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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 1860.

Nothing could well have come before the House
of Commons more apropos for the public interest
than Mr. LINDSAY'S motion of last evening—
nothing more decidedly mal apropos for those of
Her MAJESTY'S Government. Can there be in any
reasonable mind an instant's doubt of it ? Hardly,
we should presume, if it be only borne in recollec-
tion what, at the present moment, is the very cen-
tral core of the policy of the existing administra-
tion. The heart-of-the-heart of that policy admits
of being very readily laid bare, and will be recog-
nized, immediately it has been laid bare, to
be
perfectly characteristic.
The Coalition, it will be long remembered,
worked its way to power by a dodge—the
Whig dodge of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reso-
lutions. It is now bent upon retaining its
position in that "coign of 'vantage"—Office, by
another dodge—a dodge quite equal in its clever-
ness to its notable predecessor, which we have but
just now particularised. Upon the success of this
new dodge, moreover, it is curious for a few seconds
to conjecture how very much may really be depen-
dant.From it, almost all the vital questions ofthe hour
may be said to radiate. The design then is simply
and quite obviously this—to get the House of Com-
mons (if possible) to commit itself precipitately
to the twin schemes of the Commercial Treaty and
the Financial Statement. It is to this end that the
Terms of the Treaty are withheld, as long as may
be in any way practicable, up to the very eleventh
hour and three-quarters, from the knowledge of
the members of the Lower Branch of the Legis-
ture. The terms of the treaty, in fact, are to be
carefully reserved until they can be explained
simultaneously with the plan of the Budget for
1660. On Monday evening next—and not until
then—the Treaty and the Budget are to be brought
together under the consideration of the Commons
House of Parliament.
Recollect for a moment
th'at the Commercial Treaty with France was
actually signed
con diti
its approval by parlianallY' of
course, upon
condition attached to itnt—. but with that
signed at Paris the day before the was
actually
of the present session of the Leeislaernmencement
no-
body out of the sac ed circle ;ttle ustQ. Yet ,
with
itg immediate and confidential entouraigxeteen
ing within it such an alter ego of the Cabminbrtae-
the hon. member for Rochdale, who has been :181
the while, for that matter, in the midst of the dip-
lomatic mysteries at the Court of the Tuileries
in: his new capacity as England's Mercantile
Prenipotentiary—no one out of the awful ranks of the
initiated, has yet been vouchsafed a glimpse of the
IYeaty itse:f, signed though that Treaty was upon
the day immediately preceding the inauguration of
the present session of Parliament. It cannot in the
least, therefore, be deemed in any way matter for
Strprise that one of the most outqoken of the free

and intiependent Liberals ITithin the walls of the
Legislature, to 'it the hon. member for Fiusbury,
should rise last evening in the Hor:-4e of Commons
and put one or two pointed questions (in regard to
this signed but still invisible Treaty) to the occu-
pants of the Treasury Bench. The reply given
thereupon by Mr. MILNER GIBSON—as evasive a
reply as ever fell from the lips of a Cabinet Minis-
ter—revealed the wily project we have alluded to
as the core of the policy at the present
moment of the Coalition Government. The Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, in replying to Mr.
DUNCOMBE'S perfectly legitimate and very reason-
able inquiries, said, in the first place, what we
knew quite well enough already, namely, that the
treaty would, of course, be subject to the approval
of Parliament—adding, however, secondly, " but,
as regarded its details, he must beg the hon. gen-
tleman to wait till Monday, when his right hon.
friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would lay
the whole of his financial measures before the
house." It need hardly be said that the simpler and
more honest and straightforward course would have
been to have had the Treaty itself, without one word
of comment in the way of deprecation or extenua-

tion, of excuse or explanation, frankly printed
off and placed in the hands of the popular
representatives. This might have been done several
days back. It might still have been done before
the close of the present week, so that hon. members
might have gone down to the house on Monday to
listen to Mr. GLADSTONE'S Financial Statement,
prepared to view the plan of the forthcoming
Budget by the light afforded by the terms of the
recent Treaty. Such a simple and manly
and honourable arrangement as this, however,
would not answer the purpose of the
dodging Coalition. And so they hit upon the
exceedingly ingenious, but certainly not very in-
genuous, plan of taking the House at an obvious
disadvantage—by bringing the Budget and the
Treaty before the consideration of Parliament
simultaneously—bent, as we have said, upon com-
mitting the Commons (if possible) precipitately to
both the Commercial Treaty and the Financial
Statement. Otherwise—Why lot, in the natural
and rational course, have placed the treaty upon
the table of the House long before, at any rate in
ample time before Mr. GLADSTONE would have

the opportunity of indulging the Commons with
his Financial Statement ?

