The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

BOURTON. ON- THE-WATER RAILWAY, Branch of " Midland " with Oxford and Great Western. Westminster County Court. CHARLES ACKERLEY, R.N., v. COLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street. —23 d March, 1862.—N0t being favoured by a report of this case, we are at fault in not being able to give the sum and substance in this suit by Plaintiff for loss of time at the office of Defendant, by own request,—not in conformity with the Master of the R-)11's decree or petition—touching the above Railway and other matters—Requiring under the Standing Orders of the Peers and Legislature enact ments three clear weeks' notice in the Gloucester papers. The plaintiff's witness,RalphDisraeli (son of Benjamin, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer), the Registrar of the Roll's Court, on being placed in the witness-box, gave in an extract from his "Term day book," that the judgment was given on the 15th of March, 1862; the which, by the plaintiff's shewing, the Gloucester journals of the Ist, Bth, and 15th—was wanting six days of the twenty-one— whereby plaintiff's name being in the same Act, 1 and 2 William IV., No. 54,* with his brother, Joseph Chamberlayne—buth 'to sue and be sued under one Christian and one Sirename'—made it imperative, and, as admitted by defendant—a "sine qua non" for giving se curity to the shareholders. Yet—on cro:s-examination by Cole (defendant), Li e want of courtesy to the plaintiff pro ceeded from his opinion that he was "a troublesome fellow," This case (No. 3,465), so peculiar in its views against the family, solicitor as also of the Earl of Radnor and Dean of Gloster, as trustees, controling in fact "the College of Ad vocates" as benchers of the four inns of court, under a county Court summons and supcena fees for entering plaint and hearing, ss. Sd., out-Herods even the civil law process of the Justinian code retrospections, on suit for less of Plain- tiff's time (as a Merchant patentee) by Defendant's own letters was not admitted by the Judge, thus occasioning a re-hearing of the case.—Costs for defendant, 15s. Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two brothers, one in the Royal Artillery. and the other (plain tiff) in the Royal Navy, sworn in as the * State " Nulla ' 0' to the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829—for making them by the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the French express it, ' faisant partea d'une corporation secu liere')—as on the primitif tenets of Christianity—whence opposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c., by refus ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import. * By the first and third clauses of the Bourton Railroad Company (on their unregistered inclosure award) they are made to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow Market tolls—with the judicial position of its King's Post Magistrate, under a committee of foreigners in violation of " the Adam and Eve consorted" of 1822, for the criminal basis of the colonial common law, for all under this sworn power of the one State Arbiter, by clause 29 of its rider, 8 Vic., c. 18—he being ' Prince Consort,' with Ind. lady. TREAT It E-RO YA 1 , HAYMARKET, Lesse Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (107th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitied THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Pcrea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a• 7 . OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Alana, , Ter---Mr. Edmund Falconer. 140th Night of the -ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE BLUE DEVILS. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Chas. Selby, Warlow, and Miss L. Laidlaw. To be followed by PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After whi^.l3, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet Interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open athalf-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily trom 11 11115. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, CAS a V. CUPID. To be followed by, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new and original drama, in five acts, entitled THE GOLDEN DAGGERS. Principal characters by Mr. Fechtcr, H.Widdi comb M , G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore, %. r. Ca' h eart, Mr. M r. oreland ; Mesdames Elsworthy and Carlotta Le clercq. Mr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded in indu ing; that eminent artist, Mr. W. Telbin, to give the aid of his unrivalled talent In the clncluding tableau of the drama. NEW TII RATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, &c. After which (4th time), THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr Dion Boucicault. Messrs. J. L. Tool, Emery, Billington , Paul Bt.dford, Stephenson, Sefton • ' Misses 11. Simms, K Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. • A S fLEY'S ROYAL A M HITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. WonderfulPertoimanee of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two cJlossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. 1 .10 he followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a laughable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE - - ! I.:NTERBUItY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at Ten o'clock. UNSWORTH, "or any other man" (the original\ and EUGENE, late principal comedians of the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, at a quarter-pa=t ten o'clock. Grand Felections from " La Fonnarnbula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Comic by Messrs. ITnsworth and Eugene, Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forth!, Mr. Hollingswoftli, and Miss Caroline Parkes. Pi' HE ox.b - oitp, 6, OXFORD-STREP.T.— • Extra and Important Attractions for the Ea=ter Holidays, RU lISEY and NE WCOMB'S MINSTRELS (13 in number), In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and Terpsicherean Entertainment, THE OLIO OF ETHIOI lAN ODDITIES. Burns' celebrated "Jolly Beggars," with characteri , tic Music by George Linley. operatic Selections by Miss Russell and the entire Com pany. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jongh mans. A host of comitales), including W. Randall and Harvey ard French (the ry. Ballads, Ducts. &c., &c. ' • and, at 11 o'clock. HENRI and PFAU appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on the Flyim: Trapeze. EIGI-1 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m. To-maßrto - vv.-Morning, 12b. 57m.—Afternoon, lh. 16m. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at She can office, 112, strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the cutstanding debts due in respect thereof. - 4-?„. • •• „:" - ---ce -.