child covered with quick lime, which had so far done its work that little beside the bones of the skeleton exist. It was taken to the dead house of St. Pancras Infirmary, but whether the coroner will hold an inquest has not been decided. ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.- An accident, happily unattended with serious consequences, occurred yesterday morning to the early up-train leaving Portsmouth at 6 a.m. A little beyond Ford, and between that station and Littlehampton, the railway is carried over Arundel Creek by a single line drawbridge, a necessity imposed upon the company when the railway was made by the then Board of Admiralty. The double rails at either end of the bridge converge into a single line, and points men are stationed on both sides of the river to direct the trains up and down, and telegraph to the adjoining stations of Ford and Littlehampton when the bridge is opened to allow craft to proceed up to Arundel. A cattle train which leaves Brighton for Chichester market every Wednesday morning, awaits on the Littlehampton side the passage of the early up-train across the bridge, and the points are altered so as to allow the London train to diverge on to the up line, and proceed on its journey. Yesterday morn ing the pointsm an in charge, as it appears, in a fit of momen tary oblivion, seized the lever as the passenger train crossed the bridge, and turned it directly into the cattle train, which, as usual, was waiting to allow the up-train to pass. The collision was a violent one, and very ranch alarmed a single passenger who was in the train, but beyond an inter ruption of the traffic for two or three hours, no serious con sequences occurred. The pointsman has been given into custody, and will have to answer for his misconduct. In the last session of Parliament, the South Coast Company, after very considerable opposition and difficulty, obtained power to throw a permanent iron structure with a double line of rails over this creek, so that in a few months all danger of a similar mischance will be at an end. MORE MASSACRES IN SYRIA.—A letter from Alexandria, dated the 12th of January, conveys important news from Syria. It states that a fresh massacre of Chris tians by Druses has been perpetrated. The number of vic tims is not given, nor the name of the village in which the alleged massacre took place. We are merely told that while the inhabitants of a village on Mount Lebanon were attending service in a church a band of Druses burst into the sacred edifice and horribly massacred them. On the receipt of the news Fuad Pasha, the letter adds, immedi ately despatched a body of troops to the place, who sur rounded the village and took some 950 c,f the Bruns pri soners, and they are said to be now under trial at Beyrout. THE FUTURE MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. —lt is stated that Mrs. Lincoln lately called to see the por trait of " her Abraham" being painted by Rely. " She is of medium size, slightly inclined to embonpoint; her face is oval, and as remarkable for its regular and rounded out lines as is her husband's for angularity. Sho has soft eyes, dark hair, fair complexion, and altogether as agreeable a face as one would wish to see. Her dress was brown or oak-coloured silk, with greyish flowers and leaves. It was made full with flounces, fitted well, hung gracefully about her person, and trailed just a trifle. Her bonnet was of black silk, trimmed with cherry ribbon, which, with a dark mixed shawl, neatly fitting kid gloves, and a rich lavender coloured parasol, completed her costume. She was accom panied by two chubby, rosy faced boys of five and eleven. 'Bob,' the 'aPt Harvard. rinceo tflai l ls h ,' es h e pursuinghretreeldeebstoyeshiclodn,sitsitute' Old o his studies Abe's family. " Washin,qton News, LArIE6T NEWS. (REUTIR'S TELEGRAMS.) VIENNA, JAN. 31. The semi-official Donau Zeitung gives a denial to the news publishea by some Belgium journals, that France had declared that she would consider any aid given to Austria by German Federal troops in a war with Piedmont, as a violation of the principle of non-intervention. The Comitat of Gomor demands that the abdica tion of the late Kin; Ferdinand should be commu nicated to Hungary, before the coronation of Fran cis Joseph as Kin g of Hungary is decided upon, and declares that the King must reside in Hungary. ROME, SAN. 30. On Monday last two thousand Sardinians with Cavalry and Arlin. Dry attacked the reactionary troops at Canco. The fight lasted seven hours. The Piedmontese and the Neapolitans afterwards evacuated Pontifical territory. BERLIN, JAN. 30. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the proposed address in reply to the speech of the King was read. The following is a summary : The Chamber has learnt with satisfaction that preparations are being made for the conclusion of a conatttrcial treaty between France and the Zollve rein, whereby, among other advantages, the cheer ing prospect is opened of two great nations finding a better opportunity to compete for the prize in works of peace. The address expresses a hope that, by the ener getic employment of all proper means, the Govern ment may succeed in re-establishing the Con stitutional state of things in Electoral Hesse. It acknowledges it to be a zational duty of Prussia to bring about, in commor with the other German Federal States, a satisfactory solution of the ques tion of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and considers it certain that, incase of Federal execu tion in Holstein, the rights of Germany in reference to Schleswig will be ressrved. To-day the King sent his reply to the address of the First Chamber. In this reply his Majesty expresses his thanks for the manifestations of deep grief at the loss of the late King and for the devotion to his own person testified in the address of the Chamber. The King then continues : " I have openly and distinctly explained the principles of my Government on assuming the Regency, and have stated what I wish to accom plish. I will not break with the past, but I intend, when my convictions urge it upon me, to make improvements in the institutions of my country, as my father of glorious memory did in 1808, and as my late brother was also induced to do by the events in his epoch. " I have marked out before me the limit to which I can go, and I will strictly follow the course upon which I have decided. We must not conceal from one another that we are perhaps approaching troublous times. "In view of this probability, everything depends upon the country being, through its representa tives, united to me. I hope, I desire, and I expect this. It is thus only that we shall be strong both at home and abroad, and be able to await the future with confidence." SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, with the Peninsular mails, arrived off the Needles at 12.5 p.m. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Cunard screw steamer Palestine, Captain Martyn, from New York on the 18th instant, has arrived here. Her news has been anticinated the Bremen. FRANCE. The Patrie publishes the following : "We have received eome fresh details from Gaeta, by which it is confirmed that the attack of the Piedmontese squadron produced comparatively little effect. The expectation is that for the future the fleet will confine itself to blockading the port, the gunboats occasionally firing to annoy the town. In consequence of an order received from Turin, a measure similar to one witnessed at Sebastopol has been adopted. A part of the vessels are to land their heavy guns, and form batteries on shore to be worked by the seamen. The San Alicheli has already landed a number of guns, and the other ships will follow her example." BOURSE, Jan. 30.—The market has shown less firmness to-day, and prices show a decline on the closing rates of yesterday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 80c ; Mobilier, 672 f 50c ; Northern, 961 f 250 ; Mediterranean, 918 f 75c ; Aus trian and Lombard, 477 f 50e. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 97 10 , Credit Fonder 925 Do. end month.... 97 251 Belgian 4i 9B 75 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 65 I Roman Bank Shares 2880 , Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 667 50 ' Spanish Threes 47 50 Do. Account 668 751H0m0 Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .. 1388 75 .. 1383 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 915 .. 915 Geneva 367 50 .. Southern 516 25 .. 513 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard o 473 75 .. 471 25 THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS. Yesterday's Moniteur announces that a first warning has been given to the Courrier du Dimanche. It also publishes the following letter of Count Persigny to the Councillor of State charged with the general direction of the press " Monsieur le Conseiller d'Etat,—l have just read in a weekly journal, the Ceurrier du Dimanche, an article that is an insult to our institutions. Till now, convinced that liberty of discussing the acts of Government is as useful to the Government as to the public, and confirmed in that conviction by the attitude of the press itself during the last two months, I have not ceased, as you know, in conformity with the principles set forth in my circular of Dec. 7, to overcome the obstacles which might tend in practice to re strain that liberty. But I should be guilty towaris the State to tolerate for an instant that the principle of the Government should be discussed, still more so should I permit it to be outraged. I beg you, therefore, to prepare immediately a warning against that journal. I learn, moreover, that the author of that article, M. Gregory Ganesco, is not a Frenchman. I am astonished that a foreigner should permit himself to come here and insult the institutions of our country ; and consequently I charge the Prefect of Police to expel him from France, by the appli cation of Art. 72, the law of Dec. 11, 1849.