The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE CUSTOMS OF THE CiIIUNTRY. Melissa, Mrs Barney Williams. r After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear. Followed by THE IRISH TUTOR. Dr O'Toole, Mr Barney 'Williams. To conclude with MOTHER SHIPTON oruin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whi s tl e. Ha' Hari( tq rlequirc :And Columbine 0, la Watteau), Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morel<tind; Scaramouch, Mr. Lo Bar r . Ch aracters in the bur lesque by Mr, Paul Bedford, Mr. J . Bl an d , Mr. R. Romer Madame Cereste, Miss Wyndham, Mi ss M ary Keeley, Miss ' Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, dm - CO OYAL SURREY THEATRE, _flit, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, an original play, in three acts, entitled A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. Roderick Praiseworthy, Mr. Shepherd. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr F. Glover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury; the Four Sprites, the Finis Fa mily; Columbines. Mesdames Marie and Agnes. VIEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THM EVENING THE MERRY WIVEM or WINDSOR. Sir Jo,lin Falstaff Mr . Ph e 1 • d M Marston; Page, Mr. it. Rayner ps' .r. • ; Slender Mr. F. Robinson ; Shallow, Mr. J. w. :Ray; Evans, Mr. I. Ball ; Mrs. Ford, MissM. Eburne; Mrs. M tge, Mrs. H. Marston ; Ann Page, Miss J. Marston. To conclude with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND THE F ISHERMAN. T t VW) THEATRE. —Manager, Mc. T. K-7 Pa e. —This Evening will be performed THE PERILS OF CRINOLINE. Affer which, DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. Followed by THE ANTI-GAROTTE. To conclude with the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Humbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Christmas, Miss E. Wilton ; Good HIMIOUT, Miss Norhury ; ercury, Miss Cktmeron ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert ; Cant, Mr. M Bolton ; Baron, Mr. J. B. Johnstone ; Sir Rol M and, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Lovel,, Miss Craven ; Addelpste, Miss Cuthbert Crambo, Master W. Edouin ; Lady Agnes, Miss E. ,Tacobs ; Baroness, .o/Ir. G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Hark. quieade : Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Little Clown, Master W Edonin ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbines, Miss E. Jacobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier Danseuse, Mdle. Marie Charles. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s, ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d, A morning performance of the Pantomime every Monday at two o'clock R OY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EYENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling. A new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq., called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planclio, Eaq. called YOUNG AND HANDSOME . M essrs. F. Robson, hogers, Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborou,gb, Thirlwall, St. Casse, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. 4Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (first week) ROB ROY, with the origi nal music, and with effective Equestrian Illustrations and Tableaux, by Mr. Wm. Cooke's Trained Horses. Rob Roy, Mr. James Holloway. After. which, the favourite SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with the equestrian comic pantomime of PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK. Commenos at seven o'clock. Dress BM; 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. (:i.c.office ()Pen from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West, Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. R oyA L LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVEII ING, will be performed FABIAN. Fabian, Mr. Charles Dirk `■ ; Pauline, Mrs. Charles Dillon. To be followed by ct )NRAD AND MEDORA; or, Harlequin Corsi ir and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the Sea. The bar lesque opening by W. Brough, Esq., ounded upon the lyall'et of Le Corsair, as produced at Her Majesty's Theatre. 'the harlequinade upon things in gene ral. The new and magnificent scenery paiated by Mr. F. Fenton. Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar Birbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole Medora . . Mrs. Charles Dillon Clowns Mr. H. Marshall The box-office open day, from 11 to 5, under the super *tendert es of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to "set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every evening. Great Snocess of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the most magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform an entirely new three-act Drama, entitled THE BLACK BOOK. Charact era by Mr. C. Mathews, A. Yonnge, G. Honey, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Lingham ; Misses Cleveland and M. Oliver,,, and Mrs. Selby. After w phich will be produced SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the house to. snit every one:—Galleries, 6d. and ls. • Second Circle of Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, 6d.'• Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 10e. Va., ls., li, lls. 6d., and 2/. 25.1 A .Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wedn ,esday, at Two o'clock. rnHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commen ce at Seven, k (sixth time) a new Comedy, in three acts, entitled, DOVLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Iltippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers, Mr. ( Mark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz. willia, u. Foil owed by THE IRISH ATTORNEY. Pierce O'Hara, by Mr. Charles Dawson. After which (49th time) tho now comic pantomime, entitled THE BA 03ES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel trade. I lEhe scenery of tho opening story painted by Mr. W. Callcott. 'The pantomime produced under tho direction of M. Mila no. Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Yxntaloon, Mr. Mackay ; and Clown, Mr. Driver ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EVENING will be performed A. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After •which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlem:On and the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr Cormack ; 'town, Mr. Hnline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ;Co iumbine , mie, a C. Adams. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, die., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jongliman., R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corn, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Rime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and Corri ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, Mr.lCecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock. Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Dress Ball will take place on Wednesday, Feb. IS. Gentleman's t/oket, 7s; lady's ditto, 5s ; double ti cket (lady and gentleman or two ladies), 10s. WATEU AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai' 11!