The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

T HEATRE ROYAL, DRUM LANE.-- Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. Seventh appearance of the eminent Comedian, Mr. Charl es Mathews, since his late serious illness. Great Success of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the most magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. Followed by SOMEBODY ELSE, in which Mr. Charles Mathews will sustain his original character. After which will be produced an entirely new and original symbolical, hrperbolical, parabolical, and extra-physiog nomical grotesque, statuesque, and picturesque Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which for some time past has employed the unrivalled resources of this extensive establishment, and which will be called or entitled, as it is entitled to be called, SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The scenery entirely new, painted by and under the direc tion of Mr. William Beverley and numerous assistants. The 'machinery by J. Tucker and assistants. The properties, de corations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, &c. The masks, models, and physiog nomical devices designed and executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The overture and music composed and arranged by Herr Anschuez. The choregraphic arrangements under the personal supervision of M. Petit. The comic scenes con structed by and under the direction of Harry Boleno. The peculiar grotesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard, author of " Harlequin and the Seven Ages of Man," " Jack and jill," " Humming Top," "Hudibras," dre, , and the whole arranged and produced under the direction of fir. Robert Roxby. Ye anciente and truthful legend on ye which ye pantomime is story is founded : " See, saw, Margery Daw, " Sold her bed, and laid upon straw." MSS. of Nursery Rhymes in British Museum. it n i oo o f Reverses, in the Island of Ups and Downs. " Yea, the Great Globe itself?' " Here we go up, up, up, " Here we go down, down, down ; " Here we go backwards and forwards, " And here we go round` and round." Juvenile Chorus of the earliest period, supposed to belong to the One. Up, Mr. Topham ; Down, Mr. Low ; Opera box, Kid Glove, Tiger and Brougham, and Porte-monnaie (attendants upon Up), Signor Lorgnette. Herr Tightfitt, Master Saucebox, and Monsieur Chinque ; Hard Up. Dupli cate, Distraint, and Rags (attendants upon Down), Mr. Friz hard, Mr. Popall, Mr. Quodham, and Mr Patchwell. An nual appearance of Holyday in her Emblematic- Car. Holyday (the Genies of the Season), Miss Marian Stanley ; Sport and Pastime (her attendants), Misses Lovelasgh and Lightheart ; Dame Necessity (who is on this occasion made a virtue of by partieular desire), Mrs. Selby. How Invention, the Daughter of Necessity, is called upon to assist the development of the story, while Holydayi n-rites both Up and Down to enjoy themselves. Holyday's Home in the Green Bower of Mistletoe and Winter Garden of the Fairies.—Mistletoe (the Fairy Queen), Miss E. Wadham ; Fairy Spirits of the Kisses that have bees given under the Mistletoe, by upwards of 100 Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Grand Ballet —Miss Regina Wright, Mdlles. J. and E. Osmont, and the Co eyphees. The Golden Gates leading to the Palace of Huggamngga.—Herald (with a Proclamation), Mr. Hornogold ; Guards, Messrs. Stiffneck, Headsun, Eyesright, Shoulderarms. Stand-at-ease, and March well ; Tailor, Mr. Broadcloth ; Cobbler, Mr. Waxend ; Black smith, Mr. Anvil ; the Princess Margery Daw (afterwards Cslumbine), Madame Helene ; Shills , and Shelly (her Maids of Honour), Misses Ditbery and Dothery. How Margery Daw has no notion of work herself, and the contempt she shows towards those who do work. Interior of the Palace of King Huggamngga. King Huggamugga (Sovereign of the Land of Sixes and Sevens), Mr. Dawking ; Huryl-Bnrly (Lord Chancellor), Mr. Bigwig ; Niminy-Piminy (the Lord Cham berlain), Mr. Noodledom ; Higgledy-Piggledy (Goldstick in Waiting), Mr. Muddle ; other Members of the Court, Messrs. Bow, Scrape, Cringe, Crouch, Tageag, Merrywag, Perriwig, and Hatband; Court Milliner, Madame Crinoline ; Drawing Master, Professor Crayon ; Governess, Miss Frump ; Music- Master, signor Hurdigurdi ; Maid in Waiting, Miss Sweet tvaper, Chef de Cuisine, Mr. Cook • Prince Popinjay (of the Land of Prettistorv), Mr. Finefeather ; his Retinue, stews. Glare, Dazzle, Gleam, Glitter, and Catashine. How the Princess is taught a wholesome lesson by Necessity, and of the Wang. that takes place in consequence. Cottage of Necessity, with a Prospect of Hard Work in the Distance. The Enchanted Workbox—The Sampler and the Exemplar, and the pretty piece of work that Margery Daw makes of it. Inhabitants of the Workbox :—Row of Pins, Messrs. Sharp, Bent, Crooked, Pinaday, Groatayear, &c. ; Regiment of Needles (ready drilled), Messrs. Largeeye, Sinalleve, Longsix, Splitup, Snapoff, &c. ; Thimble, Master Tom Thumb ; Worsted, Mr. Ravelaway ; Bodkin, Mr. Pierce ; Tape Mea sere, Mr. Inchbald; Hook and Eye, Messrs. How and Some bodyelse ; Shirt Buttons, Mr. Earlypurly ; Scissors, Mr. Shearsteel. How Margery Daw makes an important discovery and the audience also, and how, led by Neces=ity, she is com pelled to alter her opinions and change her pos!tion The Mine of Labour, leading to the Mine of Wealth .—Labour (the Parent of Health, Wealth, and Haspisess), Mr. Strong'i'th'arm . What Margery Daw goes to see, what she saw, and the re ward that Holyday bestows Grind Scenic and Mechanical Effects, exhibiting (in preemie!' construction) the Fairy Fac tory of Fancy, completed with th e assistance of Labour and Imagination. Brilliant Tableau. The Transformation :—Two Harlequins, Herr Dentin and Signor Veroni; two Sprites, the Brothers Elliott ; two Pantalaor s, Mr. Barnes and Mr. G. Tanner; two Clowns, Messrs. Harry Roleno and Flexmore ; the Gent, Mr. Raiford ; two Columbines, Madame Boleno and Miss Honey. The Ups and Downs of the Harloquinade, showing the Ins and Outs and Turns About of the Pantomime Rally ; Toy Warehouse, Butcher's and Baker's Shop (Bolenos. Deulin, Tanner, and Halford).— A pink of polite. ness—Clown very toyieh—Getting a nnteracker. which turns out a nobby toy—First and last toys for gambling—Marbles versus dice—Despatches, loaded, and off they go—Harlequin takes a private box —Clown takes Cha terton's situation as boxkeeper Kite-flying—A game of Cricket, by which some of the players get bowled out, awl afterwards stumped, which turns out a long stop—The uses and abuses of the crin oline A Jack in the box—A box of regular British toys and a basket of French bread (bricks)—Aldershott a size smaller —Grand review of infantry—A military ball—Going in for a buster—Coming out with a roll—Clown make a peel t 3 baker's feelings—List, oh, List —Sqnaring a round of beef— Clown takes a steak and gets a chop in rAurn —Pantaloon tries his hand at a game and loses by it est and come anis Clown takes a butcher's shop which Harlequin makes too hot to hold him. Tailor's Shop and Perfumery Warehouse (Ve roni, Barnes, and Honey). A gentleman in search of a tailor— A suit that is quite the ticket T Owle wrapper—Railway wrappers--Transfer depot—Washing m ach in e—extraordi nary— Something that won't wash—Cleaned ant—Seen tin and sent out- Foreign versus English toothpowder—Hungary water—A Frangipani bouquet Wonderful effects of the Pistachio nut powder A case of r distress—Pantaloon in. a fix—Fur nished Apartments for Single Men (Bolenos, Deulin, and Tanner).