—Receive, &c., " F. DV PERSIGNY." The Illoniteur also publishes the following deci sion of the committee for examining, the senatus consultunz on publishing reports of the sittings of the Senate and Legislative Body : 21:1E WEST INDIA, P. 4 CIF IC, AND MEXICAN :111A1LS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Tasma nian, Captain Weller, with the above mails, has arrived. The Tasmanian brings in all 45 passengers, amongst whom are Captain Killeen, Lieut. Grant, Lieut. Bussell, two non-commissioned officers, and five privates of the 21st Regiment from Barbadoes. She brings specie amounting to £256,910, of which £21,331 in gold, £233,863 in silver, £1,571 in pearls, £BO in jewellery, and £65 in platina, and a cargo of 2,739 packages general merchandise, consisting of 411 serons of bark, 981 serons of indigo, 6 serons ofjalap, 152 cases of cigars, 3 bales of tobacco, 20 casks of coffee, 11 live turtle, 5 cases of tortoiseshell, 20 cases of succades, 32 bales of india-rubber, 358 pkgs. silver ore, 363 bags of cocoa, and 177 packages of sundries. The Tasmanian experienced violent gales from N.W. and N.E. to S. On the 19th, in lat. 25.30 N., long. 59.35 W., she spoke the Floating Cloud, of Liverpool, from Rio to New York ; all well. On the 26th she passed through the centre of a cyclone, lat. 44 N., long. 26 W. At Demerara there had been very little doing in the colony since the departure of the last packet. Immigrant ships were coming from Calcutta in rapid succession ; 1,318 immigrants had already arrived since the 16th of December, 1860. Several vessels were daily expected from India, and others from China. The weather during the fortnight had been fine , with a few occasional showers. The sugar crop for 1860 was 5,500 hhds. short of the exports of the previous year. At Barbadoes the weather had been very season able. Light showers had been frequent since the commencement of the year in most parts of the island. The air was cool ; at times almost cold. The young cane crop was nearly planted, and the early plants were everywhere springing well ; the old canes continued to improve and were ripening satisfactorily. The crop promised well. A few estates had commenced making sugar, in a small way, but the crop reaping was not expected to begin in earnest before the end of this month, if the showers kept up not perhaps before the end of February or the beginning of March. The islands were all healthy. " Art. 42 of tho-constitution is modified as follows " The debates of the sittings of the Senate and Legisla tive Body are reproduced in short hand and inserted in extenso in the official journal of the following day. " Besides, reports of these sittings, drawn up by secretary reporters, under the authority of the president of each as sembly, are placed at the disposal of all the journals. " Reports of the sittings of the Senate and Legislative Body by the journals or any other means of publication shall consist only of a reprsduction of the debates inserted in extenso in the official journal, or of the report drawn up under the president's authority, in accordance with the preceding paragraphs. "Nevertheless, when several measures or petitions shall have been discussed in one sitting, it shall be permitted to reproduce the debate by itself relating to one of such mea sures, or ono of such petitions, provided that it be in no case abridged. The Senate, on the demand of five mem bers, shall have the power of deciding that it go into secret committee. Art. 13 of the senatue consultum of Dec, 25 1852, is repealed," INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The screw steamship Pera (belonging to the Pen insular and Oriental Company's fleet), Capt. T. Jamieson, arrived at Southampton yesterday, bring ing the heavy portion of the above-mentioned mails. The Pera took out the India and China mails of the 4th inst., leaving Southampton at 2 p.m. on that that day, so that she has accomplished the voyage out and home, including the stay at Alexandria to exchange mails, passengers, cargo, &c., and all other stoppages at intermediate ports, in a little over 257 days. She sailed from Alexandria, on her return voyage, on the 17th ; Malta on the 21st ; and Gib raltar, on the 25th. She experienced variable strong winds, and fine weather, from Alexandria to Malta; thence to Gibraltar, fresh westerly breezes; from Gibraltar to Cape St. Vincent, strong easterly winds; and thence to Southampton, light easterly winds, with variable fine and foggy weather. The Pera brought 63 passengers (viz., 29 first class, 23 second, and 11 children); and on freight, 1,705 bales of silk, 97 boxes of oranges, and 37 pack ages of general merchandise. She had no specie. On the 20th inst. the Pera passed her Majesty's ship Firefly, steering to the eastward. At Alexandria were:three French transports and a Swedish corvette. Her Majesty's ships Renown, Agamemnon, Mel pomene, and Quail were at Malta ; and the Argus