The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1860.

Ministers on the great subject of the session, much
less will it, like an American President's Message,

furnish any clue to party politics. Royalty, with us,
dwells in a serener region. A pamphlet, however,
very carefully compiled (published by JOSEPH

CLAYTON and Son, Strand), The State of .Parties,

gives us all that can be-known at present on that
subject. We may, in passing, recommend it to our

readers as a complete Vade Mecum on the party
character of Parliament. The Cabinet, the Lords,

he Commons, are all individually tabularised under
,heir respective parliamentary parties, and votes ;

all the changes since the election are also exhibited
in separate tables ; an alphabetical party list,

arranged according to constituencies, follows, to
assist in finding easily the politics of each. The
concluding one illustrates the position of the house
and its members in regard to the Ballot—a table
certainly judiciously added, if the intention be to
exhibit the judgment of the present Liberal electors

on that testing question.
The author of " The State of Parties " is, as far as
we can perceive, as impartial as DOD himself in his

classifications and calculations. Ho takes members as

.hey are ; at least as they were up to the division

of the 10th of June last year ; which, as it was a
division on the simple question whether Lord
PALMERSTON'S party Or Lord DERBY'S party should
sit on the right hand of the Speaker, must be
regarded as the grand test of party up to that time.
What, then, the reader may ask, is the summing up
of this impartial classification of members ? Why;
that in the Commons Lord PALMERSTON may
expect on a party division a majority of—FOUR
Nominally the noble lord has three hundred and
forty-one Liberals to meet three hundred and one
Conservatives, giving him apparently a majority
of forty. But from this have to be deducted nine
doubtful supporters, nine almost certain, and nine
probable opponents. Giving the Conservatives the
benefit of the certain opponents, and adding the
doubtful nine to each, we have just the majority
above indicated as that to which the Liberal leaders
have, by their personal squabbles, by their heredi-
tary exclusiveness, and by their want of boldness,
reduced the Liberal party.

Of course the Doubtfuls and the Irish Brigade
cannot be calculated closely ; we cannot, however,
be far wrong in presuming that parties will be as
nearly balanced as they well can be. The Whig-
Liberals will be as much at the mercy of the Inde-
pendents as the Conservatives were last session.
Indeed, their party hope must chiefly rest on the
Tories, and on the feeling which will pervade both
Houses of the unseemliness of another and speedy
change. Lord DERBY is known to be opposed him•
self to taking office again without a majority which
shall give him real power. He will not, as he has
now twice told the country during the recess,
countenance any factious opposition even to
the Ministerial Reform Bill. It seems that
Ministers purpose to accept gratefully his considera-
tion, and to bring in a bill to which the Noble
Lord will not object—such a one, probably, as Mr.
DISRAELI would have proposed, had he been per-
mitted to offer ono after the appeal to the country.
The secret of the forthcoming bill has indeed been
well kept ; but we have little doubt that it will
be substantially what has &en so often suggested,
in regard to the franchise; but that the two points
most important of all—electoral independence, and
the nomination boroughs, will be almost or alto-
gether ignored. -The counties will be still really
constituencies of landlords, not of electors, and the
small boroughs still at the mercy of gold or of
local " influence."

This is, assuredly, hut a poor prospect for hearty
Liberals, but for the causes of it we have not far to
seek. There is scarcely a shade of honest Liberalism
in the Cabinet—it is party, not hearty Liberalism,
which reigns there. The last list in the pamphlet
we have referred to, is alone sufficient to prove this.
It shows that but two members of the Cabinet are
known friends to the Ballot, while it also shows that
Two Hundred and Thirteen members of the House
are favourable to it, and have voted or paired in its
favour ! Even admitting what we do not doubt to
be true enough, that many of these are but too well
satisfied if they can please their constituencies, and
yet be in a minority, this would only show yet more
the strength of liberal opinion in the constitu-
encies, since it compels unwilling representatives
to pay this tribute to the demand for inde-
pendent voting. Supposing many of our members
to give on this subject a hypocritical vote, the hypo-
crisy is but a testimony, as hypocrisy must nearly
always be, to the excellence of that to which it
pays the homage of imitation.
We apprehend that this list is the true exponent
of Whig weakness. There is little but the Ballot
between the Liberale and the Tories. On the
Franchise the Tories, as a party, have come within
twenty shillings, perhaps, of the Whig Reform
leader. On the redistribution of seats there has
been little difference lately ; certain it is that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL ha's fought as hard as they have
done for their petty boroughs ; nor will he, unless to
save appearances, do more in the way of disfran-
chising the Arundels and Thetfords than did
Mr. DISRAELI himself. How can it, therefore,
concern Liberals, generally, whether Lord DERBY
and Mr. DISRAELI, or Lord PALMERSTON and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL bring in a Reform Bill. Even.
should we find the Tories opposing any of the more
popular proposals in the new bill it would not alter
our opinion. Lord DERBY disclaims faction indeed;
yet, any party in opposition must be more than
mortal if they did not, in opposition, sometimes put
forth their strength to vex their opponents. Lord
JOHN himself, had he been on the Speaker's left,
would almost certainly have demanded from the
Tories what he would not. have offered himself.
There is no help for such things while men are not
angels.

