The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

BPYIT - 0: 1 12TPTIBLIO JOURNALS., In the opinioit - ot the Times the man Illtuti hOid his poli tical opinions very loosely who has never resented any of Mr. Roebuck's outspoken sentences, but he must be very cross-grained who can harbour a grudge against him. Mr. Roebuck is, in fact, one of a class always popular among Englishmen. Without being precisely a humourist in the old-fashioned sense of the word, he is yet full of those sharp turns and sudden eccentricities of expression which betoken a peculiar and original individuality. He is, be fore and above all things—himself. He rests on no man's authority ; he quotes no man's words ; he is never known jurare in verba magiatri. What he has to say may be accurate or inaccurate, true or false, but it is his own. Of course, there is a good deal of self-consciousness in the surprises he springs on his friends. It cannot be doubted that he himself enjoys the privilege he possesses of stripping off the borrowed plumes which cover many of the world's idols. The enjoyment is all the more keen when the man who is to be attacked holds a position which would seem to demand from him especial respect. To scoff at a Whig or Liberal leader is a rare satisfaction. Mr. Roebuck is always severe in his scorn of authority, but when he chafes under some unfounded claim to his own allegiance his sarcasm becomes doubly bitter. Mr. Roebuck's characteristics were never more prominently displayed than in the speech he delivered at Sheffield on Friday night. His self assertion was almost riotous, and as he reviewed the whole course of our domestic history in recent years, and the pre sent state of affairs at home and abroad, he had an ample field for the display of his peculiar powers. It was not, he boasted, his habit to refer to the past, still less to dwell upon it, but there happens now and then a critical period after which it is well to consider what we have done and how we have done it, and last year was such an era in the life of our nation. Mr. Roebuck, it will be remembered, was one of the first of the members on the Liberal benches to declare his intention of supporting the Government, in the confidence that Parliament could obtain from them an excellent Reform Bill. He would have nothing to do with " Instructions," and pertinaciously refused to run the risk of another shipwreck of Reform upon such issues as rating. He reminded his hearers that in 1859 he adopted a similar line of conduct, and, though he was unsuccessful then, he remains convinced that he was right ; and the reason why Reform was not settled then was that others were less sagacious. It would appear, indeed, that ever since Lord Russell abandoned the doctrine of finality, and the nation has been " pestered" with Reform, Mr. Roebuck has held it certain that the Whigs could not carry a second Reform Bill. Lord Palmerston, he predicted years ago, might bring in a Reform Bill, but would never carry it, and the prediction proved true. Lord Palmerston died, and Mr. Gladstone introduced another Reform Bill, but Mr. Glad stone, while always shewing great power over his enemies, bas never been able to retain power over his friends. Mr. Roebuck himself steadily supported the Reform Bill of the last Russell Administration, but it was in vain. His own zeal and fidelity could not overcome the fate he himself foresaw, and the Whigs did not pass their bill. Mr. Gladstone. exercised his power over his enemies by making them more inimical than they were before, while some of his friends turned round and turned him out. It was then that Mr. Roe buck prefirred trusting to his own instincts rather than be a blind follower of his party, and, as this time others wei with him, a Reform Bill was passed. As a matter of course, Mr. Roebuck was attacked, was adjured to alter his plans, and was even requested by a noisy few at Shef field to resign. It is delightful to observe the unbounded contempt he entertains for the wretched men who ven tured thus to counsel or to denounce him. We are not quite sure whether Mr. Roebuck believes that at his age he is beyond instruction, but his scorn for the "poor creatures " who, forgetful of his long and independent career, were disposed "to treat him as a child in the matter of the Reform Bill" is wonderful. lie knew what he was helping to bring about, and now that the labour is over he is more than satisfied with the result. The Herald also says a word for Mr. Roebuck. It believes that he is the type of a class of politicians too rarely found in the ranks of the Liberal party. That ho is a thorough Liberal would hardly be denied ; it is his crime with the majority of men of the same school that he is as independent as he is honest. As a party man he is by no means safe or reliable, because he values his prin ciples rather than the interests of the section which pro fosses to represent them. It has been his fate in the course of a protracted career to discover that genuine Liberalism is not always best served by the Liberal party, and that its trusted leaders are quite capable of postponing the advancement of their cause in order to gratify a selfish ambition. Wherefore Mr. Roebuck and the handful of Liberals who think with him and were bold enough to act upon their convictions last session, are regarded with dis- Oust and aversion by the bulk of their party. They are 'not always to be counted upon at a pinch. There are times when the summons of the " whip" finds them recal citrant, and when Mr. Gladstone, let him threaten and bluster as he may, is powerless to command their alle giance. At present they stand chargeable with two unfor veable sins. But for them the Reform Bill of 1867 would have been thrown out and the Liberals would have been in oflico. No wonder that they are desperately unpopular with their party, that they are loaded with obloquy, and branded as renegades from the faith as it is preached by Mr. Gladstone. In condemning the prosecutions of the French papers for publishing the debates in the Corps Ltgislatif, the Post observes that it may perhaps be suggested that if greater liberty were accorded to journalism in France, ill would probably flow into the same channels as in England . This is, to say at the least, extremely doubtful. A press, however restricted may be the sphere of its action, must more or less faithfully represent public opinion, and the fact that social politics, if we may be permitted the ex pression, are excluded from the pages of French news papers, is strong evidence that the French public do not care about them. And this is very unfortunate in more ways than one. By confining the attention of journalists to what has been termed " la haute politique," it tends to provoke collisions with the Government, more especially when we bear in mind the keen appreciation which the French possess of strong, incisive, epigrammatic writing ; whilst on the other hand it prevents the press furnishing those proofs of true practical utility, which, whenever manifested, never failed to secure for it the most ample liberty. We do not think any valid excuse can be found for such prosecutions as those which terminated in Paris on Saturday last, but some allowances must be made for a Government which finds that the only use which is made of concessions is to find fault with the existing political system. The evils which have found a footing in car railway system are there after we have had the advantage of long experience, and in spite of its warnings. What we want, the Da:ly News contends, is, not new patent principles of railway administration and policy, but simply a return to thos , .; which have been known and recognised from the beginning, but from which directors, under the influence of temptations which they seem powerless to resist, are continually goin ,, astray. Especially does the public need to be on its guard just now against mechanical, arbitrary, and fantastic remedies for the mischiefs it is called to con template. There is really no security for the reform of our present practice but the intelligence and vigilance of proprietors. It may soothe indolence to promise that if only this expedient or that form be adopted investors may thenceforward be sure that their money will be safe and fruitful ; but if the independent shareholders of a railway either