The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1860'.

example which we set her for the last ten years in
reforming her Government :

"It is the petty States of Central Italy, it is
the Holy See, and the Government of Naples,
which, while there was yet time, refused all expe-
dients of conciliation with the embittered and oppressed
people. It was Austria, who last year in attacking Pied-
meat precipitated events ; it is she who has proved to the
Italians that the Peninsula would have neither real secu-
rity nor independence so long as it should not be united
into one and the same State."

The Count well knows that it is by the obstinacy
of Austria's resistance to all Constitutional Govern-
ment—almost to the appearance of it—in Germany
that Prussia manages to profess herself to be the
leader of moderate progress and liberty in that
country.

Count CAVOUR affirms that the circumstances of
the case justify all that Piedmont did in the
Marches, Umbria, and the Two Sicilies ; but the
argumentum ad hominenz, in this case is irresistible
as adduced to the Courts of Europe. He asks—

"Have not the different States of Europe done the same
at other times; and under similar circumstances which,
however, were far from offering the same justification ?
Did not France and England, when they lent their
support to insurgent Flanders, trample international law
under foot ? Was not this said law broken by Louis
XIV. when he lent a helping hand to the Hungarian insur-
rection, by the States-General when they supported William
of Orange against James 11., by Louis XVI. who so nobly
contributed to the emancipation of the United States of
America, by Christian Europe when it delivered Greece

from the Ottoman sway ?
In fact, little prone as monarchs are to aid sub-
jects against their rulers, they know the cause to
be so universally a good one, that they have
never scrupled to defend its justice, and to act upon
it, whenever it accorded, at the same time with
their own interests.

The Count claims, as he has done before, to have
been, in Italy, the best possible friend to the
monarchical principle—a plea which he naturally
makes the best of in reasoning with Sovereigns ;
and one certainly not without good foundation.
But the grand lesson of 1860 is the strength of the
natural principle. The resurrection of Italy from
her deadly dismemberments is a fearful lesson to
the old world. Nothing seemed, but a few years
ago, more hopeless than her territorial division, and
her subjugation through her division. The touch
of one invasion has displayed her unity and
nationality. It is felt in Hungary ; it is felt in
Moldavia and Wallachia ; it revives the hopes even
of Poland. The map of Europe may yet become a
national one. And it will have been the honour
of Italy to have taken the course ' which has
caused the great idea to thrill through Europe,
that nations exist, not for the convenience and
glory of Royal conveyancers, but for their own
self-government and happiness.

We hope our Edinburgh friends will be suc-
cessful in their attack on the Treasury. They have
made more than one in vain, and are now driven
to concert measures to get along as best they can
till they have again an opportunity of appealing to
Parliament. We are among the last to encourage
resort to the public treasury, and we have shared
the doubts of both Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. GLAD-
STONE as to the prudence, in the long run, of the
present system of Government grants, through the
irresponsible Committee of Privy Council. The
evidence seems to indicate that the money is for
the more part spent in educating those who would
be educated without Government aid ; or, what is
almost as bad, if not worse, in giving an education
to the children wholly unadapted to the require-
ments of their future life. The education charge is
is becoming a heavy one, but we fear the worst
part of the weight will prove to be that it has
been borne by us, with little to show for it; little
at least which we should not otherwise have seen.

But the Ragged School efforts stand in quite a
different position: No one can doubt that the
objects of this kind of care and education would
never have any at all, unless they were sought out
and redeemed from the charge of ignorant and
often criminal parents; -while hundreds of them
have no parents but the streets, and no home but
an empty arch or a door step ; a dirty little room
without an article of furniture, being splendid
lodgings for them. If the Government of the
country stands in loce parentis to any, it is surely
to these street Arabs. But how shall it come at
them ? The difficulty of the Government itself
finding agents for such work is, we
freely confess, insuperable; it is a work
which needs suoh genuine, such enthusiastic
philanthropy, and such tact in the teachers and
masters, as no Governments can purchase. But
when this task is performed for them—when Volun-
teers, in a work so repulsive to most, arise, and do
it, and can show it, can say to an inspector—to a
policeman—to Mr. LOWE himself, if he likes—
" Come and see, here are the ragged ones of last
week, now clothed and in their right place, and
learning to labour instead of to steal"—when the
difficulty of the case is thus surmounted, why
should Government hesitate longer. The Volun-
teers have provided what Government cannot, the
right men for the right work, the Government
should provide what the Volunteers cannot, the
requisite funds for the work. It has lavished
hundreds of thousands on its own routine, mar-
tinet teaching, it may surely spare a reasonable
amount for teaching which reaches a class who
need it more than all others.

