The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVKNIM,G, JANUARY 9, 1857. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.—' FIpHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. 1 THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. with the drama of Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. THE JACOBITE. ti Engagement of Mr. Leigh Murray. John Duck, Mr. Buckstone. Thirteenth Night of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the , After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled most magnificent ever produced on the English stage, THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform Uncle. The scenery of the opening story pai n t ed b y Mr. W. THE LADIES' BATTLE. Callcott. The music composed and arrangedby Edward Fitz. wam. The pantomime produced under the direction of /her which will be produced an entirely new and original T Milano. Harlenuin M Milano • Columbine, Fanny symbolical, hyperbolical, parabolical, and extra-physiog- 3- * - • , • , Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay;and Clown, Mr. Driver. nom ical grotesque, statuesque, and picturesque Grand Comic To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. Christmas Pantomime, which for some time past has employed the unrivalled resources of this extensive establishment, and A Morning performance of the Pantomime will be given which will be called or entitled, as it is entitled to be called, e very Thursday throughout the holidays ; commencing at 2, SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; concluding at 4. Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The scenery entirely new, painted by and under the direc tion of Mr. William Beverley and numerous assistants. The machinery by J. Tucker and assistants. The properties, de corations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, &c. The masks , models, and physiog nomical devices designed and executed P by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The overture and music composed and arranged by Herr Anschuez. The choregraphic arrangements under the personal supervision of M. Petit. The comic scenes con structed by and under the direction of Harry Boleno. The peculiar grotesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard, author of " Harlequin and the Seven Ages of Man," " Jack and Jill," " Humming Top," " Hudibras," dtc., and the whole arranged and produced under the direction of Mr. Robert Roxby. Ye ancients and truthful legend on ye which ye pantomime Its story is founded :- pp s ee, saw , Margery Daw, Sold her bed, and laid upon straw." MSS. of Nursery Rhymes in British Museum. R3gion of Reverses, in the Island of Ups and Downs. " Yea, the Great Globe itself." " Here we go up, up, up, " Here we go down, down, down ; " Here we go backwards and forwards, " And here we go round and round." Juvenile Chorus of the earliest period, supposed to belong to the One. Up, Mr. Topham ; Down, Mr. Low ; Opera box, Kid Glove, Tiger and Brougham, and Porte-monnaie (attendants upon Up), Signor Lorgnette. Herr Tightfitt, Master Sancebox, and Monsieur Chinque ; Hard Up, Dupli cate, Distraint, and Rags (attendants upon Down), Mr. Friz hard, Mr. Popall, Mr. Quodham, and Mr. Patchwell. An nual appearance of Holyday in her Emblematic Car. Holyday (the Genius of the Season), Miss Marian Stanley ; Sport and Pastime (her attendants), Misses Lovelaugh and Lightheart ; Dame Necessity (who is on this occasion made a virtue of by particular desire), Mrs. Selby. How Invention, the Daughter of Necessity, is called upon to assist the development of the story, while Holyday invites both Up and Down to enjoy themselves. Holyday's Home in the Green Bower of Mistletoe and Winter Garden of the Fairies.-Mistletoe (the Fairy Queen), Miss E. Wadham ; Fairy Spirits of the Kisses that have bees given under the Mistletoe, by upwards of 100 Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Grand Ballet -Miss Rosina Wright, Mdlles. J. and E. Osmont, and the Co ryphees. The Golden Gates leading to the Palace of Huggamugga.-Herald (with a Proclamation), Mr. Hornogold ; Guards, Messrs. Stiffneck, Headsup, Eyesright, Sheulderarms, Stand-at-ease, and March well ; Tailor, Mr. Broadcloth ; Cobbler, Mr. Waxend ; Black smith, Mr. Anvil ; the Princess Margery Daw (afterwards Columbine), Madame Boleno ; Shilly and Shelly (her Maids of Honour), Misses Dithery and Dothery. How Margery Daw has no no' ion of work herself, and the contempt she shows towards those who do work. Interior of the Palace of King Huggamugga. King Huggamugge. (Sovereign of the Land of Sixes and Sevens), Mr. Dawking ; Huryl-Burly (Lord Chancellor), Mr. Bigwig ; Niminy-Piminy (the Lord Cham berlain), Mr. Noodledona ; Higgledy-Piggledy (Goldstick in Waiting), Mr. Muddle; other Members of the Court, Messrs. Bow, Scrape, Cringe, Crouch, Tageag•, Merrywag, Perriwig, and Hatband ; Court Milliner, Madame Crinoline ; Drawing Master, Professor Crayon ; Governess, Miss Frump ; Music- Master, Signor Flurdigurdt ; Maid in Waiting, Miss Sweet 3mper ; Chef de Cuisine, Mr. Cook ; Prince Popinjay (of 1 P Land of Prettistory), Mr. Finefeather ; his Retinue, atessrs. Glare, Dazzle, Gleam, Glitter, and Cutashine. How the Princess is taught a wholesome lesson by Necessity, and of the change that takes place in consequence. Cottage of Necessity, with a Prospect of Hard Work in the Distance. The Enchanted Workbox-The Sampler and the Exemplar, and the pretty piece of work that Margery Daw makes of it. Inhabitants of the Workbox :-Row of Pins, Messrs. Sharp, Bent, Crooked, Pinaday, Groatayear, &c. ; Regiment of Needles (ready drilled), Messrs. Largeeye, Smalleye, Longsix, Splitup, Snapoff, &c. ; Thimble, Master Tom Thumb ; Worsted, Mr. Bawlaway ; Bodkin, Mr. Pierce ; Tape Mea sure, Mr. Inchbald; Hook and Eye, Messrs. How and Some bodyelse ; Shirt Buttons, Mr. Earlypurly ; Scissors, Mr. Shearsteel. How Margery Daw makes an important discovery and the audience also, and how, leel by Necessity, she is com pelled to alter her opinions and change her position. The Mine of Labour, leading to the Mine of Wealth.- Labour (the Parent of Health, Wealth, and Happiness). Mr. Strong'i'th'arm. What Margery Daw goes to see, what she saw, and the re ward that Holyday bestows. Grand Scenic and Mechanical Effects, exhibiting (in processor construction) the Fairy Fac tory of Fancy, completed with ta e assistance of Labour and Imagination. Brilliant Tableau. Tile Transformation :-Two Harlequins, Herr Detilin and Signor Veroni; two Sprites, the Brothers Elliott ; two Pantaloor s, Mr. Barnes and Mr. G. Tanner; two Clowns, Messrs. Harry Boleno and Flexmore ; the Gent, Mr. Halford ; two Columbines, Madame Boleno and Miss Honey. The Ups and Downs of the Harlequinade, showing the Ins and Outs and Turns About of the Pantomime Rally ; - Toy Warehouse, Butcher's and Baker's Shop (Bolenos, Deulin, Tanner, and Halford).- A pink of polite ness-Clown very toyish-Getting a nutcracker, which turns ' out a nobby toy-First and last toys for gambling-Marbles versus dice-Despatches, loaded, and off they go-Harlequin takes a private box-Clown takes Chatterton's situation as boxkeeper Kite-flying-A game of Cricket, by which some of the players get bowled out, and afterwards stumped, which tarns out a long stop-The uses and abuses of the crin oline-A Jack in the box-A box of regular British toys and a basket of French bread (bricks)-Aldershott a size smaller -grand review of infantry-A military ball-Going in for a buster-Coming out with a roll-Clown make a peel t baker's feelings-List, oh, List-Squaring a round of beef- Clown takes a steak and gets a chop in return-Pantaloon tries his hand at a game and loses by it Cut and come again -Clown takes a butcher's shop, which Harlequin makes too het to hold him. Tailor's Shop and Perfumery Warehouse (Ve. roni, Barnes, and Honey). A gentleman in search of a tailor- A suit that is quite the ticket-The Conde wrapper-Railway wrappers-Transfer depot--Washing machine--extraordinary- Something that won't wash--Cleaned out-Scent in and sent out- Foreign versus English toothpowder -Hungary water-A Frangipani bouquet-Wonderful effects of the Pistachio nut powder-A case of real distress-Pantaloon in a fix-Fur nished Apartments for Single Men (Bolenos, Dentin, and Tanner).