The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-26 00:00:00

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After which tat 8 o'clock) Dion Boncicault's new drama, in faur acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. H arcourt, J. 4. Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclereq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds ani assista n t s . To conclude with MAST ER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. D oors open e t half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. _ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. soi.l,essee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS'EtENING-, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs.' CI trke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames But An and 3Jaitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TEL CLOTH OF GOLD. Mossrs."Therne, James, and Robson Mesdames 31. Long-' more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Ruh A COMICAL COUNTESS. T. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. 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Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W H. I , burns, R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leelercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At S, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. NV. Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston; Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Rose Leclercq Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tuffs EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound. Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. r THIS EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; 3i esdames Maria Longmore, B. 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Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton': THIS EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, 11. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO SPEAKS FIRST ! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C. Addison. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, 31. Clifton, Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and ::iaturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL II AMB R A PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Boa-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. g a - ;0111 , 1 .rtezA LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 26, 1868. Mr. G OLDWIN SMITH'S patriotic proposition for the disintegration of the British Empire is looking up. It is not yet five years since we ceded to Greece by a Protocol dated the 28th of May, 1864, the islands of Cephalonia, Cerigo, Corfu, Ithaca, Paxo, Santa Maura, and Zante, together with their depen dencies. And it is now being seriously pro posed that we should yield up to Spain in the same way that famous rock called by the PI cenicians Alube, by the Greeks Calpe, but among modern nations known as Gibraltar, which has since the 11th of April, 1713, that is, since the Treaty of Utrecht, been numbered amongst the most glorious possessions of the British Crown ! Gibraltar has hitherto been regarded as impreg nable, and as such has been esteemed a priceless possession, indeed, guarding as it does the entrance to the Mediterranean. But, no matter for that !—nous aeons change tout cola! The fortress of Gibraltar isnow pronounced anything but impregnable, is declared to! be little better than an encumbrance. Away with it Let it follow in the wake of the lonian Islands. The latter we gave to Greece. Let us yield up the for mer now, unasked, to Spain. But—while doing so-- let us spoil even the grace (?) of an intrinsically valueless gift by bartering it—swapping it, as they say down Whitechapel way, for Ceuta. Ceuca the Spaniards don't want—that is, we say they don't want it—but we do ! Gibraltar is an useless trophy to us—it won't be of the slightest intrinsic value to the Spaniards—but, at any rate, their get n g i t back again will be gratifying to the a n io tpropre of that haughty race. Let us return it upon their hands previously to our doing so: But it is generously suggested by some sticklers for doing a thing of this kind as gracefully as possible— previously t ) doing so, it is proposed, we say, that we should blow up the whole of the rickety fortifications. To accomplish this gracious and generous act of preliminary destruction would cost only a few barrels of well-disrcsed petro lium or nytro-glyccriiied laced here and there skilfully at different points in those labyrinthin e subter ranean excavations. Shatter the rocky galleries by a series of tremendous detonations, and then—having effectually made assurance doubly sure by reducing thus to ruins fortifications that, as they now are, com petent judges declare to be utterly useless as a means of defence when assaulted by modern artillery directed against it from armour-plated floating batteries—then, let us crown our kindness to Spain by handing over to it the mere smoking ruins of Gibraltar ! Perfecting our generosity by asking for Ceuta in return I TH 4. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1868 that Septem, or Septa, which was captured in 534 during the African campaign of BELISARIUS which was wrested from the Moors in 1415 by King JOHN I. of Portugal—and which in 15S0 passed at length under the rule of the Spanish Monarchy. Now we want it. Let us have Ceuta—it is proposed that we should say to the Spaniards—let us have Ceuta and we will hand over to you in return the dismantled fortifications of the rock of Gibraltar ! Nothing like doing a thing handsomely ! There was no barter when we ceded the lonian Islands to Greece. But let us have a little bartering, as but just now pro posed, in the instance of the fortifications of Gibraltar. It will tend so much to raise the character of England for generosity and mag nanimity ! However, the matter may really stand in respect of that question of barter, there can be no doubt of it that Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH'S at one time flouted propo.itiors for the disintegration, as we have called it, of the British Empire, are looking up. The lonian Islands have gone by the board. We, nearly five years ago, cut them loose and allowed them to drift over to Greece. Gibraltar may follow—drifting in that case back again into the possession of Spain. Could notwe get rid of Canada, while we are about it—entreating the United Statesto absorb the two Canadas, and Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and all the rest of them, into their domi nions? Australia might be delivered over to itself. India might be given back to its own native rulers. There is no use doing these things by halves. Let us take heart of grace, now that we are so inclined to strip ourselves of one colony after another --do by all means let us take heart of grace and do the thing thoroughly. The British Empire, M. LEDRU ROLLIN wrote of several years ago as in its decadence. Let us justify his assertions. Non-intervention is all the rage now in diplomacy—let us supplement it with the system sketched out by the wonderfully patriotic genius of Mr GOLDWIN SMITH : the system, by a careful adoption of which, by the careful carrying out of which, this vast and heroic empire may effectually be broken up and scattered—England shrinking back into herself and returning, as we might then have reason to hope, to a diet of acorns and a substitution of woad, for the new fangled raiments at present in vogue among the degenerate descendants of the subjects—not of VICTORIA, but—of some earlier Queen even than BOADECIA. IT has been proposed that a conference of the Great Powers should be held for the purpose of settling the dispute which has sprung up between Turkey and Greece ; and it is just possible that such an attempt might be attended with success. It is true that this remedy is not popular in Europe, and past experience is not of a kind to promote confi dence in it. Conference projects have generally come to nothing, or have been attended with disas trous results in the end. To the deliberations at Vienna in 1815, to the distribution of territory regardless of the nationality of its inhabitants, may be attributed many of the evils that have since befallen Europe. A general unhinging of diplomatic relations was the effect of the rejection of the French Emperor's proposal in 1863. And the imperfect settlement which followed the Crimean war has done not a little to aggravate the troubles which now threaten to culminate in hostilities. On the other hand, the London Conference of last year was decidedly successful. It averted a war the imminence of which has since been established by the most abundant testimony. The issue of the Luxemburg question went far to prove that a conference is a hopeful resource when the objects of negotiation are well defined and limited in number ; the failure of previous meetings may not unreasonably be ascribed to the comple:.ity of the business which was under taken. In this case the chances of successful delibera tion are greatly increased by the fact that the proposal has been put forward at once by two, if not three, of the greatest continental States. It emanated, in the first instance, from Russia and Prussia, neither of which has hitherto exhibited any great predilection for international juries. Then we are assured, on very trustworthy information from Paris, that the new French Foreign Minister was about to signalise his advent to office by the same project as that which has been put forth but a day or two in advance by the Northern Powers. The telegrams from the various Courts must ahnost have crossed each other on the way. The proposition, coming from Russia and Prussia only, would have been deserving of consideration; but when made with the concurrence of three sovereigns who hold very different views on the Eastern question, it assumes the character of a great negotiation, which must command the respect, .if it does not gain the agreement, of the other Powers. It cannot, however, be overlooked that whilst a conference on the Eastern question generally would be attended by difficulties all but insuperable, a con ference intended to settle only the present quarrel is not without serious objections. The mere proposal of such an expedient shews that the Powers are much at variance respecting this dispute. The culpability of Greece is so cicar, that if the arbitrators of Europe had been actuated by no personal interests, decision must have been already given in favour of the Porte. Ordinary negotiation could end in but one of two ways : either the disputants would be left to settle their own quarrel, or the judicial award must be against the aggressor. The Powers decided to prevent war, and it is not a hopeful circum stance that, after the interference had taken place, the Powers could not agree to condemn the breach of international law committed by Greece. The result points to the conclusion that Russia hopes to get better terms for her ally. The jackal has not unfaith fully done the work of the lion, and is to be rewarded by support. The Conference might decide in favour of plain justice ; the counsel of Russia might be outweighted by the other Powers ; but it is not surprising that Turkey has declined to run