The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-07 00:00:00

THEAT .RE-R 0 Y AL, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstne. THIS EVENING (9h time) siStE-RICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. S ot ern ; Ass Trachard, Mr. Buck- After which, a Household Pictur, und Mr. er Howeo Tw Lig Mr. h W. ts, TIE WIFE'S FOUTRAITe. , Pi C. Young. dude ' witty FAMILY JARS. Commence a 7 Farren. LYCEUM THEA.TIL • - Maita,er--Mr. Edmund Falcouer. EVENING, 124th time of the new and oil-, (final Drama led, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs tter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund 14 ni ne' ; Mrs. D. P. flowers. Miss Clara 'Weston. After which, a new and orielnal Burlesque Extravagrza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING 11000 ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. P-ices as nsual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. 0 ~' iIiOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. LASSPe, Mr A. Hartle. 'ITHS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE IIEARTIL es Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widd i c omb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdam Fielding. Carlotta Leclercq, &c. To conclude with the new Mystic Prima, in four parts, entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Air. 'Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Mlss Fielding, &c. ~T~~w TT EATRE-ItO AL, A DELp Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. VMS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L. foole, Mr. Billing,t,n, Mr. Sefton , Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Rillington, Stuart, Ebutne, Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. ;'o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Misses K. Kelly, K. B land, Laidlaw, and Mrs. 11. Marston. Commence at 7. s FLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-- a IL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Pertornaance of Mr. Bell's trained F.lepti nts. 'I. HIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, intrucing- two colossal st animal Asiatics Elephants, pronounced by all od to be - the clevere ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant a nd daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe ot Equestrians. Concluding with a lau ,hable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE (yuNTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah," by IVtdme. Negri, SiTnor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band and tull Chorus, conducted by Mr. .Tongtimans. The Comic Department by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Yorde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th April Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls :I,la d Balcony, 18. rinHE HENRI OXFORD, 6, on Othe XFO Flying, Trapeze EVERY EVENING. The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed expressly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme. Maria, and Mdme. Enderssohn. Full Band and Chorus.- 31 - uscal Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic —Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. 711 all, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRW DAY. —Morning, 6b. 37m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m To-noußow.-Morning, 7h. 37m.—Afternoon, Sh. 12m 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, (Op )., 4, ' 2 ) _ , _ 0- ..,...,. No , • , i ,.. ,,, ) :,...... --,:: • .•,, _ s :/,..:.• ',,...., _i , AA' '1:: ,::: .....,, - ~ -4 7: s ' - ' ..• ' : ..,. :4K. ~. --.'•-.,--" M. -- ...-- • . ~.- .. , '''S .- '',-1 2, ,'-`, 7 til ..,c".''' , '-'• •• ,:.' .. . : - ..„...-•:;=' - ''--',- f: -- -it, - --. . , ..,-, -•- - - w _:, -. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL '7, 1862. Island No. 10 on the Mississippi still holds out. Beaufort, on the coast of North Carolina, has fol lowed Newbern in surrendering to the active General BURNSIDE, Fort Macon having first blown up. A very severe fight at Winchester—a town on the railroad in Virginia from Harper's Ferry—has resulted in the defeat of Confederates, and their - being driven further south to Strasbourg. The latter, it seems, had attempted to re-enter Winches ter, supposing the Federals had quitted it ; they must therefore be in some force yet on the western flaulf of the Virginian defence. New Orleans, according to rumour, has been attacked, but even rumour is silent in respect to the result. They seem, however, to know at Chicago, some 800 miles north on the shores of Lake Michigan, what is doing in the south on the Gulf of Mexico, since a despatch from that great corn depot tells us that the Confede rates are building 13 gunboats at New Orleans. Such is the sum of the naval and military news from the States by the Africa ; and it cannot be said to point one way or the other. Of M'CLELLAN we hear nothing, probably because he is working dowri the Potomac, either to Acquia Creek, from which the railroad runs to Richmond, or to Fort Monroe, t h ence to commence t he movement u p wards between the James and York Rivers to Richmond, 'which Mr. ItUSSELL thinks the most probable. In one of these two directions, or in both, our readers ought ere long to see some advance towards - what ought to be the first move of the North to capture the capital of Virginia. It appears, rather, as if the South were regaining military energy after its late reverses, since both in Virginia and on the Mississippi they are fight ing with vigour, though the North seems to be more than a match for them in regard both to num- bers and military equipment. But the North itself is beginning to perceive that its hardest task is yet before it. All the more dis tinguished GeneraIs—BEAUREGARD, LEE, JOHN• STON—are still in reserve, and have never fought yet but to win. M'C LELLAN, BANNS, GRANT, and 13uB,NsiDE, have not yet met these higher class men; and it remains, therefore, to be seen whether the Generals who could fight to win, or retire when the . enemy could not follow, may not, when the outer irele of defence is abandoned, be more than a match for their pursuers. Retreating through a country in which the few inhabitants are hostile to the pur s'aQta, and in which the support of the invaders 3t be by a costiv and difficult commissariat, has tiwe nut of mind the most effective means of defenc,. It has baffled all conquerors from the days of JuL ua . r, , -.XS Alt to those of NAPOLEON. Before the sum,,r is over, we shall probably see wire-Li-ler this will beth e Southern policy. All the t " be on the side of the North g victorious in the field the Border d If s W e shall see I whether the "original a wail the tan s aategy. or give ' attnele>ed. it , North :Ire bet inning to look that t h e opinion :which their best We t ,„d . o❑ thorn at first, and for e No rapidly Indulging g its way. J thinking to keep on to negroe, I on the Border Stater by remaining.faith- , c ry, the North long refused to entertain I ;(1;...a of fighting with emancipation as its right ac.cd. weapon. We learn that the s uspicion is h o have so rapidlyspreading, even a mon g st th ose W long stood out, that by e manci p ation oniy can the Sou , a be either conquered, or what is of equ al lra " l'rtanee, re•amalgamated with the North if con- D sla -------- ______.