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1858 —Fail not to begin the NEW YEAR • with a DIARY. LETTS'S are kept, by every bookseller in the kingdom. Catalogues gratis. Those generally adopted by LADIES are Nos. 10, 12, 18, 20, ARMY and NAVY, 8,9, 10, 11 21, plain or elegantly boond. in perpetual sprg. lock cases, GENTLEMEN, 8,9, 13, 11, etc. MERCHANTS, BANKERS, in perpetual sprg- lock cases. ENGINEERS, etc. 51,52, 53, CLERGYMEN, 9, 10, 12, 12 enl, 1,2, 3,6, 8,9, 11, with Dr. and Taelet, Sermon books, etc. Cr forms, 3B 40 Ha, etc. MEDICAL MEN, 1,2, 8,9, 10, TRADESMEN', 4,5, 11, 13, 15, Medical, Professional, etc. Dr. and Cr. forms, 38, Ile, etc. LAWYERS, 51, 52, 1,2, 8,9, the FAR3LER.4. 4, 5,6, 7, 11, 13, etc. Scribbling, plain or interlvd. MEC II .&ICICS, I. 6d ~ Is 9d., 6d. LETTS, SOX, and Co., Stationers & Mapsellers,B, Royal Exchange HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE THREE EXTRA NIGHTS. Piecolomini, Spezia, Ginglini, Belletti, Rossi, Vialetti, and Aldighieri, The following favourite operas will be given : THIS EVENING (Tuesday) IL TROVATORE ,, Thursday—LA TRAVIATA. Saturday—LUClA DI LAMMERMOOR. Prices :—Pit Stalls, 12s 6d; boxes (to hold four persons) pit and one pair, 2/. 2s ; grand tier, 3/. 3s ; two pair, 1/. ss, three pair, 15s ; gallery boxes, 103 ; gallery stalls, 3s 6d pit, 3s 6d; gallery, 2s, T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with SPEED THE PLOUGH. Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Compton, Chippendale, Mrs. Poynter, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, and Miss E. Ternan. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD; or, harle quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ; Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each, (No charge for booking.) First 1- e ice. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Drees Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 P.t ... . L.Aver Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. R OYA PRINCESS'S PH EAT RE Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Tra ,- ;cdy of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen, by Mrs. C. Kean. After which, a new grand eomc Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry; Harlequin, Mr. Cor mach ; Clown, Mr. Hnline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WEPT OF THE WISH-TON. WISH. Mr, Wright and Madame C&este. After which, a Mythological Extravaganza, entitled HARLEQUIN, OR THE LOVES OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. Jupiter, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mars, Mr. Frank Hall; Venus, Mrs. Billington ; Cupid, Miss Marie Wilton; Psyche, Miss Mary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.— THIS EVENING, will be presented DON C.ESAR DE BAZAN. Principal characters by Messrs. Charles Dillon, Stuart, Barrett, J. G. Shore ; Mesdames Woolgar and Buck ingham White. To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LA LLAH ROOKH, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU BADOUR ' • or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert. Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White, Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Fitzhenry, Poynter, and J. L. Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites, Herr Zeleski and Pons ; Columbines, Misses A. Malcolm and Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans formation Scene. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Morning Performance on Saturday next, Jan. 2, on which occasion the Boys of the Licensed Victuallers' School wilt attend.—Doors open at 2, commence at half-past 2. 3ox•oface open from 11 to 5 daily. -4 ,IOYAL SURREY THEATRE. LI) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed BROKEN FAITH. • After which, QUEEN MAD ; or Harlequin Romeo and Julliet. Clown, by the Surrey Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Brad. bury. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING, will be performed HARLEQUIN NOVELTY AND THE PRINCESS WHO LOST HER • HEART. Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbine, Madlle. Deulin ; Sprite, Herr Kirt. The Lambert Family and the Red Man of Agar in their wonderful performance, (Ste. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2t; Pit, Is.; Gallery 6d. CANTERBURY HALL, Wost ut i mtor-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—Tho follo w i ig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of ileetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz, ;—Miss Rus3oll, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs, Palmyre, Hi3S Bru nell, and Madame Marietta ; Iferr• F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R, Grover, T. Farrant, S. Joaez, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Mine, and Mr. St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critcltßeld. and E. 'Hack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. harnioni.nl, bluster Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Saran o'clock precisely. Supper; &e., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LOYDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Morn., 0 min. aft. 0 —Even., 12 mln aft. 12 To•MoititOw—Morn. 42 min. aft. 12—Even., 10 min. aft. 1 THE WEITHER —Sur; OFFICE, DECEMBER 29. THRRMOMETER, IN TIIE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 48 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.55—5ti1l rising. WIND, W. by S. • light, with hazy but fi ne wea th er . Some sunshine in the morning , •, " 35 ;' ,- • n u , 4. %, LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1857. Were it not for the brilliant triumphs at Luck now, the exploits of the column under COTTON, RHODE.; SHOWERS, STUART, and the lamented Colonel GERARD, would have attracted general at tention, and received the praise they so eminently merited. They have, indeed, acted nobly, and fully maintained the reputation which the British troops had achieved in all quarters since the com mencement of the series of mutinies and the re bellion which followed. It was in Rohilcund that the force under Colonel COTTON was operating. At the close of October they had captured Futteh pore Sikree, a place described as " thrice the s'ze of Agra," and therefore necessarily an important position. Front thence they reached Muttra on the la November, and after a day's march of 20 miles, under all the difficulties of an eastern sun, surrounded the town of Jhet, which had been previously occupied by the rebels, but from which they had prudently decampad some hours prey - ously. They were, however, closely pursued, a'- tacked, and dispersed in the vicinity of a village, Which was subsequently destroyed. They then returned to Agra, from Whence, under Colonel RIDDEL, they marched in the direction of Ally ghur and Bolundshubur, to strengthen the party under Major ELD. This gallant officer had killed 28 and wounded 30 of the Rohilcund muti- u sers. Brigadier SHOWERS had returned to Delhi on the 9th November, having, during his expedition occupied foul. considerable forts, burnt many vil ages, and captured somo 70 guns and 8 lac 3 of rupees, or 80,000/. sterling, a heavy blow and great discouragement to the insurgents. It Wag after his return that the brave GERARD styrted on the e x p e di t i on, during which ho Jost his life, in the zealous and energetic discharge of hia cut not before he had completely de feated the t beis at Jhuggur, where th ey h a d aken a poeiti oN 4v , ng I been strengthened by a large party of th, j ou. , ttora mutineers, who had upon) • actually marched up -E"JPootana to partici pate in. the struggle. Tiler() were about 5,000 