The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN OF 1862 HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, by Imperial Ukase, under date of the 26th of April, 1862, having authorised the emissicua- of a LOAN for £15,000,000 Sterling, nominal •Capital, Messrs. de Rothschild Brothers, of Paris, and Messrs. N. X. Rothschild and Sons, in this city, have entered into a Contract for the negotiation of the same. Five millions stock of th's loan have already been dis posed of, and for the remaining £10,000,000 5 per Cent. stock subscriptions will be received. Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons, therefore, beg to announce that they are ready to receive applications for the name, which will be emitted in Bonds to bearer for £5O, £lOO, £5OO, and £l,OOO sterling, bearing interest at 5 per cent. per annum, with'Coupons, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of November and Ist of May each year, at the option of the holders, in London in pounds sterling; in Paris at the exchange of 25f. 20c. per pound sterling; in Frankfort-on the Main and Amsterdam at the exchange of the day ; and at St. Petersburgh at 371 d. per silver rouble. The Bonds will be provided with '2O coupons and a talon for renewal of the same after they are exhausted, free of expense. The Imperial Government reserves itself the right, after the expiration of 20 years from the Ist of May, 1862, of redeeming this loan at par. The pr'ce of emission is £94 for every £lOO stock, pay able in 12 months, with dividend from the Ist May, 1862, as follows, viz.:- 15 per cent. on £94 on the 15th May next, 10 „ „ 10th July. I, 10th September. „ 10th Nov., less the dividend. 12,1 January, 1863. ~ 10th February. )1 10th March. „ 10th April. ~ 12th May, less the dividend. 15 7 , 10 ,7 10 ~ 10 7, 10 ~ 10 ~ Subscribers desirous of anticipating the payment of these instalments will be allowed a discount of 4 per cent. per annum, and the Bonds will be delivered as soon as they can be obtained from the Imperial Government. Every application must be accompanied with a deposit of 10 per cent. on the amount applied for. In case the al lotment should not require the whole deposit, the surplus will be returned ; it it be insufficient for the first instalment on the amount allotted, the balance required must be paid forthwith. Scrip receipts will be issued, which will be exchanged for the Bonds after payment of the last instalment. Subscription lists will be opened at the same time at — Messrs. de Rothschild Brothers Messrs. M. A. de Rothschild and Sons Frankfort 0. M. Messrs. Becker and Fuld Amsterdam. Mr. Bleichroder No applications will be received after Friday evening, the 2d of May next. FORM OF APPLICATION. Russian 5 per Cent. Loan for Fifteen Millions Stock, issued according to the Ukase of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Russia, dated 26th April, 1862. Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me in the above Loan, on which I enclose the required deposit of 10 per cent., or £ , and I agree to accept that amount of Stock, or any less sum that may be allotted to me, and to pay the balance of such allotment, according to the terms of your notice. I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, _ _ London, Address— 1862. INTERNATIONAL "EXHIBITION" FREE TO ALL, AS ON THE LOAM'AS-LAND. To the Poor-Law Union authorities of Kensington-G're veer Estate-trust of, in, and for the Lady of Turvey, the lineal of Chief Justice Alberic de Vere—to hold in fee (to himself and heirs), on the Gironde crown-sidereal data. Gentlemen, &c , &c., &c. First notice— On the attainder of the elder Vere line-1461, and failure of males of the Peterborough second line of the Bolbec and Drayton branch of Sir Henry Vere, in 1702—50, by Capt. John Chamberlayne de Mordaunt, in 1861—causes the retrospective right ought of the elder female suc ccession to the 2d Baron Mordeunt's daughter Elizabeth Tere=Monnox's offspring, through Dacres-Atkyns-Mon tague Ackerley=Charnberlayne of Stow-Gloucester, now I.IIORDAuNT," to offspring by marriage with—Sheffield- Vere Fairfax—giving the lineal right of " Lady of Turvey and Kensington to their child, the undersigned's Niece the Lady Lavinia. Notice !—The illegal Oratory assumption of the Pope's mitre on ALL the standard Exchequer deeds of 1835 as their Code? 15th-Clause of the " Catholic" Emancipa tion Act, 1829, —being [part or parcel of as "lay body corporate" to Englacd]—together with Palmerston on the Rotnsey Edgar'an-cell-resusitatioa—and i gift of the Vere Ackerley's state " Siamese Sword Offering" to Him as the Prince Consort of the law 1822, as of " the Adam and Eve consorted for Colonial-soil criminal title, in opposition to their Justinian civil law constitution—explains America's native Allied-trust 1825-87.---Whence I Parochial Union Right—to all the proceeds over Kensington (saving the Lady of Turveyportion), whereon this shall be your warrant to enter (the Drug-nursery Grounds as of Chelsea's Henry the VIII.'s apothecary's tenure, late in Mr. Gray), and inforce the law in this behoof for the pablic benefit, By reason of the foreigners having presumed to build a shop for the exposure of their goods without the under signed's sanction. • • CHARLES ACKERLEY, 1 and 2 Will. iv., No. 54. Chamberlayne PETER BASQUET, Income Tax Chief, 1842. London, April 29, 1862. 1 1 HEAT K E-RO v A 1., HAYMARKET. Leese Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (DO th7time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitied THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Pcrea ena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY EITJSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager---Mr. Edmund Falconer. 142 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENIN G.:PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconet ; 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. Chltterton. Prices as usual. floors open at hall-past 8, to commence at ?. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Lessee. Mr A. Barrin. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. To be followed by,• at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new and original drama, in five acts, entitled THE GULDEN DAGGERS. Principal characters by Mr. Pechter, H.Widdi comb, Mr. G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore, A' r. Ca' h eart, Mr. Moreland ; Mesdames Elsworthy and Carlotta Le riercq. Mr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded in indu ing that eminent artist, Mr. W. Telbin, to give the aid of his unrivalled talent In the concluding tableau of the drama. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL— Role Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, &c. • After which (4th time), THE PHANTONI. Ruthven, Mr Dlon Boucicault. Messrs. J. 1,. Toot" Emer y ' Billington, Paul IC dford, Stephenson, S e f ton . Simms, K Reny, K. Nand, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. A. .STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE_ -LA. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Yr. W. Batty. Wonderful Pericrm.ance of Mr. Bell's trained Elepti.nts. THIS EVENING. the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORIt, introducing two colossal Asiatic .1 4 :1 , ?phants. pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. 'To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. • Concluding with a laughable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. THE COLONIAL ALLOWANCE TO HER MAJESTY'S FORCES.—We understand that a question of considerable difficulty has arisen which threatens to render somewhat embarrassing the relations between the colonial Govern ment and the officer commanding the imperial forces in this • colony. For several years past a rather liberal colonial allowance has been granted by the Parliament to supple ment the Imperial pay of the military stationed here. A ' despatch has, however, been lately received by his Excel lency the Governor, from the Duke of Newcastle, informing him that, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Government, the rate of colonial allowance granted to the troops is an excessive one, and directing that it is to be re duced to that paid in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The reason given for this redaction is that the excessive allowance to the troops in these colonies operates unjustly towards those serving on other stations. We believe that Colonel Kempt has been informed of the arrival of this de spatch; but that pending the receipt of an official intima tion from the Horse Guards it will not be acted upon. It will be remembered that the voting of the allowance in • questionquestionhas frequently met with opp os iti on i n our Legislative Assembly, and after this direction from the Home gover nment the desired reduction will p ro b a bly b e readily fr e -ected by the local Government. It does not ap - pear that the rate to which the colonial allowance is to be conformed bears any fair proportion to the expenses of liv ing in New South ' W ales, and it is apprehended that the enforcement of the o r d er would excite much dissatisfaction a mong the soldiers, and w ould interfere with the mainten ance of military duic!pli te. It is stated that a military Board has been appointed to inquire into and report upon Herald, F eb 15. the matter.-780 2 eY 11 . -- -Infan c y i n L on d on I NFANTIC IDE IN LONDo has to creep into life in th e midst L( of fora We hear ofte n of the impoverished or poisoned air of 1 ose alley s and rooms unfit for habitation, and now the corone rs infants hav© just t o ld us in their cfficial returns that 67 u n d er two years of age were murdered last year in the metro polis. 15 0 more were found dead," a l arge p r oportion of them l eft expos e d in the streets; how many of these were "persuaded not to live" must remain a secret till the disclosure of all secrets. 'Cf above 50 others we learn that they either lost their lives 'through the misconduct of those who should have tended them, or that their death s are a tt r ib u t a ble, wholly or in part, to neglect, want, cold, or exposure; the mother of one was only 13i years old. More than 250 infants were suffocated, very generally in Led, and in upwards of half these cases there was no evidence how the suffocation was caused, or the juries did not state in their verdict that it was accidental. 1,104 deaths of infants in London in 1861 under two years old were such as to demand a coroner's inquest upon them. The age is the same as in the massacre which Christendom annually remembers, but the size of this great metropolis causes it to out-Herod Herod. 'THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- RUMSEY and NEWCOMB'S MINSTRELS In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and TerpsichOrein Entertaininent, THE OLIO OF ETHIO t lAN ODDITIES. Burns' celebrated "Jolly Beggars," with characteristic Music by George Linley. Grand Selections from "Un Ballo in Maschera," "Il Tro vatore." "Norma," &c. &c, by Miss Russell and tne entire Company. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, F. Joughm.ns. A host of comic talent, including W. Randall and Harvey and French (the .Nerves). Ballads, Duets. &c., Arc. ' • and, at 11 o'clock. lIENRI and PFAU appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 2b. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 28m. To-monnow.-Morning, 2h. 42i - I:l.—Afternoon, 3h. Om. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The un 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. *2 . 1 _.4 _,„*; - • ( pakt7i. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1862. Our readers must not be surprised, now, if we sometimes give them an erroneous interpretation of the intelligence we get from America. Respecting, for instance, the great battle of Pittsburg Landing we have the most defective or contradictory accounts; from General GRANT, on the Federal side, from General BEAUREGARD for the Confederates, from the Federal Government itself ; and we have, too, the complaints of the papers that they can get no definite information from their own side. We can not feel quite sure that BEATJREGARD'S account is not greatly exaggerated ; but until the Washington War-office can contradict it in terms more explicit than they do we shall assume that BEAUREGARD is nearest the truth. These are the vague terms in which Mr. STANTON'S agent writes : In reference to BEAUREGARD'S despatch, inquiries have been made at the War Department, and we are authorised to say that the report from Pittsburg Land ing, already given to the public, contradicts the report in the Norfolk papers. All reports received at the War De partment confirm the statements that tho enemy were routed and pursued as far as the previous orders of Gene ral GRANT 'would permit, and the enemy are now shut up in Corinth. Now, till Mr. STANTON can tell us something more explicit about BEAURE6ARD•s 10,000 pi isoners and 36 pieces of cannon, we shall believe that he has got. them. On the other hand, the intelligence—so import ant that we waited for confirmation of it--that the Federals had seized on a hundred miles of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, on each side of Huntsville, in North Alabama, and thereby cut off their enemies' communications, we now know to be correct. Federal intelligence is detailed and exact when it is to the advantage of Federals. The reader can compare this despatch from the General who accomplished this important success, with the above statement of Mr. STANTON from General GRANT'S despatches. It runs thus : Head-quarters, Third Division, Huntsville, April 11. After a forced march of incredible difficulty, leaving Fayetville yesterday at twelve noon, my advance guard entered Huntsmille this morning at six o'clock. The city was completely taken by surprise, no one having considered the march practicable in the time. We have captured about 200 prisoners, 15 locomotives, and a large amount of passenger and box platform cars, the telegraph apparatus and office, and two Southern mails. We have at last succeeded in cutting the great artery of railway communication between the Southern States. (Signed) 0. M. MITCHELL, Brigadier-General Commanding, Probably most readers will think it would be