Politically, the Ballot forms the real line of
demarcation between Liberals and Conservatives;
all other lines are purely party lines.. On the
Liberal side more than two-thirds of the party
♦ote, or have to vote, for the Ballot ; on the Tory
side not more than two or three individuals do so.
As Mr. BRIGHT, therefore, once said, " the Reform
party is the Ballot party." The Whig leaders refuse
to recognise the fact, yet they are but a minority of
one to two of the party to which they look for sup-
port, yet they insist that the small minority shall not
concede even a dozen or two constituencies to the
large ballot party as a mere experiment. Now we
consider this tobe a piece of political injustice, almost
of immorality. The Tories deal more uprightly
with their party. With two or three exceptions
they are all hostile to the ballot As. a party they
.can, therefore, equitably refuse it, for their own sup
porters are not wronged. The Tories had not more'
supporters personally favourable to the £lO county
franchise than Lord JOHN had to the ballot, yet
the Torics conceded it. But the Whig Cabinet, ask-
ing the support of their whole body, refuses to
acknowledge the claims of two-thirds of
that body ! We deny that this is com-
mon party equity. Were wo Tories and friends of
the Ballot we could not bring against our leaders
the charge of injustice, for we should own that al-
most the entire majority of our own side was against
us. Wo should set ourselves to convince them.
But as Liberals we do resent the behaviour of our

leaders. They have no moral right to convert a ma-
jority of two-thirds of their party into mere serfs.
Mere equity demands that they should give the
Ballot in the proportion of the number of their
party which asks for it—that is, say, one-sixth of
the constituencies. While the Whigs resist as they
do we must confess that, politically, we cannot arouse
ourselves to any concern as to which of the two
great parties sit on the Treasury Benches.

LEA7II OF TILE .RIGIIT 110 N. M. T.

BAINES,

Another of our eminent public men has to-day
passed from the midst of us. Upon the very eve of
the Parliamentary session of 1860, the Right Hon.
Mathew Talbot Baines has breathed his last at his
residence in Queen's-square, Westminster. Al-
though his broken health had some time previously
driven him from public life into domestic re-
tirement, his reputation is still rather of
to day than of yesterday both as' a publicist and
as an administrator. His labours had, in both
capacities, already some time terminated. He no
longer occupied even his accustomed seat in Parlia-
ment. He had withdrawn from the Legislature,
and latterly he had become little else than a con-
firmed valitudinarian. His shattered constitution
has at last succumbed, and death has thus closed
at once his useful life and his prolonged sufferings.
His politica! repute will long survive him, particu-
larly in his own former constituency, both as M.P.
for Leeds and in connection with the distinguished
liberal and reforming organ of the borough, the Leeds
Mercury. As an administrator, the Right Hon.
gentleman had it is bat small opportunities for the
• display of his aptitude for public business—but he
won credit to himself in that way as Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was ever the de-
voted and unflinching advocate of the great moral
and intellectual, social and political, cause of
National Education. The remembrance of his labours

