The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1858, Page 2

tacked and overpowered, abd O'Donuel!, the Vica Go Vernor, made prisoner, Two days afterward on the 26: Of March, the Anstrian cannon swept the streets of Milan; but the people got the advantage in many points, and every where fought with courage. Radetzxy now deter- Diined on a bombardment. The people had taken poases- # on of the palace of the Viceroy, and planted an immenso Ttalian tricoor flag on the top of the cathedral. The People had secured as hostages the family of Director General Torresapo and Count Bolza. The hotel of the Miltary Commandant Geveral was the only place which Tested the attempts of the people to obtain possession of it, On the night of the 22d it was evacuated, aud the soldiers held only the gates of the city. Emissaries ar rived from Pavea and Brescia, announcing that they were im open insurrection, and that Archduke fainer's son was a prisoner. By means of balloons. the surrounding popu- lation were summoned to come to the he'p of the Mi- lanere, apd to destroy all the roads and bridges by which artillery could be brought to Radetaky. On the 28d armed peasants trom Lecco took the Como and Tosa gates ‘the citadel was evacuated, and the Austrians retired two columps on Veroua aud Mautua; then retired to Cre- mona, with the intention of falling back upon Verona, there to await the arrival ot reinforcements. On the 17th of March (1848) the news of the events at Vievna reached Milan, Oo the same night the Archduke Rainer, the Viceroy, with his family, left Milan for Ve- rova, On the next morning barri were erected in every street of Milan. the revolution had commenced, After three days’ fighting Radetzky retired in good order to Verona. This ix a sad chapter in the history ot Italy. ‘The descendants of the men who seven times repulsed Frederick Rarbarossa, instead of acting hand and heart to- gother against the common foe, lost the golden opporta- nity in frivolities, banquets and speeches about Italian hberty. The Ital! , nevertheless, fora moment friumphed. Tee ry While and green tricolor waved from ¢ towere of eve except Verona, pie yg Fg Fe Sd detzky’s command at this period was about 75.000 men. ‘This includes the garrisons of the fortresses. Austrin was too much occu] at home to send reinforcements. Crarles Albert declared himself, and on the 25th of March ‘@ Sardinian army crossed the Ticino in two columns. On ‘the 8th of April he advanced against Radetzky. Skirmish- ‘tg commenced on the Sth with the Austrian outposts at Goito, about six miles from Mantua. After some severe fight Charles Albert forced the pas- sage, and jetzky fell back. first on Mantua, then on Verona. Ttalians = were elated ‘with success; reinforcements poured in from Tuscany, Rome and Naples. Radetzky concentrated his main force at Verona, leaving a strong division at Pastrengo to keep open bis communications with the Tyrol. Charles Albert resolved to attack this division. On the 23d he carried the heights, and the Austrians fell back beyond the Etsch. The Piedmontese monarch then gave battle, His army ‘was about 45,000 strong; that of Radetzky 30,000, wit Verona to fall back upon. On the 6th of May Charles Albert gave orders to advance, and a general battle en- sued. e Austrians were driven from St. Lucia. The resistance was, however, so firm that the Sardinians bad ‘to fall back to the position they held in the morning. The present Emperor of Austria and his brother, the Archduke Albrecht, were present at this engagement. The Lom- bards became alarmed. They had fancied that they could drive everything before them. A panic eeized upon them. In vain did Charles Albert exhort them to be firm. A re- treat was resolved upon. The retreat became a flight. Cremona fell on the 31st. A miserable attempt was made te defend the Adja. On the 3d of August Radetzky was at Lodi, close on their beels. On the 4th he was before Milan. Charles Albert endeavored to defend the city. He met with no support. The town surrendered, and Radetzky entered in triumph on the th. ‘The campaign ended with the defeat of Charles Albert at Novara, on the 23d March, who abdicated the same night in favor of Victor Emanuel, the present king. Honors pressed in from all quarters on Radetzkv. The young Em- peror Francis Joseph sentthe Archduke William of Aus- tria expressly to Milan to thank Radetzky and present him with the order of the Golden Fleece. The Emperor, more- over, ordered a medal to be struck in bis honor, of which ‘one of gold, one of silver, and one of copper were present- ed tohim. All the sovereigns of Europe showered orders upon him. The Emperor of Russia conferred upon him the honorary title of a Russian field marshal, and sent him @ Marshal's baton ove foot and a-half long and one and a:half inches in diameter, entirely of gold, with a wreath of enamelied laurel and oak leaves, and set for two inches above and below with diamonds. Louis, of Bavaria, ordered bis bust to be placed in the Walaballa. Vienna presented him with the freedom of the city, which was conveyed to bim by a deputation at Novara. Twemy-six other cities followed the example of the capital. Venice still held out, but the news of Gorgey’s submission in Hungary, and the treaty of peace with Sardinia concluded on the 14th of August, made the proud Queen of the Adri- atic submit. On the 30th of August Radetzky made his solemn entry into the city of the Doges. An attempt at insurrection was made at Milan in Febru- ery, 1853. Radetzky put it down with a hand of iron, and confiscated the property ef those Lombards who had become Sardinian subjects. This nearly led to anew outbreak with Sardinia. Al! diplomatic relations between the two countries were interrupted. This obnoxious de- cree has at length been revoked by the young Emperor in his racent visit to Lombardy. Radetzky’s death was immediately brought about by a severe accident at his palace, Milan. The Countess Wall- moder bad called to take leave of the Marshal; and when she was about to leave the room, he rose from his chair, and insisted upon accompanying ber to the door. The Countess strongly protested against his doing go; and having made him resume his seat, she hurried out of the room. It is presumed the galiant veteran had again risen from his seat. She was still in the anteroom when she heard a heavy fall. On revurning abe found Radetzky on the floor, with a broken thigh. is sad accident, doubtless, some- what shortened the remaining days of the Marshal. In consequence of hit great age no attempt was made to set tne bone, and, with his mind still active, Radetzky was now a prisoner on his couch. He lingered until the morn- ing of the Sth inst., when be expired. He had been suffer ing for scme days from his chest; and though he may really be said to have died from old age, the more im: mediate cause of his demise was paralysis of the lungs. pm yn fo iy bye ene demise a ment of Cn ‘Stad) annwd yup yest perp oged who chanced rs driving by in a pony chaise which the Emperor gave him ® short time ago, and asked him to let the troops fle off befere him The good natured old gentleman declared that nothing would please him better, and, to do honor to the regiment, he let bis cloak fall off his shoulders, and saifor some time in the open air with no other outer covering than his uniform coat. A severe illness, which ended in death, was the consequence of this imprudence. Marshal Radetzky wil! probably be buried near Vienna, at ‘a place called Watzdorf, which belongs to a M. Bark- frieder, a very wealthy man, who was formerly purveyor of linen to the army. M. Barkfrieder has established at Waizdow a miniature “ Lng to whieh he has given the name of “Rubmes Halle” (Hall of i a and im this place the mortal remains of * Father Radetzky"’ are to repose, alongside those of his = Drother in-arme, the late Marshal Count Wimpffen, The entrance to the Rahmes Halle" is said to be gu by some thirty grenadier, made of iron. In the fmilitary world it is stated that M. Barkfrieder was in the habit of lending money to his deceased friend, who was never able to make both ends meet. The Payment required by the eccentric creditor was that bis debtor should give him his written permiesion to inter his corpse in bis Hall of Glory. «< Every year,’ ssys an old general, ‘ Barkfrieder visited Radetzky and got the bond renewed For some time before his death