credulity to rely on the former statement ; and in credulity not to believe this. Such is the conse quence of tampering with the Press and its corre spondents. It throws the public not on the good faith of the journal, but on his own judgment as to probabilities. The little battle with the Merrimac, if battle it can be called, left, at all events, the prizes of vic tory with her. She returned with three captured ships, trophies of her prowess, white no defender of the Federal property ventured to do anything but fire long shots at her, none of which appear to have struck her. When she did retire, it appeared to be in consequence of a shell, from a very large gun of her own, having exploded in the gun's mouth, and having, therefore, it was supposed, done some injury within the vessel. The three captured ships were loaded, one with sut lers' goods, another with hay, and a third with beef. The Naugatuck, iron-plated gunboat, got aground, it is said. She professes that otherwise she would have prevented the capture; which, indeed, was actually made by the smaller gunboats convoyed by the Merrimac. The French and Eng lish vessels lie near watching for a sight of the second conflict between the Monitor and Merrimac, but as yet in vain. One thing is certain, that the Federals are byno means free from the fear that their enemy may give them the slip, and take part in the contest at Yorktown. Just now, when foreigners are about to visit us from every part, it is gratifying if, turning to the Continent for a moment, we can observe any hopeful indications in regard to civil and religious liberty. We invite the Continentals to come and ,00k at our productions, and we ask them to place theirs side by side with ours ; and, under the libe ralising rule of free trade, we look with no envy on their superiority in many productions of art and skill; we regard them rather as articles of impor tation—sure to be paid for, ultimately, by corre sponding exportations. But in one thing which all Continentals will see here, we fear no eompet:- tion—we know that we shall be their envy. Our perfect personal freedom, and the freedom of our political institutions, we know must excite the admiration of all our guests. Timidly will many of them shrug their shoulders, and wish that they, too, were St to be trusted to do what they pleased, and go where they pleased ; while nobler spirits among them will protest that they are fit —that if their rulers gave them fair play they too could solve the problem of perfect lib . e,rty and perfect order. Now, though there are dark spots enough in almost every European State, it is yet true that in most there are some bright ones. To begin in the South —there are no dark spots there except what are created by the direct oppression of Austria, and the indirect cruelty of France—the atrocities she perpetrates by the bands of the POPE and the ex- King. The It alian kin g d om i tse lf i s f ree; Eng land herself is hardly freer. And, the telegrams of this morning tell us of a bright burst of sunshine on the very spot where the Franco-Papal alliance has shed such a gloom over the land. At Gaeta yesterday morning, the King of ITALY was re ceived with the enthusiastic cheers of the people. At Naples a universal illumination, and a serenade, on the largest scale, welcomed him the same even ing. French and English frigates paid him honour on behalf of their respective Governments; and the short announcement is " the enthusiasm is inde scribable." Let us hope that the report of his offi cers may touch the heart of the Emperor of the FRENCH, and induce him to remove from Rome that dark curse of Southern Italy—the French army. Let him do this, and we will welcome him to our Exhibition. Meantime, however, the hearts of Lord NORMANBY and the Tories may sink at read ing this morning's telegrams, all Englishmen, worthy of their country, will rejoice at this spon taneous manifestation of Italian unity, in the person of a Liberal and beloved Sovereign. Even Austria herself is not without her brighter spots. We adverted the other day to the extreme liberality of her proposals in regard to religious liberty—they are such that not only the honour able member for Bucks and his Wednesday subor dinates might take a lesson from, but they aim so distinctly, not merely at religions liberty, but at religious equality for all confessions, that our Whigs themselves might study them with advan tage. As we have already observed, even should the intolerance of the dominant sect hinder their being adopted by the Reichsratli, it is bat fair to give this despotic Government the credit of offering an admirable model to all Europe. But there is yet another bright spot in Austria—only it is not in this case to the credit of the Government. We refer to the firmness of Hungary. Nothing, it seems, can move her. Harrassed and wearied by the Pro visional Government—desirous, consequently, and strongly so, of coming to some arrangement, when questioned what she would concede, a trustworthy correspondent tells us that his Magyar friends met every proposal to surrender any of their main points with an unhesitating denial. They would never surrender their right to vote supplies—would never send deputies to the Austrian Reichsrath—would never receive a constitution from Austria as a grant, they would have their ancient constitution of 1848. This looks hopeful. If Hungary be both patient and firm, a few years are little in the life of a na tion, and the Hapsburg will be obliged to bow dur ing the next European storm, if not before. Again from Austria's rival proper—from Prussia, the intelligence is also hopeful. The Liberals still have the ascendancy in the elections. They have not been caught with the chaff of reductions of expenditure proffered, with the avowed purpose of purchasing votes for the Government candidates. The Government circulars to officials seem to have been resented, not only by the distinguished heads of the universities—men of European fame as scholars —but by magistrates themselves, in such modes as they dare adopt. The news, therefore, this morn ing is, that both in Berlin and in the country, so far as the telegrams had arrived, the elections had been most favourable to the Liberal party. It is to be remembered that double elections is the practice in Prussia. The wider constituency, and it is pretty extensive, chooses the actual electors, who again choose the representatives. It is the primi tiv, elections which are now proceeding so favourably for the Liberals. The prospect therefore is hopeful, that his Majesty "by the grace of God," will find that his people have also rights by the same grace, which they too are determined to assert. Even Russia with her black spot of Poland is not disposed to be left quite behind. Besides her emancipation of her serfs now in progress, the CZAR has actually determined to create a substantially representative assembly. The really higher ranks in Russia, are by no means unqualified for such work, a middle class has been slowly forming, and there seems every reason to believe, that sick of a bureaucracy incurably corrupt, the EMPEROR may be disposed to