The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

stern Pad three .nt of lee at red by olonel. of the by M. to her K.G., Foreign erdeen, i John 3rmere, easurer )ller of ; ; Vis ce, and Stinday k their Da yes- Dasury, rer, the lyal ad e. Tito L Chan. yll, the ide, the me," the ;pencer, Earl of anning, s, Lord Stanley wander age was nentary mcning :on. the 6ddresg, int Pal- James Sidney ace, the I Paget, utt, the M. T. At tor he Soli -1, W. G. lon. IL renville lonsell, e Hon. Arthur a in the )vening, a die- Upper arty : se, the le Mar -1 Dela ;an, the Earl of lea, the Earl of Strang- of the gave a iament, r-street, 'ere the rquis of rington, s, Lord iir J. S. 2e Hon. Edward .ederick ►n, Mr. rived at i. Lord rendon, Chester- ) second member longs to ng-lane, ercio of veßgels t o t)1; vt::, , 1 .4 brigs, I, 8 war LATEST • FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. It is affirmed that one part of Count Orloff's 11 Lulea to Vienna is t o obtain permission to send, ceder certain circumstances, a Russian corps from W arsaw, :by way of Presburg, to the Danubian B°4 of war. lie is s: lid to be the bearer of the 411 1wer of the Czar to the autograph letter of the 411 strian Emperor, which accompanied the last P r opositions,of the Conference. his first interview vrith the Emperor of Austria "° place at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. ▪ leaves Vienna for Berlin on Wednesday or irsday. Prince Gortschak off is dismissed, and ordered to retire to his estater4. Pesch Schillier, his successor, passed through WI on Saturday on his way to the seat of war. ,_ ll l 3 to the 215th there was nothing new at Vienna "l'a the Principalities. General Schilder, chief of the engineers, sud- Sly left Warsaw on the 19th, by order of the 'itaperor, for Wallachia, together with several 1 : 1 1)erior officers of the same department. General ellilder is said to be charged with throwing 'ridges across the Danube, and directing the pas rte of that river. ~The garrison of Kars is composed of 25 , 000 "As. All operations are suspended by the snow, I Phich covers the ground to a great depth. At Constantinople the activity at the war office 1d the arsenal was undiminished on the 19th, but 448 people were tranquil. ,Sinces the 12th inst. the Turks have presented 7 131,, ,e1ves on the NV allachian bank of the Danube at 181 MS, Turnou, Kalarasch, and Sinnitza, without, ' ° wiever, attempting to establish themselves on any. r:hit. Since the 15th, the garrison of Bucharest 45 4 received orders to march in the direction of ‘/Itenitaa, and the troops- stationed about ten or tWelve miles from the Danube have been ordered ‘lovrn to the river. The heavy siege guns ordered a fortnight ago from Krajova, had not arrived, on 22d, in num bers considered sufficient for the contemplated at '4k on Kalafat. It is said that Prince Gorischa -"if has even received an order forbidding further Waste of life like that at Citale, and directing a Postponement of the attack until a larger force 8 411 be available. A bulletin published at Jassy represents the battle of Citale as a Russian victory. By a private letter from Bucharest, we learn that General Salis, a Swiss, in Russian pay, is there raising a free corps for Russia. He has got to gether 600 Serbs, Phanariots, and runaway Bul garians but not one Wallachian. His men wear 1 , 1 . 0 uniform but. the pickel-haut, with a red cross on 't• The anxiety of all classes is extreme and in creasing. No one can tell what may happen to korrow. The following is from St. Petersburg, dated Jan. .„ :--The most singular statements about our army, rasposition and employment, are made in the foreign 011 rnala. The following particulars are authentic : -At the Caucasus and in Asia Minor the detached e°l l)a of the Caucasus is employed partly in block 7.gi'ng this latter place. All the troops not required ;C:t this service are in the field in conjunction with :tae 13th division of Luders' corps, the militia that eve been called out, and the Grabenski Cossacks %mind: the Turks. The other half of Luders' corps is posted partly in Bessarabia, partly opposite the obrudj a inMoldavia, whe re liann enberg' s corps and 'Part of Osten-Sacken's are. I can positively assure 4` ll u that the 6th army corps from Moscow, Tsheoda rl, has also' been on its march thither for months. "As a proof of this strongly disputed point let this cir- Lamstance serve. Upon the report sent in from Tula of the commandant and the civil governor, concerning the marching of the 6th army corps through the government before named, and in re cognition of the exertions of all classes, especially 'of the nobility and tradesmen, in giving assistance 7:0 the corps while on its march, and supplying the liroop s with rations and forage, the Emperor has c( munanded the two authorities above-mentioned. I. ° express to all classes of the population his all cllnreme satisfaction at this " praiseworthy activity Atid zeal of his trusty subjects." The Emperor 111 °ved by his " feelings of fa therl y care," has 'thought fit to bestow the sum of 100 silver roubles °n all who lost their legs at Oltenitza, 50 on those 'rho lost their hands, 10 or 5 to the other wounded. speedy and ample help is to be given to the .4 a raffles of the slain. But with the exception of the meagre invalid fund, there is no endowment tt legally organised institution to apply to. The Treasury and the War Pay-office must, therefore, defray these grants. The war costs enormous 'lnuits, especially while the troops remain in Russia, for here everything is paid for with ready money. The stock of bullion in our Banks throughout the empire is already exhausted, as I mentioned .?before. The large private capital of the country °auk of the Polish pledge-papers, is now also to be hacking for the war by command of the Czar. This °Baking establishment which ever since its foun dation has stood so high in public opinion, loses by Illia its previous reputation, although its is private lareperty. The so-called " Pension Fund," whioh Take officials in Poland contribute to from their pay, Insuring thus a provision for their old age or their 'widows has been spent long cgo. It is most true that these forced loans are inscribed in the book of the great Russian Inland Debt, but everybody knows what that security is worth at the present Tame. The Prince of Servia is in great perplexity. The 11 ,,u . ssia party is active, and threatens disorder. -4 " rice Milosch is with Gortschakoff, apparently . Waiting to profit by any troubles here. No resolu tions have been come to respecting the Sultan's Ftnans, which have now been officially delivered, b ut not promulgated. THE FLEET AT SIN OPE. The subjoined is dated Sinope, Jan. 13 -- On Jan. 3 the combined fleets left Beikos Bay, but anchored again off Buyukcl4re4, as the Triton, with the mails, made her number, and the weather, which had been remarkably fine, changed to a thick mist with heavy squalls, The 6 anspaleil, Rodney, and Bayard had reached the ren oervous, 10 miles from the entrance of the Bosphorus , °tit were recalled. On the morning of the 4th the wea ther had cleared up—it was quite a calm—when the Whole fleet weighed and assembled at the entrance to the Bosphorus. The ships formed in two columns : 16 ritannia and Ville de Paris, Albion and Jupiter, Ven geance and Jena, Sanspareil and Henri IV., Rodney ond Valmy, Bellerophon and Bayard, Trfalgar and Fried land, Agamemnon and Charlemagne, London and Queen, ~.and five French steamers and seven English ; Leander mgate looking out a-head. At 4.30 p.m. signal was made, " Turks are to be pro tected from all aggression by sea or land." Thursday, s.