The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

1:1 ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, ' GREAT CLASSICAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, A MOZART NIGHT. Xadlle. Jetty Treffs, Miss Arabella Goddard, Herr Deck, and M. Edouard Remenyi. The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH THIS EVENING (MONDAY, December 7th), will be produced the New Grand Descriptive Composition, by Jullien, entitled THE , INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH, performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, said the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia," and " God Save the Queen." New Fife Polka (second time), by M. J u llien, with double Orchestra. The magnificent decorations which were prepared for the Bal Masque will remain during the continuance of these Con certs. The 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 wer e otarged with the decorations for the grand ball at the reception of the Emperor Napoleon 111 , at Stuttgart, and who were engaged, at a great espence, for the express rurpose of arra nging at her Majesty's Theatre a display which will be seen for the first tine in this country. The Concert will commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of Admission—Promenade, ls ; Upper Boxes, Is. ; Gal l er y, Is. - Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6.1.. a nd upw ards. prospectuses, with full particulars, may be had at the Box alike of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— M. JIILLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE.—In consequence of th. great success of the Bal Masque, M. Jullien will give a SECOND, and positively the last this season, at the end of the Second Series of Concerts, on MONDAY, Dec. 21.—Applications to be made at the Boa Office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White, on Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new farca, by the author of Box and Cox, entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstone will sustain an original chiracter. Concluding with THE FISH OUT OF WATER. Sam Savoury, Mr. Compton. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dross Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 o Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Lipper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. ROYAL 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 Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD H. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen, by Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new farce, in cue act, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. 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 Mary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—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 Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, fir. Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey an I Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, £2 12.5. 6d., £2 25., and El lls. 6d. ; Stills, 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. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. WITS EVENING, will be performed a new and original eGmedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT BROMPTON? Mr. Robson, &e. After which, LEADING STRINGS. To conclude with 110 , )TS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Robson, Mr. H. Wigan, and Mrs. Emden. Commence at half-past Seven. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. I 11.) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed VIRGINIT7S. After which, INDIX, 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Ores wick, W. Smith, Vollairo, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Edmore, Tapping • Miss M, Ebnrne, Miss Webster, Miss Chal mers , Miss Johnstone. To conclude with WELLINGTON FICIGS. SAM. COWELL'S ANNUAL BENEFIT, in the LARGE ROOM, ST. MARTIN'S HALL, USG ACRE, _ . _ On - M INDAY NEXT, December 14, 1857. On which occasion, he will sing EIGHT of his most popular Songs, and, in addition to his own " Lama TRAVELLINe PARTY," he will have the assistance of many Professional Friends now in London. Notwithstanding the great expense, the prices will be— Reserved Seats, 2s, 6d.; Balcony, Is, ; Body of the Hall, 6d. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, Hiss Bru nel, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jonec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. 1. Critchfield, and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM DAY —Morn., 1 min. aft. 6—Even., 29 min aft. 6 TO-MORROW—Morn., 56 min. aft. 6—Even., 26 min. aft. 7 THE WEATHER—SON OFFICE, DECEMBER 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 55 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.44—rising rapidly. WIND, S.W. ; light, with doll muggy weather. Slight rain in the morning. DECEMBER 7. 56—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night, 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.48. WIND, S.W. ; light, with dull weather. . LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 7, 1857. Although there will be a comparative lull in the Pailiamentary arena, in anticipation of the grand encounters on Thursday and Friday next, several matters of great interest will be brought forward in both Houses. The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH, a skilful debater and high authority on all questions relating to the Anglo-Indian Empire, may probably administer some sharp hits to Lord CANNING, while moving for a " copy of the Arms Act lately passed by the Legislative Council of , India ; also a return of all native and European newspapers licensed under the Act of the Legis lative Council of India passed on the 13th of June last ; and, also, copies of all letters of warn ing addressed to the editors of any such native and European newspapers respectively, and of all revocations of the licensee, if any, of such news papers, and of all correspondence relating to the restitution thereof." Two very interesting sub jectis will thus be introduced, although perhaps not discussed or decided. It is the material for future legislation and future contests that will chiefly b e obtained, so far, at all events, as the treatment of the Indian Press by the Governor- General in Council is concerned. We shall ascer tain the pretexts on which some tried friends of British supremacy have been " warned" or "sus pended," and be enabled to • Judge of the alleged justifications for such extraordinary , and, we may add, unwarrantable harshness. Other topics will also arise of surpassinginterest, in consequence of interrogatories about to be bited to Ministers. Mr. SCOTT will inquire into the system by which the movement of troops is re gu _ hated, in the following manner :—" The 69th Regt. IC. lug quartered at Plymouth, to ask her Majesty's Government what was the advantage, and also the expens e , of movin g it from Plymouth to Ports mouth by rail, to embark there, in order to return by sea to Plymouth before departing for the East Indies; and by whose authority it was done ?" It seems too ridiculous to be thought possible that a fine regiment, about to encounter all the risk and danger of adding the minor inconvenience of a journey from Plymouth to Portsmouth by rail in order that they might be brought back from Portsmouth to Plymouth by sea. There may be some recondite