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

AGENTS REQTJIR ED. HE ROY AL INSURANCE COMPANY is Tprepared to e ntertain applications for of Age?icy Appoint nu-nts from g enti emen having com mand ire and Life Business. The Royal has always been conspicuons for its liberality and promptitude in the settlement of claims. Its annual Incom is now over X500,001 £1,t00,000 And its funds in and exceed ..................... Transfers of Poi icies from other Companies received with out charge for .I'oL :cy, whatever the amount. Lombard-street. Addi •ess, JOTIN B. JOIINSTON, Secretary. Royal Insurance ( 'tympany'29, ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, ( 1i )VENT-GARDEN. U n der the Man a t.9-,ement of Miss Louis a Py ne and alr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING r,Monda ' y, December 29, to commence with the ziecond Act )t Balfes popular opera, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. After which, a Gran d Christmas Pantomime, on a s3ale of unprecedented ma..4ml icence, entitled nAL-MEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at ha If-past Six— ommence at Seven. TH.EATRE :ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, 3 !ssrs. Edmun t Falconer and B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, :1 - 1101:X TI3 — FOR AN OLIVER Messrs. Waller Lac 3, Addison; Miss R. Leclercq and Miss Heath ; and th e Grand Comic Christmas PAN TO writteni by E,. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled and founded upon the popular Oriental story of SIN BAD THE SAILOR. The gorge( nisly beautiful character of the decora tions. inclusive of more thin the usual amount of scenical surprises and transtorma . ion wonders, are ensured by the fact of their being entirely designed and for the most part executed by the a debraced artist, William Beverley, wh , se eminent services I Lave been retained this Christmas exclu sively for the i hes ,tre Royal Drury-Lane. The general action 01 the Pantomime will be arranged by, and the whole pro duced under the ei rection of, Mr. Robert Roxby. Principal characters in the o penin,g by Messrs. Tom Matthews, J. iN e vile. Fitzjames, Y ieagreson, G. Weston, and Master Pcrcy Rosel:e ; Misses I. ,izzie A ilmore, Rose Leclercq, E. Weston, Coventry, and CiCA ly Nott. The Harlequinade will include the services of t; lose popular Pantomimists (forming a double company), Harry Boleno and Mr. C. Lau i, Clowns ; Mr. W. A. Barn, es and Mr. J. Morris, Pantaloons; Mr. Cormack and ]k Ir. S. Saville, Harlequins ; Madame Boleno and Minses Gunnies, Columbines. The masks, devices, and dres yes, from designs by the humorously re r owned Dykwynl in. The music selected and arranged by Mr. J. Barnard. .Machinery by Mr. Tucker and assistants. Gas Illumination by Mr. J. Hinckley. Properties by Mr. Needham and est it stunts. Dresses by Mr. Laury and Mrs. Lawler. The dan a ?,s and action of the Ballet will be ai ranged by Mr. Cormack. Comic scenes, tricks, itc., invented by, Messrs. If. Boleno and Cormack. Morning; Performance of the Pantomime every Wednesday, at 2 o'cloc k. Box Office open daily from 10 till 5 o'clock. The massive and beautiful decorations of the amphitheatre, proscenium, and ee fling, designed and stylecompletedosunciertloief direction of Marsh .Nelson, Esq., in that 2orgoeuois _ Quatorze ornamentation knnA - a as characteristic of t f h r e om L the press and period. and which elicited so much praise,his cleansed, make the public last year, having, been thorou, when the aspect of the l'iouse before the curtain lighted up, is admitt ed to be the m , st beau tiful in Euro k ,e) is worth a visit. 1 an object of admiration which in itself ROYAL LYOEUAI THEATRE. Under the Sale Management of Mr. Pechter. BEL DE 310NIO (3 Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVESING, lthe performance will commen ce w i th a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: Mess-s. H. WiddicoteLbe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett M ore l an d ; Misses Pt :rep , Pauline Leaercg, Wood, Mrs. Lee,' and Miss E. Lavenu. After which, at EL zht o'clock, BEE, DEnomo, a Love Story, in Twelve Ta.)l2ti o nx n , iliken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle.," by Mr. Brouzham. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, !tipported b Emery,_ Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Br Dul:, - h , rn , Collett, Sims ; Miss bate 'ferry, E. Lavenu, Alm Lee, and Miss Elsvvorthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is mat ie to the occupants of Boxes Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bllls or tor the safe keeping of hat and cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to rec eive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET._ Sole Less.ee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, +Chippeniale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Gullentord 4.tc • Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, &c'. After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round fable. Messrs. C!iipnenda,o, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. P OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- t) Sole Leaee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Open for the Season. THIS EVENING, THE HONEYMOON. After which, HARLI4.QUI LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fifie 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. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, the new Comic Drima of the HEN AND CHICKEN 6 : Mrs. Stirling in her original character. ---• - Atter which, a Comical Congiomemtiye Christmas Absur dity, by Henry J Byron, Esq., and entitled 1861 ; or, THE SEN-ATIONb OF 'l'H r; PAST SEASON, with a Shameful Pevelation of Lad,- Somebody's Secret. New Scenery by Danson acid Sons. Appointments by Mr. Ireland. Music by M. Wallerstein. Principal characters by Mt. J. L. Toole, Mr. l'aul Bedford, Miss Cottrell, Miss Faony Josephs, &c. And the BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS : Mr. J. L. Toole in his original character. TEMA:ME-R(1 YAL , ADEL P HI.- '_l4 Sole Propristor and Manager, M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE SPITALFIELD'S WEAVER: Mr. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, It. Phillips, Bil ling-ton, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss it. Simms, and Mrs. Billingtan. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seven Magi; Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, I t. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss _Patti Jose, hs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAR-EVERY NIGHT. "Mi t S h S e 7 8 , d . A a ' p r p E MaAncNe of the EVENING, 6r t: e i z .H. 'Tragicconscercieusesn, consequence BA rE M AN, in the character of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the priLcipai character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH ha been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will b 4: performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboroug - h. THIS EV ENING, OBSERVATION AND FLIRTA TION. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURY ICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Svranborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &G. To conclude with TURN HIM OUr. Commence at 7. IRE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," btt eontairittg• the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, had Every 4:vening of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGENT, 1 0. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. 11. " 4 .. WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins De1t,,....m0na.n14., 1 4h. 2m.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m. T°-"RB "- - lio ra i ng . , 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, 4h. 55m. The Weatival__ sun Office, Dec. 28, 1863. TIO,I I , 3I.OIIETER. This d ay at Two welc, t k .. 46 Barot neter-29 . 50. Wind—S.-E tight, and cloudy. ;r im LONDON, MONDAY , DEC, 2 8, 1863. M. TRIERS has resumed his position tki, MI orator in the French Legislature with a success worthy of his reputation. His reappearance in the tribune has been one, so t o express it, r het"joalf y triumphant. The am en d men t moved by him failed, i t is true—being at once rejected by the Corp s Legislatif. Bat the speech in which 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 admirable,as a most lucid exposition of the ora tor's argument. Nothing could well surpass the elo• gance and perspicuity of the language employed by the speaker in explanation of his views. Those views are taken exception to, by one or another of the Parisian journa ists, according to the diversity of the opinions entertained amongst them upon the matter s of vital import referred to by M. TIIIERS in t he course of his speech. But all, alike, com mend th e charm an d grace o f t h e speec h s i mply viewin g „„, 8 ,_ 4 , ea—situply looking at it as the inau gural oratio n of one of the greatest of living French debaters on tee recommencement of his et sreer es a membe r o f the G:ellie Legislature. Never/ belt ss, while the speech was, obviously, in that light a rhetorical triumphs a brilliant success, that is, as a speech —as a party move, the amend ment it advecates was, beyond all doubt of it, a signal and ver y notable failure. Looking keenly rejection of the at the result arrived . at . by the o exults (with some C nstautionel amendment, the show of reason, remembering wh at are the i nen tjournal), „ nd opinions of that cm isguisedly exults over the fact thereby brought vividly that the "coalition t o to light, to the effect t i e organs has al ready much extolled by the Derhoora received a heavy blow. M. THIERS, by his amend 1 went," says the Constitutionnel, " has led to a schism on the Opposition benches. M. EMILE OLLIVIER pleaded for peace, while M. GITEROULT 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 1 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. THIERS 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 abut in the present Chambei 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 antique 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,hstyle, a so o m vivacious, , did not clash w ith the free and f am ili ar simple, wh i ch manner of M. T n ie d ieets. That just, freetlposi fromtives a all alloy with the spurious flourishes i n t r oduced into the p oliti cal lang uage of France by the Girondins, and since remaining in fashion— that style, we repeat, so thoroughly French, accord ing to the ancient meaning of the word, ha; 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 that has anything irreparable." Yet, after saying this, it goes on to remark immediately , " there has, doubtless, been in this affair more than a misunderstanding P 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 readingaMr. THIERS' 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 Patrie 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. THIERS 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 daring 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 the 