cannot or will not make themselves masters of their own affairs, if they will not possess themselves of the few and simple principles of railway management, so as to be able to check faults of administration, and further ac quaint themselves with the special character, circum stances, and interests of their line, so as to be qualified to judge of questions of policy propounded by directors, they mast expect to be continually misled. The Standard calls attention to a singular discusson which has just taken place in the French Senate. It was raised upon the petition of an enthusiastic and sentimental Imtriot to the Emperor, pra: - ing him to revive with the Belgian Government the old subject of the lion surmount ing the mound which commemorates, on the historical Brabant field, the battle of Waterloo. The Chamber exhibited equal good sense and good taste, without the slightest abandonment of national feeling, in refusing to _endorse the memori a l. It s au th or , however—M. Jules Bertin—m us t be allowed credit for a more practical motive, since he is himself a sculptor, and wanted to sub stitute a work of his own for the monarch of the desert, He proposes that the royal beast, an emblem of sanguinary struggles, shall be dethroned, to make room for a colossal statue of Pea ce . Our contemporary gives three reasons why this should not be done. In the first place, it would be preposterous to e rect an * image of Peace on the spot where, within livin g mem ry flower of three armies was buried in blood and osIV, slaughter a ; in . the second, it is childish to suggest such a tribut e to srit which does not exist, after Europe has witnessed, within the compass of a few years, three formidable conflicts, a n d is preparing with her utmost energy for at least the possibility of another lastly, nations have a right to perpetuate their t rop, les. The Eritish navy, of which every Briton is so pardonably proud, presents, according to the Telegraph, from time to time, repulsive instances of lingering barb ar i sm and cruelty ; but, to the great honour of the Admiralty, those cases have only to be made public in order to secur e the abolition of the evils. Nor, notwithstanding the ominou s croakings of Senior United critics, does " the Service" seem to "go the deuce "in consequence. The Lords of the Admiralty have just issued a curt circular, prohibiting in future the practice of " gagging." If a sailor be noisy or violent, he is no longer to be " bagged "—how is it done, with a handspik e or a hunk of oakum ? but he is to be placed in a cell. Until the issue of this circular the public p ro b a bl y i mag i ne: l th a t " gagging " the iloonths of our gallant tars was as extinct a pums.!iment as keel-hauling, or slinging a refractory tar in a bread lag) under a burning sun, up to the maintop gallant truck. As we have said, these scandals have only to be made public in order to cease. Not long ago there was a " tattooing " case in a midshipman's mess ; we shall not hear of anything more of that description, we hope- Then it was discovered that on board one of her Alaj 'sty's training-ships young gentlemen cadets were slashed with birch rods as though they had been the i blackest sheep in a reformatory : that punishment has likewise been abrogated. " Gagging " has been the next to go, ; aitl we d o h o p e th a t th ere are not many o th er blundering and barbarous practices in the navy awaiting , exposure and abolition. DESTITUTION" AND SUICIDE. On Saturday afternoon an inquiry was held at the Crown Tavern, High-street, Shadwell, bg tr. John Hum phreys, coroner, relative to the suicide of Mary Yems, aged 30. Charles Yems, 6, Plough-alley, Wapping, de. posed that he was a general dealer, and Sat the deceased was his wife. He last saw her on Monday afternoon. He had gone to market at eight in the morning, and he had stayed there till 12 o'clock ; but he had so little money---;. 4s. W.—and things were so dear, that he could not find anything cheap enough to buy. He came home, and when his wife saw he had nothing, she said, " You have bought nothing 1" He said, "My money would not allow me." She cried, "Oh what will become of us ?" and went away, and he never saw her again. They had gone through great distress ; they had four children, and for the last six months he could not make more than 6a. a week. Out of the Os. they had to pay ls. Bd. a week rent and ls. 3d. for the hire of the barrow. They could not have lived but for two ladies, who were very good to them. The coroner asked whether they had got anything from the parish. The witness said he had never applied. The deceased sometimes asked him to do so, but he said to her always, " Perhaps there will be better luck another day." A juror, who knew Yems, stated that all he said was quite true. The family were very hard working and well conducted. Mary Yems, a girl, said that her mother returned to the house at half-past ten o'clock on Monday night, and made the bed and suckled the baby. She asked whether the rent and the barrow men were paid. She then said she would go and get some fancy shirts, and would sit up all night to make them. She went away and never came back. She used to work at making slop shirts for a penny a shirt. For the better sort of shirts she used to get lad., 10., and even 2d. She had to find her own needles and thread. She could make three or four shirts a day. She used to work for Mrs. Pickering, of Red Lion-street, Wapping, They used to get no meat sometimes for weeks. They lived on bread and dripping when they could get it. They could not get anything when her father had no work. He was kind to them, and willing to work when he could get it to do. The youngest child was 18 months old. Witness was the eldest. Her mother used often to say to her, " Oh my, Polly, ain't it dreadful ? we have got nothing to eat again to-day!" Richard Mallen proved that he found the body of the deceased in the Thames, near the entrance to the London Docks. She was dressed in clothes that de noted great destitution. The coroner, in summing up, re marked that the story, as told by the witnesses, was one of the saddest of the many sad ones he had to hear from time to time. The life of the poor woman, as she tried to eke out her husband's scanty earnings by making shirts at a penny a-piece, finding her own needles and thread, was such as well might upset her reason, and cause her in a moment of despair to throw herself into the river. He was informed that the testimony of the juror as to the good character and industry of the family was borne out by that of the district visitor. The jury returned a ver dict of " Suicide while in a state of unsound mind through distress." The man Yems was recalled, and asked what he had had to eat that day. He replied, We have not had a bit to eat to-day (it was then half-past two o'clock). If you go to my plac3, you will find it is so." The little girl was recalled and asked the same question. She said that she had now been taken by a lady as a servant, and she had enough to eat, but her sisters had only a bit of dry bread, and her father had nothing. The coroner and the jury made up a small subscription for the family. A STRANGE AFFAIR.