The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-15 00:00:00

_(Na. 1 ). JAPANESE MISSION, on its 'Baton Rouge: ENFLAO'D GENTLEMEN ! By Articles 3, 18, and 21, under' texte Hollandaise' for 1 14 veers' revision, signed on 22d August, 1 858 , and atte sted by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatieff in 1859, under Pekin's Xan-Tein-tsin Treaty—in Alcor's Vi and Ki,' You are hereby instantly called on to register the old civic limit-wall of China, as of the Jesso-horizon of London, 40e north, at England's Receipt of Exchequer, and take therefrom the Yeddo copy of Standard weight for regional exemplification, under your red moon disc mark. You will explain to his highness the Tycoon that this measure results from my sole oath charge on the Holy Alliance of Christian Clubs Abolition, 29th August, 1825 (11 Geo. in. c 55) —grounded on 14 Geo. 111., c . 83 a lethe universal meter-rod of the world's empyreal spirit off- guidance—restored in 1824, suspend ed one yea! to kill the life and death intermediates of the Romish Pope— t whence cause of an illegal ' mitre' being attached to all the criminal law exchequer de eds, over which, f not re moved the writer will sign for the people. Note well I—The suspended 1824 Act became re-incorpo rated in 1835—and writer a State Trlatee sworn 1837. Your MISSION was for this purpotze to sire the treaty of Feb. 1664, with the Anglo-Dutch Executive of Holland as of Leicester's creation 1572 on Cromwell I nda Louis xiv., 1655, affirmed by Pa!liament, of 16 Car. e-c with the Phillipmes (1764), scholastic teaching the Indians by Act of 1832 for making N. W. American Behring's Land Guarantee of the Dutch Loan to extend to Newfoundland as the Crown Colony antipodean to New Zealand, Siam, and its Ceylon dependencies. In order to your seeing into the leading visit yesterday by Macdonald to the son (ASHBURTON Treaty) of my state-associate —and afterwards to Northumberland-house to pass before the supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (the Stamp Act Chief of 1774 Sagomoth of Anglo- America, west to east), the uncle and predecessor of the .Siderial Crown Officer of the Income-Tax freeman here tulto undersigned as one of your race under lignetiree' for the . Ashburton extradition treaty. I:4 conclusion for your satisfaction and others, the Anglo- Dutch Japanes treaty with China. Oct. 1663 to Feb. 1664, singned by Nicholas Birkman with Tycoon, &c., whereby the white flag with a red moon was declared your national emblem as displayed over your Embassy in London. .-: Erne base' (qui fit Charmer la Race-rouge si grande Sous la loi civiqUe ¢ ), pose avec Fierte I oa l'on voit que jamais I'ENGLAND' ne marchaqe Quand faut par la mer leur dormer Liberte • +l' • • * N.] II CHARLES 'w ' ACNIEELFEY, a• • 1-2 W. iv., No, 54, Chamberlayne Die-sworn. ' 6 . • PErmit BASQUET, Income-tax chiet ( 1842, unpaid.§ • China Ruff wall circuit horizon of,-London, May 15, 1862), its Montezuma-Texas Red Flag Die. So Paris-gab 'Wight ship' Belgie3-vooint lidfateren skiff Omega " Het [chip st-ylt wel, _het is rae in seylen, —item, het is een klock- ship in f allen." Ure-el-i-jah I (See The Sun of 19 and 28th.) THEATRE-RO HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAUB. Mier which, at OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Sothcr Asa renchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. n. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA BAN DISTA. Senora Perea Mena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps do Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a , 7. oYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. .1.1 k) Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 158th Night of the continuous run of " Peep o'Day." TiTIS EVENIN G, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. b.fter which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet Interludo, en t itled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitt y and ,Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the news arce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Addison. Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usuaL Doors open athalf-past 8, to commence at v. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE : Messrs. J, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at half-past 8, THE ANGEL OF MID NIG El I . Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, Cathcart, Wid dicombe , Jordan, Meadows, Raymond ; Miss Elsworthy, Miss Fielding, and Miss Henderson. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, Shore, &c., and Miss C. Leclercq. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-R0 VA L, ADE ster. LPHI.- S o le Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Web THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson ; Miss L. Keeley , Miss Woolgar, Miss 11. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruth en, Mr. Dion B ouc icault ; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billington, P. Bedford, Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Commence at 7. (' ) 1.1 NTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RUSISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. J ongh mans. UNSWOR in his celebrated Stump Speech "Or any o ther man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancer, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don during the Exhinn that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. ruHF, OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, I "MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenfal so ord, M usic by G. A. Mac farren ; Burns' " Jolly Beggars," a cantata, with George Linley's music, and brand Operatic elections by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. —Conductor, Mr. F. ongnmans. Ramsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent ; and HEN RI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze every evening-. 11 all, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. JIIGII "WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TATS DAY. —Morning, 2h. 27m.—Afternoon, 2h. 50m. To-Mnßh oa- • -11forning, 3h. 17m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made 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. i kt - 4 5 d . g t teast :? j THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1862. The sporting world may find compensation for the loss of the Hop Duty in betting on Church rate Divisions. The winner, both this year and last year has got, it not by half a neck but by half a nose. So, till a general election comes to put an end to this even running, a fairer betting subject can hardly be imagined. Clever indeed must when 573 p ersons vo t e , can th e calculation wh ich, te ll which side shall have 286 and which 287. One thi ng is very certain — an agitation which com mends s uch a vote , will never be given up till its object i 3 attained. 