The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THREE EXTRA NIGHTS. — PiecOloinini, Spezia, Ginglini, Belletti, Rossi, Vialetti, and Aldighieri. Tuesday, Dec. 29—Thursday, Dec. 31—Saturday Jan. 2. Thai . °llowing favourite operas will be given : Tuesday—lL TROVATORE, ' • Thursday—LA TRAVIATA. Saturday —LUCIA DI L AMMERMO OR. Prices :—Pit Stalls, 12a 6d; boxes (to hold four persons), pit and one pair, 21. 2s ; grand tier, 3/. 3s ; two pair, 1/. 55.; three pair, 15s ; gallery boxes, lOs ; gallery stalls, 38 6d. ; pit, 38 6d; gallery, 2s. S .11EGtRErTACJLEALA THEAT RE. CN6ER. Positively the Last Night. - ---- - Vocalist, Madlle. Jetty Treffa (her last appearance but one.) Violin, M. Remonyi. Pianoforte, Mise A. Goddard. THIS EVENING (SATURDAY, December 19th), will be produced the New Grand Descriptive Composition, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH, performed by M. jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums and fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, and the Scots Fusilier Guards ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia," and " God Save the Queen." German Lied, " The Kiss," Madlle. Jetty Treffz. The magnificent decorations which were prepared for the Ba'. Masque will remain during the continuance of these Con seas. The whole theatre will be ornamented with wreaths and garlands of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. The decorations have been prepared by Messrs. Chabot and Co., wiz.) were c'arged with the decorations for the grand ball at the reception of the Emperor Napoleon 111. at Stuttgart, and who were engaged, at a great expence, for the express rurpose of arranging at her Majesty's Theatre a display which will be seen for the first time in this country. The Concert will commence at 8 o'clock. Paces of Admission—Promenade, is ; Upper Boxes, Is. ; Gallery, ls. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 61. and upwards. Proepectases with full particulars, may be had at the Box office of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HE R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — M. JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL M AS Q U E.—ln consequence of the great success of the Bal Masque, M. Jullien will give a SECOND, and positively the L.st this season, at the end of the Second Series of Concerts, on MONDAY, Dec. 21.—Applications to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. TFIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL M A.TCH. Princi pa characters by Messrs. Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale, W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White, an Mrs. E. Fitawilliam. After which, a new farce, by the author of Box and Cox, entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstone will sustain an original ch tractor. To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 fNo half-price to Upper Gallery. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The public is respectfully informed that the play of RICHARD THE SECOND will shortly be withdrawn, and WILL NOT BE AGAIN REPRESENTED in this Theatre, with the exception of a few nights towards the ex piration of Mr. C. Kean's period of management. It will be repeated every evening during this week, and on Monday and Tuesday next. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD 11. King Richard 11., by Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen, by Mrs. C. Kean. Preeeded by a new fare*, in one act, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREEN BUSHICS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Paul Bedford will perform. Followed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit:ed THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or. Who's for India ? Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss Mary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON. THIS EVENING, will be pe-formed Balfe's new opera, THE ROSE OF CA STILLE. Characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss, Mr. A s St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Xs. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey and Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ; Stalls, 6e. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. MIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original eGmedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT BROMPTON 1 Mr. Robson, &c. After which, LEADING STRINGS. To conclude with 130 JTS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Robson, Mr. H. Wigan, and Mrs. Emden. ',Commence at half-past Seven. ;._.,OYAL SURREY THEATRE. I I Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE IRON CHRST. After which, THE HONEYMOON. ANTERBII RY HALL, Westraiwter-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S Ilections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES. DUETS, ezc., viz.:—:bliss Russell, Mrs„ Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Paimyre, Nliss Bra 1-Jell, and Madame Marietta ; lTerr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, It. Grover, T. Par;ant, S. o es, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor An' onio, E. L. Dime, and Mr St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. 'I. Critchfield, and E. Mack ney, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'eloak precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. ;TIGIT WATER AT LONDON 811.1.1Y4E. Tars DAY —Morn., 31 min. aft. 3 -Even., 49 aim aft. 3 To-3.lonßoW—Morn., 8 min. aft. 4 -Even., 25 min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEMMER 19. THEIMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. Fs—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and daring the night. 47 —this day at noon. BAisourrint. 30.12. WnrD, Westerly ; light. with One mild weather. twk rierl 11 , s , , LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1857. A second report has been published by certain members of the Army Purchase Commission, who did not concur with the majority of their col.. leagues even to the limited extent to which they went, in recommending that the important office of Lieutenant-Colonel, practically the Commander of the regiment, should be filled by selection rather than by purchase. The reasons for that dissent by the Right Hon. EDWARD ELLICE, M.P., Lieutenant- General WYNYARD, C-8., and Sir H. J. BENTINCR, K.C.8., have only just been given to the community, although it would appear from the date of the document, that it was signed on the of August last, some four months and a half a g ° t We cannot understand the reasons for the delay. Th e present. report runs counter t o p u bli c opinion in rc,it maintain the pres g en a t rty change, an d desiring to system of promotion by purchase without Chan g© or modification. it might, therefore, have been considered desirable to withhold it during the p arii arnentary ession LegitlAtuure-. as it might have occasioned considera.hle S disc sion in the popular branch of the But surely it might have been earlier communi cated, so that all parties interested might have had ample opportunities of studying, and, if de sirable, replying to the arguments contained therein I Mr. ELLICE and those who agree with him, , " fully a d mit the abstract objections to purc h ase. " Nay more, they declare that they should " not be prepared to advise the introduction of the principle if they did not find it already established, and interwoven with the whole regimental sys tem." This admission is fatal to the whole argu ment. The nation will generally ask, why should a vicious principle ; " the introduction of which could not be recommended," be maintained and perpetuated, merely because it has for some time been in operation, and become, " An aged vice, a grey iniquity 1" This would indeed be too bad. It would vir tually prohibit improvement in any department of the public service. It could not be so very difficult