The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 14, 1861.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Role proprietor and Manager, Mr. Bent. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thome.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonsicanit, D.
Fisher, BillinErton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF FIUE.
i Messrs. L. Toole. P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.
Boa-oflice open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, ;
Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm.. Smith.

STI FY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
A „
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Was. BATTY.
Immense success of " Turpin's Ride to York."
A Grand Morning Performance will take place on Friday,
Feb. 15, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime.
THIS EVENING. will be rerodneed TUR PIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, AAD THE DEATH
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
Steed Black Bess.
To be succeeded by Scenes In the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding. with Batty's Prize Equeetian 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 King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comic scenes lilatty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-oflice open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. Was?.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,

IL CORSARO,
consisting of the following Morceaux
Preludio.
Coro Scena ed Aria. "Tutto rarca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalisehe.
Cayatina "Vola talor dal Carcere"
Corn ed inno
Scena ed Aria. " Cento Teggiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete lo non"
will shortly be produced, in the orignal key and Italian
lanniacTe—the first time of performance in this country—in
addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGHMANS, Musical Director.
Also in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
'lin Ballo in Maschera." "Simon I3occane;ra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsui" DAY.—Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 53m.
To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 10m.—Afternoon, sh. 24m.

THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, FEB. 14, 1861
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
29 —lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon. _ _

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BluomuTEß-29.57.
Wirm—Variable ; dull weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1861.

So, then, Gaeta has really at last fallen The
capitulation, it will be seen, took place yesterday.
Early this morning General CIALDINI was to
occupy, has, of course, by this time, occupied
Mont Orlando and all the fortifications. The
departure of the young ex-King and the Royal
Family would follow immediately afterwards with
all reasonable expedition. And when the fallen
Monarch, his young Queen-wife, and their suite
should have really left that last stronghold of the
Sicilian Sovereignty, quitting the shores of their late
kingdom on board the Imperial French line-of-
battle ship La Mouette —then was to follow in like-
manner the occupation of the city of Gaeta by the
victorious Sardinians.

Now that the conflict has actually terminated—
while we still cannot do otherwise than regret from
our inmc st heart the lamentable waste of life which
has been fruitlessly caused by the long and stubborn
stand made there at Gaeta by the fugitive Bourbon
ruler of the Neapolitans—it is impossible not to
recognise, it would be unjust not to admit
that, so far, this unhappy young man has fallen,
sword in hand, as became a soldier. In quitting
Gaeta he will have to pass under no Caudine
Forks of ignominy. He leaves the city and the
citadel with the honours of war. Sardinia and
France alike evidence in this, plainly enough,
their recognition of what is due there to a
valiant defence, however bootlessly prolonged—
France by sending a vessel thither to receive the
youthful couple who are again fugitives—Sardinia
by the very terms consented to in this final
treaty of capitulation.
It is especially noticeable in regard to the course
taken in these later proceedings by General
CIALDINI that that gallant officer, as best became
him, maintains all the honourable conditions
which he offered before having obtained these,
his latest, successes. This is as it should
be. It is the conduct of a heroic foe—
of a victor who knows not only how to triumph,
but how to triumph most magnanimously.
One of the most sagaciously conceived conditions
that could well have been extorted from the van-
quished Bourbon soldiery, is the one requiring that
the defeated garrison at Gaeta shall remain prisoners
of war—until Messina and Civitella del Tronto shall
have been surrendered up to the Sardinians. Mat
la something like a "material guarantee" for the
final settlement of that " lengthened [contest] long
drawn out" there in the South between the ex-
Rin g'd few fa' ithfal adherents and his revolted
people, headed in their successful revolt now by the
Sardinians, butoriginally by the Garibaldians.
It was with reason, then, that we spoke yesterday
of those latest doings at Gaeta being nothing less
than the " beginning of the end" of the great
movement for the liberation of the Roman Pea insula.
Eritherto it has been to Gaeta that the aspirants of
the cause of reaction have looked for the encourage-
ra ent of their fast faded hopes. The flame of the de-
fence made there behind those strong ramparts by
FRANCIS H., and the last remnant of his other-
wise defeated and scattered forces, was the pharos
still burning, as it were, upon a conspicuous mon,.
tain top in the sight of all. And it was still
being hoped against hope, by the Reactionists in
Europe, that the flame of that Royal pharos might

