The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

THEATRE -BO YAL, HAYMARKET. Leese Mr. J. B . Buckstone. - ---- - On EASTER MONDAY, JOHN JONES. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (102 d time) OUR AMERICAN COITSLN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitled THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Peres. .yens, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To oonolnde with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT RE. Manager---Mr. Edmund Falconer. TO-MORROW EVENING, THE BLUE DEVILS. After which (for the 134th time) the new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O' DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Eal conar ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Aim Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open athalf-past 6. to commence at Box-o i:ce open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. TO-MORROW EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. To be followed by, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new and original drama, in five acts, entitled THE GOLDEN DAGGERS. Principal characters by Mr. Pechter (his first appearance since his severe indisposition', Mr. H. Widdi comb, Mr. G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore , 1, r. Cath cart, Mr. Moreland ; Mesdames Elsworthy and Carlotta Le clercq. Mr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded in hidu ing that eminent artist, Mr. W. Telbin, to give the aid of his unrivalled talent in the concluding tableau of the drama. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TO-MORROW, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. l'ollowed by ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. William Penholder (his original Character), Mr. B. Webster ; Messrs. Blllington, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss H. Simms. To conclude with a new domestic drama, entitled DOT Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billinzton. Stephenson; Miss Woolgar, Mies Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, Svc. Commence at 7. AS TL E Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants. TO-MORROW, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RA,marr OF NAGPOrtE, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, 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. :1 kNTERBURY HALL AND FINE U ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, EVERY EVE), ING, at a quarter to ten. Grand Selections from "La Traviata," by Miss Russell, with Band and Lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The Comic by Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hollings worth, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes, the aceompllshed danseuse. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- Extra and Important Attractions for the Easter Holidays. RITMSEY and NEWCOMB'S MINSTRELS (18 in number), In their original burlesque, serio-comic, instrumental, and Terpsichorean Entertainment, THE OLIO OF ETHIOVIAN ODDITIES. Burns' celebrated "Jolly Beggars," with characteristic Music by George Linley. Opelatic Selections by Miss Russell and the entire Com pany. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jongh mans. W A host of comic talent, including W. Randall and Harvey and French (the Nerves). Ballads, Duets, &c., &a ; and, at 11 o'clock. HENRI and PFAU appear in New and Extraordinary Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. Notice.—Commence at Six o'clock on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in consequence of the length of the programme. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 4h. 16m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 51t. sm.—Afternoon, sh. 30m NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be mule to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. rifEl rSTIN, :LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1862. .S . ^ Z- A . „; - s.au t • 4 Aligf- _•_ ,4k , . as_ 1)r. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1862. The Ballet Society deserves credit for one thing— it does not sleep ; it hardly takes reasonable holi days. When an election occurs, even one which may seem hopeless enough, it does not fail to remind some or all of the electors that they still need the great guarantee for perfectly independent voting. We have long watched its proceedings, and it is but justice to confess that, in proportion to the funds at its disposal, no political organisation at the present moment is so persevering, and does so much real business. We may add that we do not know one which better deserves to enjoy the most liberal support of those who desire a real repre sentation for the country. Both Whigs and Tories have quite made up their inds to a political doze this session. The excuses for it are well known, and it is equally well known that they are but excuses. The Tories know, that on hardly any point which could be mooted, involv ing the question of confidence, could they get a tuajarity. The House, mortal though it be, shrinks from dissolution, and it is quite aware that Lord PALMERSTON would not hand over the reins to Lord DERBY without an appeal to the country. Under these circumstances the Tories will not make any direct attempt to seize the places for which many of them long so much; and those who do care about offic are on the whole content to see Lord PAL MERSTON so effectually hanging up every Reform Queution,—indeed, in his home policy, doing their work better than they themselves could do it. The recent widowhood of our beloved SOVEREIGN, and the year of the Great Exhibition may be plausible reasons to outsiders for political inactivity, but those behind the scenes are not so duped ; they are quite aware that our men in office and their Parliamentary supporters hate the very mention of political reform, an,i that those who are out of office fear to make the assault. °Fie of th e consequences o f thi s state of things is that the Government intends to reintroduce its old bill tor the " Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Elect ions ;. and the Ballot Society, ever awake to this subject, sends forth in consequence the resolu tion which published yesterday. We need hardly say that every word of it has our entire concurrence. It is undeniably true—Lord DERBY, Mr, DISRAELI, amiable" Mr. WALPOLE, " honest " Mr. HENLEY, and the whole phalanx of Vaose who prevent any real" Prevention Bill" from passing, cannot deny it— " that th e experience of recent prosecutions has demonstrated the complete failure of direct legislation or penal laws to prevent bribery." Never could charges be better brought home than those made agaicst the Wakefield candi dates; hut never vr's it clearer ti at the very mode in which those charges were sustained, mainly by the individual's own confession, made the whole country unwilling that they should be called up for judgment. Yet no otter means than that of extort ing personal confession of guilt can be of much avail towards eacvietiott ; and self-crizuination will not suit Englishmen yet.. We may hope it never In the face, then, of the perfectly useless results of two costly commissions, it seems like inanity