The Committee of Privy Council has, the public
will think, made a great blunder. While in no
way curtailing its payments to more imposing
schools which now ornament almost every neigh-
bourhood, it is actually reducing its grants to these
homely but effective institutions which cannot sub-
sist without them. At first they gave them £27,000 ;
this year they will give but £5,500. Edinburgh,
where Mr. ADAM BLACK and Dr. GUTHRIE are
endeavouring to rouse the public on the subject,
received last year £B4l 7s. This year it will re•
ceive but £225 lls. Bd. The consequence will be that,
if nothing can be done, 70 children, more needing
State help than perhaps all the other children in
the town, will be obliged to be turned again on
the streets. In his characteristic style Dr. GUTIERIE
exclaims—" It'll be a black day for Edinburgh
when these children shall be turned out into the
streets, cast out to go and beg their bread of you ;
to hold out their hands for a piece of bread, to
leave the happy school and their happy home, and
lie like houselcss dogs in stair-foots, and to go to
ruin ! That day, I hope, will never come; it will
be a dark day for our city if it do. Fancy 70 of
these children walking weeping out of school
not, like our first parents as they went out
of Eden, weeping for their sins ; they have
done no sin ; they have been more sinned against
than sinning ; that is the truth. They are
suffering innocents, but out they must go, and
when they go out let them muffle that drum and
beat the funeral march of their good fortunes and
of their highest hopes, And then let Mr. SMITH
(the governor of the prison) open his prison wards.
The prison is well-nigh empty ; it will be filled by
and by. Let them cry, Room in the prison.
God cries, 'Room in Heaven for the guilty ; '
here they cry, Room in the prison for the innocent.'
I say, it will be a black day when that is done ;
and it is clean contrary to common sense ; it is
clean contrary to the best interests of our country.

It is the spirit of our country to help the weak and
let the strong fight their own battle."

Mr. ADAM BLACK presented the subject in a light
which will open the eyes of our Chancellors of the
Exchequer, be they Liberals or Conservatives. The
prevention of crime by education, as hitherto given
by the Committee of Privy Council, has been much
questioned, and consequently it is very doubtful
whether the money it expends is in this way reim-
bursed to the country. But no one has ever pre-
tended to doubt that the Ragged-school training of
the criminal class itself has not anticipated the
creation of hundreds of criminals. What the saving
may be let Mr. BLACK tell us—" In the year when
the expenditure was highest it amounted to
£27,000. If, then, the expenditure upon each
child was £3, that gives 9,000 children. I have
already shown that of those who have passed
through the training of the Ragged Schools not
more than 5 or 10 per cent. have turned out ill,
and as they are the very class that furnish the cri-
minals for our jails, and the convicts for our penal
settlements, it would be no extravagant calcu-
lation that one half of them, or 4,500, if uncared

for, would lapse into that dreadful condition.
What would the cost to the country be then ?
From a late Parliamentary return I observe
that during the last ten years 5,465 convicts have
been sent to Western Australia, and the total
expenditure connected with these convicts was
£987,573, or at the rate of £lBO for each convict,
and this in addition to the expense of their trial
and previous imprisonment. On an average
of these years the annual expenditure was
£89,000, or £165 for each convict annually.
Assuming, then, that when the expenditure
on Ragged Schools was highest the number
attending them was 9,000, and that only the
half of these had become convicted criminals at
the same cost, £163 each, this would have amounted
to £733,500 as against £27,000. Or if these
schools were the means of saving six out of every
thousand, that would be equivalent to the whole
sum saved by the withdrawal of the grant."
Whether Mr. BLACK'S figures are right to a
penny or not, he must be substantially correct. To
aid Ragged Schools is to save largely the public
money ; and if by next year Mr. LOWE and the
Government have not retraced their steps, we
hope the House of Commons will carry
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S resolution of last
August, of which the conclusion was " that
the ragged and industrial schools, which are alone
adapted to meet the wants of a considerable number
of destitute neglected children, do not receive the
amount of aid to which they are entitled." The
public, not only in Edinburgh, but in every town
of the kingdom, will certainly think that £27,000
is little enough for these invaluable institutions,
and that to cut down that sum to one-fifth is bad
economy indeed.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Granville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell,
the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert,
Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, Sir G.
Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P.

VISIT OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE T• *VEEN
Vicroms..—The Empress of the French will pay a hasty
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle on Tuesday next.
The Royal visit will be of short duration. The Empress
will arrive at the Castle in the forenoon, and take her de-
parture soon after luncheon.