the oli Marshal's strength was failing, though his intellect was clear. At the visit of the Empercr last year (1857) to Milan, Radetzky, then no longer able to mount bis horse, tendered his resignation to bis imperial master. on the plea of failing health. Here- upon the Emperor wrote him the following letter:— at Count Rapetzxy—That strong feel (ul devotion which, during a period of service has afforded sach 8 matchless induced you on my arrival in my ian kingdom to represent with noble candor ly on you, and to petition to be mmander of the Arm: eutest regret I a your release ous. everything relatiag to your futare Will sivays be a hearilly welcome in t afford me an opport taking your approved May you long live ‘Austrian bearts, to serve my army as glory! Your reward for the eventfol p the gratetu) remembrance of your Soverr reminiscences FRA Feb, 3, 1597. To stature Radetzky wae below the mitdle beight, with broad shoulders and a clear piercing eye: he possessed that peculiar attraction attributed t Frederick the Great and to Napoleon. Among a hundred officers, though simply dressed in a gray surtout, Radetzky would com- mand the attention of al! | | { } in iv gives a series of tarewell theatre, and sails for New Y+% August 11, 1) Radetzky was married in 1797 to the Countess Fanny | Ftraasoldo, hy whom he had fivesoneand three daughters. Of these only one son and one daughter survice bim. Ais 800 ise etal officer in the Austrian service. his daughter ® married to Count Wenkheim MADEMOISELLE RACHEL, TRAGEDIENNE, | SOCIETAIRE OF THE THEATRE FRAN- CAIBE, PROFESSOR OF DECLAMATION TO THE CONSERVATOIRE OF PARIS. On the 6th of January, at 11 o'clock m the evening, at Cannes, France, died Mademoiselle Fuzanem Racin, Frix, the greatest actreas of modern times. Her disease ‘was at first an affection of the throst, to which was added a complication of disorders which the best medical skill | in France attempted in vam to combat. The life of Mile. Rachel is an art romance: no great actress ever struggled against such difficulties and over came them so well, Born on the 24th day of March, 1820, at the Swiee village of Munf, she saw the light ina Wretched tavern; ehe was the second daughter of a Jew Pedier, & Hohemian trader, who picked up a scanty ving by the ecale of hie wares in Germany and Switzerland. From Switzeriand the family goes © Lyons. Sarah, the eldest girl, hae a good ‘voice, and an intuitive knowledge of the forme of har- mony which seems to belong to the daugt of Israel She sings in the taverns, and little Rachel, now ton yoars of age, acta ae the treasurer of the concert troupe. No education, no tuition—only a hard Gght from day to day with the demon of want. From Lyons the transition to Paris ie quite natural. Tt is in 1890, just before the final overthrow of the BourbonseeRachol sings now, and one cold day, on the Boulevards, her pure tones rewh the of Choron, the thunder of the Royal Institute of Sa Moric The little girt, having finiehed her song, approached the Professor, saying Who taught you t “ jwired Choron NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY “7 don’t know; to the eames oung in the my it i siree's aps then sing ¢ poor littlething shivered in: limb, for, in truth, she wan sadly exported tothe wind andanow. 4 “You are cold,” said he “Yes, sir, 1 am cold and hungry. «Well, if 'you will come with me I will give you every- thing you want.” “Will you keep me from singing?” inquired she. “Oh, no, my child; I will teach you new songs. So you love musto'’" “Yes, sir.”” oe ue your band and come "’ they fare together to hia house in Rue Monsigny. ‘On that aha brew, says one of her bi , “the old man had discerned glitter of a star.’’ We now find Rachel and Sarah, as well, among the puptis of M.Choran. The master, however, was not long in ascertaining that the voice of the younger sister was more suited to declamation than to singing, and he trans- fers her to the tuition of Pagna St. Aulaire, who educated Juvenile commediennes and tragedicrmes. She remained here for four years, when two Societaires of the Comedie Francaise—Vede! and Jouslin—heard her recite Hermione at an exhibition of the pupils, and were so much delighted that they succeeded in obtaining for her, permission to enter the Conservatoire (October 27, 1836). Here she joined the class instructed by Michelot. ‘After thia, we have been told, she played small parts at one of the theatres on the Boulevards, believing that she was @ comedienne, and was suddenly awakened from the delusion by a success she achioved in a tragedy part. Her biographers say, however, that she left the Conserva- toire for the Gymnase—the usual course—where she made her début as Mile. Rachel, April 24, 1837, in a plece entitled “La Vendéenne,” written by M. Pant Duport, ex- pressly for the display of her powers. Although the chroniclers of dramatic events differ widely in their estimate of the success which attended this effort, it would ‘appear to have made little or no sensagon. The young debutante excited no very extravagant ex- pectations. The journals avnouncee that a young girl named Rachel had made her début at the Gymnase, in the “Vendéenne,” and soshe passed on and seemed to be forgotten. ‘This child,” pronounced the critics of those times, “is, thank Heaven, no phenomenon, and will never give occasion to bave it eaid, ‘ What a prodigy!’ "” This was a failure. Well, did Rachel faint by the way- side? No, She was not so stupid as to think that the fault was not her’s. She did not console herself with tae complacency of some debutantes, saying it was the public that could not appreciate her, She went to Samson, the author-actor of the Comedie Frangaise. She recites to him, and he exclaims:— « Bonté divine! Had I but your organ, what miracles could I not perform |" «Ab, then,”’ replies Rachel, ‘make my voice the ve- hicle of your genius: be my master.” «But, what do you play ?”” + Flipotte, in ‘ Lady Tartuffe.” ? «No, no, wy child,” rejoined he; “ you shall not play Flipotte. You shall play Camille, Emilie and Hermione; but inthe first place you must learn French.”” So they go; they go to work together—he reading and analysing the characters and she reciting. Ina year’s time she is quite up in Camille, (Les Horaces,) when she is engaged at the Frangais and makes her début in the part above named, June 12, 1838. Now, ona June night ia Paris it is much pleasanter to be in the Bois de Boulogne, the Champs Elysees, the Garden of the Tuilleries, or by the fountain of the Palais Royal, or even to lounge upon the Boulevards, than to listen, in a theatre, to one of the old French tragedies. The audience, therefore, was small, but the debutante made a success. Janin, the leading critic, goes into the theatre as a cool, quiet retreat, and is astonished at the apparition of a great actress, of whom he had never before heard. Mer success was immedi- ate. She galvanized the old French plays and the old French theatre into a new life. In the winter of her first year she also performed the Eerrane Emilie in “Cinna,”’ Aménaide in ‘Tancréde,”’ in “I je,”” and Momme in “Mithridate.”” Tt Titec ward ton tes sodes feaoes ts “Bajazet,”” Pau- line in “Polyeucte, and the chief part in “phedre.” Her popularity sprang to ite highest point almost instanta- neously, and no better proof can be adduced of the tact than the circumstance of her salary, which was 4,000f. the first year, being 20,000f. in the second. In after years ber income varied from 300,000f. to 400,000f., according to the pumber of representations which sbe gave during ber annual congé—in her case of several months’ du- ration. ‘The claquers and some of the journalists mere put her down when she played Roxane. On the night they were almost sucessful, but the fourth represechetion brought the receipts up to & sum before unknown in the history of the theatre, and she was never again interfered After having thas triamphed in Paria, our actress took advantage of her congé and visited Lyons and other places in the provinces, where she was received with the great- est enthusiasm. At Lyons, where she bad sung in the streets, the civic suthorities presented her with a crown of The world is now at ber feet, so far as France is concerned, and lke Alexander, sighing for more conquests. she crosses the chaune} and at Her Majesty's theatre, Lon listen in don, May 10, 1840, as Hermione, in * jue.” This the height of the season—Grisi is singing, Ellsler and Tag- lion! are dancing—but they are deserted for the new ae- tress. The Zimesof the next day says:—Altogether a greater combination of intelligence and power bas seldom been witnessed than in this young actreas; and when it is ected that in vonth she was almost uocducated, and At ber on of character was originaliy owing to her own genius, she must be considered as al most a psychologicsl phe Lomenon She is sought on the throne sends her a bracelet—‘«Queen Victoria we hel."’ In St. Petersburg the excitable Russians shower her with gold and precious stones. She is ac- knowledged the Queen of the stage, and there is no rival near the throne. In 1848, at the time of the revolution, she waves the flag of the nation over ber head, “The Mareeiliaise”’ to crowds of excited She is, not Sena they sed ond ae she gives away a reat di money to , and provides splendidly ‘or all her poor relations. shes strictly conscientious: Jewese; she will not say “I believe,” when reciting Polyeucte before the Archbishop of Paris, but she causes her children tw be educated as Roman Catholics; and tells the same Archb&hop gracefully that a religion which bas such interpreters as himself mut be divine. She i not loquacious, and yet talks well. Of an actress at the Francaise who haa superb den‘al embellish ments, she says, when asked what are M’lle. Brohan's qualifications for the stage? “ Thirty-two teeth.”” Some- times she planges into s round of Ceey yo) again she rbuts herseif up for weeks at a time. critics quarrel about her. Some she has not gen only tact end talent, that is the puppet of Samson. Mirecourt says that she comprehends what she cannot divine; Newtement holds that sl divines what she cannot comprebend. She adds the Angelo of Victor Hugo; the Adrienne of Lecouvreur and Seribe, and the rielle de Helle Isle of Dumas, to the classic repertoire, and proves she is equal in both. Her love affairs are numerous, but her lovers never complain. She is truly # “ psychological pheno- menon.”’ She is alleged to wave no feeling. Lat us see When Farren Was lessee of the litte theatre called the Strand, Rachel was at the Saint James’ theatre Mrs. Stirling, a — actress, was playing at the same time at the Strand, in an adaptation of Adrienne Lecou- vreur. The performance was even more touching than that of Rache|, who, with the well known Peter Bothwick, was sitting in the boxes. At the most affecting point of the play, big tears rolled down the face of the French actress, a tribute to the power of her comparatively unknown English compeer, sod a that her sensibilities were not quite dried up by the hard, cold life which she bad led. Rachel was not without that love of gain which is said to be the predominant trait in the Metrew character, and although income Was not lees than $80,000 per anoum in Burope, she to increase it by a visit to the New World. Her to visit America was often mate and often abandoned during 1862, 'S and “4. Stimulated by her brother |, however, sbe at iast em- barked. Tt was said she came 10 this resolution om ac- count ef the sensation which Ristori had made Paris, At to Tandon, the St James 85, in the Jil fated steamship Pacific previous to this time she was appointed Professor at the Censerva- tol ‘She arrived in New York om the 23d of August, and appeared at the jjtan (now Burton's) theatre, September 3d, as Camille, in ‘Lea Horaces,”’ to perhaps the finest audience that ever assembled for any theatrical representation in America. Ag it is better to read what other fay of ne we quote the fol descrip: ton of the firet performance from a work descriptive of the tour, written by one of the actors in her company :— ‘The entr’acte is not long Maile. Rachel herself is impatient to appear on the Nevertheless, she is excited, very much excited. Her band is ley. The piece ne ‘The public listen religiously to the Alexandrines of Cor- neille. The most complete silence reigns in the house. Suddenly a strange, unexpected noise drowns the voices of the actors. One would say that a frightful storm had come on, and that the rain was furiously beating against all the windows of the house. Nothing of the kind! The deluge is all in your eye. The noise is produced merely by innumerable pamphlet copies of “Les Horsces”’ translated into English, and all the spectators are turn’ over the leaf together. Nothing can be more comical than to bear this sudden rustling, just in the middle of a passage. Nothing ean bs 80 diverting as the perfect concert in which all these old papers are hustled You would say that a regiment in biack uniform waa executing a military order Méile he} does not think this so very diverting. She reflects that these accursed pamphict? are going to cut her words in two, her sentences and her passages, and that reassures her only partially At last, Sabine (Mille. Durrey) pronounces the line: Yoyes qu'un bon gente & propos neus lenvoie, ete. There is @ great movement in the house, and Malle. Rachel appet ie received by three or four salvos of applause omer perfectly calm and quiet ©, frankly, that has satisfed us only very moderately. They ought to have applauded for a whole hour Still she stadies. rate, she performances at t Rachel in America’ This seems to us something in credible. aplendid, wonderful! [t was, to our idea, an epoch which ought to revolutionize the whole continent Rachel in America! Why, the Indian triber vee should have talked it over in their savage f And. instead of that, they receive her J have feceived ten other, twenty cther, actres What am Leoying? Jenny Lind wa a quecn. by the highest in the land. The royal | And yet, does Jenny Lind’s taleat, great as it may be, oui Rachel's? 1 must be permitted to doubt. ‘As to the reputation of the Swedish body knows that it never was equal to tragedicnne, ever of the Frea:h * * * * * * And T repeat it, Rachel's success does no! approact: that of her predecessor, Allthe worse for the Americans. They appeared to Consider it a matter of course that the French trogedienne shonid leave her native land and risk ber life to have the pleasure of repeating poetry in the country of Washington and Benjamin Franklin. What is woree, they did not ut her. ‘The thines that produced the greatest effect among us— her magnificent diction, the play of her countenance +, her admirable carriage and gesture—all these are passed over nearly unnoticed. The only things which excited real use were the the strong passages, passionate scenes, where the step becomes more avimated, the gesture more lively, or tho voice leaves its usual tones. So the whole of the scene of the imprecations produced a monstrous effect, and decided the effect of the perfor- mance, a very brilliant success, very great without doubt, but I would have had itt times greater, twenty times: more complete, considering the talent and name of her ‘who was its object! I need not say that Mademoiselle Rachel was called out after the piece, which ended, not at the end, as some may suppose, but two thirds through the fourth act, that is, at the last words of Camille, when she is ‘in by her bro- jonah traitre!”” which does not rhyme with any reat things. wr The scene of Sabine and Horace is suppressed, as is also the fifth act, as injuring the effect. ‘The public, to de them justice, did not encore anything, and they applauded Rachel as warmly as they could, when, on being called out, she waa led on the scene, not, ‘as one would suppose, by her brother Horace, but by her brother Raphael! Probably because it would not have been v for Camille to reappear, giving her hand to the man who has just assassin: her! As you perceive, Mademoiselle Rachel always makes her d'but in @ city in the part of Camille. This is her Bret cheval de bataille. A great deal has been written in relation to the failure of M’lie Rachel's American tour, It was not a failure, however, so far as the lis was concerned, On the 4th, she played Phedre; on the 6th, Adrienne Lecou. vreur; and abe fives $1,000 for the widows and orphans of the victims of the yellow fever at New Orleans; on the 10th, Marie Stuart; on the 12th, Adrienne again; 14th, Los Horaces; 19th, Angelo; 20th, Bajazet; 24th, Angelo; 25th, Reading at the Tabernaclo; 26th, Phadre; 28th, Adrienne; 29th, Andromaque; Oct. 33, Polyeucte; bth, Angelo; 8th, Les Boracee, and M’lle Rachel declaims the Marsei'laise. She played