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The one has been received by the Secretary of State from Colonel STANTON at Cairo, the other has just arrived from Suez by the Malta and Alexandria Telegraph. The latter, which is dated Suez, Jan. 13, says that the Chief of the Tigre, about whose inten tions there existed, it will be remembered, con siderable doub , , has declared himself to be friendly to the expeditionary force. Mere words or pro fessions might not be very reliable, but he has given substantial proofs of his good disposi tion. Ile has offered to victual the troops, and and has already sent 2,000 bullocks for their use. This is most valuable help, better, indeed, than as many men would be, since our expeditionary force is amply sufficient, and the only cause for anxiety has been the uncertainty as to the means of victual ling the troops. The supply of water at Annesley, according to the same telegram, is abundant, so that we may consider the worst evils that were ap prehended to have disappeared. The message sent by Cololltl STANTON to the Indian Secretary con tains the substance of a communication which he had received from Col. MEREWETHER, dated Senafe, Dec. 28. Col INIEREWETIIER reports that he has visited Attegerat, at a distance of 30 miles from Senafe, and had ascertained that the road thi,her could easily be made available for camels and mules. A large market, it seems, is held at Attegerat every Monday, the water and grass is abundant, and the population had received him favourably. The epi demic among the horses had disappeared. No further letters had been received from the captives, but very probably that was.owing to the disturbed state of the country. The latest reports which had reached Colonel MEREWETHER state that THEO DORE had approached Lasta ; the WAGSHUM had advanced to meet him, and that they were close to one another. In this case it is possible that the work may be taken out of our hands, and that THEODORE may meet his inevitable defeat from other adversaries. There are, Col. MEREWETHER tells us, many reports afloat, though none trust worthy. We heard yesterday, by the telegram from An nesley, dated Jan. 4, that Sir ROBERT NAriEn had arrived, and had forthwith proceeded to the front, so that we may consider that everything is in good trim for an immediate advance. So far as matters have yet gone we have every reason to be hopeful of the result, since the worst and most deadly enemies with which we were threatened, fever and famine, have as yet given us no reason to apprehend their attacks. The Government at Vienna, according to the Frondenbladt, arc about to make some alterations of a peculiar kind, for the Minkter of War is said to be reducing the army, or thinking how to do so, and the post of Commander-in -Chief is to be sup pressed in a short time. Whether this be true or not is as yet doubtful ; but, as any rate, its report shows that as yet there is no likelihood of war en tertained. It seems an unwise thing to do just at the present time when the attitude of France and Prussia are so uncertain ; and no doubt if these changes arc in contemplation, and actually carried out, the EMPEROR and his advisers will regret them before long. The Prussian Rail way Loan excites a good deal of anxiety just now, but to judge by recent reports we may conclude that all will be arranged satisfactorily in a short THEA'rRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. TIIIS EVENING, and until further notice, will be per formed a new and original Farce, by R. Reece, Esq., en titled HONEYDOVE'S TROUBLES. Characters by M ssrs. Joseph Irving, C. Warner, J. Morris; Mes dames Kate Harfleur and E. Melville. After which will ho performed the Drury Lane annual grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E. L. 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THE WHEELER AND WILSON LOCK STITCH SEWING MACHINE : 139, Regent-street, West ; 43, St. Paul's Church yard, E.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 511. sni. Afternoon, 3h. 29m. To-llonow.-Morning, sh. 5111.1 Afternoon, 6h. 17m. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1868. time about it. Part of the amount is to be made up by public subscription. It must occasion gene ral regret in Berlin that the new Prussian Ambas sador in Paris has been very ill, and although no better his state is still a critical one. It is said, however, that he will not retire, but it is to be questioned if he will be able to discharge his oner ous duties after so severe an attack. Just now the aspect of affairs seems to be a peaceful one, and it may, therefore, be confidently presumed that the quiet state of the Continent will conduce to a feel ing of greater stability than has been entertained for some time past, owing to one cause and another acting unfavourably in various directions. Ir is seated that remonstrances haiie been-ad dressed to the Government of Servia by several of the Great Powers, on the groimd of its excessive armaments. We believe that there is good reason for the remonstrances. RusSia', anticipating a war between Prussia and liance, ha:s been laying her plans for some time past with the view of carrying out the great object of her policy, the object which, though_ it was naturally postponed twelve years ago, has never been abandoned—tile establishment of the Russian jower at CAStanti nople. In pursuance:of this great design she has been diligently stirring up strife among th e Sl a vonic subjects of Austria, and promoting disaffection among the Christian subjects of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire is, in the belief of St. Petersburg diploma tists, destined to fall speedily. Austria is the most for midable competitor with Russia for the spoils. Austria must, therefore, be