The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1861.

HAYMARKET THEATRES—The performances at
this house to-morrow evening will be for ;he benefit of Mr.
J. W. Wilde, a gentleman with whose miens and assidu-
ous attention to the convenience of the aulience the patrons
of the Haymarket Theatre have been long familiar. The
entertainments announced for the occasion are of an unusu-
ally attractive character; and this fact, coupled with the
general sense of the merits of the benlAiazre, will doubtless
ensure a numerous attendance.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.--The pantomime at
this establishment is from the pen of Mr. Nelson Lee, and
is founded on the well-known story of " John Gilpin's Ride
to Edmonton." The main incidents of the pantomime are
brought about by the aid of one Nickels, the witch of
Edmonton, who, in her hatred to Queen Mirth, resolves to
annoy and cause trouble to one Giles, who is in love with
Dolly, the servant of Mrs. Gilpin, cueen Mirth resolving
to protect the maid and her lover. The scene opens with
the abode of Nickels, who summons all her agents to use
their power to perplex Gilpin, and render his day of plea-
sure one of torment and misery, sending forth her imps to
fret and teaze Gilpin's horse, and protract the union of the
lovers; in the course of which Joinny Gilpin's horse exe-
cutes some wonderful tricks, urged by the demons of horse-
flesh, thus depriving Gilpin of his day of enjeyment. But
by means of the Fairy Mirth th) steed makes his way to
one Calender's, from which, by Ler magic, she transports
them to her fairy home.

CHANCELLORSHIP OF CAIBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
—By the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort
the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge becomes
vacant. The election of a Chancellor must be within 14
days after the vacancy, and is more burgensium. His Royal
Highness was elected in 1847, on the death of the Duke of
Northumberland, on which occasion he was opposed by the
late Earl of Powis. On the part of many members of the
University a desire prevails to elect the Prince of Wales as
successor to his father, but his extreme youth it is thought
may be a bar to that wish being fulfilled. Among other
gentlemen whose names are freely mentioned in connection
with the Chancellorship are Lord Palmerston, of St. John's
College, M.A,, 1806; the Duke of Devonshire, of Trinity
College, who was second wrangler in 1829 ; the Earl of
Hardwicke, of Queen's College, LL.D., 1835; the Marquis
of Lansdowne, of Trinity College, LL,D., 1811; the Earl
of Zetland, of Trinity College, M.A., 1815 ; the Duke of
Buccleuch, of St. John's College, M.A,, 1837; and Lord
Lyndhurst, of Trinity College, at present Lord High Steward
of the University.

THE HERBERT MEMORTAL.—A meeting of the
subscribers to the Herbert memorial took place yesterday
at the Council House, Salisbury, to receive the report of a
committee appointed at the general meeting held a few
months ago. It stated that the sums received and promised
up to the 3d ult. were for the Convalescent Hospital £3,095,
for the statue £1,078 ls. GI, and for disposal by the com-
mittee £369 12s. The committee recommended that the
statue should be of bronze. They estimated the cost at
£2,000, and proposed to intrust its erection to Baron Maro-
chetti, an artist in whom Lady Herbert was known to have
confidence. With regard to the second object subscribed
for, they recommended the adoption of the existing hospital
at Charmouth, which was established by Lady Herbert.
They thought the funds collected should be laid out in good
securities, and that the interest should be employed in aug-
menting the funds of this institution,which has been hitherto
dependent on voluntary benevolence, they at the same thee
reserving a right, if they thought fit, to remove the home to
another spot. They trusted Miss Nightingale would yet be
able to bestow her care upon the institution,and so discharge
a service of love to the memory of the chief whom she so
highly prized. Mr. T. H. S. Estcourt, the chairman, after
referring in touching terms to the death of Prince Albert,
proposed the adoption of the report. The resolution was
seconded by Mr. C. Bleeck, of Warminster, and unani-
mously carried. A committee was then nominated to carry
out the purposes of the recommendation contained in the
report, consisting of Mr. G. Wingfield Digby, of Sherborne
Castle; Mr. J. H. Jacob, of Salisbury; and Mr. Hinsman,
of Dumford House, Wilts.

