The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

tea: AIR. and MRS. CHA RLES WEAN lanewill R TH IS E- I- APPEAR at the Theatre -Royal Drury-, EVENING (TUESDAY, Feb. 25, in LOUIS XL On Wednesday, 26th, Hamlet ; Taursday, 27th, Louis XI.; Friday, 28th. hamlet ; and on Saturday, March 1, The Wife's Secret. With the PANTOXIBIE for the last five nights. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of i Mss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrson. THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie 111`Lean, and Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, Patey, Wallworth, and W. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLivER; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. 11., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. • d - EA'llt Y AL, HAYMARKET, Les.ee, Mr. J. B. Brickstone. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothem ; Asa Trcnchard, Mr. Buckstone. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, ' LITTLf? MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, Hale gain and Old Daddy Longlegs. Lo uise Leclereq,Charles Le clerc% Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosin. Commence a• 7. traction, that there is visible now a distinct decrease in the Naval Estimates for the present year as compared with the previous y ear of £846,283. The member for the borough of Lambeth however cannot for the life of him see it. And according to his invariable custom he rages against the unmiti gated extravagance of our annual maritime expen diture. 11 0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. U THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fill (loner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Alter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cioely Nott, and %Res Lydia Thompson. A c ting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till s. Lord CLARENCE PAGET, however, is not alone carped at by that implacable foe of every Secretary to the Admiralty, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conser vative, in succession. The language of condemna tion is audible from the very opposite direction, im mediately the noble and gallant member for Sand. wich has resumed his seat upon the completion of his frank and sailor-like but also luminous and states man-like speech in explanation of the new Naval estimates. Extremes again meet in this instance, as they are said to do proverbially. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON cannot rest a moment without pro testing against—not (you may be certain of that) the extravagance of the expenditure, but, on the contrary, against the (as he deems it) extremely ill-considered cause for retrenchment just par ticularised. The right hon. baronet regrets the extent of the reduction in the Channel Fleet as announced in the noble lord's statement. A pro test of that kind from Sir JOHN. PARINGTON can not, however, be regarded as anything very sur prising under the circumstances. He whose vigorous administrative powers called our pre sent Channel Fleet into existence may be borne with surely when, on evidencing a certain jealousy at the prospect of its diminution, at the prospect of what he regards to be its injudicious and precipitate diminution. The advisability of maintaining s strong fleet upon the home station is undoubtedly a thing universally admitted as beyond denial. And the use of the Channel Fleet as a means of training, disciplining and practising the navy is also a fact in itself sufficiently obvious. Yet out of the 76,000 men asked for last evening by the Admi ralty Secretary (and obtained for them), while it is proposed to set apart for service "in the Me diterranean, 9,800, and in North America and Mexico, 12,200, inclusive of 700 marines re cently disembarked at Vera Cruz, making a total of 37,200 men and boys : on the more distant sta tions, 17,000 men and boys, making the whole force 54,200, exclusive of marines, dockyard-riggers, able-bodied pensioners on shore, and 10,000 coast guard volunteers"—how small a proportion is re quired for the manning of our Channel Fleet 1 Sufficient, merely to man two line-of-battle ships, two iron-cased frigates, two corvettes, and four sloops ! Certainly, it does seem a small proportion truly, with M. DE BOISSY raving in the Imperial Senate about the ad visibility even now of making a grand descent ' upon the shores of Britain! Only it should be re -1 membered that while the channel fleet is to be cat down to the particularly moderate proportions pro- Iposed by Lord CLARENCE PAGET, in his newly re counted estimates, the total force is still to amount, he tells us also in the same breath, "to 12 line-of = battle ships, 2 iron-sided ships, 38 frigates and cor vettes, and 90 sloops; showing a total of 149 ves sels of all sizes. Besides which there are to be 2 coast guards-ships and 9 blook-ships, which will I bring the grand total of steam ships up to about 160 !" Nor is this all. Referring to iron-cased ships of war, Lord CLARENCE told the House yesterday " that 12 of these vessels would be ready in the coming year, that three more would be finished in 1864, and that when Captain COLES' ship was built there would be a fleet of sixteen !" True it is, no doubt,asLordPALMERSTON himself,later in the even ing, took occasion to remark, that the activity long displayed in the Imperial dockyards of France has not up to this moment evidenced any appreciable di minution—that, in spite of all their boasted financial economy of late, the French Government have but very recently issued orders for ten more floating batteries, really meaning iron ships of a smaller size than ordinary, while at the same time they have not sixteen, but twenty-six, iron ships either com pleted or in rapid progress towards completion ! No matter. With England's weather eye open, and with her unrivalled capacity, at the first instant's notice, for making up any deficiency in this way so soon as that may appear to the House of Commons to be in any re spect seriously advisable, we cannot but think that Lord CLARENCE PAGET'S account of the pro vision made for the coming year to be, in the fullest sense of the words, adequate—the econo mising French Empire—and even the terrible M. DE BOISST, with all his Salmoneus thunders—to the contrary nevertheless, notwithstanding. LO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE TWO POLTS. Mr.Widdicomb. After which, the new Mystic Drama, in four parts, entitled THE ANGEI, OF ManTIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widditomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Miss Fielding, km To conclude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. NEW THEATRE-R 0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 360th, 361st, 362 d, 363 d, 364th, 365th Nights of the Engage ment of Mr. and Mrs. DION BOLICICAULT.—Last Four Nights of The Octoroon and The Dublin Boy. 'THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington, Jamison, Mrsdfod, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer, 11. Lewis ;. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston. Miss Latimer, Miss Denvil. To be followed by THE DUBLIN BOY. Andy, Mrs. Boucicault . To conclude with MARGERY DA W. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington. W. Smith, Miss Wool gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. AT E W ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, A NICE QUIET DAY. Followed by the screaming Farce of CARNATION OF CARNATION COTTAGE. After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames gitanley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with A CHINESE ROMANCE. Commence at half -past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, will be produced a Grand Eastern Spectacle, forming one magnificent array of splen dour, introducing Mr. Bell's wonderful Performing Ele phants, the largest in England, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE. To be followedby a brilliant routine of matchless SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the most aocomplished artistes of the day. Concluding with a favourite Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL. -VICTOR JULIEN, "the FLYING MAN," at half-Past Nine n success of "THE ENCHANTED HASH " by Mr. Continued Mars at a quarter-Past Ten. Grand Selections from "La Circassienne" by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Also the following combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Har riet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—)3all, Bd. ; Stalls mad Balcony, ls. ------ TICE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.— " LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQITES" RENBT (aged Eleven years), and PFAIJ (aged Nine years), From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, y{FhOse Double Feats on th Flying Trapeze are unsurpassed sltill, and grace, EVERY EVENING. Their perforinances do not in any way interfere with the _Musical Entertainment, which as usual consists of Two vperatic Selections alternately from " Trovato Macbeth, wa d," "La Traviata," " Simon Boccanegra," "," s a e,, by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus—(Con ductegby Mr. F. Joughirlans)—And Varied Vocal andlnstru. Mental Attractions, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney,.Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son , M. P. Fo s t er, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. AIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TSUI DA.Y.—Morning, 11h. 24m.—Afternoon, h. m. TO-3108.8.01v.-Morning, 12h. 3m.—Afternoon, 12h. 35m, TEE WEATHE O R.— METER O , IN THE SHADE SIIN FFICE, FEBRUARY 25, 1862. THERM . 38 —highest since noon yesterday. 35 lowest this morning and during the night. 38.—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.17. WIND—N. -Easterly ; fresh, with dull cold weather. , ~_ ~..... ,Iff,t,„.. ,•‘, , p," rzirawk.. 'l' ) ' -r-,7 Z- - k '----- '''', %_______ THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1862, Altogether the statement made to the House of Commons in Committee by the noble lord the Secretary to the Board of Admiralt y when , yesterday, according to annual custom, bringing forward the Naval Estimates for the next financial year, must be regarded as in the highest degree sgtisfactory. Mr. WILLIAMS, of course, quarrels with it. And he quarrels with it—also, of course—on the score of its extravagant expenditure. But then that is his me tier —that is precisely the one sole aim and object with which the hon. member for the metropolitan borough of Lambeth occupies his seat there as such in the Commo ns House of Parliament. He exists with the perpetual consciousness upon him that the garment — " fig uratively" speaking, that is, in a purely £s. d. sense—has fluttered down from the shoulders of the late economic member for Montrose upon his (Mr. WILLIAMS'S) own. Hence, invariably, upon all possible and as everyone else might deem it impossible opportunities that purelyex official auditor of the national accounts, the member for the borough of Lambeth, wraps the said garment about him in es dignified folds as its scanty propor tions will admit of, and launches the thunderbolts of his eloquence against t.very estimate, good, bad, or indifferent as the case may be ! Upon every esti mate without distinction, immediately it is sub mitted to the House of Commons in Committee — denouncing it as profligate and monstrous in the scope of its expenditure. No matter what may be attempted by this or that Administrator in the way of prudential retrenchment, it matters nothing toitthe ar ch economist. There is no p leasing him. _ a p petite for diminution after diminution would appear to b e altogether insatiable. There was just an illustration of this last evening. For example, the E st i mates for the new financial year under the head of th e . Admiralty Department shows a dis tinct loppi ng o— u of expenditure amounting within that twelve month, as compared with its immediate predecessor, of but very little short, indeed, of a good round million sterling. The fact we are referring to admits of ve r y easy explanation. For the financial year now about to commence—that is, on the sth of April next, for I.lhciee r yea th r, e th h a e t ad is, of 1862-3 —the e x p enditure the Navy Estimates, the Secretary to the Ad miralty tells us, will amount. ju.t as nearly as can be calculated beforehand, to the burn of £11,794,3 05 . A-nd remembering as who amongst us can fail to remember—tallyi ng as the amount of this particular disbursement do es „ o rie-irly with the aggregate wrung out o f the national pockets yearly under the odious name o f the Income and Property Tax—remembering, we say, that the expenditure during th du e financia thel y year ear now about to expire , that is ring 1861-2, amounted under the bead of the Naval Estimates to the sum Of £12,640,688 —the fact becomes obvious, is as plain a s a pikestaff, is as clearly comprehensible as any accurate quotient pencilled down under the simplest sum a sub- Mr. HADFIELD'S Qualification for Offices B stands for its third reading to-morrow. Mr. NEW DEGATE will perhaps take a division upon it ; but we trust that the honourable member will forego the pleasure of harassing Mr. HADFIELD in what Mr. OSBORNE has designated the private members' session. There is one feature in the law as it now stands which is so unfair, that if it were but gene rally known, an alteration would be imperatively demanded. The bill is to repeal a declaration to be made by certain public officials on assuming office—that they will do nothing in virtue of their office to molest the Church of England in its lawful privileges. The officials may be divided into two classes high officers of the State, the army and the navy, and municipal officers—town councillors, aldermen, and mayors. These are the gentlemen whom the mighty Church of England fears may do it injury, unless fettered and bound by a declaration as elastic as an india rubber band. The declaration is, indeed, perfectly useless. A Churchman like Lord DERBY and Lord CHELMSFORD—two of the few State officers who have obeyed the law—would not, in virtue of offioe, or without it, do anything to injure the Establish. ment. By them the requisition to make such a declaration would be viewed as an insulting intima- tion of unjust suspicion. But suppose it tendered to the most violent voluntary ; suppose him mayor of some radical borough ; how could it repress his zeal or diminish his opportunities for attacking the Establishment. He would go away, and the same evening would attend and preside at a meeting for the separation of Church and State, and for relieving Bishops from their legislative duties, and all the rest of it; and if the Vicar