•. ) ,y, r.J ~/'y's Y, ; • - .7.] THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY. APRIL 26, 1862. - - - - 1862—50 far at least as we may judge from its commencement—promises to be memorable hence forth as the year of monster trials, of what our neighbours call causes celebres. There was the WINDHAM case, which was so elaborately inquired into before a Master in Lunacy and a special jury, first of all in the Court of Exchequer, and after wards in the Session-house down at Westminster. An examination, that, which must always be looked back to with regret and astonishment, as a deplo rable waste of time and money : simply to prove whethe r or not the sowing of wild oats by an eccentric and flighty young scapegrace would be sufficient to incapacitate him thenceforth for the term of his natural life from the conduct of his own affi-irp. Again there was that frig end, or rather that discreditable pendant, of the great etas of SWINFEN v. SWINFEN—the supplementary "n" in which Mr. KENNEDY brought an action against his late client Mrs. SWINFEN, neW Mrs. TIR e „ N, for the recovery of £20,000 for his labours in her behalf as her victo rious advocate. The trial now going on before the Judge-Ordinary and a Special Jury in the Court of Probate rind Divorce, namely, in the a-auee in which SuErruurts'r is the ard FRIEND ToMLINS and others are dcfen , lcuts, revives to p u b:ic recollection th a t farce= trial two or three years back when D r . SMETHURST stood at the bar of a criminal court, and was there formally convicted of the murder (by poisoning) of ISABELLA BANKS, down at Inc h mond, being, in fact, sentenced to be hang ed, but afterwards pardoned. The celebrated YELVERTON marriage case again has, - within the last few days, been re -vent illated at Dublin ; and may, before the SEEw Sion has much further advanced, again afford new evidence of Mr. WHITESIDE'S brilliant oratorical powent,wbile again invoking the enthusiasm of the Irish .nal within, and of the Irish mob without. Filially, there is the term now put at length to the susk;vnie felt ever since the close of that mon- strolls General Court-martial upon Captain ROBERT- SON—the suspense as to what might possibly have been the sentence of that Court-martial, and the decision arrived at by her MAJESTY in regard to that sentence, upon its being submitted to her MAJESTY by the Judge Advocate-General. That sentence has now at last come distinctly to view : he finding being—that on the Ist and 3d charges Captain ROBERTSON has been acquitted, while upon the 2d charge he has been convicted. The sentence by .., ,he court is, in point of fact, that he be cashiered in consequence. But by a noble interposition on the part of her MAJESTY—of course with a perfect cog nisance, and possibly at the direct instance of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, her MA JESTY'S cousin, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE—Captain ROBERTSON is not be cashiered. Her Majesty ,he QUEEN, we learn from a fourth edition of the Dublin Freeman, " refuses," distinctly "refuses, on the statement of the Judge-Advocate-General, to confirm this sentence." And not only this, but her MAJESTY orders that Captain ROBERTSON " shall return to his duty." So—by the generous inter position of the Crown—ends, in this highly satisfac tory manner, that most discreditable and, in some respects, even most disgraceful transaction. The court-martial upon Captain ROBERTSON will long be remembered, in more than merely military circles, as a trial in many more ways than in regard to the length of time it occupied, a trial of a really monstrous character. The case throughout has been a matter of notoriety. If every a " dead set" was made against any officer in one of her MAJESTY'S Regiments, it was assuredly made against Captain ROBERTSON by his brother officers in that regiment. It may be idle, it may be even extravagant to talk of his brother officers, in the same mess, as having entered into a conspiracy against him. Conspiracy may be too strong a phrase for direct application there. That is possible. But conspiracy or no conspiracy, there was quite mani festly a vigorous determination entered into on their part—what in homely phrase may be called, we will repeat, a dead set—against Captain ROBERT SON. The Regiment was to be made, it possible, too hot for him. He was to be teazed and worried and insulted into retirement, and possibly from the service. Line Rice lachrymee. Hence all those lamentable scenes which took place at Dublin and at London, in which so many now well known names were mixed up and appeared only too prominently—scenes which eventually resulted in this enormously lengthened-out Court-martial upon the now perfectly acquitted and exonorated defendant. Every effort has proved in the end ineffectual towards the driving of Capt. ROBERTSON from the army, or even from his (to him) extremely nncomforta.ble regiment. Endurance has proved one too many futykis antagonists in his single-handed encounter with them. The Justice of the Court in regard to two of the charges brought against him and the leniency of the Crown in regard to the other charge, under the peculiar and painful circumstances of the case—have together led to his complete acquittal and reinstatement. But these charges themselves ! Does anyone re member exactly what they were ? The Court Martial was so tediously spun out from day to day, from week to week, that in the maze of evidence the majority could not but lose the clue leading the more observant on through the windings and twist ings of the inquiry into the very heart of the labyrinth. Looking back through ell the haze of these recollections the case stands out before our own remembrance distinctly thus : —Colonel DICKSON in the October of 1860 in sulted Captain ROBERTSON. That was the be ginnning of all this hubbub and confusion. It was this modern " ACHILLES' wrath," in fact, that was to Captain ROBERTSON the " direful spring" of " woes unnumbered." The day after the insult had been inflicted, Captain ROBERTSON sent his friend (Cap• tain HENRY) to Colonel DiciisoN, demanding an explanation, an:: more than an explanation, a dis tinct apology. Neither explanation nor apology would Colonel DICKSON in any way consent to give. He (Colonel DICKSON) declaring, in point .of fact, that—until certain legal proceedings then pending should have been brought to a close— "he would have nothing whatever to do with Captain ROBERTSON in any way whatever !" That curious reduplication of denials proved too much at the time for Captain ROBERTSON'S friend, Captain Henry. 'f he two " whatevers" impressed Captain HENRY with the conviction that any deliberate challenge of Colonel DICKSON would lie . useless, after that, under the circumstances! Within five months from the date of these transactions, that is, in March, 1861, Captain ROBERTSON, hearing that Colonel DICKSON had been talking of him in terms that most people would have considered derogatory to their character, fired up anew. Captain HENRY being absent from town at the time, another friend, Captain OWEN, was suddenly, upon the spur of the moment, deputed to ask the aggressor for reparation. Again Colonel DicKsoN haughtily declined to have any intercourse with whatever relating to Captain ROBERTSON himself, or to the affairs of Captain ROBERTSON. There was the fact of a reiterated insult by Colonel Dime sox, and of the impossibility of any redress being obtained by Captain ROBERTSON ! Such being, as the French have it, the "situation," these miserable details, two months later—that is, in May last — came to the knowledge of the commanding officer of the regiment, the 4'h Dragoon Guards—Colonel BENTINCIC. The Colonel viewing the matter, not at all as a peacemaker, but simply and exclusively, I in his military character, expressed his