Under these very peculiar circumstances we can-
not but consider Mr. LINDSAY'S motion of yester-
day as most timely for the public interest—though
untimely enough (if only as a reminder) in regard
to the especial interests of the Administration. For
to what really and truly does that motion point as
with a rigid dexter-finger ? To what but the
already recognized damning blot of the Commercial
Treaty—damning at least, if not entirely and com-
pletely obliterated. Mr. LINDSAY'S motion itself,
of course, was " for a select committee to inquire
into the operation of the burdens and restrictions
especially affecting merchant shipping, and of the
following statutes :---9th and 10th Vic., c. 93, an
act for compensating the families of persons killed
by accidents; the Merchant Shipping Aet, 1854;
the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act, 1855;
the Passenger Act, 1855; and the Chinese Passen-
ger Act, 1855." A committee of inquiry was ap-
pointed to this end last March, but its labours were
summarily closed by the dissolution of Parliament.
The hon. member only asked therefore for the recom-
mencement of an interrupted enterprise. But that
enterprise ! What it was and is avowedly designed
to show Mr. LINDSAY thus defines, "that one of
the great causes of the present depressed condition
of the British merchant shipping interest was,
that other nations did not reciprocate the advan-
tages which this country conferred upon them, when,
ten years ago, the British Legslature, by an
alteration in the Navigation Laws, removed
all restrictive duties upon articles brought into
English ports'in foreign ships." Mr. LINDSAY ar-
' gues that "he might mention the case of France, for
instance, as showing that while the shipping of that
empire was admitted into English ports in the same
free manner as English ships were, the shipping of
England was not only not met by France in the
same spirit of reciprocity, but was subjected to
heavy duties by that nation." Without entering
here more into detail in regard to this argument,
as it affects the interests of British shipping--a
proceeding, by the way, somewhat superfluous at
the present moment, seeing that the motion was
agreed to, and that consequently the select com-
mittee will forthwith be duly appointed—we may,
E t any rato, " point the moral and adorn the tale"
of Mr. LINDSAY'S statement in respect to the wrongs
and sufferings of the British mercantile marine,
by pronouncing the whole gist and the whole gra-
vamen of that argument to constitute a timely
warning to the House of Commons, now upon the
eve of taking into account simultaneously the Com-
mercial Treaty with France and Mr. GLADSTONE'S
Financial Statement. Let the holders of the na-
tional purse-strings and the guardians of the
national honour Beware, not of the Ides of March,
but of the sixth of February !

Surely the end of the world, and of Dr. CULLEN,
is at hand. The Univers is gone at least. What
can survive it ? Anyhow the temporal Papacy,
and, according to Irish Catholics, the eternals of
the Papacy, too, must go with it ! We almost begin
to believe in another Doctor of Diviiity, near us
here in London—the FRANCIS MOORE of prophecy
—even the Rev. Dr. CUMMING—who prophecies,
we know not what woes to Rome, and to Turkey,
too, in 1867, we think it is ; but dates are hard to
remember ; above all, the dates of things yet to
come. Be this as it may, this year of grace 1860
has already so overshot the Irish Doctor, and made
such a start in the line of the London Scotch Doc-
tor's predictions, that we almost begin to look at
the latter as we do when " rain" is set down in the
weather almanacks, and we see the clouds beginnin g
to gather. We believe what we see, if we do not
quite believe it was foreseen. 'We laugh at the
guess, and look at the barometer and for our
umbrellas.

And. in this attitude we now are all. gazing at
the Franco-Italian sky. It has been long filled
with heavily-charged electric clouds. Every now
and then a flash and a rumble—now the forked
lightning of Rome, now the negative flash of
France, something must crash or blaze soon—and
at last the crash comes. The New Year's Day of
1860 was the beginning of the end. The wrath of
Rome at the anonymous Imperial pamphlet, the
cool letter of his MAJESTY, were the first striking
manifestations of what must result from the con-
flict of angry impotence with calm self-possessed
Power.i Theo followed the subordinate episcopal
(thisempl a 3'
..8 in France itself, hut the bishops found
resort elves in the grasp of a strong hand. This
appears
,and Tailing, the encyclical letter of Ills Holiness
all is up ! Europe at large is told
by the POPE that the Emperor
the
Judgment
gthe e nFt Rs
seat
a FRENCH
ec H
stands condemned before f
CHRIST, and that the
Holy Father has, for his soul's
' health, warned his wicked
son that he is in dan-
ger of eternal perdition 1 Not very
to publish the Father polite this
Confesso '
warnings to the
world. If he does tell us we deserve damnation, it

