The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

State embankment—to the sea ?—So stop all Pensions, and Pay, above £3645-yr ; no Queen's nor Ministers' money. JAPANESE MISSION CO., a s aATHAirt3 Baton Rouge RITER- '—FLAVD- MIXT ILE-MEN, By Articles 3.—.18, and 21, under ' texts Hollandaise' for 14 yesrs' revision, signed on 26th August, 1858, and attested by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatief in 1859, under Fekin's gun -Tien-('sin Treaty—in Alcor's Vi and caputulation), Obedient to the heaven's Zenith sol aw l:Deter stays of Spiral-sphere fate 'Z overhead' earth-fiat, distinct from the sun's r- planetary declination. You are hereby called on to register the old La Montee Q' civic limit-wall of China, as the Jeso-horizon of London, 40e north, at England's Receipt of Exchequer, and take therefrom the Yedo copy of Standard weight for regional exemplification, under your red moon' disc mark—of the Menan-caVyian empire of the Borneo Yle's, on Q. Eliz. and J. r.'s Enn'am•e, Sicily's subter font skyset link, as between Man and God—' Fly serpentine • . • : : audits.' Expl,:in to his Free-pigtail highness the Tycoon that this TAUNTON token results from my sole oath charge on Holy Alliance of Christian-clubs, t Abolition 29th August, 1825 by 11 Geo. in. c 55—founded on 14 Geo. 111., c 83, 1774-- for universal meter-rod of the world's empyreal spirit-'-level guidance—restored in 1824, suspended one year to kill off the life and death' 1815 justice-men' for '26 Romish-pope —so cause of his white Nitre' being set to all the criminal law exchequer deeds, over which, if not removed the writer will sign for the people's equal rights, without Tartar-Ruff-C f tian B,A.C. coolie marks of 1842's bald pated Chinese slavery entail of Macartney's '92 foist. esr The suspended 1824 Act became re-incorporated in 1835—and writer its State,2-swAll trustee sworn 1837-43, for the lineal spirit-level in ter- Q •national oathing for all offices, without philosophic creed ideal—on Staff in -sight. Your MISSION was for this purpoy'ze to unite the treaty of F e b., 1664, with the Anglo-Dutch Executive to Holland as of Leicester's create 1560-85 so Cromwell and Louis xxv., 1655, affirmed by Parliament, of 16 Car. ii., re-embody'd on Phillipine-isles 6 & 6 native jury -1764-Scholastic teaching the Red indians by Act of 1832 for making N. W. America Behring's land-guarantee of Dutch-loan extends to New foundland-1820, as Crown colony Antipodean to New Zea land, Siam, and its Ceylon tropic fJword dexpendencies. You'll now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-visit (leading by Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON Treaty) of my state-associate—and afterwards to Northumberland-house to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (Stamp Act Sag6moth Chief of 1774-'93 of Ang lo ; Chinese America, west to east), uncle and predecessor of the now Siderial-crown Income-tax Freeman hereunto Ba,s ket'd as P..Nu,lwarr, one of y our race under the for Washington Texas—Extradition act, 1843—it% alien's having no French white' flag for their Cochin 's-China Annam assumption ' yen l' armee 1821 Colbert. -Restaurs, tion,' on my Mexi-micmac Brazil sponsorship. ' riv letter, save di s p rove d ac t s , Ye a Dairy-sum or high Sinto Papists, seprae f rao the out d-1585 A. ted m f a r t o s m :m th ai s y s . w r.o R-kub°ship-coroner t so, not of o'-`'p" Ylce pole elect-Ty-cone or Zenith fits—under the provincial Dar rai-6 and district Sio-mi-6. If so—You'll have to Rip' or Ratify for China—the Easterniost Allieusigners—since my water flag-limit review by the high contracting parties, W. Seward and R. B. Pemell, city niQuam‘d lynna' Am. Ind. Cornyoners by Art, 1, rule 2 wttitin the territorial waters of the other (L'aiitre neutre) party'—earib'ian A-sister to ' mother earth's legistatrice, Brantce in PI —Silence I For your satisfaction (7th April), and of ar's, the Anglo- Dutch Japanese treaty with China Oct. 1663 to Feb. 1664, signed by Tycoon, for BORT—Vander Does '&c.' whereby the White flag with a red moon was declared the Gaducleyrs emblem, as displayed over your (Embassy in London. • trno base' qui (fit Armer la Rase-rouge si grand.) ; 8 , Sous la loi civique ¢), phe avec Fierte ! oa l'on voit que jamais I ' ENGLAND' ne marchande Quand it faut par la merleur donner Liberte . • • • N. , • • 1-2 W. iv., N. CHARLES 54, Chamberlayne Die-sworn. c'• PETER BASQUET unpaid. , Income-tax chief (1842, . • China nuf wall circuit horizon of , - , London, May 19, 1862), its Montezuma-Texas-peace Red Flag. So Paris-gab• Wight ship' Selgiaa-vooant Kalfateren skiff Om-ega " Het /chip syylt wel, het is ras in svylen, —item, het is een klock-ship in fallen." >4 gds-G-awa I tßy 25 Hen. in. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act aid'onus, to avoid Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration on log default on deaths or Offences to the Person by the British-Dutch 1842 Emigration Soc:, )3vac-sign Skin-belly marks s. A. C. initials of Sandwich Isles, Australia and Californian Spanish duty sr goldfinders. (See The Sun of April 19, 28, and May 16.) itiEAT.RE-R0 Ai.. HA YMARKET, Lessee Mr. J B. Bucketone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAUB. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (127th time) oult AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dnndreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA BAN DISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. I.I()YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. ltiOth Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING,'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 which, 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. Chqtterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at !, 130 x-office open daily from 11 tills. Commence at 7 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss Maria Harris. Atter which, at a quarter to 8, THE MERRY WIVES OP WINDSOR. Messrs. Ryder, J. G. Shore, Basil Potter, Widdicomb, Meadows, J ordan, Raymond, Ilifsgie, Paulo, R. Cathcart, Sze. ; Mrs. Weston, Miss It. Leclercq, and Miss C. Leclerc i. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, Shore, &c., and Miss C. Leclercq. Commence at 7. No half-price. and MRS. CHARLES KEAN are 1- engaged at the ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE for a limited period, and Mr. A. HARRIS has great pleasure in announcing their first appearance, after an absence of three years, on SATURDAY next, 2ith inst., when LOUIS XI. will be performed. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean will appe a r every evening- during their engagement. 14ATIt E-RO YAL, ADELPHL IN sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. -THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : ; cssrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson; Miss L. Neeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthvcn, Mr. Dion Boucicault; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billing - ton, P. Bedford, Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &c. AND FINE c ' j IANTERBUitY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RU,ISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. errand Selections from " La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh raans. 