reason for such a pro ceeding, but it can only be discovered by a thorough-paced red-tapist, and the of roXXot re quire information as to its nature. Marchings and counter-marchings may be all very agreeable while we are bat " playing at soldiers," and oc cupation is required for the troops ; but they were strangely out of place at such a time as that referred to. Indeed, it was the scandalous de lays that were permitted to occur for which Lord PAL3fERSTON and his colleagues have deserved the I heaviest censure. When we remember the urgent appeals made by ourselves, in common with a large proportion of our contemporaries, at the very first intelligence of the insurrection, to lose no time in despatching troops by the most speedy routes, by the overland journey, and by swift screw steamers ; and remember the flippant and self-satisfied ignorance of Mr. SMITH, of Cannon row, and the arrogant and dogmatic red tapism of Sir CHARLES WOOD, when arguing in favour of sailing vessels rather than steamers, we lose all patience. Indeed, even Lord PALMERSTON himself cannot easily answer the serious accusa tions that must be preferred against him for his contumelious neglect of the advantages freely and voluntarily tendered by the Sultan, the Pasha of Egypt, the Emperor NAPOLEON, and the Penin sular and Oriental Steam-packet Company. The heart sickens when we think of the evils that have arisen from this most unwarrantable delay, of what might have been contrasted with what has been. It is true that the extraordinary valour both of officers and men—of the WILSONS, HATE LOCKS, NE/LLS, NICHOLSONS, GREATHEDS, and CHAMBERLAYNES, and a score of others whom it would be invidious to particularise, have done all that mortal men could accomplish to repair the mischief occasioned by this apathy and insouciance. But still great labour has been endured. Many valuable lives have been sacrificed, and not only 017 TRAM and HAVELOCK, but the helpless and innocent fugitives, whom they made so many superhuman efforts to rescue, are still in jeopardy, and the public mind kept in a state of intense anxiety respecting their ultimate fate. Should any of our worst apprehensions be rea lised, should one of these little ones perish', we should not envy Lord PALMERSTON his honours, nor Mr. SMITH the possible coronet uuder which tried and detected incapacity is too frequently permitted to hide its shame. We only trust that if he obtain it, the significant word " Lucknow" may be pro minently inscribed on the shield. Another important question will be ventilated on Tuesday. Mr. YOUNG intends to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what steps have been taken to prevent an interruption of the steam mail-service with Australia, which is likely to be occasioned by the accident to the ship Emeu ; and what provision will be made in future to prevent delay in this service, in case of accidents to one of the steam-ships engaged in the trans mission of the mails between Australia and Suez ? This has not been the fault of the Simla. She made her voyage in due course, and the impor tant correspondence which she conveyed would have ere this been delivered in London ; but the old proverb respecting " two stools" was again verified. Neither the Consul-General, nor the [ Postmaster interfered, the Dans ex Macheria. In vain was there a telegraph to Suez, no mes sage was despatched, no demand preferred for a special train, and the Vectis, which ought to have conveyed the mail was permitted to steam off a few hours before its arrival at the port of debar kation. A correspondent of the Daily Neu; whose communication will be found in another part of our impression, states that the cost of this train would be but 501., and this would have saved all the losses and difficulties arising from the serious delay. Why one single firm that may be compromised would pay tenfold the paltry sum to avert the inconvenience. These, to say nothing for the present of the question respecting the court-martial on board the Juno, by the learned Recorder of Hull, will give some interesting " nuts to crack " to the Ministers, and not render their enjoyment of the winter session Very great. The question, Who is to pay for the mutiny— may be a little perplexing for the moment, by the state of our own money market, and the difficulty of restoring the regular collection of Revenue, of arrears especially, through so large a part of India ; but that India can easily pay, and that before many years, is certain. Prior to discussion and fuller information, we are not prepared to deny that a guarantee for a loan from the home Government naay not be requisite in order to start a new system, and to obtain the money on the lowest terms ; but India is a mine of wealth un told, if worked by an honest and vigorous adminis tration. We have the whole country under our paramount authority, we can execute public works of all kinds where we please, and the most potent of the remaining native princes dare not breathe a word of opposition ; indeed, they would rarely wish to do it. Over a million and a quar ter square 'acres, the greater part of it capable of producing enormous crops of what all the civi lized world requires, we are in a position to say, let the soil bring forth abundantly, and let its produce be conveyed at an almost nominal cost to ports whence it may be wafted to all parts of the world. We are not declaiming, but writing the words of truth and soberness. India has hitherto bees but half cultivated, and half opened to commerce. She needs but a comparatively few millions to double her cultivation and to double her exports. And this ' is tantamount to doubling her revenue, and much more than halving its pressure. But for this, the first essential, is a thorough rout out of the Old Direction. "Old Indians, ' says one of the first authorities on India n im provement, Colonel CorroN, " are the destruc tion of India," A few, indeed, are necessary on account of their knowledge of Indian matters, but what is wanted is, a great majority of untainted Englishmen—Englishmen not turned into Asiati cs . India can never make a fair start in the-race of improvement till Old Indians are in the minority among the ruling body. What is wanted is, representatives from different classes in Engla,nd who will bring their English energy and un.d, f ,, r .. standing to the work. They would make mistakes no doubt, but they would not make the mistake of ruling India on Indian principles and notions." These sentences indicate the starting point :to our Government. It is not that one Board of Direc tors has been more vicious than another, or that any Ministry has been specially corrupt, but in the general neglect and consequent ign orance of India, Mini s t ers d greater compotenehyaov: te he o fc E rr as ed t tlondtilate Company, have inherit e d f rom ,b ygone and the Dir ec t ors o t s r e ad ei to t e h r c e ' m a - - selves, and then all patronage ;t o keep 1 h eva tb ens years the traditi ona l policy of " • munopolistP. First, t o k eep- all IHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 7, 1857, and Mahommedans quiet at the cost of supporting idolatry itself, and ignoring the honour due to their own faith ; to govern through a large cheap native army, and therefore, to indulge the men into whose bands they put the sword ; to squeeze the utmost amount of revenue from the labor non-military population ) without bestowing