men, - who were dispersed with the lo ss of all their even, guns, six in number—a success th at however, dearly purchased by the loss of th e brave GERARD and seventy of his gallant fol lowers. It was, however, at Malwa, and in the neigh bourhood of Mundesore, that the most brilliant of these comparatively minor affairs took place. After the tardy rising at Mehidpoor, in which Captain MILL and Dr. CA REY had been brutally murdered, the mutineers were closely pursued by Major Onn, who killed above a hula dreg of them, captured their cannon (two nine pounder guns), and a large quantity of ordnance stores : seventy prisoners were taken with " red hands," and executed under the sentence of a drum-head court-martial. About 8,000 rebels had taken up a position near Mundesore, and they had the audacity to attack, on the 21st November, our troops, who had moved in ad vance, but were driven back into Mundesore with heavy loss. Heera Singh was pursued to a vill tge 10 miles off on the Neemuch road, where the rebels showed in considerable force. Stuart's main column had, however, come up on the 20d, and a very determined conflict took place. The rebels fought with the fierce determi nation inspired by despair, and it was not until the evening of the 24th that the village was completely carried. During this time our brave fellows were placed between two fire , , for the mutineers that had occupied Mundesore came out to assist their companions, and STUART'S column were fighting at the same time in front and in the rear, the soldiers being placed back to back. On both sides they triumphed ; and the result of their victories was the abandonment of Mundesore, and the raising of the siege of Nee much, which had previously been beleaguered, and attempted to be carried by assault by the enemy. The country has thus been effectually relieved after a contest protracted during four successive days, and the indefatigable STUART was preparing to follow up his victory by the pursuit and total subjugation of the rebels. When the history of the rebellion is written, this distin guished officer will occupy a high position among the Paladins that have so nobly sustained the honour of the British name, and secured and consolidated the British supremacy in Hindostan. Gold is now rapidly accumulating in the Bank of England. The quotations of public securities are looking upwards, and money in Lombard street is even cheaper than at the quasi National Batik ! These matters are triumphantly referred to by the organs of the hard calculators as being the felicitous results of the Bank Charter Act, whereas, on the contrary, they afferd convincing proofs of the terrible evils it has occasioned. Twice, within ten years, the nation has witnessed monetary convulsions of the most awful charac ter, which shook the trade, commerce, and manufactures of the country to their very founda tions. Thousands, aye, tens of thousands, of fa milies were reduced to the verge of ruin, and compelled to endure great misery and privations. The working classes were thrown out of employ ment, and compelled to part with the clothes, furniture, and comforts accumulated during more auspicious seasons, and on each occasion the same remedy was resorted to ; and, notwithstanding the stringent conditions respecting the rate of in terest by which it was accompanied, proved completely successful. It was the virtual suspension of the obnoxious and impolitic code in 1847, the actual one in 1857 that saved the Bank of Eng land and averted a national bankruptcy. These suspensions practically condemned and annulled the Act of 1844. They were its moral abroga tion. It is impossible for any, even the most prejudiced person, to contend that, although it might nut have been the sole cause of the mis chief, it materially aggravated the panic, and enhanced the fearful consequences to the exagge rated dimensions which they ultimately assumed. We have assuredly " paid a high price for our whistle," in preserving —not " the integrity of the standard," as it has been termed, for the convertibility of the bank note would have been preserved without the restrictions imposed by the Bank Charter Act, and was, in fact, only endan gered by its operation—but the high valve of money, or rather the exorbitant and usurious TM' e of discount so dear to the hearts of the hard calculators. We know that trade is still dull—that even the most solvent houses are unwilling to enter into now engagements. There seems to be a winding-up in many cases, which, although of but a temporary character, is still very injurious, both to the Exchequer and to the community. There are platitudes uttered about the removal of unsound principles and the purification of the commercial atmosphere. But these are some of the stock phrases used at all times of distress and difficulty to mystify and .onfuso those who will not take the trouble to master the important question at issue, on which their own welfare, prosperity, and happiness so greatly depend. The real attack is on credit—credit too in its most important form, that of paper money. Should it be set aside, all other must and will fol low. It was credit and the facilities for obtaining pecuniary accommodation at reasonable and mode rate rates, that produced the commercial supre macy of Great Britain, and elevated her to the palmy position she has so long occupied in the scale of nations. Now we are striving to change all that. Formerly money dealers were prohibited from charging more than 5 per cent• for discount, and England flourished, and those I very money-lenders realised large fortunes. Now we have changed all that, and the Leviathan Es tablishment was prohibited from charging less than 10 per cent. And what has been the condition of the country ? Distress and difficulty have bean perceptible on every side. The real creators and producers of national wealth have been converted, as if by a touch of the enchanter's wand, into un profitable consumers. Commercial activity, once re garded as of vital import, is considered an evil to be guarded against, and the sources of the national revenue are dried up. In return for all this, "the integrity of the standard has been pre served," and gold is made the circulating medium of the country, in which every domestic trans action is arranged, very uselessly and unneces sanly, as must be obvious to every disinterested and unprejudiced inquirer. We invite the attention of the public to a public demonstration at Ealing in token of sincere regard to a worthy, but poor and persecuted, pastor —a man who must have obtained the affection and respect of his flock, in better days, or th-y would not now so honour him in his adversity. It seems the late Bishop of London (BLoom- FIELD) permitted some acts of stern injustice, either knowingly or heedlessly, tc be inflicted on the Rev. Mr. LAMBERT, by his Commissioners for the time being, and the parishioners, much to their honour, have come forward spontaneously to ex press their condolence in his behalf. It is always gratifying to witness the honest feeling of Englishmen so proudly and so generously manifested in favour of the oppressed as in this case of Mr. LAMBERT. We detest tyranny in whatever shape it may appear, but it is always more odious in priestly guise —preaching meekness and good-will to men, but practising the very vilest hypocrisy in the Tyati breath. Let us hope that the present fogthe • 004 Bishop of LONDO N " may part l y atone rede I mputed errors" of his very l earne d p cessor. We feel assured that if he will look into the case of M r , LAMBERT, he will see just and sufficient cause to „ 40 re an honest man to his grateful congregation %„4 rejoicing friends. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. TRIESTE, DEC. 28. The steamer from Alexandria arrived here this day (the 28th) at 11 o'clock p.m., in 125 hours, from Alexandria. The Calcutta and China mails had left Alexan dria with dates from Calcutta to the 25th of No- vember ; Madras, 28th ; Ceylon, December, 2 ; and Hongkong, November 15. The news of the relief of Lucknow is confirmed. The enemy is said to have fought desperately. 1,500 bodies of Sepoys were counted in one gar den. The rebels had not evacuated Lucknow. Sir Colin Campbell asks for reinforcements. Three companies of the 34th Native Infantry mutinied at Chittagong on the 19th November, and had marched to Dacca. One hundred Euro peans had been sent to intercept them. No Euro peans were killed. The Calcutta markets were almost unchanged. The money-market had improved. Exchange, 2s. 1 gd. to 2s. 2d. for credits. At Madras the money-market continued easy. There had been a further reduction in the bank rates. Exchange was unaltered. CHINA. The American Commissioner has arrived at Hong Kong in the Minnesota. The fleet is about to move into Canton River. The French fleet will co-operate with the English. Operations were not to be commenced imme- diately. The Russian Commissioner was at Hong Kong. , Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. lOid. to 4s. 11d. At Shanghai silk had given way 10 dols. to 15 dols. Exchange, 6s. Bd. to 63. 8-1-d. for credits. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 14. Tha different detachments brought here by the steam-transports Sultan and Nemesis, have ar rived at Suez under the command of Colonel Mackirdy. These detachments formed a total of about 1,100 men, of whom only four were on the sick list, and not with any serious illness. The transit from Southampton to Suez was effected in the most satisfactory manner. It is stated that the India Company have made arrangements for the passage of a thousand men a-month through Egypt to Calcutta or Bombay. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY. The ship Suffolk, Capt. J. B. Martin, belong ing to Messrs. Wigram, of London, has landed about 100 passengers here. She left Hobson's Bay October 5, rounded Cape Horn November 3, crossed the line December 4, and made the Lizard on the evening of Christmas-day. The Suffolk has a full cargo of copper ore, tal low, and wool, and brings one of the largest freights of gold-dust ever sent in a sailing ship, viz., 145,000 ounces ; besides which there is a considerable amount in the hands of her passen gers—altogether 240, including Major Green wood, New Zealand Staff, several young colonists for education in England, and many successful diggers, one of whom has a nugget weighing 274 lb_ The Suffolk spoke, south of the line, the schooner Therese, 15 days from Buenos Ayres, for Plymouth ; and, December 13, the Dutch ship Frederick 1., 72 days from Batavia, for Rotterdam. THE EAST. According to advices of the 24th instant, from the Turkish frontiers, the conflict between the Turks and Christians near the monastery of Duzi lasted from three in the morning until late in the evening. Bialitz, a village belonging to the friars, was taken by the Turks, and on the whole it ap peared that the rayahs were worsted. There was no fighting on the 24th, and it was evident that both parties were waiting for reinforcements. It is said that among the persons who fought against the Turks was the Voivode of Grahovo. It is believed in Vienna that the Turks will speedily restore order in the Herzegovine, but a person, who must be well informed of what is going on in the Euro pean province of the Turkish empire, states that the Porte has very few regular troops in the Herzegovina and Bosnia. About five years ago Omar Pasha disarmed the Christians in the two provinvs mentioned, but great quantities of arms have recently been purchased in the bazaars at Con stantinople, and it is not improbable that they have been sent into Bulgaria and the other Sciavonic provinces of Turkey. Of Prince Daniel of Monte negro nothing more is known than that he is "very flush" of cash just now. Whether he got it from Russia or from France, or from both Powers, is not known. We learn by a telegram from Varna that the crew of the Pharamond, which was not long since wrecked on the Bulgarian coast, near Mongolia, has returned to France in the Carmel. It took Pix days to s: cure the lading of the Pharamond, which was expected to go to pieces in a few dPys. Not long since Ali Pasha of Monastir made a razzia in the Lower Dibra, which enjoys a singularly bad reputation, and carried off 300 prisoners, of whom about 150 (1) were said to be Beys. The cholera is very violent at Bagdad. RUSSIA. A letter from Warsaw of the 21st, says :—" Th e groat financial crisis which for six weeks has pre vailed in the States of Northern Europa is making itsLlf felt in a most disquieting manner at Warsaw and the other commercial towns ofPoland. Not ocly have a great number of traders beenruined by exces si va speculations in native and foreign productions, but the recent failures at Dantzic, Konigsberg, and other ports of the Baltic have caused disasters in the corn, wool, and olelginous seeds traded, and those articles form the principal te rr it or i a l wealth of this kingdom. From time immemorial, our traders and the owners of estates who cultiva' e their own land are accustomed to consign annually corn and other productions of the soil to merchants in the Baltic ports. Bills to a large amount are consequently drawn on those merchants, but many of these bills have been returned protested. Most of the persons for whom they were discounted are unable to reimburse them, and numerous bank ruptcies are the result." FRANCE. PARIS, MOYDAY. The Plenipotentiaries of the interested Powers will meet t 9 morrow at ens o'clock, at the Office of Foreivi Anirs, to exchange the ratified treaty of the Bessarabian frontier. The last accounts from Constantinople announce that the Porte is favourable to the demand of the Latin Fathers to ho permitted to repair the cupola of the Church of the Holy Svulehre at their own expense. The Latin Fathers had received the sup port of the French Government. - It has bee❑ remarked that suicides have been very frequent in the French army for some time past. The Minihter of War has sent letters of thanks to several colonels of regiments for Laving published orders of the day stigmatising such an act of cowardice. Rear-Admiral P, nand has been appointed Go vernor of the Island of RJunion, in the Indiln Seas, in place of M. Hubert de Lisle, appointed Senator. The Abbe Faudoii, cure of Saint-RochiOs to be appointed to the Bishopric of Versailles, in place of Monseigneur Gros, deceased. The Eini.eror yesterday gave a private audience to Baron de Bannabach, Minister plenipotentiary of kle3se, who presented to his Majesty the grand cordon of the Electoral Order of Hesse, ACCOM • panied by an autograph letter from the Elec'tor. The Emperor afterwards received M. de Scheele, privy councillor and bailiff of the lordship of Pinne burg, in Holstein, who was presented by the Danish minister. M. Balcarce, the new charge d'affaires for Buenos Ayres, was also presented. The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree per mitting a number of French officers and civilians to wear differe4 foreign orders. Among the per sons named are Baron de Buurgeing, equerry to the Emperor, who has received the decoration of officer of the Baden Order of the Lion of Zooringen, of the Belgian Order of Leopold, of the Russian Order of Ste. Anne, 2d class, and of the Wurteui berg Order of Frederick ; General Count de Goyon, the Russian Order of Ste. Anne, Ist class ; General Baron Fririon, the Russian order of St. Stanislaus, Ist class ' • Baron de Lacrosse, Senator, th e T ur ki s h Order of the Medjidie, 2d class. BOURSE, Dec. 28.