The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-07 00:00:00

pit OURTON. ON- THE -WATER RAILWAY , - -I- , Branch of Midland & Great Western.—Title doubts. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT. Lieut. CHARLES ACKERLEY, R.N., v. COLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street. (Before Judge F. Bailey).—On the re-hearing-clause and OM 81, touching the 15s. costs against plaintiff on the 23d April last. (No. 1). This tortuous suit for payment of loss of time, and con spiracy •hoax (by defendants' own letters to sign railroad conveyance deed), on Plaintiff's mercantile position in trade right of patenteeship (1840), with unlawful use of his name in a petition to the Master of the Rolls Court on 27th February, having the word ' disbarr'd—to obtain a railway judgment, six days' before the e xpiration of 21st March—vide Gloucester journals of Ist, Bth, and 15th. The Judge held that the Plaintiff's time lost ias not tenable, there being no contract. Plaintiff (with respect), maintained that as re-hearing was admitted, so follow ¢ 81,—viz., reduction of costs and subprecta fees, under judgment by default, on Defendant's non-appearance. This legal argument being granted, which appeared to place the Defendants in a cleft•stick, the Court were some what surprised by the hasty uprising of an Attorney who represented Mr. Cole, as of Railway—Talbot v. Radnor and others ; the Chamberlayne trustees, by 1-2, Wi11. 17 ., * co. 54, under wh ich the Ca p tain (Ackerley) is heir 'in pivot remainder' for G. Western Branch deed of conveyance (as given in The Sun of 28th April). The Plaintiff reminded his Worship that as this case, although small, ' embraced contempt of the Rolls Court' and infringement of the Stamp Act, whereon he officially as the Meter Act Magistrate qualified at Worcester 1837, demanded the silencing of the intrusive Attorney of Cole, unless he could produce his Sixpenny stamped memo randum of agency, since the Benchers' word disbare applied to him, as also to this loss of Anglo •Indian revenue' question, under 14 Geo. c. 83. This the Judge admitted, on Defendant's contempt of Court. Hfct 13 onour ordered the reduction of fees, and subprana money of Plaintiff's witnesses to be returned, with permis sion of case-removal to Stow County Court. • Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two brothers, one in the pledgedy and the other (plain tiff) in Royal Navy, plg as the state Nulla 0' of 1825 over the ' Catholic' Emancipation Act of 1829—for Sect burden to the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the French express it, ' faisant partee d'une corporation seen- Bud) on Primeval -tenet of Christianity—so Civil-service s o pposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c., by refu ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import. By the let and 3d clauses of the Bourton Act Railroad Company (on its unregistered Inelosure' award), they are made to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow Market tolls, by judicial extra-name quibble of its King's Post Magistrate, by committee of foreigners in violation of the " Adam and Eve consorted" of 1822, for Criminal basis of 16 Car. 11. fire-iiearth Common law for all,§ under sworn power of the xs . ttas Arbiter, by clause 29 of its rider, 8 c. 18—be Prince Consort' with the Indian lady II for title to the American soil als Girond6,' as cause for 1842's Man election of Peter Basquet (nephew of Joseph Brant, of 1775 Stamp Act) as the colonial Stamp Inntcome tax Chief, un paid 20 years- 11 years supported by plaiiff on State account for all the native coloured races. Une base (qui fit Charmer la Race-noire si grande Sous la lei civique §), pose avec Fierte 04 l'on voit que par ne ruarchande 8 Quand faut par la mer leur donner Liberte • • * N CHARLES 4 ACKERLEY, • • 1-2 Will. /v. N.. 54, Chamberlayne' sworn. 4. • PET-ER BASQUET, income Tax Chief, 1542, unpaid.¢ • China Riff wall circuit horizon of , —London, May 7, 1:1 1862, its Montezuma.—The bum of 19 and 28th. THEATRE-RO Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (116th time) OUR AMERICAN COU SIN . Sothern.Asa T ren chard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dui:dreary, Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitled THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. S enor a Peres wens , Se nor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet To conclude with MY HUSBANDt 7. 'S GHOST. Commenoe a OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. .11) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 149th Night of the !ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING,TEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Declish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer t Mrs, D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. HudsCYL after which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison. 3'll'. Warlow. and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence :at Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE •. Messrs. .1, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at half-past S, THE ANGEL hcarOF MID- Wid- NIG FI I'. Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder G , t, die,ombe, Jordan, Meadows, Raymond ; Miss Elsworthy, Miss Fielding, and Miss Henderson. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, Shore, Aro., and Miss C. Leeleroq. NEW THEATRE-R0 (AL, ADELPHL— tioIe Proprietor and Monaco., Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING the new domestic drama, entitled DOT": Messrs. J. L. iss Wo S Toole,olgar, Miss H. gt imms, miss Emery. Billinon, Stephens E. Kelly, on ; Miss L. Keeley, M and Mrs. IT. Marston. After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr. Dion Boucicault Messrs. Emery, Too:e, Billing - ton, P. Bedford, Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Commence at 7. A S TLEY's • ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, the new farce of THE LADY OF THE MILL. Followed by the grand spectacle of A LICE WINGOLD ; the Pearl of London City. Characters by Miss Julia Sea man, Mr. F. Huntley, Mr. C, Mortimer, hcc. Concludinc, with brilliant and novel scenes in the Circle by British and Foreign Artists. Commence at 7 o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE NTERBURY HALL ARTS GAL L ERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11 The renowned RUIISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. Grand Selections from " L a Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh inane. UNSWO ill, in his celebrated Stump Speech "Or any other man at Ten o ," and 'cl EUGENE, the great Burlesq ue Sin g er and Dancer, ock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free. between the hours of Twelve and Two o ' c l o ck on and after Monday. I TH F,' OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET . MAY DAY," a cantata ritten by John Oxenford, music by G. A. Macfa rren; Burns' " Jolly Beggars, also a c ompany. Full Ba a n n d d a isl nd ew C co h m oro s . cantata, with George Linley's music, and brand Operatic Selections by the entire —.Conductor, Mr. F. Jongt , m ins. Ramsey Minstrels, and Unsworth and EUgene, in addition to a host ot comic talent ; and BENI: I and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze, every evening. Hall, ed.