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

THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. 'THIS EVENING -, the Performances will commence with the New Serio-Comi o Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled 11: 1 _GHT AND 3101 tN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messr s. Ryder, Raynor, Fitzjames, and Misses R. Leclercq, Attains on, and Heath. To conclude with TH E new Grand ; Cm Sevens Comic Panto mime of SINBAD SAILOR or, The of th • World. Clc , wns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; liarlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barn -s and J. Alorris ; Columbines, Madame tifJleno and Misses 1 3 unniss. Prices as usual. 1 fox Office open from 10 till 5 daily. IFEB OAT SE: RVlCES.—During the storms of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat ln•itu'ion saved 417 pt arsons from different wrecks on our co , fists. The ns tit ut ion has also expended £13.819 3s. 2d. in the same peg iod on lifeboat e•tablishments, in iteldit,on to gr £1,351 6 , . Od. as rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked p sons by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the pi iblic for AsSIsTAN E to erqt ble 'hem to meet the con tt nued heavy demands on the Ins titution's 125 lifeboat estab lb :hments. Contributions are received by all the London d country bankers ; and by ff.te Secretary, Richard Lewis, the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. '__TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Nights of Performance —Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. F AUST. (In English.) TO-MORROW EVENING , SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. Lemmens-Sherriov, - ,ton, Taccani, and Florence Lancia. Santiey, Marchesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductc ,r—Signor Arditi. Con In fence at Eight. ROYAL E - NGLISEL OPERA, COV TNT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and M r. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, t t commence with (23d time) an en tirely new Operetta, en titled FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Ham i sm . After which, a Gran d Christmas Pantomime, on a szale of unprecedented magni ficence,Pntitled HAitLEQUIN ST . GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at b a if-past Six—commence at Seven. Zitt LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1864. ~_ ~_ T-. During 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 3linisterial 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 about, 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 constrained to retire from his position as Secretary of State 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 this silly report on the other side of the channel, "M. STANLEY, barn at Alderney." Still more recently, however, when that minor canard had 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 whispar v.n, had resigned! Not--was going to resign : but—e.ctnally had resigned. The noble lord was rumoured to have been to the Palace at Osborne. Tile Court Circular indeed, had, according to cus tom, announced that ceremonial visit of the Foreign secretak y, Lord RUSSELL had been to Osborne and—had returned from it! Certainly, a very amazing circumstance in itself—that he should have returned from (Morrie at all seeing that, of course, every one must have looked upon him, from the as a fixture ! From moment of his arrival there, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1864. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the See Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DENIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Prery Evening during the Week. THIS EVE SIN( 7,, the performance will commence with's. New and Original .Varce, entitled THE LOST CHILD : MeAses. H. Widdicorn be, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, ligreland; 3lisses Pe Ivy, Pauline Leclercl, Wood. Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. A Iter which, at Fi zht o'clock, BEL DENIONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Taioleaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle," by Mr. John BrougLam. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brow,irim, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; 11L-s Henrade, Miss E. Lavern', Mrs. Lee, and eliss Elsworthy. The Public are ent; seated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupaal sot' Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for ti le safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and tl at the attendants ua all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuiti,Ns whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- cote Less ee. and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. TET IS EVENING-, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Messrs. Elothern, Buckston.e„ Chippen.lale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Cullentord, Sic. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, _Lindley, Hill, &c . After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round I'W:de. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, T4lbury, ; 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 snow what to do NEW THE ATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proorlstor and Mannar, Nl:^. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS: Mr J L. Toole, 4t to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. A.rthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil bazton, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billington. • - To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Portant° and his Seven Magi 3 Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, K. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss _Patti Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH. -EVERY NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN. MISS BA'FEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING, the 112 d appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA EMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the principal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended. 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. GRP; A_T ATTRACTION.—First Week of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MA r lIEWS.—Mr. J. L. Toole as Mrs. Brown, Mr. Phel,s. Mr. Fechter, and Lady Audley every evening. 18,13; or, the Sensations of the Past season, until further notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr. J. L. Tonle, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss ‘Ventworth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and Mrs. Charles M at:aews. T I:VENING-. and during the Week, at 7, THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A CUCUMBER ; and 1863; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON, On SATURDAY . next, Jan. 30, will be produced an entirely New Comedy, by Leicester Buckhrzham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINING-, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, and. Mrs. Frank Matthews, &c., will appear. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Man aver, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND FURY DI CE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swan borough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. To conclude with TURN RIM OUr. Commence at 7. TE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , ' Containing, the Lest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ~an hail Every Evening, of G. tt. GIANIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COAL'S • Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 254. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. 'top 255 . Nut 5........ 195 „ De• p .....225. •• Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf Paddington, W. Best Cote Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.--?rlorning, sh. 17m.—Afternoon, sh. 32m. To-NoE.Row.-Morning, sa. 48m.—Afternoon. 6a. The Weather—Sun Office, Jan. 2C, 1864. —4-- ,- THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 46 Barometer-30.20. Wind—N.W. ; moderate, and very fine. s ~~~ ~~~, 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 Mornzng 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 that 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 verygreatly 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 iudividual 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. Hs 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 experien c e of ages. The three justices of the county of Derbyshire 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 WS 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. J. Cox, Jy. for the county and borough of Derby, in a rather elaborate but most comprehensive state 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 carious 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 aat 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 Home 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 therefore amenable for his crime, and his after insanity, if it existed, might have mitigated, but it could not have removed the penalty. If be 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 careful calculations. 