of the parish quietly rose and reminded him of the declaration he had signed in the morn ing, of the inconsistency with it of the Mayor being advertised to take the chair, and of his opening speech, his Worship would be at no loss for a reply. First, he would tell the reverend gentleman that the advertisement was not his doing, and that he was not answerable for other persons describing him as they pleased—that be should probably not sign himself Mayor in any of the proceedings. Next, that he did not mean to injure the Church, but according to his judgment very much to benefit the Church as a Church. Again, that h e was no t seeking to " disturb" the ecclesiastics in their present possessions, for he meant to pr oceed by legal means, which could no t be called disturb ance, and - that he did not dream of interfering with their life I • nterests. And, perhaps, he would conclude with th e general assert i on th a t h e s hould 49 nothing , der eligible as he might think THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1862, it, and not really injurious to the Church, by virtue of his office, but as the plain individual JOHN CLOTHYAR.D, whose citizen's rights were not de stroyed by his official position. Indeed we can hardly conce.ive of any man intelligent enough to take an intereot in so wide a question as that of the separation of Church and State, who would not be intelligent enough also to perceive that the declaration is to him a practiced nullity. He could have no kind of objection to it, except that stated by Lord CHELMSFORD last year—which amounted simply to this, that if of no practical use it was a badge of subjection to Dissenters, and a sign of the predominance of the Church from which they dissent. He resents, therefore, the declaration much as he resents church-rates, not on account of its importance, but because it is an insult—an insult retained distinctly to tell one class of her MAIEsTY's subjects that they are on account of their religion — although they pay for it—inferior to those whose religion is upheld at the charge of the State. But the point to which we ask the attention of a Parliament consisting of English Lords and respecting ntlemen, is the gross inequality of the law this declaration as it is actually worked. An annual Indemnity Act is passed for persons who have neglected to make the declaration, which indeed came in the place of the old and profane Sacramental Test, in connection with which a simi lar act was regularly passed. But that act, so far as we remember, was so arranged as to cover all classes of persons who neglected to take the Sacrament after being appointed to office. In regard to this declaration, it is just the reverse. The high State officers adverted to are allowed six months, at any time in the course of which they may make it. The municipal officers are allowed but one month ! Now, as Parliament always meets within six months of changes of Ministry, the most important officers of State, safe behind the In demnity Bill, rarely make the declaration. But as the municipal elections take place not long after Parliament rises, if the municipal officers do not make it promptly, their election is void ! Lord P _ ALMERSTON may remain in office without it ; the country alderman's election is void if he omits it ! Is this English—one law for one class of persons, a different one for another class ? If Mr. NEWDEGATE and the Lords insist on keep ing the declaration, foolish and insulting as it has turned out to be, in the name of English equity and fairness let them place all public personages in the same position. Let not lords and their class have more favour before the law than borough tradesmen. Six months for all or one month for all. Indemnity for all or indemnity for none. Surely this is but common English equity. We hope, however, that their lordships, this quiet year, will good temperedly consent to pass Mr. HAD FIELD'S bill. 13ayswater Road —through Kensington Gardens — tunnelling under Rotten Row—tunnelling under the carriage drive parallel with Rotten Row—and indulging in other vagaries equally preposterous ! Really one could only think of this sunken road. of the Chief Commissioner's as guarded upon both sides bat by one appropriate barrier, namely, a genuine ha-ha! Remembering the speeches delivered by this Chief Commissioner— himself the very antithesis to that extremely ideal being, "the right man in the right place," for the right hon. gentleman has, ever since he took his present office, been proving himself to be, as surely as he possibly could prove anything, decidedly " the wrong man in the wrong place"—remembering his frequent speeches anent the horse-ride and anent this more or less subterranean road from Bayswater to the Exhibition, we can only wonder that any of L T our Administrators could by any possibility become so perfect a victim to such exceedingly ridiculous hallucinations. Remembering these speeches of his, we are disposed to exclaim with the lisping fop in BULWER'S play of " Money"—when EVELYN quotes against him certain dreadfully apropos lines of the poet—" That fellow COWPER says v ewy odd things !" However, in contrast to the Chief Commissioner's nonsensical proposal for a sunken and tunnelled road through Kensington Gardens, let us give at once the very rational and, as it appears to us, truly admirable suggestion, this day put forth by our chief contemporary : " We have a road, capable of being easily widened, from Victoria-gate to the Serpentine ;we have a bridge more than half as wide again as the narrow part of Park-lane crossing the Serpentine, and from the south end of this bridge we have the means of giving vehicles access to the Exhibition without a single tunnel or viaduct, and without interfering sensibly with the convenience of equestrians. This may be done by appropriating to the new road a belt of ground along the boundary of Kensington-gardens up to Queen's gate, and throwing into Rotten-row, if necessary, an equi valent space on the Park side. Even if half the breadth of the last bend in Rotten-row were thus lent to the public without compensation, the loss would be little felt by riders, few of whom avail themselves of it. Or, if a still shorter route were desired, the road in question might still be carried over or under Rotten-row, and the carriage drive to the head of Exhibition-road —a point scarcely two hundred yards distant from the south-east corner of Ken sington-gardens, The only reasonable objection to this route is one that can easily be r emoved. It may be doubted, perhaps, whether the existing. bridge is broad enough to accommodate foot passengers as well as cabs and private carriages. Actual inspection will satisfy any one, we think, that by a different distribution of the space from parapet to parapet four vehicles might pass across it abreast, leaving an ample passage for pedestrians, though not the handsome promenade that now unites the two sides of the gardens. If, however, the whole breadth should be required for wheels, it would be easy to throw out lateral footways supported by light ironwork, and thus to over come the single real obstacle to be encountered." The suggestion thus offered to-day by the Times will be found described more at length in another part of our impression of this evening. 