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- Enedation, 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 hes 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 Le 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 1 and others; but more frequently such neglect is owing to the want of proper accommodation, :he 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 e xact from the recipient an hour or two's w o r k, 41 ell shall pay for the expense incurred, as well as ten his sincerity. It is surely not so difficult for those lon g accustomed to deal with the vagrant classes t o e . . uletinguish the real necessity from wilful imposture, e n e some places the experiment hes been made of entri luin g the police with the duties of a ssistant-relievi ng officers, and this plan is under stood to have Word ed eery well. It would be wise to try it in London,,, il a, "all as they would probably prove ne he or ' l . as more discriminating, h f regular official,, tantel liberal , I di sce rn between the t would be easier for them tol ieve fewer of thes e %unshed wand e r er an d the idle impost or, though We believe -khousedoors than . besiege the veo. Is allowed for in these minutes. They can certainly i , ot expect very good fare or very lu:inrious shelter ari ) the morning's task is not much to their liking. - 1 -t w ould always . be possible to guard against a buse of th e ac cornmo_ dation by providing only for the barest necessaries, and by strictly enforcing the labour in return, g ut after all, however earnestly the Board may reco n , 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, from the want of co-operation on the part of the enardians. Here, again, comes in the, anxiety to keep down the rates; but there can be little doubt that the scheme was a wise one, and, when modified by time and experience, it would hem worked, It looking fo r is evident that if a man or woman , hung r y , faint , ary a ,b s e o g lu s t a e cruelty to dg send a t h t e t m h e o workhouseok door, w r,i e t is b their own parish. Every union ought to have an night'slodging asylum, either attached to the hou se itself or situated somewhere else in the parish which should contain accommodation for the full number of casual poor w hi c h e xperience 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 aro bound to pro vide the destitute with necessaries, " without refe rence 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 Eng:and 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 feelings. It is 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 America); 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 Councii would have despatched a fleet to the mouth of the Hudson and to Chesapeake Bay, to demand, and, if neeessary, to enforce justice—but nowadays, tempora 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 flamber 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. Wto 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 L 100,000,000 more into debt, and America and Europe combine, yet we will still keep an island home inviolate, though its ramparts be Etig land's dead, and the nation which produced 100,000 Volunteers for an idea will not shrink frem the choice of death or dishonour. The late Mr. William Makopeace Thackeray will be b ur i e d at M ensa l -green C eme t ery on W e d nes d ay the 30 th inst., at 12 o'clock. 11It NATIONAL SH A KESPERE COMMITTEE has during th e past w ee k b een i n cre ase d by the ad dition to it of the following new members :—The Right Hon. the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Provost of Stir ling, the mayor of Kendal, the Mayor of Northampton, the Recorder of Durham, the Chief Justice of British Guiana, Sir Rowl and Hill, M atthew Arnold, Esq., James CrosbY. E s q* , C • J. Datiphey, Esq., J o h n llarland, of Alarchester, Esq. _ THE CONVICT TONVNLEY. - -We are informed that George Grey has o r d ered a medical inquiry in the state of mind of Townley, the murdere r o f Min Goodwin, Sir THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1863, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. LATEST FROM THE NORTHERN FRONTIER. BOMBAY, DEC. 14. (By Telegraph from Suez.) There has been no more fighting on the frontier. General Chamberlain has resigned the command to Major• General Garvock on account of the wound he received in the late encounter with the revolted tribes. All is gala at Pesbawur. Sir William veni s on was installed as Viceroy on the 2d inst. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 28. It is now most probable that the Ministers will remain in office. On Saturday last the members of the Cabinet, and several eminent statesmen be lining to different political parties in the Rigsrard, had an interview with the King. They ware 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 King 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 principal 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 23.1 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 elightest damage. The ship is in a' very critical position, but making a u t o t w he at n er ex ; t s s o p m r e in h g op ti e d s e a . re entertained of saving her The Sultan takes the Rangoon's mails, pas sengers, and cargo to Sutz. She arrived there yes terday. The Noma, 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 or the market in consequence of the vote of the loan, and prices have but slightly varied. Threei, for the Account, opened at 66fr. 40c. Railway Market quiet, but firm. the market closed as follows: 41 per Cents 94 10 00. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 45 Credit Mobilier 1035 Do. end month 1035 Bank Shares '3400 Credit poncier 1220 Roman — Italian Loan 7l 35 Do. end month 7l 60 Sew ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes., Dome Debt .. — Deferred RAIL lt.Y9. Cash. Account. 972 60 .. 972 50 970 .. 970 Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 930 New ditto Geneva S Althorn Western " Eastern 395 „„ 395 Austrian Lorobard North of Spain Saragossa 6lO 610 Ditto to Barcelona 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 Lather and of my family, but I do not the less think myself bound to protest against certain assertions in your speech which attack the two things that are dearest to me in this world—truth and my country. You have called to mind, Mr. Senator, the loth May, 1848, and you believed you remen-anered that on that ill-omened day, and at the door of the in vaded National Assembly " 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. oundimplicated; Well, in this trial no P o le w as f no Polish n a m e h as even b een 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. If an anarchical party, without conscience or scrupulous ness, was able at that time to abase the name of Poland to attain 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 Grocho w 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 o your speech, those for example on feudalism in Poland; on our situation in 1812, &c., which all go to prove one thing, 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 itn 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 Hussites, 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, W i t h out any distinction. This was precisely at the epoch when religious, wars (which Poland has never known) were devas tating Christian Europe, in the very year when St. Bartholomew took place at Faris. And this date calls to my mind another interesting fact, of which you cannot be ignorant, Mr. Senator, since it is your illustrious historian, Dc 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 Montluc, 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 rtpaired to Paris, it only saluted Henry of Valois, as King of Poland, after having received from this prince the oath to main tai❑ peace between the Dissidents : Pacem 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 oppose 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 proclaimed by Catherine 11. 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 the subversive ideas of 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, I'protest 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 eizht 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 are 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 unfortunate 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 al!, 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) CZARTORYSKT. 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, uniess 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, The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille pm., ana the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 cis. 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 421 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' sigh% is 163 to 164 per cent., and the premium on gold is 494 to 494 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 MINISTRY.—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 return to town in the second week in January, and after their meetink• 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'oeuvres, 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 insurance 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, spme 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 IyOMEN 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 with a great deal of courage. We make no reflections on their taste in e,nter ing the ranks with negroes and greasy graybaeks. I,ebel dom now needs every aid on th e earth above or in the caverns under it," LITERATTJRZ The Swiss Family I?obznson. 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 Swiss 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 tho 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 entertains.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 carefully 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 laid is spoken of as situated on an island—the said island being proved by subsequent information to be an integral portion of She mainland ! A tran sparent inconsistency, again, is here notified by Mr. Laurie—namely, that representing all the leading ferce naturre 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 than 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 Mur 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 c 4 famous origi❑al, 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 ipsiesinza verba—" In short," he says, " the work is at length presented to the public [we our selves are tempted to interpolate here emphatically, we balm 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, and Galpin. We have already so often' had occasion to com ment upon the extraordinary merits of this very beautiful edition of the great re'igious 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. Selous and Mr. Paul Priolo have vied with each other in the animation and imaginativeness of their very harmo nious designs. It is imp ossible 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 bee❑ printed upon beautifullj 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 a seasonable giftbook, Cassell, Fetter, 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 of 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 vets. Hurst and Blackett. Lost anci 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 Rev. 