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 •adventit . ious 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 disappoilitment 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 OSBORN, is no longer at his 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 I)ative 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 KUNG 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 WARD was forming for an attack upon Soonking. The attempt was successful and was followed by another upon Tsing-pco which failed, and at which BURGE VINE received a severe wound, which caused him much subsequent suffering. The foreign authori ties never interposed to prevent a body of foreigners from joining either party, and WARD was compelled to disband his force. BURGEVINE, who is evidently a man of daring and ability, 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 to 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 to 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 ambitious 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 Snanghai, bat delays arose from the difficulty of transmitting them. The rebels grew suspieious, and refused to pay the foreigners their wages. BURGEYINE'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 enemits, 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 is, 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 BURGEYINE, to make some remon strance on the subject. Meanwhile, men of spirit and capacity had better pause before they expend their energies on behalf of a Government which repays their efforts with neglect and suspicion. LATEST LNTELLIGENCE. LRELITTER'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 Guamuna. All the Southern parts of Santo Domingo as far as San Jose de los Mates had sur rendered to Spain, and were occupied by Spanish troops. Intelligens:to 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 431 d. to 44d. The news from Peru is unimportant. Exchange, 360. 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 removed 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 203. 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 .211 - oniteur 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, Jan. 28.—There has been a fair amount of business doing, but without any improvement in prices. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 66fr. !Mc. 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 Sew ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian ~ 79 Spanish Threes sl± acme Debt Deferred - Roman - f AYB. Cash. Account. 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Credit Mobilier,...lols 50 Do. end m0nth....1017 50 Bank Shares 3270 Credit konoior 1230 Italian Loan 6B 70 RA IL 952 50 .. 950 - 992 50 .. 988 75 Orleans Northern New ditto ' Lyons and Mediterranean 931 25 .. 930 New ditto Southern 660 657 50 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 385 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. .. 676 25 .. 571 25 Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 .. 306 25 MARKETS—This Day. 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• Cations. The supply of oats on sale was moderately good. The trade, on the whole, ruled steady, at full currencies. For beans and peas, the supplies of which were moderate, there was a fair demand, and prices ruled firm. Most descriptions of flour moved off steadily, at full quo tations. ARRIVALS THIS WIZEIC. Wheat. isarley. Malt. Oats. Float. Ency,lish 1,230 2,370 0 3,260 ' 1,980 1450 Irish.. — —-1 750 Foreign.— 14,260 14,590 I 10,109 1840 sks, brls Mr. Thornbury's New Novel. Wildfire, By Walter Thornbury. Three Vols. Hurst and Mackett. " 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, Carnot, Deszannettes, and Victor Beau jolais, three fellow students, with It tmeau, an ambulant musician, the most interesting and im portant agent in carrying out the plot. Carnot 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, ho wever, 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 debased 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 foraction, and become the victims of the system which they themselves aided to establish. Both are condemned to death, and one of them (Carnot) 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 be present, when his niece Marie takes the veil, bat 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, hut 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 he 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 ,he Hotel do Villo 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 hes for some time actei as Fauchet's secretary, and is thus enabled to thwart his plans, enters. The Dic- tator, who bad 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 cf 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 I have secretly helped those Beaujolais ? I will tell you. You 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. lam Louis Beaujolais ! 1 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! 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 fine 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 , 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 hero 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 are 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 blow cancels. God himself sent me 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 Robesp ierre's t y ranny is overthrown. They are relea sed, Marie espouse Victor; Violette is united to ...._---......