The eldest son of the Earl of Leven and Melville
(who has recently succeeded to his brother in those titles)
has adopted as his designation his father's second title of
Viscount Kirkcaldy, instead of his customary appellation
of Viscount 13algonie, which was borne by the late earl and
by his son, Precedents for this departure from the ordi-
nary course are to be found in the case of the late Duke of
Norfolk (who assumed for his second title the style of Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, instead of the earldom of Surey
alone, as borne by his father) and in other noble families.

Lady Isabella Schuster was safely confined of a
daughter.yesterday at the family mansion, in Queen's-gate.
Both her ladyship and the infant are doing well.

Lord de Lisle and Dudley has left the St.
George's Hotel.

Lord Oranmore and Browne has assumed jhe
name and arms of Guthrie of the Mount only, in the ',Taco
of those of Browne, in compliance with the terms of the
deed of entail by which the property of the late Mr. A.
Guthrie of the Mount, county of Ayr, was settled en his
only child and heiress, who, it will be remembered, was
married to Lord Oranmore about a year ago.

The marriage of the Earl of Southesk and Lady
Susan Murray, eldest daughter of the Countess of Dun-
more, took place on Thursday last at Dunmore Park,
Falkirk.

Baron de Sampayo has arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Portugal. The Count
and Countess Piperi have also arrived at the same esta-
blishment.

THE LATE LADY TRIAILESTON.—AIicia Lady
Trimleston, who died on the 25th ult., was the second
daughter of the late General Charles Eustace. Her lady-
ship married, in 1797, Nicholas, late Lord Trimleston, the
grandfather of the present peer, of which marriage there
was no issue.

Some of the French journals announce the some-
what sudden death of the Princess Albert de Broglie, in
the prime of life, and leaving several children.

The France Centrale, which was lately suspended
for two months, has announced to its subscribers that they
will receive the Arai de la Religion during that period,

A letter from Sebastopol announce that General
Todleben is now there, and that the fortifications on the
north side are undergoing repairs.

Mr. John Hullah, the eminent musical composer,
passed his last examination at the Bankruptcy Court yes-
terday unopposed.

THE NEW BRONZE COINAGE.—It is now finally
determined to proceed with the issue of the now coinage,
which will this day be placed in the hands of the public.
The sailors belonging to vessels engaged in the
coal and iron ore trades at Whitehaven are on strike for an
advance of wages. Their masters have adopted measures
for carrying on the traffic, which, it is thought, will compel
the men to come to terms.

We (Chelmsford ( hronicle) have this week to
record the death of John Adey Repton, Esq., whose long
life has been devoted to antiquarian studies. Mr. Repton
was the eldest and only surviving son of the late llumphrey
Repton, Esq., well known as the great authority on land-
scape gardening; which he promoted both by his literary
publications and by the practical exhibition of his taste.
We ( Critic ) hear from the States that Nathaniel
Hawthorne, among his Concord Meadows, is engaged upon
a new romance, which rumour says is to have for its sub-
ject English life; and that John Russell Lowell, of "Big-
low Papers" celebrity, has several literary ventures in
contemplation—among them a new book of " Fireside
Travels."

MUTINY ON BOARD A VESSEL IN THE MERSEY.
—Yesterday, four seamen, named Campbell, Molvaney,
Ferguson, and Hanson, were charged before the Liverpool
Magistrates with this crime, on board the ship Seaforth,
Captain Marshall, while the vessel was lying in the Mersey
bound for Batavia. One of the men had drawn a knifo and
threatened to stab the Captain. All the ptisoners, except
Mulvaney (who was sentenced to four months), were
committed for six months' imprisonment.
THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY SELLING LIQUOR
TO IND tiNs.—Letters have been received from Fort Rupert,
from Captain Richards, R.N., who is surveying at that
place, to the effect that upwards of 700 or 800 Indians were
going through the most frightful orgies some days since
under the wild excitement of drink. The captain attempted
to hsld a parley with the chief, but knives were brandished
and the most violent demonstrations displayed. This was
the result of drink supplied them by the Hudson's Bay
Company. The condition of affairs was greatly aggravated
by the intoxication of nearly every white man in the fort.
A more disgraceful state of things could scarcely be ima-
gined. It is said that Admiral Baynes has reported the
matter to the home Government and suggested the imme-
diate appointment of a magistrate to check such sale of
liquor by the immaculate Iludson's Bay Company.—New
lrestnzinster Times.