interest substantial power to the hands of the higher classes of landowners. We have given the brighter side of things, in regard to some facts of the hour; but, we incline to hope there is more than this behind. Public opinion in Europe now is a different thing from what it was fifty years ago. The mechanical means of making known all that passes in one nation in the course of a few days or hours, by telegrams, letters, and newspapers, among all other nations, has produced a very different sensitiveness among the rulers to what the people think. All nations know that England sympathises with free institutions, but how much more influential is the fact when every important illustration of it reaches them almost as soon as it occurs. Libe rals in Italy and Liberals in Prussia are fighting, cubstantially, the same battle but with how much more encouragement, when they quickly learn each others successes. Even the Poles, in their passive heroism, felt the effect of all Europe's eye upon them, and it is obvious that their oppressors are at least sensible to shame, however reluctant they may be to forego power. LOU7S NAPOLEON is not wide of the mark in declaring that public opinion in Europe is now a power which no one can defy. We only wish that he could see it bidding him to cease the occupation of Rome. He stays, however, because he says that public, Roman Catholic, opinioti demands it of him. Little by little good is coming in the way o: army reductions. It was but very recently that the imperial ruler of France resolved upon dimi• nishing by 30,000 men the vast aggregate of that Standing Army of his, which is necessarily, of course, a perpetual Standing Menace to the rest of Europe. And now we have tidings of the reduction of the gigantic army of A ustria by very nearly a quarter of a million, i.e. by 2,000 cavalry, and 20,000 infantry. At the very least it is a good beginning. In this way, if in no other, every one almost will look back with complacency, for once, upon the gradual, and certainly the beneficial, working of the system of bit by bit reform. Why, in point of fact, although as compared with a grand army of some 600,000 soldiers of all ranks, infantry, cavalry, and artillery-30,000 men, more or less, may appear to be a difference of compara tively small consideration —thirty thousand men, after all, would make up a formidable army enough in any pitched battle. Again, the same propor tionally might be said of the Austrian diminu tion by 22,000, as we have just remarked in regard to the French diminution by 30,000. Viewing either of those bodies apart—here 30,000 of the disciplined soldiers of France, here 22,000 of the white-coated veterans of the Kaiser—it would be the merest affectation to grumble over the insufficiency of either diminution. In each case it is, beyond a doubt of it, a visible and appreciable step in the right direction. More, considerably more, remains to be done before the wished-for goal can be reached ; but already it would be idle to deny that much has been done, even now, towards bringing us all onward in the general yearning after economy and comparative confidence in the non-disturbance of European tranquillity. It is as well, moreover, that both France and Austria have alike internally the strongest incentive to a steady persistence in this now inaugurated march towards economy and general tranquillisation. The respon sible financier of each empire has cognisance of the -- !THE SUN,I LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1832. sore need there is to lessen the expenditure of his own particular Government. The urgency of an enormous deficit drives either back from the "facile descent" of a mere reckless expenditure. That in effect constitutes for the rest of Europe the most reliable guarantee that the course so wisely entered upon at last, both at Paris and at Vienna, will yet awhile, must•yet awhile in all human probability be resolutely persisted in. Since our tribute to the memory of Sir THOMAS WYSE, late her Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Athens, a tribute which appeared in the leading columns of our impression of The Sun of Thursday last, we have received further and authentic particulars of the funereal honours accorded to the remains of his late Excellency by the Greek Court and by the Athenian population. It appears, from the terms in which the decease of Sir THOMAS WYSE is announced in the columns of the local newspaper of the following morning—that is, on the 16th instant, the late Ambassador having ex pired on the 15th—that suddenly, though the melancholy tidings came to us here in England by Telegram, it came not by any means so unexpect edly to the knowledge of the Athenians. His Excellency, the Franco-Greek journal referred to, announces, " a succombe Kier a la suite d'une ma ladie prolongee." It is added immediately that the loss of the deceased Ambassador was severely felt by the whole Diplomatic Corps at Athens, of which body he was the "Doyen," or chief, by right of offi cial seniority. His ever-conciliatory yet ever-firm line of policy was by one and all of them, to the full, appreciated—the amenity of his individual character being none the less entirely appreciated by the highest circles ; in fact, more or less by all ranks and classes in the Greek metropolis, in proof of which an eye-witness of the obsequies of Sir THOS. WYSE informs us that so vast was the concourse attendant upon the cortege that it almost appeared to embrace '° the entire population" of Athens. It should be observed at once, in regard to this, that the Funeral—by command of his Majesty King OTHO— was a Public Funeral! In obedience to the royal mandate no exertion was spared in order to evidence, in a signal manner, the respect with which the me mory of the British Ambassador, just deceased, was regarded by the whole mass of the inhabitants of Athens, from the Sovereign downwards. A cere monial pomp was accorded to the proceedings of the day hardly inferior to those lavished upon royalty. The flags half-mast high at the Piraeus, the church bells of Athens tolling, the minute guns firing throughout the whole period occupied by the fune ral ceremony, the path of the procession lined throughout by the soldiery, behind whose ranks appeared the enormous concourse of citizens already alluded to, having thus shown their sympathy by their attendance—all betokened the high estima tion in which this distinguished representative of her Britannic MAJESTY was held, both by the Athenians themselves and by their Sovereign. It is noticeable that among the more conspicuous and impressive incidents marking the obsequies of Sir THOMAS WYSE, was the delivery of a Funeral Oration over his Tomb, immediately before the close of the ceremony of interment, a discourse feelingly pronounced by the lips of the French Minister Plenip o t en ti ar y. It gave, in a con d ense d form, an epitome of the public life and political career of the departed Diplomatist. A verbatim translation of this harangue, however —though it was what we had, at the first moment of seeing it,r- solved upon —we cannot but recognise, immediately upon a perusal