The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray'ssinn.road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way terminus, King's-cross. FUNDS are urgently REQUIRED to enable the Commit tee to admit the distressing cases tha', more especially at ;his inclement season of the year, daily present themselves. The Hospital is not endowed, but is whAly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward Ma4terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; and at the Hospital from 10 till 5. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (Wednesday), Nov. 30, will be performed Bellini's favourite Opera, LA ONNAMBULA. Amina, bldlle. L. Martorelle ; Lisa, Miss L. Illingworth ; Theresa, Airs A. Cook ; Cou.,t Rodolpho, Mr. Weiss ; Alessio, Mr. A. Cook; Notary, Mr. Melville; and Elvino, Mr. Charles Adams After which, the first and third acts of Auber's celebrated Opera, M At , A. I ELLO, including the celebrated Overt re. 14:1vira, Miss F. Illingworth ; leenella, Mdlle. Rosa Giraud ; Alj,honso, Mr. H. Bond; and Masaniello, Mr. W. Coates. Conductor, Mr Alfred Mellon. The Incidental Divertissement :rill be supported by Mdlles. .puchateau and Boni anti ; Me,srs. 1.1. and F. Payne. Commence at half-past 7 o'clock. Private boxes, from le,. 81, upwards ; stalls , 75. ; drei s circle, 55. ; upp, r boxes, 45 ; amphitheatre stalls, ;is. and 2s ; pit 2e. 6d. ; gallery, is. No charge for booking places. The box-office is open from 10 till 5. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. The performence will commence Every Evening during the Week with YOU KA OW WHO. THIS EVENING (Wednesday), Thursday, and Saturday, FAUST. On Friday, December 2 (for the last time) TRAVIA TA. On Monday, Dec. 5, LA SONNAMB JLA, when Miss Susan Gallon will make her first appearance in the part of Amina. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Opera A Eight. Box Office cpen from Ten till Five. Private Boxes, from 108. ed. ; Stalls, 7s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; First Circle, 45. ; Pit, 2s. 6i. ; Gallery, ls. No charge for booking places. No fees to box-keepers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.- Managers, Messrg. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, to commence with A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COHN rRY. Messrs. G. Belmore, Fitzjamcs, and G. F. Neville; Misses Ileien Howard, R. Leclercq, &c. Alter which, Shaksnere's Tragedy of M kCBETH. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Creswick, R. ltoxby, G, Belmore, A. Rayner, G. F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, J. Neville, Bartleman, ; ❑iisses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and Miss lielen Faucit. Doors open at ha - f -past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- I.Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE SUN AND THE WIND. After which, SUNNY VALE FAItM. Messrs. Howe, Farren, Clark, Braid, Coe, Weathersby. Mesdames Beatrice, Snowdon, Harris, Fitzwilliam, Coleman, &c. Followed ty ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Gordon, dm ; Mesdames Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, ttc. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. To commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy Coßairerty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma :Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, TILE KING'S BUTTERFLY. Fan lan, the King's Butterfly, Mr. Fochter. Messrs. Ryder,Wid eicomb, eh •rles, M`lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Moreland, C ifford, Collett; Misses Carlot a Leclercq, M. Henrade, F. avenue, and B. Lavenue. Preceded, at 7, by NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Garden, Moreland, Collett; Miss Lavenue,3Ls. Lee. On Monday, Dec. 5, RUY BLAS, Ruy Bias, Mr. Fechter. Doors open at halt-past 6 ; commence at 7. The Box-office open daily from Rlevt n till Five. I%TEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- J Proprietor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webater. THIS EVENING, THE WORKMEN OF PARIS. 31r. Benjamin Webster; Messrs. Billin2ton, R. Phillits, Stuart, J. Clarke, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. A. Mellon), Miss 11. ;:imms. Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Miss A. Seamen. To conclude with DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. seaman. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. This Popular Theatre is now Open. THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE BARONET ABROAD AND THE RUSTIC PRIMA LONNA : Mr. Frank Matthe t s ; Miss Constance Roden. After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new and original Comedy Drama, in three acts, by J. ralg,raye Simpson. enti tled SYBILLA ; or, STEP BY STEP. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of WOOD OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Nlanageress Mrs. Swanborone:h. EVENING, WILFUL WARD. Messrs Parselle and Belford; Miss Palmer. Followed by, at EiLrht, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Etoyle, James ; Mesclamt s Swanbor inzh and Mande s To conclude with MAZEPPA. Mesdames Raynham, impson, ,tzc. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......2ss. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 21s . Decp „ Nell screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, solet_ge ripHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Oen be had Every Evening of G. R. GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina, DAY.—Morning, 2h. 33m.—Afterncon, 2h. 50m. To-woßnow.-Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon. 3h. 30m. .• • ' .; Z-bg - 111 T Jo LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1864. Lord NAPIER'S good and wise Sovereign does not seem likely to do credit to the trumpeter of his praises nor bear out the assertions so confidently put forth by his zealous adherent. The latest accounts that reach us from Petersburg are most unsatisfactory. It would appear as if, not content with the excess of cruelty and extreme of devasta tion already perpetrated in Poland, it was resolved by the powers that be in Russia to exterminate that offending country altogether, to stifle the existence of its people, and despoil the nationality of its kingdom entirely. The task which has been assigned to General BERG is a singularly ungra cious one, and he may well be pitied for his doom. lie is instructed to " cause an address to be signed requesting the complete incorporation of the kings dom of Poland with the Russian empire." Can anything be imagined more inconsistent than this? It is a paltry desire that is perfectly unworthy of a great nation, and makes conquest degenerate into barbarity, and the struggle for territory into the spoliation of robbers. When, only a few months back, all Europe was ringing out with the intelli gence of how bravely and determinately Poland was resisting to the death her fell oppressors—how, as one band of devoted patriots was struck down, another and another still succeeded—it seems, in deed, a mockery