The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-02 00:00:00

RuYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS ElTElglica will be presented Shakspeare's historiea' play of KING RENRY V. King-HMI, V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lekke, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy , entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The Characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far rell, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwiek, &C. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messrs. Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Zliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS. EVENING, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, Billing - ton, Toole ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Sims. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. Mr. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND TEIE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster -road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Immense Success of INAN ightly lIOE —Overflowing Rouses 'N. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Ternple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievements in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After whieh, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introductng Mr. John Henry Cooke, the Eeatest equestrian in the world : together with Miss mily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the Farce of BATHING. Dress Circle, 4s. ; 80xe5,..35..; Pit, :2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d Private Boxes, £1 4s, £2 2s, and £1 Is. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips (lANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS V GALLERY. Westminster-road.--Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. - - - The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 1. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.85. WIND, Easterly, fresh, with fine weather, but dull in the morning. MAY 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. si—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 54—this day at noon. BAnomwrEn-29.97—rising. WIND, North-Easterly ; fresh, with cloudy but fine weather. Tile terrible game has been duly opened. There is no longer any doubt that a war has commenced, of which it is impossible to predict the results, or to say what Powers will be involved in the contest. The energetic and able exertions of the British Government have been for the present neutralised. It has been admitted on every side that nothing was left undone to preserve the peace and tran quillity of Europe. But where there is an in flexible resolution to proclaim hostilities where similar obstinacy is exhibited on every side, and captious objections are taken to even the most reasonable propositions, it would be utterly impos sible for even the most talented and earnest nego tiators to prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Austria has unquestionably invaded Piedmont, and she justifies the step on the ground that its neutrality had previously been violated by the reception of French troops. Under such circumstances she felt that the step was essential to prevent her adversaries from obtaining an ad vantage. It was, as asserted by the Cabinet of Vienna, an indispensable proceeding ; more par ticularly as the revolutions in Tuscany, Massa, and Carrara, and the disturbances at Borne and in Sicily have rendered immediate action necessary. It is asserted by the Viennese journals that a sharp contest took place at the Bridge of Buffalora, and that the Austrians had obtained a decided victory with considerable loss to their adversaries. This statement must, however, be taken cum grano salis, in the absence of authentic intelligence from other quarters. It is only from Vienna that we he - ar of this alleged triumph ; but then it is more than Probable that if resistance was offered the result would have been in favour of Austria, whose forces were quite sufficient to overwhelm any that could for the moment be brought against them by France and Sardinia. There seems to be no doubt that the towns of Sutra, Pallauza, and Arena, on the Lago Maggiore, have been occupied; that twenty bat talions and eight batteries of cannon also entered the Sardinian territory by way of Gravellona, and had seized on the province of Novara ; while a third took the road through Abbeate Grasso, and advanced during the night to Casale. Meanwhile VICTOR EMMANUEL has not been idle. • He has, it appears, placed _himself at the head. of his army, and has been surveying the line of the Dora, probably with the intention of im peding the progress of the invading army, and preventing their arrival at Turin before the French auxiliaries are enabled to afford adequate assistance. - The fortress of Alessandria, as may be anticipated, will be defended to the last. Its preservation is essential to Piedmont, and, if secured by Austria, it would materially add to the existing difficulties of Sardinia. Austria is for once thoroughly in earnest. She 'will neither consent to any of the much -required and anxiously looked-for reforms in the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, nor will she eves abandon her undue interference in the quasi inde pendent- states of Italy. France is also equally .resolved; but should she meet with the success she. anticipates , we fear that the advocates for Italian liberty rill fi nd that it is only an escape from what the h ome l y proverb terms "the frying-pan into the fire, ,, and that France will be scarcely more liberal i n its treatment of what it will be disposed to consider as conquered territories than Austria itself with all its admitted maladministra- tion. It would be well it' either party should gain so decisive a triumph as to lead to an early settlement. There is one chance at least for an arrangement. The Austrian Exchequer is wholl— y bankrupt. A loan - of 200,000,000 florins is imperatively required, but as it is significantly remarked, the present being impossible, the Natio na l B a nk is to advance two-thirds of the amount in new notes, which for the present would not be rede emable i n specie. This would be a wipe and prudent step, .but that, 'unfortunately, the firpt condition Which would render such notes unavoidably acceptable throughout the empire is dispensed with. They will not be received in payment of taxes, which must be liquidated either in silver or coupons of the national loan. This unfortunate error on the pact of the Viennese Cabinet will neutralise all the ad vantages that would otherwise have followed so decided a movement. France also wants a similar sum. She has largely increased her debt since the accession of the Em- PEROR, and it is more than doubtful whether the people will be inclined again to pro duce their secret hoards to gratify the Imperial ambition. Russia, too, asks for twelve millions. We do not, however, think it probable that any of the parties will have their little bills discounted in Lombard-street or Capel-court. The brokers and jobbers have already had sufficient cause to deplore their transactions in foreign stocks ; and although many temptations may be offered, we trust that English capitalists, as well as the Eng lish Government, may observe a complete and per fect neutrality between the contending nations. "Si vis poem para bellum." The true policy of a peace-loving Power is to prove, beyond the possi bility of doubt, that it possesses the means, not only of defending itself, but. of inflictiNg severe injury on any nation or coalition by which it may be assailed. The motto to the truly illustrious Order of the Thistle, " Nemo me impune lacessit," and