to come forward -with nothing better than the old miserable prevention bill. It ought rather to be designated the " Brib k 3ry Protection Bill." But the committee furl tier remark, that " no attempt ever has been mi ode to put in force the designedly delusive protection afforded by the act in regard to intimidation," and looking at both the facts, the committee justly challenges the sincerity of the Government in its professed desire to remove the evils incident to our present mode of conducting elections. Whether the Government, the House of Commons, or the country will hearken or not, we can but commend the Ballot Society for calling attention to what is now going on. The last point they mention indicates the most deeply seated disease of our aristocracy—the love of intimidation. Bribery they do not dislike; but then it is costly— still they do not like to part with the direct power of the purse. But, far more, do they cherish the power of intimidation. We quite well know that they will repudiate the word, while they cherish the thing. In its worst form they soften what is really electoral garotting, down to " undue influ ence ; " and the milder forms of electoral larceny, they term " legitimate influence." Now, we beg to apprise these " Legitimate influ encers" of other's votes, that there is one indubitable test of the legitimacy of what they do—namely, that they should be satisfied for the influence to do its own work ; without the addition of their know ing how it had worked. The man, who, after using every argument to secure our vote for his candi date, still says I cannot allow you to vote privately, shows that he is aware he has not gained our judg ment. He shows that he thinks fear of not acting according to his wishes is of more weight than his reasons. We cannot conceive, and we do not be lieve Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord DERBY them selves can conceive, of any influence which is really legitimate in regard to a political vote, requiring fear of the canvasser's eye to enforce it. That ad dition converts it at once from legitimate influence to illegitimate ; in a word, to intimidation. Mr. DISRAELI had the effrontery, the other day, to boast of the 500,000 electors his bill would have added to the electoral constituency. He did not mention that it was an addition of thoroughly de pendent persons ; nor, that while he added the dependent, he took away from the counties the small portion of independent voters—those who live in boroughs—who at present in some parts leaven the dull heavy mass of serfdom which com prises our county constituency. Without creating a single new franchise the ballot alone would doubtless far more than double the county constituencies. At present, on the authority of Lord DERBY, we may truly affirm, that the landlords are the only county voters ; we do not believe it would affect the character of a single county election if the land lord 'were allowed to poll for all his tenants who were on the register—just as, in another way, the slaveholders in the slave states of America used to vote for three-fifths of their slaves. The Ballot would enfranchise the whole of the tenant farmers whose votes are now but nominally their own. Nor them only—the great majority of county voters, of all classes, unless they happen to be also borough voters—are at the mercy of those rustic political despots, the Payson and the Squire. They have grown up to do, politically, as they are bid, and they do it without ques tioning. Woe to them if they dared to think ! These are some of the reasons which induce us to think a simple Ballot Bill would be of more value than the trumpery Old Bill which Whigs and Tories mean to huddle through the house. We hope the committee will see to it, that the Go vernment Bill receives a thorough exposure, and that their own bill should in some shape be put in competition with it. Apropos to the still undecided question as to the Good PRINCE CONSORT'S Memorial—the Edinburgh Review, in the number but just now published, comprises among its contents an admirable paper on our " Public Monuments" generally. Altogether the article is as readable as it is reasonable. It is unobtrusively suggestive of many ingenious changes for the better in regard to the position and arrangement of the Monuments we already possess. And what is more, it is yet further suggestive of Monuments of a very different character still re quiring to be erected in our metropolis. After giving a really deplorable list of the statues, &c., already scattered as if at random about our streets and squares and other public places, the reviewer remarks—and who is there amongst us who would venture to gainsay the perfect truth of this his obser vation —that for the most part these memorials have been the result of a fleeting popularity, or of miserable subserviency to the influences of courtly adulation. With solitary exceptions, like those Demigods of Battle by Sea and Land, Lord NELSON and the Duke of WELLINGTON—these public monuments are for the most part, when we come to look at them, mementoes in stone or bronze of royal personages not of the First Excellence in any way, or of eminent men not by any means of the First Rank in Art, Science, Literature, States manship, War, or Phil osop h y. Wh ere, f or example, can we hope to find in all London, upon inquiry livhera a a memorial statue of Sir ISAAC NEWToii colossal effigy of WILLIAM SHARSPERE ? Where a giant monument to the glory of OLIVER CROM WELL ? Have we anywhere about this vast capital, in one of our public places, even a bust of a Great National Painter like Ho- GARTH; of a great English Musician like PUR CELL ; of a great English poet like CHAUCER ? And so on through the first order of our intellec tual Dii Majores,eacb facile principes in his own peculiar department. Instead of this we have divers " cast" or " carvelled," hobgoblins of creatures royal or loyal as the case may be, like CHARLES the SECOND, the Prince of Profligates; like GEORGE the THIRD with no forehead (to speak of at least), but an immense pigtail, like hisßoyal Highness, the Duke of Yoitx,with a form and a fame alike perched up aloft in rubibus—together with a sprinkling of fifth-rate soldiers, third-rate statesmen and nobles, some of them really hardly raised one poor paltry inch above the dead level of mediocrity. If we decide upon some rare occasion, by a happy thought, to erect a memorial statue to a really great soldier like General Sir CHARLES NAPIER, we must perforce at once spoil the idea altogether by raising, instead of a tolerably life-like effigy, an unwieldy and ridiculous caricature. Again, does the genius of a foreign artist as gifted as Baron MAROCHETTI endow the nation for once with an exceptional boon in the shape of a really noble equestrian effigy of a glorious Sovereign of England, like our chivalric RICHARD CCEUR DE LlON—we immediately contrive to spoil the whole effect of it by placing it in an absolutely prepos terous situation. True, moreover, that wo do hap. pen to possess here in the metropolis about the grundest of all the works of CHANTREY'S chisel, re presenting to the admiration of posterity, upon a colossal scale, the homely form, and philosophic and