THE PROSECUTION OF THE " DUBLIN MORNING
NEWS."—The action for libel brought by Mr. Hardy, the
sub. sheriff of Armagh, against Mr. Alex. M. Sullivan, of
the Dublin Morning News, occupied the Court of Queen's
Bench from Thursday morning till Saturday aftetneon.
The alleged libel amounted substantially to the state-
ment that the juries empannelled in Ulster were drawn
from. one political party, that party being the deadly
foes of Catholics. Further, that while an Orangeman
could ensure himself a jury composed of his co-religionists,
a Catholic could not have a single Catholic on his jury.
Sergeant Armstrong, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Macdonough,
and Mr. Kaye appeared for the plaintiff; and Sergeant
Sullivan, Mr. John O'Hagan, and Mr. Hamill for the de-
fendant. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff on all
the issues, with £5O damages.

FATAL OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.—The Dungannon
correspondent of the Freeman's .Tournal, writing on the
15th inst., says:—Early this morning a large number of
persons went to the residence of Francis Dixon, who has
absconded, being largely in debt, which was in charge of a
care-taker named Joseph Donnelly, placed there by Dixon's
creditors until the furnitire, &c., were sold for their benefit.
The party tried to force the front door, and being refused
admittance went to the back door and forced it in; they then
entered the kitchen, when Donnelly discharged a gun at
them, and shot dead one of the party named Patrick Hillan,
a farmer. Donnelly, as well as ten others of the attacking
party, are in custody. It is supposed this attack was at the
instigation of Joseph Corroran, nephew to Dixon, who
wanted to retain possession of the house and lands in oppo-
sition to the creditors.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday last
a married woman named Jeffery left her home to go to her
mother's, taking her infant of eight months old in her arms.
She had passed over the bridge between Stanford's-end and
Timlin-barn, and appears to have rested at the Weirs,
where the n- ise and sight of the running stream seemed to
have turned her giddy, and she fell with her babe into the
stream. Though weak from the effects of a long illness,
she managed to get out without help, and went to the house
of Mrs. Russell, at " Broomses," at which time she was
almost paralysed, and the child was dead in her arms. Mrs.
Russell, with great kindness and energy, set to work to
restore the mother, and most fortunately succeeded. Had
she not fallen into such good hands, there is every proba-
bility that in a short time she too would have been a corpse.
The infant, a fine grown child, shows plainly on its arms
and sides the marks made by the poor affrighted mother
grasping it to save its life.—Maidstone Journal.

DEATH FROM ♦ CAT'S BITE —The Courier de
l' Isere records the death of a farmer named Journet, at
Paladra, in that department, under the following circum-
stances :—Journet had promised to give a cat about six
months old to one of his neighbours, and one day last week
he shut it in a basket to have it ready. When his neigh-
bour came, Journet went io take the animal out, and she
bit his little finger, but so slightly that he thought nothing
of it. The next day he tended hie cattle as usual, and
passed the afternoon in breaking hems till evening, when
the finger became intolerably painful, A surgeon was sent
for, who made an incision and dressed the wound; but the
whole hand was soon after affected and turned quite black,
as did also the arm. Other doctors were then consulted,
but in spite of all that medical skill could do, the poor man
died on the fifth day after receiving the bite. As to the cat,
she is alive and apparently quite well.

TYNE SEAMEN.—SHIELDS, Monday Night.—The
annual meeting of the South Shields Loyal Standard Asso-
ciation held to-day has brought out much of the fino
qualities of head and heart for which Tyno sea-
men are eminent. At noon the men went in procession
to church, with their bands playing solemn music and
their banners half-mast high, and the annual dinner
of the men was held in the Golden Lion Hotel As-
sembly-rooms afterwards, the Mayor of the borough, Mr.
Wallis, presiding, and he was supported by the clergy, Mr.
Alderman Robinson, the town clerk,and other warm friends
of the sailors. In proposing the toast of " The Queen" the
•hairman was visibly affected. He spoke in very tender and
feeling terms of the bereavement sustained by her Majesty
through the death of her Royal Consort, and evoked the
sympathy of the audience for her Majesty in her great n laic-
tion. The toast was drunk in solemn silence, and the Na-
tional Anthem was sung by the seamen with much fervour
and deep emotion. It was a very impressive scene indeed.
The South Shields Loyal Standard Association has 1,775
members, 280 having been added this year. It is an asso-
ciation that has been established since 1821, for the mutual
relief of shipwrecked members, or for the relief of their
widows and orphans. Within the period mentioned £49,956
13s. has been spent in the manner described, and this year
152 shipwrecked members, and the widows and orphans of
61 poor fellows drowned at sea have received sums of money
from the society, the amount disbursed being £1,579 IGs. 7d,
A similar society is in operation in Nbrth Shields.