throughout this month nearly every night; and although the management was very bad, the receipts never went under $2,500, and averaged $3,000, She then went to Boston, played six times and returned to New York, acting at the Aca- demy of Music and at Niblo’s Garden. On the 17th No- vember, Mdlle. Rachel took her leave of New York, play- ing in Phedre and Le Moineau de Lesbie. Thence to Philadelphia, where she played one night, and thas is her last appearance but one on any stage. Here is the actor’s account of it :-— For the moment, the best thing we can do, I think, is to go to the Walnut street theatre. Maile. Rachel opens there this evening. The pieces are— LE DEPIT AND LES HORACES. It is a hideous house, a pitiful theatre, this Walnut. We cannot understand how so fine’ acity should not have something better. They are making arran; ents, we are told, te build, st greal expense, a bouse which will be really splendid. As we have no time to wait till that is finished, we will be content, for to-night, with what we have. We have to suffer for it; not on account of the receipts, ae are bread fair; not on ay of the me very great; but on account of its being so frightfully cold tenind the scenes. ” There is no fire and we are thoroughly froaen. Every- body catches cold. ‘Malle. Rachel, who, since that night at the has never entirely recovered from her cough, BO from the cold to-night that the next day she is taken se- riously ill, and is obliged to take her bed. From this moment, until she started for Charleston, she does not leave Jones’ Hotel, where she stays with her sister Sarah. It is fair to say here that Rachel herself stated in Paris last summer that she contracted her fatal cold in Boston. Jt was certainly wated by one of the northeast storms peculiar to New Bngiand, as well as by the an- poyances she suffered at the hands of the journalists, who abused her because they kad a quarrel with her brother about free tickets. From Philadelphia M’lle Rachel to Charleston, where she is able to act in Adrienne Le Couvreur, on ono night, and that night, December 17, 1856, the great actress left the stage never to return to it. She should have made ber last step on the stage of the Francaise, sur- rounded by the souvenirs of the great authors snd artists of the past, and died within hailof the Boulevards. But no; sbe acts for the lasttime in a provincial town in a foreign country, and dies in a miserable country village. result of M'lle Rachel's enage- As for the ment here, it Brought it nearly $150,000 for thirty-seven performances: P M'lle. Rachel remained at Havana until the spring of 1856, ‘and then returned to France. Mere ends her proteasional career, of which we have given but a hurried sketch. By the advice of her physician she went to Egypt, but returned without improvement. In June last she came to Paris very ill. Her voice had almost besome inaudible, aud she received no one. She afterwards went to Cairnes, where she was ordered to imy le she could re- many months {t wag thong! cover, still the fatal issue of her disease was vot looked for at moment when it came; and thirty- tix hours previous to her death she had written to Prince Napoleon to of him to obtain the for her physician, Dr. Bergonnet, whom, in her letter, she styled mon sauveur, and who she really did then, on the eve of de- bad led in rescuing her. She leaves a fortune of 1,200,000 francs ($250,000.) 600,000 francs are to be divided amongst her sons, and the re- maining 600,000 are parcelied out between her family and | different small — She died in the Jewish faith, a Rabbi Nice to attend ber in ber last momenta. Theatre closed on the night of the 7th im respect to her The body, which had been embalmed, was ex- that evening in Paris, and the funeral was to y. Personal character and private life might be written. But her errors Raobel’s eldest son, a boy of about 14, whose fathor is Count Walewaki, is being educated at Geneva, and knew no- thing of his mother's death. A friend of mine was request. ed to see the Minister for Foreign Affairs upon this subject, ‘and inquire from him if he did not think it fitting that the boy should be present at the funeral, which takes plaice to-morrow; but it Walewski said he did not deem it by ADY means necessary, and that it would only cause the child a sad and disagreeable im ost le imagine that the rea) fact i# that Minister for Forelgn Ailairs does not choose that the crowd at Rachel's faseral should say, “There, that young lad, who is chief mourner and Rachel's son, is the sm also of M. Walewski, the frat minister of the empire.”’ Besides this too many would have added, “Ten or twelve years back that boy's fathor persecuted Rachel, the actress, to become his wife, and what was then termed her good sense, and her friends who surrounded and besougbt ber not to think of such « thing. alone prevented the marriage.” All this might not be particularly flattering to M. Walewski just now, #0 the young Alexander Napoleon Viscount Walewski (for he is perfectly acknowledged) is left in his school at Ge- neva and kept from the public eye. Mile Rachel had many offers of marriage, but refused them all. Ay to that subject, we reproduce the fol- lowing curious letter, which was published in the Hemauy April 5, 1856.— The following letter appears in the Independance Belge It replies to the rumor that she was about to renounce the stage for matrimony; but it wax not, our cotemporary says, “intended for publication.” The great tragedienne writes: — Thave heard many clever people aay that it is better to be maltreated by the press than to submit to its silence and its neglect. I have, then, to thank you once more for the notice which you have given me inthe ———. Bat bone my dear friend, have you occupied yourself for each a length of time with nothing but fancies of m: which you have Invented in order to blame me ’—and w! suspect me again to day of thie inutility? I have two sous whom I adore. I bave thirty-two years upon my certificate of birth; T have @fy upon my countenancea—t will not «ay how many au reste. highteen years of passionate tirade upon the theatres; heoty journeys to the extent of every land , Moscow winters; Waterloo treacheries, the perfidious sen; the ingrate jand—bebold things which soon age little bit of a woman like me! But God protects brave, and he seems to havecreated expressly for mo little corner Seuss, Say pun tay rtemercel Tecan forget my fatigues, my pains, my reold age; * * this, fag Jy your villanous eanard in the dat of the which perch upon my branches, and Tione ai of return—mine, probably, and that of the ing. If T had really died in America, you would have been—ob! I'm quite sure of it |—the firal to devote to ine (in & manner worthy of your genins and heart) one of your warmest fewillctons, And because | am resuset- tated in & miracu! manner—because | hope to shake your band again like an old friend, you exclaim— Sho lives! that’s well; and thank God for it, Now, let us teave her!’ Then see you setting to work to irritate my too susceptible nerves, and to amuse Ne at the expense of poor little Rachel! js it thus you should act with a poor creature who returns very truly from the other world’ Go, be just and kind, and accuse yourself of an inveterate love of teasing a| my peor expense, and then I will you, eepecially as T hope to see yon soon in Paris or in the countr} By Jupiter, it is very gentee! of me to act thus towards you is letter is certainly not written “ by a great tragedienne,”’ but by a poor girl, who calls horself— RACHEL. ‘The house of the fragetienne in Paris ia inthe Rue de Trodoo (No. 4), and is thus described by a German author — “At her hoose everthing i rich and magnifl cent, perhape too recherche, The inormost room was blue green, with shaded Iampe and statuettes of French authors. Ih the eafon, property speaking ghe color which prevailed principally ‘p the carpeta, corlaine and book cases wae crimron. She herself wae dressed in black, probably as she is represented in the well known Rog lish stee! engr@¥ing of her Her guests consisted of gan- tiemen for the greater pert artiete and men of learni ! also beard & few titles among them. Richly apparelled servants announced the names of the arrivals. Tea was more in the Ger Vietor Hugo had told me that man than the Fr he found that eh the German language. I aeked ber, and she erman ‘feh kann es lesen; ioh