The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-10 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE GREAT CLASSICAL CONCERTS. _ Positively the Last Night but Eight. The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERALHAVELOCK'S GRAND TR.IUMPHAL MARCH Vocalist, Madlle. Jetty Tren —Violin, M. Remenyi., THIS EVENING (THURSDAY, December 11)), will be produced the New Grand Descriptive Composition, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH, performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums sod fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia," and " God Save the Queen." New Fife Polka, by M. Jullien, with double Orchestra. The magnificent decorations which were prepared for the Bel Masque will remain during the continuance of these Con. cede. ,Tho whole theatre will be ornamented with wreaths and garlands of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. The decorations have been prepared by Messrs. Chabot and Co., who were ctarged with the decorations for the grand ball at the reception of the Emperor Napoleon 111, at Stuttgart, and who we engaged, at a great expence, for the expre s s rurpose o f a iratiging at her Majesty's Theatre a display which will be seen for tht first ti me in this country, The Concert will copamence at 8 o'clock. Prices of Admissice- , Promenade, Is; Upper boxes, Is. ; Gallery, is. • Dress rink 2s. 6d.; Pri va t e - B oxes , 10s, ed. and upwards. Prospectuses, with fall particulars, may be had at the Box office of the Theatre; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. The First Beethoven Night will take place on Saturday wok Dec. 12, R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— 11. E M. JIILLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE,—In consequence of the great success of the Bal Ilitsqne, M. Jullien will give a SECOND, and positively the ksat this season, at the end of the Second Series of Concerts, On MONDAY, Dec. 21.—Applications to be made at the Box Pince of the Theatre. THEATRE • ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with • new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, ra. Buckingham White, An Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new farce, by the author of Box and Cox, entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr, Backstone will anatain an original character. - To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the .._ evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) n First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Plt 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. R OYAL. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The public is respectfully informed that the play of RICHARD THE SECOND will shortly be withdrawn, and WILL NOT BE AGAIN REPRESENTED in this Theatre, with the exception of a few nights towards the ex piration of Mr. C. Kean's period of management. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Sliaklpere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen, by Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new farce, in one act, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—yr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Paul Bedford will perform. Followed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit:ed THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India ? Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss nary Keeley. 110YAL LYCEUM THEITRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON. THIS EVENING, will be pe formed Balfe's new opera, THE ROSE OF CA STILLE. Characters by Miss Lon , sa Fyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss, Mr. A St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, ',lr. Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mv, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey and Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 61., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Ernd.en. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original e4inedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT BROMPTON ? Mr. Robson, cisc. After which, LEADING STRINGS. To conclude with BO )TS AT THE SWAN. Mr, Robson, Mr. H. Wigan, and Mrs. Emden. Commence at half-past Seven. glalo OYAL SURREY THEATRE. ILL Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cr9swiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE WIFE'S REVENGE, After which, INDIA, 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Cres- Wick,...W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicorab, Belmore, Tapping ; Miss M. Eburne, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers, Mies Johnstone. To concludo with WELLINGTON FIGGS. SAM. COWELL'S ANNUAL BENEFIT, in the LARGE ROOM, ST. MARTIN'S HALL, LONG ACRE, On 31)NDAY NEXT, December 14, 1857. On which occasion, he will sing E/GHTof his most popular Songs, and, in addition to his own "LITTLE TRAVELLINO PARTY," he will have the assistance of many Professional Friends now in London. Notwithstanding the great esdens3, the prices will be— Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d ; Balcony, Is. ; Body of the Hall, 6d. CANTERBII RY HALL, Westrain3ter-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S tleetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &e., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, Slim Br-a nell, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Far ant, S. Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Him°, and Mr. St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critchfield, and E. Mack nay. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppors, &c., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON MUDGE. TIES DAY —Morn. , 2 min. aft. 9--Eve;.,33 min. aft. 9 110-MOBBOW—Morn., 4min. aft. 10—Even., 31 min aft. 10 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 4S—lowest this morning and daring the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.37. WIND, S.W.; light, with lino weather. Z . 1 . )1 c;;S, • .ty :.s.%soya.l LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1857. The Indemnity Bill has passed through all its stages in the House of Commons without change or alteration. No one, we believe, save some intensely hard calculator, objected to the Govern ment interference, which was, indeed, delayed to the last possible moment when the danger of ge neral confusion had not only become imminent, but the safety of the Bank itself was involved in the result. The general feeling was quite the other way, viz., that the restrictions had been too long maintained, and that 10 per cent. as a minimum rate of discount was far too great to be maintained with any degree of safety. In 1847, 8 per cent. was deemed ample, and if the present relaxation kas not been so speedily or completely successful in restor ing confidence, it may be partially as mibed to the exorbitant rate insisted on as its Indispensable accompaniment, and also to the State of exhaustion produced by the Ministerial Procrastination. It would certainly have been satisfactory if the proposition of Mr. MALINS had been accepted, and the Bank permitted to reduce its rate of interest without bringing itself back to the provisions of the Act of 1844. The Directors will not willingly relinquish the advantage they Y have obtained. Having taken the benefit of the Act (of indemnity) they will not give i t u p until the y h ave placed them selves in a position of p erfect securit y ; but they might without the slightest danger reduce th e rate to 8, 7, or 6 per cent., while the reserve of notes exceeded the additional issue. Ai it is, the nation is unnecessarily saddled with an insupportable burden, under which industry is paralysed and production ceases. This is merely a tribute to the "hard calculators." Sir G. C. LEWIS is anxious to show that ho cao go even further than Sir C. Woo]) in driving the nation