The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 2.
We have had a decided improvement in the demand
both for cloth and yaro in coneequence of the last
advicoi from China. A circular from Hong Kong

says :--
" We have the pleasure to advise a considerable im-
prevenient in our market for imports during the past
month, a better demand having been experienced than
for some time past, and an advance having been esta-
ebxlitsehoedd
li
toothmeo4stthairntiectl.e(sOctOobuerr)a,davnid
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announcen also in
that port a better demand for exports.'
The same circular states that cotton goods had ad-
vanced lic. to 20c. per piece, and that cotton yarns
likewise showed a considerable advance on previous
ouotations, chiefly, however, on the higher numbers.
These advices have had an excellent effect on business
in Manehester during yesterday and this morning.
Shirtings of all descriptions suitable for India and China
have advanced lid. per piece, and the entire of the
stocks on hand have been cleared off. In addition to
this, some rather large contracts have been given out.
In printing cloths there is no change, and long cloths,
T cloths, and domestics remain rather flat. There has
been a large business done in yarns for the China mar-
ket,including water twit from 16's to 24's and 30's ;
and although a regular advance has not been given,
prices may be quoted about ed. above the rates of last
week. There has also been a fair business in hard twist
for the Mediterranean market, at a slight advance, and
the. market generally in yarns has derived a little addi-
tional strength from the activity which has thus suddenly
sprung up.
Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co., say
was more business doing for a few days past for China
and the East, which has imparted a degree of firmness
to the market. But at present the movement does not there
o beyond this in yarns. For India shirtings, however,s
point
of last week. Other tions .
goods remain firmly held at former rates,descri theand e
more general business doing."

