The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-17 00:00:00

THU SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIIgO, JANUARY 17, 1861

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss LoulsePyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, and THEe Week, Belle's Nen,
legendary Optra, BIANCA, BRAVO'S BRIDE
Miss Louisa I-yne, Miss ThirlwaM : Messrs. A. Lawrence,
J. Wharton, 11. Corri, A. ".•,,t. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T.
Disrin, Lyall, and W. Harrison.
With the Graud Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom in her I' land Home. Clowns. Messrs. H.
Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle.
Lamoureux. &c.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

11,1EATRI?,-ROYAI” HAYMARKET.
Le see, Mr. J. B. Baekstone.
TTITg EVENINn the 'wenrrpwnnog nlll 00P1111.110.^ .4th
(by desirP) SHP STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss 7Tardeastle,
Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Ltunpkin, Mr. Bnckstone.
After which, a new Pantomime. QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

j OTAL PRINCE S S'S THFATRB.---
Lessee and Manarer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Messrs. Eecbter, Harris,
Meadows, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Murray.
After which, a A ',hristmas comical pantomime, entitled
?W
ROBINSON CRIJSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Ring.
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Es
nos
theatres and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal continental ,
will appear. Clown, Sfr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Bois Lessee and DiSeetreSe, Madame CELESTE.
Last Week of Mr. John Drew's Engagement.
THIS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH
EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vininr. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon.
Forrester, and John Drew; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart,
and Mrs. .T. Rouse.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRTSTABELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showina
rim vlsiov OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE
AND THE, MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE.
Larry Hoolagan, Mr.'John Drew.

A 'DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
-A go. Peon?letor and Manamer. Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C, Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which: THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roucfcanit, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith.Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chat terley.
To
BLUE concludeßEAßD withFROM a new BurA
NEWI Pue ExtravagaOlNTnzaOF ,
Fitilz. entitled
Messrs. J. L. Toole. P. Bedford
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and le. Thorne.. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar,
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-offloe open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 25.; Family Boxes, Xi.
Oreheatra Stalls, ss. • Balcony, 45.; Front Circle Stalls, 25.;
Pit Stan% 25.; Pit,lls. Sd.; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

V 5 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
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proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
sTLE
Last T hree Nights of the Wondrously Trained Lions.
A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place To-morrow,B,
e,ommencin at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding
with the Lions.!
This Evening, a new Spectacle, en-titled TAE LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World,Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
alented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding with Ratty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime. for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
• HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy Ring, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
In the comie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Doors open at half -rant 6, performance commence at 7.
Boz-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY-HALL PANTOMIME
“ THE ENCHANTED HASH,"
EVERY EVENING.
ENTERTAINING PEOPLE.
I(ARSFIALL and Mr. BELL.
GOOD TEOPLE.
Wildrose, ) Fairies, with the usual atcom- ) Mr. Marshall
Primrose, ) plishments. 1 Mr. Bell.
COMMON PEOPLE.
Farmer Thickhead (a husbandman, with a Wife
Mr. Bell.
th
and Child• who make a fool of him)
Giles G 051114.7, (e mysterious Orphan. who runs
after every Miss, and afterwards Harlegnin)Mr. Marshall.
Dame Thickhead (who. having worn out the
breeches, takes to Pantaloons) • •Mr. Bell.
Dolly (the bell of the village, which Giles in-
tends to ring the _changes to Columbine).. Mr. Marshall.
BAD PEOPLE.
Howleygrowley,l Demons of the blackest dye 1 Mr. Marshail
Growleyhowley, 5 and brightest Magenta. 5 Mr. Bell.
COMIC PEOPLE.
...... Mr. F. Brut,.
Columbine .. .................. Mr. E. MARSHALL.
C10wn........ ...•• ............. Mr. E. MARSHALL.
ntaloon ................ • .... Mr. F. BELL.
Pa,Scene CANTERBURY (that's) HALL !—Time A.D. 1861, at
half-past nine.
Mr. B. A pack of nonsense I
Mr. M. IV hat we want—
h ! pooh 1
Mr. B.
Poo
The idea a Pantomime played by two i

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 42m.—Afternoon, sh. 59m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 6h. 16m.—Afternoon, 6h. 34m,

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THI3 WEATllliaL—Sux 07710 E, JAN. 17, 1861.
TIIZIOLOICETIIIL, IN TIM SHADE.
87—highest since noon yesterday.
26 —lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.28.
WlND—North-Easterly—rather fresh; with a gentle
thaw—preceded by a fall of snow—but still cold.