7 We have not failed to express ourselves as strongly as we felt on the shirking of the slaver; question by the Federalists. We censured not only the thoroughly pro-slavery Message o BUCHANAN, but the bear-with slavery Message o LINCOLN. Above all, we denounced the military insanity as well as the unrighteousness of the PRE SIDENT'S violating the Constitution, right and left, in everything but its sheltering and protecting slavery. We feel the more pleasure, therefore, in noticing the smallest approach towards consistency on the grand subject of strife between North and South. Mr. SUMNER not long ago in a vigorous speech placed slavery in its bearings on the present contest in its true light, but he con cluded without proposing the proper practical de ductions from his speech. We are therefore pleased to see that the great Anti-slavery Senator has at last placed himself wholly in the right in regard to the present state of things. On the 11th we are informed that Mr. SUMNER offered a series of resolutions declaring that the revolted States have committed felo de ae, and that their relations as members of the United States no longer exist—that their allegiance has been severed, and the Federal Government owes no obligation to any pretended State Government usurping certain territory—that individuals occu pying such territory owe allegiance to the general Government only, and the general Government to the individuals—therefore persons heretofore held as slaves may look henceforth to the general Government for protection as individuals. A motion to lay these resolutions on the table was carried by a vote of twenty-one to fifteen. These resolutions may have something a little more lawyerlike in their cast than is needful ; and the position of the slaves being defined as that of individuals authorised to look for protection to the general Government is not quite all we should wish. It is, however, on the whole a safe series of resolutions; and, we can only wish, though we little hope it, that the Senate may ultimately adopt them. If the States Governments are declared to have lost by their treason their claim to the alle giance of the inhabitants of the States, this would of course lay the foundation for reconstructing society anew in the States when political society has broken itself up. The real meaning of the resolutions is obvious enough ; still we confess we should have preferred something much more explicit. It would have been more frank and manly, as we conceive, to have resolved that—as the South had broken its allegiance to the Federal Government on account of slavery, though the Government had remained but too faithful to the disgraceful clause in the Constitution by which it is recognised, the Federal Government declares that henceforth slavery no longer exists wherever it asserts its authority. Of such a resolution even the slaves themselves would well understand the import—they would know that the North meant their emancipation, and all rea son assures us that from the promulgation of that gospel, the negroes would hail the North as their trustworthy deliverers. Our contempary the Times has, we are perfectly well satisfied of this, by a very simple and common sense suggestion, exactly hit it. We mean in regard to the hitherto somewhat bewildering diffi culty as to the discovery in time of a line of com munication from the North across Hyde-park to the Exhibition. Mr. COWPER, quite as a matter of course, could think of only one possible means of doing this. Namely—it is the old story in his regard—by injuring as much as he could contrive to injure the sylvan beauty of Kensington Gardens. His scheme we took occasion to protest against in these columns of ours at the first mention of it as in every way an extravagance. It was an enterprise upon the face of it about as welcome, about as rational, about as charming in every point of view as Mr. CowPEß's famous hobby the Horse Ride—a hobby that he has so perversely mounted more than once, and on which he has essayed hitherto, we rejoice to think, in vain, to ride rough-shod over public opinion. The Chief Com missioner's fantasy this time, however, involved among other absurdities an expenditure of some £30,000 sterling and that, remember, for a temporary convenience, and (it made one angry to think of it) a permanent diOyurement. It was to necessitate this hideous day-dream of the Chief Commissioner's morbid imagination an enor mous sort of railway cutting or dry ditch from the EWS. PARIS, FEB. 25. The Moniteur of to-day announces that, up to yesterday, the amount of 4,+ 1 .- per Cent. Rente pre sented for conversion was 50,500,000 f., the property of 90,399 holders. The total number of Obligations Trentennaires presented for conversion was 273,779. PARIS, FEE. 24. In the Senate, this evening, the discussion on the address was continued. M. Troplong exhorted the senators to preserve a conciliatory and moderate tone in the debates. M. de Boissy regretted that France had assisted England in revenging herself upon the Chinese He was of opinion that the money expended in the Crimea and in Italy would have been better applied towards a descent upon England. M. Billault, regretted the remarks of M. de Boissy. Language of this description between two great nations equally proud, equally sensitive upon the point of honour, was a misfortune. He thought it useless to revive French animosity towards Eng land, When the policy of the Emperor tended, upon the contrary, to appease such feelings. MM. Thayer and Charles Dupin spoke in favour of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The continuation of the debate was adjourned until to-morrow. TURIN, FEB. 24. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Mop dini inquired if the Ministry had received informa tion of insults offered to the Italian consul, by his fellow-countrymen at Malta. Baron Ricasoli replied that he had just received a report of insults offered by some reactionary adherents of the Bourbon party. He had requested explanations upon the matter from the English Government, and had claimed protection for Italian subjects. The ancient friendship of England for Italy was a guarantee that ample satisfaction would be given. BERLIN, FEB. 24. The National Zeitung of this evening states that in the sitting of the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies upon the German question, Count Bern• storff said : " The point of view from which the Government regards this question is exhibited in the well known recent notes. The Government of the King recog nises that the necessity of the union of German States under one single head in military and diplo matic affairs is bound up with Parliamentary re presentation. But as the realisation of such a union depends upon negotiations, it is impossible to enter into further details respecting its extent. " The Government recognises that the Chamber is at present called upon to express an opinion respecting this question, and will welcome a de claration in accordance with its own views. It especially finds support of its endeavours in the proposals of the Grabow party. The motion of the Party of progress, although harmonising in direc- . _ tion with that - of the Grabow party, is based upon assumptions in point of principle which the Govern ment is unable to adopt." PARIS, FEB. 24, The Paris papers of this evening publish a tele gram from the Piraeus, stating that the insurgents who occupy the 'citadel of Nauplia had demanded to be alloWed to capitulate, and that the insurrec tion would be thus subdued. It is believed that the King will change the Ministry, and then dissolve the Chamber. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 24 The Berlingske Mende of to-day denies the statement of some German papers that England, France, and Russia have inquired of this Govern ment, in identical notes, what interpretation Den mark places upon the engagements undertaken by her in 1851 and 1852 with reference to the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein. THORN, FEB. 24, Advices from Warsaw state that an ordinance of the Governor of Poland has been issued to-day ordering that neither judicial investigation nor arrest for offences committed prior to the state of siege shall in future take place. General sympathy is felt for the new Archbishop of Warsaw. The churches in all the towns are well frequented FRANCE. The Constitutionnel publishes the following in very prominent type : " The letter of the Emperor to the Commander in-Chief of the Army of China has produced a deep impression. Those words go straight to the heart of France. The great Sovereign of a great nation, Napoleon 111., does not separate that which is glo rious from that which is useful, and pursues with the same ardour the realisation of this double pro blem—the material welfare of the people and the national greatness. " By recompensing a General who has carried the name of France and the banner of Christianity into the extreme East, the Emperor has obeyed aninspi ration deeply democratic. The dotation of the Count of Palikao is like a cross of honour given to the flag of a regiment. " God forbid, however, that we should make com ments upon the letter of the Emperor! The most humble workman or peasant will understand it as well as we do. With admirable instinct the patriotism of the masses will understand how much beauty and fecundity there is in this budget of glory." The above article bears the signature of Paulin Limayrac. The Independance Beige has the following : " The letter of General de Montauban to the Em peror, his Majesty's reply, and the insertion of both documents in the Ilioniteur, form the chief topic of conversation at Paris. The Imperial letter has placed the Legislative Body in the most pain ful and delicate position. It has been placed in the alternative of ceding, by making devotion take precedence of independence at the bidding of the head of the State, or of persisting in its opposi tion and upholding the dignity of the Assembly at the risk of exciting a discontent not willingly met on the benches of the Chamber. The Paris journals are as much embarrassed as the deputies will be, and most of them restrict themselves to reproducing the two letters without a line of comment, which is more strange as the publicatio❑ of those documents has caused the most profound sensation in every circle in Paris." BOURSE, Feb. 24.—The market has been heavy, and stock having been rather offered, the business done has been at a decline on the closing rates of Saturday; Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 15c. Railway Share Market also heavy. . The following are the last qugtations :- 4t per per Cents lOO Credit Fonder ....1402 50 Do. end month 100 20 Belgian 4k........ 101. --; 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 15 Roman .......... 7 Bank Shares 3060 Austrian ........ 72 550 60 Credit Mobilier 752 50 Spanish Th rees.... Do. Account 755 , Home Debt ...... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ................ 1 380 • • 1385 Northern .. 1016 25 950 • . New ditto ........... ~ . Lyons and . Mediterranean 1_305820 25 .... 1082 360 50 Geneva ................ Southern .............. Iz i 50 • • 7 3 1 2:5 5 59 56 1 2. " 5 5 Western .............. 555 Eastern .............. s_9_o 25 :: .. 332 - 50 Sardirlian .............. ;91 25 Austrian .............. ,503 75 L om bard 646 25 .. 547 50 Exc h an ge on. London, at sight, paper, 25f. 161 e.; money, 25f. 140. ; thre e months, p a per , 25 f. ; money, 24f, 971 c. ITALY. The Opinion° of Turir devotes a leading article to the rumours propagated by certain journals of a pretended dissension between the King, of Italy and his Cabinet, and his Majesty's intention of dismiss ing his Ministers and dissolving the Uhambers. It remarks that the' King is placed above all factions, and that those who are desirous of mixing up his name with party feuds are either enemies to the welfare of the country, or else ignorant of the mis chief they are preparing. The same arts, it adds, were practised when a certain party desired the downfall of Cavour. It was said that he was only tolerated by the King, who openly disapproved of his policy. It concludes with recommending par ties to forget persons, and to adhere to principles instead. The Movimento of Genoa says :—" The Deputies, Mordini, Crispi, and Micelli, have returned from Caprera. They are the bearers of a letter from General Garibaldi to the Italian Liberal Associa tions which are to be represented at the general assembly on the 9th March." The following is the letter in question, addressed " To the Committees of Provvidemente and to all the Italian Patriotic Associations," as published in the Diritto : " Caprera, 17th. " The meeting of the 9th March nest may pro duce the best results, if all the Italian Liberal Associations and there represented. I therefore think it necessary that they should all send dele gates to it. Convinced as lam that all the acts of assembly;will be worthy of the practical good sense which distinguishes the Italians, and that the con clusions it may come to will respond to the legiti mate expectation of the serious friends of liberty and to the wants of the country, I abstain from any recommendations. With the programme which led us to Palermo and to Naples, and with the great principles of the Plebiscite of the 21st Oct, 1860, the Italian revolution may be gloriously accom plished. If particular circumstances do not pre vent me, I shall visit Genoa on the 9th March, and if I cannot, I shall here await the news of a result on which I may congratulate myself as an Italian. Salutation fraternity, " J. GARIBALDI." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated Feb. 22, says :--- "The negotiations respecting the Treaty of Com merce between the -Zollverein and France are ter minated. The adhesion of the French Government arrived last night. The French negotiators had already adhered provisionally to the Prussian pro posals, reserving the approval of their Government. The treaty may now be considered as concluded. A note from Count de Rechberg, in reply to that of Count Bernstorff of the 14th of February, is shortly expected. It has been deemed necessary at Vienna, because Prussia, in her reply to the identi cal notes, said she could not express an opinion on propositions of the basis and bearing of which she was ignorant. M. de Rechberg, in concert with the members of the Coalition, will draw up a plan of reform. Prussia will find very little difficulty in showing that it would be impracticable, and the exchange of these notes will, probably, be termi nated for the moment. A Treaty of Commerce is said to be under negotiation between Prussia and Turkey. Count Goltz will be sent to Constanti nople for Prussia." METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. A, parliamentary return has just been issued showing the receipts