The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LA N E,— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R, Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. Sixth appearance of the eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, since his late serious illness. Great Success of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the 'post, magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. Followed by SOMEBODY ELSE, in which Mr. Charles Mathe Ws will sustain his original character. After which will be produced an entirely new and original symbolical, hyperbolical, parabolical, and extra-physiog nomical grotesque, statuesque, and picturesque Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which for some time past has employed the unrivalled resources of this extensive establishment, and which. will be called or entitled, as it is entitled to be called, SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; Or, Harlequin fluliday, 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 eoratione, tricks, changes, and transformations by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, ftrc. The masks, mo dels, and physiog. nernical devices designed and executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The overture and music composed and arranged by Herr Anschuez. The choregraphic arrangements under the personal supervision of M. Petit. The comic scenes con structed by and under the direction of Harry Boleno. The peculiar grotesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard, author of " Harlequin and the Seven Ages of Man," " Jack and Jill," " Humming Top," "Hudibras," Sze., and the whole arranged an d produced under the direction of Kr. Robert Roxby. Te anciente and truthful legend on ye which ye pantomime to story is founded See, sa w, Margery Daw, " Sold her bed, and laid upon straw." MSS. of Nursery Rhymes in British Museum. 3gion of Reverses, in the Island of Ups and Downs. " Yea ' the Great Globe itself." " Here we go up, up, up, 4, 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 do Ballet. Grand Ballet —Miss Rosina Wright, Mdlles. J. and E. Osmont, and the Co ryphees. The Golden Gates leading to the Palace of Huggamngga.—Herald (with a Proclamation), Mr. Hornogold ; Guards, Messrs. Stiffneck, Headsnp, Eyesright, Shoulderarms, Stand-at-ease, and March well ; Tailor, Mr. Broadcloth ; Cobbler, Mr. Waxend ; Black smith, Mr. Anvil ; the Princess Margery Daw (afterwards Columbine), Madame Boleno ; Shiny and Shelly (her Maids of Honour), Misses Dithery and Dothery. How Margery Daw has no notion of work herself, and the contempt she 'flows towards those who do work. Interior of t><sa Palace of King Huggamugga. King Huggamugga (Sovereign of the Land of Sixes and Sevens), Mr. Dawking; Hnryl-Burly (Lord Chancellor), Mr. Bigwig; Niminy-Piminy (the Lord Cham berlain), Mr. Noodledom ; Higgledy-Piggledy (Goldstick in Waiting), Mr. Muddle ; other Members of the Court, Messrs. Bow, Scrape, Cringe, Crouch, Taves, Merrywag, Perriwig. and Hatband ; Court Milliner, Madame Crinoline ; Drawing Master, Professor Crayon ; Governess, Miss Frump ; Music- Master, Signor Flurdigunti ; Maid in Waiting, Miss Sweet tmnper, ale de Cuisine, Mr. Cook : Prince Popinjay (of the Land of Prettistory), Mr. Finefeather ; his Retinue, siessrs. Glen, Dazzle, Gleam, Glitter, and Cutashiee. 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 (rear* drilled), Messrs. Largeeye, Smalleve, Longsix, Splitup, Snapoff, Szc. ; Thimble, Master Tom Thumb ; Worsted, Mr. Bawlaway ; Bodkin, Mr. Pierce ; Tape Mea sure, Mr. Inchhald; Hook and Eye, Messrs. How and Some bodyelse ; Shirt Buttons, Mr. Earlypurly ; Scissors, Mr. Shearsteel. How Margery Daw makes an important discovery sad the audience also, and how, led by Necessity, she is com pelled to alter her opinions and change her position. The Mine of Labonr, leading to the Mine of Wealth Labour (the Parent of Health, Wealth, and Ha-Th:es), Mr. Strong'i'th'arm. What Margery Daw goes to see what she saw, and the re liant that Holyday bestows. Grand Scenic and Mechanical Effects, exhibiting (in processor construction) the Fairy Fac tory of Fancy, completed with t r e assistance of Labour awl Imagination. Brilliant Tableau. The Transformation :—Two Harlequin., Herr Deulin 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, Denlin, Tanner, and Belford).— A pink of polite nems—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 boxlreeper Kite-flying—A game of Cricket, by which some of the players get bowled out, ant afterwards stumped, which turns out a long stop—The uses and abuses of the crin oline—A Jack in the box—A box of regular British toys and a basket of French bread (tricks)--Aldershott a size smaller —Grand review of infantry—A military hall—Going in for a buster—Coming out with a roll—Clown make a peel t s 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 Cnt and come again Clown takes a butcher's shop, which Harlequin makes too hot to hold him. Tailor's Shop and Perfumery Warehouse (Ye. roni, Barnes, and Honey). A gentleman in search of a tailor— A suit that is quite the ticket The Owle 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 pewder—A case of real distress—Pantaloon in a fix—Fur nished Apartments for Single Men (Bolenos, Denlin, 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. Judkia's Gas-regulating Machine and General Patent Office and Stationer's Shop (Veroni, Barnes, and Honey. )—Clown, being in Fleet-street goes the pace rather fast—The language of the eyes (I-talian of course) which everybody understands—Bath post versus London post—Re gulators Wanted ; railway regulators, army regulator!, gas regulators, smoke regulators—Sewing, matting, washing, pressing, and ironing done by a turn—Clown makes a shift which makes Pantaloon a little shirty—A box of common scents—A fresh supply of blacks from America —A Dred-ful scene ensues. Meehi'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 flog gets greatly attached to him —Prize Poultry—Cochin China and fetich in England —Novel hatching—The old mail—Full in side—Clown off by the Express and Pantaloon by the Rocket— Mappin'e 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 meet, fool then comes the tug of fun—Collision, crash, smash, and clash—Garotte preventive—Moustache move ment A pair of sharp Wades—Clowns prove themselves a case for cutlery Holloway stopped by Holloway's oint ment—The duel —A cut direct Forewarned, forearmed— Public nuisances of 1856—0 h, my Crinoline—A high wind, a regular blow np, and glorious termination to Ups and Downs in Holiday's Fairy Home. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the bowie to suit every one :—Galleries, gd. and ls. ; Second Circle of Poxes, ls. M. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, ; Private Boxes , 10s, M., I'. Is., 11. Ils. 6d., and 2/. 2s. A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. D OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. ill Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. WITS EVENING will he produced an entirely new and original combination of burlesque and pantomtme, entitled CONRAD AND MEDORA; or, Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the sea. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, Esq., ? 