TIIE AMERICAN MONEY MARKET. The
cessation of the artificial drain of gold for the Bank of
France has been immediately followed by a demand of an
equally abnormal, although relatively unimportant
character for America. The advices yesterday from New
York of the extension of the political panic have led the
London correspondents of various firms in that city to make
shipments of sovereigns and gold bars by the Europa,
which sails to-day froin Liverpool for Boston, and the
Atlantic, which is to leave Southampton on Wednesday
direct for New York, will probably also take a further sum.
Tlio amount withdrawn yesterday morning from the Bank
in London was about £7C,000, and it is not unlikely that a
larger total will have been taken from the Liverpool branch.
In addition £30,000 of bar gold has also been despatched,
The shippers of these parcels, looking at the probability of
an early reaction in proportion to the violence of the recent
movement, do not appear to entertain much idea that the
operation will prove directly profitable, but seek rather to
furnish their friends with the means of advantageously
meeting all contingencies, especially as the latest reports
mention that discount was not to be obtained under 1 per
cent. per month, and that foreign bills of exchange were
unsaleable.

Great disappointment was at first experienced
at Liverpool yesterday (Friday), at the non-arrival of the
Empress Eugenie, though as the day eventually turned out
to be the darkest and driAzliest of the year, this feeling gave
way to one of satisfaction that the Empress would perhaps
see the town hereafter to greater advantage. In answer to
telegrams from the Mayor and the French Consul, an
answer came from Manchester to the effect that her Majesty
would not leave Manchester on Friday, and that the period
of her departure was uncertain.
COTTON EN ROUTE TO LIVERPOOL.—Whatever '
may be the opinion of those well up in their estimates as
to the quantity of cotton to be expected from the new crop
in the United States, one thing seems quite certain, viz.,
that the imports of new cotton into Liverpool by the end
of the next month will fall very far short of the quantity
imported last year; one letter by the Hammonia stating
that the imports this year into Liverpool will be from
100,000 to 120,000 bales less than last year.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigration ♦essel Leila, 267 tons, Captain Thomas Rapson,
belonging to Mr. Henry Dressor, of London, sailed from
Gravesend on the 24th ult., for Natal, with 16 married
couples, 17 single men, 28 single women, 20 boys between
the ages of 1 and 12, 31 girls between the same ages, 3 male
and 2 female infants, making a total of 133 souls, equal to
1021 statute adults, under charge of Surg.-Superintendent
Joseph 11. Ruoff, M.D.
CRIME IN BOMBAY.—The number of prisoners

to be tried at the third criminal sessions of Bombay, which
began on the 24th of September, was 33, implicated in 28
cases of an ordinary character. Among them was ono Euro-
pean, one Portuguese, and what is very rare, one China-
man. In Calcutta the only court 'kith which the Chinese
are familiar is that of Small Causes, which they consider to
have been established especially for their benefit.—Allen's
Indian Mail.

