The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOI\DON, SATURDAY EVE LING, FEBRUARY 6, 1864.

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nER MAJES TY'S THEATRE.
Nights of Ferformar e —Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
S I a urdays.
TUIS EVENING, SA.!T DURA, FEBRUARY 6.
FAUST (In Eng Ylish).
Lernmen s-Sherrington, ' raccani, and Florence Lancia.
Sant ley, Marchesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves.
Conductor'--Signor Arditi.
Commence at Eil-ht.
?ox-office of the Theatre open daily.
Tickets, als a, at Messrs. Chappell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-
Street.

I'ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
GEAN D MORNING PERFORMANCE OF
FAUST (In English).
IMONDAY, FEBRUARY 15.
T o commence at Two o'clock.
Lemmens-Sh.erring-ton, Taccani, and Florence LanCia.
Santley, Marchesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves.
Conductor—Signor Arditi.
Prices of admi.s.,ion same as to the Evening Performance.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
.COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Mal iagement of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING. BLANCHE DE NEVERS. Miss L.
Pyne, Mr. W. Harrison, &c.
After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a scale of
unprecedented magnificence, entitled
HARLTIQIIIN ST. ,GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.
Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E.
Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and
F. B. Chatterton.
►THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with
e New Serio-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled
ATGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps,
supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Fit zjames, and Misses
R. Leclercq, Atkinson, and Heath.
To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto-
mime of SI NBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders
of the Wor Id. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ;
harlequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons,
Mess's. W k. Barm,s and J. morris ; Columbines, Madame
Boleno and . Plisses Gunniss.
Prices as t ,sual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Undt T the Sole 3lana;;ement of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DEM ONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evenir ig during the Week.
THIS EV} INING, the performance will commence with-a
New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD:
3.less,s. H. NS, 'iddicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett,
st,reland; 3 lisses Percy, Pauline Leclerci, Wood, Mrs: Lee,
and Miss E. ILavenu.
.fa ter whicl at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIC, a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian
Chronicle 4," by Mr. John Brougiiam. Principal charac
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Sims ; Miss M. Ilenrade, Miss E. Lavenu, Jl rs. Lee,
and Iliss ELsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
toz play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and
t:3 at the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any gratuities whatever.
Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.

ffHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUS IN : Messrs.
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers,
Clark, Cullenford, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry,
Lindley, Hill, &c.
Atter which, KING- ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights
of the Round fable. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton. Braid,
Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough,
Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c.

Commence at 7.

Ro YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA.
After which. HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER;
of The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman
who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't
snow what to do

NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Pronr+Eitor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS : Mr
J L. Toole,

At I to Eight, -the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate-
man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil-
ington, Stuart, Sb.2phenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and
Airs. Billingtcn.
To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortnnio
at d his Seven M agi Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, It. Phillips,
Stephenson ; WfAss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti
Joie,dhs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman.

Commence at 7.

LEAH.-EVERY NIGHT,
MISS BATE3IAN.

xirss BATENTAN.—LEAH.—Tnrs EVENING.
"Tx the 110th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss
BATEMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of
the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the prii.cipal character in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
notice.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Crowded with rank and fashion.— The New Comedy of THE
SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, Airs. Frank Matthews, and Mr. J.
L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are
engaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul
Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas.
Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert. Mrs. Frank Mat-
thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went-
worth, and Mrs. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock,
an entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by Leicester Bucking-
ham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINT\ : Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John-
stone. Mr. Montague; Mrs. ( harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank
Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling.
To be followed by )fr. Charles Mathews just translated
from the French)in his characteristiccharacter of tin Anglais
Timide, entitled COOL AS A CIICUMBEIt.
To conclude with 1863 ; or, THE SENSATIONS OF
THE PAST SEASON : Mr. .1. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford,
Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr.
Belford, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne.
After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS
AND EURY D ICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &e.
Followed by MARGATE SANDS.
Commence at 7.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB.
6, 1861.

