The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

THE IR 0 N TIM ES, a First-class General MORNING NEWSPAPER, on MONDAY NEXT. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN. — "alder the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with RUT BLAS: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Thirlwall. and Madame Laura Baxter; Messrs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, AynsleyCooke, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVEN ING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET. , Mr. J. B. ne. THIS EVENING, Lessee at Seven o'clock, Bucksto will be performed CUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Aga Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothem. Alter which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Conoludinc; with MRS. WHITE. IYCEUM THEATRE-ROYAL, Will OPEN , i under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER, on SATURDAY, January 10. The perfermances will commence with an Original Sketeh, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK, in which Messrs. Shore. Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Luc 'V I " appear. New Romantic After which, at a Quarter to Ei , ht, Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr.)Tozuea, e l Brougham, DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and Y 1 j :tained by Mr. tled THE Esq. The principal character will be 8 11 . . Brougham, H. Pechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vini , _la m, Widdicombe, W. Intyre, F. Charles, Gard e n, Raymond, H. i e req, Kate Terry, E. 'lnner, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta l' e° Lavenue, and Elsworthy. are engaged, and Mr. Phelps and M r. Walter Montgomery will shortly appear. Six o'clock, performance to com- Doors open at half-P pev a & mence at Seven. Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., and £2 2s. _ Places registered. stalls, 68.6 d. ; Dress Circle, 58. 6d.; Upper Prices at doors—Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Circle, 4s. 6d. ..; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. No half-price. Box. Upper ircle a : _ y ii from 1 till 5. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. office open Vining ; Act ing -manager, Mr. H. Barnett. _ LI EW THEATRE-ROYAL , ADELPHL- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 7 - THIS EVENING, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J L. Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. After which, MARGERY DAW. To conclude with (Bth time)" GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; ra ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and I;ertra,nd. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindus. THIS EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. Marston, Mr. Wallace ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Mrs. B. White. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, " RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Beimore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Haltord. The WEATHER.—Sun Office, Jan. 4, 1863. THERMOMETER • Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Barometer-29.35. Wind—Westerly; fresh, with fine weather. Evening, rain, JANUARY 5. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night. „... .. 38 This day at Noon Barometer -29.11. Wind — S.-Westerly; fresh, with rain during the night and this morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY. —Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 41m. To - moßnow.-Morning, 2h. 58m.—Afternoon, 3h. 16m. T-' % UT LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 18C3 We all must sympathise with Mr. LINCOLN. He might almost as well be boiling on COBBETT'S grid iron, as enduring his present penal worrying. With the staunch Republicans at him on one side, and the Democratic majority threatening him on the other, it must require no little nerve to pursue his course without faltering. His good intentions, it appears, no party questions ; his pertinacity to his convic tions is equally undoubted : but his is not the order of mind to grasp a great subject comprehensively, and hence he is exposed to the influence of abler minds than his own. Their counter influences have thus often caused the appearance of vacilla tion, but it was infirmity of intellect, not of will and purpose. The news brought by the Arabia compels us to respect his "pluck," whatever we may think of his wisdom. Were he in the position of an English Prime Minister he must have gone out of office ; had he been in that of an English So vereign, he must have changed his servants; but he does neither. A caucus—an informal meeting to decide the course of action—is convened of the Republican members of the Senate, that is, of his chief supporters, and in many things his masters. They declare their want of confidence in his Go vernment. Mr. SEWARD is pointed at as espe cially objectionable to them. Mr. SEWARD ants Mr. c.3I:IASE, his Chancellor of the Exchequer, both tender their resignations ; but Mr. LINCOLN refuses to accept them! They have resumed their portfolios. The resignations of General HALLECK, the Commander-in-Chief, and of Mr. STANTON, the SE cretary for War, are no longer talked of ; even BURNSIDE'S resignation is not accepted, and the Administration, after a good shaking by the mili tary earthquake at Fredericksburg, remains, apparently, the same as before. It was built on the Presidential rack, if that name can be given to what has but a quadrennial tenure of existence. We are accustomed to suppose the popular will in the States omnipotent, and not only that, but able to enforce its policy much more quickly than in England. It is, however, by no means always so. Like Sir ROBERT PEEL'S first revised, corn law, it has leaps—four year leaps. A President is half Sovereign, half Prime Minister for four years certain. He cares nothing, or little, for a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet of which he is the head. He both reigns and governs for his limited period of office ; and hence, as in Mr. LiNcoLles case, though a majority of the electors may de nounce his policy, and though his own party may proscribe the servants who advise it, he does not change it. He is sure, as his friends say of him, that he purposes well; he knows his integrity if he knows nothing else, and we can imagine him (on the supp os i t i on that HORACE was ever read by the self-educated rail-splitter) muttering to himself most complacently, Justum et tenacem propositi viru m m, Non civiur n ardor prays jube nt i u . Mente quatit It is wonderful, indeed, to see how honourably all the high-placed authorities make the frightful dis• aster and slaughter of Fredericksburg their own American leaders cannot at any rate be accused of shirking responsibility. No apparition of the ten thousand victims of that murderous day wrings from any the exclamation, " Thou canat not say I did it." The Senate institutes an examination, the Generals are, of course, all catechised, and General BuRNSIDE boldly takes the whole responsibility on him s elf. It was supposed that he bad changed the base of operations from Warrenton more towards the north and west to Acquia Creek, on the Poto mac ; that he had been disappointed by the War office of the pontoo n bridges requisite for crossing when he arrived; but no, says the LUCAN or CAR DIGAN of thi s American Balaklaral "I did it all." LINCOLN, HALLECE, STANTON, a ll wished me to attack from the direction of Warrenton, I chose