of the discourse itself, as altogether unnecessary. For, our remarks on Thursday, in the leading columns of our own journal, had already, by several days, anticipated the spoken commentaries of the French Ambassador at Athens as now reported to us through the Franco-Greek new.pnper already referred to. Stage by stage in the onward and upward progress of the career of Sir THOMAS WYSE, the deceased publicist and diplomatist was followed in the French Minis ter's survey of it, as on Thursday it had been followed in our commentaries upon himself and his achieve ments. Anything like a recapitulation—anything like a twice told tale of what has thus been so very recently brought under the notice of our readers, would be consequently to the last degree superfluous. The closing sentence of the French Ambassador's funeral oration the other day at Athens appears to demand from us, however cursorily, a passing glance of retrospective regret. After observing as evidence of the unconquerable energy of the de ceased even under the enervating influence of dis ease, " pond it est mort, it est mort debout," the French Ambassador says with pathetic significance —" Dieu lui tiendra compte des douleurs sous le poids desquelles it a enfin succombe." Words im plying more perhaps in the way of mournful sig nificance than the majority of those listening to them had even a glimmering notion of. " After life's fitful fever he sleeps well !" As KENT sighs over the dead friend in SHAKSPERE. He sleeps none the less " well," too, from having died in harness—doing to the last, in the station in which GOD had placed him, that Duty which England expects from all her citizens, but more particularly from her Public men in all Departments, and which England has seldom had occasion (she cer tainly had none here) to look for in vain. Her Royal Highn, ss the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz arrived at . Dover last night, by the John Penn, mail steam-packet, under the superintendence of Captain Smithett. On landing, her royal highness pro ceeded to Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, where she slept. Her royal highness was met at Dover by Lady Caroline Cust. Her royal highness proceeds this morning , ,to London. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have re turned to Apsley House from Strathfieldsaye, where they have been passing the holidays. The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Bcauclerk arrived in town yesterday from Redbourne Hall, Lincolnshire. The Marchioness of Salisbury and family arrived in Arlington.street yesterday from Folkestone, for the season. The Earl and Countess Somers have left Princes gate for Reigate Priory, Sussex. The Earl of Normanton comes to town to-day from Somerley, Hants, for the season. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor come to town to-day from visiting the Duchess (Dowager) of Suther land, at Cliefden House, Berks. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from their seat, Broadlands, Hants. Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Ireland. Lord Aveland has arrived in Belgrave-square from Nornianton Park, Rutlandshire. Her ladyship will return to town to-day for the season. Lord and Lady Henniker have returned to their residence in Grafton -street from their seat in Suffolk.: Lord and Lady Portman are expected in town to-day from Bryanston Hall, Dorsetshire, for the season. Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their residence in Ilalkin-street Nest, from Elton Hall, for the season. Lord and Lady John Thynne arrived in town yesterday from Haynes Park, Bedford. Mr. and L Ady Augusta Fiennes have arrived at their residence in Queen's-gate-terrace for the season. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad stone arrived at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace yesterday afternoon, from Hawarden Castle. THE RERESENTATION OF LAMBETH.—TIIO con test for the representation of this borough may now be said to have begun in earnest. The only two candidates at pre sent before the electors are Mr. F. Doulton, a resident manufacturer, and 141 r. Campbell Sleigh, the l arrister— Mr. Montagu Chambers having taken no further steps since the publication of an address to the electors in the early part of last week. Both the candidates profess extreme , Liberal principles. LATEST NEWS. MILAN, APRIL 28, EVENING. A great conspiracy has been discovered here among the soldiers of the old Neapolitan army. It is asserted that the clergy had supplied them with arms and money. The population is agitated. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 27. France, supported by Russia, has formally pro tested against the invasion of Montenegro by the Turkish troops. The frontier will not, consequently, be crossed. Negotiations are in progress for the marriage of the Sultan's niece with the son of the Bey of Tunis. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex pected to arrive here on the 4th of May. HANOVER, APRIL 28. The following is a summary of the reply given by the Hanoverian Government to the proposal of Prussia to join the Franco-Prussian commercial treaty :—" In taking into consideration the pro posal to join the treaty concluded between Prussia and France, Hanover will not avail herself of political reasons, although aware that this question has a considerable political bearing. But as Hanover would under no circumstances act in any manner which might contribute to break up or to endanger the existence of the Zollverein, she hesi tates to make any delaration upon that subject before those States of Southern Germany (Bavaria and Wurtemberg) whiqh are most interested should have returned an answer. The assent of the Hano verian Chambers is, however, as a matter of course, required to any resolution of the Government." TURIN, APRIL 28. A royal decree published to-day approves of the organization of the rifle corps of Genoa, under the command of Genorals Garibaldi and Menotti. The time of service for recruits is fixed at one year. GAETA, APRIL 28. King Victor Emmanuel arrived here this morn ing, and was enthusiastically cheered by the popu lace. His Majesty will arrive in Naples this evening. The city of Naples ie already decorated with flags. MILAN, APRIL 28. Numerous Hungarian deserters are arriving here from Venetia. Garibaldi has completely recovered from his in- - disposition. General Tarr is about to leave for the London Exhibition. ROME, APRIL 27. The Emperor of Russia having demanded that the Nuncio whom the Pope was to send to St. Peters burg should maintain his relations with the clergy in Russia only through the Minister of Public Worship, the Pope has determined not to despatch the Nuncio to St. Petersburg. BERLIN, APRIL 28. The returns of the electors which have taken place today in Berlin are most favourable to the progressist party. Up to the present the telegrams received here from the provinces also announce that the liberal pasty have gained a great victory. MADRID, APRIL 28. The Fpoca of to-day contains an article support ing the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian to the throne of Mexico. The