The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-29 00:00:00

---- LIFEBOAN SERVICES.—During the storms of the par it year the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution sav , 2d 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. Thera Ir istitution has also exended X 13,819 3s. 2d. in the same p( . 4 on lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £1.1141 6s. Cld. as rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked persons by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANuE ,enable them to meet the con unued heavy demands on 'the Institution's 125 lifeboat estab lishments. Contributiorks are received by all the London d country bankers ; a.nd by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, the Institution, 14, a ohn-street, Adelphi. ILTER M.A.SESTY'S THEATRE. Nights of P erformance —Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. FAUST. (In English.) 'TO-MORROW EVENING, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. Lemmens-Sherrington, Taccani, and Florence Lancia. San,tley, Marchesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductor—Signor Arditi. Commence at Eight. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, to commence with (23d time) an en tirely new Operetta, entitled FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa _Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a s:,ale of -unprecedented mag,nifictence, entitled HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers,•Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Serlo-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled liiGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Filzjames, and Misses Leclercq. Atkinson, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SII4BAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; Bari equine, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. luorris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1864, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE MONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with'a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD : 3iessrs. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, al , meland; Misses Percy, Pauline Leaercl, Wood. Mrs. Lee, and Miss 'E. Lavenu. ‘ter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicles," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss M. Henrade, Miss E. Lavenu, Al re. Lee, ,and flies Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. 111 TEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. T EI tS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Cullentord, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, &c. After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round fable. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't Know what to do, STEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Pronriator and Manazar, ,►Tr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS: Mr J L. Toole, Nt to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Mies Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss 11. Simms, and Mrs. Billing,ton. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortanio and his Seven Magi:, Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolzar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEA H.-EVERY MISS BATEMAN. NIGHT, MISS BATEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING, the 102 d appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA.f EMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the pritzcipal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attenied. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Gltr:A.T ATTRA.CTPiN.—First Week of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MAT HEWS.—Mr. J. L. Took as Mrs. Brown, Mr. Phel.s. Mr. Pechter, and Lady Dudley every evening. 1843; or. the Sensation of the Past Season. until further notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. To, le, Mr. Paul Bedford. and Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and Mrs. Charles Maenews. --- THIS EVENING. and during the Week, at 7, THE ADVENTIDIES OF A LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A CUCUMBER; and 1853 ; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON. _ - •• • - - On SATURDAY next, Jan. 30, will he produced an entirely New Comedy. by Leicester Buckingham, Esq., entitled T ii E SILVER LINING, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Frank Matthews, &c., will appear. OYAI, STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYOICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Commence at 7. 7-11}1E THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Jan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 265. per ton. I Double.. 21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ 19s. „ Deep 22s. 11 Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Cole Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 17m.—Afternoon, ' sh. 32m ro-molthow.-Morning, 512. 48m.—Afternoon, 6h. 4m, The Weather—Sun Office, Jan. 29, 1864, THERNIOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 46 Barometer-30.20. Wind—N.W. ; moderate, and very fine. • 4,1 . ik, -e 1 ; , •1p. tt . Wekt 43,n, LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1864. Baring the last few days all sorts of ridiculous rumours have been afloat—particularly in the region of some of the West-end Clubs—as to Ministerial changes, so sudden and startling of their kind as to augur (supposing them proved to have been founded in any way upon fact) the early dissolution of a naturally weak and tottering Government. Very recently the favourite report of this kind, bandied atout, like the lightest, feathery shuttlecock of a canard, was to the effect that the Duke of NEWCASTLE, by reason of his shattered health, would be cc nstrained to retire from Ma position as Secretary of Stata for the Colonies. A post thereupon it was intimated to be awarded to the now Postmaster- General, Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, absurdly called by one of the French newspapers, on the echoing of thi s s ill y report on t h e o th er s ide o f th e Channel, "M. STANLEY, barn at Alderney." Still more recently, however, when that minor canard bad been relegated to the limbo of such frivolities in the way of political rumours, an earlier rumour still was revived with all kinds of circumstantiality in support of it. Earl RUSSELL, so the whisp3r ran , bad resigned ! Not —was going to resign : hut— ac tually had resigned. The noble lord was rumoured to have been to the Palace at Osborne. The Court Circular indeed, had, according to cus tom, announced that ceremonial visit of the Foreign Secretary. Lord RUSSELL had been to Osborne and—had returned from it ! Certainly, a very amazing circumstance in itself—that he should have returned from Osborne at all' seeing that, of course, every one must have looked upon him, from the momsnt of his arrival there, as fixture ! From such " trivial things," howbeit, do arise, from time to time, the "mighty contexts" of these canards about the strength or weak ness of Governments. This rumour, never theless, of