'Were the minority much less than one vote on a q uestion of religious liberty and equality, it is absurd to suppose that feeling enough will not always exist on the wronged side, to keep up the attack on the oppressing party. According to the representations of its friends l a st night the Church of England should be in a very pitiable condition. If her existence as an Established Church be really bound up w ith Church rates, she may well tremble to think that the House of Commons is so equally diviied on the subject of their abolition. To be sure she can give thanks, —to whom we will not say—that there is a House of Lords. But the House of Lords is not a support to bo relied on forever. Moreover, exception may soon begin again to be taken to a certain class of lords—Lord Bishops, voting continually on subjects in which they have a personal and selfish interest, while their opponents are wholly unrepresented in the same House. It comes too near to the case of a magistrate adjudicating in a matter in which he has a pecuniary interest. The only comfort which those who think Church-rates so bound up with the safety of the Church can find, must be in turning round and believing with the whole, pro bably of the 286, that their abolition would be a blessing to the Church, not an injury. That certainly is the opinion of every man,who has not a mere party object to serve, or who has not wholly fallen behind the spirit of the age. The truth is the voting on this question has, on one side at least, become a purely party affair. The question no longer is whether the Church of Eng land can dispense with Church-rates, and be richer for their loss, but whether the Right Hon. BENJA 31IN DISRAELI cat use it as one of his steppin g stones to office. It is, he says, now a political ques- ~' tion. He told the landlords and clergy of Bucking hamshire so, in his celebrated speech, in which he asked the political support of the clergy on the ground, that if they gave it, he would fight their Church-rate battle. He and others, therefore, get up the cry that Ecclesiastical Establishments and Church-rates, are part of one whole. To give up Church-rates would be to create one of the little holes, which like those in the great sluice at Lynn, might soon admit the waters of Voluntary ism, and flood the country with them. True, at present the Voluntary flood more like that of the Nile than that the tidal waters at Lynn, seems to produce flourishing religious harvests where it already extends, and even where it flows in the channels of the Episcopal Church ; still 287 Tories would persuade the country that it must be care fully banked out of all the old parishes of the country. To do these gentlemen justice, we do not imagine that one in 10 of them, perhaps not one in 20, believes what his vote formally implies. He does not believe, we may be sure, that the Church hebelongs to, needs the rate more than any Dissent ing Church does. He would be indignant to hear its members spoken of as either poorer or meaner than the members of any Dissenting sect ; yet his vote necessarily implies one or the other. That, \however, he cares little for. The Tory leader has summoned him to fight the Tory political battle on the Rate. He must obey orders if his party is to fight successfully, his vote for Church Rates means —place Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI at the head of affairs. But what can Sir JOHN PAKINGTON mean by resuscitating that stupid nonsense about the "Poor Man's Church." This sort of cant, we can give it no better name, is hardly so respectable as quack advertisements of the " Poor Man's Corn Plaster." The advertiser openly proclaims that he wants to make his living out of the "poor man." Sir JOHN uses the " poor man," as a political stalking horse, although the " poor man" knows but little of Sir JOHN'S church. We all know that, except when charities bring the poor to the parish church, the great body of those who go to worship at all, go to the " Wesleyan Chap6l," to the " Primi tive Methodist Chapel," to " Bethesda," or " Zion," or " the Tabernacle "—or even to " The Cave of Adullam." From any re ligious impulse, but few, indeed, comparatively, visit the churches of the Establishment. They are not compelled to pay, we believe, in any chapel, but so far as we have ever heard they prefer to pay their pence for the excitement and more colloquial sermon and service they find in the meeting-house. We remember a great Methodist authority told the Lords' Committee that " the penny a week" from members was their great reliance, that it was en tirely voluntary, but that the poor felt such inte rest in giving it, that their richer neighbours, if they thought any member felt the payment of so small a sum, frequently gave it them privately for the purpose of contribution. That seems to us something more line a " poor man's church," than one in which he is offered the privilege, E 0 distaste ful we imagine to an English poor man's pride, of going to church in forma pauperis. As to the wisdom of taking Church-rates for the battle-field with the " Liberation Society"— the great bugbear of the Lords' committee, and the clerical old ladies of the country—we certainly can not see the wisdom of it, This formidable Libera tion Society whose originator and leader but the other day received a testimonial of £5,000 from his friends, can hardly wish to fight their battle on better ground. The rate is, not like some vener able endowment, hardly known of, and not affecting more than a few persons—every parishioner knows all about it, can vote for it or against it, and if he sees fit, with a majority of his fellow parishioners, to refuse it, no power exists to compel him to pay it. It is a subject of annual discussion. The places are few in which some of his neighbours do not complain of the hardship of maintaining their own worship and those of others, too. In very nume rous parishes there is an annual fight ; in many more, where the Anti-Rate party are in a minority they yet find a pleasure in harassing their op ponents. Altogether, in a large part of the parishes of the kingdom, the Church-rate is just r: the thing to enable the " Liberation Society" to get a hearing for its principles under the most favourable circumstances. We have not the least doubt the Society would be sorry, as a matter of generalship, to see the rate abolished, They like the annual fight in Parliament, and like it still better in the parishes. Church-rates furnish them an Anti-State Church platform all over England, and we have no doubt they feel deeply indebted to Mr. DISRAELI for making it a party question. Mr. DISRAELI wants Ministers to make the ques tion a Government measure. In the present state of parties this, of course, is little better than a taunt, or a joke, He and his friends made a sad mess of it, when they made the attempt, by Mr. WAL POLE'S compromise. In fact, compromise is impos sible. It is not wanted. None can be devised. Mr. ESTCOURT'S resolution confesses that. His resolution itself is the signal of defeat. It is the confession that, while they have demanded a com promise so long, after trying for twelve months longer, they cannot find one. There is, indeed, but one possible—that of Mr. BRIGHT, to abolish the power of enforcing the rate, leaving the Church all its machinery intact. be Whether it was from having a morbid and over sensitive remembrance of the altercations that took place a few weeks back in the House o, Peers, between the noble and learned lord on the woolsack, and one of the five ex-Chancellors, we know not—but certainly his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH evinced an extraordinary readiness to take offence, on Tuesday evening, at a very small peculiarity then not iceable in the pro ceedings of the Lord High Chancellor. We are in duced torevert to it here for a moment, simply because of the c i rcumstance o f L or d W E STBURY'S instant and graceful apology for what, really and truly, so far as we can i n any way understand the i ncident required no apology whatever. The circumstances here alluded to briefly then arose the right re momentary misapprehension on the partverend prelates, viz., the o outf one of of a Bishop of WINCHESTER. - Upon the division which took place on