13 - Ns - WORM, in hie celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other mail ," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Si nger and Dance-, at Ten cne The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley bez to inform vi s it ors to Lon donthe Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT during free between the hours of Twelveand INGS well b e Open, Two o'clock on and after Monday. rrHE OXFORD. 6, OXFORD-S'l'R— -3. Every Eveninsr,.—FlENßl and PFAU on the Flyin g Trapeze (last two weeks). --The unrivalled Ethiopian Come dians, Rumsey and Neweomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent Operatic Selec tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Maciarren) and the "Jolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the entire company, including; Miss Busse Mame. Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—F'ull Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. ball, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. }IIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TFII R DAY.—:Morning, Gh. 40m.—Afternoon, 7h. 10m. To-mor,Row.-Morning, 7h. 42m.—Afternoon, Bh. 15m. NOTICE. Ali remittances are, heTceforth, to be made to Air. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 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. .......,••••---_ , (1 1 ' X Crnil 4 . , ..,,,,.:'.:, .4_ t ~....„ • , A , ,- ~,, ,::-_,-;.-.-,•>!;,... -F '. ,&, : :: .. ,..1-17'- -- r• - ,-.-4 .- i',„-?-, - •- - i i - 'Y3I,. ~,...; 44 ..,.. v----:::11,,,.: .$.„ 4 ,c-,:f' , f",` - 5,:•4r.7-N.• . t , ;;;,..., :',': , - e. : , , .: t ~.._ --,.. ~,,,, ... ) , , ..4; ; •:_ko , •",, • , ,2, __,,, '. ; ----",•-•...4...-, , ' ... - ..,.... a - . •' l, oii• e ...A,, - • #,. f THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1862. The rejection of the British Museum Bill, last evening, by so overwhelming a majority (consider ably more than two to one) comes, as another sig nificant hint in favour of retrenchment. For it is sole l y upon the score of economy, that the measure the motion for its h as thus been thrown ou t upon second reading. "The times are out of joint, 0 cursed spite, Minister, or the (Either the Prime Chancellor of turn, ad libitum) the Exchequer may sing, in " That ever I was born to set it right." It should be observed, at once, that here again, i n regard to the British Museu m Bill, as recently, i n regard to the project for the concentration of the Law Courts—it is not the nature of the proposition itself that is in any way unpalateable. It is simply the time at which it is brought forward that ren ders it purely, pro. tem., distasteful. The last two or three financial years, es Mr. GLADSTONE has taken occasion to remind the House, have been ex ceptional years. The Financial year being actually now traversed, is again, by necessity, a year, not of any surplus whatever, even one of the most micro scopic character, but a year, the balance-sheet of which must inevitably show another deficit, though, thanks to the right honourable gentleman t ho Chancellor of the Exchequer, one likely to be but a very small one. It is felt, consequently, by very many in all parts of the House of Commons that the time is, after all, but ill chosen for the acquisition of advantages and improvements, that, however desirable in themselves, the nation can do without, and that, if carried out immediately, even in a modified form, must imperatively require a more or less open-handed expenditure. Hence, the postponement to some future session of more than one boon for which the nation has long been hun gering, or, at any rate, for which considerable sec tions of the community have long been hankering. A Palace of Justice worthy of the British Empire is what we have all longed to see erected, upon an appropriate site,in the midst o f thi s vas t and wealthy metropolis. Yet—though th e s it e itself is known selected to have been long ago s el ec t e d, and ad mirably, though the chief part of the Funds re quired in carrying out that grand scheme of re habilitation, " The concentration of the New Courts," was actually already within our possession —the occasion was so obviously inopportune, that the House of Commons consented very recently to forego the temptation, and Ministers discreetly coincided w ith the majority in r ecogn i s i ng the wis dom o f yet a little furthe r p ostponement. The ma gnificent project of A Palace of Justice is then only set aside for the time being, where there was not any chance to be so heavy and continuous a drain upon the Exchequer. Until that halcyon epoch comes to us again, we must still contrive to put up as well as we can with the dark and narrow, and some of them even almost squalid, courts of law now scattered hero and there piecemeal, as it were, all about London and West minster. The Common Law Courts down yonder between the old Hall and the older Abbey. The Criminal Courts ult . ) , n carat,. The Chancery courts in Lincoln's-inn. The Rolls Court down a back yard on the opposite side of the old Lane sacred to the Lawyers. Here Sergeants Inn—there the Courts of Bankruptcy. All this, of course, being glaringly inconvenient ; but still, as the House of Commons reluctantly, and Ministers themselves still more reluctantly, and yet both of them in the end right manfully, recognise—quite necessary to be borne with yet for some time longer, until we can safely at length grasp the improvement by being—better able to afford it. It stands precisely thus in regard to that recently suggested and long wished-for improvement —the transference of certain important and remarkable portions of the British Museum Collection from Bloomsbury down to South Kensington. A capital notion in itself—a most desirable change—one the ultimate realisation of which we have ourselves repeatedly during the last few years advocated in these columns. A scheme that was at length drawn in a distinct and practical shape out of a vague and chaotic mass of suggestions, and embodied in the form of the very excellent measure which was last night rejected upon the motion for its second reading. Defeated, too, not by a large majority, but by a majority absolutely overwhelming in its way, a majority, as we have said, of considerably more that two to one-71 voting for the second reading and 163 against, showing consequently a clear majority of 92 in a house of 234 (exclusive of the four Tellers and the Speaker) against this Govern ment Bill. In the Parliamentary reports of several among our morning contemporaries, we observe that it is mentioned that the announcement of the result of the division was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering from the side of the Opposition, from the benches of the Conservatives. While another reporter observes, far more accurately, and, upon the face of it, more obviously and reasonably within the compre hension of any dispassionate observer, that the cheers which greeted the announcement of the num bers rang from all parts of the house ! For, beyond a doubt of it, the result was the expression, not of any party triumph, but of a pretty general and equally distributed longing among all classes of politicians for a beginning, at last and at least a bare beginning of retrenchment. Nobody gainsays for an instant the perfect rea sonableness of Professor OWEN'S suggestion that the Natural History Collection, for example, should be set