—Clow and Pantaloon in high life A domestic re volution—'Turning the tables—To bed, to bed A drop too mush Clown now begins to reflect —The looking-glass follows his example—Two heads better than ono—Clown takes a turn on the sofa, which also takes a turn on its own account— Multiplication altercation, which ends with a regular row in the house. Judkia's Gas-regulating Machine and General Patent Office and Stationer's Shop (Veroni, Barnes, and Honey.)—Clown, being in Fleet-street. goes the pace rather fast—The language of the eyes (I-talian of course) which everybody understands—Bath post versus London post—Re gulators Wanted : railway regulators, army regulators, gas regulators, smoke regulators—Sewing, cutting, washing, pressing, and ironing done by a turn—Clown makes a shift which makes Pantaloon a little shirty—A. box of common scents—A fresh supply of blacks from America—A Dred-ful seen, ensues. Mechi's Model Farm (Bolenos, Dentin, and Tanner )—Harvest-home —A rakish dance by rustic lads and lasses—The milky wav-Marlequin makes a pump of himself —A strong smell of game—A farm-yard r:sitor—Clown finds the pig a very great bore—Pantaloon finds the dog bets greatly attached to him —Prize Poultry—Cochin Ch'na and *ouch in England —Novel hatching—The old mail—Full in side—Clown off by the Express an I Pantaloon by the Racket— appin's Cutl e ry and Shilling Razor Warehouse, King William-street, City (the whole of the double company will appear in this scene )—Pantaloon proposes to take a bus—Present and future —Weight of public opinion —A. change for the better—The people's own bus—When fool meets fool then comes the tun of fun—Collision, crash, smash, and clash—Garotte preventive—Moustache move mentMA pair of sharp Idades--Clowns prove themselves a ease for cutlery Holloway stopped by Holloway's oint ment—The duel —A cut direct Forewarned, forearmed Pnblic nuisances of 1856—0 h, my Crinoline—A hi g h wind, a regular blow np, and glorious termination to Ups and Downs in Holiday's Fairy Home. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the hens." to suit every one:—Galleries, and is. ; Second Circle of Poxes, is. Pd.: Pit, 25.: Fitt Circle of Boxes, 2s. 6d. - : Dress Boxes, 35.; Stalls, Se. ; Private Boxes, 10e. CA., ]e., 11. lls. 61, and 2/. 2s. A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. D OYAL LYCEUM TFIEATRE. Lessee, Mt. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING will be produced an entirely new and Original combination of burlesque and paAtomime, entitled CONRAD AND MEDORA ; or. Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Pottom of thethe Rea. Th e b ur l esque open i ng by W. Brongh, Fsq., flea. the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her Majesty's Theatre. The harlequinade upon thing: in gene ral. The new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F. Fenton. Characters in the opening :- - Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar H irbarto Ns lieutenant) F is S itr eyde s_ Pas Mr. J. L. Toole Pasha • .......................... mr. Barrett ynnift rut ................... ...... Mr. Holston sfedora .......... ..........................Mr. S. Calhaem Gulnar ................... Hr:. Charles 71 Znliem .......................... ....Mrs. BO White ............... ............. Melville Submarine. Miss. Jessie Ryder! Seelorwm M iss Marie Wilton TN t. Tom Matthews and ......... Pantaloon "'" Harlequin . Sorites The Brothers Nelson. I Columbines Miss Clara Morgan and Miss Ladd, To be preceded by THE KING'S MUSKETEERS, iyAr. tagnan, Mr. C. Dillon. The box-office open daUy, from 11 to 5, under the super. Mendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties t the Private Boxes to set demon at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. A Morning Performance every Saturday, at 2 o'clock. STRAND THEAT R, E.—Manager, Mr. T. Payne.—This Evening will he performed THE PERILS OF CRINOLINE. Followed by DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. After which, the immensely snecessfol novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE; or, Harlequin Humbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Chri=tmas, Miss E. Wilton ; Good Humour, Miss Norbury; Mercury, Vies Cameron ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert ; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; Baron, Mr. J. B. Johnstone • Sir Roland, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Love?., Miss Craven ; Addelplte, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edouin ; Lady Agnes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, Mr. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harle. quiaade :—Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Little Clown, Made" NV Edonin ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Colambines. Miss E. Jacobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier Danseuse, Mdle. Marie Charles. New and magnificent Scenery, site. New Curtain. New Aat Drop. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, ed. Amo • "li n g Performance of the Pantomime overy2Monday at two (Adcock OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LIMP; • I or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Bing. Harlequin, Mr. Corma,ck ; Clown, Mr. Huliue ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams. riNHENTRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, The Comedy of MONEY. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by_fir. W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M. Milano. Harlequin, IL Milano; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; and Clown, Mr. Driver. A Morning performance of the Pantomime will be given every Thursday : commencing at 2, concluding at t. g_2) OYA L SURREY THEATRE Vo Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING. an original play, in three acts, entitled A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. Roderick Praiseworthy, Mr. Shepherd. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr. F. Glover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury; the Four Sprites, the Fillis Fa mily; Columbines, Mesdames Marie and Agues. 31) OY A L OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers, Leslie, G, Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborougb, Thirlwall, St. Case, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, and Mrs. Mellott. After which, CRINOLINE. Commence at half-past Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. Great Hit of A Night at N otting-Hill. THIS EVENING will be performed DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Pall Bedford will appear. To conclude with the new and original union of modern burlesque and old English pantomime (as originated at this theatre), by Professor Wordspinner, Member of Every thing, with entirely new scenery, dresses, transformations, lie., called TILE SUN, MOTHER SFIIPTON ; or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine (b. la Watteau), Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland ; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur lesque bg Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Minagernent, of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, THE IRON CHEST. Characters by Messrs. Phelps, Marston, Ray, dm. To conclude. with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND THE FISHERMEN. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. lA_ Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (First Week !), the risible Comedy called KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO (as taken by Garrick from Shakspeare's " Taming of the Shrew"), with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. Petruchio, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the EQUESTRIAN EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with the Ructvasful equestrian comic panto mime, called P AUL PRY ON HORSEBACK; or, Har lequin and the Magic Horseshoe. Doors open at halt -past six ; commence at a quarter be fore seven o'clock. ox•ofce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of 4 eleetions from all the popula^ Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dre., : —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Conn; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J Wilkins. Piano forte, J. H arroway, R. A.; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre -2.,sely. Suppers, dm., until twelve o'clock. Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Dress Ball will take place on Wednesday, Feb. IS. Gentleman's ticket, 7s ; lady's ditto, 5s ; double ticket (lady and gentleman or two ladies), 19s. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIG DAT—Morn. 54 ann. aft. 2—Evening 12 min. aft. 3 T. 1-'4ORROW—Iforn. 35 min. aft. 3—Evening 53 init. aft. 3 TEE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 27. MERMOMETEB, IN THE SHADE. 39 —niwheEt Mote noon yesterday. 36 —lowest this morning snd during the night. 39 - Cabs day ac noor. &&4 29 . 92—rising. WIND, N. to N.N.E.—Fresh, with fine frosty weather. -,,5-,:vr. i 72-," ,• 4. -,•-• \ ( e., ..,:. ~....---- A „>:•:" , 4 , , ?.---- , =';-:4,:- S s...- ' ~.) ,C -: ' - .Lev,-•-'-- 7 =';.:l Vlg - %:' ' a-- • c • - \ ' N }l)ol, - - - (L')•-'7---;:_±,-C'? L ;I_lON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1887. Her MAJESTY'S Ministers have a great deal before them requiring explanation. This expla nation will have to be given either voluntarily or involuntarily almost immediately upon the meet- ing of Parliament. Voluntarily through the rather vague and shadowy medium of the Speech from the Throne. Involuntarily through • the replies extorted from the occupants of the Trea sury benches, in discussion. Upon several sub jects the country will have the meaning "out," and that, moresver, at once—in spite of every attempt which may be made in the way of Parliamentary slur or of Official prevarication. The People will insist, for example, upon eliciting as speedily as possible from the Cabinet the precise nature of the Mini sterial intentions as to the Income Tax. It remains to be understood how far the nation is to be relieved from that incubus. Whether it is to be relieved from it at all ; or, supposing that at least to be decided upon, whether it is to be materially diminished, or more equitably distri buted. It remains to be seen, again, what are the precise Legal Reforms to be brought this session Ministerially under the consideration of the Imperial Legislature ? What the extent and character of the new Sanitary Improve ments ? What the tendency or direction of any fresh incentives to be given to the great cause of Educational Advancement ? What the pro posed fiscal innovations? What the projected financial modifications All these problems remain to be solved by Her MAJESTY'S Ministers, to the satisfactior. of the country, and to the satisfaction of the Parliament. All these things will require to be explained with as little delay as is at all possible, by one or other of the leading me m b er , of Lord PALMERSTON'S Administration. And with these things a great many others hardly one jot less difficult, -less imminent, or less complicated. The treatment of our criminals for one thing ! Whether our convicts are still to be kept in "durance vile" at home, to be afterwards set loose upon society to amuse themselves by finger ing anew the " garotting thong," and the "Jemmy," and the "centre-bit"—empowered so to do by those credentials of crime and certificates of felony, the o di ous, and obnoxious, and abom i na b le Tickets-of -L eave I coastspnal s o e f t t lAe Australasia a t a s ie Whether, on the other hand, some northernnewitoa or r e created on th in e Vancouver's Island, or in the Hudson's Bay ter ritory, with a view to the mother country reliev ing herself, for another generation at least, of ' this one very grievous acme° of anxiety, by re verting partially, if not entirely, to the old, and 1 temporarily abandoned, system of transportation I I Or—finally—Whether, all things -d consi ered ' it • might not really be most advisabl e t o keep our adult criminals at home, under more rigid sur veillance than would be practicable in our remote colonies, employing their energies judi ciously and even profitably, upon great public LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING," JANUARY 27. 1867 works, as at the Chatham Dockyard and at the Portland Breakwater. This will have to be examined into, decided upon, and satisfactorily explained by her MAJESTY'S Government. Again—as to military reforms, as to university reforms, as to municipal reforms, as to reforms in the organisation of the Civil Service, and re• forms in the ordering of the legal profession— everywhere may be recognised heavy work chalked out for the different departments of the Administration. The accumulation consequent upon a time of War ! Work obviously requiring from the Man at the Wheel—his shoulder to it ! Requiring this long before the late war actually commenced. But demanding it more urgently still, now that that war has been brought to a disgraceful conclusion ! Quite, as a matter of course, we shall have to note upon certain nights, scattered sparsely here and there up and down the session, the revival " by particular desire" of a few of the old stock pieces. The Jew Bill for instance! And the glimmering ghost, perhaps, of Lord JOHN'S pet hobby of reform as affects the whole system of representation ! And the shadow of the shade, may be, of Sir Jowl's favourite crotchets about National Education ! As inevitable, all this, as the annual motion in favour of the Ballot, chi valrously made at the appointed time by the Hon. Member for Bristol, despite every obstacle in the way of Ministerial ridicule. In open and magnanimous scorn, in truth, of the jeers of the TAPERS, and of the sneers of the TADPOLES who stand ever, year by year, at the lobby door on the Ministerial side of the House counting out the serfs of Party and the flunkies of Power ! As it so happens, the Commons, this session, will no longer have, metaphorically speaking, the midnight bell rung, and what THACKERAY calls the " domestic muffin" toasted by the amiable hand of Mr. BROTHERTON ! It will, in like manner, be deprived hence forth of the distinguished probity of the late Mr. JOHN SADLEIR, as well as of all the notable advan tages resulting from his brother JAMES'S elevated moral character ! If the Commons, beyond all this, have reason gill to regret the loss of their renowned Jester Colonel SIBTHORP, have they not a substitute still left to them for his folly in the buffoonery of Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND ? If the House no longer rings to the shrill eloquence of RICHARD &MIL, or to the racy humour of DANIEL O'CONNELL, has it not a double so lace in the sprightly rhetoric of the member for Carlow, and in the stuttering declama , • tion 'of that impassioned orator the honour able and learned gentleman the representative of the borough of Youghal ? It is true that the House of Commons has yet cause to cherish a very poignant regret for the late, and, let us add, the Great Sir ROBERT PEEL —but then has not the Prince DE LIGNE recently reminded us through the medium of a highly-spiced address delivered to the English residents at Brussels, that there is still left to the House of Commons another Sir ROBERT PEEL (shall we say the Small Sir ROBERT PEEL ?), who cto talk—how does the Prince de LINE express it ?