is not quite pleasant that all the world should look

upon us as delivered 1.) SATA.,

The EMPEROR, however, has his turn—he can
sentence to temporal perdition, at least—so the
Univers—the Univers which exulted in the laws by
which it is put down, when they were turned only
against Protestant and liberal journals—the Uni-
vers, which beirded the EMPEROR at the close of
the Italian war, and contributed towards compel-
ling him to finish it—the Univers, which thought

itself a fair match for the EMPEROR—the Univers
is warned and warned again, and at last ex-
tinguished ! As Englishmen we, of course, should

like the Univers and any paper in Paris to write
and publish what opinions it pleased—but there
is one old text which commends itself to every
judgment by its own weight, as well as by that of
him who gave it. " With what measure ye mete
withal it shall be measured unto you." And this is
the judgment which the Univers has received.
It is too equitable not to be approved in England.
All free or none free, is the:only rule we can tole-
rate here or abroad.

What follows must be awful, indeed, at Rome
and in Ireland. The leading Paris journals all
seem as if the blow which had knocked down the
Univers had struck off their fetters. Above all,
the Constitutionnel argues out the whole case with
the most unflinching audacity—an audacity bor-
rowed, of course, from Imperial inspiration. And
the EMPEROR is right,—politically right we
mean—not supposing that EMPERORS can care for
any other right. He has appealed to a principle
no one can impugn, and to traditions of which
France has reason to be proud. It is notorious
matter of history that the Gallivan Church has
always been proud of its liberties. Frenchmen
would be good Catholics, but not slaves, to a pope
who transcended his spiritual jurisdiction. The
Catholic principle that his jurisdiction is purely
spiritual no intelligent Catholic could deny ; the
fact that France had in her best days always de-
nied any other, is equally incontrovertible.
In this great controversy, therefore, the EMPE
ROR has all whom he wants on his side. The
army, for they are angry that the POPE and the
clergy cheated them of the glory of finishing the
Italian war according to its original programme.
The people, for they love their traditional
ecclesiastical liberties more than they do the rabid
Ultramontanists of the day. The Italians—they
of course are ready to worship him for holding off
from them the brutal hands of Austria, and of the
murderers of Perugia, while they are consolidating
their liberties. The intelligence of England and of
all Europe, for the absurdity of the Pope's temporal

rule is the laughing-stock or the hatred of all lovers
of freedom. Napoleon has, besides, 60,000 men in
Italy to bid all would-be interveners keep their dis-
tance—and now he has plainly told the POPE that

no one shall hurt him if he keeps quiet at Rome, but
that all his subjects outside its walls may choose

a better master as soon as they please ! This is

clearly the meaning of the last clause of the
Imperial article in the Con stitutionnel, which our
readers will find in another column. %Ve can only
say, the sooner the better. Rome is too much to

be sacrificed to the temporal despotism of a spiritual
power ; and the first step will probably soon be,
that Rome will acknowledge in the POPE its
Bishop only.

THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC

WORKS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Mr. William Cowper, now Yiee-President of the
Board of Trade, is to be appointed First Commis-
sioner of Public Works. The place has been kept
open for him for nearly two months. It will be
recollected that Mr. Cowper was appointed
to his present office in August last, and his
election consequent upon his taking that office
did not take place till after Parliament closed.
Mr. Cowper took his seat on Tuesday, the 24th
ult., the day that Parliament assembled ;
but as the electors of Hertford have the
power of petitioning against the last return, and
that power exists for 14 days after the opening of
Parliament, no new writ can be moved for the
borough of Hertford before Tuesday, the 7th of
February; and in case a petition should be pre-
sented, the writ must be postponed till after the
petition has been disposed of. It is probable that
no such step may be taken, and in that case the
electors of Hertford will receive the writ on Wed-
nesday, the Bth of February.
Mr. Cowper, who is nephew of the late Lord
Melbourne, a former Premier, and stepson to th•
present Premier, was born in 1811, and became a
Cornet, and soon afterwards a Lieutenant, in the
Blues or Royal Horse Guards. He has had the
good fortune to fill the following offices :-
1. Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland in 1832. He soon after left his regiment.