-Clown and Pantaloon in high life-A domestic re volution-Turning the tables-To bed, to bed-A drop too much Clown nowbegins to reflect -The looking-glass follows his example-Two heads better than one-Clown takes a turn on the sofa, which also takes a turn on its own account- Multiplication altercation, which ends with a regular row in the house. Jtakin's Gas-regulating Machine and General Patent Office and Stationer's Shop (Veroni, Barnes, and Honey.)-Clown, being iu Fleet-street, goes the pace rather fast-The language of the eyes (Malian of course) which everybody understands-Bath post versus London post-Re gulators Wanted ; railway regulators, army regulators, gas regulators, smoke regulators-Sewing, cutting, washing, pressing, and ironing done by a turn-Clown makes a shift which makes, Pantaloon a little shirty-A box of common scents-A fresh supply of blacks from America-A Drcd-ful scene ensues. Mechi's Model Farm (Bolenos, Deulin, and Tanner )-Harvest-home -A rakish dance by rustic lads and lasses-The milky way-Harlequin makes a pump of himself -A strong smell of game-A farm-yard visitor-Clown finds the pig a very great bore-Pantaloon finds the dog gets greatly attached to him -Prize Poultry-Cochin China and couch in England -Novel hatching-The old mail-Full in- side-Clown off by the Express and Pantaloon by the Rocket- Mappin's Cutlery and Shilling Razor Warehouse, King William-street, City (the whole of the double company will appear in this scene.)-Pantaloon proposes to take a bus-Present and future-Weight of public opinion -A change for the better-The people's own bus-When fool meets fool then comes the tug of fun-Collision, crash, smash, and dash-Garotte preventive-Moustache move ment-A pair of sharp blades-Clowns prove themselves a cane for cutlery-Holloway stopped by Holloway's oint ment-The duel -A cut direct - Forewarned, forearmed- Public nuisances of 1856-Oh, my Crinoline-A high wind, a regular blow up, and glorious termination to Ups and Downs in Holiday's Fairy Home. 110YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. Great Hit of A Night at Notting-Hill. THIS EVENING will be performed DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear, To conclude with the new and original union of modern burlesque and old English pantomime (as originated at this theatre), by Professor Wordspinner, Member of Every thing, with entirely new scenery, dresses, transformations, eic., called MOTHER SHIPTON ; or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine (a la Watteau), Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland ; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers, Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, St. Casse, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort. After which, CRINOLINE. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, 1,71 Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Splendid Equestrian Illustrations. Richard, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the choice SCENES of Equestrian Skill in the ARENA. To conclude with the irresistibly funny equestrian comic pantomime, called PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK ; or, Harlequin and the Magic Horseshoe, in which Mr. W. Cooke will drive Eight Golden-footed Steeds attached to the re splendent Chariot of Gold. Doors open at half-past six ; commence at a quarter be fore seven o'clock. Fox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock. CA.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Rsiuo. T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben nett, and Corri ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano forte, J. Harroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec tions. 31G.9. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ram Der—Morn. 38 min. aft.l2—Evening 7 min. aft. 1 OF ROW—Morn.E36 min. aft. I—Evening 1 min. aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46 —highest sinee noon yesterday. 45 —lowest this morning And during the night. 48 —this day st noon. BAROMETER, 30• S—falling fast. WIND, S.W.—Light, with dull weather and slight rain in the morning. 1 • r ; t: ? L ).\ 110 N, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1857. There is no one better qualified to escape from a false position than Lours NAPOLEON. Unlike some of his contemporary Sovereigns he has suffi cient intelligence to perceive the nature of the error into which he may have been betrayed, and wisdom to amend his policy, while there is yet time to avert serious consequences ; and having once made up his mind, he suffers no lingering motives of personal vanity to interfere with the course which he believes to be most prudent. Thus, having permitted himself—or his represen tatives—to be bamboozled by Russia, on the boundary question, he backed out in good time, and the 'vexed question has, at least for the present, been arranged. Again, he not only received patiently a gentle snubbing from the Financial Minister, but he permitted, or rather directed, its publication in the official columns of the hlfoniteur. The community therefore felt disposed to pardon mistakes so grace fully atoned for. We earnestly hope that ho may yet, a third time, pursue the path of penitence, and remove the feelings that have been excited throughout Europe by the uncalled-for attack on the Swiss Confederation. There can be no doubt that the petulant and ill-advised article which appeared in the official organ some three weeks since was the most griev ous blunder into which he has been betrayed. It was alike discreditable to his heal! and to his heart. To his head, because he ought to have known that the people of France would have felt justly indignant at a new Prussian alliance, formed for the purpose of crushing the independence of a free and magnanimous nation—to his heart, be cause ho was bound to Switzerland by no ordinary ties. He owed, indeed, a deep debt of gratitude to those who, some eighteen years before, had refused to surrender to the then Sovereign of France a fugitive who sought shelter and protec tion at their hands. With chivalrous hospitality they braved the wrath of Louis PHILIPP/I rather than abandon the cause of the helpless stranger. For that they received the cordial thanks—" the exalted esteem and distinguished sentiments"---of their protegee. Men had °hanged since 1838—not political situations. But because the Swiss pur sued the same course as that which, in September of the former year, had. been the noble conduct of the cantons who declared so courageously in favour of Louis NAPOLEON, was considered by the same individual in 1856 as " a lamentable obstinacy, an exaggerated susceptibility, and a complete in difference to French counsels !" The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the h.nse to suit every one :—Galleries, fid. and is ; Second Circle of Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d., ls., 1/. lls. 6d., and 2/. 2s. A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING will be produced an entirely new and original combination of burlesque and pantomime, entitled CONRAD AND MEDORA; or, Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the Sea. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, Esq., founded upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her Majesty's Theatre. The harlequinade upon things in gene ral. The now and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F Fenton. Characters in the opening : Conrad (the Corsair) ... Birbarto (his lieutenant) Seyd e Pasha sing &nava Tnesiff Med era Gulnar Zuliem Miss Woolgar .Mr. J. L. Toole .Mr. Barrett .Mr. Holston Mr. S, Calhaem Mrs. Charles omen ,Mrs. B. White Mrs. Melville . Miss Jessie Ryder .Miss Marie Wilton Mc. Tom Matthews and Mr. H. Marshall Mr. Stilt ,T. Marshall The Brothers Nelson. Miss Clara Morgan and Miss Ladd. To be preceded by WILLIAM TELL, Mr, C. Dillon. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super. i2bendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Bubmarina Serena Clowns Pantaloon . Harlequin Sprites Columbines It was, in truth, mortified ♦anity that led to the grave mistake which materially complicated existingdifficulties. FREDERICK • WILLIAM had exhi bited "a courteous deference" to France, in claiming her good offices. Switzerland was not prepared to surrender her highly-prized, albeit it may have appeared to the quondam fugitive, when viewed through Imperial spectacles, "a trifling sacrifice." She felt that adequate guarantees were indispens able before she abandoned her claim to national sovereignty. FRE.DER.ICK WILLIAM claimed an empty title. She was quite willing that he should retain it ! But when under its cover it was at tempted to justify rebellion against the existing de facto and de jure Government it became quite a different thing ; and it became essential to define clearly and accurately a precise limit to his pretensions. She sought not to confiscate his Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set 41f)wn at the State entrance in Burleigh-street A Morning Performance every Saturday, at 2 o'clock, private property or that of his adherents, but no one should be more ready to recognise the dis tinction between what is essentially private and of a quasi public nature than Louts NAPOLEON, who went much further with respect to the pos- seis6ions of the ex-Royal family of France than. the STRAND THEATRE.—Manager, Mr. T. Payne.—This Evening will be performed THE JEW'S DAUGHTER. After which, THE INTRIGUE. To conclude with the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Humbu g and the Shams of London. The Fairy Chri . tmas , Wii B S B. Wilton ; Good Humour, Miss Norhury; Mercury, Miss Cameron ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert ; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; Baron, Mr j. 11, Johnstone • Sir Boland, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Loyd., Miss Craven ; Addel'pAte, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edouin ; Lally Agnes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, Mr. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. .1. Howard. Novel Harle • quinade :—Clown, MiSElCuthbert ; Little Clown, Master W Edouin ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven; Columbines, Miss E. .carobs and Mlle. Cellison ; Premier Danseuse, Mdle. Marie Charles. New and magnificent Scenery, &c. New Curtain. New Act Drop. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, (Id. A morning performanee of the Pantomime every Monday at two o'clock. IDOYAL SURREY THEATRE. L egsee q, Messrs, Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, THE LIFE CHASE. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr. F. Mover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; tine Four Sprites, the Fillis wily ; Columbines, Mesdames Marie and Aeries. Federal authorities are disposed to do in regard to those of FREDERICK WILLIAM. There is reason to hope that now, albeit at the e7eventh hour, France and England may, by %rated action, avert the threatened hostilities. CLloQuor" has manifestly " missed his tip." Although Louis NAPOLEON' was for a time misled by what a member of the English Ministry has designated as " soft sawder, you know," h• will still retrieve his error. The people of France, who can appreciate a generous opponent, whose reconciliation with England has been baptised in blood the blood of the best and bravest of both nations, shed on the Alma, at Balaklava, at Inkerman, at Tchernaya, at the Malakhoff, and at the Redan—are now our cordial, and, we earnestly hope, our permanent friends. But, to use a homely but expressive phrase, they cannot yet "cotton" to the Prussians. They cannot forget the sanguinary and insulting disposition formerly manifested by the Prus sian troops, on many occasions, whenever they had the opportunity of displaying their evil pas sions, or wreaking their vengeance. And it would be a bitter day, indeed, when they beheld Prussia, encouraged by France, proceed to extremities in an unrighteous cause. It would be the heaviest blow that could be aimed against the permanency of the Imperial Dynasty. There is yet time for an amicable solution of the important problem, although FREDERICK WIL LIAR threatens to decide the mobilisation of the Prussian army ere another week has passed away. The fact is that he is, perhaps of all others, the most disturbed at the semblance of the phantom he has himself created. Like To Taumn, he has " made the giants," but, unlike that redoubted champion, he finds himself unable " to kill them." He was encouraged by the unfortunate article in the Moniteur, and therefore, a la Ancient PISTOL, " uttered prave ords at the Pridge"—words which he would gladly swallow even with " leek " sauce. He finds that even in Germany his de mands and menaces are " laughed to scorn," that his friends and neighbours are not prepared " to march through Coventry" in his company. In Wurtemburg the Deputies had protested against the passage of his troops. Similar demonstrations have taken place in Stuttgardt—while the greatest discontent has been manifested in Upper Bavaria, amongst all, in fact, who may be compromised by the presence or passage of Prussian troops. We hope and believe then that the oloud in the political horizon will pass innocuously, If not, we are convinced that it will not be ag• gravated by France or England arraying them selves under the Prussian banner ; and even if the worst should come, Switzerland would only demand a " clear stage and no favour" to protect her rights against all that Prussia could accom plish. What are we to do with our convicts I The question is one of great gravity, and cannot much longer be trifled with. It is also a question of much difficulty, and one respecting which there is a considerable difference of opinion. Some go so far as to lead us to infer they would entertain no great objection if the gallows were again re sorted to as a universal panacea. Others would have the criminal imprisoned, in some way, for life. A more reasonable opinion is held by those who would have penal settlements at home, and would employ the convicts on public works. Transportation meets with most favour. A diffe rence of opinion, however, exists even with regard ' to it. Some appear to think confinement in a penal settlement a long way off is all that is re quired. Once ship and disembark your convicts, and all that is loft to be done is to provide them L with the necessaries of life, and adopt such measures ' as are required to prevent their escape. Others who have considered the subject more deeply are more exigent in their requirements. They would have transportation, but transportation conducted on principles of humanity and economy, and made to subserve the future interests of the Empire. With the latter we are best disposed to agree. At the present moment the public are to a large extent under the influence of panic. There is more than a reasonable dread of liberated con victs. Danger there certainly is, but not so much as to warrant the apprehensions which are enter tained—not so much as to justify the headlong way in which so many would have the criminal population dealt with. After all, there is such a thing as duty. After all, there are reclaimable offenders. GOD'S laws and human instincts are not to be dissipated with a breath. Panio fear is no excuse fer injustice any more than intoxication is for crime. In every contingency our obligation