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY. —Morning, 7h. 10m.—Afternoon, 711. 40m. TO-MORROW.- Morning, ah. 15m.—Afternoon, Bh. b2m. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun offic e , 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. m4* 'vot, Ce. •°,1 4, 4410''y' y _‘,GA N.l.s.c.er r A. - / • ,1 "broi THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862. Our readers will see that the Ballot Society has addrt ssed a spirited and business-like letter to the Liberal mem bers of Parlia men t, one w hi c h the if he intends to c on ti nue i n office, Premier himse lf, had better not treat as a joke. We can state, from personal knowledg e, that members of th e fi rs t posi tion, and of well merited influence in the Liberal ranks, are not only pr e p ared to respond to the wiews expressed in his letter, but are perfectly satisfied that, unless the Government can rouse it self to do justice to the more truly liberal of its supporters, its duration will be but brief, The apathy complained of is due to the unreal character of Government Liberalism. The kernel of the Liberal cause in each borough is no 4 the men who w ill "vote yellow, be the candidate who he may," but the Inch who regard yellow as but an emblem of real Liberalism in Church and State. Dishearten these men, end the life of Liberalism in a borough is gone. There may still be a fight of party, that is of wills against wil ls ; but principle, not wilfulness, is the living soul of a conflict. Men are ashamed in cooler moments of earnestness and passion for purely arbitrary differences, but no man, not even when defeated, is ashamed of being defeated for a noble principle. Our Government has too much forgotten this. More than half its Liberal supporters who have incurred defeat at late elections have been men of whom the defeated Liberals have said after the election, that they should have been little better off had they succeeded. The Ballot Society recognises clearly this state of things. They found upon it an appeal to the liberalism of the House of Commons. On one matter of fact neither the Government nor the House of Commons, nor the public, can have any difference of opinion. " Corrupt practices at elec tions" have become the rule rather than the excep tion. The slow and generally secret, yet efficient poison of landlord influence has completely extin guished all political life among county electors, and left what still remains with the landlords only, who generally know each other's relative strength too well to trouble themselves about a battle ; or, if there be one, it is for show merely. Of the boroughs the letter gives a perfectly fair sample. Priestly terrors, mob law, and bribery, are notoriously the common agencies employed in the borough consti tuencies. We reed not describe or particularise, because we hardly know that anyone would jeo pardise his character for honesty and sincerity by denying what stares us all in the face. Facts, then, being thus, the Ballot Society sug gests, we think, a very fair issue to the Government; indeed, as old and steady supporters of the Ballot, we had broadly hinted something very similar a week ago. The society says—give us now a trial of the ballot. The Government is talking of re newing the old Corrupt Practices Prevention Act. We wonder it is not ashamed to do it. Sir WM. HATTER himself declared that be regarded it as a dead letter from the day of its enactment ; the Times, though hostile enough to the ballet, yet described the act as " a pompons profession, meant to be filoperative." We need not say how every commission, every Parliamentary election commit tee, might we not say every election since the act passed, has but corroborated the truth of these prophecies which accompanied the birth of this now defunct Bill. Yet, with all this before their eyes, the Government proposes to recal it to life ! It is proposed to lower the penalties, to lop off the auditors, and make a few other trivial alterations, and a feebler Act is then to give a death-blow to corruption and undue influence ! The Ballot Committee, therefore, calls on the majority of the Liberal members who have hitherto supported the Ballot, to demand of the Government that it should make the Ballot a Government measure. It is not insisted on that the measure should be permanent, but that it should at least have a trial. The Go vernment has done all it could—and it has con fessedly and publicly failed. One plan alone has not been tried, and it is a plan for which a majority of the supporters of Government have for a long time voted. The minority of Liberals have had their way all this time, they have voted with the Tories against the majority of their fellow Liberals. Surely that majority is now entitled to say—" You and the Tories have failed—you have almost broken down the Liberal party by your failure— try our plan for a while at least." We should say the demand should be that if the Horse will not make the Ballot law permanently without a trial, let ii enact that it shall be the mode of taking the poll for at least two or three years after the next general election. Such a trial could not surely hurt the most timid. When the time ex pired the whole subject would of itself come again under discussion, Just as the old Sham Act now does. If, therefore, such a moderate demand be rejected, one which cannot be pompously rejected as a "Great Change "—for it will be but a temporary one, a mere trial— we shall only have fresh confirmation of the dogged hatred of the Government, or the majority which resists the proposal, to electoral indepen dence. We know, indeed, they hate it—but their votes against a five years' trial of the Ballot would proclaim their hatred. We hope that every really independent mem ber of Parliament—by which we mean everyone who does not fear the Ballot for himself—will accept the proposal now made. The time for action is come. Argument is now superfluous. Let fifty sincere members band themselves together and in form the Government that their support is no further to be relied on if their reasonable request be any longer denied. They must insist on the Ballot being made a Government measure ; insist, at least, on the five years' trial, or henceforth leave a Government, which refuses to deal with electoral corruption, to be dealt with by Tories according to their will and pleasure. Captain Wi4LlAis WILSON'S recapture of the ship Emilie St. Pierre, of Liverpool, on the 21st of March, 1862, will henceforth—we may be quite certain of this—for ever occupy its place con spicuously upon our national records of hair •breadth 'stapes and heroic acts of daring done upon the high seas. Viewing the achievement simply as a deed of valour, it is not in any way extravagant to assert distinctly that it is one which has seldom, if ever, been surpassed. The whole achievement, from first to last, for its consummate effrontery of pluck was just, in three words, Worthy of DUN DONALD. Higher praise than that we could not give it. But, in giving it, we do not for an instant exaggerate the merits of Captain WILSON, of the Emilie St. Pierre. On the contrary, we do him simply