--Morn. 37 min. aft. 4 —F.vening 53 mid. aft. 4 Tn-MOIROW—Morn. 7 min. aft. s—Evening 21 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49 —highest sineo noon yesterday. 37 lowest this morning and during the night. I 47 —this day at noon. BAROMMTIEB, 29.87. WIND, W.N.W. —Light, with fine weather. 41',f'"" -r f•l)'Q, - v , _ ) ••• • "' LIi,MON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, I 8 ;7 ',., Well, the Committee nominated by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer has been duly nominated, with two exceptions—the members for Walling ford and Perthshire—who had intimated their inability to serve. Mr. MA.LINS was one of the impartial and disinterested members in whom the community would have felt perfect confidence. His absence, then, will prove a very serious loss, rendering the committee even more one-sided than had been previously anticipated. A general apathy Was perceptible in the House that showed that the discreditable "dodge" resorted to by the Financial Minister was clearly understood. But parties 'held ' aloof applreutly with the view of giving him rope enough, so that the by no means unusual result might follow, and that there should be no in terrupti )ti of thepoliti cal felo de se. Onegen f tlemau alone(Mr• pEAconKz)had th e manliness to protest agaiiiA the Cinstitutim of the committee. He did not, however, propose any alteration, as he declared that "he would not interfere with the distribution of parts in this most solemn comedy.,, We fear, however, that the farce or burlegre may I have a really tragic termination. The outraged and suffering people who see their families endur ing stringent privations—the small traders and manufacturers who find all their anticipated profits transferred into the pockets of extortionate usurers —will scarcely enter into the humour of the jest, or join in the opinion of " Mercator," that «a high rate of interest is not necessarily injurious to commerce." They feel and know that by its means they sustainthe most serious losses, that they are too frequently reduced to the verge of ruin, while many thousands of their brethren are compelled to become bankrupts or insolvents in consequence of the intolerable pressure. They will then, to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, "laugh at the wrong side of their mouths " at the exceedingly "good joke" that has just been played off at their expense, by Mercator and his flunkeys, both in and out of Parliament. Mr. Duatem, who, on a similar quintion, in _ _ 1848, made a gallant stand, displayed a degree of carelessness and indifference that proved that he was completely blasee on the point. He was " not disposed to divide the House on the ap pointment of a committee, unless he should re ceive more encouragement than he then antici pated." At what time was that " encourage ment" to be displayed, when could it be mani fested, if no leading member thought it worth while to offer opposition to the partial selection I From what occurred we cannot hope that the Right Honourable Gentleman will display any energetic exertions in the Committee. If he contemplated any close divisions, where a vote more or less would be of importance, he would have exhibited greater solicitude about the nomination of its members. It is by no means clear that the novel alliance into which he has entered may not have changed his views on the currency as on the fiscal questions. It certainly seems as if his chief object was to acquire political capital, and to damage his opponents, rather than to benefit the nation ! If the people were prosperous and happy, there would be so good a chance of place and promotion for himself. General discontent and dissatisfaction afford the best prospects of exchanging the dreary Opposition benches for the comfortable repose of the Treasury side of the House. Besides, the community at large have not as yet evinced the excitement neces sary to produce legislative sympathy. They have suffered dust to be flung in their eyes. They have taken no active steps to dispel the mystery in which their interested opponents have contrived to invest the subject. They have sanctioned the delusion that it is an abstract science of the most abstruse and uninviting character. Anything relating to bullion and currency was distasteful to the great majority, who professed " not to under stand the question," and who became impatient even of discussion on a point of paramount im portance to the welfare and prosperity of the com munity. Anything that directly touches their pockets will produce intense excitement. The application of the tax collector for a few pounds is made the topic of universal argument. There will be no lack of agitation on such a point. But they coolly suffer themselves to be indirectly de frauded of tenfold the amount. What, we ask, is the importance of a small payment, more or less, in comparison to obtaining the means by which that and many other pay ments of a similar character may be made with out pressure or inconvenience. The Israelites in Egypt did not so greatly complain of the "tale of bricks," a pparently the favourite mode of taxation in those days, as of the withholding the straw, the material of which they were made. They naturally felt that anything that could be pro duced by their own labour and their unassisted efforts might fairly be demanded. But it was tyranny and oppression of the worst description to make them responsible for matters over which they could exercise no possible control. Now, a circulating medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country, is to its taxation, in exactly an analogous position, to what the supply of straw was to the production of bricks, so far as the Israelites were concerned. Without a suit able measure and representative of value, the industrious classes are rendered perfectly help less. Their " talent is buried in the earth." Their capital lies dormant. In place of being the creators and producers of national wealth, they become unprofitable consumers ; in place of being the respectable producers for happy families, they are discontented paupers, suing for that which, under a sounder and more equitable system, they might easily earn for themselves. Those who .re daily thronging to the Police-courts and Union Workhouses would, if free trade in currency were eAablislied, be certain of obtaining "a fair day's wages for a fair day's work." All they require is " a clear stage and no favour," but that they can never obtain so long as the Act of 1844 is main tained with all its stringent restrictions, increased and unmodified. Their chief efforts should be to abate that social nuisance, to which all their misery and privations may be directly attributed. We trust that the House of Lords will avail itself of the golden opportunity of dis playing its utility. The admirable report of its committee still remains on record, and there is no reason why that committee should not resume its