—The Waterford correspon dent of the Freeman's Journal writes that on Friday morning one of the guns at the fort of Duncannon, Passage West, near that city, was found " spiked." No information wa - ; procurAb!e on th, subject, and he under. stands that no clue has been found to the " spiker." THE ILLEGALITY OF LOTTERIES. —A case of im portance, as affecting- persons engaged in originating lotteries, was decided by the county magistrates at Can terbury on Saturday. The Rev. Henry Geary, incumbent_ of Christ Church, Herne Bay, was summoned by direction of the chief of the Kent county constabulary, " for that he did, on the 6th of January last, at Herne Bay, in the parish of Herne, publicly keep a certain place, there to exercise and keep open, to be drawn by numbers, a certain illegal lottery not authorised by Parliament, to wit, a lottery for divers prizes of goods." The evidence adduced by several witnesses on behalf of the prosecution went to shew that a bazaar for the sale of fancy articles was recently held at Herne Bay, in order to obtain funds to assist in the cost of enlarging Christ Church. A number of articles remained undisposed of, and these the rev. defendant announced would be got rid of by means of a public lottery, which took place in the school. room attached to the church. The fee for a single chance in the drawing was 2e. 6d., and persons who paid that sum drew from a bag, held by a lad in the building, a ticket entitling them to a certain article. Some articles were of greater value than others, none being of less value than the amount paid, and there were no blanks. Mr. Geary did not dispute the facts of the case ; but urged that the course adopted by him was in every respect similar to pro ceedings carried on almost daily throughout the country, and he had no idea that he was infringing the law. The bench, through their clerk, said this might be so, but if proceeki.ings at law were taken in such eases, the parties concerned would be equally liable to conviction. The de fendant was then convicted, and directed to come up for judgment if called upon, and mulct in costs amounting to 21 4s. 6d. FATAL PARISH NEGLECT. —An inquest has been held at the Market House, Poplar, on the body of Caroline Siddle, aged 45 years, the wife o! a painter, living at 45, Augusta-street, Poplar. She had been a healthy woman all her life, but, being seized with a sudden illness on Tuesday week, an order for the parish doctor was got the next day. A boy of 18 visited the deceased and prescribed for her. He saw her again on the following Saturday : another gentleman saw her on Sunday, and on Monday she died.—Dr. H. Stanley Gale, M. 8., the parish surgeon, said there were 120 parish patients to be visited at their own homes, and over 400 to treat at his surgery. He had two assistants, neither legally qualified. The salary (added the doctor) is £lO5 a year, and the medicine is to be found out of it. I remonstrated with the board of guar dians, but without result. I then wrote to the Poor-law Board ; and they sent an assistant for a short time.—Dr. James Edmunds said that the deceased had died from strangulated hernia. The inteAine might easily have been relieved by an operation, and thus the woman's life saved. The amount of work cast upon the parish medical officer was altogether overwhelming, and the £lO5 a year would not pay for the necessary medicine for 600 patients—a number greater than that of all the sick in the London Hospital.—Dr. Gale said that he bad written to the Poor-law Board to say that he was sure some accident of this kind would happen. The day this woman died thirty-two fresh orders came in to him. He would have seen the deceased himself if he had not been engaged visiting cases which he believed to be more serious. The stricture was so small that it could hardly be detected. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from strangulated hernia, and that her death 'was accelerated by the want of properly-qualified medical attendance ; and that the board of guardians are to blame in requiring the parish surgeon, Dr. Gale, to attend and supply medicine to so many more patients than he can personally see and prescribe for, while they pay him so small a salary that he is not able to employ properly qualified assistants to help him." THE FATAL STORM IN EDINBURGH. For fully five hours on Friday (says the Scotsman) there raged over a large part of Scotland, and part of England, a hurricane of wind, rain, and snow, such as has not been witnessed for many years ; and the sad effects are written in grievous loss of life, in many painful accidents, and in no small destruction of property. The fall of the barometer dUring the previous night and 04 Friday morning gave warning of some atmospheric change at hand ; the sky had become by ten o'clock overcast and lowering ; and by twelve o'clock the tempest had set in. It grew in fury till about one o'clock, when there oc curred in Edinburgh the saddest of all the incidents of the storm. A tall chimney-stack at the back of the residence of Mr. John Keegan, S.S.C., in Duke-street, was blown down, and, tumbling through the roof, it threw down the whole of the back part of the house, six storeys in height, burying six inmates in the ruins. It was found that four persons had been killed. In the upper part of the house a servant had been killed, and another severely injured ; further down, Miss Keegan had been killed ; and of three clerks at work in the lowest apartment, two were killed, and one narrowly escaped, and was extricated almost unhurt. Several other accidents also occurred in Edinburgh, hut, fortu nately, in none of them were lives lost. Many narrow escapes, however, took place from falling chimney stacks, cans, and bricks ; and the streets, strewed with fragments of masonry and loose mortar, made it appear as if the city had been visited by a siege rather than a gale of wind. The area of the storm seems to have been wide, but its fury was doubtless spent in the southern counties of Scotland. In Glasgow the wind was bvle,r)liymvioinleuatb, out and the roof o'clock, roofo and a fa house in womaned wasford-lane killed.m'as From other quarters also there come reports of accidents, th m eol o we s g t erv ( a ) e f prh t , 1 wires ,e make k i h o ea w vu e ep v e bt i e j l of s een fulldaialnmcaalgt aeal,cloc,guoaunendto.f railllo s s t o iseals losses, Mourn communica tion—with tion— with the north in particular—ha s been much im peded by trees and telegraph posts falling across the lines, and also, in the central district, by a heavy snow storm. It may be expected that the disasters at sea will prove to be numerous and serious —indeed, it is known that four Newhaven fishing-boats and two Dunbar boats are missing. ROMAN AFFAIRS. ROME, January 18th. The representative ceremonies of the Epi phany in the various churches are too multi farious to be detailed in one letter. The most primitive are those of the Ara Coali, that mys terious dedication which speaks of the strangest aspiration of the old philosophy after the teach ing of the new. It is impossible now to dis tinguish which is true among the various legends of the occurrences which induced Augustus to dedicate an.altar to God's First- Born on the spot over which it was subse quently built. That which ascribes it to his regard for the oracle, Me Puer llebraeus Divos Deus ipse gubernaus Cedere sede jubet, tristemque redire sub orcum. Aris ergo dehin tacitus abscedito nostris." has been sufficiently often repeated for its terms to have become household words, and thus, to the present day in Italy (whence it has also passed into Spain), " I will give you to Orco ' is as common a means of frightening a crying child into silence as " I will give you to old Boguy " among us. Another, which tells us that Augustus, hav ing consulted the Sibyl of Tivoli as to whether he might allow the people to pay him divine honours as conqueror of the world, after three days' fast was shown by her the heavens opened, and in the midst an altar, over which a Child in the arms of a beautiful Virgin, the stars making a crown of light round them, while in the ears of the entranced Emperor there resounded the words, " Haec ara Filii Dei est," is commemorated in the antiphon sung after Compline in the Ara Cceli. " Stellato hic in circulo, Sybilla tune oraculo, Te vidit Rex in Cs' elo." This popular tradition also received another commemoration in an ancient marble altar frontal of this church, at one end of which Augustus, wearing his imperial crown, is re presented kneeling before the Blessed Virgin, who stands at the other end with the Divine Infant in her arms. Likewise in the presepio (the representation of the Crib of Bethlehem, which most churches, and private houses, too, put up at this season) of the Ara Cceli figures of the Sibyl and Augustus used to kneel in the foreground, and symbolize the subjec tion of the Pagan to the Christian regime of Rome. For a year or two past this significant representation has been neglected. In all other particulars it was as elaborate this year as every other, and the mazy effects of lights and clouds and heavenly hosts de lighted the infant visitors as usual. Among the pictures, flowers, and fruit lay the oranges from the Convent garden, which it is the yearly custom for the good Frati to bring round to those whose offerings they come to seek. The life-sized shepherds kept watch through the octave of the Nativity, and then day by day of their three days star-led jour ney