The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-28 00:00:00

AGENTS REQUIRED. MPTANY . HE ROYAL INSURANC E CO prepared to entertain app lications for Agency appm. from gentlemen havi n g command of Fire and Lite : Business. The Royal has always been conspicuous for its liberality . and promptitude in the settlement of claims. Its annual Income is no w over ................... ...... . 500,r0 ) And its funds in han d exceed ............ a ....received wi lb - poi T ra nsfers of Policies from ot her Compamount. nies out charge for Policy, whatever the Address, J OIIN B 1 JO Secretar Royal Insurance Cnmpany, 20, Lombard -street. OYAL EN GLISH OPERA, R COVE-NT-GARDEN. Under the Management of MISS Louisa Pyne and Mr. NV. Harrison. December 28), to comp lenee THI S EVENING ( Monda y , with the -;econd Act ot Balfe s popular opera, THE BOHEMIA.IN GIRL. After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a s Cale of unprece d e ntedm ma2ficence, entitled iIA 111,EQUIN ST. GEORGt: AND THE DTULGON. p u ors open at half-past Six— ommence at Sc yen. ki.EATRE ROYAL I) RURY-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmun I Falconer and . F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, A ROLAND FOR AN Ct . LIVER Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison; Miss R. Led e rcq and Miss Heath ; and the Grand Comic Christmas 1 eAN TO NI ME, writtei by E. L. Blanchard, Esq.. ent 3 tied and founded upon the popular Oriental story of SINBL .D THE SAILOR. The gorgeously beautiful character oft e decora tions, inclusive of more th in the u4lial amount of scenical surprises and transtormalon wonders, are enwre d by the fact of their being entirely designed and for the n 'ost part executed by the celebrated artist, William Beverley, wh ,se eminent services have been retained this Christmas ,s exclu sively for the l heatre Royal Drury-Lane. The gene ral ction 01 the Pantomime will be arranged by, and the wl , ole pro duced under the cirection of, Mr. Robert Roxby. I 'rincipal characters in the opening by Messrs. Tom Matthews 4, J. IN e viPe, Fitzjames, Meagreson, G. Weston, and Mast er Pcrcy Roselle ; Misses Lizzie ilmore, Rose Leclercq, E. Weston, Coventry, and Cicely Nott. The Harlequinade will include the services of those popular Pantomimists (for ming a double company), Harry Boleno and Mr. C. Lau i, t ilowns ; Mr. W. A. Barnes and Mr. , ,J. Mortis, Pantalool is ; Mr. Cormack and Mr. S. ba - yille, Harlequins ; I Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss, Columbines. The masks. devices, and dresses, from designs by the humorocusly re d owned Dykwynkyn. The music selected and arra t ged by Mr. J. Barnard. Machinery by Mr. Tucker and ass istants. Gas illuminations by Mr. .T. Hinckley. Properties. by Mr. Needham and assistants. Dresses by Mr. Laury an d Mrs. Lawler. The dances and action of the Ballet will be as ranged by Mr. Cormack. Comic scenes, tricks, 445 c., inve n ted by Messrs. H. Boleno and Cormack. Morning Perfor, mance of t h e Pantomime every Wednesday , at 2 o'clock. Bo:c Office open daily from 10 till 5 o'clock. The massive and beautiful decorations of the amphEtheatre der the proscenium, and ceiling, designed and completed direction of Marsh Nelson, Esq., in that I,orgeouus:style of pe, t r ; a' ,,s a s t oarif and orna.meatation known as characteristic of the Louies period. and which elicited so much praise fromlethan when the public last year, having been thoroughly c the aspect of the house before the curataitnnil 111 1 in a visit. Europe), lhted uis admitted to be the m, st e w an p, object of admir a tion which in itself isuor ill ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, U n der the Sole Manag ement of Mr. Fechter. BEL DIOIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. CHILD TII I S EVENING,,the performance will commence with s mr U s ol L le e t e t:, Shore, Garden, l y o a o r d l e , New and Original Farce, entitled THE Los'' , Mettss. H. Widdicombe, Moreland ; Misses Percy, Pauline Leclerc and Miss E. Lavenu. After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Taoleaux, taken from Stendhars "Italian Tao Chronicle ." by M John BkrougAtm Princip 1 ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jorda a Ccharac lir,tugh.,m, Emery, Kate Terry, E . L , Clifford, Al Isis Elsworthy. &unit, ,Ilrs. Lee, and The Public are entreated to take ma de to the occ u p ants of Boxes," B notice that No Charge is for play bills o r for t he date keel! • lig of hat and cloaks -places, or Stalls, either tar the attendants in all parts of n to . n rece i v e any gratuities what the house are forbidden and . Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. flp FIE ATRE ROYAL HAY M A RKET._ Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Cullentord, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, &c After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round fable. Messrs. C,ipnenda , ?, (7ompton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- -Lti Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Open for the Season. THIS EVENING, THE HONEYMOON. After which, HARLEQUI.• LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The FiLie Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't know what to do. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMI3ER 28, 1863 R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, the new Comic Dr 'ma of the HEN AND CHICKENS : Mrs. Stirling in her original character. At ter which, a Comical Conglomemtive Christmas Absur dity, by Henry J Byron, Esq., and entitled 186; ; or, THE SEN -ATIONs OF 1.1 - 1 N PAST SEASON, witti a Shameful Reveladon of Lad/ Somebody's Secret. New Scenery by Ranson and Sons. Appointments by Mr. Ireland. Music by M. Wallerstein. Principal characters by Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Miss Cottrell, Miss Faony Josephs, ttc. And the BIRT lIPLACE OF PODGERS : Mr. J. L. Toole in his original character. IVT THE ATRE-R() YAL, ADELPHI.- dole Proprt.tor and _Manager, Mr. B. Webster. I.lg THIS EVENING, THE SPIT ALFIBLD'S WEAVER: 31r. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAK Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil iington, Stuart, Stephenson, hburne; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Killington. To ginclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seven 31agi.; Men. .11essrs. J. Clarke, n. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss _Patti Jose,hs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH. -EVERY NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.--THIs EVENING, the 73d appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss L'A£EMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman'a 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 STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, OBSERVATION AND FLIRTA TION. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURY uICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborou:, , h, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. To conclude with TURN HIM OUP. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ape had Every Evening of G. R. NEWS AGENT, No, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. TAU WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. HIS '-' Morning, 4h. 2m.