—The market has evinced great steadiness, and prices have improved, owing to a rise of per cent, on the English Consols. AUSTRIA. Advices from Vienna in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin state that the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople has received orders to support the application of M. de Lesseps on the subject of the Suez canal. A. letter from Vienna of the 24th states that Lord Stratford de Reelcliffe had paid a visit to the Mini ster of Foreign Affairs, and afterwards had a long conversation with the Turkish Ambassador. Sir H. Seymour, the English Ambassador, w a s th a t clay to give a grand dinner in his honour, and the day after Lord Stratford was to dine with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. His Excellency was not to leave Vienna until the 28th. Another Vienna letter stated that the Austrian C4binet is a good deal occupied with what is pass ing in Herzegowina, information having reached it that a plot for exciting an insurrection has long existed, and that the differences in the Danubian Principalities, the propagandisM of the Roumans, and the quarrels in Montenegro have produced a certain agitation among the people. The letter ad.,ls that Russian agents have for some time past been endeavouring to excite discontent in the Sclavo nian provinces of Turkey, but it does not say on what authority it makes the assertion. PRUSSIA. The very unmistakeable signs that have mani fested themselves at Charlottenburg of the total insufficiency of the King's cure, as at present attained, have compelled a renunciation of all idea of his resuming power for' a long time to come. It i 3 stated that the King of Prussia and his sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, will go to Italy together in the month of 3 - anuary, but no guarantee can be given for the correctness of the report. The Convention between the Riverain States has not yet been ratified. A. letter from Berlin of the 25th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" M. Zimmermann, the Secretary- General of Hanover, who had gone to Frankfort for the affair of the Duchies, stopped here on his re turn to Hanover, and had a conference on the sub ject with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Three new failures have just been announced here, which brings up the number singe the commencement of the crisis to 82 : Money is abundant, in conse quence of no business going on in merchandise." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived. The Correspomdencia Autografa announces that an English tribunal at Sierra Leone declared in November last that a Spanish vessel, the Con chita, which had been captured on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade, was a lawful prize. The Correspondencia remarks that such acts as this are calculated to drive Spanish commerce from the African coast, and it calls on the govern ment to interfere in the matter. The Espana ex presses the opinion that in such affairs the English are actuated more by commercial rivalry than by horror of the slave trade, and the Spanish cabinet cannot be indifferent to the seizure. The Duke de Montpensier had returned to Madrid from his visit to the monastery of St. Yusle, famous as the residence of Charles V. ; with the exception of the chapel, all the monastery is stated to be in ruins. The Infante Don Henry has, says the Espana, con sented to solicit petmi , sion to:return to Spain. Lord Howden, the English minister, had returued to Mad rid. The funeral of Don. A. Armero, brother of the President of the Council, had taken place, attended by a crowd of political men of all parties. The government has ordered that State notaries should be nominated in places where they are likely to be useful. It is said that the men employed in the tobacco manufactories are indisposed to con inue their work, but the reason is not mentioned. All the factions of the opposition hal determined to bring forward M. Bravo Murillo as candidate for the prezidency of the Chamber of Deputies, in opposition to the candidate of the Government, whoever he may be. It was said that if the Government were defeated is this election, it meant to bring forward a formal vote of confidence in order to ascertain without any manner of doubt the sentiments of the Chamber towards it. HOLLAND. The First Chamber of Holland, on the eve of separating for the Christmas vacation , voted almost without discussion and in a single sitting the budgets of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Marine, Interior, Publi c Worship, Finance, and Colonies—in a word, all the budgets, with the exception of that of War, which will not be discussed until the session is resumed, a six months' credit having been voted for it. SWITZERLAND. Ths Swiss Federal Assembly closed its sittings on the 23d. Its short session has had the result of putting an end to the dispute which had arisen be tween the!cen trad authority and the canton of Vaud, and which had at one' time assumed a very serious character. A letter from Rome of the 24th inst. informs us that the perpetrators of tne late highway robbery committed on British subjects travelling in a post carriage between Civita Vecchia , and Ronne have been discovered. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. By the arrival this morning of the British and Noah American Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain Ryrie, we have advices from Boston to the 16th inst., and Halifax to the 17th. Th© America brought 73 passengers, 954,279 dogma and 19,4501. specie on freight. The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada arrived at Halifax o❑ the 18th inst. The Europa arrived at New York on the 14th. The Collins steamers for the next four months, viz., January, February, March, and April, make but one trip per month, the next departure from New York being the 16th of January. December sth completed their 20 trips for the year. At Washington the Secretary of the Treasury has prepared his plan for 20,000,000 dols. Treasury notes, and the interest which they will be made to bear will not exceed 3 per cent, per annum. Part of the issue, it is believed, may be employed at a nominal interest. The whole is to be made receiv able for all public dues, and subject to re-issue, but to be redeemed at the end of a year in specie. Congress resumed its killings on the 14th, but there was no allusion to Kansas affairs, and the bu iness transacted was of an ordinary character. In accordance with the proclamation of Acting- Governor Stanton, the special session of the new Legislature of Kansas was organised on the Bth inst. C. V. Babcock was elected President of the Coun cil, and G. W. Dietzler Speaker. of the House. A message was received from the Acting-Governor, setting forth the motives which induced the calling together of the legislatures, and recommending the passage of an act providing for holding an election, under different officers, on the same day and at the same places, as provided for in the proclamation of the President of the Constitutional Convention, and authorising the people to vote for the constitution in either of the forms presented by the convention, and also against the constitution in both forms. Great excitement prevails in the territory, and it is place. n tl o io t u b g e ht pe th rm at it t t h e e