The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

Second Edition, price 2s. 6d., CIUESUS, KING OF LYDIA. By ALFRED B. RICHARDS. F " Another Matthew Lock might modulate their (the Fates chant in tones as e rssive as those of the weird sisters in •Macbeth,' and more s solemnly sublime." -The Morning Post. " • Macbeth' has many of these elements, especially as added to by Dryden and Davenant. . . . The language and construction well deserves a royal and magnificent set ting."—The Critic. "Contains passages which are not to be surpassed by any thing in the language. The awful retribution that awaits the neglect of poverty by wealth, and the extremes of luxury and starvation, form the moral and portraiture of this wort, which, in the present state of the manufacturing districts in the north of England, the rich and the powerful would do well to study and to lay to heart." - The Weekly Times. A Tragedy Longman and Co., Paternoster-rosy. SIPLENDOUR and MAGNIFICENCE are the kJ prevailing characteristics of the London Pavilion, to prove which a visit on THURSDAY, the 29th inst., is parti cularly recommended. The Proprietors take their ANNUAL BENEFIT on the evening in question, when the entertain ments will be marked by genius, refinement, elegance, mirth, and drollery. The programme will totally eclipse all its pre decessors; it will, in fact, be a NIGHT of WONDERS. The LONDON PAVILION, Tiehborne-street. LOIBL and SONNHAMMER, Proprietors. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with RUT BLAS : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susafl Pyne, Miss ThirlwalL and Madame Laura Baxter Messrs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, AynsleyCooke , E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor-3lr. A. Mellon. After which, the Gr an d C om i c Christmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THE ATR E-R OYA L. DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falco ner. THIS EVENING, the Comic D ram a of THE NEX T OF KIN. After which, the Grand rautorame of LITTL E GO DDY Two SHOES. Commence at -. TREAT REessee 0 Mr J I B . Buoksto AHY MARKET. L. . ne. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock. will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck. stone Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn. ----- - Atter which, a new and original Extravazanza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Kerley. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. T HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R. THIS EVENING, Jan. 23, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Width combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, 11. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenuc, and Elaworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. Private Boxes, .C 2 12s. ed., and £2 2s. Places registered. Stalls. 88. Bd. ; Dress Circle, ss. 6d.; Upper Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, Bs. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No half-price. Box office open daily from 11 till 5 . The pubic are entreated to take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes, box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep ing of hats and cloaks : and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr Lindus. THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE :Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Raiford. NEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LI i TLE TREASURE. Mr Billin,gton, Mr. 11. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P Bedford. and Mrs. Billing-ton. To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; C,own, Mr. W. Hildyard ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and Bertrand. Commence at 7. The WEATHER.--Sun Office, Jan. 23, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Barometer-29.65. Wind—S.-S.-West; weather changeable. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 4h. 35m.—Afternoon, 4h. 59m. To-xosnow.-Morning, sh. 18m.—Afternoon, sh. 38m. ,4 ttg r '4l° $""'N 41111 t 0-‘114) LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1863. The reply of the new VICEROY of E3YPT to the Consular Body appears very satisfactory. The address itself proved the high estimation in which he was held. Those who presented it knew from experience much that was gratifying and encourag ing in the past, and hence could hope for great things from the future. This passage evinces their already high estimation of the Prince :—" Each of us has had the honour to know your Highness in private life, and on more than one occasion to appreciate the eminent qualities which led your Highness to avoid, with a reserve as dignified as it was wise, taking any part in public business during the late Government." This reticence of character displays in itself a care and caution that are emi nently becoming to a statesman, for it is never those who thrust themselves forward officiously who prove the most efficient when the time of trial comes. It was no want of ability that kept IsMAIL PASHA. from interference. On a late occasion when he was Regent for a short time ho so conducted affairs as to create a favourable impression. This is rslluded to i n th e a dd ress in the following words : —"During the Regency which your Highness was called upon to assume , you were able, despite the difficulties of the position, to secure the respect and sympathies of the people whose destiny was com mitted to your charge, and in d ea li ng w i th the foreign representatives your Highness gave proof of firmness and justice that inspired the profound respect of the whole colony." The first words of the Viceroy's reply prove that he is in earnest in his solemn undertaking. He says—" I am deeply impressed with the task which GOD has imposed upon me, by recalling my uncle, and placing me at the head of the Government of Eypt." After stating that he was det erm i ne d to devote hi mse lf t o the prosperity of the country he went on to observe that "the base of all good administrations is order and economy in the finances. This order and economy I shall follow by every possible means, and I have resolved upon abandoning the system of my predecessors, by fixing for myself a civil list which I shall never exceed." Besides this excellent resolve the Vice roy has a still better plan in prospect—t o abolish the system of forced labour. This system, he states, is the principal, and, i n d ee d, only cause which has prevented, and still prevents, the country from taking all the development of which it is suscep tible." This is a step in the right direction, and ISMAIL PASHA deserves the greatest credit for his resolution in this respect. The snore h e follows the example of more enlightened countries progress be made, and the the more rapidly will more steadily will it be maintained in the country over which he presides. It is refreshing to notice so extended a view taken of affairs, at the outset of a new reign, and it is surely some foundation for our hopes to rest upon, that will outlive the first exciternr:nt of the inauguration, and remain to win the admiration and respect of succeeding times. , Such a change as t h e Viceroy p ro poses to ma k e i s