------ a suggestion 110 1 3 been thrown out by an ad thatestion wirer of Mr.PEA.Bc JDY's munificence --a su g g jp hat is vaguely to the effect that Something, ethin ano ther matter, bat at any rate that Som g should be done by the people o f London Nv - ii . iii a view to evidence towards Mr. P EABODY himself how truly they appreciate his beneficence. The notion of any thing at all in this way being done we cannot, how ever, ourselves but regard as altogether a mistake. «e cannot but feel persuaded upon the instan t that it would be altogether alien to.the wishes of the very man the proposer would willa to do honour to, Awl of course to gratify. Mr. PEABODY, we are certain, would shrink with dismay from the ordeal of pass ing through some public ovation in recognition of what he has but just done—surely we must all say this of him—so very unostentatiously. His own emotion in giving this right royal alms of £150,000 to the very poor of London he might perhaps have best articulated by exclaiming, Liberavi animam warn ! The act, when done, is simply and most touchingly indicative of the donor's benignity to his fellow-mortals, and an attestation of his gratitude to Divine Providence. It would be mistaking Mr. PEABODY altogthcr, therefore, if the occasion were seized upon for the purpose of rendering it one for his own individual glorification. --------:---------"--- querad. The only portion he South bitterly and implacably hostile to the g his th)slaveholalia, and their immediate dependents. To re-unite them with the North while their possession of slaves fed l heir old fanatical devotion to sla ver y perpe tually al t and equally fanatical hatred and contempt of the free North, would be impossible. Each Slave State, with its Legislature of slaveholders, would be a standing obstruction, and more than that, a nullifi cation of Federal action. Granting that the Slave States would find it difficult to regain such power in Congress as they might have exercised there last year at this time had they then preferred political to military action ,they could cause much embarrassment in Congress itself, and their State Legislatures could be perfectly unmanageable. A re-annexed slave holding South could be governed only as Poland, Hungary, or Venetia are governed at this moment ; Federal Republicanism would be gone for ever. The North has made its beginning by offering to buy off the Border Slave States—it will have no alternative but to make emancipation compulsory in all the States. If the North adheres to the plan of holding the Southern States answerable for their quota of the enormous taxation it has just laid, the purchase o f the slaves w. Each State in rebellion w ill owe enough to pay for th e emancipation of its slave s, and if any mode rate compensation be offered in addition, with the alternative of military emancipation, they will be but too glad to accept, one would think, a dividend on their unlawful possessions, to which, whatever their constitutional claim, they have no moral oue. However, one thing is certain, the North is opening its eyes to perceive that, after the repulse of the Southerns from the Border States, the alternative will be—to imperil complete conquest of the South and its re-union with the North, or to proclaim at once that, by some means or other, slavery must cease in the new Federation. ____ Some of our contemporaries express their fears Lest the Government should be slow to act on the views they have at last expressed, in concurrence with those of the House of Commons and of the country. We do not like to indulge such suspicions; and we would rather accept the beginnings made as evidence, that, though a little slow to answer the helm, the Government intends to keep in the right cour se without a tack. We notice th at they have begun well. The Royal Sovereign, three-decker , is already being stripped at Portsmouth ; additional hands are put on her ; she is to be cut down to her middle deck, to be iron-plated, and to have six of Capt. COLE'S cupolas placed on her deck. We are also informed that the Victoria and the Duke of Wellington are to be treated in a similar manner. This is a good beginning ; and other ships are mentionE d ; and at Chatham orders are already given to stay the conversion of timber for shipbuilding purposes. We shall, therefore, believe that the Government means to act as well as promise. In deed, if it wished, it would find it very dangerous policy to cajole the public just now. We do not, however, believe that there is any need for extravagant haste. We are not in immi nent danger of a visit from an iron-clad frigate at Portsmouth, nor are we likely to be for some time. Nothing likely to be built across the Atlantic could venture to think of crossing it, and, with its coal exhausted, to have a try at our arsenals. European Powers certainly cannot overmatch us. The War rior and Black Prince make us safe against all they can do at this moment. And as war cannot be pro claimed in a moment, there is really no need for us to hasten on work in a way which will make us wish to do it all over again. If the Government does but begin earnestly, we do not deprecate but rather prefer its beginning carefully. Captain ERICSSON'S gasconade about driving the fleets of the Allies out of the Gulf of Mexico would be in deed foolish ground for hasty action. The Americans have plenty to do before they can afford to quarrel with two or three European Powers at once. The boast is on a par with the meanness which says not one word respecting the prior merits of our Captain COLES, while the copyist is glorying as if in inven tion, as well as in execution, he had the priority. We shall soon have, what the Americans have not yet, iron-plated ships which can keep the sea, and sail or steam with ease over half the world, while the American vessels must confine themselves to still waters. Of course the latter will build iron-plated seagoing vessels, bat that has yet to be done. We have little to do but to strengthen ships ; we have also frames now ready for iron plates, with abundant mechancial means to apply them, as fast as the required quality of the works permits. The American total of 49 iron ships built, con tracted for, and proposed, looks indeed large upon paper, but of these, 20 frigates are as yet only recommended, and 20 more are iron-clad gunboats, chiefly intended for the western rivers, ordered by Congress. The other 19 are nearly all yet to be built. Indeed, the Monitor is the only one now at sea. Another or two of more doubtful powers may ba ready soon, but the Americans themselves, with their present means, are not a little afraid of a second visit at Fort Monroe from the Merrimac. We think, however, that the press should keep the feeling of the public on the subject before the Government. It is undeniable that it required three evenings' debate to bring our Premier up to the mark, but when he does concede he generally does it frankly and manfully. Sir G. C. LEWIS seemed to have a little hankering after the shore forts, and justified it by the letter of the resolution, which pointed only to the Spithead forts. But Lord PALMERSTON is not the