on the road to ruin, by transferring the profits of trade and manufacture to the money-lanci ng fraternity. :But, fortunately, in this instance the bill must receive the sanction of the House of Peers before it passes into a law ; and the hereditary legis lators have proved themselves in respect to monetary affairs much sounder and better statesmen than the popular representatives. Besides, the great majority are not dealers in money, so far as they are personally concerned. National prosperity is more favourable than diffi culty and distress. There may be a Sir Giles Overreach, or even two or three of the class, amongst the assembly, but the general body will not be guided thereby. They have their faults, but, generally speaking, these are not faults of grinding illiberality or sordid meanness. If dis posed to oppression, it is not in pecuniary mat ters, unless, indeed, the victim has offended in some other respect, and then it is used as an instrument, not for the sake of gain. We trust then, that some amendment, framed in the spirit of that brought forward by the mem ber for Wallingford, may be inserted in the bill during its passage through the Upper House. By this means enormous mischief may be averted from the nation. Under the most favourable circumstances we cannot anticipate any but a gloomy winter, notwithstanding all the bless ' ings of an abundant harvest. Why should these inevitable difficulties be aggravated by artificial means? why should the legislature subject itself di rectly to the odium of having produced the evils, and thus occasion discontent, and possibly disaffection ? We trust that the Lords will on this occasion prove themselves wiser than the Commons. By so doing they may revive an obsolete expres sion and induce the industrial classes generally to " thank GOD that we have a House of Lords." There are many respects in which we differ from the majority of that House, but, respecting the monetary question, we are induced to give them credit for an honest desire to do that which is best calculated to promote the welfare, prosperity, and happiness of the People, and not the less so that their own interests are on that all-important topic identical with those of the community at large. We shall regard the progress of the bill through the Upper House with deep interest, trusting that a shield may be interposed sufficient to cast aside the envenomed shaft aimed against industry, by that which ought to be the popular branch of the Legislature. Both Houses of Parliament cordially and unanimously concurred in the recommendation contained in the Royal Message, that a pension of 1,0001. per annum should be granted to Major- General Sir HENRY HAVELOCK, Bart., for and during the remainder of his natural life. The community at large will exhibit similar unanimity. We venture to assert that there will not be a single dissentient throughout the length and breadth of the land. But there may be differences on other points. Objections may very naturally be entertained respecting the disproportion be tween the amount of the pecuniary grant and the inestimable services rendered ; and, also, because it is granted but for the life of the hero who has so nobly earned it, and will not be continued to his successor. That glorious life is still greatly en dangered. The last telegram stated that " Gen. HAVELOCK was still surrounded by numbers of the enemy, who were said to have 300 guns." Surely, under such circumstances, it would have been right to have added his successor, if not his two immediate successors in the title. Such is almost invariably the case when a Peerage is con ferred, and no one can deny that a Peerage has already been well merited, and with it a pension double the amount, and for three possessors of the title. But General HAVELOCK is one who has worked his way upwards, despite the purchase system. lie had no accumulated fortune, and therefore is to receive less than one already wealthy. He remained, despite his invaluable services, no less than twenty-three years a subaltern, and had attained the ripe age of 43 years before he obtainad a company. Had it been otherwise % different scale of remuneration would have been adopted, both in respect to titular rank and the means of supporting it in a suitable manner, and also for his successors. There 'can be but one excuse for Ministers, and that will be cheerfully accepted by the country, namely that believing that he will ere long acquire, if possible, higher credit ; they wish to retain the means of bestowing further honours and further pensions. And that both are intended within a brief space of time, or that which, God forbid, he should perish in the discharge of his arduous and glorious duties, his successor should then receive an ade quate recognition of the universal estimate of merits such as have seldom been equalled by any commander. This will be the fitting apology. We wish to see the name of HENRY, Viscount HAVELOCK of Luck - now, and Baron of Cawnpore, inscribed in the illustrious catalogue of those who have earned the Peerage by their own merits, or those of their ancestors. His son and heir apparent, Capt. HAVELOCK, is in every way worthy of his glorious father. He has shared in all the late toils and perils that have gained for Sir HENRY HAVELOCK so high a position in the Temple of Fame. He has not only acquired high distinction as an officer, but obtained the Victoria Cross, a sufficient proof that should he be spared to succeed to the title, he will prove a worthy successor to the illustrious acquirer. ITaler these circumstances, there need be no adherence to strict routine, which, in such a case, is " more honoured in the breach than in the observance." At all events, the expression of general sympathy, combined with general desire to increase the gift, both in amount and duration, will be duly appreciated by the truly noble reci pient and his family. The manner will be no less acceptable than the matter of the gift. Letters to some of our journals have urged the desirableness of colonisation for India. The subject is of very great importance, since future modifica tions of the Government, of the Administration at least, shoal , ' depend for their form very much on what we aim to accomplish in India. Colonies, even in the old Roman Sense of the word, have been spoken of ; and perhaps many are led by the word to think of Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, as specimens of what is wanted. All such of our dependencies are, however, wholly out of the question ; the climate in each of them is such as Englishmen can live and work in ; a cir cumstance which alone create 3 an insuperable diversity bet ween them and India as fields for European industry. Jamaica, in this respee, more strongly resembles India, and how small is the proportion of Englishmen, and even of Scotch men, who make up their minds to seek a home there. tuloflndia. sense , then, are Englishmen to become thelnnevvr h, so Hitherto it is but too tha painfully ev id ent have infused next to nothing of ou r ei v iii ei 7e tl. n tall. 1833 and energy into the i_ 1y been attempted. er e v e y n t e o serapefor the p e ople. It has, indeed, ha India was governed together commercial products and re u special benefit of a close trading company . ; s i nce miserable then, to wrizig out taxes from the ryots, for the benefit of the close Civil Service — the protegees of the residuary Company in Leaden hall-street. To impregnato•ludia with a European spirit, to raise the Asiatic from the mental, moral, and physical debasement of an illiterate idolatry, which utterly stultified the whole nature of the man—this was no part of the business of men who wanted nothing from India but rupees. Not, indeed, that we would counsel direct attacks on idolatry, but we hold with Sir CHARLES NAPIER that it inevitably lowers and cramps the mind of man, and that it must fall of itself