is to do our duty to I others as well as ourselves, and it should never be forgotten that, as if by an eternal law of Pito- TIDENCE, the discharge of both duties invariably turns out in the long ma the wisest course. What is it that is wanted ? Protection for the public ? By all means let it be supplied. The public are entitled to it. Honest men and good citizens have a right to be protected against knaves. But honest men and good citizens in the search of means for such protection have no right to overlook the obligations they are under in either capacity. As honest men they are bound to show as much consideration for the criminal who may have some good in him as is compat• ible with the attainment of the legitimate objet they have in view. As good citizens they are under obligation to consider the interests of the State and of those who come after them. Of all who have expressed an opinion on the sub. ject, those who recommend transportation to Hudson's Bay or Western Australia seem to us— if not best to have perceived---.best to have re conciled these apparently conflicting duties. Day by day it becomes m•re evident England is no place for the repentant and liberated con vict ; society, it appears, cannot afford to take his newly-acquired honesty on trust. It is alarmed by the misdeeds of members of his class, and its prejudice otherwise seems inveterate. If we are to keep our convicts at home, to all appearance it must ho as prisoners. To us such a procedure seems to involve a frightful expenditure, and to bo incompatible with justice. There are various classes of offenders, and this would be treating all alike. We should thereby shut out hope—that most important means of amelioration. Even the employment of our convicts on useful public works could not reconcile ae to this. We don't know there would be much more, if so much, cruelty in hanging them. To transport them to some solitary island, and employ them there in hopeless labour, would rid us of them, to be sure, but is hardly worthy of more approval. The old system of transportation, with such amelioratiwis as have been found desirable, seems to be the last and best resource. The difficulty is to find a place. To our thinking such a place is to be found at Hudson's Bay. It is little populated, capable of immense improvements, which would ultimately pay, and is already regarded with long ing eyes by the Canadian settler. A penal settle ment once established would 30011 find every material for successful working. Employment for labour, and. that of a useful description, would be found at once ; and before any long period had elapsed ettlers, to whom ticket-of-leave convicts, in all probability, would be acceptable as a boon. The territory, too, is immense, and if we did not, as we ought, open it upon the condition that it must continue a penal settlement, many years must elapse before the demand for convict labour would cease. The climate, though cold, offers, we think, no insurmountable objection, since appro priate labour might be found during the more in clement seasons. Western Australia, at all events, is open to us, and is certainly deserving of consideration. Let our convicts but undergo a disciplinary training before they are sent out, and have a prospect of well doing set before them on landing, contingent on their good behaviour, and either of these colonies may be the means of freeing our island from an ineubus under which it groans. Who among our conspicuous statesmen will take in hand the Anti-Income-Tax Agitation ? Whoever does—will have a chance of coming into power, over the heads of the people, almost in stanter. That of all others would be the cry to go to the country upon, at thelnext dissolution of Parliament. Here, consequently, is what Mr. PECKSNIPP blandly held out over the bannisters as—an available opportunity ! Will no one, we ask, among our more prominent Chiefs of Party, take it in hand I this Lever of Office ! As Sir JOIN PAKINGTON has snatched up the Elucational Questiotl—dropped almost in despair by my Lord JOHN RUSSELL ! As Mr. HENRY BERKELEY has held on, with un failing pertinacity, to the Question of the Ballot ! As Lord STANLEY promises to monopolise the con duot of the grand scheme involved in the project of our Juvenile Reformatories I As Mr. ROEBIICK has latterly consented to preside over the long-dubious destinies of the Administrative Reform Association ! Will nobody of note among our Administrators will no man of mark in the British House of Com mons, take the Bull --d--JOHN Bunn, by the horns the horns of the present Dilemma I And at once by undertaking to mitigate, or, better still, altogether to abolish, the most oppressive of all the taxes under which the community at large is now groaning, at once secure to himself an over-mastering and irresistible popularity. It is a temptation this obvious and even glaring opportunity ! Mr. GLADSTONE has committed himself rather too flagrantly, we fear, to the more than doubling of this most obnoxious impost dur ing his unfortunate domination over the financial departmnet of the Government, in his official capacity as her MAJESTY'S Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Mr. DISRAELI, not thus pledged to the maintenance of the doubled, or even of the undoubled (!), Income Tax, might seize this favourable opportunity if he would—in which event, we warrant him, ho would find it a more reliable orutch to lean upon, than any old broken reed of Anti-Popery Agitation. Setting aside, however, all conjectures as to the precise individual--Who, we may ask again, is the Com ing Man I Who shall energetically and reso lutely take in hand the conduct of this rising, growing, strengthening Anti-Income-Tax Move ment I The opportunity is tempting. Who will bid for it 1 As the Auctioneer says--Going 1 Going ! TEE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. On Wednesday evening Mr. Darby, the noted, Vauxhall Pyrotechnist, celebrated in a very bril liant and graceful manner the close of his share in the varied series of entertainments recently pro vided by the enterprise of Mr. Pepper, at once for the instruction and delight of the public, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution. The crowning display alluded to was literally " a bouquet" ac cording to the technical phrase usually applied to the last outburst in any elaborated display of fire works. It was, in point of fact, a superb cluster of lilies and roses, entitled by the courtly pyrotech nist, THB BRITISH BOUQUET—the blossoms opening each in turn, and revealing within them the features of the eight roya l c hild ren, grouped round the effigies of her Majesty and the Prince Consort. The Prince of Wales, with the Princes Alfred, Arthur, and Le o p o ld 1 Th e P r i ncess Royal with the Princesses Alice, Helena, an d L ou i sa ! The British Bouquet in idea was most ingenious, and in effect exquisitely beautiful. It bloomed upon the audience amidst very general expressions of admiration. It was, in every •resp ec t, M r . Darby's crowning triumph at the Polytechnic, and will long be remembered by those who saw it as a success constituting him in a manner—a Vauxhall Winterhalter ! WYLD'S MAP OF PERSIA. The Royal Geographer, Mr. James Wyld, of the Great Globe, has just issued simultaneously from hi s Ci ty and West-end Establishments, from Charing-cross and the Royal Exchange, another of those astonishingly prompt "Maps"—the publica tion o f w hi c h, from time to time, has served so mate rially to enhance his geographic reputation. The Map given to the public in the present instance is one coming as " pat" as ever to the point most conspicuously under public consideration. It is a comprehensive sheet, embracing within its circum ference not merely the Persian G u lf an d th e w h o l e Persian Empire, but, togeth er w i t h t h ese, all the adjacent countries—Russia, India, Egypt, Nubia, Thibet, Caubul, Mekran, Oman, Arabia, and