- Amilmm lim••••••• erw
eventually r
ekiiKic
the far-spreading cor ,flagration
of a counter revolutionary movement. 7 chose hopes
have now—with the pharos itself— -been Extin-
guished. The defence of Gaeta ' is; no longer
continued. The ex-King she a thing his
sword, is allowed to take it away with
him untarnished. His Queen goes with him as a
matter of course, and, together with. his Queen, his
suite, or personal entourage. The garrison alone
remains behind—held, no less aware ly than the
city and the fortress they have been so long
defending, in the possession of thei r conquerors,
CIALDINI and his Sardinians.
Almost immediately prior to thti final capitula-
tion of Gaeta another powder magazine, it appears,
was blown up by a successful hit on the part of
the Sardinian bombardment. Another incident of
the siege, which also occurred directly before the
close of it, was the total destruction of the Tran-
sylvania bastion. But worse almost than any of
those occurrences to the defenders ; far more dis-
heartening and discouraging to the councils of the
young KING, must have been the total and
absolute failure of every attempt made to
light anew in Calabria and the Abruzzi the flames
of the reactionary insurrection, supposed by some
to be still smouldering there, but really long since
trampled out, and to all appearance finally ex-
tinguished. According to the last advicea
iceived from Naples under date only yes-
terday, an emissary was said to have been
despatched very recently from Gaeta by the
Court—to call upon the Calabrians to rise in
behalf of their ancient sovereign. This emissary,
captured on his way thither, was found upon his
arrest near Cozenza to be the bearer of papers of
some importance—the next line of the telegram
bringing us these tidings being simply the intima-
tion " Calabria is tranquil." Rather an anti-climax
considering the purpose of the expedition. Yet
there is the fact—Calabria is tranquil. And there,
too, is that other fact—not like the news from
Calabria, an indication of negative good to the
popular cause, but as clearly as any evert, warlike
or pacific, could be, the attestation of a positive
and instantly appreciable advantage—Gaeta has
fallen, and has been taken possession of by the Sar-
dinians.

Everything goes well for the cause of Italian
Unification. Difficulties are one after another dis-
appearing. Matters are everywhere being sim-
plified. And what is most remarkable in all this.
is the conspicuous truth that events in Italy seem
in this way to be righting themselves. It is
as if they were being shaken together
so happily, so opportunely, that according
to the whimsical symbolism of the late
witty and reverend SYDNEY SMITH, the mild
man drops into the round hole, the square man into
the square hole, the oval into the oval, the poly-
gon into the polygon. And now at Gaeta an
oddly-shaped little man, who fitted nowhere, not
even into that queer out of the way hole (in the
corner) yonder at Gaeta, has been opportunely
shaken out of Italy altogether as positively obnoxi-
ous—a nuisance and a superfluity.
The capitulation, recently arranged at Gaeta,
must have been agreeable news to the Hermit of
Caprera. It is an event that completes what he
himself so magnificently commenced, and with a
few lightning sweeps of his great sword, to all
intents and purposes, so far as he wished it, at
the time, triumphantly accomplished. The rest
will follow—and by the rest we mean (be sure of
that) something better than the fall of Gaeta
and Messina, and Civitella del Tronto. Yet, the
next will follow in due course—including the
solution of the problem of Venetia, of the Qua-
drilateral of the whole question of Italian uni-
fication.