now to make the trodden-down nation declare that they desire the exact contrary of all their previous desires. Such conduct is a scandal to the empire that enforces the decree, and an outrage on the common sense and good feeling of all the surrounding States who are witnesses to the dastardly attempt. What can be the motive for such ab,urd and cruel mockery ? Heaven knows tit the Government of St. Petersburg are not biek ward to do wrong when it suits their turn and serves their purpose. Neithe r the fear of God nor the reproach of man can restrain them in their lust for conquest or their thirst for rage. Why not boldly d ec l ar e that the Polish kingdom i s hence forth, to a ll i n t en t s and purposes, an integr a l portion of the Russian empire ? No one w:11 prevent their so doing. There may be a few elcquent despatches written, a little diplomatic squabbling, Remo curses, rot laud but deep, uttered by the persecuted few, indignation felt by the many lookers-on who are powerless to prevent the Wrong they deplore, but all will pass away, and the mighty autocrat will have his way and carry out his intentions both in the spirit and the letter. Why then, it may be asked, is it considered necessary to insist upon this show of a substance—this semblance of a reality. It can do no good to their cause, for the tyrants to affect the virtue that they have not, and to insist upon playing the part of those who yield to de mands, and not of those who enforce arbitrary measures at the point of the sword. Perhaps it is intended that Poland shall drink the dregs of the cup of bitterness, and not only behold her soil drenched with the blood of her zealous children, the flower of her youth cut down as by a scythe, the glory of her manhood sent off to interminable and distant exile, her women trampled on and her infants ill-treated, but endure the humiliation of witnessing the denial of the faith of freedom from those who are not in a position to prevent the out rige. If so, it may at once and for ever be asserted that such an attempt brands with shame and in famy those who devise and put into execution the fell decree and the barbarous mandate. Human nature shrinks aghast from the contemplation of such a project, and the natural sentiments of all just and upright minds are in revolt at the bare mention of such a nefarious and treacherous scheme. The refinement of cruelty, the excess of extermi nation, however, rule the day, and run riot in the unbridled license at St. Petersburg; and of late, it would seem as if the Russians had determined to excel themselves in perfidious schemes and subtle plans to oppress, villify, and insult their indomi table opponents. The last devised decrees have attacked the religious establishments in Poland, and it would thus seem as if it were the object, aim, and end of autocratic rule to spare nothing that men revere or reverence, whether appertaining to this world or the next. With one excuse or another it has been found possible to close seventy-one monasteries and convents, and thirty-nine other religious houses, on account of their participation in the Polish insurrection. Some severe re• strictions are imposed upon those religious houses that are suffered for the present to remain in existence ; and doubtless, the in fraction, real or imaginary, of these regulations wll furnish a pretext for future decrees being emanated, which will result in their partial and entire removal. When we ponder on these things Mr. COBDEN'S words may well be employed— " What next, and next ? when the once smiling and populous land is a howling wilderness, when the busy and intelligent population are scattered to the ends of the earth, when the sad remnant that remain to share the evil days of their dear country's decline, are forbidden to worship at the altars of their faith, and to assemble round the hearths of their homes, then, and not till then, it may fairly be supposed that Russian rule will exult in its victory, and the supremacy of the mighty EMPEROR remain unqaestioned and undisputed." If this is all that the progress of the present, the march of mind, and the spread of freedom can impart, we shall be reduced to search the annals of the past for prece dent, to tell us what to expect and how to hope for relief or retribution. The Czar ALEXANDER may be reminded that if some prophets do not appear before ruthless sovereigns, and the handwriting on the wall no longer shows their approaching doom, the God who thian sent forth the thunders of his wrath and the terrors of his judgments upon the oppressor, still looks down upon the tyrant and the fell destroyer; and that a course as that now pur sued in Poland cannot fail to call forth frightful conseqaences for himself and his people. The records of all ages concur in the testimony that the course of the tyrant is ever marked by evil, and that sooner or later, if the persecuted are allowed to fall, their destroyers only rush on to their own deferred destruction. The intelligence of the last few months tends to show the mistaken policy of those who have all along asserted that the best and wisest thing to do was to let Poland alone, and all would be speedily and satisfactorily settled, It is pretty evident by this time that such has not been the case, but that grown reckless by no real resist ance, and irritated by the pretended stoppage in the way of mediation, the Russians seemed resolved to attain the culminating point of iniquity; and while it is too late now to arrest their course, the civilised countries of Christian Europe must deplore the enactment of decrees that would have been a disgrace to heathen nations in the darkest days of , their barbarism. President LINCOLN has seemingly had enough of the war, and having professed an uncompro mising war policy up till the last moment of re election in opposition to the Chicago platform, he is now feeling his way towards the very policy of conciliation and compromise that he previously denounced. Safe on his throne for four years, as he thinks, he begins to consider whether it may not be prudent to reduce the premium on gold by speaking, at least, of the possibility of peace. He has selected for his mouthpiece on this occasion no very lamb-like spokesman, but the terrorist of New Orleans—he whom we may fairly say_has done more to bring the Federal arms into discredit than any other man in the army or out of it. General BUTLER declares that the result of the Bth of No vember having conclusively proved the Federal Government to be the strongest in the world, it can now afford to prove its magnanimity by offering an amnesty, which shall include those civil and mili tary leaders who were heretofore destined for " hell fire," while their subordinates were to be let off with " Greek fire." President LINCOLN and Genertl BUTLER will, however, find that they have miscalculated the strength of Southern resolution, and if they intend making a proposition for peace without any further concession, they will find their efforts useless. Again and again has JEFFERSON DAVIS, as the representative of