apart from the rest of the Collections. Mr. OSBORNE may joke to his heart's content, if he ikes—and no one in the House of Commons can joke more delightfully than he can, no matter what the the theme selected for his pleasantries— Mr. OSBORNE may jest as long and as humorously as he likes about the extravagance of building a Hall anywhere for the reception of Whales : of which he reminds the House (keeping it all tie while still upon the broad grin), that there are no less than fifteen different species. Or he may descant no less comicallyupon the idea of providing separate apartments for every variety of elephant. Yet still, when the laugh is out, there is even then a far more preposterous spectacle in its way now visible to all who care to look at it down at Bloomsbury ! A jumbled collection of collections—a stupendous olla podrida of specimens of zoology, of mineralogy, of ornithology, of all the ologies, shouldering one another out of the way, tumbling one upon another upon the staircases, stowed away in cellars and back corners. Setting what we are told is Heaven's first law altogether at defiance, and justifying the ap plication to the Trustees of the British Museum of ' the title of the Society for the Confusion of Useful Knowledge. It is a pleasant dream that doubtless we shall yet realise, when the proper occasion arrives—when there is not so heavy and powerful a drain as at present upon the funds of the National Exchequer—this postponed project _ . for the removal of certain collections from the old Museum at Bloomsbury to the new Museum a. South Kensington. All this, however, "in good time"—and, therefore, manifestly not just yet. The nation has something else to do with its money; and, in the meanwhile, it milut wait as patiently as may be for the period to arrive when the treasures in the Great National Store of Curiosities can be sorted at last, and some of them borne off in cart loads from the classic temple of antique art and literature yonder at Bloomsbury, to the safe and convenient shelter of those hideous but useful Boilers further away there down at Brompton. It is certainly not a little amusing to see the Tories voting to retrench the expenditure which they were the first to recommend. By the usual hocus-pocus of figures, the ex-Chaneellor of the Exchequer may make out a very plausible tale against Lord PALMERSTON as the chief of sinners, in regard to our present enormous expenditure; and we have no disposition whatever to deny Lord Pt ALstEßsToN's clai m t o b e a goo d T ory i n regard money-spending,o as well as in regard to politi cal li Lord DekEßrme; 3,1 r. His lordship, like rl, is a h e s h o o u s n t led d op p boy nent of political Ref orm , and a vigorous pro moter of national expenditure ; and he carries his resemblance to the Tories to a still greater degree o f exactness—for it is expendit ure , wren the sec tion of the Tories called Whigs, is in office, whi c h his lordship so diligently furthers. Not that h e is at any time an economist—that is not in his nature ; bvt being at the head of affairs always seem to give a fillip to his zeal for liberal outlay. Indeed, it may be truly said that Lord PALMER STON has no ioter title to the epithet "liberal," than that of being always in favour of liberal taxa tion and liberal expenditure. Mr. DISRAELI, however, thinks he sees that the spring-tides of taxation have reached their highest, and that we are destined to recede to neaps. He has therefore hoisted the flag of retrenchment, and to try before the next election, whether the country can not be taught to whistle the tune of "The Tories and Retrenchment." He, and his, now vote for all retrenchments. The other night they had nearly succeeded in putting an extinguisher for the present on the useless Alderney job ; and Mr. DISRAELI came forth from the lobby with a large minority to be cheered in his new line. Last night, on what was really voted upon as a question of economy, the Go vernment were beaten by a majority of more than two to one. These trivial hints, doubtless, enc )u -rage the ex-leader of the house to believe that he is on the right tack, and there can be little doubt he is so, so far as this, that the country begins to think with Mr.;GLADsToNE, that our present expenditure must be regarded as exceptional, and that the means ought to be found, while leaving our defensive strength unimpaired, to reduce our national expen diture to sixty-five millions, when Mr. GLADSTONE assures us we might spare Mr. HUBBARD any future motions by abandoning our most odious tax. But Mr. DISRAELI, with that unaccountable per versity which has often marred his own prospects and those of his party, will persist in attacking a foreign policy which the country since 1859 has felt more interest in, perhaps, than it has in domestic questions. With his eye, as the general under standing is, on the Foreign-office, he lets out but too plainly what he would do as successor to Lord RUSSELL. His Lordship has done, indeed, one or two things in the Italian --- • iur instance, on behalf of Austria, to Count CAVOUR, on "our interests in the Adriatic"—which his country disapproved. But just these slips and errors were merits in Mr. DISRAELI'S eyes, while his merits, as we all think them, are, in Mr. Dis- RAELI'S opinion, his most serious offences. Lord RUSSELL supports a united Italy, the withdrawal of the French from Rome, and the cession of the Quadrilateral for a fair equivalent to Italy, because the latter must regard Austria's possession of it as a " menace." All this Mr. DISRAELI denounces as evil policy, and fraught with evil. The cause of retrenchment he specially conceives to be bound up with England's supporting that creed so popular across St. George's Caannel, so unpopular on this side—the temporal power of the POPE! While the honourable gentleman keeps to the general but practically barren fact that our expen diture is such as to justify our demand that a care ful look-out be kept for the means of reducing it, he has public opinion with him ; but when he seeks to connect that expense with our national interest, fairly represented by the Government, in Italian unity and liberty, the public at once deserts him. They know that the connection is a fiction. We have never been near quarrelling with France on the question of Italy. We have never gone beyond perfectly friendly remonstrance; and though we cannot, either as a government or a nation, but think the Roman occupation unjust to Italy, we have not stepped beyond saying so. We fear the country can never believe the sin• cerity of Mr. DISRAELI'S party in regard to re trenchment of expenditure. With them it is a pure political cry as much so as their defence of church rates, and, like that, merely used for the moment, with the certainty on our part that they would soon, if in office, find reasons to renew the PARING TON expenditure in " reconstruction of the navy." They would do again what Sir JOHN did—put us to an almost fabulous expense to create a wooden screw navy, when France, already wiser, had resolved to build no more wooden vessels, and then tarn round and tell us that all the past expense was now antiquated, and that we must commence again on a more modern and more costly plan, which France, with her eyes open long before, had already adopted. I❑ one respect we entirely agree with Mr. Dig- RAELl—that the