un era in the history of the Fast, and it is to be :trusted that he will go on in the good course which ha Nil commenced; undeterred by the objections of those whose prejudices may be wounded by his rcforms, and unisfluenced by the advice of in terested partizans. The principle that the Viceroy acknowledges in this speech is that 01 pregus,icm, and the spirit that animates THE"SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, 'JANUARY 23, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE him is decidedly that of progress. Far from fall- time, we believe, is going by for ever. We look ing short of expectation, his Highness has more upon her present Government as little less corrupt • than fulfilled the most extravagant desires that than that of the North. The conduct of her could have been formed; and all that remains now Ministers in our affairs has been characterised by to wish is that he may be long spared to carry out sordid lust and base ears." Mr. SEWARD his noble resolutions. The result cannot be other- is even described as Lord RUSSELL'S master ! wise than happy to the country which it imme- " A threat from SEWARD will silence Earl RUSSELL diately concerns, and beneficial to all those nations more effectually than the wails of the suffering poor ' that come in immediate contact. Certainly a more of his country. Treachery being the predominant auspicious opening of a new reign has seldom been characteristic of both the Yankee and the English seen ; and both on political and personal grounds premiers, we are not surprised that there is a mutual there can be but one opinion, that IsmAm PASHA hostility to the South, and perhaps a tacit under has already taken his place among the ranks of standing to despoil us of the products of our court national reformers and social benefactors. The land try. SEWARD is by far the shrewder knave of the of the Nile has a bright prospect before it under two, and his voice seems to be as potent with Earl present auspices, and it is earnestly to be hoped that RUSSELL as it is in the Cabinet of Washington. the judicious improvements now laid down by the Certain it is that he has dictated, in the most super intelligence of its new ruler may be carried out cilious terms, the course which he wished England in a style and with a success that may result in credit to pursue since the establishment of the blockade to the enlightened mind that has devised them. and the recognition of the Confederates as bell get ents." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Hamburg and American Company's steam. ship Hammonia, from New York on the 10th inst. arrived off the Needles at 11.30 a.m. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 17. Sir Henry Bulsver has arrived here. Dervisch Pasha has received orders to return with his troops to Scutari for the winter. The construction of block-houses in Montenegro has therefore been postponed. English, French, and Austrian war steamers are cruising against pirates. GREECE. ATHENS, JAN. 17. It is one proof that England must be right in her firm neutrality between the North and South, that s he gains of both sides. Whigs, Tories, and Radicals here, with a few singular exceptions, concur in the policy of leaving the two great parties to fight out their own quarrel. Both sides in the States perfectly well know that we, and all Europe, would rather they should settle it by the unbloody war of diplomacy. They know that France obtru sively, and England without any display of zeal in the macter,would gladly aid both parties in coming to terms which should be dishonourable to neither; but we do not mean to:offer services which would certainly be rejected, and which, in the present temper of both, would as certainly be useless. In the coming session, we have little doubt that there will be various opinions as to what will be the end of the struggle most desirable for England and the world. Most statesmen and poli ticians in Europe will believe, as we certainly do, that a breaking up of the Union into such a num ber of independent nations as geography and diver sity of interests suggest, will be for the advantage of the world; and there may be also a few who can honestly believe that a democratic Republic, com prising all the lands between the Isthmus and the North Pole, would be a blessing for humanity ; but those who think all North America should form one vast power, and those who would break it up into two, four, or more nations,will all agree that the set tlement which Americans will make for themselves will be better than any we can make for them. Ever since the Norman Conquest we, in England, have fought out our own quarrels; we have thus come to a practical conclusion that this is the best course for all nations. France has not yet learned the same lesson. Hence her interference in Italy and in Mexico, we might add in Egypt ; hence her readiness to burn her fingers in the American fire ; bat England's mind is quite made up. We know the thanks we have had for this from the North. For a long time all our thorough im• partiality was represented as favouring the South. Our manufacturers supplied the South with arms; our skippers, at their own risk, attempted to get medicines, clothing, and luxuries in food, through the blockade, as well as guns and ammunition ; we half forgot the black spot of Southern slavery in the courage and skill displayed by Southern com manders and Southern soldiers, and all these things were set down against us as grimes. It availed nothing that we did ten times more for the North, Such effusions we read and laugh at, and hardly say we forgive, because, they have not the power to make us angry; but what will injure the South far more with England, is, her brutality towards negro prisoners. Mr. DAVIS' savage proclamation against them was veiled in semi-legal phraseology, though no cue could doubt what it meant ; but we are not allowed to wait long for the practical comment. The shooting in cold blood, by order of Southern com manders, of twenty negro teamsters near 11Iurfrees borough, has excited no indignation or remonstrance in the South ! JEFFERSON DAVIS has given, and will give no intimation, that it is not exactly what he meant, for he did mean it. The atrocity, as we regard it in England, is coolly taken as a matter of course, by the South and its friends. In this coun try it will be matched with the doings of NEILL and FURCHIN and BUTLER. In England negroes are regarded as men, and as having a perfect right to their liberty if they can get it. Suppose that these negroes were slaves who had made good their title to manhood, and who were now driving for wages the waggons of the army through which they had gained their liberty—what but the most fiendish spirit of revenge could dare to deal with these in nocent men as brigands or pirates ? The South is adopting the very means by such deeds as this to cut itself off from the sympathies of all civilised na tions, and of England pre-eminently. Since the issue of the war has manifestly become emancipa tion or slavery, an evident change has commenced in the feelings of this country towards the Northern cause, and the South needs to treat the negro better rather than worse, if it would retain any measure of English good will. We do not, indeed, think the North more generous or philanthropic than we thought her before. Emancipation as a " military necessity," is pure selfishness ; but we are a practical people, and when we associate the triumph of the North with the abolition of slavery in ten large States, to be as surely followed by its abolition in the Border States, we shall regard, not the nobleness or meanness of the motive, but the grandeur of the result. We may care little for the Nortb, but the cessation of Southern slavery is everything to Eng lishmen. The Government has determined that rewards shall be given to those who capture brigands, for trying whom court-martials are to be established. The Hon. Mr. Elliot has taken his house at Athens for three more months. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 22. The Government intends laying before the Chamber a bill for a general amnesty, and a bill establishing the ineligibility of members of Par liament to fill public offices. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 22. The following are the most important passages of the draft of the Address of the Chamber of Deputies : " We begin our work under sad auspices, and feel it our duty to make respectful representations to your Majesty concerning the state of publicaffairs. di Since last session the Ministers have carried on the public administration against the Constitution and without a legal budget. The supreme right of the representatives of the people has thereby been attacked. The country has been alarmed, and has stood by its representatives. "A small minority of the people only has, en couraged by the Ministers, carried the worst calumnies against the Chamber of Deputies to the foot of the throne in the form of addressee. " Abuses of the power of the Government are now taking place, just as in the sad years which preceded the Regency. Your Majesty recently declared that nobody should doubt your intentions of maintaining the Constitution; but the Constitu tion has already been violated by the Ministers. " Our position imposes on us the most urgent duty of solemnly declaring that peace at home and power abroad can only be restored to the Government by its returning to a constitutional state of things." FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 23. The Moniteur of this morning says : "The English press has given vent to strange conjectures upon the despatch of a battalion of Egyptian troops to Mexico, experience having proved that negroes are not subject to the yellow fever. The address of the Prussian Chamber of Depu- ties to their unconstitutional KING will be read with interest. As yet a mere summary of the Address has reached us, but its tone and spirit are plainly discernable, and confirm our anticipations. The Chamber has assumed a firm and undaunted attitude, remonstrating with the KING► in respect ful but decided language on the illegality of the proceedings of his Government. " Since last Sea lsion,"says the Address, " the Ministers have carried on the public administration against the Constitu tion and without a legal Budget." They declare the supreme right of the popular representatives to have been attacked, and the country is alarmed by these unconstitutional measures. There is certainly much ground for this uneasiness, since if the Minis ters continue to act in direct opposition to the ex pressed will of the Chambers all constitutional government will be at an end. The deputies de dare to the KING that abuses of the power of the Government are now taking place as in the years that preceded the Regency, and reminding him of kis recent declaration of the sincerity of his intention to maintain the Constitution, distinctly express their conviction that his Ministers have already trenched on its privileges. They assure the Monarch that they are supported by the great body of the people, and that the party who presented the recent addresses to the throne are only a small minority. It is now to be seen whether the KING will listen to this remonstrance; whether his eyes are yet open to the danger and weakness of a posi tion which is seen to be untenable by all but himself. We learn from a French source that it is rumoured in Berlin that the Government is willing to fix by law the maximum of the army, if the Chamber would inaugurate Ft similar proposi " The Emperor has not, like England during the war in India, requested permission to enlist soldiers in Egypt, but the temporary loan to France of a regiment of 1,200 negroes. prailically, than we did for the South—that where aish I ;erchants and manufacturers sold a hundred *lst tois' worth of warlike stores to the South, they must have furnished five times that amount to the North. Political independence and military courage turned our sympathy towards the South, and the North could not forgive the sentiments which we " The Viceroy could only dispense with 350 men, who are destined to garrison Vera Cruz. The mea sure has therefore been taken in the interests of humanity, and cannot give rise to the slightest criticism." did not care to suppress. Yet all the time our national acts were the same. Whatever feelings the conduot of either aide evoked, we maintained our neutrality. We do not recollect one single case in which the North has even the shadowof a just com plaint against us except it be for the building of the Alabama. That, however, at the very worst, is simply a cpse of action too slow on the part of our Government to cope with the dexterous movements of those whose property the vessel was. We cannot for one moment blame the builders; they had a perfect right, as the American builders themselves Le Nord, which is now published at Paris, 4as the following :--`‘ It is stated that about eight days since an official note was despatched from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Washing ton Government, proposing the meeting of an American Congress, which would be for the United States what the Congress of Westphalia was to Ger many during the Thirty Years' War. The idea of this Congress is said to emanate from M.Drouyn de Lhuye. A recent at ticle in the Const t tutionnel, which was looked upon as comi ng f rom a semi official source, developed the spirit of the note of the French Government. We give this news with due reserve." would have asserted in a parallel case, to execute orders in their own trade, without asking curious questions. And as to our Government, it could not, unless prepared to imitate the illegalities of Mr. LINCGLN and his Secretary for War, have inter fered before they had legal ground for doing so, and that was furnished too late. The Emperor and Empress dined yesterday with ,he Princess Mathilde. Among the passengers, by the Estremadura, who arrived at Bordeaux yesterday were G en. P e li ss i er, LfriosmSenegal, and M. De Breull French Con su l a t Lisbon. A three masted vessel having missed the entrance of the harbour was lost two days since in sight of Havre. It said to be the Bonne Mere, of Bordeaux, Captain Gaignerot, from the coast of Africa, with a cargo of palm oil. Thanks to the assistance of the lifeboat, the crew escaped, savin g a l so, w i t h ggereatdifficul ly ill in