justice. For he is—beyond a doubt of it— exactly one of those gallant sea captains aftre the heart of ocean-demigods, like Lord NELSON and Lord CocHRANE. A salt-water hero, whose soul could never quail, whose cheek could never blench— come what come might. The narrative recently penned by Captain WIL SON, and read by him with simple and manly emphasis on Saturday afternoon in the rooms of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Association, we published in extenso in the columns of The ,gun of Monday evening. It has doubtless been read by this time by all who have turned over that impres sion, with scarcely one solitar y exception. For, although several weeks have already elapsed since the first particulars of this astounding ex ploit came to the knowledg e of the public at large, getting immediately noised abroad, as indeed it well deserved to be—it was something surely worthy of the attention of all when the Hero or the Exploit himself came forward as the narrator ! Not spontaneously, it should be remem bered, but reluctantly and simply in answer to the summons of his admiring compatriots. Trifles though the tokens of admiration already presented to Captain WILSON, or about to be presented to him, by his applauding fellow -citizens, may be, it is still interesting to bear them one and all in mind, as evidences of the instant cordiality of that admira tion, and as substantial proofs that the brave tar's almost matchless audacity upon this occasion is to the full appreciated. The gold pocket chronometer — the massive salver with the inscriptionupon it—even the homely but costly silve r tea and coffee services— have their significance in this way, hardly less than the gold medal about to be struck in Captain WIL SON'S honour, or than the two thousand guineas about to be presented to him by the owners of the I Emilie St. Pierre as tokens of their gratitude. As Ithe .....Rnsli§h reeding public has recently had the film SUN ' LONDON, WEDNESD EVENING, MAY 7, 1862 opportunity of seeing done upon a larger scale, in the instancte of the Autobiography of the late daunt less THOMAS CoCHRANE, 10th Earl of Dundonald, it may be seen very readily indeed, through Cap. tainLsoN's own pithy narrative of the recap ture of the ship Emilie St. Pierre, with what perfect good taste, and with what manly and unaffected eloquence, a hero may relate the particu lars of his own exploits, without one momentary idea of boastfulness on his part recurring the while to the mind of his hearer or his reader. In this way C./EsAR led the way long since in his "Com mentaries," and XENOPHON in his incomparable record of the " Retreat of the Ten Thousand." The like has been done within this very nineteenth century of ours by a Conqueror, to say the least of him, upon a level with the Great Captains of Antiquity. " Soldiers," said NAPOLEON, when bidding adieu to his Old Guard at Fontein bleau, before his departure for Elba, " Soldiers, I go to write the history of the deeds we have done together." And delayed though the fulfilment of I that promise was by the episode of the Hundred Days, it was, nevertheless, fulfilled at last in the voluminous narrative dictated at St. Helena to Las CASES and GOURGAIM. Now, to breathe thus the supreme names of CNSAR and NAPOLEON, of NELSON and DUNDONALD, when referring to the recent achievement of the brave merchant captain who recaptured the Emilie St. Pierre, almost, one might say, singlehanded, will not appear in any respect whatever an extravagance to those who ere acquainted with the actual facts of the case. And—by this time—who is not P It is an incident that the " bravest of the brave" might have been proud to have passed through thus triumphantly. Does any one—yet ignorant of the facts of the case —remain disdainfully incredulous ? Let him turn to Captain WILSON'S own simple and plain-spoken statement of those facts, and, as certainly as we are now writing these words, the observer's lip will curl no longer with disdain. He will there learn how it was that Captain WILSON, the skipper of the Emilie St. Pierre, then a prisoner of war upon his own vessel, and aided only in carrying out his daring adventure by his two fellow-prisoners, one his cook, the other his steward, contrived, upon the 21st of March, while out at sea, to recapture his ship from the prize crew of the United States navy, a crew consisting at the time of two officers and thirteen seamen. The consummate coolness with which this astonishing recapture was effected beggars all description—except Captain WILSON'S own. The manner in which, one after another, this daring skipper seized, and gagged, and hand cuffed—first of all the master's mate, and immediately afterwards an engineer, 'who was passenger on board the vessel. The adroit manner in which, after quietly making this good bold commencement of the work down below, Cap tain WILSON went on deck, a few seconds later, as if he had but just turned out—the way in which he thereupon walked the deck for ten minutes side by side with Lieutenant STONE, while he pleasantly chatted with that doomed commanding officer about the weather, &c.—the delightfully careless fashion in which he decoyed him down into the cabin to examine the chart, and there brought him up in the door-way with a brandished belaying-pin—to be quietly seized, gagged, and ironed immediately afterwards. All is admirably done, and admirably told, too, by the doer of it. The rest of the narra tive shall be given in Captain WiLsoN's own words. " Three men were walking the deck ; one was at the helm and one on the look-out. I called the three men aft, and, pointing to the hatchway of the storeroom near the helm, said that a coil of rope was wanted up. I shoved off the hatch, and pointing to a corner where it was, they all three jumped down. I immediately closed the batch, and warned the man at the helm of his danger if he moved or spoke. The look-out was then called aft, and when asked whether he would help to work the ship to a British port he said No.' I therefore put him with the others, guarding the hatchway. I then called the watch, and as sailors do not come on deck all to gether we got two aft and secured before any sus picion was aroused; the third man of the watch below drew his knife at the steward, upon which he fired, and the shot went through his shoulder; the others were soon secured, and in the space of a morning's watch I was again in charge of my ship." No wonder the brave sailor who has eccomplished a feat of prowess so consummate in its audacity, should be cheered to the echo, as he has been very recently by the assembled merchants of Liverpool. No wonder that, by this single deed of valour, he has won for himself a brilliant and lasting reputation. " WHALLEY ! WHALLEY !" shouted some rude members last night ; and very rude it was. Lord STANLEY wanted to speak—Ceylon was the subject; yet the son of the ex-Premier, and a lord who is much more than his father's son—the best that can be said of most lords—is greeted when he rises with cries of " WIIALLEY 1 WHALLEY !" What, it may well be asked, is the charm which Mr. WHALLEY exercises over the House ? We all know, by what we read, why it calls for the great Tory leader, or the Radical JOHN BRIGHT—we all understand why an assembly, weary with routine work, must be glad to refresh itself with the eloquence of genius, whether the eloquence be on one's own side or on an opponent's. But why does it shout out " WHALLEY ! 