to discover a judicious " scheme of regimental organisation," by which ir the effi ciency of the service would be secured, and the flagrant reproach removed from the nation of permitting the open and acknowledged buying and selling of commissions, and thus at the same time preventing the promotion of meritorious officers, simply because they have not a large sum of money at command, and enabling parties who have nut legitimate claims to get into posi tions in which the comforts, nay more, the lives of our gallant soldiers may be dependent on their efficiency and discretion. It is very easy to say that " every improvement should be adopted, every exertion made still further to promote discipline and efficiency, and to maintain the superiority of our regimental force." But how is this to be effected, if we ignore merit and deprive young officers of that which would be the main incen tive to zeal and study. According to the existing system, those who have money know that they can obtain rapid promotion, whether they labour or not, and those who have not, feel convinced that they must spend the best years of their lives in subordinate situations, no matter how highly they may be qualified by nature and education for higher positions. At present the nation hails with enthusiasm the names of the Indian officers who have so gloriously vindicated the national character. But purchase is not recognised there ! HAVELOCK, too, the avenger of Cawnpore, the preserver of Lucknow—for whom, by the way, the Duke of OAMBRIDGB has done far more than the Government, and that without solicitation or pressure—was 23 years a subaltern, and won his way slowly onwards. Surely the nation can not complain of him ; nor would it have been de sirable that the tardily acquired opportunities of gaining distinction should have been withheld because he could not supply the price of a majority or lieutenant-colonelcy, and should submit to others passing over his head, while he remained in listless and hopeless despondency, conscious of his own deserts, but unable to provide that which was indispensable to their due develop ment. The Army Purchase Commission has proved a failure. The partial change indicated by the majority of its members would be of but little practical utility, while the opinion of the minority would maintain the objectionable principle with out change or modification of any kind. The People must now take the matter into their own hands, and insist on such military reforms as will afford the best prospects of promotion to the hard working officers who adopt the military profes sion, and who are not disposed, at any slight an noyance, to vote the service a bore, and talk of selling out and getting back their money on any fancied grievance. The Bank returns for the past week are of an exceedingly favourable character. The stock of bullion in both departments now stands at 9,450,8551., being an increase within the week of 1,381,3661. ; and there has even been a larger improvement in the reserve of notes, which, in cluding the additional 2,000,0001. issued on securities, amounts to 5,757,1751.—an addition to last week's stock of 1,856,6901. There has also been a decrease of 846,2451. in the private securities, and of 499,2101. in the notes in cir culation. The rest has also been augmented by 30,9141., a convincing proof of the effects of the 10 per cent., so far as the pockets of the proprie tors are concerned, but very different as to the trading and manufacturing interests, which are crushed under the enormous burden. ' It would surely, then, be time that " the Old Lady" should imitate the conduct of the Bank of France by reducing the discount. At Hamburgh the rate has already fallen to 6 per cent., notwith• standing the severity of the late crisis, and even in Lombard-street approved bills are cashed on lower terms than at the quasi national establishment. Owing, however, to the ob stinacy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in refusing to permit the Act of Indemnity to re main in force if the Bank reduced its rate below 10 per cent., the present oppressive charge will probably be continued for some time longer. The Directors will doubtless rejoice at so good an excuse for maintaining a system that enables them to add more than 30,0001. per week to their pro fits, and enables them to look forward confidently to an enhanced dividend or the distribution of a handsome bonus. They will, of course, lament the necessity that exists for putting money ' in their pockets ; but they will submit to it with Christian fortitude and pious resignation. The sufferings and privations sustained by the working-classes —so many of whom have been thrown out of employment or put on half time, will not disturb their digestion, or prevent their enjoyment of the festivities of the season. But it will be by no means " a merry Christmas or a happy new year," to those who find the fruits of their former industry scattered to the winds, and the prospects in life of themselves and families blighted through the terrible ordeal which they have sustained. They will feel bitterly and se verely the effects of the storm, and of the tardi ness of the Government interference, and the onerous conditions on which it was granted. The organ of " the hard calculators" admits that the failures since October have amounted to more than fifty millions sterling ; and, although somi essentially weak houses are included in the black catalogue, which would have fallen under any cir cumstances, a large proportion of the number have been occasioned by the crisis, and would under other circumstances have been perfectly solvent. Indeed, despite forced liquidations and other seri ouse evils, many will still pay 20s. in the pound. What a terrible state of affairs does this indi cate. How much misery to both debtors and creditors is contained in these awful facts, whi c h were occasioned mainly, if not altogether, by the stringent regulations of the most impolitic and inequitable law that ever received the legisla tive sanction. We trust that the people will at length, even at the eleventh hour, be aroused from their long-continued apathy. If they exert them selves steadily and energetically, they will speedily obtain relief. If they still remain careless and indif ferent, more stringent regulations will be adopted, and they will witness another monetary convulsion imore frightful even th an t h at o f ] 84 7 or of 1857, under which we are still smarting. A eurr e . racY satin fPa li -- ament could hardly furnisho much Parliam en t ary inci dent. There could b u siness, since every Member opposition to th e ma i n felt that h a d h e been a Minister he would a% sa me, and on no other business of have done th e would our prudent Cabinet indicate importance its views and furnish ground for a debate. It was not, how- ever, practicable to keep down Ecclesiastical questions. If Government wished to be quiet, some of the restless ones would not let it. Nor are we prepared to blame them. Both in the Lords and the Commons, the everlasting Church rates were brought forward ; but all that could be obtained from the Government was that, accord ing to Lord GRANTILLE, Ministers wished to'bring in a Bill on the subject ; and according to Lord PALMERSTON, they hoped to do so ; but both Lords were unable to predict the amount and progress of public business after February, and, consequently, they were unable to say whether India, and Parliamentary Reform, and Corpora tion of London Reform, would not jostle out Church-rates, and many other things too. The Church-rate Abolitionists—and we have always heartily fought in their ranks—may as well at once decide on their tactics. If Lord PALMERSTON'S promise of a Bill last session was never even attempted to be fulfilled, we may be quite sure " hopes and wishes" will go for nothing. One is almost tempted to get out the scales and to weigh the words of each Minister, as