a thought on how to enrich their subjects—such have been some of the in herited features of East India Company Government—features which can be got rid of only by placing a new dynasty in power. India must be governed on the larger view of modern times—a view shared even by the very Czars of Russia—that rich, not drained and exhausted subjects, are the strength and glory of a State. We think that now is the time to bring into prominence the simple yet great principles of Col. CorroN's book. It ought to be in the hands of every Indian reformer. If the Company and its an tiquated traditions are extinguished, we know of no class which could object to his views. They must be the basis of Indian Financial Reform. Not all the Rothschilds in the world could replenish the Indian Exchequer, and cause the income to exceed the expenditure, except by first creating income in the hands of those whose contributions supply the State. The proverbial impossibility of getting more than its skin from a certain domestic animal has never been better illus trated than in the case of the East India Com pany's Ryots. Under each of the three systems, they, poor wretches, let who will get get something, aro almost flayed alive. More, they cannot pay, either to a zemindar, a Govern ment collector, or the headmen of villages. These poor, naked, and almost houseless cottiers, the actual payers of the enormous land-tax of India— a tax of about 18s. in the pound—these unfortu nates must first have something more put into their hands before they can pay more. Colonel COTTON proposes to get them more than double produce from mother earth herself ; to leave them part of the gain, take part as our own fair toll for expenditure, and thus to enrich both Government and people. We have adverted once or twice to the irriga tion proposals of Colonel COTTON, but his plans for increased and cheap communication are equally urgent and important. Indeed, the two must go together ; for the benefits of irriga tion would be but local, eertainlyof little advantage to commerce and revenue, unless the vast in crease of produce could find easy means of export to other district 4, whence it could purchase commercial articles in exchange not produced at home. The great question is, whether a cheap system of transit for the whole of India, capable of being completed in five or six years, shall be at once begun ; or whether our own costly and rapid system shall have the preference. It is not denied that railways, judiciously ar ranged, will be a great gain to the military and political administration of the country ; but in the first place, they can onlybe constructed very slowly ; at least those now in progress seem to have crept along only at the rate_ of some ten miles a year, or so. The capital required is com paratively enormous, and the building of works for rapid transit, like our twn, must always oc cupy much time. Cheap slow traffic railways, on the contrary, like those of America, and still more, the improvement of river channels, and construction of canals, serving at once for traffic and irrigation, can be, in India, exe cuted with great rapidity, and marvel lous economy. Writing from experience, gathered in his own operations as well as those of others, Colonel COTTON tells us that " Improved river navigation, canals, and cheap railways could be formed to the extent of 20,000 miles, at the average rate of 3501. a mile." " That these oanals and cheap railways might be begun at once in every district of India, and be easily completed in five years." Nor can—we too often repeat, that any one who will but read the Colonel's book, and the accounts of what has been done, must be satisfied that his statements are not conjecture. He can say what so few pro jectors can—" I have done the thing," and therefore may add, "I can do it all over India' for the conditions are almost identical. Colonel CorroN's great principle of the primary necessity of cheap conveyance, is, we conceive, the paramount one for India. By all means let us have fast conveyance, as quickly as we can get it ; but for a country, nearly 411 of whose exports con sist of raw material, the first requisite is carriage at a rate which the articles will bear. Rapid carriage may pay well on costly articles, when the value makes time a serious object ; but cotton, earn, sugar, rice, and even indigo—indeed, most of the annual products of agriculture—will not afford the same tariff of charges as articles manufactured from any of them. Time is not the object, so much as a cheap rata of conveyance to the port of exportation. In Thngland canals and roads preceded and continue with our railway system. They generated a state of internal traffic, which enabled railways to take up the portion of it adapted to high speed, and still to leave canals more work than ever. India can do better agriculturally and commercially without fast railways than without canals or other water carriage. The average distance which goods have to be carried in England is about 40 miles—in India about 250. The actual difference of charge, allow ing for the different value of money, is eight times higher in India than in England ; but, taking dis tance into account, the difference is at least as thirty six to one against India 1 If we imagine what the state of trade in Eagland would bo with the cost of transit advanced thirty-six fold, we may easily understand why India exports so little, and why its exchequer is bankrupt. ASEITON-UNDER-LY.NE ELECTION. Mr. Cleland's compliments to the editor of the Sun, begs to subjoin Telegram received from Mr. Rill, the Secretary to Mr. Milner Gibson's Elec tion Committee, Ashton-under-Lyne : " Messrs. Astley and Mason have both retired. Sergeant Shee has not arrived, nor has he a coax mit tee." Mr. Milner Gibson's return is considered safe. [We sincerely hope so.—Ed. Sun.] THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—The Prince Consort presided bn Saturday at a meeting of the Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund held at the Palace of Westminster. The Commissioners present were—the Duke of New castle, the Earl of Derby, Earl Grey, Lord Roki-by, Lord Colchester, Lord St. Leonarde, the Right Hon. Sidnmy Herbert, Colonel the Hon. J. Lindsay, the Right Hon. H. L. Corry, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Sir Robert Throckmorton, Sir Haw Ross, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, J. G. Hubbard, Esq., and Col. J. Wilson Patten. The Prince Consort arrived at 11 o'clock, attended by Cul. Biddulph. The meeting broke up at a quarter past 3 o'clock. THE REPRESENTATION OF THETFORD.—It is not likely that the seat for this borough, just rendered vacant by the resignation of the Hon. F. Baring, will be contested. Mr. A. Baring, son of the late member, is pretty certain to be his successor. lavEurooL, Saturday.