The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

Yiberpoot TUESDAY MORNING THE anticipated f FEB. 8, 1853. WEEK lvourable change in t which was to compensate for the long wet autumn and winter, has not yet been realized, although se veral cold, dry, frosty day ' hopes which have bee return to rain. It has care tended to inspire n quickly disappointed by.a een a sad drawback ✓ to agricultural operations; but there is yet time enon A __ even for sowing wheat, and should a warm, dry summer succeed, a harvest of spring sown wheat may not be less productive than one that had been tilled at the usual time. Liverpool has not been without a full share of seasonable amusements. The Masonic Ball, on Tuesday last, was perhaps the most numerous festive party ever assembled within the Town-hall, and afforded much gratification to those who were present. The termination of Mr. THOMAS' series of entertainments at the Philhar monic-hall seems to have given them an increased popularity, as they were densely crowded the last few nights, and will, no doubt, be repeated after the close of the engagement at Manchester. The proceedings with reference to the mode in which the proposed Docks at Wapping should he constructed, have been unfortunate in more than one respect. The inevitable delay has already in volved a loss in the interest upon the £450,000 borrowed for the purchase of the site, which is at the rate of £13,000 a year, and the difference created between two such important public bodies as the Town Council and the Dock Committee is also much to be lamented. It appears, by the explana tions of the Chairman of the Dock Committee, that the clause in the advertisement, reserving to them selves the right of rejecting all the tenders, was understood by them to be a provision against mak ing any contract unless the amoun was below t estimates of their own surveyor. This was not the case after the tender of Mr. THO3IPSON was svith- drawn, a the committee, there )re, felt themselves k to Mr. HA P.T. LEY, whose previous works satisfaction. They had tried the experiment , getting it done cheaper by contract, and they had not found that they could save anything in the expense. On-the other hand, it is contended that the clause in the advertisement was under stood by men in the trade to be simply a protection against being compelled to accept a tender from in efficient contactors or at an exorbitant rate, but it was evident that it was not so understood by the members of the committee, whose high character as Liverpool merchants must place them above all had given gei., suspicion of improper motives. Another question in the discussion was as to the legal right of the Council to veto the proceedings of the committee, and this also has given rise to considerable misunder standing. Many of the Council contend that while therhave not the power to interfere in details they have the right to interfere in this particular matter of the contract. Others contend, and with some of justice, that the right to veto can only apply simple question whether the proposed docks to be constructed, and this being conceded, it rests with the committee to decide upon the best means of carrying it out. It is to be hoped that e benefit has arisen from the lengthened dis iion, which was adjourned from Wednesday I yesterday (Monday), when the Council. by 31 - affirmed their pre ous veto; but as this did not constitute a majority of two-thirds, as required by the Act, the veto fell to the ground, and the works will, therefore, be proceeded with. The question of imposing a halfpenny rate for a Free Public Museum has led to some difference of opinion in the Council. Of course the popular feeling is in favour of saving any rate, however small, in these times of reduction of taxation ; and, as the corporate property is more than sufficient for the ordinary demands upon it, there is less rea son for enforcing any addition upon the present local burdens. The discussion gave rise to an ex hibition of temper unbecoming an assembly of Liverpool gentlemen, and was finally disposed of by an undestanding that the obnoxious rate should not be enforced until an opportunity has been af forded of conferring with the representatives of the parish. Some misunderstanding appears to have arisen in the Health Committee with rsferenee to a pro posal to affix signboards to the lamp-posts in the chief thoroughfares, which should point out the names of public buildngs, and the addresses of such of the adjoining tradesmen as chose to pay for the privilege of being so distinguished. It has been opposed on the ground of its being converted into a species of puffing advertisements, but the one put un in Dale-street appears to be a simple direc tion after the plan of the postoffice directing signs on the lamp-posts in the metropolis ; and the pro jector offers to place the whole affair under the di rection of the authorities, and pay an annual sum for the privilege. The decision of the Committee has been adjourned for a month, in order to obtain the opinion of the tradesmen of Liverpool on the subject. _ _ _ _ In common with weak minds, who are prone to back their assertions with a wager, Mr. COBDEN—in order to give a show of sincerity to his absurd pre dictions about the everlasting peace to be brought about by the aid of cotton bales, disbanding the army and dismantling the navy—offered our con temporary the Manchester Guardian to pay him £lO,OOO in the event of a French invasion of this country, upon condition of the latter paying one shilling a week to the Manchester Infimary until that event does occur. Our contemporary declined the tempting proposal, but it appears that a Lieut. General BROTHERTON has taken up the challenge, and in a published correspondence Mr. COBDEN has declared his willingness to pay the £lO,OOO whenever a French invasion is attempted. In a subsequent letter, Lieut.-Gen. BROTHERTON expresses his satisfaction of Mr. COBDEN'S sincerity, and declines the proffered bond, though he engages to pay the promised subscription to the Infirmary. Mr. COBDEN has thus cheaply earned a reputation with the vulgar, but it can never ascend higher. Of what value would be the bond thus confidently offered, when no Court of Law would enforce the payment, upon the ground of there being an illegal consideration ? He might as well have offered a bribe to any one to promote an invasion by the QUEEN s enemies, a manifest act of treason; and Mr. COBDEN, notwithstanding his mania about Peace, and his political pr e di c ti ons , w hi c h h ave always been falsified, has yet sense enough to knuw that such an obligation would not be binding. The important question of establishing local tribunals for the decision of differences on mercantile affairs, was again brought before the Chamber of Commerce, at their meeting yesterday, of which a report will be found in another column. The chamber, by a unanimous resolution, requested the new council of their body to petition in favour of the proposal. CENTRAL AMERICA..—The only achievement that marked Sir H. Bulwer's residence atWashing Washing ton was a treaty relating to Central America, which opened a free passage across the isthmian states to the commerce of the world. Against this treaty a most unreasonable outcry has been lately raised in the United States, for no better reason than that it does not dispossess Great Britain of her old rights over Honduras, which she never dreamed of sur rendering. A groundless charge of dishonesty has been fastened on Mr. Clayton, the minister who negotiated the treaty, and it stands in imminent danger of being upset altogether. Here is a useful illustration for Mr. Cobden. He will find, we sus pect, as he pursues his historical studies, that de mocracies are apt to be more unreasonable, more grasping, more peevish, more subject to uncon trollable impulse than monarchies. Happily for them, their resolutions are less quickly executed, and a dread of taxation supplies to some extent the place of a statesmanlike prudence and self-control. Had the American government been as strong and cen tralised as the French, th e monomania which pos sesses them for monopolising s long their own continent would have embroiled us ago in a serious quarrel. TILE BIBLE IN TUSCANY.