Tuesday evening —a division which resulted in the rejection of the Qualification for Offices Abolition Bill by a majority of " thirty two" out 3f 142 Peers —the Bishop of WINCHES TER, while intending to vote with the ~ n „. con. tents," by an error as to the lobby, had inadver tently walked into the opposite lobby ttua sot , „„ m. here(' among the "contents." Immediately after this circumstance had been notified to the house by 1 the Marquis of CLANRICArDE , and admitted as a fact by the Bishop of WINCHESTER —it was sug gested by Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY that, in the absence of any precedent to guide them in the mat ter, their lordships should follow the course usually pursued in these little dilemmas in the House of Commons. Whoever the member might be who was found to have voted thus erroneously, and in op position to his own deliberate intentions, is there, in that "other place," summoned forthwith to the i: hie of the House by the mandate of Mr. SPEAKER. In compliance with this suggestion the Bishop of WIN- P. HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY 'EVENING, 7:MAY 15, 1862. CHESTER, was on Tuesday called upon to answer for himself by the Lord Chancellor, when the following dialogue took place : The LORD CHANCELLOR—My lord bishop, I am directed by the house to ask your lordship whether you heard the question put from the chair ? The Bishop of WiNcuzsTun—Yes. The LORD CHANCELLOR —OR which side was it your .ordship's intention to vote? The Bishop of Wl;icuEsTzß—With the non-contents. The Loup CHA.NCELLOTh—OR which side does your lordship now vote ? The Bishop of WINCHESTER—With the non-contents. Surely a very harmless interlocution in itself. Very plain, for all who listened to it, to understand. Not in any way that we can at all understand it a display of arrogance on the part of the Chancellor—nor yet again in any one particu lar that we can perceive degrading or galling to the sight as the Bishop of WINCHESTER. Not so, however, thought the Duke of BIICCLEIICEI. Who forthwith rose indignantly to protest against what he deemed the unprecedented and apparently in his present view, the unseemly circumstance of any noble lord being subjected to what the Duke of BUCCLEITCH termed " so much examination and cross-examination." The House laughed at the charge—and no wonder—thus petulantly' directed against the noble and learned lord on the woolsack. But the Lord Chancellor himself actually went the length of good humouredly apologising ! For what ? For having—if really such was the fact— " added one more to the many irregularities of the evening." Without doubt the "reply courteous" thus readily given by Lord WESTBURY to the Duke of BUCCLEUCH will go far to obliterate from the recollection of the House of Peers the " reply irritable" given by the noble and learned lord some little time back to Lord. CHELMSFORD, and after wards to Lord CHELMSFORD'S apologist, the noble Earl, the head of the Opposition. The conflict thickens in America. The news jnsl arrived shows all parties alive, in excitement, mov ing on ready to move, both politicians and soldiers. We are now certain of the surrender of New Orleans, and of the correctness of our conjectures founded on the few facts which reached us by the telegrams. General BUTLER. did come at the back of the city by Lake Portchartrain to co-operate with the fleet stationed alongside and above the undefended city ; and it was the Confederate, not the Federal Govern ment who marched out to a station twenty-five miles distant. The fleet has since taken Baton Rouge, about 120 miles higher up the river, a place of considerable importance, and one in which the secession feeling is said to have been very strong. His municipal majesty, the Mayor of New Orleans seems to have sent the Federal com mander, in reply to his summons to surren• , - - der, a reply worthy, in its mingled shrewd ness, and sauciness of Mr. SEWARD himself. Of course his worship was the nominee of the party who had taken arms against the Union, although it is well known that no city in the South had more Union feeling in it than New Orleans. This natu rally resulted from its being the great commercial emporium. It was the same under a different form at New York. Either of the two great commercial capitals were, for a long time, ready to accept almost any compromise which would prevent dis turbance to their trade. The present Mayor doubt less, thought it very clever and courageous to make his reply a Secession manifesto—to boast of their allegiance being still given to the Government they had chosen, and the surrender of an undefended city being an unnecessary ceremony. If the Federals have acted as vigorously as they did at Nashville, in Tennessee, they have given the New Orleanists a provisional Mayor who will preserve civil order, and be able to hoist the Federal Flag without danger of " paralysing his hands." The new Mayor, too, would also take care that allegiance to Secession was not maintained by " firing upon helpless women and children for showing their pleasure at witnessing the old flag." There is evidently also anxious movement near Corinth and Memphis. BEAUREGARD and HAL LECK are both old soldiers, the former has probably the smaller force, but he is in a desperate position, and is said to have evacuated Corinth and fallen back to Memphis and the river, probably to have the aid and cooperation of his gunboats; while HALLECK is close upon him, with it is said 160,000 men. If he does not rout and capture BEAURE GARD'S army, he apparently ought to do it. In the East, Fort Macon, which was blown up soon after General BURNSIDE took Newburn, has at last really surrendered, and BURNSIDE will therefore be now at liberty to pay his attentions to the Norfolk navy yard, though he will have 150 miles to march and some rivers to cross. M'CLELLAN appears to be still busy on regular approaches to Yorktown, and BANKS and M‘DowELL co •operating vigor ously from the north-west of Virginia. The politicians are getting warm over the negro question. Little has actually been done yet ; but the proposals to confiscate tha negro property of rebels meets with strenuous opposition. The Eman cipationists would seem to be a very large majority; but, in consequence, the members from the border States threaten another secession—one from Con gress—and thus to throw the onus of the emanci pation measures upon one party entirely. Presi dent LINCOLN has no doubt a difficult game to play ; and all kinds of rumours are rife, but no faith can be placed in any of them. One thing is certain—without emancipation reunion could never be real and solid. All is over, so far as the English and Spanish are concerned in Mexico, if we may reiy on the infor mation just brought from the West Indies. Ori ginally it was only intended to occupy the ports of the country, and that each Power should redress its grievances, which were chiefly pecuniary, by appropriating the Customs dues till the demands were satisfied. The Treaty between the Tbree Powers was as distinct as could well be needed ; but first the Spaniards practically violated its arrangements by landing a number of troops be fore the other Allies were ready, and acting in a manner which showed that they hoped to repeat in Mexico the roguery which had been so successful in St. Domingo. We did not alter our course—but France would not be outdone in a question of soldiers and foreign influence—she immediately put herself on a level with Spain in her proceedings, and the Mexicans, to her great pleasure, no doubt, of the two invaders, showed an evident preference for the French. The Spaniards have seen that their original project of becoming the governing patrons of Mexico was hopeless ; the inhabitants would not have them at any price. The rie..l,, .)