'WHALLEY !" when a man of Lord STANLEY'S mark rises to speak ? We are sorry to be obliged to confess that after all, as Mrs. BEECHER STOWE has it in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," "a senator is but a man ;" and our elected senators being but men, even in the midst of their grave deliberations, they enjoy a joke and a bit of solemn fun. We would not answer for it, if Mr. SPEAKER were not in the way, whether Punch and Judy m:ght not almost prove a season able relief sometimes. The House must pardon us, but it was Mr. WHALLEY'S speech which res minded us of the popular amusement; the " whacks" on the poor Roman Catholics sounded so much like those which we see or hear dealt on the heads of the wooden combatants in the streets—" lying,perjuring, thieving, and homicide," and again, " theft, homicide, murder, and sedition" chronic spirit of disloyalty" came quite feebly afterwards—Can our literal Punch beat all that with his literal thumps on the head of Judy ? Members, however, must beware how they invoke such en tertainments as Mr. WHALLEY'S. They soon began to have enough ; but " Divide ! divide ! divide !" was of no use when once the performance had begun. It only furnished the performer with an oppor tunity to suck an orange and refresh his parched mouth with the juice, and his eyes with the favou rite colour, and on he went with the theological burletta, when his audience had had enough of it, and more than enough. But, after all, 111 votes have some importance, whatever may be that of Mr. WHALLEY. There is a party, at least, which is ready to put a WHALLEY what themselves.t he they like to have said, but are a f o s r h w a m a r e d d , t t o o s s a a y y There is evidently an abundant leaven of selfish sectarianism yat in the House which is not ashamed of itself, but rather deems its sectarianism "doing GOD service." We except from this censure those members who vote against all religious grants from the National Ex chequer. To vote against the State intermeddling with any religion,—with Protestantism, Presby terianism, or Catholicism, equally —i s p er f ec tl y con sistent and honourable. No Roman Catholic can regard such a vote as a persecuting vote ; the man who gives it has an equal regard for the rights of every creed; and believing that endowing all equally is impracticable, he would throw all equally upon the support of those who adopt each creed. For ourselves we accord entirely with the vote of the majority, and probably :'or the reason which influenced the greater part of them. While Pres byterians are largely endowed, while the Episcopal Church in Ireland is endowed, in the style immor talised by Tolf MOORE'S hunour, it would be, surely, the last meanness to grudge to Roman Catholics the paltry endowment of Maynooth. The harm or the good it can do is perfectly insignifi cant; but the harm which it corld but do, to single oat one sect, to strip it of its small Government endowments, and to leave the others rejoicing in ' theirs, is not easy to be measured. Like the exac tion of Church-rates from Disseiters—it is not the amount, but the injustice, whit] stings. THE GOVERNMENT AND BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. The following letter is beim extensively circu lated among the Liberal menvers of the House of Commons : " Dear Sir,—The Committeeof the Ballot Society feel it to be their imperative duty to call the most serious attention of the friendE of the Ballot in Par liament to the frightful increase in the use of all kinds of corrupt and undue inluence which charac terises our Parliamentary electons, and which if not soon checked will complete thedemoralisation of our constituencies, and destroy every remaining vestige of public principle and electoal independence. " The Committee would remind the Parliamen tary advocates of Freedom of Election, that those pernicious influences and resuls are not now con fined to small places, but are =pant everywhere, and are admitted to be triumplant by all parties ; hence we find that in North Y'rkshire and Oxford shire the landed proprietors 're alleged to to the operators and landlord powertbe instrument em ployed. In Longford and at Bokenhead the Roman Catholic priests are said to be the aggressors, and religious authority the weapfn that is wielded. In Nottingham it is the mob flat is the tyrant and mob law that defies all oppositon ; and in Preston, Grimsby, Wakefield, and othe places both parties charge each other with belt)g perpetrators of the most barefaced corruption. "Under these circumstanes, and seeing that the only remedy which the Government proposes to apply to this monstrous evi is the re-enactment of the Corrupt Practices Prewtion Act, which the Times at its first enactmeit designated a pom pous profession meant to be noperative,' and which everybody admits to have leen utterly useless, the Committee would respectful y aik whether the time has not come when a stand should be made for at least a trial of Vote by Ballot a measure that is resorted to by every other enlghtened community and by our own, in almost eery case except that of Parliamentary elections. " The Ballot has been discused in the House of Commons until both argumeit and sophistry are exhausted, and only jokes aid bantering remain, and yet its adoption is prevened by a motley ma jority, led on by a professedy Liberal Premier; if this is to continue, that whop is called the Li beral party' will soon be a hopeless minority-- their honest and hardworking adherents will cease to take interest in their caue, and their less reli able supporters will succumbto the better tactics and superior wealth of the a-called Conservative party. This state of things may be of little con sequence to Lord Palmerston and his Anti-Ballot Whig supporters, but the Committee cannot sup pose that it would be welcomi to the great body of the Liberal members of the House of Commons. " The preservation of public independence and of a free public opinion are, in tie estimation of the committee, of far greater importance than the pre• servation of any administration, however satisfac tory its foreign policy may be ; indeed what can be a greater anomaly or a greater injustice to this country than to have a Goverment which upholds liberty in foreign states, while it refuses freedom of election at home. it ha wen Will the utmost' confidence fu tee propriety of this appeal, that the committee call upon the friends of the ballot in Parliament to de mand of a Government of whose party they form so large majority, that it should adopt the ballot as a Government measure, either as the permanent method of taking votes, or at least for a trial, during such a period as would be sufficient to test its adoption to the purpose proposed. " The committee would be glad to know whether you approve of the course suggested, because in that case they will invite you to aconference with other approving members, to decide upon the best plan of action.—An early reply will much oblige, "I am, dear sir, yoursfaithfuliy, " Z. F. BONTEMS, " Hon. Sec. to he Ballot Society." DESPATCH OF MAILS.