FEARFUL MORTALITY.—A letter from Belize,
Honduras, dated Sept. 17, states that yellow fever had
broken 'out on board the British man-of-war Icarus, at
Truxillo. Eleven of her crew and two officers had died,
and many of them were sick, including Captain Salmon.
Subsequently, on her passage to Jamaica, she reported 33
dead, and still a heavy sick list.
ASSESSMENT FOR WATER RATES.—A number
of informations were yesterday laid by the Liverpool cor-
poration officials 'before the stipendiary magistrate, with a
view to try whether, in the case of tenants whose landlord
pays their rates, and who agree to pay a somewhat higher
range of rent in consequence, the assessment should be
made upon the rent plus or minus such calculation. The
magistrate decided that the assessment should be made
minus the calculation.
EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON A SHEFFIELD BANK.—
SHEFFIELD, Friday Night.—Mark Rawlins, a clerk in the
employment of the Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, has
been apprehended here this evening on a charge of defraud-
ing the bank of £3OO. It is believed, however, that the
total amount of the fraud will be little short of £l,OOO.
Rawlins was supposed to be a young man of the highest
character, and prominently connected with several of the
principal institutions in Sheffield.
DEATH OF A STAGE DOOR-KEEPER.—We have to
record the death of Mr. Lowton, for many years the atten-
tive and obliging stage door-keeper of the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket, an event which took place on Sunday last. The
zeal with which he discharged the duties of a very respon-
sible situation, and the uniform courtesy which he exhibited
in connexion with his position, will render him much re-
gretted by a number of persons, besides those more imme-
diately associated with the theatre, where he was such a
faithful attendant.—Era.
A FEMALE SAILOR.—Annie Stuart, a fine girl of
18, born in Glasgow, and who has for five years past followed
the life of a sailor, dressing in male attire, is at present in
the Liverpool workhouse, having applied to the parochial
authorities in order to obtain means and clothing to under-
take a situationmore in accordance with her sex. She has
five brothers all sailors, and it was her desire to be with
them that induced her at first to go to sea. During five
years her sex was only discovered once, and that was dur-
ing an examination by a medical man when she fractured
her ribs by a fall.
ROYAL HOUSES OF EUROPE.—We copy from
the Almanach de Gotha for 1861 (its 90th year), which has
just appeared, the following information respecting the
Sovereign houses of Europe :—Europe contains at present,
including the dispossessed Italian Princes, 47 Sovereigns,
of whom the eldest, the King of Wurtemberg, is nearly 79
years of age ; the youngest, Prince Henri XXII, of Reuss
Greiz, is 14. After the King of Wurtemberg come the
Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, who is 77, and the Prince
of Schaumburg-Lippe (since dead), who is 75. In the
order of age the King of the Belgians stands 6th, the
Pope 7th, the King of Prussia 10th, the King of Saxony
13th, the Emperor of the French 18th, the Emperor of
Russia 24th, Queen Victoria 28, the King of Sardinia 31st,
and the Emperor of Austria 40th. According to the length
of their reigns (the Sovereigns are thus classed :—The
Prince of Schaumburg •Lippe, dates 'clack 73 years ;
the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, who has reigned 57
years ; the Prince of Schwarzburg-Itudolstadt, 53 years ;
the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, 44 years ; line Sove-
reigns, among whom are the King of the Belgians and the
Sultan, have reigned from 20 to 30 years ; 14, comprising
the Kings of Prussia, Bavaria, Denmark, Holland, Sar-
dinia, and the Emr,eror of Austria, from 11 to 19 years ; 18
Sovereigns, among whom are the Emperors of the French
and Russia, the Queen of Spain, Kings of Saxony, the Two
Sicilies, and Sweden, have reigned less than 10 years. The
last Sovereign who ascended the throne is the Grand Duke
Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Since
the work mentioned above appeared Prince Adolphus
George of Schaumburg-Lippe has succeeded his father,
who died on the 21st inst.
DARING ESCAPE FROM GAOL.—On Sunday
morning last a prisoner named Thomas Foggy escaped out
' of the Leeds Borough Gaol, and has not yet been reappre-
hended. Instead of leaving his cell to attend service in the
chapel along with the other prisoners, Foggy remained
behind, and when he found the course clear he came out of
the cell, walked along a corridor, and ascended a spiral
staircase, by which means he obtained access to the roof of
the gaol. He then, by means of a rope of cocoanut fibre,
succeeded in letting himself down, a depth of about 30 feet,
on to the wall of the female exercising yard, along which
he walked until he reached the outer wall of the goal, and,
with the aid of another similar rope, he drcpped on to
' terra firma, a depth of 20 feet, and got clear off. Two
or three men saw him alight from the outer wall, but,
with the exception of giving a humorous caution. to the
fellow, they took little notice of the matter, and did
not inform the gaol authorities. It appears that a warder
unlocks all the cells in the gaol before the hour for Divine
service on Sunday morning, to allow the prisoners to
attend chapel, and it is the duty of another warder to place
himself in such a position that he can see them all enter the
' chapel. The latter warder, however, it would seem,
neglected his duty, and left his post without observing that
Foggy had not emerged from his cell. Foggy was under-
going a term of 12 months' imprisonment for uttering base
coin. He is about 28 years of age, bears several aliases,