to go toFalmouth (the village just opposite Fredericks burg, north of the Rappahannock), and of being pressed to fight by them, instead attacked at an earlier moment than they directed. H e only said, inciden tally, that he bad not been properly ported by HALLECIi and MEIGs. While speak ing - . • thus he estimates his loss at eleven hundred killed and nine thousand wounded. If these numbers be correct, rumour has been more active than usual, and in the opposite way to what we should expect. Possibly, in time, we may know the truth. Mr. LINCOLN, for his part, is equally courageous. It will certainly never be said of him that he was slow to back his servants ; he publishes a letter to the Army, in which he thanks it, the survivors at least—compliments the troops on their courage, and asserts that the attempt to dislodge the Confede rates was not an error, nor a failure, other than an accident ! We are told also that it is the general opinion that the PRESIDENT will abide firmly by his proclamation of emancipa however, a telegram of two days previous represents him as less decided. He is said to have told the Border State Com m itt ee that he had hoped for good results from issuing the proclamation of emancipation, but that if convinced that contrary results would follow, he would modify his position, " as he desired to do the best under the c ircumstances." The tenacious retention of their comparatively small amount of slavery by the Bor der States, to whom acceptance of the compensa tion would seem every way advantageous, is a re markable feature in this struggle. Missouri, from which it was least to be expected, is the only one which has elected abolutionist representatives; Kentucky, and even Maryland, do not bend to th e President. No further military movements are reported on the Rappahannock, unless it be that the Confede rates are strengthening their defences. There is a report, probably it is nothing more, of a very bold move of the Confederates—one from Western Vir ginia to the very heart of Kentucky. It is more likely to be some guerilla threat, as DAVIS him self seems to have given up Kentucky. There is also a report of the capture of eight Federal trans ports on the Mississippi ; from the West, however, the accounts are conflicting. Some represent the Federal General GRANT as in considerable danger of having his communications cut off, while others affirm that a large Federal expedition is proceeding from Memphis to attack Vicksburg, and so to clear the Mississippi. The mysterious accounts from General FOSTER, and the Confederate General EvANS, at Kingston, North Carolina, are now sum marised by General FOSTER as the gaining of four victories, in which he " whipped the enemy hand somely each time." The reader cannot help think ing that the Confederates, like some other well remembered combatants, " did not know when they were beaten." Thus nothing in the war itself looks like the ces sation of it. Neither does anything occurring among the politicians. Mr. LINCOLN'S adherence to his proclamation—the bill before Congress autho rising the President to raise two hundred negro re giments—and the proposal of Mr. CHASE to raise a loan of 900,000,000 dollars, nearly £180,000,000 — appear as if the end of this miserable contest was yet far remote. If this be the case, the sooner all parties affected here by the war adjust their course accordingly, so much the better. The cotton growing question, above all, need be trifled with no longer. Sir STAFFORD NORTLICOTZ'S speech on Thursday at Newton Abbott was a very spirited vindication of his party. He discoursed at . some length on the general state of affairs, and in a lively strain and animated manner elicited great applause from his hearers. He commenced by stating the great differ ence that existed between the Conservative party in this country and in other countries. Why is it, he asked, that our party has been able to stand firm through such a tempest of revolution as swept over Europe some twenty years ago, and again more recently, carrying away some of the oldest and firmest institutions of the Continent. He gave this answer why in England we bad weathered the storm which had devastated others:—" It has been because in this country there have been men in all ranks and all classes who have stood fairly by the institutions of their country, and have not fallen away faint-heartedly or retired from public affairs when they thought things were go ing against them ; who have not submitted to defeat when their cause seemed hcpeless ; nor on the other hand been obstinate and bigoted in ad hering to that which was unsuited to the time. It is because you have had for the last 30 years a Con servative party established and well organised in this country; a party established at a time when the aspect of affairs was most gloomy about 30 years ago, when a torrent of revolution was apparently sweeping away everything, and when the Conser vatives remaining in the House of Commons were in point of numbers merely a contemptible minority. Then it was you saw men of intelligence, of ability, of experience, and of courage, coming forward with moderate but firm counsel. They called upon the country to support them in the stand they were about to make, and to fight the battle of the consti tution in the registration courts. By adopting this course, and by availing themselves of every legitimate means of maintaining the consti - tution in parliament, they by degrees commanded .he respect and then the admiration both of their country and of their opponents in Parliament." There is great truth in this. It is this mixin g of parties in England that ensures her equili brium. When one set or section of men have sway it is always ruinous to their individual cre dit, and to the general welfare of the country. The war now raging with sad disaster and suffer ing in America reminds us that republics, with all their boasted advantages, will assuredly fail in the abstract when once personal feelings are con cerned ; and the liberty the chiefs are arrogantly asserting to the world as their vital principle is not permitted to their fellow countrymen to enjoy except as it suits their purposes. There is the tyranny of republics as well as the absolutism of despots to guard against, and from these perfect, dangers as far as the Constitution o f thi s country is human wisdom c an f oresee, from any domestic riot or foreign influence. It is always an advantage to have some in the land who are averse to any sudden or startling changes ; th en , i f these measu res are of a violent nature the g oo d sense of the community will disallow their efficacy and thei r ed • at the same time if th ey adoption will be check , are of an int r i ns ic merit they are sure of eventually being carried. N o po p u lar reform has ever been proposed that the sense of the country did not finally succeed in adopting. This is surely a more rational method than pulling up streets like our continental friends, or uprooting the social fabric after the fashion of our brethren across the Atlantic. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTR paid a tribute to his party about their successful exertions in the Church-rate question. This suggests the idea that the Liberal rank 3 might with advantage copy the zeal and unanimity which distinguish their opponents. We hear plenty said of the bigotry and intolerance of the Conservatives, but if the Ministerial side were really in earnest on some of these questions, would not there be less oppor tunity for decrying their opponents. If they aro se strong, so confident in their own uprightness, and in the integrity of their cause, why not rally round it, and make t the trial ground of their strength and their ability. The Refor m tittestion i* 4 otigrall on the so-ollod Reform party. Many sincere well-wishers to the cause must still deeply regret the part played by their champion in 1859. Had the electors seen what loomed in the future the majority of June might have been on the other side. It is high time for those professing liberalism to practise it if they would retrieve their reputations, otherwise the spoils of the triumph will be in the camp of their adversaries. It is so very often at elections, another point on which Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE prided himself. It is rarely, if ever, that we see Conservatives dividing votes, while times out of number two Liberals appear. Such policy is sui cidal and shortsighted in the extreme. Making allowance for the prejudice of party, and other considerations that insensibly influence men on these occasions to be a little exag gerated and enthusiastic, Sir STAFFORD NOILTH COTE'S speech is certainly a straightforward oration worthy of an Englishman who is proud of his country, and a politician who is sincere in his prin- ciples, and entertains a laudable and honest zeal for his party and their prospects. The Lady Susan Vane Tempest was yesterday safely delivered of a son, at her residence, 33, Chester square. THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.—A Copenhagen letter of the 30th ult. says :—" The Hon. A. B. Paget, the English Minister at this Court, and M. Hall, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has received spe cial powers from the King on the subject, have commenced the necessary negotiations relative to the marriage contract of the Princess Alexandra. A sum of 100,000 rix dollars (about £12,000), to be voted legislatively, will be allowed by Denmark to the Princess. A lady of honour is to accom pany her Royal Highness to London, but will only remain with her during the stay of the Prince and Princess of Denmark in England. Prince Frederick will probably stop in that country for some time after his sister's marriage, and he intends, it is said, to study for some months at Ox ford." THE MlNlSTRY.—Viscount Palmerston remains with Lady Palmerston, at his seat, Broadiands, Hants. Earl Russell is at Pembroke-lodge, Richmond park. Mr. Cardwell went on Friday to attend the Queen, at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Secretary Sir George Grey went, in th© early part of the week, to pay a visit to Lord Harrowby, at his seat, Sandell hill.; the right hon. baronet is expected to return to London to-day. Sir C. Wood remains in the north. Mr. Glad stone is at Hawarden Castle; and the Duke of Newcastle at his seat, Clumber-park, Notts. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, President of the Poor-law Board, and Mr. Milner Gibson, President of the Board of Trade, have been in Lon don during the week. A communication from Stockholm says :—" A certain emotion has been caused at the Swedish Court and in governmental regions by the refusal of the Norwegian Storthing to accept Prince Oscar as viceroy of Norway, the constitution now in force declaring that it is the eldest son of the sovereign who can alone exercise those high functions. As Charles XV. has no son, it was very natural that he should think of conferring the vice royalty en Princo Oscar, the heir to the crown, When his Majesty was at Christiania a few weeks since, he commu nicated his intenti ns on this subject to the Ministers, who drew up a bill to present to the assembly. Tho committee recommended its adoption, but the Storthing, after a stormy discussion, rejected it by 57 votes to 48, as unconstitu tional." It is generally remarked that the ceremonial of the French Court is becoming more imposing, and the re gulations for the receptions of New Year's-day more pre cise each year. These rules are issued several days before hand, to give time to the persons who figure on these occa sions to study them carefully. Four-and-twenty quarto pages are filled with the details of the ceremonial observed at court on the Ist and 2d. THE WORD GAROTTE.—In the field of La Punta, in the Havannab, on the Ist of September, 1851, General Lopez was executed by order of the Spanish Go vernment, who had captured him after almost hunting him to death with bloodhounds. The Spanish mode of execu • tion, by means of a instrument called the garrotta—a strap fastened to the back of a heavy chair, in which the victim is seated to be strangled —was rather fully described in the newspapers, as the death of General Lopez was at that time a subject of the deepest interest. This was probably the first occasion on which the British public had heard of the garrotta, and so great was the fascination of horror im plied by the mode of death so described that people took the earliest opportunity of adopting the word, and the verb to "garotte" was found useful to denote a method of rob• berg which arose at about the same time, and of which we have, unfortunately, heard a great deal too much ever since. SOMETHING USEFUL.—A young lady rf high accomplishments, the family being without a ser vant at the time, stepped to the door on the ringing of the bell, which announced a visit from one of her admirers. On entering, the beau, glancing at the harp and piano which stood in the apartment, exclaimed, " I thought I heard music—on which instrument were you performing ?" "On the gridiron, sir, with the accompaniment of the frying pan," replied she. "My mother is without a servant, and she says I must learn to finger those instruments sooner or later, so I have this day commenced a course of lessons." A LANCASHIRE BLESSING.—" Mary,—God blebs thee an thine ; aw meean t'o're Bill—an' thi childer, if ever theaw has any, bo' aw think theaw'rt gotten too owd; bless thi breadflake, an' thi porritch dish, an' thi bacon hooks; may thi har'stone never be frozen o'er, bo' aulus be as wot an' as comfortable as it is neaw. May theaw never feel no little cowd feet i' bed, nor ace no little moawths yammerin for summut ut theaw conno' give 'em. May o' ut's abeawt thi prosper, just becose theaw likes seein foke weal off, an' when theaws done i' this woald, may God o' Meaty tak' thi to th' side o' Him, an' put as mony creawns o' thi yed as theaw's done good things i' this life, an' theaw'll have 'em yept up as hee as th"feawer o' Babel, an' a breek or two o'th' top on't. Amen.—Briarley's Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life. GUNBOATS FOR COCHIN CHINA.