the wise men appeared, journeying on over the mountains, in the distant recesses of the scenic chapel, till ultimately, on the Epiphany, they take their place in the foreground, and lay their offerings before the young Child and His mother. But the figure of that young child itself is the wonder of the place. It was carved by a saintly Zoccolante or wooden-sandalled Brother in Jerusalem, out of an olive tree from the sacred Garden of Gethsemane. Various won ders attended the manner of its completion and its journey to Rome, and the veneration it received on its first arrival seems never to have cooled. It is literally covered with the jewels offered to it chiefly on occasion of re coveries from illness, when its visit to the house of the sick person has been sought. After the Gospel in the third Mass on Christ mas Day, it is brought out from its little chapel in the sacristy, and placed in the presepio already prepared to receive it, and there it remains all through this season, only hidden on the Feast of Holy Innocents, in memory of the flight from Herod. Opposite the presepio an estrade is raised, from which the praises and perfec tions of the Divine Bainbino are spoken " out of the months of babes." I believe seven years is the age which must not be exceeded by these infantine preachers. Then on the Epi phany, after Vespers, it is carried round the church in procession, and finally restored to receptacle.its L a a c s c t us m to o m n e d d ayshoNved the Romans had lost of none o f their a being pres present for deposition. the popular While h i c . u l e s custom their i - anbvrotheerh and all its approaches s were yetsingi ng V Fra es u p c e i r s s c , the hur were already th ronge d. Th e semi military uni form of the vol un t eer firemen hardly enabled them to enforce the necessity of leaving room for the processio n . The incensing of the pre sepio at the Magnificat is, indeed, one part principal adjunct o f the ceremony which they come out to see. The Franciscans have a fine organ and some excellent voices, and t no one seemed tired tsirunekd farof l b is e t lo e w nin th g e t l o ev th el e o i ' though the in the church, a n d the proportions owi of the shrouded in darkness. At last the begimiingchanting to be gloomy ancient building were ceased, and the band struck up the march measures the steps of the procession whichTh j thrown open, there poured in the gorgeous ompt the great western doors of the church . b • en the gd settingng ebagkorgeeoinnsg ofth s a un t roof refl the helmets and instruments of the Pc from• • raysand thofewas made so gorgeous to celebrate the victory of Lepanto, like a festal illumination to light the Infant King as he is laid to his rest. The whole Capi toline mount swarmed like a gigantic anthill, bending in attitudes of devotion before the venerable effigy of the S a • viour in His lowliness as it was brought out from the summit of those proud steps, to pour out His benedictions on the meek and lowly of heart. Having spoken of one of the oldest Epi phany celebrations, I may say a few words about one of the most modern. Not many years ago a Roman priest, Vincenzo Pallotti, by name, instituted a pions society of missions, its members consisting not only of those who give themselves up to the ecclesiastical state, but also comprising a sodality of persons living in the world who help the work of the mis sions by prayers or alms, or in any other use man- ner. The congregati on h as for general very small church on the left bank. a ! of the Tiber, I but at the Epiphany season it has the use of the noble church of St. Andrea della Valle, which is festively d r aped and decorated for the occasion, the whole east end o f the nave being occupied by a presepio, with its attendant magi, and lighted by the Star of Bethlehem. Every day during the octave, from five in the morning till the evening Ave, there is hardly any cessation of the pious work. First there is Mass according to the Latin right, with sermon in Italian, and Benediction. This is succeeded by a High Mass. Then follows Mass, said according to the rites of various Oriental communities in union with Rome ; then a sermon every day in a different Euro pean language. Then Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Meditation, and Benedic tion, given by a Cardinal. Later in the even ing preachers go out attended by Confrater nity men—their black habits leaving only their eyes uncovered—bearing crucifixes and lamps, and taking up their stand in some piazza or carrefonr, speak the word of God in the high way. Men are arrested by the sound as they lounge or hurry by, and most stay till the few fervent words are concluded, and follow the missioner back to the church, where Rosary, Instruction, and Benediction close the day. If I had time I would speak of another in teresting commemoration—that of the return: of the Holy Family from Egypt, which is kept here on the 7th of January ; but I must leave this now for another year. From the Epiphany to to-day, the feastrof St. Peter's Chair in Rome, there is a lull in the functions which derive their lustre from the presence of the Pope. In the interim we have only the more, popular festival of St. Antony's octave, which began yesterday with the usual blessing of animals brought for the purpose to his church near Sta. Maria Maggiore. To day is also a fester at one of the most interest ing churches of Rome, that of St, Prisca. It THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1868 occupies a spot on the western slope of the • Aventine, which tradition assigns to the house of SS. Priscilla and Aquila, the first where St. Peter stayed in Rome. It may, therefore, be considered to have sheltered the nucleus of the first Christian congregation of the Eternal City. It was at a later period he occupied that of St. Pudentius. The vessel out of which he performed many baptisms is preserved with great veneration in a crypt under the church ; it has something of the form of the capital of a pillar, richly sculptured and set on a modern pedestal. In more ancient times there had been a temple of Diana in the groves which clothed the hill-side, and possibly some remains of this found in the saint's garden may have been dug out and preserved as a work of art, just as happens every day now, and the cherished ornament, probably the choicest the house afforded, was naturally offered to the apostle for the use of his sublime ministry. The St. Prisca, in whose honour the church is dedicated, suffered martyrdom under Clau dius 11. in 275, and her remains were con cealed from the faithful. St. Entichianus, the Pope at the time, having learnt their hiding place in a dream, went out attended by his clergy and many of the faithful, and, having recovered them, interred them in this sanc tuary. St. Priscilla, mentioned by St. Paul both in his Epistles to .the Romans and in that to the Corinthians (for she and her husband, St. Aquila, when driven out of Rome by the persecution under the first Claudius, took up their abode in Corinth), is called Prisca in one of those to St. Timothy, and from these cir cumstances the two saints have often been confounded in the guide books. This is one of the earliest churches chosen as titular for a cardinal, there being mention of a cardinal priest of SS. Prisca and Priscilla as present at the second Roman Council. It now gives the title to Cardinal Puente, Archbishop of Cam postella. There is already much speculation and in quiry as to whois to be invested with the purple on the 17th of March. The names I gave you last week are those chiefly canvassed. It is said if Mgr. Bonaparte is one (and there seems little doubt of it) he will not be nomi nated to any French diocese, but will reside in Rome as one of those cardinals who more im mediately compose the Court of the Sovereign Pontiff. The next in order of probability is Mgr. Borromeo-Arese, major-domo of the Pope. Ile is a descendant of a brother of St. Charles. Then Mgr. Berardi, Under Secretary of State ; the Portuguese and Spanish Nuncios, Mgr. Monaco-la-Valetta, of the Congregation of the Sacred Office ; Mgr. Capalti, Secretary of the Propaganda ; Mgr. Gonella, Archbishop of ViterbO ; and Mgr. Moreno, Archbishop of Valladolid. As there are twenty-one vacant hats it is not likely the above will be all the creations. I have on a previous occasion