disabled by domestic dissension from taking part in the great struggle which is believed to be imminent, at the same time that the struggle itself is hastened by fomenting the old and bitter animosity between the Maho metan ruler and his Christian subjects. It is with this end in view that Russia openly sympathises with and aids the Cretan insurgents, and scarcely less openly supplies the Servians with arms. It is probably with this object also that the Russian army in Central Asia is steadily advancing south, and has even now approached within a very few hundred miles of our frontier. The CZAR and his Ministers know well that we find no little difficulty in raising the 80,000 troops which are required to hold our Indian Empire in time of peace, and that in time of war it would be still more difficult to maintain that force, and still more difficult again to provide a force large enough to meet such even tualities as the proximity of a Russian army might involve. England, of course, has every induce ment to postpone the threatened cri sis. Next to Turkey itself,:therelis no country which m i g ht suffer so much from it as Great Britain. It is, therefore, highly probable that Servia has been requested to renounce her hostile attitude. It is easier to give good advice than to enforce it. It is by no means certain that the Servians will listen to our representations, It is questionable if the policy of keeping things • pleasant can be maintained much longer, or if it is desirable to maintain it. Hitherto we have assumed that there is no choice between the preservation of the Turkish Empire intact and the substitution of Russian rule on the Bosphorus. The laboured apologies which have been put forth in behalf of the Turkish Government, the unfriendly disposi tion which we have shewn towards the brave Cretans and Montenegrins, arise, not from any love of the SULTAN, but from dread of the CZAR. There are by no means only two alternatives. There are at least four. We might assent to the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire on condition that the European provinces should be divided between Greece and Austria. Perhaps little harm would be done by annexing Thessaly and Epirus to the first, but the annexation of the Principalities and Servia to the second would be a very question abk policy. It would in all probability be found that the Austrian rule was as little liked on the Danube as it was formerly on the Po. True, the HAPSBURG has become a cc nstitutional sovereign ; but for all that it would not be prudent in us to repeat the mistake, fruitful of so many disasters, made half a century ago, when we handed over the Italians to a sovereign t o l f e m a n e o n t t. he r race. The European Tl ere i s y s e u t another bieetsof possible thep Porte e might constitute themselves into several separate States. It is asserted by the writer of a very able article on the Eastern question, which has recently appeared in the London Quarterly Review, that while the Mahometans of European T ur k e y are 3,800,000, of whom only about one million Osmb subjects ss of of the ee SULTANgovern ing are nearly 13 million s , o f belonrgae race, 2o the h t h e e Christian genuin whom ab ou t 51 millions, -Wallachi ans and the Servians of i. e ., the Meoldo the Principality, h ave a partial inde pendence, and the rest are in total but unwilling subjection. Year by year the Christian subjects are becoming more numerous and wealthy, while their rulers are becoming few er an d poorer. Tho first are s s l fully is convinced th a t th e supremacy of the t ircoming to an end. A t the same ti me time they are as rapacious a n d licentious as ever. Horrible are the cruelties perpetrated by them on Christian men ; shameful are the atrocities ted by the .1 - 1 on Christian women. Justice is unattain able in the law courts ; corruption of public func tionaries is universal. The • ' Turk imitates the Western European—in his vices. This form of imi tation is certainly no flattery to the one, no benefit to the other. supposed pp r o e s a e d d y that to u anunite people in s suffering in government for th a t w hi c h now f that ;t sl tt t la h t e E u pT r r o he p irs e a, a r anehldlru however, a c n o llouttnhleo another might f v o o n n u b l would be of oeg e v s re ee s i n ret a ib S inls o u s uh t h u a n E o p e a I :s v r t :ars and e d s E t p i ' o r e p e r e ; t likely to happen. Though th ey pro fessing the Christian faith and in hating their Mussulman rulers, they are not of the same creed nor of the same race. If representatives of all the nationalities over which Turkey now rules were gathered together in Constantinople, they would recall to memory the dispersion of Babel or its counterpart and corrective the day of Pentecost. There are the Greeks of Roumelia, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus who desire to be annexed to Greece. These, so far from wishing to come under the rule of the CZAR, look upon Russia as their enemy. On the other hand, a Bulgarian would feel insulted if he were called a Greek. He would reply that he belonged to the orthodox faith and hated the Hellenes. The Greek clergy have allied themselves with the Turks in Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. In fact, - as has been stated by a clear-sighted observer of Eastern poli tics, the different Christian communities would rather be g( era I by the Turks than by a rival Christian sect. The Armenians dislike the Turks ; but they hate the Greeks; and the Greeks, while they hate the Turks, despise the Armenians. The Greek people are hated by three-fourths of the members of the Greek Church in Turkey. There is no chance of realising the grande idee ; a Greek Empire with its seat of government at