that of the chivalrous Scottish knight, " Ready, aye ready for the field," afford the best illustrations of this great principle. The money expended in increasing our armament in time of danger may be regarded as an assurance fund against losses and calamities that would gladly be averted by the account one hundred times told. We rejoice then to find that Lord DERBY'S Go vernment have adopted the wise course of largely increasing the available resources of the British Navy, our " stronghold and great tower of defence." It would be an act of folly—aye, of crime, to neglect placing our wooden walls in the best possible position, so that they may be enabled to resist any possible coalition that may be brought against them. Should Britannia abdicate her position as Mistress of the Waves, should she ever relinquish her maritime superiority, she would sink into a third rate power, and no longer exercise the influence in the councils of Europe which she now justly possesses. Every true-hearted Englishman must have hailed with intense satisfaction the royal proclamation which appeared in our impression of Saturday, offering a bounty of £lO to all able bodied seamen not above the age of 45, or under that of 20 ; £5 for all ordinary seamen fit for ser vice, and 40s. for every able-bodied landsman not above the age of 25 nor under 20, who should voluntarily enter the naval service before the 15th of June next. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON is entitled to the thanks and gratitude of the nation, for this judicious and oppoitune proceeding which could not have been taken without the assent of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has the difficult task of providing the ways and means for this extra expenditure. It has been said that ten thousand additional seamen are to be engaged, but the Royal Proclamation makes no limitation. It addresses itself to all who may offer themselves before the 15th of June, and the greater the num ber the better would it be for the country—the more certain would be the preservation of British neutrality—the more efficient any intervention on our part between the belligerents. With twenty or fifteen thousand additional seamen, our maritime superiority would be unquestionable. With ten thousand it would be maintained, but there might, in such cases, be a doubt, and that should be averted at any cost or any outlay. The great thing is to render our navy not merely effi cient, but overwhelmingly superior to any other that could be opposed to it, and it is but justice to Sir JOHN PAXINGTON to say that he has done more to obtain that object than any of his predecessors in office for a long series of years. It can but he gratifying to us to observe that a subject to which for years past wo have every now and then invited public attention, is at last likely to receive it. We refer not to the use of the rifle for the army merely, but to the training of volunteers throughout the country to its skilful use. The Edinburgh Review has adverted in its last number to the value of rifled guns, and brought together much information and some striking facts. Letters on the formation of volunteer corps, both horse and foot, have been sent to the daily press, and the Times itself has nodded approbation. Two volun teer corps exist already; one here, the Victoria Rifles, whose merits we described shortly after their formation, and urged general imitation ; the other at Exeter; and now, we find a third seeking formation and embodiment at Birkenhead. We can hardly doubt that the project, if general atten tion be drawn to it, must be taken up extensively. The merely routine prejudices of burly old colonels and commanders will give way to fact and common sense. If they can see no advantage in anything but soldiers of the line, and in militia as a nursery for it, and can but barely tolerate yeomanry cavalry, while anything beyond that is horribly ir regular—absurd indeed—they will now be told to look to their own regulars, and to mind their own business, but not to interfere with mei who are de termined to make an invader dread, even more than those who face them in the thin red line, the unrecognized army of free citizens whose bullets hey will feel, but whose faces they will hardly ever see. We scarcely need dwell now on the difference between any good form of the modern Rifle and Brown Bess. Every one has heard that the latter is absolutely innocuous at 200 or 300 yards, no man being certain whether he could hit a haystack or even a church at that distance, but rather having every reason to bet twenty to one that he should not hit it ; while the late - S4eneral JACOB produced a short-barrelled rifle with which a tolerably good shot could hit an object the size of a man once in three times at the distance of 1,000 yards, while the deadly force of the ball would not be expended at 2,000 yards ! The question is settled for ever that nothing inferior to a good rifle can ever again be put into a regular soldier's hands. It were to be guilty of murder in regard to our men, and of throwing away victories in regard to any war we may be called on to wage. The general merits of the Rifle, however, have been so completely de monstrated at Inkerman, and in the Crimean war, and in the Sepoy revolt, that probably they will never be disputed again. But how strange that our military authorities did not learn the lesson taught them in the American war of Independence, by the surrender, virtually, of two armies to the almost invisible rifles of enemies whom they could hardly ever get to face them. But there arc two points,having a close connec- tion, to which- we would call special attention, be • cause others have been more fully noticed elsewhere —the wisdom of taking decided measures to train a large portion of our youth, and adult males too, to rifle practice, and of forming them into companies for practice throughout the kingdom. What the Old Regular Officer thinks most of, is well drilled men ; fellows who can go through every evolution with precision, and who would march anywhere if ordered—up to the mouths of any guns in the world. Far be it from us to undervalue all this; but there are some things quite as terrible to officers and to men as to meet others as well drilled as themselves, and that is to run the gauntlet of a country, every hedge and ditch, and hovel, and old tree, and furze bush, of which con cealed a rifleman or two,too scattered to be attacked, too familiar with the country they live and work in to be drawn from concealment, or followed into it, except at the peril of being shot down by one while following another. By all means let us have the regular army we ought ; but a population of first rate riflemen, even if but scantily drilled, yet well led, and burning with indignation at wanton in trusion, would be the deadliest of antagonists to be met by a foreign foe. But then these men would want one kind of training,---the training of early and long practice with these weapons. Arms of precision, whether the slings of the Cretans and the Balearic Islanders, or the longbows of our renowned ancestors, or the rifle, acquire almost all their value from the prac tice which trains the eye and the hand, which gives them fatal certainty, and which, like every thing in which excellence is required, is far more efficient in youth than in later years. The care and pains taken by our forefathers in teaching the inhabitants of all classes the use of the bow is astonish ing. Some of the means would now be deemed tyrannical, nor are they necessary. Express statutes forbade a great many athletic games ; quoits, bowls, and tennis ball even, were forbid den, as well as games of chance, that the people might be driven to archery for amusement