Lord RUSSELL'S sudden resignation it ought at once to be acknowledged, rested not alone upon that flimsy foundation as to his visit to Osborne and his return thence to London. The suspicious circumstance about it, according to every more one open-mouthed gobemouche was this—that hardly had Lord RUSSELL left Osborne when Lord DERBY was invited thither by the QUEEN, or rather, it should be said, in courtlier phraseology, went thither in obedience to her Majesty's com mands. Hence the club rumour as to Earl Rus . SELL'S retirement, as to the jeopardy in which the Cabinet was said to be, immediately upon the eve of the meeting of Parliament. All which part of the story the Premier's own organ, the Morning Post of to-day hesitates not to pronounce at once, quite dis tinctly, in two words, " pure nonsense." Nay, says our contemporary, with an air of good humour, that bespeaks its own confidence in the "situation," —" There is no crisis, the Cabinet is acting in per fect harmony, and the Ministry is ' as well as can be expected.'" Simultaneously, however, as ill luck would have it, the Morning Herald also of this very morning, in the very first words of its first leading article, comes out with the point-blank announcement, " Earl RUSSELL has resigned." Thereupon—we can hardly say, chaunting his Dirge or pronouncing his political oraison funebre, but at any rate—estimating the worth of his lordship's career, now t hat it is imagined to be closed, for such as it may be sup posed to be worth in the Morning Herald's estima tion ! The fact being, all the while, that Earl RUSSELL has not resigned: at any rate—as yet! That, in fact, according to the Post's solemn asseve ration, there is no crisis of any kind in regard to the Cabinet of Lord PALMERSTON! Cannot, however, the truth of it all, we are fain to ask, be recognised at once very easily ? The truth, we mean, in reference to the real significance of these rumours about the Foreign Secretary and about the Noble Earl the Leader of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition ? What loyal subject of the Crown is there, but must have long since recognized, with an almost pain fully vivid recognition, the exquisite difficulty of the position, personal and dynastic, in which our beloved QUEEN is now placed, by reason of the increasing complication of that miserable Schles wig-Holstein Difficulty, the more and more immi nent probability of the settlement of which by the supreme arbitrament of war is bringing everyday more directly into antagonism the confronting forces of the Danes and the Prussians. The hon. members for Birmingham have been again addressing their constituents, at the half• yearly meeting of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, which was held. yesterday evening_ Political subjects being strictly prohibited, the dis courses were calm and business-like, even Mr. BRIGHT being reduced for the occasion into un accustomed and temporary quiescence and urbanity. Among other matters of commercial interest the law of Patents was brought under consideration, some revision of its enactments being strongly advised. In alluding to the restrictive, but often wholly in effectual, working of its prohibitory clauses, Mr. BRIGHT went so far as to remark, and there are many who will agree with him,—" I am not very much alarmed at the prospect of the total abolition of patents ; and I am not sure, after my experience, which I am sorry to say has been considerable, that the public would not lose anything by the aboli tion ; and looking at all that is won and lost by inventions among inventors, I am not certain that the inventors would lose if there were no patents at all." Without, however, adopting such a sweeping course as that of a total abolition of the law, it is certain that that law might be very greatly and bene ficially amended. Some of Mr. BRIGHT's suggestions to this effect are extremely judicious, and the sub ject is certainly one well worthy of attention. The petty restrictions upon various practical improve ments in trade and manufactures effected by this prohibitory law, failing to carry out the protective benefit for which it was intended, are so generally recognised as to require little additional enforce ment. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. BRIGHT with a certain degree of truth alluded to the ob structive influence exercised by the Government in impeding the passing of any private bill of any independent member. "My hon. friend Mr. SCHOLEFIELD has said," he re marked, " that some persons may blame him for having been dilatory in pressing forward the Partnership Law Amendment Bill, which he had charge of last session in the House of Commons. Now, although you may have read a great deal of the labours of a mythical person of olden times, who was called HERCULES, the labours of that individual were as nothing compared with the labours of pass ing through Parliament a bill, however useful, however undeniable its claims on the attention of the House, if it does not happen that all the gen tlemen on the Treasury bench are interested in getting it through. If Government have a measure of their own to pass, then they are very energetic, and keep everybody there till two o'clock in the morning until it passes. But, without influence, it is to me a marvel positively inexplicable how any single bill good for anything whatever is ever got through that House by any member who has not the whole power of the Government to back him." In taking leave of his audience Mr. BRIGHT thanked them for their attention. He said that he had come to the meeting with a painful sense that every thing that could be remarked on the questions under consideration was familiar to all of his hearers, " indeed that many of these subjects were more familiar to you than to me." Hence the unusual and unnatural calm sobriety of manner and quiet sugges tiveness of arguments that must have disappointed many who came to listen to the stormy eloquence of the special assailant of the Press. Look upon this picture and on this. How different is Mr. BRIGHT at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, discoursing on subjects on which he modestly avows his comparative ignorance, and Mr. BRIGHT in the Town Hall on Tuesday, laying down the law in matters of the highest social importance, in which he boldly and presumptuously considers his own ipse dixit of more weight and authority than the judgment of wisdom and the experience of ages. The three justices of the county of Darbyshiro who signed the certificate of ToWNLEY'S insanity have replied to the communication of the Home Secretary, requiring them to give an account of their proceedings. These gentlemen have, as might have been expected, returned plain straight forward statements, indignantly repudiating one and all of the imputations that was implied in the complaint of the other Derbyshire magistrates, that pecuniary influence had brought about the reprieve of the convict. We are glad that the replies have been so prompt and so explicit, not for the sake of the gentlemen whose conduct has been called in question in many quarters, but likewise to show the necessity