—Owing to an ambiguous para graph in a New York journal, it was stated in the SUM unary of American intelligence by the Adriatic that Major-General Worth had died. The General, however, has long been deceased, and the paragraph in question meant to imply that his remains were removed with some official ceremony. A letter from Stockholm of the 26th ult. announces that Count livanilton Manila' of the Diet, has again fallen ill. PARTRIDGES AND RABBITS. The Norfolk News gives another curious Rabbit Case ; not, however, this time, one which led to a magistrate's pocketing a sovereign, compound ing a felony, and getting a fine of 2001. and a year's imprisonment ; nor a case, for commenting on the illegal and arbitrary treatment of which a peer and magistrate threatened an editor, tried to provoke him to a due], and was within a little of standing in the dock at the assizes. The self constituted magistrate in this case was a gamekeeper, and the attacked party a Norfolk farmer. In the parish of Hock ham a Mr. Gayford and his son jointly rented a farm of a Mr. Partridge, with the express condi tion in the lease of permission to kill rabbits. Mr. Partridge's gamekeeper, in the plenitude of his authority, determined to put down the warrener employed by the Gayfords to catch the rabbits ; he caught them with snares, and the inference was that something else was caught with the snares. Gayford went twice early in the morning to see whether the charge against his warrener was true. He found the old man had caught nothing but rab bits. The second morning, however, Mr. Gamekeeper came up in great wrath, but the farmer interposed. He then attacked the farmer, and the gamekeeper's son attacked the farmer's son. Right furiously they fought ; but the gamekeepers obtained, ultimately, the physi cal victory, so far as to get the snares, while the farmer had to ride home to breakfast without them. The farmer's turn was, however, to come. The gamekeepers appeal to the Hall ; but at the Hall it was found that the lease was explicit, and with ample apologies Mr. Gamekeeper had to re turn the snares, and think himself well off if he escaped without an action for assault and battery. Norfolk will become famous for Rabbit cases. But how long are the barbarous laws to last which give rise to them ! COMPLETION OF THE TELEGRAPHIC LINE TO CORFU. We have been favoured by the Secretary of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company (Limited) with the following communication : " CAGLIARI, 3.52 Era., 6TH DEC. 1857. " Elba arrived at Malta to-day. Communication with Corfu completed. (Signed) " CRAIG." We heartily congratulate the Company on the entire length of their line being now completed. But why not go on ? There is the gap to Alexandria still calling out for rope. How long must we wait ? As it is the shareholders in this company have now a Government guarantee of six per cent. for twenty five yews, which comes into immediate operation. The Government ought now to take a lesson from take enterprise of the directors of this company, and push on an independent line of their own to Alex andria, as we hinted a few days ago, and so leave Austria in the lurch of her own cupidity. Is it to be tolerated that we, who never hesitate in spending millions upon millions for some foreign crotchet, shoul 1 yet boggle to advance, simply to advance, a few thousands, or even tens of thousands, to facilitate our intercourse with India, by which thousands of valuable lives might have been, and may yet be saved, while the b •nefit accruing to our commercial interests may be reck oned by millions ? Our great wonder is that men in power are so dogmatically apathetic ; but the more mortifying wonder is, that,the commercial public so long permit it. BRAZIL AND THE SLAVE TRADE. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln The Suit, of this evening the Rev. David Livingstone, in a letter on the slave trade, writes as follows :—" While our attention is directed to a greater number of slaves being imported into Cuba, we must not shut our eyes to the fact of another market being closed altogether to the trade, nor forget that the present position of Brazil is owing to the moral influence of Great Britain." As a lat.) visitor to Brazil, and having the means of testing the truth, I must deny totally the conclu-: sion the rev. gentleman has arrived at, as far as the empire of Brazil is concerned. The importation o f :Awes is strictly f or bidd e n by the laws of Brazil ; for reasons unnecessary to state, those laws are worthily upheld by the Em peror and Government of Brazil ; this, and this only, effectually prevents the impo r t a ti on of blac ks into Brazil—not the British squalron, as has often been gentleman proved, canprevent the m l an di ng, or, as the ,asserts, the mor a l i n fl uence o f G reat Britain, either in England or through her resident merchants in Brazil, hardly one of who:n are not slave-holders, in the strictest sense of the word; an assertion very easily proved.--I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, WELLINGTON GUERNSEY, Dec. 5, 1857. Lieut.-Colonel. LORD _PALMERSTON AND .PARLIAIIIS.II 7 , TARY REFORM. Can any one believe that the mention of repre sentative reform was tacked on to the Royal Address for any other reason than that the Premier was afraid to leave it out? The recognition of the subject was cold and distant. It was evidently an unpalatable intruder—endured, but not wel come. Not that we believe Lard Palinerstou's aversion to reform is based on any rational disike of innovation. But he does not understand the subject. And, should it ever become the question of the day, others would take the lead out of t o o ppo th si e tio C n and is what adds fuel his hands. This is the secret of his concealed abtionetßedfoisramg,reements on the topic. But we must never forget that opposition based solely on motives of self-interest is liable at any moment to be changed into advocacy. If his lordship should once imagine that more danger might be incurred by thwarting Mr. Llcke King, or Mr. Roebuck, than even by submitting to a contrast between himself and more accomplished statemen, he would yield that instant. We sin cerely believe there is no proposition of Reform, even to the total disrupture of our social system, from which he would withhold his assent. Lord Granville, we mustremenabar, spoke with more decision than his chief. And we trust the united Conservative party will continue on their guard ' against those artful rumours of the Premiei's Con servative tendencies thrown out only to disarm suspicion till the moment for action shall arrive.— The Press. The Queen and Court will come to town early in January, and a series of sp'endid entertainments, in honour of the marriage of the Princess Royal, will inau gurate the commencement of the season of 1853, at an unprecedentedly early period of the year. The approach ing season may, therefore , be expected to be on e of g reat brilliancy.—Court Journal . MARRIAGE OF T HE PRINCESS ROYAL. —We hear Vat the marriage of the Princess Royal of England with Prince Frederick William of Prussia is likely to take plaee in the third w ee k . o f J anuar y—probably on Mon day, the 18cb. The newly married princess will hold a firewell reception at court previous to her departure from Eugland.