on holi days ! So late as HENRY VIII., a statute required every subject, except some necessarily exempt, to keep a bow and arrow in his house, and to exercise himself in shooting. Fathers, guardians, and masters of apprentices were required to teach the male children under their care the-use of the bow, and compel them to shoot on holidays and at con venient times. No person above twenty-four years of age was permitted to shoot at a mark nearer than 220 yards—a distance at which, with " Brown Bess," he could rarely indeed hit it—and every parish must have its shooting butts: Thus it:was that_ the archers were provided who were the real conquerors in so many battles. BUt these severities would, even for the same object, be now, we believe, useless. What we plead for is not merely gentlemen 'rifle corps, but for a whole male community encouraged and ac customed to use the rifle. Till facts prove;the con trary, we shall take leave to believe• that the youth of our towns would like rifle practice. • They need manly exercises. It is not worthy. of us that the great majority of our town lads could hardly hold on a horse or hit a barn door with a fowling-piece. Such habits tend to effieminacy. Give them half holidays.. Utilise their long summer evenings. Offer them the use of rifles, kept in charge of a public officer, himself, of course,• competent to teach. Enrol those who were skilful and steady when they were of full age. Confer a status on the enrolled—let them, as volunteers in the service of their country, enjoy the franchise proposed by Mr. WALPOLE for militiamen—encourage them in every way ; and several hundreds of thousands of practised rifle shots would make any, hater of Eng land think twice of it before he threw his soldiers into their hands. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN. Rossini's celebrated opera, " La Gazza Ladra," was' *repeated at this theatre . on Saturday night before a large and brilliant audience. Mdlle. Lotti's performance of the arduous part of Ninetta has been criticised on previous occasions. On Saturday she was again most successful, and ob tained immense applause. Mdlle. Didiee, as Pippo, appeared to great advantage. In the long and difficult duet with Ninetta, in'the prison scene, she particularly distinguished herself. Gardoni, as the soldier-lover, Itonconi, as then nworthy magistrate, and* Tagliafico, as the father of Ninetta, were all admirable. The orchestra participated in the succogs, for they gave the fine overture with so much spirit and precision that it was redemanded. The house was fully attended. 7e , % . t o s. ":1; c' • z R OIT . • „.,, THE SUN. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1859. THE SUN ,I 'LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1859 LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. TURIN, MAY 1, 9.40 There is a considerable movriment of troops to Alessandria ; the King has g one to take the com mand. The Austrians ire at Nora in force, and also at Pavia. The French infantry arid artillery continuo to arrive. No decisi,•e move ment has yet been made. TURIN, SUNDAY, MAY 1. An official bulletin jnst published states that the King and his staff left this morning to take the command of the army. Yesterday evening the Austrians occupied Novara, and then made a further advance towards Vercelli. The French troops left . Turin this morning for Alessandria. Other troops have arrived from France, with two batteries. TURIN, SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 1. The following official bulletin has been pub. lished : 2,000 Austrians occupy Mortara, and 400 infantry and 50 cavalry Novara. No movement has been made towards Vercelli. The Austrians in large numbers have quitted Piacenza, and proclaimed a state of siege. They appear to have concentrated their forces on the left bank of the Po. General Bout died on Saturday last, at Susa, of an attack of apoplexy. TURIN, APRIL 30. Yesterday the King, accompanied by the French Generals Canrobert and Niel, visited the line of the river Dora. • • VIENNA, APRIL 29. In all probability there was a sharp action al the Tete-de-Pont of Buffalora yesterday. It is reported that the Austrians, after a con• siderable loss, took it at the point of the bayonet. It is said that Mortara has been taken to-day. VIENNA, MAY 1. The Austrians have occupied Intra, Pallanza, and Arona, on the Lago Maggiore, the Sardinians retreating on their approach. • The telegraph lines to Switzerland have been cut by the Austrians. HAMBURG, MAY 1. Accounts have been received, via Vienna, of the first hostilities in Piedmont between the Austrian army of invasion and the Sardinian forces. The latter were obliged to fall back, but not before in flicting severe loss on the Austrians. The regiment " Don Miguel" alone lost its colonel and thirteen officers. WEIMAR, MAY 1. The Emperor of Russia, in a telegram sent by him to the widow of the late Grand Duke, gives a denial to the reports which have circulated that Prussia and Austria are threatened by Russia. TRIESTE, APRIL 30. The directors of the Austrian Lloyd's have pub lished an official announcement, that on account of present political complications their vessels will for the present discontinue running to foreign ports. CIRCULAR OF THE FRENCH GOVERN MENT. PARIS, MAY 1. The. following circular has been. addressed by Count . Walewski to the agents and plenipoten tiaries of the Emperor : " The Austrians, concentrated at Pavia, entered at three o'clock on the 29th on Piedmontese terri tory, passing by the Gravellona. In the night they penetrated to Cussalo, near Vigevano, by the ferry of Abbati-Grasso. On the 30th they landed at Streba and at Arona. The body which passed the Gravellona numbered 20 battalions and eight batteries. The advanced posts were, at half-past 11 on the 30th, at VeSpolate. A very considerable corps d'armee is on the march from Vigevano upon Mortara." SECOND PROCLAMATION OF VICTOR EMMANUEL. • TURIN, APRIL 30. A proclamation of which the following is a full analyiis, has been placarded to-day in Turin and throughout the kingdom : " Austria, while making profession of a love of peace, attacks us, and refuses the jurisdiction of an European Congress. She violates her promise made to England ; she asks us to reduce our army and to abandon the brave volunteers who have flocked from all parts of Italy to defend the sacred flag of Italian independence. I confide the government to my well beloved cousin, and I resume my sword. The -valiant troops of the Emperor Napoleon, my generous ally, will fight for liberty and justice side by side with us. Peoples of Italy! Austria attacks Piedmont for having defended the cause of our common country in the councils of Europe, and because she has not been deaf to your cries of anguish. Austria now openly tears up those treaties which she has never herself observed. The Italian nation is this day already five in point of right, and :I may now conscientiously accomplish the vow I made upon the tomb of my august father. Let us confide in Providence, in our union, in the valour of Italian soldiers, and in the alliance of the noble. French nation. Let us rely upon the justice of public opinion. I have no other ambition than that of being the first soldier of Italian indepen- • denCQ. ilea Italia." . . .A This problamation, signed " Victor Emmanuel,'' is countersigned " Count Cavour." THE MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 29. The manifesto addressed by the Emperor of • Austia to the enti r e population • of Ins empire com mences with these words : • • " I.have .given orders to my•brave and faithful armfto put'an end to the attacks which a neigh bouring State, Sardinia, has been for several years past in the habit of making upon the