for a general super vision of the statutes, in order to expunge all obsolete and bygone enactments. Mr. W. I. Cox, J.P. for the county and borough of Derby, i n a rather elaborate but most comprehensive etate ment, explains to Sir G. GREY for what reasons, and at whose instigation, he took upon himself the onerous and thankless task of inquiring into the sanity of the condemned criminal. From his statement, which is generally corroborated by the other magistrates, Mr. THOMAS ROE, the Mayor, Mr. T. B. FIRMIN, and Mr. HUGH SCOTT, it ap pears that the prime agent in bringing about the examination was the solicitor for the supposed lunatic. That this gentleman was doing his best for his client, is comprehensible enough, but it is by no means so plain that gentlemen, bolding responsible situations under the Secretary of State for the Home Department, should allow them selves to be guided, and in fact directed, by one who, however unimpeachable in rectitude, could not legally be a fit person to select, at his own discretion, the judges who were to arbitrate on the sanity of his client. Mr. Cox observes that on the evening of December 25 Mr. LEECH called upon him, and after explaining to him that an Act of Parliament provided that, on a certificate of a pri soner's insanity being signed by two justices of the peace and two medical men the Secretary of State should have power to respite such prisoner, requested him to make a judicial inquiry into TOWNLEY'S state of mind. Upon these representations Mr. Cox, believing it to be his duty, consented to enter upon the inquiry. When, however, he and the other justices arrived at the gaol, they found the Lunacy Commission appointed by the Secretary of State were then examining the prisoner, and they therefore deferred their visit until the next day. While we do not in any way impute to these gen tlemen any wilful dereliction of duty, we cannot but express our surprise that they should have been thus induced to thrust themselves forward and arrogate to themselves a jurisdiction superior to that of the Lunacy Commissioners and of the Home Secretary. The statute under which they acted expressly states that on a certificate of a prisoner's insanity being signed by two justices of the peace and two medical men the Secretary of State should have the power to respite such prisoner, but the law thus laid down does not compel any magistrate to sign such a certificate unless he be called upon so to do in the ordinary discharge of his duties, and it certainly was more the duty of the visiting jus- tices to investigate this case than that of Mr. Cox and his coadjutors. If these gentlemen had the power to supersede the decision of the Lunacy Commission, was it not a farce to set that Commis sion in motion ? It is curious to remark, too, that with all their anxiety to do their duty, these jus tices did not take the same view of the meaning of the act. While Mr. Cox believed that Sir G. GREY had no option but to act upon their decree, Mr. HUGH SCOTT thought that in signing the certificate he was only, as it were, giving his opinion on the state of mind of the prisoner for the guidance of the right hon. baronet. He distinctly states that when he signed the certificate, on Dec. 29, of the insanity of GEORGE TOWNLEY he was unaware of its effect as regarded its obligation on Sir G. GREY. There can be little doubt that this absurd statute will be at once repealed, but there is a further step which ought to be taken by the Government, which is that county magistrates should be furnished with a code of instructions for their guidance in cases of difficulty, and be directed when in doubt as to what course to pursue to seek advice from head quarters. That TOWNLEY was sane when he mur dered Miss GOODWIN nobody denies. That his intellect, naturally weak, was afterwards affected, is possible. Under such circumstances no one would desire that he should be hanged, but the investiga tion ought to have been made by duly appointed persons, not by a self-constituted tribunal, at the instigation of the prisoner's solicitor. We grant the Justices concerned in this unfortunate case every credit for their desire to act with impartiality, but we cannot excuse them at all, and we consider that the other justices were perfectly right, when they memorialised the dome Secretary on the subject. As regards the unfortunate convict, whether rightly or wrongly respited, he cannot of course now be hanged, but he has been convicted of a cold blooded murder, committed while in a sane state of mind. He was therkfore amenable for his crime, and his after insanity, if it existed, might have mitigated, but it could not have removed the penalty. If he was insane it might no doubt be only a temporary attack, and in that case, on his recovery he should be removed from Bethlehem to a convict prison. If we are to believe all that is asserted about the insanity of individuals, few people could be considered sane. Since the time of JUNIUS BRUTUS, it has been convenient for many persons to show madness ; but it is for society to decide how far they are responsible for their acts, The career of a soldier of fortune is frequently marked by the strangest vicissitudes. The fate of war is always uncertain, and its issues often fail to realise the most carefulcalculations. Too often the commander of an expedition, naval or military, is judged by its results rather than by his merits. The mere fact of success or failure is looked at, not the obstacles in the way, or the various collateral circumstances that may have helped or hindered the achievement. " Success is virtue and misfor tune blame" in this as in many other cases ; but if this is true of a duly appointed authority, sur rounded by officials of every degree, and acting mainly on instructions from home, it is much more so of those leaders whose peculiar position deprives them of all adventitious aid, and, while it allows them to claim success as the reward of their indivi dual merits, leaves the responsibility of failure to fall upon them with crushing weight. One day they are powerful and respected—the next they are fallen and friendless, obtaining but scant recog nition of their former services. In our own day we have seen the vicissitudes incidental to the most brilliant and daring career of this kind illustrated by the conqueror of Naples and the hermit of Ca prera. The wars in the East have given an oppor tunity to adventurous spirits, which they have not been slow to take advantage of, although the wheel of Fortune has gone round rather in ac cordance with the caprice of Eastern suspicion than with the justice of their claims. We all know the disappointment that awaited Captain SHERARD OSBORN, R.N., in his endeavours to reorganise the Chinese Imperial Navy, although that officer, from his position, and the fact of his having en gaged in the affair with the express sanction of his own Government, was differently situated from a casual adventurer. We learn, however, by the news just received, that Mr. LAY, the civil coadju tor o Captain Ossomv, is no longer at bis post of Inspector of the Chinese Imperial Navy, though whether he has resigned it in disgust