...,..nwhilp. persist in their plan of endeavouring to esta blish a monarchy in Mexico, or at least, of, what they call, restorin g order ; o ff er i ng th e i r support to the moderat e p art y . The E ng li s h , like the Spanish, withdrew; t he French a) com being i n c l ear violation of the allied trea t y , which stipul a t es f or non -interference in the interna l ' affairs of th e We certainly cannot defend Spain at first, and the French now, i n ty fo the spirit of the departingtreaty r from the letter a nd joint and similar action. get our money, and to tnake it O ur business was to felt that wt _ nn u l(l not allow ourselves to be trifled I Meg* by the with, As to the occupation o: French, however, that is their concern, not ours. Rich as the contry is, both in mines and agricultural capabiities, we do not at all grudge it to them. We can apprise them, by a pretty large experience, of what a heavy cost it will prove ; but we slould trade with the co antry under their protectorship to great advantage, and we should by no means object to the Americans having a southern and French Canada, to teach them that Europe cared nothing about their Monroe doctrine ; and to make them feel that there was room in North America for three great Powers at least. Their Highnesses the Prince and the Princess Michel Schahoffskoy have errived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from St. Petersburg, for the season. The Lord Chancellor has ordered, on the recom mendation of her Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir William Atherton, that £4OO from a lapsed Chancery fund shall be given to the National Lifeboat Institution, in consideration of its great and important operations. It is reported that the French Government is about to erect a lighthouse on the Minquiors, one of the Channel Islands belonging to England. CAPTURE OF PIRATES.—HONGKONG, March 31. —Her Majesty's gunboat Bustard has captured two pirate lorchas off Amoy, and released a large trading junk. Her Majesty's gunboat Cockchafer captured a pirate junk, de stroyed another, and recaptured a large merchant junk on the 24th of March, off Aooy. The merchant junk and the pirate junk were taken into Amoy with 47 pirate prisoners. A third pirate junk made her escape. - - THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA.—The ukase of the Emperor of Russia, abolishing all national festivals, except the one for the victory of Pultowa, has been interpreted in Sweden as a demonstration of hostility. At least the jour nals of Stockholm call upon Sweden, and the provinces de tached from the Crown of Sweden, to celebrate in common the anniversary of the same battle as a day of national mourning. DEATH OF A VETERAN.—Lieutenant Frederick Bedford died at his residence, Greenwich Hospital, on the 13th inst., aged 83. This gallant old officer entered Green wich Hospital on the 23d cf June, 1802, and consequently had nearly completed 60 years in that noble institution. He was midshipman of the Jason, and lost an eye and sus tained other injuries at the capture of the French frigate Seine in 1798. He became Senior Lieutenant of the Dasher, and in 1801, when commanding the boats in pursuit of a convoy, lost a leg, and hae his boat sunk by a shot from the enemy. VISIT OF THE JAPANESE TO THE BANK OF ENG LAND.—On Tuesday morning, shortly before 12 o'clock, the members of the Japanese embassy visited the Bank of Eng- land. There were five carriages, and the visit being quite private, but few of the public had an opportunity of seeing the illustrious personages, the ambassadors themselves having alighted at the front entrance of the establishment in Threadneedle-street before the passers-by to the Royal Exchange had intimation of the circumstance. They were attended by their interpreter, their draughtsman, and the other members of their suite. At the Bank they were met by several of the directors, who took them over the build ing, the various departments in connection therewith being explained to them by the interpreter, and in the whole of which they appeared to take great interest. THE CROPS IN SUFFOLK.—Upon the 'clay and stiff-mixed soils of Suffolk the wheats are looking exceed ingly well, but on the light lands they are in some places thin and weakly. The barley crop promises well, and, not withstanding that the past spring has been rather trying to vegetation, appears to ha're sustained no injury. The later sown portion of the crop Las rapidly developed itself. Beans and peas look well, and there is an encouraging promise of a good mangold-wurzel plant. The clover crop does not, however, hold out such satisfactory hopes, being thin in some districts. During the last three or four days a good deal of rain has fallen, and the pastures have taken a fresh start. The annual meeting of the Suffolk Agricultural Society is about to be heldat Bury St. Edmund's, and three days will be given on the occasion to the various systems of steam cultivation. MR. WINDHAM AGAIN !—You will not, I pre sume, be surprised to learn that, in all probability, Mr. Windham and his affairs are likely again to be brought under the notice of the public. It is stated in well informed quarters that the eccentricities and extravagancies in which the young man has lately indulged are of such a nature that his mother has been advised to present a peti tion to the Lord Chancellor praying that the inquiry into the state of his mind may be reopened. Should the prayer of the petitioner be acceded to, and should another jury arrive at an opposite conclusion to the last, what a lament , able and costly miscarriage of justice will be presented to the world I Mrs. Windham has returned from the conti nent in company with Giuglini, with whom she appeared so frequently in public in Dublin last season.—London. Correspondent of Belfast News Letter. ANOTHER TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELTh —On Tuesday morning it was discovered that another trade out rage had been perpetrated at the Union grinding wheel, Sheffield. The wheel had been broken into during the pre ceding night, and a number of tools, consisting of laps, glaziers, polishers, bands, and horsings, the property of a razor-grinder, named John Green, were destroyed. The mill in which the tools were left is occupied by Green, con jointly with two other grinders, and was left in perfect safety on Monday night. On Tuesday morning it was dis covered that the mill had been broken into, and the articles indicated above removed. The tools of the other grinders close by had not been meddled with. On making a search it was found that Green's tools, which were of the value of £l2, had been thrown under the boiler fire and destroyed. It appears that Green is a member of the trades' union, and that he has had a misunderstanding with them. Green has, however, annoyed some of his fellow-grinders by tak ing work he cannot do himself, but his son can. He has been requested to desist from this course by some of the men who work at that description of grinding which he had been giving to his son, and was told, it is said, that if he did not comply with their wishes, lie must take the conse quences. TRAGIC OCCURRENCE AT MAN CHEST ER.