y the h cabin. been received by the steamer L'Eclai r , j ust arr i ved t, their captain, taip Intelligencen, wh o has since was lying dan gerously from Honfleur, that 50 casks of palm oil had been washed ashore and saved. The South, for a long time, did behave somewhat civilly towards us; though it was no doubt in the hope of obtaining our more or less direct assistance. Indeed the South began with attempts at compul sion. Before the blockade had become effectual it I prohibited the sale of cotton, under the assured con viction that "cotton was king," and would soon compel the intervention of Europe. The North shared the conviction. Indeed both parties for a long time fully believed that want of cotton would compel Europe, and England especially, to take sides with one of them, each hoping to be the one ; the South because it had what we wanted, the North because it kept the maritime look and key to it. Singularly enough, to this day the South, as well as the North, persists in refusing to liberate cotton. The South forbids its sale, and burns it where the North would be likely to capture it; the North stations its ships to prevent its leaving the Southern ports. The South has always cherished the overweening conceit that England was at its mercy. " What would mankind do without us and our slaves," they ask triumphantly: " But for our productions the mills of Lanashire would r t y be shut up, and the Chartists o f England would revo l u tionise the country." S uc h, says a pretty recent traveller in the States—Mr. STIRLING —is their language; and the common term of contempt applied by them to our honest and industrious workmen is that of " hireling !" tion. This would seem to indicate a more con ciliatory spirit, but we fear that it will need further time and trouble to bring the KING to reason. The cause of the dispute is not touched upon in the address of the Deputies. They justly conceive it to be their duty in the present crisis to make their stand upon the general principles of the Constitu tion, rather than upon any isolated measure, how ever arbitrary and uncalled for, The gravity of the tone of the Address shows that the Deputies fully appreciate the seriousness of their position. There is no exultation, no defilnce, only a firm and quiet resolve to maintain the rights of the people whom they repeesent. We trust their unshaken tone, supported as it must be by all constitutional kingdoms, will yet have weight with their mis taken rulers, and convince them, in the concluding words of the Address, that " peace at home and power abroad can only be restored to the Govern ment by its returning to a constitutional state of things." A sad collision is recorded between the steamboat arriving at St. Nazaire from Nantes and the staemer Comtesse de Cuba, which destroyed the former. The shock was so violent as to terrify m any persons, who rashly endeavoured to jump into the ship's boat. One lost his life, anothe r was dangerously and it is feared fatally injured, while others were seriously hurt, Those who remained on board were unharmed. The Siecle cf this morning announces that it has received in one day 10,000 fr. for the relief of the Seine-Inferieure, The Gazette de Weimar announces that the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha will accept the crown of Greece on condition that he is allowed to retain the regency of his duchy at the same time. BOURSE, Jan. 22.—The market has shown little animation, but prices of Rente have been well main tained, and with even a shade of improvement, Threes being now at 70f. 10c. The Italian Loan has receded in consequence of sales for realising previous profit. Mobili er rema i ns near l y unvar i e d . Itlilway Share market qu i et. Th e mar k et con tinued heavy to the close, and left off as follows 4t per Cents. OS GO Do. end month.... -- DEATH OF MR. W. C. NOTTER.—Mr. Mt. C. S. Netter, who was for many years connected with Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres, departed this life on the 16th inst., aged 65, deeply lamented. THE SOUTHERN EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. —Last evening a meeting of the rector, church wardens, and ves'rymen of the parish of St. Diary, Lam beth, was held at the Vestry-hall, Kennington, to consider a report of a committee of the vestry on the Thames Em bankment and roadway (south side) ; Mr. R. Taylor in the chair. Mr. Doulton,M.P., moved theadoption of the report, the practical effect of which, he said, was to empower the vestry to consult some practical engineer so as to protect the interests of the parish in reference to the damage to property which would be effected b y t h e embankment. some slight s d u is i c r us;io c n H th A e l r N e s por A t wNpaa adopted. ANcno as._ A comm u nication of the Mersey Dock Board, from Lloyd's Registry -offic e was read yesterday at the . meetingshad been passed to prevent ships unless they had chains and an chorsk Board le co-operate with test, and asking the Mersey Doc t o provingac e rt a house u se proved si. fromA stating After TESTlNGterbei thatng e r l eO a g s Fu s e l a d t A I , West India Docks. i,loyd, o s n , tb,:ard establishingh which ha had t been L si milar to that recently opened at the . A MAN BURIED IN A SEWER. The letter was referred to the Works Committee. rued Charles morning, shortly before nine o'clock, an accident of a painful character occurred to a man nd Liverpool e s r u p b o i ee s ubjected t c a d Church, an exca.vator at Darnley-road, near Hackney I Old Church. The unfortunate man was engaged in form /e.resterday ing a new drain, when a naafis of earth gave way, and corn pletely buried hitn. Three .quarters of an hour elapsed be fore the unfortunate man could be reached. He was dis covered crouched up,quite insensible, and fearfully crushed. At the London Hospital it was found that he had fractured legs, a severe scalp wound, and numerous contu , ians. Put slight hopes are given of hi,, recovery. At length, however, the South appears to have lost all patience with us. The Emperor of the FRENCH wished to procure for it an armistice of Biz months, with the farther object of its indefinite prolongation. Europe, meanwhile, was to obtain the four m illi ons b a l es o f cot t on which, our Consuls tells us, are to be found there, and the South to be thus amply supplied with money, and, ofn•gcolaunrdse,anwd Russiaithall replied,that:l,lt yet.,, could purchase. t the North ne i t h er praises nor blames us.k" ' The I latter it could not do, the former it would not. But now it is our turn to catch it also from the South. When we acknowledged them as belligerents, and refused to act as p o li cemen for the North in our own manufactories, then E ng l an d was everything. N ew that we refuse to adopt, governmentally, a partisan policy, nothing is too bad for us. We are told by the _Richmond Whtg that the English people "permit, almost without remonstrance, those two old painted mummies, RUSSELL and P.kLMERSTON, to place the British nation in &n attitude towards us heartlessly cruel and unjust." And we are even threatened with the high displeasure of the mighty South. " The Confederate States vi ill remember England in the future. There was a time when sh e c ou ld have made fast frioids of us, but that Bank Shares 3400 Credit I oncier 1477 50 Piedmontese Fives Italian Loan 7O 40 Russian .. Austrian Spanidi Threes..., 53 Home Debt .. 