at the failure of the project of a steam fleet, or been dis missed by the same inconsistency that frus trated the schemes of Captain OSBORN, is not at present known. Such conduct on the part of the Imperialists is the more remarkable as they have been so much indebted to the aid of civilised men, whether European or American, who have been able to take the lead, to organise men and plan expeditions to which the native mind was quite unequal. Yet, although apparently sensible in some degree of the advantages of securing such leaders. The Imperial Government are going the way to disgust them with their service by their inconsistency and ingratitude. The last mail brought us the particulars of Captain OSBORN'S re fusal to submit to the terms proposed by Prince RUNG in direct contravention of the previous agreement ; this time we have the account of a still more unsatisfactory conclusion, prolonged and arduous, if less high principled labours. The career of the American BURGEVINE, though less known in England than in China, is singular and interesting. It is but three years since the man whose presence in the country was lately agitating the Chinese and disturbing the Consuls, arrived in Shanghai in no higher capacity than second mate of an American ship. He began his warlike doings by joining the band which - Warp was forming for au attaek upon Soonking. The attempt was successful and was followed by another upon Tsing-pco which foiled, and at which BURGE VINE received a severe vound, which caused him much subsequent suffering. The foreign authori ties never interposed to prevent a body of foreigners from joining either part:, and WARD was compelled to disband his force. BLRGETINE, who is evidently a man of daring and ahlity, suggested the enrol ment of a body of disciplined Chinese under a European head. This scheme being approved on all sides, was successfully carried oat, and met with no reverses until its commander's death in the autumn of 1862. He was succeeded by BURGEVINE, who during three brief months of power raised the small ill supplied band :o 5,000 well armed and well equipped men. An expedition to Nanking cost BURGEVINE his position, and he had no sooner left the force than it rapidly decreased both in numbers and efficiency. BURGE VINE went twice tc Pekin to obtain his re instatement as commander, but in vain. The first time he was well received, the second he was ar rested, threatened'with death, and only released at the intervention of the Foreign Ministers. It is not surprising to find that such treatment infuriated a man who was conscious of having rendered great services, and who must naturally have been of an ambitions and ardent nature. Fired most probably with a desire for revenge, he opened negotiations with the rebels, and arranged to superintend the drilling and equipment of a body of Chinese, after the European method. He started for Soochow, capturing a vessel on his way, and, after an inter view with CHUNG WANG, was made second in com mand of the rebel forces. Money was advanced for the purchase of arms at Shanghai, but delays arose from the difficulty of transmitting them. The rebels grow suspieious, and refused to pay the foreigners their wages. BURGEVINE'S health failed, and the stimulants to which he resorted to deaden the pain of his still unhealed wound only aggravated mat ters. The end of the drama was the secession of the whole contingent to the Imperialists, and the ex pulsion of BURGEVINE from China. The adventurer, who is evidently well fitted to take a prominent part in the struggle, who had already done much to serve the Imperialists, and who, with an incon sistency that was, under the circumstances, scarcely surprising, was preparing to do as much for their enemies, has been driven out of China poorer in means than when he first began his daring career, and doubly poor in having his health seriously im paired, his mind soured by the struggle. Such are some of the contingencies which the soldier of for tune must set against a rapid elevation and the chance of fame and fortune. But it is certainly unfair that a man who has a claim on the authori ties for £B,OOO should be dismissed the country penniless. It i 3, of course, an affair with which the English officials have no concern, but it would scarcely exceed the duty of the American Consul, who has shown himself so active in procuring the extradition of BURGEVINE, to make some remon strance on the subject. Meanwhile, men of spirit and capacity had better pause before they expend their energies on behalr of a Government which repays their efforts with neglect and suspicion. = - TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN CHILL (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) 2,000 LADIES BURNED TO DEATH. SOU I'HAMPTON, JAN. 29. The mailfsteamship Atrato, which arrived here this morning, brings intelligence of a most terrible calamity at Santiago the capital of Chili. On the evening of the Bth December, over three thousand ladies and several hundred men had crowded into the Cathedral of La Campania. The young and belonged to t he ladies higher were elae ly eee m e o f s t t he capital. 20, 000 ligh ts in lon g f es t oo ns filled the church, which was also hun g with drapery of every description, the entire building, more especially about the altar , bein g a perfect sea of muslin dresses and illum ination. The service had hardly commenced when the crescent of lights at the foot of the image of the Virgin over the altar communicated fire to the drapery. The fire spread rapidly to all parts of the building, and a terrible scene of horror ensued. Vv The congregation endeavoured to e sca p e b y the d o or, which was blocked up by the mult itude out side. Most of the men escaped, but the ladies fell in all directions, their arms were wrenched from their bodies, and the passage became a crushed heap of mangled bodies. From the roof a rain of liquid fire poured on the people below, and in 15 minutes upwards of 2,000 ladies were blackened corpses, mostly of the richest families in Santiago. Upwards of two hundred cartloads of burned corpses were removed from the ruins. Shakspere Tercentenary, Stratford- on-Avon. On Wednesday, at the meeting of the committee, in the absence of Mr. Flower, the mayor, the Rev. Granville Granville, the vicar, took the chair. It was resolved that arrangements should immediately be made for advertising in London on a large scale, for col lecting subscriptions, and for opening in a central part of London an office for the sale of tickets. Report was made of the progress of the pavilion. It is a large and substantial building of wood and iron, covering an acre of ground, and raised on a foundation of solid masonry. Its diameter is 170 feet. Fourteen thousand cubic feet of timber, braced with upwards of 10 tons of iron, have been used in its construction. It is capable of seating 5,000 people. It was furthe r repor t e d that M r. Alfred Tenn y son, Poet •Laureate, as co nsented to j oin the Committee of Taste. The following gentlemen have been added to the list of vice-presidents Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Lichfield, Professor Nicol, Glasgow; the Right Hon. Thomas O'Hagan, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. J. 0. Jaffrey, Rev. H. W. Croskey, Glasgow ; Mr. J. Herbert Stack, and Mr. Joseph Ellis, Brighton. _ MADEMOISELLE TITIENS.