-----------1 whom ß she has been all through attached ; on eam, leaving his son, who after Wards become:. Getier.oll a be distinguished musician, in chargo of the H takes himself again to his vagabonl course of afterlit returns annually to visit his faint' b ut ~e a the tenth anniversary of their deliveranco heirs 0 n b o more. Although the French Revolution bar based a hacknied topic, Mr. Thornbury's pollee upon the sufferings, escapee, and a ltern s never-ceasing . interest. It is Written, ---elleitee. Peksinnettes, . safety and happiness of his characters aspirit and vigour peculiarly his own, carilivge of readers with him through the various, and O de , them historical, scenes which he so viv idlY to $ 1 6 G •bes. The entertainment given by the i ,Yliel between uard to the Regiment of Flandere, the . ° to Dampierre and Victor, and the snel 3e h rlf prison on the eve dexecntion are all so gr'Plo is moreover, ;It.: depicted that every event is ' laced before u s o r a picture. The faults which p a critic he di A B p c :s of in " Wildfire" evidently arise from the bi tinu- b - utip stot is the a p w rin k ter or the inattention of the write r; es t o of great ability, which fullY Pr° ovet excitement b or may be created and sustained Ina hold rheyecrooui legitimate rs he r" m ul od s' er w n heroine a bigamist and a would-be murderess. ---- .., itehxopuetditlZsaoutt.laiuuvg its --------- __ Charles Dickens on W. M. Th acker"' Very simple, —___----- THE " CORNHILL MAGAZINE" FOR Fzpn.ol' ~4 ,ifeol' in every syllable of it, is the tribute offere d very brief, and perfectly ne a t o deceased, by that one amongst his month to the memory of the great writer re ,,, r iel co et:or - 0 0 whose inimitable genius Thackeray himself reg ard whose throughout life with so full, and earnest, nu sat o t lo io o n k a in te g an fo a r d w m ai i d ra , tio n n. The paper, to w e bee t multitude of the readers of them both h al e re t ti i s 7 e / me i n li t :ga e z x in te e no gerlY ..4. foot r oo d ew, so very Co , since h the February number of the scle it is comprised within the compass of t Wel p e o teo ce ! that publication. Yet within those feW 8 ;00 0 extends swoavner alnenssountcheada 139 .40: everything is said that one could wishtohtle evroi' by Charles Dickens in regard to Williamsb° osiblo What is there said is to the fullest est t ; 0 00 are in a manoer laid bare before worthy of them both. The hearts of th e ~ t i tbi t/ u s thr°loo affecting utterance, in the mournfal Wer ele° o , 10 are audible, as it were, their most geh e° „ 0 ' 0 0 : very gentlest and noblest pulsations. It s " so rer ' brance of Thackeray, it is ono extellaiq to hi° period of twenty-eight years. It &P lc ho e in all his varying moods--supreroell witli rous, irresistibly extravagant, &W ei ll /141 ; children, his full large heart overflovi: so br ie. the most exquisite sensibility. The peP er ' t s es , bot ts that it may be read through in a few mino r o ur r e ; will cling from that time forth lovinglY to aisfolu membrance. Isaac Disraeli has writteon P ot oTO entertaining book -- a book of some bullt."-sheanstbi • t ie P'r • 11 5 Quarrels of Authors." Here, in this llt t weig ; Charles Dickens, is something that t 'd ° it all. The manliest, the tenderest triv a t o tlio - t from one of the greatest of Englif is that honoured grave around which wer e to another but just now lard e a PI ",, i ii bcof roe of at other day "the heads of a great eohet)liotiogi,to fellow-workers." As was indeed 00 1 9 00 00; 05 it should be, the Cornhill for February sf:00 o re , month with a deep mou rning border. it 'd O tt e r of Mr. Dickens's paper, which is giv eli t , P e t oa eanstittlhede sfiimrsptlyar,tgilcnle minemtohreianni,r(vihee'tib.....soolr6sls Poet Laureate for teaching us that phref.Bl.3b'rsrf the woodcut sketch of Mr. Thackeray ' 0 ' - ' 1 n et 111 ,0 1 newly built mansion, on Palace Greet 03 0 01 "0 - itl old court suburb of Kensington. An eti roa 0 , 0 0 tribute to the great humourist is cooWei n g v et s , new number of the Cornhill for the e tie d ee te a rti of February—namely, a most genial kiter.lol7e-rOOl in the magazine, Mr. Anthony brance of him by his distinguished brow _ e, 1/ _ l e Troll ,f l oc irer!, which contribution, headed " W r • 14 * a iro str o, we are tempted to make the following - ire , 0 Mn. THACKERAY AND HIS FELLO l aj oef , i i i' 4 ljtl He who knew Thackeray will have e' °;0001.4 till' heart's inmost casket, which must OW° . 0,... 4 01 41 , dies, One loved him almost as ore 1 0° Pinl),tl' from him as a source of joy derly and with thoughtfulness—thiaking of hid'otitir lov ed eV is full of comfort. One who loved hi h'' because his heart was tender, as is the 1011 earn oKc, It need be told to no one that fou r c l the"..