labours, and publish a supplement to that invaluable document. Should they do so, they may induce us to "thank GOD we have a House of Lords." If not they will, by their own free will and consent, abandon their position as a co ordinate branch of the Legislature, and sink into well-merited contempt and disrepute. However much Lord PALMERSTON himself may indulge in " vapouring"—however much he may endeavour to cover an " ignominious retreat"— there is no question at all about the fact of his having so acted, during these first few nights of the session, as to have already (quite unintention ally, we doubt not,) done considerable good service to the reputation of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. There is no mistake at all about that— whatever the Prime Minister may affect to the contrary with such an exhilarating*air of mingled swagger, bom bast, and braggadocio. Neither will the country fail to recognise this, in spite of all the " ribald ridicule" indulged in by the First Lord of the Treasury, immediately upon the reassembling of Parliament—in spite of that discreditable display by him, last evening, of what SHAKSPERE calls the "Insolence of Office,"—in spite of the mean, and paltry, and despicable dittoes to " My Lord," echoed and re-echoed this morning with such " damnable iteration" and such perverse effron tery by the partisan-organs of the PALMERSTON Government. Ourselves, partisans neither of the Government nor of the Opposition, we cannot possibly do otherwise—with the simple facts of the case before us—than recognise in the discussions which have ,taken place upon the subject of what has been spoken of as the Secret Treaty, an unmistakeable •t'arlianlentary triumph for Mr. DISRAELI, and a noless unmistakeable political defeat for My Lord PALMERSTON. What are the simple facts of the case as they are now indelibly recorded upon th© t r ..r ~ r1'41,--141)NDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FiEBRUARY 13, 185 7. journals the Haus° * Of Obinmons ? Let them be looked at for a few mom - edits without partiality and without prejudice What are they ? It will be easy enough to enumerate Chain. Let us do so, And while we do se, we do moil earnestly adjure the more watchful observer of events to note well the startling and entraordinary disparity of the statements 'ant forward in the House of Commons by the opposing leaders of the Government and of the Opposition. At the commencement of the present session Mr. DISRAELI, it will be remembered, startled the country by distinctly announcing from his place in Parliament the enistence of a secret arrangement entered into between France and Austria with the formal consent, if not at the actual "instance" or "instigation" (it really matters not which was the precise word), of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. It will be equally fresh in the memory of the community— How it was precisely that Lord PALMERSTON met this very grave charge, speaking authoritatively for himself and his colleagues as the Chief of the Administration. The Government had never even "heard" of any such agreement ! It was in the simplest meaning of the words nothing less than a myth, a phantasy, a halluci nation ! The Right Hon. Gentleman had been gulled during his recent visit to Paris by very innocently swallowing (what is called) a canard, in his newly-accepted capacity as (what is called) a gobemouche I There was no such Treaty ! There never had been any such Treaty ! Ministers had never heard of it I From first to last it was the flimsiest fiction, the idlest fabrication, the wildest absurdity ! The Right Hon. Gentleman—[con fessedly a very old juke this, be 14 observed —had drawn upon his imagination for his facto, and upon his memory for his arguments ! He had already won for himself elsewhere a great reputation as a novelist: he was now, in an unexpected manner, in the House of Commons, in his political capacity, justi fying his claim to that reputation ! Briefly— " I must say"—observed Lord Pa.L.KnitSTON- - " that the greater part of the Right Honourable Gentleman's speech upon our foreign policy is by the Prime Minister a a s ir sa o id f a perfect and entire romance." All the gayest g t a h y is es w t • of laughter from the M mi sterialists, on the first and amidst frequent bursts s corn and derision, night of the Session, Tuesday, February 3, 1857. During a whole week after, the noble Viscount wa s absent from the House , b ut imme d i ately upon his return to it, Mr. DIsRAELI, naturally enough, availed himself of the very earliest opportunity to vindicate himself in the. estimation of the popular branch of the Legislature. It was then elicited from the noble Lord (who had talked on Tuesday, the 3d instant, of the whole statement as " a perfect and entire romance") that Well, yes 1 he believed now the thing had been mentioned—that there was some such understand ing as the one spoken of by the Right. Hon. Gentleman ; but that the Convention embodying this understanding between France and Austria (with the cognisance if not encouragement of England) had never been signed by the represen tatives of the contracting Governments. So that, according to Lord PALMERSTON'S own explanation upon that the second night of the discussion—if Mr. DISRAELI'S statement was still to be desig nated a romance, it ought in strict truth and jus tice to be termed a little more explicitly than on the former occasion—at any rate a historical ro mance—in other words, a fiction founded upon fact. However, in due course a third night's dis cussion of the matter was to arrive at length, when those explanations would have to be ex plained. And it did arrive accordingly. Last evening, Thursday, the 12th of February, was the time. The House of Commons was again the place. Lord PALMERSTON himself once more the speaker. And now that for the third lime the Prime Minister has spoken upon this matter—bow do things actually stand according to his own showing ? Recollect, first of all, the whole thing was a romance—a canard—a fabri cation ! Ministers had never heard of such a document as the one spoken of by Mr. DISRAELI I Afterwards—on refection, Ministers had heard of it, there had been something of the sort, but it never had been " signed In Lastly —yesterday—after a little more reflection—well, yes ! Ministers had not only " heard" of it, there had not only been negotiated "something of the sort" between the French and Austrian, with the knowledge and consent of the English Government, but, added Lord PALMERSTON, with regard to the document itself (a document, remember, that first of all never had existed, and then never had been signed) Well, Yes, said the Prime Minister. " I think it due to the Right Hon. Gentleman to state that I have since learned that in point of fact it toes signed ! " So much for the romance ! So much for the canard 1 So much for the fabri cation ! So much for Mr. DISRAELI being, in his political capacity, as Lord PALMERSTON pertly called him, "a great master of the powers of imagination !" The " fabrication" proves to be, after