At length the Noniteur speaks out in explana-
tion of the mystery at Gaeta. A Monarch who had
proclaimed to the world, to England especially,
that he fully accepted the principle of non-inter-
vention in Italy, has been, unless all Europe be
wrong, intervening most effectually in behalf of the
rejected against the elected King of ITALY—and
what after all is the explanation ? "To give a
mark of sympathy to a Prince cruelly tried by des-
tiny." Why for that purpose, a single French
vessel sent avowedly to be at his command to con-
vey
him whither he wished would have been sym-
pathy enough in all conscience.
" The EMPEROR never intended to take any part
in the conflict"—shall we call this audacity or men.
dacity ?—Both. It is an audacious lie. Driving
away the man and the ships which had made LA-
MORICERE haul down his flag at Ancona, and forcing
CIALDINI to spend half the winter constructing
siege works to little purpose in rocky ground, was
taking no part in the conflict ! It is taking no part
in a street fight between two men for a stronger
bystander to seize and hold the right hand of one
of them ! But " prolonging this demonstration"
would be intervention; of course it would—pro-
longation of existing intervention.
The secret of all this is what we pointed out the
other day. The Italian elections are at hand, and
patient as the poor Italians have been under the
caprices of their professed Liberator, they would
have been roused by his perfidy at Gaeta to return
more anti-French representatives than the EMPEROR
would like. But more than that, the Parliament in
which the affairs of Italy will be freely debated must
soon meet. Questions must soon be put to our
Ministers on the subject of Franc© and Gaeta, an-
swers must be given, and speeches would certainly
be made, by the KINGSLAKES, HORSMANS, ROE-
BUCKS, PEELS, and others, which the Intervener at
Gaeta would little relish.

We may then venture to hope that this monstrous
piece of vanity—cruel vanity too—is at an end;
and that we may thank the sth of February for it.

We shall be too glad to see this impudent
imperial freak over to say much about the
wretched excuses for it. Let us hope that
the rejected Monarch, left to his late subjects and
the Monarch they have chosen, will soon find his
late- born courage evaporate, and that the batteries
of the Piedmontese will not have to be used after
the IDth. It would be but wanton cruelty if any
more lives were sacrificed to the pride of the Young
Bourbon.

A little more than a fortnight—and Parliament
'will have assembled. The Ministry and the Oppo-
sition will then confront each other for another
xession —the tactics of each depending, we may

rest perfectly well assured of this, upon a variety
of as yet but dimly foreshadowed contingencies.
The discussions, both in the Lords and the Com-
mons, during many years past have been so entirely
guided by the interests of party that it is most
earnestly to be hoped and prayed for, in the new
struggle preparing for us within the walls of the
Legislature, that the interests of the country may,
by way of novelty, be taken this year now and
then, however incidentally, into consideration:
To this end, more, if possible, will be dependent
upon the magnanimity of the Opposition than upon
the energetic civism and patriotic ardour of the
Government. It is essential, however, that the
Cabinet should afford the requisite opportunity for
the display of this magnanimity to the leaders of
her MAJESTY'S Opposition. As how ? is it
asked, in the slang idiom of the day. The
answer is obvious—By the adoption of a bold
and manly, a clear and comprehensible course,
in regard to all the topics of vital import that will
have to be taken into account, sooner or later,
before the approaching session shall have termi-
nated.- If only her MAJESTY'S Ministers will dare
to adopt a resolute and consistent policy during
this session, they will strengthen their already
powerful position before the country and before
Christendom ; and, in spite even of the financial
difficulties which will have to be tided through
somehow, while Mr. GLADSTONE'S rash hand is
upon the helm in the midst of very perillous and
intricate navigation, they may at once, by this
simple device of adopting a bold and manly policy,
secure simultaneously the advantage of the commu-
nity at large, and their own triumph for yet
another year over a powerful and united Opposi-

tion.

Besides which—as already implied—a policy of
the nature indicated will put to the test the gene-
rosity and patriotism not merely of the leaders but
of the rank and file of the Opposition. It will
render manifest at a glance the slightest tendency
among them to anything like mere: factious anta-