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VENICE, Nov. 2r. ie.....t0p,* ~:. :
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The Sacred Bronzes, as flowery writers call their .•'/-' -44' .'ir
old worn-out bell-metal, made a cliscordance-oftratli4%a ,'"".
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sounds—guns fired, bands played, and the multi—:,
' tilde gaped at the various bisonna. About two N.
o'clock the smoke of divers steamers notified the
approach of the Emperor. The guns on the differ-
ent forts on the Lido reverberated over the city.; ~
the long galleries of the Doge's Palace, which had I
been prepared for spectators.:became animated and
crowded ; the bisonne assembled at the Giardino
Publico ; the troops occupied the Piazza and Piaz-
zetta ; red cloth was laid down for the Imperial
feet ; and - the great veteran of this or any other
day, Radetzsky, became an object of admiration.
But whilst expectation held her breath, the Impe-
rial steamer got hard and fast aground. The tide
was still ebbing, and by a certain bad management,
as far ak time was concerned, the royal squadron
came into the difficult navigation leading to Venice
nearly at low water. After a quarter of an hour,
the vessel, bearing the standard of Austria, was
seen again to move, and she rounded the last clump
of piles which marks the deep water exactly at 3
o'clock, having accomplished the last turn not in
the most seamanlike manner; for, although she
had run a hawser out to swing her round, she was
obliged to drop her anchor, and consequently to
weigh it again. At this particular point the scene
was most exciting. Two Austrian- men-of-war,
do eased in colours, with the yards manned—the sea-
men waving their hats and cheering—the guns
firing—the distant sounds of the busy hum of men
—the toll of the Sacred Bronzes—the vast assem-
blage of boats—tbe thousands of flags from every
ship off Venice fluttering in the light breeze--the
clear view of the ducal paace, with the pillars which
bear St. Theodore on his crocodile—the spicy, fiery-
looking Winged Lion of St. Mark's—with all the
magnificent churches and campanile of this Ocean
Queen, made the scene most imposing and beauti-
ful. England was represented by her flag on
board the Caradoc ; which vessel having broken
her main shaft had come up near the Giardino
Publico to get repaired. She was, like other ves-
sels, dressed in colours, and contributed her share
in the-show.- - The Imperial steamer,_ having got - - - -
abreast of the public gardens, the Emperor and
Empress embarked in the Galleggiante, which, how-
ever gorgeous, was more like a loaf of sugar, en-
larged and carefully scooped out (but we must re-
member our own Lord Mayor's gingerbread barge
and be discreet), followed by eight bisonne of the
municipality, not to mention the Peote and the
hisonue of the Church, and the nobility and the
different consulates, bearing the flags of their
respective countries, in the bows of their gondolas.
The sea seemed alive with splendour. The clear-
ness of the day, the brilliancy of the boats, and
the various uniforms made the Venetian waters
sparkle as in the old days when Dodges were floated
in the Bucentaur. A ward or two about this bis-
a nine before we proceed. They are long boats
very awkward in appearance, dressed out in silks
and satins. These boats are covered over with
gay and fluttering awnings ; the bow has generally
some fancy figure, hclding a light, thin, airy dra-
pery, under which stands—in the Imperial pre-
scence, or reclines in less majestic company—the
owner of the bisonna. There was one that be-
longed to the Count Jacopo Treves, the crew of
which seemed, in contradiction to Theodore Hook's
sticking-plaster tights of the clergy, to have
adopted gold-beaters' skin cossacks; and in the
sunshine they cracked and sparkled gaily. An-
, other had all the rowers dressed like harlequins ;
and a third wore Highland costumes, after the
most approved Venetian taste ; but they all con-
tributed, by their gold and glitter, to enhance the
brilliancy of the scene. In nearing the Piazzetta,
where a temporary landing-place had been
erected, the crowd of the vulgar gondolas de-
tracted from the show, which was not conducted
with any kind of naval diseiL line, until at last the
gondoliers' shouts, as they raised what Byron called
their musical voices, not in " Tasso's echoes," but
in rather coarse poetry, to warn each other to keep
clear, seems to have been mistaken by the editor of
the Gazzeta Ufflizale di Venizia for enthusiastic
cheers. It is not the first time in another country
where the same has occurred, and been recoiled as
such. The royal party, duly escorted to St. Marco,
returned thanks, no doubt with much sincerity, for
having escaped the dangers of the sea voyage—and
this, indeed, would only have been common grati-
tude, notwithstanding the calm—and then the Em-
peror having taken up his stand near the entrance
-to his palace of the Piazza, the troops defiled before
him to the cheerful notes of an Hungarian polka ;
bows and salutations followed, and so far his Ma-
jesty was safe in his Italian dominions, and the
glittering scene was over. Here, however, I must
remark upon the military part of the show. I have
never seen troops better dressed, more soldier-like
in their demeanour, more accurate in their ma-
noeuvres than the Austrian soldiers on the Piazza.
They reflect the greatest credit on the military go-
vernor, 6forzkowsli' and of their respective offieers.
The green sprig of leaf placed iu each hat gave a
pleasant contrast to the white uniforms, which
looked as clean, as speck and span, as ifjust turned
out of the tailor's shop. The whole arrangements
were admirably made and conducted—all but the
naval department, for, as I said before, sufficient
attention had not been paid to the order in which
the comet's tail, represented by the sparkling
boats, followed the Imperial Galleggiante. Most
fortunate are the Venetians in the civil gover-
nor placed over them—the Count Bisseneen--.a
man respected and beloved by all, and in the firm,
gallant old soldier, the military governor. In the
evening the Imperial party went to the Fenice.
The national—perhaps the Imperial hymi would be
a more proper name—was sung, and Albertini did
here best in the "Lemma di Vergy." The city was
by order, illuminated, and Neville, who had paid
handsomely to have his suspension-bridge splen-
didly illuminated, might have had the mortification,
if he was gazing on his powers of enlightening the
Grand Canal, to see the whole snuffed out an hour
after it was lighted by one gust of wind. He might
have exclaimed, "Ye envious gods ! ye snuffed it
out !" And they snuffed out many others, making
a great saving of oil to the contractors. Before
we come to the more important points, it may be
remarked that Everything was propitious, and that
everything passed off uncommonlyweldhAisitubsis,
Italian is the Emperor's entrance to his dominions,
itth ei s afcatru lanl ore
feeling, importantpoliti cfaolrl yyos pue atkoi nbge , ltnhfaonr moefd all
the glitter and gold of gingerbread hisonnas. Ido
I do not believe there is one man in all Venice who
is animated by any hatred to the Imperial family ;
indeed, it would be difficult to dislike one so young,
so courteous and kind as the Emperor, or one so
lovely as the Empress ; if there is any hatred it is
to the system, not to the people. Of course the
Venetian papers are filled with poetry as flattering
as an epitaph ; and Correr, the Podesta, made the
best of his subject when, in his address to his Ma-