even patriarchal countenance of JAMEs WATT, the inventor of the steam engine, and, as such, the Father of Modern Eugineering— t r ue, likewise, that upon the pedestal of that the mast er h an d o f L or d BROUGHAM gr eat statue has inscribed in enduring characters, perhaps, the no bl es t monumental inscription in the language. But —having this—what ,9 as a matter of course, immediately done with this majestic memorial, in- L vested as it is with a threefold interest illustrating as it does the glory of WATT, the akill of egAzintzy and the eloquence of BROUGHAM ? We hide it away in an obscure corner, in a small chapel in the old Abbey down at Westminster ! So likewise have we done with other statues (these even, alas ! are but very few, indeed, after all) —statues, that if drawn to light from wholly inappropriate holes and corners, where their merits, such as they are, are dwarfed and obsizured, might—if but appropriately placed now, by a few happy after -thoughts—forth with tend greatly to improve and adorn our unfor tunate metropolis. There is that exquisite work of art, the chef d'ouvre in this way, of GRINLING GIBBONS, the classically-clad statue of King JAMES the Second. Where it stands now it is just hid away from public view at the back of Whitehall. Then there are other statues of a later date that, by the mere circumstance of the associations of the particular locality in which they have been erected are rendered absolutely ludicrous. For instance,, the really excellent statue of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, raised a few years back to his memory by public gratitude in the City—placed where it is, namely, at the bottom of Cheapside—is suggestive there, for all the world, of a dapper and gentlemanly silk mercer with a roll or baton de soie propped by one he.ud for a moment against his hip, ready at the right moment to be unrolled with a dexterous flourish upon the counter for the inspection and edge-mapping of a lady purchaser. It is idle, however, to parti cularize farther among anomalies of this kind that have long since grown into blots and flaws of actual notoriety. Any Minister of Public Works who cared to do so might win himself an enviable reputation, by merely devoting his time to the revision and re placement of the Public Monuments we already possess. If only Mr. COWPER could but recognise this. If—instead of any longer devoting his really fine talents to abortive attempts to spoil as much as possible the sylvan beauty of Kensington-gardens —it' only, instead of doing this, he would judiciously take our great statues in hand in the way we have indicated !—a few of the worst among them might follow (whither we really care not to inquire) the dreadful straddling statue of WILLIAM the FOURTH, that once upon a time made the cab horses shy and the cabmen grin as they passed that then ludicrous and degraded locality, called in honour of the statue (!) King's Cross. The rest, when weeded thus, might be at once wonderfully improved in general effect immediately thereupon, by being easily placed in more appropriate situations. For example—let all our sea glories be gathered together in Trafalgar-square. Let HAVELOCK and NAPIER be removed and, with other military heroes made to adorn (as far, at least, as they can) the preoincts of Waterloo-place. Let GEORGE the FOURTH, ostler•like, take his horse to water any where rather than to the Trafalgar-square Foun tains—carrying his rolling-pin and blanket some where else out of our sight. A suggestion casually thrown out by the _Edinburgh is really worthy being thought of—and we do earnestly trust may before much longer be seri ously acted upon. It is a proposition made by the reviewer to the effect that statues of our great men should be ranged on pedestals down each side of Westminster Hall. Directly this truly admirable suggestion is begun to be carried out —suppose we were bodily to move inside the Hall that statue of GEORGE CANNING now standing outside of it, and looking away from the arena of his oratorical successes ! Supposing that were done, and then supposing upon the vacated site now occu pied by CANNING'S statue there were placed there, with that mighty sword pointing heavenwards high above his head, that glorious equestrian statue of King RICHARD CCEUR DE LION, for which, wherever we have looked at it, even where it is now most miserably placed, we have felt grateful to the genius of the Baron MAROCHETTI. EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYNESS.—Since the last experiments tried with the new wrought-iron smooth-bore Armstrong gun, other trials have been made with the same piece of ordnance to prove its power. During the course of these it has been tried with a 501 b. charge of powder against a target of three five-inch plates of wrought-iron bolted together—a mass of wrought-iron, in all, of 15 inches thick —or, as nearly as possible, four times the thickness of the Warrior's plates. Two or three shots were fired against this, and each broke all three plates, crushing the first, ripping and splitting the second, and ripping the third in such a way as to show that even 15 inches of metal was an insufficient protection against ordnance of this description at close ranges. The Crown Solicitorship of Cork has been con ferred upon Mr. Philip O'Connell. The celebrated Yelverton case is likely to occupy the Dublin Court of Common Pleas this term, probably after the Easter holidays. Mrs. Yelverton's legal advisers have filed notice of a motion to amend the bill of exceptions taken after the trial. If leave be granted, the effect will be to somewhat simplify the case, by expunging from the bill all the exceptions relating to the Scotch marriage, leaving the validity of the ceremony performed by Father Mooney, at Rostrevor, the only subjec` for consideration. A large number of Dublin shopkeepers have been lately imposed upon by three fashionably-dressed men who arrived a few days since from Holyhead, and contrived to pass a large number of forged notes, purporting to be of the National Bank of Scotland. They decamped after pur chasing a considerable quantity of jewellery, &c., but were subsequently arrested by the constabulary in Cork. The Clare _Freeman states that at the " quarter sessions of Kilrush, this week, the chairman of the county felt it necessary publicly from the bench to denounce the fearful extent to which perjury had been committed by a number of the parties to the various civil bills which were heard before him." This is not the first time, it adds, that his worship has had reason to deplore the prevalence of this crime THE EX-KING OF NAPLES AT HIS DETOTION.