and expenditure of the beard from March 26, 1860, to March 25, 1861 ; also a summary of all contracts entered into during that period, and for the monies owing to and the debts and liabilities owing by the board on March 25 last. - The total receipts of the year under the heads or general and special accounts and sinki ng f un d had` been £766,243 Bs., which, with the cash balances on March 26, 1860, of £513,001 ls. 7d., made a total of £1,279,244 9s. 7d. The total payments for the year had been £1,099,012 1-Is. 4d.; and the cash balances on March 25 last were £180,231 18s. 3d., giving the 'same total as on the other side. The contract sums for the various works were as follows —The Earl sewer and outlet, £8,56.6 ; Ranelagh storm-overflow, £23,500 ; Ranelagh sewer, £2,296 ; portion of southern low-level sewer, £9,150; the northern outfall sewer. £625,000 ; and the northern, middle-level sewer, £329,800. Total, £998,312, in cluding £57,500 provided for extras beyond the original contract prices. The amount of money owing to the board on March 25, 1861, was £176,996 13s. 6d., in addition to which there was a cash balance in hand of £7,541 19s. 9d., and also the sum of £31,826 2s. 6d. invested in New Three per Cent. Annuities for the repayment of mortgage debts. The assets and liabilities were—Mortgage, loans, and other special liabilities, £361,763 18s. 6d. ; and current liabilities, £13,065 2s. 3d. Total, £374,829 3s. 9d. The details of the various contracts are also set forth in the return. OSBORNE, Feb. 24.—Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Ros, drove out on Saturday afternoon. The Duke of Argyll returned to Lon don to-day. The Marquis of Sligo has arrived at Howehin's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Bessllorough have arrived in town from their seat in Ireland for the season. The Earl and Countess of Cork have returned to Grafton-street from Marston House, Somersetshire, The Earl and Countess of Home are expected at their residence in Grosvenor-square in a few days from the Hirsol, Coldstream, Berwick. _ Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner last evening at their residence in Berkeley-square Viscount Mahon, Lady Egerton of Tatton and the Hon Miss Eger ton, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Russell, Sir George and Lady Abercromby, Sir Robert and Lady Dallas and Miss Dallas, Colonel and Mrs. Adair, Mr. Milbanke, Mrs. Forde, Mr. Arnold Currie, Mr. Peel, &c. Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest has taken a resi dence in Chester-square, for a term of years. Lady Lockhart has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Miss WYNDLIAM.—This well-known actress, whose case, it will be recollected, came some time since before the Divorce Court, was on Saturday last married at Kensington Church to Capt. Henry Baring, son of Henry Baring, B , q , M,P. for Marlborough. Mr. Henry John Lincoln is about to deliver at the Marylebone Institution two lectures on the " Operatic Overture," from its origin to the present time. The lec tures will be illustrated by a selection of overtures in chro nological order, performed as duets on two pianos, showing the progress and development of the Operatic Overture from Sully to Meyerbeer. M. BLONDIN.—Since the first appearance of this wonderful gymnast in this country it is supposed that he cannot have realised much less than £30,000. His visitors and admirers may be numbered by hundreds of thousands, and the desire to witness his marvellous feats remains un diminished. We hear that Mr. J. Russell has entered into an engagement with him for a limited number of per formances in the provinces for the enormous sum of £lO,OOO. His engagement at the Crystal Palace is also renewed for the approaching season. CALAMITOUS FIRE AND Loss OF LlFE.—Yes terday morning a fire broke out on the premises numbered 43, Weston-street, near the new Leather-market, in Ber mondsey, which has caused the death of one person and serious injuries to another. The house in which the dis aster occurred was only three floors high, and was let out in apartments, chiefly to medical students attending the Borough Hospitals. At an early hour in the morning a student named Griffith, who was in the building, perceived a strong smell of something burning. Feeling satisfied that the house W 9.8 on fire, he at once gave an alarm. He then noticed that the back portion of the first floor was in flames. The Royal Society's escape from Tooley-street quickly attended, under the command of Mr. Havard, the inspector of the society, and Conductor Dank fixed the machine in front of the burning building. Having entered the room which a Mr. Treavershorne was occupying, he searched for him and called to him, but, not seeing or hearing him, he naturally concluded he had made his escape. Captain Shaw, the superintendent, and Messrs. Henderson and Swanton, foremen of the brigade, with powerful bodies of firemen, promptly attended. The flames, however, could not be extinguished until the whole of the upper portions of the building were destroyed, including the furniture and wearing apparel of the various residents. A Mrs. Lowden, who had been the first to escape with her children, was foolish enough to venture back to save some of her property, She was so severely burnt in returning that it was found necessary to remove her to the hospital. About two hours after the outbreak, upon one of the fire men entering an upper room be discovered to his astonish.. meat the body of a man projecting from under the bedstead in the room. It was found to be that of Mr. Treave r sh o r ne . Remaining to dress himself, he must have been over powered by the heated smoke. In order if possible to avoid the fire, he had crawled under the bedstead, and in that po • sition had been suffocated. The body was forthwith re moved to await an inquest. Mr. Treavershorne has left a wife and family, who reside at Brompton. H e had merely lodgings in the house which has been burnt, s l ep t a t n i g h t to get to his business in a wholesa le house in the city early i n t h e morn i ng . Th e or i g i n of the calamity is unknown. N o t one o f th e sufferers is insured. w h er e he LITERATURE The Tale of the Great Persian War. By the Rev. George W. Cox, M.A.' Longman and Co. It is impossible for any one to comprehend by an inspection of a modern map the extent of the ancient Grecian empire, if such a combination of States, always more or less antagonistic, can be so termed. We do not refer to the time of Alexander, when the world was too small for the conquest of the first and greatest of practical generals, but when, some century before, the , great Persian chief, Xerxes, led his myriads to subdue the revolted States of Thrasia. and Macedonia, and to bring the whole of the Helenic population under contribu tion. The direct, or perhaps indirect, influence of Greece in the fifth century B.C. extended over what are now the provinces known as Servia, Macedonia and Romillia, and along the banks of the Bos. phorous, and into the territory of the Scythians. These districts, if not actually belonging to the Grecian Confederation, were at least so much under their influence that they had to bear the brunt of any war waged between the States and the Per sians. Under such circumstances it is not unnatural that with a relentless foe on the one side, and vacilating and contending allies on