7 14( '`i upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her rapegtv's Theatre. The harlequinade upon things in gene. Ti new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F. Fenton. Characters in the opening : Conrad (the Corsair) iryba to r de e eeeeeeeeeee Miss Woolgar BMr. J. L. Toole .7! .......................... Mr. Barrett ...........................Mr.YnsAiff Holston ............................ Mr. S. Calhaem 3/fedora ....................... Mrs Charles Dillon Gnlyar ............. * ........................ • ..Mrs. B. White Zuliem ..................... •••••••• :Mrs. Melville Submarina Miss Jessie Ryder Sereua Miss Marie Wilton Clown Mr. Tom Matthews and Mr. H. M ars h all Panful** "117' Harlequin M r. Stilt Pi:mites ........... Mr. J Marshall Columbines The Broth ers Nelson. Miss Clara Morgan and Miss Ladd, ro he preceded by THE KING'S MUSKETEERS. D'Ar_ tagnan, 3fr. C. Dillon. The boa-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super. /deadeyes of Mr. Chatterton, jon. Carriages conveying parties 1.1 the Private B oxes to set down at the State entrance in Burlei,gb-street. Saturday, at 2 o' c l oc k . A Morning Performance every STRAND TII EAT RE. —Man ager, M c. T. Payne.—This Evening will be per:ormed THE JEW'S DAUGHTER. ' Followed by (sixth time) THE PERILS OF CRINOLINE. After which, the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Humbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Christmas, vi m E. Wilton ; Good Humour, Miss Norbuly ; Mercury, Visa Cameron Humbug, Mr. Herbert ; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; Baron, Mr J. B. Johnstone • Sir Rola n d, M r . Cl ar k e ; Lord Love?., m i ss C rav en ; Addelpite, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edonin ; Lady Agnes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, Cdr. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harle quinade :—Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Little Clown, Master W Edouin ; Pantaloon, Mr. .T. Clarke ;Harlequin, Mi ss C raven ; Columbines. Miss E. Jacobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier Danseuse, Mdle. Marie Charles. New and magnificent Scenery, clic. New Curtain. New Aet Drop. Commenee at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2e. ; Pit, ls, ; Gallery, 6d. A morning performance of the Pantomime every Monday two e'cleck T H'E 8U N , l.lO N!MY.N,- ROYAL PRINCESS THIS EVENING will 'S THEATRE, be performed Fabien and Louis dei Franchi by Mr. C. Kean. 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. Hnline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, with Mr. Murdoch as Charles Surface ; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Bnckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers; Moses, Mr. Clark; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farren ; Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss E. Sabine. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M. Milano. Harlequin, 11. Milano ; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; and Clown, Mr. Driver. A Morning performance of the Pantomime will be given every Thursday • commencing at 2, concluding at 4. OYAL SURREY THEATRE 1-1 , ) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, an original play, in three acts, entitled A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. Roderick Preiseworthy, Mr. Shepherd. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN, Harlequin, Mr. F. Glover ; Clown, M r . B uc k ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury; the Four Sprites, the Finis Fa mily; Columbines. Mesdames Marie and Agnes. R OYAL 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, L es lie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall, St. Casse, Castleton, Bromley, Mask.ell, and Mrs. Melfort., After which, CRINOLINE. Commence at half-past Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. 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 Pall Bedford will appear. To conclude with the new and original union of modern burlesque and old English pantomime (as originated at this theatre), by Professor Wordspinner, Member of Every. thing, with entirely new scenery, dresses, transformations, &c., 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, 61c. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, THE IRON CHEST. Characters by Messrs. Phelps, Marston, Ray, die. To conclude with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND THE FISHERMAN. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. the last week of its performance. Eques trian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's Horses. Richard, Nlr. James Holloway. After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with the succeasful equestrian comic panto mime, called P> UL PRY ON HORSEBACK; or, liar lequin and the Magic. Horseshoe, Doors open at half-past six ; commence at a quarter be fore seven o'clock. Rex-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. CANTERBURY 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. Raino, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J, Rarker,W, Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, C. J. Wilkins, and E, Mackney, Pianoforte, J. Harro way, R. A.; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock, Last week of the celebrated SPANISH MINSTRELS, who will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selections, Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Dress Ball will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Gentleman's ticket, 7s ; lady's ditto, 5s ; double ticket (lady and gentleman or two lathes), 10s. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis DAT—Morn. 38 min. aft. 12—Evening 4 min. aft. 1 .'n-1 1 0 °BROW—Morn. 28 min. aft. I—Evening 52 min. aft. 1 THE WEATHER—SIIN OFFICE, JANTIART 24. TIIIIRMOMETEE, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest singe noon yesterday. 40 —lowest this morning and during the night. 44 —this day at noon. RASOMITEB, 2 9'12—now 2915. WIND, N.W.—Fresh, with muggy, rainy weather. There was a fall of snow in the night. Two o'CLocK.—Sunshine, rain, and squally weather. A A tt - g, ( Fir ‘ft +. 4. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1867. Surely the sceptics will now believe in clair voyance. It enabled us to foretel, some time ago, how our Chancellor of the Exchequer will meet the Income Tax agitation in Parliament. Yes , _ terday we had his rehearsal to a deputation which waited upon him on the subject, and we have turned out to be almost verbally correct. Some appeared to imagine, from the language of Admi ral BERKELEY at Gloster, and of Lord PANMITRE at the Scottish fete, given in his honour, that Sir G. C. LEWIS and the War Secretary were under orders, in their separate departments, to adapt themselves to the popular demand. There is no denying that it looked on the part of Government like an understanding among its members. " Don't let us commit ourselves, but let us say all we can to keep them Quiet till it is too late." It was but too plain, however, as it appeared to us, that there was room, not merely for a coach and six, but a dozen such coaches abreast to be driven through all that was said by the military and naval Government spokesmen. Well, Sir G. C. LEWIS has adopted almost our very words,—he did not mean, he said, to take advantage of the particular wording of the statute" —" of course the Government would not think of continuing the tax on account of the wording of the statute, if it were not needed ?" and " hav ing made this