present state of our knowledge of iron ship-building is a " green " one ; and that we are unwise if we do anything beyond providing just a sufficiency of iron vessels for present purposes— not hurrying the work, while we are so uncertain of what each succeeding half-year may reveal. Here there is room for sound economy. We are threatened with no kind of present danger demanding wasteful hurry. It is certain that the longer we delay building the more sure we are to do our work better, probably even to spare its being done over again. Let us not, therefore, re- peat the fearful blunder of PAXINOTON and the Tories, and put the country to enormous expense, in face of the certainty that, in a year or two, the whole expense must be incurred again. • The King of PRUSSIA has met his Chambers, as was expected, by proxy. When the very chamber itself was a kind of protest against Royal doings, it was pleasanter, though not the more frank and manly course, to avoid a personal meeting with it. A more magnanimous man would have adopted a more generous as well as a more politic plan, and by a cordial personal acceptance of all that had occurred, would have gained the " bravos" of his Chamber. He must • listen to it ultimately, how wise had it been to disarm hostility, and to render the deputies unwilling to thwart him, by a little sincere frankness and manly confidence, The speech is, for the most part, as vague as it well can be. It accepts, however, the promised reductions of taxation with which the Ministers sought in vain to purchase for themselves a ma jority. It even seems to promise the details for demanding which the old chamber was dissolved, for it says :—" The more detailed specification of the income and expenditure in the budget, and the early presentation of the budget for 1863, will afford testimony that the Government is ready to meet with willingness any practicable pro position of the representatives of the coun try." This, so far it goes, is satisfactory ; it seems to indicate that the KING is still disposed rather to conciliate than to attempt, what some of the Ber liners feared, a coup d'etat against the Chamber. Indeed of that there is no likelihood. The " Right Divine," so prominent in former Royal Speeches, does not appear at all, at least explicitly, on this occasion. It is enough on this point to eV, in the sadly lengthy phraseology of Germans— " The Government of the KING, not led astray by the pressure exercised by change of parties, will earnestly and zealously endeavour to carry out, in the manner hitherto pursued, the well known principles which the King, upon assuming the regency, and upon several subsequent occasions, has pointed out to the councillors of the Crown as the line of policy in the administration of the coun try. In accordance with these principles the Government will conscientiously maintain the rights of the Crown as well as the constitutional rights of the representatives of the country." For such gracious promises, however, the deputies are called on patriotically to support the Government in supporting the dignity of Prussia. The point of interest at this moment is the firm determination of the KING to make the ELECTOR of HESSE do his duty to the little kingdom—a kingdom W hi ch would make but a small English county, halin g li ttle more than 700,000 inhabitants/ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, EVENING, MAY 20, 1862 8,000 of whom are soldiers. In 1831, under strong popular pressure, the ELECTOR gave his people a constitution substantially resembling that of Eng land, but, by the help of his soldiers, abolished it almost immediately, and recommenced his absolute course. Of course his pecple and be have been in political antagonism ever since. The late Prussian Chamber passed a decided vote in favour of Hessian liberty—that is, of the restoration of the constitu tion of 1831. The KING of PRUSSIA had the adroitness to accept this vote as the means of strengthening his position as the great leader of Northern Germany ; but Austria also, whom we are now to regard as a Liberal power, hought well to share the bid, and joined in demanding that the Elector should recal an obnoxious scheme for elec tions) recently issued, and summon a Parliament according to the law of 1831. Thus the two great German Powers agreed to squeeze the Elector to his duty. The King of PRUSSIA, however, took the strongest measures, sending one of his Generals to demand compliance with the views of the Federal Diet, and assembling troops as if ready to use them: This, however, he has not yet done. Indeed the Federal Diet has not yet formally made its requisi tion on the Elector, but the KING tells his house that a final solution shall soon be arrived at without hesitation. Altogether, the progress towards some degree of constitutional liberty in Germany is becoming esta blished. The late Prussian elections will do very much to confirm it. They will reassure all the numerous petty States of Germany of the liberal tendencies of the Prussian people itself, and show that the KING must follow their lead. Austria herself will gradually be led to convert her sham . . place in Germany ; and the smaller States will seek the co-operation of the larger ones in obtaining their freedom, much in proportion to their convic tion of the sincerity of each. It may be slow work, but if not disturbed in any way, it looks as if it would be real, and that the score and a half of petty German despots would before long become constitutional rulers, to be all followed, some day, by German unity. HER MAJESTY'S CONCERT 1?0011. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS, To the great mass of our play going and amuse ment seeking public, London without Mr. Charles Mathews would be as dull as a wet Sunday. For more than a quarter of a century he has been their great comic restorative,—the agreeable mixture they have taken nightly after the wear and tear of the day, and found themselves for the most part considerably better for it in the morning. He has been a sort of social alcoholic test to them to prove the soundness of their spirits, and the pleasantest possible form of that excellent invention, the " galvanic belt," since he can relieve the languor of the system, without the slightest recourse to acids. At this great Exhibition period there are many would think their favourite more than ever indis pensable. Our World's Show for several months will open the eyes and ears of the public, and it is but a proper balance of organic functions to have something that will also be pretty sure to open our mouths. Nor does it abate from Mr. Mathews' attraction that he hes quitted his old arena for a time—that he has left the old firm in the Haymarket and started in business for himself as a good mirthmaker, dis pensing with a company, and taking in lieu of them a partner. His young, hilarious, and agree able wife brings no little capital into the enter prize, in the unfailing vigour of her spirits and the abundance of her pleasantry. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews on this occasion have shown an excellent sense of fitness in associating with their experiment ore of our best dramatic humorists, Mr. Byron, whose distinction is to startle us as much in prose as his great namesake did in poetry, the chief of modern burlesque writers—and a perfect magician in the realm of pantomime—forms with Mr. and Mrs. Mathews a sort of comic tripod, on which the public, when it rests—if not destined to become as enlight ened as an ancient Delphic priestess—certainly is likely to exhibit a fair share of her convulsions. Not, we confess, that we are always able to roar outright at Mr. Byron. In order to vary our experience, and possibly, therefore, intensify its palpable en joyments, ho throws us occasionally into rather exhausting speculations in respect to the iden tity and integrity of certain English words—that nothing under the budelight cf a Max Muller could elucidate. Dr. Richardson and others have shown us how the English tongue is composed, and the analytic Mr. Byron shows us how it takes to pieces. He is the Frikell of philology, who turns a word into a trick, and shows you at the same moment that it is itself and something else. Mr. Byron, however, can do more than play upon one string. He has always exhibited genuine humour, and his pre- sent entertainment shows he possesses, in addition, no trifling sense of character. It has the merit, in the first place, of being admirably compact. It lies within the compass of two hours, and in a night or two will exhibit all the signs of a good fit; it will come on and go off with equal gracefulness and ease. Its story has a right simplicity. All the world was coming to London, so Mr. and Mrs. Mathews, in order to get out of the crowd, resolved to take a country ramble. Their house, too, has an unfortu nate proximity to the Exhibition, and might have been converted by country friends into an extension of the refreshment rooms. They accordingly take refuge in a little town, where they find a country manager and his wife, who have lost their company and their theatre, and have taken the Town-hall in order to erect it into a temple of Thespis, and immortalise it by the production of a " sensation drama" played by themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews are therefore induced to give us a notion of the experiment. They divide the picture into two portions—the first representing the pre parations for the drama ; the second, the play itself. The first portion becomes accordingly a tolerable vehicle for character. We have the manager and manageress, Mr. and Mrs. Prospero Blogs, converting the Town-hall into a stage, and also laying their plans for converting the towns-people into an audience. We have the cleaner of the hall—Anna Maria Gulp—a capi tal sketch by Mr. Mathews—who relates all her experiences of hall usage and employment, from benevolent and missionary down to scientific and " nigger" evenings—appreciating each of them by the simple test of the amount of dust that they kicked up or of dirt they left behind them. We have a boy and girl coming to the play—Timothy and Wilhemina Worrits—a companion pair o sketches, in which the personal was almost as strik ing as the mental transformation, Mrs. Mathews especially, looking and acting the child to the life ; and we have two of the lady patrons of the town, Miss B. Tracter and Miss Pamela Python, who are also its principal scandal-mongers, who hate everything but themselves, and each other most of all ; and are only happy when they unite in a wholesale flood of defamation. The personal trans formation in this case was quite as extraor dinary as in the others; and the duet to the tune of " Skilly-golee," in which they poured out their rap turous malignity, was one of the most comic and comic—and on l y occas i ona lly o f the effective fe a t ures o f t h e n i ght. After some o th er per sonations, some capit a l songs, an d a fl ow o f dialogue, always philo logical f orm of humour—the manager and mana geress re-enter to announce that their preparations are completed, the theatre ready, and what is more important —s o also is the audience. The manager has paid a visit, among others, to the principal dentist of the town, and, in evidence of his sym pathy, "he has taken two in front." Thus we come to the second portion—the grand sensation drama, which, of course, is a burlesque on some of our recent London novelties and the humour of which may be inferred from the mere name of its hero—a captain o f ban ditti, wh o is denominated—Stckitinhisghizzardi The Greek a n d G erman languages are dist i ngu i s h e d' i by their compounds; but there is nothing in the genius of the Greek or German equal to the genius of Mr. Byron. We have no hesitation in saying that there is no other living humorist who could have concocted such a name. It stalks out upon the ear with all the muddy grandeur of the old Coburg in the days of Davidge. The owner of this title is a count, who, having in his younger days unconsciously appropriated a silver fork (he calms his remorse by believing it was plated) at a fashionable supper at Naples, has been driven in consequence to the hills and brigandage, where his band consists of his lieutenant_Spangalette (Mrs. Mathews)—who is always swearing devotion to him and always attempting his life. Here he is followed by his daughter, the Lady Luna, who carries the evidence of her father's innocence—the fatal fork—in her pocket, and who, having been wandering about for twenty years, finds it conve nient to sit down. As every heroine in such a position sleeps, her father takes advantage of her unconsciousness to pick her pocket of the fork, and thus arousing her, his petty larceny further arouses her slumbering filial instinct. She recognises her father, and rushes into his arms. A maniac then enters. A wild woman of the hills, who is, of course, the wife of the bandit count and the mother of the Lady Luna; and though her reasoning faculty is unsettled, has remarkably good spirits, and hops about to a negro melody with the greatest possible enjoyment. This interesting being, receiving a mortal injury, is only to be re vived, like the Adelphi " Vampire," by being placed in the light of the rising moon; but, as the moon on this occasion won't get up to do a good action, she is revived by being placed under the light of a policeman's bull's-eye, and directly after her enemy, taking a tremendous header from a bridge, the other strong sensation features of the " Colleen Bawn" and the "Peep o' Day " are in some measure illustrated, and the Count and his daughter recover _ . . tions, but also their best clothes, with an appro priate song and dance, bring this powerfully con structed sensation drama to a close. Written with great humour, and very admirably acted, the mysterious and remorseful brigand con trasting as happily with the more demonstrative disposition and whiskers of his lieutenant—as the exuberant maniac mother—relieves the classic sadness of the child—each of which were embodied to the life by Mr. and Mrs. Mathews ; this burlesque elicited very hearty laughter and applause, and when a little shortened will become the very best thing of the kind that has been witnessed for some years. The entertainment, therefore, we are happy to record, was entirely, and deservedly successful. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews being summoned at the close of it to receive the congratulations of the audience. NEW ROYALTY 2HEATRE. It has seldom been our lot to chronicle a more genuine success than that of the new operetta produced here last evening on the occasion of the opening of this theatre for the summer season, under the management of Mr. Elliot Galer. Its title is " Blonde or Brunette," it is in two acts, is written by J. P. Woeler, Esq., and the music is composed by M. W. Lutz. Not only is the dialogue witty, but the songs, ballads, and concerted pieces are extremely pleasing, and the fact that not fewer than five were encored is a sufficient proof of the gratification they afforded the audience. The plot, too, if not in every respect probable, is amusing, and contains a sufficient amount of inyicacy to keep thO interest elite. The hero of it, Captain Aspinall (Mr. Elliot Galer) in love with Lady Maud Towersley (Miss Fanny Reeves), is waited on by her brother Lord Towersley (Mr. H. Drayton), that he may explain if he 'means to marry her. He states that his intentions are honourable, and goes to her to propose, but a lover's quarrel ensues, they part, and Lord Towersley, thinking his sister ill-used, insists on a duel, in which he is wounded and disarmed ; but a picket of soldiers, commanded by Sir Anthony Clinton (Mr. Hillier), instigated by an offi cious servant, comes up, and the duellists are placed under arrest. The scene now changes to Sir Anthony Clinton's house in the country, where Captain Aspinall is staying in durance. But it happ€ns that Rose Clinton (Mrs. H. Drayton) is a friend of 'Viand's, and the latter, who has pardoned her lover and longs for a recon ciliation, determines to torment him a little for his desertion of her, but at the same time give him an opportunity of re pairing his fault. Accordingly she (a blonde) disguises herself as a brunette, assumes a brogue and the name of Miss Matilda Mortimer, and purports to be an Irish girl on a visit to Rose. Introduced to the Captain, he is at first struck with the remarkable resemblance to his beloved Maud, of whom he has given up all hopes, and as the young lady is by no means bashful he is fascinated, proposes, and is accepted. Now comes a dilemma. Lord Towersley arrives, admits that he was hasty, and offers the Captain his sister's hand by way of reparation, an offer which that susceptible hero is forced to decline; and now appears also a certain Hector Brian Boroo, who insults the Captain for proposing to his sister (Miss Mortimer), and enrages the Lord by assum i n g to be on most intimate terms with Rose Clinton, to whom that nobleman is attached. He is chal lenged by both; they quarrel as to which shall fight him first. He retires, comes in as Lady Maud, the mystery is cleared up, and all ends happily, as lovers' quarrels should. The characters are very ably personated. The music is agreeable, varied, and skilfully performed. The piece will unquestion ibly have a considerable run, and the entertain ment is one thoroughly deserving patronage. The Red Sea and India Telegraph Company have notified to the shareholders that by a clause in the bill now before Parliament for converting their guarantee into an annuity charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom it is provided that the transfer books of the com pany are to be closed immediately on the passing of the Act, in order that a list of the shareholders may be prepared for inscription as annuitants in the books of the Bank of England. THE PASSENGER TRADE TO BRITISH COLUMBIA. —The gold discoveries, and the stimulus given to the deve lopment of the colony in consequence, have caused a very large increase in the passenger traffic between this country and British Columbia. The Pacific United States Mail Company have been adding some large and powerful vessels to their fleet, including the Constitution (now on the sta tion), which is capable of carrying 1,500 passengers and 1,200 tons of goods. These steamers now run four times monthly, instead of three, from Panama. The vessels of the West India Royal Mail Company are also carrying large numbers of passengers bound for the new land of gold, RUMOURED OUTRAGE IN TIPPERARY.—It 18 rumoured in Limerick this evening, that one of the popu lar proprietors of Tipperary was shot last night. He had been warned by two armed men at his own hall-door, some evenings ago, to bew a r e o f p ursu i ng a cer tain course . reference to his estate. Ihe truth seems to be that after their losses of the past year, and the increasing distress which they are suffering, the occupying peasantry and working labourers are growing reckless of any consequences that may attend their desperate efforts to retain possession of their homes and holdings.—Munster News, THE GALWAY STEAMSHIP HIBERNIA.—This vessel, which was built by Palmer, of Newcastle, and has been rebuilt by Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, made a trial trip on Wednesday last, under the command of Capt. Leitch. It is not likely that the people of Galway will recognise the Hibernia when they see her. She is now a noble looking ship, and is capable of performing efficiently any service in which the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company may em ploy her. No expense has been spared in making her sea worthy and comfortable for passengers. A hurricane deck has been built, sheltering the vessel from the paddle. boxes forward. The steering wheel is placed on the bridge. During the trial on Wednesday she drew 16 feet 4 inches forward and 18 feet 7 inches aft. She ran the measured distance (41 miles) at the rate of 141 knots. She an-veered her helm quickly, turning at full speed in 6} minutes.— Liverpool Albion. MR. W. F. WINDIIAM, OF FELBRIGG.---It is rumoured in the law courts, and there seems to be no doubt about the correctness of the statement, that another inquiry will be opened forthwith in reference to the state of mind of Mr. W. F. Windham, of Felbrigg Hall, who was not many weeks since declared by a jury to be of sound mind. The proceedings, it is said, will be promoted on this occasion by Lady Sophia Giubelei, the mother of the young man. His eccentricities are said to have developed themselves in so extraordinary a way as to render another inquiry impera tive. Amonst other strange things ho has had an express mail cart made, painted red, and having on the panels the Royal arms, with "William Frederick Windham" in small letters underneath. On this cart he starts from Felbrigg every morning to Norwich to fetch his letters, and on re ceiving them he immediately returns to Felbrigg, thu s every day accompli s hi ng a di stance of thirty-six mil. Mrs. Windham (A gnes Wi lloughby) is not living with her husband. SETTLING A DIFFICULTY. --The Eastern (Port land) Argus of May 3 contains the following :—Yesterday afternoon, two of the firemen of the steamship Bohemian started to go on shore, to settle by a fight some difficulty that existed between them. In crossing the plank one of them slipped and fell between the vessel and the wharf, striking the fender and pitching into the dock. His oppo nent immediately jumped down, and rescued him from his perilous situation, The fight did not take place, and the two ate better friends than they ever were before LATIST NEWS. TURIN, MAY 19. A despatoh from b, scia announces that Austrian troops have occupied tL line of Lego di Garda. The Turin papers as,rt that these troops are fully provided with everytin necessary for a cam paign. The same papers state that 'I order of the day had been issued, urging the Chasshrs to bravery, and declaring that the road to Mila. has been opened to the Austrian army by the revol