5O 'WAIN. 3 per Cents - Do. end month 7O 05 New 3 per Cents Do, end month Credit Mobilier 1165 Do. end month — ItA IL' Cash. Account. Orleans ................ ICB7 50 .. 1 087 50 Northern .............. 1023 75 .. 1025 New ditto ............ Lyons and MeditQrrauean 1.162 .. 50 .. 1160 ............ 410 .. 405 Southern .............. 825 -- .. 822 50 Western. Eastern ....... 530 -- - .. 525 -- Sardinian .......... 370 370 Austrian Saragossa... Lon.barif ............. 586 25 .. 587 , North of Spain ........ 647 50 .. 547 50 ........... 665 665 Ditto to Barcelona 325 50 DE The CopenhagenNMAß IC, bagbladet remarks that the Danish Government has not shown too much haste in replying to Lord Russell's second despatch, seeing that it was not of great importance after the' decided tone of the -Danish answer. But, as there was no desire to fail in courtesy towards a great Power that at least professes friendliness, the Milist"' for li°re'gri Affairs has now despatched a lengthened reply. It is rumoured that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg Las "'Totted Lord Russell's recommendations, a fact which the Dagbladet thinks should make Dentnark ;Aill more su,Tit.:ious of th;,ir tendency and still more resolute to refuse them. Lord Russell, it says, has by no means consulted the real interests of England, who should on every account rejoice to see the establishment of a strong and independent Danish kingdom, closely allied to Sweden and Norway, and free from all German interference, while such a Scandinavian alliance would be extremely mortify ing to Russia. NEW ZEALAND GOLDFIELD. The Dunedin Colon — o f Nov. 17 states that, though the rush from Melbourne has considerably abated, there is still a steady influx of population. At the port of Dunedin the excess of immigration over emigration in the past month had been 1,684. There had been a second arrival (per Sevilla) of single women, who were likely to prove equally ac ceptable with the first, the batch per Grasmere. Letters from the Dunstaa goldfield say that at Pleasant Creek rush a party of five washed out 170 oz. in three days, and another party 90 oz. in two days. The depth of sinking is about six feet in the bed of the creek, which has first to be diverted from its course. Gold is found in patches in every direc tion. The gold commissioner, in his official report, describes 800 to 1,000 miners as working with suc cess, many doing remarkably well, one party bring ing 102 oz. for their week's work, " Prospecting (he writes) is proceeding vigorously in every direction, and the samples of gold obtained are very different both in quality and appearance, in some instances being an almost impalpable dust, and in others con sisting of coarse pieces, weighing 3dw t. and 4d wt. each. Those employed on Pleasant Creek, as one of the new rushes is named, are for the most doing ex tremely well. The gold obtained there is of a rough description, and appears to be of very pure quality." A letter mentions that a party of four, about seven miles above the Dunstan, obtain 180 ounces in three and a half days' work. From Nakomai the Com missioner reports concerning Victoria Gully:—" The diggers now working seem to be generally satisfied, and are making what they term wages, which I should estimate at about £3 per week. There are, however, individual instances of men doing much better, and I know of persons who are earning as much as £6 and £7 sterling during the same period. The reef is a hard slate, on end, and nearly flat, but the greater portion of the gold is not always found there; in fact, it seems to be more plentiful at one particular level, which level is sometimes on the reef, but more frequently in the wash dirt." The export of gold from Dunedin during the month has been 39,523 ounces. The Colonist maintains that consider ing the area prospected, the population engaged in the work, and the amount of capital employed, the Otagon fields have proved more productive in pro portion than any before discovered, and that the average earnings of the miners exceeded per man the average yielded in Victoria and New South Wales. Goods sent to the Dunstan have been costing the enormous sum of £l2O per ton for carriage—a rate so high that the merchants determined to send by vessel to Waikonaiti, and trust to local arrange ments for transporting them thence to the gold fields; but the roads have improved, and the rate demanded by carriers has become much more mode rate. THE SEVERN BRIDGES. In the course of a few months the magnificent iron railway bridge which is now being thrown across the Severn at Coalbrook-dale will be com pleted, and another fine specimen of engineering skill will be added to the already rich collection of the surrounding neighbourhood. Those who travel often in the western counties must be familiar with the romantic valley of the Severn, for from the railway which for many miles follows the course of the river, the beautiful country adjoining its wooded banks is viewed to great advantage, and many are the spots of histo rical and local interest which may be pointed out along the route. The whole couese of the river is fraught with interesting reminiscences of our first and most eminent engineers; and, indeed, to those who have not been embittered against engineering progress by some intrusion upon their favourite landscape, there is a perfect romance attaching to this scene of Telford's early labours. In this valley Telford lived and worked for many years. Hidden away among the rich deep wood of the vale is the famous iron foundry, which may almost be consi dered the birth-place of the iron trade which has so revolutionised this country. These extensive premises were built early in last century, and their proximity to the deep, rushing stream of the Severn, which had long defied the strength of wooden or stone bridges, first led to the adoption of iron as a material for the construction of large bridges. In 1773 Messrs. Reynolds and Darby, the proprietors of this foundry,were invited to carry out a design for constructing a bridge across the Severn at Coalbrook-dale. Ironbridge was the result of their labours; and although it now appears very imperfect both in design and workmanship, it was certainly no mean forerunner of the stupendous structures of later engineers. To construct an arch of one hundred feet was in those days a bold undertaking. But the bridge was built, and great must have been the astonishment of the Severn villagers when they saw the beautiful banks of their river bound together by a single iron link. The arch is formed of nearly semicircular cast-iron ribs of six inches square section ; the centre of it is about 50 feet above the level of the river, sufficient to allow the passage of flats and small craft sailing up the river. Nothwithstanding the complete success of this undertaking, nearly twenty years elapsed before a second attempt was made to construct iron bridges upon a large scale, except, indeed, Mr. Payne's wrought-iron bridge, which was built for America in 1777, but