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m. To- ' ° "'" l . - Morning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, 4h. 55m. The Weather —Sun Office, Dec. 28, 1863. T RERMOMETER. This day at Two (N'ek,,k 46 Wind Baro a aeter-29.50. light, and cloudy. - ia . 4, ;_ • DL 28, 1863. LONDON, MONDAY, THIERS has resumed his positionas an orator in the French Legislature with a success worthy of his reputation. His reappearance in the tribune has been one, so to express it, rhetori e „u 3 , triumphant. The amendment moved by him fail e d , i t is true—being at once rejected by the Corp, Legislatif. But the speech in whieh he moved it has won for itself, as a speech, words of praise from all the various organs of public opinion in Paris, with scarcely one exception. Nor can we marvel at it, that such should have been the effect produced by a harangue so really and even emi nently admirabie,as a most lucid exposition of the ora tor's argument. Nothing could well surpass the elo price and perspicuity of the language employed by the speaker in explanation of his views. Those views are taken exception to, by one or another o; th e Parisian journa ists, according to the diversity of the opinions entertained amongst them upon the matters of vital import referred to by M. TIIIEES i n the course of his speech. But all, alike, com mend the charm and grace of the speech simply viewin g as Buell—simply looking at it as th e luau• oral oration of one of the greatest of living French debaters, on the recommencement of his C r CS a LnelllNT of the Gallic Legislature. .Nreveleheless, a rhetorical whe r, "e the spe ec h was , o b v i ous l y, i n that 14;h triumph, a b r illi an t success, t h a t is, as a s P eeeh--- e'S a party move, the amend ment i t a dvocates was, be3 , end all doubt of it, s e l and very notable failure.sign Looking keenly a t the result arrived at by the rc-k,etion of the amendment, the Cone/tut/one/ exalts (with some show of reason, remembering What are the 1' urns{), und . ns that en omen) isgmsedl3 - thereby b rou ght exults over the Met vid to light, to the tffact that the "coalition to much extolled by the Democratic organs hu,irtita, received a heavy blow. M. TRIERS, by his amend • ment," says the Constitutionnel, " has ledto asehism on the Opposition benches. M. EMILE OLLIYIER pleaded for peace, while M. GIIEROULT and M. HAVIN expressed ardent wishes for war. Without heeding those petty struggles of fractions, the majority restored to the question its real character.' That is—it did so by the point blank rejection of the amendment. Not unnaturally the Journal des Debats cannot by any means see this so plainly —even if it can acknowledge to seeing it at all. " Apparently," it insists (with a wonderful hint at a distinction without a difference, in so speaking), Apparently M. TRIERS has been defeated, as the Chamber rejected the amendment. In reality, how ever," argues the journalist, "he has succeeded almost better than he could have desired. His debut in the present Chamber is therefore a real success, and we would willingly say that his first speech is a triumph if the ideas of vain pomp awakened by that antiquo word, and which accord very well with the kind of effect aimed at by the formal elo quence of young beginners in the rhetorical profes sion, did not clash with the free and familiar manner of M. TRIERS. That style, so vivacious, just, positive, and simple, which has maintained itself free from a ll alloy with the s p urious flo urishes the introduced Gir eed and the politicalsince remaining language of F rance b y in fashion— that style, we repeat, so thoroughly French, accord ing to the ancient meaning of the word, has, in fact, wings, where others have only the sound of a trumpet." Referring to the "split" caused in the Opposition by reason of the inconsiderate wording of the amendment, the Opinion Nationale, as an organ of that Opposition, acknowledges frankly, " The schism which took place among the Left is deeply to be regretted, but" it adds, "we do not think th a t h as anyt hi ng i rre p ara bl e ." Yet, aft e r saying this, it goes on to remark immediately , "there has, doubtless, been in this affair more than a misunderstanding !" There is, observe ! about the discussion that has taken place " more than a misun derstanding," and yet it is not by any means to be regarded as a division in its way " irre parable !" The Patrie, instead of indulging in mere generalities goes, at once right to the core of the meaning of the rejected amend ment, where it says—" After reading-Mr. TRIERS' speech, notwithstanding certain protests made in the name of the honour of the country, no one can deny that the supporters of the amendment had not solely in view the equilibrium of the floating debt." The direct object of the speech, according to the Patric having been to give the bill a purely pacific character ! The object of the Oppo sition, as shown by the amendment, in truth was, it argues anything but the enforcement of.a merely economic question, their design being to limit the resources which military preparations might require in the instance of any subsequent emergency ! It is curious to observe, that in the division that took place upon the amendment, M. TRIERS himself abstained altogether from voting, as was made evident, indeed, by the Moniteur. There has of late been several melancholy cases of persons dying in the metropolis from absolute want of food and shelter, and under existing arrangements considerable uneasiness has been felt lest they should prove the precursors of many more such casualties during the inclement months before us. The means of providing temporary relief and accommodation to those in urgent need do not ap pear to be sufficient or satisfactory, and as this is the time of the year in which such cases are inevi table in a city like London, we are glad to find that the attention of the proper authorities has been directed to the subject. A minute of the Poor-law Board, just issued, gives us some statistics of tlie numbers of destitute persons receiving tem porary relief, and also sets clearly before the Guardians and officers of the Unions the nature and extent of their duties. According to the returns obtained from the different metropoli tan Unions, showing the accommodation provided for destitute wayfarers during the first weeks of January, March, May, and August in the current year, provision is made for 997 such persons in the several metropolitan parishes. This accommodation is, however, total y inadequate, not only from the restricted number, but from the inequality of its distribution. Some parishes have little or no accom modation, and, consequently, the houseless vagrant is driven to take refuge in one of its better supplied neighbours, who, having incurred an extra expense by the fitting-up of proper wards, have also to meet expenses which ought to fall upon others. It is the duty of the guardians, as the President of the Poor Law Board very plainly reminds them, " to see that all necessary and reasonable arrangements are made for affording to every destitute person the requisite relief, whether in food, clothing, medical attendance, or lodging." Notwithstanding the many respects in which the Poor Law fails to meet the requirements of the people, it has yet, as Mr. VILLIERS reminds us, a fundamental principle, which is, that every destitute person, without re ference to the question of settlement, is primarily entitled to relief where he is actually destitute Yet there