jesty, he said—" Deign to accept the devoted
homage, by my mouth expressed, of the one hun-
dred and more thousand inhabitants of Venice."
Gently, gently, Signor Podesta, you wear specta-
cles, and p: rhaps you do not see very clearly ; and
if, as you say, " the whole city rejoices and is
proud to possess the sacred person of your Impe-
rial Majesty," they might have expressed it them-
selves in cheers which. would have been raised in
the public garden, been taken up and more loudly
swollen along the Schiavoni, burst into a thunder-
storm on the Piazza, and died in faint echoes over
the Giudecca and the Fondamenta Misericordia ;
but where is the historian who dares to pen sua
falsehood ? The reception was fairly respectful,
but there was no ebullition of joy to make the
eyes wet or the heart beat ; even at the opera
many boxes were vacant, and in the pit many
there any fear
stalls without a tenant, nor was .
of being squeezed into a mumulY n
Still, when his Majestyappeared, ' the lobbies.
there was every
demonstration of respect; now, indeed, even if it
were not sincere, and i
I believe it was sincere, a
wake a great noise in
the Fenice ; besides ill
would
very few paid voices
.°h,
in carefully scanning
wpassionate admirer would
the company, the most
mber
of white unforms, and
boxesl in which stars and uniforms
fair to say, I heard neither is
public nor in private
discern
e many, theimmensemany
prevailed. It is
only
violent enthusiasm. The
nu
on
no disrespect. They are a
• and the narro west
quiet, orderly
threaded in the darkest night with-
street may be
garroted
Venetians will
set
toowf
people ,
or plundered. They have
what was a necessary conse-
quenceevidently accepted
after the battle of
'
out fear
heir young Emperor might walk unin-
' tident that t
d as safely along the narrow, crowded
jured and y
e and more so, than if he were
streets of Verne ,
of beingg
all the troops of the garrison. But
hedged by
there is no enthusiasm, and many balance the
hcnour of his visit in the opposite scale with an in-
evitable rise in the articles of life.

A. PEUILOITS.,RIDE.—A journeyman batter, residing
about half a mho from Plainfield, while going from that
place to his home, on Saturday night, being on the track
at the time an ext.ra coal train was going up the Central
Railroad, was caught by the cow-catcher, and after seve-
ral unsuccessful attempts to notify the engineer of
his
whereabouts, he arrived iu Somerville. He kept his cou-
rage up with the idea that the train would stop at some
intermediate station, but it being only a coal train, be
was obliged to go All the way through. His leg was
broken, and it is a wonder that he was not instantly
killed,—Trenton, A,iterican.

THE WEATFIER—Strzi OFFICE, DECEMBER 3.
THERMOMETER, IN TIE SHADE.
40 --,•.:zhest einee noon yesterday.
40 -lowrst this morning and &Trim the night.
39 thio day at nn, .
BAROMETER, 2r.)
WIND. E. to E.S.E. Fresh, with drizzling sleet and
rain and dull hazy weather.
It snowed heavily in the night, and a brisk thaw has
set in, but the weather has become colder towards noon.
Tin= O'CLocx.—Snow has been falling since noon. '

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L WEDNESI)AY, DECEMBER 3, I}'sr,

the utility of a second
What is, what can Les
Congress? What questions are intended to be
ventilated ? what objects achieved ? The Pleni-
potentiaries are invariably mere delegates,
without
discretionary power as to princip'es, and restricted
within very narrow lirnit; , Lealos of detail.