- -The ex-King of Naples has commenced a course of spi ritual exercises in the Church of St. Andrea della Fratte, a church belonging to Calabrian monks, whose exhortations are delivered with all the volubility of southern eloquence, and whose mixture of things sacred and profane, biblic a and political,:render their sermons probably mere attrac tive, at the present moment of overweening temporal excitement, than more strictly spiritual discourses would be to a congregation composed of royal refuge es and their adherents, The seats occupied by the royal family are rallied before the side chapel of St. Francis of Sales, the King's patron saint. The Queen Dowager and the junior members of the family usually arrive first. When his Majesty enters the Prince and Princesses rise and remain standing until the King has kissed his stepmother's hand and taken his chair. The young Queen has not as yet accompanied her husband to these afternoon preachings, but the whole body of Neapolitan courtiers and exiles rally round on the occa sion, so that the church, independent of the merits of the preachers, has become a great point of at traction, and is crowded to excess. Yesterday the King entered in the m'ddle of a monsignore's sermon, bat another sacred orator soon ascended the pulpit and de livered a most energetic discourse evidently at the King, whom he exhorted to profit by the example of Job, and to suffer spoliation, humiliation, and calamities of every sort with the resignation which renders all trials eventually be neficial to the supporters of them. It must have been en couraging to the dethroned monarch to perceive with what positive predictions the triumph of the Church and of legi timacy were announced, the subtlety of Napoleon inveighed against the iniquities of the Liberals held up to universal detestation, and their attempts to render Italy one and nutted derided as likely to be crowned with no better suc cess than the futile endeavour to twist a rope of sand.— Letter from Rome. _ _ 1 A CURIOUS BATTLE.—A fight of more than ordi nary interest took place on the bank of the canal near Kid_ welly Quay a few days ago. A cat, making her usual walk in search of prey along the embankment, was attacked by an otter of no small dimensions, and was in an instant tossed into the middle of the canal, and there had to fight, not for the "belt," but for her life, in an uncongenial ele ment. But, very soon they were observed by some sailors and shippers, employed nut far from the scene of the coo test, who hastened to witness the strange occurrence. Either from the fear of the men, or of its formidable anta gonist, the otter relinquished its hold, and poor puss safely landed amid hearty cheers and congratulations. But puss not being content with the laurels she had won in the first contest, went out again the following day, and, strange to say, the old combatants met again, and the otter with rm. diminished pluck attacked the cat on land. The contest became very severe, but ultimately the otter was glad to regain its watery refuge, and leave puss the victor the se cond time, without suffering very considerably from an en.. counter with such a formidable ioo.—Swansea Herald. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, APRTL 17. The official Staats-.Anzeiger of to-day publishes the following Royal decree, addressed to the Mini stry, and countersigned by all the Ministers. The King says : "In consequence of the report made to me on the present state of the Budget, I sanction that the bill relative to the continuation from July next of the collection of an additional tax of 25 per cent. on the income, class, mill, and slaughter-house taxes re spectively, shall not be submitted to the next Diet, as it is possible to cover the deficit partly by an in crease in the public revenue, and partly by a diminution in the expenses of several branches of the public administration. " In so far as concerns reductions in the Military Budget I willingly consent, in conformity with my previous declarations, to sanction at the present moment any savings which may be provisionally effected. I must, however, most positively repeat my former declarations, that in the department of the military administration such reductions must be avoided as would endanger those principles, the maintenance of which is necessary for the strength and effectiveness of the army, and consequently for the safety and independence of the State." BRESLAU, APRIL 17. The Schlesische Zeitung of to-day says : " We hear that General Luders intends retiring from the Governorship of Warsaw. "It is considered likely that the Duke of Olden burg will be his successor. "Apprehensions are entertained of demonstra tions taking place at Warsaw at Easter. MADRID, APRIL 16. It is asserted that, should the French troops enter the city of Mexico, the Spanish forces will do the same. TURKEY. MOSTAR, APRIL 15. The Montenegrin tribe of Uskogs and the insur gents of Piva have profited by the passage of the river Tara, near Ogradjanitze, to make sanguinary incursions into the district of Taschlitze. To pre vent these invasions the Ottoman troops have con structed a large guardhouse near this passage, de fended by 400 irregulars, under the command of Dervich Bey. The insurgents having occupied the village of Naratin to prevent the construction of this build ing, Dervich Bey passed the river and attacked them. During the combat the Agumen (chief of the convent) of Piva hastened with 50 men to the assistance of the insurgents. The fight ended with the flight of the insurgents, who left the priest and 11 men dead on the field. The Ottoman loss was two dead and six wounded. A sufficient Ottoman garrison having been left in the newly-erected fortifications of Zubsi, 10 bat talions of the Turkish army, with some irregular troops, marched towards the district of Banyati, Five of these battalions were then detached to pro vision Niksich. Upon their return from this place they were attacked in the defile of Douga by a large number of Montenegrins and insurgents. The assailants were routed, leaving 100 of their number on the field, with abo'it twice as many wounded. The Ottoman troops had two officers and 29 privates killed; one officer and 28 men wounded. in possessian of what be still holds. His Majesty may be more flexible about the King of Naples. Since M. de Lavalette's arrival in Paris there have been indications that the King's resi dence in Rome, with which the brigandage in Southern Italy is so intimately connected, will at no distant day come to a close. The outcry on all sides is too great to be much longer resisted ; and. even should General Goyon retain his command, the Papal Government will be under the necessity of getting rid of its obnoxious guest. If King Francis quit Rome under compulsion he will probably take refuge at Trieste. No doubt, at Trieste the expe ditions to Naples would go on as before. Remon strances would then be made at Vienna, and Vienna would perhaps plead the same ignorance that Turin pleaded when the expedition to Sicily was planned and prepared at Genoa. In such case there would be some danger of a rupture between Austria and Victor Emmanuel. To obviate this difficulty Bar celona is suggested as a suitable residence for the Royal exile. BOURSE, April 17.—The market continues firm, with a fair amount of business doing. Threes, for for the Account, are now at 70f 45c. The operations in the Railway Share Market have not been gene rally animated, the movement being confined to some few of the leading lines. The market became rather heavy towards the close, and closed as foi -1 lows : It per per Cents ... 98 25 Bank Shares 3105 Do. end month.... 98 40 Credit Fonder 1505 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 35 Piedmontese Fives 6B 95 New 3 per Cents .. 