was never erected. In 1793 the great Sunderland bridge was erected by Mr. Burden, and about two years afterwards Mr. Tel ford constructed his first iron bridge at Buildwas, about three miles above the original Ironbridge. This bridge of Mr. Telford's is of a very peculiar construction. It is a single segmental arch 130 feet in span. The main arch is very flat, and formed of cast-iron ribs, the spandrils being filled in with iron panels ; two aditional ribs are bolted one on either side to the vertical spandril rods which sup port the roadway; these ribs, being segments of a smaller circle than the main ribs, rise from a lower point in the abutments to about three feet above the road at the crown of the arch, and thus form a stiffening brace to the whole bridge; this brace gives the bridge a somewhat curious appearance, but it looks upon the whole very elegant and pretty among the dark woods which shroud the old ruins of Buildwas Abbey. The point at which the new bridge is being erected is about half way between the two old ones. It is a fiat segmental arch, spanning the river at a width of 200 feet, nearly equal to the side arches of Southwark-bridge. The arch is formed of cast-iron ribs, varying from 4 feet to 4 feet 6 inches in depth, with equal flanges on the upper and under sides ; the ribs are cast in seg ments of about 25 feet ; the whole was cast and fitted at the Coalbrook-dale foundry. The breaking weight of one of the segments was found to be no less than 450 tons placed at the centre. The ends of the ribs are made to step into cast-iron chains, which are embedded in the masonry of the abut ments, and form a kind of ball and socket j o int, which gives the iron work freedom for the expan sion caused by atmospheric changes. The work is being ably carried out by the resi dent engineer, and the design is at the same time well calculated. to give sufficient strength and rigidity, and is of very sightly and elegant propor tions. It is, we believe, the largest arched iron bridge that has yet been constructed in this a railway. c ountry for the purpose of carrying FALL OF A PORTION OF SEAKESPEARE'S CLIFF. —DOVER, Thursday.—About a quarter to one o'clock yesterday a portion of the cliff immortalised by the name of " Shakespeare," slipped with majestic grandeur, almost noiselessly, into the " confined deep," singing and surging until the vast mass of chalk (consisting of several tons) had found its subsidence in the frothing sea. The portion of cliff that has thus disappeared was near the front of the Dove r d ou bl e tunnel, and almost facing the viaduct of the South Eastern Railway. The " high and bending head" still looks fearfully upon the waters. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 22. Several shipping casualties occurred during the heavy gale on Tuesday night. About 11 o'clock the Shamrock put in at Belfast. She is a steamer of upwards of 300 tons, plying between Sligo and Liverpool. She left Sligo for Liverpool on Monday between 3 and 4 o'clo3k, and bad been beating about since then. She had a large number of pas sengers, a general cargo, and cattle on board. The steamer experienced the full severity of the storm. The deck passengers were in a deplorable state when landed, as they had suffered severely. One man, named Debar, was standing on deck with his wife and two children, when the vessel shipped a heavy sea. The c3ildren were dashed from beside their parents, and in a short time after, when their bodies were found, they were quite life less. In another heavy sea a sailor, named James Platt, got his leg broken. The wheel, the house on deck, and several of the boats were carried away. A number of pigs on board also died. At Cork, about half-past 8 on Tuesday morning, the Sabrina got aground on the bank opposite Horse Head. She left Cork for Bristol early in the morn ing, and steamed down the river to Passage, where all the vessels of the steamship company make a short stay to take in passengers. Owing to the vio lence of the gale then blowing she could not come alongside the hulk at once, and, in order to reach the quay without accident, Capt. Stavely thought it better to run down to Monkstown-bay, turn there, and steam up slowly. This was accomplished in safety, and the passengers having been taken on board, the steamer ran up to Horse Head for the purpose of wearing round and proceeding on the voyage across. In turning she was caught by the wind, which was blowing from N.N.W., and was driven on the bank. The tide was about half ebb at the time, but as she became firmly fixed in the soft mud of the bank there was no danger whatever of her heeling over at low water. It is expected that she will be able to steam off at the flow of the tide. About three o'clock the same morning, while beat ing for the harbour, the brigantine Anne, belonging to Gibraltar, with Indian corn, from Saffi, struck on Canovan's Point, to the south side of Camden Fort. The tugs William Wallace and Robert Bruce were despatched to her assistance, but up to a late hour yesterday evening there was no account as to whe ther they succeeded or not. The previous day an Italian barque, the Calcutta, with corn, from Salina, in endeavouring to make for the harbour, went ashore to the west of it, and soon became a total wreck, the crew having to abandon her the same day. Measures were at once taken to save as much of the cargo as possible, and yesterday efforts were made to cut away the masts. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The confirmation of the election of Dr. Thompson, Bishop of Glocester and Bristol, to this, " the Primacy of the far north," is fixed to take place this day at St. James's Church, Picca dilly, at 11 a.m. Her Majesty's Commissioners will, we believe, on this occasion be the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Rochester, and Worcester. The ceremony (which is partly religious—partly legal) will fi 1 the archsee of York, and leave void the see of Glocester ani Bristol. At the second private ball of the Empress Eugenie on Monday night her Majesty wore a white dress of a light texture, trimmed with a deep lace flounce, and wore flowers wreathed in the hair, the whole kept together by means of a diamond comb. Her Majesty did not dance. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Cl3thilde were present. The number of guests wa s about 600. At midnight dancing terminated by a cotillon, when supper was served, and the party broke up at half-past one. REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Reigate is expected to take place on Monday, Feb. 2. The two candi dates, Mr. Granville Leveson Gower, of Tetsey Park, near Godstone, and Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, formerly member for Lambeth, are the only parties in the field, and their can vass having been completed, each one expresses himself confident of victory. The contest will in all probability be a close one. THE REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET.— Mr. TN. Gore-Langton, who represented West Somerset from 1861 to the gen era l e l ec ti on o f 1859 , h as issued an address to the electors. It is generally supposed that there will not be any opposition to Mr. Langton. Mr. Bouverie has been spoken of ; but that gentleman has not put forward any address, and it is fully expected that the Conservative party being so strong, Mr. Langton will be allowed to walk over the course.