—We were joined at daylight by a Turk ish squadron of five steamers, with troods ; they joined Our party. The Charlemagne ran into the Fridland and cut her stern open. The Agamemnon lost a man over hoard. Friday, 6.—At 3 p.m. the fleet anchored in Sinope Ray. The town is situated on an isthmus which connects a high hill with the main. A strong wall runs along both sides of the isthmus, with a high castle at the end, near the main land. Ocr arrival caused the utmost c(insternation among the unfortunate inhabitants, many ....of whom have lost everything b y the late action. The . -Uurkish part of the town is completely destroyed, and the beach is covered with masts, spars, &c.—in fact, every part of a ship. One steamer and a corvette were driven shore ; the rest were sunk, and the mastheads of i llatly are still above water. But what renders the Scene more melancholy are the number of mutilated bodies lying about. Several hundreds have been covered With eareh, but have been again uncovered by dogs, vultures, &c. Charle- Sunday, B.—The Agamemnon, Sanspareil , laagne, Terrible, Mogador, Sampson, and D escartes were ordered to get up steam. We weighed at noon and escorted the five Turkish steamers to Trebizond, where we arrived on Tuesday, the 10th ; remained all day, and went on to Batoum •, anchored at 9 a.m. the next day. It is a small place, with a few guns, on a low point. General Guyon commands the Turkish forces, which consists of 30,000 at Fort Nicolai, which is still held by them, notwithstanding frequent attempts on the part of the Russians to retake it. The people at Batoum are in great force ; every man well armed, and wanting nothing but what we took them—powder. We left Batoum on Wednesday, the 11th, at 4 p.m., and reached this place this afternoon. The Fury leaves at once for Constantinople. The following is a letter from an officer in the fleet : " Sinope, Jan. 8. " We left this place on the morning of the above date, —Agamemnon, 91, screw, Captain Symonds, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.B. ; Sanspareil, 71, screw, Captain Dacres ; Terrible, 21, Captain M'Cleverty (paddle) ; a French steam line-of-battle ship with Rear-Admiral de Tinan ; the paddle-steamers Gomer and Descartes, and a Turkish Admiral, accompanied by six steamers of war, the latter all laden with ammunition to be distributed at Trebizond and Batoum. The Turkish squadron was under the united British and French pro tection, with orders to guard them from any aggression on the part of Russia. J an , 9.—Steaming along the southern coast of the black Sea, keeping ail together. The scenery is beyond description—mountains of a stupendous height literally Covered with snow, with immense forests of pin e trees T . , rotrivliofr, and, owing to the excessive clearness of the atitioThercl, appear to be close to you, though, in fact. "ot tiO miles distant. The lovel iest weather y ou can possibly imagine ; not a cloud to be seen, and perfectly Calm- Thermometer 63°, and barometer 30'20. 10,—Arrived at Trebizond early in the morn. THE FUN, ,LONDOI, TUESDAY EVENING , JANUARY 31, 1854. ing. The Turkish steamers immediately commenced discharging part of their ammunition. A. miserable Turkish town • hardly a decent house in it , with the exception of the British Consul's. Here they are very indifferently prepared to resist any attack from sea or land, having only a couple of miserable forts, and those scantily supplied with cannon. We sailed shr from this place in the evening for Batoum, the nearest anchorage to the Turkish frontier, the whole ... squadron having loaded and shotted all their guns in readiness for action, having heard at Trsbizond that a Russian squadron of four line of battle ships and four steamers had been seen off the place. " Jan. 11.—Arrived at Batoum. Saw nothing of the Russian squadron, which disappointed a good many, who were ready in hope of having something to do.' Assisted the Turkish steamers in landing all their ammunition for the army, which was encamped about fifteen miles from this, on the frontier, which we succeeded in doing by two p.m. Batoum is a mere village, with a single fort on a point. We weigh ed at 2 p.m. and all steamed together towards the Turk ish frontier (12 miles), where we got a distant peep at the Turkish encampment. We then turned about, and made the best'of our way to Sinope under steam, where we have just arrived, Jan. 13th, and found the fleets of Vice-Admirals Dundas and Hamelin here ac we left them. The Terrible and the Fury leave this evening (13th) for Constantinople, to convoy the six Turkish steamers there, I believe, accompanied by two French steamers also. " We remain here (Sinope) for a short time, and shall all, after the arrival of the Caradoc with despatches, return to Constantinople, unless anything new turns up. "The Turks have commenced getting up guns, stores, &c., from the ships sunk by the Russians in the late massacre. "Three Russian steamers were on this frontier three days previous to our arrival, trying the range of their guns at some of the Turkish forts. FRANCE. The following is another account of the inter- St view between M. de Kisseleff and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, on the subject of the answer to be made to Sc. the Czar :—" The despatches reached M. de St. Kisseleff and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the St. same time. M. de Kisseleff immediately after- 12 wards went to M. Drouyn de Lhuys to demand 1 .6 explanations relative to the entry of the two 163 fleets. On the reply of the French Minister St. of Foreign Affairs, that the order was given 19i as a measure of protection to Turkey, but 14 not as an aggression upon Russia, M. de p, Kisseleff demanded that this explanatio n should `ll v be put in writing. The two diplomatists sepa- 10 rated without concluding anything, in order St. that M. Drouyn de Lhuys might consult his St. colleagues, and take the orders of the Empe ror on vs the subject, and it was agreed that th e two Minis- ' 12 , ters should meet again some hours later. The second interview accordingly took place, and M. 50 Drouyn de Lhuys informed the Russian diplomatist 40 40 that the Government did not mean to give the ex- hu planation in writing. M. de Kisseleff was, how- St. ever, at the same same given to understand that 812 s the refusal was only provisional, as it was neces- St. sary that in the first instance the French Govern. St. ment should come to an understanding on the 5 0 subject with that of England. It is said t hat in &:, the course of the interview, M. de Kisseleff said to 'i t the French Minister, You suppose that you em- 6, barass us greatly in the Black Sea ; but you may 25 remain there for three years, if you like.' 50 It is asserted that the French Government will 20 to-day give M. de Kisseleff the reply to the ques- St, tions of the Czar. 50 Prince Napoleon, the son of Jerome, left Paris St. on Saturday for Brussels, on a special mission from 16 the Emperor to the King of the Belgians. It is 1 2 understood that this mission was specially re quested by King Leopold Leopold, it being the 5( wish of his Majesty to make a public demonstra- 10 tion of the good footing upon which he stands with 10 France, and of the falsehood of the reports which attributed to him the character of an agen t and or partisan of Russia. Prince Napoleon is instructed 1( to enforce upon his Majesty the necessity of show- 1( ing to the world that he gives his cordial and un suspected support to the allied Powers in the Rus- Si sian affair. 