statement, he must add with regard to the rate of the Income Tax, that it was not a question of taxation, but of expenditure, and con sequently the question was, what would be the amount of the expenditure the following year ?" _" they must see that the Government, without the deputation proposed another tax, could not be expected to give up 8,000,000/., the amount of the proposed reduction." Such was the sequel to the Exeter Hall meeting on Wednesday, and the hundreds of meetings held all over the country. " Gentlemen, I must spend so much, you must there and that you cannot do with oul fore pay so much, the income tax at the war rate." Well, there is yet a long week befure the QuEEN's Speech is delivered, and we trust that week will be so used as to make that vague docu- ment a little definite on the grand topic. We know, now, Sir GEORGE'S mind, and we must say we like him all the better for telling it to us ; and telling it perhaps as fully as we could fairly ask of a Minister before he meets our authorised representatives. We understand each other now ; and we should think the country will brace itself to the struggle ; that it will try whether the people of England, or the aristocratie expenders of her money, are to get the day. A journal, supposed to know the mind o f an ex-Chancellor of the Ex i prove n detail that we could do w ith out the Income Tax entirely by cutting down expenditure firmly t o that of peace ; and most certainly with such a peace as we have got, we ought not to be cursed with a War Income Tax also. Sir J. PARINGTON also has denounced the GLADSTONE sophistry, which treats schedule D so unjustly, that those SATURDAY the administration under which that evil happened." Then it was that the Administrative Reform Association of the capital upon an ampler and a grander scale than its prototype —took pattern and took courage from the course pursued, ever since 1848, by the Financial Reform Association of Liverpool. The purpose of that new political League in London being to put an end to the cause of the mischief—that being, as Mr. ROEBUCK boldly - defines it, " the Aristocratic Government of this country !" Inspirited by which patrioticpurposetheAdministrativeßeformers have now, as the President of their Association informs the publio at large, an organisation so complete that it enables them, whenever they please, to communicate with somebody in every post-town in England ! The endeavours of this energetic movement being, at the present moment, threefold —firstly, to discover the mode of taxation itself ; secondly, its collection ; and thirdly, its distribu tion. No wonder that, talking to a sympathetic audience upon such generalities —no won der, we say, that at such a time, and under such circumstances, Mr. ROEBUCK found himself in a manner constrained to note in a particular manner that great and crying Grievance of the Hour—the Income Tax ! No wonder that, talking of the Income Tax, he should take occasion to reiterate his old j dogged, unanswerable, knock-down argument— " That a man who hadi a hundred or a thousand a-year from funded or landed property was far more able to pay a tax of 5 or 6 per cent. than a l man who made a hundred or a th ousan d a - year by his brains or his labour." Further, still, Mr. ROEBUCK added—" My argument was this—that a man who had a hundred a year from landed property and spent that hundred— and if sickness came upon him, or if he died, there was the hundred a year still for his family. But I said too—and little did I think how soon I myself would be an example of the fact —soup posing a man belonging to that elass—which cer tainly is not very popular—the class to which I myself belong —a lawyer--suppose that man made a thousand a year in the arduous exercise of his intellectual faculties, suppose from year to year he went on making that sum, until by the overtax ing of brain he was stricken down in a night ! " What then ? Where is the 1, 0001. per annum ? Where in a lesser case are the 5001. a year—the 4001. a year—the 300/. a year—of the over-wrought professional man, of the man drawing his income annually not from funded or landed possessions, but from " the sweat of his brain ?" Gone ! A eruelty—we take it—wholly unjustifiable ! An argument altogether unanswerable ! No— the Income Tax as at present levied is a wrong so flagrant, and by this time to the country at large so entirely obnoxious, that—it cannot by any possibility be persisted in by this or by any other Government. Mr. ROEBIICK has confirmed our impression to that effect, whatever may be implied by that official jargon of specious gene ralities with which the Chancellor of the Exche quer----as in duty bound—wards off the home thrusts of a pertly perverse Deputation ! If the new Chinese War has been rather singu larly and strikingly inaugurated by the bombard ment of Canton—the new Persian War has been opened in a manner still more startling and ex traordinary. Our expeditionary forces against the dominions of the SHAH have celebrated the commencement of their warlike operations, both military and maritime—the latter under Admiral Lzarr.„ aided by General OUTRAN, by taking pos session of the island of Karrak, and forcibly occu pying the seaport of Bushire—the former under Brigadier CSAMBERLAYNB, by coolly returning upon his own footsteps along the Khyber Pass to Peshawur 1 The celebrated feat accomplished by the King of /PIiA2SCII with his 40,000 men, being about equivalent to the one last mentioned ! The next news will be, of course —supposing this intel ligence as to the retreat of CZAMBERLAYNE with his 5,000 sepoys be confirmed—that Col. JACOB has emulated his compatriot by withdrawing his troops in like manner along the Bolan Pass to their Scindian starting point near Shikapoor. In which case DOST MABOII3IIOI and his Ameers will have to bear the brunt of the encounter, such as it may prove to Le, with the Persian warriors despatched across the western frontiers of Cabul—supposing the design be still entertained among the Affghans of reasserting their right of sovereignty over the Heratees. Ge neral Sir J. OUTRAM and Admiral Sir H. LEEKE being left all the while to make the best they can out of the unfructile conquest of Bushire, out of the valueless possession of the Island of Karrak, and out of those terrific atmospheric peculiarities of the Persian. Gulf, which are the terror even of the almost case-hardened inhabitants of the Bag. dad Pachalic ! All this blundering and bungling in regard to Persia cannot but necessitate, we conceive, from the approaching Parliament immediately it shall have reassembled, a new and very urgent demand for explanations from the Ministerial organs of her MAJESTY'S Government. The reader who has followed the E mperor of Ansratt in his tour through 'Venice and Lom bardy can hardly fail to feel a sort of contemp tuous pity for that much-deceived Monarch. Instead of a triumphal progress, what a reception has he everywhere experienced ! Vainly has official ingenuity been taxed to gather crowds of dupers in the streets, and marshal groups of native sycophants in the palace and the theatre. " GOD bless him " has died in the throats of the venal--the noble have eschewed the palace as they would a lazaretto—the theatres have been de ierted by their usual habitues. A melancholy young Monarch, surrounded by his guards and officials, and shunned by his subjects —sometimes even hissed such