—This accomplished singer has lately been charming the citizens of Hamburg, who claim her as a native of the city; and on Saturday evening last she took farewell of her townsmen in the character of Norma, previous to starting for Paris and Marseilles. Although Madlle. Titiens's voice was some what afEcted by the recent severely cold weather at Ham burg, the performance was in every respect most satisfac tory, and au °vet fbwing audience, brimful of enthusiasm, loudly expressed the delight they experienced. 'TIE NEGRO'S ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WHITE MAN, according to Mr. Wingrove Reade's " Savage Africa" :—"' My breddren,' said a native preacher, you see white man bad too much, ugly too much, no good. You want scabby how man like dat come to lib in the world. Well, I tell you. Adam and Eve, dey coloured people, very hansum, lib in onebeautiful garden. Dere dey hab all tings dat be good. P belantains, yams, sweet potatoes, foo-foopa hn wine—heigh, too much I Den dey hab two ohildrum, Cain and Abel. Cain no like Abel's palaver ; one day he kill'm. Den God angry, and he say, ' Cain I' Cain go hide himself ; he tink him berry claber. Heigh—heigh I God say again, " Cain, you Link I no see you, you bush-nigger—eh?' Den Cain come out, and he say, `Yes, massa, 1 lib here—what de matter massa ?' Den God say in one big voice, like de tunder in de sky, Where'm broder Abel ?' Den Cain turn white all ober with fear—dat de first white man, breddren ?" LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 29. The Minister of War has ordered the organisa tion of four battalions, which will be despatched to Santa Domingo in March. SANTO DOMINGO AND MEXICO. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 29. Advices received here from Santo Domingo state that General Santana was indisposed and had been temporarily relieved by General Antonio Aifan, who had surrounded 500 insurgents in their camp at Gnamuna. All the Suuthern parts of Santo Domingo as far as San Jose de los Matos had sur rendered to Spain, and were occupied by Spanish troops. lutelligenoe from Mexico announces that the troops under Juarez had been completely routed at San Luis and Morelia by the Mexican forces under Marquez and Mejia. Juarez, with three servants, fled, pursued by the enemy. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 29. The Royal Mail steamship Atrato, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 51 pas sengers, including the Confederate General Magruder, from the Southern States of America, on a mission to Paris, 3,777,635 dole. in specie, and 1,602 packages of cargo. The Atrato left St. Thomas on the 15th inst., having been detained there 36 hours, waiting for the Solent, which vessel experienced terrible weather from Colon. Business at Valparaiso was unchanged. Ex change was quoted 43id. to 44d. The news from Peru is unimportant. Exchange, 36d. per dollar. If was expected that Mosquera would gain his object in Ecuador—the restoration of Colombia. The Government of Ecuador was without men or money. The Guatemala Congress opened on Dec.lo. The capital of Honduras had been zemoved to Gracias. In Salvador, the agitation for convoking a Con stitutional Assembly, and revising the old Consti tution, was increasing. The commercial news was unimportant. At Jamaica, sugar realised 18s. to 20s. for ordinary, and 225. for fair; coffee, 525. for ordinary. Exchange on London, 90 days' sight, 11 per cent. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN, 29. A decree has been issued fixing the import duty upon coals and coke by French ships and by land at 12 centimes per 100 kilogrammes, dating from February 4th. The Moniteur publishes the Imperial decree which appoints General Count de Flahault to be Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. "It is not in March, but about the 25th of February, says a Paris letter in the Independance, " that the Archduke Maximilian and the Princess Charlotte are expected at Paris, or rather that their Highnesses will be received at the Belgian frontier, with the ceremonial due to Sovereigns. During their stay, which will be prolonged until the sth or 6th of March, they are to reside at the Tuile ries." _ . BOURSE, Jae. 28.—There has been a fair amount of business doing, but without any improvement in . prices. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 66fr.155c. Mobilier has slightly receded. Few transactions in Railway shares. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 95 Do. end month.... Do. end month.... 68 55 New ditto — Do. end month.... Russian Austrian .. 79 Spanish Threes slt Rome Debt Deferred Roman f ILYd. Cash. Account. 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Credit AI obilier.... 1015 50 Do, end month.... 1017 50 Bank Shares 3270 Credit Fonder .... 1230 -- Italian Loan 6B 70 BAIL Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern . Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 992 50 .. 088 75 952 50 .. 950 - 931 25 .. 930 - 888 75 .. - - 660 - .. 657 50 517 50 .. 517 50 480 - .. 478 75 385 - .. - - 390 - .. 390 - - 517 50 .. 516 25 488 75 .. 488 75 576 25 .. 571 25 300 - .. 306 25 MARKETS—This Day. Mr. Thornbury's New Novel, Wildfire, By Walter Thornbury, Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. "Wildfire" is a well selected title for a story, meant to depict the rapid spread of Democratic fury, and still further to exemplify the horrors which heralded in the first great French revolution. The scene of Mr.Thornbury's novel is laid partly in Paris, where we are introduced in a very dramatic manner to some of the principal characters in the story— namely, Carnet, Deszannettes, and Victor Beau jolais, three fellow students, with Rameau, an ambulant musician, the most interesting and im portant agent in carrying out the plot. Carnet and Deszannettes are warm hearted and noble minded young men, although out and out supporters of the specious doctrines of liberty, equality, fraternity. They soon, however, find, when employed in carrying out the principles which they profess, that plunder and the gratification of private revenge are the motives which actuate the base persons who, mounting to political power by pandering to the passions of an ignorant and debaeed populace, practise the most wholesale and unheard of cruel ties on all classes subject to their ruthless sway. Disgusted with the brutal conduct of Robespierre and his satellites, they endeavour to stem the tide of his grinding tyranny—but being, like the other Girondins, too timid in their measures, and too slow in their movements, they let slip the favourable mo ment for action, and become the victims of the system which they themselves aided to establish. Both are condemned to death, and one of them (Carnet) perishes on the scaffold. The third of the characters presented to us in the Palais Royal is Victor Beau jolais, a moderate Royalist, and lieutenant in the 43d Regiment, of which his father