old ARISTOPHANES tells us there was once word-weighing, BACCHUS being arbiter, in the realms below, between two rival poets. GRA N VILLE puts in a " wish"—down goes the scale ; PALMERSTON puts in a "hope"—hem ! a hope ought to weigh down a wish. But no ; the scales see-saw a little, and the hope and the wish balance each other A wish in the Lords and a hope in the Commons—a wish from grave GRANVILLE and a hope from joking PALMERSTON, are of much the same value, and that value we take to be nothing. Now, then, we think our friends who share our hatred of the obnoxious impost, should bestir themselves out of Parliament. Every parish Parliament should now be made a vigorous battle field. A determined minority even can floor a tyrant majority, by giving them endless trouble. That is the way to settle the question. Every item of a rate can be disputed and a poll taken upon it. The chairman has no option ; his refu sal to take a poll on ss. for washing the surplice, and after that on 51. for sacramental wine, if the amounts were objected to, and so forth on every item—his refusal to take a poll on each, would vitiate the rate, even on the face of it. When there is a majority on the right side, there is of course no difficulty ; but where a tyrant parson and squire determine to make a minority pay tri bute to their ecclesiastical pride and avarice, and to bribe or intimidate a majority of ratepayers for that purpose, it is quite fair to fight and divide and poll for the items, as JOSEPH HUME used to do in the House of Commons. Church rates, themselves, are such a wanton abuse of mere parish power—so grossly at variance with the social knowledge and intelligence of this old England of ours, in the year 1857, that no means of opposi tion placed in our hands by law can be considered unfair. Every parish should show fight. We do not like parish brawls, but a church-rate battle is no more a brawl, than a fight between the lag behinds and the go-a-heads in the Houses of Par liament. The question whether any man has a right to tax his neighbour because his oreed differs from his own, is one worthy to be fought out in any assembly, from a parish vestry to the House of Lords. Outside the cabinet, Lord JOHN RUSSELL comes forward again as the Jews' advocate. Well, we wish him luck ; and we wish Mr. DrINCOXBE better luck still. Mr. Du/wolfram proposes to seat Baron ROTHSCHILD in the same way as the House of Lords refused to seat Lord WENSLEYDALE, and the people of England ' would doubtless prefer the straightforward plucky plan. We should like to see who would beat if the holders of the purse-strings were determined to be snubbed no longer by the Upper House. The House of Lords does not deserve another op portunity to insult tie people. Lord JOHN Rlism, himself, is obliged to hold out the pros pect of settling the question by accepting a Jew's affirmation, if the Lords will not assent to his present bill. To that it must come before such superstition and narrowmindedness as that of the Bishop of OXFORD and Lord SHAFTESBURY can be overcome; and therefore we think Lord JOHN is unwise to waste auy more time in the old style of fighting. There is something, too, we think, very petty about his bill. We would vote for it, since, if carried, it would attain its object ; but what can be said for retaining the silly phrase "on the true faith of a Christian 1" Silly, we call it. Because, logically, an infidel, a Mahome tan, or a Jew might use it. He would swear. not by all that a ChriStian believes, but by so much only of it as was true ; and we suppose it must i have been with such an interpretation that GIB BON, and other known sceptics, who would not have taken a false oath, did not hesitate to take this. As the Christian and the Jew believe so much in common, Baron ROTHSCHILD could honestly regard much of our faith as a true faith. It has, however, now become a point of honour to deal with the phrase ad animum imponentis, and to regard it as meaning what it was intended to mean, that the whole Christian faith is true. So Lord JOHN would keep the precious sentence, and authorise Jews to omit it. Are "Noble Lords" to be caught with such a bait ? If so we should de spise them. In their place, we should feel it much more dignified to concede the point on the constitutional ground that the Lords ought to yield to the reiterated demand of the Commons, especially after a dissolution. Another little Ecclesiastical affair was brought forward by Lord SHAFTESBURY. The Noble Lord delights in shutting Jews out of the Hous© of Commons, although, for valuable episcopal con siderations, no doubt, he gave a grumbling help to Lord PALMERSTON'S bill, but his lordship does not like being shut out himself from Exeter Hall. As our readers well know, he and some dosen Church STURQEONS, commanded in chief by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of LONDON, undertook to preach a working-class gospel to the million in Exeter Hall. The Rev. A. G. EDOUART forbade them all. He stood up for the parish system against the associated mag nates, and they quailed. Not relishing their de feat, however, they handed the whole thing over, the Litany and all, to the good-tempered Dissen ters ; and poor Mr. EDOUART has no power to "inhibit" these irregulars. Not content, how ever with such revenge, Lord SHAFTESBURY wants to triumph too. Helintroduces, therefore, a Bill into the House of Lords to checkmate the Edouarts by requiring a Bishop's counter-signature to the incumbent's inhibition of an occasional service. It was intended to have settled the matter in the ten days' session, but the Bishops of OXFORD and St. DAVID'S were too quick for him ; and the whole thing must stand over till February. The former even charged the Earl with " indecent haste." A charge which he did not appear to relish at all, and plaintively replied that the Archbishop of CAN TERBURY did not think him " indecent." There can he uo doubt that Mr. EDOUART'S power is au absurd one in a place like Londuo, , ilore congre gations pay no regard to parish boundaries ; still there is a grave question involved in the whole affair, which should be settled, not with reference rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV RN ENG, DECEMBER 19, 1851'. only to Lord SHAFTESBURY'S wishing to use Exeter Hall as an occasional church, but with a view to rectifying the parish system in large towns all over the kingdom. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. —lt is under stood to be her Majesty's intention to hold a Draw ing-room at St. James's Palace in the latter end of Jan., immediately after the Princess Loyal's marriage, at which her Royal Highness and his Royal Highness the Prince Frederick William of Prussia will be present, when her Majesty, the Prince Corsort, and their Royal Highnesses will receive congratulations on this happy event. No presentations will take place on the occasion. A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street yester day. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. V. Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. The Earl and Countess of Harrowby left town last for Portsmouth. even Loi Lord for d g Du Sa fferindonn le ftH Hall, Stafford. o l 7g n yesterday His lordship is refitting a yacht he has lately purchased from the Earl of Ellesmere ; and almost immediately after the wedding of the Princess Royal he will sail for Egypt, preparatory to a trip round the world. Lord and Lady Harry Vane return to town to-day from visiting the Right Hon. Sidrey and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton House, Salisbury. Lord and Lady Edward Toynre arrived in town on Wednesday from a tour of visits, and have since left for the New Forest, Hants. Mr. and Lady Georgiana Romilly have left town on a visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Beds. _ Sir Benjamin Hall has left town for the Christmas holidays. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have left Bridg water House, on a visit to the Earl and Conntess Cawdor, at Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. The Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., have left Strawberry-hill, Twickenham, for Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire. The Countess Dowager Granville has taken for ,five months one of the large furnished houses at Upper Nor wood belonging to the owner of the Queen's Hotel. The Duke of Hamilton has left town for Paris, en roug4 to Nice, where the duchess is staying. The family will shortly leave Nice for Rome, where they intend to pass the winter. DOCTORS' COMMONS, Dec. 18.—The general body of proctors to-day presented a complimentary address to Sir John Dodson, warmly expressing their admiration at his conduct, regret at his retirement, and gratitude for his uniform courtesy. Sir John Dodson, in reply, thanked them, and said that he had received the utmost courtesey from them over since he entered the profession in 1808, a perfect stranger. THE DENISON CASE.—It is said that the Privy Council will not sit again t) hear cases until February, and that therefore it is probable that the judgment in this case will not be delivered until then. _ The telegraph service between Corfu and Malta will soon begin. A despatch of 15 words between Corfu and England will cost 1/. 6s. 3d. _ _ _ The Diet of Franifort has decided not to indemnify the city of Mayence for the damage done by the late explosions. Baron von Roden, oneof the most renowned of German statisticians, has died in Vienna of inflammation of the lungs, which followed a cold which he took at the open ing of the Szolnok-Debrecxin Railroad. The managers of La Presse had nearly resolved to demand permission to resume the publication of that journal, but only on literary subjects, with a view to save the hundreds of persons employed by it from starving. They have been obliged to abandon the idea. The French Government has decided on the establish ment of an A rtillery College at Grenoble. It is remarked that since the accession of Napoleon 111., who is so skilled in the science of artillery, the number of artillery schools is increasing every day. About 132,0001 of gold of various sorts was taken to tha;Bank yesterday, besides about 40,000 sovereigns from America and 100,000 from Ireland. A very large amount islalso expected to be delivered there to-morrow. The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by the Vicar-General, Dr. Twiss, under a commission from his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, to Friday, February 5, 1858. Bucza ELECTION.—Captain Hamilton, who has been spoken of as a probable conservative candidate at the approaching electien, has issued his address, from which appears he will stand. The komination is appointed for Wednesday, and there seerns every prospect of a reso lute contest. .13.tisgs.—A list of all banks, other than private ones, trading in the united kingdom or the colonies, with the nature of the shareholders' liability, has been printed on the motion of Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P. Tho return fills some 25 pages. With respect to a large number of the banks no information about the liability of the shareholders can be given. The return gives some minute details of the banks existing in various parts of oar colonial empire. CANTiBBURY COLLECTION PETITION.—A petition has been forwarded to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for presentation to the Treasury, from Canterbury dis trict; and the other three districts in Canterbury collec tion will immediately forward petitions signed by all grades. Should this last appeal to their lordships not produce the desired effect, the officers of every grade in Canterbury collection are unanimously agreed and fully prepared to petition Parliament, with the promise of support from three members of the House of Commons. —arid &reice Gazette. THE POST-OFFICE DEAD LETTER-BOWL—This large new apartment is the beau ideal of rigid economy. It has neither stove nor warming apparatus of any kind to render it endurable in cold weather, and all the men who are condemned to work in it complain that it is a perfect ice-house. Colds and rheumatic ailments afflict the unfortunate employes hi this region of desolation. Surely there is no economy in thus freezing the officers of a great public department to a degree at which they become almost inanimate.—ceeei Service Gazette. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.—At the annual examination of students and pupil teachers young p ersons o f b o th sexes certificates of merit or Of this total 32 are justf Isereor Queen'se c r n a n i d n a d t a e d t es sc ; e w e .e r ai l yrt either h 3 e r O i p 0 for. already occupying schools of importance in various localities, while nearly 100 have received appoint ments to schools in different parts of the country. The increasing and pressing demand for really efficient teachers is a happy omen for the educational prospects of the lan and it is one which the committee of this society is doing all in its power to meet. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND LOSS OF THREE LIVES IN SHOREDITCIL—Between the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock this morning a fire, attended with loss of property and life, happened in the premises belonging to Mr. Harman, a silk trimming warehouseman, situated at 27, Archer-street, Shoreditch. As soon as the ruins were sufficiently cooled to allow the firemen to enter, they made a search of the se,versl rooms, and in one they foand lying in a bed the life'essi bodies of Mr. Harman, his wife, and a young child. Neither of the bodies were much bnrnt, but the sufferers appeared to have died from suffocation. As to the origiri of the fire nothing that could be depended upon could be a ,, certainecl. The contents of the house destroyed wore insured in the London and Liverpool Fire-office. DETERMINED SUICIDE. —This morning great excite ment was created in the vicinity of the Henipstea l-road, in consequence of a rumour that a lady had killed herself by precipitating herself from the upper window of her residence in H trdwick-place. On proceeding to the spot mentioned it was discovered that the lady, a Mrs. Macdonald, had but a short time quitted a lunatic asylum, in consequence of its having been thought that she was perfectly cured. Unfortunately this was not the case, presented for this morning symptoms of insanity again themselves, and before sh e could be prevented the unfortunate lady threw herself from the second floor window and fell into the area beneath. The husband of the lady used the utmost exertions to prevent the melancholy occurrence, but Mrs. Macdonald had armed herself with a razor, and it was not until he bad been severely wounded that he released his hold of her. The most prompt assistance was rendered, but in a few minutes she ceased to exist. THE EDUCATIONAL FRANCHISE.—A memorial has been transmitted to Lord Palmerton, praying him, in his coming Reform Bill, to make provision for granting the suffrage to certain classes of the community who may be in a fit state to receive it by virtue of their educational re q uirements. The memorial is signed by a very large number of noblemen and gentlemen connected with arts, science, and literature, among whom we notice the following gentlemen connected with the University and city of Oxford :—The Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Acland, the Very Rev. the Dean of Christ Church, the Rev. Dr. Hawkins (pro vost of Oriel College), Dr. Marsham (warden of Merton College), the Rev. Dr. Wynter (president of St John's College), the Rev. Dr. Tomson (provost of Queen's College), the Rev. Dr, Jeune (master of Pembroke Col lege), the Professor of Ecclesiastical Histo r y ( Rev. A . P. Stanley, Unive rs i s y C o ll ege ), the Professor of B9tany (Dr. Daub eny ) , t h e P ro fessor of Political Economy (Mr. C, Neate Oriel College), the R e g istra r of the University (Dr. ItOwden) the Venerable Principal of Magdalen Hall (Dr. M ac bride). MINES. --The mining share-market has shown rather a healthier tone this week, still the amount of business transactions has been limited, for parties seem to have little disposition either to buy or sell just now. There is also an absence of discoveries, or even great improve. ments, to give excitement to the market and cause a de. mand for any particular stock. Wheal Basset shares have still-kept in demand, at 140 to 145, and S iuth Basset at 5, but few sellers in either. Copper Hill shares inquired for, at 175 to 200 ; Condurrow very flat, at 90 to 95 ; Wheal Edwards have declined to 6i Q. Wheal Mary Ann have been moderately dealt in at 48, car 45i to 46,1 ex div. ; the accounts at the meeting showed a profit of 2,331/. 