the risk, and views the project with disfavour. To the Porte, the quarter in which the initiative has been taken is anything but friendly. Moreover, the demands of the Ottoman Government, though numerous and stringent, are confined entirely to the cessa tion of the hostile proceedings of the Greeks; they do not involve any question of nationality. Greece is asked only to abandon carrying on indirect war against Turkey, not to abandon " the grand idea " of an Hellenic Empire. Why, then, should the common law of nations be inapplicable to this case, and the chancery of a conference be necessary ? It is only the desire to avoid a war which can ensure the success of an expedient which ought not to be required. If the object of the Conference be limited to the ultimatum of Turkey or kindred questions, the evident desire of the Powers to pre vent hostilities may have a beneficial issue; but it is clear that an error has been made in interfering with this quarrel without a fixed plan of action. 'ee o'clock.—The market LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN MADRID, Dec. 24. The journals publish a manifesto from the Duke of Montpensier, dated Lisbon, the 19th instant. The Duke explains the purpose of his recent journey to Spain, which he justifies on the plea that ho was anxious as a citizen to exercise his right to offer, as in duty bound, his services to his country as a soldier, in order to aid in its de fence against an outbreak which, he believed, had been instigated by the Reactionary party. He simply intended to serve as a combatant, and gave no preliminary official notice of his step, as it was his intention to throw off his incognito so soon as he should have reached the scene of contest. Upo❑ his arrival at Cordova he discovered that the true aim of the insurrection was not of a Re actionary character, and he returned to Portugal. The letter declares untrue certain accusations which had been raised against him, and pro ceeds to recall the fact that he wished to have taken part in the war against Morocco, as could be proved from official documents. Further, that he and his consort, the Infanta, had unceasingly endeavoured to induce the late Queen Isabella, in 1859 and in 1866, to follow a liberal policy—efforts which unfortunately had been unavailing. He re spects the principle of universal suffrage as the source of the legitimate claim of a nation to share the political administration of a free country. The Duke says that, notwithstanding the fact that he himself is a devoted Catholic, he wishes that every one in Spain should worship God according to the promptings of his conscience, with as much liberty as is enjoyed by Spanish residents in London, Edinburgh, or Geneva. The letter concludes with the assurance that the writer is not influenced by ambition ; that, in fact, he covets nothing, save once more to belong to Spain, the new Spain of liberty. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 21. has been appointed Governor of the island of Do- minica. On the 17th Lady Aire) , presented the 28th Re giment with new colours. The British bark Dunsandale struck on the rocks off Tarifa. She was towed here in an a leaky state to exchange cargo an repair. Exchange on London, 484 9 ; Paris, 5 19. SUEZ, Dec. 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sumaha, from Bomay, 12th inst., arrived at 7 a.m. to-day. Mr. Freeling, the Colonial Secretary at Gibraltar, AMERICA. NEW YORK, Dec. 25. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's Report the receipts of cotton at American ports up to Thurs day evening were 80,000 bales. Since the Ist of September, 970,000. Shipments to England 25,000 bales ; to France, 12,000 bales ; to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Total export to date, 470,000 bales. Stock, 300,000 bales. Market steady. Middling upland, 9 11-16 cost and freight per steamer, WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. President Johnston bas issued a proclamation granting an unconditional pardon to all participants in the rebellion, with restoration of all rights, pri vileges, and immunities under the Constitution, and laws enacted in pursuance thereof. Whelan has been respited until the Ist of Feb ruary. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. The Inman steamers City of London and City of Cork arrived out to-day, all well, and the North German Lloyd steamer Berlin at nine p.m. yes terday. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, December 25. Sir George Grey's proposition to give up Gibraltar to Spain in exchange for Ceuta, finds no favour here. I cannot perceive that the French are particularly proud of their empire in North Africa, but they certainly do not desire to have the übiquitous Englishman as a neighbour. Ceuta is on Moorish ground, and its acquisition by England would, beyond doubt, speedily be followed by accessions of African territory. It would agglomerate to us, whether wo wanted it or not, and we should soon have French ground for our boundary. This is objected to here. The French are content with the stationary Spaniard, and do not desire to exchange him for the Englishman. Olozaga has at length been received by the Emperor, who has doubtless found it necessary to counteract the natural impressiDn of his visit to the Queen at the Pavillon Rohan. The reception is important, for though the Em peror retains the friendship of the Queen, he thus fully acquiesces in her downfall. The Spanish Ambassador here has found leisure to send a despatch to Spain de claring that the present state of things cannot last for a month ; the Carlists and Republicans must be put down, and the Monarchy