—with the taste of an "ivrogne" and the language of a "gamin,"and the manners of a " vaurien P' To a Parliament shorn of such glories, and adorned with such graces—Ministers will have, in a few days, to proffer their expla nations ! On Tuesday last we declared that "many zealous advocates of the convertibility of the Bank note are still strenuously opposed to the provisions of the Act of 1844, and the unwise and impolitic prohibitions of the smaller denominations of B ►nk paper." We have already received conclusive proof of the accuracy of our assertion. A clear headed and intelligent gentleman—albeit a bul lionist—has addressed a letter on the subject of the Bank Charter Act to the parties selected to represent the Belfast Chamber of Commerce at the approaching conference of the " Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law,"—when " the law of banking" is amongst other impor tant questions, to be taken into consideration—in which the manifold defects of that most impolitic, and, we may add, inequitable measure, are so clearly exposed, that we have not hesitated to give it insertion in our columns. Let us then, for once, regard the question through a bullionist medium (our friends will not suppose that we have for a moment, deserted the eause we have so long and so steadily adhered to), and see how the matter stands between MERCATOR and his myr midons on the one hand, and Mr. JOHN SEED, and, we may add, Mr. JAMES WILSON on the other. The former are • not satisfied with • enforcing the necessity of payment on demand. It is not sufficient that every note presented should be forthwith exchanged for the amount of wive , reigns of which it is the representative. Far from it ! There must also be stringent measures of restriction, limiting the power of the Bank to issue their " promises to pay," however pressing the necessity, or however unquestionable their power to redeem the obligation, They will not even sanction the power of suspending it und er lany circumstances whatsoever, and emphatically caution the public against the means of relaxing it, or what they are pleased to term " the dodge," which they declare will prove fatal (!) if once tolerated. True it is that it has already been suspended with the most beneficial results, that it gave, according to the Lords' Committee, "lin• mediate and effectual relief," and " the salutary consequences of the step were recognised grate fully by almost every witness—even by those most favourable to the Act of 1844"—some apprehending that the Bank would have to shut its doors in a week unless the law had been violated." The then G mernor of the Bank said " all harm appeared to have ceased on the issue of the letter;" and again—" What restored confidence was the letter of the Government, allowing the Bank to make any advances, without reference to the Act, at a given rate of interest. We did not so much want the money, but we wanted a certainty that if we did want it we should get it." While Mr. HORSLEY PALMER, who had twice filled that posi tion, added—"ln the autumn of 1847 the demand for assistance was so much increased as to place the Bank in imminent danger by granting it, and which nothing could have relieved short of the relraation of the law, which took place." Even Mr. S. JONES LOYD, with a species of special pleading, remarkable in the Epistles of MER CATOR, also declared that, " although the letter we s a departure from the positive provisions of thti Act, it was not a departure from the principle of the act " (!), a distinction which the Committee justly declared they " could not recognise." In (teed. Mr. Loy) himself explained the cause of the eilicacy of the letter observing, "The remedial cl taracter of the measure was not the discounting at. 3 per cent., but the declaration to the public tliat at. 8 per cent. there was an unlimited supply Biaik notes at their command. The Bank could not possibly make that offer with the sanc tity a of the Government." "It was," said the ommittee, " the knowledge, on the part of the ' public, that there was actually power given to the Bank to advance any quantity of notes without limit, that produced the effect. Without the , authority of the Government the Bank could not have produced that confidence, and yet MERCATOR and his satellite X now denounce a power of again suspending the Act. A similar fatuity to the prohi bition of the 1/. notes which, in 1825, alone saved the Bank from a suspension of cash payments, and caused " the useless gold to be returned to the Bank." These thick-and-thin advocates then manifestly prove too much, and, like injudicious and over anxious witnesses in a court of law, completely destroy the value of their own testi mony ! But it may be said that the Government would still have the power of interposing. They could, as in 1848, come to Parliament for an indemnity! It is, however, needless to point out the extreme impolicy, nay, more, the danger to the best inte rests of the country of rendering the Government habitual violaters of the law. A coup d'etat may once be resorted to, but it cannot be sustained a second time. It is the duty of every Government to provide against an emergency involving such extraordinary and so undisguised a departure from the law, of which the absolute necessity was the sole justification. Being forewarned they should be forearmed, and could have no pos sible excuse for omitting the legislative precau tions essential to avert a similar necessity on another occasion. On the other hand, Mr. J. SEED declares that "the convertibility of the Bank note should be retained as it is now, a fundamental principle ;" but he advocates the establishment of " a Na tional Bank, subject to the control of Parliament, which should be one of issue and deposit alone, with the liberty of lending, which their immense receipts, in lieu of notes, would enable them to do most profitably, and the large and increasing profits whereof should be devoted either to paying off the national debt or lightening the public expenditure." Mr. J. WILSON also insists on " maintaining and securing the value of our currency unimpaired in relation to the ki tan dard, and therefore of securing in the most perfect way the convertibility of notes, which form part of it ;" but at the same time strongly recom mends the issue of 20,000,000/. of 11. notes, which he declares may be made with " the most perfect safety," and which would "add to the effective capital of the noun• try, to our stock of commodities, or what is the sane thing, our command over them to the extent of 20,000,0001., just as much as if we dug that amount of bullion out of the centre of England." Which, then, of these authorities are entitled to the greatest weight even in the ey- s of disinterested bullionists, who do not desire to swell their enormous stores at the expenss of the groans and sufferings of the industrial cowl munity ? To the masterly exposition of the enormous im position cmtained in the admirable letter of Mr. SHED we refer our readers. It will be found eminently worthy of calm and mature considera tion, and must convince any unprejwlical per son of the calamitous operation of the monster incubus that has so long paralysed the energies of the country awl fattened on " the very lifeblood of industry," until it has left it weak and ex hausted, faiating under a dialiniihecl and languid circulation, absolutely inadequate to its wants and exigencies. 