—Th Inman steamer City of Baltimore will be despatched from Liverpool for New fork to-day, with mails for thi United States, &c. On Saturday the Cunard steamer Icotia will be despatched from Liverpool for New 7 1 ork, uth mails for the United States and North America. As the Great Eastern will be crossing the Atlantic at t.e same time as these steamers, much interest is attacbd to their passages, and bets on the respective boats hay been extensively offered and taken. EXCAVATIONS IN ROME.—A letter from Rome states that the excavations on bunt Palatine continue to attract much attention. The imiense quantity of rubbish which covered the pavement ofthe building erroneously styled the Temple of Apollo, ha: been removed and access obtained to the vaulted rooms b'ow, two of which are now quite cleared. The first, immdiately below the Casino Farnese, appears to have been s tipped of all its ornaments at a comparatively recent date, nd then filled with earth. Adjoining this is another room which had not been de. spoiled. The walls are Albano tone, and the corners tra vertine. The researches of th depredators seem to have ended before coming there, for n removing the soil many works of art were found. Amog them may be noticed a torso column, ornamented with:canthus leaves, and hav ing, instead of a capital, two Dine apples connected by leaves ; a thyrsis, in the shape t . a candelabrum, also sur mounted by a pine apple and iliage, and numerous frag ments of a red marble cornice. The old pavement of rich marbles has been carefully. prserved, and all the objects found are retained on the spot ad arranged for inspection, instead of being removed. A great number of persons visit this new museum, and arevell repaid for their trouble as all the articles belong to a god period of art. HARBOURS OF REFUGL—The annual return showing the progress of works tncl harbouri of refuge has been issued. At Dover, where £500,000 has been laid out, and a vote of £50,000 is to by taken this year, to be fol lowed by £lOO,OOO more in faure years, the length of the pier founded is now 1,573 fet, and 1,390 feet have been completed to the quay level. rhe South-Eastern Railway is now carried on to the pier. At Alderney, 1,220 yards of sea wall and 1,226 of harbour wall of the western break water are complete except thecoring, and the promenade wall is ready for the coping foto, length of 1,217 yards from the shore ; the base of the brakwater extends 1,636 yards from the shore. From 500 to 700 men are kept employed at this work, for which there ha been voted £937,090, the total estimate being £1,300,00. Of the breakwater at Portland which is to shelter ;,130 acres of the bay, the centre of the north head is 8,52 feet from the shore, and the depth of watei 91 fathoms it low water of spring tides, During the heavy gales of Febuary and March many ves sels took refuge within this iarbour, some from GOO to 1,200 tons burden, and from lb to 120 vessels remained in harbour for some days. The rotes already passed for the works at Portland amount to 073,000 ; the total estimate exceeds £1,000,000. Upwardk of 5,000,000 tons of rough stone have been deposited since the commencement of the work, M. MEYERBEER AT THE INTERNATIONAL Erin- EITION.—The distinguished , omposer, although an im portant unit in the opening cer.mony, excited less curiosity than would have been the caseasd the aggregate of visitors contained people of less note, M Meyerbeer, at the com mencement of the proceedings was trying in vain to find a seat, when one of our musical cirectors, Mr.F. Jonghmans, of the Oxford Music Hall, wh( for the day combined with that office the improvised duty of a " steward," espied the composer, and, as a real labotr of love, placed him in a good position, whence to view'he ceremony. A lengthened chat ensued, in the course of mhich Meyerbeer spoke of the splendid performance of his music at rehearsal. As a grace ful, though unexpected returnfor the little attentions he had received, and as a souvenir of his visit, M. Meyerbeer enclosed to his new acquaintance the opening bars of his march, appending his signature to the dedication, ZIER .31.AJZSTI , S TII,EAT_RE. LUCREZIA BORGIA. The old frequenters of this house can at length return to it with pleasure. It has got a manage ment once more that can feel a theatre is a place of art, and not simply an elegant market which trades on special popularities. In lieu of the Stock Exchange System of placing some strong names in a bill as a guaran tee for operations whish are never carried out, we have at last that—which regards an opera as a well considered scheme, composed of various particulars, each of which has its significance, and which knows that this is the only method by which it is possible to evolve either the purpose of a writer or the true power of an artist. The performance of " Lucrezia Borgia" at this theatre, last evening, was the very best that had been witnessed under its roof for many years. We had not merely Madame Titiens and Signor Giuglini in their strength, and the other characters sustained at a point of adequate merit, but band and chorus so improved that they completed • the sum of requisition, and rightly combined with other features to produce a sense of unity. The scenery was also very appropriate and striking, and the movement of the opera was very carefully arranged. Of the Lucrezia of MaCille. Titien's we can have no occasion now to dwell at length. On the whole it must be regarded as her very best performance. It unites in a greater degree the passionate force and vocal accomplishment which equally distin guish her, and which always enabled her in this character to o.ispute the ground with Grisi. Not that we admit their complete equality. Two charac teristics enter into the conception of the terrible Duchess. She is a Princess, and she is a mother. As the first she appeals to our imagination—as the second to our sympathies. It was the union of the two appeals which rendered Grisi's view so perfect. It was the grand historic dignity which she threw as a massive robe over a bosom whose violent beatings she rendered so conspicuous. Mme. Titiens, with less art, but with equal dramatic fervour, appeals almost entirely to our sympathies in her great effort. It is as the mother she addresses us so absorbed by her affection that her personal wrongs and thirst for vengeance are almost oblite rated by its yearnings. With Madame Grisi the maternal feeling was merely expanded to redeem, not to elevate, the Duchess. It was the one hal lowing influence which preserved her entire soul from ruin, in faithful accordance with the profound and original thought of Victor Hugo. With Mademoiselle Titiens the maternal passion so entirely dominates her nature—it almost leads one to doubt the existence of what it coheres with and atones for. This view, if less imaginative, is undoubtedly more affecting. It may be less faith ful to history, but it is more conducive to illusion. This distinction supplied the key to her singing and acting throughout the night. It was the mother's heart, which, stamping the opening, impressed the entire course of the piece, and was not more affect ing when she