in that good cause will be his most enduring
monument.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The entertainments at this magnificent theatre
continue highly attractive. On Saturday evening
Mellon's sparkling opera, " Victorine," was repeated
with increased applause. The grand pantomime
of " Puss in Boots" has surpassed in success the ex-
pectations of the management, hundreds nightly
having to be refused admission owing to the
crowded state of the theatre. It may be supposed
that the pantomime is especially designed to attract
the attention of those fond parents who are not so
desirous of amusement for themselves as anxious to
give their boys and girls a treat during the festive
season ; but we can assure our readers that, although
"Puss in Boots" is for little people, children of a
larger growth will not regret a visit to Covent-
Garden Theatre to witness the performance of it.
It has been got up on a scale of magnificence quite
in keeping with the building in which it is repre-
sented. To accommodate parties residing in the
suburbs a grand morning performance takes place
every Wednesday at two o'clock.

The monument of Robert Stephenson in West-
minster Abbey will be a window, by Wailes, of Newcastle.
M. Jullien is about to set up his orchestra in
Paris. lie.proposes to give selections from. The Messiah,
The Creation, Elijah, and St. Paul.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 23.—The Cunard screw steam-
ship Etna has arrived, with advices from New York to the
12th ; but, owing to the boisterous weather, she has not yet

lauded them.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—The Cunard steamship
Asia sailed to-day for New York, with the mails for the
United States and North America and 60 passengers. On

Wednesday next the North Briton (screw steamer) will be

despatched for Portland, with tho Canadian and United

States mails. Letters, &c., will be received at the post-
office on that day till 10 4.5 a.m., and via Queenstown till

9 30 a.m.

SERFDOM IN RusslA.—A St. Petersburg letter
says :—" A serf in the Government of Tambow recently
killed his lord for having seduced his (the serf's) affianced
bride. -For this act of vengeance the serf will probably be
oontlewned to hard labour for life in the mines. The late
Emperor on one occasion gave a very different decision.

The child of a serf having struck a dog belonging to the
lord, the latter set his whole pack upon the boy, who was
torn'to pieces. The child's father upon this killed the
nobleman on the spot. The Emperor decreed, A dog for
a dog,' and added, I should have done as much.' The serf
was merely detained a short time in a monastery."
THE LONDESBOROUGH ESTATES.—The maternal
uncle of the late Lord Londesborough, W. J. Denison, Esq.,
by his will, directed that his immense wealth should be
expended in the purchase of landed estates, to be entailed
on the family of his nephew, the late Lord Londesborough,
for three generations. The estates of which his lordship
consequently became possessed are situated as follows .
Seamer, East Ayton, Willerby, Flixton, Staxton, Osgodby,
Deepdalo, and Throxenby, near Scarborough; Speeton,
Oxton, Thwing, and Rudston, near Bridlington ; Watton,
Cranswiok, Elmswell, Kellythorpe, and Skerne, near Drif-
field ; Londesborough, Routh, and Dalton, near Be'verley ;
and Selby and Spaldington. The Grimston Park estate
was purchased by Lord Londesborough of Lord Howden.
Altogether the lands of his lordship comprised between
60,030 and 70,000 acres, realising an annual income of ibout
£lOO,OOO.—Yorkshire Gazette.
A WINE AT LENGTH FROM AUSTRALIA.—We
shall be enabled shortly to announce the advent of a pure,
generous, and wholesome wine from our Australian posses.
sions in sufficient quantities, and at such a price, as will
take the just medium between the man who is driven to
total abstinence from the filth imported, and those who pay
at' a rate which their more sober reflections and thoir pockets
do not justify. The wine in question is very like Chateau
Yquen, and is the produce of the Muscatel grape, and is
named " Muscatella," after that luscious and aromatic
fruit. We are indebted to some Germans intimately con-
versant with the wine districts of the Rhine for this impor-
tation ; and although as yet the few butts that have entered
the market have been secured by Messrs. Alderman and
Beckford, of Curzon-street, Mayfair, the time must arrive
when the community will yet further derive the benefit of
its more extensive importation, which even now permits of
its dispersion at a very low figure.— United Service Gazette.
According to the present American advices, the
State of Illinois, which has not yet recovered from its old
defaults, has been on the verge of a little piece of repudia-
tion almost as paltry as that by which Pennsylvania re-
mains distinguished. On second thoughts, however, under
the wholesome influence, apparently, of public opinion, she
has drawn back. The attempt consisted in a refusal to pay
the January interest on certain bomis amounting to about
£20,000, surreptitiously issued by a former governor of the
State, but which have been for some time in the hands of
innocent holders whose claim has been recognised as per-
fectly legal. On the news reaching New York a sugges-
tion was made at the board of brokers to strike all the Illi-
nois securities out of the official list, whereupon an intima-
tion was given by the New York agent of the Illinois State
Treasurer, that he had received a telegram requesting him
to honour the coupons in question, and there the matter
ended. The New York Stock Board, like our own Stork•
Exchange, is now sufficiently powerful to punish severely
all dishonourable proceedings of neighbouring States, and
it may be hoped a time will come when they will treat in a
proper manner the repudiators of Michigan, Mississippi,
Florida, and Arkansas.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, Jan. 20.