is colonel. Gen. Beaujolais comes from Avignon, where he com mands, to Paris, accompanied by his daughter Violette, and a certain constitution-framing Abbe, a diminutive model of Sieyes, to bo present, when his niece Marie takes the veil, but that young lady not choosing to devote herself to a religious life is removed from the convent. The revolution breaks out, and the great interest of the book com mences with the departure of the Beaujolais family from Paris, They settle at Giroflet, a village between the capital and Orleans, where they reside in comfort and tranquillity with the amiable Cure of the parish, until they are dis covered by Fauchet, a villainous attorney, who had ruined the general's eldest brother, and been him self expelled from Avignon, covered with infamy and disgrace, mainly through the exertions of the general. This man, now risen to power, seeks his revenge; denounces the entire family of Beaujolais as aristocrats, and would have arrested them were they not warned of his machinations by Rameau, who assists them in their flight. They are pursued, but at length reach Avignon, where, supported by his regiment, which is thoroughly loyal, the general considers himself in safety. But the inhabitants of Avignon, like the rest of France, become infected by Jacobin principles, and the General disperses a club and arrests its leaders just as Fauchet arrives to act then as Dictator with uncontrolled powers—he instantly demands the release of the prisoners, which is refused, when be excites the " sans culottes" to rebellion. The castle, strong enough to resist a siege, is basely delivered to the insurgents by the commander, a disguised Revolutionist, and the Hotel de Ville in which the General has en trenched himself is stormed, his faithful regiment is annihilated, and he himself with all the members of his family are made prisoners. Through the agency of Rameau they once more escape, but are again captured and finally transferred to Paris, where all are condemned to death by the revolutionary tri bunal. The wretch Fauchet becomes enamoured of Marie, who is betrothed to Victor, and proposes to release her friends if she consents to marry him. His proposal is indignantly rejected—she obtains an interview with Robespierre, pleads the cause of her relations, and failing to obtain mercy far them, betakes herself to Fauchet's hotel, and agrees to accept him as her husband, provided he ensures the immediate release of her family. Fauchet eagerly accepts the proposal, and Marie is removed to another room while he prepares the necessary orders. And now Rameau, who has for some time actel as Fauchet's secretary, and is thus enabled to thwart his plans, enters. The Dic tator, who had but just discovered his infidelity, denounces his conduct, and shows him the death. warrant of his son, an only child whom he has kept as a hostage for the father's good conduct. The interview must be told in the author's own words : It was a lurid day, without any visible sun; thick, stag nant, grey clouds choked the air, and seemed to brood with a nightmare weight upon the torpid earth. The very flowers seemed lifeless; the birds flew heavily and were silent. Fauchet's room was intensely silent—so silent, that the sound of a blow-fly bussing against one corner of the glass, angry at its unintelligible imprisonment, seemed louder than the drowsy monotonous pulsation of the clock in the black case that stood on the mantlepiece. As the door creaked open, Fauchet looked up with a smile worthy of hell. " So, so, monsieur," said Fauchet, "so you not only betray my plans to my enemies, but you release a lady whom I choose to detain a prisoner. You send her to Citizen Robespierre to undermine me—you think in fact, to baffle and thwart me—you, a buffoon and para site, a poor wandering vagabond, who dies if I choose to raise my finger. You have trespassed long enough on my patience—to-morrow your brat perishes upon the scaffold — there, no supplication. I have said it—it is inevitable ; and were you not useful to me, you yourself should not survive him. " Citizen Fauchet," said Rameau gravely, and without tears or prayers, drawing his chair closer to the dictator, " we have many debts to settle—let us settle them now, there is no time to loose. You wonder why" have secretly helped those Beaujolais? I will tell you. Yon remember that 30 years ago you led one Louis Beaujolais, a foolish spendthrift, to his ruin. You forged for him, and urged him to forge; you made him break his father's heart, and impoverish his younger brother. Finally, you cast him off, a disgraced beggar, to die in the West Indies. 1 ant Louis Beaujolais ! I now come to pay my debts to you." Fauchet started, and moved his chair back, but Rameau was calm. _ . _ _ _ " Time, sorrow, dyed skin, assumed voice and manners, and bleached hair, effectually concealed me from you. I entered your service, and bore all your insults, to save my brother, and atone for my past sins by one good action—to drag you, if possible, to the scaffold, or some loathsome and retributive death—to hurl you to the red hell gaping for you I It was I who planned the escape from Giraflet—it was I prevented the massacre at the Avignon prisons—it was I denounced you to Robespierre, and warned your col leagues of your treachery." "Scoundrel, I do not believe your story," said Fauchet; "though you are base enough even to cheat a galley-slave. And if it be all true, what have your find plans brought you to? To the guillotine, with your son. Look, the name I write now gives you but fifteen hours to live. I wed Marie ; I release from prison those Beaujolais ; I send them out to beg upon the highway; soon they will be arrested again— and so will perish a proud bad race. As for you, you will never see them again, nor they you. I have but to ring this bell, and you pass straight from here to the axe." "If I have but fifteen hours to live," said Rameau, leap ing up with the fury and passion of a madman, and seizing Fauchet by the throat and mouth, with a deadly grip, so close that he could neither move nor call out, he planted one knee upon Fauchet's right arm, while he held his left in the other as in a vice, "you have but fifteen seconds to breathe. Hell clamours for you. Look on the wall, spawn of Satan I" Fauchet looked instinctively, and saw the shadow of an enormous arm holding a long thin knife. He tried to scream, but Rameau'a strangulating hand upon his gullet stifled every sound. Rameau felt slowly, and with a horrible care and exactitude for the lawyer's heart, and found the spot which the doctor had that morning pointed out. " Monster, butcher, incarnation of Satan I" Rameau said in a low hoarse voice, " hideous as you arc wicked, another instant and I toss you into hell, where even now, creatures better than yourself leap for joy, and splash in the flames to hear'of your coming I Forsaken by God I —hated by man I —without hope or consolation you are defeated, tricked, and countermined in the midst of a short triumph, which this slow cancels. God himself sent rue the weapon that now pierces you—DIE I" The thin strong knife rose slowly in the air, it descended with terrific force, burying itself to the hilt in Fauchet's heart. The blow was so sure, deep, straight, and true that, only one drop of blood escaped from the small orifice of the wound—the bleeding was internal. There was only a low groan, and Fauchet fell back in his chair, dead. The scourge of mankind had gone to his account, and hell already had received him. Immediately on perpetrating the murder, Rameau destroys the death-warrants already signed, but he ' is discovered, seized, and committed to prison, ' where he meets his son and brother, the General, to whom he discovers himself. They are all pre• pared for execution, when Robespierre's tyranny, s overthrown. They are released. Marie espouse -------------------. Victor • I Violette is united to DeFainnettes, to R wh a om she has been all through attached; °net_ a m eau, leaving his son, who afterwards boom _lO he distinguished k musician, in charge of the ener._elt Ho ta es himself again to his vagabond course of afterllf returns annually to visit his family , but ea c the tenth anniversary of their deliverance he ifjt!