—A law minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, as an umbrella repairer, whose name has not yet been ascer tained, was walking through Watkins's-court, near Bridge street, Manchester, with a number of umbrellas under one arm, he was seized by a woman named Mary Reynolds, who charged him with keeping an umbrella she had given him to repair about 12 months ago. The man denied all knowledge of it, when the woman seized the umbrellas and a walking stick which the man was carrying, and com menced beating him about the head with them. The man ran into a street called Dolefield, pursued by the woman, who continued to beat him, and after a few blows had taken effect, he fell down. The woman ran away, ar. the man was lifted up in a dying state. Before medical aid could be obtained he expired in the street. The woman is in custody. The affair created much excitement in the neighbourhood. On examination of the man's head no outward appearances were discovered sufficient to account for death, and it is supposed that he was probably suffering from disease of the heart. A surgical examination would be made before holding an inquest. THE GLASS DOMES, WHY OBJECTIONABLE.— We must object in fob to the introduction of glass domes as a feature of architecture--at least when viewed from the exterior. Their transparency entirely deprives them of the preponderating size which solid domes exhibit, and which always forms a grand feature—generally the'leading one— in the public buildings of Europe so enriched. Moreover, the farm itself, however beautiful its outline may be when of glass, is entirely cut up by the manner in which the supporting ribs cut each other. If we judge of them from the inside less is to be said against them ; but our praise even here can only be negative, as without doubt they let in a vast deal more light than is necessary, whilst they ut terly fail to transmitlight to the tunnel-like nave. We con fess we would much rather have seen such a dome as that covering the reading-room of the British Museum, where there is light enough in all conscience, notwithstanding the massiveness of its exterior. But the truly ludicrous ap. pearance of the dome of the Great Exhibition, as seen from the only part the public can approach it on,the eastern side, is fairly given in the following sketch which was made from the Exhibition road opposite to the eastern entrance, and at the utmost distance the artist could get from the object. Here it puts on the appearance of one of those umbrellas used to protect the vegetables in Covent-garden Market. Viewed from the Horticultural Gardens, the best view can perhaps be had of those enormous wens upon the ugly body of the building, but we conceive that, as the two are brought into view from this point, the faults of the building are thereby only doubled.—Once a Week. AURORA BOREALIS.—This meteorological pile• nomenon, which is of very rare occurrence in Italy and other countries lying under the same parallels, was observed at the Brera Observatory of Milan on the night of the 3d. It commenced about midnight by the sudden appearance of a subdued and diffused light towards the N.W. ; after some time large and frequent luminous coruscations were per ceived, of such magnitude as often to extend to the zenith. These appearances having subsided, a see rnpnt of a very black cloud hP e 4n to rise about 40 min. past mid night, in the direction of the magnetic meridian. The cloud was bordered with two concentric arcs of pale light, and moving upwards by degrees, slowly took an easterly direction. Seven minutes later the larger and more elevated of the two arcs had disappeared, but the smaller one contiguous to the dark segment became more beautiful and better &fined, extending like a curved zone about 12 degrees in breadth, with two well defined and circular borders. Its light, which at first was pale, sud denly brightened about 56 min, past midnight, and shone with an intense purple light for some seconds. This 'mag nificent spectacle was enhanced by a shower of falling stars, after which the black segment began to dissolve into stratified clouds, and the luminous are gradually faded away. At 10 'Minutes past one every trace of the pheno ' mena had disappeared, except a very weak diffused light which overspread the whole visible PkY• -- Galignani. EXR7'BR HALL. MADAME LIND-GULDSCHMID P. Art, which may be considered as almost the highest gift to man, can never be so dignified as when associated with benevolence, which is almost his highest duty. It was the great distinction of Madame Goldschmidt throughout her wonderful career that she seemed to hold her talents in ,rust for the benefit of others—by the constant sympathy she shared with _ the unfortunate _ and suffering—and since her comparative retirement, she has lived in the heart of the public quite as much as in their memory by her continued manifestation that such a feeling is still dominant. It is indeed her peculiar praise that she has felt the powers which were given her to delight comparatively a few, were best employed when devoted to the service of the many. A year ago she came forward to assist in raising funds for the removal of the destitution, moral and physical, of an eastern suburb ; and now she presents herself again with an equallygenerons andimportant scheme, that of three oratorios-in support of as many charities—each of which has unquestionable claims upon the public. The first is for the benefit of the Hinde-street Institution, and other establish ments for the relief of the needlewomen of London ; the second is on behalf of the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, and Diseases of the Chest—and the third is in sup says port of the Two Royal Societies of Male and Female Musicians. A purpose so estimable the public could scarcely fail to appreciate, wholly apart from the degree of efficiency with which it is proposed to be carried out, and connected with such efficiency have already proved they will support to the utmost point of success which its kindly promoter could desire. We understand that; nearly all the tickets for the series have been disposed of, and these it must be remem bered at the price of half a guinea and a guinea. We should presume, therefore, that the proceeds will be something very handsome. Mdme. Goldschmidt has associated with herself on this occasion almost all the superior talent for sacred music in the metropolis. Miss Palmer—a very adequate replacement of Madame Sainton —Mr. Simms Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Belletti, together with a band selected from the leading London orchestras, and a chorus, compris ing 500 performers, taken from the Sacred Harmonic and other choirs the whole being placed under the able direction of her husband Mr. Otto Goldschmidt. The per formance of the " Messiah" last evening, which properly inaugurated the series, was one of the most superb that has ever been given to one of the most brilliant audiences that has ever crowded Exeter Hall. Madame Goldschmidt, who since her entrance into the field of sacred music, with the sole exception of Madame Novello,has been allowed to reign in it supreme, never exerted herself with more ardour or more success than on this occasion. Her still extraordinary voice, though evidently suffering from the influences of our most anti-vocal climate, and requiring therefore some little exertion to rouse to a full display of its powers—when so excited still asserts its claim as one of the marvels of our time—alike in respect to its unequalled range, and its peculiar force and quality. It still presents that union of power and sweetness which distinguished it at first, if not all the ease and facility which completed its en chantment. All the resonance of the higher notes, all