all, a very hard fact. The canard—an " ower true tale." The romance a most deplorable reality. There was such a writ ten document after all and that written document was actually "signed" by the re presentatives of the contracting Governments ? Yet, for simply insisting upon these doubtless unwilling, but very explicit acknowledgments on the part of the Noble Viscount, the First Lord of the Jokery, as Boz profanely calls him—Mr. DISRAELI was charged last night by Lord PAT,- stEnsToN with " attempting to cover an ignomi nious retreat" with " vapouring," and we don't know what all ! More consummate effrontery than this we cannot possibly at the present mo ment call to our recollection ! The jocular and flippant Droll of the House has lost his temper at last smarting secretly, no doubt, under a painful sense of his own egregious misstatements. And so the matter ter minated yesterday with what we cannot but regard as a most unseemly display of sardonic irritability on the part of my Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. As to the effect of the whole of these transac tions in reference to Mr. DISRAELI himself—we conceive that the result of the three discussions cannot do otherwise, in his regard (either before the House or before the Country) than tend very materially to elevate his political and Parliamen tary reputation. Sir RAIBERT PEEL last evening, in the House of Commons, most successfully, and, let us add, most completely, vindicated his claim to the repute; of the gay, the sparkling, the light.in-hand, the touch-and-go Young BARNACLE. His explanation as to the speech delivered by him on the 7th of January, 1857, at Saltby, near Birmingham, we take at once to be really, after all, for the most part perfectly satisfactory. Sir ROBERT pleasantly: reminds the House, and through the House, the y Country, that when he spoke at Saltby, on the 7th ult., for one hour and a half, or perhapi two hour's duration, "without notice," it was on the occasion of a " jollification " at the place of his hon. friend the Member for Adderley—meaning (he adds, in the midst of great laughter), North Staffordshire. As to his remarks there and then about M. le Comte de MORNY, he simply said that he was ie plus grand speculateur de r Europe 1 As to what he remarked about the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, , he had implied a great deal more than he had actually uttered in the way of com pliment 1 As to the Prince de LIGNE—Why, truly, he observed last night, " I certainly did use some such ezpression as this—l said he was `stiff and starch as the frill of Queen Ems- BETH 1" Adding...." Of the words I made use of then (so far as the Prince DE lAMB is concerned) I accept the responsibility." As to the rest, observed Sir ROBERT, last even ing, in the House of Commons—and evidently to its infinite amusement —"All I can say is, that if in the attempt—the very innocent attempt— to paint a few light airy sketchers—go hold,' as I think Goldsmith says, 4 the mirror up to nature,' " 'And catch the manners living as they rise,' —(laughter)—l erred in the appreciation of those whose good opinion I value, and whos e judg ment must have weight with me, I am ready to offer the most ample expression of my re gret, and to make upon this occasion the most fitting amends honorable which I can offer." In other words—He 'll be a good b oy and not do so any more—even at a jollification. At the close of all whick, we don't wonder in the least to find it reported parenthetically that " (The lion. Baronet who spoke in the airiest and most off-hand manner possible, sat down amid loud cheers. r Of course—.what could have been done otherwise Y Sir RO➢ERT Pinn, at the worst, had only been talking a little fun (poking a little tun, we believe, is the correct phiase) at a Stafford shire jollification. As the son and heir of a great statesman, and as himself one of the Lords of the Circumlocution office to boot, he ought, according to the practice of what Mr. THAMERAY calls ‘4 the old fogyfied times" to have talked more seriously, sedately, and didactically. Like the Snip's son in Ml* Old Faroe, however, who had a soul above buttons, Sir ROBERT PEEL disdained to prose away for an hour or two in the old Par liamentary style at Mr. ADDERLEY'S jollification. Et voila tout 1 Instead of doing so, he tells us, he preferred to hold the Glass—up to Nature. And so the House of Commons in all good humour laughs and cheers (as it ought) at the Gay Young BARNACLE'S explanation. And so that Gay Young BARNACLE himself (as he ought) merrily takes the Speech so often carped at, and, with a comic glance out of the corner of his eye, carols it, as it were, all over again to House of Commons to the tune of Vic la Bagatelle 1 PROVIDEIVT CLERKS' BENEVOLENT FUND. We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the excellent remarks made at the meeting of the above fund by the Chairman, Thomson Hankey, Esq., on Wednesday evening last. A report of that gentleman's speech will be found in another column. Mr. Hankey's experience, both as a Director of the Bank of England and as an Income tax Commissioner, enable him to speak with autho rity on the subject, and he declares, as a fact within his knowledge, that the salaries paid to clerks have not kept'pace with the increased and increasing price of the necessaries of life. The wages of mechanics and of domestic servants have, as we all know, risen considerably during the last few years. In home rent, especially in the neighbourhood of ,the metropolis, a large in crease has taken place. To taxes we need not advert further than to remark that of all classes who suffer from the pressure of the income tax, the clerks are probably the most to be pitied, from the severity with which it falls upon a fixed and limited income. While this increase has been going on, however, the salaries of this large body have remained with but little alteration ; and it was to this fact the hon. gentleman alluded on Wednesday evening, as a reason why the ranks of the Clerks' Benevolent Fund are at present limited to some four or five thousand members, instead of amounting, as they should do, to ten times that number. We have little doubt. that Mr. Hankey has, in vulgar par lance, "hit the right nail on the head." An in come of 1001., or 1501. per annum, especially if a family have to be supported out of it, leaves but little margin for future provision, even with the most pinching economy. Let us, however, bear in mind one important fact. The excuse above quoted cannot be accepted on behalf of another class, whose duty and interest it is to foster this institution. We allude to the employers, to whom the well-being of their clerks must be, as is well, expressed in the report, "an object of deep importance." There is room in the list of noble donations al ready received by the Provident Clerks' Benevolent Fund for a long series of City firms and benevolent individuals who have not yet contributed to its funds, and we trust soon to see realised the wish expressed by many of the speakers at the meeting, viz., that every deserving candidate may be placed on the list of annuitants without the necessity of election. That which is done by many trades and professions of limited extent can surely be accom plished by the exercise of good feeling and energetic co-operation among such a body as the clerks of Great Britain. Let them be but true to their ex cellent motto, "Tuti qui providi," and they will ere long place their fund at the head of the "cha rities" (we use the word in its best sense) of this metropolis. LATEST N E WS. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur announces that on Monday, the 16th inst., the Emperor will open the Session of the Legislative Chambers in person, in the Salle des Marechaux, at the Palace of the Tuileries. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post 'second edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says : " I have reason to believe that Russia will not continue in advising Persia to resist the demands of England. It is quite possible that despatches will shortly reach the Persian Envoy in Paris of a conciliatory character. France desires peace, and Russia wishes to be on good terms with this country, for reasons easily imagined." An ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg, conceding a network of railways. The works to be completed in ten years. The capital to be sub scribed is 275 millions of roubles. NAPLES, FEB. 11. The creation of a free port, and the complete revision of the Customs Laws, have been decided in Council by King Ferdinand. TURIN, FEB. 11. The bill on the reorganisation of the superior administration of public instruction has been adopted by a majority of 75 to 55. A "Vienna correspondent of the Weser Gazette says :—" It is asserted in diplomatic circles here that England has accepted the mediation of France in the Persian dispute." The Nord of Brussels affirms that Russia has not abandoned her views in favour of the union of the Principalities ; and that the assertions of the English press on that point are without foun dation. Russia, it says, maintains, and will per sist in maintaining, the opinion on the subject pronounced by her representatives in the congress of Paris. A Berlin letter in the German journal of frankfort says :—" The preparations for the con• ference which is to terminate the Neuchatel ques tion are proceeding very slowly, and replies have not yet been received from all the powers to the note in which Prussia declared that by the libera tion of the prisoners she was enabled to enter into negotiations for the definite regulation of the question. The Prussian government has profited by the last few weeks to collect various docu ments which support her claims." --" The severity of the Court of England in all that concerns foreign decorations is perhaps ju,ti fiable. We meet in the ball-rooms of Paris cheva- Tiers and commanders covered with foreign crosses which they have often obtained less by services rendered than by intrigue. The British Govern ment is perhaps right in resisting an invasion of foreign decorations, often worn by men who are ignorant of the geographical poiition of the Stites in whose distinctions they delight. We are, how ever, of the opinion of the Debats in all that con cerns the Legion of Honour, which is acknowledged by the whole world as destined to recompense civil as well as military services." BOURSE, Feb. 12.—The following were the last quotations : - Case. ft. c 44 per Cents B . per Cents 6B 25 End of Month. —fr. —tt. 68 55 New Loan — Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,355 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 994 Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CABS. tr. c. fr c Orleans 1,372 50 Western Northern 927 50 Strasburg Lyons 1,378 75 New Ditto . 50 Mediterranean 1,715 Grand Central Lyons Geneva - Cette COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday afternoon, at ten minutes past three o'clock, the Queen and the Prince left Windsor Castle, accom panied by.the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, and attended by Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord Camoys, the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Edward Bowater, Major- General the Hon. C. Grey, Lient.-Colonel Ponsonby, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty travelled by a special train or. the Great Western Railway to Paddington, where the royal party entered seven of the Queen's carriages, and, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen arrived at five minutes past four o'clock. Her Majesty and the Prince were received by Lord Ernest Brnca, Lord Alfred Paget, and Major-General Wylde. Viscountess Palmerston will have another assembly to-morrow evening at Cambridge House. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., entertained at dinner on Wednesday a select party, among whom were his Excel ienoy the American Mi n i s t er, L or d B urg hl e y, ME, Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., th e Ri g ht Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., Sir Henry Rawlinson, Mr. Cum ming Brace, M.P., Mr. Baillie Cochrance, M.P., Mr. Warren, M.P., Mr. Vardun, Mr. Drummond Wolfe, and Mr. Munro. • Sir John and Lady Crewe have left the Clarendon for Calke Abbey, near Derby. THE NEW JUDGE.-Mr. Sergeant Channell will, we are informed, succeed the late Sir E. H. Alderson as a Baron of the Exchequer, Count Walewski has just received from the Emperor of ,Russia the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Andrew. The forthcoming dividend of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company officially announced at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum. party in It is said that the Republi can • tend to put forwa rd the following c an di dates for Paris at t h e forth coming general election s Goudchaux, Carn ot, is Cavaignac, Barbes, and Jules Favre. Advices from Constantinople allude to a project for supplying water to that c i ty. The promoters h a ve ap plied to the Government for a guarantee of 6 per cent. capital. The ships Wain:ter Castle and Tamura from Foo-ohow foo, and the Assyrian from Shanghai, have arrived. The total quantity of tea brought by these three vessels is 1,698,900 lbs. The Assyrian has also 3,201 boles of silk on freight. TURKEY. We have Constantinople journals and letters to the 2d, brought by the Thabor. Everything was perfectly tranquil in the Turkish capital, and Minis ters were taking advantage of the lull in political af fairs to occupy themselves seriously w ithl making im provements in different branches of the home admi nistration, particularly in the provinces where great laxity in carrying out the provisions of the last Hatti-humayoum had become apparent. . Several governors have been already changed, and m many of the towns the authorities have been dismissed and replaced by others. The Journal de Constan tinople announces that Sir Henry Bulwer is about to proceed to Syria. The Porte has addressed a memorandum to the representatives of the foreign Rowers relative to the suppression of the circula tion of Austrian copper coins, and the substitution of native ones in their stead. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. A madman attacked the Empress to-day. He was instantly arrested. No arms were found upon him. He declared that his intention was merely to embrace her. A council of ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The following is the monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to yester day (Thursday) : _ Ca. Fr. e. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks - Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 684,773 94 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of Franoe 21,882,936 10 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 14,774,900 Do. in the branch banks ' 6,197,400 Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills 40,000,000 Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes of disposable funds 52,190,045 98 Hotel and furniture of the Bank _ Real property of branch banks Expenses of administration 538,801 55 Premiums on the purchase of matibres 629,681 49 Sundries 558,820 27 948,231,910 7 DR. Capital Reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Reserve immobiliere 4,000,000 Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 63,441,275 Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight Account-currentbarcacno accounts n tbs a-ocnfukrcurrent Treasury e n t Creditor 1817,80, 958,137 36 95,390 84 23,853,800 Variouspo. Dividends to be paid Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities 6,413,100 28 Re-discounts of the last hal f- y ear Overdue bills Sundries 948,231,910 7 PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN. Cs. Fr. 0. Cash and ingots . 72,001,820 44 Cash at the branch banks 119,449,793 Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 1,031,848 30 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 24,489,236 10 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 16,488,600 Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills Rentes of the reserve fund 1 2 ,98 0,750 14 Rentes of disposable funds 52,190,045 98 Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 Real property of branch banks .5,126,683 Expenses of administration 83,412 Premiums on, the purchase of matibres 231,173 98 Sundries .. 294,612 --, 986,151,419 88 RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 4th, in the Constitutionnel, says :—" An additional bond is about to connect Count de Morny with Russia. He is on the eve of purchasing, in the name of his wife, a seignorial estate belonging to the Sevlosky family, situated about 12 miles from St. Peters burg. In addition to 2,500 peasants, it possesses large hot houses and extensive orangeries." The same letter says :—" The weather continues very severe, yesterday evening the thermometer on the Neva stood at 27 deg. below zero Centigrade (about 17i F. below). The ice on the river is more than 3 ft. in thickness. Notwithstanding the cold, the weather is very fine. The Emperor avails himself of it to amuse himself with bear hunting, which is his favourite sport." A letter from Odessa of the Ist, in the Austrian Correspondence, says :—" It may be remembered that Russia had promised an indemnity to the foreign merchapts who had suffered losses at this port by the interdiction to export during the last war the stocks of corn which they had purchased. This promise has just been fulfilled, a sum of 600,000 silver roubles having been divided between the Austrian houses Rocca, Goprewich, and Man dolfo. Their claim for interest was refused." THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, FEB. 11. A rapid thaw having commenced yesterday, and the authorities having assisted the operation by causing the masses of ice to be broken up between this place, Altona, and Neumublen, active prepara tions are in progress by the steamers in port to force the navigation. The Planet (screw steamer), from London, has arrived, and the Germania (steamer), has made her way down, both of these rival ship having had to remain close to each other, near Altona, for some hours, while trying to make a passage up and down. In a day or two more the navigation will have become less difficult for all classes of steamers, and soon even for sailing ships. Copenhagen aecoun s are only up to the 7th inst., leaving two mails due. The Diet was busy with home affairs, and there has been nothing of any political interest to mention. The Loan Bank, established about three years hack, with a capital of 800,000 thalers R. M., has increased its capital to 1,000,000, having succeeded well in its operations, by paying 10 per cent. to the share holders. A railway is to be laid down from the centre of the city, and to be conducted to the Royal Palace of Friedrichsborg, the favourite resort of pleasure for the inhabitants of Copenhagen generally. The gas and water works are reported as progress ing with great activity. The recently established steam-cooking appara tus, on the. principle, and according to the model of the one in Hanover, is performing wonders for the benefit of the poorer classes of people in the capital. During the month of January no less than 19,500 portions were sent to families in the city, and in the saloon of the kitchen 14,368 were consumed. The intelligence from St. Petersburg up to the 4th inst. mentions that the Minister of the Interior had laid his report of the general state of the empire before the Emperor, who added on the margin the remark :—" I have read the report with great satis faction, and especially the frank and open manner of its exposition pleases me." From the report it appears that, during the years of the last war, 738,955 men were called under arms-366,912 for the national militia and the artillery, and 372,053 for the regular army. The sum contributed towards the necessities of war had been 6,300,000 silver roubles. The amount of money exchanged in vari ous articles at the Fair of Nijni-Novgorod last year has been 69,593,760 roubles of silver-5,808,965 more than the year 1855. SPAIN. MADRID, Feb. 2.