before a vigorous government on Christian principles, such as he so admirably exemplified in Scinde—if carried on long enough. The Friend of India, in an instructive article in its number for Oct. 22, surveys practically the possible modes of English colonisation in India, and by an exhaustive survey of the subject proves the impossibility of the thing, in the ordinary sense of the word. European labour is a thing utterly useless, for though one European is said to be worth three natives, it is not for what he can actually do under a tropical sun, but for his trust worthiness. Your three natives are worthless without a watcher. Colonel COTTON has indeed long ago observed, that you can get a cubic yard of earth dug and carted a given distance, for one sixth of what would be required in England to do the same. Of course competition with such cheap labour is out of the question. The one thing wanted in India is that English men should be encouraged by every available attrac tion to settle in India as the Guides of La. ur, " the Captains of Industry," as the Friend of India expresses it. That we should bring our knowledge, skill, tact for governing labourers, and capital to employ them, to a country which needs just these requisites. Whatever Sepoys achieved in better days was under the leadership of English officers, and whatever the Sepoys of agriculture and commerce are yettoachieve on any great scale, must be under the lead and inspiration of English Captains of Industry. It is in this line only that we have hitherto effected anything in the East, and where nothing has interfered we have never failed. Ceylon is, at this moment, a striking example of what Eaglishmen can do as overseers of labour when restrictions are entirely removed. In that Colony—for the island is governed as a colony, not by a Landlord Company—Englishmen can acquire land, and cultivate it as they will ; the result has been the rapid, and still rapidly extend ing, creation of coffee and other plantations, which is quite changing the commercial character of the island. India needs but to imitate Ceylon to insure the same results. First of all let Englishmen in India have security for life property and rights, and all the rest will follow. At present neither Englishmen nor native can hold an acre of land in fee simple ; he must now bo :enabled, if he create a splen did plantation or estate, to call it his own to sill, or to leave to his heirs, or to do with it just as be pleases. No energetic) Englishman will quadiuple or increase, perhaps, fifty times, the worth of a tract of land, or of even a few acres, for the bene fit of tax-gatherers, who exact of him 18s. in the pound. Englishmen, too, will not be placed under even the very ablest native magistrates ; they want the moral qualities of our Great Unpaid here, and much more do they want, the thoroughgoing sense of justice, as well as the knowledge of our stipen-. diary magistrates, and our superior judges. The fact is undeniable that, partly our national cha racter, and partly the direct or indirect influence of the Christian principles amidst which we are educated, place an immeasurable distance between English and Indian magistrates. The conclusion is, that the Civil Service mono poly, and the whole system of bestowing on it a purely factitious superiority over other Europeans, must be entirely done away with. The Civil Ser vice has hitherto treated all other Europeans as an inferior class. They themselves are the Lords of India, and other Englishmen as well as the natives, aro born but to obey their orders; or, by gracious toleration, to be permitted to drudge awhile for a fortune, and to return home. Lord CANNING'S acts, so much cemplained of, so irrita ting to the Calcutta community, and even to the Missionaries themselves, derive their annoyance from the humiliations inflicted through them by the Civil Service on all other Englishmen. We feel but imperfectly, here, what is meant by one party in Calcutta as a kick at " outsiders," and resented by the others as such. All this must be done away with. All Englishmen in India, as in England, must be both free and equal in the eye of the law ; and it must be the equality of a superior race governing an inferior one, 7. HE SUN, LONDON, THITRSDA EVEIv LNG DECEMI3ER 10, 18N7. ASTLBY'S ROYAL AUPHITIIEATRE. Applauding crowds are attracted nightly by the recently produced spectacle, "The Fall of Delhi," which is placed upon the stage in a manner most creditable to the managerial skill of Mr. Cooke, and worthy of the established reputation and popularity of Astley's. No revolting iccidonts aro introduced to mar the enjoyment of the audience, which is kept alive without intermission by the picturesque representations of marches, combats, and victories, and the effective de lineations of the principal characters of the piece. The villenous Rajah of Bithoor is personated by Mr. Howard with a ferocious intensity befitting one of the darkest ruffians that have ever figured in melodrama, and the parts sustained by Mr. Holloway and Mr. W. Cooke—indeed, we may justly say, by all concerned—are such as to merit the fullest approbation. Visitors brought to town by the allure. ments of the cattle-ahow will find few of the metropolitan "lions" better worthy of their attention than this celebrated place of entertainment, where, both on the stage and in the circus, materials for the genuine enjoy ment of an evening are lavishly supplied, the peculiar resources of Astley's having never, within our recollec tion, been more advantageously displayed than at the present time. A large party of richly-garbed and dis tinguished-looking Orientals wore seated in a central box last evening, and appeared to be highly interested and amused by the various and novel scenes that ware pre sented to their observation. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. We published yesterday the haughty note of Prince Gortschakoff, addressed to M. Boutenieff, the Russian Minister at Constantinople, in reply to the arguments of the Porte on the subjects of its capitulations with, and rights over, the Danubian Principalities. We are assured that when M. Boufenieff read the despatch in question to the Turkish Minister fur Foreign Affairs, Aali Pacha simply replied to the Russian diplomatist that the despatch was an anachronism, for evidently Prince Gortschakoff, when writing it, fancied he was dlting it after the Treaty of Adrianople and before the Treaty of Paris.-111oriting P. The Duke of Bucclsuch arrived at Montague House, Whitehall, on Tuesday evening, from Bowhill, his seat in Salkirkshire. The Marquis of Lansdowne, accompanied by the Countess of Shelburne, left Lansdowne House yesterday for Bowood-park, Wilts. The noble marquis will shortly rec,ive a succession of visitors a,`. his country seat. The Marchioness of Exeter, we are happy to learn, has within the last few days continued to improve in h:Alth, and all danger is over. Her ladyship's medical attendants held out prospects of the marchioness's speedy recovery. The Earl and Countess of Macclesfield left .town yesterday for Sherborne Castle, Oxfordshire, for the wirter. The Earl and Countes2 of airby and Lady Emma Stanley leave town on Saturday fur Middleton-park, Oxon, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey. Viscount Gage has I,ft Whitehall-yard, for Fide-place, Suisex, for the winter. Viscount and Viscountess Fal:nouth hava left the Clarendon Hotel for Tregothnan, Cornwall. LATEST NEWS. FURTHER NEWS FROM INDIA (From the Calcutta Englishman of Oct. 30.) The following is reported to be the strength of Col. Greathed's column at Cawnpore :-93d High landers, 900 ; 3d Europeans, 500 ; 9th Lancers, 300 ; Artillery, 150 ; besides the Sikhs and Ghoorka corps. There were also expected at Cawnpore immediately six companies of the 23cl Foot, about 600 men ; ditto of the 55th Foot, 600 men ; the greater part of the 