Constantinople is impossible. Passing from the Greek races we find the long belt of Slavonic tribes extending from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, of whom the Western, or Servian and Croatian half, speak the purest Slavonic. Five hundred years ago Servia was nearly becoming a great empire. It may even now become the head of a large kingdom, for it is, perhaps, the most flourishing of all the States subject to the Porte. But the most probable result of the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire is the establishment of several small States. Small, that is, comparatively, though larger than Belgium and Switzerland. At the present moment the tendency is towards amalgama tion rather than subdivision. Experience has shewn us in the case of Belgium and Switzerland how useful small States may be in acting as a barrier to war. It is possible that Europe may before long be glad to see the creation of petty independent States, each complete and self-con tained, and therefore a guarantee for the peace which has been so long threatened by the huge but heterogeueous TurliiBll Empire,. The Fenian investigations that are proceeding at ' Bow-street naturally engage attention and inte rest, for one feels anxious to have any light that is possible thrown upon the affair. It seems one strange part of the case that so many persons noticed the men and the woman who were engaged with the truck and barrel, destined to play so important a part in the tragic business. Certainly let their plan have been what it may secrecy did not seem a part of it, for the perpetrators of the dread ful deed went about as freely as if they were engaged in the most innocent pursuit, or were employed for the most rational purpose. The charge of wilful murder include a good many altogether, for JOHN O'KEEFE was put with the five others in consequence of information that had been received. ALLEN appears to have been particularly prominent in the affair, but no doubt the others were also required. In all probability they must have supposed that in the confusion that would ensue they should readily get off and escape detection, and therefore they sacrificed all considerations of prudence for that end, otherwise it seems difficult to comprehend why they should have made themselves so unnecessarily conspicuous as they did. It is well that they should have done so, or else the ends of justice might not have been met, and it would he deplorable if none of the mis creants had been caught. Such a coincidence would indeed have been a tri um p h for Fenianism greatly to be regretted, but it is to be h oped that the cap ture of so many may be equally destructive to the cause. Great interest will attack to that part of the inquiry relating to the delivery of the barrels of blasting-powder, but in consequence of the absence of witnesses it is not yet completed. Between ten and eleven in the morning the four half barrels of the blasting-powder were delivered at Pulteney-court, and those were put in the truck, the remaining one being lodged in the back part of the premises. Some prudent precautions have been taken at Warwick, where the Fenian prisoners have been incar cerated. Lord LEIGH, the Lord-Lieutenant, hascoru municated with the Secretary of State,and the latter has agreed to a military force being stationed in the vicinity of the county prison. In awaiting their arrival the greatest care is being taken, by night and day, to prevent an outbreak. The local volun teers are in the inside, and on the outside there is a strong body of the county police. Some strange characters have been seen in Warwick since the prisoners were sent to the gaol, but no indication has been given of any attack or outrage. Still it is very desirable that all proper precautions should be taken to prevent any chance of a dis turbance, In consequence of the various untimely occurrences that have taken place at Merthyr- Tydfil, the whole of the special constables assembled at the Police-court, when the presiding magistrate addressed them, and tendered some directions. Some anti-Fenian meetings have taken place, and in every direction attempts are being made to put a stop to the insidious efforts of the designing conspi rators. The swearing in of special constables in the metropolis also continues in the most satisfac tory manner, and i s an encourag i n g sign. The arrival of the Hermann from New York on the 2d tells us that Gen. CANDY has issued an order which is likely to do something towards restoring tranquillity in the Carolinas. He ha 3 provided the homestead exemption from legal seizure, and has revoked SICKLES'S mis c hi ev ous order prohibiting the sale and distillation of liquors in either S;ate. There is little enough reason to interfere with any branch of industry in the Southern State , , and a wholesale prohibition affecting many trades could not he otherwise than injurious at a more prosperous season. The efforts of all parties in the North should be directed to the restoration of trade and commerce in the Southern States, since not until some de gree of commercial prosperity returns is there any chance of the burdens of the North being lightened. The unsetled position of every thing, of the civil government, of the tenure of property, of the representative system, of the form of adminis tration following on the disasters and losses of the war, had completely depreciated the value of pos sessions in the South. Estates in Alabama and Mississippi have been recently sold for less money than had been expended in improvements upon them, and when the land itself is reduced to so little value we can easil y believe th at other pro perty will be reckon ed as worthl ess. The head hoffiiscriaelpoorft to which the F w r h eed h mea's Bureau in