'THE LONDON, BARIVICH, AND CONTINENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPAN Y. With a system of railway communication in Great Britain and others on the Continent, the problem arises, how may we best bridge the inter vening water, so as to connect them, and put us in possession of advantages obviously to be derived therefrom. To the solution of this problem the above company have addressed themselves, and in the agency of a well-appointed steam service, iu harmonious co-operation with the managers of the various continental lines, have discovered it. Confining their enterprise, however, go a particular direction, they have sel ec t e d H arw i c h asthe ug-p aeiest and the great s ea p or t s i n Hol land and Belgium rti their poi n t s o f di sem b ar k at i on. e ta Harwich, as furnishing a safe and commodious liar. bour accessible at all periods, and Hamburg, Rot terdam, and Antwerp, as opening out profitable ports for traffic, and communicating by rail with the northern and central ports of the continent of Europe. By this selection a great saving of time will be effected—Harwich being on the direct line, and its natural advantages obviating present stoppages, The saving of time in the passage between this country and the above mentioned ports is calculated at between 10 and 11 hours, while the route to Oberhausen, and thence to the northern ports of Earope, is 3i hours less by Harwich and Rotterdam than that by Dover and Ostend. Nor is this all--passengers proceeding to India via Trieste, by Harwich, Rot terdam, and the Dutch Rhenish Rail way—from which and other lines the .company have promise of every facility being afflded them—will effect a sav i n g of forty-eight hours as compared with the route via Marseilles. In the first instance, it is intended to cAnfine operations to the direct communication from London (by the Eastern Counties line), via Harwich to Rotterdam; but we are quite sure, before long, the company will extend its operations to the other ports. A more desirable scheme has rarely been brought before the public, and there can be no doubt, from all we can learn, little time will elapse before it is in full operation. The advantages to be derived from it are so palpable as to need no comment. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, t be Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Paumnre, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Charles W,,od, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. TO«Thaches Dowager of Argyll has arrived at the St. George'm Hotel. The Marquis of Abereorn bas taken Brockett Hall, Herts, of Viscountess Palmerston, fur a term. The noble marquis takes possession on the Ist of the ensuing month. The Earl of Eliesmere continwr, we regret to state, in very indifferent health—his condition sti 1 occasioning great anxiety to the members of his family. In answer to inquiries last evening, it was stated that his lordship was much the same, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cvnbridge arrived in town yesterday, from visiting her Majesty atrWiudsor Castle. His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess D'Appony, who have been on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, Herts, have re turned to Coandos House. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived at St. Leonard' - -on-Sea last week. Among the fashionablo visitors at that favourite ma-ino resort are the Earl and Countess of Roden, Vi-countess Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Midlam), the Hon. Miss Brodr:ck, &c. The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon for Hornby Ca- tl e, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess of Kintore have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to town yesterday from Windsor Castle. The noble via countess leaves town to-day for Brackett Hall. Her ladyship will go from thence to Penshanger, on a visit to the CouotPss Cowper and fainly. The additions and improvements which have been in progress since the fire, which partly destroyed the mansion of Penshanger, are now completed. Lord John Russell, M.P., arrived in town last even ing, from Florence. Lord and Lady Hunting&ld have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIKE.—On Saturday last the marriage of Captain the H ,n. Charles Keith Falconer, 4th Light Dragoons, brother of the Earl of Kiutore, with Miss Diana Aldridge, third daughter of It. , btrt Aldridge, Esq., of St. Lt.unard's Fore-t, Horsham, wik, ' solemnised at S. Jollies Lower Beeding, by the Hon. and Rev. Robert Henley, brother-in-law of the bride. The Great Western Dodas at Plymouth were opened y eAterelay. At New York a movement was on foot to establish an hospital for inebriates. LATEST NEWS. DEATH OF THE PRINCESS DE LLIEVEN. PARIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 11 A.M. The Princess de Llieven died last night. Letters from Circassia, in the irournal de Con stantinople, in confirming the defeat of the Rus sians near Tatar Kariessi, announce that the Circassian chief Ibrahim Bey, son of Sefer Pacha, has had two successive encounters with the Rus sians on the two rivers which traverse the road from Stavropool to Anapa. The mountaineers are reported to have inflicted a severe loss on the Russians, and to have massacred all the prisoners who fell into their bands. The general state of pacification of Europe and the approaching evacuation of the Danubian Principalities are about to allow the Austrian Government to make important redactions in the number of the army. The Government has it in contemplation to suppress the fourth battalion of each regiment of infantry, as well as one squadron in each cavalry regiment, in order to bring all the corps to a peace footing. These measures will, it is said, effect a reduction of about 70,000 men. The Prussian Government, if we may credit the _National Gazette of Berlin, has it in contem plation to come to an understanding in a private manner with France on the negotiations for the definitive settlement of the Neuchatel affair. It has communicated confidentially to the French Government, the rumour goes, the conditions on which the King of Prussia would renounce the sovereignty of that canton. He will reserve to himself the right of property over the domains and chateaux which were not appropriated to the public purposes before 1848. It will not be ad mitted that these shall be the property of the State, and in fact, since 1848, the Prussian Go vernment has protested against the sale of a cer tain part of this property, for which it will demand an indemnity. The renunciation of the sovereignty by the King will not, however, do away with his title of Prince de Neuchatel. Lastly, it would appear that his Majesty is desirous, as was before mentioned, of retaining a protection over several charitable foundations. It is thought the conferences will take place in the middle of February. "It is positively stated," adds the ational Gazette, " that the diplomatic relations between Prussia and Switzerland will be speedily resumed, and that France will also become the mediator on this subject." The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says : "It has been hinted in some continental journals that the presence of his Excellency Ferouk Khan at the Court of the Tuileries would considerably influence the policy of France with regard to Persia. lam able to assure you that the Emperor Napoleon, long before the arrival of the Persian Envoy, was perfectly aware of the reasons which had demanded our expedition to the Persian Gulf. French influence therefore will not assume a hostile attitude towards England ; ou the contrary, the Imperial Government will seek to persuade the Shah that his best Allies are England and France. I have great pleasure in again assuring you of the good understanding and perfect unanimity of policy now existing between the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries on foreign affairs generally." The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second edition), in a letter dated Jan. 24, says : " A telegraphic deipazch will have informed you that the Persians, after having lost posses sion of Bushire, accepted the conditions of the British ; but it is not known whether the words, the British,' referred to the expedi