undoubted rightS 'of my crown and the integrity of the empire confided to me by Divine Providence." It goes on to say that ió spite of the generesiity and good inten tions of which Austria has given so many proofs during the last ten years, the hostility of Piedmont has Continually augmented, and has recently dis played itself in a most especial manner by extreme agitation and revolutionary propagandism. The manifesto alludes to the effmts of diplomacy to bring about an arrangement, adding that the re fusal of Piedmont to agree to a disarmament had rendered an appeal to arms necessary. He speaks of the horrors of war, but says that the monarch must repress the impulses of his heart when honour and duty call upon him to march, when an armed enemy is upon his frontiers united with all those subversive parties whose object is to ap propriate the Austrian States of Italy to them selves, and when the Sovereign of France, med dling, under frivolous pretexts, with the affairs of the Italian peninsula, is sending troops to the HAYMARKET ;THEATRE. During. the past week crowded audiences have continued to be attracted to the Haymarket Theatre by Miss Amy Sedgwick's exquisite performance in Mr. Palgrare. Simpson's new comedy of " The World and - the Stage ;" and, far froin the attraction appears to increase with each night's performance. _ We noticed very briefly, in our impression of Tuesday last, the reproduction of this excellent and well-written play, originally written for Miss Sedgwick's benefit, and the opinions that we then expressed have been confirmed - and strengthened by what we have witnessed in sub Sequent visits to the theatre. The performers now are, all thoroughly at home in their respective..characters, and the interest of the piece from first to last is sustained with unflagging effect. It would bedifficult to find any• character more suited for the development of all Miss Amy Sedgwick's powers of embodying every phase of emotion than that afforded her by the part she sustains in the " AVorldand the Stage." Frotd thelightest and most playful badinage to the deepest and most passionate emotions, all are alike conveyed to the audience with A forge and reality which come home to every heart. Miss Sedgwick is well supported. by all the per formers in the play, especiallyhy Mrs. Buckingham White and Mrs. Poynter, among the ladies, and by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, and W. Farren amongst the gentlemen ; and the whole raise en scene is deserving of every commendation. The great charm of Miss Amy Sedgwick's acting is its perfect truthfulness and freedom from all artificialiky, and restraint. .. There is a na tural. grace, ease, and thorough. -abandonment to the spirit of the character she impersonates, whieh is as rare as it is charming. -We may, with sincere conscientiousness, congratulate Miss Sedg *wick - on hating achieved a complete• success by her performance in the "World and the'Stage." • On its reproduction on Easter Monday she was called for bet Ween the- acts; :and Again oa..the termination of the piece to receive the plaudits of a. house. crowded in every part, .and - since then her receptions have been equally enthusiastic. Mr. Frank Talfourd's burlesque of " Elector," 'bristling as it does in every line with 'puns of the most outrageous and unimaginable character— which certainly show the capabilities of the Eng-. lish 'language in -a way that' "few persons would dream of—continues to elicit every night shouts of laughtei . from the most saturnine faces. Mr, amt Mrs. Jones, of Pantklas, hive arrived at the family residence in aton-square for the season. RQXAL • OLLFGE OF SIIRGEONS.—At a meeting of the. Court,of Examiners on the 29th uit. the following gentlemen were reported as having undergone the prelim pary examinations for the fellowship of the College in classics, matheinatici, and French, to the satisfaction of the Court, and will therefore be admitted to the profedsional examina tions when eligible—viz., Messrs. Thomas Westcott Gale Stond,'Lincohf s Inn-fields, diploma - of membership dated April 11; John Couper, Mornington-road ; George B. rodie, Sali s b ur y ; and Henry Lyell, Thomas •street, Horse lydown. • - • • • • • INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle men were on Saturday called to-the bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner-Temple :—Robert Walter Daysh Stewart, Esq., M.A. ; Frederick Evers, Esq., Walter Kingscote Crossman, Esq.,- and Henry Poulin, Esq.—Charles Vaughin, Sub treasurer. . . . MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL 30.—The undermen tioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of the utter bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle• Temple —Bond Coxe, Esq., of Trinity College, Dublin, and of 7 Stone buildings, Lincoln's Inn, and- Harcourt-street, Dublin ; Albert Gordon Langley, Esq. (holder of the studentship awarded by the Council of Legal Education in Trinity Term,.lBsB), of 28, Southampton-buildings; John Clark, Esq., of 1, Essex-court, Temple; and James Coverdale Patten, Esq., of 6, Pump-court, Temple. LINCOLN'S-INN, April 30.—The undermentioned gentlemen were this day called to the degiee of Barrister at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn—viz., William Dundas Gardiner, Esq., M.A., Cambridge.- Henry Smith, Esq.,- 8.A.,. and S.C.L., Cambridge; John Cordy Jeaffre son, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Edward Aikin, Esq., M.A., Cam bridge.; Herbert Clifford Saunders,. Esq., .8.A., Oxford, and Joshua Frey Josephson, Esq. GRAY'S -INN, April 30.—At a Pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn, holden this. day, .Walter David Jeremy, Esq. and Charles Alexander Smyth, Esq., were called to thq ilegrec of harrister-at-low. succour of our enemy, and when many detach ments of his army b ave already crossed the Sardinian frontier. After an impassioned - appeal to the patriotism of Austria, the manifesto concludes in these words :—" We hope not to remain isolated in this contest. The soil on which we are about to fight is steeped in the blood of our brothers of Germany; that country was conquered as a Ger man rampart, and has been maintained as such to this day. It is always upon that ground that the most dangerous enemies of Germany commence their attempts to destroy its internal power." LITERATURE. Chiefs of Parties, Past and Present, with Ort:qina , Anecdotes. By Daniel Owen Maddyn, Esq. author of " The Age of Pitt and Fox. 2 vols, Skeet. These entertaining and animated volumes give us glimpses of some of the chief actors in the poli tical world during the last half century. The author having been prevented from completing his work on " The Age of Pitt and Fox," has accepted a suggestion made to him, and has occupied himself in illustrating the careers and characters of the principal statsmen of the last sixty years. Some political pieces, formerly published, have been in corporated with these sketches, and the work is not devoid of a higher value than mere entertain ment, as it traces the progress of political history and party warfare during a succession of eventful epochs. Commencing with an introductory essay on the " Use of Party," he gives us " A Day with Fox," and "A Day with Pitt," contrasting their characters and powers with some ability. He then devotes a chapter to " The Grenvilles," and another to Lord Castlereagh. His observations on " The Eve of the Reform Era," and on " The Cabinet of 1831-2-3-4" are well worthy of perusal, and show some insight into political character, and a ready appreciation of the difficulties of the time. His series of portraits of the members of the Reform Cabinet are sketched with vigour, and the Want of congeniality in its component