opinion de cidedly to the effect that enough had not been done —" no positive challenge having been sent." There upon, heartened by this decision, Captain OWEN returned to the charge, hastening to Colonel DICK SON'S with the challenge ! Again, even an inter view to discuss the matter is refused. A written intimation, however, is then addressed to Colonel DICKSON, informing him that unless he forthwith jnames a friend on his part for the purpose of ar ranging preliminaries, he shall be at once " posted !" Not a syllable, in answer to this being received from Colonel DICKSON—the commanding officer of the regiment is informed by Captain ROBERTSON of everything preci-ely es it had oc curred. A bare statement of the facts was in the month afterwards, that is June, 1861, laid, by Colonel- BENTINCK, before the General commanding the Northern District, accompanied by a request that the whole affair should be submitted by the General to an immediate and rigid investigation. Upon a refusal of this re quest by the General—the Horse Guarda themselves were applied to for the purpose of ;ending this public scandal f. , s between '. ofileors and gentlemen ; " but there, also, the demised was in vain. What thereupon ensued has been thus clearly opituni.ied by the Post : "The regiment," it says, "then went to Ireland, "fi=re Captain ROBERTSON alleges thi.t he under a Course of the hardest to ranny at the (';;ads of hi, colonel, until at length goaded by (;;ding a Juniorbaoffiteerear removed placed oved in fr command ornun der Lim, e)ve r hi m , and his su on the plea that hi s society was injurious, he for warded through his colonel, to the Commander of d for an inquiry. On the Forces in Ireland, a deman the 30th of Sep tember, laat' he was sent for to ' Dublin, and there, in the presen ce of Cul, BENTINCK he was informed by Col. BitowNhiGG, th e Assistant THE SUN LONDON, SATURD kY EVENING, APRIL 2G, .1862. Adjutant-General in Ireland, that he must either leave the tervice or be tried by court-martial. He asked for a delay of four and twenty hours, to con sult hig friends, but it was refused, and he was told that a quarter of an hour was sufficient. He con senteeL, and wrote an application for leave to retire from. the service ; but a night's reflection brought repentance with it, and he applied to the Horse Guards direct to have his application cancelled, on the ground that it was written under intimidation !', It was, thereupon, decided by Sir GEORGE BROWN, the Commander_in-Chief of the Forces in Ire land, that Captain ROBERTSON, of the 4th Dragoon Guards must be brought without further delay before a court-martial. And before a court-martirl the unfortunate officer was brought accordingly. With what result we all know. Acquittal upon two of the charges, and conviction upon the other— the whole te e e berg inconsequentially followed up by the n that he be cashiered ! That sentence, sentence n however, it now appears, her MAJESTY benignantly refuses—on the statement, remember, of the Judge Advocate-General, and with the knowledge, of course, of his Royal Highness the Commander-in- Chief—positively and authoritatively refuses to confirm. Justice having been tempered with mercy, Captain ROBERTSON is formally acquit ted, and returns to his duty now in obedience to the gracious command of the SOVEREIGN, without a slur upon the whiteness of his honour as an officer and a gentleman. Amidst the excitement of the American war, and the attention it awakens even on this side the At lantic, let us not overlook what ought to be a more interesting subject to us—we mean the behaviour of those of our own people who suffer under it. The blockade, which is, we trust, to transfer the cotton supply of Lancashire from slaveholding America, to Free India, must, in the process, cause wide spread suffering through our cotton manufacturing districts. Every day brings us fresh accounts of thousands out of employ, and still greater numbers working but half time—of operatives enduring privations which compel them to resort to parish relief—sorely, indeed, against their will, and of masters working their mills from charity, rather thin faith and hope, because they could not bear to have their old workmen to depend on legal relief. Let our American friends look across the water, and do justice to all this. What keeps so quiet and patient such a mass of suffering men, and of suffer ing masters too? Why do they not, as a body, de mand of the Legislature to give them cotton or bread—the former rather, for they are too proud to ask for the latter ? French workmen do appeal to their Government, and, with the leave of our American friends, were they in a like case Americans would break the blockade. Had they an unquestioned naval superiority, and did the in ferior fleets of any power cut of the bread of their workmen,—we think Mr. ADAMS would not be answerable that his countrymen would ❑ot compel their President to break the blockade. What then keeps our industrious fellows quiet under enforced idleness, and want ? Nothing whatever but respect for law. Americans in the same position would Lynch their Government if it did not open the ports. They would exclaim our country right or wrong. They would deny that any people, and Britishers especially, had any right to starve Americans. Mr. SEWARD would prove to the whole world—of Ame ricans—that the case was a wholly exceptional one; that the law of nations would not require any nation to respect blockades to its own starvation ; that reason and common sense were anterior to, and the foundation of, international law; and that the authority to which all New Englanders defer ex cepted from moral censure the thief who stole to relieve his hunger. Indeed, we could more emily write an argument for an English SEWARD, under our circumstances, than for our PALMERSTONS and RUSSELLS, who insist on not interfering, and ask the unemployed opera tives to suffer in patience. Probably never has a case occurred in which England had so strong grounds for disputing the technical interpretation of what she has unfortu nately hitherto regarded as binding international la ar. She has always asserted in the strictest form the legitimacy of a real blockade, but she never be fore suffered as she now does from a blockade aris ing out of the quarrels of another power, she hav ing the fullest power to break it. She has, in former cases, been the blockading power herself; or the blockade has merely affected some minor branch of industry, or perhaps driven us to supply ourselves from sources a little less convenient, We have now, on the contrary, to be almost pharasai cally legal—we " pay tithe of the mint anise and cummin" of international law, and overlook the " weightier matters of judgment and mercy." We respect the rule that a real blockade ought to be binding, but we overlook the law of self-preserva tion and of mercy to our own millions. We are not, however, pleading for an alteration of our course. While v‘e could make out the strongest commonsense case for doing so, we would never compromise our national honour. We would not afford the pretext for its being said that we maintained one set of international laws for other nations, arid another for ourselves. Let our honour be above suspicion. When the understood law of blockade is done away, let it be by