—A letter from Toulon of the 28th ult. states that the Christophe Colomb, Sansonet, Alexandree, and Etoile, four merchant ships chartered by the Minister of Marine, are embarking in the dockyard of Castigneau in that part the eight gun boats taken to pieces for the purpose of being sent out to Cochin China. Advantage is being taken at the same time of all the vacant space to fill it with seve nundred casks of provisions and military stores. SHIPWRECK AND WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—The brig Gipsy, James Dew, master, on her voyage from Shields for Barking, had proceeded as far as the S,uth west Reach, at the mouth of the Thames, when her further progress was stopped by the late heavy gale from the north west. She rode it out from Thursday, Dec. 13, till Satur day, when both cables parted and she drove on to the Bar row Sand. The crew, consist , ng of three men and two boys, took to their boats, and after a very hard pull of upwards of three hours succeeded in reaching a brig, the Eliza Robin son, of South Shields, laden with timber, herself also a wreak on the sands, but promising security for a time. The crew were most kindly received and treated by the master and crew of the Eliza Robinson, supplied with dry clothes, and made as comfortable as possible under the circum stances. Here they remained until the evening of Satur- day, having been joined in the interval by the crew 01 another wrecked vessel, On Saturday night there was every appearance that the brig would soon go to pieces; the whole party on board her therefore took to the ship's boats (the Gipsy's having been stove in)—the crew of the Eliza Robinson, ten in number, and three of the crow of the Gipsy, in the long-boat, the remainder, seven in number, in the jolly-boat, each boat pulling four oars. The two boats, after having kept together for some time, at length parted, and there is every reason to suppose that the jolly boat foundered, and that all hands were lost. The long•boat had Hu e° of her oars broken very shortly after leaving the ship, but the force of the wind was so , great that she drifted rapidly b e f ore it, passing about a quarter o f a m il e t o t h e l eewar d of the Goodwin Light, which the men hailed, but in vain. Their hope of being saved by passing vessels was more than once di sappointed, and a ll on b oard cons i dere d t h e i r destruction certain ; all they could do was to keep the boat by the aid of their single oar straight before the wind, and in this manner they drifted, sternforemost, on to the French coast, about a quarter of a mile east of Cape Grisnez. Just before reaching the shore the boat capsized, completely covering the unfortunate men. Providentially, the next sea righted the boat, and they were all able to scramble to shore. The point thus reached was close to the Coastguard station, where every possible kindness was shown to the poor half drowned fellows, who had been drifting for 15 hours in an open boat during one of the severest gales and stormiest seas eve r known on this coast. The crossing of the Channel from the mouth of the Thames round the Foreland and straight to the French coast in about 15 hours, in such desperate may surely be considered . one of the moat remark rd The survivors of the crew of the everything they possessed, desire moat Gipsy, who lost . heartiest thanks, as ' well to the anxiously to express their Robinson as to the men and master and crew of the Eliza who so carefully and women at the Coastguard station, remark able weather, eescapes pes on rem where they also , as siduously ',mind e d for their wants and restoration.su pli ed them with everythi ng necessary f or th eir entire The poor fellow s were forwarded to Boulogne, met with eve ry ki ndness, and were sent thence b y steamer to London. EAST KENT ELECTION. --The nomination of can didates for the seat vacant by the death of Mr. Deedes, in the House of Commons, for East Kent, took place this morning on Barham Downs. The candidates were Sir Edward Dering, on the Liberal, and Sir Morton Knatchbull on the Conservative interest, A poll was de manded, THE SUN! 'LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1863 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JAN. 3. The Patrie of this evening says :—" The Em peror and Queen Victoria exchanged New Year's congratulations through the telegraph." La France announces that a reinforcement o. 4,600 men has been sent to the army in Mexico. ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 4. Count Delaunay has left for Berlin. The com mission appointed to inquire into the causes of brigandage will leave Turin to-morrow. The statement published by the Italia, that Chevalier Nigra, the Italian Ambassador at Paris, had arrived at Turin, is devoid of foundation. TURIN, JAN. 3. says ;--« Some foreign The Opinione of to-day journals have asserted that Count Delaunay, the Italian Minister at Berlin, would not return to his post. This rumour is entirely unfounded. Count Delaunay has only been summoned to Turin to confer with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Government has no intention of replacing him." It is asserted that Parliament will reopen be tween January 20 and 25. SPAIN. MADRID, JANUARY 1, Evening. In to•day's sitting of the Congress Senor Mazaredo most strongly appealed to Senor Sala verria not to arrange the settlement of the English coupons before England should have delivered up Gibraltar to Spain. Senor Salaverria, stated, in reply, that the Go vernment was not about to propose the settlement of the English coupons. MADRID, lAN. 3. The Official Gazette of to-day announces that the resignation of General Concha as Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries, has been accepted by the Queen. The Epoca publishes an article characterising as scandalous the defence of Juarez by Gen. Prim. The Correspondencia Autograja says that the pre sent relations between France and Spain offer no danger of any disturbance. Advices from Havana to the 15th ult. state that General Dulce has arrived there, and that Marsha Serrano has left his post. WURTEMBURG. STUTTGARDT. TAN. 4. In a meeting of commercial delegates, held yes terday the acceptance of the commercial treaty with France was voted by a large majority. A committee wa s e l ecte d to promu l ga t e th e v i ews of the meeting. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 3. , the Capit an Pacha (Minister of Ne Marine), lhme haset A beenli dismissed; Mehemet Bey, now in London, has been appointed his successor. Ruchdi Pacha, Seraskier (Minister of War), has been dismissed, and is to be succeeded by Rachid Pacha. Halil Pacha has been nominated Grand Master of the Artillery. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 4 (Evening). Fuad Pacha, the Grand Vizier; Aali Pacha, nister for Foreign Affairs ; and Kiamil Pacha, Pre sident of the Council of State, have tendered their resignations. It is expected that either Kiprisli Pacha or Namik Pacha will be appointed Grand Vizier. An administrative dead-lock exists. Turkish Consols are quoted at 38. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 3.—The market has been buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at an improvement on the closing rates of yester day. Threes, for the end of the month, are now at 70f. 45. The Railway Share Market has been also firm, and the majority of the lines are quoted at present rather higher. The market remained firm to the last, and closed as follows : 4 3 14 3 4 8 5 5 3 per Cents IEIN ooe ..pweend d C p eemmrn month..., .. 8 1_79 9 08 8 :41 1 B 500 Austrian Creditltalian ai S anln h Lo a on r a e cn s i r Do. _- 75 end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 1180 Spanish Threes 53 75 Do. end m0nth....1182 00 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1077 50 .. 1080 Northern .... New ditto . .. —. Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1166 25 Geneva.. 375 .. 375 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 375 .. 375 Austrian Lombard .. 595 .. 