—Observer. —The nuptials of the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William cf Prussia will be celebrated on the 25th January, and not on the 18th. This postponement is understood to be quite unconnected with the arrangeinens in this country. —Court Journal. A. Cabinet Cou nc il was held on S a turday at the official reldence of the Fi rs t L ord of the T re asury in Downing street. - The Mini s t ers present were :—Viscount Pal rnerston, the Lo r d Chancellor E ar l Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne , the - Earl of Ha rrow by, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon , : Mr. S e cretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of th e Exchequer , Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. V ernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll , and the Right Hon. M . T. .Baines . The Duchess o f B uckingham h as re!urne . d to Hampton-court Pala ce , f rom v i s iti n g the Marquis and Marchioness of We s t m i nster at E a t o n Hall, Cheshire. The Cuuutess of Westmorland and Lady R O3O Pane have arrived at the Eedford- hotel ' Brighton. The Esrl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham, and Mr. ant Lady Augu-ta g S tur t and Miss St urt, are staying at the same establishmen t. Lady Brougham le aves town tc -day for Dover. The noble and learned lord i s pa. a i n g the season a t Ca n nes. Lord Holland has arrived- in town for the session of Parliament. Lord and Lady Joh n Russell have arrive d at Far raace's Hotel, Belgravia: who sin t h e close of hostili ties Woburn Abbe y . Lord Dunkellin, -11-P ties in Persia has been staying at Calcutta with his unc l e the Governor-Gene ra l, i s not Expec t e d to return to this country until the Sp r i ng The Countess of J ers e y and L a dy Clementina Villiers leave town to-day for bliddl etou -p ar k. ce LATEST NEWS. THE CRISIS AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, DEC. G. The Assembly of the Bourgeoisie has rejected all the proposals of the Senate for alleviating tie com mercial crisis by the establishment of a new bank. Another sitting will take place to-morrow. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. • CAGLIARI, DEC. 5. The Elba and Desperate have arrived from Corfu with the cable. The electric communication is completed. Accounts from Constantinople mention that a reconciliation of some kind has taken place between M. Thouvenel and Redschid Pasha. If this be the case, it may facilitate the new plan of arrange ment attributed to the French Government with respect to the Danubian Principalities. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The Bank of France yesterday announced the reduction of its rate of discount on 30 days' bills to 6 per cent. ; 60 days', 7 per cent. ; 90 days', 8 per cent. A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels gives some further details relative to the permission accorded by the Emperor Napoleon to General de Lamoriciere to return definitively to Paris : " When Mme. de Lamoriciere, after her son's death, had gone back to Belgium, a doubt arose as to whether the order of the Emperor to send a pas port authorising the general to return to France remained valid. This doubt having been commu nicated to the Emperor, his Majesty, with the same spontaneity as on the first occasion, declared that the authorisation given to the general at such a moment must not be withdrawn, and directed anew that a passport without any condition or restriction should be remitted to him. His Majesty added that he should be happy if the re-opening to the general of the gates of France could afford him some consolation under the misfortune which had befallen him. General do Lamoriciere was much touched by this kindness, and his numerous friends in France will be happy to learn that he has gratefully ac cepted the passport placed at his disposal, and that they may soon see higi return." BounsE, Dec. s.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. End of Month. 41 per Cents 3 per Cents 67 70 67 80 Bank Shares 3050 Credit Fonder 535 Credit Mobilier — Roman i Do. Account 7OO Austrian Belgian 41 — Spanish Threes — riedmontese(s) B7l— Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. i' fr. c, rt. c. Orleans Northern - Western New Ditto 740 Strasburg Lyons and Med B6O Grand Central 1 — Now Ditto... ....... 850'— Sardinian E435 Geneva 6os:— Austrian Com. ....., 665 NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, OCT. 12. The new ministers, Messrs. Cowper, Jones, Mur- ray, and Martin, have been selected without oppo sition, and the Parliamentary campaign will shortly commence. The electoral reform question seems likely to be shelved for a time, but the land bill will almost immediately be introduced. So far as the ministerial plan bas been ascertained, it ap pears that the upset price of our waste lands is to be reduced from 1/. to ss. per acre, sales to be effected at public auction, and no block to be put up exceeding 640 acres in extent. As may be conceived, there exists considerable diversity of opinion as to the policy of altering the minimum price of the crown lands, which has also been fixed at 1/. in Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Many are convinced it would give rise to unhealthy speculation, create a laud mania, and be acting unfairly towards the creditors of the colony, to whom the lands have been pledged as security for the debt, now amounting to two mil lions and a half sterling. On the other hand, it is urged that the value of the security would in no way be impaired, that the system would simply facilitate the disposal of infe rior lands unsaleable at the present price, whilst those of good quality would always fetch what they were worth ; at the same time greater inducements would be held out to immigrants, and the territorial revenue largely increased. In my humble judgment, the upset price might advantageously be reduced were a tax imposed on all lands sold. The system to be adopted should be one of local taxation, and the amounts raised should be applied to the improvement of roads and con struction of public works in the districts wherein they were levied. This arrangement could readily be effected ou the introduction of the municipal system, which will not long be withheld from the country. The procee is of the land sales would be paid into the public treasury, a portion devoted to the extinction of our debt, and the remainder spent on works of utility, partly ou the trunk lines of com munication which would remain under the supervi sion of the central government, partly in grants in aid to the municipalities of the poorer or more sparsely populated districts. Such is a brief outline of the scheme I would propose. There are but few events to record since the de parture of the September mails. On the 17th ult. Sir W. Denison sailed from Syd ney in her Majesty's ship Iris on a visit to Norfolk Island, to which the Pitcairn islanders were re moved on the breaking up of the penal establish ment there. On his return I trust to be able to furnish some account of this interesting community. C.,lonel Bloomfield, of the 11th Regiment, the Hon. J. H. Plunkett, President of the Legislative Coun cil, and the Hon. C. Cowper, chief secretary, were appointed by proclamation administrators of govern-. ment during his Excellency's absence. On the 27th ult. the Palmerston and Orwell transports arrived with the 77th Regiment, which comes out to relieve the 11th. These troops were disembarked, but their baggage has not yet been landed; as the regiment will probably be sent to India at once, should their services unfortunately be required there. The Indian government having notified their in tention of sending an officer to Australia for the purpose of obtaining horses for the dragoon regi ments on their way to India, a public meeting of horsebreeders and stockholders was held recently in Sydney with a view to facilitate this object. The friends of the late Captain Green, f the iil fated Dunbar, are taking steps to erect a tablet to his memory. The Hon. G. R. Nichols, an old