— Western Morning 11-eics. PROSECUTION OF '• ESSAYS AND REVIEWS."— Yesterday morning, at the sitting of the Court of Arches, Mr. Toiler, the proctor acting for the Bishop of Salisbury in the prosecution of the Rev, Dr. Rowland Williams, vicar of Broad Chalk, made an application to Dr. Lushington in reference to the appeal against his lordship's judgment, of which notice was given at the time the case was last before the court. Mr. Toiler said that considerable delay was likely to take place in the prosecution of the ap peal to the Judicial Committee of Privy Council unless the learned judge interfered and issued a peremptory order. The appeal in the case of the Rev. J. Fendall against the Rev. H. Bristowe Wilson, 8.D., vicar of Great Staughton (the writer of the article on " The National Church"), Mr. Toiler remarked, was going on rapidly; but, for some reason or another, which he could not understand, the inhibition on the part of Dr. Williams had not been served, and it was very desirable that the two cases should be heard before the Judicial Committee at the same time. He could not account for the delay unless the appellants had some object in view best known to themselves. He prayed the court for a peremptory order upon the proctor of Dr. Williams to serve the inhibition. Dr. Lushington said he did not like to interefere, as the matter more properly came within the jurisdiction of the surrogate sitting in the court of appeal; but at length after Mr. Toiler had shown that the appeal would be greatly delayed if further time were allowed, Dr. Lushington consented to an order being issued that the in hibition should be served within three days, and intimated that, in the event of the order not being complied with, he would issue a suspension, so that the appeal in each it case might be proceeded with at once and without further inter ruption. Now that the ground has been cleared is ex pected that the Judicial Committee will be able to hear the appeal after Easter term. • rHE ADULTERATION OF MILK.—At the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion• square, yesterday, before Mr. Un der-Sheriff Burchell, an action brought in the Exchequer was tried in which a defence was made under the Adultera tion of Food Act, Vic. 23 and 24, cap. 81. The plaintiff, Moses Godwin, a farmer, at Farnborough, Hants, claimed £6 14s. Id. as a balance for milk supplied to the defendant, John Pigg n, of Harp-alley, Farringdon-street, milkdealer. The plaintiff had sent milk from his farm by the South- Western Railway, and the defendant fetched it from the Waterloo station. He complained that the milk was watered, but paid the first bill. The second bill, in August, he refused to pay, and had a certificate from Dr. Letheby, the analyst under the Adulteration of Food Act for the City of London, and two parts only were found to be milk. The defendant had paid for the milk two-thirds of the ac count, and refused to pay the balance of £6 14s. ld. for water. Dr. Letheby attended the ceurt, but his certi ficate was received as evidence. The plaintiff and his man stated that the milk was sent to the railway perfectly pure and unadulterated, and the ticket-collectjr of the Farn borough station proved the manner in which it was placed on the railway, unlocked, and came to the Waterloo station. The defendant declared that the milk was watered, and he had thrown some away ; and two milkdealers, named Cole and Davis, had tested the milk at the Waterloo station and found it adulterated. These were " middlemen." supplying dealers, and they stated that they did not adulterate their milk, but could not state the condition in which it.was sup plied to the London customers. Mr. Peckham, solicitor, on the part of the defendant, said the question raised under the act was one of public importance, and he relied on the certi ficate of Dr. Letheby. The action was for milk, and, as he had proved that water had been mixed with it to the ex tent of one-third, the defendant had paid two-thirds of the claim and resisted the remainder. On the part of the plaintiff Mr. Kigby contended that if the defendant suc ceeded the jury would convict his client of gross dishonesty —he had proved that the milk was sent to the railway in an unadulterated state. The learned Under-Sheriff said the jury had to determi ne w h ether the milk had been sent by the plaintiff in a pure and unadulterated state, or whe ther when it re ac h e d the Waterloo station it aad been mixed with water. The jury gave a verdict fur the plaintiff for the amount claimed. SNOWSTORM IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday morn ing Edinburgh was visited by a severe snowstorm, following upon several days of very cold and squally weather. The snow commenced to fall shortly before day break, a strong wind blowing from west-north-west, and the fall being very dense and blinding. The violence of the storm, as well as its direction, was peculiarly shown by the appearance of some of our octagonal steeples—which, on the side immediately exposed, exhibited a heavy incrustation of snow, the other sides being nearly bare. The fall was renewed at intervals during the day, but the amount of snow deposited was not groat, excepting in the corners into which it had drifted. The temperature all day hovered between fresh and frost, some of the streets being laid in slush, while others more exposed were glazed with ice. At night the weather was severely cold, not so much from an access of host as from the keen and chilling wind. The snowstorm, we learn, was experienced in the north of Eng land, all over the border di , tricts, in the west of Scotland, and as tar north at least as the Perthshire Highlands,— Edin ba7gh Courant. LITERATURE. The House by the Churchyard. By I. Sheridan Le Fanu. 3 vols. Tinsley. The readers of the Lublin Magazine have already become acquainted with this interesting story. It is one that partakes of the romantic in no common degree, and the various complicated incidents are described iu a very skilful manner. The style also is most animated, and the reader will find much to direct and entertain, as well as graver subjects to arrest his notice. It is impossible to give a sketch of the story, as it is so very elaborate, but the chief point is that one man was suspected of a murder that another committed, and that other was sup posed dead till he suddenly appeared on the scene of action, under an assumed name. The circum stances which led to his detection are related at some length, and it is an act of retributive justice that the very means which the wretch adopted to screen his guilt were the cause of his villainy being discovered. Some of the incidents are most excit ing, and Mervyn, as the unfortunate young Lord Dunoran was called, had a most anxious time in searching out the dark secret that shrouded his father's memory. He persevered, in the face of ap parently insuperable difficulties, and at last his efforts were crowned with success. The manner in which Dr. Stark at last diecovered the guilty man is