and has been confined half-a-dozen times in Northallerton,
Gaol for poaching and assaults.
AN IMPUDENT ROBEERY.—An extraordinarily
impudent robbery was committed the night before last.
As at a late hour a well dressed young female was welkin..
along the Rue de la Rochefoucauld, a man rushed after her,b
and dragging the shawl off her back, cried out: "You
have acted scandalously towards me, your husband, and I
will net allow yon to keep your shawl ! " The female cried
for help , and some persons hurried up. " This woman,"
said the man, "is my wife, and she has been unfaithful
to me I So I take her shawl ! " Then turning to the
female, he added, " Never set your foot within my
door again—go along with you 1 " and with great
dignity he walked off with the shawl, the spectators not
attempting to interfere. At that moment two police officers
arrived, and the young woman, bursting into tears, declared
that she was not the man's wife, had never seen him before,
and that he was a thief. The officers hurried after him,
and perceived him running away ; they, however, overtook
"him, but he resisted, and another man going to his assis-
tance attempted to rescue him. Both were secured, and
the shawl was found in possession of the pretended husband.
Yesterday proof was obtained that the young woman was
really not the man's wife, and he and his accomplice were
sent to the Prefecture of Police to await their trial.
THE COLLIERS IN THE WEST RIDING.--The
various colliery owners in the districts of Ardsley, Morley,
Gildersome, Drighlington, Birstal, Churwell, and Birken-
shaw are under notice from the Miners' Union that unless
the colliers in the employment of the respective firms re-
ceive an advance of wages to the extent of 10 per cent. from
to-day (Saturday), thdy will all leave their employment.
The notices expired yesterday evening. The employers
have yielded an advance of 35 per cent. during the last
four years. The employers have stated their position to
the delegates of the union, and have in vain urged their
inability to grant this new demand. In a long interview
between them, the masters expressed their strong convic-
tion that it would be utterly futile for them, in the pre-
sent state of trade in Leeds and Bradford, to seek for a
corresponding advance in the price of coe.'l, and that the
result must be, if the demand were persisted in, the
cinsing of their pits, and leaving the districts to be supplied
with coal from other and more distant districts, as, indeed,
they believed would be the case if the prices of coal were
further advanced. The delegates maintained that an ad-
vance would be readily conceded by the public, and had
only to be sought. Some of the delegates avowed that the
colliers did not receive an adequate share of the profits
arising from the employment of capital, and it was their
desire and determination to endeavour to realise such a
share. The meeting ended without any amicable arrange-
ment being come to, and the crisis is just now a threaten-
ing one. The employers have expressed their determina-
tion not to yield, and the colliers have held a meeting at
Walton Moor to consider what steps shall now be taken.
SCENE IN AN AUSTRALIAN THEATRE.--" The
curtain rose. A French dancer—an elegant, supple young
lady, of no great beauty, but much expression, and appa •
rently on very good terms with herself—appeared in the
scene in her short lace dress, received by an outburst of
applause and by the martial trumpets of the orchestra.
But from the other side came a youthful, blooming
Spanish creole, with beautiful eyes, large and soft; her
complexion rosy, her figure tall—in fact, the impersonation
of Terpsichore. She bowed modestly—it was her first
appearance at Melbourne—and the enthusiasm of the
public, surprised by her beauty, manifested itself in vehe-
ment cheers. The two dancers struggled for the palm of
victory in a graceful tarantula. Like two glittering but-
terflies, they whirled round, accompanied by music and
applause. The mercurial Parisienne made use of her most
seductive wiles, of her most refined pirouettes, of her most
enchanting attitudes; but the creole seemed patronised
by the Graces themselves. Thundering applause encou-
raged her, and, as often as she came forward with her
graceful modesty, nosegays, rings, and bracelets, were
thrown at her feet. The French lady struggled
with her last strength against the triumph of her rival,
until, disheartened and exhausted, she fell to the ground.
The creole approached her with compassion to raise
her, when suddenly the Parisienne darted up, and
with looks of hatred and fury, boxed the ears of her rival.
The audiencs hissed and hooted, while she exclaimed with
much passion, "rho wretch tripped me The poor creole
declared with dignity that she was innocent of the mean
ness ; but a vulgar word which slipped out of the lips of
the French dancer against her suddenly roused all the pas-
sions of the South in her bosom, and a singular struggle
began. The two excited ladies rushed upon each other,
and wrestled and tore, and pulled one another's hair, while
the thunders of the gallery made the whole atmosphere
vibrate. I never saw a more natural performance. The
better class of thepublic did not interfere, but seemed rather
to be amused by these Olympic exercises, until the creole,
bleeding and fainting, was carried away from the scene.
Some officers who from a box had witnessed the spectacle
were revolted at the conduct of the Parisienne, and sent for
the police to arrest her, but her friends collected and re-
sisted the constables. A riot ensued ; a portion of the pub-
lic rushed on the stage; they jumped across the orchestra;
the fiddles and bass-viols were broken; the ladies were
fainting; children crying; and I took to my heels with my
fiddle, and ran away without stopping until I reached wy
hotel,"—Liverpool Mercury.