has been the spectacle that has been everywhere pre sented, save at Milan, where the attitude of the population has been, and is, positively menacing. Had the Emperor anticipated anything like this he would never have undertaken so memorable a tour. One can hardly say whether the sullen apathy or the savage pasquinade would be most ungrateful to the Imperial mind, What a frightful sa ti re i s that triumphal arch at Milan, paid for from th e Imperial purse, and topped by ~ne population in the night with a crown of real skulls ! Is it a subject of congratulation or the reverse that the satire can hardly be said to be exaggerated ? For what has been the character of Austrian rule ? Has not murder gone hand in hand with oppression ? Have not the noblest been crushed with the strong hand, and the fusil !ade and the scaffold crowned the arch of the prison ? Has not the press been silenced, the free interchange of thought forbidden, the aspirations of freedom quenched, as far as might be, in blood t Who of all the Ishmaels from truth and honour—;vho of all the sycophants of tyranny, is sh ameless enoug h t o meet these questions with a d enial ? Must w d stop here ? Is there nothing b u t p i ty for the mor tified GppreFt ;or—not a word for the people ? We have greate:' hope than ever of a future fur Italy worthy of her renown—worthy of freemen. An inextinguish. able hatred of oppression is a vindigvAtion of Eter- who are mulcted, their books ransacked by inqui sitors, and their word of honour belied, feel jus tified in evading it if they can ; for we lay the evasion of the tax much more on the roguery of the tax itself than on the roguery of its victims. Even the Daily News has at last failed the Free Traders, and broadly avowed that such is the obnoxiousness of an Income Tax that go—go entirely, it must, and that Free Traders must content themselves with getting duties laid on as smoothly, and evenly as they can ! It comes then to this, that without the Income Tax the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have some 55,000,0001. to meet next year, an expen diture which ought not to be more than 52, 000, 0001 after the Peace of Paris ; and must either " cut his garment to his cloth," or supersede an income tax by a property tax. In the latter case he might repeal all taxes on necessaries of life, and leave them only on luxuries, like tobacco and spirits, and other things in which they are but little felt. The fiscal inquisition, loathesome to every Englishman, and its torture exacerbated by the pressure of a war rate, will be endured no longer. The ante-Parliamentary week must make this unmistakeably plain. A decided nation is like a decided man, who clears the way for himself by the very fact of his decision. We may think a man prejudiced, ignorant, mis taken, or what we please, but if we know that he and we must jog on together, and that he will have his way, why there is nothing for it but to let him have it. We may grumble as we do at the weather, but we can't help it, and square our selves accordingly to eithar. Now Ministers generally wish to "jog on" with the nation. What the nation determines must be submitted to, there fore, as a shower of rain must. They would not yield to a party antagonist, but the vox popu2i— why, it is the voice of the maker of Ministers, and bow to it they may and ought. We feel the most assured confidence that in asking for an overwhelming national demonstra tion against the War Income Tax we are but ask ing virtually for the salvation of the PALMERSTON Administration. If the nation does not compel Sir G. C. Lewis to throw overboard his hints to the deputation, sad to announce at first enough to satisfy it, the result must be that Lord DERBY and He of Buckinghamshire will renew their old proposals and will walk into office. We feel equally assured that the estimates will be adapted to what it is ascertained beforehand can be got from the nation, and that we need not be under the least apprehension of any financial difficulty from compelling a Chancellor of the Exchequer not to squander them. Respecting duly our personal finances, is the only means of teaching Governments to respect the national finances. We are asked, perhaps, to show them how they can do with the sum we leave them that is their concern. If one Government cannot another can, and horrible as it may seem in the ears of the happy families, and their happy circles, there are worse appointments made than putting 1 such men as JOSEPH HUM S or M r . W ILLIAMS at 1 the head of the national Exchequer. We have no doubt Sir CoroirorA.LL thinks he has very nicely broken the ice, and that he will now have a tolerably free passage out of his diffi culties when Parliament meets. Adjustment to varied classes of income an impracticable feat— sixteen pence in the pound not asked for by sharp practice or a sentence in an act, but from the de mands of expenditure--can the country trouble him any more? A little time will show whether the BKBHRLET dodge, the PANMITILE dodge, the LEWIS dodge, each or all of them, will serve the purpose. We are awake now ; and we hope Ministers will not catch us again napping. The motto still most be—AGITATE! AGITATE ! ! AGI TATE !! ! — and no time to be lost I The remarkable speech delivered by Mr. ROE BUCK, on Thursday evening, at Liverpool, startles thegeneral public into attention very appropriately upon the eve of the reassembling of the Legisla ture. It will be found upon examination to be an eminently useful speech---a speech worthy of a genuine and practical Reformer—a speech not un worthy of having fallen from the lips of the Hon. Member for Sheffield, in his important and respon sible capacity as Chairman of the London Admi nistrative Reform Association. Higher praise than this it would be difficult to accord to the re marks uttered only the night before last by Mr. ROEBUCK before Mr. LAWRICKCE H g -_ WORTH, M.P. (the Chairman of the occasion), and his Financial Reform Associates of Liverpool. Nevertheless, it is commendation to which these energetic remarks are in every respect, we con ceive, eminently well entitled. They were not merely well-timed, moreover, in reference to the interests of Reform generally —now that we have arrived, in a manner, upon the very threshold of the re-opening of Parliament —but they are well timed also in a very peculiar manner, in so far as they affect the speaker's own political reputation. Viewed under this twofold aspect they can scarcely, we believe, be regarded any by a really sincere Reformer, without ex citing in his mind sentiments of strong and un affected satisfaction. 