Perhaps, in these days of electric telegraphs, when
communications are instantazzeously flashed along
the magic wires, the mere verbiage is considered
by the Home Government—every sentence, every,
syllable, duly weighed—before its representative
is authorised to yield assent to the clause or
article. The subsequent ratification is therefore
a mere matter of form, continued from times when
these facilities were altogether wanting, and
might, but in obedience to diplomatic red-tapism,
be ,altogether abolished. Its continuance, how-
ever, increases the binding character of the docu-
ment, which, when once completed with all the
requisite solemnities, cannot be altered or modified
without the assent of all the contracting parties !
A Congress that can lead to no agreement is to be
especially deprecated. Vexations and controversies
must necessarily arise during the course of the dis-
cussions. When a Plenipotentiary is bound to sup-
port the views indicated by his Government,
whether right or wrong, reasonable or unreason-
able, to ignore every fact, and contemn every
argument adduced on the other side, severe and
sarcastic observations will naturally be made, and
feelings mutually exasperated and embittered.
These petty disputes and recriminations do not
end in the Conference Chamber, but find their
way to the Cabinets of the respective nations,
and the chances of an amicable solution of the
impending difficulty are materially diminished by
the futile discussion. It is, therefore, not merely
usual, but an almost invariable rule, that the
bases of the arrangements to be entered into, are
settled by the different Governments before any
conferences are permitted to take place ; and
should any of the parties see an insuperable ob-
jection in these bases, they will, as a matter of
course, refuse to send any representative to the
Congress, that is to say, if actuated by honour.
able feelings, and having no important motives
for procrastination !
Such a Congress is very different indeed from
an arbitration to which it has been inaccurately
assimilated. We have already explained that it
consists of interested parties, each intent on sup-
porting their own peculiar opinions, without re-
ference to the requirements of truth and justice.
An arbitration or mediation is different. There
the judgment is pronounced by a third party, at
least supposed to be impartial, and whose own
character is to a certain extent involved in the
propriety of his decision. The final judgment,
too, carries with it a certain moral weight that,
unless palpably erroneous, must put the dissen-
tient altogether in the wrong. There might be
some possible benefit from an appeal to such a
tribunal; but where the leading Powers of Europe
are engaged it is impossible to find unprejudiced
judges before whom the Imperial and Royal liti-
gants can condescend to plead. If only two or
three of the great European Powers were con-
cerned, it might be possible to avail ourselves of
the " good offices "of some neutral State. But
under existing circumstances the notion cannot be
entertained for a single moment.
We have hitherto placed this matter on a very
simple foundation, and explained it in dry legal
phraseology. But there is more at stake.
We unhesitatingly declare that the honour of
Great Britain is involved in the result ! The
question is, will England submit to be openly de-
frauded of the very slender advantages which she
has acquired, at an enormous expenditure of
blood and treasure, not for her own benefit, but
for the welfare and prosperity of Europe ? Will
she continue to play with an opponent openly
using marked cards and cogged dice, and respect-
ing none of the obligations which she holds
binding ? The chief questions to be brought
before the Congress, should it be held, relate to
the Isle of Serpents and to Bolgrad. Russia has
put forward a clearly untenable claim with respect
to the former., It was never for a moment sup-
posed that the SULTAN was to surrender any
portion of his dominions—that Russia was to
receive any benefit from her wanton and unjus-
tifiable aggression ! It is, and has been in the
possession of the Porte. Small as it is, it forms
an integral portion of the Ottoman Empire,
and Russia might as well claim Varna, or even
Constantinople itself, as the insignificant Island
that is only useful as a station for lighthouses, to
mitigate the dangers attending the vessels of all
nations in attempting the entrance of the Danube !

The vexata qucestio respecting Bolgrad is equally
clear. Russia declares that there are two Bol-
grads, and she chooses to refer the article of the
Treaty, in which mention thereof is made, to
"New Bolgrad," a recently-erected town reaching
to the littoral boundaries of the Danube, and
giving its possessor a control over a certain por-
tion of its waters—a licence that would be as
liberally exercised, or rather exceeded, as that of
RICHARD Ccnun. DB LION to the holy clerk of
Copmanhurst, when the Sovereign authorised the
friar to kill three bucks in his Royal Forests. It
is not, however, the spirit of the Treaty—which
in doubtful cases must serve as the light by which
the words are interpreted—that is decisive on the
point. It is notorious that a map was referred to
at the late Congress. It was what is termed au
"exhibit" in the case, and on that map no mention
was made of the modern Bolgrad, which has recently
assumed so much importance in Muscovite eyes.
That Bolgrad is removed from the Danube. Its
adoption carries out the spirit of the Treaty, and
we should be dolts—aye, and dastards—to re-open
a question which was partially decided in March
last, although our Financial Minister, for his
own purposes, chooses to assign a still later date,
'subsequent to the commencement of the financial
year. Our interests and our honour alike forbid
the new Congress ; and we trust that our English
Minister will, by his unbending resolution, prove
that he is indeed worthy of the confidence of the
English people, now unhesitatingly reposed in
him.