Ell NEWS.

(REUTERS'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Itioniteur publishes the supplementary zon-
vention concluded between France and England
on the 16th November.

TURIN, DEC. 1.

The Italian journals refute the accusations con-
tained in the letter of Prince Murat in reference
to the state of things at Naples.

VIENNA, Dxc, 1.

The official Wiener Zeitung publishes the con-
vention between France, Austria, and Sardinia,
for carrying out the partition of the debts and
assets of the Monte Lombardo. The liabilities
amount to 99 millions lire, of which sum two-fifths
arc to be charged to Austria and three-fifths to
Sardinia. The assets, which are also to be divided,
amount to 9f millions lire.
The semi-official Donan Zeitung denies the
rumours circulated by some journals that Austria
is negotiating for the cession of Venetia.
The Donan Zeitung says the statement is with-
out any foundation, and concludes thus :—" Those
persons know Austria but little who think that
she will barter her good rights."

NAPLES, Nov. 30.
The King has this moment left for Palermo.
The ships of war are saluting him.-

NAPLES, Nov. 27.

A state of siege has been proclaimed in the
Abruzzi. A proclamation of General Pinelli orders
that all persons found bearing arms without per-
mission, or exciting the peasantry, or insulting the
national flag, are to be shot.

Colonel Delagrtmge has already established the
state of siege in the Abruzzi. General Sirtori has
issued a proclamation against street demonstrations.
The General reminds the volunteers that the King
loves them ; but there are military laws which
must be respected.

PARIS, Nov. 30.

The Pope appears less than ever disposed to quit
Rome. What has been said about an approaching
agreement between the Holy See and Victor Em-
manuel stands in the greatest need of confirmation.

Several journals have spoken of projects for the
purchase of Venetia, and of negotiations being on
foot for that purpose. This is devoid of good
foundation. No Government has made any over-
ture on the subject.

PARIS, Nov. 30 (Evening).

The Pays says—" The report that the assembling
of the Corps Legislatif will be hastened is inexact.
It will take place, as usual, in the beginning of
February. The Senate, however, will meet earlier
in order to regulate the execution of the resolutions
contained in the Imperial decree of Nov. 24."

BREMEN, Nov. 30.

According to information received here, the
stipulations of the commercial convention between
Sardinia and the Hanse Towns apply to all Italians
countries annexed to Sardinia.

ATHENS, Nov. 28.

A royal ordinance dissolving the Chambers was
read to-day, and was received by the Deputies with
cries of " Long live King Otho."
Tranquillity prevailed.

BERLIN, Nov. 30.

The Prussian Gazette announces that M. Stieber,
Director of Police, has been relieved of all his

functions.

is h, ls. 4d. obtained ; coffee, firmly maintained at
445. to 455. ; hams, York, dull sales at ls. 2d. ; lard,
Bid. ; pork, 103 s. per barrel ; pimento, large tran-
bactions at 11d. per lb. ; sugar, from 17s. to 225.,
for dark to fair. Exchange on London, 90 days,
1 per cent. premium ; 60 days, 11 per cent. ditto ;
30 days, 2 per cent. premium.

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.

LISBON, Nov. 30.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, with
the above mail, has arrived, and will leave to-morrow
at noon for Southampton.

She brings £3,841 in specie and 107 passengers,
60 of whom are the shipwrecked crew of the Per-
severance.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rio.—Exchange on London, 27. Coffee, good
first, was quoted 5,600 reis. Total export since the
departure of the last mail, 270,000 bags, of which
58,700 were for the Channel. Stock, 40,000 bags.
Freights, 40s. to 455.
BAlllA.—Exchange on London, 26t. Cotton,
7,800 reis per arroba.
PERNAMBUCO.—Exchange on London, 261 to
261. Sugar, 2,400 reis per arroba.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 1.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mail, has
arrived.

She brings 7 passengers, £915 in specie, and a
full cargo.
She spoke the yacht Osborne on the 28th ultimo
and the Alhambra on the 29th ult.

There is no political news of importance from
Lisbon. The English squadron, under the com-
mand of Admiral Stopford, was lying in the Tagus.
At Lisbon, on the 27th ultimo, exchange on Lon-
don, three months, was quoted 54k; Paris, 527 ;
Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, 526 ;
Rentes 3 per Cents., 471 ; Coupons, 461 ; Deferred,
371-; Bank of Portugal shares, 562; Commercial
and Mercantile Banks of Oporto, 260 milreis.

PARADISE AND THE PERI.

BY THOMAS MOORE.

Illuminated by Owen Jones and Henry Warren.
Lithographed by Albert Warren.
Published by Messrs. Day and Sons.

Talk no more of the days of Book-Illumination
having gone by. Here is proof to the contrary—
proof positive that would have rejoiced the heart of
one of those old monks who, with carmine and
gold and emerald and purple, and with all the
rarest pigments and the most elaborate gilding and
silvering, were wont—brush in hand—their cowls
thrown back for better light—kneeling reverently
at their desks in the convent cloister—to " glorify"
the Missals and the Psalters as with glimpses of
Heaven.