the universal con- sent of nations ; and, as we should be among the last probably to consent, let us not be among the first to enable other nations, by our acts, to require it of us. Still. to return to the point from which we started, it must never be lost sight of that all this time the conduct of Lancashire men, and masters, too, is deserving of all praise; it tells France and the Continent that we are not, in the un worthy sense, " a nation of shopkeepers" —that if, indeed, we are such a nation, then our shopkeepers are as fit to rule the world as was the Roman Senate; and in respecting the rights of others a little more so. It tells America that we are not cotton slaves. That neither the South could purchase our recognition by withholding cot ton. nor the North reproach us with intervention in regard to her blockade, to procure it. We have seen some indications lately of Americans begin ning to comprehend our resolute self-denial, we only hope they will have the magnanimity to confess that their suspicions have been altogether un worthy. When our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the na tion's steward, steps forth to remind the country of the desirableness of economy, he ought to have both our encouragement and our serious attention. The leader of the Tories may taunt and sneer and re proach him with being, as one of the Cabinet, a party to the expenditure for which he has to pro vide, but the country regards all that, and justly, as the m(re tempf.r of a disappointed man who consoles himself by trying a second time to sting a superior, and, politically, more upright man, to death. The country and the House of Commons will be foolish indeed, if they tolerate against Mr. GLADsTONE the spite which annoyed to the utter most Mr. GLADSTONE's great predecessor. And we must confess we often wondered that honour able gentlemen on the Tory benches, whatever their envy of Mr. GLADSTONE, should publicly condescend to cheer invectives, the motives of which were so offensively transparent, and which were uttered in the most palpable disregard of the public service Mr. GLADSTONE, unlike his skilful censor, cannot act a part. Ho believes in his principles, an d like every sincere man, his faith may sometimes go to the verge of enthusiasm. But Mr. GLADSTONE'S is a faith which saves and gives life to our com merce, by getting rid of the burdens which would sink it, and which labours to save our revenue too, by the double process of reducing our ex penditure, and by repealing taxes which burdened us more than they advantaged the national revenue. Is such a man to be left unsupported, to the subtle carpings of a man who, having twice filled the same office, has not left on record one solitary act for which the nation thanks him, or which history will even mention. Shall a mere routinist or blunderer in finance be encouraged in harassing a Financial genius ? Mr. GLADSTONE, we have said, is no actor. He knows, as we ail know, that, by a useful constitutional fiction, he and the rest of the Cabi net must be supposed to be of one mind—and they are so, thus far, that if he were not allowed to express the sentiments and views he does, he would doubtless quit them. If the Cabinet re garded seventy millions a-year of taxation as a palladium of our national security and prosperity, Mr. GLADSTONE, we may be sure, would honour ably resign —he would take his place below the gangway ; for, to rejoin the benches where Free-trade masks cover Protectionist features, he is far toe honest to do. But what if the Cabinet, or the more influential majority in it, believes with Mr. GLADSTONE that the country demands the present high expenditure too generally to be easily resisted—while they would willingly curtail it—where, then, is the inconsistency of the Nation's Steward openly indicating his conviction that the expenditure is an unhealthy one ? What if the Cabinet thinks its most suitable mem• ber should be a missionary to a too apathetic, or even extravagant public on this point? What is wormwood and gall to Mr. DISRAELI is that Mr. GLADSTONE and the GovernMent will not give him and bis unscrupulous followers an opportunity of raising an endless clamour against the Government for starving the public service, by proposing reduc tions before the country clearly saw their expe diency. How utterly reckless the whole faction is, the Revised Code has shown plainly enough. Even when the Government, as honest men, only pro posed such a reduction as could not be made ex cept by refusing payment to those who had earned nothing —we all know how gladly they seized on the selfish clamour of the interested, as a means to extort money for doing nothing from the na tional exchequer. Mr. GLADSTONE and the Go vernment are, we think, quite right in not attempt. ing retrenchment in the teeth of the Galway Packet jobbers and the mutilators of the Revised Code. They will, more wisely, teach the country first; and then, when those who have to pay demand safe retrenchments, Mr. DISRAELI and his suffragans must bite their lips and acquiesce. It:may grieve them not to assail retrenchment, as it now grieves them to be doomed to silence on Italy, but silent they will have to be. To us Mr. GLADSTONE'S observations at Man chester on the state of the national finances, seem pre-eminently manly as well as just. He himself, indeed, said that he regarded it as his first duty to practice no concealment, but in Parliament, or out of it, to bring the real state of things before the people. Happily while there is an obvious call for financial economy, there is no ground for the slightest alarm. The revenue and the expendi• ture just balance, and the expenditure . is diminishing. Mr. DISRAELI clamours for a large balance in hand, but he sneaks out of any suggestion for creating it. - Why ? Because had ho proposed reductions the Government would have gladly accepted them, and the Tories could not have repeated the treachery to the public interests they practised in regard to the Revised Code. Had he, on the other hand, proposed new taxes, even the present DERBY elected Parlia ment—the Parliament recruited by Galway and Dover and Cunard contracts, and similar means' would have been afraid to sanction them—while he himself shrunk from the odium of going to the country, a second time, on a doubled house-tax or something like it. Mr. GLADSTONE takes the more consistent course. He lays down that seventy millions a year is an abnormal expenditure. He denies, therefore, that we ought in such years of excessive expenditure to force the nation to provide a large balance. We have a peace expenditure just now, like the highest spring-tide aided by a strong east wind up our river; and it would be as foolish to exhaust the nation by taxes more than sufficient to meet it as to waste our labour in the other case by constructing embankments ten feet higher than the flood. The proofs of this fact do not require detail. When in 1853 we had an expenditure of 551 millions and a revenue of 59 millions, there can be nothing now to require the present extravagant difference. When, with a sixteen-penny income-tax, during the Rus sian war, we never raised so much as we now do, it is undeniable that we ought to bring our taxation below what that of a costly war demanded. It is broad facts like these which will