The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-15 00:00:00

NOTICE is hereby given, that by an indenture, 1 bearing date the 16th day of November, 1857, I and expressed to be made between George Taylor Stewart, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Draper, of the first part ; William Godfrey Mason and William Hirst, both of the city of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Merchants, of the second part ; and the several other persons whose names and seals are thereunto subscribed and affixed, being creditors in their own right sole'y, or in co-partnership with others, of the said George Taylor Stewart, or agents of such credi tors, of the third part; the said George Taylor Stewart con veyed and assigned all his real and personal estate and effects (except the necessary wearing apparel of himself, his wife, and children) to the said William Godfrey Mason and William Hirst, their he;rs, executors, administrators, and assigns, upon certain trusts, for the benefit of the said William Godfrey Mason and William Hirst, and their part ners, if any, and the other persons parties to the said inden ture, of the third part ; a nd the said indenture was executed by the said George Taylor Stewart, on the day of the date thereof, and was afterwards on the same day executed by the said William Godfrey Mason and William Hirst, and such execution thereof by the said George Taylor Stewart, William Godfrey Mason, and William Hirst, was attested by 11Johni Bagshaw the younger , of +Manchester, aforesaid, solicitor ; and the said indenture now lies at the office of Mr. Joshua Crowther, Accountant, 52, George-street, Man chester, for execution by th e cre dit ors of the said George Taylor Stewart, who have not yet executed the same. R MAJESTY'S THEATRE, GREAT CLASSICAL CONCERTS. Positively the Last Night but Four, The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH This Evening a Mendelssohn Night. Vocalist, lifadlle. Jetty Treffs —Violin, M. Remenyi. Pianoforte, Miss A. Goddard. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY, December the 15th), will be produced the New Grand Descriptive Composition, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HA.V BLOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH, performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia; and " God Save the Queen." The magnificent decorations which were prepared for the Bal Masque will remain during the continuance of these Con vects. The whole theatre will be ornamented with wreaths and garlands of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. The decorations have been prepared by Messrs. Chabot and Co., who were ci'arged with the decorations for the grand ball at the reception of the Emperor Napoleon 111. at Stuttgart, and who were engaged, at a great expence, for the express Purpose of arranging at her Majesty's Theatre a display which will be seen for the first tine in this country. The Concert will commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of Admission—Promenade, ls ; Upper Foxes, ls. ; Gallery, ls. • Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. and upw ards. Prospectuses, with full particulars, may be had at the Box office of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. M. Jullien begs to announce that his Annual Benefit will take place To-morrow (Wednesday.) TTE R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — M. JIILLIEN'S GRAND BAL DiAS Q IT E.—ln consequence of the great success of the Pal Masque, M. Jullien will give a SECOND, and positively the Last this season, at the end of the Second Series of Concerts, on MONDAY, Dec. 21.—Applications to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARICET, Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL M3TCH. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White, an Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new farce, by the author of Box and Cox, entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstoue will sustain an original ch under. To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price, s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit... Lower Gallery 1 0 veer Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 VNo half-price to Upper Gallery. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The public is respectfully informed that the play of RICHARD THE SECOND will short]? he withdrawn, and WILL NOT BE AGAIN REPRESENTED in this Theatre, with the exception of a few nights towards the ex piration cf Mr. C. Kean's period of management. It will be repeated every evening during the week, and on Wednesday next, 16th inst., for the 100th time. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed S'Aakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen, by Mr?. C. Kean. Preceded by a new farce., in one act, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. T HEA'T'RE ROYAL, &DELPHI, Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EvENING, will be performed TILE GREEN in which Madame Celeste, Mr, Wright, and Mr. Peal Bedford will perform. Followed by the original Apropos Sketch, entitled THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India 1 Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss Mary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under Vie joint management of Miss LOUISA I'YNE and Mr. W. HARRISON. THIS EVENING, will be pc formed Baines new opera, THE ROSE OF C ,STILLE. Characters by Miss Lou'sa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prcs,:ott, Mr. Weiss, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, Wr. Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, M.% Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. 4; Honey an 1 Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, .£2 12s. 61, £2 2e., and £1 lle. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Ciree, as. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. • Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, le.—The Box /Mee is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Mesgrs. Rob3on and Enadm. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original tmmedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT BROMPTON? Mr. Robson, &c. After which, LEADING STRINGS. To conclude with BO )TS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Robson, 21r. H. Wigan, and Mrs. Emden. Commune at half-Last Seven. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswier. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION or, The Throne and the Tomb. After which, THE BARRISTER. To conclude with WELLINGTON FIGGS. CANTERBURY HALL, Waltinin;3ter-roal. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow• ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S'lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dr.c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, Bru nell, and Madame Mariettl.; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. ?arrant, S. To J. Earker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Him°, and lir. St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critelvield, and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY -Morn., 3 min. aft. I—Even., 25 min aft. 1 To-2foßaoW--Aforn., 43 min. aft. I—Even., 1 min. aft. 2 THE EVE OTHER—SUN orna2, DECEMBER 15. TRERMO3fETER, IN TIIE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 52 —this day at noon. BABONETZB. 30.16---failing. WIND, S.W. ; rather fresh, with dull mild weather. 4) ,L. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 15, 1857. The public interest at this moment is m ainly directed towards Lucknow. There it is that English women and children are still assailed by diabolical wretches, anxious to destroy them with everydegree o f ignominy and cruelty that could enter into the most depraved imaginations—in fact, to ha ve ar epetition of the Cawopore atrocities on as enlarged scale. This was fortunately ren dered impossible by EL ANET. --ocK and 017 TRAM, who ca me to the relief with a desperate resolution that eclipsed all their former exploits, determined either to share the fate of the fugitives and their protectors England vi o ld h e —apart from the ordinary : or to perish with them. u , iudee3 mourn any catastrop oasualties of war—that might happen to that hero or to the faithful garrison who so patiently a n d devotedly resisted all th 3 odda that could b e brought against them by the whol© power cf the rebels We have, however, the pleasure of inserting this day a letter from a young officer at Lucknow, written on the 27th of October, in the happy an d joyous spirit befitting a true soldier sans pear) e / sans reproche. Lieutenant NlJorsom seems to be just the sort of man required for the serviv, one with whom we should wish t) be associated at feast or fray, Re gives a graphic and cheer ing description of the position occupied by the relieving force, under HAVELOCK and O 1 TRAM. He says—"We relieved Lucknow from its instant peril, and are now ourselves occupying a more extended position in the town, blockaded with the garrison." After trying to alleviate the natural apprehensions of some who have friends at Lucknow, he goes on to show that there is no danger of failure either of provisions or ammunition, the only possible dangers that were to be dreaded. He says, in his own felicitous style,—" We have grub abundant, ammunition, good quarters, plenty of fighting men, stout hearts, and our GOD on our side ; on the other, our enemy numerous, but cowardly, with a scarcity of iron and lead for guns. Had we not many women and children, and sick and wounded, we could walk out of the town at any moment. As it is, we can hold our own and steadily make small advances until reinforcements arrive." As he truly declares, the stout-hearted fighting men could walk out at any moment, but for the women and children, the sick and wounded. These could not be abandoned ; and now that GRANT and GREATIIED have arrived with 5,000 men at Alumbagh, and that the "CAMPBELL'S are coming" in good earnest, Sir CoLIN himself being at their head, there is but little real danger. We await patiently, but confidently, the glad tidings of new victories that will crush the in surrection at Lucknow and all through Oude, as completely as it has already been suppressed at Delhi, and that will give the "Arch-Demon," NANA SAHIB, the exemplary punishment he so pre-eminently merits. Another letter from, or rather relating to, Lucknow appeared in our impression of yesterday, which we would earnestly commend to, public consideration. It is a letter from a lady, one of those fugitives about whom the people of the United Kingdom are so deeply solicitous. As the letter of Lieutenant MOORSOM was that of a gal lant young officer—just what it ought to be , —the one under notice was from a true hearted Englishwoman, who proved herself to be a real help to those engaged in the defence. It is on© that ought to be written in letters of gold, and deposited in the national archives, as it would have been during the reign of Caliph HAROUN ALRASCHID, of glorious memory. Never have we perused anything more plaintively touching than the ac count of the feelings with which the first notes of " the blessed pibroch" were hailed by the ex hausted garrison. The fair writer says : " On every side death stared 113 in the face ; no human skill could avert it any longer. We saw the moment approach when we must bid farewell to earth, yet without feeling that unutterable hor ror which must have bean experienced by the unhappy victims at Cawnpora. We were resolved rather to die than to yield, and were fully persuaded that in twenty-four hours all would he over. The engineers had said so, and all knew the worst. We women strove to encourage each other, and to perform the light duties which bad been as signed to us, such as conveying orders to the batteries and supplying the men with provisions, especially cups of coffee, which we prepared day and night." Poor JES'SIE BROWN, whose name will long survive, first heard the joyous sounds. Her hear ing had been sharpened to the utmost extent by the extremity of peril, and while others were un able to distinguish the distant sounds, she recog nised the heart-inspiring notes of the highland slogan, proving that bravo and faithful men bad indeed come to the rescue in the dark hour of trial, when the world and all it contained were I rapidly passing away. We shall use the beautiful language of the writer—simplex munditiis. She speaks of her comparatively humble companion—dear good JESSIE—at the first indication. The scene is thus described :—" A look of intense delight broke over her countenance, she grasped my hand, drew me towards her, and exclaimed ' Dinna 3e hear it 1 dinna ye hear it ? Ay, I'm no drennite, it's the slogan, o' the Highlanders ! We're saved, we're saved !' Then, flinging herself on her knee 4, she thanked Gad with passionate fervour. I felt utterly bewildered : my English ears heard only the roar of artillery, and I thought my poor Jessie was still raving, but ale darted to the batteries, and I heard her cry incessantly to the men, ' Cnirage ? coarage I hark to the slo gen—to the Macgregor, the grandest of them a'. Here's help at last l' To describe the effect of these words upon the soldiers would be impossible. For a moment they ceased firing, and every soul lis tened in intense anxiety. Gradually, however, there arose a murmur of bitter disappointment, and the wailing of the women who had flocked out anew as the colonel shook Lis head. Our dull low land ears heard nothing bnt the rattle of the mus ketry. A few moments more of this deathlike suspense, of this agonising hope, and Jessie who had again sunk on the ground, sprang to her feet, and cried in a voice so clear and piercing that it was heard along the whols line—" Will yo no believe it noo 1 The slogan has ceased, in deed, bat "the Campbells are comin' 1" D'ye hear, d'ye hear t' At that moment we seemed indeed to hear the voice of God in the distance, when the pibroch of the Highlanders brought us tidings of deliverance, for now there was no longer any doubt of the fact. That shrill, penetrating, ceaseless sound, which role above all other sounds, could come neither from the advance of the enemy, nor from the work of the Sappers. No, it was indeed the blast of the Scottish bagpipes, now shrill and harsh, as threatening vengeance on the foe, then in softer tones seeming to promise succour to their friends in need. Never surely was there such a scene as that which followed. Not a heart in the residency of Lucknow but bowed itself before God. All, by one simultaneous impulse, fell upon their knees, and nothing was heard but bursting sobs and the murmured voice of prayer. Then all arose, and there rang out from a thousand lips a great shout of joy which resounded far . and wide, and lent new vigour to that blessed pibroch. To our cheer of " God save the Queen," they replied by the well-known strain that moves every Scot to tears, `Should auld acquaintance be forgot. " We cannot add anything to this perfect descrip tion. Never was there more cheering music than the tones of that " blessed pibroch." It told of home and happtness—of prolonged life and prosperity, which that amiable lady well deserved, and which we earnestly hope poor JESSIE BROWN may also enjoy. Those brave Highlanders should receive a suitable ovation on their return. They have well earned the °tie/ m cum dignitate on their return home. There is not a single man of HAVELOCK'S band who ought not to receive the Victoria Cross, accompanied by a Pension sufficient to support the honours so nobly acquired. A 3 we anticipated—(vide our impression of Wednesday, the 9th of December)—the Extra ordinary Session of 1857 has collapsed, leaving nothing behind it but the miserable pro forma else is coolly given e g d—is comfortably Bill o go f_l b n y df is ni a ty d . roi E ti v y •ery sh thi elv n the cushioned. Ministers want to have a pleasant holiday ; and, therefore, they postpone all annoy ances until that political To-morrow—February. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Leader of her Majesty's Opposition—certainly not very unrea sonably solicitous about this period of emergency —requests the merest hiat as to the intentions of the Government. And lo ! he is complacently, not to say impertinently, recommended by the First Lord of the Jokery, as Mr. DICKENS, once upon a time very happily dubbed the Prime Minister : the Leader of a great Party—the Chief of the Conservative Opposition—is flippantly re commended by Lord PALMERSTON to entertain himself, as he best may, during the Christmas Recess with—his own—speculations ! With the weightiest responsibilities pressing all the while upon the Cabinet, both commercial and colonial, in reference to the state of the currency, and in reference to the revolt in Hindostan ! With the heart of the country sore, and the mind of the people troubled, and the iron of calamity entered deep into the soul of this great empire—not a glimpse vouchsafed in any one direction of anything in the shape even of the most sha dowy hope of our ultimate extrication from exist ing difficulties We are as contentedly as we can to entertain ourselves during this miserably anxious winter— for the words are addressed, of course, through Mr. DISRAELI to the whole population—with our own " speculations 1" The very phrase seems iro nical ! For it is surely the exact course recently pursued by so many mercantile firms to the verge, in several instances over the verge, of the Preci pice of Ruin—this course of amusing themselves with their own speculations ! Parliament has now actually adjourned until the inevitable political Tomorrow—February. And nothing is left us but this Bill of Indemnity, and , two or three of these preposterous committees ! Nothing is explained. Everything is postponed. Parliamentary Reform—lndian Reform—Cur rency Reform : all these are left as extremely hard nuts to crack over the Yule log during Christmas. Our Administrators refuse even to make a clean breast of it upon comparatively subordinate matters (important, some of them, vitally important, subjects of inquiry, but, compa ratively speaking, subordinate)—Ministers, we say, refuse as doggedly and good-humouredly as that honest old rascal JACK FALSTAFF himself, to ex plain—upon compulsion ! Precisely in this way have they acted in regard to the " vexed question" of the Transport of our Troops to the far away Indian Battlefield. All they consent to do is—in February—to allow the com mittee of Inquiry peremptorily demanded by the Hon. and Gallant Member for Westminster. Yes 1 we may Inquire, and Inquire, and Inquire—in February—through another of these absurd and interminablet Committees. Ministers have no objection to that—in February. But—in the meantime they wish it to be distinctly understood that they are not the least in the world at fault in regard to this affair about the transport of our Troops to Hindustan. Hear what Mr. VER NON SMITH has to say upon the subject—only , hear him ! Why that Right Hon. Gentleman condescends to tell us among other things—in a pet —that, As to sending troops to India by way of Suez, the Minister who advised such a course es that, would have been deserving of Impeachment ! That, As to its being the shortest way it was really nothing whatever of the kind—it was just of all the ways the very longest—(Of course, precisely upon the same principle that a straight line is a circumbendibus !) That, Even if it were the shortest way the perils of the Overland Route were altogether something really very appalling ! Had Hon. Gentlemen ever crossed the de. sert themselves ? And so forth ! Now this last argument of all is to us really, of all, the least endurable. It is the ap plication in times of crisis of the new fangled notion that soldiers, when making a campaign, should be coddled as tenderly as a parcel of in valid young ladies in a boarding-school, wrapped up in flannel, and nouriehel with caudle, and com forted with whey, and, generally speaking, laid up in lavender ! A system of things against which, we doubt not, the manly heart of tha British soldier':revols with indignation. No ! whatever Mr. VERNON SMITH may say, and however coolly the whole matter may be pitchforked over to that hypothetical Committee in February—there is not one moment's doubt in the public mind, but that Minis ters have in this very affair, ab,-.ait the transport of our troops India-wards, been monstrously at fault, not simply at fault, but at fault monstrously! That they ought to have been despatched to the seat of war, to the arena of the revolt at once, and by the most direct way, and that that most direct way was incontestibly through Egypt, across the Isthmus of Suez! That they ought to have been despatched, moreover, ou board screw steam transports, instead of on board sailing vessels—no matter how clearly Mr. VERNON SMITH and his colleagues may be able to explain to themselves (to their own satis faction) that two and two make three —or, in other words, that not only i 3 the road to India via Suez the longest way thither, but that the slowest of all means of transit is that by means of steam communication. Finally, to condense the whole matter into a very few words—England is perfectly satisfied that Ministers (whatever they may say to the contrary) are very seriously to blame indeed, in net having sent the troops out to India by the quickest and the shortest way, by the very route upon which, of all routes, they ought in reason to have been forthwith hastened by a really patriotic Government. Another thing let us add : Englishmen recognise still, of course, as perfectly constitutional, the old time-honoured axiom, that "The KING can do no wrong." But the application of that axiom to Ministers, the transfer of its deep inner meaning from the Crown to the Cabinet, we are all of us entirely agreed to be not a jot less absurd than unconstitutional. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Dxc. 14. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen is Waiting, went to Whippingham Church yesterday morning, where the Rev. G. Prothero performed the service. Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, Royal Engineers, returned to Alverbank this morning. A deputation from the Cotton Supply Association of Manchester, consisting of Mr. Edmund Ashworth, vice president, and Mr. Whitworth, the secretary, had an interview with the Esrl of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign-office. The deputation was introduced and ac• •companied by Mr. James Aspinall Turner, M.P., and Mr. John Cheethaiu, M.P. C)Ionel Talbot had an interview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere yesterday at the Colonial office. A deputation from the Victoria Docks and vicinity, relative to the police, transacted business yesterday at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Drew ( Victoria Dock Company), Mr. Wise (Thames Ironworks), and Messrs. Harvey, Brown, .Barrett, Cunningham, Branscombe, Heritage, and Morgan. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal (the La Plata), High Cart ot Admiralty, was heard. The Lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir J. Dodson, and Sir W. Maule. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial• office from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labuan, land the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian lilandp. Despatches were sent to the Governor . of the Cape of Good Hope. 111 E SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y T EVENING, D,ECE , \IIBER 15, 18N7 A. Cabinet Council was hell yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing- Atreet. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmer- Bton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. S3cretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baing. The Duke of Newcastle returned to town yesterday, from visiting Frances CounteFs Waldegrave, and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. His Grace left last evening for Clamber Park, Notts. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will leave town on Thursday for Kimbolton CastlA, Hants. The Marchioness of Exeter is still progressing favour ably at her mansion in Grosvenor-square. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. —The Hon. Eleanor Alexandrina Fraser, sister of Alexander, 17th Lord Saltoun, is about to be married to Mr. Henry Forester, first cousin of Lord Forester, and nephew of the Duke of Cleveland. The marriage, already an nounced, of the Hon. Mr. B.ist, eldest son of Lord Wynford, with Miss Baillie, daughter of Mr. and Lady Georgians Baillie, will take place on Thursday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. TEE SIAMESE AMBASSADORS IN MANCHESTER.—The Siamese ambassadors and their suites arrived in Man chester at 5 o'clock last evening (Sunday), from Birming ham, and they are staying at the Queen's Hotel. This morning, they will proceed to visit some of our principal manufactories and other establishments ; and they will be accompanied by Ivie Mackie, Esq., the mayor. They will probably remain in this city several days.—M an. chester Guardian. The Brussels Independence mentions a report that M. E. de Girardin will perhaps be a candidate for one of the vacant seats for Paris. TODA.OOO AND SNUFF.—Yesterday, according to a return printed, the duty on tobacco and snuff in the year ending the 31st March last was 5,210,116/. The Recordship of Poole, rendered vacant by the appointment of Mr. Hodges to the Cape, has been con ferred on Mr. Wm. Major Cooke, of the Western Cir cuit and Hampshire Sessions. LIVERPOOL,I MONDAY. The notorious Madame " Annie,' who pleaded guilty, at the Liverpool Sessions on Friday, of keeping an improper house, was this day sentenced by the Recorder to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and a fine of 251. A NOBLEAIN'S LIVING FOB SALL—Lord Comber mere's vicarage of Auction], Cheshire, is to be sold by auction. The income which is ,arrived from commuted tithes amounts to 6701. a-year. The population is 2,000, and the present incumbent is under 60 years of age. Herwald Wake, the young magistrate cf Arrah, whose name has been before the public in connection with the heroic defence of the rendency at that post, and who was honourably mentioned by Major Eyre in his despatches , is the fourth son of Sir Charles Wake, Bart., of Northamptonshire, and nephew of the Bishop of London. ALLOWANCES TO TIIN ROYAL FAMlLY.—Yesterday a Parliamentary paper sho wed that in the year ended March last the allowances made to several members of the royal family and to the Kings amounted to 153,7501. No part is paid to the Kug of the Belgians, but, after certain annuities, it is resaid into the Exchequer. The sum so repaid was 31.0301. NEW YORK, Dec. I.—A committee of inquiry into the cause of the Central America steamer reports it to have been general carles.ness and a want of discipline on board. Tee engineer, it seems, was quite independent of the captain, and his department let the fires go out. The passengers saved reported at the time that the stokers and firennen were drunk, but the committee does not confirm it. DETERMINED ATTEMIT AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday a most determined attempt at self-destruction was made by James Lutstone, Esq., of the Avenue-road, Regent's Park. Mr. LT stone Learing a heavy foil in her hus band's dressing-room hastened to ascertain the cause, when she found Mr. Lutstone lying on the floor bleed leg from a frightful gash in his throat. Surgical as sistance was obtained, bat he is not expected to survive. IRISH ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.—The sale in the Encumbered Estates Court of the vast estates of the late Marquis of Thomond has been completed, and the gross amount realised each oav stood thus :—First day, 56,5401. ; second day, 67,9051. ; third day, 100,8311. ; to which is to be added the sum produced by the lots sold by private contrast, 131,4011. Rostellan Castle and demesne, part of the Cork estate, was put up o❑ Thursday, but the sale was adjourned when the biddings had reached 21,5001., or about 21 years' purchase on a valuation of 1,0091. a-year. PERILOUS POSITION.—A Russian vessel, lasien with cern, was driven into the Bay of Tremors about 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, and has anchored about a ;quarter of a mile from the shore, opposite the Rabbit-borough. Such is the awful agitation of the sea, that it is as yet quite impossible to hold any communi cation with her. A. pilot boat from Dunmore endea voured to near her, but found it impossible to do se, such is the tremendous violence of the gale blowing from the south,7est. It is feared she will be driven ashore before morning.— Waterford Mail. THE CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Presse d'Orient, of the lst inst., contains the following :—" The first dragoman of the Porte requests us, by order of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to publish the following note It is severely forbidden to the journals to publish articles, letters, or news which shall not have been previously submitted to the censorship. In case of contravention, theme journals will be punished by a suspension for a period more or less long, according to the gravity of the case.' " THEATRICAL APPEARANCE. Yesterday Alfred St. Albyn, a vocali , t at the Lyceum Theatre, appeared be fore Mr. Commissioner Phillips on application for his final order. There was no opposition. The case cams before the court on a former occasion. The insolvent had entered into a speculation t 3 give operatic entertain mente in the province., and estimated that be bad sus• tained a loss of 1 . 5001. in actual money, which he bad expended, and, having some debts, he applied to the court under the Protection Act. The Commissioner granted the final order, and the insolvent received his protection. DIOCESE 05' LONDON. —Zia Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. J. P. `Val 10, 8.A., formerly curate of Trinity Church, Gosport, to the incumbency of St. James's Church, Hampstead-road, vacant by the pre ferment of the Rev. Dr. Stebbing to the rectory of St. Mary Somerset, Tnatnee-street ; the Rev. D. Trinder, 8.A., late curate of St. Paul's Church, Oxford, to the incumbency of Twickenham, on the nomination of the Earl of Bradford ; the Rev. W. B. Cricketer, 8.A., late curate of St. John's, Deptford, to the curacy of the parish church of St. Marylebone, on the nomination of the Rev. C. J. Phipps Eyre, M.A. ; and the Rev. C. F. Milner, 8.A., to the cur acy of St, Matthew's Church , Spring-gardens. THE NEXT ZEALAND GOLDPIELDS.—The reports from the Nelson goldfields continue as satisfactory as ever. The gold is evidently scattered over a large district, and although difficult to be worked is obtained in large quan tities, while its quality is highly spoken of. The in fluence of the diggings was beginning to make itself felt ' in the other province., and the number of persons deck. I ing to them from all qearters in the colony was 16rgely on the increase, much to the annoyance of the employers of labour and to the perplexity of those provinces which had voted large sums for immigration, and were getting , alarmed lest their money should have been devoted only to swell the numbers at the gold fields. Still, as the crowd there must be fed, it was expected that a very valuable market would be opened, to the great benefit of the agricultural producers who, with those who were supplying the wants of the miners, ware likely to reap a better return than even the latter themselves.