The market continues active, and sales appear only to be
limited by the production available for sufficiently early
delivery. In light shirtings, madapollame, jaconete, and
other fabrics suitable to Calcutta, the contracts are already
so large as to close the door against new engagements
for: delivery before the end of next month, and in same
cases even later. Cases are mentioned of contracts for clothe,
the manufacture of which cannot be commenced before
March and. April, and the completion of which is-not gua-
ranteed.before late in the year. Of course, there are excep-
tional eases for cloths of good-or peculiar makes, - but 'they
show the confidence with which buyers are disposed to
operate. Many kinds of cloth, both for home consumption
and export, are so much pre-engaged that it is difficult to
place orders without higher rates for early, cr moderately
early, delivery. There seems to be scarcely any exception
to the demand for either plain or fancy goods, and prices
have a constantly advancing tendency. For yarns the
advance obtained last Tuesday is maintained, and a consi-
derable business is reported for home consumption, as well
as for export to India, China, and the Mediterranean
markets.

GARIBALDI'S MARRIAGE.—The Italian journals
are again speaking of Garibaldi's marriage, but seem
uncertain as to whether it has taken place already,
as stated, or is to be celebrated in a few days. They
all agree, however, that the lady is Mademoiselle Rai-
mondi ; and a Milan letter gives the following somewhat
romantic account of the commencement of their acquaint-
ance :—Last spring, on the very day when the intrepid
Chasseurs of the Alps entered Lecco on the heels of the
Austrians, and in the midst of cries of enthusiasm, an ele-
gant carriage met them, full of young and charming
women gaily decorated with the Italian colours. Half con-
fused and half excited, they sought Garibaldi without daring
to inquire for him. They were the ladies of the Raimondi
family, and that is how they saw each other for the first
time. Some days after, the Chasseurs, who, in pursuing
the enemy foot by foot from Varese to Como, had placed
themselves in a dangerous position, wore obliged to return
to Varese. The committee of defence of Como wished to
send notice to the general that the Austrians were prepar-
ing to quit the place, but how could they do so ? The com-
munications were cut off by the corps of Urban, who
scoured all the country between Como and Varese. Each
looked at the other, and all were hesitating, when a young
girl presented herself, took the despatch, got on horseback,
followed by her father's chaplain, and got through the
enemy's troops, and did not stop until she found herself in
the presence of Garibaldi. This courageous girl was Mdlle.
Raimondi, and, when you read this, his sposa, as the Ita-
lians say."
THE CAPTAIN OF THE SLATE YACHT WANDERER.
following case, which has been heard in the Liverpool
Police-court, throws somelight on the latest movements of the
captain of the slave-ship Wanderer. On Thursday James
Nicholl, shipping agent ; George D. Walker, captain of the
Wanderer ; and Charles Hunter, an American seaman, were
charged with conspiring to defraud. Nicholl's clerk had
called upon several lodginghouse-keepers, saying that men
were wanted to go on board a vessel called the Marianne ;
each of them shipped several of their lodgers, paid the cus-
tomary fees, and received advance notes in return. On
inquiry, it was ascertained the vessel was lying in the San-
don Dock for sale, but was not going to sea. The lodging-
house-keepers therefore went to Nicholl and complained
that he had "humbugged" them; he replied that he had
been humbugged himself, having understood from Walker
that ho had purchased the ship: The magistrates thought
there was no evidence of criminality against Nicholl, *nd
dismissed the charge against him. The case of the pri-
soners Walker and Hunter was then proceeded with. The