other Spanish journals uphold the principle that Mexico should be free to elect her own government. FRAN CE. A Paris letter in the Journal (le _Rouen says : "A despatch has been sent to Rome by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to announce officially to M. de Bellune, First Secretary of Embassy, that the leave of absence granted to the Marquis de Lavalette has been extended. A despatch from Rome announces that Mme. de Lavalette was on the point of em barking at Civita Vecchia to return to France. Those two facts puts an end to all the contradictory rumours which have been current for so many days past. It is, moreover, known that the Marquis and Mme. de Lavalette are to go to Vichy about the middle of May." The 7'oulonnais of the 26th says :—" In conse quence of a despatch which arrived here yesterday morning, the experimental squadron received orders to get under weigh to-day. Its mission appears no longer a secret, as the vessels are to go to the regattas of Cannes, which are to take place on the 4th May. They will remain until that time at the Iles d'Hyeres. A voyage to Naples appears there fore to be quite abandoned, and it is even said that it was never in contemplation." BOURSE, April 28, Two o'Clock.—The arrival of the English funds with an improvement of } per cent. has imparted a little buoyancy to the market, and prices keep steadily advancing. Threes, for the Account, which opened at 7W. 40c., are now at 70f. 60c. Railway shares have been more ani mated, and many of the lines are now quoted ra ther higher. Three o'Clock.—The market closed as follows:- 4i per per Cents 98 55 Bank Shares 3150 Do. end month.... 98 50 Credit P oncier 1505 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 60 Piedmontes( Fives 69 50 New 3 per Cents .. 69 70 Italian Loan 69 10 Do, end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 847 50 Spanish Threes 52 25 Do. end month.... Home Debt .. 49 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3OO .. 1302 50 Northern New ditto - • --- • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1147 50 .. 1148 75 Geneva. Southern Western Eastern ... , ; .... „ „ 592 50 .. 593 75 Sardinian Austrian Lombard - 5 BB 5BB 75 .. 588 75 SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The last instalment of the war indemnity due to Spain from the Emperor of Morocco has been paid, and the steam frigate Isabella 11. has brought the amount to Alicante. The obligations of Morocco having thus been fulfilled, orders have been sent from Madrid to Rear-Admiral Piozon to proceed with his squadron to Tetuan to take on board the Spanish garrison, and convey it to Algesiras. The evacuation of Tetuan will be effected during the month of May. FIRE AT THE STANDARD THEATRE.—On Saturday night, about half-past eight o'clock, when the third act of Shakespeare's "Tempest" was b ing played at the Standard Theatre, a cry was suddenly raised that the building was on fire. Such an announcement among a crowded audience of course caused great excitement, and every person in the theatre immediately rose from their seats and rushed to the doors. The majority of them had managed to get out when the fire, which was confined to the back part of the pit, and had been caused by a lamp, was fortunately extinguished. The majority of the audience ftt umed their seats, and shortly after the performance was resumed. A MOTHER CURSING HER DAUGHTER. —A mother and daughter, residing in Selkirk, had for some time been living on terms far from agreeable, and, in order to save herself from future annoyance, the girl left the house, and betook herself to lodgings. The old woman, a rigid Catholic, was highly indignant at this exercise of free will on the part of h , :r daughter, and, after several ineffec tual efforts to bring leer back to the parental home, she de termined on renouncing her child for ever. A few days ago she accordingly presented herself in front of the house in which the girl had taken up her abode, uncovered her head, kneeled upon her bare knees, and thus assuming an "orthodox" attitude, uttered no fewer than seven curses of the Holy Catholic Church upon her wayward and irre claimable child,—,Southern Reporter. ART UNOIN-THIS DAY. DRAWING FOR PRIZES. The annual general meeting of the mertib,rs of the Art Union was held to-cldy, at the New Adelphi Theatre, for the purpose of receiving the report of the council, and for the distribution of the amount subscribed for the purchase of works of art for the year 1862 : There was a very full attendance, and the greatest inte rest was manifested during the proceedings. The report, as usual, was read by Mr, Godwin, F.R.S., the hon. secretary. It stated that the original marble by Mr. Calder Marshall, R.A., "The Dancing Girl Reposing," which was the result of a competition proposed lay the asso ciation some years ago, and now valued at the sum of £7OO, will be the chief prize, and a noble one, in the distribution of 1863. The statue is at present part of the International Exhibition, together with a stand displaying the various bronzses, parian statuettes, medals, and works in iron, that have been issued by the association. The following is a statement of receipts and disbursements: Total amount received .. £9,864 15 Expended for printing, advertising, salaries, &c., inc'uding reserve of 21 por cent Engraving, printing, and paper of the plate, " Raising the Maypole," For the purchase of prizes of all descriptions 3,266 10 £9,864 15 The reserve fund has reached the sum of £10,91. The sum of £3,266 10s. has been set apart for prizes under the following arrangements, viz., for works to be selected by the prizeholders themselves :- 30 works at 22 „ 17 ~ 12 „ 6 6 f 4 „ 2 „ 1 „ and 4 Bronzes, " Caractacus." 30 Silver Medals of Sir C. Barry. 15 Pairs of bas-reliefs in fictile ivory. 60 Commemorative Tazzas. 300 Sets of Etchings after David Cox. 200 Porcelain Busts of " Apollo." making in all 709 prizes. The report having been received and adopted, the • draw ing for priz s commenced. The following is a list of the successful members for the first hundred principal prizes as they were taken from the wheel :- 9. , 9 C. Webber, Exmouth .. 8419 H. Fraser, Glasgow .. .. 20 7209 J. Smith, Bank of England .. 50 Rev. Persall F. Corbett, Walworth A. J. Berens .. T. Questall, Dalston • • • • E. Anderson, Mortlake., .. C. Milward, Liverpool .. H. M'Cartney J. R. Fletcher L. Chipman, Northampton .. B. Picena, La Guyra R. Charlwood, Paddington .. W. Robertson, Australia .. •• •• •• •• •• W. Bone, New North-road .. Barlow, Rochdale .. „ J. Risley, Seymour-place • • .. W. Jeffrey, Bloomsbury •. Z., United States W. R. Swarreston S. Powell, Harrogate .. Miss Hill, Salop J. Jones, Preston .. •• 21 Mrs. Tennant F. Crossley, Halifax Rev. W. Harness .. 21 Humphries, Shrewsbury .. .. .. Sanderson, Canonbury J. Green, Presteign 1, E. Edwards .. 1, J. Martin, Sheerness Dockyard .. 51 G. Ramage .. 2, W. Lacon, Oswestry 1, A. Wyld, Port Elizabeth .. W. Thompson, Hull .. 1, 1138 6217 3379 5998 2074 2733 5205 9644 2984 19 0 8231 1637 4144 7009 6282 8509 2359 9301 3676 3088 4247 6829 8553 4625 - 2601 T. Hayes 6076 J. Simpson 1344 Dr. Murray .. 