21 It is thought that the Duke and Duchess de s , Brabant will soon visit Paris. The Moniteur contains a decree granting the S Emperor's permission to a very large number of S persons to wear foreign orders. The most distin guished in this list in point of decorations is Clot' Bey, formerly physician to the Pacha of Egypt, who is, it appears, a Knight of the Order of 1 Grace of the Two Sicilies, a Commander of the 2 Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, a Knight 2 of the Red Eagle of Prus sia, of the Order of St. • Maurice and St. Lazarus of Sardinia, and of the 5 Order of St. Stanislas of Poland. . Drouyn de E Lhuys is gazetted as a Grand Cross of the Lion of the Netherlands. MM. Fould and Abbatucci are Grand Crosses of the Order of our Lady of the Conception of Villa Vicosa. M. Baroche is a 2 1 Knight of the Turkish Order of Medjidie. M. Alphonse Mayer James Rothschild figures as a St. Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belguim, and 10 M. Gustave Samuel James Rothschild is a Knight T 5• of the same Order, and also of the Tuscan Order of St. Joseph. 20 A contract has just been taken at Rochefort for 20 the equipment of 15,000 men ; they are to be fur- 50 •• nished within one month, independe nt of 20,000 20 more, which number is nearly complete. • The Emperor has addressed the following letter 20 to M. Achille Fould, Minister of State and of the 10 Household of his Majesty : St. " Palace of the Tuileries, Jan. 29. 25 "Monsieur le Ministre—l have just nomina ted you 2s • Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, to exp ress to y ou my satisfaction at the manner in which you have di rected two important services—my Civil List and the termina tion of the Louvre. Thanks to your care, the most ri gorous order is established in my household; all accounts g, are paid with exactitude, and the great national enter- St. prise of the termination of the Louvre will soon be rea- 25 used. I have been anxious to give you this mark of es teem on the anniversary of my marriage. On this I pray St God to have you in his holy keeping. "NAPOLEON. 20 St SPAIN. The only news in the Madrid journals of the 25th is, that General Ariscum has resigned the post of Director General of : Cavalry. A letter says : —" Tranquillity is perfect a t Madrid and in the provinces. Everywhere there is a universal desire to see public tranquillity preserved, in order to obtain material improvements. General O'Donnell has not been heard of. Letters from Barcelona announce the arrival of General Infante ; but he he was to await the arrival of General Jose de la Concha, and the two generals were to embark together for the Balearic islands. The Marquis de Turgot, the French ambassador, has completely recovered. He has exchanged the ratifications of the treaty for the protection of literary property. In consequence of the conclusion of this treaty, our President of the Council wiil receive the Grand Gordon of the Legion of Honour, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, that of the Order of Charles 111. Other decora tion will also be exchanged on the occasion.", SWEDEN. The four orders have voted without opposition, discussion, or even ballot, the extraordinary appro priations demanded for the army and navy. A letter from Stockholm of the 22d states that in the declaration of neutrality it is laid down that the ports of Stockholm and Christiania, the road stead of the military station near Horten, the ports of Carlsten and Carlserna, and that of Slitve, near Gothland, shall be interdicted to the belligerent powers. SINGAPORE.— The Singapore dates are to the 19th of St. December. The condition of affairs in China kept the 50 import markets in a state of great dulness, but no large St. arrivals were expected, and it was hoped, therefore, that St. prices would yet be fairly maintained. The Reliance, with a pumping and winding engine for the coal mines of the Eastern Archipelago Company, had sailed for Labuan, whence the last advices were dated the 29th of November, and reported the colony to be healthy. LLANELLY.—This port is full of wind-bound vessels a great part of which have been here for the last three weeks , which have unable to move at veou t t im o e n s account e of the almost hecontrary winds, a h s e u n r t r i c a t i n m e , e at The e i c h d e height h a i v t e continues v a t e r y t h e muchpre crowded, particularly the smaller ones, and unless we soon have a change it will be impossible to accom modate many more. The French trade is increasing ; there are at present in this port one or two less than a dozen of that nation loading for various ports in the north of France and the Bay of Biscay • those for the latter port load almost entirely for Roclfort with anthracite coals, where they are largely used for smelt ing iron in works erected and in course of erection. We understand that many thousand tons of this article will be annually required for this purpose ; wo have thus before us the prospect of an extensive French trade, and now that the Emperor Napoleon 111. has diminished the entrance duty to France on English coals ,toe be lieve, sf. to 3f. per ton, we have every reason hope that our intercourse with that country will continue on an increasing scale.— Welsh Paper. GLASGOW ART-UNION. —This flourishing institution, ranking second only to the Art-Union of London, has appointed Mr. John Watkins, of 34, Parliament-street, Westminster, its Metropolitan Honorary Secretary. The large engraving on steel by H. T. Ryall, from Sir Edwin Landseer's popular picture of " The Return from Deer Stalking," which each subscriber of the present year will receive in return for his guinea, is a production of the highest class, and fully equal to prints from the same eminent painter's works issued by publishers at three times the amount. In addition to this, upwards of 3,000/. have been expended by the committee in choice examples of art from the easels of our greatest painters, and.ibes , distributed among the fortu nate prize-holders. From the spirited, judicious, and honourable manner in which the business of the Glasgow Art-Union is conducted, we have pleasure in recoM a mending it to the notice of our picture-loving radon. SHARE ,MARKE.TS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid.' RA.ILWATB. Closing Prices es terday. LOO Aberdeen 8i Ambg. Nottng. Host and Eastn. Junct all Belfast & Ballymena all Birming, Wolverh. Stour Valley ... . .- 28 Bi r kenhd. 