gazed on the treasured features of her sleeping son, and poured out her transport at his beauty in her exquisite delivery of the " Com'e bello," than in her terror when threatened with discovery, by the sudden appearance of her enemies, she saw it would fill with horror and disgust the soul of the only one she loved. It is in the second act, however, and in the great scene of the drama—when Lucrezia demands the death of an enemy, who proves to be her son, and demands it from a husband who believes that son to be her lover—that Madame Titien's view of the Duchess makes itself felt with so much force. Here the conflict of the emotions arising entirely from the maternal passion—the terror at her son,s danger—struggling with the shame of his avowal —and only deadened by her hatred of the man who both slanders, and would bereave her—is painted in its varying aspects, with a mingled breadth and delicacy, that is not more remarkable for its vigour than its pathos. Equally impressive is its climax, in which she urges on her son the antidote, and still more so the close of the piece, when he refuses to escape the doom of his companions, and she finds that her terrible vengeance has involved as fearful a retribution. Nothing certainly can be finer than her acting and singing throughout these scenes. Her delivery of the two arias, the " Ah, to bada," in which ske turns on her ruth less husband with such a superb burst of fury, and the " Infelice," in which she so passion .L.2, s..A.L LA. ....rAtes Let COU LO 50.1". Liao wn ti dote, were of a piece with the general inspiration of the effort. Of the Gennaro of Signor Giuglini we have even less occasio❑ to speak. It is the character, of all others, with which he is most identified, and in which, with the sole exception of Mario, he admits of no comparison. His pure and exquisite chest-voice, and the dreamy volup tuous tenderness which designates his style, were never heard to more advantage than in the exertions of last evening. His "Di Pescatore" was just as faultless and delightful as it was ever, and so also was his share in the highly dramatic trio of the 2d act, the " Guai se to Sfugge,' , which was deservedly encored. His acting also in this scene and the last one was energetic to a de gree. Another feature of the evening was the great success of a debutante. Signora Tre brelle—made her first appearance in the young soldier, Maffeo Orsini, and produced an immediate and most favourable impression. To a mezzo soprano voice, of excellent tone and clear ness, she adds spirit and ease as an actress, and the not trifling advantages of a handsome face and per son. She has also the advantage of youth, being, we should suppose, about five and twenty. Her singing throughout was admirable, whether in the opening recitation of her adventure with Gennaro, or in her delivery of the Brindisi, which united in the highest degree spirit, fluency, and elegance. This young lady must be regarded as a decided acqui sition. Signor Gassier was the Duke, which he sustained very effectively, giving his one aria, the " Qualunque SiaL'Evento," with more than ordi nary fort The house was well attended, and the enthusiasm of the audience very great, the principal singers being demanded at the close of every act. ROYAL ITALIAN OP_ERA. UN BALLO IN MASCHERA. This last and not least favourite of the much underrated Verdi was produced at this theatre last evening, In order to provide for three vents—the first appearance of Signor Mario for the season, as Ricardo; the first appearance of Signor Della Sedie at this theatre in Renato ; and the first appearance of Mddle. Csillag, in the character of Amelia. This combination attached to the evening an inte rest not ordinarily excited. Signor Mario, who was most warmly welcomed, proved to be in full possession of his powers, and sang and acted throughout the opera with the utmost charm of voice and manner. Signor Delle Sedie, who was also welcomed, ably sustained the reputation he gained at the Lyceum as Renato ; whilst the Amelia of Mademoiselle Csillag placed the character before the au dience in so entirely a new light, owing to its singular depth of emotion that it almost rose into a new creation. Into the great merits of this per formance we hope to enter on another occasion. the house was very full, and the applause through out was enthusiastic. THE CROPS IN KENT,—The weather during the last fortnight has been very favourable for the growing crops, and great progress has been made in field work. The sowing of corn is now finished, and with the fine rain wa had on Thursday evening last the late sown may not be much behind the early in yield, the wireworm having been very busy in some of the early pieces. The appearance of the young wheats is generally good, though some few dis tricts have suffered muoh from the late wet, and the plant on the legs on some light soil is bare through the worm. The Lent corn is upon the whole looking favourable and grows very fast. A larger breadth of potatoes has been planted than usual, and although they were not got in the ground as soon as usual, the seasons have been very good. Cherries have suffered much from the late frosts, especially the bigarreaus and reds, the crop of whiell in the neighbour hood of Maidstone will be small, The rest of the fruit at present promises well, yet it is full early to say much about the apple crop, Swedes and wurzel have held out well. Keep ia plentiful, and the season is certainly a very ferward one.-4outh Eastern Gazette, LATEST NEWS. PARIS, MAY 7, MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a decree aathorising the railway companies to fix whatever tariffs they may think proper for the transport of merchandise in transit, in order to combat foreign competition. The Moniteur also announces that the King of Holland arrived here last night. The Emperor sent Prince Murat to Compiegne to compliment the King. BRUSSELS, MAY 7. The 111oniteur Beige of this morning says:— " The condition of the King remained the same throughout yesterday. At night, however, more favourable symptoms supervened." MADRID, MAY 6. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the payment of the debt due to France was voted by 121 to 12. Two cardinals and 20 bishops have left for Rome. BERLIN, MAY 6 (Evening). The elections for the Chamber of Deputies took place here to-day. All the members for Berlin in the former Cham ber have been re-elected, except Herr Kuhne, in whose stead Herr von Hennig Plonchott, belonging to the party of progress, has been chosen. A s far as can be judged from the telegrams re ceived up to the present time from the various provinces, most of the former representatives have been re-elected; among others, Dr. Waldeck, Herr von Sybel, Chamberlain von der Hagen, and Herr von Carlowitz. BRUSSELS, MAY 6. It is asserted that a telegram was sent yesterday to the Duke of Brabant at Seville respecting the illness of the King. Letters from Seville announce that the climate of Andalusia has sensibly improved the health of the Prince Royal of Belgium. ......