69 50 Italian Loan 6B 50 Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier..,. 823 75 Spanish Threes 52 25 Do. end month.... 827 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Account. Orleans l 2 C B a OBll . . 1277 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1135 1132 50 Geneva — Southern 796 25 .. 791 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard NAVAL WARFARE, TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Looking over the pages o“ a very remark able work on Naval Timber, written more than 30 years ago by Mr. Patrick Matthew, I came upon the following passage, which, read by the light of modern science, appears so prophetic that I am sure it will interest many of your readers. I have no acquaintance with the writer, but the volume to which I have referred shows him to be a man of no ordinary genius and capacity, and I strongly recom mend it to the perusal of every one who, either as a planter or a builder, takes an interest in the growth of timber.—l am, Sir, your obedient ser vant, J. W. " Larch, from its great toughness, particularly the root, and from its lightness seems better adapted for the construction of shot-proof vessels than any other timber ; and, opposed endway to shot in a layer, arch fashion, several feet deep round a vessel, would sustain more battering than any other subject we ara acquainted with, metal excepted. Were the part above water of a strong steam ves sel, having the paddles under cover, a section of a spheroid, or half-egg, cut longitudinally, and covered ail round with the rootcuts of larch five or six feet deep, with the hewn-down bulb external—well supported inside, having nothing exposed outside of this arch, and only a few small holes for venti lators and eyes—there is no shot in present naval use that would have much impression upon it. Had such a vessel a great impelling power, and a very strong iron cutwater, or short beak, wedge-shaped (in manner of the old Grecian galleys), projecting before the vessel under water, well supported within by beams radiating back in all directions, she might be wrought to split and sink a 'set of men-of-war, lying becalmed, in a few hours. This could be done by running successively against each, midships, and on percussion immediately backing the engine, at the same time spouting forth missiles, hot water, or sulphuric acid from the bow to obstruct boarding. . . . To prevent combus tion by red-hot shot, the larch blocks, after drying, might have their pores filled by pressure with alkali, However, the employment of bomb cannon about to be introduced in naval warfare, throwing ex plosive shot, regulated with just sufficient force to penetrate, without passing through the side of the opposed vessel, will render any other than metallic defensive cover ineffectual; but this circumstance will, at the same time, completely revolutionise sea affairs, laying on the shelf our huge men-of-war, whose place will be occupied with numerous bomb cannon boats, whose small size will render them difficult to be hit, and from which one single explo sive shot, taking effect low down in the large ex posed side of a three-decker, will tear open a breach sufficient to sink her almost instantly." ITALY. A letter from Turin has the following :—" The departure of the King from Turin is fixed for the 22d. He will be accompanied to Naples by M. Ratazzi, President of the Council, Admiral Per sano. Minister of Marine, and M. Conforti, Minister of Justice. The President of the Council will re main at Naples during the whole of the royal visit. The Ministers of the Navy and Justice will, after a stay of a week, return to Turin, and be replaced at Naples by two of their colleagues. The Senate will have two or three more sittings in order to pass the bills already voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and none of which will lead to any discussion. The sitting of to-morrow, however, will not be without some political interest, as General della Rovere is to put questions to Admiral Persano, relative to a promotion he has made, and which appears to be illegal. The Admiral is the Minister most frequently attacked at the present moment, and it may even be said that he is the only one against whom a serious opposition is made. He is accused of allowing himself to be guided by a spirit of favoritism ; he is also represented as labouring under an attack of anglomania, and it is affirmed that, in procuring the supplies required for the navy, which are very considerable, he is disposed to give an exclusive preference to Eng land. The Adthiral is certainly a very expefienced seaman, but ho has not yet shown his talent as an administrator." The Italie of Turin announces that Prince Oscar of Sweden is expected at Turin, to take leave of King Victor Emmanuel. His Highness will im mediately leave again for Nice. The same paper states that Prince Humbert, immediately after his journey to London, will proceed to Naples, where he will settle permanently, with his military house hold, immediately after the King's departure. Hie Majesty will not, it is said, proceed to Sicily this time, being unable to prolong his stay sufficiently there; but the visit is only adjourned to October, when the King will honour all the principal towns of the island with his presence. The Nationalites of Turin states that eight mobi lised battalions of the National Guard have been ordered to the Neapolitan provinces. FRANCE. M. de Lavalette has left Paris, but not for Rome. He is gone, some assert, to England ; others merely to the country. His temporary absence is said to have been suggested by a personage whose hints he would not venture to gainsay. He feels very warmly on the affair between him and General Goyon, and he has not concealed his feelings. He not only has not concealed them, but he has spoken frequently and vehemently on it in every society and almost on every occasion. This was found to be indiscreet, and perhaps prejudicial to the easy settlement which is contemplated ; and, as it was difficult to secure absolute silence, it was hinted that it would be well to seek for a time some diver sion away from Paris and its gossips. I cannot add much to what I told you a week or ten days ago on the solution of this petty episode of the " Roman question." The probability, I will not venture to say certainty, of Lavalette's return to Rome and Goyon's recall to France, with leave of absence " on urgent private affairs," still continues, while the troops would be left under the orders of the officer now second in command, Goyon remaining nominally the chief, This of course would be merely to save appearances, and to spare him the mortification of defeat; and his feelings might be further soothed by his elevation to the rank and dignity of Sent.tor ; and if this does not console him he must be unreasonable indeed. Thus stand matters at this moment as between Lavalette and Goyon. But, however this difference be settled, it is well to bear in in'incl that there are two questions before us—the maintenance of the Pope's temporal power, and the presence of the ex-King of Naples at Rome. On the former no one that I know of believes that the Emperor will change his mind, or that there is any