bin ja in Le en: ich habe deuteche Bucher, sebn Sic hier ad it: Twas born in Lorraine, f have German hook: look here); and showed me Griliparzer's “Sappho,” and then immediately continued the conversation in French. She expressed her pleasure in acting the part of Sappho, and then spoke of Schiller's Maria Stuart,” which gharacter ;u. bas persopated in g French version of that play. I saw hor he gave the lat act expecially with « end tregic ti beet of German very met that ehe have becom * mtd fai it was precis IT 4 that the French liked her least ‘ said ehe, * are not accustomed to this mann t, & 25, 1858. gue of the e the Sy at this — 4 s My 900 in this manner alone can the part be given, No one should be raving when the heart is almost broken wit sorrow. and when he is about to take an everlasting farewell of bis friends.” drawin) decorate1 with books, which were 41 the most Hor room was for leo didly bound, and arranged in bandsome bookcases behind gas. A inting hung on the wall, which represent Sender the taantre to London, where she stood for- ted ward on the stage, and flowers and garlands were thrown to her acrose the orchestra, preity little book.shelf, ility among the poet Shakspere, &c. is picture hung a Below thi holding what Teall « ts” —Goe! the high no- the, Schiller, Calderon, uestions: Germany and Denmark, art and the coura; when I stumbled in French, and collect myself, that I might not sti Said ee she. tive Dearly as interesting as yours, I understand sense , and that is the principal thing of your words perfectly, bh which interests me in you.’” ‘This charming hotel was crammed with objects of vertu, art and bifouteric, chiefly gifts. The jewelry and stage wardrobe of Rachel was recently sent to this country for sale, and is now and she is all and many anecdotes are enough to quote. might have said ef her with justice, #1 i judied hard, ate seldom, and toes.” She st in New York. “ Itis true that well; [have heard msny peak Janguage better, but their conversation has Ey D Like Mrs. usually @ tragedy queen off the She asked me many respecting tre; and she en- me with a kind smile around her grave mouth ped for a moment to quite fast. itis valued at $126, a set of diamonds worth . to have been very mean, sordid and avaricious, 'ven to prove this; but none are pe Meg nately drank a great deal of wine, and sl timeé not going to bed before three or four end getting the had bean at nine. ways 1 hands and foet, clear, well cut classical Ont do not 8) speak my na- $40,000. She ‘then inordi- little, some- the morning, al thin! features, more Grecian than Hebrew, and an eye which is ‘The present writer declines the not a, described. task, 4 do not deem it necessary ,jeither, to go into an elaborate review of her dramatic powers. We believe, and it is the general impression abroad, that she was the Bt actress that has ever lived. Ristori, who is call- parison is out of the wi her rival, is nothing question ; audience as did Rachel. like he com) ut this we can say, that Ristori never stirs the None but herself could -be her parallel, She had the highest admiration for the British poets, and once attem; to learn English in order to Play’ Lady Macbeth, In a_ letter in the possession of the writer, she says that the highest triumph of her life was that ehe made the French tragedies interesting to a people who were acquainted the great Shaks) The death of world, and she speak: The leaf of Outsweate! tion, the time of her death, taph—no 8 a I seen Rachel and followed the works of the first dramatic author of the world— re. Rachel leaves only one great actress in the language almost unknown in Eng- land, France and the United States, the only countries where the drama is properly supported. Those who have er through her saperb repre- sentations will join with us in laying a wreath of ummortelles upon her tomb, and sincerely'regret the loss of so great an artist before her work was half completed. Thou shalt not lack utter disrespect of forms or persons. perseverance, her intense study, continued nearly to He The flower that’s like thy face, pale primrose; nor ‘The azur’d harebell, like thy veins; no, nor Jantine, whom not to slander, not thy breath.”” The life of Rachel was nominally a short one, but in the last twenty years she lived @ score common place existences, in her struggle for fame, her flerce passions, her loves, hates, joys. sorrows and jealousies; for as she was great in the perfections of her sex, so also was she remarkable for her disdain of conventionalities and her r courage, devo- afford the brightest examples to the intellectual toiler in any path, and other parts of her life are not without valuabie lessons, Sho needs no epi- cherubs on her tomb. No of Napoleon will be held in such high honor by the Pari- sians as that of Elizabeth Rachel Felix. grave save that LONDON MONEY MARKET. ANOTHER REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF INTEREST BY THE BANK—RETURNS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND— MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE—BULLION AND CONSOL MARKETS. {From the London Times (City Article) Jan. 8.} The Bank of England bave reduced their rate of dis- Count from 8 per cent, at which it was fixed on the 24th of December, to 6 per cent. As the measure had been led as certain for the past eight or ten , it pro- duced no effect upon the stock market. The bullion now held is believed to be between one and two millions in excess of the total in May, 1856, when the rate was re- to the amount attain: further reduction took tinues, and is likely to In Blas. oe With upon which it bas present month. now arrived at a@ ite supply. Wecannot there practically inoperative; every mercantile man to exercise a greater caution to avoid being carried away by the stream. ‘This duty is more imperative on the money dealing bodies, but we regret to observe that force out money as they werea A moderate value of money ap essential element in @ return to and looked at merely in that point of view Petition which at present exists for eligible securities is following duced from 6 to 5 per cent, and'nearly, if not quite, equal ed in the month, when a lace to 434. The influx still con maintained for some time. are theretore, of another downward movement is ely to be entertained at an early date. ‘The the pelted (City Article) Jan. 8.) anticipation, the direc- that comment is rendered unnecessary. ‘come # question when the next reduction will take * and a large number of persons, in a position to form a correct opinion on the subject, do not hesitate to predict a further reduction of one per cent before the close of the tors of the Bank of England reduced the minimum rate of interest and discount to six per cent to-day, This move- ment bas been so generally expected, and the grounds taken place are so well understood Tt bas now be- they are right in their antici. , and ee through which the cow fore comsider it des} stood that a considerable amount by the bank authorities when the government letter au Whether pations time will show. It is, however, well worthy of general consideration, whether it is not desirable that some little time should elapse before any alteration in the value of money be made. We have riod when the Bank act is and it consequently behooves degree of further rT now to weeks: to curtail the undoubtedly ity in trade, the keen com nl resperky pleat slow growth, but advances made thorized them w exceed the legal irsue was upon bills of long date, and that cirnumstance shows the foresight of the directors, and atthe same time enables them to view with complacency the small amount of business which they at present are doing. This fact also partially explains the cause of the comparatively small amount of the weekly decrease in the amount of -f the recent bank returns. England wi!) doubles fn ties” shown of the Bank other securi The proprietors that they bave no reason to be dissatisfied with the profite of the opera. tions of the current six months, even if the bank dose not increase its present discount business until the end of the current half year. A fall of four per cent in the value of within a fortnight ht to be satisfied if no public Tande until we ester upon another menth. {From the London Chronicle, Jan 8 Yeeterda: work, and the alte! t the weekly meeting of the back directors, the minimum rate of discount was reduced from 