can be to doubt that the existing arrange ments entirely fail to meet the necessities of the case. In some instances it may be the fault of the relieving officer, as in the case of Caroline James and others ; but more frequently such neglect is owing to the want of proper accommodation, the exaggerated fear of imposture, and the indifference of the guardians, whose principal object too often appears to be to reduce the expenses of the rate payers to the lowest possible amount. A night's shelter in a pauper's bed, a meal of workhouse fare, is no such wonderful boon that officials should be so chary of giving it, and it is always possible to exact from the recipient an hour or two's work, 7bieh shall pay for the expense incurred, as well as teat his sincerity. It is surely not so difficult for thos a long accustomed to deal with the vagrant classe s to distinguish impostur e . made of assistantereli ev i u i. the real necessity from wilful In some places the experiment lass been 'e tieg the police with the duties of wo g tix officers, and this plan is under eel very well. It would be wise where they would probably st t o oo t d ry to it h i a ti ve Loutioll, prove more liberal, ft, W ell as more discriminating, than the regular offici s a l. It would be easier for them the idle to impostor, discern tor h ispeeorsabe, between th e famished wanderer and h we fewer of these besie g e the workh ouse doors th in i _ i e a s allowed for i n pect very I these minutes. They can certainly not t good ash is fare n h o: h i v e u r c y h 1 t O X‘ir h e ie j u r slsikh e c i t g e . r ' It tan would u morning's t id alway s be possible to guard again st abuse of the accommo dation tit dation by providing only for the barest necessaries, and by strictly enforcing the labour in return, B ut after all, however earnestly the Board may recom mend the temporary admission of destitute vagrants, the great difficulty still lies in the way—the want of accommodation. The plan of erecting district asylums for the relief of the casual poor has been sanctioned by Act of Parliament but never put into practice, chiefly, according to the present minute, 'rom the want of co-operation on the part of the tuardians. Here, again, comes in the anxiety to Keep down the rates; but there can be little doubt that the echeme was a wise one, and, when modified i 1 by time and experience, it would have worked, It is evident that if a max or woman, hungry, faint, and weary, begs a night's lodging at the workhouse door, it is absolute cruelty to send them lookingave a for n their own parish. Every union ought to have asylum, either attached to the house itself or situated somewhere else in the parish which should contain accommodation for the full number of casual poor which experience has shown to be likely to apply, and to those evidently destitute immediate relief should be given, without waiting for tedious cere monials or fixed hours. Mr. VILLIERS, anxious, perhaps, to clear his Board of blame in reference to the late tragedies, impresses strongly upon the masters and porters of workhouses the fact that such is their duty, and that they are bound to pro vide the destitute with necessaries, " without refe- T:ence to the time of application or to the place ' where the pauper last slept." it is to be hoped that such may be the motto in our unions until the spring dawns on us once again, but to carry it out fully and effectually it will be necessary, in many instances, to provide accommodation elsewhere. The building of the asylums spoken of would of course be a long and elaborate task; but the guardians of parishes where such provision is deficient should either hire some building with sufficient accommodation, or erect temporary structures, such as sheds or out houses, which would at least serve to contain beds of clean straw and shelter from the bitter winds. Some change is urgently needed, since charitable refuges in every part of London open their doors to those whom the parishes are really bound to care for, and the melancholy spectacles recently seen at our workhouse doors of numbers waiting vainly for admission to the casual ward, ought not, according to the provisions of the law, to be possible. Mr. VILLIERS'S minute does not come before it is needed, end it is to be hoped that it will stimulate the proper authorities to take steps in the right direc tion before the winter weather comes more sharply upon us, and we have again to record the verdict of coroner's juries as " Died from exposure and want of the necessaries of life." Matters are certainly coming to a crisis in regard to our foreign diplomacy. It is time for England to waken up when foreign journals criticise the way in which our Foreign Secretary deals with the rights of neutrals. The Memorial Diplomatique of December 20th, in an article signed by HENRI VIGNAUD, boldly declares that England has failed in the mission which she has heretofore arrogated to herself—namely, that of maintaining in violate the rights of neutrals, and that it behoves France to look to her rights, and not to trust to the influence of a power which is either unable or afraid to exert her prerogative, which has been at least by courtesy vouchsafed to her by the maritime States of Europe. These are not the precise words of the article in the Memorial Diplomatique, but they express its f ee li ngs . I t i s neither more nor less than a slap in the face to our Secretary for Foreign Affairs for his truculent and cringing con duct towards the Federal Government at Wash ington. There was a day when the well-known lines— " There's a flag that waves o'er every sea, No matter when or where ; And to treat that flag as ought but the free Is more than the strongest dare," were appropriate to our country. That day has' alas! gone by. American cruisers may with im punity overhaul our merchant vessels on the high seas—aye, and even in British waters—and not withstanding that their papers be unquestionable, they are seized as lawful prizes and sent into an American port, to be adjudicated upon by such men as Judge BETTS, who, in the face of all evidence' condemns every vessel brought in upon the evidence of the captors, notwithstanding that many of them were bona fide traders between British ports. There was a time when one-tenth part of the insults which have been put upon this country would have been met in an English spirit. In the days of PITT or Fox it would not have been necessary to call Parliament together to inquire whether the rights and honour of the country were to be vindicated; an Order in Council would have despatched a fleet to the mouth of the Hudson and to Chesapeake Bay, to demand, and, if necessary, to enforce justice—bat nowadays, tempera mutautur. The noble earl at the head of Foreign Affairs licks the dust before the Satrap at Washington, and, to curry favour with a bully who cajoles, yet despises him, sacrifices the inte rests and honour of his country, in the hope of preserving a most discreditable peace. Well may the French press call upon their Government to vindicate the rights of neutrals, when the former mistress of the sea strikes her flag at the dicta tion of a Transatlantic braggadocio. The American Government have not been remarkably fortunate in the selection of its Generals—bad has in most cases been followed by worse, and defeat number one has only been rendered more disastrous by defeat number two. But, at