her marked power of sustainment, and all the thorough musical culture which enables her to carry her vocal resources to the utmost point of effect, are still as palpable as ever. Among the great features of her singing last evening —and in evidence of the variety as well as depth of its display was her striking delivery of the florid passages of the air, " Rejoice greatly," so triumph ant in their exultation—the superb energy which she threw into the " I know that my Redeemer liveth," being, as compared with its usually pa thetic, a new reading which we felt to be not less a profound one, in its illustration of the fervid conviction of the sublime faith which it enunciates, and the exquisite pianissimo with which she concluded the second part of the air, "He shall -f< <I my flock"—one of the most affecting and delightful cadences we have ever heard from human lips. To all these passages the audience could not restrain a warmth of acknowledgment— demanded by their merit, however, in violence of the decorum that is felt to be pro per to the solemnity of such effusions. Miss Palmer was also a decided feature of the even ing. Her rich contralto tones, always subjected to due discipline, were enforced on this occasion by a fervent and devout feeling, which rendered her de livery of the two airs, "He was despised and re jected," and "He shall feed His flock," almost the most perfect that we remember. Mr. Sims Reeves also was in all his power, and declaimed the great opening air, and also " Thy rebuke bath broken his heart," with almost the grandeur of a prophet. Signor Belletti was not less successful with his noble voice and perfect taste, so truly in accordance with the music. His only failure was in the trumpet song which he scarcely delivered with sufficient vigour. The choruses, with few exceptions were admirable in the extreme—more especially " For unto us a child is born," " Behold the Lamb," and the "Hallelujah"—exhibiting I hat unity and precision only to be attained by singers who have the gifts and knowledge, and constant practice of our London choirs. Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, we must add, in the direction of their force, attested his own claims as a timeist. The next oratorio will be the" Creation," and will be given on the 30th. Lnd I _ LATEST NEWS. PARIS, MAY 15. The Moniteur, in its bulletin of this morning, According to the news from Mexico to the 11th ultimo, via Havannab, the allied Plenipotentiaries had not been able to come to a common under- standing. General Prim had announced his resolution to re-embark his troops, and had sent for the neces sary transports to Cuba. Marshal Serrano, Captain- General of Cuba, after having taken the advice of the civil and military authorities of Havannah, did not consider himself justified in acceding to this demand, and invited General Gassett to return to Mexico, and take the command of the Spanish troops, should General Prim persist in his determi nation to return. The French troops were to repass Chiquihuite on the 20th of April, in order to commence hostilities immediately. CASSEL, MAY 15. The official lasseler Zeitung of to-day announces hat the Electoral Government has made a declara- tion to the Federal, justifying the late ordinance respecting the elections. The Government further stated that the wish of the Federal Diet that the elections should be stopped could not be complied with, on account of the constitutional duties of the Elector. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 14.—The market has been heavy, and the closing prices of yesterday have undergone a slight decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 70c. Railway Share Market quiet, but prices pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows per!per Cents 9B 10 Do. end month 98 35 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 65 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 69 65 Credit Mobilier 837 50 Do, end month B3B 75 RAIL" Bank Shares 3140 Credit F oncier 1550 Belgian 4t Piedmontesc Fives 7l 80 Italian Loan 7l 55 Austrian Spanish Threes 52 25 Home Debt ~ 49 25 /WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1320 -- .. 1322 50 Northern.... - .. 1065 -- nnvditto Lyonsand/delitemanean 1107 50 .. 1107 50 Geneva.. 370 .. 372 50 Southern 842 50 .. 843 75 Western - Eastern . 565 -- .. 565 Sardinian - .. 382 60 Austrian Lowbard 605 -- .. 606 25 POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, MAY 7. To give you an idea of the treatment to which the Polish clergy are subjected, in spite of the protection extended to them by the Archbishop Felinski, I will state that the Rev. Mr. Mikoszewski, having on the 2d instant intoned in the Church of St. Alex- ander a chant usually sung, but resembling much to the well-known hymn, ' Boze cos Polske," he was on the same day arrested and taken before the chief of the police, General Pilsudzkoj—by whom he was severely reprimanded and even threatened with a promenade to Russia, should he persist in singing this church music so obnoxious to the Russian Go- vernment. Supposing that the priest had over. stepped certain regulations, still it would have been for the ecclesiastical authorities to interfere and not for the police. But the Russians do not know, and do not possess, any other save a military rule. Eveu the Archbishop Felinski, to whom in ap pearance every respect is paid due to his dignity, has already become an object of distrust on the part of the Government. The union which exists between all the classes, and above all, between the population and the clergy forms the great strength of the nation. The devotion of the clergy to the interests of the country is reciprocated by the affec- tion and the attachment of the people. Such a union is very unpleasant to the Government, who, failing in destroying it, has now commenced to throw all sorts of insinuations against the arch bishop as the abiding example of Polish patriotism, with a view to render him unpopular among his countrymen. Of course persons well educated can not be deceived by this trial of the Russian Govern ment, but the thoughtless youth and some unedu cated people may easily be misled. The Archbishop has, therefore, thought it advisable to offer a public explanation, but his letter, by order of tne authori ties, was not allowed to be published in Warsaw, and no doubt will appear in some Polish papers at Posen or Cracow. Those who at one time appeared to have seen in the person of the new Archbishop only a Russian tool can now convince themselves of his true and pure Polish character. Of those arrested on the 10th of April, and again on the 3d inst., many have been dispatched to penal regiments in Russia ; others are imprisoned in the Citadel awaiting their sentence. The stu dents and young people form the greater part of these prisoners. On the sth inst., General Krzyzanowski, who fills the functions of Governor-General, and the Chief of the Police, General Pilsudski, had desired the scholastic authorities to dismiss forty students against wham nothing could be alleged by their principals. Of course, such a request was flatly refused by the above authorities. Enraged at this refusal, General Krzyzanowski ordered the two directors of the Educational Board, Messrs. Lysz : . kowski and Paliski, to be removed from their ',osts. To modify this most unjust proceeding, the tyro directors received, instead of thei , : dismissal, an unlimited leave of absence. We hear here, by way of consolation, that the educated classes in Russia begin to understand that liberty cannot come out of the despotism