—A fact—a very great fact—is stated by Dr. Cahill in his eagerness to accumulate criminations upon the " atrocious " Madiai. "They hav e distributed (he says) at l east eleven thousand copies of the Bible." About the guilt of such an offence "let graceless zealots fight." The fact is enough for us. It is an admission of the utmost value, considering th e quarter from which in an unguarded moment it has been wrung, that a desire for Scriptural knowledge extensively pervades the people of Tuscany. If two persons in so humble a station as the Madiai have been enabled to circulate so many copies of the Bible, where the mere possession of it is visited with the heaviest penalties, it is manifest that Popery is not alarmed without cause in its strong hold. Those eleven thousand Bibles represent a doubt of the infallibility of Rome, and an earnest determination to imbibe the truth at the fountain head, in at least eleven thousand familie§, Truly gandism is uence oL before the Doctor would put his elct i , breath to defend him. His warmth in ta, moral order is all nursed to advocate that exercise of power which the Grand Duke of Tuscany has exhibited against such atrocious revolutionists as want to "turn the world upside down" • • Bible.—Dublin Evening MARRIAG There Louis NAPOLEON'S something deeper than all this in the feeling of the multitudes who suffered the Emperor and his bride on this signal occasion to pass among them out enthusiasm, almost without recognitir only giving no sign of loyalty, but grad;. the most ordinary marks of respect. The to seems to be, that whatever be the o country of the love match of Louis ng eve: nion in a Napoleo has deeply wounded the sensibilities and alienated the feelings, not merely of the frequenters of saloons, but of the lower classes of Paris. Thev feel that their Emperor has been rejected fr 1m the associat. community of Monarchs, and their pride is hurt h, seeing the diadem of France flung into the lap of a lady whom they have seen for years a resident in their city, and upon whose past career they are not disposed to put a too favourabi. They feel that they have made an Emperor, not wish him to repeat the process by creating an Empress. They feel that public considerations had nothing to do with the marriage, and with the quick instinct of the multitude perceive that they have been treated merely as a pis alley,—that it was only when the Emperor found that the palaces of construction but do st him he dis FRANCE.—The impulse given to the trade of Paris by lute imperial fetes is said to have proved highly satis ory to the bourgeoisie. The etiquette at official balls requiring gentlemen to wear embroidered and vests, has caused the ladies to enter upon a Ary in their toilettes, and already an enormous de and has been created for all kinds of the most costly rticies of atti• It is an, I receutior for both sex )unced, on high authority, that the Queen of is about to present the Empress Eugenie with a ly coronet, rich!y and magn ifi cen The: Duchess of Al an equipag iariaonds f sends hcz crowd of tly ad - orned with , sister of the Empress, of eight beautiful horses. The [iedral of Notre Dame on There w e of people wait By the Brit__ ship Company' Commander,wehavea,,,, The Arabia sailed frou tion the adverse steam- and weather experienceu, is j finest achievement in ocean stea The Ara the:: dero ation everreca a arrived i❑ the river about half-past her mails, which were sent in a the Bar, reached town about half-past f The Arabia has brought 8150,000 in specie on freigl and the following 66 passengers : —Mr. Sparr and lady Mr. Russell and two ladies, Mr. J. M. Schaap, lady, am infant, Mr. A. E. Beach and lady, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. E E. Pratt, Miss Fiora, Captain S. W. Mather, Captain J J. Robertson, Messrs. Scnieder, C. Gorissen, J. P. Can, sittart, D. Gilmour, J, Hamilton, R. W. Harris, W Bondreau, Neild, P. B. Badaux, J. Bi..'ucedry,--N. Rod gers, jun., W. Carrere, Dempster, F. Flora, W. C. Yew. nit, L. L. Robinson ' G. F. T. Reid, Blunt, W. Wenholt, Houghton, P. Barredu, J. Robertson, J. G. Forbes, G. D Street, Geo. Tandenhoff, H. Starrus, Cowell, Mayer, F Taxen, L. Isaacs, H. Lodge, W. B. Duncan, Do-a -gall Sedley, M. H. Coby, W. C. Moore, W. H. Armstrong, A. W. Hill, R. Benner, L. Darl, W. G Reese, Turner, Jas. A. Welsh, R. Hutchingson, J. H Nichols, C. W. Hunter, J. F. Schoellkoff, J. R. M`Nai C. W. tewart, Robert Neil, and Kew The Royal Mail steamer Eu the 22d ultimo. The United States mail steamer Arctic arrived at New York, at 6 p.m. on the 26th ult. In the Senate, the discussion on colonization in Central America by Great Britain continued. Mr. Mason, chair man of the Committee on Foreign Relations, remarked, that if the reported colonization of Honduras, by Great Britain, should prove correct, the United States would then have a practical issue to work upon : it would then become the duty of his government to denounce such a proceeding, and insist upon a relinquishment of the colony by Great Britain, whether in violation of the treaty or not. In accordance with a resolution of the Senate, asking for information, the President had transmitted a message to that body, enclosing over one hundred despatches, which embrace the correspondence of en-Minister Lawrence and others with the British Government, relative to Cen tral American affairs. These documents appear to have been entirely too voluminous to allow the reporters to give even an outline of their general contents. The im portance of the subject to which they advert will cause them to be looked for with much anxiety. The President also communicated the award of Louis Napoleon with re gard to the claim of the United States against Portugal, in the case of the brig General Armstrong, which decided that the claim was invalid, principally- for the reason that hostilities were commenced by those on boaid the Gen. A., who fired into the long boats which were sent from the British vessel to reconnoitre her. A bill has been reported in the Virginia House of Dele gates which provides for the appointment of overseers, " who are to be required to hire out, at public auction, all free persons of colour, to the highest bidder, and to pay into the State Treasury the sums accruing from such hire, The sums are to be devoted in future to sending free per sons of colour beyond the limits of the State. At the ex piration of five years all free persons of colour remaining in the State are to he sold into slavery to the highest bid der at public auction, the proceeds of such 3ales to be paid into the public treas-nry, provided that said free persons of colour shall' be allowed the privilege of becoming the slaves of any free white person whom they may'select, on the payment by such person of a fair price." The Seminole Indians had refused to remove from Florida to the country consigned to them, and had, according to the report, declared war against the United States. ive o'clock a arrived at Boston on The death of Junius Smith is announced. He was one of the principal promoters of the British and American Steam Navigation Company, and it was at his instigation that the steamer Sirius was despatched froze, England to the United States. The Vice-president (elect) King had arrived at Key West. All hopes of his recovery were at an end. In the Albany Legislature, Mr. Vandcrbiit had intro duced a bill amending the ocean steam law of last year, so as to permit the use of caloric engines. Great excitement had been produced in Philadelphia in consequence of the arrest of a free negro, charged with enticing slaves to desert their masters in Maryland. An attempt was made to convey the prisoner to Anne Arundel county to answer the charge, but he was taken back by a writ of habces corpus, and lodged ia prison. MEXICO. —Adv!ces to the 15th ult. from Vera Cruz, via New Orleans, announce the triumph of the revolu tionists. President Arista had resigned office ; he left the capital on the 6th. Senor Cavellos, Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, had assumed the presidential chair, ad interim. Governor Minon, in command of the government troops, had been beaten in a regular engage ment. The revelationists were everywhere triumphant, and looking for the return of Santa Anna. President Arista's resignation was caused by the refusal of Congress ' to grant him extraordinary powers. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK. JAN. 26 MONEY MARKET.