_ ITALY. A communication from Rome, of the Ist, has the following "An encounter took place three days back be tween the Italian and Bourbon troops, near Talva terra, on the territory of Ceprano. A French officer, at the head of a detachment of soldiers and of four Roman gendarmes, proceeded as far as the frontier, but was received with musket-shots. None of his men were, however, struck, and he took 15 BoUrbon prisoners. Some minutes lcbter a conflict almost took place between the French and the Italian troops, but they recognised ea3h other by the cries of ' France for ever V Victor Emmanuel for ever !' raised on the two sides. Some reaction aries have been taken to Rome, and shut up in the castle of St. Angelo. General de Goyon seems to have resolved to no longer consign his prisoners to the Pontifical Government, but to keep them him self in the above-named castle. The French exer cise a rigorous surveillance at Veroli ; provisions can now no longer be carried beyond the frontier." MEXICO AND IHE UNITED STATES. The following despatch from Mr. Seward on Mexican affairs has appeared in the A rchives Liplo matiques. It is addressed to Mr. Dayton, the United States Minister at the Court of the Tuileries, and is dated from Washington, March 3 " Sir,—We observe indications of a growing opi nion in Europe that the demonstrations which are being made by Spanish, French, and British forces against Mexico are likely to be attended with a revolution in that country, which will bring in a monarchical Government there, in which the Crown will be assumed by some foreign prince. This coun try is deeply concerned in the peace of nations, and aims to be loyal at the same time in all its relations as well to the allies as to Mexico. The President has, therefore, instructed me to submit his views on the new aspect of affairs to the parties concerned. " He has relied upon the assurances given to this Government by the allies, that they were seeking no political objects, and only a redress of grievances. lie (lota not doubt the sincerity OI the allies, aria his confidence in their good faith, if it could be shaken, would be reinspired by explanations appa rently made in their behalf, that the Governments of Spain, France, and Great Britain are not intend ing to intervene, and will not intervene to effect a change of the constitutional form of government now existing in Mexico, or to produce any political change there in opposition to the will of the Mexi can people. Indeed, he understands the allies to be unanimous in declaring the proposed revolu tion in Mexico is moved only by Mexican citizens now in Europe. " The President, however, deems it his duty to express to the allies, in all candour and frankness, the opinion that no monarchical Government which could be founded in Mexico, in the presence of fo reign navies and armies in the waters and upon the soil of Mexico, would have any prospect of security, or permanence. Secondly, that the instability of such a monarchy there would be enhanced if the throne should be assigned to any person not of Mexican nativity. That, under such circumstances, the new Government must speedily fall, unless it could draw into its support European allies which, relating back to the first invasion, would in fact make it the beginning of a permanent policy of armed European monarchical intervention ,injurious and practically hostile to the best general system of government on the Continent of America ; and this would be the beginning rather than the ending of revolution in Mexico. " These vieWs are grounded upon some knowledge of the pontical sentiments and habits of society in America. "In such a case it is not to be doubted that the permanent interests and sympathies of this country would be with the other American Republics. "It is not intended on this occasion to pre dict the course of events which might happen as a consequence of the proceedings contemplated either on this continent or in Europe. It is suffieient to say that in the President's opinion the emancipa tion of this continent from European control has been the principal feature in its history during the last century. It is not probable that a revolution in a contrary direction is likely to he an immediately succeeding century while population in America is so rapidly increasing, resources so rapidly developing, and society so steadily forming itself upon principles of democratic American Go vernment. Nor is it necessary to suggest to the allies the improbability that European nations could eteadily agree upon a policy favourable to such a counter-revolution as one conducive to their own interests, or to suggest that, however studi ously the allies might act to avoid lending the aid of their land and naval forces to domestic revolu tions in Mexico, the result would nevertheless be traceable to the presence of these forces there, al though for a different purpose, since it ma y be deemed certain that, but for their presence there, no such revolution could probably have been at tempted or even conceived. " The Senate of the United States has not indeed given its official sanction to the precise measures which the President has proposed tor lending our aid to the existing Government in Mexico, with the approval of the allies, to relieve it from its present embarrassments. This, however, is only a question of domestic administration. It would be very erroneous to regard such a di sagreemen t as indicating any serious differ ence o f op i n i on i n t hi s G ove rnment or among the American people in their cordial good wishes for the safety, welfare, and sta bility of the republican system of Government in that country. —I am, etc., " WILLIAM H. SEWARD." COLONIAL PROGRESS.—The Montreal Gazette records the birth of " a quintette of girls" on the 29th of March, and states that the mother, a French Canadian, is herself one of four, all still living. The five children are "doing well," and the same may be said 0 the mother, FRENCH EXPEDITION 70 MEXICO. When General Prim, Count de Reus, and Mar quis de Castillago went over to Mexico, the printing press, with all its accessories, formed an important portion of his baggage, not merely with a view to publish his general orders to the army, but a news paper under the title of Eco de Europa. The first number appeared at Vera Cruz on the 4th of Feb. According as General Prim moves into the country, the Eco de Europa shifts its quarters, and the last number which I have now before me is dated " Orizaba, March 19." The ??co de Europa, as a matter of course, supports the views of the Spanish. Government, though what these particular views are is not very clearly stated. On one topic, how ever, the Eco de Europa is both explicit and elo quent, and that is General Prim himself. One can fancy the feeling with which he must contemplate the following sketch of himself in that paper : " One word more, and we have done. There are persons whose very names are a programme ; there are individuals who are the symbol of a great en terprise; and the person and the name of General Prim are the symbol and the programme of this expedition. Mexico and the whole world know him and admire him, and more than one Mezican heart beats this day with enthusiastic violence at the bare recollection of his marvel lous deeds. Well, then, here we have this noble chief tain, whom Greece and Rome world have enrolled among their gods, who in the middle