Confederate views and feelings, declared that the one condition by which they would stand or fall was the recognition of their independence ; and, after so long holding out against heavy odds, and braving such terrible hardships, it is not very likely they will now abandon their standard when recent military events have been all in their favour. It is preposterous for ABRAHAM LINCOLN, with little more than a third of the territory owned by the Secessionists, to persist in the effort to subjugate the Southern States by force of arms—even setting aside the firm and united attitude of the people, and their devo. tion to one idea. The military news is, as yet, all uncertainty, and SHERMAN'S intentions are variously conjectured. He is, apparently, planning some important movement, and has certainly kept his secret well, but his success is at best doubtful. It is to be hoped that the results of the battle which seems to be imminent will at least favour the return of peace. The inauguration of the Viceroyalty of Lord WODEUOUSE has taken place with all due form and ceremony. The good citizens of Dublin have given him a cordial welcome, and the Lord Mayor has entertained him at a sumptuous feast. A good many wise men in both kingdoms are thoroughly of opinion that the sooner the Lord Lieutenancy is done away with the better, and that the nobleman who now fills the office should be the very last who supports the somewhat troublesome dignity: Still the holders of such a view, though it is un questionably reasonable and well.'onnded, naed not huitate to admit that Lord WODEZIOUSE ERE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,INOVEMBEE 30, 1864. has at least gracefully entered upon his new duties, and has professed high and liberal principles, which time, however, has yet to test. At the splendid banquet given to him last week by the Mayor of Dublin, he made an in teresting address, in the course of which he touched lightly upon the capacities and progress of Ireland, skilfully avoiding those vexed personal and politi cal questions which are in all assemblies the seed of discord, but in Ireland are dangerously exciting. The great evil and drawback of the vicesroyalty is the partisanship and favouritism that sums almost inseparable from it, and the new Lord Lieutenant boldly disclaims all such influences, though we apprehend he will find it difficult to be always altogether on his guard against their invidious agencies. He admits that he belongs to a particular party, and, indeed, he would find it very difficult or useless to deny it, seeing that he holds a Governs ment office in an Administration not very remark able for disinterested liberality to non-party men. But Lord WODEHUUSE denies that the fact of his being a party man need prejudice his discharge of his administrative functions. "I believe," he said, " that there are duties superior to parties, and I trust I shall never forget, as the representative of the QUEEN, and as the chief of the Executive of this country, that I owe to all parties and creeds the impartial administration of justice without fear, favour, or affection." This is the right spirit in which the Governor of Ireland should act, but it is unfortunately very difficult to keep up that standard in the throng of conflicting interests and petty manoeuvres which ours round every court, but especially a viceregal one. The progress made by Ireland of late years called forth the congratulations of the new Lord Lieutenant, who remembered having served on the committee of the House of Commons on the Irish distress of 1847. He mentioned, and the fact could not have been uninteresting to hearers, that it was the first committee of which he had been a member, and the evidence given before it, particularly that given by the late lamented Father MATHEW, rela tive to the condition of the people, made a deep impression on him. 'Since then the land has greatly changed, and, although there is much that the true friends of Ireland ,must long to alter and amend, still none can deny the visible change which has come over the spirit of the times since those days of suffering and sorrow. In an agricultural country, as Lord WODEHOUSE very justly reminded his hearers, progress is necessarily slow. Even in this country, notwithstanding all the capital invested, the invention and intelligence applied, and the greater security of life and property, our agricul• tural development has not kept pace with our pro gress in manufacture, in commerce, and in other practical sciences. This is partly, perhaps, owing to the more cautious and deliberate nature of the men who follow that profession, their unwillingness to try new schemes, their tardiness to adopt new theories ; but Mother Earth herself is unwilling to be hurried, and the returns she makes for labour and skill and the application of science and capital, if sure, are commensurately slow. Ireland has be sides many serious drawbacks, and there are some of them so pressing that they drive from her the best and most industrious of her children. The Irish statesman cannot see without regret the con stant stream of emigration drawing away the life blood of the country, and would rather see her capacities developed to support her population than her population diminished to suit her present pros ductive powers. Ireland has, indeed, great capa bilities as well as great obstacles to contend against, and he who helps and encourages her to help herself is doing her good aervicc. Load Worimuovsncuu. aratulated his hesrers on the increased attention that was being paid throughout the country to the breeding of cattle, and also to the promised intro duction of a thorough system of drainage, an improvement absolutely essential to agri cultural prosperity. The cultivation of flax was also touched upon by Lord WODEHOUSE as an important feature in the brightening prospects of the country. Even allowing for a speedy return of the cotton trade to its former plenty and prosperity, the flax manufacture is too valuable and too useful to lose its hold. Ireland bag always been cele brated for its linen manufacture, and it is satisfac tory to find the trade reviving, and 10,000 power looms are said to be now at work in Belfast. What ' is an important point in considering this subject is that the machinery used in the ilia manufacture is also made in Belfast, to that Ireland must no longer be reckoned as exclusively an agricultural country. Such a notion, as Lord WODEHOUSE re marked, will always have great difficulties to con tend against, and it is very much to be desired that the more profi , able and remunerative employment which manufactures and machinery affords should by degrees be substituted for the unskilled and ill paid work of the present Irish labourer. All these auguries are favourable ifor the future of Ireland, but how far they are fulfilled must depend a good deal on her people themselves. The miracles of our day, said Lord WODEHOUSE very truly, are not wrought by magicians. " They are the miracles of industry wrought by the hands of the labourer and