man to trifle with the public on a question of this kind. He probably is as convinced as any of us that floating defences have now the n efi o r a s d t sh claim—heae. convinced n k e n e o d all ws his that up supporters r ba t t e t r l e at Hampton s of this, and he will not irritate them by wasting on stone what they all wish to he spent on ships. America, it seems, has indeed produced a third Brother CIIEERYBLE. The delightful " Brother CHARLES" and " Brother NED," famous in one of the earlier stories by Buz, beloved by the readers of Kicholas Nickleby, have now, it would, in truth, appear, had their number increased to three by the apparition of another benignant merchant-philan thropist quite as worthy, in his way, of represent ing those two noble-hearted men, who are understood to have been the genuine prototypes of Mr. DICKENS'S beautiful idealisation, those twin em ployers of good old TIM LINKINWATER—known in the flesh, revered, and respected by all who knew them, as the Messrs. GRANT, of Manchester. To " Brother CHARLES" and " Brother NED" there ought now to be added—in every one's remembrance of the BROTHERS CHEERYBLE—our new American Cousin "Brother GEORGE"—Iong known familiarly and honourably to crowds of admiring friends on either side of the broad Atlantic, as GEORGE PEABODY, merchant (during the last quarter of a century), in London, denizen (before then) for a long while in the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, native (not so very many years back) of the town of Danvers, in the State of Massachusetts. Says Mr. PEABODY, in the letter, to which we have already referred in these columns, the letter ad dressed by him, on the 12th ult., to the,diplomatic re presentative of the Federal Government, at the Court of St. James's (Mr. ADAMS), " It is now 25 years since I commenced my residence and business in London as a stranger; but I did not long feel my self a ' stranger,' nor in a ' strange land,' for in all my commercial and social intercourse with my British friends during that long period I have con stantly received courtesy, kindness, and confidence. Under a sense of gratitude for these blessings of a kind Providence, encouraged by early associations, and stimulated by my views as well of duty as of inclination to follow the path which I had hereto fore marked out for my guidance, I have been prompted for several years past repeatedly to state to some of my confidential friends my intention at no distant periol, if my life was spared, to make a donation for the benefit of the poor of London." This donation, Mr. PEABODY, we all know, now actually makes. To what extent ? London, through all its 3,000,000 inhabitants, has already marvelled to hear it, to the extent of what is popularly known amongst us as a plum and a half—to the munifi cent extent, in other words of £150,000 ! Remember, the donor to the Poor of London of this magnificent gift—is no well-to-do citizen, born within the sound of Bow Bells—but one who came, five and twenty long years ago, to these shores, as he reminds us now, as a stranger from the opposite shores of the broad Atlantic ocean, drawing his breath, origi nally, thousands of miles away in the State of Massachusetts ! Yet grateful for the brilliant suc cesses that have been attendant upon his commer cial enterprises for so long here in the British Empire—he now wishes, in as signal a manner as possible, to attest that gratitude by bestowing £150,000 upon the poor of London. Recollecting whence Mr. PEABODY has come—from how great a distance—from the other hemisphere—the circum stances antttery than thendantupon s, th d i o s n g o i r f , tto the poor of ano thermay, we honestly believe, be described without a particle ci exaggeration as altogether vpreeedented. Dona Lions as munificent have been made before now in other ways, but not by one originally coming to the arena of his munificence from the shores of another and a distant land. Captain WILLIAM BROWN, we all remember—with pride and exultation as fellow countrymen of one with so p rincel y a heart and hand, has within our own immediate recollection done great and splendid things for Liverpool. But then Liverpool was his birthplace. TURNER, the Great Landscape Painter, presented in our own time to the country of his birth, not of his adoption, a collection of art treasures (the product i of his own extraordinary genius) the value of which art treasures is, in a manner, beyond the reach of computation. But then, while doing this, it is impossible not to remember that TURNER was not only conferring a benefaction upon his native land, but that he was at the same time building up his own most resplendent and enduring monument. Other benefactors of this country in a similar direc tion--not themselves artists, however, but simply lovers of art—Mr. VERNON, for example, and Mr. SHEEPSHANKS — have adorned our national collet tiou of picturesby kindred gifts — time after time by an entire gallery. Here again, however, in each instance it was a native of the soil beautifying his own Fatherland. Old Engiish worthies whose names are still held in grateful veneration amongst us,noble hearted philanthropists like good ROBERT COLSTONE of Bristol, Founders of Schools and Hospitals, and scientific channels for the communication of their benevolent love towards their fallow-creatures through generation after generation to a remote 1 posterity, have adorned our annals before now to ou r nafit.pal honour, and to the honour als o of our comm on humali:ity-. But here ag ain the donors were home born or natua..alised--in a word, they were THE GREAT EASTERNe—LTVERPOOL, BATURIJAY. —At last the repairs to the big ship have been completed, and on Tuesday, the 6th of May, she will take her depar ture from Milford Haven for New York, returning from thence to this port about the middle of June. The Great Eastern while she has been laid up at Milford has had a complete overhaul, and nothing has been spared to make her as efficient as possible, and to prevent any repetition of such an accident as happened to her last September. No doubt much interest will be attached to the outward pas sage of the Great Eastern, as the new steamship Scotia, under Judkins' command, leaves the Mersey four days after the Great Eastern leaves Milford. WHAT HATE THEY DONE P—Brooks' Club has blackballed Mr: Robert Lowe, the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, and also Mr. Owen Stanley, twin brother of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Postmaster-General. Mr. Lowe was refused admission to this sacred enclosure of aristocratic Whigs on the suspicion that he writes for the Times. But why a member of the illustrious house of Stanley was excluded is a question I cannot decide. He is a director of the Chester and Holy head Railway, and possibly this connexion with commerce is deemed by these haughty exclusives a disqlialifying de filement. But Mr. Crossley, the manufacturer, is a mem ber. How came that about? These gentlemen seem to be capricious.—lllustrated Times. REDUCTION OF THE ARMY MEDICAL STAFF IN CANADA.