declared at once. This document has not met with a very favourable reception. The illness of M. de Moustier arose in the first place Li om an attack of acute influenza, which he thought to cure by the air and hunting of- Compiegne. He returned to_'iris, however, and immediately set to work upon the Eastern question, which then began to assume an unpromising aspect. He was up night and day, and speedily aggravated his disorder to such an extent that he is now in great danger. The Memorial Diplomatique says his malady has become complicated by a disease of the heart, the symptoms of which cause serious uneasiness to his physicians. " Three days ago the upper part of his body was swelling in an alarming manner ; happily, the night before last an improvement took place in the state of the patient, so as to dis sipate the fears which had been inspired by the crisis, which had arrived at its maximum ; the Marquis de Moustier will not, however, be able to leave the apart ments at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the end of the year." That old nuisance, the imaginary Customs union between Belgium and France, has been revived. Several journals have stated that the French Minister at Brussels has made overtures to the Belgian Government, and has been refused. The Pays thinks itself called upon to deny these rumours. The French official papers are unexampled for the persistence with which they deny even the most absurd statements which do not happen to be palatable to Imperial tastes or favourable to Imperial views. The press prosecution list numbers only three journals and five individuals to-day. The editor of the Emancipa• tion, of Toulouse, and a contributor to that paper, have been fined £2O each for an offensive article on the coup d'etat ; the editor and printer of the Demerits have been fined and imprisoned for publish'ng political matter without caution-money ; and the Palais has been threatened, but let off, for language insulting to the secret police. The capacity of the crinoline as a medium for smuggling has again been called into requisition on behalf of the Lanterne. In the Ardennes department a bookseller and four women have been prosecuted for introducing the objectionable print, and some others, into France. The accused had been searched on arriving from Belgium, when the women were found to have 1,886 copies of the Lanterne, and ninety-eight obscene engrav ings, sewed up in their crinolines. They said that they had been paid thirty francs and the cost of their journey to come from Brussels into France, but were ignorant as to the nature of the articles which they were smuggling, as the crinolines had been given to them prepared beforehand to put on. They received a light sentence, though it seems odd that this plea should succeed. " Prepared" crinolines are not usually selected as Christmas boxes. The bookseller, however, was visited severely—eight months' imprison ment and a fine of £4O. Prince Napoleon has written a letter to Captain Gustav Lambert, who is about to undertake an expedition to the North Pole. After pointing out the advantages of private action in such undertakings, the Prince announces that he forwards 2400 towarls the expenses of the undertaking. Another inundation of the Rhone and Saone is to be feared. The waters of both streams have risen rapidly. To-day the Bourse and all the public offices are closed. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. -4- METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS. Extreme Sea Saturday, I F. 0 Dec. 26, B. T. W. Ito P. W R. to 8 a.m. 1, l2 -- 9 Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields Scarborough 29•42 r. 40 (40 W. 1 2 Y.N.W. c.o. 007 2 Yarmouth 29•41r. 41 41 .N.W. 3 4 W.S.W. c.m 3 Helder Cuz haven Skudesnves Ardrossan 129•38 r. 43 ,40 S.W. 3 2 r. o.c. o'os 2 Green castle 29 26f. 39 j3B S.S.W. 4 6 N.N.W. e.ro 0'36 Holyhead Liverpool 29 49 44 143 W. 3 3 S.W. r.o. 0'29 2 Valentia 29•54 f. 45 44 S.S.W. 7 8 N.N.W. c.hr 0'22 7 Cape Clear 29'37f. 45 j 43 W.S.W. 9 7 N. e.r. 614 5 Roches rt. 29•60 f. 44, 43 I W. 4 6 N.W. C. 3 Penzance Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth 29"67r. 43 j4l W. 5 5 W.N.W. c. I'ls 4 London I'9 56r. 41 39 W. 3 4 IV. r.c. o'l9 UpeGrlsNez 29"52r. 46 41 IV. 8 7 W. 0. o'ol 5 Brest L'Orient 29'Blr. 46 44 W.N.IV. 5 5 W.N.IV. c. 4 Roch efort 29'96r. 46 44 I W. 5 7 W. c. 015 4 Biarritz Corunna — Brussels — Paris . . Strasbourg — Toulon Heart's n tent (9 a.m. local time) SPECIAL PAYMENTS. A return to specie payments is the subject ex citing most attention just now iu the United States; and among the many articles in which this question is discussed one of more than usual interest ap peared in the Nation of the 10th inst. Its object was to expose the fallacy generally held, that the Government had but to will it to effect it on a fixed date using the gold balance in the Treasury for the purpose. The writer goes over all the ground, and shows conclusively how difficult the achievement will be, requiring careful attention and no light national effort for its success, while any crude attempt can but end in irremediable confusion and ultimate disaster. Before we discuss Mr. M‘Cunnocit's in teresting and exhaustive Report, it is desirable to enumerate the more obvious of these difficulties. The .Nation says specie payment means the redemp tion in gold of a promise to pay gold ; the redemp tion in specie of a promise to pay specie ; the pro mise being necessary before there can be a specie payment in a sense applicable to national finance. Previous to 1857 specie payments prevailed in the United States, but in October of that year, owing to an extraordinary