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(Ron Eliza Cook's Journal.) There is something very exciting in a " regular rummage." We suppose most of our readers know what we mean by " a rummage ;" we mean a sudden and investigating attack made upon some out-of-the-way closet or ancient chest in which all sorts of incong,ruons things have been stored away " long long ago," and never been looked at or thought of since. It is astonishing what a number of ghosts arise from these " rummagings," and what varied emotions of pleasure and pain pervade our spirits as we turn out the remnants and relics of other days. We have just come in unexpected contact with a venerable trunk, which has been hidden from prominent existence we cannot say how long—some time under those stairs, then up in that attic, now in a loft, occasionally in a cellar, and very often nobody knew exactly where. At last, our boy Tom wanted more room in his own immediate dormitory, where the banished box has lately been reposing, and ventured in his retiring modesty to suggest the wisdom of seeing what was in it, adding a delicate hint, that " he'd be bound there was only rubbish." Now, as we happened to entertain a private noti n that Tom might possibly be right, we deter mined to " rummage" it, and accordingly set to at it with the vigilance of a Custom-house officer. We will not attempt to enumerate the articles contained in it : no one would credit the list. Suffice it to say that we found a moth-eaten velvet spncer wrapped carefully round a horse's rusted bit, a watchman's rattle without a handle, some very yellow pamphlets on the Gordon riots, two odd slippers, and a bag of dumps. We think these specimens will satisfy the reader that Tom's opinion was not entirely wrong. At last we made a discovery which affected us even to a degree of sentimental silence. At the very bottom of the chest, beneath a dilapidated plume of feathers, lay an old " music -box," a well-remembered dearly-treasured companion of our early days, and which afforded us more delight than all the grandest of grand pianos have since. It must be told that this music-box was none of your tink-a-ting trumpery affairs. It was made of shining mahogany, and played the real tune of " Away with Melancholy," and it was presented to us on our sixth birthday by our paternal grandfather. Dear old man, we can see him now as he came in on that memorable day, with his benevolent face, flaxen wig, bright knee-buckles, and a brown-paper parcel under his arm. We had been scru pulously taught never to expect, much less ask for anything from anybody, but this was our birthday, and he was our grandfather, and he looked so extra kind and so extra impor tant IS he laid the parcel carefully on the table, and he gave us such an extra hug,—that with all the sense of "proper be haviour " which had been inculcated, we imbibed an instan taneous conviction that the parcel contained something for us, and was very near whispering a rash interrogative to as certain the fact. Our tantalizing state was soon put au end to by, " Look here, see what I've brought for your birthday present," said the old gentleman, as he displayed a handsome box, and began to turn the handle. We listened to the first part of the air with dilating eyes, until our delight became exuberant, and in its redundant expression nearly knocked off our venerable relative's wig. What beautiful silver strings we saw ; what a polish was on the wood, and with what un ceasing vigour we applied ourself to the silver handle. It is our opinion now, that the arrangement of the air and quality of the tone were anything but perfect, but then they formed the sweetest melody ever produced. What our friends thought about it we did not inquire. We insisted on having it beside us at dinner, and treated the company to a presto solo between meat and pudding. At tea, we alternately took a bite of our bread and butter and a turn at our beloved mu sic-box. Of course we carried it to bed with us, and are sadly afraid mixed up its jingling with the " Evening Hymn." We managed to awake two hours before our usual time for the ex press purpose of tormenting all within reach of the sound. It was a bitter cold Christmas-day morning, with ice crystals on the windows, and a north-easter that came through every cranny and crevice like a galloping razor ; yet there were we, perched up in our little white bed, working away at our adorable music -box with unshivering zeal, until the appear ance of a respected authority put a peremptory end to the noise, and brought us to our senses, making us promise that we would not touch the box again before were up and dressed. Sorry are we to own that we broke our word, and within five minutes tried if it were likely to be heard under the bed clothes. When Sunday came, we hinted a strong intention of taking it to church, to hear how it would go with the organ ; and when our indulgent mother sang one of her Scottish ditties, we endeavoured to persuade her that our music-box afforded a sweet accompaniment. In short, we idolized the thing, and were so jealous in our de votion, that more than one family fight ensued over it. We allowed a plague of a brother to poke in the eyes of our doll, and even connived at his tying up a dog with our skip ping-rope. Our ball might go for " prisoners' base," or our hoop be missing for a day, but if the plague of a brother touched our music -box, we flew at him as a Dandle Dinmont terrier would at a rat, and a household disturbance was the consequence. Next to our mother and old Pincher, we verily believe we loved this thing the most. For some two or three years it was petted and polished, and locked up, with doting care, but, alas ! we outgrew our music-box, and took to " thinking." The darling object was gradually forgotten, and it must have been at last deposited in the chest where we have lately lighted on it. What a flood of recollection rushed over our brain as we looked down upon it. There it lay, with its silver hinges and handle rusted and black : and when we opened it, behold, every silver string was gone, and by some curious chance the case was stuffed with an old ;.rtificial wreath of bay-leaves. An admirer of juvenile doggrel pre sented us once upon a time with this identical wreath and as we stood over the relics we drew upon our sentiment and the future. " Ah," thought we, "the music-box of our heart, will be found stripped of its silver strings some day, the jingling of their tones will be no longer amusing or annoying "" the world, and the unskilled harmony which once had power to please or plague, will be silent for ever ; but will there be a bay-wreath found with our mouldering remains of melody ? Ay ! that is the question. Well, we must trust to the people's hands, and if they place a memory chaplet over the departed music-box, no matter when the strings are broken. " ELIZL COOK." ►SIR E. BULWER LYTTON AT LEEDS 50 50 20 20 81 801 120 I 20 Pm I 20 120 .1 20 20 20 1001 1 4 20 20. ni i 6i 6a 4-41 5 -- 5A P 1 -- lip -- lip 13i --14 14 • •. 2/ - 3i li --- ii 9 .08 - 110 p - I p 10k .. - • 8 -8! 96 98 97 90 95 94 96 d g ar 137 1 ... - ... - - 96 -- id 8 7a sa 8 71 i ES. 6 3 31 d ourselves. If we look abroad we may observe the pro gress which has been here made within the last sixty years. Take but a single instance. Compare the reign of terror in France at the close of the last century with the sublime and awful moment when law and order were rent asunder around the fallen throne of Louis Philippe, and murder and rapine, seized with horror at their own first impulses, dropped the red flag of blood at the feet of Lamartine. But happier circumstances have, perhaps, allowed this country to take the precedence here. It is this milder spirit of humanity which has raised up all those new questions, only heard of in the last century, affecting the condition of the people—it is this which seeks to carry health and cleanliness into the abodes of misery and squalor—it is this which has directed merciful attention even to the foes and outlaws of society. seeking to reform criminals rather than punish them—it is this which has introduced hopeful discipline into our prison houses, and, except in the rarest eases, has struck the punishment of death out of our criminal code. How naturally, then concomitant with this development of humanity, philosophy takes a moral material, a less speculative direction than in the last century. I grant that we direct philosophy towards nature