d t e o le t c a t k io e n At the election held in Oreg on , the State consti callei for the 21st will tution vnis adopted, but the slavery clause was re jected. Free negroes are to be prohibited from emi grating to Oregon. News from Utah to the 7th Oct, reaches us by way of California. The attitude of the Mom oils is peculiarly -hostile and threatening. Tue faint hearted among the M• rmons ate warned to leave, uader pe_talty of death, if th ey attempt am to o 2r tlaiwa neie t a')pears to be indorsed to the fullest extent by He- Kimball, John Taylor, and o th er s among the tl the ends of the leaders. trio , e pr prominent men in Utah. There is nothing further from the Government expe , lition. It is now understood in Washington that the ob ject of Sir W. G. Ouseley's missit.n will not be offi cially communicated to Government until the opi nion of her Majesty's Government regarding that tral American affairs can be a,c a rtained. p-rtion of the President's Message r e lative to Cen- MEXICO. News from Northern Mexico states that an at tempt was made at Tampico on ;the 15th ult., to assassinate General Moreno and several other efli cora and authorities of the city while assembled at a banquet. The attempt failed, and the leader of the assassins was killed. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MONEY MARKET. The New York Courier and Enquirer of the 15th says —" The work of resumption now steadily progresses in New York and New England, and are complete with the exception of Rhode Island. The interior banks generally of New York took no formal part in the act of suspension ; the same may be said of Now England country banks. Those in the interior of New York con sider themselves as in good repute throughout ; they may now be cmisidered as paying species in full. The Philipsburgh Bank, at Philipsburg, New Jersey, having resumed specie payments, its bills of all denominations are now redeemed as heretofore at the Bank of the Cow. monwealth. The banks in the western portions of Now Jersey (Newark, New Brunswick, Elizabethtown, Rahway, &c.,) will no doubt follow suit. BOSTON, DEC. 14—At a meeting of bank presidents of this city, this morning, it was voted unanimously to volume specie payments immediately. NEW HAVEN, DEC. 12 —The banks in this city have to-day resumed specie payment.. ALBANY, DEC. 12—At a meeting of bank directors this day, it was resolved that the banks of Albany would resume specie payments to-30.y. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20.—The past fortnight has been remarkably quiet here—no suspensions, no failures. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKETS. COTTON—A circular says :—" The weather since the frost has generally been favourable for picking. Receipts at the ports for the week amount to 112,030 bales, against 129,000 bales last year, and 144,000 bales the year previous. The deficit in the total receipts has increased, and is now 348,000 bales. The exports to Great Britain are larger this week than was expected, amounting t 3 43,000 bales, and increasing to 54,000 bales the total amount sent to her since let September last, as compared with last year. France has taken 11,000, against 13,000 bales is the corresponding week last year. There is a deficit to France in the total export of 35,000 bales, but to other foreign ports the decrease is only 4,000 bales." BREADSTUFFS —The market closed on 'Change with sellers at 4 dols 603 to 4 dole 653 for super State, and buyers at 4 duls :Oa—ruling strongly in favour of the latter. PROVISIONS —The markets for all kinds of provisions were rather quiet, and prices bad not varied materially. FRElGHTS. —Freights were firmer. To Great Britain wheat wai shipped at sid to 6.1 in bags, and a bin was taken at 5d ; flour, is 91 ; cheese, 225. 6d ; some cotton at 5-32 d. To London : Flour 2s. Tu Rotterdam : Rosin, 3s 3d. LATER BY TELEGRAPH, VIA. BOSTON. NEW YORK STOCK AND MONET MARKET, DEC. 15, 6 P.M. The Money Market is easier, witti more activity in good paper. Foreign exchange inactive, at 1091 to 109,i for to-morrow's steamer. Stocks, at the Second Board, were dull, and quite irregular in price. Cotton o lower ; small sales, at 104 c for Upland, Flour lower, with a moderate business for export ; sales. common to straight State, 4 dole 450 to 4 dole 50c ; com mon to good Ohio, 5 dole 150 to 5 doll 50c ; extra Genesee, 5 dols 60c to 7 d o le. F re i g ht s t o Li verpoo l firmer; flour, is 10d; grain, Sid to 6,c1. BY TELEGRAPH - , VIA HALIFAX; NEW YORK, DEC. 17, EVENING.-Our cotton.market is very dull, and prices have declined ic per lb since the departure of the mail for the America. Middling Up lands is quoted at 101 1 c. Breadetuffa and provisions are dull, and tending downward. The stock market. to-day was rather firmer, and ad descriptions of securities show a alight advance in price. The money market is again rather easier. Sterling exchange is fiat, at about the quotations advised per mail. A despatch from Messrs. Neillßrothers, of New York, dated evening of the 17th inst., say. :--" Our cotton market is quiet, at lOic for middling. In this Southern markets a large business is doing, on a basis of No for middling. The exports to Great Britain are ■mall. Freights are declining, the quotation to Liverpool being id to 7-16 d." DEATH OF EARL SPENCER, K.G. We are sorry to have to announce the sudden death of the Earl Spencer, who died on Sunday, a few minutes after 12, p.m., at Althorp-hall, the family seat in Northamptonshire. The earl was up to a few hours before bis death, to all appear ance in his usual robust health and on Saturday was out shooting with a party . of friends partaking of the hospitalities at the hall. The dece - asecl Frederick Spencer, Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp, County of Northampton, Vis count and Baron Spencer, of Althorp, County o f Northampton, was fourth son of George John, second earl, by his marriage with Lady Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles, first E ar l o f Lucan. He was born April 14, 1798, and conse quently in his Glst year. The late earl was twice married—first, Feb. 23, 1830, to Elizabeth Geor giana, second daughter of the late Mr. William Stephen Poyntz, of Cowdray-park, Sussex, by whom, who died in 1851, the deceased peer has surviving Visoount Althorp, M.P., and Lady Sarah ; and he married, secondly, in 1854, Miss Adelaide Seymour, only daughter of the late Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, K.C.14 ; by his first marriage with Matilda, daughter of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. By the latter marriage the earl le Ives two children, the last, a son, having been born at Spencer-house, St. James'e, early in the past month. Ttie 1 tte earl was born at the Admiralty, Whitehall, his father having for many years presided over tint department of the Govern ment. He adopted •the navy as his profession, entering that service a few months before he at tained his 14th year. As midshipman on board the Malta, 84, he was employed occasionally with the in-shore squadron off Toulon, and also in co-operat ing with the British army on the coast of Spain, more particularly at the siege of Tarragona, and the evacuation of the fort of St. Philippe in the Col de Balaguer. In July, 1818, he was made a lieu tenant, and in 1821 he obtained the command of the Alacrity, 10, and in August obtained his post rank. In September, 1825, he was appointed to the command of the Talbot, 28. While in that ship he served in the Mediterranean under the late Ad miral Sir Edward Codrington, and distinguished himself at the battle of Navarino. During the