now put to the rout all the interested' sophistries of Toryism, and all the splenetic ingenuities of mortified party ambition. One reply, to his adversaries of our gifted and honest Chancellor of the Exchequer we ought to gae in his own words—" Now, there are those who tell you that this state of our finance, which I hold forth to you as unhealthy, is owing to the delin quencies of the Government, and almost entirely, perhaps, to the delinquencies of a particular indi vidual. There are those who would say, 'lf you had imposed some more taxes, or if you had reduced fewer, we should have been able to show a better state of the account.' Gentlemen, with all the con viction of my mind, and in the broadest sense, I deny that statement. The taxes we have reduced have been taxes in which the receipts of the Exche quer bore no proportion to the burden imposed upon the people. Even if, at the moment, they are not fully replaced, it is our business not to confine our view to the moment. After the lapse of one or two years, we know that the result of such measures wisely chosen has ever been to make the Exchequer richer ; and also that, in the meantime, their effect is, under a great weight of taxation, to induce, dis pose, and enable the people to bear its pressure." These words are the key to the whole financial policy of a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has faith in free trade. Will the country willingly again exchange him for one who swallowed it only in compulsion, with many wry faces, and who has never thoroughly digested it to this day. Her the Queen will hold a Privy Council this day il ( i St Y u s r t il ay ) at Osborne, Isle of Wight. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is expected in town in a few days from Germany. His Excellency Mr. Adams, the United States Minister, has taken, for a term of years, the house lately occupied by Mr. Russell Sturgis, in Upper Portland-place, whither the office of the legation has been transferred. The Duke of Somerset has returned to his resi dence in the Admiralty from Osborne. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected to arrive at Northumberland Rouse on Monday next, from Alnwick Castle. LATEST NEWS. RAGUSA, APRIL 25. A battle has taken place between the Turks and the insurgents at Bjelopog.ie, in Albania. Hassem Pasha, the Turkish Commander, lost four cannon and 500 men. TURIN, AritiL 25. The National Bank has determined to take Italian Five per Cent. Rentes upon deposit, at the rate of 70. ROME, APRIL 22. The French and Italian troops have come to an arrangement for the suppression of reactionary movements on the Papal frontier. In conformity with this agreement, French troops have entered the Neapolitan territory, advanced as far as Castellaccio, and, in concert with the Italian troops, pursued Chiavone's band. Chiavone, how ever, took refuge in the mountains, and the French troops then returned to the Roman States. Near Veroli they seized a cart laden with arms, ammu nition, and military uniforms, sent to the brigands by Francis 11. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 25. The Journal de St. Petersburg of to-day pub- lishes an Imperial ukase, reorganising the Muni cipal Council of Moscow, the members of which are henceforth to be elected by the city corporations, after the plan adopted in St. Petersburg. Th. Ar.rihern. n" ,„f to-day 'denial to the report that the produce of the tax on brandy will continue to be farmed after the Ist of January, 1863. CHINA. SHANGHAI, Muter' 15. It is rumoured that the rebels intend to attack Foochow. The Taepings have been defeated by the Allied Forces at Minghong, with a loss of 1,000 killed. Foreigners have been warned to keep within bounds. Three French missionaries have been murdered by the Taepings. The foreigners in Newchang are reported to be in imminent danger. Hankow is quiet. The ice at Tien-tsin is breaking up. At Kreikiang the Imperialists had been threaten ing in their conduct towards foreigners. Nothing new from Japan. THE CALCUTTA 'AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:— " MARSEILLES, SATURDAY MORNING. "The Vectis, with the above mails, reached Mar seilles at 9 a.m. " The mails leave for London at 10 a.m." FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 25. The Pays of this evening gives with reserve the report that the leave of absence of M. de Lavalette has been prolonged. The Patrie affirms that the bill placing at the dis posal of the Emperor the amount intended to re ward the army and navy will be immediately laid before the Chamber. The Patrie also publishes intelligence from Vera Cruz of March 26, stating that, in spite of the protests that have bees; made, President Juarez was collecting the forced loan by violence. Terror pre vailed in Mexico. It is affirmed that if their last ultimatum does not obtain a favourable reception the allies will march upon Mexico. The Paris papers publish a telegram_from Rome, according to which Mr. Odo Russell has had a long interview with Francis 11. BOURSE, April 25, Two o'Cloek.—The market has been heavy and the rather limited amount of business doing shows a decline on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes for the Account, are now at 70f. 40c. The Railway Share Market quiet, but prices, in general, have been pretty well maintained. Three o'Clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per per Cents 9B 55 Do. end month 98 70 3 per Cents Do. end month..., 70 35 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 69 45 Credit Mobilier..„ 827 05 Do. end month B3O DAIL' Bank Shares 3115 Credit F oncier 1505 Belgian 41 — Piedmontesc Fives 69 50 Italian Loan 69 Austrian Spanish Threes, 52 Home Debt 'AYB, Orleans Cash. Account. 1287 50 .. 1285 Northern New ditto - • , . Lyons and Meditcn - anean 1140 .. 1138 75 Geneva.. 3BO .. 372 50 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian 523 - Lombard 585 50 .. 582 50 ITALY. A communication from Turin of the 22d says : I" When the King took his departure on his jour ney to the south, at half-past 8 this morning, a vast crowd lined the streets along which the cortege was to pass, and acclamations burst forth on all sides, On the open space before the station of the Genoa Railway, several thousand persons were assembled to bid adieu to Victor Emmanuel. The King is accompanied by the President of the Council and the Minister of Marine, who will stay with him at the Palace de San Rossore, resuming their journey on the 25th. The Minis ter of Justice and the private persons who have been invited will proceed by a steam transport which leaves Genoa this evening direct for Naples. M. Benedetti leaves on Saturday in a steamer belonging to the Valery Company, hired expressly by him. The English Minister will leave on Thursday. A vessel had been placed at the disposal of the diplomatic body, but each member has preferred proceeding to Naples alone, and on that day which best suited him. The news which for the last two days has been in the mouth of every one, is that of the presence of the French fleet at Naples during the King's stay, and the honours which will be rendered to him on his arri /al. This is recognised on the part of the con queror of Magenta and Solferiuo as an additional as surance of his solicitude for the King and for Italy, and a