men tioned other names as more or less likely. Two are already conferred in petto. I believe it is pretty generally known that when this is the case, though the nomination may not be made public, even for years, yet the place by seniority in the Sacred College of the cardinal so nomi nated dates from the day of his creation in. pelt°. This mode of nomination is employed in favour of persons whom the Pope desires to honour specially, but who cannot for a time assume the cardinalitial state, either on ac count of their age, or because they are in a position of serving the Church in a way it would be desirable to interrupt or other such cause. Cardinal d'Andrea's submission has subjected him to rude comments on the part of the re volutionary pap ers w h o before vied in extolling him. His eminence had an audience of the Pope on Monday, at which Mgrs. Antonelli and Patrizzi were presen t as witnesses of the interview of r econc ili a tion. Of course there h not been wanting voices to predict that work so nearly carried through would be de molished unde r th e p re ssure of this last finish ing touch ; h a p p il y , su ch auguries were fully belied. The H o l y F a ther seems to have spoken in uncompromising terms of what had taken place in the past, but his Eminence listened with great submission. There was one moment, indeed, when he spoke of having been pro voked or driven to the course of action he had ca m to the audie a n nl c ed e sna d: obt e hi s a s nn e gd d adopted, but he was met by a circumstantial narrative of the sufferings patiently endured by the Holy See and the Sacred College. Yield ing to the we ight of testimony brought against him, the Cardinal renewed his submission in terms' which could ro e fail to satisfy the Pope. e a w v b i e t i n h s h t p o h n r P p e zuchetta, other words, more, for cardinals only have the privilege of by very ancient concession, have wearing the zuchetta (or skull-cap) in the m simply a i esllien Eminencet t a a, bnilnaocttkhec wearinggasasrobck of' Pope's presencwe.earThtehree are, in din d a ee li d ti , a b l y i t ns he ig w n a i y a a few bishops, such as those of Lucca and Salz burg, who, the right to but they, also, are required to lay aside the scarlet zuchetta in presence of a cardinal. The Pope signified to Cardinal d'Andrea that he had resolved to convert the Abbey of fseneadosttw council,oti o t f h a o s t a y Subiaco into a bishop's see, and that he would let him know later his decision regarding his Eminence's himselfS c a h b a ipneala; on further, r t t h h a e t r , d t a h y a t( (to day). would receive on the 18 th—festival of the Chair of St. Peter —the Brief autthhoeriz6iinapepheillma calumnious, to resume the Roman Purple, wearing which, Immaculate Concep guhrteeaiatadyeal that s violent he could d in t p h r e es s en ix t tin tio S n in h c a e s promulgation of the generallae us, has been published on the subject. and absurd It would take up too much of your space to enter • into a de tailed refutation of such attacks. There is no ' reason h o wever, as yet to believe, as has been asserted, that all idea of holdin g it has been abandoned. The commissio ns charged to pre pare the prelim inar y mat erials are sedulously at work ; and the Holy Father has specially directed that the recent work of the Arch bishop of Westminster should be published in Italian, two facts which show that it still oc cupies a place in the mind of th e Pope. The amount received from the Diocese of Mayence for the Papal y, up to the end of the second week of thi s vear, amounted to u p w ards of 10,000 florins: the pattern it has set, continue in many of the towns of bothto be held Prussia and Aus tria, and very co nsiderable collections offered for the maintenanc e of th e Pontifical army are lbeing sent. The movement has likewise ex- I tended into Hilng a , the collection in Buda i Pest alone amounted r 40,000 lire. It within a few days to will be w e ll nl Y be augured this move mentwith which the kept up, from the readiness appeal for subscriptions of the Peter's Pence was which it has beenas met, and the steadiness with : the Diocese of continued year by year— ! under that head 65000 for instance, sending ead 65 000 scudi annually, and other dioces es in ' proportion. And it is not without reason that Germans who wish well to Rome should bestir themselves now, for the enemi es of Rome are receiving substantial help from Germany too. I have it from a most undeniable source that Prussia is most vigorous i n the work of supplying Italy with needle-guns. 45,000 were received at the port of Genoa up t o the last day of 1867, and every week lar ge ca - by the land ses of the same are consigned route also. On the other hand, again, we have a number -of men lately arrived who will be invaluable in filling up th e companies of the carbinieri esteri, as they have served some time in the Prussian army, out of which they have volunteered. No one seems to have any faith in the new Italian 3,1* • mistry. The crisis has laid bare pretty plainly the utter want of accord reign ing in the country. There is no cohesion even between watchword,m embers reputed. of the same party. The" United Italy," has introduced nothing but disunion.; it is all very well for foreigners to sit over the map and give favour of dividing sentence in • • • g people by geo graphical boundaries, but those who are of the people an d acquainted with the people know that union was never further off than now. The map may suggest that the Peninsula is quite small enough as compared with the gigantic dependencies of other Governments to be all gathered under one regime. But the people themselves think otherwise. The histories, traditions, customs and loyalties of all the various countries of the Peninsula are different one from the other, and, each is too classic to be merged into one heterogeneous mass as if they were so many tribes of savages on a barbarous shore. The declaration of union, and the estab lishment of a clamorous meeting of violent demagogues under the nameof a national Par liament have done nothing towards creating either the one or the - other. It is true the people have not fought much against it, but beware of thinking this is because they are conquered ; they—that is the masses—are sullen and reserved, and hold aloof with dig nity. They vote not, neither do they join in any act of adhesion to the new Government— they are not a fighting people, but, they know _what is better, and more rational, they know how to bid their time. People at a distance believe because there has not been much civil war that, therefore, the work is accomplished, but the masses on the spot regard it merely as a huge impossibility, and tolerate the farce because they know it is safe to do so. Let it have its wild day and wear itself out ; of what avail to encounter all the labour of tearing down the cardboard edifice when it must suc cumb so shortly through its own want of foun dation ? THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The French packet from the Brazils and River Plate has arrived, and her news has partly been anticipated by the English mail. From the seat of war in Paraguay the additional news shows the im possibility of the Allies to invest Humaita. Gen. Lopez has opened a good communication with the capital through the Chaco, besides the way by Pillar, the river is also yet open to him, the supplies he receives are on the greatest scale, and a miracle to the Allies, who do not know from whence they come, when they themselves, having the whole world open to them, are short of every necessary. Several sanguinary fights took place, but without any decided result, though in all of them the Brazilians were defeated. The Allies have forti fied themselves very strongly at Tujuti and Tujucue, and every one capable of bearing arms, without re.. spect to nationalities, was enrolled for fear of an other attack like that on the 3d of November. The Allies have tried to make a raid into the inte rior of the country, but the result was very trifling, as they only could bring about 400 head of cattle and a few horses as a return for their expedition, notwithstanding the country was full of them ; but not aParaguayan was to be seen, and only one woman and two children. Cholera and small-pox have re appeared to an alarming extent in the army