lion at Bergamo and Brescia. ROME, 4 A y 18. In official quarters it is stated that'the epar t ure of Genera Goyon is not regrett e d b y the Pontifical Court, and has given satisfaction to the party. The Marquis de Lavalette wished that Gener a l Goyon should be subject to ia i s orders, to enable him to prevent the General from having audiences of the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli, and to oblige him to suppress the reactionary movements on the Roman frontier. General Goyon is accused of having paid a visit to Francis 11. The inhabitants of Rome are convinced that the fall of the temporal power of the Pope is near at hand. At the present moment there are 83 Bishops and 37 Cardinals in Rome. The expense of the canonisation of the Japanese martyrs will amount to 400,000 f. Rome is full of priests ane soldiers. FRANKFORT-ON -MAINE, TUESDAY. took place yest er d a y, in which the representative of Electoral Hesse declared that his Government was willing to suspend the elections, under the sup position that the resolution of the Federal Diet constituted a formal prohibition. The Federal Diet, however, merely referred him to the precise wording of its resolution. PARIS, TVESDAY. The Monsteur of to-day reprints several clauses of the treaty in reference to the intervention in Mexico, in order, as it says, to recall the objects for which the expedition was undertaken. MADRID, MONDAY EVENING. In to-ddy's sitting of the Congress Senor Castro made a long speech in support of his proposition to censure the Ministry for their conduct in reference to Mexican affairs. The Minister of State, in defending the Govern ment, said they approved the conduct of General Prin., and the Spanish Plenipotentiary. He pro mised that an opportunity should be afforded for a full discussion of the question after the official documents had been examined. These documents, he said, would be communicated to the Congress at the proper time. Senor Castro then withdrew his proposition. VIENNA, MAY 19, Evening. According to news received here from Mostar, to the 16th, the Montenegrins had only occupied the town of Nicksich. The Citadel still remained in possession of the Turks, The latter have taken the whole province of Kutscki. TURIN, MAY 19, Evening. The official Gazette of this evening denies the rumour published by some journals that dissen sions exist in the Ministry, and that several members of the Cabinet have resigned. PARIS, MAY 19, Evening. The Patrie of this evening stye that Marshal Serrano will form a camp in Mexico under the command of General Gasset. It is reported to be the Marshal's intention to prepare transports to bring back the Spanish troops immediately upon receiving orders to that effect from Madrid. THORN, MAY 19. The Archbishop of Warsaw has intimated his intention of closing the churches should the .per secution of the people therein continue. THORN, MAY 19 (Evening). In consequence of the representation made by the Archbishop of Warsaw, General Liiders has issued a proclamation announcing that the police will remain away from the churches for two days. If, however, prohibited songs should be sung, notwith. standing this measure, arrests would again be made. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 19, A.M. Yesterday the Montenegrins took Nicksich, with 800 men, 27 officers, and 23 guns. The Porte has telegraphed stringent orders to Omar Pacha. The Commission for the Consolidation of the Public Debt has not agreed upon the terms. The Porte objects to consolidate the whole floating debt. THE HERZEGOVINA. PARIS, MONDAY. The Paris papers of to-day publish telegrams from Ragusa, confirming the capture of Niksich. The loss of the Montenegrins was 200, that of the Turks 500, besides prisoners. The citadel still holds out. The Montenegrins are said to have made a re connaissance in the direction of Mostar. MEXICO. Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La Presse publishes the following : "Despatches from Mexico of the 19th of April mention a proclamation of President Juarez, in reply to the document signed by General de Lo rencez and General Almonte. In this proclamation the President appeals to his compatriots to resist, and protests against any attack upon the free-will of the country. The Spaniards have terminated the operation of embarking. They Were obliged to have recourse to English transport ships." ••••••••••••••••- On Thursday some important experiments took place at Shoeburyness. It has been the fashion of late on the part of those who have studied gunnery to assert that the initial 'velocity imparted to a shut from a rifled cannon is less than that which would bo derived from a smooth bore gun. Sir Wm. Armstrong joined issue on this point, and in order to settle the matter he, on the day alluded to, loaded a 12-pounder on his principle with a shell weighing 81 4, with a 21b. charge of powder, and the initial velocity obtained was 1,740 feet. A 9-pounder smooth-bore was then loaded with a shot of 9lbs., and 211195. of powder, and the initial velocity amounted only to 1,613 feet,—Army and Navy Gazette. A PAIR OF AMAZONS.—TWO young girls, in fluenced by love and a desire for adventure, dressed them selves in masculine habiliments, and, visiting Kittanning, desired to enlist in the gallant 78th, in which their "lovyers" are doing duty. Tne officer on whom they waited refused to enrol them, dec'aring that he wanted no more recruits; whereupon the twain expressed themselves greatly disap pointed, and, after a brief stay in town, returned quietly to their homes. The Costituzione, of Naples, states that in a private conversation with General La Nlarmora, Prince Napoleon said :—" This people cannot desire the return of the Bourbons ; the whole of Europe will soon adhere unani mously to the Franco-Italian policy." Orders have been transmitted to Bordeaux to hasten the completion of the floating batteries Palestro and Paixham. The first of these vessels may be launched in a month, and the other in the month of July. THE PROJECTED ITALIAN EXPEDI TION. The Italian Minister of the Interior has addressed the following circular to the Prefects : " TURIN, MAY 15. " The Government has learnt that in many parts of the kingdom persons, acting under bad advice, are making military preparations and clandestine enrolments for an expedition, which they would have it believed is undertaken, if not with the con sent, at least with the concurrence, of the Govern ment itself. In order to justify this expedition a name has been put forward which belongs to one who is dear to the country, and held in high estimation by the Government, and an attempt has thus been made to produce an impression that this senseless attempt is prompted and directed by him. The Government believes it has satisfactory reasons for declaring that the illustrious general has no par ticipation whatever in such enterprises, which could only have the effect of seriously endangering all that Italy has obtained up to the present time by his wisdom and his courage. Meanwhile, M. le. You will endeavour, with th a t i n d u l gence and a 3 n rfe zeald ct for the public service, of which you have alr ea dy given such distinguished proofs, to con vince your functionaries that the Government, far from tolerating, condemns these deplorable at tempts, and that it is determined not to shrink from the employment