TIIE CURSE OF THE STATES.—" It is a Well-
authenticated fact," said Da Tocqueville, " that at the pre-
sent day the most talented men in the United States are
very rarely placed at the head of affairs. The race of
American statesmen has evidently dwindled most remark-
ably in the course of the last 50 years." When that was
said, there were still Webster, Clay, and Calhoun to be
named. Now we are among Tylers, Polks, and Pierces.
Yet there has been no dwindling of American intellect.
The evil is that the pursuit of politics has been degraded
into a trade, in which the conditions of American states-
manship enable hordes of needy and unprincipled adven-
turers to speculate. These men fill at a presidential con-
test the election committees, which name delegates for the
convection that has to choose a party candidate. Tho mem-
bers of the party convention come from sections of the
country widely apart, and with diverse interests. Every
man of bility has by his vigorous action on sonic question
offended this or that section. Ballet follows ballot, and the
lot falls at last on the man who is too insignificant to have
made enemies. The work of a presidential election is thus
done by two opposing packs of placehunters, each in full
cry, and the pack that runs down its game demands imme-
diately after to be fed. The greed of office by the noisiest
political adventurers, and the consequent insecurity of office
in place-holders, confines the desire, and secures too com-
monly Vie rewards of place to the least worthy, to hungry
men eager, especially during their short tenure of official
life, to thrive by the plunder that every honest statesman
of the North has during the present year had loudly to de-
plore,—.Dickenes " the rear .found."

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

(PER BOHEMIAN, via PORTLAND AND LONDON-
DERRY.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 7.

Despatches from Washington state that Presi-
dent Lincoln had declared that it was his intention
to preserve a prudent policy in regard to foreign
relations, and that there need be no fear of war with
Great Britain unless the latter should seek a pre-
text for hostilities.

The despatches add that no anxiety is felt on this
subject by the Administration.
Mr. Breckenridge has been expelled from the
Senate.

A committee has been appointed to inquire into
the expediency of abolishing slavery in the district
of Columbia.

The Federal Government has ordered the release
of a fugitive slave confined at Washington.

The Unionists of East Tennessee have routed a
large Confederate force at Morristown, killing large
numbers.

Advices from Port Royal state that the regiment
which made a reconnaissance towards Charleston
went within 20 miles of the city, and captured
three batteries, the guns of which they spiked.
They found quantities of cotton, but the Confederates
were destroying much of that article. The party
returned in safety.
An attack on Fort Pulaski, Savannah, is hourly
expected.

The Federal troops have evacuated Tybee Island.
The Confederates in Missouri are retreating.

General Wool has asked the Government for
troops to advance on Richmond from Fortress
Monroe.

It is stated that, in consequence of the Trent
affair, the West India Mail Company has ordered
its agents to furnish no more coal to United States
vessels.

A Dutch fleet, consisting of 11 vessels, arrived
off Laguyas on the 17th ult., in order to demand
satisfaction from Venezuela for a violation of the
Dutch flag.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 7.

Stocks are a shade firmer. Cotton continues to
advance. Middling upland is quoted 31c. Sales,
3,500 bales. Flour, State and Western, buoyant.
Wheat a shade firmer. Corn unchanged. Pro-
visions dull and inactive. Sugars quiet. Freights
to Liverpool declining.

THE MAIL STEAMERS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The Union Steamship Company, under contract
for the conveyance of her Majesty's mails to the
Cape of Good Hope, &c,, have received instruc-
tions from the Government to arm their steamers
forthwith.