Mississippi, in we referred the other day, draws a terrible picture of affairs in that State. Ile says that cases have come to his knowledge in which not only the whole crop of a plantation has e. Tb y willcsurnsphpiiirstmeid Y believeted by their obsti nac y and the be injustice. jdivided usti amongst them, been turned over to t he labourer s to satisfy their They claims, but even the mules and im plements had to be given. The failu re of the cot ton crop left the planters without the means of e satisfying negroes' demands, an d the y , al ready filled with dreams of owning the lands them selves, are roused at to hn fury adt nithaet bymatters rs landsare the e presumption. It is not to be expected that Northern capitalists will invest their money in such a country, and yet without the influx of capital what can the impoverished Southerners do. A people whose numbers alone constitute them, in Mr. GLAD • STONE'S words, si a nation," are thus reduced to an absolute deadlock of misery and de solation. The PRESIDENT is doing what he can to repair the mischief wrought by Congress in their wild scheme of military reconstruction, by substituting moderate and honourable men for the harsh and unscrupulous commanders formerly appointed. The City of London steamship brings two days later news from New York, reporting the appointment of Mr. JOSIII7 A BAKER, a promi nent Conservative, to the Governorship of Loui siana, by General HAfic.oCK, an act which will not certainly bring him into more favour with Congress. The Washington section of the grand army of the R epublic has nominated GRANT for the Presidency, and in other quarters the Gene ral's name is being constantly put forward as the only really available candidate for the office. THE BISHOPRIC OF N ATAL .—The Rev. W. K. Macrorie, incumbent o f Accrington, has, it is said, with the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, accpted the appointment of the disputed see of Natal, and will shortly be sent out to take spiritual charge of such persons as re ject the authority of Bishop Colons°. Mr. Macrorie was lately rector of Wapping, a moderato high chur c h man. in the diocese of London, and is TIIE,STRIKE IN SOUTH YORK SIIIRE. —The adjourned meeting of the Parkgate ironworkers to consider the proposed reduction of 10 per cent. was held on Saturday afternoon last in the Tem perance-hall, Parkgate. As the proposed reduction affec ted the ironworkers generally of South Yorkshire, there was a numerous meeti ng, i nc l u di n g delegates from the Midland, the :Holmes Milton and Elsecar, Thorncliffe , Wakefield, and other wor k s. Aft er a warm and animated , discussion, it was resolved to accept the reduction of 10 per cent. at present, until a more favourable opportunity presented itself. It is expected that those terms be accepted by the men at all the works in South Yorkshire, and that operations would bo resumed yesterday where the furnaces could bo got ready. The dispute, which has lasted only three weeks, was creating a good good deal of distress in consequence of there being no general union among the men. The determination of the above meeting will, no noubt, rale all the works, many of the men having agreed to abide by the Parkgate decision, CORRESPONDENCE FRI DM PARIS. I LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, Jan. 13. I was right, after all, in saying that it s the state of his health that took Count Goltz to Born at the com mencement of the year. That statement has been ridi culed and denied over and over again, and when the Ambassador returned to Paris it was thought a very good joke to talk of the rapid cure that had been effected. The fact is, some people will persist in thinking that a canloi matic personage has no existence apart from his official duties. Count Goltz couldn't be going to the Prussian capital to consult his physician ; the object of his journey must be to receive some special instructions from his Royal master. Yet, what do we find? No sooner is Count Goltz back in Paris than the services of our cele brated N6la,ton are called in, and a consultation with other eminent doctors is held, which results in the performance of an operation for abscess under the tongue, which, I am glad to say, has proved effectual. The patient was finder the influence of chloroform, which, however, lost its power before the surgical arrangements were completed. I am told that Count Goltz, immediately taking a slate, wrote upon . it the words, " Morel ! Are you satisfied?" and handed it to his medical attendants. The bulletins that have been issued, signed by M. Neaton and Dr. Yobb, the physician to the Prussian Embassy, announce that the general health of the Count has not suffered from the effects of the operation. The interest in railways and their returns is so general that I have decided to give you the traffic receipts for last year on six of our systems. Take, first of all, the raris and Mediterranean Railway. The receipts on that line amounted, on 2,331 miles, to £8,338,386, against 27,336,183 on 2,183 miles, shewing an increase of E 302,203 over the preceding year. The traffic receipts on the Paris and Orleans Railway amounted, on 1,851 miles, to £4,213,372, against £4,062,049 on 1,812 miles, shewing an increase of £151,323 ; on the Eastern of France Railway the traffic receipts amounted, on 1,650 miles, to £4,182,782, against £3,923,443 on 1,594 miles, shewing an increase of £2„59,339 ; on the Northern of France the traffic receipts amounted, on 870 miles, to 0,721,951, against £3,297,496 on 788 miles, showing an increase of £524,455 ; on the Western of France Railway the traffic receipts amounted, on 1,301 miles, to £3,370,272, against £2,986,093, on 1,245 miles, shewing an increase of £384,179 ; Und on the Southern of