evidence of several outfitters was taken, showing that
Walker had obtained goods and money from them by re-
presenting that he was the owner of the ship Marianne.
Mr. Nicholl was also put into the witness-box against him.
He stated that the prisoner introduced himself as " Captain
D. Walker," stating that he had purchased the Marianne,
and wanted a crew of 30 men to go with him to Cape Coast
for palm bil. Thomas M'Grath, clerk to the last witness,
deposed that Walker told him to get him a crew of as wild
fellows as he liked, ready for piracy or anything else. Sub-
sequently, Walker told him that he was the captain of the
celebrated slave-ship Wanderer; that he had purchased the
Marianne, and was going to take her on a " blackbirding"
expedition. Witness shipped several men for him, but, on
telling the above circumstance to Mr. Nicholl, he was or-
deredto have nothing more to do with Walker. Hunter
was discharged, but Walker was sent for trial. It is mill-
that the prisoner, whose real name is Archbold, is " wanted"
in the United States.
SINGULAR BURGLARY.—A few nights since the
dwelling-house of Mr. Sparkes, farmer, of Horndon-on-the-
Hill, was entered by a bedroom window, which had inad-
vertently been left open. Only one man got in ; he went
down into the hall, and rung one of the bells, which awoke
Mrs. Sparkes, who wont downstairs and opened the stair-
foot door. Seeing a man in the kitchen, she asked him
what he wanted. He replied, " Money." "Oh, that's it,"
she said, and pulled the door to, and, although the fel..
low
rushed forward to prevent her doing so, she succeeded in
bolting the door. She then ran into Mr. Sparkes's bedroom,
the man shortly after making his way up the back
stairs
but Mr. Sparkes placed himself against the door,
to Mr.
, and kept
out the burglar. Miss Lawrence, stepdaughter
olodged in the
d
Sparkes, awoke two servant men,
house. They got up, and supplied themselves with
bludgeons. Their bravery, heyrover, was limited to
hammering the floor with their bludgeons and roll-
ing a cannon ball about the room, at the same time
shouting most voeiferously. Miss Lawrence then faced
' the man and ordered him off ; he told her not to be alarmed,
and made his way down stalls: into the kitchen, followed by
Miss Lawrence and the two men with their bludgeons, the
latter, however, keeping at a respeetfuldistance. b After ashke-
in.- for .210, which, of course, was not given him,
walked away, but shortly returned, and requested Miss
Lawrence to give him a pair of boots, saying,you
these--I don't take them. He apologised to her
for keeping mkeepaing her so long standing in the cold, and took his
depai tare. On the following night there was a rap at the
door, and an inquiry if Mr. Sparkes was at home. Miss
Lawrence looked out of the
window, and recognised the
burglar of the pirevious night, who told her that Mr. Sparkes
must
go up to Terndon immediately, as there was a horse
in fits. He remained a few minutes, and then went away.
The police were put in pursuit, and the country scoured for
miles, but nothing could be hes.rd of him. It is supposed he
is a lunatic.—Essex Standcmi,
'FnE LATEST NON' raT Y IN NEWSPAPERS.--111
addition to " das, Marriages, and Deaths," the Liver-
vook,l°;4.,ury now adds the " Divorces."
Rev majesty's Emigration Commissioners char-
tot d, on the 19h inst., two vessels, beloging to Mr. J. Wil-
son, for the conveyance of liberated Africans to the West
Indies from Sierra Leone and from St. Helena—viz., the
Mary Ann, 558 tons, from Sierra Leone to Trinidad, at £6
per bead ; and the Bangalore, 600 tons, from St. Helena to
Grenada and St. Vincent, at £6 10s. per head.

LATEST

N E S.

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

PARIS, JAN. 23.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes an account of
;he yearly distribution of prizes to the pupils of
he Polytechnic and Phylotechnic Associations.

The Minister for Public Instruction delivered the
usual address on the occasion.