153. 3d. on the - Nader, and the dividend was 2,304/. (21.55. per share), leaving 2,030/. 108. Bd. to the credit of next account; the mi ne i s l oo king well, and tehares in go od request. Trel ewny shares h ave a l so b een inquired after, at 23i to 24i ; th e w i nze f rom the 132 to 'the 1 42 is improving, and layi ng open good ore ground. — Mining Journal of thi s d ay. It is announced' th a t a d epu t a ti on from the Latin of Jerusalem w iil s h or tly ar rive iu Fuels. They come, it is said, t o so li c it the French Govern went to obtain a firrcan from the Poite to permit f them to repair, at thei r own e xpense, the Holy Sepulchre. It i s k n own that the Emp eror has been always well di s po s ed towards the Latin church of Jerusalem. the cupola V' EST NEWS TRIESTE, DEC. 18. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has arrived here. According to accounts from Constantinople of the 12th, M. de Lesseps was about to apply for a firman for cutting the canal through the Isthmus of Suez, and was to be supported by the ministers of the foreign powers. A body of 20,000 Rus sians is marching on the Caucasus, to reinforce the army of General Bariatinski. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Pays says, on the 25th of October, Admiral Seymour had caused his squadron to take up new positions in the Chinese waters. The English fleet consists of 20 vessels, including 11 gunboats. A complete blockade is established. The same com munication adds that a great amount of revolu tionary material exists amongst the Chinese in the city of Canton. In fact, the town was expected to be attacked by bands hostile to the Celestial authority. BOURSE, Dec. 18.—Half-past 3 o'clock. The market has been rather buoyant to-day on a report that the rate of discount would certainly be re duced to 5 per cent. on the 31st Dec. Sales for realisation caused a slight downward movement towards the close. Last quotations : Cash. fr. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 67 10 67 20 Bank Shares 3150 Credit Foncier 570 Credit Mobilier 73d. 50 Roman Do. Account 732 50 Austrian - Belgian 4.. Fiedmontese (5) 9O Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH, tr. c. tr c. Orieans Northern New Ditto 772— Strasburg i — Lyons and Med 842 Grand Central New Ditto... .. ..... 832 i— Sardinian . 455 Geneva TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The following is a circular addressed by the Turkish Government to its representatives at the European Courts, early in this month of December : " The direction which the Divans ad hoc of the two Principalities have given to their task raised a question, the solution ofWhich required a prelimi nary understanding amongst all the Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris, namely, whether the task of the Divans ad hoc was to be regarded as accomplished, and whether they should be dissolved as soon as they should have tendered to the Euro pean Commission the result of their deliberations on the political part of the subject, or whether it would be expedient, on the contrary, to induce them to complete the labours which the Congress had indicated to them ? "Our information confirms us more and more in the opinion that it would have been very difficult to induce the Divans to express any ulterior wishes respecting the administrative laws, before they had solved the points touching the political organisation. In such a case it would have been rendered necessary : "I. To permit their continuance until the Con gress should have formed a decision on these points. "2. To require afterwards of the said Assem blies the completion of their unfinished labours. "3. To meet again in conference, and proceed to the conclusion of the final act for settling the definitive organisation of the two provinces. "In addition to the material difficulties which this mode of arrangement would have been sure to occasion, there would have resulted from it certain dangers, the gravity of which could not escape the wise foresight of the cabinets. " In fact, during the interval employed by the Congi ess on the questions connected with their po litical condition, the existence of the Divans as a constituted body would have been, in our view of the case, a powerful motive for prolonging and in 'creasing the agitation that has prevailed in those countries ; there would even have been reason to fear the occurrence of serious disorders, thereby aggravating the state of things which was already so complicated. The very grave symptoms lately exhibited at Jassy, when the authorities were com pelled to guard with troops the spot where the Moldavian Divan hold its sittings, with a view to protect them from an attack on the part of the mob, the excitement still displayed by most of the mem bers of both assemblies, the intrigues of the parties into which they are divided, the anxiety into which this state of things plunges all the inhabitants, have served to enhance our apprehension. To all these considerations another is added, not less im pel:taut, iiailiely, the embarrawnienb which the ' Divans would infallibly have given rise to at the Conferences, availing themselves each respectively of its character of a constituted assembly. " It is therefore with the greatest pleasure that we find the opinions of the different governments accord respecting the necessity of dissolving the Divans the instant the European Commission shall have made its final report. " I consequently invite you, sir, to furnish ex planations to the government to which you have the honour of being accredited in conformity with the foregoing remarks, and to transmit to us with out delay the answer you shall have received. (Signed) " AA.LI. "P. S. You must clearly give it to be under stood that we have no wish or intention to effect the dissolution of the Divans before the completion of their labours, as stipulated in the treaty of March 30th. The sole object of our desire is that they should not continue sitting when the Conference shall have met to legislate upon their expressed wishes—that is to say, that the alterna tive should not be admitted of allowing them to exist until the points concerning the political or ganisation shall have been solved by the Congress, in order to ask of them afterwards the completion of the r work. " In fine, we mean that with the sending in of its final report by the European Commission the Di vans ought to cease, as the aforesaid treaty, more over, intends, whether they have completed the task imposed on them, or whether they have per sisted in their demand to wait for the solution of the first part of their labours, in order to undertake at a later period the discussion of the second part. (Signed) " AALI." The local news of Constantinople is of but trifling interest. Lord Stratford de Redcliffa had been paying some farewell visits previously to his departure. On the 6th his lordship dined with Rtschid. Pacha, and on the following day with Aali Pacha. Mr. Spence, the American representative, had had an audience