parts strongly insisted on. Sir Robert Peel, although his great abilities are readily acknowledged, is not a favou rite with the author, as may be -gathered from his entitling the portion devoted to. his career, " Peel, or the, great Ambiguity." ;le accords high praise to some epochs of his Par ' liamentary career, and pays a tribute to his many noble qualities as a man when he differs from him as a' statesman. The author is a shrewd observer, and his penetration frequently detects characteristic qualities or peculiarities of intellect that would escape superficial critics. His sketch of Lord Macaulay, though scarcely doing justice to the great essayist's varied abilities, contains much truth. He remarks that he occasionally relies on rhetoric to do the work of logic. The following passage gives a summary of his criticism. He has been alluding to some contradictory passages in Lord Macaulay's writings : " The truth we take to be is, that on these and equally momentous subjects, Lord Macaulay has been accustomed to think merely like an orator. He looks only at the ex ternal aspects of institutions and systems, and considers them from a painter's and not a philosopher's point of view. To portray what appears to him .rather than to prove and ascertain the positiveness of an idea or principle, is the na tural functions of his ultra-pictorial mind. Goethe looked on the men around him and on the phases of life with the perceptions of an artistic dramatist. Lord Macaulay re gards society, and thinks upon the world's sublime and mysterious history, not as an investigator or an archwolo gist, but with the sentiments of a picturesque essayist. Effect—effect—effect--is the perpetual and almost the sole obiect of his aim. For his originality we must look to his style, not his spirit—to his utterance, and not to his medi tation.' He is unrivalled in literature in placing in a strik ing way what has been known before. Thus when there is ;only talent in his thoughts, we see genius in his vivid 'words and suggestive diction. Assimilation and illustra tion are the main resources which he employs. Faded commonplaces he retouches with exquisite art, and the haggard wrinkles of senile Widggery he rejuvenises with his literary pearl powder and rhetorician's.rouge. A great master of language, he so writes, and often speaks, that while' understood by his esoterical admirers who are ini tiated' in his manner, he does not raise a murmur from the unsuspicious •crowd, who have not. sense to decipher his enigmatical 'ambiguities, and who credulously revere his high-sounding rhetorical heroics for revelations of the pro foundest philosophical importance 1" ,His sketch of Mr. Wilson Croker, unenviably im mortalised as "Rigby," is wely worthy of perusal. The following remarks apply to a nuinerous class : " Of All kinds of 'writers none are so unwearied in their vocation as political scribes. Habituated to controversy, fhey exult in disputation. They asperse where they can • not confute; • they deride where they cannot overdome. After re number of years they become callous even to the most hostile • criticism. Never smarting under defeat, to combat . and •to conquer appear to them identical. Re boiniding from every overthrow with untiring nerves and audacious front, they taunt 'their conqueror, and again challenge him to the fray. They resolve never to acknow ledge a:defeat, so long as they can employ a woman's mise rable privilege of having the last word." • Mr. Croker • distinguished himself by- his vigorous 'opposition to the Reform Bill of 1832. His speech on the third reading was one Of his most effective. He described a foreigner walking through London seeking the windows of Apsley House broken, a merchant prince's house attacked, and several other incidents of the day, with much point and success. On another. of his attacks on refOrm lie encountered a formidable adversary in the present. Premier : " On' one occasion during the Reform Bill debates, Mr. Croker had considerable success as an alarmist by the use ho made of the facts of Charles the First's feign. He rea soned' §kilfully upon moderation passing into violence,' peaceftil innovation terminating in social revolution g Pyms and Thimpdens ending with Ludlows, Cromwells, &c. He worked' up his matter well, and produced great effect, but it was'slaort-lived. While he was speaking, Mr. Stanley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, sent to • the Library for Hume's History of England, and he presented to the hohse another view of the reign of Charles the First from that drawn by Mr. Croker. Appealing to the Tory historian as an authority, 'Mr. Stanley showed how Charles broke the law arid brought his ruin upon himself; some of Mr: Croker's facts he overturned, while from others he drew differeht inferences, and he confuted the• Quarterly Re viewer 'with 'a dazzling display of 'extemporaneous argu ment, that delighted the house by its surprising readiness. Few speeches'ever made in Parliament were so 'successful as thatreply by Mr. Stanley." Viscount Palmerston, Lord Clarendon, and Lord J. Russell are all treated of with ability and imparti ality: • A lively picture of "ilie gay and affable viscount," 'still Secretary-at-War under five sue cessiVe Ministers, is introduced in the career of the former. On Mr. Disraeli the author gives no ori ginal comments, except to acknOvlcdge his abilities and well-earned position. There are. large quota tions; however, from an interesting paper on Mr. Disraeli's career which appeared some years since in the Press newspaper, on the publica tion of a "literary and political biography." It was, it is said, from the pen of one whose opportu nities enabled him to speak with authority. He remarks— ' " If a fairy had accumulated upon the cradle of a child every.spell which Would blast success in life, it would seem that she need only have collected the' accessories of the life of-the.hero of this literary and political biography. He was the child of a recluse student 'Without a friend or a connection : he was born of a race which was then consi dered infamous : he had not what rife esteemed the advan tages of a conventional education : he was destined to a laborious and obscure profession. 'Out of this he comes forth a Minister of State, a transcendant orator, a writer of unexampled grace, a varied and accomplished scholar, and with a greaterpersonal following than any man of the day." The concluding portion is curious, considering the changes that have occurred since its publication : "If the object of the Literary and Political Biography,' and the sermons simultanously preached from its texts by the various Puseyite organs, be to detach the Conservative party 'from Mr. Disraeli, we predict an overwhehning failure. There are certain politicians who are, no doubt, in a false pillion; and who would pothaps• hot be grieved to resume one more natural to them ; but they , will not be permilfed to do so by preparing the way for the sacrifice of Mr. D . fsraeli by systematic libels. 