and Redpole at Gibraltar. The remainder of the British Garibaldians, who were left behind at Gibraltar from the steamer Me3azzo, embarked on board the steamship Mavro cordatos, which sailed for London at 2 p.m. on the 23d inst., having had a free passage granted them in that .vessel, The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 25th says : " The subscription that was opened here for + 1,o;„ as Pritish subjects, amounted to 463 dols., the whole of which was ex pended in providing them with food and lodging for 15 days. Previous to their departure they addressed letters of thanks, for the kind treatment they had received, to his Excellency the Governor and Capt . Sayer, the police magistrate, and requested that their gratitude to the inhabitants, officers, and sol diers, for the liberal subscriptions raised on their behalf, might be publicly signified." It appears that the 2,000,000 dols. of the Moorish indemnity was shipped at Mogadore on board the steam transport Ferrol, and not the steam-frigate Princess de Asturias. The specie was contained in 635 boxes. TheFerrol called at Tangier on the 19th, on her way to Alicante with the treasure on board. A private letter from Mogadore, dated Jan. 15, received at Gibraltar by the French steamship Ma rocain, which called there on her way from the coast of Morocco to Marseilles, says— " The import trade has been at a standstill since the 24th ult. in consequence of the unpleasant state of the Spanish question ; but I am happy to say that an influential person succeeded, on the 12th inst., in persuading the authorities to give up the money, and so avoid a change of masters to the place itself. Now we hope for a revival of trade." The British schooner Wye was at Mogadore, and the steamship Gladiator, with goods from England, was about to leave for the Canary Islands. There were two British and two Portuguese sailing vessels loading at Mazagan ; and the Emily Wylde, with a cargo of Indian corn, left that port on the 16th for Cork. _ _ The Correa de Andalucia of Malaga, of the 20th inst., in an account from the Penon de la Gomera (penal settlement on the coast of Africa), states that the commander of ate Moorish outpost stationed before that place by order of the Emperor since November last, with theview of preventing aggres sions on the part of the Ritaans, went to pay on the 6th a farewell visit to the Spanish Governor. He explained to the officer that as the term for his re lief had long since expired, he had come to the de termination of relieving the post himself, and pro ceeding to Tangier. The Governor gave the Moor some money, and assured him that he was perfectly satisfied with the manner in which he discharged his duties. Latest accounts from Melilla are to the Bth inst., at which date nothing new had occurred there. With respect to the question of limits the chiefs of the Kabyles continued to hold meetings. The Moors of Frajama and Cobrerizas were opposed to giving up their homes, unless the Emperor indemnified them for the loss, and preferred paying tribute to the Queen of Spain, if the protection and security of their property was guaranted to them. It is stated that the Spanish Government has granted to the British Consul at Bilboa the ground this gentleman solicited for the purpose of con structing a cemetery for Protestant burials. A Sardinian 50-gun sailing frigate, named the Beraldo, but lately armed en flute, and used for the conveyance of troops, wene ashore on the coast of Corsica. The accident was caused by her missing stays when beating up to Genoa. Intelligence of it having reached Bastia, the Passe Partout and the Letizia immediately got up their steam, and proceeded to the spot to afford assistance. A collision occurred on the morning of the 14th inst. between the Spanish schooner Activa, Capt. Soler, and the steam transport Marquez de la Vic toria, on her voyage to Tetuan, with a squadron of the Albuera cavalry. The transport put on all steam to save herself, as she was making much water, and reached Ceuta on the same day. She had also to:abandon her boats sent to the assistance of the schooner. Another steamer, the Leon, was expected at Ceuta from Algeciras to convey the cavalry to Tetuan. The Marquez de la Victoria had subsequently reached Cadiz, where she is to repair damages. The Activa was towed into Malaga Bay on the morning of the lath by the Sardinian ship Emilia Eloisa, Captain Joseph Scoponi, The schooner was completely dismasted and unmanage able, and it was only owing to the prompt assist ance rendered by the Sardinians that they could reach the port in safety. The two boats belonging to the steamer, rimmed by an officer and 22 men, which were sent to the assistance of the schooner, arrived at Malaga at the same time. Three French vessels of the line—viz., the Tage, from Messina ; the St. Louis and the Imperial, from Gaeta, arrived at Toulon on the evening of the 16th. The Fontenoy only was to remain at Gaeta. The Pensular and Oriental