public servant, died on the 12th Sep. last. Although traffic with the country districts is re opened and considerable supplies have gone up, our market has shown litile animation since the de parture of the last mail. Excessive rates continue to rule for Eastern produce, and this has no doubt contributed to restrict transactions on the part of the dealers, who only buy for thair immediate re quirements. , In the money market a certain degree of tight ness prevails and in the face of the large demand for accommodation, arising partly from the extreme rates at which Eastern produce is maintained, and the demands of the dealers—whose clients have in curred losses and require extended credit, owing to the floods—it is not improbable that an advance in the rates of discolint will take place ere the close of the year, though thi3 will depend greatly on the state of the money market at home, and the result of the wool sales. Exchange on London remains at 2 per cent. premium for 60 days Bank bills. The Centurion, Electra, and Maid of Judah have sailed since the 10th September ; they convey 3,021 bales of wool, 971 casks of tallow, and 17,099 hides. The shipments of gold from Ist of January amount to 39,249 oz., and 482,637 sovP. This does got include the shipments per Simla, this month. Great dissatisfaction is felt at the proposal of the European and Australian Company to run their large steamers from Calcutta to Suez, employing smaller ones on the Australian line to Galle. The scheme will meet with the opposition of these colonies. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, DEC. G. The Arabia has arrived, with advices from New York to the 25th ult. and the following amount of specie :—For London, 131,082 dols. ; for Liver pool, 750,664 dols. and 114,7381. ; for Havre, 120,754 dole. ; total amount, about 320,0001. sterling. The Vanderbilt, which took out the news of the suspension of the Bank Act, landed advices at Cape Race on the afternoon of the 22d ; but, owing to a break in the telegraph wires, they did not reach New York until the night of the 24th. Alluding hurriedly to the advices, the Neio York herald says :-- "The present suspension is far more than a simple bank failure ; it is the failure of the whole monetary and currency system of the empire, and will produce the widest spread and most lasting effeot. Mush of the supremacy of England's merchant princes will now pass by from them and pass into the hands of their younger rivals on this side of the Atlantic. Her merchants have not the recuperative energy possessed by our own, and, though the measure she has now adopted as a palliative for the present disaster may afford relief for a time, she must go through the struggles of a resumption of specie payments, w hi c h may produce effects as pern3aner:t thou g h l ess immediately evident, as those of the panic. For these s t rugg l es s h e has not those vast resource s tha d exist with us ill our surplus crops of cotton and other other prod uc ti ons o f our vast fields and varied clirna,ltaa e. Any specul a ti ons as to t h e effect of a recurr ence t unlimited paper i s su e i n E ng l an d u p on trade woullb e premature. It wi ll b e seen f rom our a d v ices that the im mediate effect was to cause a reaction in the decliningtch- Ilene) , of cotton and oth er s taples, as also in the public funds, Ex c h anges b e t ween Europe and may b America euter have i now become utterly d erange d, andwhat course and their e ff ec t u p on trade can only when vie learn the r esu lt of the li cen se to is b su e a kow paper nn now given to the Bank of England. The Government purpose sending for the Utah expedition, both by yd way inf ( o )f rc o em re e g n o t n s and California. It is gravely state t ter, to E of n g gland fromOrleans,Nicaragua has been by 3 4 1113 en o . in N t V e a d ik M er i , n and that he has accepted the a heavy fall of A despatch from mentionsßuffaaloPPinttnejlt snow. The canal was not y et closed. was still open ' though ice had formed. we learn that th e canal From Albany The Welland Canal was obstructed by ice. Th e s teamship Rainbow had and 75 persons l ost their by fire near Arkan sas, d. been aestroyle.ves. d O u seley bad been twice received by the e t Ab ou t 100 lives had been lost on the Mississi pp i and Ohio during bad weather. The N ew York Courier and Inquirer of the 25th says : "There are no especial changes in the money market result of The desire seems to be general to wait until the of the csmmercial revulsion in Europe is known definitively. Whatever this result may be, our financial affairs will not be materially affected; at present we are more dependent in , a commeicial than in a financial point of view upon Europe. Money is abundant, and can be obtained at 6 to 7 per cent, on unquestionable security. New enterprises are, hofrever, out of the question for the present. The banks disclunts all the good paper offered by their customers, but it will be some time before they will be willing to enter into rev eegsg meet'. The Metropolitan Bank threw out this mon, ing the notes of the Addison Bank, and Steuben County and Elmira, both of this State, We noticed some time ago the c h anges taking place in the trade of Charleston. Until this year Charleston has been a large importer of wheat and flour, but since the open ing of the Charleston and Memphis Railroad Charleston has exported wheat to a considerable amount." The Philadelphia Ledger of this morning s 'ye : " We wore informed yesterday that letters have been received from Mr. Alibone, in which he expresses a de termination to return immediately home to meet the serious accusations against him as President of the Bank of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia, Board of Trade last evening had under discussion a proposition com mending to the consideration of the Legislature the l prejact of a single department of issue. to which shall belong exclusive'y the privilege of issuing note entire Sate, upon the deposit of pLdged s b ecuri s tiesa ( d . specie in proportion. Tne, department to d e t prohibit: . l from issuing notes under 20 at tls et . r unlimited liability, and E t U 1 tB3 Stockholders the hol :T r :II trans action s o c r u i b t a a p -d u a b y l , ish b e a d t . with a and condition of the dtepwaratstnea " The stock marke extended to the second board, with a less which was also decided down vvar .l tendency in prices at the first board, n c t tiv to e active market. The sales are not so large as for the past two weeks, but show more uniformity in the sales of the different stocks. State stock sold without much depre ciation. The latest quotations are ;—NewlYork Sixes, 1873, 1101 ; Missouri Sixes, 781 ; New York Central shares, 791 ; New York and Erie shares, 168 ; Reading Rea seed shares, 521 ; Michigan Southern shares, 20.1. Cleveland and Toledo shares, 43.