least, we may con gratulate them on the appointment of their judges, and we may pay Judge WELLS the high compli ment of assuring him that, whether in Europe or in America, his fame will stand on a par with that of our own renowned Judge JEFFRIES, as a gentleman who can decide to order. Yet, while an infatuated Foreign Secretary is endeavouring to smooth down the ruffled feathers of the American eagle by his polite attention to Mr, ADAMS, and his unjust persecution of those who attempt to trade with the Southern states, the American press in general are in arms against us, because some three or four Confederate cruisers are destroying their commerce. Mr. CHARLES G. LORING, in a work upon the neutral relations of England and the United States, after declaring that we have in fringed every clause in every treaty entered into by us, coolly requests that the English nation shall reimburse the American shipowners and merchants for all loss which they may have sustained from the Confederate cruisers. We might laugh at such a re quest, and consider it but the emanation of a mad man, but that we entertain grave doubts whether Earl RUSSELL may not bring in a bill next session to that effect, declaring that the blessings of peace demand any sacrifice. We trust that he may do so ; the sooner the crash comes the better. Our Minis ters have thrown over the Danish interests to suit Prussia; England has no voice in Europe except by the consent of France, and her merchant vessels cannot find protection even in the waters of her own colonies. Let war come, and the country be plunged £100,000,000 more into debt, and America and Europe combine, yet we will still keep an island home inviolate, though its ramparts be Eng land's dead, and the nation which produced 100,000 Volunteers for an idea will not shrink from the choice of death or dishonour. The late Mr. William Makepeace Thackeray Will be buried at Kensal-greon Cemetery on Wednesday the 30th inst., at 12 o'clock. Ti lt NATIONAL SITAKESPERE COMMITTEE has during the past week been increased by the ad- Hon. dition to it o f the following new members :—The Right lin teet Lord Provost o f Edi n b urg h , t h e P rovost of Stir. g,Elayor of K endal, the Mayor of Northampton, Guiana, Sir Rowland R ill, the Reeerder of Durham, the Chief Justi ce o f B r iti s h Crosby, E'cl" C Matthew Arnold, Esq., James ' Marchester, Esq. bunPheY, Esq John Harland, of THE CONVICT TOWNLEY.--We are informed George Grey has orde a medic a l i nqu i ry in the that ir state S of mincl of Townley, them rderer of Miss Goodwin. LATEST EffTELLIGENCE. INDIA. LATEST FROM THE NORTHERN FRONTIER. BOMBAY, DEC. 14. (By Telegraph from Suez.) There hae been no more fighting on the frontier. General Chamberlain has resigned the command to Alajor•General Garvock on account of the wound he received in the late encounter with the revolted tribes. All is gala at Peshawar. Sir William Denison was installed as Viceroy on the 2d inst. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 28. It is now most probible that the Ministers will remain in office. On Saturday last the members of the Cabinet, and several eminent statesmen be linging to different political parties in the Rigsrard, had an interview with the King. They were all unanimous that a legal suspension of the common constitution is now impossible. The reasons stated were, that wherever the Federal troops have en tered, a revolution has been accomplished under their protection, by which Ring Christian has been deprived of his rights as Duke of Holstein. The Pretender has also been proclaimed, and any ex pression of loyalty suppressed, all in the presence of the Federal troops. The priccipal clergyman in Altona was compelled to fly from the town for re maining loyal to King Christian. INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. ADEN, --- The Rangoon, which left Calcutta on the 23d November, stranded near Aden (name of• place not decypherable) at 2 a.m. on the 10th December. Passengers and mails saved. Cargo and baggage landed without the slightest damage. The ship is in a very critical position, but making no water; some hopes are entertained of saving her at the next spring tide. The Sultan takes the Rangoon's mails, pas sengers, and cargo to SUEZ. She arrived there yes terday. The Norna, for the Mauritius, has been detained here to assist the Rangoon. The Bengal, with the outward mails of the 20th and 26th November, is detained at Aden with pinion shaft broken. The Benares takes on the mails, cargo, and passengers to Calcutta. FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 28. The Turkish Ambassador had a private audience of the Emperor yesterday, and remitted to his Majesty the reply of the Sultan to the Imperial letter of invitation to the Congress. BOURSE, Dec. 26.—N0 change has taken place in the tone of the market in consequence of the vote of the loan, and prices have but slightly varied. Threes, for the Acccunt, opened at 66fr. 40c. Railway Market quiet, but Arm. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 94 10 Jo. end month ___ per Cents Do. end month 66 45 Credit Mobilier 1035 Do. end month 1035 Bank Shares 3400 Credit Fonder 1220 Roman — Italian Loan 7l 35 Do. nd month 7l 60 Sew ditto Do. end month — Rtasian Austrian Spanish Home Debt .. — Deferred to my mind another interesting fact, of which you cannot be ignorant, Mr. Senator, since it is your illustrious historian, Da Thou, who relates it. In this year, 1572, a French prince, who was after wards Henry 111., offered himself as a candidate for election to the throne of Poland. He was only elected after his envoy, the Bishop of Montlnc, had solemnly declared that this prince had nothing to do with St. Bartholomew; and when, the year following, a deputation of Catholic bishops and senators repaired to Paris, it only saluted Henry of Valois, as King of Poland, after having received from this prince the oath to main tain peace between the Dissidents : Paean inter dis sidentes servabo. You have also, Mr. Senator, expressed the wish that Poland should be subjected to a better social regime, to a better tenure of property. But are you aware of all the efforts my country has made to arrive at the end which you point out ? Are you aware, above all, of the obstacles which foreign oppression has not ceased to oFpose to it in this course ? Are you ignorant of the sad end of the Agricultural Society, denounced as revolutionary in 1861, for having adopted as a principle that the peasant farmers should be placed in a position to become proprietors. Are you ignorant that our glorious constitution of the 3d of May was prcclaimed by Catherine IL to be the work of Jacobinism, because it admitted all classes gradually to acquire the title of nobility—that is to say, the plenitude of civil and political rights? We were denounced as Jacobins at the end of the last cen tury, just as now we are stigmatised as anarchists. A strange accusation, truly, against that nation, in behalf of which the Holy Father not long ago ordered solemn prayers, proclaiming it to be the secular champion of Christianity, and inviting it to remain ever faithful to its mission ! He even among the Poles, against whom extreme tendencies are most charged, he whose nomination is daily pointed by certain parties as the sign of tha subversive ideas ot the National Government,' General Mieroslawski, during the three months he was