and on board the fleet, which still remains between Curti : paity and Humaita. The state of the Argentine Confederation is anything but tranquil. The re bellion of the " Monteneras" has as yet not been suppressed, and the officers sent to put the rebellion down now openly disobey the orders of the National Government. It is generally believed that General Urquiza, former President of the Confederation, is at the bottom of this new revolutionary movement to secure his election for President, Which will take place in about four months, when the term of Pre sident Mitre expires. The election of General Urquiza to the presidency would change the whole affairs of the River Plate, as he is the open friend of Marshal Lopez, with whom he would side imme diately against the Brazilians whom Urquiza con siders invaders. General Urquiza is a great friend to all foreigners, and a protector and promoter of all improvements; which his immense wealth allows him effectually to be. At Buenos Ayres, as may be easily understood, business is nil, and to add to the dismal state of things, cholera has made its appearance again, to prevent which large fires have been kindled in the streets. In consequence of the depression of the value of the great staples of the country, wool, hides, &c., and the initnense amount of goofs and merchandise on hand, which fill the Custom House and every other warehouse in the city, the Government thought proper to re duce the duties on exports and imports very con siderably, to help, if possible, the commercial com munity. On the Buenos Ayres Stock Exchange it was currently reported that the Brazilian Go vernment had contracted a new loan for £3,000,000 with Messrs. Rothschild, of London, at the rate of 62i per cent., and that already pert of this new loan had arrived at Rio de Janeiro, on which news Public Securities rose. As long as Brazil is able and willing to pay all the expenses of the war, and pay in gold for all she buys, Buenos Ayres does not care how long the war lasts.—Anglo-American Times. RESOURCES OF NEVADA, U.S. It is the common notion of the citizens, or the occu pants, of Eastern Nevada that the resources of the country will of themselves attract a population, and keep the section upon its onward cou rse • and some m ore than usually honest say, if the native wealth is not here to show itself, then people had better not come. But very few exhibit any public spirit or willingness to aid in advancing the interests of the country by making its resources, condition, and advantages known. Rich as Eastern Nevada may be, there are other sections possessing resources of a high order, and these are making great efforts to procure population, capital,and. public improvements. The States of the Mississippi Valley, now so popu lous and wealthy kept their agents at the seaboard cities to aid, advise, and forward emigrants. and sent other agents to Europe well supplied with maps, guide-books, reports, explanations, and instruc tions, and individual companies, cities, and coun ties joined in the enterprise, and unexampled pros perity is the consequence. Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado are doing everything possible—not as States, but by individuals, companies, and commu nities, to make their resources known —showing in glowing colours the beauty of their valleys, the breadth of th?, prairies, the depth and fertility of the soil, the grazing and agricultural advantages, their quarries of building stone, better suited and more convenient than a free brickyard, their coal mines of illimitable extent and superior quality, their gold, silver, lead, copper, and iron mines, the acce ssibility of the country and the progr, ss of railroads, tke healthiness and salubrity of the climate, and the bright future, so that one can but see that it is a paradise before him, and that the gates are open. The fine presentation made by Colorado at the Paris Expo sition won for it a gold medal, and the attention of the French Government and European capitalists, and the Emperor has sent a commission of scientific and prominent men to make an examination and report, and at the same time quite a number of in dividuals, savans and capitalists are upon the same errand. The well• directed and generous en terprise of the Coloradiaus has opened for them a new era, and from dying of inanition they will in all probability go forward in uninterrupted pro sperity. Our neighbour, Utah, too, bids for popu lation, and takes most liberal measures to procure it, by sending missionaries and money to all the densely-peopled parts of Europe. While not pretending to have rich mines of gold and sil ver, and promising only a livelihood as . a recom pense for industry, economy, and toil, Utah yet receives a constant stream of immigration, and the desert country is made the happy homes of a large and thrifty population. They say there is room yet for tens and hundreds of th o usands of people in their valleys; that they ha ve not yet begun to set tle and improve all that is capable of settlement and cultivation, and that they can sustain half a million comfortably. In this idea they are going on to attract population and fill up their country. So all others are energetically presenting the re sources of their section and its claims for set tlement and the opportunities of capital. Since the establishment of the Reveille, it has been its constant endeavour to advocate the best interests of the section, and present its resources to the world. W e have persisted in the course, and shall continue until the country, by its productions, publishes to the world a stronger argument than we can present in words. We have seen other places flash up and die away, while our own locality has kept steadily onward. In this con nection, we will not hesitate to say, without dis paraging the claims of the above-named sections, that we could select four or five mining districts out of the numerous ones located in Central and Eastern Nevada, and employ more men and more money thereon, advantageously and to a profit, than in any other section on the globe. To par ticularise we might mention the great "Nevada Giant Ledge" at Cortez, 70 miles north-east of Austin, upon which are located the St. Louis, Mount Tenabo, and other companies. • This ledge alone, when properly opened, will give employment to thousands of labourers ; and what can be said of this ledge can with equal truth be said of the lead ing ledges of Austin, Belmont, Twin River, Hot Creek, and other leading districts of this section. The St. Louis Mine at Cortez has been for some time shipping ore to Austin, a dist ince of 70 miles, for reduction, there being no custom mill in the district. All the ore thus shipped has yielded from 150 to 200 dollars per ton. In substantiation of the above, which we cut from a late number of the Mese River Reveille, it is only necessary for us to continue our researches and quotations from that and other papers upon the resources of that country. FROM CORTEZ.--The mines that are being worked at present in this district are turning out well. The larger number are lying idle for want of capi tal. Nearly all the work is done on the St. Louis and the mines of the Mount Tenabo Company, which are producing a large amount of good rock. The St. Louis Company had about one hundred tons of second class ore worked at the mill of the Mount Tenabo Company, which yielded $l3O per ton. The first class from this mine, considerable lots of which were worked at the Keystone mill, near Austin, yielded some $250 per ton. The company is putting up build ings, and such other improvements as will be neces sary to work the mine during the winter, and under the management of the superintendent, Mr. S. Wenban, the mine cannot fail to be a paying one. The Mount Tenado company is preparing to work its mines and to keep the mill going during the winter. It is the pioneer company of Cortez, and is deserving of credit for its perseverance in developing its property to its present condition. There should be no longer any doubt of the character of the mines of the company, in the face of their appearance and the bulliBn produced by them. The extensive property of the company is well managed by Mr. H. 11. Day, formerly of the Savage Mine in Virginia city. In my judgment, in less than two years the Mount Tenabo Company will ship more bullion than any other in Eastern Nevada. BULLION FROM CORTEZ.