practised in Warsaw, and, grow weary of the iron rule exercised in Poland. It is affirmed by these Rus sians that the daily imprisonments, the transporta tions, and the unheard-of vexations to which the Poles are doomed for the purpose of making them renounce their nationality, only increases the in tensity of their patriotic feelings and widens the abyss which now separates the Polish nation from the Russian Government. If to this be added the dissatisfaction among the Russians themselves, the conspiracy, which is widely spread even among the military—the state of bankruptcy to which Russia is hastening—the position of the Czar and his camarilla is not to be envied. News of the Russian loan to be effected in Lon don by Messrs. Rothschild has taken many by sur prise here. This financial operation will enable the Emperor to pay the ariears due to himself and the public functionaries, so numerous in Russia—to the Guards, who for more than nine months received no pay—and to provide the members of the Imperial family with money for their summer visits to Germany and England. Not one farthing of this loan will be applied towards the settlement of the serf question. ITALIAN ADDRESS TO LORD PAL- MERSTON. The Turin journal, the Italia, publishes the text of the address which the Italian Association of Emancipation has sent to Lord Palmerston. It is as follows : Trescorra, May 5. My Lord,—We have heard with joy and grati fildP 01 wordo full of moaning, you,ourrc oo ing the sentiments of the gr eat British nation, have uttered in the Ikuse of Commons in defence of the unity of Italy and the principle of non-intervention. You have recognised the fact of the Napoleonic oc cupation of Rome to be a flagrant violation of the principle of n on-intervention. It is an obstacle to th e unity of Italy , and threatens the peace of to Europe.make If England only p erseveres i n her e ff orts this principle respected, h s uffice alone to obtai n th e entire deliverance leratnaiaeleonfs wi their country. Receive, my lord, our respectful saluta tions, (Si gned) The Central Council of the Italian Association of Emancipation, the President, G. Garibaldi, and the other membere of the Council. THE EASIEST WAY TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION. When the mighty show of 18M was about to be denied a site in Hyde Part, on the very reasonable remonstrance of the neighbours, who had paid large sums for the privilege of " peace and quietness," many were of opinion that the right place for the building would be (..t Battersea, by the river's side, so that it might be easily approachable from all parts by the steamboats. The ease, the cheapness, the pleasantness of this sort of conveyance, as com pared with the heat and dust of an omnibus, and the power to convey almost any number with speed, were no small arguments in favour of this view. The " Domes," as Punch has christened the noble warehouse of 1862, are fortunately quite within easy reach of the steamboats. The Cadogan pier is but a very leisurely quarter of an hour's stroll from the Exhibition, along a finely straight and pleasant line. From every part of the town the Cadogan-pier may be reached by the Iron Boats for 3d. The water happens to be particularly sweet just now, so that the transit on the river may well be made a refreshing part of the excursion. From Cadogan-pier keep straight up Oakley•street, cross the King's-road to Arthur-street ; this and Charles-street bring you into the Fulham-road, in which, if you walk a little eastward (to your right), and go up Sydney-place and Cromwell-plane, you stand before the south front of the New Industrial Palace. We trust this may prove an useful itinerary to many of our friends, to whom South Kensington is as yet rather an unknown region, and who are little inclined to be dragged slowly through the streets to find it. Two Brigham fishermen were drowned off Ply mouth, on Wednesday afternoon, through having been knocked off their boat by the boom of a passing sloop. TEE £l,OOO DIAMOND RING.—The Drncepriinga at common law, and bubsequently at equity, before Vice- Chancellor Kindersley, in reference to the splendid single stone diamond ring, s old by Messrs. Lambert and R aw li ngs to Mr. R. C. Savage for £l,OOO, and afterwards pawned at Mr. Attenborough's, in Piccadilly, have resulted in its sale by auction by order of the Court of Chancery, and yester day Messrs. Debenham, Storr, and Son su b m i tte d th i s magnificent stone to public competition, at their great mart in Covent-garden. The first offer was £5OO. The bidding continued up to £6lO, at which sum, there being no further biddings, the auctioneer announced that the reserve price fixed by the court was .700, and so withdrew the ring. 1 The catalogue included a great variety of highly valuable I jeewel ,- ; and b:jouterie, which drew together a large assem blage of connoisseurs and others interes ed in such property. i At the saute time a pair of splendid car tops, a brilliant of remark a bl e s i ze an d grea t lustre (supp ose eac h set with weight of atoms, together 141 carats), was sold for £5201 THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY. The Inman steamer City of New York arrived off the harbour this morning, with New York dates o the 3d. The capture of New Orleans is confirmed. The following correspondence between the Mayor of New Orleans and Commodore Farragut, and taken from the Richmond Enquirer, has been telegraphed :o the War Department : " United States Flagship Hartford, off New Orleans, April 26, 1862. " Upon my arrival before your city I had the honour to send to your Honour Captain Bailey, United States Navy, second in command of the expedition, to demand of you the surrender of New Orleans to me, as the representative of the Government of the United States. Captain Bailey re ported the result of a interview with yourself and the mili tary authorities.' " It must occur to your Honour that it is not within the province of a naval officer to assume the duties of a military commandant. I came here to reduce New Orleans to obe dience to the laws of, and to vindicate the offended majesty of, the Government of the United States. The rights of persons and property shall be secured. I therefore demand of you, as its representative, the unqualified surrender of the city, and that the emblem of the sovereignty of the United States be hoisted over the City-hall, Mint, and Custom-house by meridian this day, and all flags and other emblems of sovereignty other than this of the United States be removed from all the public buildings by that hour. " I particularly request that you shall exercise your au- thority to quell disturbances, restore order, and call upon all the good people of New Orleans to return at once to their vocations; and I particularly demand that no person shall be molested in person or property for sentiments of loyalty to their Government. " I shall speedily and severely punish any person or per sone who shall commit such outrages as were witnessed yesterday, by armed men firing upon helpless women and children for giving expression to their pleasure at witnessing the ' old flag.' " I am, very respectfully, " D. G. FARRAGUT, Flag Officer, " Western Gulf Squadron." " To his Excellency the Mayor of the City of New Orleans. " Mayor's Office, City of New Orleans, City Hall, April 26, 1862. " Sir,—ln pursuance of a resolution which we thought proper to take, out of regard for the lives of the women and children, who still crowd the metropolis, Gen. Lovell has evacuated it with his troops, and restored back to me the