of the Sultan to take leave. Ho proceeds to : Italy prior to his return to the United States. His successor at Constantinople had not yet arrived. The two Christian Armenians who have been raised to the dignity of pacha are M. Tinghir, head of the office of correspondence in the department of foreign affairs, and M. Vartan, first interpreter of the Admiralty. The first takes the name of Yover Pacha, and th e o th er Y ussu f Pacha. These nominations were very favourably received at Constantinople, as the new dignitaries eK t e t r i uf whort o ai m s o T n i fl t i murdered e announces l7 t hPrinceult. t i h n a G t a the ga rin Prince e had done excellent service to Turk e y. sShooAutelanetutpursuance w oa o fs f the sentence of the court-martial. RUSSIA. With a view to improve the communications with Persia, and also of taking up a more imposing attitude towards her, the Emperor has just given his approbation to a proposal made by the Stadt holder of the Caucasus, that a town and a port shall be erected on the north-western bank of the Caspian Sea in connection with Petrowski, a third rate fortress already existing there. There seems to be a fair prospect of the town, &c., soon coming into existence, for great attractions are offered to settlers there in the shape of 10 years' freedom from all tixes, &c., and foreigners of all countries and ranks are admissible to settle there. By the erec• tion of a town on this spot Russia will come into close propinquity with the wild tribes of the Turcomans that inhabit the eastern coast of the Caspian e of t ffic of O C nth ia e n o h s it te h r e n rto oo th a e st n , e w ar h e i s e t hr iinutswpiats RussiaAstrachan, having monopolised the whole maritime for ra com munication than a neighbo urin g the Caspian, doubtless offers less spot on land will. name as the fortress, are to b e placed the Caspian the same rule o t of wthe a c n o d m ra p port, under the Orbeliani. It may there - Sea, at present Prince e w r h o i f c t h h e a t r r e o o t p o s. bear on will be mistress of the entire littoral o f the Casp already of its waters. •, as she is foil be looked on as a matter of certainty that within a very few years Russia ian PRUSSIA. The Prussian Correspondence says :—" The IVlinisters of the Interior and Finance have ad dressed a circular to all the governors of the dis tricts of the kingdom, having for object to p reven t the title of Serene Highness' being given to per sons who have no right to it. Serious abuses have, says the cii cull'', taken pllce on this subject, and I:n;(1 to remove the hulas which separate the high horn the inferior nobility. The circular points out the laws and ordinances which regulate such matters, and enjoins attention to them. The title of 'Serene Highness' in Prussia, it says, only belongs to 24 families ; the others having only a right to the dignity of Prince." A Frankfort letter, in the Zeit of Berlin, contra dicts the statement made by several journals that Count Bille-Brahe, the Danish Ambassador at Vienna, had, during his late visit to Frankfort, had several conferences with the representatives of Prussia and Austria. The only object of the count's visit to Frankfort was to confer with his colleague, M. de Bulow, the representative of Denmark at the Germanic Diet. DENMARK. A Copenhagen letter of the 13th says :—" The First Chamber has followed the example of the Second, and voted almost unanimously the sum of 450,000 rixdollers, asked for by the Minister of Finance, to be devoted to the most pressing wants of the commercial community. A fresh sum of money has just been sent to the banking house of which the Danish consul-general at Ham burg is head, and one of the directors of the Bank of Copenhagen still remains at Hlmburg to take up the bills over due, and which the Bank had put into circulation after they had discounted them. Yesterday, a deputation of four of the principal merchants went to the palace of Fredricksborg, to request the King to grant out of the reserve fund of the monarchy, a temporary loan of four millions of rixdollars (nearly twelve millions of francs) on good guarantee and on the deposits of merchandise. The King replied that he had been made aware of the present deplorable condition of Danish commerce, that he hoped those sufferings would be but of short duration, and that as a con stitutional sovereign he would arrange with his Government for the prompt adoption of measures to ward off the effects of the crisis which weighs so heavily on the whole country." BELGIUM. In the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, yes terday, M. Verhaegen, a liberal member, was elected President, by 60 votes to 32, given to M. de Theux. M. Orts, liberal, and M. Dulez, of mo derate views, were nominated Vice-Presidents. The bureau having been constituted, M. Verhaegen ascended to the President's seat, and returned thanks for the honour done him, declaring that he looked on his nomination as a flattering reoompouso for any services he might have rendered to his country and his party. "I shall always remain," said the hon. gentleman, " what I have been during my whole political career—attached to the cause of order and liberty, and devoted to the con stitutional monarchy, which is the best guarantee of public happiness and nationality. These are points on which every shade of opinion in the Chamber will agree. In conclusion, I have to state that I shall endeavour to evince the strictest impartiality in the exercise of my functions, ani shall aim at urging on rapidly the business of the Chamber." (Applause.) The sitting then termi nated. Of all the late election returns not one has been invalidated. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. The Espana denounces with some vehemence the supposed project of the United States against Cuba, and accuses President Buchanan of personally en couraging them. With regard to the proposition for purchasing the island, which it says the new Minister of the United States, who is about to arrive in Madrid, is expected to make, the Espana declares that Spain cannot entertain it without dishonour. But the United States will seize the first opportunity, either " by piratical expeditions, or exciting insurrections, or any other mode what ever," of possessing themselves of the island, the Espana does not doubt, and it complains that under such circumstances the Government displays " a great want of caution, and an inexplicable security." At Vittoria, the birth of the Prince of the Asturias had been celebrated with extraordinary pomp, and in numerous other towns there had been rejoicings. The Gazette publishes addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the occasion. The report that Marshal O'Donnell was likely to take command of the Halberdiers at the palace is stated to be unfounded ; but it is alleged that he and his friends though maintaining a certain degree of independence intend to support the Government. The rumours that ministerial changes were immi nent which had been current for some time had at last died away, and the organs of the Cabinet say it possesses the full confidence of the Crown. The Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) having been men tioned as likely to enter a new ministerial combi nation, the Estado says that he has no desire to return to power. Nothing has been settled with regard to the choice of a President for the Chamber of Deputies. ITALY. A letter from Rome, of the 12th instant, in the Constitutionnel, says : " The ConsiBtoiy is fixed for the 17th, hut, contrary to the expectation of ail interested, there will be no creation of new cardinals. The principal event of the meeting will be the announcement of the birth of an heir to the throne of Spain, and the nomination of Mgr. Falinelli Antoniani, 13i , hop of Forli, to be Papal nuncio at the Brazils. The Grand Duchess Helen, of Russia, arrived here the day before yesterday, and