That Mr. BAZALGETTE should prove himself, to
his own satisfaction at least, right, and Ctptain
BURSTAL and the Chief Commissioner of Works
Wrong, in respect to the outfall of the sewage, is
pretty much what was to be expected. We hap-
Pen to know a good deal of what professional
gentlemen of his calibre are capable ; but it car-
ttahiant they
lyisnot within the range of our recollection
ever submitted to be convicted of error
in their original calculations, no matter how great
the modifications their plans had ultimately to
undergo. Thus, while Mr. BAZALGETTE, with the
utmost deliberation, maintains the adequacy of
the original Plan B for every useful purpose, and
insl3ls on its superiority in every respect to Plan
B as amended, we find him compelled to recom-
mend the diversion of the northern outfall sewer
round the north side of
Dagenham Gulf, instead
of across its mouth, and consequently an increase
of length and a diminution
of fall, together with
a er rrexponding
enlargement of the sewers, to say
of a deepening of the reservoir. The
,
nothing
engineer's self-complacency, of course, undergoes
no rebuff
a; he has acquired fresh information, and
if ho altered his plan it was at nobody else's
r has i
suggestion. Of course this and other matters of
the kind, suggestive though they may be deemed
of vacillation, must increase the confidence of the
public in their engineer, though they somewhat
pdinfullv, because suggestively, bring to our mind

grand effort of engineering skill in the country,
the result of which would have been all that could
be wished had not the levels been so taken that
ne of the sewers discharged itself the wrong way !
A perusal of the report of yesterday's meet-
ing of the Board of Works must, we think,
and we say it in good faith, convince reasonable
men that the only satisfactory solution of the
great drainage question is the carrying out of the
sewage to Sea Reach. What with obscuration
rendered more obscure, red tape and the want of
all ground of reasonable confidence either in the
plan B as amended, or plan B as not amended,
save by the engineer, in any way answering the
purpose, we don't see how any other result can be
arrived at. It is the only outlet to all appear-
ance from an everlasting muddle, and the only
way to escape an unfathomable deep of expendi-
ture.

How are we to set about the summarisation of
the calculations contained in the report, by
means of which Mr. BAZALGETTE would commit
the Board to his opinion ! It is a waste of time, for
we have no faith in them, finding no solid ground
whereon to rest the sole of our foot. Suffice
it to give the result in brief. In the first place,
while apparently assenting to the proposed exten-
=ion of the point of outfall to the vicinity of
Erith, he is of opinion the money the extension
would cost would be unnecessarily expended ;
and in the second place, that the reservoirs, as
originally planned, are capacious enough for the
purpose, and, if not, may be enlarged at any
future time by the construction of a second basin,
which is much the better plan of enlargement.
In arriving at this conclusion as to the capacity
of the reservoirs, he is careful to tell us he has
not overlooked the fact, that on twenty-eight
days in the year, when the weather is pluviose,
the reservoirs may be expected to overflow into
the Thames—of course during forbidden hours !

The more the construttion of these reservoirs
is considered, the more must the folly of a half-
way outfall become apparent. At the very best
the reservoirs would be a nuisance to the neigh-
bourhood, and a cause of needless expenditure ;
while as part of a scheme for polluting the
Thames, and spreading pestilential odours over
the luckless population up as well as down
the river, they are execrable. In HEAVEN'S
name, my Lord PALMERSTON, step in and get
us poor be-boarded, and about to be be-devilled,
people out of the mess in which we are being
involved deeper and deeper. We see no other
help for us—and remember it is placed beyond
the possibility of doubt that every thinking being
in the metropolis is of opinion that Sea Reach is
the proper outfall for the sewage, and that Go-
vernment should be the main contributor to
carrying the 'required tunnel beyond its threat-
ened destination. All that is asked of you is to
be good natured and do what it is your duty to
do ; and that you may satisfy yourself on this
head, we advise you to consult your able subor-
dinate, Sir BENJAMIN HALL, who is one of the
few persons who thoroughly comprehend the en-
tire affair. It is not much in our way to address
Premiers, but as you are a located citizen and the
QUEEN'S Minister combined, the temptations are
as irresistible as we trust will be our appeal.

THE MED:

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam ship Euxine we have dates from Gibraltar,
25th ; Cadiz, 26th • Lisbon, 29th ; Oporto and
Vigo, 30th ult. The Euxine brings 28 passengers,
specie value 13,7001. and on freight 1,382 boxes
oranges, and a large cargo of almonds, chestnuts,
lemons, &c.

At Lisbon exchange on London was quoted 53k ;
bills scarce, and money remaining over.
A Royal decree has appealed in Lisbon, counter-
signed by the Minister of Finance, authorising the
negotiation of a loan to be made through the Bank
of Portugal upon the deposit of bonds for public
works.