Not the least interesting feature of the opening
night of a Parliamentary Session are the political
challenges known as notices of motions. As straws
indicate how the wind blows, so these brief intima..
tions of the subjects about to be brought forward
efford us some opportunity of judging of the future
of the campaign. From their number, character, and
degree of importance we may measure the chances
of a dull or a busy session, and form some conjecture
cs to the projects of the opposition and the
plans of the Government. The notices given on
Taureday foretell the opening of one question of
importance and interest. The notices given by
jr, BKAtiD on behalf of tke Chancellor of the Ex
chequer would seem to show a desire on the part
of the Government to conciliate certain classes.
Conscious perhaps of the coming struggle of parties,
they wish to secure the agricultural interest, and
consequently propose to bring forward a bill to
amend the present law so as to admit the use of
molt in feeding cattle. This long promised altera•
tion will be very advantageous to farmers, and will,
we may hope, tend to improve the quality and
lessen the price of butcher's meat, especially in

Ireland. The announcement of a bill to alter the
mode of collecting the land, assessed, and income-
taxes will be received with some curiosity and ex-
pectation—people naturally concluding that any
change, with regard to the Income Tax, would be
for the better. The distribution of Naval Prize
Money, a matter which very urgently demands
reform, and which we have repeatedly brought
before the notice of the public, is also to be looked
to ; while the Home Secretary, startled by the out-
cry produced by his late proceedings with regard
to capital punishments, intends, no later than next
Monday, to move for leave to bring in a bill
relating to Criminal Lunatics, and shortly after,
to propose some amendment of the Penal Servitude
Acts. Honourable members, however, were not to
be pacified by fair promises, and quickly notice
after notice, almost all of them in some way reflect-
ing upon the present Administration, warned the
occupants of the Treasury Bench that there were
" breakers ahead." Certainly, to judge from the
activity displayed on the opening night, the mem-
bers of the Lower House are determined to make
amends for the " Do-nothing Session" of
last year. Foreign and domestic affairs alike
court inquiry, and leaving the great chiefs
of the respective parties to attack
the Ministerial position on the great points of
European importance, the less prominent members
hastened to give promise of carrying on a guerilla
warfare on their own account. Mr. FITZGERALD,
we are glad to see, has given notice that he will,
next Friday, call attention to the circumstances
attending the capture of British ships, two being
captured at Matamoras, and another (the Saxon)
within the limits of our own colony of Good Hope.
This troublesome motion will be preceded by an-
other, reflecting on our conduct in Japan, while we
are not surprised to find that the state of affairs in
China will call forth two distinct questions—one of
them to be put by Mr. FORSTER, asking for particu-
lars of the outrages at Soochow, and the other by
Mr. LIDDELL, referring to the failure of Captain
OSBORNE'S naval expedition. The question of do-
mestic reform, only one degree less obnoxious to the
Government than criticisms on foreign affe.irs, is
not likely to be left in abeyance. Mr. LOCK.E KING
has already given notice of his annual e.ppeal on
behalf of the extension of the county fran-
chise; Mr. BAINES intimates that he shall
move for leave to bring in a bill for
a similar extension in boroughs, and Mr. DODSON
will move for a select committee to inquire into
the present system of registration of county voters.
We cannot doubt but that some genuine reformer,
who has the real interests of the cause at heart,
will step forward as champion of the Ballot, and
put professing Liberals to that uncompromising test.
In naval affairs the Government will be called to
account for their inaction at Holyhead ; while in
the military department we are glad to find Mr.
FORTESCUE already calling attention to the Alder-
shott court-martial. The Poor Law Board, the
Civil Service, the Criminal Law, the Educational
grants, and the Charity Commissioners are all to
be subjects of criticism, while Mr. M. GIBSON is
about to move the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee to deal with the new Railway Mania. Set-
ting aside, therefore, those great topics of debate,
which are likely to agitate the political world for
some weeks to come, and without regarding the
momentous question of peace or war, now so im-
peratively thrust upon our notice, we may antici-
pate that honourable members will not suffer the
National Assembly this year to pass its time pro-
fitlessly away. Many of the topics announced for
debate and inquiry in these notices of motion have
been prominently brought forward during the
recess, and the public will be glad to see them be-
come the subjects of full and free discussion in its
House of Popular Representatives.