France the traffic re ceipts amounted, on 1,062 miles, to £1,766,634, arming: £1,707,903 on 1,010 miles, showing an increase of £ F I Thus I find that the whole traffic receipts of the si qui tons shewed an increase of £1,880,236, and of 433 miles Li. 1867 over the year 1866. There is a lady here who just now is creating a sensa tion, but in a manner much less harmful than that by which many of her sisters in Paris have acquired notoriety. Walking daily in the garden of the Tuileries, Madame, by influences unknown, attracts flights of wild pigeons, sparrows, and other birds. Some hover around her ; others, bolder than their companions, perch upon her shoulders and her head, and nearly the whole of them accom pany her to the door of her dwelling, when they return to the gardens. If there be anything new under the sun, it is the manner of advertising goods. An enterprising tradesman in Lyons pushes the sale of his polishing powder by the following ingenious address, which he distributes whole. sale in the streets :—" Cooks, Angels of the Hearth ! Soldiers, Defenders of France !—Do you wish to shine , polish, brighten— easily—your helmets, breastplates, sauce pans, and kettles ? Then take the Chemical Tripoli— nothing but Chemical Tripoli." (Here follow name and address.) In all likelihood M. Louis Blanc will come out as a candidate at the next Marseilles election in opposition to M. Maire, who is at present in disfavour with the working classes owing to his having consented to become a patron of the Fusion Marseilles. Great distress continues in all parts of the country. In formation reaches me from Lyons that the manufactures are almost paralysed, owing to the uncertainty of the political future. At Nantes, Rouen, Roubaix, and even in Bordeaux, many of the inhabitants are reduced to the greatest straits. The same may be said of Lille. The thaw which has set in will alleviate in some degree the suffering which has prevailed here. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Secretary of State for India has received a telegram from Colonel Stanton at Cairo, under date Jan. 11, 1868, embodying the following message from Colonel Merewether " SENAFE, Dec. 28. " Have visited Attegerat, distance 30 miles. Road can be made easy thither for mules and camels in a few days. Large market there every Monday. Water and grass abundant. Well received by population. Reported latest, 13th, that Theodorus has approached Lasta , the Wagshum advanced to oppose him, and that they are close to one another ; Menelek 25 miles south-east of Magdala. Many reports, but none trustworthy. Epidemic among cavalry horses has disappeared. No further letters from captives." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (By Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.) SUEZ, Jan. 13. Advices received here from Annesley Bay state that the Chief of the Tigre was friendly towards the expeditionary force. He had offered to victual them, and had already sent 2,000 bullocks for their use. The supply of water at Annesley was abundant. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 14. The Official Gazette of this morning announces that the Emperor has ordered that the persons ap pointed to the posts of Ministers shall be styled " Your Excellency" during the continuance of their official functions, and shall rank at Court with actual Privy Councillors. The Reichsrath will resume its sittings upon the 10th February. Deputy Muhlfeld is dangerously ill. Rumours are current that Field-Marshal Lieute nant Baron von John is about to resign his post a ►s Minister of War for the Empire, and will be suc ceeded by Field-Marshal Lieutenant von Kuhn, THE WEST INDIA MAILS. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 14. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Atrato, from the West Indies, &c., arrived here at 3.15 a.m. this day, all well, and proceeded thence for Southampton at 4.30 a.m. She brings 21 adult passengers, specie $161,030, and 2,215 packages of cargo. Also late captain and crew of the Corsica, screw steamer, purchased by the company. The Douro arrived out at St. Thomas's, with mails of 17th ult., at daylight on the 31st ; and the Mersey proceeded down the islands, and the Douro to Jamaica, the same day. The Atrato's ship papers are coming to London by special train from Plymouth, at 5.15 a.m. this day. The Atrato was detained outside the harbour, first waiting for the pilot, and subsequently through losing the boatswain overboard, who fell from the jibboom, when a boat was lowered and search made for him, but ineffectually. Her dates are :—Greytown, Dec. 15 ; Demerara and Tobago, 23d ; Trinidad, 24th ; Grenada and St. Vincent, 25th ; St. Lucia and Barbadoes, 26th ; Jamaica, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Dominique, 27th ; Jacmel, Antigua, and St. Kitt's, 28th ; and St. Thomas, 31st. At St. Thomas's commercial affairs were still in au unsettled state, owing to the continuance of the earthquake. Severe shocks were felt on the 29th and following days, up to the time of the Atrato leaving, keeping the inhabitants in a state of great. anxiety. The island was then healthy, but private advices state that the water in the harbour was more putrid than ever through the number of sunken vessels with provisions, &c., ou board. The slightest movement among the shipping caused the exhalations to become insufferable, and it was ap prehended that before long some serious sickness would be the result. The second session of the new Jamaica Legisla ture was opened on December 17. The Financial Secretary reported a deficit in the revenue of the past year of £56,000, arising from the Customs and rum duties. A bill had been introduced levying an additional 10 per cent upon the amount of duties paid into