of any means of preventing them, by maintaining with a firm hand the authority of the law. The undersigned has full confidence that you will use the greatest vigi lance in this matter, in order that you may be per fectly informed of everything thrt may be attempted in your province with the view of converting such projects into deeds, neglecting no means of prevent ing, by advice, and, if necessary, even by force, everything which would tend to imperil public order, and the respect due to the laws. In confor mity with these instructions, you will without delay put in execution the aaas Iv u h j clL l yzi may judge making the public acquainted with the firm deter mination of the Government on this point. (Signed) " For the Minister, " The Director-General FONTANA." The proposed expedition was to have left the kingdom from three different points—Mount Stel vio, Ferrara, and the sea. Through the Stelvio pass, they would communicate with the Upper Italian Tyrol, forming part of the Germanic Con federation. By Ferrara and the Adriatic they would have reached Venetia. The Milan Gazette contains the following notice from General Garibaldi : " Colonel G. B. Cattaboni, a brave officer covered with noble wounds, and of irreproachable charac ter, was arrested, without the formalities required by the law, last night, at Trescorra, and brought to Milan as a malefactor. I recal to the country that if it is the duty of the Government to cause justice to be respected, it ought also in turn to respect the dignity of citizens, and especially of those who have deserved well of their country. " G. GARIBALDI." The Italia says :—" If our information is correct, all the legal formalities were observed in Colonel Cattabeni's arrest. This arrest, for which the gravest reasons are given, was made in pursuance of an order issued by the King's procureur at. Genoa." TILE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The tide of success which seemed to set in on Sa turday continued to flow yesterday in a very satis factory manner. There was a capital attendance, and evidently an awakened curiosity amongst the visitors, who inquired eagerly for the different ob jects which had been more particularly noticed in , the papers. The Swiss bullfinch had quite a levee and we observed similar interest displayed respect ing other objects to which attention had also been directed. It should be noted that yesterday was the first half-crown day, and the good effect of com paratively low prices was soon made perceptible, no less than 10,869 persons having entered before three o'clock. The " finest sapphire in the world " was eagerly inquired after, and numbers also stopped to look at the Austrian Album, of the moderate dimen sions of 6ft. by 3ft., and bound in proportion. The majolica fountain is now nearly finished, and pro mises to be quite as attractive as the crystal marvel. of 1851. The fine group of St. George and the Dragon has been placed on the top, and the lower ornaments are now so nearly all placed that the de sign of the whole can be easily comprehended. As a work of art it will be, perhaps, more interesting ttan its predecessor, and when the water is laid on, and commences playing, will be quite as brilliant. Two or three trees in tubs have made their appear ance in the nave, the advance guard, we trust, of more to come ; and, better news still, the bells pre served a respectful taciturnity during the day. An. incident which occurred in the afternoon afforded a pretty strong proof of how much some of the rules established by the Commissioners require revision. A French gentleman, whilst paying his money for admission, dropped a sovereign through one of the chinks to which we have before alluded. A Sapper corporal was immediately called, the boards were taken up, and the money recovered ; but what was the surprise of the stranger on learning that he was to pay a fee of half a crown for the recovery of his money, which had fallen through chinks which could only have existed there through the neglect of somebody. An indignant Briton who heard the demand at once took the foreigner under his pro tection, and made such an appeal to the Commis sioners on the injustice and absurdity of the demand that the fee was remitted. Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland visited the building at about five o'clock, and expressed herself much gratified at. learning the extraordinary influx of visitors which the reduction of price had created. In the evening the jurors dined together in the French restaurant, but of course were as yet obliged to be very myste rious on the subject of their labours. The number of visitors admitted to five o'clock p.m. is as follows :—Season tickets, 4,655; on pay ment of 2s. 6d., 9,489 ; total, 14,141. Amongst the visitors were the following :—Lord Villiers and daughters, Sir George and Lady Grey, Lord Roselyn and family, Viscountess Dungannon, the Japanese Ambassadors, General Lord Gough. MARKETS---THIS DAY. HAY MARKETS. SM ITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 lOs 6d; clover. £3 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load, Trade dull. CUMBEHLAND..—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 10s; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load. Both hay and straw sold heavily at drooping prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to IA lOs; clover C 3 10s to £5 10s ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load. A heavy demand. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been dull, and prices generally have shown a downward tendency, particularly for inferior descriptions. suGAß.—West India descriptions continued in moderate request, but only good and superior grocery qualities have supported previous prices. In the refined market no mate rial alteration can be recorded as regards prices. COFFEE—During the last few days there were no public sales of importance, at , d the business done privately was at about previous quotations. RICE.--The market shows rather more animation, although the operations latterly have been on a limited scale. Little - change of importance, however, can be re ported in prices. SALTPEME.—The demand for British refined is steady, and full rates are current for all qualities. INDIGO. —At the public sales of East India, just con cluded, there was a limited attendance of buyers, and the prices realised, compared with those of the previous auc tions, were fully 3d to 6d per pound lower on shipping qualities, and is on superior descriptions. TALLOW.—The market has shown rather more activity, and prices have shown a slight improvement for both pre sent and forward delivery. Yesterday three ships were posted at Lloyd's as missing—a notification implying that all hopes of their ever being heard of is past—namely, the Britius, Isabella, and Tiberius, all homeward bound from New York to Liver pool. They were, with their cargces, insured at Lloyd's. The depositors in the Bank of Deposit have been declared by the Lords Justices creditors, and not contribu tors, thereby reversing the juogment of the Master of tl e Rolls. Messrs. Nesbitt and Monday (depositors) have been chosen "creditors representative" to act on behalf of the depositors generally, and Mr. Charles H. Edmunds has been appointed solicitor. The decision of the Lords Justices will relieve many depositors from anxiety.