It is some satisfaction to find that if the
sayings of diplomatists and the counsels of
Ministers are of no avail in exercising an influence
on foreign nations, the prospect of the Parlia-
ment assembling has wrought some effect. M.
BISMARK has foresight enough to be conscious of
the danger of debate, and though he treats his own
Chamber in a sufficiently curt style, and acts with
a marked want of respect, he is prescient enough to
show a different bearing in so far as regards the
English Senate. Thus we find that a despatch was
sent over jest before the sitting of the House,
which purported to be the bearer of
friendly intentions, and to guarantee the
security of Denmark from any vital in-
jury being inflicted. Lord PALMERSTON made
great capital of this intelligence, and, amid
the loud cheers of the House, proclaimed its
auspicious advent, and certified as to its happy
augury. This was all very well, so far as it went,
but when the first excitement had gone by, it was
discovered that the grandeur of this proclamation
was, after all, rather meretricious, and that the
satisfaction experienced on the receipt of the tidings
was but of an evanescent nature. Sir J. PARING-
TON, whose discretion and discernment have often
before done good service to the cause of straight-
forwardness, came to the rescue, and requested
that some explanation might be afforded to
the House regarding the document in question.
The result of the inquiry fully justified the sus-
picions entertained by the right hon. baronet as to
the construction pat upon the communication by
the noble lord being the correct one. Mr. LAYARD
read the despatch, and a more complex and inex-
plicit message can hardly be imagined. It seems
pretty clear, however, to all who wish to see the
drift of it, that Prussia intends to carry out the
game to the conclusion, but for expediency just
sends this despatch to quiet the fears of the Eng-
lish Cabinet, or perhaps with a prophetic spirit to
enable the Ministers to make " capital" out of it in
the debate and discussion on these affairs. Well
might Mr. WHITESIDE ask Mr. LAYARD to be good
enough to explain the document which he had read, as
it appeared to require great elucidation. He went
on to say that " He could not understand how that
paper assisted the noble viscount at the head of
the Government." Nor anyone else either, except
to afford a handle and make a fair show of pro-
priety. No one can more dexterously turn a cir-
cumstance to his own advantage than the Premier,
bat in this instance he has signally failed to prove
his assertion; and he must have acknowledged to
himself that his felicitous document did not bear
the light of day, and would not stand a viva voce
examination. The only gratifying reflection regard-
ing the whole affair is, as has been previously speci-
fied, the assurance conveyed by the transmission of
this despatch that the Berlin Cabinet has some linger-
ing idea of the importance of English opinion at
this
critical juncture. so far so good; and it will be
well for the prosperity of all concerned if this feel-
ing predominates more fully in the future, and if
foreign statesmen recognise the necessity of con-
forming more to the wishes, and yielding oftener to
the suggestions of this country. It will bs a great
point gained if the principle is fully established
and the precedent fairly laid down that the opinion
of England is to count for something in these end-
less bickerings and countless dissensions that mar
the peace of Europe and threaten to entangle
all surrounding States in the fracas. Had
Lord PAL3IERSTON, in the case of this
despatch, followed the course he adopted in

regard to another affair, and commissioned Mr.
GLADSTONE to explain his speech, or rather to give
quite a contrary interpretation to it, that astute and
sagacious unraveller of mysteries would have been
puzzled to make out wherein consisted the special
cause for satisfaction in the perusal of the despatch,
which, read in its entirety, offers no ground for re-
joicing. Fallacious as were the arguments of the
Premier upon this topic, it is certain that a source
of interest is to be found in the fact that this corn-
munication was made on the day of the assemblage
of Parliament. The intention was to propitiate,
but the Ministers and Statesmen of all foreign States
have much to learn if they think that they can act
with impunity, and then make believe to pu t
away the obnoxious part of their attempt •
Such subterfuges do not, and wilt not
suit the people of this country, and the
sooner these convenient communications are sifted
`he better. It is one thing for the name of a dis-
patch to cut a grand figure when dexterously intro-
duced into a spiteful speech by a practised hand
and another for its contents to satisfy those who
pull it to pieces and examine its contents in sober
earnestness. The vague and misty enunciation o
policy foreshadowed in this last achievement off
BISMARIeS inspiration bears more affinity to what
Mr. DISRAELI characterised as an " adroit
man oeuvre," than what the declaration of one
minister to another should be in the period of a
momentous epoch, a statement that should not only
be fair seeming in its pretensions, but that should
possess the requisite amount of candour and
straightforwardness.