— ustralian and New Zealand Gazette. THE AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN RIDERS.—As none of the rivers in this part-of the globe have salmon inhabiting their amt.:re, we understand a trial is to be made to transport either the ova or the fiA3, and the superintendent of the fishings at Perth has been con sulted upon the best method for effecting that object. The ova of fish that live and spawn in still water we imagine would not be difficult to carry almost any dis tance, bnt ova which require running , streams to .hatoh in will need a vast amount of attention bestowed ,on them to insure success. Transporting the adult salmon caught on its way to the sea, or even the emoult, and confining them in a well in the ship, is the most likely method of succeeding, but even hers the temperature of the water in crossing the line would require to be lowered by artificial means. From 60 to 70 days may be considered as an average passage, an d few salmon remain as long a s that at one time in salt water.— Glasgow Daily m a il. 1:10W TO GET THROUGH BUSINESS.---Dunningt when in the full flush of celebrity at the bar, was asked bow ha managed to get through such an accumulation of business. He replied, " Soma I do, some does itself, and the rest is never done at all." In answer to a simi. lar question, De Witt said, •" I do but one thing at a time." WITTY REVENGE.—A story. is told of the revenge taken by a N an t uc k et ship-master against a United States Consul, who was very rarely to be found in his office, although upon• - his sign we re the words, "In from 10 to one." The indignant captain, after trying to find the Consul several days without success, took a paint bruih and a lt ere d the official's sig n, so that i t read, " ten to one he is not is." A QUESTION.-_A witness, que-tioned as to his station of life) said, "I employ myself a s a surgeon." Lord Eilenborough—"DJes any one else employ you as a surgeon." MAKING GAME 01' A LADY. —A gentleman compli. mooted a lady on h er i mpr oved appearance. "You are guilty of flattery," said the lady. "Not so," replied the gentleman, "for I vow 37( u are as plump as a partridge!" "At first," said th e lady, ' I thought you guilty of flattery only, but nv I find you are actually making yante of me." A TELLING "lady" asks the Portland Adver tiser (State of Maine) to requeet those clergymen who preach against silk s an d sa tins, not to wear black satin vests, or lift their arms so high as to display the silk linings in their sleeves. THE ORIGIN OF So ft gowS.—We fancy that all our afftctions are sent us direct'y from above, sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener iu morose ness and discontent. It would be well, however, if we attempted to trace the causes of them ; we should pro bably find their origin in some region of the heart which we bad never well explored, or in which we had secretly deposited our worst induleenciee. The clouds that inter cept the heavens from um come not from the heavens, 1 but from the earth,—W, S. Lcouier• LATEST NEWS THE CRISIS AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, MONDAY EVENING. The financial crisis at Hamburg is terrible. The 30,000,000 appropriated by the Senate to the partial alleviation of the distress will barely suffice to assist some insolvent firma, whose ruin must have pulled down a multitude of small traders. A despatch just received from Copenhagen in forms us that the Danish Council of State has autho rised. the Minister Herr Krieger to bring in a bill for a loan of 300,0001. sterling, at 8 per cent., secured on the finances of the whole kingdom. TURIN, DEC. 14. The opening of the session has just taken place. The King was received with enthusiasm by the Parliament, as well as by the people, who crowded around him in his progress. The return to an uniform rate of discount at 6 per cent. is thought to be at hand. CHINA. A letter from Hong Kong of the 27th Oct. in the ' Moniteur says : "The Audacieuse frigate, having on board Baron Gros, the Ambassador Extraordinary of France, arrived at Castle Peak Bay, at the mouth of the river of Canton, on the 14th inst., and was received with a salute of 19 guns by the Nemesis frigate, bearing the flag of Admiral Riganit de Genouilly, all the other vessels at the same time manning yards and giving three cries of ' Vive rEmpereur.' On the following day the commanding officers of the different vessels of the squadron west on board the Nemesis, and were presented by the admiral to the ambassador/Salo had come from the Audaciewe for the purpose of receiving them. After this presenta tion Baron Gros, accompanied lay the admiral, went to Macao to pay a visit to M. de Bourbolon, the French minister, and on landing was ealutsd by the Portuguese battery. On the morning of the 17th Baron Gros went to Hong Kong, where he met with the warmest recep tion from the English authorities. Before the Auda cieuse had cause to an anchor she was saluted with nineteen guns by the flag-ship of Admiral Seymour, and a similar compliment was paid by another English vessel, an American frigate, and a Dutch corvette. Baron Gros immediately proceeded on board the Ava to visit Lord Elgin, and remained for several hours in conference with the English Envoy. In the course of the day Lord Elgin and Admiral Seymour re turned the visit on board the Audacieue, where all the commanding officers of the different vessels of war and the foreign consuls also went to pay their respects. When B iron Gros landed to pay a visit to the governor he was received at the quay by Sir John Bo wring. All the troops of the garrison were underarms, and a salute of 19 guns was fired from ,the fort. On the following morning, Sir John Bowring and Gen. Ashburnham re turned the visit on board the Audacicuse. Before leaving Hong Kong Baron Gros was present at a grand dinner given in honour of his arrival by the governor of the colony. The banquet was attended by all the principal civil and military authorities of the place and the commanders of the French vessels in the fort. At the dessert Sir J. Bowring proposed the health of the Emperor of the French, which was returned by Baron Gres giving that of Qieen Victoria. After remaining for five days at Hoeg Kong, Baron Gros returned to Castle Peak Bay to rejoin the French squadron." The Czas of Cracow, in an article on the quarrel existing between the Western Powers and China, expresses the opinion that Russia will endeavour to derive advantages from it by putting herself for wa, d as mediatrix ; and that even it she employes hostilities against China she will do so i=olatedly, in order to be able to treat apart and obtain the greatest advantage possible for herself. The;Czas remarks the, by the corps (name° which she maintains on the frontiers of China, and the rela tions she has in Great Mongolia, she is in a bitter position with regard to China than the Western Powers ; and that that position will be better still if, as is expected, the Emperor of China should retire to Mantchouria, in order not to receive the Western ambassadors. The Czas states that be fore the conflict between China and England had arisen Russia had offered the Chinese Emperor a body of troops to assist in quelling the rebellion. It adds that General Korsakeff, commander of the Russian troops on the Chinese frontier, and Gen. Mouravieff, Governor of Eastern Siberia, have been summoned to St. Petersburg to concert on the line of action to be followed ; and that a frigate and six screw corvettes have been sent to reinforce the Russian squadron of the Pacific Ocean. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. Advices from Pondicherry to the i6th ult. an nounce that the situation of the French establish ments in India continues to be excellent. The garrison of the town has been increased by half a company of marines, who assisted the sepoys in maintaining order. Since the disturbances iu the English possessions, the native troops in the ser vice of France have been throughout remarkable for their fidelity and good conduct. It is said that at the commencement of the insurrection, Fakirs, acting as agents to the Bengal insurgents, proposed to the sepoys to revolt, but they refused, saying that they were perfectly well treated by the French who paid them liberally, and who respected ti.eir families, their customs, and their religion. The brig Nisus continued to be anchored in the road stead.. A Spanish schooner which arrived in the night of the 14th had reported that in a squall on the coast of Coromandel on the 13th, two Fret:A merchant ships, the Eugene and the Grand Bey, were lost, but that their crews had succeeded in reaching Nellore, a town about twelve miles from Madras. It is again announced for the twentieth time that M. Thouvenel will visit Paris during the present month on leave of absence. He has long desired to return to Fiance on urgent privatebusiness, but has been hitherto prevented by political matters. An engineer attached to the Austrian navy has arrived here. He has been appointed to superin tend the cons'ruction of four screw ships of war for the stations of Trieste, Venice, and Pb!a; and it is said he intends visiting previously thedcckyards of France and England. The Paris and Orleans Company have nearly completed the section from St. Germain des Fosses to Roanne. The works of i the line from Caen to Cherbourg areadvancing rapidly . It is an nounce d that the inauguration will take place on the Ist July next. The rairway from Lyons to Gene v a is to be opened through its entire length on the 25th of January for goods trains, and on the 2d of March for travellers. Much depression continues among the trading classes in Paris and the deparbments, although no failures of any note have been announced. BOURSE, Dec. 14.—The following were the last quotations t-- Cash. tr. End of month. 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 66 50 66 70 Bank Shares 3140 Credit Foncier 590 Credit Mobilier 730 Roman B6 Do. Account 722 50 Austrian Belgian 41 — Spanish Threes — Fiedmontese (5) B9l— home Debt RA6eitis—roß Clam. tr. c. fr c. Orleans 12971— Midi - 5221 Northern New Ditto 760 Strasburg Lyonsand Med B42h— Grand Central New Ditto... Geneva 635 Austrian Corn. ....« 680 THE PRINCIPAL' I lES. Intelligence has been received frqpi Jassy and Bucharest to the let, from which it appears that, the firman of the Porte closing the session of the Divans was an act perfectly regular in its nature, and not interrupting in any way the labours or dered by the congress of Paris. At Jassy,. the Divan at the above date had named commissions to consider the series of questions set down on its order of the day relative to the internal organisa tion of the country. It was at that time expected that the sittings could terminate in about ten days. At Bucharest, the Divan, after having come to the determination not to express an opinion on any question except these included in the four points of the national programme, had separated without any day being fixed for their next meeting, their act amounting in fact to an unlimited prorogation. From the advanced position of the labours of these two bodies, therefore, it is quite clear that the fir man of the Porte only confirms officially , a state of things already existing. As to the question of the firman having obtained the assent of the powers which signed the treaty of Paris, every thing leads to the belief that they fully approve the course adopted by the Porte. It is even said that the cabinets, chlrgei with the solution of the problems connected with the reorganisation of the Principalities, have come to an arrangement on the principal bases of the determinations to be adopted at the approaching conference of Paris. The Divans having accomplished their mission, and transmitted the result of their labours to the European commissioners, these latter can, in their turn, leave, the Principalities, and communicate their observations to the committee of inquiry opened.on the subject of the wants of the Danubian provinces. The period of their departure, it is supposed, will be about the end of the present month ; and soon after, the meeting of the pleni potentiaries at Paris will take place. SERITIA. A letter from Belgrade of the 6th says :—" Sena tor Garaschanin, who has been7residing some time at Paris, has arrived here, and is about to under take the presidency of the Senate in the room of Alexis Simich, resigned. Dissensions continue to exist between our Government and the Porte, but the latter appears determined to maintain its rights of suzerainty in Servia more energetically than iu the other principalities ; and as the Government is no longer supported by' the national party, it i.i too weak to offer opposition—besides the French and Russian agents support the parties opposed to it." A letter from Koutais states that the funeral of Prince Gagariue, who was lately murdered by a native chief, took place on the 9th in that town with the greatest pomp, all the civil and military authorities, deputations of all classes of society, with banners, and of all the public bodies ; being present, together with a vast number of spectators. The religious service over the body was celebrated by the Bishop of Imeretia, assisted by all the clergy of Koutais, in the church of St. Michael, and the body was deposited in a vault in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, the building of which was commenced by the deceased, and is not yet terminated. SWEDEN. A letter from Christiana, in the Hamburg Borsenhalle, says : _ _ " MM.Homann and Halow left on the Bth inst. for England to negotiate, if possible, a loan of 1,000,000 rix dollms. " Three manufactories and two Custom-houses have been destroyed by fire at Hammerfest. The loss is estimated at between 30,000 and 40,000 rix dollars. The property was partly insured." HOLSTEIN AND LAUENBURG. A letter from Brunswick, of the 9th, in the Con stitictionnel, says :—" A fresh intervention in the affairs of the Duchies has somewhat unexpectedly arisen. The Cabinet of Berlin has been informed diplomatically that tOs Russian Minister at Copen hagen has presented a note to the Danish Cabinet which sets forth these points in very explicit terms: —That the Cabinet of St. Petersburg cannot longer .remain a simple spectator of a difference which, if prolonged, will inevitably end in creating the great est difficulties and even positive dangersin the midst of Europe; that the German governments have al ways prominently displayed in the question a very marked spirit of prudence and conciliation—an ex ample happily imitated by the reserve, full of mode ration, ofthe Germanic Diet ; and that it is now the turn of Denmark to think seriously of making real concessions, so as to show regard for the recent very courteous proceedings of the Germanic Diet towards the cAbinet of Copenhagen. The note, however, declares that in the eyes of Russia the question under discussion in nowise affects the rights of Denmark over Sleswick, which she thinks ought to be completely separated from that relative to the duchies of Holstein and Lauenbu . rg. It also declares tha the Emparor Alexander in the line of conduct which he has resolved on adopting is influenced only by a sentiment of justice arising from the calm examination which ha has made of the question ; and that consequently no selfish I interests can be ascribed to the Russian govern ment." HAMBURG. A letter of Hamburg of the 11th, in the Debats, says :—" Within the" last few days bills to the amount of from eight to nine millions have been protested, which wore drawn by Rio Janeiro houses on merchants at Hamburg for coffee sent to them six months ago. This article has since that period undergone a fall of at least 40 per cent., and a still further depreciation may be. expected. As to the drafts for the cargoes of sugar shipped from Bahia and Pernambuco, most of them do not come due until next month, but there is every reason to fear that they will meet with the same fate as that of Rio. Great uneasi ness still prevails in all classes, and the offices of the Savings Banks are every day besieged by a crowd drawing out even the smallest sum they may have there. The authorities have been com pelled to call in the aid of the armed force to maintain order." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived. Rumours were current that the Ministers wished to effect changes in the military household of the King, but they aro stated to be unfounded by the semi-official Hojas. A deputation from the pro viuce of the Asturias had presented the Queen with a silver box containing 60,000 reals in gold for the Prince of the Asturias, and the Queen intimated that she will probably visit the province in order to present her son before the holy image of Our Lady of Covadonga. The Queen and the infant prince were going on so well that no more bulletins re specting them Fere to be issued. The Queen had presented Dr. Corral y Ona, who attended her Majesty in her confinement, with 1,000 011ZAS (ounces) of gold in a ric'lly-chased silver box, also with a magnificent set of brilliants, and had besides conferred on him the title of Marquis del Real Acierto. Reports were in circulation that M. Nocedal, or Count de San Luis, was about to be charged with the formation of a new cabinet, in the room of the present one. The Second Chamber of Holland has adopts. the bill for repealing the law which fixes a maxi mum rate of interest as alone legal. The reigoing Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Schwerin has just given birth to a prince at Schwerin, and the Grand Duke had hLm imme diately insraibed on the muster-roll of the battalion of rifleman. A. letter from the Hague of the 12th, denies the report, circulated by the Gazette de Cologne, that Baron Omphal had left Holland for London to ask the hand of the Princess Alice for the Prince of Orange. It is denounced as a lively canard hatched on the banks of the Rhine. A letter from Berlin of the 11th says :—",The telegraphic conference recently held at Stuttgart drew up a treaty which was submitted to the dif ferent Governments forming part of the Austro- Germanic telegraphic union. All these Govern ments, with the exception of two or three whose answer has not yet been received, have de,:lared in favour of the treaty, and Cl° e two or three are ex pected to reply in. the course of a few dap. The ratifications will be immediately after e xchanged, in order to enable the treaty to be exccuted from the Ist January. The treaty is to b 3 in i force for six years ; and the p r i nc ipal feature m it s a re duction in the tariff." According to a circular of the Belgian Minister of the Interior, the chambers will meet this day (Tuesday) without any particu4ar solemnity. The representatives an I senators will assemble in their respective chambers, and proceed to the verifica tion of the election returns and the verification of their bureaux. It is considered certain that the Government will make some official communications to the legislature, and that it will amongst other things announce that the Duchess de Brabant is in an interesting situation—an announcement which will lead to the vote of addresses of congratulation to the King. TILE J SWISH RELIEF BILL. This bill (prepared and brought in by Mr. Fitzroy, Lord John Russell, and Mr. John Abel Smith), for the substitution of one oath in lieu of those now operatin. to the exclusion from Parliament of her Majesty's Jewish subjects, was published yesterday. The proposed oath runs as follows : "I. A. 8., do swear, That I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and wake known to her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, all trea sons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them . ; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an act, intituled, 'An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties ef the subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or prei.ettding a right to the croccn of this realm ; and I do declare that no foreign princ,, person, prelate. State, or potentate hath or ought to have any jnridiction, power, superiority, pre ji enT t i l enc o e r , or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritua l,re indirectly, within this realm ; and declaration upon the true faith of a Christian. m akSeo directly or help me God." a T n li d e billl make he n thise n a d c e t e s l a r t a b t a i o t n t ot e tco ncluding wo rds, "and faith ofa a are latterth e p eLr e Christian," shall, in the case of those p rofessin g the Jewish oa religion, lled QTadk also beof those who n o t omitted, d the allowed to make their affirmation imtead of an oath. The bill provides that no Jew shall, by virtue of its enactments, be enabled to hold the office of Lord Chan cellor either -of England or Ireland, or Regent of the united Kingdom, or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. TURKISH FINANCE --.....p.—__ CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. s.—Whoever doubts tha " a change has come over the dream" of the Turkish people ought to come here now, and his doubts would soon vanish if he saw the interest with which the descendants of the fierce warriors of Bajazet and of Solyman the Magnificent follow the monetarY crisis in Europe, trying to fathom the intricacies of the exchange, and sighing over the formidable rise in the discount of paper. Yes, they do see, indeed, that things have change 4 since the time when they could lose 224 galieYs 111 the single battle of Lepanto, and replace there the next ' year by 240, and when the Grand 'Vizier Sokolli could give the proud answer to the doubt ing; Capudan Pasha, that such were the power and wealth of the Ottoman Porte that it could, if it was ordered, get for this fleet anchors of silver, silk cordage, and sails of satin. Then finance was ea s y • enough ; a new province and a new tribute Loon squared accounts with a large balance in hand ; new they feel they are dependent on Europa in mon ey matters, and that, whatever the stress be, theY most wait with their financial measures until matters are better there. However difficult it may be for them to postpone such an urgent affair, the delay has likewi se its advantages. Every day throws a new light on the subject, which is very much required, for even in the best minds in Turkey there is only a s mall stock of financial knowledge, and that mostly of a desultory kind. The difficulties which the Govern' ment has encountered hitherto in all its schemes have undoubtedly contributed to sift the matter, and to make them adopt more and more reason able views. Now and then, as is natural, there is a relapse, but after every such crisis there Is always something gained in the art of distinguishing diffi cult from impracticable plans. ThuS, for instance, you know that lately the Turkish Government thought it had formed a panacea for its chronic financial indisposition by the consolidation of the floating debt ; and there is no doubt that it would be a great advantage and saving to the Exchequer to have a certain regu larity introduced in its passives, to - know exactly their amount, to fix the sources of revenue from which the interest should be paid, and thus to start as it were afresh ; but the question is, will they be able to inspire people with the necessary confidence in their promises—for who guaranteed that the3:_ would pay the interest regularly in gold, and VII? they would not come forward in a few years with a new consolidation ? The better terms whiCh they it offered to the holders of the new coupons wore j ust the very thing to