5353 J. Rees, Tottenham•court-road 8392 J. Thomas, Linlithgow , . 5515 J. Clark, Camberwell .. 583 C. Busby, Chesterfield , . 676 E. Howard, Clithero 632 R. H. G... .. 9619 J. Owdey, Belfast 1103 G. Gowland .. .. •• 6163 H. 8., Moorgate-street • . 7995 D. L. Atwell 1150 T. Owes 7606 F. Rees .. 21 J. Woodham, Old Kent Road.. 101 C. Parrott .. E. Weymouth, Borough 1( W. J. Ford .. • • . , .. 1( 3. Summers, Ross-street, Liverpool .. 20( E. Joner, Troubridge .. 4( • • • • 1. C. Longstock .. .. .. 21 J. Younghusband 2. M. Murray, Jersey .. .. 61 J. Thomas, Birmingham .. 11 1 4717 Dr. Collier, Fitzroy-square .. 736 J. Jackson, Derby 9121 General Bomer 5329 E. H. C. • • 6648 A. Welsh, Derby .. 6751 Y. C. C., St. John's, N.B. .. 3979 H. D. Farmer, Yarmouth .. 2208 - 7957 E. Wright, Clapham-road .. 1984 A. Talbot, Hong Kong 8889 B. Steadman .. • . • • 4279 J. W. W. .. .. .. 1254 C. F. B. .. 553 W. C. 5... 8091 J. Marriott, Coventry .. 7789 Lady Chantry 2287 A. Barnes, Litchfield 3089 - 5044 Major Wright, Junior United Service Club.. 4,015 W. rennings, White's Club .. 7426 W. Hitchcock 7145 W. Higginbottom 7247 J. Murck 7772 The Hon. Miss Hope Vere 1270 R. Clerk .. 5743 6048 9547 E. P. Guest .. 2722 S. H. Taylor, Market Drayton 6858 A. Hall, Leghorn . 5085 J. M. 6929 P. F. 8., Smyrna .. . 2062 Mrs. Saunders, Kidderminster .. • - 2491 It. Hamilton .. .. 10 A vote of thanks was passed to Messrs. Godwin and Pocock; and, on the motion of Mr. HERSEE, a sum of £3OO was proposed to be set aside in order that a testimonial to the amount of £l5O be presented to each of those gentle men. .. .. •• .. • • .. • • .. 21 •• •• •• •• •• 15 •. •Ii Mr. POCOCK trusted the proposition would not - be se conded. The vote of thanks which was annually given to himself and colleague was always considered ample reward foi their services. Atter a short discussion, the subject of the proposed tes. timonial was referred for consideration to a committee o: subscribers. A vote of thanks was also awarded to Mr. BENJAMIN WELsTER for the use of the theatre, and also a similar vote to Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, for the arrangements he had made for the accommodation of the members. MARKETS-THIS DAY. HAY MARKETS. SMITHPIELD.—Neadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os ; clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s 2d per load. Trade slow. CUMBERLAND.•—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clove: do., £3 lOs to 16 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL.-Meadow hay, 4 '2 Os to £5 Os; clove] f 3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, to 18s £2 2s per load, Trade dull, COLONIAL. TEA--There has been a very limited business transacted, the dealers b e i ng o cc u pi e d with the samples of the forth coming public sales. SUGAR.—The market has been dull, and prices have re mained without material variation. Refined descriptions, however, are a shade flatter. COFFEE.—Business has continued moderately active, and full prices have been realised for good and superior descrip tions. RICE.—The operations have been to a f a i r extent, and late qu tations have, in most instances, been well supported. S A.LTPETRE. —The demand has continued brisk, and for British refined a further advance has been demanded b) holders. TALLow.—The market has continued moderately active, and prices have shown an upward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 463 3d to 46s 6d, and last three months delivery 48s 9d to 49s per cwt. THE LATE MURDER IN KERRY. TRALEE, MONDAY MORNING, --It was erroneously stated on Satur day that Foley, the alleged murder of his cousin at KiHoe glin, was captured. He is still at large, and in possession of the double-barreled gun with which the murder was committed. LOSS OF 2IIE SHIP CONQUEROR. The following Admiralty memorandum, dated the 20th ult., revises the sentence of the court-mar ial, held at Bermuda, on the ciptain and cfficers of her Majesty's late ship the Conqueror : " My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have had under their consideration the minutes of the proceedings and the sentence of a court-martial held on board her Majesty's ship Hero, at Bermuda, on the Bth, and by successive adjournments to the 15th day of February, 1862, for the trial of Capt. Edward Southwell Sotheby, C. 8,, the remaining officers, and ship's company of her Majesty's late ship Conqueror, for the loss of that ship on the reef on the eastern side of Rum Cay, on the 29th of December, 1861. "My Lords have read with much surprise apse' sage in Captain Sotheby's defence, where be 0 13 ' serves : " If, after the scrutinising test that the master's work has undergone, it should be found incorrect; proper allowance not made ; or the place of the shIP not properly noted in the chart, I maintain, in w hich opinion I have no doubt I shall have the full con' currence of the members of this court, that a car Lain is not supposed to doubt the accuracy of su3b work, when he can conscientiously place most tho' rough confidence in the master; and that it is rot his duty, under those circumstances, to work the reckoning himself, that officer being appointed for that specific purpose.' " My Lords cannot dissent in too strong tern3e from the views expressed by Capt. Sotheby. TheY consider that it is the duty of the captain to take every precaution for the safety of the ship he cony mands, and that he can only acquit himself of that responsibility which attaches to him by showing that he has neglected no means within his power of ascertaining the position of the ship, the prevailing currents, and the dangers to which she may be ex posed. " My Lords further regret that Capt. Sotheby's views appear to have been accepted by the members of the euurt - without romorlr, and to hoyo "well fto adopted by them, that while they reprimanded the master, they fully acquitted the captain. My Lade cannot concur in the finding of the court. " One of her Majesty's ships, in fine weather and under no unusual circumstance, while making a passage through a channel in which the currents are known to set to leeward with varying - strengtbf has been totally lost in consequence, according to the finding of the court, of an insufficient allowance for leeway and currant. The captain is, neverthe less, fully acquitted, and the master only repri' manded, though no reason is given why the shiP should have continued all night on a course whic h the master acknowledged might carry her within six or seven miles of an island surrounded by daw gereus coral reefs. "It appears to their lordships that, bad the ordi nary and natural precaution been adopted of making a tack to the south-east, before the ship could by possibility have been swept upon the coral reefs of Rum Cay, the country would not have had to deplore the loss of one of the finest line-of-batt , e ships in her Majesty's service; and my Lords cool' der Captain Sotheby to have been highly cu lpable in not having taken that precaution. " To prevent all future misconception as to the responsibility of captains in command of her Majes ty's ships, my Lords have caused the following additions to be made in the Ist and 2d Articles of Chapter XIX., page 160, of the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the government of her Majesty's Naval service. The first Article will commence with the words—' The captain is respon sible for the safe conducting and steering of hi e ship;' and the last paragraph of the second Article will in future stand as follows If it shall appea r that the ship has been run on shore, or brought into danger of being run on shore, or wrecked, and thati there has been any want of due care or precaution► or that the foregoing orders have been disobeyed' the captain will be held responsible for the same.'