—The strong medical staff which was so recently sent out to Canada is breaking up almost as rapidly as the ice in that frost-favoured colony. The following medical officers are on their way home, and may be shortly expected in England :—Four deputy inspector-generals, Messrs. Innes, Stewart, Fraser, and Rutherford. Seven surgeons, Macdonald, Schoales, Todd, Cogan, Home, Macdermott, Snell, and several assistant -surgeons, including Messrs. Davidson, Atkinson, Hemphill, Hutton, Pennington, Mad • den, Bryson, Hyde, &c.— United Service Gazette. IRON TOWERS.—In the autumn of last year the Federal Government sent an order to this country for the construction of four iron towers similar to that now on board the Monitor. The commission was accepted, and would have been faithfully executed if the Trent affair had not occurred, and so prevented the shipment of all warlike stores; and among them these partienlar castles. The contractor is now saddled with the produce of his labour, as, in the meantime, the Americans supplied themselves on the spot; and he now contemplates offering them to the Emperor of the French, as on this side of tiler water we are provided with Coles' cupolas, which weigh only 72 tons to Ericsson.'s 200 tons. No little difference of weight for a ship to carry.—Army and Navy Gazette. LAMBETH RIFLE CORPS.—This corps mustered at head-quarters on Saturday, under the command of Cap tainTrum assiste dmaran, ehedwith W by Captains Prewett, Hill, and Brady, and their two bands to Clapham- COMMOII for blank firing, preparatory to the Brighton Be- Englishmen. The distinctive peculiarity of Me. PEMIoDY'S late splendid ac t of munificence wil l, therefore, be obvious te every one at a glance. It is the benig nity of an American to the poor of the British metropolis. It is an alms, in its wav, unparalleled. Since the publication of the correspondence an nouncing this noble deed to the world made its a nomie° in the Blida, of last „month ! We observe view. 'THE SUN, L ONDON,. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1862. ~4R. 1. T OSBORNE, APRIL 5. The Queen and royal family arrived at Osborne yester day afternoon at a quarter before seven o'clock, from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty travelled quite privately, all guards of hon our and salu es having been dispensed with. Ills Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Ei p lAnstone, went to Dover on Thursday to meet Prince Leopold, VIA° arrived there on that day from the Continent. The two princes loft Dover at twelvo o'clock yesterday, and arrived at Osborne at seven o'clock last night. Lady and Miss Bowater have accompanied Prince Leopold to Osborne. provinces. after Eabter. APRIL 6. Their loyal Highnesses Princess Alico, Prince Alfred, rrineess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold at• ppingham Church this morn tinengd.o divine service at Whi THE CR OWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. On the arrival of the Crown Princess of Prussia at Aix-la- Chapelle, on Wednesday, her royal highness was received at the railway station by the chiefs of departments civil and military. It had been arranged that the journey should be continued from that place by a special train on the arri val of the Crown Prinoe from Julich, but as his royal high ness did not arrive until after the appointed time, this arrangement was abandoned, and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess availed themselves of a train starting later in the day, by which they continued their journey. FOREIGN COURTS. PARIS, APRIL 5. Prince Oscar of Sweden, the day after his arrival at Toulon, visited the naval barracks of the arsenal at Mou rillon, the imperial yacht L'Aigle, and the military port, all the details of which he inspected with great minuteness. On the following morning he was to go on board the Ville de Paris, line-of-battle ship, and proceed in her to the Isles d'Hyeres. "The object in selecting that vessel," says the Semaphore, " is, that the prince shall have an opportunity of seeing the three finest specimens of French naval archi tecture. First, the iron-cased frigate Invincible, which brought his royal highness from Nice to Toulon ; next, the Ville de Paris, a magnificent specimen of an old vessel transformed into a screw ; and lastly, at the Isles d' Rycres, the admiral's ship La Bretagne, which was a month back one of the most powerful machine° of war, when timber vessels were thought something of, and which doesnot the less remain a splendid line-of-battle ship." The Duke of Brabant arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th ult. on board the English steamer Intrepid, which had been sent by General Codrington to Malaga, and placed at the prince's disposal. A letter from Turin says :—"The Prince Royal is to leave at the end of the month for Paris and London. He will afterwards visit the two Northern Courts--Copen hagen and Stockholm—which showed great readiness in recognising the kingdom of Italy. If it be true that the Court of Russia, at the instigation of the French Govern ment, will not long delay the recognition of the new king ilom, the prince will also go to St. Petersburg. Almost the whole of the Legislative Body were, two evenings back, present at a dramatic soiree given by the Count de Morny, where two new pieces by M. de Saint- Remy (his dramatic pseudonym) were performed, The first, entitled " Bons Conseils," was admirably played by artists from the Gymnase Theatre, Madlle. Delaporte and M. Derval obtaining unanimous applause; and the second, " Sauve qui Peut ; ou, la Mania des Proverbes," was not less brilliantly interpreted by Madame Thierret and MM. Brasseur and Priston of the Palais-Royal Theatre. The Levant Herald says :—" On the occasion of the Sultan's visit to the arsenal on Wednesday last, his Majesty, after inspecting the different departments of the establish ment, expressed himself much pleased with their appear ance, and afterwards issued orders that two months' arrears of pay should be paid to all the employes. On being apprised of the approaching visit of the Prim/ of Wales, the Sultan at once tendered, through Sir Henry Bulwer, the use of a special palace for his royal highness and suite during his stay in Constantinople. As the prince, however, is travel ling in strict incognito as Lord Renfrew, the Queen, whilst gratefully sensible of the imperial attention, declined the proffered hospitality. His royal highness, who may be expected about the middle of the coming month, will con sequently be the guest of the ambassador during his eight or 10 days' halt in our capital." r FRANCE. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief will hold a levee at ono o'clock on Friday, the 11th His Excellency the Ambassador of France and :he Countess de Flahault entertained at dinner on Saturday evening at Coventry House his Excellency the Russian Ambassador, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, Count Pahlen, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord Clyde, Lord Stanley, M.P., Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour and Lady Seymour, Mr, Baring, &c. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter taining a numerous family circle at Badminton, where the noble duke and duchess intend to remain until the close of the hunting season. The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Lismore Castle, his seat in Ireland, from Holkar Hall, Lancashire. The noble duke will return from Ireland towards the end of the month. New 3 per Cents 6B 90 Do. end month Credit Mobilier 783 75 Do. Account — The Earl of J )erby has been compelled by indis position to absent himself from his Parliamentary duties during the past week. The noble earl has been obliged to keep his room since Monday last.. His illness commenced with influenza, since coupled with gout. Yesterday his lordship was considered much better ; but some days must elapse before the noble Conservative leader will be able to resume his place in the House of Lords. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres and Lord and Lady Lindsay have arrived at their residence in Berkeley square, from Haigh Hall, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess of Erroll will shortly leave town for Slaines Castle, Aberdeenshire. RAILWAYS, The Marquis de Galliffet and Baron Leon Niviere have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. Lord and Lady Ebury have arrived at their resi dence in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, from Moor-park, Herta, for the season. Lady Catherine Wheble was safely delivered of a daughter on the 2d inst., at Bulmershe Court. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lyster have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Rowton Castle, Shrewsbury. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Fotheringham have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Lea mington. _ The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Grosvenor gate, There were present—The Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Holmes dale, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, the Hon. Windsor Clive, Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir Frederick Heygate, Col. Leslie, Col. Dickson, Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Beach, Mr. Smollett, Mr. Peacocke, and Mr. Malin. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flahault will shortly leave Coventry House, Piccadilly, for Albert Gate House, the residence of the French Embassy, A new Conservative monthly review will make its appearance in June, under the title of the Church and State Review. It is to be edited by Archdeacon Deni son, assisted by many eminent theological and political writers.—Litextry Gazette. AN ODDITY.—The Halifax (Nova Scotia) Sun records the death of a Mr. Hart, of Wallace r ver, who was _ _ over 9) years of age, and had worked all his life at th problem of perpetual motion ; but 90 years had not been long enough to enable him to solve it, and on the day before his death he had just " a few more wheels" to make to com plete his work. Eccentric even in his grave, he was buried at his own request on one of the most lofty peaks of the Cobequid mountains in his ordinary clothes. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday last a young girl, aged 15, the daughter of a mechanic, in the New Town, Ashford, vomited a live frog. She had pre viously been treated for bowel complaint. The frog has been shown to a great many persons in the town, and we believe has been taken by F. Shepherd, Esq., surgeon, who attended the girl at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. It is of considerable size, being as large as the palm of the girl's hand, and is very lively. She was nearly choked by it. The water supplied to the houses in the New Town is very impure, and in summer is full of insects. The girl has a recollection of s wallowing something when drinking a draught of water last summer, but no attention was paid to the circumstance. She has been lately subject to disorders and pains in the bowels, for which she has been obliged to have recourse to medical advice.—Sussex Express. EARLY APPEARANCE OP THE SWALLOW. A number of swallows were seen in the neighbourhood of Newtowrthamilton on Monday, the 31st ult. Their appear once in M arc h i s th o ught to indicate the likelihood of a dr y and more th an usua lly hot summer. We gratefully ac ce p t the omen, a s th e f a ll of rain during the winter, and so far of the Spri ng mon ths, has been unexampled for: so me years. —lVewrY 1 e l egrcp l s . MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. WORCESTER, SATITEDAY.—A fortnight ago two gentlemen, belonging to this city disappeared under circumstances of great mystery. Mr. E. Walter, a gentleman of independent means, and a member of !Le local council, left his home one evening, and nothine h as been heard of him. A hat, ident ified as the one be wor e w h en h e left his home, was found in the river Severn next day, but, if drowned, the body has not come to light. West Midland Railway, left his home to take a walk, and A f ew d a ys previously Mr. W. Jones, c ashier on the be too has never been seen since, although a person who knew him by sight speaks positively to meeting him in Malithester a few days ago. Mr. Jones had been in a low state of health before he left home. Rewards are offered for information respecting either of the missing gentlemen. E WS. TURIN, APRIL 7• The King has signed a decree, ordering the re-organization of the magistracy in the southern The visit of the King to Naples v, ill take place According to news from Naples, the band of Crocco has been defeated near Lovello. 25 of the brigands were killed ; the rest fled towards the Roman frontiers. The French troops have attacked and dispersed Chiavoni's band, near Prato Bompoli. The huts of the brigands were destroyed. On Friday last a convoy of provisions, sent from Veroli, for the brigands, was seized by the French troops. The illovimento of to-day says that 300 Rifle Clubs have already been organised under the auspices of Garibaldi. It is asserted that the Collar of the Order of the Annunziata will shortly be sent to the Shah of Persia. BERLIN, APRIL 6. The Vossisohe Zeitung of yesterday published a letter addressed by the Minister of Finance to the Minister of War, which it stated to have received from an anonymous correspondent. In this letter the Minister of Finance urgently requests the Minister of War to reduce his military budget by 21 millions of thalers, in order to allow of the removal of the present additional taxes and to enable the Government to give assurances to that effect to the people before the pending election takes place. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussische (Stern) Zeitung of to-day contains the following :—" The Vossische Zeitung of yesterday published a confi dential letter from the Minister of Finance to the Minister of War, which it pretends to have received from an anonymous correspondent. The person who sent this letter to the paper in question can only have obtained it in an illegal manner, for which reason the affair has been referred to the Procurator-General." The Emperor has commuted to hard labour for life, the sentence of death passed at the last assizes of the Rhone on the young man. Giraud for killing a turnkey in the Prison St. Joseph at Lyons. The Moniteur publishes four decisions of Marshal Randon, Minster of War, relative partly to exemp tion from military service in 1862, and partly to re enlistments and engagements as substitutes. The first fixes the sum to be paid by young men comprised in the contingent of the class of 1861, for exonera tion from service, at 2,500 f. By the second, the amount which soldiers now in the service, but wish ing to retire, will have to pay, is settled at 550 f, for each year of their unexpired term, The third enacts that re-enlistments for seven years will give a right to a sum of 2,2001. ; I,ooof. to be paid at the time of joining the regiment, and 1,200 f. at the end of the engagement ; also to the pay of 10c. a day. Any re-enlistment contracted for less than seven years will give a right up to 14 years' service to a sum of 3101. for each year ; 140 f. to be paid at the time of incorporation, and 1701. at the end of the period, and to the pay of 10c. a-day. After 14 years' service the soldier re-enlisting will only have a right to the high daily pay of 20c. Voluntary enlistments by men who have retired from the ser vice will also give a right to the above advantages. The fourth decision states that replacements made by the Administration, and for a period of seven years, will entitle the substitute to a bounty of 2,200 f. ; I,ooof. payable at the time of entering, and 1,200 f. at the end of the term. BOURSE, April s.—The market has been without animation, but prices maintained with but slight variations throughout the day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. Railways also pretty firm, but with only a moderate amount of business doing. The following were the last quotations :- 44 per per Cents ... 97 75 I Bank Shares 3095 Do. end month.... 98 20 Credit k oncier 1535 50 3 per Cents .. 69 90 Belgian 41 — Do. end month.... 70 Piedmonteso Fives 6B Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 5l Home Debt .. 4B Cash. Account. Orleans 1285 .. 1290 Northern .. New ditto • • • •• ..... Lyons and Mediterranean 1137 50 .. 1135 Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard PRUSSIA. The Pr ussian Constitutional party has published in its turn, an electoral manifesto, of which the following are the principal points:— " Ist. Conscientious respect for the Constitu tional rights of the Crown, and complete efficacy of the rights guaranteed to the people and their re presentatives. 2. The Chamber of Deputies has undoubtedly the right, according to the terms of the Constitution, to amend the annual budget, by spe cialising the chapters, as it thinks proper. 3. The Constitution exacts that the budget be voted before the commencement of the year to which it belongs. 4. No one can approve of the charges imposed upon the country by the new organisation and by the increase of the standing army becoming durable in time of ipeace. 5. The Chamber of Nobles, in its present composition, forms one of the principal obstacles to a national and liberal policy." The Progressionist party, on its side, has replied to the circular of the Minister of the Interior, by an address to the electors, in which we remark the following lines : "We rely on the Prussian people not allowing themselves to be disturbed, but that it will show by the new elections that it has not advocated the liberal development of Prussia in consequence of momentary feelings of irritation, but seriously and with resolution. If we hold firmly to Consti tutional right, to the reality of Constitutional in stitutions, and to the success of progress, the period of trials will be abridged, the last hopes of reaction destroyed, and the union between the people and the Government, which cannot be interrupted, but to the detriment of the country, be re-established." The Prussian Minister of Justice, Count Lippe, has just addressed a circular to the functionaries of his department on the subject of the coming elm- , tions. It was rumoured that many magistrates had protested against their being obliged to assume an attitude in the elections not in accordance with their constitutional position. Count Lippe's circular is less stringent than that of the Minister of the Interior, the functionaries being recommended not to join in the electoral excitement, so as to depart from the impartiality so necessary to every magi strate. " The municipal council of Berlin, at its last sit ting," says a letter from that city, " resolved unani mously that all the 41 per cent. stock held by the city should be presented for reimbursement. That decision is consieered a vote of want of c onfidence against the Ministry, and will probably beimitated by a number of fundholders, and thus give a rude blow to first financial operation of M. Von der Heydt." A Berlin letter in the cologne Gazette says "It is stated that Belgium last month expressed a desire to () poi negotiations with the Zolly ere i n on the subject of a treaty of commerce. The Prussian Government reidied that it would ask the assent of the olier States of Zlliverein. Thi s is the sole found a tion for the rumour current in political circles that Belgium had already made certain definite proposals." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Ist announce that orders have been given to evacuate Tetuan. The inst. stores were first to leave, and then the garrison. In the Congress, on that day, in answer to an inter pellation of M. Olozaga, Marshal O'Donnell state it was quite true that four Spanish subjects had been murdered in Venezuela, from motives, it would appear, of private vengeance. The Queen's Govern ment had transmitted the strongest remonstrances to the French representative, who was charged with the interests of Spain in that Republic, praying him to demand in firm terms the punishment of the guilty parties. The Spanish Cabinet did nut con sider that the Government of Venezuela could be held responsible for the crimes in question. If Spanish subjects had complained of vexatious pro ceedings on the part of the Republic alluded to, the case would be different ; but in the present instance, private motives alone seemed to have actuated the parties. Hence the Spanish Government could not interfere. The matter then dropped. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 6. The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here at 950 p.m. this evening , with 77 passengers and 203,000 dols. in sPr..cie. She landed 84 sacks of mails and six Pa:".sengers, and proceeded at 10 10 p,m.; all vqo,li. The P.boyal Mail steamship China had arrived out, after a passage of nine days and a half. NEW YORK, MARCH 25, ETENING. A portion of General Burnside's expedition is reported to have advanced on Beaufort, North Carolina, which the Confederates, after blowing up Fort, Macon, are said, to have evacuated. It is also reported that the blockading squadron had captured the steamer Nashville while endea vouring to run the blockade. It is generally believed that an attack has been made on New Orleans, but the result is not known. No decisive news has yet been received from Island No. 10. A Chicago despatch days that the Confederates have 13 gunboats at New Orleans nearly completed. The .New Fork 2i?nes says that President Davis's reported proposed visit to the West means his flight from Richmond. The New York press strongly repudiates all idea of foreign mediation between North and South. The New York Times fully confides in the entire com petency of the Nortb. to subdue the insurgents and restore the South to order, peace, and prosperity. The New York World considers that Earl Russell gives his entire moral support to the South by stating that he trusted the North would consent to a peaceable separation, as this is all the South de• manded. A fight took place at Winchester, on the Upper Potomac, on the 23d inst. The Confederate General Jackson, supposing the Federals to have deserted Winchester, advanced to retake the town. The Federals being still in possession of it, how ever, a fight ensued, with heavy loss on both sides. The Confederates retreated to Strasbourg. The latest despatches from the Federal General Banks are dated five miles beyond Strasbourg, and state that the Confederates were still retreating. The Federals were in hot pursuit. Terrible havoc had been made among the Confederates in their flight. Wendell Phillips, an anti-slavery lecturer, has been mobbed in Cincinnati. The Nova Scotian, America, Hansa, and Edin burgh have arrived out. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND LIFEBO47S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MARCH 25, EVENING. Money easy ; Gold, 1 per cent. premium; Ex change inactive ; Bankers' bills, 1111 to 112. Stocks flat—New York Centrals, 831 ; Illinois, 651 ; Erie, 36i. Cotton quiet ; middling upland, 271 e. to 28e. Flour depressed. Wheat tending downwards. Corn, good inquiry; lc. lower. Provisions quiet. Coffee inactive. Sugar, good inquiry. Molasses unchanged. SlR,—The press of this country has, during the last few years, rendered invaluable service to the cause of humanity, which is the cause of all nations, by its appeals in behalf of the National Lifeboat Institution, and by the publicity which it has given to the important services performed by its lifeboats in saving human lives on our shores. I venture in its behalf to solicit again the power ful advocacy of Vac Sun at this moment in a matter of much importance to its interests, and to those of the cause it advocates, when all other influences have failed to aid it. At the forthcoming International Exhibition, where the present status of the arts and sciences in this country, and especially of the useful arts, is to be exhibited and compared with those of all the nations of the earth for the common and manifest good of all, the managers of the National Lifeboat Institution had hoped to have presented to the view of all the visitors to that noble representation of human industry and progress, and especially to the visitors from foreign countries, a full sized lifeboat, fully equipped, and mounted on her transporting carriage, just as one might be seen at any of tha numerous lifeboat stations on our coasts ready for instantaneous service. It was thought that such, an object could not only not fail to attract great and general interest, but that it would be singularly appropriate to such an assemblage, showing to all men, and in particular to those who must have first crossed the sea, to be there present, that the great national duty of pro viding for the safe landing on our shores of all who may visit them, in the event of accident, is not a neglected one in England. Accordingly at an early period of last year appli cation was made by this institution to the proper authorities for the requisite space at the fortheom, , ing Exhibition; but want of space, in any part of the building, was the reply. Yet until the last moment the committee of management of the insti tution had hoped even against hope that the same would not ultimately be denied them, and the life boat accordingly with her equipments is now ready, and silently pleading for admission into the building. The institution has, to be sure, some counter space afforded to it for the exhibition of models and plans, but the model of a lifeboat looks a mere toy, con veying to the ordinary spectator but a slight im pression of the fitness and completeness of that which it represents. Whilst therefore the full sized realities of chariots, carriages of pleasure, and of numberless machines employed in agriculture and commerce, will benub mitted to the world's view, why must a great national object be represented by a toy ? Last year the lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom were instrumental in rescuing 743 per sons from different shipwrecks, many of whom were foreigners. Hoping that even at the eleventh hour the voice of the London press, as th e representative of public opinion, may avail t he Lifeboat Institution, and that an object of w hich the British nation may well feel proud, and which cannot but excite the admi ration of its guests, will yet appear at the forth coming International Exhibition, I am, sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboa' Institution. 1 !, John street, Adelphi, W C., April 7. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-lIALL, Tho usual P a ssion-week performance of Handers " Mes siah" will take place on Wednesday, April 16. Principal vocalists already ergand Ar Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Bell e tti. SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER. —On Saturday a frightful occurrence took place, by which it is feared i:ths. Catherine Brainly, aged 33 years; Mary Ann Brainly, aged 10 years; and Phcobe Cornelius, aged 20 years, residing in Artillery-place, Horselydown, will lose their lives. It appeared a child of Mrs. Brainly found a packet of gunpowder, put it in a saucer.an, and placed it on the fire. As might be expected, a terrific explosion took place, mutilating the persons named in a frightful manner. They all remain at Guy's Hospital in a deplorable con dition. HEAVY AIOR7ARS AT SEA. The following is a letter dated United States schooner Norfolk Packet, at sea, March 1: — Yesterday afternoon we fired our 13-inch mortar for the first time at sea, The wind was very ligi;t9 the sea quiet, and the day pleasant and sunny. In order to make the trial sufficiently thorough. Ow piece was loaded as if for actual bombardment, with the full charge of 20 pounds of powder and a shell weighing► over 200 pounds. The mortar was trained directly a-beam, and re ceived an elevation of about forty-five degrees. The machinery for training the piece is remark ably compact, and, although difficult to und,.