the Customs on all imported articles from December 16. The Council has been adjourned till the 14th of January. A day of thanksgiving was observed on the 20th December for deliverance from earthquakes and hurricanes. _ . At Barbadoes political matters had lapsed into quietness, and rumour was busy speculating there as to the probable successor of the Governor, whose term of office had almost expired. At Demerara the deficiency in the revenue this year was expected to be very considerable. Towards the close of the last fortnight a good deal of rain had fallen at Trinidad all over the island, and there was every indication of a wet season having set in at last. H.M.S. Royal Alfred left St. John's, Antigua, on Dec. 26, for Barbadoes, and the Sphinx for Grenada. The Terror, Favourite, Doris, Nimble, and Constance were left at Bermuda on December 17. The Doris was to leave for Barbadoes on the 26th, and the Aboukir, Phoebe, Barracouta, and the Cor delia were left at Port Royal, Jamaica, on Dec em ber 27. The Urgent arrived there on the 23d for Bermuda, and was to leave 'on December 31st for Colon, with seamen and marines for the Pacific squadron. There was no fresh news of much importance from the Central American States. The new volcano that broke out at Leon, in Nic,aragua, lasted for 16 days and then ceased. The Atrato's mails were not sorted on board. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 13. The Massilia leaves at 2 a.m. to-day for South ampton, where she may be expected early on the morning of the 18th inst. FRANCE. BOURSE, JAN. 13, Three o'clock..—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of mouth 6B 97f Credit Mobilier End of month 163 75 Credit Foncier 1355 Eud.of month 1355 - RAILWA' Bank Shares 3295 Itrd'an Loan End of month 42 37i Mexican Loan 15i Do. Bonds Spa❑ish Threes 37 50 Rome Debt 3li Deferred Account Orleans ... 870 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5361 Western Eashan . 535 Sardinian Austrian 5021 3411 -- 61 Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Itoman 5O THE INCREASE OF THE POLICE FORCE.—The pro posed addition of 1,000 men to the metropolitan police force is not likely to be long in being made up, so rapidly aro eligible candidates for admission to the force present ing themselves at Scotland-yard. The recruits come, in almost every instance, as may be supposed, from the pro vinces, and the utmost care is taken to select not merely those most physically fit, but those who combine the ne cessary bodily strength with fair educational qualifica tions. Yesterday a large number of fine young men passed at Scotland-yard, and received their uniforms. AF. a general rule, the newly appointed constables are not re markable for their high stature, but are all strong and healthy lookiug, t 4 61111 ; TIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 13. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe ; and their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out. His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer and the Misses Van de Weyer left Osborne to-day. Prince and Princess Christian,with Princess lien riette of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Arthur, returned to Frogmore ou Saturday from visiting Lord and Lady Derby at Knowsley. SHIPPING DISASTERS. A telegram from Cork states that " the steamer Chien( of the Guion Company, lies on the rocks in Gyieen Bay, inside Poor Head. She has not changed her position since daybreak. The storm has since abated, and the wind shifted off shore, permitting the recovery of specie, which is now under escort to Queenstown. Passengers, luggage, and parcels are being removed. No hope of getting the ship oil unless the Nceather continues moderate, and allows the removal of heavy cargo. After she struck a heavy gale arose. The vessel and cargo are heavily insured at Liverpool." Another serious loss is also reported off the Irish coast. The ship Oasis, 1,500 tons, belonging to Messrs. Fletcher and Co., of Liverpool, which sailed from Calcutta on the sth of August last, drove ashore on Newton Head, near Tramore, on Sunday. The lifeboat of the district went promptly to the ship. Before the vessel was reached, however, the cap' - ain and three sick men had been drowned, and five or six of the men had put off in the ship's boat, and are supposed to have perished. The rest of the crew were taken safely on shore by the lifeboat. The vessel was laden with linseed, and was valued at £25,000. The ship Ullswater is also lost upon that coast. A large vessel is supposed to have been lost off the en trance to the Ribble on Saturday night, as masts, yards, timber (cargo), and deals are floating off the Nelson Buoy, Ribble. The ship Champion of the Seas, which ha arrived at Melbourne from Liverpool, reports having expe rienced very heavy weather on the voyage out. She lost her foremast below the cheeks, and all the stays from ma i ns tay up, &c. The foreyard in falling down did con siderable damage to the deck. The Earl Fortescue is about to contract a mar riage with Lady Drummond, relict of Sir James Williams Drummond, Bart. A marriage has been arranged between the Earl Beauchamp and Lady Mary Stanhope, daughter of the Earl and Countess Stanhope. VESUVlUS.—Vesuvius is the great point of attraction just now. There is a great migration of foreigners from Rome to witness the eruptive splendours of the volcano. The French Ambassador left for Naples a few days ago for that purpose. SAD CATASTROPHE.