tion to the Persian Gulf er to her Majesty's Government. Nothing positive is known here re specting the movements of the Russians on the south and south-east coasts of the Caspian, but an impression prevails in Austrian official circles that the St. Petersburg Government is for the moment much more inclined to peace than to war. If,' say the professional politicians of this city, the Russians have occupied the pro vince of Astrabad, it by no means follows as a matter of course that they intend to advance to wards Herat. The St. Petersburg Cabinet has a liking for material guarantees, and it will proba bly hold Astrabad until peace is concluded be tween Persia and England, and the latter has with drawn her forces from the Per sian Gulf.' A Trieste correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette explains why the Russian Government is so desirous to obtain from the Persian Monarch the mountainous district of Maku (Mahoo). As the execrable state of the caravan-road from Trebizond, by way of Erzerourn and Bajazid, to Tabriz has greatly dis gusted the mercantile world, the Russians are desirous to open a communication between their Black Sea port, Redout Kaleh, and Tabriz. The proposed caravan road would pass through Tiflis and Erivan, and then run in a southerly direction by way of Maku to Tabriz. It is asserted that the Shah has already ceded the district in ques tion to the Czar ; but the fact is, that Ilih Khan, its actual possessor, has never acknow ledged the supremacy of the Persian Monarch. When Dili Khan was informed by the Governor of Erivan of what had passed between the St. Petersburg and Teheran Governments, he coolly observed, that if the Russians coveted Maku they should come and take it.' Maku, which lies between the Armenian table-laud and Tabriz, at the northern extremity of the Persian province of Azerbijan, is full of defiles and gorges. The old caravan-road runs along the bank of the Alsas, or small river which falls into the Araxes, after having worked its way through the mountains of Maku." The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second edition) says "The proposition presented to the Council of State for the grant of a pension of 100,000 f. to Marshal Pelissier has been negatived by the particular section to which it was referred. The casting vote was that of the President. The objection, however, is not to the grant itself, but to the form in which it was made. The provisions were that it should revert to the Marshal's descendants in the male line. The section of the Council of State considered that this was an indi rect means of establishing a Majorat, and they therefore rejected it by, as I have said, a inkijorit v of one. " The Procureur who was appointed to draw up the report on Verger's appeal to the Court of Ces sation concludes, I am assured, for the rejection of the appeal. The affair will be brought forward on Thursday, and Verger's counsel will be heard in support of the appeal." FRANCE. , DY. The Emperor and E m p ress to PARIS -day MON rece A ived several foreigners of distinction, who were pro seated by the Ambassadors of Austria and Russia, and the Ministers of Belgium, Bavaria, Chili, the Netherlands, Mexico, Grand Ducal Hesse, Sweden, and Denmark. The Moniteur states the reception, on Sunday, of Dr. Kern, Envoy Extraordinary of the S miss Confederation, who presented his credentials to the Emperor. The Imperial decree appointing Monseigneur Morlot, Cardinal-Archbishop of Tours, to be Arch bishop of Paris, in place of M. Sibour, is contained in the official journals. BOURSE, Jan. 26.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of 3ronth. 4i per Cents __ __ --fr. —c. 3per Cents 67 70 New Loan 67 65 Bank Shares 4,175 Roman (x Credit Mobilier 1,403 50 Austrian Belgian Five 5......... Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) OO 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. t.-. c. tr c Orleans 1,395 Western Northern 941 25 Strasburg Lyons 1,380 New Ditto Mediterranean — Grand Central Lyons Geneva Cetto SWITZERLAND. The Bund publishes an order of the day just issued to the federal army of Switzerland by Gen. Dufour, and dated from head-quarters at Zurich. After expressing his satisfaction at their conduct since they have been called under arms, the gene ral concludes as follows ;--." Federal Soldiers— You are on the point of returning to your homes ; my sincere good wishes will accompany you thither and I hope that you will retain a remembrance of your old commander, who was ready to share with you all the hazards of war. Enjoy in your families that repose which you have so well merited ; but let your repose be that of all brave men. Never separate yourselves from your arms, and be always ready to take them up and again rush to the fron tier if an enemy should approach it. It is thus that you will preserve the esteem which is now felt for you, and secure to our happy Switzerland con sideration, peace, and prosperity." THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN MILAN. A letter from Milan of the 22d, in the Cortstitit tionnel, says :—" The peasants have returned to their homes, and the Court will now find itself face to face with the nobility of the country and with the rich bourgeoisie of Milan. It was well known in high quarters that petty plots and hostilities had been prepared beforehand against the Court. What is positive is that the Emperor, after having severely lectured one of the principal chiefs of the nobility of Milan on the inconsistency and puerile opposition of some patricians, decided that there should be no balls at court. At the same time, his Majesty declared that having come more particu larly to examine into the real wants of the country, he should abstain from appearing at the tradesmen's ball at the Casino, a ball about which there had been some hesitation felt in inviting their Majesties. These two little coups d'etat have produced a cer tain effect. The nobility and the burgesses regret the lesson which they wished to give the Govern ment, and as to the people, properly so called, they merely laugh at the whole affair, as being com pletely disinterested in the matter. With regard to the ball by the municipality given at La Scala, it came off last night. Considering the immense number of invitations given, and which extended to many of the lower classes of society, this fete might have been transformed into an excellent ground for conciliation. Uufortunately, such was not the case ; and the affair passed off in the coldest manner imaginable. The Emperor and Empress were not by any means as warmly greeted as at the theatrical representation of La Scala, and ap peared to take but a very slight degree of inte rest in the entertainment. After looking, with an eye evidently careless, not to say wearied, on a little divertissement given by the corps de ballet and the first danseuse La Pocchini, their Majesties, followed by the Archdukes Ferdin taid Maximilian and Charles Louis and the Duke of Bavaria, took one turn through the salle and then retired. I cannot make use of the coventional phrase and say that after the departure of their Majesties the dancing was resumed with great spirit and kept up until a late hour in the morning ; for, in point of fact, no one danced at all for the whole evening, and at about one o'clock the guests began to retire, with the exception of those who remained for the supper which was promised." ITALY. A. letter from Florence of 20th instant in forms us that, on the same day, the . Grand Duke and Duchess of Tuscany had granted a private audience to the Marquis of Nortnanby, who pre sented letters from his Sovereign in reply to the notification of the marriage of the Hereditary Prince with the Princess Mary of Saxony. An hour afterwards his Highness the Prince of L t Tour d'Auvergne, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em peror of the French, lift(' likewise the hollow: to be received by the Grand Duke to present the letter of his Sovereign in reply to a similar notification. A letter from Cagliari of the 20th instant, an nounces the arrival there of the Count de Paris from Genoa. - - . Tne Pledinontese Gazette, of the 231 instant, an nounces the arrival of the King of Piedmont at Nice. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 21st contain nothing of political importance. The Marquis de Turgot, French ambassador, had given a ball, at which the members of the diplomatic body and a numuer of important political personages, amongst them Mar shals Narvaez and O'Donnell, were present. M. Ors y Garcia, an active member of the Liberal party bad been arrested. The elections for the Cortes would, it was expected, take place at the commence. meat of April, and it is alleged that the Ab3olutists intended to take part in them. The Council o f Ministers had resolved on granting au amnesty to the Carlist insurgents of Aragon in 1855. At Bar celona the authorities were continuing their efforts to find work for the people, and is was said that several thousand men were empl ,, yed on the rail ways in Catalonia. It appears from an 01E&al re turn that the amount received from th e sa l e of t o bacco, salt, postage stamps, stamps, gunpowder and passports, which was 339,171,906 reals in 1855, was 389,721,275 reals in 1856. A protec tionist association, in opposition to the free -trade about e to be t continuing t 0 established. association, c:ie tha w had reassolvd on nmake e deductions from the stipends of the clergy. PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, JAN 26. The steamer .Prince Arthur, J. M‘Gowan, brings dates of the 17th instant from Lisbon, where she had put into the previous day fcr coals on her way from Alexandria to this port. The steamer Ignez de Gastro had arrived on !the 16th from Glasgow ; and from Malta her Majesty's ship Prin cess Roya, Captain G. Giffard, which had gi • ended as she was anchoring, but got off with the evening flow tide. This vessel with the French steamer Phenix, anchored at Lisbon, and the ship Auster • litz, in Passo d'Arcos Bay, were the only foreign vessels of war in the Tagus. Rear-Admiral Sir R. C. Dundas's squadron had left on the 16th for a fortnight's cruise. Further advices received at Lisbon stated that the steamer Queen, Captain D. Meckiereid,gbrountedr from Lisbon for London, which ran ashore o n th l 12th near Viana, was a ‘otal wreck, and way to b e sold on the 24th inst. The crew, specie, and great er part of the cargo had been landed, and h°l -1 13 were entertained of saving the rest. On the 16th the English bark Sir Charles NaniQr, Captain W. Balsellie, from Leith t o Trinidad, had French war s t eamer Flambeau, put o n i no t h f e r repairs.the from Gore() and Madeira to Brest, put, to N ew Y or k, with fo r coa l s; and a Bremenese bark, from Bremen (indent does of importance. report by wi T th he em L ig is r b a o n n ts, c l o e r a r k e y sp . this steamer any political new s The House of Deputies was still engagedhoemleinctairoyusphraodcebeedeinnghse;idanvdal,;dt,hiotu impiiiiirtia)rneclei_. the elec, oral process fur many of that was probable under the correspondent closed his Beija, debate when letter, would be an nulled. . A Vienna letter, in t'ie Elberfeld Gazette, says : —" It is stated that the Imperial Catjinet has made serious rep resen t a ti ons t o the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sardinia, with respect to the d emonstrations made by the democracy of Lom bardy an d T ur i n aga i nst t h e p re sence of the empire in Milan." The Belgian Government has just presented to the Chamber of Representatives a demand for a sup plementary credit of 770,638 f. for the national fetes celebrated on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the accession of King Leopold. state total official expense of the fetes in question is dto have amounted to 1,070,6581. A letter from Stockholm says that the Minister of Justice had transinitt,d to the Supreme Court for its o pinion the bill relative , to religious lib er ty men tioned in the speech from the throne, but that t h e court was opp osed to the till. Tee letter add s that a p roposition had been submitted to the Diet forate establishment of a submarine t e L, grap h be tweet). the Swedish coast and that of Prussia. The distance from the extreme point of Scala to the :;;. ~i Isle of Rug en i s 12 G erman m il es (56 E ng li s h) and the expense o f th e t e l egrap h i s es ti mate d at 300, ,000 rixdalers. The following is the explanation given by an Athens paper of the recent affair at Corfu, men tioned in a telegraphic despatch :—" Some soldiers of the artillery in garrison in the Isle Vido, in which is the powder magazine, having been ill treated by a non-commissioned officer, resolved to avenge themselves by blowing up the magazine, which contained 3,000 barrels of gunpowder. They placed a quantity of straw before the door, but some soldiers of the 3d Regiment, learning what they were about, drove them away." PROBABLE PEACE WITH PERSIA. We believe we may state that official information has reached our Government of the probability of the Court of Teheran agreeing to our demands. The Turkish Minister at that capital has sent a despatch to his Government, informing them that, having heard of the fall of Bushire, the Persian Government " decided" to make peace upon the English terms. On its reaching Constantinople, this intelligence was immediately forwarded, by telegraph, by Lord Stratford, and its authenticity may be relied on. We may therefore hope for a speedy settlement of the Persian difficulty. At the same.time we need hardly point out, after our recent experience in the theory and practice of peace-making, that there is a sufficient difference between a determination to make peace and the actual accomplishment of it to warrant us in not being over sanguine. The Court of Persia heard of our expedition, and immediately afterwards of its success. On finding the force to be less than was anticipated, and that it is not yet advancing into the country, the Per sian mind may change. We do not anticipate this —we only point it out. We ourselves think that the c3pture of Bushire will probably be the begin ning- and the end of the Persian war.—Morning Post. THE MOVERS AND SECONDERS OP THE ADDRESS. People will have it that it is a practical joke of our venerable jester, the Premier ; meant to show that he looks upon the art of governing a score and a half millions of men and women as the merest child-play: Why else, it is naturally asked, should he fix on four persons, each young enough to be his own grandson, and some of a still remoter consanguinity l Who are they ? In the Peers, the mover is the Earl ..f Cork, born the year before the Reform Bill ; and how long ago that is none of us need feel very antiquated at remembering with tolerable vivid. ness. The seconder is Earl Cowper, Lady Palmerston's orandson, five years younger than the other earl. In the Commons, we have a brace of baronets—significant of the democratic tendency of the session, to begin with. One is Sir John Rarnsden, a couple of years the junior of the coronetted Cork ; the other is Sir Andreis Agnew, Rho is quite the Nestor of the quartett, being nearly forty. Yet it is his nomination which seems to stamp the whole affair with premeditated facetiousness. Tne notion of Sir Andrew Agnew, son of the Sir Andrew Agnew, being chosen by the Minister who patronises polkas in the Parks on Sundays, and who snubbed the Carneronian Pound Texts for lecturing him on such Pa. ganised profligacy, is really too rich for chance, and must have been designed. Besides, this Sir Andrew is not that Andrew's offspring, in face and figure, as well as in* name and blood. Now the apparition of such a person in a court costume, silk stockings, knee breeches and buckles, bag wio., cocked hat, sword, and so forth, would assuredly surfeit her Majesty of all taste for private thea tricals for ever, as no stage comicality could possibly come up to so ticklish a tableau, so side-split ing a spec tacle. Luckily for her Majesty's gravity, as well as her health in her present situation, she won't open Par harnent, and therefore won't see the Wigtown wonder thus arrayed, as she would do white sitting on the throne and he standing at the bar, in front of her " faithful Commons."