—The Gazette announces the discovery of a depot of arms and ammunition in the Theatre des Vartetes. The director of the theatre has been arrested. The reactionary party have triumphed in the provincial elections, by the inter ference of the Governmental authorities. The rumoured dismissal of General Concha from the Governorship of Cuba is contradicted. Marshal Espartero has sent to the Queen his resignation as member of the Senate. The municipal elections have terminated throughout Spain, and give as result a large majority to the government party. By a royal decree of the 7th, M. Melchoir Or donez, governor of the province of Barcelona, has been removed from his functions, and M. Juan Zapa tero, captain-general of Catalonia, appointed to hold the post ad interim. Intelligence had been received dt to at Madrid of the sudden death of General Ag ust i n Nogueras at Tenerife, where he w as residing in great privacy. It was he who order us • gave the d e have the mother of Cabrera shot. The NI a Alcaniceo hcli been named chairm an of the b oar d of directors of the General Company of Creditir Spain, vice the Duke d'Abrantes, resigned In conse quence of the complete recovery of Qu een the-evening recepti. ans of the various ministers have hal Narva ez gave been resumed. On the 7th M .. ay s a grand dinner to a number ofthe diplomatic b o d y and other persons of distinction. Accounts have been received from Bagdad an nouncing that the English are making large pur chases of flour, barley, wheat, and cattle at that place for the expeditionary army. In consequence of measures adopted by the Government of Beyrout, the Zaliliotes Maaluf and Abu Hater, who had been by their feuds disturbing the peace of the country, were arrested and were to be sent to Constantinople. The Austrian scientific mission under Col. Schiud locker arrived at Bagdad on the 19th December, and was re ce i ve d with great distinction by Rechid Pacha, the governor. " It is stated," says a letter from Milan in the Augsburg Gazette, "that a project exists of uniting Trieste, Istria, Southern Tyrol, and Dalmatia, with Lombardy and Venice. All these would then form a single province, with Milau as the capital." The Ministerial Oesterreische Correspondenz thus announces the evacuation of Parma :—" On the sth of February the Austrian battalion went to Pia cenza. On the 3d it filed off before the Duchess. Th 9 officers, after having had a farewell audience, dined at the Palace, where there was a ball in the evening. Several of the officers received orders." The Austrian Gazette states that an official organ of . the episcopacy is about to appear in Vienna with the title of " Catholic Archives ;" it will con tain all the edicts issued by the bishops to the clergy. A letter from Naples, in the Cattolico of Genoa, says that Mgr. Rossini, the Archbishop of Maters, has given signs of mental alienation since the late murderous attempt made on him. The funeral of the late Count Felix de Merode took place the day before yesterday at Brussels with great pomp. It was attended by the ministers, the members of the Chamber of Representatives, the grand marshal of the palace the minister of the household of the King, his Majesty's aides-de camp and orderly officers, the orderly officers of the princes, and a great number of the principal functionaries of the city. • TRI TRIAL OF DOTE.—It was stated at the Leeds Town Council, on Wednesday, that the cost of the trial of Dove amounted to 1,2001. A TRH PRIOR OF ',HAMM—From January to iN overn her the value of leather exported was considerable—un wrought, 270,5941.; gloves, 40,992/. ; and of other sorts, 1,012,5541. ; against 571,717 1 . the preceding year. The Hermann left Southampton yesterday for Bre men. Amongst the passengers were the commanders of the European and American Company's fleet. Their object is to become acquainted with the navigation of the North Sea and the river Weser, as their ships will occasionally touch at Bremen. ILLNESS OF MR. THAOKERAY.— On Tuesday la t Mr. Thackeray delivered one of his lectures on thy Georges at Halifax , an d was to have delive red another at the same town on the followin g evenin g , and ai at Leeds on Thursday , but we re g ret to s ay that he ct iv u a re seized with illness at Halifax , and was unable to le either on Wednesday or Thursday. DR. Capital 91,250,000 Reserve fund _ 12,980,750 14 . . Reserve immobilibre Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 68,298,775 —• Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight 3,473,647 Account-current of Treasury Creditor 76 ,479,128 58 Various accounts-current. 13 8,704,889 63 Do. branch banks 22,778,023 6 Dividends to be paid 570,258 25 Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities 2,596,202 91 Re-discounts of the last half-year Overdue bills 1,945 86 Sundries 2,163,015 87 98 6,151,419 88 The Debats discusses the assertion of Mr. Dis raeli, and the denials of Lord Palmerston, of the existence of a treaty guaranteeing, in the event of a war, the possessions of Austria in Italy. It P oints out that th oug h M r. Disraeli is wrong in speaking of it as an existent treaty, y e t th ere was such a treaty expiring with the war with Russia, and merely contingent on Austria joining the Allies in hostile operations. It denies, too, that Mr. Disraeli's statement deserves the character of " romance," attributed to it by Lord Palmerston. The Siecie thus comments on the article of the . Debats co n d emnatory of the regulations which in England fo r bid d ecorations to be worn by civilians AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steamship City of Washington, Capt. Wylie, has arrived, with advices from New York to the Ist instant. The United Sates mail steamer Atlantic started two hours before her, but was pas ed the second day out. The Tempest and the Glasgow were spoken off Sandy Hook. The Bal!ic was passed on the 3d, and the Niagara on the 10th. Advices from Tampico to the 31st of December state that General Garcia, formerly Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Tamaulipas, in revenge for being deprive d of the command of Tampico by the revolution of the 30th of October, had seized the goods belonging to various mercantile houses in transit to the interior, although they had been re gularly despatched by the Custom-house of Tam pico, he had caused them to be sold in Victoria for one quarter of their value, underhandedly buying them in himself. A large part of these goods be longed to American houses. At the last dates be had bis men on the roads leading from Tampico, who seized upon all goods that left for the interior. Another despatch says that a battle had occurred between Garcia's troops and the Government forces, the latter claiming the victory. it occurred at Old Town, which was completely pillaged by th• invaders. Garcia was advancing on Tampico, when another battle was expected. The American Con sul had requested the United Slates authorities at New Orleans to send a revenue cutter for the pro tection of the American residents, and to prevent the pillage of the town. Respecting Central America the New York Gerald says, "Nicaragua, under President Rivas, at Leon has suddenly come to a friendly under standing with Costa Rica, the latter having, no doubt, receded somewhat also under the Filli- • buster pressure of Walker, an•.i a new boundary line between them has been adopted. This new line is the San Juan River, the entire south bank of which, with Punta Arenas and the Transit Com pany's station, are added to Costa Rica. Under the joint rights conferred by this arrangement a • new grant of the transit route becomes necessary, under the joint action of the two Governments. To • cap these advices from Costa Rica comes the letter of our Washington correspondent, stating that tw• commissioners have arrived here, with full power to sell the grant of the Nicaraguan route." From Mexico we learn that Don Michael Lerdo had resumed the Ministry of Finance. Monday on call abundant ; upon adequate colla terals in State loans the operations were large, but the