Asiatic Turkey. It comprises not mere l y t h e w h ole of the great Persian Gulf from Shatt al Arab to Ras al Had—but with it the whole of the Red Sea, from its northern extremity at Suez to its southern outlet at the Straits of Bab el Mandeb. Besides which, it includes the whole of Lake Bslkash of the Aral Sea and of the Caspian, with portions also of the remoter Euxine and Mediterranean. It shows at a glance, consequently, the important regions along the shores of the Caspian which have been the scene of the gradual encroachments of the Russian Autocracy —on the one side, as far as Astara—on the other, as far as the Tarachta. Wholesale robberies effected by Muscovite Diplo macy or, by Muscovite Conquests, alternately from Persia, from Turkey, and from Tartary I Bringing the Russians in alarming contiguity by means of the waters of the Caspian, with Astra bad, from which, by a direct line across Khoras san, a line running a little to the south of Mushid and Neshapore, the approach of a hostile force would, at any moment, be rapid and easy enough, to that covetted city of Herat, which is universally re cognised as the key to our Indian empire through Affghanistan. Nothing could be more timely alto gether than the issue at the present moment of this remarkable publication, which has thus added another to Mr. Wyld's very numerous geographical achievements, WYLb'S NEW MAP OF LONDON. A Shilling Plan of the British Metropolis divided ; into the newly organised Postal Districts is yet another timely, and therefore most acceptable, boon offered by Mr. Wyld to his fellow-Londoners. A. Shilling Plan embellished by a margin of illustra tive woodcuts—havin,, the "Postal Districts" indicated by a b road red outline, and the important initials of those districts printed in violet charac ters. So that whatever difficulties there might be in the new system are romoved at once, are com pletely removed, and that, moreover, at the cost of one single shilling. Mr. A. W. Kinglake, the author of " Eothen," and brother of Mr. Kinglake, Weston-super-Mare, is a candidate for Newport, Isle of Wight, in the room of Mr. Biggs resigned. METROPOLITAN BOARD of WORKS. —The first business of this . board at it s meet i ng to-day was to receive a communication from Henry Burslern, Esq., re-igning his seat as a member of the board. Mr.ißurslem repre sented the district of Paddington. RURAL Pot! Tuesday, Lord C ourtenay in the chair, the number and gE.—At th e D e v on Epiph an y S es A ons on pay of the new rural police for Devonshire were settled as follows :—One chief constable at a salary of 4001. annum, and 2001. for expenses ; four sup orintendents at a salary of 1501. a-year, expenses . 501., and 121. for clothing ; nine inspectors, one of them to act as clerk, at 303. per week, an d 31 . 143. per annum for boots and oil ; 23 sergeants at 233. per week, with the like allowance ; 60 first-class constables at 20s. per week, with an allowance of N. 144. for boots and oil ; 130 second class constables at 183. per week ; , and 73 third class nistables at 163. per week, with t'ae like allowance. This force of 300 rnett will give. one ronstAble to every 7,350 inhabitants., COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAL 8. The following had the honour of dining with her Ma je4y yesterday :—The Earl and Countess Granville, the Hon. Charles Gore, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, llajor-General Sir Henry Barnard, Sir James Clark, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Coldstream Guards played during dinner— Overture, " Don Quixote" Macfarren. Fantasia, " Robert le Diable" Valse, "Meta" Milsome. Glee, " The Red Cross Knight" Polka, " My Mary Ann" Her Majesty's private band afterwards atte. ded in the Castle, and performed the following compositions : Overture,t" Anacreon" Selection, " A Winter's Tale" Fackel Tunz—H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe Coburg. The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this morning. _ _ _ The Princess Royal and Princus Alias rode in th• Riding-house. The Prince of Wales went to London on Tuesday and attended Mr. Faraday's lecture at the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, and also to-day. The Earl and Countess Granville, the Hon. Charles Gore, and Major-General Sir Henry Barnard left the Castle in the forenoon. Earl Granville arrived in Londo❑ yesterday from Windsor Castle. Despatches from the Governors of the colonies on the West Coast of Africa, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl and Countess Granville arrived in London yesterday from Windsor Castle. _.. C gmCCoudenhove has arrived at the Clarendon from Paris. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Pierrepont have ar rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Evenly Hall, near Brack ley. Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick and Miss Meyrick have arrived at their house in Curzon-street, Mayfair, from their Beat in Herefordshire. Count Morny is, it is said, about to marry th• daughter of the Princess Trowbetzkoy, of St. Peters bun:. Misa Nightingale has arrived at her father's reidence near Romsey, in Hampshire. She dined with Lord and Lady Palmerston, at Broadlands, on Friday last. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have been entertaining company during the Christmas holidays, at their princely residence, Raby Castle. FUNERAL OP MR. JOHN BRITTON.—The mortal re- mains of Mr. Britton were yesterday intevred at Norwood Cemetery. Several literary gentlemen were present, in order to pay a last tribute of respect to an old and much valid friend. The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 20th inst. for the supply of 85,000 pairs of shoes. In the year ended the 31st of March last, the duty on candles and tallow amounted to 57,1771. In the pre ceding year it was 52,5451. It appears that from January to November the value of steam engines and parts sent abroad was, 754 2391. VISIT OF Mn.COBDEN TO BIRMINGHA3r.-11r. Cob den, socenepinied by Its wife and family, arrived in Birmingham on Tuesday, and became the guest of Mr. Joseph &urge. We understand that his object was partly to make himself acquainted with the efforts being made here in reference to the reformatory move ment. REPRESENTATION OF SALFORD.—We are informed that • retaisitiika from the electors of Salford is in course of prep:), aeon, soliciting Mr. E. R. Langworthy to allow him , el! to be put in nomination. REPRESENTATION OF WOLVEREAMPTON.—•The Waver. hanyton Chronicle c ntradicts the rumour that either Mr. Villiers or Mr. Thornely is about to retire from the representation of that town. GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT HIIDDERSFIELD.—A few days since a great meeting was held in Huddersfield, is opposition to the income tax. The report of the proceed logs occupies nine columns of the Huddersfield Chronicle. FUNERAL of CRIVILLL—The funeral of this celebrated and lamented maestro took place on Tuesday, at Kensal green Cemetery. The cortege consisted of a Parisian car, with rich velvet equipments, drawn by four horses, plumed, followed by three mourning coaches, containing relatives and friends. IRONHASTREs' QUARTERLY MEETING.—BIRMINGHAM, Jan. B.—The third of the meetings of the ironmasters of rhis district was held in the Town-hall here to-day. The attendance was very numerous. There was a great deal of business transactol, and the reports with reference to the state of the trade made at Wolverhampton yester day were fully confirmed. THE BATH GAOL.—An investigation into certain alleged irregularities on this establishment commenced an Monday, before the prison inspector, Mr. Perry, and the county magistrates. Reporters not having been admitted, we are unable to give an account of the pro ceedings ; and we do not feel justified in publishing the mere rumours which have reached us.