Here, again, at the Christmas time of 1860,
in the days of the steam-engine and the
electric telegraph—here in the latter half of the
nineteenth century is a volume but just now pro-
duced as gorgeous in every way as any one of those
exquisite books decorated by the Brush and
Palette of the old monkish Illuminators.
It may be objected to Messrs. Owen Jones and
Henry Warren that, unlike their ecclesiastical pro-
totypes and predecessors in the art of illumination,
they have taken as a theme a fragment of Pro-
fane Literature. Let their excuse be, how-
ever, that among all the fragments of modern
poetry they have selected one which is es-
sentially and intensely an ecstatic hymning
of Heaven ! " Paradise and the Peri" may surely
be deemed as worthy of illustration in this way as
the " Romannt of the Rose," that boast of the
Medieval Illuminators. •

Dipping into this exquisite volume, however—
tenderly turning the leaves over as if we loved
them—we come, first of all, upon the frontispiece
—the Peri standing in the very porch of Paradise:
" One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood, disconsolate,

And, as she listened to the spring
Of life within, like music flowing,
And caught the light upon her wing,
Through the half-open portal glowing,
She wept to think her recreant race
Should e'er have lost that glorious place."

So—through the half-opened portal, as it were--.
the light and glory from within has been caught,
seemingly in gushes of splendour, upon the leaves
of this truly magnificent volume of illustrations.

Poor Tom Moore himself! Could he but have
lived to see his charming fancies embellished by
the splendid touches of the irredescent and diaphon-
ous art of Owen. Jones and Henry Warren, those
two paragons of illuminators ! Could he but have
survived to have had this gorgeous volume laid
before him—one might almost then have expected
the sensitive little poet to have emulated the sensi-
bility sung of by Pope in regard to one who .ould
" Die of a rose in aromatic pain l"
The volume is, in simple truth, at every leaf, in
every imaginable way, by every hue and turn of
graceful and fantastic decoration—resplendent.

Upon each page, to the reader's left hand as the
volume lies open before him—a passage of the
poem is emblazoned upon a gold ground, surrounded
by the most diversified and lovely arabesques.
Confronting each of these emblazoned pages—to
the right hand of the reader, as he turns the
leaves of the volume, are a succession of superb
illustrations, each of these also upon a gold
ground, and surrounded each also by a rainbow
framework of arabesques. Here are two sylphine
forms, with pink wings, floating through the
empyrean, singing to the trembling strings of a,
lyre. Here is the " Glorious Angel" speaking to
the kneeling Peri—the Glorious Angel, bearing
the golden key, and robed in heavenly raiment like
an embroidered chasuble ! There is the Peri float-
ing sad and disconsolate among the stars over earth.
There Gazna, the ruthless, with his bloodhounds.
Page after page the glorious embellish-
ments unfold themselves. The whole book
is a very parterre of blooming colours—
colours upon the text and upon the pie-
tares in streaming
nlavlshprofusion. As a gift book, one more
radiant in every way it would be difficult to
produce. Certainly Moore's fame is "in luck" just
now, what with Tenniel's illustrated edition of
Lalla Rookh," published the other day,
by the Messrs. Longman, and this sumptuous
volume of " Paradise and the Peri," illuminated by
such master-hands as those of Owen Jones and
Henry Warren, and published with a munificent
disregard of the cost of the " getting up" by the
Messrs. Day and Sons, the Lithographers.

LITERATURE.

Head and Hand, or Thoughts and Action in relation
to Social _Happiness. London : Houlston and

Wright.

The author of this neat little volume is the Rev.
R. W. Fraser, M.A., whose former Rork—,° Ele-
ments of Physical Science"--commanded so much
attention when it was first published. The object
of " Head and Hand," the author says, is to point
out and illustrate by interesting examples front
ancient and modern biography the principle and the
practice on which prosperity and happiness depend,
and certainly a more successful accomplishment of
such a task could not have been effected. As a
Christmas gift book nothing could be more appro-
priate—the table of contents is as varied ae the
most fastidious could desire. We have examples of
filial affection and its relation to prosperity in
mature years, lessons derivable from the animal
world, distinguished scholars of foreign countries,
the value of time, honesty, veracity, temperance,
benevolence, and the importance of truth in all
communications with children. As example is
more efficient as a method of conveying lessons of
practical wisdom than precept, however eloquently
expressed, highly interesting
volume
to we
our commend
readers,feeling
satisfied that on
perusal they will endorse the favourable opinion we
have expressed.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.--
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Nov, 24, was 2,479, of which 631 were now
CMS.