—The general tone of the market during the fortnight has been firm, but rather inani mate. For the last few days, however, the demand for stocks has become decidedly more active, and the market to-day closes with an upward tendency. The prices of Government and New York State loans are well sustained, although the supply of the latter is increasing principally from foreign sources, the high prices tempting European ho!ders to realise. Money continues in good demand, at six per cent. on call, but the supply is full. Foreign Ex changes are in better demand, and bills. on London and Paris are firmer. London, 94 to 94 per cent. preen. ; Paris, 5,1214. to 5,131 f. sixty days, and 5,10 f. to 5,114 f. short sight. CorroN.—(From the Shipping Lief, of January 26.) The market, since the reception of the Europa's advices, has been dull, and, except for the better grades, sales have been made 4c. to 4c. lower. The stock is increased by recent arrivals, but is still moderate. The sales since our last are 1,900 bales. We quote ; Atlantic Other Ports. Florida. Gulf Ports. Inferior none. none, none. Low to good ord 9to 94 9to 92 9to 9i Low to good mid.... Mid. fair to fair llk lli 114 0 Ili —12 i• Fully fair to good fair _ _ Total import since Ist instant 33,017 bales. Export from Ist to 25th Jan., 1653, 9.800; 1852, 31,359, EXPORT FROM THE IJNITHD STATES. Since Ist of September, 1852 906,402 bales. Same time, 1851 639,475 „ RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON. Exports to Total Exports Stock, and Receipts. Gt. Britain to For. Ports. on shipb'd 1852 1,707,867 692,033 906,402 606,234 1851 1,265,895 426,952 639,475 480,234. Increase 441,972 265,081 266,929 126,000 (From W. P. Wright's Circular of January 26.) During the past week the New York market has been active and prices have steadily advanced, owing, in a great measure, to our very limited stock, but influenced also by a demand for the better qualities from our domestic manufactures, and to the advance which has taken place in all the southern markets. The Charleston and Savan nah markets have been very much excited, and the ad vance in each has been, in the last two weeks, tc. to lc. per lb., the greater proportion during tha last. The cause, it is asserted, is the execution of numerous orders from our own manufacturers, hitherto limited, but now being executed on the best possible terms, and generally for the better qualities, which, from their scarcity, caused much competition and led to the advance ; added to which, the falling off in the receipta at the ports this week and last, has given rise to a strong speculative feel ing, not only in the ports of the Atlantic States, but throughout all the interior towns. As a consequence, buyers for export have retired from the markets, and freights are heavy at declining rates. In New Orleans and Mobile the business has been to a very fair extent, at a slight advance in price. The complaints as to scarcity of good cotton in the late receipts at the south are more, universal, and in all the markets it is difficult to find much ranging over good middling quality. There is a further decrease this week in the excess of receipts at the ports of 22,000 bales, it now being 431,000 bales more than to corresponding dates last season. BREADSTUFFS.—Up to the close of last week prices were maintained, but since the receipts of the advices per Europa purchases have been effected at a reduction in price of 64-c. per brl. The following are the current rates :—Western canal, 8'5,374 to 5'5,50 per brl. ; Ohio and pure Genesee, £5,50 to £5,75 ; common New York, &c., $5,314 to 85,374 ; southern kinds, .8'5,624- to £'6 ; Canada, in bond, 5'5,62i to $5,75. Wheat has been in fair demand, but without change in price. —Indian Corn : 2c. to 4c. per bushel lower : northern round yellow, none ; southern yellow, 68c. to 70c. per 56 lbs. ; white, 68c. to 69c. per 56 lbs. ; mixed, 72c. to 74c. per 561bs. PROVISIONS.—Pork has continued quite dull,and prices are rather lower, the market being better supplied, and the demand light. Beef continues in fair request, and prices are very steady and uniform. Lard is dull, and A little lower. Cheese is in better request for export, and has advanced to Bc. to no. for shipping qualities, and 9c. for choice dairies. _ IRON.—Scotch pig is in small supply, and generally held at £'3s, cash, with unimportant sales. In 'oars we have only to notice a sale of 100 tons common English, and something over .870 on time. FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool freights are again higher, nearly all the vessels up having been filled. Corn and Wheat are taken to that port at 9d. to 10d. in bulk ; Flour, 2s. 9d., 3s. 6d. asked ; Tobacco, 3s. -6d. ; Cheese, 30s. ; Rosin, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 41d. ; Cotton, 3.16 d. to id. ; and, by the propeller Andes, Corn at 11d. in bags ; and Beef, Pork, Lard, and Cheese, 40s. ; a IBritish brig took Flour at 2s. 9d. MOBILE, JANUARY 24. Middling Cotton, 81c.: market active. Freight Liverpool the . ;Awe ; to NOY York) THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1853. CHARLESTON, JANUARY 26. ineas in Cotton, and the market dull. Sales rices ranging from Bc. to 10iC. NEW ORLEANS. .t was high time for the Grand Duke to bring out against Newman is of European interest, and in famous Maine Law, forbidding the sale of intoxicating r n e a p n e d ,, , l v a n d e r b e e en the law , u drinks. In the state of Massachussets, on the other A small bus his guillotine; and, no doubt, he was actively every part of Europe will be read the triumph of prompted to do so. The high crime of " prqpaga- British law, and the glory of British toleration.is t in e operation, a b m ut o a tic; e n w f s o .o r te i a ts 840 bales, at p Ling Protestantism" must be as rife in the territory How much more valuable is this than it would be Cholera had broke - n out on board the African colonization JAN. 24.—Cotton is firm of his Seren e Hi g h ness , as that of Ribbon P . ropa- to shut up Newman f or a year or two, and. make a brig Z e b ra , f or Lib er i a, an d t h e b r i g had put back to bales, at Saturday rates. .Fret i n I re l an d. But Doctor Cahill, and martyr of him, perhaps ensure his canonisation, Savannah with twenty-seven deaths on board.—The JAN. 25.—Cotton operators are disappOinted at the ..4(eur jurists of his trove, can only find in their should he happen to die in his prison ! annual report of the secretary of the United States non-receipt of the Arctic's news ; 6,000 bales of cotton treasury, shows that the receipts of the fiscal year, ended sold to-d a y a t a d ec li ne o f a quarter o f a cent. from the hearts to applaud the vindication of the laws in one _ ' - 30th June, 1852, were 560,649.031, the expenditur •- - . -- tddlins is quoted 01-c. of these cases. His quondam friend, Mr. Keogh, might lie for ever under the obloquy of having con- FOREIGN NEWS. during the same period £16,00706, and the act surplus in hand ten millioas of dollars. tributed to the incarceration of a sworn Ribbonman, --. __ =I - . -- _---- -- surplus in hand ten millions of dollars. ssles this rcorninz Freights to Liverpool, ft-d. e I highest poin zal Jan. 2G.—Cotton is very acti the snies this morning Prices are 7,000 bales, mostly for England HAVANA, JAN. 21 ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. and North American Royal Mau ~. -w steamer Arabia. C. H. E. Judkins, - ices from New York to the 27th ult. the rretE New York at 12.25 p.m. on the mar to ( att., and returned at 3.30 p.m., (the pivot considering ANEW it unsafe to take the ship over the bar,) and came to an chor off the company's wharf, at Jersey City. On the 27th, at 7.5 a.m. she again proceeded to sea ; at 3.52, passed Sandy Hook, and at 9.28 was abreast the Lightship. HENRI PPA'CC She started with a N.W. w i n d, an d i n th e - first 24 Lours drome in Ne'w ran 289 miles. On the 28th she had the wind N.E. ;at 2 p.m. passed a screw -steamer, bound west, (probably the A PUBLIC L. , City of Glasgow, hence for Philadelphia;) and at 9 p - .m. the city, is exchanged night signals with a large steamer, (probably A LETTE R P ROM W ARSAW annotnces t h e d eath of the Africa, h ence f or N ew Y or k.) O n the 29th, with a Count Francis Potocki, one of the most influential men in moderate breeze from N.N.E., she made 290 miles ;at 11 Poland. a.m. passed an American ship, supposed to be the Con- EBENEZER GRA - HA : if a little schoolboy in New York, stantine, hence for Ne w Yo r k. O n th e 30th s h e ex p o - was " snowballed?' by his thoughtless companions to such rienced light winds ; and on the 31st, with a strong S.S.W. an extent that he died almost immediately. gale, ran 302 miles. On the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th inst., she had N.W. and N. winds, and ran 300, 292, 300, and MADAIIE SONTAG, rerponding to the ea?' 320 miles per day. On the 4th, at 10.30 p.m., exchanged American ladies, has agre e d t o s i ng f or the belie.. night-signals with a steamer. On the sth th e w i n d c h ange d Hope, " a charitable institution i n N ew Y or k. to E.N.E., fresh breeze, when she ran 295 miles. At 5.55 NEW ROUTE TO INDIA.