will remain during the greater part of the winter. She intends to live as retired as possible. It is generally expected that the sale of the rich colleo• tion of antiquities of the. Marquis de Campina, whose defalcation is the subject of general conversation, will fully cover the deficit in his accounts. During some excavations lately made at a place called the Arco Tra vertino, about two miles from Rome, the villa of Quintus Servilins Silanus, who was consul in 189, was discovered, and close by were found, at the same time, the remains of a Christian church, with an entrance into the cata combs. Baron de Reaumont, the Prussian Minister at the Court of Tuscany, has arrived here to hold the ad interim management of the Prussian Legation, during the absence of Baron de Trieil, who has left for Berlin. The number of strangers now in Rome is unusually great, the majority being Russians and Poles. The weather is exceedingly mild for the season of the year." A letter from Rome, in the independente of Turin, says :—" The news from the province of Ancona ls bad; several assassinations and acts of violence have been committed, arid. 19 persons ar resied upon suspicion. The Pope is to hold a con sistory on the 16th or 19th inst., in which ho will appoint nine Spanish and also some Italian bishops. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the son of the Princ© of Canino, is to be received into holy orders on the 13th by the Pope, and to say his first mass on the following day. The Grand Duchess Helena in tends staying hero four months ; she has taken an hotel on the Piazza del Popolo for 35,000 f. Queen Christina, who is also expected here, will inhabit the palace of the Spanish Ambassador. M. do Kisseleff, the resident Minister of Russia, has al ready opened his saloons for the winter season." METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The ordinary meeting of the board was held yeste , day in the Council chamber, Guildhall; Mr. Thwaites in the chair. The financial statement showed a total general balance of 134,9061. ss. 10d. leaving, a fter deduction of 4,0481. 53. 4d., to be set apart as a sinking fund for repayment of mortgage debts, a balance of 183,858/. 0 6d. Exchequer Bills amounting to 89,100/. and 7351. 4 , 2. cash had been received from the Commissioners of Works, to be applied to the prop )sed Southwark im provements. A report was presented from the financial committee, stating that in their opinion the objection raised by the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London to an rise sraent upon the city for any portion of the loan of 140,000/, raised by tti( Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers for main draining purposes, oe the ground that the rates of the City of London formed no part of the security on which the money was bor rowed, and the objection of the Woolwich Local Board, resting on similar grounds, must be allowed ; and re commending that the sum of 19,1741. 68. 7d., a portion of the loan of 140,000 1 , for main drainage, effected by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, including interest, and the mum of 16,744/. 7s. 14d., a portion of the assets in credit on the same loan, apportioned to the City of London and other parts not heretofore iu. eluded in dietricts rated by those cemmissionere, be apportioned among the several parts of the metropolis liable thereto ; an d th a t the resolutions of the Board of the 3d March last, in relation to those matters, be, for the purposes of the present assessment, varied accord ingly. Afte r some discussion it was resolved that the question as to the liability of the City of London should be submitted to counsel. THE CIVIL SERVICE. —The Royal Household—A. chaplaincy in ordinary to the Queen has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Montagu J. Wynyard. The Admiralty—There will shortly he a vacancy in the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, by the retirement of Mr Davies, roaster attendant. A vacancy has been caused at the Royal victualling-yard, Plymouth, by the death of Mr Robert W. Roberts, master att en d an t. B an k o f England —A. clerkship has become vacant in the Consol-office by the death of Mr W„ Helton &hither , . Customs—Mr Thomas Hirst has been appoint e d a clerk in the Ihports and Exports Office, London ; Mr Charles Edwards has been appointed a clerk in St Katherine's Docks ' London • Mr C. Jackson, first cl er k at Weymouth, ' has been pro nsoted to be controller at BridP ort ; Mr T. J. Pittar has been promoted from c h ie f c l er k to committee clerk in the Secretary's-office, London ; Mr W. D. Taring ha s been promoted from first-cla ss clerk to chief clerk iu the Secretary's-office, London. East Indies —Mr W. G. Probyn has been appointed to officiate as magistrate . amid collector of Futtehpore ; Mr Y. Edwards has been appointed jud ge o f F u tt e hpore ; Lieutenant B. Cl leas been appointed to officiate as deputy commissibonaedr of the first class at Jubbulpore ; Mr W. N. IVfic'Sreueleder has been appointed chief judge of the Court ( b ) and Foujdaree Adawlut, and sworn in a member of . the Madras Council, vice Sir IL c, Montgorne y,l7tirted fr 411 the s.rvice ;MrC. R. Bayr,tee has been apps e a puisne judge of Jie Court: Sndoer at d oujoa . re . .: Adawlut; Mr. H. D. phillipt, h a s been appointed M Qin, 1' of 14:01.ra • r T and session judge of the Ouelow has been appo in ted civil and session judge of Zillah of Guntoo r ; Mr It. W. Chatfisid has been ap pointed civil an d session inclge . of the Zillah, Mangalore. —Civil Service Gazette. rbir't Mitittion SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 16. A leadint article on the result of the Belgian election, which is in the Oesterreichische Zetung of this day is calculated to produce a deeper impres sion on the minds of the Austrians, as well of high as of low degree, than all the pastoral letters and Jesuitical homilies which have been addressed to them since the conclusion of the Concordat. The article is too long to be transferred to your columns, but the following extract will convey its mean ing :—"Although the Papal .Government, unaided, would not be able to maintain possession of its territories, it has recently obtained vict )ries equal to those obtained by Gre gory VII., Innocent 111. and Sixtus V. The policy of the Papal See in 1847 gave such offence to the great Catholic Powers that it appeared as if a lung time must elapse before the Church could regain its influence ; but she is as powerful, . in fluential, and triumphant as she was in the times of Louis XIV. If a great event had not a feel days since occurred in a small State, the world would have been justified in believingthat the wheel of history was moving backward, and would not come to a stand until it reached the court-yard of Canossa, where temporal power was trod under foot by spiritual authority.* The issue of the Belgian elections is neither a simple party. triumph nor an occurrence of mere local importance. It is a great historical event, which goes far to prove that the successes of the Church during the last 10 years have not been obtained over the masses of the people. The word Ultramontane' can be applied to single men, and even to classes, but not to nations. In Sardinia, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France, on the Rhine, in Austria, and even in the domains of the Church, the great masses of the people are not ITltramontanists. To the Ultra-. montane party belong many men of high in-• tellect, pure character, and elevated position, but; still it has singularly little real power. Victories; obtained over the masses are generally durable is A their effects, but not so victories obtained over individuals or classes. If the result of the elec r tions had proved that the Belgian nation ar r proved of the policy of the ultra-Catbol to party, it would have been a tremendous triumph for Rome. The reverse was the case, and eons s quently Rome has suffered a tremendous defea t. Ultramontanism may .find supporters in UniverE ties, in Governments, and in palaces, but sooner later it must give way to the opposition offered I O r the masses of the people, with whom it finds I t° favour." * This is an allusion to the Emperor Henry IV. °f many, who, being clothed in penitentials, wa ited I"—, days in the court of th e cas tl e o f C anossa 'before he admitted to the presence of the Sovereign Pontiff Gr l . 