82d, 60,0 men ; two companies, 240 men. This force will surely be sufficient to give a good account of the muti neers at Luckuow. We hear that a large body of fugitives front Delhi has been allowed to pass unmolestedly into Oude. Notice having been received of their intention to cross the river at a place not named, a European force went out to in tercept them ; after a short march, our force met the mutineer; but finding that they were without arms, and that they con sisted chiefly of sick and wounded, they were allowed to pass without molestation. We hope the report is exaggerated, and that the officer in command will be able to give a sati s f ac t or y expla nation of the reasons which induced him to show such extraordinary leniency towards men whose object of retiring into Oude can hardly be any other than that of joining the mutinous popula tion of that kingdom. A letter, dated from Camp Poora, of the 24th, says : _ "We (the cavalry) had a slight brush with the mutineers at Kummany, took four of their guns— one 24-pounder howitzer, ono 6-pounder gun, one 3 and one 1-pounder--with all their ammunition, &c., and killed about 120. This is a very pretty force, and well up to anything." A letter from - Allahbad, - dated the 23d ine., says : "We hear that the rebels at Lucknow have destroyed the iron bridge over. the Goomtee. Reinforcements are going off sharp ; part belong. ing to Peel's Naval Brigade have gone to-day by morning and evening train. The railway ex tends 44 miles, and they then proceed by bul lock train. Rumours of Ontram's and Havelock's death are current, but not generally believed. Nana Sahib has again bol'ed ; his last advice to his men is rich Keep out of the way of the Blue Caps (Madras Fusiliers), they bit without firinc , (in allusion to th e l ong range of the En field' rifles, the report of which was often not heard), and when the Highlanders get near any village, kill all the women , f or th es e are the m e n who have been sent out by the Queen to avenge the deaths of their women and children, and that is the reason they go into action with kilts !' " THE CRISIS AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, DEC. 8, Notwithstanding the arri val of about 100,000,000 (francs) in silver, at Hamburg, during the past week—notwithstanding the decision Of the Senate yesterday—failures have succeeded one another without intermis:don. The amount of bill 3 of exchange protested since the commencement of the crisis is estimated at 140 to 150 millions. The discount bank of the State has commenced operations, its rate being 10 per cent. The bank discounts only the bills of such persons as declare on their honour that they have payments to make that day or the next. The affairs at the Bourse were unimportant, the news of fresh failures having put a stop to all business there. The financial state of this city has again be come very alarming ; the assistance afforded is insufficient. Several important houses have been declared insolvent, with considerable liabilities. Fears were entertained respecting seven . Danish houses, but hitherto without sufficieu cause. BERNE, DEC. 8, The National Council has elected as its Presi dent M. Keller, of Argau, by 78 votes; and as its Vice-President M. Steplin, of Basle, by 65 votes. M. Gouzebach, th e C onserva ti ve can didate, ob tained 29 votes. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Ac!ive negotiations," says a Paris letter in the .Nord, "are being carried between the English and French Governments for coming to an under standing on the subject of the Principalities before the mee ing of the Conference ; and they have already had the result of causing orders to be sent to the English and French commi!isioners in the Principalities to notify to the Divans that the powers will not admit the nomination of a foreign prince. It is probably that notification which caused the Divan of Bucharest to adopt the resolu tion, mentioned by telegraph, that it do es no t de sire the union unless with a foreign pri nce ." BOURSE, Dec. 9.—The following were th e l as t quotations : Cazh. fr. raid of iironth. 4i per Conts - —fr. — 3 . 3 per Cents 63 85 66 5 Bank Shares 3125 Credit Foncier 540 Credit IktobiHer 715 Roman Do. Account 7l/ 25 Austrian Belgian 4i Fiedm on tea° (5) B73— Horne Debt RAILWAYS - FOR CASH. fr. c. tr c. Orleans 1230 Midi Northorn New Ditto 732 ; 1,— Strasb urg Lyons and Med B42A— Grand Central New Ditto... .. ..... 842t, Sardinian Geneva; 620 Austrian Com. ...... 662--- RUSSIA. A the The reply of Prince D le e t b t a e t r e s fr a o y m s :_ St , . Petersburg o f th e 29 t h n i , l - . in Gortscha koff to the notes of Turkey, France, Austria, and England, in which those powers had d eman d e d explanations from the Russian government rela tive to the closing of certain ports in the Black Sea, was certainly sent off some days ago. The answer given by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs is very perm piory He maintains the right of his sovereign to close the said ports, into which, under favour of a neutral flag, a con siderable quantity of arms and ammunition had been introduced, for the supply of a people with whom Rue ,i 1 is at war. Cinfidence is felt here that the arguments made use of by P r i nce Gort schakoff will be fully appreciated at London and in Paris." The same letter says ;—" According to the last accounts from Cronstadt 100 foreign vessels are locked up by the ice in the port and roadstead, and it i 3 more than probable that they will not be set free until about the month of May next. Some of these vessels are in such imminent danger that it has been thought indispensable to discharge their cargoes and convey the merchandise over the ice and deposit it in warehouses in the town." A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Siede, says: —" The rebuilding of Sebastopol, as is well known, is interdicted by the treaty of Paris,; but in that stipulation it is only the south side of the town that is mentioned, and nothing is said against the north side remaining as it ict, or the fortifications being extended. This part of the place was in consequence very minutely exa mined by the Grand Duke Nich o l as during his late visit to the Crimea, and work s o f fortification have been cern menc ?d. there. The Russian Government, profiting by the lessons of the late war, is also building a new fortress near Kertch. Letters from that place announce the arrival of the Grand Duke there, and state that, in company w i t h t h e Haman of the Cossacks, he had v i s i ted the site o f this now for tress." The Bourse Gazett e o f B erlin stys: —" PRUSSIA. We have already spoken of th e i nv i tat i on a dd res sed by Aus tria to the Zollver e i n t o assem bl e a co nference to give fresh extension t o t h e treaty o f commerce which exists between th em : I u t h e conference in question, which will probably opm about the 15th January next, and at which the Zollverein will be represented by conamisqoners from Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria, th e propos i t i o ns made last month by Austria will b e di scaizse d, adopted. T object r more particularly is t o faci litate relations on the f ron ti ers, an d to reduce the duties on raw mater.al s ." and probably h.) ---- MONTENECIRO. "The differeac,)s which exist between Turkey and Montenegro," says a Vienna letter, in the Szvabiaib Mercury, "appe ar cer tain to be speedily settled in some way or other, e ither by diplomatic; negotiation or by f orce . The reign of terror up held by Prince Dana() w:Aild in itself be a suffi cient pi etext for interfe rence , b u t a batter reasin eau be found in the refusal of that prince to pay the tribute to the Paeha of Scutari, Turkey, it must not be forgotten, has a considerable force in the vicinity of Montenegro." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the sth announces that on the previous day the King gave a private audi ence to the Marquis de Turgot, French AmbaFsa dor, who congratulated Lim ' in the name o f th e Emperor and Empress of th e French, on thebirth of a Prince of the Asturias. The Gazette publishes numerous addresses of congratulation to the Queen, one of them from the Spanish Embassy at Paris. It also contains a circular from the Minis ter of Grace and Justice to the bishops, stating that the Queen entertains such veneration for the mystery of the Most Holy Conception that her Majesty desires that the special service for it may, on the first occasion, be celebrated with great pomp in all churches. A silver box, containing 3,000 newly-coined gold pieces, was about to be presented to the newly-born Prince by the province of the Asturias. It was believed that the ministry had resolved not to choose a political personage as can didate for the Presidency of the Cortes, and. that the opposition would not vote against the person so selected. THE B RAZILS. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The following telegram was received thi s morn ing from Lisbon by Mr. Court, Secretary to the Underwriters' Association : _ "By the Royal mail steamship Tagus we have advices from th e B razi l m . At Ri o, coffee unaltered. Exchange, 280. The following vessels had arrived at Rio :—Athelstane, Steidricht, Tickler, Ante lop?, Johanna Stoll, Marmora, Keturah, Mach tura, Barbara. "At Bahia, sugar 400 rein lower. Exchange, 27d. The following ships have arrived :—John Romilly, Sharston, Queen Bee, and Juverni. "At Pernambuco, cotton unaltered ; exchange, 261 The following vessels had arrived :—Excel sior, Bonita, Matilda, Linda, Arena, Ilindoo, and Gevaloa. " A private telegram reports that the news of the suspension of the Liverpool Borough Bank had reached Pernambuco and completelyparalysed com mercial affairs." TH, AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tamar, Captain Jellicoe, arrived at Southampton yesterday at 9 a.m., with the heavy portion of the Australian mails, brought to Suez by thy Simla. She left Alexandria on the 27th ult. and Malta on the Ist inst., arrivi ng o ff the Needles at 3 o'clock yester day morning, when she lay to for daylight on account of the thick fog. This steamer brings 21 passsngers, and trans ferred 35 to the Vanguard, at Malta, to proceed to England via Marseilles, among whom were Sir William A' Beckett and lady, from Sydney. On freight she has 81 packages of goldd.tist and gold coin, value 305,709 d. 15s. 6cl. ; also 60 casks and 12 cases of dates, and 37 packages of general mer chandise, _ _ The usual Egyptian fleet was at Alexandria ; and at Malta were her Majesty's ships Royal Albert (Admiral Lyons), Hibernia (Sir M. Stopford), Conqueror, Princess Royal and Centurion. Her Majeaty'ai trolpship Perseveranc 3 sailed from Malta fsr Corfu at 6 p.m. on the 30th ult. On the 29th the Tamar passed the Peninsularand Oriental Company's steamer Sul a,n, with troops for Alexandria, steering eastward. The same company's steamer Nemesis, with the outward India mails of the 20th, from Southamp to, arrived at Malta on the 30th ult. at 6 a.m. ; and the Valetta, with the Marseilles portion, at 5 p.m. on the same day. Ott ihe outward voyage the Tamar arrived off the Island of Malta at midnight of the 20th ult., but, owing to a heavy north-east gale, could not enter the harbour of Valetta until the 23d. From Alexandria to Malta she experienced fine weather, and arrived at the latter place in 70 hours ; from Malta to Finisterre she also had fine weather ; a heavy north-westerly swell prevailed across the Bay. KENSINGTON AND HYDE PARK. Her Majesty ant H.R.H. Prince Albert have approved of the plans which Sir B. Hall had the honour to submit for the improvement of Kensing ton-gore and of Hyde-park. The old entrance, together with the unsightly Barracks, are to be at once removed, and Rotten-row and " The Drive" to diverge by a graceful curve, and terminate by a magnificent set of gates, in a direct line with the Prince Albert-road, which has been formed by the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, upon their estate at Kensington-gore. The road is un doubtedly the finest in England, being more than half a mile in length, perfectly straight, and 100 feet wide ! It leads to Thurlow-square, and, by a detour, through Bcompton-park, the Exhibition road, and thence again into Hyde-park by Princes'- gate. The whole of the estate has been thoroughly drained, and the soil being gravel, it is a dry and healthy locality. The houses in the Albert-road are the property of Mr. W. Jackson, and are designed in what is now accepted as "the Belgravian" style of architecture, the prevaiiing characteristics of which are luxury combined with comfort. Those that are finished are already sold, and Lord Cochran, Col. Clifford, M.P., W. Jackson, EFq., M.P., Roger Cunl;ffe, E q., the banker, and other wealthy per sons have secured town residences here. Some of the interiors of these mansions are embelli , hed in the highest style of decorative art by Mr. C. Schmidt and his gifted staff of assistants. Opposite to this palatial row of houses is an open area of great ex tent, held by Government, which gives a guarantee that no buildings otherwise than of a public nature shall cover it. The gates which terminate the north end of the road at Hyde-park will be 136 feet in width and 14 feet high. They will possess two stone piers surmounted with groups in bronze, and two entrances for carriages and pedestrians respec tivwly, and a stone lodge. The design is exceedingly handsome, being adaptations of gates at present at Elvaston Castle, near Derby, the seat of the Earl of Harrington ; and those at Elvaston, by the bye, were taken from models at Versailles. The railings of the park eastward of the gate are to be thrown somewhat back, by which a view of Kensington wiil be obtained from a considerably greater dis tance than at present, and the inequalities of the Kensington high read thereby removed. TILE LEVIATHAN. Yesterday the work of impelling the vessel forward was entirely suspended, a 3 on the previous day, when, through the fog, and the great point of clearing the monster from the shipyard, owing to the cempany being liable after that period to a monthly fee rental of 1,0001., having been gained, operations were suspended at an early hour in the forenoNn. However, there was plenty of work to bo done during the whole of yesterday, and a large body of men, under the immediate surveillance of Mr. Brunel and his assistants, were engaged making active preparations for the resuming of launching opera tions on either Friday or Saturday at the outside. While the preparations were going on yesterday for the renewal of launching operations, an inspection of the machinery used as the impelling power, led to the elucidation of many important points, and the clearing up of such matters in connexion with the scientific principle upon which the hydraulic and !other pres sure is applied, which have not yet been laid before the public, and consequently the question is in every mouth, "How is this hydraulic power used, and how do they make the monster take such sudden starts I" In deed this subject has been most inexplicable as up to the present time placed before the public, considering the peculiar, although, when minutely examined, the beau tifully simple process exhibited in the operations. First of all, there is a cistern into which is pumped some five gallons of water, this is forced through an iron inch-pipe into a cylinder, and then acting on a pi-ton 7 inches in diameter, this is driven forward against a heavy ram which, in its turn, presses against the vessel's cradles and impels the ship forward, when several such hydrau lic apparatuses, together with innumerable screw-jacks, each worked by 9 or 12 men, and the hauling power obtained at the stem and stern by means of two power ful