proof of friendship and consideration frankly shown in the face of Europe. In truth, neither the Italian Government nor the nation will in this cir cumstance fail to perceive the importance of the act, and the gratitude which it merits. The funds, under the influence of this auspicious news, rose 24 sous in two days, and full and entire confidence has reappeared, as in the brightest days of the triumph of the ' , ational movement. Count Brassier de Saint Simon returns to Berlin on leave of absence. The report is accredited in political circles, and espe cially among the diplomatic body, that M. Brassier de Saint Simon will return to Turin no longer as Minister to the King of Sardinia, but as Minister to the King of Italy." RUSSIA. Tr.e Russian journals publish the sentence that has been passed, and confirmed, against Prince Fierre Dolgouroukov. He was prosecuted for having refused to obey a formal and Imperial order to return to Russia, communicated to him through the RU3- sian Consul in London. For this act of disobedience the Prince is declared deprived of all civil rights, and banished for life from all the territories of the Russian Empire. In reply to letters which have appeared in the Times warning governesses against emigrating to Australia, Miss Rye publishes entirely four letters received from ladies who have found good employment and comfoiaable homes as governesses, at the antipodes. 311?.. COBDEN, LIT.P., AND THE LIVER POOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. At the annual meeting on Thursday evening Mr. J. R. Jeffery read the following letter, which had been received from Mr. Cobden, M.P. : " TO ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, ESQ. " Midhurst, April. 21. "My dear Sir,—l am sorry that lam unable to accept your invitation to be present at the approach ing meeting of your Financial Reform Association, but I write to assure you of my unabated interest in its objects. Those objects I understand to be to advocate the substitution, as far as possible and as fast as practicable, of direct for indirect taxation, and to promote economy in the Government expen ture. " I congratulate you on the progress that has been made in diminishing the number of Customs and Excise duties. To the labours of your body since the dissolution of the League we have been mainly indebted for keeping alive public attention to the importance of removing those Customs duties which were not levied for purposes of pro tection ; and the favourable contrast which the pre sent state of our tariff presents when compared with that of 1847, is a fair measure of the trial of your principles. " I am sorry that I can offer you no congratula tions on the progress of economy in the Govern ment expenditure. On the contrary, the very pro sperity which has been produced by the removal of the fetters from our commerce has been made sub servient to an unparalleled Government extrava gance ; and thus, in a certain sense, the Freetraders may be held responsible for this waste of national wealth. " We have now been overtaken by one of those reverses in our national fortunes when atten tion will be attracted to the Government ex penditure. .1 nave pahbca tnrougn such a perloa before, and experience has taught me that if our efforts be merely directed to an arithmetical reduc tion of the estimates, though we may succeed under the pressure of adversity, they will grow up again when that motive for retrenchment is removed. "To produce any lasting results we must go deeper, and reform the policy which furnishes the pleas for this constantly increasing expenditure. For instance, we must bring our colonial relations into harmony with a free trade policy. We have, as a people, effected one of the greatest revolutions in the world's history in the abandonment of all those advantages which for centuries we were sup posed to enjoy in the monopoly of the commerce of the colonies, and yet our Government is clinging to the maxims which regulated its relations with the colonies in 1762. Again, we must en'orce on our Government the attempt, at least, to place us on such a footing with our nearest neighbour as to be relieved from a costly rivalry of armaments in time of peace. And last, though not least, we must in sist on a revision of international law, with a view of rendering it simple and intelligible, so that we shall not be brought to the verge of war, and sub jected to the actual loss of millions, because a sea captain in some remote latitude falls into the very natural error of misinterpreting Phillimore or Wheaton. "These questions will now command a hearing for which they would have probably pleaded in vain a year or two ago. If it be true that no important reforms are made in this country but through the process of great national calamities, your associa tion at least is entitled to our gratitude for having stood sentinel and raised the warning cry during a long period of what I fear must be called a too con fident and careless prosperity. This will not, I trust, be forgotten in the measure of confidence which the public will in future award to you.—l remain, very truly yours, "It. COBDEN.° THE LATE COURT MARTIAL ON CAP- TAJN ROBERTSON. THE SENTENCE. (From the Dublin Freeman.) We are in a position to state positively that the sentence of the General Court-Martial on Captain Robertson has been received. The finding is as fol lows :—On the Ist and 33 charges Captain Robert son is acquitted, and convicted on the 2d charge. Tile sentence by the court is that he be cashiered; but we are also in a position to say that her Ma jesty the Queen refuses, on the statement of the Judge Advocate-General, to confirm their sentence, and orders that Captain Robertson shall return to his duty. CON'SULATR-GB.ZVERAL OF LIAERIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to announce to you the arrival in London of Mr. President Benson and Mr. ex-President Roberts from Liberia, both of whom, I hope, will take part in the cere monial of the opening of the International Exhibition, on the Ist of May next. _ Most respectfully, your obedient servant, GERARD RALSTON. London, April 25, 1862. The departure of the Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia to London, to attend the opening cere mony of the International Exhibition, is thus announced to the country in an official paragraph in the ,stern Zeitung :—" In consequence of the expressed desire of her Majesty Queen Victoria, his Majesty the King, we learn, has been pleased to depute his Royal Highness the Crown Prince to attend the opening of the Internaticnal Exhibi tion in London. This resolve, we are certain, will be greeted with feelings of high satisfaction in England, as well as in Prussia and Germany at large. The more ma nifest the difficulties obstructing the progress of the Inter national Exhibition, in consequence of the death of its illustrious originator, the more desirable it appeared to the British commissioners to procure the presence, at the open ing solemnity, of a Royal guest who is so closely related to the English dynasty. At the same time German aTt and industry could not receive a more brilliant and effective re presentative than will be given in the presence of his Royal Highness." The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch will. return to Belgrave-square on Tuesday next from Dalkeith House, Edinburgh, for the season. The Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Gilmore passed through town last evening, on their way to Badminton, from Newmarket. The Duchess of Sutherland has issued cards for an assembly on the Ist of May, at Stafford House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegall and Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley come to town to-day from Brighton for the season. The Earl of Shrewsbury will arrive in town to day from Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. Her ladyship is expected in town on Monday. 