4° ,„ -- " 0 1 VII. The castl e b e l onge d t o M a thild a the Margrer„. ° id Tuscany, who w as on remar k a bl y intimate i t e rms Wit h Holiness. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS AND PASSEIV GEES. "MP. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stealu-shiP* Nemesis Captain Thomas Black, arrived at Southatun ton at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, w ith the heavy portion 04 the India and Chi n a mailq, in charge of Lieut. Irwin! R.N., Admiralty agent. She left Alexandria on the 19 " inst., Malta the 9th, and Gibraltar the 13th. Between Alexandria and Malta the Nemesis experienced stroriF head winds; from Malta to Gibraltar light winds heavy rains • light north-easterly winds along thew ostes a of Spain and Portugal ; ; sout h- wes t e rly winds, th heavy north-westerly swell across the Bay of %Heat; and fresh south westerly winds, with heavy rains uP Channel. The Nemesis had 56 passengers, including Sir James ßrooke, and on freight 11 packages of specie, Wain 11,3391. sterling, 1,280 bales of silk, 2 casks of wine,bro 150 packages of general merchandise. At Alexandria on the sth the usual Egyptian 110•6 were lyin at anchor. Her Ma g jesty's ships Royal Albert, Hibenia, 000. queror, Princess Royal, Centurion, Vulture, Desperate, Vigilant, Coquette, Harpy, and Caradoc, and a Turisieh steam frigate were at Malta. On the 13th her Majesty's ship Curlew and the Pens . sian frigate Thetis were at Gibraltar. The hired ship Lady PeNaughten, with 20 . 0 convicts GfroibmraltParo,ratsnmchoourtehd offforthteheEadgogoekdyasrtdaffedeutaribnlgishthmeennitghatt of the sth inst., and they were landed on the 7th. The steam transport Euxine (Peninsular and Oriental Company), with the 3d division of the 69th Regiment on board, arrived at Gibraltar on the Bth at 7 a.m . , and having taken in 2 90 tons of coal at the New Mole left at the same hoar on the 9th for Malta and Alexandria. The Peninoular and Oriental Company's Indus, with the India and China mail ' s m of an; the 4th Southampton, anchored in the Bay between from 11 and 12 10th p.m. on the 9th, and at noon on the "ssteamer resumedh er voyage. The Dutch brig Cornelia, which drifted over to the other side of the Bay during the night of the 7th inst., was found on tits Bth by the steam-tug Orient, abandoned by her crew and touching the ground. The Orient took her in tow, and having been supplied with chain and anchors from the shore, she was, in the afternoon, safely moored in the bay. The following is the report of the disaster suffered by prosecuting her voyage om Live! pool to Australia, which, as repo r t e d by the Tegl ig steamer, was towed into Gibraltar Bay, from off Cabrita Point, on Saturday, by the steam-tug Orient : " The James Booth, from Liverpool for Melbourne with a general cargo, in lat. 31 N., long. 19 W., exp enced severe weather. On the27th the foremast gave way by the rigging, every exertion was made to save the main mast, but, at 3 p.m. on the following day it broke by the board, bringing down the wizen-topmast and all above it ; part of it fell on board and the remainder over boats, board, smashing p um p s and pump-gear, tw deck.house, after-belch, rails and stanchions and every thing within its reach, the sea at the time making a complete breach over the ship. The master then gave orders to cut and clear away, in order to get at pumps, to ease the ships for fear of more damage. The mXt day rigged jury masts and bore for Gibral being the best port at hand for making good the dam tar, age aus tsined. The ship is leaky and will have to discharge to effect repairs." The French vessels Henri, and Lucie, Captains Quirval and Fabre, and the Spanish ones Carm wrecked elita and Do.; Amigos, Captains Ronan a nd Joy, were on ttie 30th ult. between Palarnos and Guixols. Two women and a child who were on board the Henri perished ; no other personal casualty occurred. Gibraltar exchanoes on the 12th inst. were quoted as follow :—London 90 day's date, 49i ; Paris, ditto 5f 31c ; Marseilles, ditto, 5f 32c ; Genoa, ditto, 5f 35c ; Madrid, 8 day's. dis ; Cadiz, ditto, par ; Malagar, ditto dis ; Seville, ditto, dis ; Alicante, ditto, A die ; Valencia , ditto, .3 die ; Barcelona, ditto, Spanish Pillared Dollars 4 per cent. pm. ; none; no dernai,d. On the 15th inst., 30 miles south of Finisterre, the the ifeine,is spoke the Royal mail steamer Teviot, bound to the southward. THE PACIFIC. The arrival at Southampton of the mail steamer Parana fro?, the West Indies puts us in possession of files of Parana papers to the 23,1 ult. The steam-ship Rdivia, Capt. Johnson, from Callao Nov. 11, had arrived in Panama Bay on the morning of the 21st with the mails from the South Pacific coast of the following dates :—Valparaiso, Oct. 31 ; Lime) No. 11; Paita, Nov. 16. From Chili we learn that during the last fortnight no favourable alteration had taken place in the money market, which still continued distressed. Credit sus tained itself, which proved much as to the confidence reposed in the solvability of the merchants. Bills on England were at the rate of 46 and 47, and the interest on money remained firm at 16 per cent. on good securi ties. A very small remittance goes forward by this mall for England. Provisions were very dear and scarce, and a great, deal of distress was felt among the labouring population. This mostly applied to the southern pro• vinces, auel a subscription has been raised in Valparaiso to alleviate as much as possible these sufferings. Congress was still sitting, and the railway loan' of 7,000,000 dole. had been passed and approved by the Senate. A decree permitting the importation of sheet iron free of duty had been passed. The affair of the Sportsman, captured in the port of Santa Maria, where she was loading coppFr dre without a Chilian permission, still rema ined . in abeyance, but it was well know n that th Minister and the French Consul luid demanded satisfaction for the act. The Sportsman r WA still in the port of Caldera , abandoned l by who, l is said, claimed 100 do a Mari from bo y u h a t from the English Gover nment, s camages and losses. Th e gear° e Lad arrived ; she g d vnerienced bad we in at a be e r the voyage in 1 02 day s ; she 'r and was out of fuel. The news of a mo st horrible occurrence, Which was before dreaded , had just beenconfirmed. The barque Sarah Ann, bound andn merchandise,Chili dfrom tot was alsslan m Island with passengers eeerA day inhabited b y savage cannibals, and every wrecked person of Oceania on n boar d was devour.d by the monster s . Th e d eta ils of oon o this frightful calamity had not been received. A t Callao the National Convention had just been dis solved by actual force ; in fact, the Dispntados were driven from their seats at the point of the bayonet. Cas t ills had public opinion with hi m , and, although there had been an attempt lo s hift th e responsibility on the shoulders of Colonel A rgue d a, ye t , now th a t the public had decided in its favour, it was expected that the act wculd be acknowledged by the authorities. We understand that the man who underwent the ope ration of having his tongue cut out; by 'ProlesJo: Syme in the Royad infirmary, last week, Lae ',dace Edinburgh, Express. Hi Exeelloury Count Von Platen, the new Minister from Sweden, is staying at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, pending his occupation of P. new residence for till Swedish Legation.