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 Seven 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 Charicy. Illuminated. By Mrs. F. G. Delamotte. Another Blow for Life. By George Godwin, F.R.S, Allen and Co. Le Correspondent. Decembre, 1863. Ch. Dounio. It is stated that Lord Lyons is not in such perfect health as his friends and the country could wish. RisP°B u t at Washington is irksome and onerous, an I his attention t his duties is unremitting.---Army and _Navy Gazet t e. : STRONG LANGUAGE.—"" Manhattan' W r ites e q uest i n g " Lincoln blasphemed God Almighty all hands to rush to the churches, It insulted God great victory that had ended the rebelflir,the menacede,ti)jhtl, even the Teal situation of by supposing that he was ignor!._oriat of Battles for perhaps an d trip e for the affairs. He that had been 6. and that President's dwelling - ': millions of years, and knew tt:bseawt Psiaocta'r as the final result was con the Western victory, so the capture of St. John's, New foundland, e a s st l i i l i l s and burning London. con cerned, foundland, W°2l be l;ncoln never was no T r° towards sacking touches a drop of any -we all know that his constitution is weak, thing can'tstrong stand End that he it; otherwise when we read his funny productions we might say, We know that Mr. i " Oh, he was drunk when he said this or did that.' But we know he does not drink, but is extremely abstemious in his habits, and is a moral and most excellent family man." MANHATTAN might hayt quo'ed the following epigram by Burns:-- Ye hypocrites, are these your pranks I To murder mcn and gie God thanks? For shame I gie o'er, proceed no further ; God wont accept your thanks for murther. ;€7, HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 26. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday after noon, accompanied by the Princess of Wales. Dec. 27. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena► Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenlehe attended Divine service this morning at Osborne, where the Rev. iT• Prothero performed the service. The Prince and Princess of We:JCS attended service at Whippingham Church. Metropolitan Railway Maps. MR. WYLD'S MAP of the " Proposed 3,let ropolitati- Railways and Improvements" is worthy of the Queen's geographer. It is issued with admirable promptitude. And yet, swiftly though it must hors been producA, it appears—as usual with the maP 5 coming from the member for Bodmin's establish ment—throughout, in all its minutest details, to have been pencilled with a sedulous regar d to accuracy. Such an astounding wobviorkt or network as is displayed to view • Literally, employing the word Network here, with the marvellous meaning attached to it by Dr. Soh n ' son in the famous definition to be found in his quarto dictionary—to wit : " reticulations or decusations with interstices between the intersections." pr e " cisely such a web as this, is thrown here over ths map of London, as illustrative of the numerous vie' tropolitan railways, either already completed, or 13 04. in course of construction, or intended to be fabricated by the wondrous enterprise of the Great Merropolis' The scale of Mr. Wyld's new map is such as to admit of the record upon it of every minute detail tha t could reasonably be looked for in such a pubili' cation. Mn. STANFORD'S MAP of the same " Metropoiit aa Railways and Miscellaneous Improvements," pub lished simultaneously with Mr. Wyld's, is produc ed upon a considerably larger scale, is sinr a brilliantly coloured, is upon thicker pnP er ,' and is altogether far more highly-elabov lte of its kind. They neither of them clash, howeve r There is an advantage accruing to the public at large, of course, in the very fact of the rivalry thus indi cated. The utmost skill, speed, and precision apPe' r to have been applied, upon Mr. Stanford's establis h ; ment, in the production of this really beautiful 01 ' valuable map—an authentic record of accomplis hed or projected railways and improvements, the d.raw. ings of which were deposited at the Private 8111,, Office on the last day of this very last month °I November. Mr. Stanford's Map, stretched u pon a frame, or upon a roller, would be a most useful, 116 well as a highly ornamental addition to the Wa lls of any or of every London counting-house. It is a work worthy of having emanated from Mr. ford's Establishment. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT,] A few months since you published for me a couPle °f letters upon the subject of admission to the Reading•roota of this institution, of which privilege I have availed myself at various times since Michaelmas last. I think that the attendants are g , merally attentive and civil, and, in the asking for books, I have not observed any paiticular But ; there is one point of some public interest which i° worthy of notice. There seems to be no settled rule or information respect ing periodicals, or, at least, respecting country newspaP era ; Catalogues have been prepared and improved withgrea care, but this class of literature is still a sealed book, as far as the " index " is concerned, and I doubt whether tho attendants themselves know what files of newspapers th ey possess. I have had occasion to refer to a country news papers of some years' date, but it was not in the cutil