—Liverpool LINCOLN'S-INN, Jan. 26.---The undermentioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of Bar rister-at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn, viz, Thomas Waraker, E.g. ; John Edwards, Esq.; John C alas Antrobug, E-q. ; E Iward Macnaghten, E.q ; Edward Cutler, jun., E-q. ; Messing Thomas Laxrun, Esq. ; Sydney Crawehay, E-q. ; Edward Dwyer, Esq., and Theodore Lavalliere, Esq. MIDDLE TEMPLE — BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.—Jan. 26. — The undermentioned gentlemen core this day called to the degree of the utter bar :—William Ritchie, Esq., of Scone Perth, Van Die►ueu's Land (holder of the Student ship awarded by the Council of Legal Education, Hilary Term, 1857), the sixth son of the late Thomas Ritchie, lieutenant in her Majesty's navy ; Randal Francis Tongue, of Aldridge, hear Walsall, the eldest son of Edward Tongue, Esq., of Aldridge, in the county of Stafford ; James William Branson, of Madras, the third .311 of John Edward Branson, Esq., late of Madras, deceased. . ; INNER TEMPLE, Jan uar y 26 . —Th e un d ermentioned gentlemen were this d a y calledto the b ar b y the Hon* S rciety of the lener T em pl e : —Al lred George Marten, n, Esq., E-q. (certificate of Hoeour), 8.A .., S.C.L TliornaS S C.L. ; Alexander Neil, E sq., B A. ; Richar d Themes Tidstvell, Esq., B.A. ; T e aseee Croonie, Esq.. M.A , an R ,per Wester, E s q ., B.A. GRAY'S -INN, January 26 —A t a Pension of the Hon. Society , f Gray's-ian, hold en this day, Charles Kennedy,Eq., 8.A., was called to th e degree of barrister-at-leen Beirdyshe, E.g., M.A. ; Y emen Lushineto TUE TEA. TRADE, Jau. 26 —Tee deliveries in Loudon eetimeted for the week were 594,5781 b, being a decrease of 48,2491 h. compared with the previous statement. Tne mining news from California is favourable. There had been large arrivals of merchandise at San Francisco, and the markets were overstocked and dull. A further sum of 100,000/. in geld was taken from the Bank yesterday for exportation to the Continent ia payment for silver. The Hamburg letters mention that the rate of discount bee receded to 5e per cent., and that the exchange has a favourable appearance. The performance of Schiller's drama of " William Tell" hae been prohibited, for the preeent, at the Theatre Royal at Munich. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—" Elijah " will be per: orrned at Exeter-halt on Friday next, and "Athena and the "S abat Mater" on the following Friday, these being the last engagements of Madame Gera Novelle prior to a professional tour in Germany. The Governor of Ohio in hi• message states that the receipts of the State for the year were 3,538,353 dols., and the expenditure 3,189,600 dub., being less by 380,665 dole. than the year preceding, and leaving a balance in the Treasury of 579,353/. ARMITAGE, THE CRICKETER.—Our cricketing readers will learn with much regret the announcement of the death of this much-respected cricketer, who expired on Monday, the 12th inst., at Yorkshire, at the early age of 32, Re has left a widow and one son seven years of age. VV Rug IN THE CHANNEL.—LIVERPOOL, Monday.-- The ship ashore in Rhos Bay, reported yesterday, wag not the T on awanda, from Philadelphi a ( w h ich has since arrived), but the Marian, for Antigua, owned by the present Mayor of Liverpool. Sh e i s i u a dangerous position, but two of the moat powerful steam-tugs be longing to the port have gone to her assistance, and hopes are entertained that she will be got off. MEETING OF THE MANCHESTER PARTY..—At the annual meeting of the Manchester party a deputation is to be present from the Ballot Society, London, including Mr. Whitehurst and other gentlemen. A letter from Mr. Bright, dated from Cannes, is also to be read. The hon. gentleman is now at Nice. THE Loss OF THE TYNE.—SOLiTHAMPTON, Monday.-- Another steam-tug, with a second batch of the men from the Tyne, arrived in the docks this morning. The Col lector of Customs had an interview with the borough megistrates this morning relative to the official inquiry into the circumstances attendant upon the stranding of the Tyne, which was fixed to commence on Thursday mornine, at 11 o'clock, at the Town-ball. COMMUNICATION WITH NEWFOUNDLAND.—The Cork Reporter announces that Mr. John Shea, J.P., has b een n Ireland on behalf of the Govern me nt appointed agent i of Newfoundland to negotiate with some of the principal shipowners a system of direct steam co mmun i cation monthly between Great Britain and that C o l ony. A gold medal has been graciously conferred by his Majesty the King of the Belgians on Mr. R o b er t B e ll, "in consideration of his valuable literary l a b ours. " Thi s ecegnition of the service of an English wr it er i s one o f r many proofs w hich his Majesty has g i ven of the great interest b e takes in the progress o f our l iterature.-- Literary Gazette. The N e w York Board of C ounc i llors had resolved to give an official welcome to the officers of her Majesty's ship Retribution, in the event of their arriving there. One red-hot Republican councillor opposed the motion on the ground that he did not like the idea of paying honour to Queen Victoria. The officers of the Brooklyn navy yard are preparing to give the Britishers a warm reception. The press, too, is unanimous in expressing friendly sentiments towards this country for its recep tion of Captain Hartstein. THE CONVICT AGAR. —lt is said, upon good authority, that it it the intention of the Government to grant Agar, the approver, a pardon on the condition that he shall leave this country, and it will be void if he returns to England. This proceeding, it is understood, is not taken on account of his having given evidence to convict his companions in the bullion robbery, but it is owing to the belief from inquiries that have been made and a variety of facts that have come to the knowledge of the authorities, that he really was not guilty of the forgery for which he was convicted and sentenced to transports; tion for life, and that the transaction was a "plant upon him for the purpose of getting him out of the Was' THE POSTAL D IVISIONS.—WouId it not be useful to mark either on or close to the name of each street the letter of the district to which it belongs? Many of the names of the London streets might be renovated wit h advantage at the same time, for in some instances the letters seem to have dropped, and in others they are s° weatherbeaten that it requires young and sharp eyes to decipher then, with comfort even in the daytime. At night it is a hopeless task, for often the gas lamps art ,_ so arrang e d th at nut even a faint ray is shed upon t " etreeternark ; and this circumstance is just as inconee: In nient t or ca b as foot passengers. Might it not be 'se Biel , to de v i se some s rt o f l amp which would show'?" ep toe name of the street, and at the same time illumi nate the footpath 7—The Builder. .:t. ~~' ~~ \