week closed with a decline generally. The rates of exchange were pretty active, and prices fully sustained. Bills on London, 1.081 to 1081 ; France, sf. 23i0. to 5f.23ic. On the receipt ofthe ad vices per Arago cotton declined cent. to a cent., but after the receipt of the Arabia's advices the market recovered its tone, and closed stronger. The flour market was heavy at lower prices. Pro visions had improved. No change in grain. Pig iron had advanced. The demand for tobacco was better. Freights were lower. The City of Washington will, if possible, sail - again on Saturday for New York direct, taking the cargo which was intended for the steamer Kiirigaroo, which steamer could not sail on the 11th, owing to her being still frozen up in the Delaware, at PILAW delphia. LAW INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) IN BE LOU. • This bankrupt was described as of Cricklewood, builder, and came np for his certificate. The balance-sheet, prepared by Messrs. Butler and Cannings, commences January 1, 1855, with a deficiency of 5501., and debtor to unsecured creditors, 5,704/. ; ditto secured, 3,9531. Cr.—By good debts, 21. Ms. 6d. ; doubtful ditto, 651. 12s. 4d. ; property mortgaged, • 5,9001. Mr. Chidley appeared for the bankrupt, and said that the assignees did nct oppose. His Honour—lt did not appear that there were in fact any assets. The official assignee, Mr. Cannan, said that something might be realised on the equity of redemption, perhaps altogether 5001. or 600/. Mr. Chidley submitted that the losses had arisen in consequence of the general stagnation in the building ' trade. His Honour ultimately granted a certificate of the third class. IN RIG 3. BRYAN. A meeting for the choice of , asaignees took place under a petitiOn •in Bankruptcy against this bankrupt, de scribed as of Dyer's Buildings, Holborn, electro plater, and was recently tried on a charge of defrauding pawn brokers to a large amount. Assignees were chosen, and from the preliminary statements it appears the debts are about 2,0001.,' and assets at present between 4001. and 500/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. --(This Day.) breeze o l LON DON , T HF! FgrnhA etn e F b de . bfi.n l el2 3 . w — .l W aWth in einr d .d tNhi.s—Ardayrivaedt N.—Arrived—Lady W. — from London, for Port Natal. Sailed—Ewald, for Buenos Ayre s , WEYMOUTH► Feb. 12.—Wind N.—Sailed—Jacobus Martines, for Batavia. Prudhoe, from TORBAY, Feb. 12.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Barbara, for Barbadoes. SWANSEA, Feb. 12.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ladi Shel burne, N.S. W. ; Cuba. con qu S e a r i o l r e , d c .- oq A u d im el bo ia Margaretha, for PETERHEAD, Feb. 11.—Wind S.—Sailed—Xanthus, Agostina, Kate, Elina, Gipsey, and Undaunted, for Greenland. B EAUMARIS, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ewe• retta, from Liverpool, for Calcutta. CARDIFF, Feb. 12.—Wind W.S. W,—Sailed—Eclipse, for Bahia ; Helen and Frances, Santiago de Cuba. LOWESTOFT, Feb. 12.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived—Es ther, from Shields, for London, leaky ; Burlington (e.e.), Hull, for Antwerp, leaky. CEPHALONIA, Jan. 31.—The brig Principe Albertina, from Berdianski, for England, put in on the 27th Jan., leaky, and cargo damaged ; she is discharging. FAYAL, Jan. 19.—The brig Willington, from Prince Edward's Island to Liverpool, put in this evening very leaky, and with deck load thrown overboard. TONSBERat, Feb. 2.—The Concordia, from Odense to London, has put into Laurvig with cargo heated, and is discharging. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind W. Arrived— Aleppo (e.e.), from Jaffa ; Charlotte, from Rotterdam. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 11 Wind N.N. W. Arrived—Samuel, from St. Domingo; WM. Jarvis, New Orleans. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.45 S. In. Wind W. ' • tide four ho urs ' e bb ; weather very fine. Arrived, 12th—Isabel, from St. Michael's; Ondineo St. Michael's ; Simeon Hardy, Demerara. Arrived, 13th— Fides, from Baltimore ; German ia ' Hamburg. Sailed, 13 th —Tiger, steamer, for Hamburg. __ Wiad W. ' DEAL, Friday - , 9.37 a.m. , moderate. Passed—Christiana, from London, for New York; Congo, London, Launceston; Isabella, London, Saloombe ; Shallette, and Coeur de Lion, Shields, Aden ; Berger, Shields, Lisbon ; Persenunga, London, Pernambuco ; H.M. S. Buffalo, from westward, River. Sailed—Helen E. Cooker, Glimpse, P. C. E., Lucy, Mary Marsden, and Susan Bailey, with others, westward; and President Fillimore, for London. Mr. Robs on , o f t h e Olympt i o Th ea t re , met with a serious ac c id ent on W ednesday even i ng , d ur i ng the per formance of the b ur l esque , " Young and H andsome. " His part i s b e i ng p l ayed with great success by M r. Jas. Rogers. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. Mr. Costa's oratorio "Eli" will be performed at Exeter -hall this (Friday) evening ; Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and, Signor Belletti being the principal vocalists. MAILS FOR AIISTRALIA.—LIVERFOOL, The screw steamship Great Britain, Captain Gray, be longing to the Liverpool and Australian Steam Naviga tion Company, went out of dock to-day to her anchorage in the Sloyne. Since her discharge from the transport service the Great Britain has undergone a thorough over haul, and many alterations have been made in her masts and rigging with a view to acquire additional speed on the voyage. Her internal arrangements are also much bourne rove dwith a. Shelar will sail on M onday afternoon for Mel ge cargo and a full complement of pas yomwTiii with late n t E e t f T eew!;, befor e EeTEIB m ail , n il pas sengers. She will carry a a.m., be marked " per Great Brit ain," r, and p os t e d b e f ore 11 ou, letters opo no eoKo s t. e o T r lb6 w e thhi workshn st n u s of this undertaking screw steamship Elba, Captain Hammill, belonging to having been su ffi ciently completed, the Mr. R. S. Newell, of London, entered the basin on Wednesday morning, and was placed in the graving dock yesterday (Thursday). The basin, or inner dock, which is now for the first time available for mercantile purposes, has an area of 14 acres, with a depth of 22 feet, and is entered by iron gates 80 feet wide in the clear. The wharves which surround it are m os t exten sive, and suitable stores are in course of erection. In side the basin is the graving dock, 379 feet long, and 96 wide, and capable of affording ample accommodation to vessels as large oz larger than the steamship Himalaya._ The ' being protected by Mill Bay-pier and y the Oilier WOilis of the company, the Elba was ' facility to eteam. through the entrance and into her berth-alongside, the basin-wharf without requi ring a warp to check her. She is 223 feet long, registers 448 tons, a t ncl carries 800 gross, and was bound with a genera l cargo for Naha, ponatantmople, tind screw _ Odessa. S evere weather i n t h e Ch anne l t h rew her . occasionally eut o f th e wa t er , an d cause d the H flange of the atuffing.box pipe to get out of order.