artisan, directed by the intelligence of the manufacturer, the intelligence of the engineer, the intelligence of the enterprising capitalist." These are the miracles which Ireland needs, and which she must work for herself if she is to emerge from the clouds that have so long overshadowed her path, into the sunshine of national prosperity and contentment. MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY. A sequel hardly ever comes up to the antecedent narrative of which it is a continuation. Here, how ever, is not only an exception to this all but invae riable rule, but a very signal exception, indeed—in other words, precisely one of those exceptions proverbially spoken of as proving it. " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" is memorable as the great success among all the Christmas numbers of Charles Dickens's cheap periodical meaning thereby not merely All the Year Bound, but (together with that) the original weekly, still incore porated with it, Household Words. Among all the Christmas numbers of both those popular serials, " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" bears away the palm triumphantly. It surpasses even the very best things in " The Holly Tree Inn"—even, that is to say, the Introduction to the Holly Tree Inn and the delect able story about Master Walmers junior, related by that cousin-german of Sam Weller, The Boots ! Well, and, here, in "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy," we have to the full as good as ever we had even in " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings." It is a sequel worthy of its name as such for, it is, is intrinsic excellence as well as in actual narrative a distinct continuation. Mr Dickens takes up the thread of his discourse unbroken. At starting, he evidently finds himself to be thoroughly in the vein. And, it is not so much the great Realistic Humorist who is talking to us, here, ventriloquially, through one of the whimsicalist and happiest of his seasonable disguises as a story teller. It is, rather than that, after its fashion—a very case of literary metempsy chosis! It is, in other words, that dear old Lodge ing House Keeper of number Eighty-one, Norfolk. street, Strand, London, in the county of Middle sex (as Jemmy Jackman has it, iu his ceremo nious introduction of her to the Assessed Taxes) in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland —it is Mrs Emma Lirriper herself, in person, with her own original scheme of punctuation, with her own distinctive system of orthography, when she finds her language or her ideas soaring to any unusual " heighth"—it is that dear old soul and no other (not even her creator, MrDickens)—who talks to us here as she only can talk to us. Mrs. Lirriper (as they say in the French Chambers) ala parole! In the Introduction that is, and in the Concluding Chapter—she has it ! Remembering which—re. membering what " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" turned out to be in its Introduction and its Conclusion— the best Reader-outaloud in (we wonder how many home circles this season !) may certainly exclaim quite cheerily with Young Sparkles himself while preparing to read out Mrs Lirriper's Legacy—" Now then ! I'm going to read, Once, twice, three, and away. Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Fortune sends you. All in to begin !" and the like! For—so long as Charles Dickens wields the pen therein—Mrs Lirriper is again at her beat ! And Jemmy Jackman ! And the incomparable boy, J. S. L.,— who is still " a boy" remember! only appearing now for a while, as he does, when home once more on his holidays. Setting out out upon her gossipping soliloquy, dear old Mrs Lirriper gives us, even upon starting, a taste of her quality—in her reference to the builder's " putting the chimney-pots on by guess-work like hats at a party." Referring afterwards to " these hotels calling themselves Limited, but called Unlimited by Major Jackman," she says, " rising up every where, and—rising up into flagstaffs when they can't go any higher!" The first home• news of any importance that she gives us, however, from Number Eighty one is her ac count of the United Grand Junction Lirriper and Jackman Great Norfolk Parlour Line (" injuring the passengers almost equal to the originals")—" a whole mouthful of name" as Jemmy says—with Gran as the Public—shares taken at ninepence, Preference at one-and-six, Rolling Stock, Perma. nent way, and all the rest of it. Afterwards (as the next home newa)—' , Mentioning" says Mrs L, " wy pool. Lit cipt r C Which cho hadn't at thy moment. in the least !] brings into my head his youngest brother the doctor "—and thereupon we learn all about an entirely new character—Joshua Lirriper, the scap , grace and ne'er-do-well among the Lirri. pers. We hear of him, for example, as not only pursued by ,the bailiffs, as one may say within an inch of his life, but as " once taken in the passage of this very house with an umbrella up and the major's hat on giving his name with the door-mat round hint as Sir Johnson Jones, KC B , in spectacles residing at the Horse Guards !" This being the very occasion when he has politely offered Mrs. Lirriper the choice " between thirty shillings in hand and his brains on the premises''—`' a threat that gave me," she says, " such a dreadful turn, to think of the brains of my poor dear Lirriper's own flesh and blood flying about the new oilcloth!" The upshot of this incident however being—not the scattering of the brains of Joshua Lirriper, but his capture, as already mentioned, according to his sister-in-law, by " two gentlemen that I should • have judged to be in the feather -bed trade if they had not an. nounced ,the law." The Major (as his good old " a very passionate man f fo ri r en b d is te s l i l z s e u „ s ) s i o s c n o o m t ic t a o ll b y e taken in by Joshua's appeals for sympathy or rather for assistance—but Mrs. Lirriper, on the contrary, is moved almost allusions to his vile duns g to eo te n a a r n s d b b y is th m e o v o a l g d a y bd's s o t n raw 'picturing him as " dressed almost entirely in padlocks like Baron Irenck." Next, we hear from Mrs. Lirriper all about the t A h s e s m e B , s c m d r. l l3 'a 4 x ffi e whose meaningbusiness manners are not the local collector of to say agreeable. " Over taxing," as our delightful gossip justly remarks, " you have no control, but suspecting is voluntary." The Major's warmth— " not relishing being spoke to with a pen in the mouth "—coupled with his strong objections to a low-crowned hat with a broad brim being kept on in doors—lead to a delightfully onions scene, in which Jemmy Jackman unhats Mr Buffie in his (the Alajor'e) Capacity as self.appointed collector of the two quart ers G a ll an t r y Texts then due ! The scene endin g w ith the Major, in a rampant state, exclaiming, in allusion to the pen, "Take your bit out, Sir ! Or, by the whole infernal system of Taxation in this country and every individual figure in the National Debt, I'll get upon your back and ride you like a horse !" " Which," says Mrs. Lirriper, "it's my b e li e f h e wou ld have done —even actually jerki ng hi s nea t littl e legs for a spring.'' Tha defiant attitude assumed after this fashion, by Major Jt.ckman, towards that local im. personation of the Assessed Taxes, Mr. Bufils, extends even, it should be said, beyond the pecu. liar occasion referred to—being renewed upon Mr. Bulifie'e next round, when the effect, as we hear from Mrs. Lirriper, of the Major's threatening aspect, when spruced up and humming a tune, up and down the street " with one eye almost ob literated by his hat—there are not expressions in Johnson's Dictionary to stater Good is brought even out of Mr Bufflp, even out of the whole race of Bullies, by Mrs Lirriper's way of viewing them through their domestic calamity of a fire. A calamity signalled to the Lirriper hone:, hold one night by the Major himself so very characteristically ! "Dress yourselves Fire ! Don't be frightened !