real foundation for the statements of the Patrie about Cardinal Antonelli being in a more conciliatory mood. So long as Pius IX. lives, so long will the Emperor keep him where he i s , and .SSE NAVY. Her Majesty's iron screw steam troopship Adven ture, completely renovated and supplied with new boilers and machinery, having sailed from Wool wich on Tuesday, in command of Mr. Hall, com manding the steam reserve at that station, on a trial of her machinery, returned yesterday morn ing, and made fast alongside the Salsette off the dockyard, to be stored for service. Her crew, 160 in number, have been told off from the flagship Fisgard, and the greater number of her officers are commissioned. The trial was in all respects satis factory. The engines, supplied by Messrs. Raven hill, Salkeld, and Co., worked smoothly, and yielded a speed of 111 knots per hour. Immediately after her return to port the pennant was ordered to be hoisted at the mainmast-top, and the ship was put in commission for a commander, to be appointed forthwith. The paddlewheel steam frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, left Ply mouth on Wednesday evening for the Medi terranean. The Hindostan, 80, was placed in No. 4 dock in Devonport Dockyard yesterday morning. It is reported at Plymouth that she is destined to take the place of the Imaum, 72, receiving ship at Jamaica, Engineers are working extra hours on the screw steam flagship Revenge, 72, Capt. Charles Fellowes, at Plymouth, to expedite repairs. The troopship Renown, Captain Hight, owned by by Mr. Green, of Blackwall, with troops from Cal cutta, arrived off Falmouth on Wednesday, and re ceived orders to proceed up Channel for London without anchoring. Tne screw steam-frigate Emerald, 35, Captain Arthur Cuming, from Queenstown, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday afternoon. She brought 86 supernumerary seamen, who were trans ferred to the flag ship Royal Adelaide. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Samuel Braddon, master, to the Asia for the Black Prince ; George D. Parry, master, to the Indus for the Phcebe ; Samuel Clift, surgeon, to the Adventure ; W. H. S. Sterling, acting assist.-surg., to the Adventure; William B. Hutchinson, paymaster, confirmed in the Amphion ; Thomas Scott, second class assist.-engineer of the Alecto, promoted to acting first-class; and N. F. Hockerston, of the Cumberland, confirmed as se cond-class assist—engineer. THE ARMY. Yesterday 30 rank and file of the Ist battalion sth Fusileers, under the command of Lieut. Hoare, left the depot at Colchester Camp, and joined the head-quarters of that regiment at Portsmouth. A field day of the 9th and 10th Battalions, sta tioned in Colchester Camp, took place on Wednes day on the extensive parade ground adjoining the camp, when the troops executed the ordinary mili tary evolutions of a field day in the presence of Col. Guy, C. 8., commandant of the camp. The battalions were under the respective commands of Lieut.-Col, Street, C. 8., and Lieut.-Colonel Laye, and at the close of the movements the men marched back to camp to dinner. The half_yearly inspection of the Ist division of the depot brigade Royal Artillery, stationed at Sheerness, by Col. W. R. Nedham, commandant of the garrison, terminated yesterday. Yesterday the time-expired men and invalid troops brought home in the hired troopship Sir James, Capt. Parry, the arrival of which at Graves end was announced in 2he Sun of yesterday, were officially inspected at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, by Lieut. Col. Do Teissier and the staff of the in valid depot. The Sir James embarked her troops at Port Louis, Mauritius, on the 31st January last, and sailed the following day, rounding the Cape of Good Hope on the 21st of February, touching at St. Helena on the 3d of March, and sailing theme the same day, the Lizard being sighted on the 11th inst. The passage to Gravesend, including detentions, oc cupied 74 days. In addition to 55 naval and military invalid troops the Sir James brought home the re maining portion of the 4th battery, 13th brigade, Royal Artillery, a considerable number of the non commissioned officers and men having volunteered to the Madras Artillery on the battery being ordered home. The military invalids belong to the Royal Ar tillery, Royal Engineers, 2d battalion sth Fusileers, and 2d battalion of the 24th Regiment. The following officers arrived with the troops :—Capt. Sir J. W. Campbell, Lieut. E. Bainbridge, and Assist.-Surg. J. H. Finnemore, Royal Artillery. Captain F. T. A. Law, Royal Artillery, arrived in charge of the invalid troops, and Captain D. Gibson, 24th Regi ment, came home as passenger, on leave of absence. The troopship Flying Cloud, with the remainder of the 60th Rifles on board, had arrived at St. Helena, from Hongkong, and was expected to sail in about six days after the departure of the Sir James. During the passage of the Sir James to Gravesend five deaths occurred on board. With a view to rendering the officers, non-com missioned officers, and men of the Royal Marines Light Infantry available for immediate active ser vice on board her Majesty's ships, in common with the Royal Naval Reserve, the Lords of the Admi ralty have issued a circular, dated the 16th inst., directing that in future the course of practice in the ship great-gun drill shall be limited to the first and second instrictions and the Armstrong gun exer cise, as forming the chief elements in the gunnery of the present day. The Lords of the Admiralty have also decided that to make the Royal Marines more conversant with the duties on board ship the men are to be instructed in knotting, splicing, &c. Major-Gen. Anthony B. Stransham, Inspector- General of Royal Marines, who commenced his duty at Plymouth on Tuesday, reviewed the battalion on the Hoe again on Wednesday, when they were first commanded by Lieut.-Col. Robert Murray Curry, who shortly after gave place to Lieut.-Col. Richard C''n° ll 3 7 . Several captains then took command. Yesterday the battalion was exercised on the mili when the m e n were di v id e d tart' lines at D evon port, into two brigades. The first was under charge of Col. - Commandant Thomas Holloway, C. 8., the second was in charge of Col. Curry. Gen. Stran sham is accompanied by Lieut.-Col. J, 0. Travers, C. 8., Assistant-Adjutant-Gen. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The first annual representation of Donizetti's ad mired "La Favorite" took place last evening, Madame Csillag► making her first appearance this season. Gardoni was to have appeared in the part of Fernando, but was prevented by an attack of cold and hoarseness, and the part was taken, at very short notice, by Neri-Baraldi. He sang the air " Spirto gentil" with so fine a voice, and so much expression, that its repetition was called for in a burst of applause from all parts of the house. Csillag's impersonation of the heroine is the perfection of lyrical tragedy; there is nothing in the whole range of the musical stage that is more beautiful or more pathetic. Sig. Nanni, a new-corner this season, made his debut in the character of the Monk Baldassare. He has a fine bass voice with a musician-like style, and his action was dignified and impressive. Faure sus tained the part of the King, and the character could not be in better hands. The first act being, in the libretto of this theatre, divided into two, gave the opportunity for two contrasted and charac teristic ballets incidentally—the first, in the flowery Isola de Leon, where Inez (MadameTagliafico) and her groups of singing and dancing nymphs, executed in the prettiest style the attractive song-dance, so well known to opera-goers; the second, in the Palace of Alcazar, which scene (vi.) opened the second act, and was rendered attractive by a bril liant divertissement, excellently danced by Mesdames Battalini, Esper, and Billon. CONFIRMATION OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS HELENA. OSBORNE, APRIL 17. The ceremony of the confirmation of her Royal High ness the Princess Helena took place to-day, at Whipping ham Church, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. The Bishop of Winchester officiated, with the Dean of Windsor and the Rev. G. Prothero, rector of Whipping ham. At 12 o'clock her Majesty and the royal family arrived at the church, and took their places in the chancel. The service immediately commenced, and at the conclu sion the bishop delivered a charge. The Queen was attended by the Countess of Gains borough, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Hon, Lucy Kerr, Lord A. Paget, and Lieut.-Col. Du flat. The ceremony was conducted with the strictest privacy, in consequence of the late severe bereavement which has fallen on her Majesty and the royal family. DEATH OF THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.— Sir John West, G.C.8., expired this morning (Good Fri day) at an early hour, at his residence in Eat n-square. MADAME LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT.—This benevolent lady has volunteered her gratuitous assistance to the com mittee which has undertaken, at great expense, to restore and enlarge the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northam') ton, one of the few round churches of the Knights Templars. The Messiah will accordingly 133 performed next Wednes day morning in the Co-n Exchange in that town, and Madame Goldschmidt will sing. The applications for tickets have been very numerous. THE GREAT EASTERN.—Mr. C. E. Dixon, agent at Liverpool for the Great Ship Company, yesterday made an application to the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board for permission to again lay down moorings in the Mersey for the Great Eastern steamship, her late moorings having been removed in consequence of their causing an obstruction to navigation. Mr. Dixon stated that the vessel would re commence running to New York sonxethueld referred6t be madeo 6th of nthe her port of xetmmornietnhret, a o n f da-rthriavfair' Theher r e e p tu p rn liee L ti i e v n erp w o a ol would Committee. THE NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE.—The Euro pean Commission, crea t e d b y article 17 of the Treaty of Paris, has just p u bli s h e d the statistics of the navigation during the year 1861 at the mouth of the Sulina, the only entrance to the Danube yet rendered practicable. These returns include the traffic of the Turkish and Moldo-Wal lachian ports in the Lower Danube, and give a very just idea of the importance of the rich provinces traversed by that river. From the document it appears that 2,859 mer chant vessels, measuring 473,914 tons, entered the Sulina, most of them in ballast; and 2,883 vessels, of 480,944 tons, proceeded outwards, loaded with produce, almost exclu sively corn. The steamers of the Austrian, French, and Russian companies, which run regularly and carry both passengers and merchandise, are not included in the above return. The number of voyages made by these steamers, inwards and outwards, was 222. Lastly, the total number of sailing and steam vessels of all kinds which have gone through the Sulina pass, either way, was 6,224. Of that number seven were wrecked near the mouth, three sank in the roadstead of Sulina, and one in the river, in -conse quence of a collision. Besides other produce, 8,240,000 hectol. of corn were exported from the Danube, and of that quantity 1,700,000 hectol. came to French ports in about 500 vessels, among which were only five merchant vessels under the French flag. The freight of those 1,700,000 hectol. from Galatz to Marseilles, calculated at the average pr e f r . c y e la o r f g s e ev s e u r m al yearsforFrepnacsht, c w o a ni s m n e o r t l ee es t s o p th ay an 4, t0f 6 0 3 r e o, i gOnoof. ship.a v owners.— Galignaraz. The climate in British Columbia is one of the finest, healthiest, and most pleasant to English people in the whole world. The English language is spoken thera : the laws and government, and the social habits of the coun try are English : the church is English, and when there are children, there will be schools in which the best traits of English life will be preserved and honoured. There is no more hunger or fear of hunger there. A little half-bred nurse-girl gets £2 a month wages; and domestic servants might soon ]ay by a little fortune if they were not sure to marry presently. What would it not be to our best Coven try or Lancashire workmen, at this moment trying to make their clothes hold together by one more patching, or sitting with their hands before them, pining for something to do and something to eat; what wauld be to them, or to the weary, dazzled, sinking London needlewoman to go where ' everybody would bid for their services, where they would y "obtain, witho ut an hour's delay," as one o f t h e c l ergymen writes, and even eighty pounds per an num wages, "silty,tog setllerwvietaht, innumerable offers and promis es o f It would marriag e V' be nothing to them that prices are high, and the cost of living great (which accounts for the enormous rate of wages) ; for they would be maintained by their employers first, and their husbands if they choose to j marry.—Once a Week, THE DEFENCES OF NEW ORLEANS. A recent number of the Richmond Dispatch. says : —"The Mississippi is fortified so as to be impass able for any hostile fleet or flotilla. Forts Jackson and St. Philip are armed with 170 guns (68-pound ers, rifled by Barkley Britten, and received from England). The navigation of the river is stopped by a dam of about a quarter of a mile from the above forts. No flotilla on earth would force that dam in less than two hours, during which it would be within short and cross range of 170 guns of the largest calibre, many of which would be served with red-hot shot, numerous furnaces for which have been erected in every fort and in every bat tery. Between New Orleans and the forts there is a constant succession of earthworks. At the Plain of Chalmette, near Janin's Property, there are redoubts, armed with rifled cannon, which have been found to be effective at five miles' range. A ditch 30 feet wide and 20 deep, extends from the Mississippi to La Capriere. In the Forts St. Philip and Jackson there are 3,000 men, of whom a goodly portion are experienced artillerymen and. gunners who have served in the army." The same paper says— " In a day or two we shall have ready two iron cased floating batteries. The plates are 4i- inches