engines, are brought to bear together. Thus it will be seen that the process, although bring ing about such a mighty moving power, is simple in the extreme. The hydraulic power is something wonderful to contempla.e ; and, as an instance, an incident which occurred t) Mr. Delaney, an assistant at the present operations, might be alluded to. This person was en gaged COMO time hack in some hydraulic operations, when a fissure was detected in the pipe leading from the cistern into the cylinder through which the water was forcing its way. Mr. Delaney placed his finger over the fissure, and immediatly the water, like a sharp in-tru ment, penetrated through the flub. The pain caused, as described by Mr. Delaney, was such as would be occasioned by a sharp needle. To increase the weight of the hydraulic power and keep do en the cylinders in the present operations, it has been found necessary to place several hundreds of heavy iron bars, each in fact weighing 2 cwt., on the top of the cylinders. In consequence of the suspension of eperations yes terday, a numb e r o f v i s it or s, w h o h a d special orders, were allowed to go over the veesil and inspect her extraordinary dimensions, and the greatest civdity was observed by all the company's officers and workmen. Sines the commencement of operations the vessel, up to Tuesday morning, has been moved 103 feet 9 inches , at the fore-cradle. - CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY MEETING, (THIS DAY.) The fifth annual meeting of shareholders of this society was held to-day in Exeter-hall,—the chair man of the society, Viicount Ranehgh, presiding. The SECRETARY real the following report : "The Executive Committee, in offering their cDugra , tulations upo❑ the Conservative Land Society having entered into its sixth year, have also the pleasing duty to present a fifth balance-sheet and the annual abstract of accounts for the financial year ending the 3ith Sept., 1857. In reporting that the number of shares issued during the past year was 1,102, making the totals for the five years 13,616 shares ; that the amount of land sold in 1857 was 27,7391., and the grand total 211,238/. ; that the balance this year in favour of the society exceeds 3,000/. ; that the reserve fund is now 9,3941. ; that the cash receipts for 1857 were upwards of 56,000/ , and that the total receipts for the five years now reach the large sum of 312,5571., whilst the total amount of with drawals for the same period was only 43,7231. ; the committee feel that there is not only cause to re• joice at the past, but there are also sufficient reasons to entertain confidence as to the future. The subjoined tabular statement shows the total cash receipts cf the four quarters for the year ending 30th September, 1857, and the grand totals since the for mation of the Conservative Land Society : Quarter ending Shares in Shares progress. completed Total. Rece!pts. - Dec. 25,1856....... 144 54 £ s. d. 198 10,786 19 5 March 25, 1857 .... 362 82 444 20,061 12 10 June 25, 1857 Sept. 30, 1857 147 109 255 15,917 11 5 --- --, Totals, Fifth Year 822 280 1,102 56,052 10 8 Totals of 1853, 1854, 1855, and 1856 10,516 1,998 12,514 256,504 17 9 Grand Totals to 1857 11,338 2,278 13,616 312,557 8 5 The above returns, compared with those of the previous year, show only a decrease in the total number of share: of 111, and of 1,7981. 144 3d in the cash receipts, but compared with those of 1855, the increase in the shares this year is 113, and the cash receipts tc the extent of 3,936/. is Bd. The increase under the bead of withdrawals this year, over that of 1856, reaches the small amount of 4481. 7s 21. In the item of income the decrease in fees and interest is 4721. 12s 8d against an increase of 4321. 33 4d, also in interest and fees, so that the actual diminution is 401. Os 4d. On the other hand, under the various items in the expenditure, the decrease is as much as 7791. 12', against which must be placed 1101. 16s, for expenses for two years of registration on behalf of the allottees, 331. Os 51 increase of outlay for meetings, and increase of 8411. 4i 5d in bonus and interest paid to the shareholders, so that., exclusive of the last item, the reductions in the expendi tore amount to 6351. 158 7d. The total amount of lams offered to the members for the year ending the 29th September, 1857, was 34,7441. 17s 6d ; the total amount of unsold plots on various estates at Michaelmas, 1856, 24,732 10s ; total, 59,4771. 7s 6d. The total sale on the allotment of 1857 was 17,0891. 17s 61 ; the total sale of the stock on hand, inclusive of the St. Margaret's Mansion and unallotted land, during the past year was 10,6501.; total land sold in 1857, 27,7391. 17s 6d. Grand totals of land sold, to September 30tb, 1857, 211,2381. 18s 11d, The returns for the business during the present quarter, which will end December 25, extend only to the Bth instant. total cash receipts to 30th Sept. 1857, 312,5571 8s 51 ; receipts from 30th Sept. to Bth Dec. 1857, 7.152/ 138.8 d; total cash from al sources, 319,7101. 24 11 ; with drawals from Sept. 30th to Dec. Bth, 1857, 3,9881. 10., ld. The total shares, in progress or uncompleted, taken up the Bch Dec. 1857, were, 11,112 ; completed shares to same date, were 2,606 ; total shares to Dec. 8t1:, 1357, 13,718. The returns of the register of order et rights are as follows :—Completed, 2 606 ; drawn, 2,807; seniority, 1,457 ; total, 6,870 ; deduct, rights exercised on estates, building advances, &c, 4,198; unexercised riehte, 2,672. The last share on the register by seniority T the drawing of Dec.loth (this day), will be about No. 7,834, a .d the last share issued to Dec. 8, was No. 13,718. During the past five years the society has alloted no less than 32 estates. The St. Margaret's mansion and land, and the Marshfield estate, Stamford-hill, are net in eluded in that number, as their :a'e was effected by private contract. With the return of peace, and with a diminution of the monetary pressure, the committee entertain the confident expectation that building opera tions will be actively renewed, after such a long stag nation. Ail Atees on each estate may then be in a better position to consider whether, by a combination amongst themselves, a scheme for the erection of villas la and ou4es can be profitably carried out, at a compara tively small outlay on the part of each bolder of a plot. The society at present possesses five unallotted estates— viz., Manchester, Winchester, Tunbridge Wells, Brigh ton, and St. Margaret's. The only addition to the board during the past year has been the election of Lieutenant- Colonel Augustin ;Myrick, in place of Lord Alfred Churchill, who resigned. The list of patrons and gene ral committee has been increased by the names of Vis count Pevensey, M.P., Hon. Ralph Dutt la, M.P., W. B. Beach, Esq , M.P., E. M. Archdaq, Esq , M.P., and M. Scott, Esq. The following members of the executive committee retire from office by rotation, bat are eligible for re-election, namely :—Viscount Ranelagh (chairman), Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P. (vice-chair man), J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Hon. W. E. Dun combo, Robert Steven, Esq_, and Rev. J. W. Worthing ton, D,D., who offer themselves for re-election. During the last year there were two contests in East Sussex and West Kent, in which the members who obtained votes in those counties through the society were enabled to exercise the franchise. The general election alter the dissolution of Parliameot last March tested the political opinions of the general body of allottees on the society's estates. The executive committee, in their reports Of March and June, had the gratification to resiar the good faith with 'which nearly all the allottees had acted. At the Registration Courts in the au tumn, the claims of the members for various coun ties were generally successful, although contradictory decisions of some of the revising barristers, as to the value of the land which will give a 40s freehold, have been again given. On the Forest Hill Estate the 501 plots, deelired two years ago to be insufficient by one barrister, have been pronounced by his successor this year to bo ample. Oa the Reacisng estate the 501 plats were passed formerly without opposition, but this year the votes were struck off on objections which your cam- Mittee believe to be untenable. Qualifications can now be obtained through the instrumentality of the society in the following counties:—Middlesex, Surrey, Essex, Kent, Herts, Sussex, Berkshire, Worcestershire, Lin colnshire, Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, Somersetshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire. The executive committee have to announce that, until further notice, the rate of interest on completed shares and shar . is in progress paid a year in ad vance an d upwards will. con tinue at 5 per cent., payable half yearly one month after Lady-day and Michaelmas. The total amount of profit divided amongst the investors in the five years was 15,8101. 