efflux of specie at a time when more than usual was required at home, a financial disturbance took place, and the banks, which had issued many promises to pay in coin on demand, failed to redeem these promises, and suspended specie payments. The public who held these obligations, instead of plunging the banks into bankruptcy, by tacit consent agreed to wait, and in the summer of 1858 these banks an nounced that they were prepared to redeem in spe cie, and soon after specie payments were resumed throughout the country. la 1860 the banks were again compelled to suspend specie payments. For some time their unredeemed promises were held by the public, and eventually redeemed, but not in specie. Congress passed the Legal Tender Act, which made greenbacks a legal tender for every form of debt. This was an irredeemable currency —three hundred and sixty millions being issued in notes of one dollar and upwards, and thirty millions in fractional currency. Paper such as this differed only from the Five-Twenty and Ten-Forty Bonds in bearing no interest, in not being payable at a specified time, and in being irredemab]e and in pos sessing the peculiar value of being a legal tender for debt in the United States. The banks, like all other debtors, grasped the opportunity to withdraw their notes, paying for them in this depre ciated currency, so that gradually the promises to pay in specie were cancelled and disappeared, leaving no trace. There is not then in the United States, according to this writer, any promises to redeem in specie ; nor are there people to ask for the fulfilment of such obligation, nor if there were is there anybody on whom to make it. Hence the United States cannot be said to have suspended specie pay ment, as did England from 1797 to 1823, or as did the United States from 1857 to 1858, and therefore the position now differs from that prior to 1861. This fact is generally overlooked, and without un derstanding the nature of the financial disease a remcdy cannot be devised. The writer believes the Legal-Tender currency to be a far worse financial evil than suspension, and much more difficult to deal with. It is shown that the large cash balance on band on which so much reliance is placed for resumption is not in truth available. On Novem ber 1 the nominal cash balance was $114,000,000. Of this $27,000,000 were due for coin interest, $10,000,000 for overdue debt not presented for payment, nearly $20,000,000 for coin certificates, and $58,000,000f0r three per cent. loan certificates virtually payable on demand, which more than absorbs the whole sum. If there be a surplus in the revenue it could be employed in redeeming and cancelling greenbacks, but such a surplus must always be problematical,and the debt of the country, according to the official statement, had increased $36,000,000 by Nov., 1868, over the same date of the previous year. That the Government expendi ture has been materially reduced is true ; that the reform in the Civil Service, and the check likely to be administered to corruption, will improve the financial position is probable ; but in dealing with the dry material fact we cannot assume what is not only problematical but against the experience of the year just elapsed. There was in the Treasury, Nov. 1, $103,000,000 in gold; and it is on such a balance that so many mainly rely for a return to specie pay ment. Nearly $18,000,000 of it, however, belong to depositors, $27,000,000 were due for interest, of which another $25,000,000 had accrued, making with other liabilities $72,000,000, which the Secretary could not touch, leaving only $31,000,000 for the purpose, which is the largest amount available for the trial of the experiment. The figures, then, would be $31,000,000 in gold to redeem $390,000,000 in paper ; but what the advocates of the trial assert is that an exhaustive demand for the exchange would not be made. We hold with them so far, that people would not rush to change their paper if its volume had previously been considerably de creased and the value nearly equalized with gold ; but we have to deal with the case as it stands, and there can be little doubt that the thirty one millions would evaporate in the course of a few hours if the Government offered to redeem at par a currency depreciated one-third in value. In May, 1866, in one week, foreign houses bought of the Treasury $25,000,000 of gold at a premium in greenbacks of 30 per cent. Would these houses repeat the experiment if they could exchange $31,000,000 greenbacks for gold at par ? The answer is that a great demand for specie followed the panic in London, requiring a large gold export, but a return to specie payment would rapidly raise United States Securities abroad, and cause a call for them instead of a return of them, which would lessen the export of gold from the United • States. The writer iu the Nation asserts, on the contrary, that experience has shown whenever gold rapidly fell, in America, bonds were returned from Europe —and this he maintains will again be the effect. We think that a return to specie payment will ma terially check the import of luxuries, and tend rapidly to equalize the balanc3 of trade ; for it has the reverse effect of a depraved currency, which induces gambling and extravagance, and Mr. M'CuLLoca's opinion is strong on this point. His proposal is to issue a new loan of five hundred million dollars to enable the Government to return to specie payment, and this is the true solution. The people have had this depraved currency forced on them as a loan, and, notwithstanding the argu ment of the Nation, we hold that greenbacks are United States promises to pay coin