The American schooner Marie Jewett arrived at
Gibraltar on the 23d ult., reporting the foundering
of the American ship Lady Franklin on the 30th
October. The Lady Franklin was bound to Trieste,
with augar, from. Matanzas.

At Gibraltar exchange on London at 90 days'
date was quoted 49 15-16ths ; Spanish pillared
dollars, 9/ per cent. prem.

BLUCIfEIt AND WELLINGTON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,— A paragraph appeared in your impression of yes-
terday relating a very amusing anecdote of the Duke of
Wellington and myself. Ido not know who invented
the story ; but I trust, sir, that your sense of justice
will allow me, for the sake of honour, by giving insertion
in your next publication to this letter, to denounce the
same as pure fiction.
I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
CARL VON BLUCHER, Lieut.
39, Finsbury-square, 2d Dec., 1856.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and the senior members of the royal
family, leave Windsor Castle to-morrow for Osborne,
Isle of Wight. The Queen will remain at her marine
palace a fortnight, returning to Windsor for Christmas.
The Duke of Somerset has disposed of his interest in
the mansion he occupied in Spring-gardens to the Lords
of the Admiralty, who propose converting it into an
office for the new Coast-guard Department about to be
organised.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, from Stan-
wick-park, Yorkshire. His grace has recovered from his
recent severe attack of gout.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left Lansdowne House,
yesterday, from Bowood-park, Wi ts, where the noble
marquis will receive a distinguished circle of friends
during the approaching festive season.
The Marchioness of DanAford and her infant are both
going on very favourably.

J The
Marquis and Ma;thioness of Londonderry have
arrived at Mount Stewakt, Ireland,
The Earl of Ellesmer,J, we are happy to learn is better.
His lordship passed a good night on Monday, and was
pronounced rather letter yesterday. Dr. Bright is in
attendance on the noble earl.

The Earl and C anntess Staoliope have arrived at Che-
ven` ,T Seven..alis, from visiting the Right
Ann. S. Park,H rf jert,
3,1
P.,
and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton
e
Salisbury.
House, n
TheDoe,3c:a,ger Lady Foley and the Hon. Adelaide
Foley lave arrived in town from Brighton, for the win-
ter. Lord and Lady Fo!ey are passing the winter at his
;.(;rdship's newly purchased estat- at Worksop, Notts.
Lord and Lady E. F. Howard, and their youthful
family, are at Glossop Hall, the noble lord's seat in
Derbyshire.

Llay John Somerset has arrived in Enfield Court,
Middlesex, on a visit t, the Hon. A. Somerset.
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood have returned to
the right hon. baronet's official residence, at the Admi-
ralty, from visiting Sir William and the Hon. Lady Mid-
dleton at Shrubland Park, Suffolk.

:MARRIAGE: IN HIGH Lat.—The marriage of Captain
the Hon. Frederick Fitzclarence, brother of the Earl of
Munster, with the Hon. ii_dela Sidney, eldest daughter
of the late, and sister of the present, Lord De Lide, and
Dudley, was solemnised yest,erday morning at Al.l Saints'
Church, Knightsbridge, in the presence of a Select circle
of the friends of both nobie families.

At a meeting of the Tr ast and Load Cr,mpany of Upper
Canada, held yesterday, a dividend at the rate of 73 per
cent. was declared, an•i the report, an abstract of which
appeared in The Si'm, on Thursday, was unanimously
aloWed'.

SWYNFEN V. SW' iNFEN.—This case, which was to try
the validity of the, rights of counsel to compromise cases,
was resumed ye terday morning in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas. Mr. Justice Cresswell, at the conclusion of
the arguments, e aid that the corirt would take time to
consider the r _latter, and wov.id deliver judgment on
the fir 4 day of next term.