gonism.
The Government of Lord PALMERSTON has
under ordinary circumstances, the command of a
good clear majority of the House of Commons.
That fact has been proved again and again both
during the whole of last session and during thelatter
half of its predecessors. It is only when the course
adopted by the members of this Coalition Government
becomes hesitating and equivocal, that the inde-
pendent Liberals begin to fail in their allegiance
—escape froin within reach of the lash of the
whipper-in—sometimes even (the more impracti-
cable or adventurous of the number) cross over to
swell the ranks of their habitual antagonists by
trooping into the lobby with the Conservative
throng from the side of the Opposition.
It was is this way that affairs went badly last year
with the Liberals upon the subject of the Reform of
Parliament. The Cabinet was so little in earnest
upon the matter, that its outside supporters got
disheartened and disgusted. They prepared a
scarcely calculable swarm of amendments
nearly one hundred amendments altogether—
rods in pickle, kept in readiness (it the time should
ever come for using them, which time it is but too
well known never did come after all !), kept there in
readiness for the flagellation of that poor Little
Bill in committee. The truth being obviously that
upon the question involved in that rough draft of
an intended (?) enactment the strong Coalition
was a "house divided against itself." There,
in truth, is the ACHILLES-heel of the
Government. There is the clue through the laby-
rinth of their sometimes inexplicable inconsistency
—in mooting measures at the beginning of a session
with a flourish of trumpets, and then allowing
them to die out quietly and :not even to have the
benefit of a decent sepulture. So it was with the
Reform Question. So it was with the Question
relating to the remodelling of the Laws on Bank-
ruptcy. So it was in reference to so very many other
subjects of supreme, and some of them of really
urgent importance. Until the ordinary quiet little
ceremony of the Bill-Battue at the approach of
Autumn was lengthened into a seemingly inter-
minable Massacre of Innocents—lnnocents most of
them brought into existence with a view solely to
their ulterior destruction. Instead of battling
manfully and resolutely for the triumph of prin-
ciples, Ministers were, in this way, upon too many
themes of exceeding interest to the community at
large in themselves, only carrying on a grand Sham
Fight discreditable in every way to their individual
and collective reputations.
It is quite impossible that the same line of con-
duct can be pursued again with impunity. It rests
with themselves, therefore, whether the session of
1861, like the session of 1860, shall be one of mere
Debate, in which case it must, this time, inevitably
be also one of Defeat, into the bargain—or
whether the future session, unlike the past
session, shall be one of active legislation, in which
contingency it must certainly be, it can alone
be one of triumph the most signal and reite-
rated over any and every opposition. We say this
because we believe it—and we do so with a vivid
remembrance, too, of the weak point in the panoply
of the Coalition, namely, its financial policy under
that most rash and experimental of all our finan-
ciers, the right hon. member for the University of
Oxford. In spite of which—such is our apprecia-
tion of the abilities of our administrators and of the
numerical preponderance of their supporters in the
House of Commons, and such, moreover, is our
sense of the nobler sentiments of civism and of
magnanimity latent in the hearts of the leaders of
the great party of the Conservatives, and in the
hearts also of the majority of those Conservatives
themselves—we are firmly convinced that it requires
only a bold and straightforward policy on the part
of the present Government effectually, and in every
sense of the phrase, to disarm the Opposition.

Mr. BUCHANAN, like FRANCIS 11. means to die
game. Haviag fled before the Southern bullies,
as the King did before the redoubtable Garibal-
distils, the PRESIDENT seems now inclined to
fight it out. Reproaches have doubtless come so
thickly upon him from all the most respectable men
of the Democratic as well as the Republican party,
that he perceived he must either screw up his cou-
rage to breast the storm, or retire from office the
most unhonoured, if not dishonoured of his country's
Presidents. What an epitaph to leave to posterity
—" Here lies JAMES BUCHANAN, whose timidity
broke up the American Union." The worthy old
gentleman, tortured to death doubtless between
his innate love of negro slavery and his fear, at
last bethinks himself that a coward's grave is an
intolerable fate, and determines to enforce the
Federal laws and rights.
He appears, indeed though rather late in the
day, to be imitating General JACKSON. The
General, however, at first, as soon as only nulli-

fication was threatened, sent a vessel of war to
collect the Customs, which soon settled the busi-
ness. Mr. BUCHANAN waits till the Custom House
Arsenal and other Federal buildings are seized,
the Federal Revenue Collectors converted into
State Collectors, the vote of secession, not of nullifi
cation merely, confirmed by the most daring acts,
and then at last, we read, that instructions have
been seat to the Commander of the steam frigate

Brooklyn, now at '.Norfolk, to put her in readiness to
be prepared to leave at a moment's warning. Now
that all themisehiel: is done, and the United States
Commander of the Forces at Charleston has beca
obliged to give up fart Moultrie to the rebels, and
to betake himself to the almost impregnable fort
Sumter, a frigate is ordered, not thither, but to be
ready ! Even his firmness is, after, all that of a
BUCHANAN not of a JACICSON.