logtie' t A civil attendant looked for the file, and he brough t it a the end of an hour 1 I wanted another provincial new s ' paper of the same date, and, necessarily, 1 applied to a n other attendant, who said, sharply, Oh! you must find i n tha Index." Now, it was not in the Index, yet it may ;be, liko its companion, in the Museum. These provincial paper 3 are valuable for reference with respect to title deetl,9, &co and, clearly, the public ought to know what files of papers the library contains, and which, at the present, can not D 8 known. The catalogue of London papers is vagui I also ; for the only copies indexed of the fforning Star new sP 3 P e ,, r refer to 15 numbers which were published in the yewr 183'1' of a paper so called! Whether it is intended to nu do ° it a regular complete catalogue of provincial and I.4ollcl°°' newspapers I cannot state, but it is clear that such refer; . ences are much required, and that serious inconveniien ce caused by their absence ; and I hope the Museum authei rities will endeavour to remedy this omission, for the sate° the public, shortly. THE LATE GALES AND THEIR CATT 0 The ;proximate causes of the late severe g ale : having been explained in my last, we re ay come to the original causes. These are stiP. in som a measure concealed ; so that we still " see t hr oug " glass darkly ;" but yet we perceive that in 3 11 eLlele there is deposition before we can look for in the atmosphere. The question arises, `` t ha a causes this deposition ?" The answer muss' change in temperature, for in all cases we maY tr :in this change. Then, since the Earth is 310 ) ' e , the same place as regards tge San at any gi cva t t rind of the year, it follows that there is 5c , 5 3 cause than the Sun for the changes of tern Per 3 ' - d i.. These I attribute directly to changes in the C 01 3 ,0 lion of the electricity of the atmosphere; fiat g o take from the " Nautical Almanack" all . .the 4 ' 1 ;1 1 0 during the last three years of conjunctions °f h ick Sun and Mercury, we get 19 instances, of we find 16 cases in which there were storms of The three exceptions were 22d May and 22A 1 / a d . "; 1861, and 311 August, 1863, all summer P erie k - ; Thus we may see that an electrical c hanre v ta ; t h place whenever the Sun, Mercury, and th e come into a straight line; and since the pit' ' l % l - of act powerfully on the Earth by their light, l i ce h 3 it conclude that this action is electrical, and so t 9 changes the temperature and produces storms, so the above cases. The fact being admit ted 1 h ilt 00 have storms whenever the Sun and Merct co t found in conjuction, we may account for the r ec ur) : storms by the circumstance of the planet NI , ' r , 3 o being at the time in Aphelion, when his motion b y extremely slow. 'This effect the Noun increast changing her declination on the 4th, when the..u_,e, rican was raging. The next period of the can) t ,s l ,,,,' th the 74° 0 tion of the Sun and Mercury will be . en January, 1864, at and after which I expect s° very severe gales of winch—Yours, &c• R. J. MORRISON, Command er ,ded ill MR. Fox TALBOT is said to have °.-ruhe—subject iS producing an exquisite engraving on s teel a scene in Java, and it is asserted th at deteriovation. can be printed from such plates with . ° og , a fire broke Ou t ' FIRES.—On Saturday 511000 impressioao business at Lower Bel- belonging to 3 11 ‘' a T b . o T nt h h w a a l i f t - e p s ,:s a t 2 ta o il ' o c r lo , cc a , r o ry n aini the° o l) : discover was made by a police' wbo, on passing the bui.diog f ground floor. Heat on c g o r n a s y t e a - b p l l e a c o e f , tPheimplicdo;viTsiten, noticed smoke coming from. l d sent off for the assistance of the Roy 5 raised an alarm, 511 a nd • e s a n a attended, e n s cl u e c d c , e eundersucceeded the in b charg e iiig,i : feV the Society's fire-escapes engines, In the course of a i safety 10 persons. He next ma d° r. rshisßrooker and Cotterell. The for all minutes attempt to save Mrs. Tarrant from the second 110° He took her in his arms, but owing to alarm. an d I l t o two of thema cehsicnae: vousness she tCi ascendedo down 1 i d u c u o shook herself from his grasp, and both ; ect and the conductor fell to the ground. They wt tre plc r° , up and a medical man was sent for. On arrivin, ;he P ae cl nounced the injuries to be serious, and he recooanj et ' ...a io their itemediv.te removal to the hospital, where they rewo in a very dangerous condition. The engines of the 1 1 7 , r tbe and land steamers, three manual power engines, 21 , °l tile ir Torrent, from Hodges's distillery, were early in , 00 attendance, and plenty of water was obtained, hul'.,..Lig flames could not be extinguished until tho buildirr `).it nearly destroyed. The total loss is very considerab : 11 , r i- ea ` . it is understood that the principal sufferer wo in- ;le a Before the above fire was extingu ished another W a r 00 ,1. on the premises belenzing to Mr. John Bute, a be_rito, shoe manufacturer, carrying on business at N o. 3, - 1 ?,,,, 0 nia-place, Fulham. Mr. Staples , the chief officer olftioa district of brigade, quickly a tt e nded, as well as ,ut t he steamer. A good supply of water was obtained, , °o pt fire was not extinguished until M r. Bute's prem s° of sisting of two stories, were burnt down, and the 11 7 / qr. Mr. Flick, oil and coluurman , N o. 4, and those , 00 Williams, a dairyman, damaged by fire and w ater. ca Ole fire was caused by a spark fly in g from a lighte too do among the bedding. The loss will fall principally Globe Fire-office, " 0 "1**.