—A letter from Bagdad states p.m. on that day she made Cape Clear. On Sunday, at that an English steamer had entered the Tigris, for the 3.40 n.m., she was abreast Tuskar - ; at 10.30 a.m. passed purpose of ascertaining whether it will be practicable to the Skerries ; and at 3.20 p.m, slowed at the bar to wait establish a regular communication with the Gulf of Persia. for water. The run of the Arabia, taking into considers- CURRANT:I.—A committee of scientific and practical ‘, j men, appointed by the Greek Government to consider the cause of failure of the currant-cro, he rerted that they consider the extension of the blight av next po season as very probable. of some :fit of " the THE ALBANY "STATE TEMPEItANCE SOCIETY" have resolved to enter the political arena, by nominating tee. total candidates to promote their peculiar opinions as to whether the people shall be abstainers or not. Temperance meetings are in " blas-t" just now, as the New York papers phrase it. DUTCH TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.—ID con3equence of the great number of Dutch ships now proceeding from England to Australia, it has been resolved that Dutch men-of-war proceeding to the Indian station from Europe shall first go to Australia, and remain there for some time, for the protection of Dutch interests. HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—A criminal of a black dye, a wretched parricide, misnamed Doici, was shot on the 111th ultimo, outside the Porter Pontese, for having mur dered his mother. He was a native of Perugia, and, after having served for some time as . a gendarme, was,, when the crime was committed, a soldier in the line. Whilst the lugubrious mortuary procession was approaching the place of execution, surrounded by soldiers and confrater nities, a couple of oxen, harnessed to a waggon, were coming in from the country, and took fright at the black. hooded brethren, called co; fortaiori; who, as usnal, ac companied the criminal with crucifixes and black banners, The oxen charged into the midst of the melancholy tus, kocked down several, and severely wounded cue of the " comforters," nearly upset the cart in which the criminal was sitting, and galloped towards the city: gate through a lane of terrified spectators. PIcCOVERY OF A BURIED CITY.—A buried city has been discovered in Egypt, named Sacekareh. It appears to be situate about five hours' journey from Cairo, near the first cataract. An Arab having obEerved what ap peared to be the head of a sphinx appearing above the ground near the spot, drew the attention of a French gentleman to the circumstance, who commenced excava ting, and laid open a long-buried street', which contained 38 granite sarcophagi, each of which weighed about 60 tons, and which formerly held evidently the ashes of sa cred animals. The Fr.nicliman has got a grant of the spot from the Egyptian Pacha, and has exhumed great quantities of curiosities, some of them ancient earthenware vessels of a diminutive size. The street, when lit up at night, forms a magnificent sight. It is upwards of 1,600 yards in length. Many of the curiosities dug out have to be kept buried in sand to preserve them from perishing. CENsc5 or ROME.—Rome, as appeal-s from a recent census, contains a population of 175,000, divided into 54 parishes, and'amongst them are 29 bishops, 1,280 priests, 2,092 monks and members of religious 0rder5,, , 1,698 nuns, and 537 ecclesiastical pupils. In 1848 thz:population was 179,000, but was reduced by the revolution to 166,000 in the following year. The number of bishops in residence in Rome was 49 in 1846, the highest known ; in 1849 it was, as ner6 . 29. The number of priests was never greater than in 1848, when it was 1,541 ; nor lower than in 1849, when it was 1,187; that of monks and members of religious orders was 2,589 in 1848, and 1,764 in 1849. The number of nuns was 1,592 in 1843, and being now 1,698, presents an increase of 1 per cent, after deducting the losses from deaths. The number of ecclesiastical pupils was 1,069' in 1844, and in 1849 it fell to 492. The heretics of all shades—Turks, schismatics, Protestants, and unbelievers—amount, exclusive of Jews, to 412; and a very great number of them belong to the foreign em- DR. LAYARD, M.P., has been lecturing at Nottingham to the members of the Mechanics' Institute on Nineveh. THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY.—In noticing the reception given to the Bishop of Sydney by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, we adverted to the fact that he had contributed to the Endowment of the Sees of Melbourne and Newcastle, " by th e v oluntary surrender of a fourth part of hi s own episcopal income." Though this statement is literally true, it falls considerably short of the whole truth. The bishop really offered, for this purpose, one-half (unde r cer t a i n conditions) of his whole episcopal income, and his contribution was ultimately fixed by the authorities in this country at an amount touch less than by his letter written from the antipodes, he had nobly placed at their disposal, F H E bassies IRELAND. THE COUNTESS OF EGLINTON.—A superb jewelled casket of Irish manufacture and device, has been pre sented as " an offering of grateful remembrance to Kathe therine, Countess of Eglinton, from her Trish friends." OS Drr.—That Mr. John Reynolds, cm-brigadier, and late M.P. for Dublin city, has obtained the appointment of marshal of the Four Courts, with about, £9OO per an num, vice J. E. Caulfield, Esq., promoted to something better in Loudon.—Tablet. AN OVERLOAD.—A few days since the corn-mill be longing to Mr. Trayers, of Ballytnoe, fell in from the weight of Indian corn on the stores, and broke down all the machinery.. All the corn was washed away by the flood. The loss of property is estimated at £I,OOO. AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT.—The Board of Na tional Education intend erecting three district model schools at Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny, with agri cultural farms of about 70 acres in connection therewith. Sites have been taken for the purpose, and the designs are by the board's architects. DEATH -FROM GLANDERS.—A whole family, named Uncles, residing at Maugherow, near Llsadell, have been swept away by glanders. The father purchased an in fected horse at a fair in Mayo ; he soon afterwards took the disease from the beast, then his wife and four children caught it, and they all died in great agony. We have heard that two girls, about two miles from this town, have also been lost by this dreadful disorde►.--Sligo Champion. ARRIVAL OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—The Earl of St. Germans made his public entry into Dublin on Thurs day afternoon. His excellency rode on horseback from Westland-row to the Castle, and his reception was ex tremely cordial. The Lord Mayor and Corporation pre ceded the procession from the railway terminus to the castle. The Countess of St, Germans and the Ladies Eliot rode in a close carriage, and were also cordially greeted. ABDUCTION.—At Kapla, in Queen's County, Miss Claney, the sister of a respectable farmer, possessed of many "golden charms," was abducted by a body of ruf fians and carried off in her night-dress. Though many must have heard her screams, none responded to them till the party met Mr. Dowling, a Romish priest, who stopped them and succeeded in causing the young girl to be given to his charge. Mr. Dowling, having lent her his cloak, brought her to a neighbouring farm house, where he got her clothes, and then restored her to her afflicted family.. Pour men are in custody. THE CONVICT KIRWAN.—The rumours of investiga tions into former alleged crimes against Mr. Kirwan are said to have resulted- in, proving his innocence—one of the supposed murdered._ persons being still alive, and the other died from disease of the heart on well-attested evi dence. Yet it was stated that Kirwan was in possession of certain letters that would have told much against him, and that two officers, sent to obtain them, were delayed entering his cell till: he had succeeded in destroying them ;. a single scrap on the floor attesting the fact. And now it is said that Mr. John. M'Manus has " resigned" the deputy-governorship of Kilmainham gao], in consequence of the treatment of the convict Kirwan. THE REV. T. D. GREGG.