which, as long as they remain unredeemed, is a virtual suspension by the Government of specie payment ; and Secretary Al‘CuLLocn's proposition seems to amount to this. The Nation his shown_ how far people are in the wrong road ; we hupe it will next point out the right oue—a much more difficult task. It is a matter, we suppose, of national outlay, and the groundwork of the errors held on the subject is the attempt to make bricks without straw—to theorize on a return to specie payment without specie ; sup posing that argument can supply the place of gold —that writing over the Treasury door the name of Uncle SAM, and hoisting the Stars and Stripes over the building, will have the effect of a charm. At the California Academy of Natural Sciences, in discussing earthquakes, Dr. Blake inclined strongly to the terrestrial theory of gaseous eruptions and explosions. There are usually two waves in an.o;trthqualce—one which moves vertically directly towards the surface, and _one which spreads out horizontally radiating from the centre. It is the last, undulatory from this o o n r thesurface, illustrated at Sa ' n , distinctly.the surface shock, id), does most damage. On Sunday evening, Oct. 25, these two were very Francisco. The geographical formation of nothing to do with the cause, although a shock is trans mitted with three times the velocity and severity through granite or hard rock that it is through sand. Bence it is safer in this case to " build a house up on the sand " overlying a solid base. The centre of the recent heavy chock was probably a few miles to the north of Hayward's. In this place houses had been moved bodily from their bases ; one two feet to the southward ; another near by two feet at right angles to the first, and :Ail another eighteen inches up a slope in an opposite direc tion to the last. All the waves seem to converge toward the San Ramon Valley, to the north of Hayward's. Dr. Blake and others are going to continue their investiga tions. Uol. Ransom offered the following resolution, which was not acted up on , b u t l a id over unt il th e next meeting : —That a committee J. to consist of the Presi dent, Gregory Y a le an d Dr. G. Cooper, be appointed to collect facts connected with the recent earthquake in this vicinity, and that they report the results at some subsequent meeting of the Aeae„em.,-. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing Prices—Gold closed at 135 ; the highes' quotation during the day was 135-1, the lowest 1341. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. Five Twenty United States Bonds, 1882, 110 f ; ditto, 1885, 1071 ; ditto, 1865, 110 f ; Ten-Forty Bonds, 1051. Illinois, 143 ; Erie, 31i. Cotton—middling upland, 25;c. Flour—extra State, $6 95c. to 7 55c. Corn—old mixed, $1 10c. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 25. The Hamburg and American steamer Holsatia, from New York on the 15th instant, has arrived here with 71 pass engers for thi s por t, H avre , an d Hamburg, 119 sacks of mails, $20,069 in specie for and $5,625 for Ham burg. g d . $56,563 for Paris, PORTUGAL. LISBON, Dec. 25. Her Majesty's frigate Warrior has arrived here. Her Majesty's Dispatch vessel Helicon, with Ad miral Warden on board, has sailed for Cork. The weather is wet and very stormy. LISBON, Dec. 22. At a meeting of the principal capitalists and bankers of this city and Oporto convoked by Go vernment, the Ministers explained the necessities of the Treasury chiefly to meet the coupon on Por tuguese funds due in London on the 4th January next, and stated that they could not accept the exorbitant terms asked in Paris for a loan, nor could they yield in honour to the exigencies of foreign railway companies. The statements of the Ministers were well re ceived, and the meeting expressing confidence in the Ministers, appointed a committee for the pur pose of prbviding funds for the present necessities of the Treasury. ROUINIANIA. BUCHAREST, Dec. 24. Above twenty ships carrying Greek fugitives have arrived from Turkish territory in Roumanian ports. They have received permission to stay, pro vided they implicitly obey the law of the land, and pledge themselves to abstain from all political manifestations. THE BOMBAY) MAIL. SOUTILAMPTON, Dec. 26. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the heavy portion of the above mail, arrived here this morning with 33 passengers, £9,642 i❑ specie, and a general cargo. The Poonah experienced across the Bay of Bis cay violent westerly and north-westerly gales. While she hove-to she lost her first cutter. HOMEWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, DCC. 26. The Peninsular and Oliental Company's steamer Massilia arrived from Alexandria at 8 30 a.m., and the mails leave for London at 11 30 a.m., this day. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 24. The Russian authorities have suspended the faci lities granted to Greek ships to assume the Russian flag. The Turkish fleet, consisting of eleven ships, is still before Syra. Hobart Pasha has modified his demands relative to the disarmament of the blockade runners Crete and Enosis. ZIPLA NA! Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f. falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail ; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull ; r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Pressure has recovered rapidly at all stations from the great de pression lately reported ; however, since last evening a chaago in the opposite direction has occurred in Ireland, where the decrease within the last twelve hours exceeds a quarter of an inch (Cape Clear). The reading at Nairn is Olin. less than at Itochefort. Tem perature is lower than it was on Thursday at most stations. On Thursday the wind freshened to a gale at a few of our stations. Yesterday it was nearly northerly at western stations, but to-day it has backed to S.W., and is blowing hard in the S. of Ireland : else where winds are now from W. Some rain has fallet ; the sky is now cloudy. The sea has got up at Valencia. Warnings issued to west coast. Bank of England Returns. An Account, pursuant to tl cap. 32, for the week ending 1 ISSUE DEr ie Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Vednesday, Dec. 23, 1868. ARTMENT. Notes issued ....032,191,935 Govornmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo Other Securities.. 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £32,191,935 £32,191,035 EANKING Proprietors'Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National 3.PARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £14,124,874 Other Securities 18,339,395 Notes 9,251,750 Gold and Silver Coin ..„, 1,099,686 Debt. and Div. AccOunts 6,899.705 Other Deposits 17,830,962 Seven Days and other Bills 434 £42, £4'2,815,705 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE., Anatralta and New Zealand. via Southampton.....jan. 2. Ditto, via le - Arsenics Ditto, via Pia.ama D ° 29. Bruit, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Jan. 4. Ditto, by trench packet Cape Verde, by Brazil paotot ...... . Jan... 4. - Cape of Good Elvpe, Ascension, and St. Helena Dcc. 28. China, Penang:ind Singapore. via Southampton Jan. 2. 1 Gibraltar. via Southampton Dec 21 Indla,via Southampton ...... ......... • • •—• •• • Dec. 2 d vitt% via Marseilles ••.. Jan. 5. Malta, Egypt, &a. Dec. 23. Ditto, Marseilles Dee. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Se nehittns ton Ditto, Marseittes . _ D. , c. 13 Newfoundlan(' ..... .. . Dec 30 Portugal .. United States , Canada, California, &c., by Britisl, packet . . Dec 19 Ditto, by Canadian packet ... Des 1:5 Ditto, by L Lited States packet Ditto ditt( (Baltimore) West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- Dec 29 mas) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. 3 an. 4 Falkland Islands . . Jan. 4. Cuba and Mexico .... ...., .... Dec. 20. A leather belt 163 feet long, 30 inches wide, and weighing 800 pounds, has just been made for a now eleva tor inl3affalo. Its cost wa51,630 dole. BoußsE, Dec. 24.—Th closed as follows 4} per Cent. • 102 -- End of month 3 per Cent End of month — Credit Mobilier End of month 287 LO Credit Foneier 1542 50 End of month — RAILWAY %. —..... Eastern .. bs7 Sardinian Austrian ...... Lombard 416 North of .Spain Saragossa Roman bOf Bank Shares 3167 Itaran Loan End of inontli.„ Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Tbrcel 33 75 llorue Debt — Deferred — s. Qash. Orleans ..... Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 634 Western =-~_-~ #l.O '6Ollll tc. „,- ~ i nMITZT: ~ HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dee. 25. The Queen distributed Christmas gifts yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High• nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princ.fss Beatrice, Prince Ar thur, and Prince Leopold, entered the servants' hall soon after four o'clock. WRECK ON THE SUFFOLK COAST. ALBOROUGII, SUFFOLK, Dec. 21. About six o'clock this morni❑g (writes James Osborne, ag.,) the lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution stationed at this place put off in reply to a signal of distress from the brig Fuschia, of Whitby. The ve:sel, which was found to be abandoned, had run into and dismasted the schooner Diamond, of Goole, and the latter was making so much water the crew had to run her a shoal, whence the master, mate, and a boy were taken on board the lifeboat and safely landed. The fate of the brig's crew is unknown. It should be added that the lifeboat is named the Pasco, after Captain Montague Pasco, R.N., who has during the past two years collected in London by personal visits nearly £2,000 for the Lifeboat Institution. Capt. Pasco is the son of the late Flag-Lieutenant Pasco, who was with the immortal Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, and is the brother-in-law of Admiral Al'Elardy, Chief Constable of Essex. The Royal Mersey Yacht Club has presented to the National Lifeboat Institution £75, being the amount of the proceeds of a ball held in the Club. house, Liverpool, in aid of the great and national objects of the institution. The committee of the society have expressed their high appreciation of this substantial mark of sympathy and support on the part of a club so capable of knowing the great value of the lifeboat work. VALUABLE LIFEBOAT SERVICES. ABERYSTWITII, ChrhitMaS Day. Last night about 8 p.m. (says Mr. John Williams), the smack Castle, of this port, bound from Kings town to Aberystwith, struck aground, and become unmanageable, the seas breaking completely over her. The perilous state of the vessel and her crew soon became evident to every one, and orders were given to launch the Evelyn Wood lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, to their help, as their cries were were plainly heard ashore, and it was pitiable in the extreme. The boat, after a hard struggle with the fearful breakers, was fairly got off, and soon made its way to the wreck, and suc ceeded in getting into the lifeboat the crew, three in number, and bringing them ashore in safety among the hearty cheers of some hundreds of spectators. The vessel is now a complete wreck, and will soon be in fragments. Great praise is due to the crew of the lifeboat for their alacrity, and to others for their strenuous exertions in assisting to get the boat