103. 103., and this has enabled the permanent members to realise 6 per cent. for the first, third, fourth and fifth years, the bonus in the second year prior to the Criineari war having been 7 per cent. The corn mittee have now the high satisfaction to decnre the bonus for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1857, to be 6 per cent. per annum on all uncompleted shares, exist ing in the society on the 10th of December, in respect of which shares lots on estates have not been taken, and such bonus of 6 per cent, will be added to the accounts of the several members in their pass-books, as provided by the rules. The holders of completed shares and of all shares on which subscriptions have been paid of a year in advance and upwards will be entitled to receive the additional 1 per cent. Over and above the guaranteed 5 per cent. paid hall-yearly), and the amounts due to the members on this head will be included as usual in the interest warrants to bo issued one month after next Lady-day, 1858. In order to increase the sphere of usefulness of the society the committee propose certain alterations to be made in the existing rules at the special meeting this day. It is not intended to interfere in any manner with the former mode of investment, whether for the purpose of holding shares for interest or for obtaining land. The changes in the rules will there. fore not depart from the system under which the society has so prospered ; but the committee desire to avail themselves, if they should deem it expedient, of the full powers conferred by the law relating to Friendly and Benefit Building Societies. To developo still farther building operations, and to make advances on every description of security since, modifications and amend mints in the rules are necessary. It is also expedient teat the committee should have a discretionary power as depositorsaccounts, n al e l t o w p i a ng t to he t r h e e en re a ce fi i x pt ed of ra m te on e i f es in o te n re d at e , p t o h si e t in money this e f L or arg ine e vs u t i m ng en o t f havetici pa b t i e n e g n i n b e t o h n e g a h n t n' t u e a the h p e r o e fi ffi t s e . mode, which the committee have been compelled to de cline to receive on account of the rules. Investors having derived much benefit from the total repeal of the rule imposing fines on unadvanced shares, the com mittee propose an alteration in rule 43, in favour of the allottees, by diminishing the accumulative effect of the fines on advanoed shares. The Conservative Land Society having become a prosperous reality, and the effects of p 'litical and commercial transitions having been carefully watched and studied the com mittee have comae to the conclusion that they ought to be ready for a state of things when it may be requisite to contract business in corns directions, and to enlarge it in others. The committee, in conclusion, cannot but express to the shareholders their sincere acl howled l y d e i os n p int l ainnycuehad for oere/S theleuf t p u hr a ao l rsmp c oeenrnifiiteyd harmonious a n f c the he ments for the friendly ton e o f f ee li ng which has been uniformly a a r st i io d ecni a es n ,t y ,h aaunin terruptednvdeunifor m accomplished no exertions will be wanting on • the part of the xacu tive committee to secure future success." The report was agreed to unauimou-ly, and the retiring oflicera having been re-aected, the pro ceedings terminated. - CRYSTAL - CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANT.—A meeting' of about 40 proprietors in the Crystal Palace Comp;:ny was held yesterday, at the London 'Cavern—Mr. Sotheby in the chair. The report of the shareholders' committee, an abstract of which we published on Monday, having been submitted to the meeting, the Chairman moved the adoption of the report, and stated that tho commitie . did not w i s h to interfere with the directors, but ratht r desired to assist them. lie thought it was but fair to give every gentleman credit for his proposition ; and the directors having given node, of their intention to issue life athnissiors on the surrender of shares to recite: the capital, it was but fair to state that. t'.:at was a proposi. tion of Mr. Fuller two years since, and that it was because he was opposed by the i.vhole of the other directors that ho retired from the board. After some o nversation, the report was adopted. LITERATURE. Such is Life ; Sketches and Poems. By Doubleyou. Second Edition. Samuel Eyre. Bou eerie-fitreet. This little work is one of a class that bas become very popular during late years. Perhaps it is the absence of effort that renders it a favourite with writers and readers. If it isnot possible for it to reach the dignity of an epic poem, or excite the thrilling interest aroused by a great master-fiction, it is at least secure from a fall from the top of Mount Par uassus, or from provoking a smile when the reader should be in tears of sympathy. Unprejudiced readers must own that these melancholy results ara by no means uncommon, and that though the old poet's advice that " He who aims th e s ky Shoots higher far than he that means a tree," may be true of the guiding principles of life, it is scarcely so in literature, and the consequence is too .)ften the same as that attending the efforts of the philosopher in " Rasselas," who, in trying to ex ceed his natural powers made a very undignified descent. Manufactured wings will not carry an author or a poet very far, and the wise man will prefer to keep on level ground. The scenes and incidents of daily life, the little adven tures of au omnibus ride, or a country excursion can furnish thoughts and pictures to beguile a leisure hour, as this little volume very successfully testifies. The author draws pleasant home pictures with little satiric touches and occasional glimpses of deeper feeling. The following extract exhibits both liese qualities in the companion portraits of a schoolmaster and his wife— " Our master, Dr. Bounce, was a self-contained human abstraction, and at the same time he was an awful reality. It was said that he had never had a friend—or rather whispered, for not much was said about the Doctor-- and I should think truly, for there was that repulsive something in his manner which seemed to raise, so to speak, an impalpable barrier between himself and his fellow. He was an angular, heavy-browed, harsh, cruel, black-visaged, unrelenting man, who bad written a work upon ' The Persecution of the Early Chris tians.' This work was, alas I read regularly in the school ; and it always seemed to me when I thought of his ideas, and measured them with his actions—(he was powerful in action, as our backs could bear witness) that he viewed Christianity, as it were, from afar ; as though he fancied that too close