commissioned to organise abroad the resources of the insurrection, has not, I am happy to say, committed any act which justifies, from the political point of view, the blame of the most Conservative opinion. His destitution, recently pronounced, has been prompted by military considerations which rendered his functions for the moment valueless. But, above all, IJprotest against the idea which is so gra tuitously and so universally attributed to us, that we ask of the Western Powers to undertake a war of liberation in on: behalf. This demand, Mr. Senator, we have made. What we claim, and shall not cease to claim, is that Europe do its duty ; that after having abandoned us to the rule of the Czar on conditions which he " has trampled under foot," it should declare him deprived of this sovereignty ; that, denying the right,which was conferred upon him in 1815, it implicitly recognises that of Poland to recover her independence. "After eight months," said the National Government in a recent circular—the Government which I serve and recognise, and which I do not despair Of seeing one day recognised by yourself,Mr. Senator—" After eight months we have not obtained from the Governments which march at the head of the civilised world the sole act of justice we have asked from them—that of recognising our right to defend ourselves against oppression. Are wo asking too much of Europe ? We appeal to the conscience of the peoples and the loyalty of the Governments." One may not have the will or the power to redress the attacks made upon justice, but it is not permissible to deny them when they ate manifest, It is not permissible to seek to give to crime another name because chastisement cannot reach it ; and in this connection I may be permitted to remind you that in England, which you judge so severely, Mr. Senator, and which I have no commission to defend. not a single respectable and authoritative voice has been raised to deny the right of Poland and extenuate the crimes of the Muscovites. In a recent speech Mr. Layard, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, repeated, doubtless to satiety, that the English people would not go to war for Poland, but he has had the justice and candour to add these words, to which I venture to call your attention, Mr. Senator :—" History (he said) does not furnish examples of more deplorable, more horrible deeds; a policy of extermination is applied to that unibrtunate country and pursued without relaxation, not only against men young and old, but also against women and children. One shudders at being made cognisant of such horrors." The principle of the solidarity of peoples is novel without doubt, and is not yet reduced to practice; but the notion of the just and the unjust, of crime and duty, is of ancient date, and cannot be called in question. It is melancholy to recall it in this century of light and civilisation, it is melancholy, above all, to plead such a cause before an eminent jurist, and it is with this sentiment of melancholy that I have the honour to be, Mr. Senator, your very humble and obedient servant, (Signed) CZARTORYSKI, A letter from Milan says : In glaring contradiction with the sudden and earnest as surances of peace which proceed from Paris, is the fact that several French officers are now in Italy for the purpose of inspecting the active military forces of this country. A French general is now at Turin, and has every day long conferences with the Minister of War; and a colonel of the general staff, a colonel of Engineers, a lieute nant-colonel of artillery, and a major in the line arrived here yesterday, who are commissioned not merely to visit all the military depots. but to study the whole line of the Po. The military and civil Italian officials have received orders to facilitate by all means in their power the labours of these officials. The day after to-morrow the commission will inspect the line of the Mincio, and the cour tesy of the Piedmontese is carried so far that the com mander in the second military district, Lieutenant-General Durando, sends the chief of his staff and his first aide-de camp to accompany them. What an inspection of this sort means, unless it is for the purpose of seeing whether the Piedmontese army is ready to take the field, it would be difficult to say. That the Italian Government considers the breaking out of war as near at hand is evident from the fact tnat preparations, which are only made when war is most imminent, are now being made. Thus in Lombardy six field hospitals have been established, viz., at Castiglione della Stiviere, Brescia, Milan, Cremona, Pavia, and Lodi, and ambulances have been furnished. The King is expected here about the end of next month, Great military spectacles will then take place. The King will also inspect the troops posted on the Po and the Mincio, 'AV. RAIL Cash. Account, 972 50 .. 972 50 970 .. 970 Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 930 New ditto Geneva.. Southern .. Western Eastern Sardinian 395 395 Austrian Lon. bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona .... 681 25 .. 680 - SCHARF'S CORRESPONDENCE, PRINCE CZARTORYSKI TO M. DUPIN. PARIS, Dec. 26. The Opinion Nationale of the 25th publishes the following letter from Prince Czartoryski to Senator Dupin, in reply to certain parts of the latter's speech on the Address : PARIS, Dec. 21. Monsieur le Senateur,—l have read with all the attention it merits the speech you made in the Senate during the debate on the Address. I could not but be profoundly touched by the terms in which you were good enough to speak of my late father and of my family, but I do not the less think myseif bound to protest against certain assertions in your speech which attack the two things that we dearest to me in this world —truth and my country. You have called to mind, Mr. Senator, the 15th May, 1848, and you believed you rememoered that on that ill-omened day, and at the door of the in vaded National Assembiy " was a group of Poles. Behold," you say, " how our sympathies were re warded.' But you cannot be ignorant, Mr. Senator —and my learned and honourable friend, M. Wolowski, has just cited the fact—that after the day of 15th May there was an investigation and a trial at Bourges. Well, in this trial no Pole was found implicated; no Polish name has even been uttered. I am much astonished to have to recall to an Attorney-General of such recognised merit a solemn judgment of a French court of justice. Han anarchical party, without conscience or scrupulous ness, was ahle at that time to abase the name of Poland to attaiu a perverse end, I did not expect 15 years later to see this abuse do service in an argu ment in a calm and deliberate discussion. You have also, Mr. Senator, enumerated with a particularity too forgetful, perhaps, of true charity, the pecuniary aid which the French Government accorded to the wrecks of the Polish army of 1831. That army, perhaps, hindered at the time a coali• tion which was about to be formed against France. The battle of Grochow and Ostrolenka contributed at all events to the strengthening of a dynasty which you served and supported ; so much at least was affirmed in the Chambers over which you pre sided with so much brilliancy. Permit me to remind you that there was likewise at the end of the last century a numerous French emigration to Poland. Of these refugees from re volutionary France we did not ask their