'He will ()alive their spite, Or they. Will only be remembered in connecti o n with him like the heroes of The Dunciad.' the career of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer is hot °Wed ; we believe its brightest portion is in the future. We have watched its wonderful vicissitudes with a deep interest since our college days, When we read for the first time Contarini Fleming' with si glowing heart and a kindling Cheek: 'lts author was decried . as a writer, and he is new mid of the most popular, as he will certainly be the most enduring, au th or o f th e d a y: he was coughed down in the House of Commons in his maiden speech, and ho lived to prOduce oratorical effects in 'the 'same 'assembly which have hever been equalled in our time, and which we must doubt whether' the eighteenth century ever'surpassed. He 'has only been driven from power . by a coalition against him by every Irian of talent of every party in the house except his own, and that coalition already is nauseous to the nation. We lare invariably ob served that, whenever Disraeli has received a check, it has only. lieen the herald of a great ady'ahco ; and that, when the world hari believed him beaten, 'he has always been on the eve'of his greatest victories." The characters of Sir James Graham and Mr. Glad stone-are drawn with considerable .skill ; that of the latter shows considerable analysis of character. He says of him : • " Of his dazzling talents and accomplishments the world has net.a second opinion. His aptitude for sustained rea soning,. his Ciceronian flow of choice language, and the supple Adroitness with which he can wind through the mazes. of a complicated question, haye often won admira tion. .His gladiatorial feats of intellect could not fail to gratify those fond of following acute. argumentation, sup ported. by academic eloquence ; but an attentive view of his career enables us to see how grave are the defects in a man w h ose.c h ara cter wants stamina." happily, to apolitical E rasmus, He compares him, who Cltll sap one side more easily than he can strengthen the other. Speaking of the right hon. baronet the, member for Carlisle, he satirically sup po • ses that in future years, doubts mi g ht b e enter- tained , of his identity : t'Thus, in looking at Sir James Graham's extraordinary course; we see that he has been a'candidate for contradic tory honours: • There is no faction which'at times he has not vehemently supported, aid afterwards violently o P posed. ' A century hence, philosophic historians might doubt 'whether there were not three or four different ' Sir J. Grahams' in Parliament, during 'the reigns of George IV., King William, and Queen Victoria.• They might conjecture that 110 single statestuart could. Ie appeared in ;uch a political monopolylogue. Sir James Graham's votes and speeches make one think of the Wolffian hypothesis on the Homeric) Poems. Imitating the critical reasoning followed by the German commenta tor, we might, with references to Hansard and contem porary history, affect to show that there had been two Sir James Grahams in the age of Queen Victoria. and that further historical discoveries would probably reveal that there were not less than three. We could pretend to great nicety of discrimination between ' Sir James,' popularly called the Cumberland Yeoman'—Sir James, the great Conservative statesman—and a third Sir James, attacked by the Edinburgh Review for his vehement support of the friends of Cardinal Wiseman. It would seem to take ' three single gentlemen' to roll into one Sir J. R. G. Graham. First, a ' Cumberland Yeoman,' wanting to knock down the Funded Interest ; then a lacerator of Privy Councillors, out-Cobbetting Cobbett in his tirades; next, a defender of the Irish Protestant Church, in 1835, warning the House of Commons (vide Hansard) 'that Whig prin ciples consisted in jealousy of Popery, as an instrument of power,' and aftewards panegyrising the religion of Rome in 1851, as 'the faith of Fenelon, and the creed of Sir Thos. More, which touched as with fire from Heaven the tongue of Pascal;' &c., an advocate for secret investigation when he was himself charged with opening letters; then a de nouncer of Inquisitors,' in 1855, though he told the House of Commons not to offend the Emperor of the French (a privilege, it would seem, he had reserved for himself) ; figuring foremost in the counsels of the Carlton Club, and noisiest of all at the orgies of the Reform Club—toadying a British Admiral one month, and all but slandering him the next ; pouring forth jeremiads at one time—but we must stop. Chapters would - be required to recite the contradic tions of this vera itile and able, but most inconsistent public man, whose changes are stampted in hii constituencies, Cockermouth, Carlisle, Cumberland, Penrhyn, Dorchester, Ripon, and Carlisle again I" The concluding chapter of these volumes treats of " Reform and the Two Public Minds." After exa. mining the political and social views of the ques• tion, the writer observes, with some truth,—" II has been the fault of the Conservative party not to think sufficiently about the political mind ; it has been the error of the Liberal party not to regard sufficiently the national and personal prejudices of the British social mind." In discoursing upon these rival " chiefs of parties," the author displays considerable impartiality and absence of bitterness. He accords to all a share of praise ; and where he censures, it is usually where the opinion of the public has expressed the same Nterdict. We com mend his agreeable volumes to the reader who is interested in our Parliamentary histo.ry, and trust that the favourable rpception accorded to this work will induce the author to add the volume promised in his preface, containing the likenesses of those statesmen who are omitted from this gallery of national portraits. The Wife' and the Ward, or A Life's _Error. By Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Money, author of " Twelve Months with the ashi-Bazouks." Routledge. This is an interesting story that is related in a spirited style, and contains descriptions of Indian life and manners that cannot fail to attract atten tion. The first part of the story relates to the adventures that befel some officers of a regiment and their friends, which are amusingly imparted to us ; but the• latter portion is devoted to the fear ful details of the Mutiny of 1857, to which, amid all the horrors of history, we can scarcely find a parallel. The part of the struggle to which this refers is the sad tale of the massaci.e of Cawnpore,- and, painful as the perusal undoubtedly is, there are many who may desire to obtain a nearer insight into the calamities that befel their countrymen. Those who study the sad details, and contemplate the awful position here chronicled, will not -hesi tate in agreeing with the assertion made, that " truly history's page presents no more dreadful situation than theirs." The following lines con tain a just tribute to the memory of the departed sufferers : " Great admiration and sympathy have been accorded to the surviving members of the Lucknow garrison, after the brilliant and unparalleled feat of ar ms th e y went through ; and none can doubt they deserved it,—nay, that their heroism has not up to this day been sufficiently rewarded. But let us not, in the midst of ,the glowing applause their deeds, and others of a like nature, call forth,—in the midst of our rejoicings o'er the quieting aspect of India, forget to pay a tribute of heartfelt admiration to the heroic Cawn pore garrison and their leader. Let us not forget to drop a tear in remembrance of the many heroic spirits of whom it was composed, who, during the comparatively short time they fought and bled, suffered much more than any other besieged body in India. Were it only from the want of shelter which the defenders of the Cawnpore intrenchments were subject to, their position was infinitely worse than that of the Lucknow garrison, or, indeed, than any other body of the many sore-tried sufferers at that awful time. Who knows India, and dreads not an Indian s un ? Who, having felt the fiery blasts of June on Hindostan' s burning plains, can fail to appreciate the dire sufferings, from this cause alone, endured by the gallant body whose deeds we paint ? Oh 1 Englishmen, side with us I Let not the nations say heroism such as theirs passed by unhonoured in the British isles ? The Cawnpore garrison (alas I they have nearly, very