PARIS, DEC. 18.
The following is a summary of the speech made
yesterday by M. Troplong in the Senate.
M. Troplong spoke at great length on the sup-
pression of extraordinary credits by the Emperor,
on the privilege to be granted to the Corps Legis-
latif of voting the Budget by sections, and on the
limits to be fixed to the transfer of voted supplies.
He, however, declared himself opposed to all idea
of re-establishing Ministerial responsibility, which,
he said, farmed the basis of a Parliamentary system
of government expressly repudiated by the Fren rh
Constitution. Referring to the advantages of the
system of transferring credits from one department
to another, he said,—

"During the last war in Italy all France thought
that immense and hasty efforts had been made to
prevent our being forestalled by Austria, whereas
the fact was the victories of the French army com-
menced before it had hardly been provided for, and
that without any transfers or extraordinary credits.
" In our day it is difficult to pursue an obscure

policy.
"The Emperor shows by the measures now under
discussion the loyalty of his policy.
"The real and infallible preparations for war in
France are a good system of enlistment, the disci-
pline of the soldier, order in the administration,
and the martial genius of the nation.
" France, although unprepared, is always ready,
even against those who have taken their measures
long beforehand. (Applause,)

" The Committee does not, however, reject the
hypothesis that measures might quietly be taken
in presence of great external dangers. The system
of transferring credits has been instituted for that
purpose; but these precautions cannot long remain
concealed."

Treating of the financial question and the exist-
ing deficits, M. Troplong called attention to the
great things that had been done since 1850, and
said, " They have served to raise the French name
to the highest rank; to link the chain of our
victories ; to carry our civilisation and our influence
to the extremity of the world ; and, lastly, to free
Italy from a foreign yoke."
In conclusion, M. Troplong maintained that the
amount of the floating debt was comparatively less
than in 1848.

VIENNA, DEC. 17.
The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day announces
that the Budget will be communicated to both
Houses of the Reicbsrath to-morrow.

Baron Schmerling will make the communication
in the name of the Emperor.
The Parliamentary Clubs have agreed upon the
course to be pursued in reference to the Budget.

The resolutions of the Reichsrath on financial
questions will be as legal as if all the provinces of
the Empire were represented.
These resolutions will, however, only refer to the
non-Hungarian provinces.

VIENNA, DEC. 17.
The Budget was presented to-day to the Council
of the Empire.
The following is a summary of the financial state-
ment made by the Minister of Finance :
The revenue for 1861 was estimated at 300,000,000,
the expenditure at 344,000,000, and the deficit at
65;000,000 florins.

This deficit was to be covered by means of several
credit operations, wLich would, moreover, leave a
balance of 8,000,000 florins in the Treasury.
The returns for 18'31 aro not quite completed, but
the deficit is expected to amount to about 40,000,000
florins.

The excess of expenditure, which was not fully
provided, for, amounts to 59,000,000 florins.
The unsettled state of things in Hungary has
caused a loss to the revenue of 11,500,000 florins.
The total decrease in the revenue of 1861 amounts
to 109,500,000 florins, which will be covered by
credit operations.
The National Bank has not been applied to for
a loan, nor have any public bonds been issued.
The estimates for 1862 are as follows:—The
Calla and Civil Administration, 99,750,000 florins;
Army, 108,500,000 florins; interest on the Public

Debt, 124,500,000 florins; sundries, /.1,800,000
florins; or altogether about 354,500,000 florins.
The revenue for 1362 is estimated at 296,500,000
florins, and the deficit at 58,000,000 florins.

The army estimates show an increase of 52,000,000

florins.

The deficit is partly to be covered by increased
taxes and partly by credit operations with the
National Bank, the charter of which is to be re-
newed in return for a loan of 80,000,000 florins,
bearing no interest.
Twenty millions of this loan will be repaid in
monthly instalments of 1,000,000 florins each, and
44,000,000 by 1870.
The State domains are to be sold at certain fixed
periods.

Twenty-three millions of the Lottery Loan of
1860 have not been taken up.
The Financial Administration has, however, re-
ceived from the agents 100,000,000 florins for
bonds of that loan, and £3,000,000 of the English
loan.

The National Bank is to be mad© independent of
the State.

On the conclusion of the Ministerial statement,
the Council of the Empire appointed a committee
of nine members to examine the Budget.