Little lessons for little folk. On this well known
principle the House of Commons is now com-
mencing afresh its Reform education. Hitherto,
the RUSSELL and DISRAELI teaching has proved to
be in advance of its capacities, and very prudently
it is now undergoing a course of "preparatory"
instruction, under the care of Messrs. DIGBY SEY.
YOUR, BAINES, COLLIER, LOCKE KING, Sir G. C.
LEWIS, and Lord ENFIELD ; other professors will
doubtless make their appearance, and if they do but
show themselves in sufficient number, we shall see
our House of Commons educated almost to the
comprehension of a RUSSELL Reform Bill without
knowing it. All who have ever attempted to in-
struct the slow of comprehension well know how
often, • when baffled in endeavouring to impart
knowledge in a mass, they have succeeded bp break-
ing it up into fragments of dimensions adapted to
the powers of the pupil. We cordially wish suc-
cess to the gentlemen who have commenced such a
useful and unpretentious course this session ; and
we almost venture to hope that the House will mas-
ter some of the elements which they are endeavour-
ing to impart.
Mr. KING'S lesson it has almost learned twice,
but forgotten it again,—" All men of ten pounds
rent should have a vote alike." Mr. SEYMOUR'S it
has never yet mastered; it talked over it, like other
idle scholars last year, instead of learning it,—" Six
pounds of rent should have a vote in a bo-rough
(pronounce burrow)"—between Mr. BAINES and
Mr. SEYMOUR why should not the lesson be learned
this session ? Lord ENFIELD, whom Sir G. C.
LEWIS desires to push aside we suppose, has a very
moderate little lesson in geographical electoral
reform,—" Four seats have been lost by two bad
bo-roughs, give two of them to Ken-sing-ton and
Chel-sea." Next comes Mr. COLLIER, he would
teach the members for great boroughs and cities
how to save a gent part of their expenses,—" No
man shall pay for a cab to car-ry a vo-ter to the
poll." Mr. BERKELEY will, we may anticipate, be
the last instructor ; but be has found the house
hitherto intolerably stupid under his teaching.
GROTE and MOLESWORTH tried to communicate the
lesson by the most perfect and easy reasoning ; Mr.
BERKELEY has given it seasoned with funny little
jokes, but the house is sadly dull, at least so
it seems to us who have learned it so long—it is,
however, possibly, a kind of political " pons
asinorum," for some of our legislators seem as if
they never couli " see it" or " catch it"—yet how
easy it looks. " All shall fold up their votes, and
put them through a slit into a box, so that no one
can see how they vote; then no bad men can buy
their votes, or can hurt them for vot-ing as they
think right." Mr. BERKELEY has, however, made
no sign yet of renewing his course of entertain-
lessons on the Ballot, though we have no doubt
he will do so. Mr. COLLIER has already put the
house through his lesson a first time.
For ourselves we cordially approve of Mr.
COLLIER'S measure, and strongly advise that it
should be pressed as a short and separate bill. Our
House of Commons is too great for great acts. Were
it a smaller body, a committee of half a dozen
or so, it might carefully consider and get through
with a large measure ; but to think of more than
six hundred men, most of them anxious to show
what they can say on a subject, discussing any
large and complete bill, and getting through with
it in decent time, is hopeless. Sir RICHARD
BETRELL has found this out to his cost in a matter
altogether non political; and though it cannot be
doubted that last year's Bankruptcy Bill, with a

few amendments, was the best one, he yet finds that
he must be content with what he calls a fragmen-
tary Reform ; for his consolation, however, we can
assure him that all regard it as a noble fragment,
and worthy of him.

Mr. COLLIER'S will also be a useful fragment of
electoral reform, a word we adhere to, though Sir G.
C. LEWIS does not like to apply the term "reform"
to lessening the evils—the corruption and bribery
—of elections. We differ from him. While we
hold that, in theory, every male adult ought to
have a vote, and that, practically, a vastly
greater number of the population should receive
the suffrage at once, we yet think that the puri-
fication and liberation of the existing constitu-
encies, were that possible, would leave little to
be desired. We mean, that so far does the pre-
sent million of electors contain fair samples, as
it were, of all classes of Englishmen, although
with an excess of county and agricultural borough
electors, that could all electors vote really " freely
indifferently," we should get a real representation
of the Empire. Were no unfair arts resorted to by
those who now can bribe or coerce others, we
might enlarge the area of the franchise, but we
should alter the result very little. We therefore
regard every attempt like that of Mr. COLLIER'S as
an attempt so far to reform our representation—to
render it what it would be if persons voted from
calm judgment, uninfluenced by external consi-
derations.