His decision will, however, in all probability
necessarily increase. His cabinet seems to have
been pretty nearly equally divided on the question
whether the excellent strategic move of Major
ANDERSON should be disowned or not. The PRE-
SIDENT, in this important case, however, determined
to stand by his clever officer. The Charleston
Commissioners raved indignantly, for Fort Sumpter,
as we have mentioned, commands Charleston itself,
the other forts, and the harbour, besides being very
strong, and they called the proceeding bad faith.
BUCHANAN, however, was firm, and the Secretary at
War, Mr. FLOYD, who wanted to send the counter-
manding order, resigned. Mr. BUCHANAN at once
accepted the resignation. Yet it is but a few days
since General CAss resigned because the PRESI-
DENT refused to take necessary steps to strengthen
the Federal forces in Carolina. The majority of
the Cabinet are now, we presume, for a bold

policy.
The North meantime is demanding such a policy.
Even the party of Mr. BUCHANAN at New York,
the Democrats, have spontaneously proposed to
tender the general Government a militia force of
10,000 men, "to put down insurrection in one por-
tion of the country." Massachusetts and New
Hampshire have spoken to the same effect before.
And, most important of all, the army officers, with
the veteran SCOTT at their head, are decided for
preserving the Union. An interesting letter has
indeed been published, written to General CASS by
General WooL, who commands the eastern depart-
ment of the army, including South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. The
latter urges in strong terms the reinforcement of
the army, so as to quell all thought of secession.
The PRESIDENT has, he says, only to exert the
power conferred on him by Congress and all will
be safe, and a civil war prevented. From a sepa-
ration he predicts torrents of blood, followed
by pestilence, famine, and desolation. This
letter was dated the 6th of December, and no
doubt had great weight with General CASS. And,
in truth, it does not seem unlikely that had Mr.
BUCHANAN then acted on the advice of the two
Generals, instead of encouraging secession by his
message, the Carolinians would, as in Gen. JACK-
SON'S time, have thought twice before they acted.
The Southern States seem indeed to have wished,
if they could, to go to the extreme of putting them-
selves in the wrong. Instead of waiting for acts
on the part of the North, they have really nothing
to allege in their declaration of causes of secession,
but the opinions of the North, and :its acting
on those opinions in its Presidential vote. Their
own staunch friends cannot acknowledge their
reasons. They might so easily have waited till
something was done officially by Mr. LINCOLN
of which they could complain. Thy_ might have
let federal property and the federal revenues alone,
and have entered first into fair and peaceable dis-
cussion with the other States on the conditions
of continued union. The course they have taken,
as the North asserts, shows a foregone conclusion.
They have been long wishing for a Southern Con-
federation, and the election of Mr. LINCOLN is but
the mere pretext for the separation ; and it cannot
be denied that the hot haste of Carolina, and of the
States likely immediately to follow her, justify
such a suspicion. The pleasure of having their
slavery all to themselves, and still more the hope
of regaining the commerce they had lost to the
North, had long been the real motives for desiring
a Southern Confederation.
For humanity's sake, every man here, and in
America too, must wish to avert anything so
horrible as civil war between the white population,
rendered yet more horrible by the ground-down
negroes, knowing that their wrongs were really at
the bottom of it. It would seem almost impossible
not to have a civil and a servile war at the same
time ; the latter one of the most righteous ever
waged on earth. The victory must, undoubtedly,
be with the populous, more vigorous, and rich
North. Indeed, at the very outset the miserable
poverty of the South is apparent. The Governor of
Alabama, for instance, has actually taken the ex-
traordinary step of writing to all the banks in the
State requesting them to suspend specie payments,
as the silver and gold would be wanted for State
purposes; and assuring them of obtaining for them
an act of indemnity on calling together the State
Legislature. They may want, he says, a million
dollars, in the event of secession ; they could not sell
the State bonds, in America or Europe, except at a
ruinous discount, and, therefore, for this paltry
sum, about £200,000 sterling, the Governor
of one of the Sovereign seceding States,
proposes to lay hands on the cash
reserves of the Banks ! Even Austria herself could
not surpass such poverty as this. And these are
the States which propose to fight it out with the
men, the money, and the mechanical power of the
North. South Carolina herself, the wealthy one of
the batch, is hard put to it to raise a loan of
£BO,OOO ! With no money in their purses, and
with four million of enemies in their own slaves,
what could they hope from a struggle ?
We in this country, perhaps, universally hope
such a struggle will never be seen. The issue is not
worth the cost of trial. The Northern States would
be strong enough without the slave States, which
indeed do the former more harm than good. As to
commerce, the North would trade with the South
quite as profitably separate from them as united to
them. The experience of England since American
independence is proof enough of that, Commerce
will follow capital, energy, and skill; and nothing
can force it into a healthy vigour. The United
States would not be so big a nation in the world—
that is all—and a matter of very little consequence
indeed.