'nib Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly ncux left Grosvenor-place yesterday for Paris. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Com bermere have arrived in Belgrave-square for the season. Lord and Lady Chelmsford are expected at their residence in Eaton-square on Monday for Paris. The Marquis de Lavalette and the Marquis de Plaines have left Fenton's Hotel for Paris. DEATH OF THE EARL OF PEMBROKE.—A tele gram was received last night from Paris announcing the death of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, who ex pired at his residence in that capital at noon yesterday, after a short and severe illness. DEATH OF A DAUGHTER OF M. KOSSUTII.—A let ter from Turin of the 22d says :—Kossuth has just lost hi 3 second daughter, Guglielmina, 18 years old. He took her to Neroi, near Genoa, on the borders of the Mediter ranean, hoping that the mildness of the climate would arrest the progress of the chest malady to which she has succumbed. The genial climate aid the tender care of which she was the object could only delay her death by a few months. We understand that Sir John Lefevre is about to retire from the office of Civil Semite Commissioner, and that the Hon. Edward Twistleton and the Right Hon. Sir Eimund W. Head, K.C.8., have been appointed Commis sioners. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH—CHAIR OF CIVIL LAW.—We understand that Professor Campbell Swinton has resigned the office of Professor of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh, which he has held for twenty years. ale nomination of a successor lies with the Faculty of Advocates and the University curators. — Scotsman. We understand that Dr. George Bell has been appointed Deputy - Commissioner of Lunacy, in room of the late Dr. Cockburn. Dr. Bell retains his office in connection with the Registration of births, marriages, and deaths.— Scotsman. EMIGRATION To AUSTRALIA.—The White Star clipper ship Great Australia sailed from Liverpool yester illy for Melbourne. Besides a fair amount of valuable cargo, this fine vessel took out 550 passengers. This is the greatest number of passengers which has sailed in one ship since the sailing a the White Star in June, 1857. THE EMILIE ST. PIERRE TESTIMONIAL TO THE CAPTAIN.—A subscription has been originated en 'Change for a testimonial to Capt. Wilson, of the Etoilie St. Pierre. The subscribers state that it is to mark their admiratien for Capt. Wilson's gallant conduct and British pluck, evinced in re-capturing his vessel from a greatly superior force, and these sums are given without the slightest reference to Northern or Southern feeling. We understand the amount already subscribed exceeds £lOO. Yesterday morning the crew of the Emilie St. Pierre arrived here from New York in the steamship Etna. The mate is detained by the British consul to answer any inquiries as to the ship. On nearing the great landing-stage about 6 o'clock, the returned crew were informed of their ve.3sel being in the river, but they doubted it until assured of the fact by reading it in the newspapers. On learning the gratifying intelligence their joy knew no bounds. They broke forth into loud huzzas, which were repeated again and again with increasing enthu siasm, They also sang one or two of our national songs, including "Rule Britannia," dwelling with uproarious effect on the passage, " Britons never shall be slaves. " Liverpool Mercury. THE RECENT BATTLE AT CORINTIT.—The fol lowing is a postscript to a letter received in this city from a gentleman of position at New York :—" The victory at Corinth is gradually dwindling down, and becoming small by degrees and beautifully less.' The number killed, instead of thousands, is now hundreds, and possibly will be tens ; and the victory, in the course of a short time, will prove to be a defeat of the Federal forces. Stocks are falling in New York, and as this, I think, is a better index than anything else, it means, I think, bad news." SHOCKING MURDER. KILLARNEY, Friday Morning.—This morning, at 5 a.m,, a shocking murder was committed by Philip Michael Foley, of Killorglin, who shot his first cousin, Philip James Foley, of Killarney, whilst the latter was looking after his fishing weir, situated near Caragh. It appears deceased was joined with his cousin in a fishery, and, owing to some dispute arising in their dealings, the murder was committed. He died a few minutes after receiving the wound, the gunshot penetrating the heart. As soon as a report of the deed was circulated, the accused fled, and the police are busily engaged in endea vouring to bring him into the hands of justice. THE CONDEMNED PRISONER AT DUMFRIES.—• The execution of the woman named Mary Ann Reid, or Tetuuticy, at the conclusion of ...vac,. aC Dumfries a heartrending scene occurred, is fixed for Tues day, the 29th inst. Great exertions have been made to ob tain a commutation of the sentence. Two petitions have been sent from Dumfries.on the subject to the Queen—one signed by 2,107 persons male and female, the other by 3,187 women. The petitioners endeavour to show that the offence was not of such a coldblooded kind as was at first supposed. In a declaration made by the prisoner she says that she and her husband lived happily together till the deceased came to live near them ; that the influence this woman had ac quired over her husband caused many disputes, and that it was in the course of an affray between her and the deceased that she took up a mallet, and in a phrenzy of passion dealt her antagonist such blows as to cause her death. The peti tioners think that the statements may be true, and that there was not conclusive evidence brought forward at the trial of malice aforethought. A deputation of the ladies of Dumfries a few nights ago had an audience of Sir George Grey, at his residence, Falloden-house, near Alnwick. He stated that he took a deep interest in the case, but that he could not give them an explicit reply until he had received answers to his inquiries from various quarters. It is under stood that he is in communication with the Lord Advocate of Scotland and the Lord Justice Clerk, and that he will be greatly guided, though be is not necessarily bound, by their opinion. The last execution in Dumfries took place 36 years ago. DISTRESSING DISAPPEARANCE,—A distressing event has taken place near HoWden during this week, and has caused a painful sensation in the neighbourhood. A young lady residing at Hook, near Goole, who had only been married little more than a fortnight, left home on Tuesday morning to spend the day with her mother, who lives at a village across the river, near Howden. In the evening, a tradesman from Goole being at her mother's