administration of its government and the custody of its honour. I have, in council with the city fathers, considered the demand you made of me yesterday of an unconditional surrender of the city, coupled with a requisition to hoist the flag of the United States on the public edifices, and haul down the flag that still floats upon the breeze from the dome of this hall. • "It becomes my duty to transmit to you an answer which, as the universal sentiment of my constituents, no less than the prompting of my own heart, dictates me on this sad and solemn occasion, The city is without the means of defence, and is utterly destitute of the force and material that might enable it to resist an overpowering armament displayed in sight of it. " I am no military man, and possess no authority beyond executing the municipal laws of the city of New Orleans. It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to lead an army to the field if I had one at command, and I know still less how to surrender an undefended place, held, as this is, at the mercy of your guns and your mortars. " To surrender such a place were an idle and unmeaning ceremony. The city is yours by the power of brutal force, not by my choice or the consent of its inhabitants. It is for you to determine what will be the fate that awaits those here. As to hoisting any fl ig not of our own adoption and allegi ance, let me say to you that the man lives not in our midst whose hand and heart would not be paralysed at the mere thought of such an act ; nor could I find in my entire con stituency so desperate and wretched a renegade as would dare to profane with his hand the sacred emblem of our aspirations. " Sir, you have manifested sentiments which would be come one engaged in a better cause than that to which you have devoted your sword, and I doubt not that they sprung from a noble though deluded nature, and I know how to ap preciate the emotions which inspired them. You have a gal lant people to administrate during your occupancy of this city—a people sensitive to all that can in the least affect their dignity and self-respect. Pray, sir, do not fail to regard their susceptibilities. The obligations which I shall assume in their name shall be religiously complied with. You may trust to their honour, though you might not count on their submission to unmerited wrong. "In conclusion, I beg you to understand that the people of New Orleans, while unable to resist your force, do not allow themselves to be insulted by the interference of such as have rendered themselves odious and contemptible by their dastardly desertion of our cause in the mighty struggle in which we are engaged, or such as might remind them too forcibly that they are the conquered and you the con- 40 . querors. Peace and order may be preserved without resort to measures which I could not at this moment prevent. Your occupying the city does not transfer allegiance from the Government of their choice to one which they have de liberately repudiated, and that they yield the obedience which the conqueror is entitled to extort from the con quered.—Yours respectfully, "JOHN F. MONROE, Mayor. " Flag-officer D. G. Farragut, United States Flag-ship Hartford." AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. The ship Norfolk, Atwood, from Melbourne, for London, arrived off this port this morning, with 360 passengers ou board, 20 of whom landed here, together with the mails. MARKETS---THIS DAY. MARK-LANE. I.IILEF.RIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 58s Sad; barley, 37s 3d ; oats, 22s 4d ; rye ) 35s lld ; beans, 408 3d ; and peas, 40s sd. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 58s 3d ; barley, 36s 9d ; oats, 21s 9d ; rye, 36s 10d ; beans, 39s ld ; peas, 39s 11d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 68,549; barley, 12,681; oats, 10,580 ; rye, 59 ; beans, 4,338 ; peas, 332 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKEL There was only a moderate supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market, and all breeds sold readily at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday of 2d per 81bs. The best Scots and crosses realised 4s 6d per 81bs. The condi tion of the stock was prime. Sheep—the show of which was tolerably good, both as to number and quality—moved off slowly; prices, however, were supported, We have to report a dull sale for lambs, at a reduction in value of 4d per 81bs. The quotations ranged from 6s 4d to 7s 8d per 81bs. The veal trade was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's currency. Pigs were firm in price, but mulch cows were very dull. _ _ _ Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 0 3 2 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 Pius. S'thdown d 0.4 8 4 10 Prime large oxen 3 10 4 2 Largo crse. calves 4 2 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Prime small do 4 10 5 2 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 6 Large hogs 3 8 4 2 Second quality do. 3 8 3 10 i Small porkers ..., 4 4 4 10 _ - Lambs, 6s 4d to 7s Bd. Suckling calves, lOs to 225; and quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs.... 5,970 ; Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 320 ; Pigs .... , . — MEAT MARKETS. • Ls.t—e steady, a ssup followslie supplies :—Beef, Ls as oa tO 4s tid; lamb, 65 8d to 7s 2d; veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; pork, 4s Od to 58 Od per 81bs f a i r o e iii N m E o: v d e e G l r o l a a t r et j a A n l l p t o h a L e , E t A r Lii a D d u E e i N w rll A , e by the carcase. SOUTHALL, May 14.—The supplies o f s t oc k were mode rately good, and the trade ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d; mutton, 38 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 6s 6d to 7s 4d; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d o offal. market has ruled firm, and pt4hesreitB9:lll3btiaosFt. quotations I ° B n s i 'i o n : d M a ; r ta e hy p w e o a r lo l k 4f supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4i ; mutton, 3a 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 6s 8d to 75 6d • veal, 10d to 4s 8d per 81b • su'ckling 14 qu o a d rt t e o r-21 1 d 8 s o t s or e e ac p h ig . s, 20s to 29s each; c a a n l d v e m s , il l c O h s etoowls9,Bl; HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.• -.Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os ; clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. A slow trade. CIT TIBERLAND.--Mea4OW hay, L 2 5s to £5 Os; clover (10., £3 lOs to £5 17s; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5e per load Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clover o lod I .7U 10 , vatu blaawl a a 10:1 W Xi'a Uri per luau. Trade heavy. THE WARDROBE OF A LADY OF FASHION.--On Tuesday last the sale••rooms of Messrs. Debenham, Storr, and Sons, in Covent-garden,were crowded with the fair sex, attracted thither by the announcement that the costly ward - robe of a lady of fashion, deceased, chiefly supplied by an eminent Parisian modiste within the last twelvemonths, would be dispersed at the hammer. The extensive room glittered with rich and gay colour, Genoa velvets, brocaded silks, sables, cashmeres, laces, mingled together in strange variety. There were in all 200 dresses of every variety of material and value, and they realised between £5OO and £6OO. One of the lots was a moire antique dress with tur quoise buttons. The buttons from this dress had been stolen whilst on view, but the thief having been detected and the property found on him, the auctioneer announced that the buttons would be delivered to the purchaser. Pr