After giving good advice to the young scholars,
and recalling the glorious events of the Italian
army, the Minister continued as follows :
"In exchange for our blood and our sacrifices,
Italy will become French in her thankfulness
( Italie sera Francais* par la reconnaissance), owing
to no other nation the price of her freedom. I
will not speak of the complications created by the
force of unforeseen events which may compel the
most loyal resolutions to be modified.
" We will nowhere be promoters of anarshy and
impiety; we fear God and keep the faith of our
fathers.

" We are Catholics, and never under any Go-
vernment was religion surrounded with more re-
spect and protection ; but we are children of France,
devoted to her interests, her dynasty, and her
laws ; and we rest confident in the wisdom and
loyalty of the Emperor."

PARIS, lAN. 22.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes a decree con-
voking the Senate and the Legislative Body for the
23d of February next.
It is asserted that the signing of the Treaty of
Commerce between France and England has been
adjourned, in order to introduce into the original
project some modifications designed to remove the
fears of the French manufacturers.

The Pays of this evening says :
"As soon as the Treaty of Commerce between
France and England has been signed, negotiations
with ether Powers for the conclusion of similar
treaties will be commenced."

The Patrie of this evening publishes an article
in favour of the annexation of Savoy to F ranee.

TURIN, JAN. 21.
The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes the
following list of Ministerial appointments :
President of the Council of Mini-
sters, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and ad interim of the
Interior
War
Justice.
Finances . Signor Vegeszi.
Public Instruction
Public Works
The new Ministers will take the oath in the
course of the day.

TURIN, JAN. 21.

The official Piedmentese Gazette contains a de-
cree dissolving the former Chamber of Deputies, and
ordering some new arrangements in the composi-
tion of the electoral lists.

MODENA, JAN. 21.

The Governor, in a special decree, publishes the
Sardinian electoral law, fixes the number of Depu-
ties to be elected by the JEmilian provinces, and
establishes the districts and assemblies for elec-
toral purposes,
The change in the Sardinian Ministry has been
received everywhere with manifestations of joy.

VERONA, JAN. 21

Verona, wiih the whole territory belonging to
the fortress, has been declared in a state of siege

VIENNA, SUNDAY,

According to advices received from Central Italy
the communal and provincial elections of the
Ifimilian provinces will take place at the begin-
ning of February.

NAPLES (via GENOA), JAN. 18.

The Sardinian Ambassador (the Marquis de Villa-
marina) has arrived. The French Ambassador
(Baron Brenier) and Signor Gropello went to meet
him. Many Neapolitans have left their cards at
his house.

It is believed that the Ministerial crisis, brought
about:by the resignations of Sig. Petrulla and Gen .
Filangieri, will terminate in the retirement of all
the Ministers.

The former Ministry, strengthened by Signor
Murena, would, it is said, be recalled.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (2d
Edition), dated yesterday (Sunday), 6 p.m., says:—
"The Treaty of Commerce between England and
France was, in all probability, signed at 4 o'clock this
day. Up to last night no point remained unsettled;
perfect accord existed; and there was, I believe,
nothing left but to make out fair copies, which I
presume was done this morning. It was intended
that the signing should take place yesterday, but it
was postponed from some fault of style in a passage
of the French draught which, on close inspection,
was thought to be slightly obscure. I hear on good
authority that the English Government has acted
in the most liberal, straightforward manner in the
negotiations and in the provisions of the treaty
itself, and that it has frankly carried out the prin-
ciples of free trade which it professes ; and this
I hear, not on English, but on French authority.
It is thought that the- treaty will appear in the.
.Moniteur the same day, or very nearly so, that Mr.
Gladstone makes his financial statement in the
House of Commons.
Though I cannot give with accuracy the details
of this important document, yet I think it right to
rectify some mistakes committed by those who pro-
fess to know them.

With reference to the duties on coal, it is not
true that all duty' is abolished. Coal will be
merely relieved from the differential duty, or
surtaxe imposed on it; and will be placed on the
same footing as coal imported from other countries.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The following telegrams has been reoeiyed at Mr.
Reuters's office :

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tagus hag
arrived with mails from Lisbon to the Vith, and
£4,422 in specie.