—Bath Chronicle. Advices from New Zealand refer to a project for get ting the home Government to guarantee a loan of half a million sterling, to be raised in England, for the benefit of the colony. The bale-yearly meeting of the London, Brighton, aad South Coast Railway Company is called for the 29th inst. The retiring directors are Admiral Laws and Mr. William Coningham, who offer themselves for re• election. DINNER TO THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER HAM TON DIRECTORS. —The complimentary dinner propos?d to be given to the directors of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, in public recognition of the benefits derived from the completion of the line and the adoption of Worcester for their meet ings, is fixed for Thursday, the sth of February next, being the day appointed for the half-yearly meeting of shareholders. The Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington has consented to preside. INQUEST.—Last night Mr. William Baker went into an inquiry at the London Hospital on view of the body of William Lester, aged 54, who committed suicide by swallowing laudanum at his late residence in Turner street, New-road, Whitechapel. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had formerly been in a large way of business in Whitechapel, but through misfortune had lost all his property, and been reduced to poverty. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. Tins WELSH NIGIITINGALE.—This rising and success ful artiste (dies E. L. Willi sm , ) gave an evening's vocal entertainment on Weclne , day, at the London Mechanics' Institution, before a crowded audience. After the portrayal of nearly 20 different characters, in the course of which her vocal abilities as well as versatile talents ware several times encored, Miss Williams was, after the conclusion of the performance, again called forward to receive the approbation of the vast assembly. MONS JIILLIEN'S CONCFBTS.—A young English tenor named Croft has just made his first bow to the public, at M. Jullien's concerts, is Liverpool and Manchester, under the a us pi ces o f Mr. Beale. He is a pupil of Mr. Frank Mori, and has studied his profession in Italy, where he has imbibed a taste for those chat. racteristios which form the popular musical attrac ti me of the present day. His voice is said to be `• sympathetic" and powerful, whilst his general quali ficaions seem to point him out as a successful rival to Sims Reeves. A Manchester paper states that he is evidently destined to take a high position, as his consci entious method of singing is sufficient guarantee that he will make good use of the fine powers with which he is gifted. THH GREAT NORTHERN FRAIIDS.—On Wednesday evening Redpath and his colleague in crime, Kent, were removed from the House of Detention, and made inmates of Newgate, the delay of their transmission arising' from the fact that their trial was not to take place until the next week, the session of the Central Criminal Court being specially adjourned for that purpose. Both Red. path and his poor victim, Kent, appeared to be in good health and spirits. The case will not, however, be taken by Mr. Baron Martin until he has disposed of the bullion robbery, which must last two or three days. THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY.—In this case Mr. Ser geant Parry will defend Pierce ; and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Tester. The prosecution will be conducted by Mr Bodkin and other counsel. A circumstance of a very peculiar character arises out of this case. Mr. Saward, an attorney, and brother of Saward who stands charged with the great City forgeries, bas lodged an attachment by action, in the Lord Mayor's Court, upon the Turkish bonds and other property taken by the constable, Williamson, and produced by him at the Mansion House, end which will come before the Recorder on the same day the Grand Jury will have to consider the ori,lence before returning a true bill. DEATII OP SIR EDIEUXD rILMER, BART., M.P.-- This gentleman, one of the representatives of the wes tern division of the county of Kent, died yesterday at his seat, East Sutton Place, near Maidstone. For many months past ho had been in a declining state of health ; and in the early part of last spring he announced his intention of retiring from public life at the close of the present Parliament. Sir Edmund was the represen tative of an anciett Kentish family, which has held large po ussions and exercised considerable influence in the county for the last 300 years. In consequence of the death of Sir Edmund, a vacancy has been occasioned in the representation of the western division of Kent; but, as Sir Edmund some time ago announced his intention of retiring from public life at the close of the present Parliament, there are already two candidates in the field, namely, Mr. C. Wykeham Martin, of Leeds Castle, near Maidstorie, and Sir Walter B. Riddell. Mr. Martin was formerly member for Newport, Isle of Wight, and is father of the member for Rochester. Some time ago he was induced, on a requisition from a large and influential body of the Liberal electors, to issue an address as candidate for the vacancy whenever it might occur. Sir Walter Riddell was put in nomination by the Conservatives at the same time. Sir Walter, whose political opinions, as stated in his address, are similar to those of the late Sir E. Pittner, is nephew to the Earl of Romney, recorder of Maidstone, and one of the oindi dates for the now vacant office of common sergeant fee the city of London. _ _ MY;TERIOIifS DRAM, AND ROBBERY OF THE BODY, OF M. FRIDERIOK GURNEY. --Mr. Frederick Gurney, who is stated to be about 56 years of age, left home on Friday afternoon last, and no tidings had been heard of him till his body was taken out of the Regent's Canal yesterday. At the time he left home he was in his usual 4 bealth and spirit s , an d , i t is stated, had with him hi-+ valuable gold watch and two diamond rings, which h. invariably wore on his fingers. When the body was discovered it is stated that neither of these articles were found upon his person. Certain it is that both rings and watch were not with the body when searched, and the question is whether the deceased was robbed bawl', or atter death. LATEST NE WS. BERNE, TIURSDAY. The Federal Council of Switzerland, considering the new propositions which have been submitted to it by the Emperor Napoleon, and supported by the good. offices of England, to be such as are acceptable to the Swiss Confederation, has decided on convoking the Federal Assemby of Switzerland for the 14th of January, to receive those propo sitions. A letter from Berne of the 3d, in the Indepen dams of Brussels, says :—" The following is the most trustworthy version of the negotiations for the pacific solution of the question. England, we are assured, completely approves of the last propo sition made by the Emperor Napoleon, which is to this effect The Federal Council is requested to release the prisoner. , solely out of regard for the friendly sentiments of the Emperor. The Empe ror, in return, engages to endeavour to obtain from the King of Prussia the complete renuncia tion of Neuchatel. Should the King of Prussia refuse to negotiate on this base the Emperor will oppose any aggression on the part of Prussia against Switzerland, and will defend the inde pendence of Neuchatel.' " TRIESTE, JAN. 8. According to intelligence of the 2d inst., re ceived here from Constantinople, the English squadron had received instructions to hold itself in readiness to return to England on the first order to that effect. A rumour prevailed at Constantinople on the 2d inst. that the Circassians had defeated a Rus sian corps of 10,000 men, near Beyduk. The Ministers MM. Bach and Bruck have joined the Emperor of Austria at Venice to advise upon the present situation of the Peninsula of Italy and of Switzerland and Prussia ; Count Buol will follow them - on Sunday next. There had been a frightful storm at Malta on New Year's Day. Four ships had foundered at sea ; and 300 vesseli of all sizes had been wrecked against the wharves and piers. BANK OF FRANCE RETURNS. The following is the monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to yester day (Thursday) : CR. Fr. c. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks . ills duo yesterday to be paid to-day 1,031,848 30 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 24,489,236 10 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 16,488,600 Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills Rentes of the reserve fund 52,190,045 98 Rentes of disposable funds Hotel and furniture of the Bank • Real property of branch banks 5,126,683 Expenses of administration 83,412 0 Premiums on the purchase of matieres 231,173 98 Sundr'es 986,151,419 88 Da. Capital Reserve fund Reserve immobiliere Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. banks of branchan. _ 68,298,775 -- Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight 3,473,647 Account-current of Treasury Creditor 76,479,123 53 Various accounts-current 138,704,889 63 Do. branch banks 22,778,023 6 Dividends to be paid 570,258 25 Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities (?)2,596,202 91 Re-discounts of the last half-year Overdue bills 1,946 86 Sundries 2,163,015 87 986,151,419 88 PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN. CE. Fr. c. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 3,339,525 72 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 26,600,436 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 17,635,500 Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills 40,000,000 Rentes of the reserve fund Rentes of disposable funds Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 Real property of branch banks Expenses of administration 776,393 88 Premiums on the purchase of matures 3,197,158 58 Sundries 129,723 17 950,2t6,033 27 D. Capital Reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Reserve immobiliere 4,000,000 Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 69,046,375 Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight Account-current of Treasury Creditor 92,753,313 62 Various accounts-current Do. branch banks 23,930,380 Dividends to be paid Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities — Re-discounts of the last half-year Overdue bills Sundries 950,216,038 27 FRANCE. A council of ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The Moniteur contains a decree making further appointments and promotions in the ranks of the magistracy. A letter from Frankfort of the 2d, in the Con stitutionnel, says :—"ln addition to a corps of troops which the Grand Duke of Baden has ordered to assemble near Bale, the Government of Wurtemburg has also decreed the formation of a corps of obser vation on the frontiers near Switzerland. It is thought here that the popular agitation aaahast the march of the Prussians will extend from Vur temberg to other German states, such as Baden and Bavaria." BOURSE, Jan. 8. -- The following were the last quotations : cath. fr. c. 4i per Cents - 3 per Cents 67 10 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,000 Roman (x d) Credit Mobilier 1,375 Austrian Belgian Fives riedmontese (5) 9l 50 Home Debt End of Month. —fr. — c , 66 35 RAILWAYS--FOR CASH. fr. c. ft Orleans 1,352 50 W es t ern ............... 865 c Northern 935 Strasburg .. .......... 828 75 Lyons 1,352 50 New Ditto ... . ... ..•.. 762 50 Mediterranean 1,745 Grand Central ...... 615 yons Geneva 740 Teste .................. L Cette R U S S I A. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 30th Dec. (CorrespondancB Bullier), says that Persia has applied to the Russian Government to mediate be tween the former and England ; and that Russia has declined to do so, referring the Shah to the friendly offices of the Emperor of the French. The same cor respondence says that an autograph letter has been addressed by the King of Prussia to the Czar, expressing his regret at being obliged, he who has always done his best to preserve peace, at l ea st since the war w ith Denmark on the subject of Schleswig-Holstein, Pow to assume an attitude which is likely to cause trouble in Europe. A letter from Odessa e f the 22d, in the Vienna Gazette, states that the forth; c ations there have been completely disarmed, and th © earthworks thrown up during the war have crumb.led away in the wet weather ; also, that the rumours f thelgreat move ments of troops in Podolia and, B t ‘ssarabia are un founded. Several Russian officers have obtained leave to go to Algeria and join the F:reneh expedi, tion against the Kabyles, and some of tho Russian naval officers are going to study the maritime establishments of France. The Russians deny that .there is any truth in the story of an English gunboat having been fired at, some time ago, in passing Yenikale ; they assert that there is MO battery mounted at that place. NEUCHATEL. The following is the reply made by the Austrian cabinet to the Prussian document of the Bth Deo., relative to the affairs of Neuchatel : " VIENNA, Dec. 10. " Monsieur le Comte—The Count d'Araim has com municated to me the despatch, of 'which a copy is sub joined, relative to the refusal of the Swiss Federal Coun cil to consent to the immediate liberation of the Neucha tel prisoners. This refusal perseveringly given to the demand of the legitimate sovei sign of Neuchatel, to the repeated and pressing representations of the powers that signed the protocol of London, and, lastly, to a similar proceeding of the Germanic Confederation, unanimously agreed to, is looked on by the court of Prussia as as evident proof that Switzerland is not at all disposed to take into account the international stipulations in virtue of which the principality of Neuchatel has been admitted under the guarantee of Europe, to become one of the cantons of the Confederation. Before this situation the King is penetrated with the conviction that he cannot longer dispense with having recourse t o means more efficacious than an intervention purely diplomatic, with the object of reasserting his rights to the prin cipality of Neuchatel ; and the Royal cabinet ac. quaints us with the resolution his Majesty has taken to prepare measures of this nature, and to put them in execution in case of need. Baron Man teuffel add;, moreover, that these military preparations do not prevent the King from listening to the voice of that moderation of which he has already give* so many proofs, and that his Majesty will doubtless be ready still to yield to the same inspirations, if the European Powers, who will continue to devote their care to seeking a con ciliation, agree on propositions tending to this object, or if Switzerland herself determines of her own accord to return to wiser resolutions. The Irmoeror entirely appre ciates the reasons that induce the Xing not to deliver over the adherents to his just cause to the authori ties de facto of Neuchatel. We deplore and disapprove the persistence with which the Swiss Federal Council re fused a demand it should have the less declined as it might be certain that in doing right in that respect it would find the King, in his raoderation, disposed to seek, in peaceful measures and honourable conditions, a definitive solution of the difficulties inherent in the pre sent situation of Neuchatel. Convinced as we are that, in guaranteeing the perpetual neutrality of Switzer land, the European Powers have not intended to ac cord it the privilege of refusing with impunity all re paration for violated rights, we cannot but deem it just and suitable that Prussia should occupy herself with the preparatory measures she may think necessary to ensure, eventually, for her demands the satisfaction which is their due. But we have been happy to receive at the same time the assurance