_ h o more. Although the French Revolution has safety t eenm e a hacknied topic, 11r• Thornbury's n°lBto based upon the sufferings, escapee, and alters s , and lever-ceasing interest. It is written, 1110te0Verf Ichit, happiness of his cbaracters---excitesith a re spirit and vigour peculiarly his own, somaeorryieg hot, aders with him through the various, An d de , them historical, scenes which he so vividlY ,i, G scribes. The entertainment gi„n by the 11° , 1 0 1 uard to the Regiment of Flanders, the the between Dam pierre and Victor, and the seee e i . ri ci iii prison on the eve of exc‘ition, are all so grePtlio is depicted that every event is placed before escoor i a n picture . The faults which a critic mil cl i A s p o of "Wildfire" evidently arise from the hitulmioi; the printer or the inattention of theyrr ; 0 yes t is a work of great ability, which full pr . o o _ oo l excitement may be created and sustained in . ! c id by legitimate moans, without the author lea its recourse to the modern expedients of 0 5 ' heroine a bigamist and a would-be urderess• ,a --------------,__" Charles Dickens on, W. lg. T hackeray. - - 4 ,----- -- THE " CORNRILL MAGAZINE" FOIC FEISIO'°. d e ete. Very simple, very brief, and perfect'," 11° a thin in every syllable of it, is the tribute offere,,eoll deceased, by that one amongst his month to the memory of the great writer re s et onatereesProl t. life with so full, whose inimitable genius Thackeray himse lf re d g oiec i throughout donate an admiration. The paper, to O le beea multitude of the readers of them both ha ve eser looking forward, now, so very eager4csol' since the and earnest, a 1 ih oho February number of to o ver hill Magazine was announced hi „es: tisement, extends over less than f°llrip,Pces'f itis comprised within the compass of t'W ( "' i - oac ei , that publication. Yet within those fo r 1,,,15ti i5 every thing is said that one could wish toile ° o i c etsf' 1 y Charles Dickens in regard to Williaul Tilsosibl6 What is there said is to the fullest ext ent 4. 1 10 ioe ll worthy of them both. The hearts of th e ' 1 ,i i tti il are in a manner laid bare before us thrl'ichiel' affecting utterance, in the mournfal Wer titjc or the ir are audible, as it were, their most genet reed. very gentlest and noblest pulsations. Asa °veil brance ofThackeray, it is ono exterldiqo 10 period of twenty-eight years. It d e P l ha l6°. eule l i e pith in all his varying moods--suPr rous, irresistibly extravagant, chartaill.4.lo/1, children,- his full large heart overfloo brie' the most exquisite sensibility, The paPer inures"is bstit that it may be read through in a few Irr re ; will cling from that time forth Lavine t° s iffa ll membrance. Isaac Disraeli has written sll:aotieflle entertaining book—a book of some bulk.""4 4 per I I Quarrels of Authors." Here, in this littleartifeigbii .Charles Dickens, is something that ti _.,„ it °' t all. The manliest, the tenderest tribls;;thotOt from one of the greatest of English , 0 tt il o to another but just now la id a l bot t s ll 4 honoured grave around which were bel le s , of ""; other day " the heads of a great on ly t og ° ll l fellow-workers." As was indeed 011 fit 500t1316 it should be, the Cornhill for FebruarY iftPthocl°,so month with a deep mourning border, ' o f C °ll. r of Mr. Dickens's paper, which is givs o 0 I )fi t le as the first article in the Willo w s C has entitled simply "In Memoriam" (W e 1, ,,,, r isO l i j io Poet Laureate for teaching us that Phrt. l3 %ol it/ 06 woodcut sketch of Mr. Thackeray's I ', - tit i 1j ,,,j0l newly built mansion, on Palace Greetl' -00031'd old court suburb of Kensington. •A-13°t11:e„rpa o,nill tribute to the great humourist is contai++''ol9-or new number of the Cornhill for the eoeud'il t ro in the magazine, of February—namely, a most gen ial i het 4 lo ° brance of him by his distinguished b rot hs ~ +- 0 rol li ll a ` ,o3 0 / 1' which contribution, headed "I'V' S. p %trs cv ,l we are tempted to make the following 75,00;i0 Mr. Anthony MR. THACKERAY AND HIS FELLOW l oo sci i ii l Il e who knew Thackeray will have a T fo ot t 00' he ll° rt's inmost casket, which must roost° Igo,' Of dies. One loved him almost as 013 e loves 0 sloa6 b e from him as a source of joy derly and with thoughtfulness—third not 1ii13300t4.01 h i vh loC" i 6 itl o ot is full of comfort. One who loved h e art e s 0 00 r o # because his heart was tender, as is the It need be told to no one that four Y' t iose 0 0' years and cue month at the day on wi' lel lo 11 10 1 , will come betork the reader--this Inag 6 " - the ‘,, orf b , which can be 6°, 0040. menced under the guidance, and it', to 11 1 0 ,1, of Mr, Thackeray. It is not for anl °1 " to 00 ,fo 1 ' 4 ,. this s neeted with him in the entarpris.e , Or o' 4 o' l ' was done successfully or not; but it 1 ° ; so t of l i' il , ll l him m that t he i e n w g a o s f of all men—to declare that he Wes the lil l ' i " k o 11 ' oi 6°. the gentlest of rulers, and, as a fellow•l7°,,ro:oll,:fili, unselfish, considerate, beyond compare. I t 7 die r yer u jealous ch j as oa;r.i t e A r. Mr. Thackeray gave up the raanacreroeut 0 ' oat° finding that there was much it :the very' I' 0 ,0 v er , 0 task which embarrassed and annoyed bin:" 11 ,, e . c ti.0 li te cl , o ° to tell an ambitious aspirant that his nsP--TIc101!stotO ' t thlro°o°:4;of I'd t c f ": vain ; and, worse again, he could Theeno to o o c so when a lady was his suppliant. h DOS of him were thorns and festered in his old'' , Bs ,„,:sf , I° „ t i v , himself. In truth it was so. There ar°lo-1001 .",, t ' lio in wielding the editorial ferule, good hleti.to wilt;te, doubt, who open their hearts genially' to P13.101/1 10' find it ; but they can repress and crush th ° sip l port s li t e itO hs c' or the would-be pootess who has no t° twith Lf i t , s t lea° w io• 0 ,- 1,0 0 ,1 her own ambition, if not with delight, tion. Of such men are good editors ine tle , th . ot it sl i t e1 1 ,,, e' : a point against a man, or for him, to he 1 : 1 ; for tl ie 'lr ' they who think of the subject maY ivgiordn,,, relill' Thackeray had it not, He lacked / 004 - ) 5 , 3 7/ e j place, and therefore, at the end of tgloTroit°l3l, s01!