Punch hits the right nail on the head once more
with a swinging rap of his baton. Divorce a Vinculo
—Mrs. CAROLINA asserts her right to Larrup her
own Nigger ! Events would seem to threaten no*,
however, that two can play at that game—and the
Southerners would do well to reflect before it is
too late whether the New World may not be goaded
to the rousing of another and a more fortunate
SPARTACITS.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Mdme.
Van de Weyer have left New Lodge on a visit to Mr.
Harcourt and Frances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuneham
Park, Oxon.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will return
to Cambridge House, about the 24th inst., from Broadlands.
Viscountess Jocelyn's children have so far recovered as to
be considered out of danger.

The Earl of Bradford has during the last week
greatly improved in health. The noble earl has been f r
some days past out of all danger.
DEATH OF COUNT MONTEMOLIN.—A private
despatch announces that the Count and Countess Monte-
molin died at Trieste on the 14th instant within a few
hours of each other. Count Montemolin was son of the
Infant Don Carlos, who for many years asserted, arms in
hand, his claims to the throne of Spain. He was born on
the 31st of January, 1818. The countess was a princess of
Naples, sister of the late King Ferdinand 11., and born on
he 29th February, 1820,

MISS NIGHTINGALE.—We regret to learn from
undoubted authority that the report recently circulated in
several journals of the gradual improvement in Miss Night-
ingale's health is entirely without foundation. Her malady,
far from being alleviated, increases upon her, and her state,
which confines her entirely to her apartment, is one of great
exhaustion and severe suffering.
THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.—We believe that
there is no trnth in the announcement of the death of the
Duke of Sutherland, which appeared in one of the morning
papers yesterday. His grace bas been suffering from seri-
ous illness for some time past, but the accounts last night
were not hopeless.

ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD,
AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—On Tuesday a shocking
accident occurred at Woedhead, on the above line. John
Limper, the driver of the up goods train from Manchester
to Lincoln, having shunted his train at Woodhead, crossed
the line to the lamp-house. On returning across the down
line the express train from Hull to Manchester emerged
from the tunnel, and the unfortunate man was cut to pieces.
The deceased was an old and steady servant, and leaves a
widow and six children.

THE FRENCH TREATY.—We have good reason to
believe that the time originally fixed for the French treaty
coming into full operation will be considerably anticipated.
From circumstances which have come to our knowledge,
we consider it highly probable that, within a few weeks
hence, the ifoniteur will announce the Emperor's decision
to give immediate effect to the stipulations of the treaty,
and thereby obviate the inconveniences incident to any
further suspense in the commercial intercourse of the two
countries.—Manehester Examiner.

A BANKING INCIDENT.—The following curious
anecdote is related of M. Carvelho de Moraes, the Brazilian
Minister at Brussels,' who died suddenly on New Year's
Eve. In the morning of the 31st December, M. de Moraes
went to his banker's and drew out a sum of 30,000 f. The
banker, who was no other than the representative of the
house of Rothschild, as the accounts for the year were
either made up or on the point of being so, requested his
client to date his cheque for the Ist January. This was
done, so that the 30,000 f. were paid to M. de Morass on a
cheque dated the day after his death.
NEW CHURCH AT WESTMINSTER.—The new
church dedicated to St. Peter, the foundation-stone of
which was laid by the Earl of Derby a few months since,
and to which his lordship was a munificent contributor, is
rapidly progressing, and is expected to be ready for conse-
cration in July or August next. The new church, which is
situate in Windmill-street, Haymarket—a district which
stands in much need of increased facilities for religious in-
struction, will be a spacious and commodious structure, and
a large number of the sittings will be free and unappro-
priated. An ecclesiastical district will be assigned to the
new church out of the parish of St. James's, Westminster,
and the Rev. George Smith, M.A., will be the first
incumbent.