—Fire I Collect your pre sence of Mind !—Fire I There's nothing to be alarmed at—Fire I You're quite composed and comfortable, ain't you ?—Fire, Fire, Fire !" From the "scampering by, bejoyful and ready to split," of an unfeeling young monkey—to " the crackling of flames and spatting of water and banging of engines and breaking of glass," we have the whole scene brought vividly, almost, one might fancy, within range of one's sight and hearing by a few wonderful touches of Mr. Dickens's pen, or rather, we should eav, by a few wonderful tones of Mrs. Lirriper's voice, until there is "car. vied in a chair similar to Guy Fawkes—Mr. Buffle in a blanket !" After him Mrs. Buffla similarly enveloped —after her Miss Baffle—after her her lover, "Mr. ,Buffle's articled young gentle man, in another blanket—him a holding round the necks of two men carrying him by the legs, similar to the picter of the disgraceful ereetur who has lost the ,fight—his hair hav4a9 the appearance of newly played upon." The rescuer of these unfortunates being, as it turns out, Major Jackman—the Major in that capacity having, Mrs Lirriper informs us, "stood at the foot of the Fire Escape and claimed them as they came down—the young gentleman head foremost which accounts !" There is a charming incident related immediately afterwards, through which we come to learn how Mrs Lirriper, dear old soul, goes to the aid of her especial rival in the lodging line, Miss Wozenhatn," lower down on the other side of the street." To this incident we can here, how ever, no more than very briefly allude—worthy of especial examination though it is throughout, from the first meeting of the two ladies in the presence of " a not unfeeling elderly person that might have been better shaysd in a cotton night cap with a hat over it offering a polite apology for the mumps having worked themselves into his constitution"—down to the incidental men tien of Miss Wozsesham keeping " a brother that had had the misfortune to soften his brain against the hard mathematics as neat as a new pin in the three-pair-back represented to lodgers as a lumber.room and consuming a whole shoulder of mutton whenever provided !" Before the two ladies part, Mrs. Lirriper tells us " We got as merry as grigs—whatever they are if you happen to know my dear—l don't." But—all this said and done — there is still Ileft to be mentioned The Legacy ! Mrs Lirriper's Legacy ! The announce• ment coming to her all the way from Sens, "made out upon grocery paper stamped all over with eagles !'"Thereby, indeed, hangs a tale ! It is a Legacy, as the reader soon begins to suspect—long before Mrs Lirriper does, who is telling him—a Legacy in the shape of a gold watch and a few small goods and chattels from poor young Jemmy's father, then and there lying dying at Sens. Thither —to find out what the mystery may mean, at the same time that the excursion gives an object to their projected holidays—thither go Mrs. Lirriper, the Major, and Jemmy—that is, to Sens via Paris. The Major, at the mere prospect of the journey, being "like the wild man of the woods after meeting with an advertisement in the papers telling him of something to his advantage I'' Their very passage across the Channel enlarges Mrs. Lirriper's knowledge, realising to her, as it does, that "the foreigners insides appear to be con structed hollower than the English, leading to much more tremenjous noises when bad sailors.' Can anything be better again than Mrs. Lirriper's definition of the difference discernible between the Major's proficiency in French and Jemmy's ? " The only thing wanting in Jemmy's French," she says, " though he fires away at 'em lovely is as it appeared to me that he hardly ever understood a word of what they said to him, which made it scarcely of the use it might have been though in other respects a perfect Native." "Regarding the Major's fluency," on the other hand, she says, " I should have been of the opinion judging French by English that there might have been a greater choice of words in the language !" Her description, moreover, of Paris, as it appears to a stranger for the first time, is admirable—the old lady summing it all up to the Young Rogue by saying, in answer to his inquiry what she thinks of this lovely lovely Paris—" Jemmy, I feel as if it was beuuYal fire works being let off in my head." So too is her description, for that matter, of France Provincial, when they have left Paris for Sens, the place of their destination —with all the lumbering;old:vehicles, having "mud for paint and rope for harness—every new friend dressed in blue like a butcher—every new horse standing on his hind legs wanting to devour and consume every other horse—every man who had a whip to crack, crack crack•crack•crack-cracking it, as if it were a school.. boy with his first 1' But Sens—and the deathbed scene there—and Jemmy standing unconsiously by his father—the boy's cheek pressed against the poor creature's forehead as ho dies—Read that, the heart, the core of this little mystery of " Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy," not here second-hand as by momentary and tantalising glimpses, but in the o-iginal words of the great novelist, and read those words, it you can, without tears! Tuat por tion of it all, to our mind, is simply exquisite. And so—turning from the deathbed to the more cheery parts of the Introduction, as Jemmy himself ssys in one part of it—" Vive the Military English ! Vive the Lady Lirriper ! Viva the Jemmy Jack. man Ditto! Vive the Legacy !" ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, after being absent for some considerable time from the metropolis, commence another season of their agreeable " Illustrations of Character" on Monday next at eight o'clock. They will be joined, as of yore, by Mr John Parry. They offer no novelty at present, but commence with the popular pieces of " The Rival Com posers" and " The Bard and his Birthday," Mr John Parry winds up the entertainment with " Mrs Roseleaf out of Town." THE REV. E. A. HILLYARD AND BROTHER IG• NATIUS.