Company's steamer Ellora, with the outward Bombay mails of the 12th, arrived at Malta at daylight on the 21st, and left for Alexandria at 3 p,m. the same day. The Cey lon, hence on the 20th, with the Calcutta and China mails, arrived at Gibraltar at 1 p.m. on the 25th, and left at 6 p.m. on the same day for Malta. The British steamer Victor, seven days from Plymouth, arrived at Cadiz on the 17th inst. with the steam dredger Excavator in tow, and the steam transport San Antonio, 2 guns, Lieut. Cantillana, from Tangier, arrived there the same day. On the 21st the British merchant steamer Don Pedro, Capt. W. Taylor, 12 days from Glasgow and 44 hours from Lisbon, arrived at Gibraltar with 17 bullocks and a general cargo; on the 22d, the Britannia, Captain J. White, eight days from Lon don and three from Vigo, with Government stores, a general cargo, and 90 bullocks ; and on the 24th, the Atlantic, Captain A. Horsfall, 61 days from Liverpool, with a general cargo for Malta and Alexandria. The British Brig James McQueen, Captain B. Gales, which arrived at Gibraltar on the 25th, in 20 days from Malta, bound to Antwerp with a cargo of barley, reported having been in collision with an unknown vessel on her voyage from Malta, whereby she had received some damage in her bows. The brig Empress was spoken on the 16th inst., in lat. 37 56 N., long. 6 8 E. ; and the bark Mary Ridley, on the 19th, in lat. 36 12 N., long. 4 41 W., both bound westward, by the Albanian, arrived at Gibraltar. Quotations of exchange and freights remained unaltered at Gibraltar. LITERATURE. My Life, and What shall Ido with it? A Question. for Young Gentlewomen. By an Old Maid. Longman. This is a very instructive and interesting little volume, and it is one which presents some wise suggestions on the important question of rightly employing time and of improving whatever oppor tunities may be afforded, so as to benefit others, and thus render life worth living for. The authoress thus explains her motive at the outset. " The object of the following pages is to point out, especially to the younger women of our sisterhood, the more practicable ways in which educated gentle women who have the leisure and the will may employ their own advantages in the im provement of uneducated and ungentle women, and of their social condition, and to show how they may best prepare for the work." This object has been carried out in the most satisfactory manner, and all thinking and conscientious persons will agree that the effort is a noble one, to teach those who are desirous of doing good, but, through ignorance or carelessness, are not doing it, how to render their works pro fitable, so that their lives will be pleasing now from the consciousness of energies employed and kind feelings cultivated, and hereafter their death beds will be made bright and blessed by the thought that they have been serving their fellow creatures on earth, and pointing the right path to their brethren who are heirs of the same heaven. This excellent and admirable little work is summed up in the following eloquent and effective conclusion, which accurately and impressively conveys the epitome of its pages : There are three facts which I have sought to prove in this work. The first is, that the works assigned popularly to " sisters of charity" are no special works of any set or portion of women, but are equally the work of ever y pro fessing Christian woman, just so far as she has received the power, and can obtain the opportunity of carrying them on. The second is, that anything which tends to separate women thus occupied from the rest of their class, not only tends to limit the number of workers, but injures the effi ciency of their work, and altogether destroys the reflected benefits which would naturally be derived, from the right performance of this part of their duty, by their own fami lies and their own class of society. The third is, that the preparation needed for such a life and labour of love is just the preparation which gentlewomen need to fit them for the domestic and social duties of wife and mother. If any of my readers have come to the same conclusion, let them act upon it. " Christian life is action ; not speculating, not debating, but doing. Feelings pass, resolves and thoughts pass, opinions-change ; what you have done lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that and that only you are. Women of wealth, women of talent, women of leisure, what are you doing in God's world for God ?" Garibaldi, and other Poems. By M. E. Braddon. Bosworth and Harrison. This little volume is decidedly above the average of ordinary verse, and its freshness and spirit afford a delightful contrast to the tedious and pretentious compositions which generally meet us in modern volumes of poetry. The lesser ppems are, as is usually the case, the most satisfactory. If the author will be, for the present, less ambitious in his attempts and restrict himself to lyrics, composed with care, he will, we have