house with a light cart, kindly offered her a ride, which she accepted, her mother accompanying her as far as Howden. After passing through the town, and when within a short distance of Howden- dyke Ferry, which they had to cross to get over to Hook, she said she had seine business at Skelton, a village a mile further down the river, and accordingly got out of the cart and went in that direction. With the excep tion of being met on the Howden 'road by acme parties who knew her, but whom she passed in silence, nothing more has since been seen of the unfortunate lady. Early on Wednesday morning, however, a package carefully tied up in a shawl, containing her fur, bonnet, mantle, and um brella, with a parcel of linen she had brought from her mother's was found in a garden at the front of a house at Skelton, near the river, Some linen in the parcel marked with her name led the persons finding the package to send to her friends to make inquiries as to her safety. It was found she had not returned home on Tuesday night, and there is reason to suppose she has put an end to her exist- ence by throwing herself into the river, especially as foot steps down to the water's brink are traceable near the place where the bundle was found. The river has been dragged at intervals, but up to Thursday night the body had not been discovered. No cause can be assigned for the commit tal of so melancholy an act. The friends of the missing lady, who are all highly respectable people, are in great grief, and deep sympathy is expressed for them on every hand.—Leeds Mercies y. FATAL SHlPWRECK.—Particulars have been re ceived relative to the total loss of the American ship Thirty nine States, which was wrecked a few miles to the south ward of Cape Syellero, near Vigo. The ill-fated ship was on a voyage from Cardiff to Genoa. On the 28th ult. she encountered a severe gale from the westward, which kept increasing, and carried away most of the sails. Towards midnight it was discovered that she was making much lee way and drifting on shore fast. It was evident that the ship would strike. There being no room to wear her, Cap tain Carleton ordered the forward (long) boat to be lowered, and it was got under the st rn all safe. The commander then directed the hands to get into the boat, but they hesi tated, fearing she would get stove against the ship's side by the heavy sea. The captain, by way of showing an example, then jumped into the boat with a rope, and was much hurt. This rope was then secured to the stern, and several of the men came down by it, but a heavy sea knock ing the boat a little to leeward frightened the remainder of the crew on board, and they refused to let themselves down. The steward, who had been endeavouring to obtain some food, then took to the boat. The captain hailed the re mainder to leave, as the ship was then in the breakers, and there was not a moment to be lost. They could not be in duced to come off, and at length the boat was let go, and in the course of five minutes the ship struck. She soon went to pieces, when all on board, 12 in number, perished. After nearly 12 hours' hard rowing those in the boat safely landed on one of the Bayona islands. The ship was largely insured. THE MANASSAS OR TURTLE.—The Manassas or Turtle is about 100 ft. long and 20 ft. beam, and draws froth 9to 12 ft. of water. Her shape above water is nearly that of half a sharplT pointed eggshell, so that a shot will glance from her no matter where it strikes. Her back is formed of 12-inch oak, covered with 1L -inch bar iron. She has two chimneys, so arranged as to slide down in time of action. The pilothouse is in the stern of the boat. She is worked by a powerful propeller, but cannot stem a strong current. She carries only one gun, a 68-pounder, right in her boy. She is now at Island No. 10. There is only one entrance to her, through a trapdoor in back. Her porthole is furnished with a heavily-plated trap, which springs up when the gun is run out, and falls down when it is run back. Be; neath the water at her bows her ram is fastened, constructe d of a long iron point, with which she will seek to sink any object which may interfere to obstruct her passage. She is extremely slow in her movements—if anything, inferior to our gunboats in speed. Three tugs were required to tea her from New Orleans to Columbus. Were her sides abso lutely invulnerable, and her speed great, she could defy the whole power of our fleet. Fortunately, it is thought that well-directed shot str king amidships at the water fine must certainly pass into her, and that her slow motion would enable some of our mast active gunboats to sail around ber and choose positions from which she might be attacked in her most vulnerable point , or p ossibl y two of them m i g ht grapple her and crowd her ashore. But for the fact that she draws 12 feet of water she would have paid her respects to Cairo several weeks ago- It is said, with how much truth we know not, that the Manassas has not recovered from the damage her machinery received in the attem pt to sink the Richmond, below New Orleans.—.Ztkw York, Tribune. t SUNDAY BATTLES.—The late terrible struggle t i " Pittsburg adds another to the long list of Sunday battles' The facts are so clear in this and numerous other conflicts', and the re su lt s h ave b een so un if orm an d d ec i s ive, th at comment is not only warranted but demanded, alike hi t philosophy, patriotism, and piety. The general statetcen, cannot be gainsaid, that the more important movements c' the National forces, in the early stages of the present war' were made on Sunday, and that they were uncle-iiab l° failures. Patterson's column was constantly notorious te r its manoeuvring on Sunday, and for little else. Big Bethel , Bull Run, and Ball's Bluff were the great blunders and de feats of attacking armies on Sunday. All these engage ments, excepting Ball's Bluff, under the now imprisone d Gen. 'acme, preceded Gen, Mq_ lellan's noble Sabbath order' Thenceforward the reb&s have made the Sunday assaultSf with invariable loss of the battles thus waged, Mill Spri' 3 ! opened their of Sunday fighting, w hich closes with Fitte' burg. The battle of Winchester was begun on Sundsr rning. The first of these battles cost the rebels tucky ; the second, the valley of Virginia; and the third' the Mississippi Valley. The Merrimac, t )o, after its de' struotive Saturday's raid, ran amuck against the Monitor on Sunday, and has spent a month in repairing uttinAg€ 6 * -' New York Times. How VAST IS CRINOLINE.—The o e productio crinoline is going at a flou rishin g rate in Sheffield. firm alone sends out no less than 20 tons weekly of the d licato material, whilst the total we ekly "make" a tft: cutlery capital amounts to no less than 1.50 tons. 111 , rate of manufactur e has been mai ntained throug hout ttw o whole of the past winter, and promises to increase as th , p , summer a dvances. Already enough crinoline has bet a manufactured at Sheffield to encircle the globe again an again. of de 18 dit 111( Sc: exc tiar bou 114 of 1 Cat and do', Cot Init per and Tel, don and 3 'pe 3 pe Ne' Anr indi Cons Excl Braz Di Itali Di Illex Imp( k3par Di Span Ina Di Di Veno Dutc Itdi; Cons Arm R a i Antl Brus flan Pari for ceiv terd in. I trio: Mot esti cote into estc :111u face to ad Sco, or 4 tha lon Fr, la/ un be