„jd quished it." . . • Further on grloplete"4 to v sl i " ' Esmond,' of all his works has most ,:poSel,e"„rioo';ct the critical tastes of those who profess '"" d /. 0- tfr o i critically. For myself, I own that I regsr,,,,,,tioleff "fie the first and finest language. Taken 58 fi , o toP h- !: 3 0 41 ; l ol that it is without a peer. There is in it t ' s. - f 11 1; 136 ' tie i ' l historical plot, and an absence of that taint' ostorico it is tf , othe r 131 tidthi°'acttl; which Llemikhes, perhaps, all our beY:.....„,tea 00 0 0 0 which places it above its brethren. Atid' piste with a tenderness which is almost div ij ;; lt t, if ' ', 5 ,,, t 1; ,tw ~0 which no poetry has surpassed. • • ' 0 ,100 1 - fY t ie be, as a ,whole, our best English noVeh ot • I to, 0 , is the finest single character in 1 ' ) g li611 10 clu ili i° • P , has been surpassed by Cervantes, in ' - 013 : /0 0 ~-e , v erf 00 may, perhaps, allow, though `Don Gai° t° 1 .., to 1 . „ 1/4 , o f tage of that hundred years which is neeel '" is , I ).' , 1 0 0 , mellowing of any great work. Whell C : a lee e Se r : ° , ti : e 0 shall have lived his hundred years, an d t-- d i e d 0 4 -0 ' Thackeray and his compeers shall ha /° f a l io c' .- t o• and not till then, will the proper rank ° 0 / rodo' de literature be appreciated. Feb fii if Over the rest of the contents of tb e .1 0,0 'viol; bet of the Cornhill Magazine we Wil TV 1 3 t ollg it, we have hardly the heart to lieger• ai l, : 00 t1O t of the great loss endured by tlO g ifts 00, the sudden death of the rare l ige fie!, who was its founder, hangs Still abOle i:01511. . o #o l 0 home grief as we turn the pages liettrs f hti f oli t nothing to us—for once—that there 7_ori,i'ootlle tional chapters, of more than average,::re io l'„ itO of Small House at Allington," that W.aistorisreo , instalment of " Margaret Denzil's. "' tic po 4 fer , , one contributor celebrates the artll3lo,oo ,V 4 David Gray, and that another. des lilt°4 '., thoughtfully upon a suggestive t.nee'verythe`oooo;t tenuating Circumstances." I t ig 000%4 ileo, us, on the contrary, to note the list pi e 66 ,/, upon an orange-coloured sy-leaft l o f th , to r , nraberA Isle oto0; number, that id, the March n hill, will contain the First Part of. pet, fo c the 1 6 s l' by the late W. M. ThaeltereY'- le ft , j ot 0 he ever wrote, the one that b e i ti g , g 1 , n eo IiPP LOY unfinished. ACCOMparly ing this °rtaccoro,a Om meat of Thackeray's last stori _‘.,,, to, d ife 0 or ot " o ' r iii b t Ido l ~ Dickens, " his masterpiece," • ) there ,se ( l 0' promised to be his masterpiece . is sto .lirt, we perceive, it is announced 01 1 t ,.. 11 ..rity OP: , flv-leaf, a por trait of Mr. Thaciu'.. L au g4 O f t , fly , 1 1,0 . 0 steel, from a drawing by Samue ______, Ix on r 0 ir ° --____—_--- ------- „,,, L,„ti a hi, FOR EVER: ASTORY OF ENGLIS`", 0 'eV r IP„ We have receicet.. hers it 0 By a Clergyman.— the Viblis tl ifit dol ) Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, _ . ta te ~ t e r 4 , work, in which they request us . b" ;nal leo00; 0 r JO not (as was conjectured in ou.i. 330000 otei from the pen of the Bev- J• -D :_ le a, it ee.betef dr viewer was not unnaturally 13 :a: at coo, ' to o 0 , ,, similarity of title, and we heese_,. 0 , 3 errefl, $e ore to make public this correctionasoionouneevvecti, misc.. Mr. Bellew,„ work w as- is 4 01 i ll , t itle 1 0 0 d Story of English Life, " 9 . oe _ l . its oceOciiiife; Lion—" For Ever " being, ash •, COUotri mates, " A Story of Bowie " By a Clergymath" MARK-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to-day were moderate. For all good and fine dry samples there was a steady demand at full prices ; otherwise the demand ruled inactive, on former terms, The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands was tolerably extensive, There was a moderate inquiry for most descriptions, and Monday's prices were supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. With barley the market was fairly supplied. Generally speaking the trade was quiet, but good and fine malting qualities were firm in price. Malt changed hands to a moderate extent, at late quo tations. The supply of oats on sale was moderately good. The ;rade, on the whole, ruled steady, at full currencies. For beans and peas, the supplies of which were moderate, here was a fair demand, and prices ruled firm. . _ Most descriptions of flour moved off steadily, at full quo. Ations. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.-- 1,230 5 I I 2,370 3,28 0 ' 1,080 0 1 1450 Irish - Foreign 14,260 14,590 10,100 1810 sks, brls NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL Only moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these mar• kets. For all descriptions the trade is firm, at our quo. tations. Per 81b. by the carcase. s El s cl aded Inferior baef .. 3 2 3 6 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Middling do. .. 3 8 3 10 Prime do 4 6 4 8 Prime large do. 4 0 4 2 Vaal 4 0 5 0 Do. smalldo. .. 4 2 4 4 Small pork Large pork .... 36 4 2 Lamb . ... 00 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 8 3 10 BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a steady demand both for English and foreign hops, and prices of all qualities are well sup ported. Increased supplies of foreign produce are on offer, but the show of home-grown descriptions are very mo derate. Mid and East Kents £6 Os to £9 lOs per cwt. Weald of Kents 5 15s to Sussex 5 5s to 6 10 s /, Bavai ian 5 5s to 8 8s ~ Belgian American COLONIAL. Tea—Business has been very inactive, good and fine qualities of green, however, maintain previous rates. Com mon and inferior congou is quoted 12d to 13d per lb. Sugar—The market has remained very dull, and the few dealings in West India have been at barely previous rates. In the refined market rather lower prices have been current. COFFEE.—There has been a fair inquiry for colonial de scriptions, and late prices have been well sustained for good and fine qualities. Rice. —Only a limited business has boon reported, and quotations in several instances have shown less firmness. TALLOW. —The market has continued dull. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted now 41s 5d to 41s 9d ; March delivery, 420 to as 3d; and last three months, 44s 3d to 44s 6d. In an address at Chelmsford, the other day, Lord Chelmsford told the following anecdote :—There was a friend of his at the bar who was engaged in a nauti cal case in which it appeared that a vessel had been ex posed to a very severe gale of wind, and had been thrown upon her beam ends. His friend the barrister, ignorant of nautical matters, asked a seaman who was in thci witness box, how it was that they did not lower the topmast, upon which the witness said, with a sneer, "If you knew as much of the sea as I do you would know that this is not a very easy matter." This incident turned the attention of his learned ;friend to the subject, and he invented an apparatus for lowering topmasts, for which he obtained a patent, and he realised upwards of £20,000 by this, a, it might be termed, accidental invention. J ~~