no doubt, achieve better things. There is, too, something wanting in his verse, notwithstanding all its fervent love of truth and noble aspirations. There is more of the wild romance of the youthful enthuEis.st than the deep but sober feeling, which is more real if less vivid. In these poems one passion controls a life—madness follows on broken trust, death on blighted affec tions. The actors in their romances or tragedies seem incapable of acquiring that noble experience of which the poet speaks when he bids us "Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong." Much of this extravagance of sentiment is pro bably due to the impetuosity of an eager writer, and will disappear with future experience. We subjoin a favourable specimen of the author's powers, in which fresh and healthful feeling is combined with grace of expression and melody of rhythm:— AMONG TIIE HYACINTHS. We have left the world behind— We have lost the beaten track, And the hum of the city upon the wind We have only to guide us back. Oh I this is indeed to live, To be free to dream and to dare, When all that the busy world can give, Is a murmur on the air. In the wool where the hyacinths grow ; And the earth is as blue as the sky, We wander to-day till the sun sinks low, And the rosy shadows die; Till the day, with its soul of flame, Till the beautiful day shall die; To return, but not to return the same, With one cloud in the changing sky. So but once we may live these hours, So reckless, and radiant, and gay; But once may gather these wild-wood flowers, That wither ere close of day. For the bright spring moments die, As the blossoms perish and fade ; And the careless jest, and the low reply, Are past with the light and shade. And through life, ah ! never again 'Will the same brief hour return, With alternate throb of joy and pain, In the hearts that beat and burn. Oh, weary, and flat, and stale, Is the life we throw away, The talents and powers of no avail To shorten one summer's day. But, who leaves the world behind, To go from the beaten track, Should hear low voices upon the wind, That sweetly call him back : That breathe from the wild-wood flowers— That cry in the murmuring stream, " This mortal and earnest life of ours, Was given us not to dream ; " To question its depth and truth, Or to fear its darkening close : But to do great deeds in our golden youth, And to scorn the slave's repose : " To scorn the slave, who lies, And basks in the summer sun, Who leaves to lament him, when he dies, On the wide world's face, not one. " Then up from amongst the flowers, The path is wide and free, And earth claims of man his noblest powers, To conquer her misery." Family Pictures. By the author of " Mary Powell," &c. Hall, Virtue, and Co. A volume from the pen of this pleasant and popular authoress can seldom fail to please, and the reader will at least find a degree of originality in the work before us. It is not, as some might conjecture from its title , a series of domestic stories, but a collection of sketches of family worthies of whose ancestry their descendants have good reason to be proud. Joseph Paice, one of the foremost of these, was one of those rare and admirable cha racters that are occasionally met with, in which all the baser and meaner failings that disfigure humanity are entirely absent, and a b enevo l ence of heart and simplicity of nature remain until the last, notwithstanding crosses and disappoint- ments that would have soured less genial and kindly hearts. Like G o ld sm ith's vicar, Even his failings leaned to virtue's side," and we cannot wonder at th e affectionate reverence with which his descendants and friends of the third and fourth generations cherish his name and me mory. Other companion portraits of good, simple folk of the old schootbear him company. Afterwards we have many miscellaneous sketches, one of the most pleasing being a description of Claremont as it was in the days of the Princess Charlotte. At the conclusion of the volume there is also a paper trans lated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, containing a charming portrait of domestic peace and comfort, and some sound advice on the education and moral government of a young family. Though not per haps possessing all the attractions of Miss Man ning's original works, there is much to interest and gratify the reader in these reminiscences of bygone days. .A stro-Meteorology. No. I. of the Society's Journal. The initial number of a new periodical publica tion, under the title of Record of the Astro- Meteorological Society, has just made its appear ance. It is issued in a pamphlet form—a form admitting readily of its preservation. At the close of No. I. there is an intimation that the second instalment will be forthcoming on the Ist of April, containing a prediction of the weather for April, May, and June. So that the projectors of the new periodical would appear to intend a quarterly issue of it eventually. We mention this, because other wise the