—Russell's stage from Cortez brought 19 bars of bullion, valued at about $17,000, from the mill of the Mount Tenabo Com pany. Russell's stage also brought from Cortez 1,400 ounces of crude bullion from the St. Louis Company. BULLION FROM lONE.—Three large bars of bul lion, weighing 4,805 ounces, were brought into the city from the Knickerbocker mill, near lone. Anglo-American Times. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. CFrom the Anglo-American Times.) The latest news by mail is from Portland, by the Nova Scotian, dated New York, Jan. 11th, and a few straggling papers only have reached us. The meetings to secure the rights of American citizens abroad continue, and a great gathering was held, on the evening of the 10th, at Washington, when reso lutions were adopted censuring Minister Adams for neglect of duty, and urging Congress to legislate so as to secure the rights of citizens abroad, and means, it was said, must be discovered to apply a remedy for the cruelties exercised towards Americans by the British authorities. Mr. Montgomery Blair and Senator Wilson addressed the meeting, and letters, sympathizing with the object in view, were rea d from Mr. Colfax, General Banks, and other members of Congress. There was nothing said of the suffer_ ings and cruelties exercised on British citizens by the persons these gentlemen seem so anxious to claim as countrymen. Such meetings are, as we expected, the order of the day, and the Fenians are hard at work to give them as national a character as possible. In Canada, according to the Herald, guards have been placed over the public buildings, as Fenian attacks were apprehended ; yet, under such threats, and while these people were openly organizing to carry out their atrocious filibustering proceedings, the House of Representatives has passed a resolution requesting the President to in tercede with the Queen in behalf of Father Mac mahon, the Fenian prisoner in Canada, and also for Lynch, Warren, Nagle, and other Fenians. The last news from Alexandria is to the 22d January, and it states on reliable authority that the Viceroy intends to withdraw the greater part of the Egyptian troops from Abyssinia, leaving only a few men at Massowah. The expedition appears to be progressing favourably. The climate on the upper plateaux has proved to be fine, and the men are in good health. The details have been carried out re gardless of expense ; and wharves, tramways, tele graphs, wells, &c., are in course of construction, as if the foundations were being laid for a colony. The Virginia Convention favours Chief Justice Chase for the Presidency. The West Virginia Democratic Convention puts forward Mr. Pendle ton, and adopts his plan for the redemption of the national debt. The Ohio and Indiana Democratic State Conventions are also for Mr. Pendleton, for the taxation of Government Bonds, and the cur rency payment of the Five-Twenties. The Recon struction policy of President Johnson is likewise endorsed —Democracy pledged to support him, and the course of Congress strongly denounced. Reso lutions also were passed opposing negro suffrage, the payment of the rebel debt, and the centralization of power; declaring the concurrence of the Demo cracy in the abolition of slavery, and thanking the Union soldiers for suppressing the rebellion. The Georgia Conservative Convention has issued an address against the Reconstruction policy of Con gress, and urges the people to unite in opposing negro suffrage. A resolution has been introduced into the Virginia Convention _ providing that a payment of 25 per cent. should be a legal settle ment of all debts contracted in Virginia during the rebellion. The office of Commissioner of Patents, lately filled by Mr. Theaker, is still vacant, though a place eagerly contended for at Washington. Though the salary is only $4,000 a year, it is rumoured that the incumbent generally makes a fortune in three or four years. Mr. Alfred B. Ely, of Boston, and Mr. D. Bishop, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, were each supposed to be likely to succeed. Mr. Bishop would have to vacate the Presidency of the New York and New Haven Railroad, with a yearly salary of $lO,OOO, which those not in the secrets of the Patent-office consider a far better thing. It is certainly not a little strange that a man should eagerly seek to exchange an income of $lO,OOO for one of $4,000. The President is said to pretend that it was Secretary Browning who removed Mr. Theaker, and to be anxious to procure a man of known honesty for the post. The Times, in its reply to the second letter of Lord Hobart on the Alabama claims, says, " he en tirely ignores any grievance on the side of Great Britain, and argues as if it were possible for the United States to be at war for the purpose of de stroying our commerce with its enemy, yet at peace for the purpose of impugning our neutral rights. This fallacy is equally fatal to his practical conclu sion whether it be advocated on grounds of inter national law or of international morality. If Great Britain was not legally justified in recognizing an actual state of war—an hypothesis which almost re futes itself—neither were the United States legally justified in enforcing against neutrals, rights which have no validity except during the existence of an actual state of war. If Great Britain was not morally justified in availing herself of her legal rights, she may at least complain in her turn of the many harsh measures employed in the suppression of the rebellion, by which her interests were affected." Doubtless there is great force in this argument. But we maintain the truth of what we have elsewhere asserted, that the circumstances were wholly different on this and the other side of the Atlantic, and that the real point of the grievance, is the aid and countenance given by England to rebels who were striking at the life of the United States. The Washington Government was compelled, by its position, to adopt stringent measures to save itself in a great emergency, while the British Government was in the position of a spectator of a contest be tween a respectable citizen and a robber, who has no right to proclaim neutrality, and then become bot tle-holder for the footpad. We hold with the Times that such mutual recriminations are far better avoided. The war is ended, and the United States triumphant. The precedent has been established which it is for the interests of civilization, but more especially for England, should be abolished. Eng land established it, and England benefited by it. Let England acknowledge her error—express her sorrow—and pay the penalty ; and thus put on re cord the fact, that where a nation, however strong, has permitted its citizens to commit a wrong against a friendly power, it is her duty to bear the burden. The controversy has been carrie I on, Lord Hobart stoutly maintaining his opinion against Historicus and the Times; but we hold with the Rev. Newman Hall, considering the true policy to lie in settling the bill first, and splitting hairs after. The English are groaning over an increase of a ponny in the pound in the income tax caused by the Abys sinian war. This makes the aggregate fivepence in the pound, equivalent to a little over two per cont. income ax : ours is five. The tax in England is imposed on the average income for three years, and all incomes of £lOO or $5OO are exempt. With us the exemption applies to all under $l,OOO. But our income tax is more than twice as heavy as the English, to say nothing of the taxes on manufactures and various articles of common consumption, in which they are are more than four times as high. The day for our exulting over other nations in the matter of light taxation seems to have passed away.