595 North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona ROME. La l'atrie publishes the following : " Our advices from Rome confirm the news already given by the telegraph of the visit of Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne to King Francis 11. It results, however, from our information that the visit was purely of a private character. " It has been much observed that M. Odo Russell, the semi-official agent of the British Government at Rome, has, since his return from London, had frequent and intimate conversations with the Pope and with Cardinal Antonelli." The Gazette du Danube states that Austria has appointed Major Hoyfiuger ; France, Baron d'An delot ; and the Porte, Mehemet-Ali-Bey, as their respective Commissioners for settling the range of the fortress of Belgrade. A communication from Vienna states that the Papal Nuncio, Mgr. de Lucca, will shortly leave his post at that capital, being about to be made a cardinal. He will henceforth reside at Rome. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—In the ensuing term there are 157 applications to be admitted as attorneys, of which 89 are to be made for the first time. ANOTHER MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM.—In less than a month after the young man Henry Carter shot his sweetheart, another murder has been committed in Birmingham. At about 9 o'clock on Thursday night, a tramp went into the beerhouse kept by Charles Rose, in Coleshill-street, and begged for drink. He was refused, when he b gan to use abusive language to Rose and his wife, Rose ordered him to leave the house, and eventually he went and crossed to the other side of the street. While he was standing there, Rose and another man came out of the beerhouse and went up to him. Rose said, "Are you not ashamed of yourself ?" and then hit him a violent blow on the face, and the other man also struck him heavily. Ho staggered against a door near which he was standing, but in a few moments he recovered himself, and then they both hit him on the head again. This time he fell down senseless on the pavement, with his head on the kerbstone, and he never moved again. A crowd had gathered around and deceased was put in a cab and conveyed to the General Hospital, but when examined by a surgeon he was found to be quite dead. His face was much bruised and contused, the bridge o f hi s nose was broken, and there was an eaten sive cut on the right temple. The name of the deceased has not yet been ascertained. He is apparently a labouring man, about 45 years old, of a dark complexion, and haying dark hair beginning to turn grey. On Thursday night, Rose was apprehended in his own house, but his com panion is as yet at large. On Friday morning Rose was brought before the Birmingham magistrates, charged " with causing the death of a man unknown," and was remanded to await the result et the inquest, THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received journals and correspondence to the 12th December. The Bombay Gazette, in its summary for the fortnight, says : The Governor of Bombay is at the Presidency, and Lady Frere's health is gready improved. The Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, who arrived from Aden on the 28th November, will proceed on a tour of inspection to the North, and will embark from Bombay on the 15th inst. An order has just been issued, announcing the abolition of the Corn mandantship of Artillery, and of the Artillery Depot of Instruction. Kirkee will consequently henceforth be included in the Poona Brigade. Two boats (cutter and whaler), belonging to her Majesty's gunboat Penguin, were detached to search for slave bungalows near the Juba river. At a place called Baraida, off Cape Guardafai, both crews, consisting of an officer, Sub-lieutenant Fountaine, and fourteen men, got into a row with the Soma lies, and were all murdered. The Assistant Politi cal Superintendent at Aden was despatched in her Majesty's Indian steamer Semiramis to the scene of the massacre, sailed to Alio°lah, the chief town on the coast, summoned the Sultan to appear before him and deliver up the murderers. Eight men were de capitated on the beach by their own countrymen in presence of the armed boats of the Semiramis. The nomination of Sir Charles Trevelyan as Minister of India Finance has met with general ap proval in India. The Government of India has recently ruled that officers of the staff corps in civil employ are entitled to the full staff corps pay of their rank, although this should be in excess of their full or consolidated civil salaries. Captain Sinclair, of the Madras Establishment, commanding a regiment of the Hyderabad contin gent, has been wounded whilst at the head of his regiment at Sungum, within 60 miles of Hydera bad. The regiment was marching to garrison Jaul nab, when two Arabs posted themselves on the road. They would not get out of the way, and Captain Sinclair dismounted to insist on their re moval, when he was stabbed by one of them. Such incidents are more than straws that show which way the tide is running at Hyderabad. Lieut.-General Schinihill, Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies, embarked from Bombay on the 29th November, under a salute of 15 guns, for Singapore. An important measure has been introduced into the Legislative Council of Bengal to regulate the transport of native labourers to the districts of Assam, Cachar, and Sylhet. This bill will put an end to a system which almost amounted to kidnap ping. Aboozuffer SerajoodeenMahomed Bahadoor Shah Badbhah Ghezee, titular ex-Emperor of Delhi, and the last of the Great Moguls, died in captivity at Rangoon on the 7th November. The Romish Archbishop of Agra is publicly offer ing up thanksgiving in his church for her most gracious Mejesty having embraced Romanism, and being about to abdicate the throne. Letters from Cabool to the 15th November states that the Ameer has warned all the Khans and Sir dars to get their stables and houses built, as he was going to spend the winter before Heerat. Major General Smith C. 8., arrived in Bombay from Kurrachee, under the usual salute, on the 2d December, en route to Poona, to assume command of that division of the army. The Government of Bengal has in contemplation the construction of several railway feeders, in con nection with the Eastern Bengal line. The ex penses to be defrayed from the One per Cent. In come Tax which bas been reserved for public works. The Rajah of Ulwar (Oudh) has given the princely donation of 15,000 rupees to the Lanca shire Relief Fund. A very general earthquake, which lasted about 15 seconds, occurred at Muudlesaia on the evening of the 18th November. Capt, J. A. Pym, 2d Regiment of Light Cavalry, died on the morning of the sth December in the railway train shortly before its arrival at Bombay. Orders have been received from the Secretary of State for India, that all covenanted civil officers are to wear the diplomatic ❑niform of their rank o❑ dress occasion, and that all judicial officers are to wear robes in court. It is in contemplation to establish small cause courts at Belpum, at Surat, and at Ahmednuggur, the judges to be taken from the civil service. The weather has become cool and pleasant. THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT PORTS MOUTH.—An inquest was held at Portsea on Satur day before Mr. Cooper, the borough coroner, on the body of Emma Keene and her six children, who were burned to death on Friday morning in College-street, Portsea. The facts of the disaster have already been fully reported in our columns. Keene stated that he did all he could to save his family, but had he remained longer in the house his life would also have been sacrificed. The inquiry lasted nine hours. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," coupled with recommendations as to the neccessity of pro curing fire escapes and a more efficient system in the sup ply of water in case of water. The announcement from New York that the Secretary of the Treasury recommends a loan for a sum equal to £180,000,000 sterling, at a rate of i n te res t, if necessary, of about 7a per cent, per annum, confirms the belief entertained as to the extent of the Government wants. Assuming that amount to be raised, the public debt will then stand at a point between £350,000,000 and £300,000,000, without any adequate provision for prolonged action, since it seems certain that the whole will be required to discharge liabilities already incurred. Supposing the average rate of interest to be 6 per cent., the annual burden of this debt will be equal to three-fourths of that of the entir national debt of Great Britain, while, if the liabilities of the e South are added—which must be an indispensable condition of reunion—the burden will be at least 25 per cent. greater than that borne by this country. As every American has been taught to believe that the public obligations Of Great Britain must, notwithstanding all our accumu lated wealth, our system of free trade, our extraordinary manufacturing skill, and our pacific inclinations, render us powerless to cope, either in commerce or in war, with the untrammelled energies of the New World, it is difficult to conceive the feelings with which any logical persons in that country can now contemplate the future, especially when it is borne in mind that the task for which all this expenditure has been incurred is not a step nearer to its accomplishment, and that if all that has been done is to be done over again it must, from the state of the currency and of public credit, be at double cost. Supposing that the dream which some of our platform orators entertain of seeing the Washington Government ultimately extended from Hudson's Bay to Cape Horn should ever present itself to the lightly taxed people of Canada, Brazil, Chili, and the River Plate as capable of realisation, they will see that there is an amount of debt already prepared for them fully sufficient for the dignity of an entire hemisphere. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE FRENCH CLERGY.— La France says :—" When receiving the clergy on New Year's-day, the Emperor expressed his sorrow at the death of the Archbishop of Paris, adding that the deceased prelate had left behind him an example of moderation and wisdom which the whole French clergy would follow."—The Ifoniteur of yesterday publishes the remarks addressed to the Emperor on New Year's-day by the Archbishop of Notre Dame. Alluding to the late arch. bishop, the speaker said :—" Guided by his counsels and his example, we shall faithfully follow the path he traced out for us, and in the exercise of our holy functions we shall seek, like him, without regard to any other consideration, how to do the largest amount of good around us, without ever separating in our hearts the love of the Church from the love of France, and acting on all occasions according to the Saviour's precept, ' Render under God the things which are God's, and under Caesar the things which are Cesar's." The archdeacon concluded by thanking his Majesty for the visit he had paid to the dying prelate, and by stating that the clergy would always pray for the Em peror, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial." The National Chorus Society will give a perform ance of Handel's oratorio " Judas Maccabeaus," at Exeter Hall, on 'Wednesday next, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. Mr. Sims Reeves will sing the great songs, " Sound an Alarm," and " Call forth Thy Powers." In addition to Mr. Sims Reeves, Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Palmer, and Mr. Lewis Thomas are engaged. The band and chorus will number nearly 700 performers. TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION.—FREE TRADE IN TELEGRAPHS.—It is proposed to extend consider ably the present system of local and private telegraphic communication throughout the country, especially in cc n flexion with public institutions, offices, and counting houses, railway, police, and fire stations, banks, docks, manufactories, private houses, and newspaper establish ments, at a further outlay of £lOO,OOO. Parliamentary powers are to be taken to enter into agreements with all existing telegraph companies and for the purpose of laying down wires for the exclusive use of the Government in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the charges and facilities to be on a scale calculated to ensure free trade in telegra phic communication, Completion of the Metropolitan Railway. It is now finally decided that the Metropolitan Railway will be opened on Saturday next. Every thing that care and caution could suggest for the safe and efficient working of the line has been adopted, and tried and tested repeatedly, and the result is that the Board of Trade is fully satisfied with the report of their officer. The directors, though much avnoyed at the repeated postponements of the open ing, are still glad that the preliminary examina tions have been so complete and searching in their character, and the public at large will have addi tional confidence in the merits and safety of the railway. On Saturday, Mr. Wilkinson, the chair man of the company, several of the directors; Mr. Fenton, the manager of the line; the Great Western directors, and Mr. Tanner, their superintendent, met at the Farringdon-street station to make the final arrangements for conducting the traffic of the line, and for the banquet which is to be held to cele brate the completion of this great metropolitan im provement. The directors of the Great Western Railway Company travelled over the line from Pad dington, and the working of all the signals and points was minutely explained to them. The delay which Las occurred in the opening of the line is due entirely to the mechanical arrangements provided for working these signals, and the Great Western Company, who have undertaken to work the line, natually felt some anxiety on this subject. Their engineer is perfectly satisfied with the arrangements, and every practical engineer who has examined the signals has stated that they are well adapted for the work which they have to perform. Mr. D. W. Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police, has given his consent to the attendance of the police band at the dinner OA Friday next as instrumen talists, About 600 persons will be invited to din ner, and the chair will be occupied by Mr. A. W. Wilkinson, chairman of the company. A number of trial trains will run upon the line to-morrow, at intervals of a quarter of an hour, stopping at each of the stations in the same manner as though the line were in actual operation. No railway of the same length yet constructed in this country has had so many difficulties to en counter as this Metropolitan line. For years the scheme languished, its Act of Parliament had all tut expired, and by common consent the whole pro ject appeared to have been abandoned as imprac ticable. It was to Mr. Charles Pearson, the late City Solicitor, that the public owe the revival of the scheme. With an energy and perseverance which no difficulties could subdue, he set himself to the task of creating a public feeling in its favour. He even succeeded in inducing the im movable Corporation of London to become share holders in the undertaking to the extent of some £200,000. Almost every resident in the City was canvassed and asked to take a small number of shares; the