Mr. COLLIER'S proposal has, however, for its
chief merit, the enlargement of the sphere of elec-
toral choice. The expense of contesting a large
borough, especially a metropolitan borough, is enor-
mous. A heavy part of this is the foolish charge
for conveying members to the poll. Now, we
all of us know that the polling booths are brought
so near us that to make a difficulty of walking
to them would convict us of effeminacy; and if sur
time should be too valuable, and an extra ten
minutes could be with difficulty spared,
then of course it would pay of itself for us
to take our own cab. It surely ought to be the
object with respectable electors to save the candi-
date expense, and those who cannot contribute
directly towards the cost of an election, might be
glad to contribute their walk to the polling-booth.
In counties the case is, in details, different. We need
not discuss them just now ; we merely hint that
sensible men on both sides will, we imagine, soon
come to the conclusion that, as both sides would
gain and lose in equal proportion by not being
allowed to pay for conveying the non-resident
county ♦oters, both sides would do well to save
themselves bills which do not affect the result.

We repeat that we hope Mr. COLLIER will not
consent to allow his " little bill" to form a part of
Sir G. C. LEWIS'S promised bill. Any WLig
Government` bill on electoral corruption is sure to
be, not an act for the prevention, but for the en-
couragement, at least for the shielding of
corruption. It were better that a bona fide pro-
posal, however small, should stand on its own
merits, and not be mixed up with a Whig or Tory
bill. We have the best of testimony—that of Sir
W. HAYTER—that such bills are meant to be
laughed at—meant to become a dead letter; and
we beg to tell our sneering Home Secretary that
his bill, like all its worthless predecessors, has one
great object—to avoid lessening the power of land
and money at elections—to preserve to the wealthy
the means of purchase and control of votes under
the cloak of prevention of corruption—to hinder
the enactment of the only known remedy for
electoral abuses—in a word, Whig and Tory bills
for the prevention of bribery and corruption are
one and aII—BALLOT EVASION BILLS.

Lord PALMERSTON'S little majority seems to be
rapidly becoming less. It is already diminished by
four in the very short time which has elapsed since
the opening of Parliament ; the two seats for Lei-
cester and South Wilts, counting of course double
on a division. The causes of the mishap, if such it
is to be considered, are not far to seek. At Leicester
the Old Whigs did, what they do in the House of
Commons, they expected the Radicals to vote with
them and for them, to do them humble suit and
service, while the Whigs were to run away with the
spoils. Could the Radicals be so mad as to divide
the Liberal interest ?it was asked. But of course
the Radicals could ask with equal propriety—can
the Whigs be so mad as to divide it ?
The Radicals, we understand, were the more con-
ciliatory ; they offered, we are told, to refer the
question between the two Liberal candidates to a
ballot of the Liberal electors, and to abide by the
result. If this be so, the whole blame of losing the
seat to the Liberal party must fall on the shoulders
of the Whigs. The small majority which the
Whig had over the Radical—the former
polling 1,030 votes, the latter 977, while
the Tory polled I,s97—shows where the fault
lay. Had the two parties united their
nearly balanced votes, they could have beaten the
Tory by a majority of 413. It was a fair occasion
for a ballot between the two sections. It is time,
howeVer, that this half Tory section of electors
should learn that the country would as soon see the
Tories in office as men who have not the tact or the
courage to carry liberal measures through the House
of Commons, much less to force them through the
House of Lords.

The South Wilts election is of quite another cast.
The landlords, who of course are the real electors
there, are doubtless as Conservative as the burgesses
of Leicester are Liberal, and it need surprise no one
that when a Tory •of Lord HERBERT'S mild type
retires, it should be quite easy to put in his place a
good reactionist sort of Tory. The difference is
really between a Tory who will support Lord
DERBY, and a Tory who will support that
excellent Tories' friend, Lord PALMERSTON.
This time Lord DERBY has it ; and with the
encouragement Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his
chief are giving the electors to think
it a matter of perfect indifference which side
they support, we have little doubt that other
places will follow the example of South Wilts. There
is one way to restore real Liberalism in the coun-
ties, but our present Government likes neither such
Liberalism nor the way to get it.