period he had the commandof the Talbot he assisted at the reduction of the Morea Castle, and his firm though conciliatory performance of his duties gave the highest satisfaction to his superior in command. For his services at Navarino, &c., he was in No vembe!, 1827, nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and received the Cross of St. Louis of France, and was made a Knight of St. Anne of Russia (2d class), and of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece. Since he relinquished the command of the Talbot in the autumn of 1828 his lordship has not been afloat. His naval commis sions bore date as annexed : _ Lieutenant, 14th of July, 1818 ; Commander, sth of March, 1821 ; Captain, 26th et August, 1822: and Rear• Admiral (reserved), 7th of Oct., 1852. The Earl Spencer was for a series of years Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. In July, 1846, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household, which appointment he held up to September, 1848, when be was succeeded by the Marquis of 13readalbane. In January, 1854, he was appointed Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household—au office he resigned on the 28th of last month. The late peer was created a Knight of the Garter in 1849, on the death of the late Earl Talbot., The deceased Earl succeeded to the family lion ours and extensive lauded estates on the demise of tiis brother, John Charle=, second Earl, the well known statesman, in 1845. He is succeeded by his son, John Pointz, Viscount Althorp, M.P., born October 27, 1835. Previous to his accession to the peerage the late Earl sat in the House of Commons for Worcestershire (1831). At the gene ral election in 1832 to 1835, and from 1837 to 1841, the Hon. Captain Spencer represented Mid hurst in Parliament. During his career in the lower House be invariably voted with the Whig party, of which political body, like his predecessor in the peerage, he was a consistent supporter. The pre3ent Earl was ,returned to the House of Commons at the last general election for the south ern division of the county of Northampton, his lordship heading the poll by a large majority. A vacancy consequently occurs in the representation of the county by this elevation of his lordship to the House of Lords. The Earl had only very re • cently returned to Althorp from a lengthened tour in the United States and Canada. THE OTTOMAN BANK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—The only investment which has not taken a rise in consequence of the improved general and monetary avpect of affairi, is the Ottoman Bank, with limited liability. This arises from the directors studiously keeping secret the enormously large and productive business which the bank is doing.• It is their duty, a? they di I before, at the sugge,twn of the Times news paper, when their stock was similarly depressed, to publish to their sharehoblers the true and, I believe, flourishing condiiim of their affairs. Your obedient servant, A. W. London, 21st December, 1857. A MAN DROWNED IN THE REGENT'S CANAL—INQT'FST. An inque,t wait held yesterday on the boiy of Frederick Oliver, aged 29. The deceased was a mechanic, and on going home early on Thursday morning last, walked on to an unfenced wharf by the side of the Regent'd Canal, opposite the New Globe Gardens, tell into the water, and was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of acci- dental death by walking into the Regent's Canal, which was accJinpanitd by the following addendum- 4 ' That the jurors cannot separate without expressing their opinion of the highly dangerous state of that part of the canal, which ought to be fenced in for the protection of human life," COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. The half-yearly general court of the directors of this institution took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the board of management, the appointment of auditors, and the election of six boys and four girls out of 27 candidates, on the foundation ; John Masterman, Esq., in the chair. Mr. SAUL, the secretary, read the report, which was of the most satisfactory character, the receipts up to the present month being—received for pre sentation, 1261, ; donations, 2321. Renewed subscriptions, 1,3771. 11s. ; new ditto, 1711. 3s. Simultaneous collection s , 4271 . 15s. sd. In re ference to the simultaneous collection, the board state when thoroughly understood no commer cial man would object to its continuance, as shown from the fact, that a comparatively small number of the commercial men subscribe to the schools. Therefore the annual subscription being inadequate to meet the expenditure, it became ne cessary to raise an additional sum without over taiting the regular subscribers. The report stated that the education in both the boys' and girls' de partments was satisfactory, as also, upon the autho rity of Mr. Braday, the house surgeon, was the sanitary state of the children, and the board ear nestly invite all friends and supporters to visit the establishment at Pinner. The report having been adopted, and the officers for the year ensuing elected, The polling for the several candidates commenced at twelve o'clock, but the final numbers were not announced until five o'clock. ' A vote of thanks was passed to the deputy chair man, and the meeting separated. NAVAL AND MIL ITA RY INTELLIGENCE, The reinforcements which have been for some time under orders to embark for India left Chatham garrison yesterday morning and proceeded to Gravesend, where they embarked on board the Salamanca for Bombay and Kurrachee. As there was an alteration in the numbers and detachments ordered for embarkation, we now give a complete list of the officers and troops who proceeded from Chatham yesterday :-18th Royal Irish, Lieut. E. L. Dillon and 116 non-commissioned officers and men ; 51st Light Infantry, Ensign E. M. Crowe and 73 men of all ranks ; 72d Highlanders, 24 men ; 83d Regiment, 12 men ; 86th Regiment, Captain J. Boyd and 23 non-commissioned officers and privates ; 98th Regiment, 5 rank and file. Staff Assistant-Surgeon A. R. Kilroy, from Fort Pitt Hospital, embarked in medical charge of the reinforcements. The screw steamer Jason has been chartered for the conveyance to India of 1,000 troops, making the seventh vessel of the European and American Company's fleet now engaged in this service. She will leave Southamptm about Monday next for Gravesend, where the troops are to embark. The Jason is a sister ship to the Golden Fleece, which made such a splendid run out to Calcutta, and landed her troops without a single case of sickness having occurred among them during the voyage ; as also did the Lady Jocelyn, another of the com pany's steanio:s. LYCEUM T.HEATRE. Last evening Mr. C. Dillon made his first appearance this season in Sir B. Lytton's beautiful play of " Riche- lieu." Taken as a whole Mr. Dillon's conception of the character of the wily cardinal was excellent. In the earlier scenes of the play there was a want of lightness, but as the action progressed, the actor warmed up, and then came those bursts of passion and feeling for which Mr. Dillon is so remarkable. In The fourth act he created the greatest sensatim, and at the fall of the act drop the applause and cheering was so enthusiastic that before silence could be restored he bad to appear and bow his acknowledgments. In the celebratel passage in the closing act of the play, in which the vascillating Logis implores the Cardinal to resume the government of France, the acting of Mr. Dillon rose to the highest point of dignity and grandeur, and the curtain fell amidst the most enthusiastic cheer