most ingeniously disclosed, and this part of the narrative has in it something of the awful that will doubtless attract many readers who love the hor rible. Apart from these sombre details we meet with some simpler and more pleasing accounts of life. Lilies, " Lilly" as she is called, is a gentle young creature, who attracts one greatly by her simple style, and yet she possesses firmness too when she is placed in a position of trial. The short but touching records of her last moments contain much that is sad yet pleasing in their truthfulness, and the poor old rector, watching his treasure fad ing away, yet striving to hope against hope, is one of those pictures of mortality that all must recog nise as too often encountered. The passage which describes her death is called, "In which Christiana goes over," and her departure was as easy and tran quil as the last moments of her who was taken for an image of it. The return of Nutter to his home, after his most dangerous position, as being accused of Sturk's murder, is also most impressive, and the natural delight of such a meeting is truly toned down to a quiet sort of awe, which gave a solemn reality to the scene. Poor little Sa►ly Nutter, as she was called, in the excitement of the hour, became a sort of heroine, and indeed she had gone through so many trials that it was not surprising that even her facile mind had become roused to a different state of feeling to what her former placid life had created. "And so for a rapturous hour it seemed as if they had passed the dark valley and were immortal, and no more pain, sorrow, or separation for them. And perhaps these blessed illusions are permitted now and again to mor tals like momentary gleams of Paradise, and distant views of the Delectable Mountains, to cheer poor pilgrims with a foretaste of those meetings beyond the river where the separated and beloved shall em brace." Another true delineation is poor Mrs. Sturk. Her agony at her husband's sad deathbed is painfully lifelike, as also the wild flashes of hope which occasionally lighted the dismal scene, but it was only the hope that keeps alive despair that came into that chamber where she kept so long her anxious watch, and where the grim destroyer at last seized his prey. The sad havoc that one thoroughly unprincipled and reckless man occasions wherever he goes is well exemplified in these stir ring pages. The family of Lord Dunoran were dis graced, and its heir wandering about the world with a forfeiture pronounced against his property. Then when the fated being reappears on the scene into many households he turned peace into discord, and brought mourning for joy. Mrs. Sturk was made wretched for life, after suffering so much anxiety first. Then the Nutters were plunged into great trouble, and so were many others. Inter spersed with these grave events there are some more lively news and amusing anecdotes. Lieut. Puddock is a comic character, the like of which does not often enliven the fictions of nowadays, and Miss Magnolia is another character in her way quite as edifying. Her encounters with Firework O'Fla herty are ludicrous, and yet so smartly told, that they gain attention. At the end of the story we leurn that this sparring couple did not put a truce to their warfare when they were united, but no serious consequences ensued from their differences. Their Celtic virtues descended to their children, and " one of the finest grenadiers who lay in his red coat and sash within the French lines on the field of Waterloo, in that great bivouac which knows no reveille save the last trumpet, was a scion of that fine military stock." This story is one that can be recommended to the reader who loves excitement, and there are also attractions of other kinds to be met with in its pages. It can be taken up with the certainty of meeting with a narrative that com bines varied entertainment, and the style is viva cious and sparkling in the extreme. THE GALE. HOLYHEAD, Wednesday. The gale and high spring tides have interrupted communication to an unusual extent. The Irish mail due at two p.m. on Tuesday was delayed for three hours. Near Bagilt, a station on the loft side of the estuary of the Dee, both lines of way had been washed up, and the trains were only enabled to pass slowly over rails temporarily laid. At the Abergele station the railway is on a level with the sea at high water, which on Tuesday broke through and over the embankment, and covered the line to a height of 6ft. The train had to wait up wards of two hours, till the tide had partially sub sided. At Penmaenmawr, where three years ago immense damage was inflicted during the gale known as the " storm of the Royal Charter," the embankment withstood all the shocks of the tempest. It was deemed advisable to suspend all traffic for Tuesday, the up and down Irish mails being delayed at Holyhead and Chester respectively. On Wednesday one line of way was, by great exertions, made workable, so that traffic was resumed. In Holyhead Bay, during the high tide on Tuesday morning, the water came pouring over the whole length of the breakwater. file work is now so far advanced that the damage done is not by any means extensive. Many ships came in on Mon day, but only three sought refuge here on Tuesday during the height of the gale. Of these three two , ran ashore. No blame, however, is attributable to the anchorage, as in each case the cause of the mis fortune is to be traced to some derangement in the anchoring tackle of the ships themselves. One was the Medea, previously referred to in The Sun ; the other was a Wexford steamer. Both can be got off again. CARDIFF, Wednesday. The tremendous gale which set in on Monday night continned with slight intermission until this morning. During Monday night the Russian bark Henrich Sorenson, from Bordeaux for Cardiff, in ballast, struck against the rocks at Breaksea Point, Bristol Channel, and became a complete wreck. The captain and crew stayed in the vessel till daylight, when assistance was rendered by the villagers, and after great difficulty the whole were pulled through the breakers and saved. The United States steam tug, belonging to this port, having been missing since Sunday, fears were entertained for her safety, and it was generally supposed she was lost. A tele gram, however, received this evening gives the in formation that she got into Ilfracombe all safe. The bark Nazerne, of New York, has been driven from her moorings in the Cardiff Roads, and ran aground this morning. She was outward bound and laden with coal. Her bottom has received considerable damage, but the full extent of injury is not yet as certained. The ships in the docks stood the gale well, the only casualty being that of the American brig Reynard. She broke from her moorings on Tuesday and ran against the quay wall, causing considerable damage. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior loaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents, X 0 Ther inquiry require effect i panics, excess out an 3 first cla soriptic at 31 p The Wedra as will Aci Dui less a Mark, tainec have ties of fruit, matez been firm 1 Thi all th mark Th the 1 havit recen at 9! The perte Bs. p mat bar( rem 3 pe. 3 pe Nev A.nr Indi Con Exc