In the Standard of Thursday there is a letter on
the subject of Transportation to Western Australia,
which well deserves attention, and sets forth some
arguments that are of great weight and cogency.
In the first place reference is made to the notion of
some that life sentences are not numerous enough
to render them available for Western Australia.
In reply to this, it is truly remarked that
there is great need of attention in the matter of
these same sentences, and it is in every respect
most desirable that Western Australia should
come in as an auxiliary for the greater frequency
of long sentences, not that the terms should be
made to suit the requirements of abroad. Two
things are very essential to study in determining
the success of any plan of penal servitude, and
they are to note effect on the criminals, and the
effect on others that is produced by the incarce-
ration. It is well known that at present very
little is done in the way of deterring, either as
regards the prisoners or the class from whom they
spring, and to whom they must return when
the period of their detention has ex-
pired. To remedy this glaring defect in
our penal system should be the especial care as it
is the bounden duty of all concerned. Unfortu-
nately the authorities treat the whole affair in too
negligent a style, and exhibit an amount of pre-
jndice, and act with a pertinacity that proves fatal
to the cause of improvement, and puts an effectual
stoppage on the progress of those who make ener-
getic efforts for the amelioration of the present sys-
tem. Great changes introduced in a hurried man-
ner are always very objectionable, but there can
be no reason why care and attention should not be
devoted to the due consideration of the case. Mr.
BAKER, in this letter referred to, sets for ward se
veral statements which seem to be very conclusive
in so far as regards the advisability of the
Australian scheme, and it would be well it
proper regard were given to those reflections, and
heed paid to the suggestions, instead of merely
glancing at them in a cursory fashion, and declaring
that they will not do, and that we had better keep to
the old course of procedure, which has worked very
well on the whole, The plan here proposed, that the
length of a sentence should depend more upon the
number of previous convictions than on the amount
stolen, or the manner of the theft, is a very admir-
able one. What can be more inconsistent than the
practice now in vogue of sentencing the same pri-
soner scores of times, and at last finding out, after
the lapse of years, that the adminis-
tration of the law has proved a mockery
of justice, and that far from holding
out a deterring influence, imprisonment is rather
sought after occasionally as affording a temporary
refuge or refreshment when funds are low and pros-
pects dull with the professional thief and the har-
dened offender. A more strict set of rules would in
reality be the most merciful thing that could be
done for the criminals themselves, and must in time
effect a beneficial change. Setting aside particular
cases, where more stringent measures will be requ-
site at the outset, it is proposed that the duration
of the sentences should run as follows :—" All first
convictions to receive a sentence of ten days ; all
second convictions should entail a very long impri-
sonment, say one or two years; a third conviction
should be met by seven years penal servitude, a
fourth by penal servitude for life, and a fifth by
transportation to Western Australia." There seem
great advantages in this suggestion, and it is of
paramount importance that some very decisive steps
be taken to prevent the habits of the criminals from
becoming so confirmed es they unhappily are at
present. The certainty, that each time he is
brought up before the Court, he will greatly aug-
ment his punishment, must exercise a great influ-
ence on the mind cf the lawless outcast, and so far
as human means can work on the hardened heart,
the corrupt mind and the perverted under-
standing exercise a preventive power and
work a remedial agency that in itself
will do wonders. The evils of the present system
are aptly displayed in the statistics of the prisons
as regards the cases of reconvictions. Thus, we
learn that in one year, " 1,085 males and 2,963
females were committed for the eleventh time and
oftener, and that 9,256 persons had been convicted
for more than a fifth time." Surely such proofs are
sufficient to show that some change is imperatively
called for ; and the sooner some remedial measure
is adopted the better for the interests of society
and the wiser and kinder for the unhappy
individuals themselves. To remain quies-
cent under a state of things that seems
to hold out a premium for crime is a serious
error, and the precepts of divine inculcation,
added to the best evidences of human wisdom,
enjoin and urge upon us to put aside ignorant pre-
judice and banish slothful indifference, and to rise
up and fight the good fight against evil, which is
the highest and holiest struggle in which human
nature can take part. All successes gained in that
cause are benefits and blessings bestowed on man-
kind ; and they who trample down the vices that
degrade, and crush cut the sins that defile the souls
of their fellow-creatures, are gaining a victory
whose results will not end with the finite things
around them. (treater than him that taketh a city
are they who assail the strongholds of vice, and
drive forth the destroyer of all that is good from the
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regards the general acceptation of that term.