opinions; in the greeting we gave them considerations of poli tical interest played no part. We have never drawn up the statistics of our hospitality ; but I can assure you, Mr. Senator, without fear of being contra dicted, that the generosity of Poland at that time,t of Poland already in misfortune and captive, was not less than the liberality of France at the present moment. I pass over in silence many other allegations 0 your speech, those for example on feudalism in Poland; on our situation in 1812, &c., which all 6 , 1 to prove one thin;r, namely, that your nume rous and honourable occupations have not left you the necessary leisure to study the present condition or the past history of my country. But it is im possible for me to omit quoting the assertion that " The Poles, as their history shows, were dread fully intolerant towards the other sects, and patronised only the Jews." It is not only to the Jews, Mr. Senator, that Poland has of old served as a refuge; it did not less greet the victims of the other religious persecutions, the Hnssites, the Huguenots, the Protestants of different nations and different religious epochs. The great law of our Diet of 1572 solemnly proclaimed the civil equality of all Christian confessions, without any distinction. This was precisely at the epoch when religious wars (which Poland 11 , :s never known) were devas tating Christian Europe, in the very year when St. Bartholomew took place at Paris, And this date calls The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille pm., arid the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices fromllamburg, the price of gold is 424 i per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight„ is 163 to 164 per cent., and the premium on glad is 4.4 to 491 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the importation of gold from the United States. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S harriers will commence hunting on Tuesday next.—Court Journal. THERE will be some excellent shooting in the Great Park for the Prince of Wales on his return to Wind sor. The covers, which have not been disturbed for several weeks past, are swarming with game.—Court Journal. THE 11IINISTRY.—Lord Palmerston is residing at his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Earl de Grey and Ripon has departed for his country residence, Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire. Mr. Milner Gibson also left town a few days ago. All the other members of the Cabinet are also absent from London. Several of the Ministers are expected to retain to town in the second week in January, and after their meeting the Queen will hold a Privy Council. at which the day for the meeting of Parliament will be determined on, and a proclamation issued summoning both houses to meet for the despatch of public business.—Observer. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S oil painting of "Titania," one of that gifted and veteran's chef d'ccuvres, has been purchased by Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, the eminent chemist. It is to be hoped that the idea of engraving it will be carried out. CATS AT SEA.—Considering how much the cat abhors cold water, our readers must often have wondered why seafaring men are so fond of taking the animal with them on a voyage. This is explained by two circumstances. Marine insumneo does not cover damage done to cargo by the depredations of rats ; but if the owner of the damaged goods can prove that the ship was sent to sea unfurnished with a cat, he can recover damages from the shipmaster. Again, a ship found at ship with no living creature on board is considered a derelict, and is forfeited to the Admiralty, the finders, or the Queen. It has often happened that, after a ship has been aban doned, same domestic animal—a dog, a canary bird, or most frequently a cat, from its hatred of facing the waves — has saved the vessel from being condemned as a derelict.— Once a Week . WOMEN IN BATTLE.—The correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, describing a fight with part of General Bragg's forces at Ringgold, near Chattanooga, says :—" Several of the fair sex were in the Confederate ranks, and certainly conducted themselves w ith a great deal of courage. We make no refitctions on their taste in cater ing the ranks with negroes and greasy graybaeks. R in. eb t e h l dom now needs every aid on the e arth above or caverns uaer it," LITERATIME. The Swiss Family Robinson, Laurie's Entertain ing Library. Longman and Co. As the seventh volume of this charming little Shilling Library of sterling literature—issued from the press quarterly under the supervision of Mr. J. S. Laurie--;-we have that delightful pendant to Defoe's masterpiece, " The S wiss Family Robin son." Of the work itself, it were bootless here to speak, but in reference to the edition of it now pub lished, some few passing words may be not altoge ther superorogatory. Compacted though the text is within the compass of one of these tiny volumes (the present one numbering up in all just 252 pages) " The Swiss Family Robinson," as here edited and revised by Mr. Laurie—for the enhancement of the value already attached to his juvenile Library, by his previous selection of works, at once of sound in struction and genuine entertainn.ent—possesses merits and advantages very peculiarly and essen tially its own. In it, that is, in this present edition of " The Swiss Family Robinson," as care ful;y re vised by Mr. Laurie, the information is in every possible way, not alone nominally, according to the old publishing phrase, but literally, " brought down to the scientific knowledge of the day." Mistakes of these different kinds are by this means thoroughly eliminated from the text of the nar rative. Foremost among them—foremost that is to say, for inasmuch as the blunder about to be particularized is, among all, the most glaring of its kind—there is the geographical error notified on the second, or sub, title of the work, where upon the very title-page, the scene in which the story is !aid is spoken of as situated on an island—the said island being proved by subsequent information to be an integral portion of the mainland ! A tran sparent inconsistency, again, is here notified by Mr. Laurie—namely, that representing all the leading fere nature as existing " not only in the same zone, but on a small-section of one particular district"— ' an inconsistency obnoxious to the skilled physical geo grapher of nowadays ! Added to all which, care has had to be taken of what the Editor of the Enter taining Library mentions as so many specific " mis takes on individual matters of fact." As, for in stance, the jumbling together in the original, in the wildest disorder—contrary to all the laws regulat ing the distribution of the fauna over the surface of the globe—bear and gazelle, tapir and onagra, the Siberian ondatra and the Australian opossum, the elephant and the kangaroo! Other errors as to sheer matters of fact, are referred to, no less pointedly then are these,in the brief but searching Preface : such as the mention of land tortoises feeding on snails and insects, the said amphibious creatures being in reality notorious vegetarians ! Such, moreover, as the absolutely amazing, the nothing less than Mun chausen.like account of the ass swallowed by the twenty-seven feet long'.boa constrictor ! It must not, however, be imagined for a