1 In the very preamble, or exordium of his harangue, Mr. ROEBUCK intimated that he viewed the occasion upon which he was then speaking, as significative of a formal adhesion between the Administrative Reform Association of London and the Financial Reform Association of Liverpool. Gracefully conceding to the latter when he avowed this, the merit of a very marked priority-1848-49 having witnessed the formation of the provincial, as 1854.55 witnessed that of the metropolitan Association. Neverthe less, remote from each other as were the periods of their respective inauguration, and dissimilar as were their general outlines—those of the Liver pool Association being in a manner as restricted as those of the London Association are compre hensive—Mr. ROEBUCK, as the chosen President of the latter, strenuously, and cordially, and reasonably, insisted that their aim might be regarded as nothing less than absolutely and literally identical. That aim he defined thus simply and significantly—That every one in the community should be taxed according to his means 1 Nothing more and nothing less than this. For in the realisation of that single g project h ow many and, how various the reforms necessarily requiri n to be accomplished as ',lore I preliminaries ! The rise of tho great Metropolitan Reform As sociation Mr. ROEBUCK ascribed to the Finan cial Reformers of Liverpool, in a manner as earnest as it was picturesque. i - Ie attributed it directly to th e horror with which the people of England, in tLe very midst of the late Crimean contest wit:n Russia, learned that their no bl e army -- " an army," said the speaker, " never surpassed for its efficiency, for its power, and fcr its will" —was " dwindling aw ay , was being destroyed, not by th e arms of the enemy, but by th e accur sed infirmity of p urpose of a Ministry !" Then it was, he exclaimed---" And, when the peopl e o f England hea r d th at this their gallant army was thus being destroyed, they rose up in all their magnanimous and magnificent array of anger and power, and they put down E V E'N 1 NIG,II79WN CI.A R Y 24, 185 7. nal Justice ; and in the protest of the Lombardo- Venetian provinces we recognise a notable vindi cation of the inalienable right of man to be free. The seed is in him—fire cannot wither it ; blood cannot drown it ; the scaffold cannot blight it with its deadly shade ; serried ranks of bayonets but serve to develope its fertility. To every tyrant of Europe, to every oppressor in the world, we say—Look at the progress of the AllAtriall KAISER through his ill-gotten posses sions ! The rumble of his artillery, the clank of his cavalry, the measured tread of his infantry— the sharp detonation of the fusillade, the sigh of the prison, and the groan of the scaffold, are hardly yet dead on the ear ; and the people, in the shadow of all his legions, in the hearing and sight of all his menaces, despite what he has done, and may do—the people in their inmost hearts are free ; and, in the indomitability of the im mortal principle with which the LORE) of all worlds has endowed them, hesitate not to indicate as much to all whom it may ooncern ! The world moves—such a people cannot be expected to stand still. SHAMEFUL WASTE OF GOVERNMENT STORES. The stores which were brought home from Kertch by the Turkish Engineer Corps and landed at Chatham still • remain on Gun-wharf, where they were originally de posited, and unless measures be speedily adopted to pro tect them from the ravages of the weather there is little doubt that nearly the whole of the stores—sufficient for the equipment of an army of 25,000 men—will be ren dered entirely useless, if, indeed, that is not already the case. The whole of the articles, some of which are of a very valuable description, are left exposed to the weather without any kind of protection, excepting that afforded by the coverings of the waggons and the boxes in which they are deposited, and in that condition they have re mained during the whole of the winter, and, in fact, since they were brought home at the close of last sum mer. Among the articles deposited at Chatham are telegraph apparatus with several miles of wires, all kinds of carpenters', builders', and miners' tools, harness and saddlery sufficient for several thousand horses, india rubber boats, tents, and every other requisite for an army in the field. The stores were inspected some months since by General Sir J. Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications, when it was understood that they were to be immediately handed over to the corps of Royal En gi. neers at Brompton, to be deposited with the other stores belonging to that corps, and kept in order by the Engi neer troops ; but up to the present time no order has been given to that effect. The men belonging to the engineer corps of the Turkish Contingent, who arranged the stores at Chatham, and were for some time employed in attending to them, have been discharged from that duty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing -street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. V. Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Earl and Countess of Erroll left town last week for Scotland, where they contemplate remaining until the month of April. The Earl and Countess Spencer are entertaining a se lect circle at Althorp Park, Northamptonshire. ' Lord Broughton is surrounded by a family circle at Erlestock Park, Wilts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Thursday evening; from Harpton Court, Kington, Here fordshire. Sir George Grey returned to London yesterday, from Windsor Castle. On dit, that a commission on the claims of the Medi. cal Officers of the Army is to be issued, over which Mr. Sidney Herbert is to be invited to preside. The majority of the Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle, is to be celebrated on a grand scale at Clumber on the 27th, 28th, and 29th inst. Tne noble duke i■ very popular amongst his neighbours, tenantry, tradespeople, &c. Earl Spencer will preside at a public dinner to be held at the Gs ,rge Hotel, Northampton, on the 28th inst., the object of which is to aid the funds of the Master Boot and Shoemakers' Provident and Benevolent Insti• tution, established in 1836. The Asylum is at Mort lake, Surrey. The Right Hon. Robt. Lowe, lII.P.,Vice-President of the Board of Trade, has been on a visit to Manchester this week. It is repeated that the new Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir Alexander Cockburn, is certainly to receive a peerage. His title will, it is added, be that of Lord Langton, after the name of the family estates in Bervisk, which now belong to the Marquis of Bread albane. GENERAL TOM THUMB is compelled to engage a larger saloon to accommodate his aimerous admirers. He will remain at Regent Gallery until February 2d, on which day he takes possession of the spacious Prince of Wales Bazaar, 209, Regent -street. LONDON TlME.—There is a great difference between the West-end and City clocks, or, at all events, some o them. The clock of St. Mary's, Marylebone, for instance, is N minutes in advance of St. Bride's, Fleet-street Surely this ought not to be, for the inconvenience at si disappointment are incalculable. FATAL ACCIDENT AT MlLlNlND.—Yeaterday afternoon as a bricklayer named George Perry was employed in the erection of a large chimney at the chemical works of Messrs. Williaras and Fletcher, Mile-end, he was suddenly seized with giddiness, and fell from a height of nearly 100 feet to the ground below. He was taken up with his skull fractured, and at once conveyed to the London Hospital, but before he arrived there life was extinct. STRANDING OF THE TYNE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.— But little intelligence has been received here for the last few days Pi Tooting the progress of the spirited endea vour now being made to float the steam ship Tyne from her rocky bed at St. Alban's. She is still in the same position as before ; but vessels can now lie alongside her and be freighted with her stores and machinery. The endeavour to float her will not be made until the spring tides are at the highest—viz., on Wednesday next. HEAVY GALE IN THE MERSEY AND FEARED Loss OF AN AMERICAN SHIP.