Great Western Railway, seeing that the directors were really in earnest, subscribed £160,000, and contractors were found in Messrs. Jay and Messrs. Smith to undertake the responsibi lity of making the line, taking a large part of the payment in shares, and being debited regularly with the amount of calls upon them as they became due. Finally, all the capital was subscribed. Then came no end of troubles of a legal and parochial charac ter. Vestries very properly looked with suspicion on a scheme which for months would obstruct the thoroughfares and inflict serious injury upon the householders and ratepayers ; commissioners of sewers saw long vistas of trouble which would arise from the disturbance of the sewers; and gas com panies and water companies were apprehensive of the damage which would be done to their mains and service pipes during the progress of the works. When at length all these obstacles were duly con sidered, objections removed, and security given against damage, then came the mechanical and en gineering difficulties. These were of no inconside rable character. As a general rule, great sewers existed in the exact line proposed to be taken by the railway. These had to be removed, and new ones built on one or other side of the railway tunnel, and in some cases so limited was the space that a por tion of the sewer had actually to be built in the brickwork of the tunnel: In another case, the sewer lay at right angles across, and just at the level of, the railway; here the sewer had to dip under the tunnel. Sewers ran above, below, and around the great tunnel. The same re-arrangement, though not attended with the same difficulty, existed in the cases of the gas and water mains. The most formi dable works was, however, near that famous Fleet Ditch, now the sewer which drains the high ground of Hampstead and Highgate, and pours its tributary stream into the Thames, at Blackfriars. Twice in its short courec from King's-cross to Farringdon-street does the railway pass under this stream. In one part this sewer, carried across the _ - railway in an iron aqueduct, forms part of the tun nel. The work of diverting this body of water, swollen in wet weather to a rapid stream, was, however, accomplished with success. Many novel ties were required in the construction of the under ground railway 1 of these not the least important were the formation of Junctions with two branch lines leading up to the Midland Railway at King's-cress, and the formation of a box for the men to work the points at the junctions. At la= t when the great work seemed to have approached its completion, the Fleet sewer broke in upon the line in the open cutting at Farringdon-street, as though vindictive at having been successfully mastered at other parts in its course, It was, how ever, to the wretched character of the decaying brickwork of the Fleet sewer at this point that the rushing stream owed its temporary advantage over the railway. The scene of desolation which for a few weeks prevailed has all been changed, the Fleet Ditch passes on by a new and substantially built cloaca to the Thames. At least half of its water will be cut off by the high-level sewer, and another large portion will be intercepted by the middle-level sewer of the great main-drainage scheme, and the Metropolitan Railway will in future occupy, in perfect security, the watercourse which for centu•• ries has poured its polluting waters into the river. The construction of the stations involved many points which required very careful consideration, for there was no experience of working stations in a railway tunnel NN hich could assist those responsible for the work. The signals, again, have proved, as our readers are aware, an unfailing source of trouble. Actuated by a desire to make these essentials of a railway as efficient as possible, the engineers made their mechanism tou complex and too difficult to work with the required ease. A very important alteration in the engines and carriages was also con sidered necessary. It was obvious that passengers for short distances would not, and could not, travel in a tunnel which was continually filled with the sulphurous smoke and steam from the engines which would run so frequently. The engines were required, therefore, to consume their own smoke, and to condense their steam. Engines may be made to do this for short distances as between the termini of this railway. The water carried in the tender of an engine is necessarily limited, and the steam discharged into the condenser quickly raises it to a high temperature, when of course it ceases to be available for condensing purposes. On the arrival of a train at either terminus the heated water has to be discharged, and cold applied in its place. This arrangement involved a considerable amount of detail for con veying the water to suitable reservoirs. But we might greatly extend the long catalogue of difficulties with which the undertaking has suc cessfully struggled, and from which it has now finally extricated itself. The scale of fares which have been fixed by the directors are not so low as the public might have expected ; but in settling them the board was actuated by a desire to test the working of the line fully before they sought to attract crowds of passengers by very low rates. For the whole dis t Paddington to Farri ng d on - street, t h e fare c e will be , :—First-class, 6d. ; secon d , 4d .; th i rd, an 3d.—return tickets, 9d., 6d,, and 5d., according to class. For intermediate stations, or to or from Portland-road station to Farringdon•street o: Paddington, 4d., 3d., and 2d.—return tickets being respectively 6d., 4d., and 3d. Parliamentary trains will run at the stipulated rate of ld. per mile; but the fare by them will, in reality, be no lower for the third-class than by ordinary trOns, as the dis tance is 31 miles, and the ordinary third cis ss tare 3d. The company are not bound by the .slet to run what are called " working-men's trains," a.ld which are required by all acts passed during the fast two years, in cases where the railway has destroyed any dwellings of the poorer classes. The Metropolitan Railway has not touched any property of this de scription. It will do so, however, in the course of its extension to Finsbury, and by the act authorising that portion the company are bound to run a train night and morning at N ery reduced rates. It was a part of the project of the late Mr. Pearson to have a number of workmen's dwellings erected at Worm wood Scrubs, to which the working classes would be conveyed cheaply by the railway; but as no colony of this sort has yet been founded, no neces sity has arisen for running the cheap artisan trains. THE SEWERS OF PARIS. To those who only know the capital of France as the city of splendid palaces and gay promenades,. the following description of its less brilliant, but not the less wonderful constructions undergroun3, borrowed from a highly elaborate and useful work, entitled, " Dictionnaire General des Lettres, des Beaux-Arts, et des Sciences Morales et Politiques," by MM. Bachelet and Dezobry, may be acceptable ; the more so as the author of the article, M. Charles Dezobry, has himself visited those dark regions, under the guidance of M. Mille, one of the City engineers entrusted with the works. From the earliest times, the Parisians had provided open gutters to carry off the foul waters of the town to a rivulet called de Menilmontant. In the ninth century the dykes of the fortifim tions were used for the same purpose; and as late as the