in order to improve the actual condition and the ma terial existence of man, and therefore we have been called a material age —an age at variance with spiritual objects, or what is called the poetry of life. I cannot see the justice of this reproach. In the last century the common object of philosophers and reformers was bent upon destroying. All schemes in politics were vague and indefinite objects, except the one passionate desire to get rid of whatever existed. That was caught from Voltaire and Payne. But the object of this age is to construct rather than to destroy. Ever since the peace there has grown up in these three great races whom I have indicated as in the full progress of civilisation, a great desire to educate the masses—in other words, to level the disparities of instrgetien. I (Hear, hear.) Now, of these three great communities— the German, the French, and the English—the Ger mans are pre-eminent, especially in the kingdom of Prussia, for the attention the State has devoted to school instruction. And this school instruction is on the whole most beneficial to the moral elevation of the German people. Nevertheless, this uniformity of the State drill has given rather a tameness and monotony to the national character ; and the education bestowed upon the boy is not sufficiently carried out to the man by the civil institutions that keep ideas ever fresh and ener gies always braced. (Hear, hear.) The Germans are very great, but perhaps—out of Leeds at least —they' are rather slow. (Laughter.) Now, in France educa tion is far less diffused than it is in Germany, and it is also inferior in its quality. But, as far as it has gone, it has not been attended in France with that benefit to the moral elevation of the people which we might have anticipated. Indeed, it appears from the statistical tables of M. Guery--and though these returns have been disputed, the facts are really unquestionable—that France is, perhaps, the only country in the world where upon the whole there has been a greater proportion of criminals well educated, who have been guilty of the worst offences, than there have bees: criminals who are altogether ignorant. But I will by- and. by show you that this fact must not be taken as proving anything against the great question of extended education. (Hear, hear.) In Great Britain school education is far less ad vanced than it is in Germany ; and we are told—but I doubt whether we are told correctly—that the school education of Great Britain is inferior, as regards read ing and writing, to that of France. And yet I don't know if I shall not startle you when I state that all the ends of a sound national education are even now far more efficaciously attained in England than they are either in Germany or France. (Hear, hear.) The ancient Athenians were the most intelligent community the world ever saw, and yet there were few of those who had conquered the Persians, or gazed on the Parthenon, or listened to Pericles, or applauded the works of .tEschylus and Sophocles, who knew how to read or write. What was it that taught them to be aspiring yet practical, to be valiant and yet human ? Why, that which teaches the Englishman—the talk and the habits of every-day life, the custom of self government, the consciousness of liberty and the electrical transit of stirring ideas, that comes from the common interest in public affairs—(applause)—the constant intercourse be tween man and man, that frank publicity of opinion, that sympathy of united numbers which cries to the multitude, even to the unlettered multitude, every more useful and vivid thought which genius or study origi nates in the few. (Applause.) . It is all this which teaches the Englishman, and gives to our people their superiority in the real enlightenment of their common ideas, and the masculine energy with which they carry their ideas into practice. (Loud applause.) We must judge of the instruction of a people as we do of the intellect of a man—by the fruit it displays. The people of these realms exhibit an intellectual power not yet found in those whom State policy may more instruct as children, but whom civil authorities less nerve and discipline as men. (Hear, bear, and loud cheers.) But do not think that I am indifferent or lukewarm to edu cation in the common meaning of the word—to the dif fusion of cheap books or cheap schools. No. If we gain so much from the mere fact that we are born in England, accustomed to a free voice in all affairs, and by inventive labour to reflect on what we would do to day and hope to do to-morrow, bow much more shall we gain if, in addition to these primitive sources of mas culine ideas, we could add the refinement and the me thod which comes from early systematic education. (Applause.) Sooner or later we may have this question brought before us, and examined in all its details. For The annual soirée of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution my part, I trust that education in this country will never and Literary Society, now the largest institution of the be altogether paid for and altogether regulated by the kind in the country, took place in the Music-hall of that State. (Hear.) I hope in this as in all other things town on Wednesday evening. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton that we shall never part with the vital principle of self presided. He said—Ladies and Gentlemen—A few gqvernment in contradistinction to centralization. days since I had the honour to address the students of (Appl ause .) But I hope I -shall live to see the day when Edinburgh (an intellectual and noble audience) upon here in England, as in America, the education of the questions defined by their academical course of study, or people may come from the desire of the people consent suited to the professions to which they are severally des- ing in local districts to levy a rate upon themselves for tined. I now address, not so much scholastic pupils, education—(Loud applause)—thus being interested in with paths through knowledge prepared, and with ample seeing that the education is of the best kind that their leisure to follow up the studies they may select, but money can produce, and adapted not to some rigid and youths and mature men of every age, engaged in active inflexible State machinery, but open to every improve practical pursuits, and snatching at such learning as went which the experience of one district can suggest to books may give in the intervals of recreation or repose. the emulation of another. (Applause.) I am rejoiced, Knowledge there is the task-work ; knowledge here is therefore, to comply with the request of a gentleman the holiday. (Hear, hear.) But in both th e s e commu• who said to me, on entering the hall, " Say something nities—in the quiet University, and in the busy manufac- in favour of adding a female class to this institution." turing town—l find the same grand idea—l mean the (Hear, hear, and applause.) Perhaps, indeed, there is recognition of intelligence as the supreme arbiter of all no town in this country in which the females of the those questions which, a century ago, 'were either set- working classes appear less to require new facilities of tied by force, or stifled by those prejudices which are education than they do in Leeds. I am told that there even stronger than law. And it is no wonder that every is scarcely a manufactory to which there is not a school class now-a-days strives for its fair proportion of know- for girls attached. Nevertheless, it would be an honour ledge. In ancient