—LIVERPOOL, Friday.—A strong gale from the north-west swept over Liverpool and neighbourhood last night, increasing in severity after midnight, and at four o'clock this morning was at its height. Fears are entertained for the large fleet of out ward bound vessels which went to sea yesterday. A fine American ship of 1180 tons, the Confederation, under the command of Captain earning, was telegraphed off the Welsh coast yesterday afternoon, and at nine a.ma to.day went on shore on the south aide of the Victoria Channel and hoisted signals of distress. She, however, afterwards floated off, but having again lost her rudder she again drove ashore near the former place, where she remains, and is expected to become a total wreck. The crew were saved by the life boat. In the Mersey seve ral ossualties are reported. THA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Medway, Captain Parker, is appointed to take out the Brazil and River Plate mails of the 9th pros., instead of the Tyne. The latter vessel, lately stranded off St. Alban's Head, has been lightened ab iut 200 tons, by taking out part of her machinery, floats from the paddles, &c., and it is expected that the trial to get the ship off will be made on Sunday or Monday if the weather should permit. Captain Vincent and others are still very sanguine as to the result. The Tamar, now at "Vigo, cannot be re paired before the arrival at that port of the next Penin sular steamer hence (the Madrid), which will take out a new rudder and crank pin for the Tamar ; therefore she will not be able to leave Vigo before the first week in February. The Peninsular and Oriental C inipany's steamer Madrid, Captain Bradshaw, will take out the next Peninsular mail on the 27th inst. ; and the Ripon, Capt. R. W. Evans, will leave with the India and China mails on the 4th February. The Alhambra, Capt. Joy, having been detained by bad weather on the outward voyage with the Peninsular mails, will be delayed beyond her usual time of arrival here, and is not expected till the 26th or 27th instead of the 24th. The Union Sttaaa Ship Company's screw steamer Norman, Capt. Valliut, sailed hence to-day for the Brazils withs . bout 200 tons of cargo, specie value 35,059/. 108., and jewellery value 1,300/. THE LATS CASE OF FOR GERY AT THE MANSION HOUSE.—At the Judges' Chambers yesterday (Friday) the case of Edward Horace Montefiore, which appeared in The San of Tuesday, was mentioned. The defend ant, who is confined in Whitecross-street Prison, was arrested on a Judgee' order as he was about leaving the Mansion - hou se on his dischar g e b y th e Lora Mayor on the alleged charge of forgery on the Cape of Good Hope Bank, his Lordship being of opinion that he had no jurisdiction to entertain the matter. A summons for the discha r g e o f the defendant was heard on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at the suit of a gentleman named Hewitt, from whom the defendant had obtained a ship in the name of Lans field, and given hie acceptance, payable at the Bank of England. The defendant, in his affidavit, denied that he intended to quit the country; but, on the contrary, was engaged to marry a lady, and meant to reside in Lon don. The application for the discharge was opposed by Mr. Ribton, as counsel for the plaintiff, and supported by Mr. Lewis (Lewis and Lewis) on the part of the de fendant. Mr. Justice Coleridge entertained a doubt on the matter, and gave the defendant the benefit of it by ordering his dischar ge . Th e order was made on Wed nesday, but did not apply to the several detainers against the defendant. Several summonses, returnable at chambe r s on F r i day, were served on the' parties to show cause why he shouldnot be discharged at their suit. The defendant in his affidavit denied that be intended to leave the country. The parties on the other side required time to aniwcr the allegatii as, and the several summonses stood over till Monday, the defendant still remaining in Whitecrors prison. LATEST NE WS. TRIESTE, JAN. 23. Accounts from Constantinople of the 16th inst. announce the closing of the Conference re lative to the Principalities. Ten thousand Turkish troops will occupy the Principalities during the election of the Divans, with a view to the maintenance of order. A Circassian chief has arrived at Constanti nople, charged with an official mission. The Circassians have had a dreadful battle on the coast with the Russians, and all the prisoners taken were put to the sword. The English met with little resistance when they took possession of Larrak and Bushire. The small garrison of Bushire retired into the interior. Brigadier Chamberlayne's force had returned to India. PERSIA. Intelligence has been received from Teheran to the 19th of December. The Shah of Persia had visited his arsenals and concentrated his troops on the eastern frontiers of his empire. In the Southern Provinces he had caused a holy war to be proclaimed. Russia had taken possession of the islands of the Caspian without the consent of Persia. The north-eastern Persian provinces are being devastated by several warlike tribes from the mountainous districts of Khiva, in independent Tartary. The Koords are also harassing the country near the Khaff. The Imaum of Muscat was seeking to annex the province of Aloghastan to his territories. MILAN, JAN. 23. The Emperor of Austria has decreed that the debt of the province of Lombardy to the State, amounting to two millions, shall be cancelled. Their Majesties intend to leave Milan for Florence to-day (Saturday). COPENHAGEN, JAN. 23. The State Council has approved of the answer to the German notes, and energetically defends the policy of selling Crown lands. It declares it will persist in the present constitutional system. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received a letter, in which the King of Wurtemberg notifies to his Majesty the death of the Duchess Henrietta, widow of Duke Louis of Wurtemberg, the King's un c l e , and mother of the Queen of Wurtemberg. The French Court will go into mourning for four days, commencing from to-day. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday morning, at nine o'clock. The state of the Prince Imperial continues to be satisfactory ; the fever has completely ceased. The Emperor arid Empress were to have honoured the Italian Theatre with their presence on Monday night to witness the first representation of " Rigo lotto," but the indisposition of the Prince pre vented them. Last evening their Majesties were present at the representation of " La Reine To paze" at the Theatre Lyrique. The Turkish Government has officially signified its intention to carry out faithfully the text of the treaty concerning the domestic) organisation of the Danubian Principalities. The Austrian army is to retire as early as possible, and a Turkish force is under orders to take its place. The Moniteur contains the following :—" The prisoners of Neuchatel have been set at liberty, and have already arrived on the French territory. The Helvetic Government, in accord with the national representation of the country, has acted in a manner which does it honour, and which is perfectly consistent with the true interests of Swit zerland. The Government of the Emperor had recommended this measure as long ago as Sept. last, and renewed its advice by a communication dated Nov. 26. Knowing, in a confidential man ner, the conciliatory intentions of King