—Baltimore Commercial. The case of Matilda Griggs has directed public attention to the practice of binding over private persons to prosecute criminals, and a little story in "Once a Week" is brought forward to show the curious results which often ensue. A Russian author, it seems, has gravely asserted that whenever a Russian has his pocket picked in Eng land he is always put in prison for a fortnight while the thief is sent about his business. Tne incident from which this startling generalisation was deduced is said to have been as follows :—A. Russian captain having been robbed in Cheapside was bound over to prosecute the supposed thief. But his ship was ready for sea, and by the terms of the charter-party he was bound to sail the next day. He was offered the alternative of entering into a recog nizance for £lOO, or being detained in prison, and pre ferred to go to prison, for then the owners of the vessel would know he was not to blame. On the other hand, the friends of the prisoner, alleging his innocence, went before a judge at Chambers, and procured his liberation on bail. At the termination of the 1.4 days the sittings at the Central Criminal Court were held. The Russian captain was brought up in custody. The accused, forfeiting his bail, did not appear; whereupon, without explanation, the Russian was discharged, after having suffered 14 days' im prisonment. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. Liverpool Jan. 16.—Arrived, the Cairnsmore from San Francisco, and the Progress from Mobile. Sailed, the Erin, steamer, for New York. The Progress arrived here from Mobile, landed the master (Burgess), and one man, which she had taken in lat. 49 N., 21 W., from the Gauntlet, which had been d'smasted in a hurricane, Dec. 5, in lat. 38 N., long. 51 W. ; the remainder of her crew had been saved by a barque on the previous day. The Progress also reports having passed a dismasted and abandoned brig Jan. 9. She experienced heavy S.S.E. to S.S.W. gales from long. 25 W. The Naval Reserve ar rived here from Callao, experienced very heavy S.E. gales after passing the Western Islands, and was driven to lat. 54 N. On Jan. 11, in lat. 54 N. long. 56 W., she took off the crew of the Jane Gardner, their vessel having lost fore mast and chain plates, and making a great deal of water. Jan. 17.—Arrived, the Edella, from Philadelphia; the Louisa, from Baltimore. The Southampton, from London to New York, has put into Liverpool leaky. Custom House, Jan. 17. Vessels entered inwards, the Rock, from New York ; the Argonaut, from New York. Vessel spoken with.—The Investigator, American barque, bound north, Nov. 22, at. 6 N., long. 29 W. Gravesend, Jan. 18. —Arrived, the Brycedale. from Boston. Deal, Jan. 18.— Arrived, the Atalanta, screw steamer, from New York. Liverpool, Jan. 18.—Arrived, the Neversink and the Maudslie, from New Orleans; the Goodall, from San Fran cisco; the R. H. Tucker, from Charleston; the May Flower, from Boston. Sailed, the Russia, screw steamer, for Ne York; the City of New York, steamer, for Halifax. Clyde, Jan. 16.—Sailed, the Columbia, screw steamer, from New York. Queenstown, Jan. 18.—Arrived, the City of Antwerp, from Liverpool for New York; the Scotia, steamer, from New York, and left for Liverpool. Gravesend, Jau. 20. Arrived, the Martha, from New York; the Simeon, from Baltimore; the Havelock, from New York. Liverpool, Jan. 19.—The Monsoon, which arrived here Jau. 15, from New Orleans, reports :—" On Jan. 2, during a heavy N.N.W. gale, was struck by a sea under the stern, which broke in the stern ports, flooded the cabins, and damaged the cargo stowed there ; on the Gth experienced a hurricane, during which she broached to and lay on her beam ends for four hours, the sea mak ing 1,,a complete breach over the vessel, and washing away water-casks, &c. During the hurricane she was compelled to cut away lower topsails, &c., and to throw overboard all the cotton seed in the after part of the cabin, the vessel being considerably strained, and making a good deal of water. Jan. 20. — Arrived, the Florence Nightingale, from Savan nah. Milford, Jan. 12—Arrived, the Isolina, from San Francisco ; and the Superior, from Callao. Off Waterford, Jan. 20—Arrived, the Chinturn, of Newcastle, from New York, in tow—bore up from the banks of Newfoundland on the Ist January with loss of all her sails, and three of the crew and decks swept away. Kilrush, Jan. 18—The Lily, of and for London, from Mexico, drove from her anchors last night, and went ashore near Moyne. New York, Jan. 7—The Annie, British barque, from Boston, which arrived at Baltimore, Jan. 4, grounded near Sandy Point, but got off without assistance, apparently uninjured. Bombay, Dec. 28.—Early in the morning of Dec. 15, the, cargo (coals) of the American ship H. L. Richardson, from Liverpool, which arrived here 2d December, was disco vered to be on fire in the forehold ; prompt assistance was rendered by her Majesty's vessels, &c., and after much exertion, and admitting a large quantity of water into the hold, the fire was extinguished. The vessel sustained no damage beyond one lower hold stanchion burnt, and the rider keels slightly charred. Custon House, Jan. 20. -En tered inwards, the Atalanta, from New York ; the Minnie Knapp, from Nassau, New Providence. Entered out wards, the Atalanta, for New York. --- Ramsgate, Jan. 20.—Arrived the Amelia, from London for Boston ; crew refractory. Deal, Jan. 20—Arrived, the Queen of Scots, from Philadelphia. Off Orforduess, Jan. 16—Arrived, the Inca, from Bremen, for New York. Holy head, Jan. 20— Arrived, the Rio Grande, for Charleston. Cardiff, Jan. 19 - Arrived, the Amykos, from Belfast, for New York, in Ballast; bore up leaky, and with loss of sails, having encountered heavy weather in and about mid At lantic. New York, Jan. 6 —Advices from San Francisco report that the Coquette, Hamburg ship, was allowed to discharge at Guaymas, although a reduction of duties had previously been refused at Mazatlan ; cargo valued et £lOO,OOO. The Coquette sailed from Liverpool for San Francisco on May 31. Custom Hous3---Entered inward, the Havelock, from New York. Vessels spoken with — The Ocean Queen, steering north, Dec. 20, lat 7 N., long. 28 W. ; the Pontiac, New Orleans to Liverpool, Dec. 22, lat. 51 N., long. 71. Liverpool, Jan. 22.—The Georgians, from Savannah; the Beatrice, from Baltimore. Sailed, the City of London, screw steamer, from New York, the Ocean Phantom, for New Orleans. Clyde, Jan. 22. trrived, the lowa, screw steamer, from New York. Vessels spoken with.—No. 0,734, first distinguishing pennant, American, Cardiff to Panama, Dec. 21, lat. 8 N., long. 28 W. ; a four-masted steamer, London to New York, Jan. 16, lat. 48 N., long. 29 W. Deal, Jan. 23.—Sailed, the Luigi and the Gefion, Philadelphia. Liverpool, Jan. 23.—Sailed, the Southamp ton, for Mobile ; the Sophie, for New York ; the Queen, for Charleston. Portsmouth, Jan. 22.—Arrived, the Yortr town, from London to New York. Falmouth, Jan. 22. The Fleur de Maurice, Liverpool to San Francisco, which put in here, Jan. 19, has been surveyed, and will have to discharge. Off the Great Ormshead, Jan. 12.—Arrived, the Alfred Crouch, from Liverpool for Mobile. Gibraltar, Jan. 20. The Moses Waring, schooner, of and for New York, from Brunswick, Ga., was abandoned near New York ; part of crew saved by the Minnie Gorton. Births. GODDARD—On the 25th inst., at 118, Gloucester-terrace Hyde-park, the wife of Alfred G. Goddard, Esq., of a daughter. Mitnux—On the 24th inst., at 48, Park-r 'ad, Stoke New in4ton, the wife of Henry W. Myhill, of a son. TOLLER—On the 24th inst., at Hampstead, the wife of C. G. Toiler, Esq., of a son. Marriages. BRIGGS —BRIGGS—On the 23d inst., at St. John's Church, -Edinburgh, Lieut.-Col. John Patrick Briggs, second son of the late Colonel John F. Briggs, of Strathearly and Carnbes, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Capt. David Briggs, Royal Navy. LYNE IGRzirr— On the 22d inst., at St. Philip's Church Earl's-court, Charles Lyne, of Islington, to Eliza Amelia Green, of Pembroke-square, Kensington, youngest daughter of the late Henry Green, of Worcester. Deaths. ARGENT—On the 24th inst., at Manor Farm, Egham, Sur rey, John Argent, Esq., aged 74. BEGG—On the 20th inst., at Canons Park, Edgware, David Begg, Esq., J.P., aged 55. BARER—On the 23d inst., at 2, Hanover-terrace, Notting hill, Mr. Henry Baker, of New Bond-street, aged 64. .L.twToN -On the 24th inst., at Lawton Hall, Cheshire, Robert Lawton, Esq. WHITE - On the 24th inst., at St. Luke's-road, Westbourne park, Mr. Henry Whit; of the Court of Chancery, aged 51. WILLARD —0 n the 22d inst., at Sevenoaks, Kent, Ann, relict of the late C. Willard, Esq., aged 84. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tnii SUN °face, No 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the So voy, in the County Of MidcUosoz.—Monday, January 27, IE6B.