-r -stand, with its eccentric and other novel pieces of ironmongery, seems to work with ease and precision. The foresail, foretopsail, and the head sails of the schooner were lowered away and hauled over to windward. All the ship's com pany, except the powder division, who were be low attending to their peculiar duties, stood can deck, mostly in the rear of the piece. The word to fire was given, and almost immediately the sunning report followed. The mortar recoile'a eighteen inches, and as the shell went humming away all eyes were turned to see it explode. The shell was half a minute in its flight, and when it burst was apparently severe a l hundred feet in the air, and distant by comp.tation more than two miles. All we saw of tb.e explosion was the sudden appearance in the sky of a little cloud of smoke resembling a balloon. Ten seconds after first seeing the ele - aa we heard the report. It sounded like an answering gun from one of the ships in the offing- The little cloud slowly increased in size, and faded away till its outlines were lost. Several curious incidents attended the firing. The facings of the bulwarks between the ports on the larboard side, that from which the shell was throw!), were blown off and fell into the water. Several glass windows were broken in the ward room, and sashes were violently thrown open. The partition between the cabin and ward room was started, and tables were jostled out of place. But these little mishaps obviously resulted from the concussion of the air caused by the explosion of so heavy a che'tgat and were not produced by the recoil of the mrartar. Persons who were on duty below say that the shock which the vessel felt was less sever', than that attending the discharge of one of oi;,•r 32-pounders• 2HE HARTLEY ;LWOW'S AND ORPHANS. At. a general meeting of the Hartley Relief Con" mittee, held at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Friday, th e Mayor of that town in the chair, it was reported that the amount now received was over £75,000, and that the gentlemen nominated at the last mee t° ing as trustees had all consented to act, and in C ow sequence of the instructions also given at the last meeting the committee had proceeded to inve 6t £60,000 in proper securities. The committee Vr ° ' ceeded to fix the scale of allowances, and the folio's' ing was adopted:—To each widow 7s. a-weel t; widow and one child, 10s. 6d.; widow and two chit . dren, 13s. 6d.; widow and three children, 15s. 6(1 ' ; widow and four children, 17s. 6d. ; widow and P re children, 19s. 6d. ; widow and six children, 21s. 63. a-week, the allowance to continue, except in cas e otgross misconduct, to widows so long as they r e ' main unmarried ; to girls until they reach the ag e of 15 years ; to boys until they reach the age of , years ; the allowance for infirm adults to reratti fi ' as a general rule, at s s. per week ; special cases t° be considered. The committee will educate the dren, and furnish medical attendance to the fan' : lies in addition. At present the families enjoy t bei i cottages rent free and pay nothing for coals. 13° 1 if they have to remove from their cottages a geo effi e opinion was expressed by several of the commi tte e that they should have their rents paid them. T hen are the largest allowances ever made from a ftill U i t this character, and to maintain them for 1 5 ye ars is estimated £40,000 will require to be sunk, and further sum of £lO,OOO will be required for tiP' widows who may be alive at the end of 15 y etlfs, Mr. T. E. Forster informed the committe e that t h e e amount of the sinkers' testimonial fund was abo, £1,500. Nothing was positively determined vilt_t regard to the surplus. The subject of a permatte:ei fund is being taken up by the coal trau t But, as many of the committee are non anxious that the large number of orphan cbl i ; dren placed under their care by the melanc hol y catastrophe shall have a good honest Eng lis education, and that they shall have a fair c hance o r making their Ray in the world, the surplus, of teas everything is honestly met, will not be so great was expected. CAPITAL SENTENCE& Seven persons have been sentenced to death the Lent Assizes for murder. Of these three 1151" been executed—viz., William Charlton, at Carli°,l' for the murder of an aged female gatekeepe r ° ,, 0 a line of railway, who was supposed to ha lt in her cottage a small sum of money, which it was the object of the murderer, an enginedriTe , on the same line of railway, to obtsi% John Gould, at Reading, for the muydes of 11;11, own child by cutting her throat ; and Richard g 0 e , ; lands, at Beaumaris, for the murder of his vvi'ea father. Appeals were made in each of these tilr:o cases to the mercy of the Crown ; but the offelico were of so shocking and aggravated a character to render any interferenee with the sentence Bl' of gether inconlistent with the due administratior i justice. One other convict, Richard Thorley , c o mains for execution at Derby on Friday next, t i 11th inst. He was convicted of the muraer 0 ' eo young woman who refused to receive his addre96os by cutting her throat in a most cruel end barbor° 0, ma nner, and, as no attempt has been made to P f r , cure a commutation of his sentence, it i s a ll but e f e b e tain, considering the nature of th e o ff ence , that . o f law will be left to take itikcourse. In the o fie t io , George Clark, who was convicted at New ecis d upon-Tyne of the murder of a t ax - co llector in " 0 0 town, it was found after his trial that he was T O ' unsound state of mind ; and, upon medical ee: tet h cates of that fact, his sentence has been re s l 3l io o, in order that he may be placed under obsers'atoeto and dealt with as his mental condition nail to require. With respect to the two re,-00 ing prisoners, John Hall and Ismael the former convicted at Oxfovd of sh oetlf :p gamkeeper in the service of Viscount Dillon, sf latter at Montgomery, of murdering his paroxysm of jealousy, it appeared, upon that there were certain extenuating facts ill t P 'O spective cases ; and that, under the cireunstst s t l3 t1) 8 the ends of justice might be satisfied w iths ti oeV infliction of the extreme penalty of the law'• a tii i sentences have, therefore, been ecnamitted to ° roer 1 serv itude for life. It is not expected that all . 00 0, heavy, will take placere now on at tl i ie t s h these cwahpiicthal have convictions b ee ti h vy and are conclusion. The Vocal Association having obtained tDe g; 4e sent of Miss L ou i sa P yne, and. W. Harrison, Esq., ta<vlit'f' Selectione from Mr. Benedict's Opera (The Lily of Pjootol ' y) will int ro d uce , f or th e fi rst t i me i n the Coneeriti-;,, f 0 an entire Selection of the principal gems of this cl e , ° 11 ) 0 opera on Wednesday evening next, April 9th, at St. ' II Dl Hall. The solo sing ere announced are Miss 13 0 . $O,, Augusta Thomson, Mr. Swift, Mr. Tennant, and A- Lr o f ley. The choir of 500 voices will sin , the 13°f' : Chorus. Mr. Benedict will conduct the perforttlol;os' THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.--The public o f tl' ti not expect a very speedy promulgation of the fihd illf cis i ' l : court-martial in the 4th Dragoon Guard s. The' '1'0; ous proceedings will have to be examined by 01° fle a 4 Advocate-General as regards their legal sufficiency'— °74 the General Commandieg with a view to the ir bearj' ,° the discipline of the army, bef ore the result is Ith ° r 13 .0 1 it is not probable that it c an be made public O weeks.—Army and Nary Gazette. 00 ea The execution of Grrbse, alias Livache, c oo3e ws to death at the late assizes of the Isere for pois elj ,„:e rr Bcrthier, a farmer at Motte d'Aveillan, took Grenoble the day before yesterday. The prisoto:or since his trial had shown the utmost contritiO. ' e re' crime, and when informed that his last day was C° ! '' to ' 0 5 ' ceived the intelligence with resignation. After herix4o ho was taken in a cart to the Champ-de-Mars, altd,„tecl cwr i o t ‘ h o t i h o e f pr n i o e t s t, le a s n s d tahmanomatoafvt eerr;:on's,ol:l7o riving there, he ascended the seaffold unaided, 1:211A-dos' t s o llo o r x t is p t r . "7- than two-thirds females, had assemLled to vo execution. Ca , l‘rc nu ra. ha an