On the 17th she passed off Lisbon the James
Dixon, homeward-bound, and the brig Harcourt
waiting, for a pilot. _ _ _

At Lisbon the Portuguese ship Cidade 'de Be-
lent had arrived from Pera with a cargo of
hides, Sc. On opening the hatches the crew
were attacked with black vomit. Several of the
cases were fatal. The cargo was ordered to be
burnt, and the vessel to proceed to Vigo in

quarantine.
All vessels from Brazilian ports were subjected
to five days' quarantine.
At Lisbon, on the 17th, exchange on London
was quoted 531 to 53k.
Rentes, 30 days, 461 to 461. Coupons, 451 to 45k.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The British and North American Royal Mail
✓steam ship Etna, Captain J. Anderson, arri'ved
here last night, but papers, &c., were only landed
this morning. She brings news from New York
to the llth inst.

The Royal Mail (Cunard) steamer Canada,
Captain Long, which left Boston on the 11th inst.,
is also off this port.
Nothing was telegraphed from Queenstown oviut
to the prostration of the Irish wires.
Affairs at Washington were unchanged. Ungue'
cessful efforts to elect a Speaker continued.
The President had nominated Mr. Charles I.
Faulkner, as ambassador to France, vice Mr.
Mason, deceased.

There was no doubt that this appointment vfoula
be confirmed by the Senate.
The Pemberton mills, at Lawrence, Massachw
setts, had fallen in while 7,000 operatives were at
work. It was supposed that at least 200 were
killed.
Latest news from San Juan Island state that
General Scott's course of action had created great
dissatisfaction, and the American inhabitants
warmly endorsed General Harney's proceedings.
Later news from Mexico report that much eV
citement prevailed regarding the new American
treaty. Miramoa's Government had formally pro'
tested against it.
At Havannah, on the sth, Sugars were. Bali
but market dull.

NEW YORK COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money Market slightly easier, but rates lA'
changed. Sterling exchange again lower, owilf
to a pressure of Southern bills. Sales at 108;
1088. The stock market had been dull, but closed
firmer. New York Central, 733- ; Illinois Central,
571.
The Bank specie had decreased in the 11 million
of dollars.
Cotton market was steady. Middling Upland'
4i. Breadstuffs dull, and prices drooping.
Provisions generally unchanged. Freights IteadP
NEW ORLEANS, JAN.,IO'
Cotton easier in consequence of the advice°
brought by the Arabia, but not lower. Sterlia
exchange 7to 7 prem.

DIVING OPERATIONS AT THE wjaa

OF THE ROYAL CHARTER.

• The Whitstable and Liverpool divers, whohuls
been so successful in their operations in recOfeAss
the scattered treasure and gold from the.o7 cet
wreck of the Royal Charter, were, a few dar".,aet•
surprised by an order arriving from the „a
writers, directing the operations to be stopped,
the men to be discharged, although at the time WI
were finding gold, and were in the act of weighil
a large a large piece of the wreck, underneath wh,i,26
great quantities were expected to be found. 'Pi
cause of this stoppage is, no doubt, attributable to
the fact of the underwriters having recovered 'Ors
than the amount of gold that was on freight, 10`
which was insured. A portion of the gold is ogre
belongedposed to have to many of the unfortauli.,.
passengers, and the question now be fettled 1..."
what is to become of the surplus. In the abseil
of all proof as to whom it belongs (no mark or
thing being on several of the bars of gold, nugl.e .:
q,
quartz, &c., by which it might be identified), a,
ficulty prevails whether the underwriters are J,To
tiled in taking possession of the remainder of
sunken treasure. It is, however, thought that tli
will eventually do so, they having defrayed 12
expenses, amounting, it is understood, to about 'e
per cent. Up to the 14th inst.—the date that too
divers knocked off work—the total extent of d
treasure recovered was as follows :-23 1300 of
gold, 272 bars and ingots, and 57 broken pieceiAti,
gold, 14,868 k sovereigns, 3814 of gold nugt
2751b5. of 'gold dust, 496 rupees, six shillivqes
gold pin, and several small articles. All the b°l
of gold and a great many of the bars bear the ut,to
contained in the Royal Charter's manifest, and
doubt can be entertained of their identity; the ~"
mainder it will be impossible to identify. Out it
40,000 sovereigns she is stated to have on board,
a,
will be seen by the above that only 14,8881 014
reigns have been found. The amount of gold_!.,,'
had on freight was about £335,000 ; and O n
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