RACE ON THE ICE.—An exciting race on skates
took place at Harewood, for a prize given by the Earl of
Harewood, on Friday last. The distance was about half a
mile over the large lake in front of Harewood House, and
16 competitors started. The skating was of a very good
description (there being no downfalls or any accidents), and
the pace throughout was terrific. The race was won easily
by Mr. W. Wright, J. Clarke second, J. Booth third, C.
West fourth, the Hon. F. Lascelles fifth, and Viscount
Lascelles sixth, two or three others being pretty well up,
and the remainder, from the length of the course and the
severe pace, being completely distanced.
THE ICE ON THE RlTER.—Yesterday the Thames
presented a most extraordinary appearance from the im •
mense quantities of floating ice, many of the bergs being
fully eight feet above the surface of the stream, and ice-

fields upwards of 100 yards in length were borne by the
current with great violence against the piers of the bridges,
breaking to pieces with a crashing noise resembling distant
thunder. ChannelE that were formed to the various wharfs,
at considerable labour and expense, are again blocking up,
and a number of coal-laden barges, which were towed up
by steam-tugs, are frozen in by blocks of ice, some of
which are above the gunwales. On the Surrey side of the
river the ice is of such vast thickness that the boys for
their amusement have fires alight in skeleton grates. At
Westminster-bridge the frozen mass reaches from shore to
shore, and below bridge, across the ice, is the ordinary
route for persons going to or returning from vessels in the
river.

THE CATTLE TRADE.—DERBY, Jan. 15.—At to-
day's cattle-market there was a limited show of fat beasts,
for which the demand was firm, and recent rates were well
supported. Calves were scarce, and quite as dear as last
week. Sheep were a moderate show, and sold steadily at
previous rates. Pigs were quite as dear as last market day.
Prices :—Beef, 61d. to lid. ; sheep, 7d. to Bd. ; calves, 7d.
to 70. ; pigs, bid. to 6&d. per lb.
THE MURDER OF TWELVE SAILORS BY SAVAGES.
—The lfelbourne Herald says :—" The barque Nimrod,

which arrived from Norfolk Island on Sunday, br;ngs
ia-
tell°pence that the American whaler, High Warthie, ar-
rived at Norfolk Island, with Messrs. Mears, wife, and
family, who had escaped from the Island Spirita Santa.
From the statement which we have been able to gather it
I appears that Mr. Mears was engaged, with about 50 others,
in collecting sandal-wood at the island of Spirita Santa.
there being also several stations in the vicinity. A great

quantity of wood had been collected, when the natives
set on them and murdered 12 Englishmen on
one station. The men belonging to the other stations
were compelled to break them up and fly for their lives,
escaping to an island some distance off, and Mr. Mears,
with his wife and family, also escaped to another island,
where they remained more than two months before they
could get a vessel to take them to Norfolk Island. The
American whaler High Warthie having put in there the
eaptain gave him and his wife a passage. On their arriving
at Norfolk Island some difficulty arose among the settlers
as to their landing, but on the captain of the High Warthie
stating that he would land them on some other island a
council was held, and it was agreed that they should remain
until a vessel would call and enable them to reach Sydney.
It appears that the settlers on Norfolk Island are, by their
laws, prohibited from receiving any persons on the island.
The remainder who had escaped ail) all awaiting a vessel to
take them to some other place. It may be as well to men-
tion that the Mr. Mears spoken of is a brother to Captain
Mears, formerly of this port."
THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—At a meeting
of the governors of this institution, held yeeterday at their
offices, Trafalgar-square—Mr. T. E. Baker, treasurer, in
the chair—the following cases were brought forward by Mr.
Young, the secretary, and referred by the committee to the
next general court for the award of the society's silver medal:
—Mr. Stephsn Court, master in the Royal Navy, for saving
William Wise, an ablebodied seaman of her Majesty's ship
Calcutta, at the monrh of the Peiho. It appears that the
man fell from the foretopmast rigging of the vessel, struck
the chains, and fell overboard insensible ; Mr. Court imme-
diately jumped overboard, and, at the imminent risk of his
own life, succeeded in rescuing him. This is the second
occasion on which Mr. Court has been instrumental in
saving life from drowning, having while second master on
board the Enterprise, under the command of Sir J. Ross,
saved a man who accidentally fell overboard while at sea;
Mr. Alexander Gollan, vice-consul at Pernambuco, for
saving Mr. Johnston, who b3came exhausted while crossing
the river Jaboalao, Pernambuco, South America, on the Ist
Nov., 1859. The society's bronze medal was awarded in
the two following cases :—To,Charles A. Douglas, able-
bodied seaman of H.M.S. Edinburgh, for saving Ebenezer
Horn, one of the carpenter's crew of the same vessel, who
fell overboard on Christmas 'day last in the Firth of Forth,
Scotland, the thermometer at the time being four degrees
below zero ; and to James Harrison, boatman, for saving
George Moreton, a farmer, who accidentally fell into the
river Weaver, Norwich, Cheshire, on the 6th of Dec. last.
Pecuniary rewards were granted in two other cases. A
legacy of £lOO bequeathed by Mr. J. Bowerbank, was re-
ported to the court. It was stated that up to the sth inst.
140 persons had been immersed in the various parks of the
metropolis during the recent severe weather, the whole of
whom were rescued by the society's icemen, besides nume-
rous cases of cuts and bruises, which received atten-
tion at the different marquees and tents. The
estimated number of skaters and sliders who have
visited the ice in the different parks since the com-
mencement of .the frost is upwards of half a million, as
reported by the society's officers. After the transaction of
some further business of a mere formal character, the pro-
ceedings terminated with the usual compliment to the chair-
man.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR MALTON.—On
Monday the adjourned inquest was held at Langton. Mr.
George Whitehouse, engineer, of York, stated in evidence
that he had made an examination of the engine, and had
found it in good working order. Witness was of opinion
that the cause of the explosion was owing to the weakness
of the plate next the smoke-box, which had burst. The
jury returned as their verdict that Henry Moring and
Leonard Saggitt, the two deceased, were accidentally killed
by the explosion of the boiler of a steam threshing machine.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest
was held at the Crown Inn, Bridge-street, Banbury, on
Friday last, before T. Pain, Esq., borough coroner, upon
the body of Ann Scrivens, aged 16 years, who came by her
death through accidentally falling into a well the same morn-
ing. Mrs. Wakelin, the principal witness, and with whom
the unfortunate girl had been living for about two months,
said she ordered the deceased to light a fire in the kitchen
about 9 o'clock in the morning, in doing which she would
have to pass through the coal house. She had lit the fire,
and was about supplying it with fuel, when it appeared the
floor gave way. Mr. Wakelin sent her little girl for some
coals for the house fire, and she returned, saying that there
was a large hole in the kitchen floor, into which it ap-
peared the girl had fallen, and which afterwards turned out
to be a well, 17 feet deep. Mrs. Wakelin then went for
her husband—a distance of at least 150 yards—who was
soon on the spot, and succeeded in bringing her from the
bottom of the well ; but life was quite extinct, the deceased
having been under water, with a large portion of earth upon
her body, for nearly twenty minutes, It is a singular fact
that the parties had resided in the house for a period of five
years without knowing there was a well on the premises.
A verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was pgAried,