that the King does not even now consider himself obliged to renounce his senti ments of conciliation. The Powers, in their character of guarantees of the neutrality assured to Switzerland, in the general interest, and as co-signataries of the protocol of London, desiring the maintenance of the European peace, find it their duty to remind Switzerland of the conditions of its inviolability, and to impose on her the fulfillment of them, if necessary. The opportunity of deliberating in common on the means of discharging this mission not having been offered them since the deplorable events of last September, the Imperial Cabinet is anxious to assemble for this object the plenipotentiaries of the Powers that signed the protocol of London, and cherishes the hope that his Majesty the King of Prussia will sot regard himself as driven to the necessity of asserting bid incontestable right otherwise than by relying on the autho' rity of a decision of the European Powers. In invite ing you, M. le Comte, to communicate this despach t° M. le Baron de Manteuffel, I beg of you to inform hire that we are making at the same time overtures in similar sense to the Cabinets of Par* London, and St. Petersburg.—Receive, &c., "BuoL. "To M. le Comte de Traffmansdorff, Berlin." To the above the Prussian Cabinet replied by the following note, bearing the same date as the circular of Prussia on the same affair : " Berlin, Dec, 28. , " Monsieur le Comte—Th e Ch a r g e d'Affaires 0' Austria has been kind enough to communicate to 0 36 the subjoined despatch of M. le Comte de Buol, in replf to that which I had the honour of addressing to your Excellency under the date of the Ith inst. We have er perienced a lively satisfaction in finding the rights of the King to the principality of Neuchatel once more clearlf recognised, as well as the importance of the reasons tbet must lead his Majesty nut to give up the adherents to hi° just cause to the authorities de facto of that State. SI T° deplore as much as the Cabinet of Vienna that el Swiss Confederation, despite the agreement of !bs the powers, has been deaf to the voice of conciligi tion, and has thus imposed on the King the necessity °, having recourse to proper measures for making his 0 3 , contestable rights felt. But in seeking the causes tho" have determined the Federal authorities to this resistanc e ' so little in conformity with their true interests, we 03 0 1 not conceal from ourselves that the inanition which tb l, powers that signed the protocol of L on don have maintained during more than four yearl y ' has powerfully contributed to this false s ea rity, which has misled the public mind in Switzerland' and has spread the unhappy erro r th a t r i g ht s un i versa lll and solemnly recognised could be violated with impunitil The King does not dispute with the cabinet s th a t s igns" the protocol of London their mission of recalling !11, attention of Switzerland to the condition of its inviT o ability,but after all that has passed he cannot subordiuo' his own action to the accomplishment of this mission. A o f, r all the proofs of moderation and endurance which 13 ', Majesty has given, he believes that he has arrived e t a limit beyond which he cannot pass without being wants to his honour and dignity. The last oeciions of our ou, gust master on this subject are contained in my otb..e; despatch of this day, which I address equally to P i , royal Minister at Paris, London, and St. Pete r i o burg. The Cabinet of Vienna will th en ce d e rive !, conviction that, not to exclude the diplomatic actl°4 more or less united and collective of th e C a bi ne ts Europe, the King has put off, despite the irin° ° ,4 veniences inseparable from thi s d e l ay , th e dal ;a the mobilisation of the a r my, an d b y so doing, the term also up to whi c h, u p on th e lib era ti on of tU to Neuchatel prisoners, hi s M a j es ty w ill be r e ady take part in any negotiations that may be be ~§ with the object of pacifically, and on conditsq, mutually honourable, putting a definite close to V . „ difficulties inherent in the present situation of itle,„ chatel. Be so good as to bring the present despatch ", the knowledge of M. le Comte de Buol, and to exrtfel to his Excellency our sincere convicti on th a t a Cabinet' so friendly to Prussia as is that o f hi s I m p er i a l MaP e o e Franois Joseph, will not occasion it new difficulties, even counsel new delays in the aeoomplishment of a tall the prompt succe ss o f w hi c h mus t b e ca ll e d for partt , .ans of right and order, Receive, &c , iStiMulySio. ITALY. Nan.za, Jan. 1.... The Offic ial Journal announ ce ; the dismissal from office of the Intendente ° Cosenza, in whose district Angesilao Milano 0 ; sided. The dismissal is not, of course, for a ll ' o complicity in or knowledge of the act, but for want of vigilance. hi t It was a subject of wonder at Naples t though the execution of Milano had be en fixed 1 ; 0 take place at eight o'clock in the morning, but vi„ .. 6 not carried into effect until ten o ' c l oc k. No ' 9 ' 4 was able to explain the reas on w h y th e soldif ii 's were kept under arms from f our o ' c l oc k, w hen prisoner left the barracks, until ten o'clook. . 4 4 The following were th e reasons . Th e Ki n g "„1 disposed to pardon Milano but on the .morniiii the execution a f ore i gn minister had as audie l l f of his Majesty, an d strongly urged the ne oess of the execution. A sharp discussion took Pl g `;:i in which the King maintained his views, but t h e of course c ompe ll e d t o g ive way to those of t a , Power whom the foreign minister represeut h o I alluded to this report as emanating from ' 0 police in a former letter, but I have reason • t believe that it is perfectly true. Pity it is 0,,,0 the King did not follow the suggestion of his 0 ,7 4 feelings or judgment ; for though a commutal of punishment might have been w or se than d eal ,: it would not have given rise to that general Of 0 pathy with the criminal which is so dangeroe!, feature in the present state of the public ini .ll ``i Recent account s from Mon tesarchio rep reo°Y er Poerio as ill in bed from fistula, and the di d prisoners suffering more or loss from the damps of the place. PORTUGAL. By the screw steamer Rattler, Capt. RutherO o fti o ; which arrived in the M e r se y y es t er day afterol,oo we have advices from Li s b on thr e e days later tP o f those brought by the Euxine, the Rattler ha' ° left that port on the Ist instant. or The general and political news is of an uniraP tan t character. atali d The Hamburg steamer Teutonia, Captain ti S coke, arrived from Southampton on th e 29th, t' left next day for the Brazils. The French steamer Ville de Lisbonne, aril/ o f from Nantes on the 30th, and the British stea ms Ossian, Long, from Hull, on the 31st ult. tai° The screw steamer Vasc o d e G ame , CaP Dow, sailed from Lisbon on Dec. 29 for Glaser, The French steamer Franc-Courtois, Fournieu, sailed the 31st December for the Boo" For,:erie b - ill connection with public securities 00136° 131; to transpire. A member of the St oc k-Exchange, pf absconded, again s t w h om a warrant h as b een i s sued for forging a power o f a tt orney for t h e sa l e o f 550/. Colt o cl and it was ascertained yesterday that he has obts; ti i an advance of 2,0001. from a person with whom be, 0 0 dealings upo n f orge d cert ifi ca tes of 400 sh a res 0' to Peel River Company. They are said, hovvei e l3o have been so imperfectly executed that they °";01 not to nave deceived any one. The seal of the couir i de( was wanting, and the name of the !pretended b° was fictitious. They were, therefore, detected 0%4 diaf,ely on presentation. The company were previ% of about to call in all their certificates for the purpo' loct issuing new ones under the Limited Liability . 41 -°,' t t l eig . I n consequence of this event they have adverti sed ntention to take that step immediately.