—The first of two sermons in Latin, being Cie third of a series preparatory to taking out the degree of doctor of divinity, was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gregg, in the College chapel, on Friday even ing. It was a critical dissertation on the two versions given in the authorised Bible, of Daniel ix, 9—the theme of the two preceding English sermons—ye hel kenaph shik-ootsitn meshonten : translated in the English text, " for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate ;!'- and in the margin, " upon the battlements shall be the idols of the desolator." The faults of both versions were pointed out by the reverend gentleman, and we understand that he purposes establishing the true sense of the passage in his next Latin sermon. BRUTAL MURDERS. — Westmeath is just now the field of blood in Ireland. Two murders are reported near Kil beggan. One was committed on Thursday night, and the victim a man in the employment of an Englishman, who occupies a farm close to the town of Moote. The victim of the other was Thomas Farrell, a man of sixty; and a Romanist, farming a small tract of land a quarter of a mile from the town, and near a well-frequented road. About seven o'clock in the evening, the moon shining brightly, five young countrymen, in no way disguised, with arms in their hands, went to the house. Two re mained at the door on guard. Farrell was at his fireside, telling a story to his family—his wife and two daugh ters and a servant-boy—and three of his neighbours, young men, all sitting round the fire, when the three men, armed with guns, raised the latch of the door and came in. One of them said, "lam in search of a person I want," and proceeded towards the only other apartment of the house, the door of which was closed. When he returned to the kitchen he said to the old man, " Tom, lend me your gun for a few days, and I will return it." Farrell desired the servant-boy to reach him the gun, which was beside him ; Farrell stood up when the boy handed him the gun ; getting it in his hand, the assassin desired the boy to stand back, and in an instant the two that kept guard fired their muskets at Farrell, who fell dead. The assassins then departed, apparently unrecognised by any of the persons who witnessed the murder. • legitimate monarchy were shut age covered be was a parrent tifying his passion and 1 fling I and, while in reality gra- s resentment, affected :nself on the s mpathies of his peop to cons _ . titute himself the representativ e of the elec tive as opposed to the hereditary principle. That sympathy he has not obtained. The crowd looked coldly on him as he came and as he went, and the listless spectators of his nuptials keenly criticised the getting up of the ceremony, but forgot its po litical import and thought little of the prospects of a future dynasty. The proprietors of private houses would not illuminate, and the public buildings dis pensed their splendours to empty streets and de serted quays. For once, Paris was not "i' the vein." She was for once deep in thought, thinking of a disastrous past, an unstable present, and a lowering future—of all the idle ceremonies she had seen and may yet see—of all she has lost and of all she has gained—of the Monarchy, of the Republic, of the Empire—and of the unseen void which lies beyond them all.—The Times. The marriage of the Emperor and Empress of the French was solemnised at Nutre Dame on Sun day with that lavish magnificence to which parvenus of all classes are particularly prone. We smile at the splendour of the mushroom court; but it is precisely because it is so spurious and ephemeral a thing that it puts on so gorgeous a dress and apes so carefully the etiquette and ceremonial of royalty —a childish masquerade after all, unless they sym bolise the traditional dignity of a time-honoured throne. Tailors, jewellers, and decorators, are called in to supply the absence of all that can touch the feelings, impress the imagination, and corn mand respect. Moreover, the taste for pomp has been in the Parisian populace pampered and culti vated to such a degree that every show must be costlier than the last. Nothing but real magnifi cence will go down.--Gicardian. THE ACHILLI CASE, the Queen's Bench hav ing properly refused a new trial, was wound up on Monday by the infliction of a punishment, mild indeed, but sufficient under the circumstances to satisfy the ends of justice —a fine of £lOO, which was paid on the spot. So ends the most painful and disgusting of our causes celebres. Its close at least was worthy of an English court of justice. Mr. Justice Coleridge's address is a touching and dignified piece of judicial eloquence, redeeming the character of the Court, deodorizing (if we may use the word) the filthy details of the case, and fixing, while it softens and corrects, the impression it has left on the public mind.—London Guardian. On this subject the Morning Post says : must pronounce the bold, able, candid, and digni fied review which Mr. Justice Coleridge took of the whole case to be a fine model of judicial beha viour under very trying circumstances. The case admitted the expression of a great deal of feeling. The Court had to inflict punishment, not to ascer tain facts. It had to weigh motives and conse quences, to determine what amount of retribution would satisfy the alleged injustice to Dr. Achilli, and yet not disregard the mitigating circumstances of Dr. Newman. A wide margin was thus left. In injudicious hands this latitude might have been singularly prejudicial to the dignity of that high Court. But in the hands of that learned judge and dignified gentleman, and devout Christian, not a single word was uttered which could have embit tered the personal feelings of any, not an opportu nity was lost of tempering the stern rigour of the law with all the softening accompaniments of Christian sorrow, and divesting it of all shadow of a connection with the bitterness of religious con troversy. Not a word of harshness against the faith of the offender, not a single comparison of the two Churches, no one word that did not apply to the actual business of the occasion, escaped the lips of the judge, or betrayed any suppressed feel ing of the Court. A very proper care was taken to prevent the question between the prosecutor and the defendant from being considered as between the two Churches of England and Rome. The con troversy between these lies far wide of any persona lities. At the same time, it was only just to the Church of England that the court should declare how wholly uninterested she was in the case from first to last. And this Mr. Justice Coleridge did, in language how forcible, in a spirit how charitable, and in argument how irresistible, let the reader ponder and judge for himself. Had Dr. Newman been proved to be the wicked and bitter slanderer which the criminal information alleged him to be (but which evidently the court did not consider him), the answer was, unhappily for him, that he belonged not to her fold, but to Rome. On the other hand, had Achilli been all that Dr. Newman's libel asserted, the Church of England was not answerable for his training, but the Church of Rome. It was under the discipline of Dr. New man's own church that he became what he was represented to be. Either way the Church of Eng land has no credit at stake; and the argument on either side proves more than is good for the Church of Rome." We The Morning Herald, taking up the same subject, says :—" The Court of Queen's Bench has suffered we fear, sentimentality' to lead it in pronouncing its judgment yesterday. To the court generally it would doubtless appear a glorious opportunity of contrasting the clemency of the laws of a Protestant state with the cruelty of the laws of such a state as Tuscany. At Florence, a poor man and his wife have been incarcerated for more than seventeen months, for the crime of reading the Scriptures, in their own house, to one or two of their domestics. In London, an eminent Papist is brought to trial for calumniating a convert from Popery. It is proved, as Lord Campbell remarked, that at least six flagitious crimes had been charged by him against this poor convert, for the truth of which not a tittle of evidence could be produced. Yet, after being found guilty of these frightful calumnies, the sen tence of the Court of Queen's Bench is, that he do