Happily seme boroughs are wiser than Leices-
ter. The Bradford electors had before them three
Liberal candidates, all of them on different
grounds, men well worthy of a liberal constituency.
They assembled and discussed the subject till they
agreed on one of them, and that one then walked
the course. Mr. FORSTER has been long desirous
of a seat in the House, but has always been
ready to yield to the fair claims of
others. We congratulate the hon. member
on the position he has so well earned.
Mr. CROOK also has been returned for Bolton with-
out a contest—but both these gentlemen are any-
thing but mere Palmerstonians. Each of them
will act as far as possible with the present pro-
fessedly Liberal leader, but they are not the men
to be his Whig serfs.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have
arrived in town from Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Rosebery are expected
in town shortly from Dalmeny Park, N.B.
Lord Henley has taken a residence in Chesham-
place for the season.

THE LEEDS CHAMBE2 OF COMMERCE AND
THE BANK CURTER ACT.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF rHE SUN.

Sru,—England expects every min to do his duty. Did
the Leeds Chamber of Commerce do its duty, at its late
annual meeting, in not saying me word respecting the
aggravating effects of the Act of 1E44 on the present severe
monetary pressure, so detrimental ,o the interest of com-
merce.

This omission is the more rerthensible, after having
passed in 1858, a resolution celibate t• the abolition of the
very principle of the Act—restriciJlA The following ex-
tract is from their minutes :

" Bank Charter Act.—This clamber having been re-
quested to depute some gentleman practically conversant
with the working of the above At, and its effects on the
monetary system and trade of tle country, a meeting of
the council was held on the 121 i of May last, Darnton
Lupton, Esq., the president, in Its place, when, after con-
siderable discussion, the meetin: passed a resolution in
favour of the following views :

" ' Ist. That the clause in the let which limits the Bank
of England directors to an issue )f £14,000,000, excepting
against gold, ought to be abolishd, and that the directors
should have a discretionary powe to exceed that limit as
necessity may require.
" 2d. That the Bank directon should also be allowed to
issue £1 Bank of England note, convertible into gold in
London in times of pressure anddifficulty.' "
Mr. John Smith, of the firm cf Messre. Beckett and Co.,
was deputed, and gave the sticagest evidence possible in
condemation of the Act. He mid—

"That the act is inoperativeia ordinary times, and fails
in times of pressure and panic—that it induces a want of
confidence, which causes mosey to be hoarded—that al-
though in the district of Leedsin 1857 there was no excess
of credit to any great extent, no accommodation bills, as
far as ho could find out, and nd one in his own bank—that
trade was apparently very sowd, and there was not the
slightest reason to apprehend a ianic—that only one failure
in the district connected with tte crisis occurred—yet that,
if the Treasury Letter suspending the Act had not been
issued on the 12th of Novenber, the entire commer-
cial body of this important dstrict' must have gone to
the wall."
And when he was asked if he umembered that an issue of
Bank of England £1 notes stoped the panic in 1825, re •
plied, "Yes, perfectly; they sipplied the place of bullion,
and would do so again ; they %Amid do so at any time."
Why, then, does not the feeds Chamber of Com-
merce, in conformity with their ro.<o...fion, urge
now the issuing of £1 notes to supply the place of bullion?
We have in this country, according to an elaborate
statement in the Mechanics' Xagazine, gold coin to the
amount of £100,000,000, that smell notes issued to serve
as substitutes for sovereigns, some 20 or 30 millions of
gold might be set at Iberty for exportation,
which would at once put an end to the extra
pecuniary pressure in Englaul, France, and America,
arising from a scarcity of bullion. These countries have
plenty of property to exchangs for both their home and,
foreign trades, but are short of the medium of exchange ;
they have the money's worth or value, but not money,
the instrument for transferring it : they have property
and services enough, and with these at bottom all debts
are paid, but being contracted :n money, must be legally
discharged in money, of which tiey are short.