times nobles demanded the right to and a credit to this institution, if you could add female fortify their castles ; citizens demanded the privilege to classes, and endeavour, as far as possible, to fit women bear arms. But now the claims of both are conceded ; to be the worthy companions of intelligent men. it is education that fortifies the castle of the noble, and (Applause.) Only I would say, if you should be able to it is education which supplies to the citizen his arms. comprehend those who are to be the wives of mechanics (Applause.) There are two things I dare say you are and working men, I would entreat you not to be too often condemned to hear treated with ridicule and con- elevated in your notions—l would entreat you to remem tempt ; the one is the wisdom of our ancestors, and the ber the useful duty of teaching the way of the working other is the character and pretensions of the age in man how to make the money go as far as possible and which we live. Nay, perhaps, you have heard the very the home as comfortable. (Hear, hear.) Well, the same persons who disdain the generations that have gone ladies and gentlemen, it seems there are two kinds of before as dull savages without railways and steam en- education ; there is one 1 call life education, which we gines, still sentimentally despise the present time as acquire at home, in the streets, in the market places, commonplace and vulgar, complain that we have ne behind the counter, the loom, the plough, the education great men and no great ideas ; and that railways and we acquire from life, all this I call life education ; there steam engines are ali that we care for. Now, as to the is also what I call school education—the education we wisdom of our ancestors, we may I think leave them to acquire from books. I have endeavoured, and I hope speak for themselves ; their intellect has left us writers not unsuccessfully, to show that in the first kind of edu who we may strive to emulate, but can never hope to cation—life education—we are far in advance of ail surpass ; a political constitution which we may enlarge countries in the ancient quarters of the globe, but it ep or repair, but which we can never, perhaps, altogether pears we are behind some countries in school education. change for the better ; and an empire on which it is said (Hear, hear.) You, as Englishmen, will never let it be that the sun never sets, though it commenced from these so. (Applause.) You are Englishmen, and will never small northern islands on which, lam sorry to say, the consent to be beaten by any country whatever. (Hear, sun seldom condescends to shine. Gentlemen, we hear hear.) Let us, then, put our shoulders to the wheel, a great deal said as to the vast progress which mankind and see that we are here also in our proper place in the has made. Now let us pause and examine; there is world. (Hear, hear.) I turn now to this great insti quite enongh to justify us Englishmen—there is no tute at Leeds, and I think we are on the fair road to it. doubt of the progress we have made in England—but I have always been a cordial admirer of the principle of let us moderate our conceit as members of the great mechanics' institutes. I think they combine all those family of man. Take down a map of the world, and see best signs of the age to which I have referred—the how small a portion of it is yet civilised at all. Look at milder humanity—the practical purpose—destined to the three ancient portions of the globe. Africa remains construct rather than to destroy---and lift up the one the same domain of savages and wild beasts • Asia has c l ass , no t p u ll down the other ; all these are to be fallen back from the civilisat io n which produced such found concentrated in mechanics' institutes ; and I cities as Nineveh and Babylon ; and even in Europe discover in the very humblest of such societies the what vast and fertile territories, once the seats of empire germ of great good. I do assure you, without now present only a crude or degenerate civilisation. In flattery, that I feel prouder of England and of this Spain, you pass through valleys of the richest soil ; the calumniated nineteenth century when I look at corn where it is lazily sown withers as it stands ; you ask the printed report of the present condition of the why ? and are told it is no use to cut it down, there are no great institution of Leeds—(applause)—for I see there markets, and no roads. In Italy the arts languish, lite- the fullest comprehension of what a great intellectual rature fs stifled, men's minds are divided between the institution ought to become, the library, the lecture most lifeless infidelity and the most abject superstition. room, and the grown-up man, not only the meagre rudi- In Tuscany, which gave to modern Europe the earliest ments, but the amplitude of a generous and liberal edu lessons in literature and freedom, why the very shape cation. And you here do that which they have .failed of your hat might condemn you to the Austrian to do in Germany and France ; you do not give merely sabre ; and the royal representative of the learned Medici thinks heaven and earth are coming together if an to the child, a hasty education, and then send him loose t upon the world, but you remember that education is thehe English gentlewoman drops a Bible in the cottage of the work of a life, and you continue that education tor. poor—(hear, hear) —while on the borders of the civilised man. (Applause.) It has been suggested by m an y P world, happily as yet divided from us by the barriers of daily life, that nature, the Emperor of all the Russias rules over bar- more practical relation to the pursuits of sons who have wished to give mechanics' nstitutes e a barons millions, and shocks alike the civilisation and d course of stu religion of this century by affecting the zeal of the cru- who passed through a certain prescri e e certificates of merit should be awarded to those pupils sader to disguise the ambition of th e b an dit. (Cheers) dies. Such a plan was adopted in the Edinburgh School Out of all Europe there are only three great races who of Arts, in 1815, d t ' require o give are in the full vigour of progressive life. The great success since that time. Tars, pup t i . and has been o l on is tinned . with great hematics employing Germanic race, in which is included the kindred popu-ma and lations of the Baltic, such as Sweden and Norway, and the first year, chemistry, the second, natural phi an attendance of three y the populations, also kindred, of Belgium and Holland the people of France ; and the people of Great Britain. attestation of proficiencyin phi. the losophy the third. Any pupil who, after a proper ex%- mination, obtains the of each Well, then, if you look back to history, you find that,life membership, the ever since Greece arose, much the same proportion only which g ives free admission to lectures, and ad m i ss i on attain to civilisation at the same period, and the vast of the classes, obtains a diploma f to the library of the institute, on payment of 2s, an populations of the universe remain very little changed. nually. Of the value of such certificate as a recommen- Civilisation obeys the same laws as the ocean ; it has its dation to employers, and an inducement to young men ebb and its flows—where it advances on one shore it re- to study, it would be impossible to speak too highly. cedes from the other ~' thus, while it has left d r y and Well, then, if you can consent to adopt from the system sterile the Italy which had boasted the empire