pay a fine of one hundred pounds We repeat, that it is not possible to understand this sentence in any other way than that the court was romantically bent on showing, that while Protestants cannot get any thing like fair play in Popish countries, Romanists will find in England a contrary system is pursued. We doubt not that the judges would reply, that they felt this to be a case which might be made an exception to all general rules—a case in which it would be noble and graceful in a bench of Protestant judges to lean to the side of mercy in dealing with a pervert to Popery. Such feelings maybe honoured, to a certain extent ; but they may be carried to such lengths as to work a practical injustice. May not the mediator s hant confidence present for r T t h h e e S m ta a i d u i l a a i r i cl vit s h a3 t rs ri : u — n; to the despot of Tuscany the record of Newman's conviction and pun i s hment ; the victory ofof Pro testant tole ra ti on , which sheaths even the sword justic e rather than wound too deeply the adver saries of the faith it holds ? Such an example whatever cannot effectfailof it may produceits effect up upon the Tuscan on Europe generally , gaoler. Let commute the remnant of the three or four ye ars ' him imprisonment to which the Madiai have been condemned for reading the Holy Scriptures for £lOO, and it will soon be seen how the sympathy of British Protestants will open the prison dpors of the eaptivel, The vale of Achilli sitors to the cat I Tuesday was immense ing for admission, extending at least a quarter of a mile, arranged in line four deep. Twenty-eight young females were married and dottes n the occasioa of the marriage. A credit of 300.000 francs (Xl2,000), was pl Iced at the disposal of the Pre fect of the Seine for acts of charit;•, and for the liberation of tools, furniture, &c., from the different monts-d e-piete. Double rations of wine and soup were served out to all the troops, and all offences against discipline were amnestied. The bride, it is stated, received her education in J. When a girl, Mdlle. Montijo, with her sister, present Duchess of Alba, according to a local paper, were pupils at a highly respectable establishment at Bristol. Her Majesty is not only of English education, but was obliged to summon the confectioners of London to produce her bride-cake, which weighed 3201b5. It was a monstrous white circular mass, as large as the wheel of a brougham, from which arose an alabaster vase, whose handles were eagles, and in this vase were silver corn ears, and white roses, and other pretty flowers, and over its sides trailed wreaths of lilies of the valley, falling down to the snowy mound beneath. The cake was covered with cornucopias, between certain nondescript ornaments, with white lace "insertions," which were v and fanciful, but conveyed no moral. manufacturers of Puy have forwarded a very boice lace to their new empress, as a , Ir tasteful productions and a te'stimo'n7 of present of c men of t,,, A correspondent relates one or two incidents which show that the arrangements have not given universal satisfaction in high places :—" The Princess Marie de Baden (Duchess of Hamilton) left the Palace of the Tuil leries on Saturday evening before the signing of the act of marriage, because no special place had been marked out for her in the ceremonial. On Sunday both her Grace and the Duke attended the religious ceremony ; but although the Grand Master of the Ceremonies went three times to ask them to take places in the imperial gallery with " the civil family" of the Emperor, they declined the honour, in consequence, no doubt, of the slight of the previous evening. Both the Duke and Duchess of Ha milton declined to sign the act of marriage." Another incident many would look on as an inauspi cious omen :—" The wedding-ring, which the Emperor was to place on the bride's finger, and which the Grand Master of the Ceremonies was supposed to have in safe keeping, was not to he found. The Grand Master bor rowed a ring of one of the princesses present, in order to be prepared with one. This he handed to the Archbishop of Paris, and that prelate had already given it his bene diction when the Grand Master informed the Emperor of what had occurred. The latter immediately put his hand into his side-pocket, and drew out a box which contained the wedding-ring and a fine medal, ornamented with diamonds, on which were marked the names of the Em press and of himself, and the date of the marriage." The names of 4,312 persons condemned by the Com missions Mixtes, and pardoned by the Emperor, are pub lished in the Moniteur• of Friday. The parties are to be immediately set at liberty. SPAlN.—General Narvaez has received orders from Madrid to proceed to Vienna at once, under penalty of being regarded as a rebel. TURKEY.—The accounts concerning Montenegro-are becoming daily more important, and seem to assume the character of a war between the Crescent and the Cross. On the night of January 5 (the Christmas-day of the Greek Church), the Turks fired the shops in Mostar, and then proceeded to a general pillage. A week later, we hear of several villages being pillaged and burnt, and that 36,000 Turks, under Omar Pasha, hare landed and surrounded Montenegro, with a view of attacking it in five different parts at the same time. On the other hand, we hear that districts, hitherto doubtful, have declared for the Montenegrins ; who are reported to have repulsed the Turks in more than one engagement, with considerable slaughter. The Austrians arc marching such large bodies of troops towards Dalmatia, that a Vienna correspondent appears to consider a war with Turkey inevitable :—"Not only," he writes, " has a part of the Italian army been sent to the neighbourhood of Cater°, but reinforcements have even been forwarded from this capital. It is pro bable that few persons excepting the chiefs of the Emperor's Central Military Bureau know the exact strength of the military cordon now formed on the Turkish frontiers, but it cannot be less than 20,000 to 25,000 men. No one here ventures to talk about the intentions of this Government towards the Porte, but it is evident enough that the very existence of Turkey is seriously menaced. The night before last two rocket batteries were despatched from Vienna, and orders hare been issued that a staff officer must always be on duty in the bureau of the first army corps, which has its headquarters here." Other accounts state that the valiant Jellachich, the Ban of Croatia, is at the head of a corps " of observation" of IS,OOO men, and that Gen. Count Leiningen has been despatched to Constantinople to demand the immediate withdrawal of Omar Pasha and his army, on the alterna tive of its further advancement being deemed a cases belli. We learn from Vienna, under date of January 2S, that the last news from Montenegro is, that on the 15th neither party made any great progress. "In the evening," says the Tristie Zeilvng, " Osman Pasha, of Scutari (who entered by Szabljak), retired into the open country, and took up a position at the foot of a hill. The Montenegrins, taking advantage of a stormy night, stole into the Tur- - kish camp, where disorder and confusion soon reigned. The Turks at last took to their heels. The importance of this affair may be judged of by the number of trophies which fell into the hands of the victors. They carried off seventeen flags, eighty horse-loads of powder, sixty horses, many weapons, silver-mounted yataghans, &c., and three hundred and seventeen Turks' heads." EGYPT.—There has been a meeting of English resi dents at Alexandria, to consider what steps can,be taken for the completion of the English church now in course of erection there :—" Though the foundation-stone of this church was laid in the year 1539, and £B,OOO sterling has been expended upon it, it is not yet finished. Stre nuous exertions are being made by the residents to com plete the structure, and it is hoped that the government at home will come forward to their assistance. A pro posal has been made, in order to raise funds, to sell a portion of the ground adjacent to the church, which, from its central position, would fetch a high price ; but, as this ground was a gift from Mehemet Ali to the Eng lish community, it would be very desirable not to be under the necessity of having recourse to such a measure." WEST INDIES.