readers of this new scientific journal might fall into the notion that the Record purposes to appear every alternate month, No. I. being dated Ist of February, and No. 11. being announced, as already remarked, as forthcoming on the Ist of April. At the commencement of the initial number now before us, there is an " Address to ths Public" from the projectors at once of the society and of the society's periodical. It opens with the following observations : The founders of the Astro-Meteorological Society have only one object in view, which is the furtherance of such knowledge of the causes of changes in the condition of the atmosphere as will lead to a foreknowledge of the periods of storms, or excess of heat or cold, drought or rain. They feel confident that these effects are the results of causes at present perfectly unknown to the scientific men of Europe and America. While they willingly acknowledge the talents and industry of the scientific world, they submit that, whether arising from prejudice or accident, the fact, unhappily for the interests of society, exists, that those talents and that industry have been hitherto misdirected, in the search for a solution of the great problem of the causes of changes in the weather. It is only after more than a quarter of a century's close observation of those changes, by several gentlemen, having no interest in any thing but the truth being known upon this subject, that those observers have come to a decided conviction that there exists in nature a principle which—though little known to society, and not known at all to the savans, whose eyes have been strangely blinded to its perception— really and truly leads to a foreknowledge of the state of the atmosphere. The value of this foreknowledge to farmers, gardeners, builders, shipowners, merchants, navigators, corn dealers, fishermen, travellers, military and naval com manders, and others, is so vast and important, that no apology can be required for the attempt now making to establish, on the sound basis of induction, a th eor y which, if true, can alone offer to society all the advantages of a previous knowledge of the atmospheric changes, on which the interests of all those important classes depend. And the writer having explained more in detail the design kept in view by the association, concludes his introductory remarks in the words subjoined : It is the present intention of the society to issue frequent papers, monthly if possible, of a similar character with the present. These will contain abundant evidence of the con nection between the several positions of the earth among the other bodies of the solar system, and those great and important changes in the weather on which the interests of society depend. Their most important features, however, will be our attempts' to foreshow for some weeks in advance the leading characteristics of the coming season. These prognostications will be the result of the joint labours of several observers, who have made the subject their study for very many years. It must not be expected, however, that any effort will be made, as yet, to frame a minute, er even a daily, prediction of the weather. But so far as long and careful observation, and an unbiassed desire to benefit society, by setting forth the results, may be depended on, the weather predictions found in these columns will be ac ceptable. Their continuance will of course depend on the degree of public support the society may meet with. To persons disposed to oppose our speculations, we can only say, with the ancient-philosopher, Strike, but hear 1" The exclamation, by the way, being that—rinrr axx dico&—not of the " philosopher, but of the great warrior Themistocles. A classical slip of the pen, however, like ,this, has "nothing whatever to do, we are quite aware, with" the merits or demerits of the "Record," as the organ of Astro-Meteorology. As to those merits or demerits the public may now satisfy themselves by examining the papers con tained in the inaugurative number of the society's monthly or quarterly periodical. Among these contributions will be found a little treatise giving " The Theory of Astro-Meteorology ;" a chapter on " The Rainfall in England ;" an essay, by W. H. W., on " Astro-Philosophy ;" and another on the " Causes of the Curve of Mean Temperature." The last mentioned paper is illustrated by a very curious diagram of the curve, as noted at Greenwich in 1858, during the months of January and February. SAVING TEE CREWS OF STRANDED VESS.ELS. A series of exceedingly interesting experiments, having for their object the providing a certain means of communication between stranded vessels and the shore as a means of preserving thy lives of their crews at a time when communication by boat would be impossible, was brought to a close at Portsmouth in a most satisfactory manner on Satur day last. The trials have extended over a period of some months, and the means proposed to be em ployed have been tested in every possible