THE AIISTE LAN LLOYD'S.---This company was este.).
lished by English capitalists' in 1836, and was Fenortly
afterwards made over to a'A ass. ciation of Trieste capi-
talists with Lierr Von Bruck at their head. Its capital
was original' ;y one million. florins, its revenue in 1852
amounted to i 3,624,15] Penring, and 'its annual expendi-
Lure to 361,150 florins. it possr.,ssed in the same year
47 steambor 'ts, having 7„:ri9o hr.,rse-puwer, and an aggre-
gate burthel tof 23,665 t one. The total estimated value
of these vess( eis was 8,0) 0,000 noting, and they performed
1,465 voyage s in the 37.7 ar, conveying 331,688 passengers.
From the e,s tahlishu 'mit of the company to 1854 the
total quantit y of To' erc.handise conveyed by its vessels
was 4,184,0 64 °Loin tat., representing r. value of
1,255,21P,206' florim, They also carried luggage for
passengers to the value of 84,847,030 florins, and specie
to the amount; off 461,103,767 florins. Between the
year 1842 and 718511, the company bas divided among its
shareholders as au count of profits not less than 1,752,920
&tins, Tha e dvid lend for 1853 was 320,000 florins, and
885,068 ft we re set aside f.-:r the reserve fund.

LATEST NEWS•

THE [NSURRECTION IN SICILY.
PARIS, DEC. 2 (NicarT.)

An instrrectionary movement took place on
the 22d uit. in some Communes of the Province
of Palermo.
The Government authorities had been driven
out.

A Deputy of the Parliament of 1848 is at the
head of the movement.

The Neapolitan Government had despatched
troops to the disturbed places.
Arrests had taken place in Palermo, but nothing
is yet known of the importance attaching to the
insurrecticn.

MADRID, Nov. 28.

It is untrue that the Government intend calling
50,000 men under arms. M. Mires's proposals
for a loan of 300 millions of reals are under con-
sideration. The payment of the interest of the
National Debt for the coming half-year is assured,
as also that for the month of November. La
Epoca states that the Government have accepted
the resignations of M. Rios y Rosas as member
of the Council, and of Gen. Concha, Governor of
Cuba.

A Paris letter, dated the 30th ult., in the _Nord
of Brussels, says :—" The diplomatic information
received here to-day from London and Vienna con-
firms the news of the approaching meeting of the
congress. The perseverance of France, Russia
and Prussia have ended by vanquishing the resist-
ance of the English cabinet. The only question
for the moment is the solution of the difficulties
relative to the rectification of the frontiers of
Bessarabia. The opinion of diplomatists here is
that Russia will not make the preservation of Bol-
grad an affair of such importance as to preclude her
from giving up the town, but, of course, in return
for an equitable compensation. As to the sub-
sidiary questions of the treaty, circumstances will
decide if the plenipotentiaries are to occupy them-
selves with them in the new meeting. It is be-
lieved that the meeting will take place at the end.
of December."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second
Edition) says :
"It was rumoured this afternoon that the
movement in Sicily had been put down, but I do
not learn that there is any official confirmation
of the fact. General Zola, who, I believe,
commands at Palermo, sent a Swiss regiment
by sea to the place where the outbreak occurred,
and it was to take the place of that corps
that troops were despatched from Naples. The
opinion in official quarters is that the revolt,
which is said to have occurred in more places
than one, will be easily put down, if it has not
been before this.

" It is not, I believe, as yet clearly ascertained
which of the political parties began to raise the
cry, nor what has been the cry itself. There are
several parties. We have first the Separatists, who
were numerous and influential a few years ago ;
their object was less of a general than a local kind ;
they were for the separation from Naples, and
the absolute independence of Sicily. It is be-
lieved, however, that a change has taken place,
and that a more Italian spirit has penetrated the
population.

" Another party, by no means contemptible in
number or the influence of its members, was for
maintaining the unioa of the Two Sicilies, and the
Bourbon dynasty, with or without the abdication
of the King in favour of his son ; but on the in-
dispensable condition of re-establishing the Con-
stitution of 1848.

"A third and smaller section was for the union
of Sicily with Piedmont, under the sovereignty
of King Yictor Emmanuel. This plan found
favour at Turin, and was supported by a certain
part of the press ; but it was not popular among
the Sicilians, who did not wish the island to be-
come a dependency of the Crown of Sardinia.
There is not in Sicily any one who puts forward a
claim in favour of Murat ; on the contrary, his
eause is in the greatest discredit."

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

BOURSE, DEC. 2.—The market became very
buoyant towards the close, when the following were
the last quotations :

Cash. fr. c End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 69 40 70 5
New Loan
Bank Shares 4,101 Roman (a d) 854
Credit Mobilier 1,550 Austrian
Belgian Fives .. 974 Spanish Threes _
Piedmontese (5) 9l 50 Home. Debt