-' By command of their Lordships, "C. PAGET." The Right Hon, W. Hutt has arrived in to vo from Cibside. John Fenton, engraver and grocer, of Jamestown' Scotland, was recently t r i e d a t th e Gl asgow Old Court and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for shooting Maria Kennedy, his servant. The prisoner had attempted to compromise the matter by giving the girl money, with' which she got married, and was on the point of emigrating when detained by the police. I A remarkable case of impiety occurred the other day in a village in the west of England, A man of lc re fortune died, and directed in his will that his horse should be caparisoned and led to his grave, and there shot, an d buried with him, that he might be ready to "mount at the resurrection, and start to advantage." To the disgrace of all concerned this was actually performed. The executor s and legatees probably thought themselves bound to obey the will, but why the clergyman permitted such an exhibi' tion at such a moment is unaccountable. IRVING'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.—Irvin remarkable appearance seems to have impressed everybody'' A lady, who was then a member of Dr. Chalmers's churc h ' and who had access to the immediate circle surrounding him, tells how she herself, on one occasion, being pillow larly engaged in some domestic duties, had given orders t° her servants not to admit any visitors. She was interruPte ° in her occupation, however, notwithstanding this order, by the entrance of one of her maids, in a state of high exc'te • ment and curiosity. " Mem 1" burst forth the girl,"there' s a wonderful grand gentlemen called; I couldna say Y t) , were engaged to him. I think he maun b e a Hi g hland chief?"—" That Mr. Irving!" exclaimed another indi ; vidual of less elevated and poetical conceptions—" 711(1,; Dr. Chalmers's helper 1 I took him for a cavalry officer I "Do you know, doctor," said a third, addressing Choi' mers himself, "what things people are saying about yotlr, new assistant ? They say he's like a - brigand chief. "Well, well," said Dr. Chalmers with a smile, "whatev er they say, they never think him like anything but a lead er of men." Such was the impression he produced upon the little mercantile-ecclesiastical world of Glasgow.—.Frolo Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Irving. FOSSIL MAN IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. - ' Considerable interest has been excited in the highest vole" gical circles in London by an important discovery which his been made in our neighbourhood. A cave, locally known as the " Heathery Burn Cave," near Stanhope, in this county, exists in a deep ravine in the limestone strati', which are being worked by the Weardale iron Compaq t° obtain a flux used in smelting their ironstone. The pro gress of the quarrying operations has laid the entrance to this cave bare ; and in a deposit of sand under 4 inches of the stalagmitic stone which has been formed by the drip' ping of water holding lime in solution from the roof, have been discovered a human skull, as well as several hundred bones of various animals, and some bronze ornaments, ' for example, armlets, pins, &c. These have been carefully collected by an able local geologist, John Elliot, Esq., an d by him transmitt d to London, with a view to obtain the highest scientific opinion on this most interesting discoverY• It is said that Mr. S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A., editor of the Geologist, is engaged in researches, with the intention of defining exactly the age of this cave deposit ; and the bones have been submitted to eminent gentlemen in London. for identification and description. Great credit is due _to Mr. Elliot for the care with which he has collected all tho evidendes, and the lucid description which he has given of the nature of the cave. As these remains, unle s s sots° error of observation has been committed, would apparently indicate the existence of man in the county of Durham at a period of time long previous to the known historical ago/ the result of the investigation now going on will be watched by us with the greatest interest.—Dur ham Chro" nicle. FOSSIL FEATHERED REPTILE.—The announce" ment made to the geologists of Germany, about three mo . nths ago, by Hermann Von Meyer, that he had ob . ' tamed from the lithographic slate cf . Solenhofen, in Bevi l ' ria, a fossil impression of a feather on the upper and under surfaces of a split slab, and that this feather was undistin guishable in its appearance from that of existing birds , attracted but little attention beyond palaeontological circles. We had already evidences of birds from the greensand ; and the discovery of birds in the Solenhofen oolite would merely lead us to connect the osseous remains still more closely with the evidences of avian footprints discovere d by Hitchcock in the Triassic sandstones. Von Meyer's feather, which he termed Archceopteryx, is, h o wever , completely eclipsed in interest by the intelligence made public by the venerable A. Wagner, of Munich, that in the collection of M. Haberlein, of Pappenheim, exists the skele ton of an animal undoubtedly of reptilian organisation, 68 indicated by the vertebral column and the form of ,he petviSt and offering most analogy to the genius Itamphorhyncht is, or long-tailed Tterodactylus. It approaches the class bir ds by its trifid metatat sals, and by having developed from ili l3 , t bone near the alms and radius, and supposed to be a carps a radiate tan of feathers, similar to those of birds. At the apical extremity of the tail is another radiate fan, also of feathers. The rest of the animal appears to have been des titute of plumage. Unfoitunately the head is wanting' This anomalous form is referred by Wagner to the or der Pterosauria, and has been ge neri cally distinguished by th.e term Griphosaurus, from ypi9sos, an enigma. Cu Times and Gazette. 7386 CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at Ten o'clock. UNSWORTH, "or any other man" (the original), and EUGENE, late principal comedians of tile Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, at a quarter-past ten o'clock. Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Comic by Messrs. Unsworth and Eugene, Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Caroline Parkes. of b( sa bo tri X 4 Se 701 at ; Sat hai at 1 den Sac 16i , hav tior Gr.( Bar viol rea' Bar per and any ex Co,. 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