the other, that these intermediate States should make terms with the first bidder, and join their arms with those who seemed to have the best chance of success. It is to this interesting period in Grecian history, the beginning of the fifth century, that Mr. Cox has devoted his attention. The volume is simply a transcript from the histories written by Hero dotus, in which the author gives sketches of the old traditions of the Greeks, which account for the continual strife waged between them and the Persians, and which are not content to go back to the abduction of Helen as a easus belli, but trace the origin of the feud to the little affair of Made moiselle Io and the Celestial Bull. After furnish ing, in a brief and concise form, a sketch of the lives and doings - of Cronus, Cam byses, Cyrus, and others whose biographies lapse into the twilight of fable, Mr. Cox leads the reader through the most interesting portions of the history of the Persi an war as related by Herodotus. Those passages which refer particularly to the position of troops, oracular decisions, and important speeches are given almost as a literal translation ; while, on the ether hand, tedious details which, although they might interest the Athenian some two thousand years ago, are now held at as much worth as the modern Greek holds liberty, are passed over with a brief summary. The history of the few years which brought to light the devotion of the Greeks to their country's liberty —the brief space of time in which Miltiades, Leonidas, and Themistocles achieved victories which will bear their names down to posterity, and who left behind them the names of Marathon, Thermo poli, and Salamis to lure an after generation to carry Grecian arms to the bounds of the Asiatic continent, cannot fail to interest all who admire the deeds of brave men and the writings of ancient scholars. Barrington. By Charles Lever. Part I. Chapman and Hall. It is impossible to form any estimate of a serial from the perusal of the first number; but the name of so popular an author as Charles Lever is a suffi cient guarantee that the work will repay perusal. The . story opens in Ireland, a s matter of c ourse. Barrington, who has formerly been possessed of a large estate and great wealth, is ruined, partly b y his own extravagance, but chiefly by the prodi gality of his son, who, having gone out to India, kept up regal state; and while the pride of his father was gratified by the accounts which from time to time reached him of the sensation that his son's magnificence created in India, he encumbered his property to such an extent to maintain this false position that he ultimately became a ruined man. The greater part of this number is taken up with the description of the few characters as yet introduced. His sister, who is decidedly the " grey mare," takes the direction of all his affairs, and her picture is well drawn ; showing that of a woman who once having got the upper hand is de termined to keep it. Just prior to the break up of old Barrington's estate his son sent home a child, which he stated to be his daughter, he having married a native princess, requesting his fathherr ar rival see that she was properly educated; but . o d n . andriva l t crisishßeacrhriinldgtwonaswseanstintothaecoiNs aeesttheerrs Nether lands to be taken care of . and educated.This _ nven t o in f h i t s h e indi vidual will figure prominently hereafter . no doubt, together with a young officer, who introduced i d . n iet th w e hlaostbechisapat. tertheltwould present b ea e r p ly re s m ta a g tu e r ; e b t u o ptwre e nevertheless have a notion that he is the h ero an d a nearer co nnexion to Barrington than is yet avowed. Orley Farm. Part XII. Chapman and Hall. This is one of the best numbers of this interest ing serial. The scene between Sir Peregrine Orme and Lady Mason, after she has confessed her guilt, is written with great feeling. The old baronet's sense of justice makes him condemn the criminal, while his kind heart inclines him to assist the un fortunate woman. Mrs. Orme, on the other hand, is actuated by no such scruples; all she sees is her friend in distress, and the arguments she makes use of to convince Sir Peregrine that it is her duty to befriend Lady Mason, if not logical, are at least dic tated by kindness and generosity. She points out to him that he has, by persisting in his suit, obliged her friend to make a confession to save him from a false step, which otherwise she Would have k e pt secre t. The kind-hearted malt ' at length g i ves wa y, an d Lady Mason I".lmains at the Cleve for the present At Nningsby Felix Graham is in an awkward position, he is engaged to the young woman whom he has placed at school to train up after his own idea of what should be perfection in a wife. meeting Madelin e St ave l y h e finds 0... 4 . 'ne has been }',"::( on in too much of a:hurry, .... 4t although his theory of training a nife ' -Alga be all correct enough , yet love knows no law. Lady Staveley, seeing how matters stand, speaks -to her husband on the sub ject, but, to her surprise, finds that he does not look upon a match for his daughter with young Graham with any ill will: While Graham is con sidering how he ought to act he receives letters from his betrothed and her schoolmistress, from which he learns that the young lady has an admirer in the shape of a doctor's assistant; this, however, he dees not take much note of, but on meeting Madeline on his first appearing in the drawing room, all his resolves fade away, and he conies to the determination that " whatever might be the form in which his future career might be fashioned, one thing was clearly impossible to him,—he could not marry Mary Snow—Poor Mary Snow!" Her fault in the matter had not been great. DRURY-LANE 71-lEATRE. The engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, which was unfortunately interrupted last week by a domestic affliction, was resumed yesterday even ing, when both artists performed with great ap- plause in the tragedy of " Hamlet." All critics are unanimous in the opinion that the character of the ••=_ _ -- Prince of Denmark, as it is the grandest creation of the poet's genius, is also the truest touchstone of the actor's skill. To say that the part demands in the artist who would worthily sustain it a most poetic conception, sublimity of imagination, ele gance of fancy, depth and variety of passion, ten derness of sentiment, refinement of manner, and all those nameless graces of deportment which are essential to the perfect ideal of one who is a scholar and a gentleman in the best sense of both words, were merely to repeat a truism with which every one who knows anything of the British drama is intimately familiar. To act such a part even in differently well would demand no mean exercise of histrionic art ; but to excel in it so signally that the performance shall be regarded as the master piece of an artist whose repertory is unusually varied and extensive, and that for a period of a quarter of a century the impersonation shall, on occasions of its production, be received by the public with unvarying freshness and fervour of interest, is assuredly as strong a proof of an actor's abilities as can possibly be required. This is what Mr. Kean has achieved in the greatest of Shakspere's characters, and herein consists his highest claim to celebrity. Other Hamlets have from time to time