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PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur publishes a decree abolishing the
surtax of 3f. per 100 kilogrammes on foreign sugars
imported in French vessels from countries out of
Europe.
The Noniteur also says :
" The object in sending the French fleet to Gaeta
was to give a mark of sympathy to a Prince cruelly
tried by destiny. The Emperor, faithful to the
principle of non-intervention, never intended to
take any active part in the conflict at that place.
In prolonging this demonstration he would change
its character, and would give encouragement and
material support to the resistance of the King. It
therefore 'became necessary to cause the cessation
of this state of things. We could not indefinitely
remain present at 'it conflict which could only lead
to a greater effusion of blood. By the advice given
by France to the belligerents hostilities are sus-
pended until the 19th instant, and Admiral Barbier
de Tinau will leave Gaeta to-day."

ROME (via TURIN) JAN. 13.

General Goyon has demanded explanations from
the Papal Government as to the object of the
movement of Papal troops towards the Neapolitan
frontiers. Mgr. Merode has refused to give any
reply. General Goyoi has, in consequence, referred
to his Government on the subject.

ROME, JAN. 15.

The Diplomatic Corps and the Papal Nuncio
left this morning for Gaeta to congratulate King
Francis 11. on the occasion of his birthday.

NAPLES, JAN. 14.

Prince Carignan has issued a proclamation, in
which he says, " I have come among you to hasten
the work of unification, and to maintain public
order. The Government will respect the Church
and its Ministers, provided the clergy obey the
King, the statutes, and the laws."
The Prince promises administrative reforms, and
concludes by expressing the hope that Gaeta will
shortly fall, and that the Neapolitan provinces will
be ready to make any sacrifice for the unity of
Italy.

LISBON, JAN. 16.
The steamer Estramadura, of the Alessageries
Imperiales, has arrived here from the Brazils.
Exchange on London at Rio was quoted 27 to
261 ; Hamburg, 685.
Coffee was quiet at 5,300 to 5,500 reis per arroba.
Stock, 100,000 bags.

PRUSSIA.
THE KING'S SPEECH.