nearly all none to their last home), who fought with out hope, who freely bled in their country's cause, under hardships which pen cannot depict, which tongue cannot tell, deserve a monument at England's hands, set up in England's mighty capital, worthy to hand down their deeds to posterity, and vie with Fame, who already, on a loud trumpet, has achievea immortality for their names 1" TVYLD'S GREAT GLOBE. Mr. Wyla's last addition to the Great Globe, in Leicester-square, will be, perhaps, the most attrac tive of all. The scenery of the Rhine, depicted, we believe by a German artist, abounding at least in touches which we have hardly ever seen, except in tableaux from the "father land" itself, is a subject to attract every lover of the beautiful and the romantic. We need hardly say that the Rhine, and its banks; furnishes both in abundance. Not fewer than forty-four large and well-selected tableaux exhibit to us here in dingy London, and almost level Middlesex, the sunlit prospects and frequently imposing mountain scenes which border the great river. We start with the steamer, be tween the level shores of Holland; but, after passing multitudes of feudal castles, perched on lofty rocks, and quaint, and pretty towns, and cathedrals, and bridges of boats, and beautiful scenes, we eni where no steamer could take us, in the lower Alps, among the snowy mountains, where the Rhine has its source. To attempt description were super fluous. The tourist will here, at his ease, refresh his recollections of what he would surely like to re tain in vivid and distinct remembrance, and will be able to describe to home friends, who behold it with him, with fresh interest. The intending tourist, while advised by the lecturer to look out for him self views and scenes .unmentioned by guidebooks, will yet learn one important lesson before he starts, what, namely, to look for. But, above all, the thousands who cannot afford the time, and the tens of thousands who cannot afford the money for a trip on the Rhine, may here have, so far as gratification of the eyes and the imagina tion go, the next best thing to it, the means of forming clear pleasing conceptions of what more favoured eyes can behold in all its grand, sublime, or beautiful reality. We know not whether adepfate attention has been drawn to the instructive character of Mr. Wyld's whole exhibition. There is in it so much of the pleasing and the entertaining that the more serious advantage is perhaps forgotten. We for get, when we leave, how much more definite ideas we form of so much that we have seen. Our atten tion was called to this circumstance by the youngest of four children whom we took with us, one not more than nine years old, and of the most merry and playful temper, exclaiming, while we were talking to him of the diversion, "Yes, and I am sure we came out much wiser than we went in —to know so much about all these places—and those images, too, 'of the people of different coun tries—and the Globe. I never thought England was so little before." Of course we did not tail in the duties of Dominie, after such a hint; but it was a just one. We never ourselves.had half so just a conception of the proportions of continents and coun tries, and land and water, to each other as from seeing the Great Globe, nor of the real form of the great masses of land, and the mountain chains, and the great river valleys of the earth. A map, of .course, is necessarily distorted, a convex globe al lows you to see but a part at a time, but a concave globe, though it seems wrong, in truth, gives you a More accurate conception of the properties and relations adverted to than any other representation. The &mind on your fancy is really very small. With regard to the splendil v i e ws on the Rhine ; the twenty-six, almost equally good, of China, from:Hong K ong and Canton with its river, along the coast, t o th e river and city of Oude Pekin ; (two the f of crty views of Southern India, Bengal' Lucknow), Upper India, including Cawnpore, and one o f Delhi, till country in the Himalayasthe view weof quit the , Nagasaki in Japan, all these speak for themselves. So also do the Orientals in native, many of them really native dresses, and the plans of Sebastopol, &e., by no means antiquated yet, and other curiosities. We certainly had not reflected, before taking children with us, how much knowledge was acquired, with out toil, by what the eye could not but gaze on, within Mr. Wyld' s unique building ; and all for so small a sum ! Parents, teachers, superintendents of Sunday schools, perhaps even liberal and enlight ened employers of numerous young persons, would do well not to overlook so easy a method of at once amusing, and of expanding and informing their minds. Lecturers well acquainted with what, is be fore them describe everything to the audience, and in a peripatetic lecture on the numerous groups of Orientals we noticed some appropriate illustrations of Scripture usages, having certainly none of the dryness of the notes of learned commentators. The lecturer on the Globe itself was, appropriately, a nephew of Dr. Livingstone ; he has of course his uncle's great expeditions prettyplainlydelineat e d or an Africa of such a size as is seen in no other representation, and did not fail to give us the out lines of those wonderfnl journeys, Visitors will cer tainly repay themselves in giving Mr. Wyld the uneouraoement his enterprise deserves. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The country markets held on Saturday were but mode rately supplied with wheat, and all kinds moved off briskly at considerably enhanced rates. Th ere was an improvea inquiry for barley, oats, beans, peas, and the tuotations were on the advance. Throughout the Continent wheat has sold briskly, and prices have rapidly improved. Spring corn has sold readily at is to 2s per quarter more money. In France extensive sales of flour have been effected for shipment to this., country. The A mer i can mar k e t s cont i nue high for b ow wheat and flour. The arrivals wf English produce up to our market last week were rather limited. From abroad we received 12,482 qrs. of wheat, 10,356 of barley, 43,491 oats, 40 beans, 1 6 peas, 19 tares, 240 maize, 110 sundry seeds, and 2,337 sacks of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to-dayr coastwise and by land carriage, was very moderate, arta the show of samples was rather limited. The commence ment of hostilities in Sardinia produced considerable ex citement in the trade. The bulk of the supply was cleared off at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday last of fully 10s. to 12s. per quarter, and the whole of the supply passed into millers' hands. Holders of foreign wheat, for the most part, demanded very high rates, although the show of samples was good. Prices may be called Bs. to 10s. per quarter higher than on this day se'nnight, and some large parcels were taken on speculation. k Floating cargoes of wheat were held at lOs advance. We had a good demand for both English and foreign barley, at 2s to 3s per quarter more money. Malt moved off steadily, and prices had an upward tendency. Although the show of oats was good, the oat trade was brisk, and the quotations advanced 2s to 3s per quarter. Beans moved off briskly, at 3s to 4s more money. Grey peas were 3s to 4s, white ditto, 8s to lOs per quer' ter dearer, with a brisk sale. Flour was active. Town-made sold as high as 545, and country marks were 4s per 2801bs dearer. American and other qualities were higher. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new sos to 599 Ditto, old Ditto, white, new sss 669 Ditto. old —8 —8 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —8 Ditto, new 478 589 Rye—Old —9 —5 -New BarleY—Grinding...., 269 295 Malting .37s 389 Chevalier 3Bs 438 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk .. s2s 66s Brown . .... .. ..... 