—The Royal Mail steam ship La Plata has brought advices to the 16th ult. She has also brought 732,000 dollars in silver, and 328,000 dollars in gold. No cases of yellow fever occurred on the pas sage, either outwards or homewards. At St. Thomas's, the yellow fever had almost ceased to exist, with the exception of one or two sporadic cases. Advices from Jamaica extend to the 11th ult. The intelligence taken out by the La Plata had thrown the colony into one generalstate of dismay. The inhabitants relied on the Derby government for such measures of relief as it had often been declared by members of that government were necessary. But the altered views of the government had spread an entire gloom over the whole country, and sunk the public heart in dismay. The house of assembly was to re-assemble on the 25th of January. The object of members in agreeing to so long an adjournment was to enable them to learn the intentions of her Majesty's government. Those intentions being now made known, it is generally supposed that the assembly will refuse to grant supplies, which may lead to a dissolution of the assembly. Accounts from Barbadoes state that the yellow fever still lingered there. The fever had disappeared from the populous localities of the town. _ _ _ In St. Lucia the weather had been unsettled. Several states had commenced grinding, and a fair progress in the manufacture of sugar bad been made. From Antigua we learn that, with the continuance of fine weather, the island will ship one of the largest crops known for some years. The Dauntless is stated to have lost 73 men and 16 officers by yellow fever. The Devastation had touched Barbadoes, with orders from the admiral to tow out the Dauntless, if unable to proceed herself to Antigua ; but Captain Halsted refused the offer on account of his stores being on shore, and the Devastation returned to Trinidad. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF TIM PACIFIC. By the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, which arrived in this port early on Friday, we have intelligence from New York to the 22nd ult. She brought 54 passengers but no specie. The Europa arrived at Halifax on the 21st ult. ; and the Andes in 26 days, from Liver pool. In the senate of the United States, a long and some what dreary discussion had taken place on the state of relations between Spain and the United States with respect to Cuba. General Cass was the principal speaker. Further consideration of the subject being adjourned, he will have had an opportunity, on the 27th ult., of extend ing his remarks. The debate took the form of . a reaffirmation of " the Monroe doctrine." "So far as respects my own personal views," said Mr. Cass, " I have already explained to the senate, I desire the Possession of Cuba—earnestly desire it, whenever we can justly obtain it, and the sooner that time comes the better, for then will be settled one of the most delicate questions—the most delicate, perhaps, in our foreign policy, always liable to embarrass us by grave con junctures more easy to be foreseen than be guarded against. As to the means—though, as I have already said, I am prepared to advocate its purchase even at the most liberal price, still I should prefer its acquisition by the action of the people of Cuba." Besides the Cuban debate, little has taken place in congress. The Pacific railroad scheme was taken up, but nothing done. The Hon. Edward Everett, secretary of state, bad delivered the annual address before the African Coloniza tion Society. In the course of his remarks he stated that six vessels had been sent from the United States to Liberia during the past year, carrying 660 coloured emigrants, of whom 403 were free-born, 225 were emancipated, and 38 had purchased their freedom.—A state temperance convention had been held at Albany, the capital of New York State, at which 28,000 females bpd FetitiQue4 the legi4loturc t 0 cilKtf im New Xpric, the J uncir New — sugars arrive slowly. and small sales I effected at full prices to complete cargoes. Excoange on north is at J- to a discount. Freights to Cowes and a - et (not in the Baltic,) 555. to 60s. ; Great Britain, 40s. ave been FOREIGN MISCELLANY. s abcut to BRAM'', the first in now in the course of fora. open a monster hippo- Aitution of the kind in ;an at Boston FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. -- .6i...--..-_ Ball dresses claim cur first attention, though they are so varied and magnificent that it is with difficulty we can make the selectiou. It may be observed that bouillons continue very much employed as trimmings for the skirts, bodies, and sleeves. In speaking of these bouillons, we must observe that, to give g r ace t o th em , t h ey are often crossed at distances by wreaths of small flowers, ruches a la vieille of ribbon, or leaves of ribbon. Tunicues are also much worn, either real, or marked on the skirts by ruclts of tulle, or rows of lace fastened up at intervals by long floating ribbons, or hanging wrea ths of small flowers, to match the cofure. We h ave see n some beautiful dresses of this description, imitating the costume of the Illyrians and the Croats; but, instead of being open in front, th e s id es are opened, fastened toge ther by zigzag lacings of pearl beads, showing the under skirt of crape, trimmed with perpendicular louillons. The body is also in two pieces, joined on the shoulder and down the arm in the same manner as the skirt. Tulle robes with double skirts are trimmed deeply with bouillons of tulle, with dots of violets arid geld leaves ; the short bovffants sleeves are trimmed in the same man ner ; the waist is round, and the sash of gold llama ribbon is tied on one side. Many tarletane robes have twelve or fifteen stripes of gold or silver tissue :corked in the material. The skirts are double, the top one looped up with bows of ribbon with long floating ends, or by bouquets of mixed flowers. Gold and silver embroidery, mixed with rich shades of silk, upon tulle or organdi, are also much use d f or f ul l dress. In this s tyl e may be seen robes of tarletane, worked with wreaths of small flowers in gold and silver, mixed with fuchsias in bright silks, which decre ase i n s i ze and width towards th e waist. The bodies have a large bouquet embroidered on the front, spreading towards the shoulder. The sleeves are raised in drapery by bows of broths, gold, and puce ribbon, and are edged with a small' embroidered wreath. A robe of moire antique, with over skirt and bouillons of tulle, worked with violets and gold. thread. The body, of moire, is of quite a novel make, having no shoulder -piece ; it is cut heart-fashion, and is very low, in the form of low corsets. The top and waist are embroidered with gold. A deep bouilkaine - of white tulle is placed on the top, and crosses the shoulders ; the short sleeves are alSo composed of bouillon7l6 , , with small violets placed in the plaits. The tulle skirt is edged with gold, and covered with small bouquets of violets. The colours of the crape and tulle dresses, embroidered with gold and silver, are chiefly white, rose colour, blue, and maize. For court dresses, brocades brocile - S, with gold or silver, or the Pompadour llame; are much employed. There is a new material, called the robe imperials, which i s likely to become in great request. The make of walking dresses approaches nearer to the Puritan and Claltelaine style than the Louis The bodies are high, and closed either in front or behind. The waists are round, or ornamented with sasques, deep only towards the back. The ballon sleeves-are obtaininaemuch success. They tit at the wrist, and are worn with cuffs and bracelets. On account of the round waists, the quasi empire and crossed bodies, the skirts close on one side. A very elegant innovation, is trimming them with small silk buttons; like the sleeves. Evening dresses have the bodies drawn and cut low, a la reins Hortense, or a la vierge, flat at top, and drawn at the waist. The sleeves are short, formed of one or two bouffants, and often trimmed at distances with small bowie of ribbon, or buttons of pearl beads. The materials which were so vaunted by our grandmam-- mas, are mue.h surpassed in our time. Our robes; maa-- nificent as theirs, " standing alone" like th e i rs , are ?Par' more finished in'designs and delicacy of colouring. Our attention has been particularly struck by a most beauti fully-painted velvet reps, like the interlaced branches of a young forest. The flowers, troche's in silver, are shaded by the deep colour of the ground. Then the lampas, imitating three jounces open in front, and forming a tablier, is both novel and pretty. Again, a superb robe, withoneflounce, withiarge