thick, of the best hammered iron, received from England and France. Each iron-caned battery will mount 20 68-pounders, paced so as to skim the water, and strike the enemy's hull between wind and water. We have an abundant supply of incendiary shells, cupola furnaces for molten iron, congreve rockets, and fire ships. At New Orleans itself we have 32,000 infantry, and as many more quartered in the immediate neighbourhood. In discipline and drill they are far superior to the Yankees. We have two very able and active gene rals, who possess our entire confidence—General Mansfield Sorrel and Brigadier-General Ruggles. For Commodore we have old Rollins—a Nelson in his way. We are ready to give the Yankees a hot reception when they come. Around all are mad with excitement and rage. Our only fear is that the Northern invaders will not appear. We have made such extensive preparation to receive them that it were vexatious if their invisible ar mada escapes the fate we have in store for it." There are also said to be other formidable obstruc tions of various kinds in the river to prevent the passage upwards of a fleet. A correspondent at Ship Island, writing recently, says : " I have conversed with some prisoners recently taken in reference to the obstructions placed across the Mississippi by the rebels to prevent the passage of Federal men. of-war. From them I learn there is an immense raft of logs, containing 80,000 feet, stretched across the river at a point called the Jump.' The raft is secured to the banks of the river, on either side, by heavy chains, which are dropped when any of the Confederate steamers pass. This formidable obstruction is commanded by a strong battery." A New York paper says : "New Orleans is the great commercial and finan cial emporium of the South. It is the great Southern cotton emporium. Superior cheapness of transpor tation by water draws thither all the cotton pro duced in Middle and Western Tennessee, Arkansas, Eastern Texas, and Mississippi. 'The tobacco, hemp, and cereals of our vast Western empire find their way thither from the same cause. Half a continent pours its productive wealth into its bosom, and finds thence its way to the markets of the world. It is in brief the key to the wealth, the prosperity, and. advancement of 15 States. Its possession would be of vast material benefit. It would afford us at once the means of forcing the States of Texas, Louisiana, and Western Mississippi back to their allegiance, and serve as the point from whence we could force our other rebellious sisters of the South-west back to their duty. The fact of its capture would inspire the utmost terror throughout the entire South. A. moral paralysis would fall upon the boldest spirits of Secessionism. " The population of the city, by the census of 1860, was 168,472. This has doubtless been greatly reduced since that time; but, allowing for the opera tion of all reducing causes, it still probably numbers considerably above a hundred thousand souls. If we may not now daily look for news of its fall, we may at least anticipate learning what is virtually the same thing—that General Butler and Captain Porter have captured all its defences, opened up the river, and hold the contumacious city at the mercy of the mortars." AMERICAN VICTORIES. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The following Northern items, name to us by the steamers from the United States, bringing dates to the 23d and 26th of March : 1. Island No. 10 officially reported, by a Major- General of the army, taken by the Federals. 2. Fort Pike, at the entrance of Lake Ponchar train, taken by the Federals, and new Orleans in imminent danger. 3. New Orleans attacked. 4. New Orleans taken. 5. Beaufort, North Carolina, taken by a division of General Burnside's army. 6. The town destroyed by the Confederates. 7. Fort Macon, commanding the harbour of Beau fort, abandoned and blown up by the Confederates. 8. At the same time and place the Confederate steamer Nashville first burnt by the Federals, then by the Confederates. 9. Fright and flight of P resident Davis from Richmond, as reported by the New York Times. Such was the appalling list of disasters to the Confederate cause, which rendered the Yankees in Paris and London jubilant, and caused some of the more credulous Southerners to lock grave and solemn. Look on that picture, and on this ! One day less than a week elapsed, and the Northern accounts, by the steamer of the 29th from New York, without the slightest apology or ex planation, coolly send forth the following :- 1. Island No. 10 not taken. 2. Fort Pike not taken. 3. New Orleans not attacked. 4. New Orleans not taken. 5. Beaufort not taken. 6. The town not destroyed by the Confederates. 7. Fort Macon not abandoned, or blown up. 8. The steamer Nashville not burnt by Federals, or Confederates, but gallantly gliding out of the harbour (laden with cotton for foreign ports) through the ponderous jaws of the veritable and ' " effective" blockading squadron at that port. 9. President Davis neither frightened, nor fleeing from Richmond. With such a record of misrepresentation and contradiction from the same source, would it not be wise in future, before yielding our credence, to Paris, April M. WAIT A. WEEK? THE SOLDIERS' CLUB AT HONG KONG.—The soldiers' club at Hong Kong comprises a skittl e • a ll e y, a billiard- room , a racquet-court, and a newspaper room, which contains a library under the special control of the ban ack master, consisting of more than 2,000 volumes. The sub scribers at present on the list are 178, and the number fluc tuates somewhat monthly. There is a cheerful fire in the reading-room —a contrast to barracks—and smoking is by no means prohibited. The club—distinct in some measure from the library—is under the direction of a committee, the president of which is always to be a field-officer when circumstances permit. The rules to be adhered to are few and simple, but unfortunately a large proportion of the subscribers can neither read nor write.—London and China Telegraph. AN OLD COUNTRY MANSION.—Carved over the park gateway and the porch on the terrace, but very worn now, and moss-grown, and with orange lichen patches over it, the crests of the Hadfields is still traceable. Let the history of the county state it heraldically :—" A dove, ar. beak and legs, gu. standing on a serpent rowed ppr. Motto, Soyez sage et sample.' " And in that beautiful chamber --(it is used as a library now, and it is the room in which the medical gentlemen had their consultation and their !Madeira)—wainscoted with carved oak of rich and elaborate pattern and most skilful workmanship, is to be seen in ad mirabled eperoersaetrevd h atoirttadrav na,lniZnofunequalledthe timespecimenof j amofes I.ricely- The chimney piece is decorated with the Royal arms and the initials of James, while amidst the thick crust of orna mentation on either side are to be found the bearings Of Sir Hugh, the builder,. and of the famil y o f his wife, one o f —Once a Wok, the sumo of 111116 verti dowr Part ralty etriko doub has t sack 18 inve piece there ralty In or out N lo g i c lent li on the li dowr tome a nel ineou beet, etron the Eitr on in g f lie is The 2 the c 1P th ere clerk Treat /lean