—A terrible occurrence is re ported from Mantes (Seine et Oise), in which nineteen per sons have lost their lives. A countryman named Fouchet laid a wager that he would drive a heavily laden hay waggon across the Seine on the ice. When half way over the vehicle stopped, and twenty-eight persons went to the aid of the driver. Suddenly the ice gave way under the weight, and all were swallowed up. Two boatmen, Bourdet Pinagues and Hottot, succeeded in saving nine persons, but the others were drowned. Among the victims was M. Canat, the mayor of Portchville. THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. '—'Those who are interested in the exploration of Palestine will be happy to learn that the undertaking is relieved from present pe cuniary anxiety. Mr. Grove, in announcing this fact in the Times, states that Mr. Warren's recent explorations had revealed the fact that the ancient city lies buried be neath the modern one. " The cliff which Joab climbed, the streets which David trod, and along which Athaliah was hurried, the catacombs of the Kings of jndah, the very Vicf Dolorossa itself," which tourists have been told they have seen, in fact lie buried, some of them apparently to some considerable depth. DISCOVERY OF A SMUGGLERS' CAVE.--A corre spondent of the Dublin Express, writing from Lisname, says : " A pier has just been finished on the shore below Kilkeel, where a small river e mpties itself into the sea. The men employed to remove the shingle to enlarge the accommodation came on an old cave roofed and full of tobacco. Some forty or fifty rolls were perfectly useless. It must have been upwards of twenty years buried, and , strange to say, it is at the spot where the fishin g boats are drawn up. Nobody seems to known anything respect ing it. LIVINGSTONE.—At the ordinary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Roderi* Murchison, the president, before the commencement of the regular business, read a letter he had received from Dr. Kirke dated the 9th October, from Zanzibar, in which lie men tioned that further rumours had been received of the presence of a white man in the centre of Africa, who there was good reason to believe was Dr. Living. stone. It was stated that he had sent letters by a trader who had not yet arrived at Zanzibar, and Dr. Kirke expressed the hope that when he next wrote his letter would be accompanied by letters from Dr. Livingstone. He also stated that Moussa and the Johanna men had applied to be paid their wages, which had been withheld until it was ascertAined whether their reports of the murder of Dr. Livingstone were un- founded. Sir Roderick said that Dr. Kirke had previously been sceptical as to the existence of Dr. Livingstone, and it was gratifying to find that he now entertained hopes that he might be alive. Mr. Crawfurd made some re marks vindicating Moussa, and throwing doubt on the correctness of the rumours of Dr. Livingstone's safety, though he admitted the evidence in its favour had become stronger. LITERATURE. Sooner or Later. By Shirley Brooks. Two Vols. Bradbury and Evans. Having followed Mr. Shirley Brooks in his rela tion of this serial story month by month since the date of its commencement, more than a year ago, we have now to take leave of him and his last com pleted fiction, now that it has closed its course as a serial, and has been formally issued to the world in the shape of this very handsome publication. Illus trated with great ability by Mr. George Du Maurier, " Sooner or Later" displays, Mr. Shirley Brooks, so far as the writing of the work (the manner of the composition,we mean) is concerned, at his very best. Practice—proverbial making perfect--has certainly tended to ripen the powers of this skilled and in dustrious man of letters, to whom the reading public has so long been indebted for the assiduity with which he has applied his abilities to the cultivation of his naturally great capacities as a contributor to popular light literature. It is not only to be here said of him that since the staff of brilliant wits and hunaourists formerly assembled in such a notable throng around Mr. Mark Lemon, as the Editor of Punch—a throng including within it writers as emi nent as Douglas Jerrold, and W. M. Thackeray, and Gilbert A'Beckett, and Albert Smith, and others of lesser celebrity--Mr. Shirley Brooks has been left almost alone among the original contributors to the Loudon Charivari, still aiding by his pen the almost equally isolated pencil of Mr. John Tenniel, who is no longer associated, as an illustrator of Punch, with artists as renowned as John Leech and Richard Doyle. It is yet more worthy of note in regard to Mr. Shirley Brooks, that simultaneously with his abundant contributions to the chief of our comic publications, as well as to a great number of our popular magazines, he has contrived, by good artist-work, to build up for himself a distinct and honourable reputation as a Novelist. And here, in his capacity as a Novelist, he appears, in one sense at least, as we have said, in this newly-finished book of his, callel " Sooner or Later," at his best. In the manner of its composition, that is. Not otherwise, as we conceive, and for this simple reason—that the material (material of his own selection, of course) of which he has built up his story, is really and truly not worth the labour lavished upon it. The characters, in other words, here brought together, are, as a rule, simply detestable. There is Benjamin Dudley, the apothecary, for example —an out and out scoundrel. There is that miserable reptile George Farquhar—a drink-soddened snob, if there ever was one. Mrs. Faunt is, in effect, such an utterly abandoned old hag, in her way, that Mr. Brooks can only himself compare her, towards the close of his book, to the Bawd in " Clarissa Harlowe." Then, too, there is Mrs. Faunt's no less detestable daughter, Mrs. Sullage. What possibly can be said again for that atrocious old Rector of Saxbury—or even for that compara tively tolerable rascal his son, the Rev. Edward Grafton? Mrs. De Gully is no better