ing. The part of Julie was very gracefully sustained by Mrs. C. Dillon, and Mrs. A. Mellon as the page acquitted benelf with her usual ability. With a compliment to Mr Barrett, for the artistic manner in which he sustained the part of Father Joseph, our praise must end. The gorgeous burlesque pantomime went off last night with great eclat. The house was crowded in every part. His Excellency Ferukh Khan, attended by Captain Lynch and a numerous suite, left Claridge's Hotel yesterday morning for the Euston station, and pro. ceeded by the 9.15 a.m. train to Bangor, for the pur pose of inspecting the Britannia Tubular-bridge. His excellency is expected to return to town this evening. His Excellency the Sardinian Minister is staying on a visit with the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, at their seat in Dorsetshire. The Duchess of Grafton and the Earl of Euston have returned to town from Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Strat ford. Her grace and his lordship will leave Clarges street to-morrow for Euston Hall, Norfolk, to be present at the funeral of the lamented Lady Charles Fitzßoy. Tho Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury's party at Hatfield includes the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Sandy!, Lord and Lady Rokeby, Lady Cowley, Hon. Frederik Cadogan, Major-General Hall, Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Bax, Mr. C. Parris, &c. The noble nurquis on Christmas-eve caused a liberal supply of beef, bread, and strong ale to be distributed to 200 workmen and labourers employed on the Hatfield estates. The Countess Craven and the Ladies Craven arrived in town yesterday from Ashdow Park. Her ladyship will leave Charles-street to-day on a tour of visits. The Earl and Countess Howe are passing the season at Gopeall Hall, Leicestershire, sorrounded by a family circle. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland are surrounded by a select circle at Apthorpe, Northamptonshire.. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are entertain. ing a select circle at Sf. Giles' House, Dorset. The Earl of Morley has resigned the colonelcy of the South Devon Militia, which his lordship has held since 1845. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are at Broad landp, where they intend to receive a succession 0, visitors during the holidays. Viscount Combermere's Christmas gifts of warm clothing and blankets were distributed on Christmas eve to the poor of Audlem, Aston, Wrenbury, Burly. darn, Newhall, and other townships on his estates. Four oxen were also provided to supply the cottagers with Christmas fare, and the tenants generally are invited to dine with his lordship next week, at the Combermere Arms, Aston. His lordship maintains perfect health, and goes out shooting almost daily. Lord and Lady Ribblesdale arr'ved in town yester day, from visiting the Earl and Countess Howe, at Gopsall The Hon. W. Nassau Jocelyn has joined the Earl of Roden at the Queen's Rotel, Upper Norwood. Sir Michael and Lady Bruce have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from, a continental tour. Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall are pagsing the season at Llanover, North Wales. Lieutenant -General Shubriok has arrived at Maurigy'e Hotel from Andover. The mortal remains of the late Lady Charles Fitzroy will be removed from town, to-morrow evening, foi interment, on Thursday morning, at the family roans°. leun3 at Euston The Hon. Mrs. George Anson and the Misses Anson came to town to-Jay, from visiting the Earl and Countes2, Howe at Gopsall Hall. We regret to announce the demise, at St. Leonard's on-Sea, on Christmas-day, of the Hon. Augusta Maude, daughter of the late Viscount Hawarden. Her ladyship had only attained her 27th year. We understand that the title by which Mr. Charles Compton Cavendish will b 3 called to the Upper House is Lord Chesham. FOOTUACING IN IRELAND.---The Mohkstown an) Pas sage anon .1 footraces and naval and military sporty carne off on St. Stephen's day (Saturday), on the Monstown course, near Dublin. The day having been proclaimoc a general holiday by the mayor, there were large crowds of persons on the ground. The baud of the Royal Elthoree militia attended. Mr. W. Johnson, late of the Rifle Brigade, who once beat Col. Astley, and Mr. Taylor, who was lately beaten by Col. Astley, but beat Mr. Machell, were both on the course, but did not run. The second race was won by a yard by Mr. Quaine, of Mal low, Mr. Maohell being second. The De Vesci silver cup was won by Mr. Machel'. by two yards, Mr. Quaine being second. Mr. Machell also won the champion's belt of all Ireland. Jumping and throwing weights followed the running. SUICIDE.—Last night an inquest was held on the body of Richard Strigger, aged 33, a smith, who resided at 10, Cold Bath-. quare. On the night of Saturday week the deceased and his wife were heard quarrelling and shortly after the latter informed the people in the house that her husband had cut his throat. A surgeon was sent for, who dressed the wound, and the deceased was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died on Sunday from a viclent bleeding of the wound coming on. night when her husband cut his throat ; that he was jealous of her, and had q uarre ll e d w ith her about stopping out. Verdict, temporary insanity. E ~ -,~ '4...-- - .. ~r. _.:~~i LITERATURE. Katherine and the Moment of Fortune. Trans. lated by Lady Wallace. 3 vols. Bentley. These tales have lost nothing of their national characteristics 'in the translation; they - are evidently presented to us by a practised hand, and one well skilled in the work she has undertaken. Without being striking in any particular way, they both certainly repay perusal, especially the latter one — the " Moment of Fortune "—which is more brief and definite in its details, spirited in its sketches, and possesses something piquante and fascinating in its character which irresistibly engages the at tention of the reader. One is partioulariy inte rested in the young aide-de-camp, Herr Von Fer now, whose straightforward manner and freedom from guile seem at first sight to unfit him for mix ing in a court circle with advantage accruing to him, but who subsequently fares far better than those around him versed in the deepest mysteries of intrigue, and full of stratagem, subterfuge, and counterplot, whichever way they thought, spoke, or acted. The chamberlain, Wenden, is a very amusing study : he was always forming castles in the air, although his stolid style would have pre eluded any casual observer from supposing him likely to be so fancifully engaged. His favourite idea was that particular junctures in men's lives were moments of fortune—that the opportunity rightly seized would be a golden one. Unhappily his wisdom did not enable him to perceive which was the right one of the two paths before him, and he chose the least felicitous, while his companion, whom he deemed too simple to achieve anything, took the tide at the flood, and w as soon ena bled to benefit his fotmer counsellor. On the whole, this sketch of a court is a very brilliant one. "Kathe rine," the first story, is rather too elaborate in de tail, and falls short of the interest felt for its suc cessor. Nevertheless, some of its passages are exciting, and described with good effect. Eugene, the hero, is a bold decided nature, and the scenes in which he appears are always entertaining, and never pall on the attention. The old market woman, too, is quite a character in her way—a finished specimen of her tribe, which As of more consequence abroad than at home. Altogether, these volumes afford an agreeable variety to the lovers of romance, and many may feel indebted for some hours' pleasant occupation to their composer and translator. Frank, Millward. A novel. By W. Kenriek. 