We have received the full text of the King of
Prussia's speech to the Chambers on the 14th inst.,
a telegraphic summary of which has already ap-
peared in our columns :
" Most noble and honoured Gentlemen of both
Houses of Diet—

" With deep emotion I bid you welcome. The
hopes and wishes which I expressed to you from
this place have not, by God's impenetrable
decrees, been fulfilled. With me and my house
you have to deplore the loss of the King, who after
severe suffering has been taken away from us.
What the Government of my brother his Majesty
the late King, uow reposing in God, did for Prussia,
how much the country is indebted to his magna-
nimous sway, I need not point out to the represen-
tatives of the Prussian people, who were installed
during his lifetime.
" King Frederick William IV. has departed in
serious times. I have a heavy task on hand. With
the gracious blessing of God I hope to perform it
successfully. You will stand firmly by my side.
The country stands in need of enlightened advice
and disinterested sacrifice.

" Having declared, in the presence of the leading
Princes of the German Diet, that the first object
of my German—of my European policy—should
be to maintain the integrity of the German Con-
federation, it became necessary, with the means
you voted, to increase the strength of our army
in such guise that not only were the troops in-
creased in number, but the new organization pro-
vided them with every guarantee of stability
and confidence. The measures taken to effect
this object come within the legal enactments of our
army organization. From the measures that will
be proposed to you, you will find that retrench-
ments will be made for next year, which will be a
guarantee to you that only what is indispensably
necessary for the efficiency of the army will be
asked. Prussia has abundant resources at her
command to maintain her army on a footing to
command respect. The actual state of affairs in
Germany and in Europe will induce the Prussian
Parliament not to be behindhand in keeping up
what has already been done, and developing it ; it
will not refuse its sanction to measures on which
depends the safety of Prussia and of Germany.
" Despite the pressure of political circumstances
we may look with satisfaction on the state of our
finances. It is to be hoped that the charges which
fell upon the past year will be completely covered
by the receipts of the present one. The surplus of
1859 may then be added to the Treasury.
After alluding to local measures of taxation, the
King continued :
" The commerce of the country, if not restored
to that activity which preceded the financial and
political crisis of the last few years, nevertheless
shows increased vitality. Its development in all its
branches has never ceased to be one of the chief
objects of my Government. A further extension of
the network of our railways has been resolved. The
abolition of transit dues and a notable diminution
of the Rhine dues has been agreed upon between
the respective Governments.
"My Government is on the point of opening
negotiations with the Imperial French Government
for regulating, by treaty, the commercial relations
between the Zollverein and France.
" The reform of the Marriage Law will, as I al-
ready informed you at the close of last session,
again be brought before you. I confidently look
forward to a solution of that question.
" Many other important measures will be laid
before you by my Government.
" In.the course of last year I had the opportunity,
by personal interview with different Monarchs, of
placing our relations with them on a more satisfac-
tory footing than ever, and these are guarantees
for the maintenance of the peace of Europe.
" Actuated by the grave position of affairs in
Europe, my Government is anxiously endea-
vouring to effect a revision of the organisation of
the army of the Confederation, as imperiously
commanded by the increased military wants of the
present day. I confidently look forward to an ulti-
mate satisfactory result, as all German Governments
and all German races acknowledge united action to
be the most pressing necessity of the common
Fatherland.
" In the electorate of Hesse a contention still
exists which my well-meant and moderate counsels
have not succeeded in allaying. The endeavours
of my Government are indefatigably exerted to see
the legal state of things restored.
" To my sorrow, the steps which Prussia, in con-
cert with the other German Federal States, has
taken for years to procure for the German duchies
under the rule of the King of Denmark the enjoy-
ment of a constitutional existence responding to
their rights have not been attended with any
result. With her German confederates, Prussia
acknowledge it to be a national duty now at last
to bring about a proper solution of this question.

" My Government has commenced in serious
times; whatever may be •in store for us, I shall
adhere to the principles under which I undertook
the Regency. The experience I have acquired in

applying them has only tended to strengthen my
belief in their value. Resolved to strengthen the
efficiency of our institutions and of our laws, to
develope the national interests of Prussia and of
Germany with earnestness and purpose, I see in the
stedfast adherence to this system the surest gua-
rantee agaii.6t the spirit of revolution which is loose
in Europe.

I am confident that Prussia under my rule will
be true to herself. I trust that Prussia, with the
counsel of her representatives, as in the acts of her
people, will prove that she does not intend to
remain behind the glory of her forefathers in unity
and strength. I am confident that in good times
as in bad times the country will stand by me with
unshaken fidelity.

" When I undertook the Regency I promised to
exercise the power intrusted to me by the Almighty
according to the Constitution and laws of the king-
dom. Referring to that vow, I call upon you to
swear to me that fidelity which you swore and
kept to my brother.
" You will then swear unto me, before the
Almighty God, a solemn oath that you will be loyal
and true to me, and that you will stand by me in
carrying out my rights and my duties with heart
and hand."

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