arisen, and, after enjoying for a brief season the applause of the town, have softly and insensibly glided into oblivion ; but Mr. Kean is par excellence the Ham let of the present generation, and while others pass away he alone endures. No lapse of years, no change of circumstance, no adverse vicissitude of taste or fashion, affects injuriously either the performance itself or the estimation in which it is held. The playgoing public evidently regard it as " a joy for ever," and the frequency of its repe tition, so far from creating a sense of satiety, seems but to render it more attractive. It may well be doubted whether the history of the stage can furnish an instance of any other tragedian 'flaying played any one character so often as Mr. Kean has played Hamlet. It is no exaggeration, but the simple truth, to say that he sustained the cha racter many hundreds of times. Yet the per formance was received last night with as much enthusiasm as ever, and never was Mr. Kean seen to play with greater spirit or more complete success. Mrs. Kean has raised the character of Gertrude from the dull type of conventionalism into which inferior artists of had late years suffixed it to degenerate to the gran deur and dignity of tragedy, and the dramatic passion which she infuses into the part a dds sensibly to the interest of this august tragedy as an acted play. It being arranged that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are to appear in several of Shakspere's plays, it will not be possible to represent " Rana let on more than three or four occasions during their present engagement. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPRITIrEATRE. Last night a grand Eastern spectacle, with entire new scenery, entitled "The Rajah of Nagpore," in troducing Mr. Bell's sagacious performing ele phants, was produced here with the most complete success. Of course in a piece of the above descrip tion plot is generally looked upon as a secondary consideration, the greatest feature being to intro duce in a series of splendid and exciting tableau% the principal performers, in this instance a pair of the largest elephants in England. The author has executed his task with great ability ; for, as the bills of the play state most truly, a more " magnifi cent array of splendour" has not been produced at Astley's for many years. The plot of the piece consists in the dangers encountered by a young Prince Djelmi, the rightful heir in gaining the throne of Nagpore, from which he is traitorousli withheld by his designing enemies. In the end , however, thanks to the assistance of the " sa cred elephant" he regains his kingdom, and the spectacle concluded by his highness's entry into Nagpore in his car of triumph drawn by the two elephant s ' amidst the joy and exultation of his devoted sub jects. In the first act we are introduced to the . Queen-mother and her fugitive son, in a " subter" raucous pagoda leading to the sacred forest," a veil splendid specimen of scene painting, where the secret plans of the conspirators are frustrated by the sagacity of the Elephant, and the prince escape s to the public dwelling of Peter Prunella, a cobble r from Cripplegate, excellently played by Mr. Searle—to which place he is followed by the "sa gacious creature," and there again he is saved by h is gigantic friend, who destroys the dwelling, an d to aid his escape, he allows Peter Prunella, who has been compelled to assume the royal purple, to mak e his entry in the capital as the Rajah. The act con eludes with a very brilliant procession, amid the military evolutions of his guards, both horse and foot. In the second act, we find the Prince in cap tivity, and under sentence of death ; but before his enemies have time to carry out their plans, the elephant again rescues his friend from confinemen t, tearing down the iron bars from the cell, and lifting him from his prison window by his enormous trunk; This must be looked upon as the " sensation sc ene, as it is now the fashion to term it, of the spectacle! and certainly the audience seemed perfectly a mazed at the performance, and from the enthusiastic er plause at the fall of the act drop, the elephant Was certainly expected to acknowledge the complim en t; but it was not so, and this was probably owing to ' the great preparations for the closing scenes of the h piece. as lnthe not es ape escaped third a his dangers, da nd ng e concludingrs,fo a ct, h ronhi his e s t ca e p P e r f i r n o : prison he takes refuge in the woods, where he is overtaken by a storm and other dangers, to avoid which he plunges into the foaming cataract, fre l33 w hi c h he is again preserved by th e sacred elephae," who dashes into the roaring Waters to his assist ance. Finally, the enemies of the Djelmi are trampled to death by the elephants of the Pagod a, and the rightful h e i r ma k es his public entry 1e`4.0;., xn triumphal drawn tey Nagpore, to ascend th e throne of his ancestors, um T he s g e r c e o a n te d st ac eff t, ee i t n . The s p b ae y re et t a h ca e l lel two heaxs elephants.ebceuetned mounted incidents in the sp ec t ac l e, i t must be acknowledge"'a r r i e pl p en h t a i l fu arl d h e with tr:: the best taste, and the int ro d uc t ory ballet in Op which the Misses Guiness their app earance, was extremely pretty an d 'W e of deserved the applause it elicited. At the fano the curtain the applause was enthusiastic 8,,c, unanimous, and we congratulate Mr. Batty 0n .0 T., Success of his new spectacle, which most certal . ,v,, must attract the whole playgoing public to the Royal Amphitheatre. - - - - THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE GREAT EASTEO; —Captain Paton, who has just been appointed to command the Great Eastern, is a gentleman well known and ralle'; respected in Liverpool. About three years ago he retire' from his professional labours, but has been induced to re' sume them upon the terms offered to him by the Great Sb i ,P o Company. He is still a young captain, being under years of age, but he has had very cons id era ble experi eti ,, c : both in sailing and in steamships. He commanded t'ci sailing ships Eurydice, Torrens, and St. Andrew; successively, under the same owners, the screw stearaera Levantine, Geneva, Lady Eglintoun, Charity, Ottawa , Cleopatra, his chief commands having been in the Dlediter ranean and Canadian trades. The latter trade he left wi th his steamer the Cleopatra for service in the transport dea partment during the Cr imean war, in which he was Engag ed tr about two years. Re is well known awl hi g hly estee w , among his brother officers for his scientific and pritet iciu .. attainmen ts. He is a member of one of the best families 1., the ne ighbourhood of Leigh, and by his educati on is Well qualified for tho position ho is to hold. activ( larg e deliv In amou unalt Ai withC Ma a spe and l cially Th for tli pared Thi more Week, fion a the 5, ever, term s At dard yestel effects lion s 48Sun annul fund Engli chase ! of th th e 6 t have: India at 101 Pored alters ditto, Italia ditto, heav3 Russi is * z 65* ( 3 4 /3 : P ip l e e .11 ew India Ditt Ditt Ditt Ditt Ditt Exchei Ditto Squad 11,1exic Diu( P or t i.4 Ditt Russit 31( man /Vest 1021. tinue Cryst a Congo] Ntel Itali] Conn A 10 8 t , slo uo. N.V I •£3 li )30th T E their to_da SU tte I efi_t n . Co `•eyli and how, RI meScr SA pargk rates and recut thre( 60 ( g,o1( gob - 211.1 the be( 110 1 col