of the pursued at colleges this the notion of examination and cer ancient world, and Spain which had seized the treasures tificates, thmble principle of degrees, why not of the new, it flows with vigour towards the American b lf you agreele egi v ing wsuggon,shall and if ever the time should come when Europe shall- extremely flattered if you will permit me to associate grow old as Asia, and London shall become to posteritytha myself with you, and to place in the hands of your pre what Tyre and Sidon are to us, we may still hope willt sident and and committee the trifle of 101. to be a pportioned our spirit will survive in young races, whose lips awarded in prizes, according as they shall think fit. speak our hardy language, and in whose veins warmin g illrll (Loud applause.) For my own part, I should be glad if they would devote, perhaps, half of that money, to a the blood of the men whom I see around me, h prize to the best proficient in a department which I hearts which beat loud and high with every t ough l t o that ) should like to select, because it seems to me the most can ennoble freedom and exalt humanity. (Ap_ t_ identified with the life and with the prosperity of the But what moral result are we to gain from hete t p ac a . t t s l h e n a town of Leeds—l mean the class of drawing as con civilisation never spreads over the earth in qua 2 l N , e d impartial tides ? Any check te desire o progress ler the , , fleeted with ornamental art. (Applause.) Now, there but some caution against those vague yearnings . , is another suggestion which I should like to make, ndefinite perfectibility of the whole human race which though Ido it with some little apprehension as to how imisled the dreamers of the last century. Let us be you will take it. You are all agreed that you would content to leave the question of the absolute perfectibility like to make education as perfect as possible ;if you are, of mankind to the wisdom of the Creator, and let us like do recollect that we happen to have a body as well as a men of sense attempt, as far as possible, to civilise and mind, and that is not enough that a people should have —if the word were not too strong for mortals—to perfect health and vigour. Now, it is an old saying, " That all work and no play, makes Jack a, dull boy," m 1474 1 ` therefore to every good school there is attached a ground. Well, why should yoga not have a play-ground attached to this institute at Leeds ? Why not, as you r -' funds increase, purchas e a piece of ground in your im mediate neighbourhood, which may serve hereafter for, specimens of natural, history, but at once aid more, lit, especially for gymnastic exercises, for quoits, ancl,„pri soners'-bars for the young, and bowls and skittles DA.the .. more sedate--(laughter)—health and exercise:, for all, , You might dress the ground with booths or summer houses, so as to allure the presence of such ladies as I si...TM;pie rules, to asps now survey—(a laugh)—and by rate at proper hours and exclude spirituous liquors, these amusements would never, I am sure, be abused by indecorum. By doing this, you would increase the number of your pupils, in the' summer months, when they most fall off, and would tend to promote your own object by cultivating a friendly intercourse, in the ease . and familiarity of liyely sport, betwen the mil lionaire, the tradesmen, and the mechanic—you would help on that lagging sanitary question, by calling the nerves and muscles into cheerful exercise—and many a man now so bilious and melancholy as to make' the gloomiest views of things in general, and especially of his own position in the town of Leeds, would rise blithe to his Monday's work, from his Saturday's recreations, and look forward with the pleasure of a child to his next half-holiday. (A laugh.) If you think me too theoretical in the suggestion, you must excuse me-for two reasons—first, because I happen to be a bit of a scholar, and I remember that the ancient Greeks were the finest race of antiquity, because they considered that a sound mind was only half a blessing, unless it was ac companied with a sound body; and secondly, because I have been brought up and reared in the country, and I learnt there a love for those old English sports which has done me good service through life, for I never could have gone through the brain work which I have con trived to do, in spite of a constitution naturally delicate, if I had not, while the frame was yet growing, braced the nerves and sharpened the energies by all the runs and leaps, by all the balls I hit at cricket, and all the kicks I received at football, and all the wild laughter and joyous mirth which I owe to the dear old playground.. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) NAPOLEON'S GLORIOUS DAY-DREAM. Napoleon 1., when directine , towards Europe the pre dictions that revealed themselves to his genius on a lonely rock, did not confi ne hi msel f to t h e fatal reflec tion that the nations of Europ e might one day fail under the iron yoke of Russia ; he had already fulfilled a well known pre diction by announcing an 'alternative more in harmony with civilisation—he had pointed out to them the confederation or republic of States as a means of safety. Long even before the epoch at which this pre diction is placed, Napoleon had formed a vague concep tion of a project of that nature, which he intended as the crowning-stone of the terrible wars he was then waging, and which ought to be regarded as the substance of the idee Napoleonienne in the matter of foreign policy, Some judgment may be formed of it by the following remarkable words that preceded the acte additionnel. "My object," he said, "was to organise a grand Europtau federative system, which I adopted as in con formity to ttk? spirit of the times and favourable to the progress of civilisation. In this view I postponed the establishment of several domestic institutions more espe cially intended for the protection of civic freedom." On the island of St. Helena, where the philosopher and statesman had still more completely replaced the captain, the noble captive thus expressed himself, as if standing before the supreme tribunal of humanity : " Europe awaits and solicits the foundation of a new social system. The old world is at its last gasp, and the new world is not yet settled. After the peace of Amiens, I sincerely believed that the fate of France, of Europe, and of myself was fixed, and the war at an end. I was about to devote myself entirely to the administra tion of France ; and I am convinced that I should have worked wonders. I should have lost nothing in point of glory, but gained much in point of enjoyment. I should have made the moral conquest of Europe, as I was nearly doing by arms. Of what brilliant fame have I been deprived ! "At the general peace, I entertained the project of inducing every power to make an immense reduction of the standing armies. I should have desired an Euro pean institute and European prizes, to lead, direct, and associate together all the learned societies of Europe. Then, perhaps, by means of true knowledge universally diffused, it would become possible to dream for the great European family the application of the American Con gress or that of the Amphictyons of Greece, What a prospect does that open of greatness, happiness, and prosperity ! What a grand and magnificent spectacle!" Such were the reflections of the Emperor on the gloomy and distant rock of St. Helena, whence he con templated with mortal anguish so many labours lost, so many