2, Private secretary to Lord Melbourne, 1835.

3. A Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, 1839,
4. A Lord of the Treasury from 1841 till Sir R.
Peel's accession to office.

5. A Lord of the Admiralty after Sir R. Peel's
resignation in 1846 to Lord Derby's first Ministry
in March, 1852.

6. Gazetted a major in the army, 1852.
7. Re-appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, De-
cember, 1852, which he held till February, 1855.
8. Under-Secretary, Home Department, Feb-
ruary, 1855, to August, 1855.
9. President of the Board of Health from August,
1855, to February, 1857.
10. A Privy Councillor, 1856.

11. Vice-President of the Council of Education
from February, 1857, till Lord Palmerston's resig-
nation, February, 1858.

12. Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
August, 1859.
13. To be First Commissioner of Works, Feb-
ruary, 1860.
The above is a wonderful list of appointments for
any ono man to hold, however endowed he may be
by Providence with varied and super-eminent
talents, or favoured by connection.

The Duke of Argyll arrived in town, yesterday,
from Windsor Castle.

The Duchess of Sutherland returns to Stafford
House to-day, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Casile.

His Excellency Admiral von Dockum, Danish
Minister at this Court, has returned to London from
Copenhagen.

The Duke !-.)-f Newcastle arrived in town yester
day, from Windsor, to attend the Cabinet. His grace after-
wards returned to the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary are expected to honour the
Dukeand Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, early in the
ensuing week.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and
family come to town to-morrow, for the season, from Hat-
field House, Herts.

The Marquis of Clanricarde has left town for
Portumna Castle, county Galway.
The Earl and Countess Stanhope came to town
to-day from Chevening Park, Kent.

at the
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday
Viscount
of ir G.
official residence of the First Lord of thweeiTerTury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present
Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke
New-
castle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerse
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the
Earl of Elgin. the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN WYLDE, LL.B.—The mail
which has just reached England from South Africa has
brought us the intelligence of the death of Sir John Wyldo,
for many years the able and upright Chid Justice of the
Cape of Good Hope, which happened a few days before
Christmas last, in th 30th year of his age. Sir John
Wylde was the elder brother of the late Lord Truro.
THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY AND ITS
EMPLOYES. The whole of the employ6s of the Brighton
Railway Company have each been recently presented with
an extra week's wages by way of a Christmas or New Year's
gift,

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The Pays of this evening says, " Numerous de-
putations from Savoy, composed of persons of high
standing, arrive daily in Paris. The demonstration
in Chamber/ on Sunday last was of no importance."

MADRID, JAN. 30.

The steamer Madrid has been run into by the
steamer Seine. Great damage was caused by the
accident, but no lives were lost.
Latest intelligence received from the seat of war
announces that the fortification of the Spanish en-
campment before 'Tetuan continued.

AMERICA.

-~- _ -

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office :

QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY.

The Canadian mail steamer Hungarian, Captain
Jones, which left Portland, Maine, on Jan. 21,
arrived here at 5 a.m., landed the English and
Scotch mails, and proceeded on to Liverpool.
The Circassian, from Galway, arrived at New-
foundland on the 20th inst.

The Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, reached Port-
[and on the 19th inst.

The Hungarian brings intelligence from New
York to the 20th inst.

The non-election of a Speaker was operating un-
favourably on business.
The Viceroy of Egypt had made a large contract
for Sharpe's rifles.
Mexican advices are to the 12th inst.

It was rumoured that General Janon had posted
himself at Attenique with 6,000 men, and intended
to dispute the passage of Miramon.

At New York on the 20th the cotton market was
active, and prices advanced }. Sales 8,000 bales.
Middling uplands quoted 111. Breadstuffs were
generally lower. Provisions and freights un-
changed.
The stock market closed heavy at lower prices.
Money easy ; exchange dull.
ORLEANS, JAN. 20.

Sales of cotton to-day amount to 15,000 bales, at
an advance of c. Middling 11c. to 111 c. Sales
of the week 95,000 bales. Receipts during the
same period 67,000, and export 61,000 bales. Re-
ceipts here, 251,000 bales ahead of last year. Re
ceipts at all the Southern ports, 405,000 bales
ahead of last year. Sugar has declined / to ,-,c
Exchange 71 to 8 9-16ths.

MOBILE, JAN. 19.
Cotton market buoyant. Sales to-cay 1,100 bales
at an advance of ie.

Business and freights at Havana dull. Sugar
crops as large as last year. Exchange in London
141 to 15 premium.

THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND

PACIFIC MAILS.

The Royal Mail Compan
Captain Jellicoe, arrived all
evening with the aboveni
Lieutenant Scriven, R.N.,
dates were :

ty's steamship Tasmanian,
t Southampton yesterday
amed mails, in charge of
, Admiralty Agent. Her

Tampico .. .. Jan. 3
Vera Cruz .. .. 4
llavannah .. .. 10
Puerto Cabello .. 6
Santa Martha .. 7
Greytown (Mos-
quito) .. .. 2
C arthagena .. 11
Colon . . .. 8
Kingston (Jamaico) 11
Jacmel (Hayti) .. 12
San Juan (Porte
Rico) .. .. 15
B erbice . . .. 9
Georgetown (Deme-
rara) .. .. 9
Tobago .. .. 8

Port of Spain (Trini-
dad) .. Jan. 9
Bridgetown (Barda-
(lees) 11
Grenada . • 10
St. Vincent's 10
St. Lucia 12
Martinique 12
Guadaloupe . , 13
Dominique 12
Antigua 13
Montserrat 13
Nevis 13
St. Kitt's • • 13
Tortola. .. 14
St. Thomas's .. 18

Valparaiso (Chili) Dec. 16 Lima (Peru) Dec. 27
Cobija (Bolivia) 20 Payta (ditto) .. 30
Arica (Peru) .. 21 Guayaquil (Ecua-
Islay (ditto) --22 dor) .. .. Jan. 1
Callao (ditto) 27 Panama (N.Granada)
The Tasmanian brings 67 passengers. The
freight on board comprises specie to the amount of
742,185 dollars, of which 549,845 dollars value are
in silver, and 192,840 in gold. Also, pearls value
£3,130, plata pina value £1,546, precious stones,
&c., value, £6OO ; and cargo comprising 154 serons
of cochineal, 673 serons of indigo, 28 serons of
jalap, 160 cases of eigars, 171 bales of tobacco, 6
cases of arrow-root, 84 bales of sarsaparilla, 5
packages of vanilla, 9 cases of bark, 13 cases of
succades, 30 boxes of limes, 154 bags of cocoa, and
91 packages sundries.
St. Thomas's was generally healthy. A few cases
of yellow fever of a mild characterhad lately shown
themselves among the shipping, but the disease was
rapidly declining.
Her Majesty's ships Gorgon and Racer were at
Greytown ; also the United States' steamer Sabine.
The St. Louis sailed for the Colorado River on the
2d of January.

Her Majesty's ship Cossack, and the schooner
Kingston, and the United States' ship Prebble,
were at Carthagena; her Majesty's ship Imaum at

Jamaica.

Jamaica advices are to the 10th. The legislative
session closed on the 30th of December, all subjects
of dispute with the Executive having been ami-
cably settled.
In consequence of the unsatisfactory manner in
which the Assembly disposed of the question of
transferring the control of the Post-office Depart-
ment from the Imperial to the Local Government,
the Governor anticipates the necessity of summon-
ing the Legislature at an earlicr period than usual.
The Legislature was prorogued to Feb. 2. The
special commission for the trial of the Falmouth
rioters had terminated. Several of the rioters
were convicted, and sentenced to various terms of

imprisonment.
The weather had been dry. Reports of the
crop were generally favourable, and business was
rallying.
_ _

At Demerara the Court of Policy had passed an
ordinance to transfer the management of the Post-
office from the Imperial to the Colonial Govern-
ment. A Bill to raise a loan to defray the cost of
Chinese emigration had also been introduced. The
ship Sir George Seymour had arrived with 298
Coolies front Calcutta, and was followed by the
Canning, with 330. The Tres Amigos had arrived
from Madeira with 40 Portuguese emigrants. The
weather had been very wet during the fortnight,
and several estates in Essequibo had been inun•
dated. The rains had also been unusually heavy
in Berbice ; they had put a stop to manufacturing
operations, and a continuance would seriously in-
jure the forward canes.
The markets at Demerara had been very dull ix
consequence of the holidays. Breadstuffs in large
supply. Some considerable exports of flour had
been made, which tended to keep prices from de-

dining.
Governor Mucks opened the Barbadoes Assem-
bly on Dec. 28, in a brief speech, which contained
nothing of importance. The Legislature was to
meet osi the 11th, when addresses would be adopted
in reply to the speech. Business was improving
in all departments, and active preparations were
being made for crop operations.