a familiarity might diminish respect. ' Distance lends enchantment to the view.' Past and present are distinct, so are preaching and practice. Only come town in the morning a few minutes after the fixed time and he would soon show you the difference, in his estimation, between an early Christian and a late one. l am not competent to pronounce an opinion as to the literary worth of the Doctor's great work, but if long and unremitting practical experience can empower an author to grasp his subject and treat it with success, I can readily understand his writing one upon `The Persecution of Youthful Christians.' I always thought the period chosen for the work was admirably suited to the writer, since those early times were, sad to sago somewhat rancorous and savage. But the fact of hill being an author added materially to our awe of the many and his austerity and taciturnity aided his reputation for power and thought, as is frequently the case with marl a great..small man, in this great-little world of ours. " Mrs. Bounce, the Doctor's ' good lady,' was Plea - Qant, good-looking, an d naturally kindly; but Was painfully repressed, kept down, and schooled by h er lord. When I con s id er her lonely life amidst many, her worst of all solitude amidst a crowd, and remember how her really laving nature would peer and pee p out timidly, in gentle looks, and gentle acts, in unlooked - fo r kindnesses and indulgences, coming at unlooked - for times and periods—but always when be happened to be absent—l quite understand how, undemonstrative as she was, she universally inspired a sort of quiet liking and respect. The truth is, the poor matron was full of the tender memory of an only child, of whom she loved to talk on all possible occasions ; and was particularly and markedly kind, as we frequently noticed, to motherless boys. The anchor of her affections was with the little bark that had early gone down, and her heart was buried with it. In the cold, shallow bosom of the Doctor, there was neither depth nor "holding-ground." The anchor of a woman's affections could neither sink nor fasten there. There is a consolation attached to the death of a little child that does not, and cannot belong to any other such loss. It is impossible for the heart to analyse, att first, o a great new grief, but when Time, the Conyrer, , h as j o o f h th m e p th ri e ce c l a es s a e dame, tf from m little th the angel done of a l i t h t i l t e s c o h o itihdi,n gt hat o r g k r , , a i t t as k, a t h e e a e i r o e s el s pretty treasure has been tons here, we have the certainty T o ll f E th ß e E g t rea l te r r ea p il o y sse th es i i n o k n in which she spoke of her loss, felt all this, almost with. 2 t h a i s s poor it were,dam out knowing clearly what it was that she felt. And what a Thought, reader, to elevate and purify the pos sessor—l have lost a child on earth : I have gained an angel in heaven ! The poetry in the work is occasionally good, but the author's talents seem more to fit him for proie wilting. The poetry is occasionally a little too ambitious for its quality, and this can never be said of the prose. The following verses are forcible and well expressed ; they are from a poem on Lamar tine's address to the mob in 1848 : "Oce of Time's mightiest &oh was voicb.l then, And over Matter Mind stood Victor-brow'd ! - The Sword may scoff! we see in true great men, The Ideal with power to rule the Real endow'd. "Too may great to tread Strife's shamble-path, And rice on Falsehood into temporal poser ; Too really great to fear a Mob's mad wrath, And great enough to rule that awful hour 1 "Through him Life's Sacred Temple then was spared, And wanton bloodshed and remorse were saved ; Yet, had their Cause, for God and Right declared, His Eagle spirit any odds had braved. "Such acted poems shine in History's word ! A spirit once prepared to do or die— Within the Mortal the Eternal stired Ras ccnquered more than half its victory." ' The most industrious reader cannot always be studying standard works, or even lighter books of many volumes. A little work like the present is very acceptable to fill up the crevices, and that it is so is proved by the ready demand for a second edition. We anticipate meeting the author again in some higher walk of literature, for that he has, talent and feeling are evidenced by his pages. }lir is not deficient in observation, but he must 13( 9 careful that his taste for the humorous does no t lead him too far ; for, while the value of tru s humour is readily admitted, nothing is mot 0 wearisome than trying to be funny, and into thi many writers of the present day degenerate. W 3 can recommend this little work for those who wisht to pars an hour pleasantly, and its spirit is not -at all unsuitable for the coming holidays. Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign. By* Captain G. R. Hunt, 78th Highlanders. Edited By G. Townsend. Routledge. The mere title of this book would bo sufficiene to secure it an immediate circulation. At a period. wi en the country is watching with the deepest anx'ety the struggles and perils of these two brave men and illustrious generals, a record of their pre-. vious exploits and victories togetr cannot fail to be highly interesting. This interest is heightened in the present instance by the fact that the author of this little volume,. himself a soldier, has lately fallen in the discharge of his duties. A summary of Persian history, with an account of our various; differences with that country, and an inquiry into , the cause of the late war, is prefixed to the narrative , : by Mr. Townsend, author of "RUssell's Modern. Europe Epitomised." This information will be. useful at the present moment to many readers,. As the volume is of moderate size, and the type large, the reader must not expect to fincl"miuute or: elaborate details, but the work will probably b the more popular, as it gives a clear and compre. hensive outline of the various events. It has seved ral illustrations ' and is likely to be a popular and: successful work. MARKET NEWS.-- (This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For tho week ended Dec. 10, 1857, made up from the Re' turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns iu England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT BARLEY I OATS I RYE BEANS I FBAS 041 48s 3d 35s 9d 23s Od 32s 9d 141. s 2d f --- THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. WHEAT I BARLEY 1 OATS I RYE I BEANS AS " 4: 1 0 51s 3d 398 ld 24s 7(.1 34s lid 43s 10d. 42s II ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, g'4,923; b a rl e y, 36 , 411 ; oa t s , 8,138; rye, 26 ;; beaus, 4,650; peas, 2,813 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The demand for eao kind of moat was rather inactive, at our quotations :---- Beef, from 23 10,1 to 4s 4,1 ; Mutton, 33 Od to 4s 6d Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 8d to 5a 2d per Sibs by the carca3e. SOUTIIALL, Dec. o.—The supplies of stock here to-dal was only moderate, yet the trade ruled heavy, as follow: — Beef, from 3s 4(1 to 4s Cd ; Mutton, 3s lid to 5s 2d Veal, 4s 8d to 43 81; Pork, 4s Cd to 5s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Dee. 9.—We had a heavy trade hero to-da,y, at barely last week's prices ;—Beef, from 3s Od to 5s 0:1; Ntutton, 34 6:1 to 5 s 2d ; V ea l , 4s Gd to 4s 01 ; Pork, 46 2,1 to 5s 21 per Sibs ; Mich Cows, IQI to 201; Suckling Calves, lOs to 22s each. HAY MARKETS. S7J lTarlELD.—Alea,dow hay, 21 10s to 41 Os; clover, 3/ 104 to 5/ 03; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 103 per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 15s to 4/ Os; clover, iOs to 4? l s ; and straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. Trade steady. WHITECRAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 10.3 to 4! Os ; clover, 3/ 103 to 51 0.1 ; and straw, 11 5s to 11103 per load. A slow trade.