—The Rev. E. A. Hitlyard has received from the Poor-law Board their decision as to the inquiry into his conduct recently held at Norwich b) Sir J.Walsham, one of the inspectors of the board. It is to the effect that the board will not interfere as regards Mr Hillyard's prac tices in the parish church of St. Lawrence, Norwich, as they consider his proceedings there not to come within their jurisdiction ; but they consider the allegation as to neglect of duty to be proved, inasmuch as he neglected to catechise the children in the boys' and girls' " Homes" on the occa sion of his visits to those establishments, as prescribed by the general orders of the board. The board, therefore, re quest Mr. Hillyard to resign his appointment as chaplain of the Norwich Workhouse. By the same post a copy of the letter was sent to the chairman of the Norwich Board of Guardians. THE VISITORS' BOOK AT SCIIIVALBACEf.—Ae cording to the custom of all watering places, there is published a list of the visitors, or as it is here termed, a Eur-lisle, from which everybody who is curious can see who everybody else is. A few items from the number now before me are worth extracting. The empresses were de fined by their travelling titles simply as follows :—Frau Grafiu Borodinaky nebst drti Kindern, aus St. Petersburg ; Comtesse de Pierrefonds, aus Paris. The following blun ders are amusing (I have altered most of the English names): —Dr. Doe, Cambridge Collegue, England ; Madame Madame Wilieminoff, with Princess° Lydie Wirimsky, son neveu ; Colonel Helene Rostiker ; Mrs Styles und Mr Nukes, mit Sohnchen, aus England ; Miss Charles Roo, ens Miss Wiesbanen ; Marcheisso of Angleka, aus Eng land. The continental nations have an odd love for titles, as for example : —Frau Doctor von Biltering, aus Curland ; Fran Geneialin Bosse, aus Wiesbaden ; Frau Buchbindar Atinger, aus Stuttgart. And then there are some curious names, as Mad. und Fraulein Brautigam, Fraulein Schuh, Fraulein Sauerwein, Fraulein Graf nebst, Fraulein Bauer, Frau Schafer und Frau Fischer, Fraulein Teufel, aus Berlin. But in opposition to this we have llcrr Itosanoff, Psalmist, aus Stutgart, and the Rev. Hon. St. John. Lastly we commend the names of the following distin guished personages as studies in pronunciation :—Furstin Lwoff, Baronin Csekonicshissthay, Mad. Argyropoulenee de Creszoulesco, Hepexoba, Kpomkabe C. Remepsypca, Floirzoba Cypsyseoba Ca Nemepndyyre.—Macrittllan's Magazine. A MUSEUM AND SCHOOL OF ART FOR NORTH. EAST LONDON.—A vigorous movement has commenced in north-east London for the purpose of establishing a museum and educational classes connected therewith. The great distance of South Kensington from the hives of in dustry in the opposite quarters of the metropolis, and the consequent inconvenience and loss of time incurred by workmen who desire to profit by its advantages, have given rise to a very wide-spread feeling on their part for an art museum in their own locality. The first public meeting will be held on Friday next, in the Holy Trinity School rooms, Heaton, and it is proposed to hold meetings through out the whole district. HORSE BREEDING IN RUSSIA.—Since the ex portation of horses from Russia has been authorised that trade has attained considerable proportions. In 1863 more than 1,000 were embarked at the port of Odessa for Constantinople alone, and 300 were sent overland to Con stantinople, thence to be forwarded, it was said, to Italy, for the service of the army. The province of the Don con tains, according to official returns, 372,629 horses, 961,766 head of horned cattle, 2,431,506 sheep, and 2,000 camels. There are 335 breeders in the country. GARIBALDI'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE YACHT.-- The following letter has been received by the com mittee :—" Caprera, Nov. 13, 1861.—Ladies and Gentle men,—The yacht which you have presented me is indeed a precious gift, and immensely more precious is the generous benevolence with which you have honoured me. I shall all my life bo justly proud of having—not merited, because it was merited by others rather than myself—but, by good fortune, gained your sympathy. Benefactors to me, a humble individual, this is a gift on behalf of the sacred cause of my country—the cause of every oppressed people. With every grateful feeling of my heart, lam yours, GIusEPPE GAEIBALDI,—To the generous Subsuibers of the Yacht,'; LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) AME RIC A. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29 (Evening). The North American arrived in the river at 10 30 p.m. While entering the Mersey the North Ame rican ran into and sunk the brig Mercator, Capt. D'Olsen, from Odessa for Liverpool. Crew saved. The New York Herald of the 17th says :—The rebels have of late been engaged in the construction of a dam across a small creek which empties into the Appomatox river near Petersburg, with the design, after a sufficient quantity of water should be secured, of breaking it and flooding the Union lines, thus driving back our army and regaining some of the ground which has been so gallantly wrested from them by Grant's soldiers. Works to counter act this arrangement have been constructed on the Union side. General Eagan, who has had the su perintendence of these, was wounded in the arm on Sunday night by a rebel picket while making an examination of them. A sharp fight, apparently without any important result, occurred between the pickets in front of a portion of the army of the Po tomac on last Monday night. An attack by the enemy in considerable force is daily looked for. No information of the exact whereabouts of Gen. Sherman has yet been made public. A Nashville despatch states that the rebel General Hood's army is still in the neighbourhood of Florence, Alabama, one corps of it being on the north side of the Ten nessee river. The bad condition of the roads, it is said, prevents Hood making any active demonstraa tion. Over 2,000 Union soldiers left Indianapolis, on Tuesday, for active service in the field, and 5,000 still remain there. The Richmond Whig contains rumours that Hood took Decatur, Alabama, and captured the garrison of 8,000 troops, half of whom were coloured, on the 28th ult. A rebel attack on Huntsville, Alabama, is aiso reported. The Montgomery Mail of the 7cla inst. is expect. ing an early advance upon Augusta or Macon by Sherman. The Richmond Examiner ridicules the idea of any such movement. The latest rebel newspapers have an amusing despatch in reference to the cavalry fighting in the Shenandoah Valley on Saturday last, of which our correspondents have furnished the particulars, and in which the rebels suffered severely, one portion of them being driven through Front Roy a l by G en . Powell, who captured from them two cannons, 150 prisoners, and considerable ammunition.