% co f m , years and cue month at the day on 11111i . z e- joe Vfr Or o will came be fork the reader —this Meg'" th e it l e ;,t which cannot be 6 a 001,00, of Mr, Thackeray. It is not for menced under the guidance, and il l A s vi' o ,4ll o ' . an y of ,a. of ,/ for 0 connected with him in the enterprise / r ne": 4 01 this was done successfully or not; but its e f° t of 5,1 the gentlest of rulers, and, of all men—to declare that he was the h icie tt ui e i' poit t l unselfish, considerate, beyond compare. It n li f the o it ° him that he was jealous as a writer. e nd- f f r l .r e ; knew nothing of , such jealousy. Anent 5 0 0' ° I be ti' o r Mr. Thackeray gave up the m ans„ he 0 „ f OW' 0$ its finding that there was mueh in the very - 000 0 0 4 , 60 as a fellow•werto b , 60 020 11 task which embarrassed and annoyed him' 11 . 1 . 6 00 4 0 t o vain ; and, worse again, he to tell an ambitious aspirant that his t'eP l eo du e t ,64 o t o could n °t T beir 1° tpl a ,ot so when a lady was his supPlfe nt. A . sb e rho 1161L.0 him were thorns and festered in his siu" Ss vi• - tr a 4 "„ cf himself. In truth it was so. There are re ~e 0 o ld 0 V doubt, who open their hearts in wielding the editorial fertile, geed o irts v ille ie ti t ; find it ; but they can repress and crush teoppertoori 4 f 0 or the would-be poetess who has nothieg. to si wit h ii r ,t 1 at le •sytheillev,l4tel„ genially to ge itopabo ,t,e, her own ambition, if not with delight, tion. Of such men are good editors 0°1 ; 11 3 . 00 5 ,,, 00 0 03 0 ' l l 4 a point against a man, or for him, to be 54 :: for '''' s for they who think of the subject rag ill:100°10 1."1,/ Thackeray had' it not. He lack& yeti r° l e , say = 1 0 4 place, and therefore, at the end of 1W frollig" ,still quished it," . . . Further on gr'oplet°, to ~i "'Esmond,' of all his works has mostt !theoel.,,ve'ooo,l jyt the critical tastes of those who profe " r a '0 lil 0 1 critically. For myself, I own that 1 r e g: w aol e ,', 4 life the first and finest language. Takeo . B° i : c one o eco' o la that it is without a peer. There thatn i t , ,of cone boo 0 or historical plot, and an absence of tall"ilif,torie., i'litidi which blemishes, perhaps, all our othebreiood triostDl' otO which places it above its brethren. An d ,• a l e,'" ‘ S I 'l o plete with a tenderness which is almost MT• oo t 0 14 ,4 4 0 0 which no poetry has surpassed. • • ; coloe ei . AO be, as a whole, our best English novel). otiollt•ootef, is the finest single character in l'glis,Doil Q a l e 04 pc ° has been surpassed by Cervantes, fo . to , 10 5 030:00,/, may, perhaps, allow, though ' Don Gol s ' es ss - o ry te ~,legc, 0' tags of that hundred years which if; nececoicoet r ~,ort op t mellowing of any great work. Wbea th l esse Vi d o ' 'ot ljil shall have lived his hundred years, and e djea t ' r e Thackeray and his compeers shall have ,to A, iir and not till then, will the proper rok ° 0 01 e br literature be appreciated. f the e giP ti tI 4I Over the rest of the contents° . 0 ho h Of D o ( ling er ' it, we have hardly the heart to _ s si ll, i s ot e her of the Cornhill Magazine we vlllll Two r o d" of the great loss endured b arely.„ " aced , f ee! 0 the sudden death of the re iii;OPlol,, who was its founder, hangs still abov . 9 1 1 ., .. • 4 0 , iistli ''' :bre • „Pr home grief as we turn the page: . __ e a ro ',. ,0 f , D et nothing to us—for once —that ( t a a: . ... e n ot!! "l o s tional chapters, of more than:v. _ ti .. 16 030 re ! ri ,," `, o f Small House at Allington, tr i 'L 1.1 OW "der Ir f instalment of " Margaret D . 0 .13 11::tiett 0 P o l i o ; sr one contributor celebrates 1 tl that d e ill° t° David Gray, and that anf e ~,e O3 0 ~jogclp thoughtfully upon a sugge,,stt% 1 :s , el ero.ye„, Pis tenuating Circumstances 1 " ow° P i o O f . , note the t t co , us, on the contrary, to , t hic „, i f d fiv.leal. 0 ti , upon an orange coloured , be . o. re / d i number, that id' the March nu m , A ,et by the late W. M. Tht,AckeraY he left, WI 1 , that pia 'O% t hill, will contain the First F at__ t :: t bs 164 1 a , f (3 . 1 , he ever wrote, the one h i s or e ll 4 0 0 unfinished. Accompanying ! tory (to o too , itee , went of Thackeray's last o _ I. at s ny li be gl 00 0 Dickens, " his masterpiece, t. ) there One vr°;is/1 it i s au nor rr n u rrocile ral .. e en ee. 0 , promised to be his inasterpifeeea tbia s ain ogr o' steel, from a drawing bl 0 ________-_vro}'.so7, fiWye-leaf, perceive , ave Portrait of •_l . vit ~:rcieei j.,a,0" 4 f i t ~ -- - "' 7------ IsEt " tte t til l' AST OF l'l Gl ' a le C' 4 FOR EVER: O e receiced beo o it i By a Clergyman. --We hatvt tile nu blis t wit J O ) Messrs, Hurst and 13lacke , s, .9 ;: c . s tot . e €00 0: e f i l ; work, in which they requ . e :_'.. ;0001:: llPti not (as was conjectured in ....wid..nei.ievoenoccoret from the pen of the BeT i . i " 1 u3isled, it 4101,00: viewer was not unnatura L oco at oorer`rot,.ooo; ; similarity of title, and oorivreenti°;B:fautten.;. eiette4pr.eeCiOrtt; woritati _ is o ili ,a ti ti,, 0 0 Story ot English Lite,,, d tmois m e. ake m p t : l ß ) li: n t e h s i v s , o „ its ° ecc i Lif e ' tion—" For Ever " being, . ~, countr e B,,gilei. mates, 4 , A Story 0). "By a Clergyman. NEIVGATE 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 Mb. by the carcase. sdad a dad Inferior beef .. 