sixteenth century, the Palais des Tour relies, then a Royal residence, was exposed to the infection which exhaled from the surrounding gutters. The first vaulted sewer, however, was constructed as early as 1374, in the quarter of Mont martre; but so slow was the progress of the im provement, that in 1663 there were not more than 1,207 toises of these sewers in existence. In 1836 their length amounted to 81,000 metres, and the last uncovered sewer only disappeared 10 years ago. The present system of sewerage was decreed on the 26th of March, 1852, and consists of six main galleries, called collectors, 15 secondary ones opening into the former, and themselves fed by a vast number of smaller ones, intersecting the city in every direction. The right bank has three collectors— one beginning from the Bastille, and skirting the quays as far as the Place de la Concorde, a. length of 4,000 metres; the second, descending the Boulevard de Sebastopol down to the Pont au. Change, a length of 1,800 metres ; and the third,. from the Bastille to the Place de la Concorde by the Rue de Rivoli, a length of 3,800 metres. The three collectors of the left bank are—one from the Pont d'Austerlitz to the Pont de lena along the quays, a length of 6,400 metres; a second from the Boule vard de Mont Parnasse by that of Sebastopol to the Pont Michel, a length of 1,700 metres ; and lastly, one along the Boulevard St. Germain, 1,100 metres in length. The ratio of the section to lie given to the various sewers has been fixed, as expe rience required, at from two to three square metres of wet surface for every 100 hectares. On this prin ciple 12 different sizes have been chosen, the smallest having a section of 2.15 metres in height by 1.15 in breadth, and the largest one of 4'40 metres in height by 560 in breadth. The former is of an ovoid shape, and offers ample space for a man and a wneel-barrow. The largest sewer, or collector, has a circular segment for its section ; its breadth is divided into three parts, the two lateral ones being foot-pavements, and the middle one a gutter or drain 1.20 metres broad. On each foot-pavement a series of iron forks support a water-pipe, varying in diameter from HO metres to 0 . 89. In some of the galleries there is but one water-pipe. To cleanse the drain, a small cart running on iron rails laid along the bottom is pushed forward by two men; the front of this cart is provided with a drop plank, acting like a sort of sluice, which, when down, exactly closes the section of the gutter, and pushes all the mud before it es the cart ad vances. By the sewers above described, all the , foul waters of the right bank are easily brought to the Place de la Concorde, where a general col lector receives them and carries them off to As nieres. But what was to be done with the sewage of the left bank, which, according to the system adopted, was also to be poured into the general collector. After much reflection, it was decided that the waters of the left bank should be carried over by a syphon passing under the bed of the Seine; and this singular engineering feat has actually been accomplished. An enormous pipe of wrought iron, having an interior diameter of one metre, and about 200 metres in length, is sunk, a little above the Pont de la Concorde, two metres below the low-water mark, and thus the desired communication is established. As to the General Collector, it is the most stupendous work of the kind in existence. It is 5 metres in height by 5.60 in breadth, with a length of about five kilo metres and a half, in nearly a right line, except a turn under the Place-de•la-Madeleine. The foot pavements are 4.90 metres on each side, the central drain is 3.50 metres in breadth, with a depth of 1.35; so large, in fact, that a well-sized boat is kept afloat on it for the purpose of cleansing. This boat is also provided with a drop plank in front; this is let down to a distance of 15 centimetres from the bottom, while the boat advances ; whereby such a head of water is obtained in front, as to drive all the sedimentary matter, nay, even stones, to a distance of 100 metres. There the boat finds it again as it advances, and drives it further and further till the orifice of the emissary is reached. Four boats per form this work, and it takes 16 days to cleanse the whole length. Ventilation is provided for by air traps at certain distances, and the gallery is lighted with oil-lamps. The execution of this immense system of sewers has cost 50 millions of francs. M. Dezobry, comparing this gallery with the far famed Cloaca Maxima of Rome, shews that it is in finitely superior to it in size, not to mention the improvements in construction, of which the Romans had no idea. The Cloaca Maxima is ten metres in height, but only 4.48 broad, and is supposed never to have succeeded a length of 900 metres. The dimensions we have given above abundantly show how vastly superior the modern French coastrtled tion is to the ancient Roman one. NEW BARONETS.—Lord Palmerston has signified to our townsman, David Baxter, Esq., the head of the distinguished firm of Baxter Brothers and Co., her Majesty's pleasure fo raise him to the baronetage of the United Kingdom, "in consideration of his eminent com mercial position and generous conduct to the town of Dun dee." The patent conferring en Mr. Baxter the title of Sir David Baxter, Baronet, of Kdmaron and Belgravia, is, we believe, now being made out, and we shall only anticipate by a few days the execution of a formal document, in speak ing of Mr. Baxter as Sir David Baxter, Bart. It is under stood that the same honour will be conferred at the same time on Mr. William Brown, the eminent shipowner of Liverpool, and Mr. Frank Crossley, the enterprising manu facturer of Halifax.—Dundee Advertiser. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND PALACE -YARD AP PROACHES.—On Friday notice was given to the owners and occupiers of the remaining houses situate in New Palace-yard that they will have to vacate in the course of the month, the space being required for the new West minster-bridge Palace-yard approach e s. Th e nex t re moval propertyforthe improvement will i nc l u de the (- ) b f rid ge and old-established confectioner's (Lucas's), the old King's Arms, and Fondall's Hotel, which will complete the demo lition of all that side of Bridge-street, Westminster. A Seg-on letter of the 15th November says :--- " Our colony is jus , beginning to shake off its apathy. Until now all that had been done was provisional. Non. only the civil population, but also everything belonging to the military and naval administrations, were sheltered in wretched huts. Now, under the direction of a young arhic tect who has arrived from Suez, handsome stone and brick houses have risen as if by enchantment. In Lower boats to introduce arms and ammunition into the country. Cambodia the country is tranquil. The frigate Didon, which guards the mouth of the Donnai, allows no suspected Advices received from Tonkin are far from being favourable to the royal authority. The rebels continue their march upon the capital, and the population is tacitly favour able to then!. The fear of the mandarins alone prevents the expression of those feelings. The people here are mi serable. The exactions and injustice of the Governors of the provinces exasperate them against the supreme Power/ which they render responsible for such abuses, and their sympathies are in favour of any change that can give thelU ra bt la rnE of cr( WE im Be 'in Ba 3p 3p Ne 1 Ve ] ] Ei PI M 1 el