6 to 6 per cent. This movement had been for some days fore- een, and the comsequent influence upon the Stock Fx change, when the event transpired, was almost i vie. As betokening the rapid ircreage in the supply of capital, and general improvement in the monetary position of af fairs, this proceeding becomes important. ies of bullion have flowed into the great Large #0; banking establishments on both continents. Eng! The Bank of |, Whose reserves bad «iwindled two months since to an alarmingly low ebb, now possesses between twelve and thirteen millions of specie in ite vaults, and com mands @ reserve of unissued notes not far short of six millions. The Bank of France, during the same period, ions in ite stock of bullion, and is now known to contain a hoard not falling far short bas acquired large of twelve millions. In New York, the latest official re- turns from the State banks exhibited a metallic basis of five milions cag specie whereon ese = institutions had ever being @ far larger substratum of base their specie issues than to be centralized organized with that particular article. could not be consi Everywhere capital seemed in ‘the establishments specially the view of dealj in As a general principle, dered favorable. en mone; Lied dency to jon in the coffers of banks, the cause must either be that some apprehension of commer. cial peril bas induced the managors to collect a larger quantum of specie than they might otherwise have re. quired, or that the natural outlets in reproductive services, either case the iene is step now ado have nn capital, as employed become choked up. In prosperous, inasmuch asa amount of capital is tying dead and unproductive. by the Bank of England will tend to mi. tigate the eyil, by setting at liberty for the le enterprise a vast mass of availa’ "The feel profitab| whieb has for many months last been locked up out reach of those who might have employed it to useful and deneficial accovnt. [From the London Times (City Article) ‘This has been settling day in the English Jan, 9.) funds, and, after considerable fluctuations, a further advance has been established of Inst evening—94% rangement of the account, wo 9 the Ultimately the market waa influenced by of the large amounts of stock temporarily by the Bank of England and other establishments during the recent crisis, and upon a succession of purchases rebound took place to 95 to 95%, wi Console for money opened at the quotation ; Whence, during the ar ¥ declined to 04% to 945 the withdrawal id upon it pul 4 hich was steadily maintained. For the 4th of February the last transactions were at 95% to 95%. dorin new One amall failure was announced the morning. Bank stock left off at 218 to 220; ree per conte, OF to M5; India stock, 218 to 222; India bonae, par to be. premium; and exchequer billa, $4 to 128. premium. In the Stock Fxchange to day the rate for advances on ernment securities was 4 per cont. At the Bank of land there was a moderately full demand, although in the open market the choicest paper is tween 436 and 5 per ce nt. yogotiated at be Foreign stocks continue in fair demagd, and the market shows a tendency to a further advance. In the foreign exchanges this afternoon bills apon Ham burg and Amsterd; were in demand, and the rates in both instances declined. Paris was also fractionally lower than last post The stations of the French three per conta on the Parie Rouree thie evening were 69f. 80c, for monoy and 70f. 10c. for the end of the month, showing @ reaction of nearly three cighths per cent The return from the Bank of England for the week end ing the @th of Janunry compared # ith the prey pives the us week, to wid resulta when ame, Public deportts. 27,190,661 Decrease. .. Other deposits. 7 Derroase 094 Rett... sess SoH Increase... 47,297 On the other side of the account:— Government securities .. £1,766 ,309 Other securities. . 25,661,966 Decrease. . 1,638,749 Notes unemployed. » 7,088, Tnorease . 1,023,055 ‘The amount of notes in circulation is £19,499,006, being ax” inorease of £183,485; and the stock of bullion in both artments is £12,643,193, showing an increase of £1,198,- bo ge hen compared with the preceding return. "Phe fo lowing is the official return of the Imports and ex- tg of dhe precious metals for the week ending the éth of Janusy>—, aenports. £1,843,768 Gold. 223,367 Silv €1,507,135 Tota? shipped in the 5 -, 18 £31,300, chiefly gold, and a to be sent. ik of New South Wales, at their ye Vth of ber, stated the Octot of which @ dividend = per cent per SanN, @ reserve fund, now ip, be. sede. io4 0 be carried forward. leavi tang Ae 150,000, and £5, The Oliver Cromwell ‘and the . London respectively on 28th Roversber. The former tak 5,600 sove *eigns, the latter ounces soverei 5 ‘The Union and the Commercial have issued an amended notice, that their rate of allowance’@2 new de- posits will be only 4 per cent inatead of 5. In the affairs of Mesers. Wienholt, Webner & Oni-, whose meeting took place yesterday, a hope is expressed Head of 18s, 6d.in the pound is, 60. may be realize assets, including those in India, being tne North British Daily Mail, which hp age? yeater- F “ed . sof GI m 8 the of Ciapperton, Findis jlasgow, tm gog to have been in error, the has 61 pended being William Clapperton & Co. wes ‘18th, a special settling a Steam Flotille (ietnce Raliway), which are to be marked in the official li Tetters from Australia to day reveal an extensive fraud, which it is feared will meet with further success before” its perpetrators can be arrested. The Australian Joint Stoc! k at {Kea received by post a communication [vl St to dressed to them from London bj lessrs. Baring, Brothers & Co., nominating the bank their ponte at Log and requesting a credit for £15,000 or 000 to be opened in favor of a Mr. Francesco Antonio di Miranda, for whom the same mail brought several let: ters addressed to the care of the bank, This Mr. Miranda ‘was at Sydney at the time, and duly avatied himself of the credit, drawing £20,000 and giving the bank bills on Baring’s for the amount. The whole operation was a fraud. Messrs. bag amg never addressed any letter to the Australian Bank at Sydney, avd that which the bank received must have been sent by some accomplice of Miranda’s in London. Evidently, therefore, a delibe- rate and long prepared scheme is on foot, which will be further carried out at other places. It appears by the resent advices that Miranda, who is assumed to be a na- ive of Portugal, stated his intention of proceeding from Sydney to Macao and Hong Kong, whence he would re- ‘turn to London and Lisbon. The railway market declined after the opening, but later in the day a rally took place, and in some cases the clos- ing quotations show a fractional improvement. American securities were steady. Tilinois Central were, however, flat and closed at 5 discount, ‘The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom, published for the week ending January 2, amounted to £302,507, and for the corresponding week of 1857 '0 £403, 074, showing a decrease of £10,567. The gross receipts of the eight railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted for the week ending as above to £167,107, and for the corresponding week of last year to £165,998, show- ing an increase of £1,169. {From the Liverpool Times (City Article) Jan. 9.) The Bank of England yesterday reduced the minimum rate of discount from 8 to 6 per cent, at which it has re- mained since the 24th of December, and it is expected that within a very be se @ further reduction to 5 per cent may be looked for. This step was anticipated by the commercial world, owing to the enormous sums sent in to the bank for the few weeks, and the continued large arrivals of gold both from the United States and Australia. From the latter colony there is fully one mil lion sterling sfloat. The bullion now held is believed to be between one and two millions in excess of the total in May, 1856, when the rate was reduced from 6 to 5 per cent, and pearly, if not quite, — to the amount attained in the fellowing month, when a further reduction took place to 433. The demand for money has been dal, ithstand | the occurrence the 4th of ‘the month, when engagements must be met, which, on the present occasion, were believed to bave been very heavy. The engagements bowever, appear to have been well met, and no pressure was felt.’ In the discount market good short dated paper is readily discounted at six per cent; where large trans- actions have taken place the rate bas been 53, per cent. On all sides holders complain of the difficulty of finding suitable investment for capital. On the Stock Excl eo loans on government securities are readily obtainable at three 4 cent. The market has been slightly af- fected by a statement, that a bill to authorize the East India Company to raise a loan of six or eight millions will be proposed immediately upon the assembling of Par- amen ‘The discount houses have reduced their rates of allow. ance for money at call from 64 to 43¢ per cent. The Lon don and Westminster Bank have fixed four per cent for all sums of £500 and upward, and three per cent for les- ser amounts, The London Joint Stock Bank have also fixed four per cent. The same is the case with the London and County as regards al) fresh deposits, The Union Commercial, City, and Bank of London all allow five per cent. There bave again been considerable imports ef gold, ‘and almost the whole has been sent to the bank, there being few buyers in the market. ip silver the ope- rations bave been limited. Bar silver has been sold at a trifling reduction in price; but purchasers are shy, and bofore Both bar silver Foreign gold in bars (standard) Silver in bars (standard). Gold con, P neces: ed! count were first quoted 94 Of its being the Arst day of the books, several sales took \ quo! Yotlerday coteots advanced k for money, and esterday to 9536 and 96; to 96% for the February account, out declined to 43, 10 947, for money, and 96 \, to 95 4 for February ,closing stea- ily at the foil rates Consols for money , 4% to 4% ; for the account, #53, ; three per cents 41%, To-day con- sols were very beavy ali the morning, and declined to 4 1116, sellers for the hemi 3 account, but this a’ter- at boon they advanced, closing at 955 to 954. ‘The following table will show the flactust fluctuations in consols fince the Yat et Fr Money am, mm Por Acco, a, so Toweat. High. Clos'g. Tmoest. Hig'tt. Cloxg Rat. hut shat shut Of Ohi 4K 6 ME (8 ho Mee). 9 Mig OH %KE Mi 954 95g Messrs. Richard West India merchants, with liabilities The suspensfon of Mr. Jobn Ewan, Provost of Dundee, merchant, flax spinner and manufacturer, has been ap nounced, with liabilities ertimated at £50,000 to £60,000, the losses falling much more heavily on the locality than thoge attending some previous failures. It is anticipated that there will be a composition of 168. 44. ip the pound. Another failure aoe - Jobn Stiven, a commission agent, with liabilities ing to £10,000. The assets of this estate, it ie feared. will be small. In the Hull Bankruptey Court an examination has taken place of th sheets of the banking firm of Harri- son, Watson & o., who failed in Sepiember last. The liabilities appear to be about £660,000, and the assets about £180,000. Inquiries were made into the circum- stances connected with the extraordinary advances to Tayior and Bright, the latter of whom was recently con- vieted at York for forgery, to Mr. Hassall, and to a cam. phine company, which resultea in showing an incredible degree of infatuation, carelessness, and general misman- agement. AMERICAN RAILWAY STOCKS. jondon Times (City Article) Deo. 9.) {From the L Railways. Tilinoia Central 6 Do. 7 per cont, 187 : Do. do. Free land, 1800. Do. $100 she. , $40 paid. . Mien. Central Mp. ¢. con °60} Do. do. 8 p. ©. 1809..... Do. do. 8 p. ¢. 1869. Do. $100 shares . Mich 8 100 shares N.Y Central 6 = 1883, do. Tp. ©. Do #100sharee N.Y. and Brie 34 m. ©. 75. Ist mtg. conv. 6 p. ¢ Do. 2d mig. 6p. c. stg. FINANCIAL CHARACTER OF MEXICO IN RNGLAND. [From the London Times (City Article) Jan. 8.) The Mexican Vice Consul has thought it right to impugn 4 statement in a mercantile letter from Mexico, inserted on Tuesday, in which the government of that republic were charged with conniving in the smuggling carried on at all the ports, so as to render it almost impossible for the honest merchant who pays the regular duties to con- {inne busivess. Se monstrous does it to the Vice Consul that any one should think, of, chargin AE. jexiean offic h fecal irreguiaritios the fact of such a statement having been made should be sufficient to stamp the writer as unworthy of credence in y respect. Lert, however, there should be a doubt, he is a copy of a clrcular lately issuea wy, toe Fessace Minister, “ cautioning persons attem| ret duce goo without duties, rar” Finance Minister ving ‘ cautioned’ the delinquents, there can, according to the Vico Consnl, be no’ further question as to the virtue of the ment. who havo hart rience of Mexican custom houses and of Mexican depart. monte of State will be able to speak with authority as to whother this lofererce is to be accepted. Apart, more over, frgm te) uch ec urges, thorg is a ey! t change Committee have appointed Monday, | citing day in the shares of the Indus | left Sydney for | ee or aad the 1d oF | | p@wspapers of late have to tontity Fr ‘own! ‘and protestations, even whe un of Congress and approved by Ifthe Vice Consul will acquaint him. g Ir. Toord@ise, £273,818 | self with the results of the Iast conversion of Mexiogs bonds he will be lese ready for the future to ciaim that mere circular from » finance minister of that should be received with reverential faith. Meanwhile will be sufficient to remark that the letter of which ty complains proceeded from a merchant whore commercia and pecuniary reputation presents the greatest coucei vabl: contrast to that enjoyed by the Mexican government, al though this government at the present moment is, per’ haps, the best the country has known for some years ! and that consequently the English pudtic, until they ri favored with a better refutation of his allegations than | Vice Consu) seems prepared to offer, will feel there is m | escape from the disagreeable necessity of belicving then | to be correct. AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT. TRADE OF FRANCE—PROSPROTS OF 1858. [Paris Jan. 2, dence of Lenton Post | ‘The past financial year discovers two important facts—lat. | Det no great Cay op. ons. in ove occur im aay portant country jou being the world; 2, That overtradiog has been practised to s ruinous extent both in Europe and America. Most of thy continental governments are at this moment employed is studying how to avoid future evils. Such universal baak ruptcy as we have just experienced touches governments in that it is sure to end in the suspension of labor, and difficulty soon becomes a state ques The governments of northern Europe are new creditors of the commercial world to a very consideratk extent, and we may reasonably suppose they will take s share in revising the liquidation which is taking . It will probably end in a tem, suspension of somo the vast railway schemes for which governments on the ; Contioent have of late years granted s0 many concessions, | demanding millions more than the money market can ‘ ply without a great to other branches of 4 ty. This is so much feit in France that the government been uri more attention to agi icultural pursuits. The Parisian has no doubt Sisiwho ought to be. at home farming and. Improving Men w? it to at rm their estates, have rushed to Paris, attracted by 10 por cent divide2ds and Bourse speculations. Such a state # things is not difficult to conceive in France, where the owners of land fake little pride in keeing up their estates, and do not care to live oh them if they can pass their time in a gay capital, {Paris an 3) lence of London Times. $ Commercial seople Paris to congratulate, themselves that 1857 has closed without bringing the ec-_ rious embarrassments which had been anticipated. Though business is not very flourishing, they are yot em- couraged to look forward to better ttmes by baving ea- caped great losses. All, however, are not so ime. It is certain that many of the commercial bills which fel due in December were not paid, but were merely renew. ed, and there is still some apprebension that the month of February will oot pass over as quietly as many expect. That trade haa not yet resumed its reactivity is shown, for instance, by the fact of the large speculations onthe Bourse, in which capital is now particularly em- ployed. Before commerce can recover from the effects of the crisis through which it has passed the real va- lue of products must be more Sewie ascertain ed. It is the