Business at St. Thomas's had slightly improved,
but was still rather dull. Provisions in slightly
better request in consequence of stocks of American
imports being reduced.
A letter from San Domingo of the 23d of Decem-
ber announces the return of the English and French
Consuls to that place. The Dominicans having
acceded to all demands made upon them relative to
the matter of the paper money issued by the late
President Baez, the offensive conduct of the Go-
vernment regarding which compelled the Consuls
to withdraw from the city in May last, the flags of
Great Britain and France were saluted on the 3d of
December by 42 guns as a satisfaction for the acts
previously committed, and the salute was returned
by 21 guns each from the Cossack and the Mercure.
The Consuls afterwards landed and rehoisted their
flags. The Spanish Consul subsequently arrived,
and the claims of the Spanish Government are
placed on the same footing as those of France and
Great Britain.

Froth Valparaiso the news is unimportant, and
very little change to report in the business of the
fortnight. Buyers from the Argentine Republics
had completed their purchases, and business was
generally dull, exchange at Callao falling 18 ter
cent. on United States, 42d. on England.
The steamer Guatemala, from the Central Ame-
rican coast, arrived at Panama on the 7th. Among
her passengers were Sir William Gore Ouseley,
lady, and daughter, en route to Havannah, and es-
President Mora, of Costa Rica, who was not per-
mitted to land at Punta Arenas. The various
republics were quiet.
A severe earthquakz: did a great deal of damage
in the State of Salvador on the Bth of December.
No lives were lost.

The indigo crop this year will average 10,000
serons, in price from 8 to 10 reals per lb , according
to quality. There was considerable animation in

the produce-market. eqpeeially with regard to bal-
sams, vanilla, coffee, sugars, syrup, hides, and wood.
Strong N.E. winds prevailed to the westward of
St. Thomas's for several days previous to the 18th,
which retarded the arrival of the steamers from the
Jamaica Gulf and Colon routes.

At Greytown trade was nearly ruined, and many
of the inhabitunts were about to leave. The water
on the bar had deepened to 16 feet, but the en-
trance was very narrow. Vanderbilt's agent seemed
sanguine as to re-opening the Nicarguan route to
the Pacific. The ships in the roads were rolling
gunwales under, and their crews complained sadly,
provisions being very bad and dear.
Aspinwall was thriving rapidly. There were
between 20 and 30 ships discharging ; and the
steamers from New York were loaded with pas-
sengers. Vanderbilt's whips and those of the new
company (late Collins's) are running against each
other, and booking passengers, second class,
through from New York to San Francisco, for 50
dols., railroad and provisions included.
The inhabitanis of Carthagena had just banished
the intendente and some other officials, and sent
them in a schooner to Colon. It is supposed that
this act will induce the Federal Government at
Bogota to send troops against them, and will cer-
tainly delay the opening of this port and that of
Santa Martha. Strong gales from N.E. had pre-
vailed during the fortnight. St. Thomas and the
shipping were healthy.
It was reported that over 25,000 Africans had
been landed in Cuba during the past 12 months.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Peers present—Tho Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth,

Lord Chelmsford, and other Peers.)

APPEAL.-COMMERCIAL BANK OF SCOTLAND V. AIIIND.

Mr. Anderson, Q.C., was heard for the appellants.

The respondent by his summons claimed £66 Bs. 10d. as
the balance duo to him on a cash current account between
the parties, besides interest.
The appellants pleaded that they only received one sum of
no from the respondent in June, 1855, and that the entry
of 6th June, 1855, is a duplicate entry of that in the pass-
book of the sth of June, 1855, and that it was made by mis-
take. And the appellants contended that they were
entitled to a proof of their averments by parol evidence.
The respondent replied that the entries in the pass-book
could not be cut down, except by writ or oath of the
appellants.
The Second Division of the Court of Session in Scotland
decided in favour of the respondent, and against this deci-
sion the appellants appealed.
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., is now being heard for the respondent.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Jury.)
ILLNESS OF JURYMEN.

Upon the list being called three jurymen sent excuses.
One had an attack of paralysis and was bedridden. A
second had had a slight attack of paralysis.
The learned Secondary—Does he attend to business ?
Messenger—Very little. Perhaps half an hour a day.
The learned Secondary—He will be excused for the pre-
sent, but his name will not be taken off the list yet.
In the third case, the person summoned had met with
a severe accident, and a doctor's certificate handed in.
The learned Secondary said he would be excused for a
few days.
A jurymen was excused attending, he being above three-
score.