ages would have been the founder of a dyne.sty of kings, and who has in one day revived the terrible poetry of the Homeric combats—we have this glorious Pala din, who as a soldier is the thunderbolt of war and the thunderbolt of glory, and as a statesman the most upright friend of all the political reforms which make up the happiness of nations. On whatever side his sword flashes victory is certain. Wherever his voice is raised the triumph of the liberty and the progress of the age is assured. Were it possible to add anthing to the confidence inspired. by the greatness of the allied Powers, Mexico would find a fresh guarantee in the Count de Reus. The hero of Castillagos landed on the morning of the following day (the Bth of February). Ite mounted his horse on the quay; and, escorted by the lofty military chiefs and a brilliant staff, lie proceeded to his quarters, admired by the multitude that thronged in groups to gaze upon iim with rapture. With the arrival of Genera! Prim the aspect of the town was changed, and it assumed an air of festivity and joy such as was never seen before. His very pre sence began to produce this effect, it continued after his energetic address, and it was completed by his prompt and skilful measures. To condense our remarks so as to be well understood, we personify the thought of the expedition in one only of its re presentatives, the Count de Reus. And well may we do so without the appearance of national vanity, for the Spanish Plenipotentiary, though always. acting in accord with the Plenipotentiaries a the other two nations, has b een the ori::inator ich hove been the adviser of all the measures '7O been adopted. In a word, he has ben the soul of the enterprise. It was natural h.e should be so , as he springs from the same rP.ce as the people by whom the action of EuroPJ was to be felt, as well as for other reasons whir,h are exclusively personal. Those who know the history of Spain know the Count de Reus, and those who know the Count de Reus will understand the magnitude of the sacri fices which the fulfilment of his glorious mission must have cost him. Let us picture to ourselves the conqueror of Africa amid his shining pleiad of warriors eager for danger and for glory, and at the head of a phalanx of veterans who look upon him almost as a god. Let us contemplate him before a people who invite him to war and provoke him to measure swords, and we can form a notion of what it must cost him to remain quiet and pacific with fields of battle before him, and to sacrifice his in sti-acts and his habits on the altars of peace, j us tice, humanity, and the generous anxiety to save Mexico from bloodshed. This conduct is not only worthy of admiration, but it will cause astonish ment throughout Europe, where the Count of Reus is better known than here for his romantic prowess and his chivalrous valour. Europe will with diffi culty recognise the hero of Reus and of Tetuan in the calm and prudent plenipotentiary of Vera. Cruz, &c. If General Prim had allowed himself to be carried away by his warlike instincts, the world would have seen nothing strange in it,for he would have done no more than furnish a fresh subject for the gallery of heroic pictures. and to this the world is a. euewrueu. vV rat dove& beein a novelty in his life is the heroism of his patience ; and this is fortunate. The conduct of the Count of Reus has not only dissipated othe doubts of the Mexican Government, but it exercises everywhere a magic influence over the minds of the people, &c. In Mexico his friends say he is the exterminating angel—the angel of consolation—the lion of battle —the demi-god of War—and in describing hint Homer would have compared him to mars.' " General Prim, perhaps, aims at playing the part of Hernan Cortes, and conquering the whole of Mexico. On the other hand the Paris journals, without, of course, displaying such extravagance as in the foregoing, contend that the admiration of the Mexicans is entirely concentrated on the French army. The French are regarded as their only de liverers from the calamities accumulated upon them, while the Spaniards are utterly disregarded. The truth, perhaps, is that did they dare to speak the unfortunate Mexicans would declare for any one likely to rescue them from the miserable tyranny of their own rulers. They dare not speak, however, for their country is under a rule of terror. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO ITALY. A Paris letter, in the journal de Rouen, gives the following as what is likely to take place on Prince Napoleon's visit to Italy. The writer de clares that the account which he sends was current in generally well-informed circles in Paris, but we cannot confirm the statement, and consider part of the information as not by any means probable:— " Accordin g to certain reports, the mission of the Prince will not be limited to a simple visit to Ki ng Victor Emmanuel, and to the delivery of a letter from the Emperor ; he will, it is said, perform the first act of the policy adopted towards Rome. The letter of the Emperor, it is affirmed, will first of all contain an invitation to the King to visit Paris, and the Prince is to verbally add the proposal to pro ceed with him to Rome under the protection of the French flag, and with the character of the greatest neutrality, to pres en t t o th e P ope t h e propos i t i ons of the F renc h Govprnm.yit ..,.aieuee would. be solicited of the. Pope, and the Holy Father would learn at if the Prince was the bearer of an order for the commander of the French army of occupation to cause a division to fall back upon Civita Vecchia. King Victor Emmanuel would then issue an order to replace that division by an Italian one. According to the reply of the Pope, Prince Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel would. act in the sense of the first instructions given to the Pope, and the Emperor would be advised of the determination of the Pontifical Government. King Victor Emmanuel would then repair imme diately to Paris, and in the interview between the two Sovereigns the final resolutions would be adopted. According to that plan, the Pope can but be touched by the personal visit of King Victor Emmanuel and Prince Napoleon, and would recog nise in this visit a proof of the deference of the Governments of France and Italy. If a refusal be opposed by the Holy Father to the propositions made to him, and if a departure from Rome of the Chief of Christianity appeared imminent, the reso lutions to be taken would be both concerted at Paris, after a sort of manifestation addressed to the French Church." ANGiIIER DEATH IN THE REGENT'S CANAL,— Yesterday morning, at an early hour, as a bargeman was navigating a vessel through the Regent's-canal, at Cam idge-heath-gate, Hackney, he saw a bonnet lying on the towing path near the bridge,. He raised an alarm, when one of the lock-keepers procured the dregs, and after a few minutes the body of a female about 60 years of age was brought to the surface. She had only been in the water a few hours, and was very poorly clad. Her pocket was empty. The deceased was afterwards identi fied as Ann Turner, the wife of a cordwainer residing at Bethnal-green. The cause of the act is supposed to be destitution.