60s 62a Kingston and Ware 62s 649 Chevalier ' 64s 669 Oats— 22 Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding e 276 Potato 29s - 338 Youghal and Cork, black ... 239 269 Cork, white Scotch, Feeding Beans—Tick Pigeons Peas—Grey . Maple White Boilers Flour—Town -made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk a ... 4 4 04244 22 34443 3689228 : i : 5 ' 50344:524 . 3 2 99190478:88: METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 2,876 head. In the corresponding week in 185$ Ws . received 1,362 ; in 1857, 1,456 ; in 1856, 742 ; in 180 5 , 1,266; in 1854, 1,122; in 1853, 3,474; and in 1852., head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pie* Rotterdam Hamburgh 79 .. 2,262 .. —..—.. . Harlingen Ostend l6 .. Boulogne — - • . -- • • 23 . . -- • e ""-. • • 7 • • . - Total l6l 2,675 3 37 • • The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as followe:' Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. rig. 1858 lB3 .. 1,000 .. 3 .. 176 .. • "-; 1857 428 .. 874 .. 5 .. 147 1856 293 .. 367 .. 4 .. 78 .. • 1855 691 265 .. 5 .. 305 .. 1854 309 .. 566 .. 3 .. 232 .. 1853 854 .. 2,100 2 .. 518 .. - To-day's market was very moderately supplied with each kind of foreign stock, and the general quality was by ep means first-rate. The arrivals of beasts, fresh up from our own greOlg,.., districts, were on th e i ncrease, and their general qualm was good. Although the attendance of butchers was toler‘ ably numerous, the beef trade ruled very inactive, _and, 11 . / , some instances, price s were a shade lov;•er than on Monde" last. The top price for beef was 4s 8d per 81bs. • ' From Norfolt, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, " received 2,220 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England, 450 of var i ous breeds • from Scothelda 300 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 120 oxen an heifers. • • 'ed We were tolerably we ll, b u t no t t o say heavily', supPli with most breeds of sheep, fully two thirds of which.wer e out of the wool. O n th e w h o l e t h e mutton trade rul e' active • nevertheless, very little chan ge t oo k pli es in p": compared with Monday last. The top price for Downs, the wool, was 5s 8d per 81bs. There was a moderate inquiry for lambs, at last week's currency, viz., 5s 4d to 6s 4d per 81bs. About 250 came hand from the Isle of Wight. We had a fair sale for calves, •at full quotations. Fie' sold slowly, but at full prices. Per 81bs. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second qualitydo. 3 10 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Crse..& inf. sheep 3 10 4 4 Second quality do. 4 6 4 8 Lambs, 5s Suckling calves, 18s to 21s 19s to 225. !ink the offal. a. d. s• 41 ; Primecrs-wool do. 4 10 6 Pme. S'thdowndo. 5 6 5 Large crse. calves 3 10 4 Prime small do 4 10 6 6 Large hogs 3 0 3 .; sm.]] porkers 3 8 4 " 4d to 6s 4d. ; and quarter-old store pigh TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. .... Beasts 3,920 Bea s t s - 13u Sheep 21,550 Sheep 69 Calves Piga. 5OO , Pigs ...... A. statement and comparison of th e suppl i es and pr i ce s of ~.. fat stock exhibited a n d so ld i n t h e Great Metropolil'"" Cattle Market, on Monday, May 3, 1858, and this daft Monday, May 2, 1859. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. May 3, 1858. May 2, 19 5 ?* a d. s. d. s. d. a. u a ' Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto 3 6 3 B'3 10 4 " Prime large oxen 3lO 4 2i4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. .• • • •4 2 4 414 6 4 4 Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 4 3 613 10 4 8 Second quality ditto . •.3 10 4 2'4 6 4 4 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 4 4 84 10 5 Prime Southdown ditto . . . 5 0 5 2,5 6 6 " Lambs .. . 6 4 _ ... Large coarse calves ..... 6 0 7 0 5 4 , 5 . . . . 4 4 4103 10 1 6 Prime small ditto ..... 5 0 5 64 10 0 6 Large hogs ....... 3 2 4 0 3 0 a, 2 Beasts Neat small porkers . . . . 4 2 4 4 3 8 4 an t-' 50v Sheep s 9 1 and lambs . • 20,840 .--) 63 Calve 145 500 Pi g s SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 4, 1857.---Beasts, 3,7 3 ° , sheep and lambs, 22,360; calves, 134; pigs, 210. ... March 5, 1856 . —B easts, 4,1 85 ; s h eep an d l am b s, 23, 170 calves, 91; pigs, 320. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of country-killed meat are moderate,. • and the show slaughtered in the metrop o li s i s rather Generally speaking the demand continues steady, at ful l prices. Per Blbs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. I s. d. °d• • Inferior Beef 3 4to 3 6 f Tar. A 0 r. Mutt on . 36 to 4 Mid. d 0..... 38to 3 10 Mid. do .. •.42t04 A. 10 Pm.largedo. 4 oto 4 2 Prime do. .. 4 6to ; Do. small do. 4 4to 4 6 ( f Veal, ... . . 4 2to Large pork.. 3 2t o 3 8 Small poric .. 3 10 to 4 2 Lamb, 48 4d to 5s Bd. _ BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since our last report about average time-of-year supP lil l, of potatoes hav e come to hand, coastwise and by land a:' riage. From abroad, the i mports have been only 192 Mi from Calais. G oo d and sound qualities move off somovi,S; briskly, at en h ance d quotations ; but other kinds iu" - ruled heavy, at late currencies. ;2 00 York Regents, 90 s to 105 s •, do. Flukes, 95s to 1 ,' Essex and Kent, 80 5 to 100 s; Scotch, 60s to 75sr Do. 40s to 70s ; Li nco l ns, 70s to 90s; Foreign, 408 to 50s I-- Ibn. BOROUGH HOP. Nearly all new hops are still In fair request, at very i& prices. - Y ear li ngs are quite as dear as last week. In 4) ^ parcels only a limited business is doing. Mid and East Kent pockets B4B to 147 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do 66s to 84s ~ Sussex do 63s to 75s ~ • WOOL MARKET. Owing to the near approach of the Colonial wool el and the warlik e news a t h an d f rom th e Continent, all of wool ar e ver y d u ll i n sa l e , an d, i n some instances, price rule the turn in favour of buyers. The import, last W was only 6 bales from the Cape. SEEDS. Linseed has been in active request, and prices have 01 " vanced 38 to 4s per quarter. A. large huffiness has b e :: done in rapeseed, at slightly en h anced rates. C slow sale. In tares and c l overseed very little al i a s i lsh i g . Cakes move off freely, at very full prices. 2 urnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14si Carraway 4os t° 12 , 45° Swede ........ 18s 20 s , Coriander 99 „„,, 38 0 Mustard, 8r0wn.... 8s lls Herapseed, per qr .7. , . 760 White, new... 12s 20s Linseed,Enzsowing 749 ....... Tares, Spring, new.. 9s6d 12s Crushing —9 ...... Old ........... —s —s Baltic —4 mg Canary, per quarter 56s 76s Odessa Rye grass, new 22s 26s Linseed Cake, p. tou ,-, 150 Clover, Red Eng., ct 46s 76s English £lO os£l , ' 50 Od 10 1 White _Os 749 White 60s 888 Rapeseed, p. qr trit' Trefoil, new. lBs 20s TALLOW m 4 Our market has b ecome much less active, an d _ t ooll iling '- have a down war d t en d ency. P.Y.C., on the spot, is -u at 58s per cwt ; t own tallow, 56s 6d nett casli; fat, 3s ld per 81bs. 18 55. 1856. 1857. 1858 185 2 . Price of Y.C.----- 111 Stock this day.... 41,057 17,609 10,684 11.044 52s Od to 458 6d to 5559 d to 558 Od to 50 0/ 0 Od--8 Oci — 1 150 Delivery last week 2,377 1,988 1,572 1,157 ~i'63l Ditto from June 1 80,604 101,532 100,896 98,778 — '3l3 Arrivals last week .11,734 1004 338 510 a 935 Ditto from June 1 85,660 72,599 91,600 98.109 .-.3; pd Price of Town .... 54 8 3d 48s 6d 588 Od 578 3d o'r e suspension has'been announced of the ing firm of Wolf and Co., of Berlin, hitherto in good Cr eu l and with extensiv e t ransac tions. A cons id era ble failure also reported from Vienna, and many more must be leek eia tort I ,~ '~