The act of 1844, by contracting the supply of 'money,
when gold leaves the country, sacrifices the goose which
lays the golden eggs for the sake of the eggs ; stops the
trade which produces the wealth to buy the gold. Its prin-
ciple of cure is homoeopathic ; w:len gold is drained from
the Bank, and the quantity of money thereby reduced, it
makes it still less by canceling Bank-note money to an
equal extent. This applicaioa of the homceopathic
principle, similia similibia curantur," will not
answer in this case ; the void in the domestic
currency should be filled fp and not made greater.
And for what purpose is this absurd principle adopted ?
Avowedly to ensure the convertibility of the Bank of Eng-
land note, which has never bens doubted, and about which
tradespople never think or tnable themselves. A Bank
of England note is a perfect security for the transfer of
equivalent values, and this is all that is wanted in money
of any kind.

It is remarkable that country editors in general are in
favour of the Act of 1844, wiilst in London it is the re-
verie. May not this difference be accounted for by the cir-
cumstance that country homers having the privilege of
issue, partake of the monopdy which the Act gives them,
whilst London bankers co not. Editors commonly
ask the opinion of merthants as to the working
of the Act ; these consult tbir bankers, who, of course, in
general, very naturally stpport the Act which benefits
them. Again, if the editor svears by the Times, which many
do, he is following the leas of an official of the Bank of
England—if the report be tine that the writer of the City
Article in the Times is the lecretary of the Treasury Com-
mittee of the Bank of England.
Thus, even in the press, he safeguard of our rights and
liberties, we may trace tie action of the all-powerful
monied interest, from whom meshes it is difficult to escape.
To examine into the effect of our monetary laws and com-
merce is peculiarly the dutyof Chambers of Commerce, and
England expects them to 4:13 their duty.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant

Highfield, Windermere.

HAMER STANSFELD.

Maria Marchioness .of Ailesbury entertained at
dinner on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in Hertford-
street, his Royal Highnes.s the Duke of Cambridge, their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess
of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield
and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess
Newport, Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald,
and Captain Falbe.

Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for their seat, Drake-
hwe, Burton-on-Trent.

General Sir James and Lady Chatterten have
arrived at Howchin's Hotal, from Folkstone.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—A classical examiner-
ship in this university has become vacant by the death of
the Rev. Dr. Donaldson. The senate will proceed to the
election of a successor in April.

THE DEANERY OF EXETER.—A rumour is afloat
in clerical circles, believed to be well founded, that the
Rev. Dr. Scott, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is to be
the Dean of Exeter, in the room of the Very Rev. Dr.
Thomas Hill Lowe, deceased.

It appears that the average price at which the
new India Loan of £3,000,000 Was taken is £9B 14s. 51d.,
producing £2,961,655 18s. 4d. The total amount of the
first instalment, to be paid to-morrow, is £501,655 18s. 4d.
The Attorney-General's Bankruptcy Bill has
been printed. It occupies 77 pages, and contains 256
clauses.

The dates from Adelaide, South Australia, by
the present mail are to December 26th. The Colonial Par-
liament had been further prorogued to the 11th of January.
Mr. Stuart's exploring party had arrived at Moolooloo, and
left for Chamberb' Creek on the 29th of November, all in
good health, and confident of success.

St. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL—The following Preachers
have been nominated by the Lord Bishop of London for
the special services at St. Paul's :—Sunday, Feb. 17, the
Lord Bishop of Cork ; Feb. 24, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle ;
and March 3, the Rev. Thomas Dale, Canon of St. Paul's.
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Captain E.
Christian, left for London at noon to-day, to be lengthened
at out 35 feet at the building-yard of Messrs. Wigram and
Green, by which firm the Ripon was built.

Her Majesty the Queen, in appreciation of the
important and philanthropic character of the work of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has signified her in-
tention to become an annual subscriber of £5O to its funds.

The Countess de Persigny will leave Albert-gate
House on or about the 25th inst. for Paris.