DEATH OF MR. TILBURY, the COMEDIAN.--Our
readers will receive with great regret the intel-
ligence of the decease of Mr. Tilbury, the popular and re-
spected comedian, after a few weeks' severe illness. He
had so long secured the regard of a great number of friends
that inquiries after his health were made daily by those who
knew him personally, and those only acquainted with hiiin
in his professional capacity evinced almost equal iuterest
in their old favourite,—Era.

men.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.

CAPE CLEAR, Friday.
The royal mail steamer Scotia, from New York,
passed Cape Clear, at about half-past two p.m. She
was intercepted by the Magnetic Telegraph Com-
pany's boat, and having thrown telegrapaic de-
spatches overboard, she proceeded immediately for
Queenstown and Liverpool, all well.
QUEENSTOWN, Friday Night.
..... .

The royal mail steamer Scotia, which sailed from
New York on the 27th ult. arrived off the harbour.
She brings 114 passengers, and 547,662 dole. in
specie. Having landed mails and 11 passengers, she
proceeded for Liverpool; all well. She experienced
easterly minds throughout the voyage.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (Evening).

The Federal officers who arrived at Cincinnati on
the 24th from Knoxville, reported that General
Longstreet had been reinforced by 20,000 men, and
that he was advancing on Knoxville, pushing the
Federals before him. Advices from Nashville, how-
ever, assert that General Longstreet's movement
was only to recover the forage ground occupied by
the Federals, and that is he is now returning.
The Chattanooga correspondent of the World
asserts that General Longstreet's plan of campaign
is to endeavour to capture Knoxville and move im-
mediately into Central Kentucky to obtain supplies,
and by this means to force General Grant to
evacuate Chattanooga.
A correspondence has taken place between Gen.
Longstreet and Gen. Foster, at Knoxville, concern-
ing the circulation of President Lincoln's procla-
mation, of amnesty among Gen. Longstreet's troops.
Gen. Lou gstreet says—" If the object in view is to
hasten the day of peace, I suggest the propriety of
the Federal Government communicating their views
on this subject through me rather than through
handbills circulated among the soldiers." General
Foster replied, accepting the suggestion, and said
it would have been more courteous to send docu-
ments for circulation through Gen. Longstreet, and
enclosed 20 copies of the proclamation, relying on
Gen. Longstreet's desire for peace to give them
publicity.
The guerilla Gen. Morgan was at Atlanta, in
order to organise cavalry to cut off the communica-
tion between Chattanooga and Knoxville, or make
a raid into Kentucky. He made a speech declaring
that the Federals must evacuate Chattanooga.

There was considerable excitement at Louisville
concerning the anticipated Confederate raid, it
being asserted that the Confederates would enter
Kentucky at three different points.
Union refugees, who have returned to East Ten-
nessee, are reported to be committing atrocities, and
murdering Southern residents.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.
The news is generally unimportant.
The shelling of Charleston still continues.
Dejection in the Southern army appears to be
becoming universal.
The Federals have made a successful raid upon
the James River, and captured large quantities' of
stores,

The Confederate Vice. President Stephens is dan-
gerously ill at Augusta, in Georgia.
The house of President Davis, at Richmond, has
been set fire to and robbed.
The Federal General Grant arrived in St. Louis
on the 26th. General Rosencranz was expected
there on the 27th.