2 vols. Street. Without making any pretensions, this novel is a very pleasing one, and presents us with an interest ing story, which is written in a clelar and concise manner. In the course of the narrative some Lac siderable variety is met with,' and a good deal of information may be gleaned concerning different classes and conditions at the epoch referred to-- the close of the last century. Frank, the hero, is a very prepossessing character, and his faults (for he is not represented as one of the imaginary pieces of perfection) are those of the surface; he is upright and manly in his mind and manners. He inherits these qualities from his father, as his mother is not at all distinguished for mental or moral gifts. The unmasking of the Jesuit, as it is called, is a very effective passage, which is well described, and the artful contrivances and adroit manoeuvres aptly reveal the characteristics of the sect to which the deceiver belonged. Many stirring scenes occur towards the close of the story, where Frank Mill waid joins his father•in-law in the Austrian caxa paign against Moreau. His adventures in Ireland furnish a fund of entertainment for those who pre fer gayer details. The reader will be at no loss to find something to amuse and interest him in the perusal of this novel. The Cruel Sister : A. Tragedy ; and other Poems. pp. 184. Smith, Elder, and Co. Such remarkable promise is given, hero and there, throughout this charming poetic miscellany, that we marvel at the modesty dictating its purely anonymous publication. The young author from whose hand the volume has emanated, of whose very heart its verses are occasionally (it is impos sible not to recognize this) the effusion—need assuredly not have hesitated to affix his name frankly to the title-pag e. His conspicuous evidence of power is, undoubtedly—as he himself would without question desire it should have been--tre cognizable in the principal performance in his maiden-work, the opening poem—a three-aa tragedy, significantly entitled (so far as regards the plot), " The Cruel Sister." This production espe cially, however—occupying more than half the book, replete with passion, vivified with poetry-, abounding with romantic interest and with pathetic fascination—requires, more than any other per formance in the entire collection, consecutive and careful perusal, to the end that it may be, in any adequate degree, appreciated. Fragmentary quo tation from it, extending though it does as we have said over no more than three acts, were even less judicious and in many respects less satisfactory than a brick from the house of Skolastikos in Hierocles—the fragment in this instance, however cunningly selected, would fail even to , afford lib notion of the character of the materials. Debarred by this sufficient consideration from giving an ex tract from " The Cruel Sister," and yet impressed ourselves with the general and pervading mcrit of the composition in its entirety, we very heartily recommend those readers to its examination who have a relish for genuine metrical eloquence, all the more welcome from its undoubted originality. The Miscellaneous Poems which follow the tragedy, and diversify the contents while they enhance the attractions of the volume, are as various as they are numerous. They are chiefly pensive in tone and meditative in character. Several of the minor pieces are really exquisite : as —among the " Sonnets," for example : a. xiv.- - " The sunshine flashing on the trembling White stalks of blue bells lush upon the meads — Winds whistling clearly through the rustling reeds, And wildly whirling leaves along the These were enough for thee and me, 0 friend ; _ , For the great breath in w hi c h our wor ds were drown ed , And the grand solitude that slept around, Gave more than consecrated w a lls co uld lend. ...--- --- Yet well to see how in this land of ours The hamlets cluster round the grey church towers ! O well to se e men's need : — How hearts are made • . . To rise to God and knees are made to fall. Even London, almost hid from, heaven with trade, How the gold cross stands calm above it all 1" Again, how very beautiful the glimpse caught, at the close of another Sonnet (xxxii.), o f the spreading of a f Dear English landscape that I know" : • " The mists slow trailing from the rimy lea, The orchard sparkling in the sun below, The huddled sheep beneath the dripping tree. Tho crisp cut footsteps on the frosty snow." Altogether, a most acceptiblia offering is this little nosegay of poetic blooms, breathing sweetly of the home-soil in which their fibres are rooted, and of the green lap of earth from which they have flowered. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. On Sunday evening an accident occurred at the Gorton station of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway, by which an engine-driver lost his life. Shortly after seven o'clock he was driving a ballast engine belonging to his employer, (Mr. eaylor, the contractor for the permanent way) into the engine works at Gorton, having come from Guidebridge, a distance of about two miles and a-half. Finding the signal off, and the signal-man absent from hi s box, he ordered his fireman to hold the points whilst ho crossed from the down to the up line again, to enter the engine-shed lines, when nether engine, proceeding from Ardwick to Guide-Was , came into collision with the ballast-engine. The second engine was thrown off the rails, 'hough not upset, and a few minutes afterwards the driver of the ballast-engine was found lying on the rails and breathing his last. The fireman of the other engine, whose name is Gee, was also found lying on the ground insensible, having sus ta ned concussion of the brain, but he is expected to recover. The driver of this engine, John Rhodes, was also injured slightly. The second engine Was going to take a goods train from Guide-bridge to Lincoln, and the driver of the ballast-engine had no sight to cross in front of it, unless authorised by the signal. His name was Holland, and he has left a wife and four children. The signal-maep Thomas Taylor, who had left his box without any It.° in charge, to take a glass of beer in a public" house, was taken into custody and brought he tnagistrates. at the New Bailey, Salford, Y es " terday. He was rem a nd e d p en di ng th e inquest o n Holland, which tak e s pl ace thi s (T ues day) after noon, at Gorton. before SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES IN WESTMINSTEIt ABBEY. —We have reason to believe that the following will 10 found to be a correct list of the preachers at these ser vices during the month of January :—The first sermon, on tl e 3d of January, wi 1 be preached by the Dean of Westininstcr ; the second. on the 10th, by the sub- Dean ; the third, on the 17th, by the Bishop of oxford ; the fourth, on the 24. n, by the Dean of Canterbury ; and the fifth, on the 31st, by the Rev. C. J. P. Eyre. A POTEECARIEW - HALL. Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on December 24 Watkin Edwards, Keston ; Wm. Riddell Brunton, East Indies ; Shirley Edmonds, Woolmer ; Thomas Diver, Hampstead ; George titer niaick, Guernsey ; George Farr White, Park-terrace, liegent's-park ; George Parkinson, Grosvenor-street.! John Harrison Gibraltar ; Edward Arthur Page, Be? worth, W arw i c k ; Alf re d Willi am Keene, Guildfornt Surrey. 111 StIN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, LEECBMBER, 29, 1857.