Frederic William, and aware that the question lay entirely in the unconditional release of the prisoners, it persisted in impressing on the Federal Government all the bearings of the application made to it. Were Switzerland at that conjuncture to give a refusal, France could not any more dissuade the King of Prussia, whose spirit of moderation she highly appreciated, from having recourse to arms in order to secure a just satisfaction for his wounded dignity. If, on the contrary, Switzerland were to yield to the counsels of France, the latter would pledge herself to urge that concession on the considera tion of the Cabinet of Berlin, in order to prevent I any coercive measures, and to call for a satisfactory solution of the Neuchatel question. We therefore congratulate ourselves on the resolution come to by the Helvetic Confederation. From the present moment it may without fear disband its contin gents ; and the Prussian government having al ready announced that it is ready to enter on nego tiations on the groundwork of the differences, a definitive arrangement, and one conformable to the interests as well as to the dignity of the two par ties, may be hoped for." The Moniteur contains a notice of the treaty of commerce which M. de Montigny concluded last year with the Siamese Government, and which we have already spoken of, as well as that envoy's de parture for Cochinchina. Di:. Kern, the Swiss Envoy Extraordinary, has arrived in Paris. The Persian ambassador, Feruck Khan, and his suite have taken up their residence at 26, Avenue Montaigne, Champs Elysees. The im mediate suite of his excellency is composed of 36 persons. All the attaches, secretaries, and dragomans bear the title of mirza, similar to that of effendi among the Tullis. Some of the attaches have been before in Paris and speak French fluently. The envoy himself speaks but a very few words of French, but he is said to be well versed in the different dialects of the East. For the last two days several persons belonging to the embassy have been seen walking in the streets of Paris. These Persians have already adopted the European trousers, which they probably find warmer in this ewh. climate, and m ore convenient than their i Some gen era l an d su perior officers form part of the . high and embassy. With the exception almost pointed Astrakan cap, officers resembles those of Europe. the of uniform r m BOURSE, quotations : Jan. 23.—The followi n g were t he last End of Irouth. —fr. —c. Cash. fl. c. 4i per Cents - 3 per Cents 6B 5 New Loan Bank Shares 4,175 Roman (x d) _ Credit Mobilier 1,405 Austrian ............ Belgian Fives .. 99i— Spanish Threes....., .. Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt ....... 68 10 RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. C. fr c Orleans 1 ,385 Western ............... 87 7 50 Northern 945 Strasburg .. .......... 830 Lyons 1,380 New Ditto ........... 767 50 yon s MediterraneanGna 1,780 Gra n d Central ... Cett© L Tests .................. 700 777 50 Austrian Cow. ..... 767 50 Geneva SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 12—The committee appointed by the united Storthing to examine the merits of the bill brought in by the government for the exe cution of the great railroad project has just pub lished its report. Of the six principal lines proposed by ministers th e committee recommends the adop tion of four— name l y, 1, the northern line, extendo ing to G e fl e an d Salaer ; 2, the north-west line, t' to the fronti ers o f Norway • 3, the great-western, the to Gothenb org ; and 4, the southern, English li ne constructing at Malmo . for account went propo ses t o ma k e t h ese ra ilroads by means of the p u bli c, and to cover t h e expensesTtohemGovern of a loa n t o b e ra i sed i n succestsikvieosgu. Count Posse, by the exi genc i es o f th e under in a bill to capitalise the land t ax , an d place tba ms as required on the oth er h an d, has b ro ught of Govern men t for railroad bs u rposes. erv P o the rapid strides in e at the disposal a mount It is satisfactory to o The value of the home countryn amounted in the past manufactures of this ix the industry of Swede dollars banco, being an in s and a half over the amount eighteenmillions millions more than that of in crease o t to f 35 six, 52 m 1, 274 r of 1855, and . Th e general impression is that the previous. is quite rich enough to pay for its rail roads out of t to be brought before the Stor thingA bill is about the countryy its own resources. more equal distribution of livings fora the clergy,the present system being the • hontcuse of our national institutions. In parti the district of Schonen aon gat alone there are upwards of 200 adjuncten, or working ) curates who are so badly paid. that they are scarcely able to keep body and soul togeth er , whilst the rich rec t ors are en j oy i ng the fat of th e land without doing any work. PRUSSIA A letter from Berlin of the 19th says :—" The propositions which Austria has made to Prussia and to the States of the Zollverein, and which will probably be discussed in the conference that is about to take place this year at Berlin, are of more importance than was at first b e li eve d. Th ey re f er not only to the transit of goods, but to many other points :-1, Suppression of the transit duties on goods from the Zollverein or the Austrian pro vinces, and levying of one sole transit duty on goods passing through these countries ; 2, modifi cation of the tariff of the Zollverein so as to make it resemble that of Austria, especially for goods of value ; 3, the same designation for the articles, in order that the same declaration may suffice in the two countries; 4, the establishment of Custom houses in common in the great commercial towns particularly along the railroads and rivers which connect Austria with the Zollverein ; 5, a footing of equality to be established between Austria, Prussia, and Saxony for the navigation dues ; 6, reduction of the tariff on various articles of con sumption, ttc. ; 7, the removal of differences in the collection of certain dues ; 8, ulterior develop ment of the customs charter on the basis of the results hitherto obtained." THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN MILAN. The accounts of the Emperor of Austria's visit to Milan continue to show the Milanese observing the same reserved attitude. Even the correspon dence which comes from those who wish to make the best of the Imperial progress through Austrian Italy are obliged to confess some very unpleasant facts. Thus the Constitutionnel says, in a letter dated Milan :—" The corso molt urno which took place last night through the principal streets of Milan has been the principal affair that has come off here since the arrival of the Emperor of Austria. At the moment when the absence of the splendid carriages of the nobility on the corso was remarked, and when in the salons of the upper bourgeoisie sneers were being mad© at the idea of the burgess ball of the Casino, at which, by the way, the Emperor, it is said, refused to appear, a compact mass of tradespeople, of the working classes, and peasants, thronged to the scene of festivity with an undisguised air of satisfaction." The "compact mass" is just the compact muster of the police, as at Venice, nothing more. The writer continues :—" At nine o'clock the Emperor and the Empress, in an open carriage, without escort or attendants of any kind, and followed by five other carriages containing their suite, presented themselves with confidence in the midst of the multitude, who, enchanted by the spirit of the young sovereign, re ceived him with enthusiastic acclamations. Their Majesties remained for more than three hours, so closely pressed on by the crowd that the horses could only proceed at a foot pace. The Emperor had laid aside the somewhat severe air which he had worn since he has been at Milan, and the Em press, who was much affected at the scene, saluted on all sides with a courtesy which won every heart. This popular manifestation has caused the opposi tion party to reflect, and many of those who a few days ago would not accept conciliation at any price now admit the complete possibility of it, if a ge neral amnesty be granted." 