Mr. Fernando Wood has spoken strongly, in the
House of Representatives, in favour of peace, de-
claring that the administration opposed the restora-
tion of the Union, and favoured the maintenance of
war for partisan advantage. He said the most
damnable deeds were perpetrated under the plea
of patriotism;
The Republican members of the New Jersey
Legislature have nominated Mr. Lincoln for the
Presidency.

Advices from Charleston to 23d state that the
Federals were throwing one shell into the city every
five minutes, night and day.

The Damascus has arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 27.

Money tight. Gold, 578 pm. Exchange on
London, 172 ; on Paris, 3.221. Stocks lower ;
New York Central, 1352; Illinois, 126 ; Erie, 1071;
6 per Cent. U. S. Bonds, 105/.

INDIA.

On the arrival of the Bombay mail we have ad-
viceE from Bombay to January 14, and from Cal-
cutta to January 5.

Sir John Lawrence arrived at Madras on the 9th
ult., but did not land on account of the heavy surf.
His nomination to the post of governor-general ap
pears to have given general satisfaction in India.
Immediately after his installation he will proceed
to Lahore to carry out the programme arranged by
Lord Elgin.

The frontier war, as already announced, is com-
pletely terminated, and the Times of _lndia says
that all the objects for which it was undertaken have
been accomplished. " The Bonnever men," it adds,
" whose opposition caused us to turn aside from
our main object, and to subdue whom cost us thirty
officers and about seven hundred and forty men iu
killed and wounded, became as true and faithful
friends as they had been brave enemies, and actually
fought our final battle for us. The whole of the
Punjaub, and the district and border of Peshawur,
are perfectly quiet. The new ruler of Affghanistan
have given proof of a desire for a good understand-
ing between his country and British India. There
never was a time, perhaps, where there was less
cause for apprehension in regard to India than at
the present."

Sir Hugh Rosa was expected at Peshawar, on the
30th Dec., to arrange for the location of the several
corps on their retiring from the frontier service. A
Camp of Exercise will be formed at Rawul Pindee.
Sir Charles Trevelyan has gone on a tour to the
N.W. Provinces to recruit his health, which was
suffering from over-work.
Sir N. Chamberlain is improving in health.
General St. Patrick Lawrence, C. 8., Governor-
General's Agent for the Rajpootana States, has been
requested by Government to present the insignia of
the Star of India to H. H. the Maharajah of Jey-
poor. The ceremony was to take place at Jeypoor
about the 20th ult.

The Government of India has formally recognised
Sirdar Shere Ali Khun as Ameer of Affghanistan.

It is stated that the Commander in Chief of India
has applied to the Government of India for an in-
crease in the native army.
The line of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central
India Railway Company from Surat to Bombay will
probably be opened for public traffic in the month
of March next.

The wife of a Brahmin in Meywar, unwilling to
go through the religious sacrifice of suttee, on the
death of her husband, was seized ♦iolently by her
relations, and tortured and burned. The parties
were seized,and sentenced by Mr. Eden, the poli-
tical agent, to transportation for periods of two and
three years,

PRESENT STATE OF HERRING FISHERIES.—The
trade of Great Britain has steadily risen since the beginning
of the century from abtalt 100,000 to nearly 700,000 barrels,
the exports for most years being something like one-third.
In 1849, a year of remarkable abundance, the ' quantity of
cured herrings amounted to 1,151,979 barrels, 942,617
from the Scottish, and 209,362 from the English coast. In
1862 the total quantity wa5746,518 barrels.-319-..llfitchell's
Book on the Herring.
THE CRINOLINE STEEL TRAFFlC.—Crinolines
form an increasing item of railway traffic. Not
loss than 100 tons of crinolines are carried over the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway weekly. Shef-
field is the principal seat of the manufacture—the fabrica-
tion of this delicate article giving employment to a large
number of its population. Taking the average weight of
each set of crinoline steel hoops at half a pound, the above
quantity of steel shows a production of about-half a million
crinolines per week, independent of what passes from Shef-
field by other routes. The quantity of steel hoops thus
manufactured weekly to enlarge the seeming proportions
of tho fair. sex, if joined together in a continuous wire,
would almost compass the globe.—.Raiitfay Nita.