launched, which was done with a will, and at the risk of great personal injury. The crew and spec tators are delighted with the conduct of the life boat. The cost of the Aberystwith lifeboat and of two others were munificently defrayed by Mrs. B. Wood, sister-in-law of the present much respected Lord Chancellor, who, like most members of 11 13 family, has always been a warm friend of the Na' tional Lifeboat Institution and a liberal contributor to its funds. ITIILI7ARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE• On Wednesday Major-General H. Renny, com manding the Ist Infantry Brigade at Aldershott , inspected the Ist battalion of the 25th (King's Own) Borderers, which has recently arrived at the COOP from Glasgow. He made a minute examination of the schoolroom, Canteen, library, married people's quarters, the hospital, the men's huts, and in spected the two kits in each room. He also in spected the dinner rations served out to the men• On the conclusion of his tour he expressed his full approbation of the interior economy and condition of the regiment. The iron armour-plated ship Agincourt, 26, vitu s removed on Wednesday from Hatnoaze into PIP' mouth Sound, where her compasses were adjusted• She will leave for Sheerness when the weather abates, and will be accompanied by the pad dle. wheel steam frigate Terrible, 19, Capt. T. P . Coode. SIAIE OF !JADE. LEICESTER, Dec. 25.—There has not been ranch alteration in the state of trade during the pat week, most of the: houses being very busy stock' taking. But few transactions have been effected iO wool, and prices remain firm. The spinners are holding a fair stock, therefore it is not expected that much will be doing until the new year. Worsted spinners have been chiefly engaged working t ° stock. In lambswool goods the market is noted for an almost entire absence of buyers and orders ; a° 3 at the same time the tone of the market is cheer' ful. It is considered that prices are likely t° advance, and a renewal of business in the month of January is looked forward to with confidenc e. The fancy or striped hosiery is rather dull, as i 5 usual at this period, and, owing to the extrem e openness of the season, the year closes with less ani mation than usual. The elastic web trade is mar' by a complete stagnation of business, the orders to , hand being of such a meagre description as to afford the hands only partial employment. in the h° °° and shoe department many houses have closed fo r the Christmas holidays, while those that have bee° open have simply been working to complete ordere• A large number of hands are out of employ, en d ' owing to stock-taking, are likely to be so for sorae time. The home trade is more than usually du ll ' A few orders for materials have been placed for the new year, at late rates. THE ROYAL ST.A.GIIO UNDS.— A committee is being formed in connection with the proposed presentation t° Lord Colville of Culross, who has just retired from tits Mastership of the Buckhounds. The honorary secreted is Mr. Stephen Pulling, of Horton, Bucks. Among t ilt) names he has received are those of the Due de Chartres and the lion. A. T. Fitzmaurice. The committee includ ° the leading farmers of the district over which her 31°- jesty's staghounds hunt, Mr. Lambert, M.P., and so me members of the London division. The subscription i° limited to £2 2s. THE AUSTRIAN TRADE.—The secretary of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce yesterday receive d communication floor the office of Committee of Prig Council for Trade, in which t h e Cha mber lie inforree t " that the Austrian Reichsra t h and t he Hungarian Die have been prorogued without their having given their sanction the Supplemental Commercial Conventi° with this entry, and that, therefore, the reduced duties provided hat convention for cotton and woollen g° °cD will not be brought into force on the let of January neX" A SAD ACCIDENT.—AS the 8 a.m. train f rail Portland was entering the Weymouth station on Wecl° °°' day morning, a man named Symes was seen to rush on tii° line and place his head on the metals. The engine dril, r did all in his power to stop the train, but without er'", The whole of the carriages passed over Symes, smae b to his head and doing other frightful injuries. Up t° ,[i c l o'clock he was alive, but there was no hope that he NO survive the day. THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED.—A ute lfilr - choly case of death by burning was reported to the atitb° a rities of Hamilton a few days ago. An old man, 112'13ie,t Robert Crosbie, a weaver, resided alone in a small Orr,- at Barnhill, in the parish of Blantyre. it appears that had thrown hirnselt down on the bed with his elotbe s li b and it is supposed he had afterwards struck a match' vti his pipe, and fallen asleep, when his clothes soinell°,., c tught lire. A neighbour named Wilson was aroused we Crosbie's cries, and went to his assistance, but the Pc° man was so severely burned that he died the next 1101.11- ing. He vi as 68 years of age. .KOYAL PAVILION, BRIGHTON.—On Tuo,sday, 0E °8 1 Emily Faithtull delivered her lecture on th e " C13i°3,90 Women." Without pledging ourselves to approve Cli doctrines enunciated by Miss Faithful!, we can comaieo, her lecture as a very able intellectual effort. The r eB , 6° i d ing is close and forcible throughout ; the style of vir te j is elegant and concise; and the general effect is polis " L c . and refined.. Those who do not hear Miss F aithful! tare miss a genuine twat; Brighton Guardian. Do: Do. Ewedi Do Do( Do Venoz Do. Austri Belgi a Dutch Do. Prone) Do J 'Win Do. Consu Do. 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