moment that the integrity of the famous original, has, in any unneces sary way, been interfered with. The difficulties that had to be met, in the revision, have been very easily indeed obviated : and this simply by the selection, as the scene of the narrative, of—a certain tropical part the South American continent. By this easy con trivance, most of the discrepancies referred to have been readily enough reconciled. The closing sentence of this Preface we will gibe in the editor's ipsissinza verba—" In short," he says, " the work is at length presented to the public [we our selves are tempted to interpolate here emphatically, we believe for the first time] in a form so revised and corrected as, it is presumed, the author himself would have adopted had he re written the whole in the light of the present day." In the confident expression of which conviction, we are ourselves satisfied that Mr. Laurie is to the full justified. The work is on the whole excellently well got up, in this resembling the half-dozen earlier volumes of the Library. The illustrations, however, certainly do appear to us, very inferior to those contained in any one of the said six predecessors. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Illustrated Edition. Cassell, Petter, anti Galpin. We have already so often had occasion to com ment upon the extraordinary merits of this very beautiful, edition of the great religious Allegory of the Puritan Tinker—the most popularly well • known of any allegory perhaps that was ever written—that we have little left to us here to re mark, now that the work is actually completed, beyond recording the simple fact of its completion. Now, that the periodically issued instalments, weekly and monthly, have been collected together into a handsome volume, a volume bound in.a style of elegance corresponding to the remarkable merits of the illustrations contained in it, we can in truth not merely endorse all that we have previously said as to the beauty of the edition, but beyond that we can emphasise, so to speak we can italicise, all we have said previously, from time to time, in its commendation. Mr. H. C. Selons and Mr. Paul Priolo have vied with each other in the animation and imaginativeness of their very harmo nious designs. It is impossible to decide as to which of the two ought to have awarded to him the palm. Those artists being, in reference to the sketches here contributed by each of them, about equally meritorious. The entire work, i. e., both letterpress and embellishments, will be found to have been printed upon beautifully toned or tinted paper, the woodcuts, many of them full-page size, being scattered through the narrative in absolute pro fusion. As a seasonable giftbook—(if but one or two snarling, fanatical sentences could but be struck out of the original text, as disfiguring a work other wise so very admirable and even wonderful !)—as n seasonable giftbook, Cassell, Patter, and Galpin's magnificent illustrated edition of Bunyan's Progress takes its place in the very front rank of the Christmas and New Year's offerings. At the purchaser's or the recipient's pleasure, it may either enhance the value of the library shelves, or lend a new charm and beauty to the elegant litter of one 9f the drawing-room sides tables. BOOKS RECEIVED. For Ever : a Story of English Country Life. By a Clergy. man. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand. By Mrs. Muter. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Lost and Saved. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. New Edition. Hurst and Blackett. The Swiss Family Robinson. (Laurie's Entertaining Library.) Longman and Co. Sylvia's Lovers. By Mrs. Gaskell. New Edition. Smith, Elder, and Co. Sermons. By the late Itev. F. W. Robertson. Fourth Series, Smith, Elder, and Co. Savage Africa. By Winwood Reade. Smith, Elder, and Ce. Bird's-Eye Views of Society. Taken by Richard Doyle, Smith, Elder, and Co. The Soven Ages of Man. Described by William Shake speare. Depicted by Robert Smirke. L. Booth. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Illustrated Edition. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. Faith, Hope, and Charity. Illuminated. By Mrs. F. G, Delamotte. Another Blow for Life. By George Godwin, F.R.S, Allen and Co. Le Correspondant. Decembre, 1863. Ch. Dounio. It is stated that Lord Lyons is not in such perfect health as his friends and the country could wish. His post at Washington is irksome and onerous, awl his attention to his duties is unremitting.---Army and .2Vavy Gazette. STRONG LANGUAGE.—" Manhattan" ".Lincoln blasphemed God Almighty by reXfor questing all hands to rush to the churches, and give great victory that had ended the rebellitt real situation of by supposing that he was ignorant o f f t v attles for perhaps capital,resu lt was con - the affairs. Ho that had been the God and that ° s till millions of years, and knew that ',trans final result It insulted God President's dwelling-place, as wehle his the Western victory, so far as t r of St. John's tow :ln never touches a drop of any ..in4nrtdhsesacacPkitnageand bu.rnino•,New would be .. corned, was no more foundland, ~. London. all snow that his constitution is weak, stand it ; ,i g hntutotherwise when we read his " Oh, he was drunk when l a thing and k t n i s:t a r w t o n t E t c :\ I A r u r , e t . that. But say,lv know he dots not drink, but is extremely abstemious in his habits, and is a moral and most excellent family m an. ,, f h u e n s n a y i d p rod thisu : r t i o d n i c s i MANHATTAN might have quoted the following epigram by Burns :-- Ye hypocrites, are these your pranks I To murder men and gie God thanks ? For shame I gie o'er, proceed no further; God wont accept your thanks for murther. tinat Tirmlar. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dcc. 2G. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday after noon, accompanied by the Princess of Wales. Dcc. 27. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helens, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenlohc attended Divine service this morning at Osborne, -where the Rev. U. Prothero performed the service. The Prince and Princess of VITI,'Jes attended service at Whippingnam Church. Metropolitan Railway Maps, MR. WYLD'S MAP of the "Proposed Metropolitan Railways and Improvements" is worthy of the Queen's geographer. It is issued with admirable promptitude. And yet, swiftly though it must have been produced, it appears—as usual with the mails coming from the member for Badmin's establish ment—throughout, in all its minutest details, to have been pencilled with a sedulous regard to accuracy. Such an astounding webwork, or network as is displayed t o view' • Literally, employing the word Network here, vvith the marvellous meaning attached to it by Dr. John son in the famous definition to be found in his quart° dictionary—to wit : " reticulations or decusation s with interstices between the intersections." Pre cisely such a web as this, is thrown here over the map of London, as illustrative of the numerous me tropolitan railways, either already completed, or noNC in course of construction, or intended tobe fabricated by the wondrous enterprise of the Great Metropolis. The scale of Mr. Wyld's new map is such as to admit of the record upon it of every minute detail that could reasonably be looked for in such a publi cation. MR. STANFORD'S MAP of the same " Metropolitan Railways and Miscellaneous Improvements," pub lished simultaneously with Mr. AVyld's, is produced upon a considerably larger scale, is more brilliantly coloured, is upon thicker paper , and is altogether far more highly-elaborate d of its kind. They neither of them clash, however There is an advantage accruing to the public at WO! , of course, in the very fact of the rivalry thus indi cated. The utmost skill, speed, and precision appea r to have been applied, upon Mr. Stanford's establish ment, in the production of this really beautiful an d valuable map—an authentic record of accomplish ed or projected railways and improvements, the draw ings of which were deposited at the Private 8 111 , Office on the last day of this very last month at November. Mr. Stanford's Map, stretched upon a frame, or upon a rcller, would be a most useful, as well as a highly ornamental addition to the wall s of any or of every London counting-house. It is 6 work worthy of having emanated from Mr. Stan` ford's Establishment. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] A few months since you published for me a couple of letters upon the subject of admission to the Reading.ro en ' of this institution, of which privilege I have availed raYs° ll at various times since Michaelmas lam. I think that the attendants are g , merally attentive and civil, and, in the asking for books, I have not observed any particular decal.. But there is one point of some publi3 interest which la worthy of notice. There seems to be no settled rule or information respect ing periodicals, or, at least, respecting country newspapers* Catalogues have been prepared and improved with great care, but this class of literature is still a sealed book, es f ar as the " index " is concerned, and I doubt whether the attendants themselves know what files of newspapers they possess. I have had occasion to refer to a country news papers of some years' date, but it was not in the catalogue. A civil attendant looked for the file, and he brought it at the end of an hour I I wanted another provinc ial news paper of the same date, and, necessarily, 1 applied to another attendant, who said, sharply, "Oh I you must find it in th e Index." Now, it was not in the Index , y et it ma y be, like its companion, in the Museum. These provincial pap ers are valuable for reterence with respec t to title deeds, Ztc., and, clearly, the public ought to know what files of papers the library contains, and which, at the present, cannot be known. The catalogue of London papers is vague also ; for the only copies indexed of the ilforning Star newspaper refer to 15 numbers which were published in the year 1832, of a paper so called 1 Whether it ,is intended to make out a regular complete catalogue of provincial and London newspapers I cannot state, but it is clear that such refer- antes are much required, and that serious inconvenience Is caused by their absence ; and I hope the Museum autho rities will endeavour to remedy this omission, for the sake of the public, shortly. THE LATE GALES AND THEIR CAUS E S. The !proximate causes of the late severe ga le° having been explained in my last, we may h °lC come to the original causes. These are still in sa me measure concealed ; so that we still " see through a glass darkly ;" but yet we perceive that in all cases there is deposition before we can look for motion in the atmosphere. The question arises, ``W htlC causes this deposition ?" The answer must be , a change in temperature, for in all cases we may trace; this change. Then, since the Earth is alweY s the same place as regards the Sun at any giveh P e ; riod of the year, it follows that there is some ° the p cause than the Sun for the changes of tempertltar;# These I attribute directly to changes in the coh d ': don of the electricity of the atmosphere; and, .if sc-B take from the " IsTAutical Almanack" all the a s t , e o during the last three years of conjunctions of t " ia. Sun and Mercury, we get 19 instances, of avb fAe we find 16 cases in which there were storms of wi ll ' . The three exceptions were 22d May and 22 d lufr , 1861, and 3d August, 1863, all summer pe tia" :; Thus we may see that an electrical change taPb:t-b, place whenever the Sun, Mercury, and the Far do come into a straight line; and since the planets act powerfully on the Earth by their light, We °0 it conclude that this action is electrical, and so th at it , changes the temperature and produces storms/ LIS 0 the above cases. The fact being admitted that sco have storms whenever the Sun and M ercury an t found in conjuction, we may account for the vceile storms by the circumstance of the plan et Mercarls being at the time in Aphelion, when his m otion w a extremely slow. This effect the Moon increased 14, changing her declination on the 4 th , when the hut; rican was raging. The next period o f the conju % Lion of the Sun and Mercury will bo on the _ .O January, 1864, at and after whic h I expect 016' very severe gales of wind.—Yours, &c. R. J. MORRISON, Commander R.N. c clad io - e et is a re:siong producing A lati an n x e x T q A u L i s ß i tOeT engraving said on n o stheea;vie sue _ e a scene in Java, and it is asserted that 5, 0 0. _ .. j a Z ti. can be printed from such plates without de n ter: broke out, Pr us l i n ess at Lo wer Bel' FIRES.—Ou Saturday morninftes beiong . z g to Mr• wail made by a police" passing the buLdingt about half-psst 2 o'clock, on the T. Thwaites, a tailor, carrying and s igw a s i t chn ti olve d .°r uY d un' he ch"a constablegra v o-pla grave-place , tPimlico. iTfsarihooaraenosdff, He at on ce the or th groundein assistancefl oo floor, of t noticed smoke coming the course of minutes two of rhea esc P e uer t raised iet 373 fire-alarm e 8 , Brooker and Cotterell. The fornaer machine, and succeeded in bringing; Conductor s ilit' save Mrs s afety 10 persons. He next made ' lll ilaauStcweinilnletkid.Ut lies in his arms, but owing to alarm and • Tarrant from the second tcorr: vousnass she shook he rse lf f rom hi s gras p, and both an d the condn,?,tor fell to the ground. They were P i ' 3l'e e up and a medical man wa s sent for. On arriving be PL t i flounced the injuries t o b e s erious, and he reconatneu"`„, their immediate reiuoval to the hospital, where they reuit,s: ." in a very d angerous con dition. The engines of t he p ari b and land stea m ers, three manual power engin es, auci teir Torrent, from liodge,s's distillery, were earl y to °tile attendance, and plenty of water was obtained, but wa g flames could not be extinguished until the building nearly destroyed. The total l oss is very consider it is understood that the principal sufferer was itisn Before the above fire was extinguished another hurPctia Br it shoe the premises belonging to Mr. J o hn Bute, a boot.t'a s h oe m anufacturer, carrying on bu siness at No. 3, o , nia-place, Fulham. Mr. Sta p ler, the chief officer of %act district of brigade, quickly attended, as well as 3 trio steamer. A good supply of wat er was obtained, con'bub fire was net extinguished unt il Mr. Bute's preioisv, aof sisting of two stories, were burnt down, a nd the lactbsi.. Mr. Flick, oil and colourman, No. 4, and those ° I. Tb e Williams, a dairyman, damaged by fire and water. co o lire was caused by a spark flying from a lighted 0/100 among the bedding, The loss will fall p rincipally VP Globe Fire-office. WI frc Bat nu Ce fa' be de ra