111 this is the wri ter's opinion ; the facts are quite contrary. As regards the amnesty, the correspondent observes— " It appears that this measure (the amnesty) has been fully decided on by the Emperor, and would have been published on the day after his arrival, but the Piedmont journals having announced that the Court of Turin made this amnesty the sine qua non condition of the visit of a prince of the House of a Savoy to Milan, the Emperor immediately decided on postponing the signing of the decree for the present." This assertion is absurd. The writer concludes :—"The Emperor to-day held the first Cabinet Council since he has been at Milan." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 22d instant publishes a bulletin ou the health of the Queen, who is con fined with measles. The Gazette adds that the state of the august patient presents no gravity. The journals announce that their Majesties will leave for Andalusia in the month of March. Their itinerary will include Grenada, Malaga, Cadiz, and Seville. The Madrid Gazette of the 18th contains a bando published by the Captain-General of Catalonia at Barcelona on the 14th, which declares that, having learned that the foes of order were trying to disturb tranquillity, by exciting workmen to make a de monstration in order to obtain work, he prohibits any demonstration, threatens to employ the armed force if one be made, and directs the citizens, , 4 in order to prevent lamentable misfortunes," t o go to their homes on the first summons. The other journals contain no political news. The Queen had ordered the tomb of the famous Captain Gon zalez of Cordova, at Granada, to be restored. Those of the ministerial party proclaim that " in all the provinces the most perfect tranquillity pre vails ;" and as a proof of it they mention that in the province of Valencia the peasants themselves had " done justice on" (it is not said how) "three men who were going about exciting the population not to pay them." According toother journals, however, four men had been sh o t i n the neighbourhood of Valencia, in virtue of the sentence of a court martial, for simple robbery, and at Borge, in the province of Malaga, there had been disturbances (no details of them are given). It was reported that some of the wheat purchased abroad by the government had turned out to be bad, and the government had ordered an investigation. Rooms had been prepared in one of the bar racks for General Prim during his approaching trial. The Gazette continues to record the recep tion by the Queen of addresses from bishops thank ing her Majesty for the service which her Govern ment has recently rendered to the Church. A letter from Madrid, in the Independanee of Brussels, says "Marshal Concha has recently made a tour through all the southern provinces of Spain. Oa his return here, some few days ago, he waited on the Queen, and explained to her Majesty all the dangers which, he declares, threatens the country and the reigning dynasty, in consequence of the system of policy at present adopted. He supported influential personages in his remarks by laying befthoree p t r h o e vi Q ue u e e e n letters , n whe from believe a revolution to be imminent. He made her Ma pwu was necessary another course,y cost a s otherwise security was not possible. The Queen je t comprehend and . without delay that to it is said to have shared in the opinion of the marshal, and to have said—' Satisfy yourself of the support of O'Don nell, and as soon as it can possibly be done, I will charge you with the composition of a new Ministry.' Marshal Concha hastened to pay a visit to the Count of Lucena, to whom he offered, if he would consent to give him his entire adhesion, the cho ice o f t wo Mi n i s t ers an d of the captains-general oaf M a d r id, B arce l ona , Sara gossa, and Seville. M arshal O'Donnell is inclined to accept these offers, and I think I may say that in the event of this project being realised, General Dulce will be named Captain-General of Barcelona. The consort of the Queen, on learning these details, was much annoyed, as he sees in Marshal Concha, supported by O'Donnell, an en emy. I cannot pretend to say how far the Queen will have energy enough to resist his influence. If Mar. shal Concha be called to the post of President of the Council revolution may be delayed for a little time, but it must arrive sooner or later. Marshal Concha in power is the moderate fraction represented by the Diario the ZUires lo an w as co n tracted. It is a shade more Espanol, w h ic h h as op p ose d th e Narvaez cabinet si n ce liberal, but not enough so to satisfy public opinion." The Espero of Turin announces that the Duchess of Pa rma i s about to enrol 900 y ou ng men for her army, to make up for the departure of th e Austrian troops. The PaI:MOSE) army is ultimately to be raised to 1,200 men. The King of Sardinia has ordered the formation of a battalion of workmen for the service of the administration of the army. It is to be divided into three companies, viz 2 one for hospital service, ono for the commissariat, and one for the depots. The Suisse of Berne says :—" The Federal Coun cil has announced to the Commander-in-Chief that the troops may be immediately sent back to their homes." Letters from Cairo state that the workmen selected for the p re li minary operations h.' the fresh wat er canal have set out for he ap pointed desti na ti on. executing their MlNEs.—Notwitihstandino. the Great Wheal Alfind d question has absorbed rouch'of the time and attention in i the dealers the market, a very large business has been transacted since our last, and the demand for good mines would seem to increase, whilst important improvements in several mines coming all at once have caused a con siderable rise in prices. We are glad to see, moreover, that the committee of the Stock Exchange have resolved at last to admit British dividend and progressive mince into the Offi c i al List, and thus open out a new market for these s ecur i t i es. We have often expressed our sur prise that they s h ould PO long have refused to do sot especially as almost every foreign scheme has found ready admittance to it. Basset shares have been in de 'nand, and the price advanced to 300, to 305 ; North Basset also in demand, at 35i to 36, owing to an im provement in the 42, west of Grace's shaft, where th e to .e had been for some time poor, but now worth 4 i tons of ri c h ore per fm, w hil st generally the mine a said to look well.—Mining Journal of this day. Oa die, that all other gossip about Ministerial ar‘• rangements has been distilled th roug h th e a l em bic of the servants' hall.