frighten them. The Gove rn ,: ment debts are now the chief sources of rev enu " for the speculators of Galata and. Stamboul, vr]ip make large profits on ' the continual fillettlatiOn Ornals paper. What else but ill-will was to be ei r ; petted from those persons towards any ni e _ as „ t u l id calculated to curtail their profits ? TneY "" Avi have had, indeed, no option but to take the' li t - he coupons in exchange for the old ones, and, as , f o r Government intended to pay the full amount paper now at a discount of 25 to 30 per cent. , t c .. would not have refused to profit" by the trent, 0 tion ; but the change would scarcely have tat ` e place when they would have—and no doubt success fully—endeavoured to reduce the new paper to tTh' lamentable position of the old. The Government seems to have unedrstood th is at last, and the project has assumed a new Al b % They want to connect the consolidation with, ~." is 4 establishment of the long talked of Bank, win e ' -. expected to interest itself in this consolidator The project thus put forth sounds already i u i practicable, for without the help of a pesverto commercial body, working with European caPl ~. and after European system, the Turkish GoYer'st ment will never be capable of doing battle aga lli ,il the not less powerful clique 'of local banker:a i'LL that is required for this is that the Governrecu_.; should not stretch its demands too far a nd nu: expect to get out of the difficulty without sa erifica-'. „ • Up to this moment nothing is decided, nor v/I•`cu: anything be attempted before a change takes pla in the money-market in Europe. LETTER FROJI LUCKNOW. The following (copied) was brought"on a small scrap of paper by a cossici from Lucknow to Cawn p ore, and for w arded. from Captain Murphy, brigade major at Cawnpore, on Nov. 3. It is believed to he the last and only detailed note from the inside of Lucknow to that date : From Lieutenant Moorsom, Deputy-Assistant Quartei' master-General to Sir H. Havelock's Force. " LueknoW, Oct, 27. " My dearest Mother,—All right physically an d men tally, brain, body, and limbs, to date. We relieved Lucknow from its instant peril, and are now ourselves occupying a more extended position in the town, blook: ailed with the garrison. Write to Inglis's, Gubbine's, an d Couper's people, if possible, to say that they and their; are all well. We have grub abundant, ammunition, go°t!, quarters, plenty of fighting men, stout hearts, and 0 0 ; God on our side; on the other, our enemy numerou s trj cowardly, with a scarcity of iron and lead for guns. Wr we not many women and children, and sick and woundeat we could walk out of the town at any moment. "As it is, we can hold our own and steadily ma k e small advances until reinforcements arrive. I tried one hefore to ease your anxieties by writing, but the re_es_ senger was compelled to throw away his despatcheo before falling into Vie bands of the enemy.' on "This goes through the beleaguering host; " Y ore will, I hope, see the necessity for try writing no tell. fully. Mother mine don't deem me down among 1 . 4 dead men' until you hear it on the best authority ; w with very dearest love to all, —Believe me your O affectionate son, " W. R. Moonsog. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. WIIITEHAVEL—The town is placarded with an addrege inviting the electors to declare their attachment to the n to cause of freedom of election--the right of every ma vote according to his conscience — by sending a requisi• w ho tion to their townsman, William Nicholson , Es q ., first planted the ballot in the British dominions, to conle fortyard and canvass the borough. Mr. Nic holson lot we believe, a native of Whitehaven, and ex-premier of the Colony of Victoria, in which c:Aony he introduced a measure establishing vote by ballot at elections for the coloni:il parliament. BIICKINGEEAMSHIRB.—There are already two condi' dates in the fi.ld, Mr. W. G.-Cavendish, the son of the retiring member, in tha Whig interest; and Captain 0: J. B. Hamilton, formerly member of the borough of Aylesbury, in the Conservative cause. It is 'doubted whether any serious opposition will be offered to Mr. Cavendi.,h'e return. ELGIN.—We (Elgin Courier) regret to announce that Mr. G. S. Duff has, on account of continued ill-health, e resigned the representation of the Elgin Burghs. Th only candidate yet in,the field for the vacant seat is Mr. M. Grant Duff, younger, of Eden. COLONEL GREATLIED.—Vie regret eto learn that the recent telegram, which has brought home the tidings 4 Colonel Greathed's successful and sell-sustained vic tories, has brought to his fr:eods and raations the melancholy news of the death of his wife, to wile ° he had been married several years. That inestim• able lady, who was a relative of the family of Sir Brod wick Hartwell, Bart., died at Simla from the effects of a lingering attack of Indian fever, brought on bl t anxiety on acoount of her husband, whom she had na t seen since he pried company with her in the Course _ ol _ last June. Mrs, Hervey Greathed, the widow of the late commissioner at Meerut, is on her way to Englan d. We observe with much regret the name of a nothe r brother, Lieutenant William Wilberfo r e Harris Great* hed, of the Bengal Engineers, and formerly consultia engineer to the Government at Calcutta , returned arnecg the list of those who were severely wounded at O a storming of Delhi. We believe that his right band OA been entirely disabled, having been struck by a chanc e shot as he entered one of the breaches in the walls. TREMENDOUS ROBBERY OF GOLD AND S I LVER WATOlart JEWELLERY, &0., AT SWANSEA.—An extensive tobneu was perpetrated on Friday at ,"the residence of g i rl Rayner, watch and chronometer manufacturer and g(?,: l • silversmith, Castle-Areet,Swansea. The thieves earr i 7 b off about seventy gold watches, several of them 1 01 o f 201. and 25/. each, nearly 130 silver watchers, soma them very valuable ones, a number of gold rings, n i ! e i; of them set with diamonds and other precious stor.ter various articles of jewellery, and a 'number of ° L a u e d watches belonging to the inhabitants of Swanse a r es its neighbourhood, which bad been sent to Mr. Ear ° a • establishment for the purpose of being re p air L ed ief eo regulated. The depredation was effec ted and the tu for , made their escape in the most noiseless man ner, ill although there were three or four persons sleeping' 5y the house at the time, uoue of them were in all uee p disturbed The amount o f Mr. Ra y ner's loss haso variously estimated at from SOO/. to 1,6001. It ca fall short, we fear, of the larger sum . fot CHLOROFORM. " But hark I the bell rings operations.' The students swarm into the tblitli; scram ble over the rails, and shoulder each other &W t o occupy all the best places. In five militates Yo cart hear a pin drop, so rapidly does silence 101101.,.00 the entry of the 4 case.', A simple towel and a colt:ull:et fluid rob the scene of that ordeal for the nerves' t to congelation of the blood flame solemn aPP ewd •nlf heaven's throne for mercy and forgiveness —so fore' re , moved, and every eye is on the strain to mark dwelt upon by the slier writers. A leg has t° " I + the z rof sinus, Numerous sponges thirst for the blo od necesse,bt, abstracted ; keen-edged instruments hav e their brt o ness soiled but f o r an instant ; and to that taper liv::',er and steady arm too many men have owed their 0:31i ua now to fear their cunning. The solemn litie.bl,9 hint broken by the spasmodic , laughs and 0,1 of the patient ;or by his pursuiug previou thought ; and when be recovers from his trance,h bra himself in his bed, and will scarcely believe, tr" . 0 10 train sensations, that he has lost the effending member _lth ppress: ef operator makes a few commente, and so the rest, until he has finished his professional task. goes on _ w e „.. Mu atinc. "llospiW Life," London, UnivcrJ g