flowers and delicate stalks ; bands in light designs, in the material, • form a heading to the flounce. Indeed, we might add many others to this list. and yet leave much undescribed. The skirts are all made long, particularly behind, forming a slight train, and are put in large plaits into the-waist. Plain reps, or striped with velvet or satin, shaded Dro gun', Irish poplin, end imperial satin, are all employed for dinner dresses, as well as for morning visits. Plaid velvet redinjotes are also worn. The body is high and plain, the waist round. Sleeves half-large, .and de scending to the middle of the arm. The trimming consists of small leaves of velvet edged with silk, crossing each other, and buttoning -on the robe. The operring of the sleeve is held by three crossed leaves. Collar of guipure de feriae, forming a point in front. Under-sleeves of the same, over a booffit2f of muslin, fastened round the wrist with an embroidered band. The Sully is a magnificent pardessus of black velvet, in the form of a shawl in front, and with a point behind reaching the waist, to which is attached a round and long mantelet, sufficiently full to hang in large plaits. The Sully is trimmed with a deep guipure lace, another row is placed round the point, and forms the sleeves, which fall low over the arms, _Over the lace is placed a passenzenterie of flat jet beads.. The Sire de Coney is a very fell mantelet, plaited into the neck. The isianteart impe-rial of black velvet, gathered into a neckpiece, and trimmed with alio"' galon. The Te'desio, a Talma with the sleeves; the pelerineand sleeves trimmed with fringe. The psierine forms a kind of hood. The Paulette, trimmed with insertion and guipure fringe, forming a pelerine. The Chevreuse body, of ruby velvet, fitting the waist, with indented basques behind. Small brandebourgs and insertion of guipure, embroidered with. jet.. A monsquetaire collar of guipure or point d'Alengo2i, with sleeves to match. This is worn with a silk skirt, with jounces. The sorties de bal, of white eachemire, are trimmed with plush ribbon and silk fringe, lined with sarsenet. The capuebon are round and full • it is edged with a plush ribbon with a go ff ere d pl us h ribbon round the edge. The neck is trimmed with a frill of ribbon ; the same trimming descends down the front, and continues in two rows round the bottom. It is made very full and warmly wadded. A white cachemire sortie de bal, trimmed round- with a deep embroidery of yellow sewing -silk. The design is bunches of. grapes, with pines and foliage. The hood and pelisse are lined with yellow silk. A bow with . long ends of very broad gold-coloured ribbon to fasten the pelisse in front, and another on the hood. Another, of white cachemire, with rows of ruby velvet, crossed. with gold beads, and rich gold and velvet 3alon. This galore is about three fingers in width, and placed at the edge of the manteau- There are three rows at equal dis tances ; the outsides of ruby velvet rolls, the inner one of gold tissue. A rich silk cord, and tassels of gold and ruby silk, attach the manteau and ornament the hood. A. third, all white, both material and ornaments, with a hood lined with satin, and trimmed round the bottom and down the front with two rows of white satinribbon, embroidered with silver. Silver fastenings. This sortie de bat is most: elegant and youthful. A pink cachemire raassteau, lined with pink satin, and trimmed with a flat silk embroidery... These manteaux.are a mixture of the Telma and burnous, cut on the bias. They may be raised or allowed to fall.: aver the arm at will. The fronts are in long points. We must now mention the bonnets, caps, and coiffures,: The capote can never be styled ordinary or simple wheat the shape is becoming and the trimming tasteful.. Foe instance, a capote of satin, Cuba shade, quilted diago nally,leirnoe crown is plan commenceat-the bottom of the crown at each ear, and i i s th co q m ui p lt o e s d ed sa o t f in c . or The edge which join on the summit of the head. A bow is placed on the sati satin. T n h d e middle of the curtain. This capote is very beautiful', of white satin, but can only be worn in carriages. A.wreath of nut roses, concealed under floats of blonde. They are of satin, with a stamped edge, to imitate quilting. Cepote of bonffantes, alternately black and violet, separated by a small plait of black and violet velvet, placed at the edge of a narrow ruche of black lace. The crown is made of black lace and small rouleaux of black and violet velvet. A bouquet of black and violet ostrich feathers falls grace fully on either side. The curtain is like the front, and the inside trimming is small tea rosebuds. separated by bows of black and violet velvet, with blonde. A bonnet of pink terry velvet and satin. A blonde edge; the front is of drawn satin, with two biases of scol loped terry velvet, the point edged with a wide white blonde, reaching the open edge. The crown Is round, and covered with a fanchon of terry velvet, scolloped at the edge, and cut on the bias. Two pink feathers are placed at each ear, very near the edge of the bonnet, so as to turn inside and mix with the trimmings of the cap, which is of moss rosebuds and long black velvet ends. A more simple bonnet is of black velvet, trimmed with. corms of very broad groseille satin ribbon, mixed with coques of black velvet. A black ostrich feather, knotted with groseille silk on the left side, and a bunch of velvet nines floating at the right ear. The coiffure armenienne, formed of a rich torsade of gold like the Greek casque behind, and interlacing the bandeaux in front. This torsale fastens an Indian scarf of gold and silk, which is twisted round the torsade.as a, turban, and falls on the left side in two ends. On the other there are three rows of gold fringe. A wreath of flowers, mounted on a gold //an o ribbon. The flowers are completely veiled under a tulle veil. A small fiord of black velvet, trimmed round the sate with bunches of cassia with long foliage of gold. A. very small bird - of paradise on each side under the brim. A simple coiffure,,, composed of a mixture of violets, ruban plume, and wreaths of flowers. It is a round wreath, of the Mabee form. For full dress, four small white feathers, two on the right and two on the left side, held together by a blonde embroidered with gold.—Le Follet. THE LATE DR. PEREIRA, F.R.S. While referring some weeks since to a specimen in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, Dr. Pereira had the misfortune, by a fall on the staircase, to rupture one of the extensor muscles of the thigh. On the night of Thurs day, the 20th ult., upon being lifted into bed, the patient suddenly raised himself, exclaiming " I have ruptured a vessel of the heart," and died in half an hour. Dr. Pereira was the distinguished and highest repre sentative of the science of Pharmacology. " The elements of Materia Medics and Therapeutics," to which Dr. Pereira gave the best years of his life, is considered to be one of the most elaborate and thoroughly worked-out pro ductions of modern science. As a pains -taking and con scientious writer Dr. Pereira was unsurpassed, and his work contains nothing that may not be thoroughly relied on for its accuracy. He added largely to the botany of pharmacy. To other sciences allied and bearing upon pharmacy Dr. Pereira also applied himself with especial vigour. He was an industrious investigator of the phe nomena of polarized light, with reference to its use in the analysis of pharmaceutical agents, in the distinguish ing of oils, and in the detection of adulterations. Dr. Pereira was occupied in completing the third edition of his " Materia Medics" at the time of his decease. Dr. Pereira was an early riser, of quick business habits, and remarkable for his promptness and rapidity of action. Another fine trait in his character was his ready expres sions of thankfulness, at all times and under all circum stances, for the smallest favour that contributed to his researches. He was a corresponding member of the So ciety of Pharmacy of Paris, and of other foreign scientific bodies, and Professor of Materia Medics to the Pharma ceutical Society of London, but his main professional occupation was that of Physician to the London Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1&2 8, and of the Royal Society in 1838. He was a man of large and powerful stature, of pleasing expresssion of counte nance, and in the 49th year of his age. He was buried on Thursday at the cemetery of Kensal Green.