3 2 3 6 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Middling do. 3 8 310 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Prime large do. 4 0 4 2 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4 Small pork 4 4 4 8 Large pork .... 3 6 4 2 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 S 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 Rents £6 Os to £9 10s per cwt. Weald of Kents 5 15 s to 7 Sussex Bavarian 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 been reported, and quota' ions in several instances have shown less firmness. TALLOW.—The market has continued dull. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted now Es 5d to 41s 9d ; March de 6 livery, 42s to 42s 3a ; a nd last three months, 44s 3d to 445 d. 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 yessE I 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 the 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 ho invented an apparatus for lowering topmasts, for which he obtained a patent, and he realised upwards of £O,OOO by this, as it might be termed, accidental invention. TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN CHILI. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) 2,000 LADIES BURNED TO DEATH. SOUfHAMPTON, JAN. 29. The mail steamship Atrato, which arrived here this morning, bringb intelligence of a most terrible calamity at Santiago, the capital of Chili. Oa the evening of the Bth December, over three thousand ladies and several hundred men had crowded into the Cathedral of La Campania. The ladies were mostly young and belonged to the higher classes of the capital. 20,000 lights in long festoons filled the church, which was also hung with drapery of every description, the entice building, more especially about the altar, being a perfect sea of muslin dresses and illumination. The service had hardly commenced when the crescent of lights at the toot 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. The congregatio❑ endeavoured to escape by the door, which was blocked up by the multitude 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 m ayor, the Rev. Granville Granville, the vicar, took the chair. It was resolved that arrangements should immediately be made for advertisieg 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 further reported that Mr. Alfred Tennyson, Poet 'Laureate, has consented to join the Committee of Taste. The following gentlemen have been added to the list of vice-presidents :—.Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks. the Duke of Ma nc h es t er , the Earl of Lichfield, Profess or Nicol, Glasgow ; th e Right Hon. Thomas O'Hagan, QC., M.P. ; Mr. J. 0. Jaffray, Rev. H. W. Croskey, Glasgow ; Mr. J. Herbert St ac k, and Mr. Joseph Ellis, Brighton. rdo i otaftif weather h f e singer Htwsh ahaetMmauctrbhAdauaDaffrryhrga affected I ttvswee o edrhn l l eearftlc tcrettwrypicitizens accomplished by nfy E t 7 egeN L ltlal i yoai em E rs r atrbeshaeheT:eeerpnnl took T rtaes r svce E i hvoa N eufa a S ursrer . Felt native ivn T sceeltog h ial e str a m n i H n s s e d naa monoi of Marseilles. Although Madlle. Titiens's y b oice was some burg, the performance was in every respect most satisfac tory, and an overflowing audience, brimful of enthusiasm, loudly expressed the delighr, hey experienced. THE NEGRO'S ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE 'WHITE MAN, according to Mr. Wingrove Reade's " Savage Africa" :—"' My breddreu,' said a native preacher, you see white man bad too much, ugly too much, no good. You want sabby how man like dat come to lib in the world. Well, I tell you. Adam and Ese, dey coloured people, very hansum, lib in one beautiful garden. Dere dey hab all tings dat be good. Plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, foo-foopahn wine—heigh, too much Den dey hab two childrum, Cain and Abel. Cain no like Abel's palaver ; one day he kill'm. Den God angry, and ha say, Cain 1' Cain go hide himself ; he tink him berry ciaber. Heigh—heigh I God say again, " Cain, you tink I no see you, you bush-nigger—eh?' Den Cain come out, and he say, Yes, massa, I lib here—what de matter massa ?' Den God say in one big voice, like de tunder in de sky, Where'm broder Abel ?' Den Gain turn white all ober with, ear—dat de first white man, breddren ?" „'”