way by the gentleman who has suggested—in fact, carried it out at his own expense, Lieut. G. S. Nares, senior lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Britannia, Capt. Robert Harris, the naval cadet training ship in Portsmouth harbour. Lieutenant Nares employs the common kite principle as his chief agent; but while he sends his kite away to leeward, and con sequently towards the shore, he retains the means on board the stranded vessel of bringing down the kite when flown sufficiently beyond the beach, or that the line attached to the kite may be hauled upon by the people on shore, and the end on board the vessel being attached to a hawser, and the latter on reaching the shore being hauled up the cliff, a means of escape to the crew and passengers, however numerous they may be, so long as the vessel holds together, or however violent may be the surf which intervenes between the ship and the land, is open to all with the most perfect safety by a boatswain's cradle, basket, or slung cask, being attached to the hawser, and hauled backwards and forwards bythe people of the vessel and those on shore. To bring the kite to the ground when sufficiently ad . vanced beyond the face of a cliff, or high-water mark, Lieut. Nares has a second line attached to the right angle of the kite ; holding on to this line, and letting go the flying line of the kite, the latter instantly capsizes and descends to the earth. This mode is applicable to the rescue of a crew of a vessel which has been driven well on shore, but is in a position, either from the surf or the formation of the coast, in which no vessel can approach her. Another mode in which this life-kite may be used is where it may be able to effect a landing on a beach to leeward, but the boats are washed over board or stove, or the position in which the vessel may lie on' a bed of rocks may render boats useless. In this case the flying-line of the kite is attached by a toggle to the bunghole of a cask, to a couple of breakers with a boat's mast lashed athwart them, or round a man's chest, with the knot between his shoulders; in either ease the kite finds the supporting power, and conveys the object its line is fast to on shore, another line being attached to the cask, raft, or man from the vessel, and the communication with the shore is complete. The particular credit due to Lieutenant Nares consists in having, by his second line, devised a means of bringing a kite to the ground at the moment required, and in also making use of the kite in attaching its flying line to the people an object in the water, a carrier of his hawser's hauling line to on the shore. Kites have been tried before, but have failed for the want of these two great requisiles. A few years since a vessel drove on shore on the Devon coast, close under the land. The captain sent up a kite, which flew over the people's heads on the shore, but they had no means of reaching it, and the whole of the unfortunate crew perished in sight of the people on shore, who were there ready to aid them could the line from the kite overhead have reached their hands. On Friday last the brig Mercy, of Bristol, was wrecked at Porthleven, in Mount's Bay. A tremendous surf was running, but to save the crew it was necessary to form some communication otherwise than by boat. A cask was thrown overboard among the breakers, with a small line attached, and was, after great difficulty and risk of life on the part of the people on shore, got hold of, and a hawser hauled on shore, to which a swung basket was attached, and the crew were saved. In this case the kite would nave conveyed the cask to the people on the beach without their having to risk their lives by running into the breakers and surf to lay hold of it. The concluding experiments by Mr. Nares were made from her Majesty's steamer Bullfinch, Lieutenant James. The Bullfinch on this occa sion Nares shore, and and the ex perimentssion was 6 O rt O n s yardswered fromperfhas presented his plan to the Shipwrecked Fisher men's Society, and also the fifty guineas which had been awarded him. ectthlye. It appears that of the funds belonging to the Mexican bondholders at Mexico a sum of about £45,000 was saved, owing to that amount being represented by bills of exchange which had not fully matured. These have since b een collected, and the proeeeds are believed to be secure. Upon their arrival on this side they would, with the £16,000 already in the Bank of England, make a total sufficient to meet the 12s. remanet of the last distribution n the shape of dividend. A Vienna letter, of the 27th, announces that the Austrian Government and Prince Michael of Servia have entered into a convention for the reciprocal extradition of political and other prisoners, Th ( to thj tua I tiodei k deef, G reat a•Eite: Yorks Ti ll b een i kustr 121 ; \Srestl 31( Th tinne linpo: A l Ede, the 6 Th 421,: ; lire n3 14 ap, f ktu r l Cents 414 ve NMI to 68; recede been l '° l ldl h 43a n k I °lltl °°lltii b litet