ANOTHER SHOCKING CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.-
Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a most frightful
accident occurred to Miss E. Hill, aged 18 years, who re-
sides at Sutherland-terrace, Caledonian-road, Islington. It
appeared that she was sitting alone by the side of the fire,
her crinoline hanging over the fender, when a piece of red
hot coal fell on her dress, which became ignited, and she
was enveloped in fire. Her screams brought assistance,
when the flames were extinguished. Th€ unfortunate lady
was conveyed to the hospital, where she now remains
without the slightest hope of recovery.
EXPORT OF G•LD TO THE UNITED STATES.-
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship
Company's screw steamer Edinburgh Castle, Captain
Brooks, sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York,
taking out the United States' mail and a fair amount of
cargo; besides which she took out 20 cabin passengers, and
had £43,420 in gold on freight.

THE BONAPARTES.—The Paris correspondent of
the Brussels Independanee states that an interview has
taken place within the last few days between the Emperor
and the young Bonaparte, grandson of Jerome by his first
wife, Miss Paterson, and whose father is the plaintiff in
the action which has occupied so much:attention. This
interview has led to the supposition that before the deci-
sion of the Court is pronounced some friendly arrangement
will be effected.

RESTORATION OF THE CHAPTER-HOUSE, WEST-
MlNSTER.—Arrangements are on foot for the restoration of
the Chapter-house of Westminster Abbey, which is justly
regarded as one of the finest examples of early English
architecture. It was built by Henry 111. about the year
1250, but it has been reduced to a mere wreck in conse-
quence of the everyday uses to which it has been applied.
The Chapter-house was made over by the Convent of
Westminster for the use of the House of Commons early
in the reign of Edward 111., with the express condition
that the Crown should keep it in repair. In the time of
Edward VI., the Commons having removed to St. Stephen's
Chapel, the Chapter-house came into the hands of the
Government. It has since been employed as a record-office,
but in consequence of the erection of the new general repo-
sitory for records the public documents have been removed,
and nothing is wanted but funds to enable its restoration to
be accomplished by Mr. G. G. Scott, to whom the work has
been entrusted.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING DAY.-
Wednesday, Feb. 13.—Admissions on payment, 815; ditto
by season tickets, WO ; total visitors, 1,324.

L.Rr3 T .NEWeS
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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
MOLA DI GAETA, FEB, 12 (Evening).
Gaeta has capitulated.
General Cialdini will to-morrow occupy the
Monte Orlando and all the other fortifications.
Francis H. and the Queen, with their whole
family, are now embarking.
After their departure General Cialdini's troops
will occupy the town.
The garrison remain prisoners of war until the
surrender of Messina and Civitella del Trout.

NAPLES, FEB. 13.
The French corvette Mouette has left for Gaeta,
in order to receive Francis 11. and his family.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 6.
The Porte has replied to the Russian note, re-
asserting the truth of the Grand Vizier's report.
Sir Henry Bulwer takes the part of the Porte.
The Montenegrins have made an attack on
Nickisch, but have been repulsed.
The Redifs are to be embodied in the spring.

FIUME, FEB. 13.
The city of Fiume and the surrounding district
have been declared in a state of siege.

PESTH, FEB. 13.

The Assembly of the Comitat of Odenburg has
resolved to pay the taxes as heretofore until the
Diet shall have taken its resolution.

II A.p.T.gRITRCL FEB. 13.

The Conference of Karlsburg has resolved upon
expressing their wishes in an address to the Go-
vernment, containing three clauses, namely :-
Ist. Execution of the laws of 1848.
2d. A new electoral law.

3d. Establishment of a separate Constitution,
and representation of Transylvania in a special
Diet.

The project for the union of Transylvania with
Hungary was violently opposed.

PARIS, FEB. 13.

The Patrie says :
" A pamphlet, entitled France, Rome, et Italie,
by M. de Laguerroniere, will be published on Fri-
day next. This pamphlet will complete the insight
into the negotiations between France and Rome,
given by the publication of documents, and will
make France and Europe judges of the Imperial
policy.