• The rebel despatch says that Sheridau's men were driven back with heavy loss, including 200 prisoners cap tured, while Early's loss was slight. Brigadier General Tyler has forwarded to the War Depart ment in Washington a black flag captured from Early's command in August last. The efficiency and activity of General Sheridan's cavalry is shown in the fact that the first division of it, under Merritt, has captured during the present campaign 29 pieces of artillery, 2,000 prisoners, 18 caissons, 100 wag gons and ambulances, and 14 battle-flags. General Pope, commanding the department of the North-west, in his report of affairs in his district for the past year, says that he proposes to do away entirely with the usual style of Indian treaties. He will use the army, which, he says, is amply suffi cient for the purpose, to enforce good behavour on the part of the Red Men, and to prevent imposition and unfair dealing with them on the part of the whites. A orawal which ham arriv - ze at Halifax tram 13-er muda brings the news that the rebel privateer Chickamauga was at Five Fathoms Hole on the 7th inst. She had captured a barque and two schooners in addition to those before reported. The bombardment of Charleston (S.C.) and Fort Sumter is reported as being still continued with steadiness and severity. Ten Union war vessels and 73 transports aro reported at Hilton Head. The following is the offit3ial Confederate account of Gen. Forrest's attack on Johnsonville PARIS (TENN.), OCT. 31. Lieut..Gleneral R. Taylor,—My batteries on the Tennessee river have engaged the enemy all day with great success. Two gunboats and two trans ports were destroyed in attempting to pass. One gunboat and two transports are now in my pcsses sion, ready for use, unhurt. The other gunboat and a transport floated down the river in a disabled condition, and both will be either deAroyed or caps tured, as my troops are still in pursuit, (Signed) N. B. FORREST, Major-General. Opposite Johnsonville (Tenn.), Nov. 5. Mejor-General Forrest, on the 'lt inst., achieved another great victory. He placed a battery above Johnsonville, moved up his artillery from below, and caught at Johnson ville three gunboats, two transports and about 20 barges. He planted his batteries at night and opened with eight pieces, and after an engagement of 10 minutes the gunboats were set on fire and consumed. The batteries opened on the transports and barges, all of which were set on fire and destroyed. The engagement was terrible. The enemy opened with 40 howitzers from their fort and gunboats, but not a man quailed under the storm of shell. The e.n• noniers had their rammers shot in two and their clothes and boots shot off. Since last Sunday Gen. Forrest has captured and destroyed 14 trans ports, 4 gunboats, 20 barges, 32 pieces of artillery, over 20,000 tons of freight, and over 3 million dollars worth of stores. Our loss has been only 10 men wounded. Johnsonville is still burning. The immense amount of freight on shore covering several acres will all be consumed, as it is now burning and the enemy cannot extinguish it, as our batteries command the banks. (Signed) M. C. GALLAWAY. Tuscumbia, Alabama, Nov. S, General Forrest reports that on the sth inst. he was then engaged fighting the enemy at Johnson ville, having already destroyed 4 gunboats of S guns each, 14 steamers, and 20 barges, with a large quantity of quartermaster and commissary stores on the landing and in warehouses, estimated at between 75,000 to 10,000 tons. Six gunboats were then approaching, which he hoped to capture or deetroy. (Signed) G. T. BEAUREGARD. The Washington correspondent of the New York llerahl says:— " The necessity for the adoption of some fixed policy in reference to the proposed return of the Seceded States, is being vigorously pressed upon the Administration. General Banks, and other distinguished gentlemen now here, represent that the assistance, countenance, and protection of the Government to the Union men in the Southern States—such am Louisiana Arkansas, and Georgia —in changing the system of labour heretofore existing in those States, will secure not only thei r return but their permanent adherence to the Federal Union. These people are now at a loss to know what status they aro to occupy in returning to the Union. All they want is a certainty of Govern ment protection and aid. Without this assurczee, and adoption and promulgation of a fixed policy on the subject, no peace propositions need be tx, ':,..0 T peeled, and:no return to alleg afte have alreadf be made, bat even in the States which social as w ell " declared in favour of coming back, civil war will be inaugurated. ianos will here fined The Secretary of the Treasury finally dett.rmi to-day to carry out his purpose of anticipating Par went of Treasury interest on gold interest bonds, and the necessary orders were that afternoon sell' to the Atsistant-Treasurer at New York. The Knights of St, John of Jerusalem. Yesterday a solemn requiem mass was celebrated at the Church of the Sacred Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, in Great Ormond-street, for the deceased Grand Master of the Order, Brother Phillip Count Colleredo, Marquis of Recanati The music was Mozart's " Requiem," which was splendidly sung, with a full orchestra. The church was illuminated by abundant wax lights, and by gas lights all along the cornice of the church and in two circles in the dome. The light of the gas mingled with that of the amber-coloured windows, had a beautiful effect, filling the dome and church with rich golden light. Mass was celebrated by Monsignore Weld, nephew of Cardinal Weld, as sisted by the clergy of Lincoln's Inn.fields and Moozfields. Unfortunately, the Cardinal Wiseman was prevented by indisposition from attending. I❑ front of the altar a catafalco or tomb was erected to represent the deceased. It was covered by a splen. did pall of velvet and gold, displaying four royal crowns, On it were placed a valuable ancient hel met, with sword, gauntlets, and spurs, lent by W. Bernhard Smith, Esq, the eminent archaeologist. From the sword were suspended the mantle of the Order, with the peculiar ornament called the " Curd of th 9 Mysteries," on which are embroidered the cuiblems of the Passion. The Rev. Father Patterson, Conventual Chaplain of the Order, assisted, wearing the Habit of the Order, At the head of tho Catafalco sat the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady of Devotion to the Sacred Order ; Sir George Bowyer, Knight of the same Order, and founder of the church and adjoining convent ; and Cashel fifty, Esq., Donat— that is to say, Esquire of the Order. The church was filled to the utmost by a congregation including all the most distinguished Roman Catholics now i❑ town. In accordance with the rules of the Order the congregation were in coloured dresses, and not in mourning. Many of the patients of the adjoin• ing hospital of the Order, as well as the Rei. Mo ther Prioress of the Convent of St John of Jerusa• lem, and the Sisters of the same Convent, were present at the ceremony in their Tribune, THE BRAZILS. LISBON, Nov. 30. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's bi Oneida, from the Br&zils, &c., left this port O r Southampton at 1 p.m. yesterday, with 64 passen• gers, £53,142 in ,p7cie., 213 bile of cotton, 5 0 lOg a of toff, e, 270 rolls of tobacco, 86 packages of r ia64 sava, and 144 packages of kundrieo. The Parana, with the outward Brazil mangy left St Vir cent on the evening of the 20th inst. FRANCE. The Caurrier du Centre announces that the t rair from Paris to Limoges ian off the rails on Fr iday night between la Souterraino and Chateaer°'.; Fortunately no one was injured, and the only chic!' done was a detention of six hours to the jai train, which had to wait until the line was cleared` BOURSE, Nov. 29.—Tee market has bee n firm ; and prices show a further advance. Thr ees, the Account, are now at 65f 15e. Riilway M ar° quiet, but firm The market closed as follows r:5 41 per Cents .. 92 60 Italian L0an...... 65 ; 15 Do. end month.... Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 05 Nev Mexican .... " Q ",," Credit Mobilier 895 Russian ........ " Do. end month 893 75 Liustrian ........ 1 75 Bank Shares 3500 Spanish Threes.... Credit Fonder 1230 Home Debt • "" Roman RAILWAYS. Cash. Account; 0r1ean5.,......) - Northern .... Lyons and lieditmanean 870 ~ 87 1 ~° Southern Western .. 503 75 .. 5 03 1° Eastern .... Sardinian . . 4 3080 — 75 ~ . . 4 30 80 9 :. ,254 Austrian Low bard North of Spain Saragossa 415 .. 415 --- Ditto to Barcelona The Empire of Mexico. (From the Times Correspondent.) MEXICO, Oct. v i ; si s After the brilliant reception the Emperor Pbo everywhere met with in the interior it would i , absurd to contend that the great bulk of the geld can nation is not in favour of the new order mtt things, and it is therefore fair to presume iP bf England will soon follow the example set 1161* France, Spain, Holland, itussia, Italy, and Svv it% o ; land, and officially recognise the Mexican Eca i l e p that this recognition is anxiously looked for , e ; p . in the highest circles, and that some little d'e-01 pointment has been experienced in consequence to its having been so long delayed it would be val e deny. e tri It has often been said that " Mexico is a ect -D E , to of anomalies," that what takes place here is s er 4, be the contrary of what, under similar eircunastao7o would have taken place in any other part e f oe , world, and such really would seem to be the c$ for we find the French Government supporting 000% intervention, the English Government dernerrico to it —the English nation applauding it, the Fr e i ii o people criticising it ; and while French oll it ti o l are holding back, British capitalists are e mbar% e t in banks, railroads, mining, gas, and everY description of company. At first sight, ther e 'd the two nations and their respective Governeleoei, appear to be acting completely at cross p elf ate Such, however, is not the case. Each (3°/- i ilt ment and people acts according to its Pe el/ t be instinct. The French Government supPer ts v d intervention because it adds to the g.l t r i d , v France, and -tallies with the far-sighted t Napoleon 111. The English Government der atlr t - itl it because it professe s t o b e utterly indiffer efi i to what takes place o n thi s part o f t h e M ier : ti o. continent. The English nati on a ppl au d it bee slit the establishment of a firm and settled Govern s a ( in Mexico will open up a vast field to conleier'y and industrial enterpris es , b es id es i nsur ing tb e P h fl eto went of many millions of dollars w hi c h would °t be wise be lost ; and the French people criticise it o , cause it has entailed upon France sacrifices lii ego and money, in their opinion, far more than eel 6 11 , surate with any advantages hereafter to be (11°1 , All these reasons may be supported by very P lAti- t bol arguments, although I am inclined to thili l; „ t ter John Bull in th© end would get rather th e ' OO ll 4 of the discussion. Such being the case, t° fip s' pose that Earl Russell, notwithstanding ree' gitg rent indifference, is not alive to the inte his countrymen would be to question his tency as a Minister of the Crown. Far be it o il me to be guilty of such heresy. No one k t il o si better than his Lordship that this is the 111 ;i0; only chance Mexico will ever have of raeia tfi ,,,. her independence, and that if the Empire felhie will revert to a state of anarchy far worse 03 0 0 0 1 thing that has yet been witnessed ; that all ietetobll will go by the board, and that no re e P ec foreigner will be able to reside in the 01 0 i 0 therefore it is, no doubt, that his Lordship e e to e so grave a matter with due caution and delibet,iod feeling and knowing that if the prestige of V" p irl is to be maintained the recognition of th e rj3 i per g must be followed by something more the n / 01 moral support. The Emperor Maximilian ° o d much in the position of a man who, by lb. ° 00 0 offices of one party, has been put in the Peseere of an estate in which others are far m ore intereuted than he is himself, and who is vii lii ro fe devote all his time and labour towards the i°Prtoeft ment of that estate in hopes that his co-P3 004 will find it to their advantage to lend him assistance, Ale° c o The Empress, accompanied by Madam e 1 0- 4 and the Count de Bombelles, left this city fore or, last Monday, where the Emperor joined teolf, the following day. They both make the ir o sof into the capital to-morrow morning. Th eir to r ig tion will be most brilliant, and the Inc re o appreciated as it is perfectly epontaneee e re 10°1 part of the inhabitants, The liberal peel tr ip:, in their praise of the Royal couple. Va itl fie ve the interior appears to have wrought w on " e' , r ettly • magic wand could scarcely have performed Liverpool Cotton Market—Tll lB 00 de o Sales Market unchanged from yebterdap• bably 6,000 bales. 1 1 .1 6 'r e Subjoined is an extract of a letter frol 3l o b v g IL L. Boulton and Co., dated the 9th Mldotiin to the General Credit Comvany; adYiej°sl,ooo" collected on account of the Venezuelan 1864 : v "We now enclose the following statements : " 01 5 7, 1 46 " Nos. 7,8, and 9 from La Guayra ...... • svy " Nos. 15 and 16 from Puerto Cabello...''' .. ./1 e b LiO Ci ti o e " Since our last we have hoard nothing r°° ie B o livar, but we doubt not everyLbing 11 33 Dfeell ' l 4 O , torily arranged there. o r , orr " General 131anco arrived by the last 3 cent, 111%te Europe, and has assumed the reins of Gove, rettlfrol; step being the formation of a new Cabinet, an ii s ttlY t° Venezuela will no doubt contribute most fav T) ,, • f ev consolidation of peace and order in the countrY r oe eo , Messrs Baring Brothers and Co., ha ci : iiv ide,ou by this mail, on account of New 010 311 o t:1 %w, te. l from Custom-house at San Joke de ' tl- 1 ; 10 0; 15s Bd, and from that of Santa Mar ti/ gather £1,046 15s Bd. n TILE HAMMAIL—Ia another eu llittl ,iirect °c ;le‘ i found the half-yearly report of th e pot , aP e pti' the llammam, or Turkish Bath, in J e rmY , ' -5 15 tr- r eho' t ; V e to which is a very interesting letter from Dally Ll'oftl34 Both documents will repay perusal, esPecictietico , 6 00" judico that so long existed against tho int r° 9 o ( bath into England is rapidly passing aw 3 Y,% o .tao t %te ° becoming one of the greatest curative ager" . ' ito The Bank of Holland bah Tedg ° discount from 7 to 61 per cent.