} ; Panama Railroad shares, 89 ; Illinois Central share, 95,E ; Illinois Central Bonds, 87 ; Chicago and Rock Islaud shares, 811; Mil' waukie and Missouri, 32 Galena and Chicago, 84 ;, Crosse, 12k ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 16. The rates for foreign exchanges are very variable and arbi trary, there are few transactions in sterling over 108 ; the - doubt prevailing as to the reliability of bills on Europe induces many to postpone remittances until affairs are more settled. The quotations are 1071 to 109 a for 60 days, aad 1.102 to 18 for sight." A circular says— " Money on call loans with stock collaterals is abun- dant with 5 to 7 per cent. discount, 10 to 12 per cent. for first class paper, for which the supply is limited ; for other descriptions there is little or no demand." The same circular says,— " In the stock-market during the last few days there has been some decrease in the amount of business, and the present quotations show in many cases the decline from the highest points of the fortnight. " The market at the close is rather weak, in cease' quence of the expected shipment of a large amount of specie by this steamer. As yet the improvement has been c infined almost exclusively to the stock-marke t, other branches of business continuing in a very i n active and depressed state. " The bank statement for the week shows a gain of $3,760,000 of specie, and an increase of $4,3 00 , 000 in deposits, while the loans were extended $136,0 00 o ver. the previous exhibit. Messrs. Dennistoun, Wood, and Co. had made arrangements with Mr. Jahn Stone for the benefit of the creditors." The New York Times says,— " The money-market is quiet and easy both at bank and on the Street. Since the last English news there is less disposition to move for a general full resumption of specie payments at the bank until after the money troubles abroad shall have seen the worst." Tho accounts from Europe had completely un settled the cotton-market, and prices were nominal; the nearest quotations were 11 to 111 cents. for middling upland. Flour had declined about 10c., owing to the European advices, closing dull in the face of the announcement of the close of canal navigation of Erie west of Syracuse and the total suspension of navigation on the Welland Canal. The demand both for export and for home use was moderate, and the receipts, though light, were fully equal to the re quirements. The demand for wheat continued light both for home use and export, and, with unfavourable news from Great Britain, prices were 2c. to 3c. lower 01 1 the common qualities. Pork, beef, lard, bacon, rice, turp.ntinef and freights dull and lower. Tobacco firmer. SugAr and molasses steadier. LATEST TELEGRAPH FROM NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 24. We have news from Vera Cruz to November 21 and the City of M ex i co t o N ove mber 19. mg country was in a most distracted condition , and another general revolution was impending; and negotiations were pending between the revolu tionists and Santa Anna, wh om undoubtedly they intended for Pre-ident. By the steamer bringi.ng this news 23 political exiles have arrived here, in eluding ex-President Silas Jose Washington, Col. Romero, and Mr. Moran, editor -of a n ewspaper , who was imprisoned for publications against the Governor of Zacatecas. Comonfort's fall was considered certain, end was thought doubtful if his life would be s pared 11 . he remained iu the country. Sales Our cotton-market to-day was irre g ular. 8,500 bales, mostly at 11-ic. for middling receipts yesterday, 21,000 bale'. Ster;ing exchange, 103 to 104. Flourt dull. Sugar quiet at 4ie. to sc. RUS SIA. A St. Petersburg letter of the 25th ult., in the Constitutionnel, says :—" Prince Gortschakoff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has within the last few days had several conferences with Lord Wodehouse and the Austrian Charge d'Affaires. The Cabinets of London and Vienna have made fresh representa tions against the olosing of a certain number of ports in the Black Sea, and it is on that question that these conferences have been held. Prince Gortscha koff has recently sent fresh instructions to the Russian representatives at the courts of the powers who signed the Treaty of Paris—instructions which are drawn up in the most conciliatory terms, and which, it is hoped, will be of a nature to satisfy those powers." We have already spoken of the reforms which the Emperor Alexander decided on introducing into the Russian army. The St. Petersburg jour nals affirm that the project has been carried out, and there has been a reduction of 3,000 officers and 200,000 men. Iu order to appreciate the real bearing of this measure, it must be remembered that Russia bas two kinds of army—her real effec tive force, and the nominal one, which is to be found on paper only. It is in this atter that has taken place the reduction of which the Russian journals speak. The result of the modification will be the suppression of a certain number of sinecures and a corresponding economy in the war budget. SWEDEN. r The Faedrelandet of Copenhagen announces that the Swedish Government has granted to MM. Westenho'z the concession of a submarine tele graph between the eastern coast and Russia. The Flijvepost of the same city says that the Minister of the Interior has caused a bill to be drawn np for the introduction of a uniform system of weights and measures into all parts of the monarchy. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Ist contain no poli tical news of interest. Distribution of broad, meat, and wine had been made on the occasion of the birth of the Prince of the Asturias to the garrisons of Madrid and the neighbouring places. Her Ma jesty and the Prince were as well as could be wished. The Queen has commuted the sentences of death on five criminals. The effective force of the Spanish army was stated to be 90,071 men. THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS.—NAPLES, Dec. 4. The prisoners at Salerno continue to be well treated. Orders have been given to proceed with the trials immediately, the necessary legal papers having ar rived from Genoa. A Weimar journal mentions a report that the Hereditary Prince of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt has been wounded in a duel at Gottingen." " Miss Nightingale," says a Vienna letter in the _Hamburg News, " has been here for some time, and is treated with great distinction. She fre quently visits the hospitals." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Alhambra, Captain J. K. Joy, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, at 11.30 a.m., with the Peninsular mails, in charge of Lieutenant Tickell, R.N., Admiralty agent. She left Gibraltar Nov. 25th, Cadiz 26th, Lisbon 30th, and Vigo Dec. 2d. Outwards between Lisbon and Gibraltar the Al hambra bad strong south-west winds: On the homeward voyage she was detained at Lisbon 30 hours by a heavy gale from the south-west, it being impossible to cross the bar. Across the Bay of Biscay she also encountered strong south-west gales. This steamer brought ten passengers, and on freight 21 packages of specie, value 10,2501 . ster ling, 19 boxes of cartoons, 692 half-boxes of oranges, 1,188 boxes of raisins, 55 barrels of aniseed, 32 1 boxes &eggs, 9 casks of wine, 6 boxes of dates, 4 boxes of potatoes, 3 jars of preserves, 336 boxes of almonds, 2 boxes of apples, and 18 packages of general merchandise. At Gibraltar on the 25th ult. her Majesty's ship Curlew. Her Majesty's steam troopship Urgent, Captain M‘Donatd, with detachments of troops from Portsmouth, five days out, arrived on the 19th, and on the following morning 186 landed for the Garrison. The Bishop of Gibraltar and his family embarked on board the Urgent on the after noon of the 21st, but the vessel was detained by a strong easterly gale till noon on the 22d, when she left for Malta and Corfu, with 358 troops for those places. On her return the Urgent was to bring home invalids, again touching at Gibraltar on her way to Portsmouth. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, arrived in the bay on the morning of the 23d, in five days 18 hours from Plymouth, with troops for Alexandria, en route to India. The British steamers Calpe and Araxes arrived at Gibraltar on the 21st, Andes on the 24th, and Arno on the 25th, all from Liverpool, with cargoes respectively for the Mediterran ean or Adriatic ports. The Prussian frigate Thetis was at Cadiz. At Vigo was her Majesty's s hi p Triton, p ut in from stress of weather ; she tried to get into Oporto, bUt the sea was too great on the bar. On the 2d lush. the Alhambra passed the English screw steamer Vigo, running into Vigo Bay. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—Priace Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, landed in the docks this day from her Majesty's yacht Elfin, Master Commander &Weston from his residence, Anglesea (near G-usport h for the purpose of visiting the Ordnance-office and works of thi s place. His royal highness, who appeared ix excellent health, was received by Mr. Hedger and Mr. Levy. The royal horses, carriages, plate, linen, &c., in charge of the principal servants cf her Majesty's househ o ld, were shipped from the docks this day and co nveye d to Osborne, to which residence the Queen and Co n i t w ill remove on Monday. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Great Britain at the last court of communication, held on the 2d init., voted a sum of 1,0001. towards the indiao Fund. CANTERBURY HALL. Mr. Morton, the ever-active proprietor of this popular plice of amusement, is, we hear, making extensive pre' parations for the purpose of giving his friends a treat at the fast approaching festive season of Christmas. In addition to this, he has for some weeks been busying himself to provide an entertainment specially for his provincial friends, who annnally on the occasiou of the Cattle Show visit the great metropolis. The pro. gramme for the present week is one of the most varied description possible ; it embraces selections from the mo,t eminent composers, and to give th e entertainment, the most humourous a relish to songs of Sam Collins, and the irresistibly comic MackneY, have been added thereto, so an evening's amusement of no common order is insured. For the last few nights several new compositions have been sung with great success; and we must say that we have nothing but the Very highest praise to bestow upon all the performers. If, however, we might select from such excellencies one effort for special eulogy, it would be the singing of Hatton's last new song " Delhi," by Herr Jonghmang , which in truth reaches the utmost limits of musical ex. pression, and occasions such enthusiastic encores as seldom fall to the lot of a public vocalist to be honoured with, The attendance each succeeding evening is extraordinary, and it is exceedingly gratifying to find that Mr. Morton is reaping the golden harvest sown by liberality, energy, and perseverance. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. READING STEEPL Weights for the Berkshire mi. Age st lb Escape a 12 0 The Forest Queen a 11 6 The Minor a 11 1 Lilford a 10 9 Th eo di n e a 10 7 Old Dog Tray a 10 6 Humboldt 6 10 5 Evington Lass a 10 2 Maid of the Glen a 10 0 Teddesley 59 1 1 2 3 ACobmd.ee Kader a 9 Comet Al thorp 6 9 12 AEC BASES, DSO. 29. Open Steeplechase. Three Age it lb The Archer ilindley a 9 11 Westo a Black Be a Nicholas - ~a 9 10 .6 9 10 Frank Miss Dobler Dayton (late First of May) 5 9 7 The Don a 9 7 Tease(latePeacock)a 9 5 St. Julian Hymely --- FEIST'S RACING RECORD —The last number and th• yearly volume of this admirable little work have just been published. In addition to the record of the racing season in England, Inland, and Scotland, it contains much important information not only of value to the genuine racing man, but of interest to all persons who tyke a delight in horse-racing. Unlike other books of its kind, it also includes steeplechasing—and, indeed, Mr. Feist has furnished the racing public with a standard authority on all turf matters. How DO THEY MAKE IT OUT ?—The Sunday Times, weekly newspaper, whose ingenious labours in the hope less attempt to render sporting matters .amusing are beyond all praise, had last week an article headed, "How do they make it out I" endeavouring to prove the law as to betting either stupid or incomprehensible. It seems that in a lite action, the plaintiff sought to re c 'vet a sum of money which he had lent to defendant, a betting man, to pay a wager lost upon a race. Defen dant appears to have the orthodox betting conscience, and while scrupulous in paying the money he had lost, repudiated the repayment of the sum borrowed for the purpose of a friend, and pleaded that it was lent hire, defendant, for an illegal purpose. Lord Campbell said that the law did not forbid bets, although it did not enforce them, and no penalty was incurred by parties entering into them. The Sunday Times, recalling the memory of certain recent convic. tions, asks, " If the law does not forbid bets, how is it that the police do l" The answer is easy, and the reason slew-. The law forbids offices to be established, and public-houses or thoroughfares to be used for the pur. pose, a practice injurious alike to public policy, conve nience, and. honesty. A man may' make, bets as he may play at whi s t, w ith a f r i en d pr i vate l y; but the eotablishment of a public whisk office, or an assemblage of . lazy sharpers s h u ffling cards in the streets, and inviting shop-boy s , c l er k s , an d. s t ray rust i cs t o " cut in" and be swindled, wou ld b e ne i t h er more nor less obj r:ctiorable and illegal than the extinguished betting houses, or the assemblage in our streets of the repel- sive blacklegs, who vainly s e e k to e vade the law as it at present stands.—lllustrated Times. MESSRS. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO.—Mr. B. D. Chapman bas addressed the following letter to the editor of the gaily Ncws :—Sir,—la justice to myself, I hope you will allow me to contradict, through your colum ns, the assertion made by Mr. Henley in his speech in t he }louse of Commons on Friday night, that I stated in my evidence that the firm to which I belong would not touch any re-discounted paper. I never did say so, nor does it appear in my evidence; but in answer to ques tion No. 5,127 I stated that we should not knowingly take any bill that was intended to be re-drawn (i.e., renewed), which I need not say is a totally different thing. THE GREAT GLOBE.—Mr. Wyld has just made some additions to his exhibition by the introduction of some views of the cities of Lucknow and Delhi, which will be viewed with great interest on account of the recent events which have occurred in those places, enabling the visitor to form some conception of the difficulties and dangers encountered by our countrymen in their Capture. &sides a general view of Lucknow, the vast and hand. some proportions of the palace of the Kings of Oude, the British Residency, the residences of the Europeans, and the street throu g h w hi c h G enera l H ave l oc k marched to relieve our countrymen, &c., are exhibited. There are ;hree views of Delhi, showing all the principal parts of this extensive city, with its marble palace, its mosques, magazine, &o. The diorama is accompanied by all interesting descriptive lecture.