brave generals and soldiers sacrificed in those de structive wars. And this idea of a holy alliance among nations was intended to prevent the recurrence of such a state of things, and the horrors it entailed upon Europe : it was at once an act of reparation and a legacy worthy of his heart and genius. At a happier time he had said, according to M. de Bonald, " It is my desire that the reign of philanthropical ideas should be the character of the age. To me such sentiments cannot be imputed as a weakness. It belongs to the French people, the gentlest, the most enlightened, the most humane, to remind the civilised nations of Europe that they are but one family." Finally, Napoleon declared his feeling that any war in Europe would only be con sidered " a civil war." These assuredly were large views and a grand poli tical system ; they were, however, frustrated and stopped in their application by those fatal wars into which all Europe and Napoleon himself plunged without looking. An European institute ! An American Congress ! Am phictyons ! An European family ! Is not this the idea of the association of States for which we are now offer ing up an appeal ? Is it not that lofty social synthesis that reflected itself on the sometimes prophetic imagina tion of Joseph le Maistre when he exclaimed, "Every thing announces a grand amity, that approaches with rapid strides, and which we should salute from afar ?" Turkey, Past and Present. Translated front the French. of F. Bouvet, by lames Hutton. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. The Jockey Club having determined to commence their season on Easter Monday (April 17), the princi pal meetings—supposing the usual arrangements are ob served—will stand as under. Should the stewards, in any instance, determine to vary the fixture, it will be advisable, as a guide to others, to give us immediate notice : FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring 14 Nottingham Spring 21 ,CH. Newton Spring 2 Derby Spring MA . Liverpool Spring 1 Doncaster Spring 7 Salisbury Coventry Spring l4 Warwick Spring 21 Catterick 27 Nortbampton 29 Abergavenny 30 AP. Croxton Park 4 Epsom Spring... 6 Cheltenham Spring 12 Newmarket Craven 17 IL. Catterick Bridge 19 Abergavenny ..... _ 2O York Spring 25 Mahon 27 M. Newmarket F S Chester Spring 9 Lothians & Edinburgh 11 Newmarket S S 16 Shrewsbury lB N.Y. I Lothians and Edinburghl3 1 Lewes l% Bath 23 ILiverpool Hunt Spring 24 Epsom 30 "NE. -- Manchester Ascot Heath 13 Newcastle-on-Tyne 20 Hampton 2l Carlisle 26 Bibury 2B Stockbridge 29 Ludlow 30 Winchester BO SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-olice by the night—and Mby the morning—dispatch.] Day when made uTA From what When COUNTRIES. In General Post- 1 Port due in Office, London.. ; 1 Dispatched. Ear *and. ---- ------------ ----: A me rica(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday • • • • I Liverpool •••• Each Men America (by United Sts. • packet) ..........N Feb. 1 ........... Liverpool ... Feb. 1 A m erica (by U. States, I packet) . ..... ..../71,yan. •,7 .. ........ Southampto. Jan. 27 Australia (via South-1 ampton) • • • • • • • • •• 1 % 1 March 4.. • • • • • • • • Southampton Feb. 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) N Feb. 8 Ditto (via Cape of Goed ............NTeb. 4 Hope) . • • Liverpool ... I..Tne.rtain A f r ica (West Coast) ..Nl3d of the month .. Plymouth .. IFeb. 14 A10tandria..........N 8,9, 24, &30 O f m. Dove ... .. Van. 29 Al e xandria .... .... ..M 4th & 20th o f mon. Southampton Feb, 4 Bahamas •• • • • ....M 17th of the month Southampton Feb. 1 Belgium ............N Daily... Brazil .... „ ..... ~,t t .... ~, .. Dover Daily Brazil •• •,,.... Of the mouth .. Southampton —.•.. Feb. I 6 Buenos Ayres ........M 9th of the month.. Southampton Feb. 1,1 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .. Jan. 26 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month. Southampton Cape de Verds ......N 14th of the month Plymouth.. Jan. 26 CleylcM (see India)' Ceylon .............,N 14th of the month Plymouth . 1 .7a.n. 26 Channel.lsles ........N Mon ~Wed.,&Frid. Southampton •Tti.Th.Sat. Chili• • • • • • ........M 2d & 17th of month Southampton Feb. 1 China (see India) Constantinople .......N 7,8,17,24,&27 am. Dover ...... .14411. 30 Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton ,Feb. 4 Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily ...... Dover ...... rwicedally Egypt (see India) • France ........ M& N Twice dai1y...... Dover ...... iTwieedally Gibraltar ..........M 4,7, 17,20, 27 of m. Southampton Feb. 5 i Greece (see India) ' 1 Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. tiouth9mptoniFeb. I - Hamburgh ..........N Tuesda y & Frid ay L oudon .., ..1 Savannah ..........Ml2nd of the month Southampton Feb. 1 a Holland ............M , Dai1y , ........... Dover .......11)aily • Honduras ...• ......M 17th of the month. SoMilampLonlFeb. 16 ' India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. Southall:m:oloFeb. 4 a India (via Marseilles)M Bth&24th of month Dover ......I.Jan. 29 lonian Isles (see India) 7, 17, & 27 of mon Dover.... ' t Ireland ........M & N Twice daily ...... Holyhead .. Twicedal4 2 Lisbon M7, 9, 17, &270 f m. Southampton Feb. 5 - • • Madeira 3J 9th of the month Southampton,Feb. 16 31 Madeira N 23d of month •• .. Plymouth .. 'Feb. 14 ;e Malta (see India) ~ Malta N 7,17,19.2 L 30 of m., Dover .. 1 / 2 Jan. 29 ' Mauritius (see India) d Mauritius ..........N 14th of the Month Plymouth .. ,Jan. 26 t. Mexico ..... if Naples ...... ........N sthlsth2sthormon.lDoyer ......*eh• 2 New Granada ......M 2d & 17 th of monthiSouthampton 'Feb. 1 a New Zealand.... .... .. By private ship ..' Varioas portFlUncertain I Papal States .. .. N sthlsth2sthoflnon. Dover ...... .Feb 2 a t Peninsula .... Ml7thl7th2Bthofmon. Southarnptoaleb. 5 Peru • •• DJ ad & 27th of mon. South am p ton Feb. I Ile Port Natal .... .. ....N )14th of the month Plymouth ..'Jan. 26 , ll- Sicily .... ...... •...Nisthlsth2stholmon, Dover ...... .Feb. 2 Tuscany .. .... ../%115thl5th25thofmon.IDover .......Feb 2 re Venezuela .......... 11112 d & 17th of montbiSouthampton Feb. 1 te , Van Diemen's Land (seci 1 t Dv( Australia) . dd. West Indies ........11 I2d& 17th o 1 month SouthamptontFeb. 1 'Daily.... • • ...... Dover ;Daily • 17th of the month. SouthainpioniFeb. 16 , , 4th & 20th of mon. South amp ton iFeb. 4 • . Bth&24th of month Dover ......I.Jan. 29 •- 7, 17, & 27 of mon Dover—. ' JO') Twice daily ...... nolyhead .. 'l`wiced4ll,l ,4 a 7,9, 17, &270 f m. Southampton Feb. 5 '''' 9th of the month Southampton i Feb. 16 =9" l 23d of month •• .. Plymouth .. Feb. 14 q.i.:.0 7,17,19,27. 30 ofm. Dover .. 1 / 2 VO [IV i Jan. 29 I ',..... 14th of the month Plymouth .. l A D. 26 , 0 „••• 2nd of the month.. Southamptentren. 1 sth 15th25thof mon. !Dover .. .... ;Feb. 2 • 2d & 17th of month Southampton Feb. 1 By private ship .. Various portFlUneertaitt 15th15th25thofmon. Dover ......'Feb 2 17th17th28thofmon. Southsraptoa'Feb. 5 2d & 27th of mon. Southampton eb. 1 114th of the month Plymouth .. 'Jan. 26 sthlsth2sthotmon, Dover ......'Feb. '2 sthlsth2sthofmon.'Dover ...... I 'Feb 2 '2d& 17th of montbiSouthamptoli Feb. • When any of these dates tall on a Sunday, the malls w ill b e bah dispatched on the following da y . with tho exception of the I n di a v i a Southampton), and the Malta, of which will be di s p a t ched th day preceding. V 1 s 4 ~if~;rt -- `~Ct6 y~ ~.c:;, S o mt. )rge nny rar- e for y, at- Vis npps, ,ovin, 45/ 139 1 id 101 I i Pm 10. 7i I 43}