than she should be, as the old phrase has it. Percy Vaughan is a forger and a murderer. The Bullimans are no better than mean-minded, scandal-loving bigots. Henry Wigrain is a despicable slanderer and coward, chiefly remarkable for his getting a thrash ing which he richly deserves. Lucy Verner is a— well, in plain terms a kept mistress. And the individual who, at the outset of the story has her in keeping is no other than the hero of the book, Ernest Dormer, whom we are expected to like and have an interest in, mainly for the ex press reason that he throws her over in the most heartless manner, in order that he may marry for money (certainly not for love at the time of the mar riage first coming off) Magdalen Conway of Sax bury. If the truth must be spoken, however, we almost rather prefer the vagabonds of the story, such as Fount and Dudley, and the rest of them, to those two insufferable old goodies, Magdalen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Con way—whose endearments of tongue to one another, whose billings and cooings all through the narrative are mawkish almost to the extent of being nauseating. It is rather gratifying, however, to wards the end of the story to see how many of the imaginary beings peopling it come to grief—and some of them horribly. Mrs. Faunt, we are gratified to record, tumbles down a cellar, breaking her head, and dying there in great agonies. Mr. Dudley ex pires rather more painlessly than we could have wished, being shot dead by Percy Vaughan. Colonel IN alter Latrobe, one of the few gentlemen in the book, is, as it seems to us, rather wan tonly destroyed by the author, who makes him die the death in the very act of saving the life of one of those little people he loved so much, meaning thereby children. The best things in the whole book to our thinking, and this too beyond all comparison, are the con versations described by Mr. Shirley Brooks as taking place in the club, chiefly in the smoking room of the club, of the Octagon. The principal interlocutors being Samuel Mangles, Jemmy Rydon, Sergeant Penguin, Doddy DaLston, Milwarden, Walter Latrobe, and Charley Launceston. Not ably, best of the whole bunch of them, Samuel Mangles. That good little flyaway, Gracie Clare, is capital fun, too, both she and that vulgar old mother of her's, the greengroceress I Haslop, the Catholic Barrister, is a fine-natured, dull sort of gentleman. The Dorcas Meetings down at Saxbury, though cleverly described, are rather a bore. The Hut one never enters without a sense of discomfort and even pain, with Lucy left there so heartlessly by Ernest Dormer, and with her two darling little chile dren, pets thenceforth only to noble-hearted Colonel Walter Latrobe, Mopes and Dormouse. Com pensating for very much of all this in the book, however, one never enters otherwise than with pleasure, one never leaves otherwise than with re gret, the 'smoking room at the Octagon. THE LATE FRIGHTFUL DEATH AT A STARCH WogKs.—The young man Hammersley, who, along with his companion Attenburrow, fell into a vat of hot liquor at Gill and Tucker's Starch Works at Sandiacre, near Nottingham, while foolishly playing near the copper, died on Saturday, having survived his companion nearly a month. The accident took place in consequence of Atteu burrow trying in jest to put Hammersley into the vat. REFUSING TO CATCH THE. CLOWN.—TWO men named Purse and Brown were charged at Sunderland on Thursday by Mr. Clarence Holt, the lessee of the Ly ceum Theatre, with refusing to fulfil their contracts a 9 handicraftsmen. The defendants, it was alleged, had been engaged as scene-shifters at the theatre, and one of their duties was to assist in catching the clown (Mr. J. H. Huds peth) when he came through the apertures in one of the scenes of the pantomime. At the performance ou Christ mas eve the defendants and several follow scene-shifterS caught Mr. Hudspeth on his first flight through the aperture, but just as he was clearing the canvas the second time the whole of them walked away, and had it not boon, it was stated, fur Mr. felt's son and another gentleman, who happened to be behind the scones, Mr. Hudspeth might have broken his neck. Some light was thrown on the conduct of the scene-shifters by Mr. Hudspeth, who stated that on the 23d December Brown asked him for some money. Ile sent the men 18., but this they would not accept, and on the following day it was whispered that there would be uo one to catch him when he jumped through the apor ture, which was about 4ft. Gin. from the stage. The scene was about 6ft. from the wall, and if he (Mr. Hudspeth) had not been caught he should have dashed himself against the wall. The magistrates thought there was no evidence a.B to the contract under which the defendants were employed at the theatre, though they were satisfied that the eunduct of the men had been exceedingly bad. The cases were therefore dismiseed, MO The Si been goo been full but they Without 1 lowed m' as at t' Without the settle pal featu Alone , market possible bills mal E x C e h o e n a s o t have si n , 9 2i for Three r Cents., The 1 Turkish Spanish to 15i Italian 9 0 to 9 guese Sc Amer Five_Tv, Erie Ida being qi 88k. Allan I'M re, Mortbaa Rail% of Stock 1 in Gr( donian, 44; an London 4 in 111: Eastern 45 i ; ar and y o Norther to 481. -_ 2 Upon flagratic Pany's E the tota sha re . very se] yet be 11 °W at N Bank Count y of Lond Stock, 1 12 disc( 18 t o 1 Atlas 1 preen, Great Ditto , Le e d s Load° Great 67TH PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED TO 'WHEELER AND WILSON, FOR PERFECTION OF THEIR LOCK STITCH SEWING MACHINES and BUTTON-HOLE MACHINES, AT THE EXPOSITIPON IS, 1867 UNIVERSELLE, AR. THE ONLY G MEDAL, GIVEN TO SEWING OL D MACHINES. Over 82 Competitors from all parts of the World.