uncertainty on that head whiok contributes to the timidity, and, as long ag it exists, no important speculation can be engaged in with hope of success. Onthe one hand, no one vertures to make extensive purchases, or Cut new engagements, but contents himself with the supply necessary for his immediate wants; while, on the other, the holders of goods, the merchants and manufacturers, will not sell at a loss as long as they can avoid it, but com- tinue to exist on their capital, as they have already done. No failures to apy amount may take place, but the pro- prietors of accumulated stores of mercbandisé wil! have to pars through a painful ordeal ti) prices shall have found their level. The facilities afforded by the bank will, no doubt, enable merchants and manufactu rera to struggle through the difficulty; the difficulty does not the less exist. The position of dealers im money is more favorable. When suspicion or uncertainty attaches to credit capitalists prefer in- vesting in government securities; hence the great rise in the Three per Cents fhm and for some days previous. When credit restored, capital returas to its more legitimate application—the p of the merchandise with which the bonding stores are eucum- bered. Among the measures of relief a n jon is spoken of a8 going on between the directars of the Bank France aad these of the national discount offices, fer the advance of 60,000,000f. to the Paris merchants, on the security of goods in store. This advance, together with the amount of the dividends payable on the Three per cents on the 22d of last month, and of the interest on the bonds of the various rai companies due and payabte next month. will throw # considerable amount of money present into circulation. Notwithstanding the fal! in the price of grain and flowr within the last few weeks, the settlement at the Paris corm market at the end of the year was effected more than was supposed. As the country markets have of late shown a tendency to rise, the millers refuse to make any further concession, and choice samples of flour are held at 68f the sack of 157 kilogrammes. Not much cl is h observable in the provincial markets. In the o~“~ @ slight rise bas takea place, aud the others are more firm. The only intelligence worth notice from the di isa rise in the price of sugar at Bordéaux, Havre an@ Lille, and asi advance in raw silk in the Southern markets. A few orders have been received at Mulhouse, from Paris, for printed cottons and stuffs. Trade is duit at Rouen, but an improvement is expected iu the course of the month. The demand for wine has been checked at Bercy im consequence of the considerable arrivals by railroad. Prices, however, have not varied. ‘andies are unsalea- ble in consequence of want of orders from abroad. wa ne brand! that pel A re now ies, an ices have ye downward tundeney”"’ The ‘wing ‘trade. t Se Tone much animation, but, with some few trifling exceptions, ‘ices are maintained. At Bercy stocks are still unusually ony and arrivals continue, but purchases by the trade are confined to the supply of immediate wants. burg me AFFAIRS IN HAMBURG. (Dec. 31) Correspondence of London Chronicle.) orm rena eghrnbonn Part of a numerous body of Hamburg creditors, to recover very large nearly £400,000—have written to their clients to say that their eps ey have pagal _— fruitless Tt a Proposed in meetings that took p! ‘at Stockholm other commercial towns of Sweden that the Hamburg ditors should be paid within two years, with interest at | the rate of six per cent; but no being given te iusure the ent of the the creditors. re- jected the pro There is reason to fear that to this time are only in of suspension, will be ob to file their balance sheets and formally declare: themselves bankrupts; a resalt that Ag at all improve the financial situation of our market, houres Foner ne Be ce it eager. remittances for their merchandise ana aa far ee means will aliow. ? y of our discount banks hae just stapled tes Bank of tock with £80,000 for m year, at six per cent, and two par cent comm! The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, with the laudable motive of sustaining the credit of his twe porte, did not besitate to give our bank a mortgage on his ‘vast private domains as security for the monet. Still, we bave perhaps been too hasty in believing the crisis bere to be over. Six more failures have been aa- nounced within the last three days, some of them with considerable liabitities. Those, indeed, of a house largely engaged in the export of German manufactures to the Brazils are said to amount to nearly £200,000. Our merchants are looking with great anxiety for the arrival of the next steamer, which may bring back from the Bra- zils dishonored bills to a very alarming Ogure. FINANORS AND PATLURES IN DENMARK. (Dec. 81) correspondence of London News.} e have had a commercial crisis here as elsewhere, and unfortunately ours cannot as yet be consider ed atan end. The commercial relations of Denmark with Hamburg are of so extensive a nature that any blow that falls upon that city must reach us also. Notovly is the \argest amount of our export articles—corn and sions—sold through the mediation of Hamburg houses, bat our merchants have fresly, perhaps too freely, availed themselves of the credit offered by the Hamburg bank- ere, while on the other hand Hamburg merchants have. through the medium of bankers estab! here, avail themselves of the credit of the Danish National Bank. Thus, in addition to the bills out of the actual transfer of goods, a number of other bills, based on no other security than that of the con- fidence enjoyed by the houses whose names wore at- tached to them, were in circulation; and may there- fore judge of the result when this coatlenes was sud- denly shaken. Cur merchants have made almost super- human efforts to meet their linbilities, some of the largest and wealthiest firms having, it is said, sacrificed even to their last penny in order to avoid bankruptcy; but even these efforts, together with the remedial measures taken: 5 the by the government, have been insufficient entirely to ‘avert from us the calamities that have during thie year fallen so heavily upon almost every commercial commu- nity; yet among the failures that tiave taken place in the course of Present month, there have not, until the last few days, been the names of any of our more tensive firms; now, however, the name of me oe. reapected house of Halkjar & Oo. bas been 0 number of the less important failares, and to-day it fs peered that ‘another considerable Orm, that of Helemann, has fol! THE CRISIS IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. ‘We have to announce the formation of a guarastor aa- socintion at Stockholm, under the auspices of the princi. fuel } merchants, with the view of #u) the credit of The various houres compromised by failures at Ham- ‘burg and elsew! here. Tl is stated that the Swedish Diet had authorizet 2 ment to raise a loan of between £600,000 and £700,000, exclusively for the relief of such members of he com. mercial body az may be able to deposit securityand give full evidence of their solvency The loan for Norway, subscribed through Mossrs. Baring, i# £220,000,” ‘The War in Utah—Engitsh Opinion of Mor- mon Migration and Mormon Faith, (from the London Times, Jan. ie Te appears to be the opinion in the United States that the Mormons are preparing for another , if we ma ee, from some numbers of the Deseret Neve whieh we lately reached us. The nae ‘against hem haw failed, indeed, this time. «imply because it startel too late in the year, or was delayed too long in Kasas. tn consequence of this Procrastination the year hed avacced too far, the anow fell, the grass failed; with the ‘ailure of the grass the mules dropped off and as the males drop, ‘off the lies dropped off. The consequene is 1) Coldhe! Alexander, with 1,000 bayonets and twofteld bat- tories, is now encamped in winter quarters @ Ham's Fork, 143 miles from the Salt Lake City, waitig for the ‘ing. Colonel Johneton and Colonel Ooaxe, with more men, have probably befoe now jones him; but, though the expediion hag ied this time, it is obvious tha 1,600 men, reinforced by double or treble their numtvr in ‘the spring must overwhelm the Mormons. Tho leslers sea this well enough, and are beginning to look alwut thom pr’ to prepare their followers for another mvemont ‘coy is gomlpg upgn them, and Mr