The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessem, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING (91st time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone. Atter which, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, tattled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young - , etc. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Commence a 7 0Y AL LYCEUM THEATRE. A ki Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. "'HIS EVENING, 119th time of the new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen D ee li s h . M essrs Walter Lacy, llermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING ROOD ; or, The Fairies of the Hose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac ters by Mr Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and "Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at Box-office open daily from 11 tills. - ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Rarris. 'I HIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicomb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdames Fielding,. Carlotta Leelereq, &e. To conclude with the new Mystic Drama, In four parts, entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, Sto.; Miss Marriott, 3Ess Fielding, dr,c. NEW THRATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manaver, Mr. B. Webster. Tins EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouccault, Messies. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Povcell, 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. Belly, B. Bland Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. AS TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE._ Sole Propriet or and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, prononnced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a comic Ballet of Action, introducing Mr, Hairy Crouesto and the Misses Gunnis. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. (I)ANTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. AND FINE The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah," by Mdme. Negri, Sig-nor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band and tull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongthmans. The Comic Department by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, 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, ed.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. rr HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- EVERY EVENING. JIENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani," Placbeth," "Il Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas menne," Arc., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus—(Conductor—Mr. F. Jong , hmans.) Violin Solos— . Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac tions. The Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. fid.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. fid. NOTICE.—The Morning Performance advertised for Thurs day next will NOT take place. ''l with the heavy Wain kept all this while upon our commerce by reason of the continuance of the deplorable civil war yet waged be tween the Northern and Southern States of the American Republic, no wonder there should be a small deficit left upon the year—par ticularly when it has to be borne in mind that this very year shows such a considerable diminution on the amount both of direct and indirect taxation ! A diminution of indirect taxation to the tune of £1,330,000, by means of the total abolition of the Paper Duties—a diminution of direct taxation to the tune of £1,130,000 by means of a dropped penny on the Income-tax. All the more encouraging is the result when we find, upon the last quarter of the Financial year just expired, a single decrease alone recorded, namely, the decrease of £lOO,OOO, under the head of Customs—and opposed to this, and counterbalancing it to the net sum, in excess, of £1,070,628, by means of an increase under each of the seven other divisions in the Revenue Table, to wit—Excise, Stamps, Taxes, Propez ty Tax, Post Office, Crown Lands, and Miscellaneous. The result upon a revision of the year's revenue is not only, however, as we have said, a complete corroboration and justification of Mr. GLADSTONE'S calculations a twelvemonth since—always remem bering the American civil war, the dropped penny of the Income-tax, and the abolition of the whole of the Paper Duties—it is the last and crowning attestation of the wisdom of applying the principles of Free Trade to the regulation of our finances. It might well be wished that some "forty thousand" electors, scattered among the various boroughs of the Kingdom, could have been got together to back the numerous members who pro tested last night against petsisting in sinking the national money in the Spithead forts. But the men who used the " moral pocket-pistols," as Mr. OSBORNE told us last Tuesday and Thursday, against hon. members in the lobby, were fighting to get the nation's money, while last night the wiser majority of the members were contending to save it. No individual of the public feels a special and personal interest in Government economy, bui all Government expenditure gives to a number o persons a direct interest in sustaining it. Hence the ease with which the forty thousand were mus- tered last week to insist on payment for services not verified, because such useless work had been paid for—hence, also, the absence of anything like popular excitement to back the members who would prevent the waste of millions on the Spithead forts. It was hardly possible, however, for a debate to be more conclusive, if the Government be as ready to show deference to the House, when in sisting on staying expenditure, as it was to yield, when the Opposition demanded increased expen diture. It was almost, literally, all the House against Sir G. C. LEWIS and Lord PAGET—the latter, indeed, being half against himself. Sir F. SMITH made the proposal on which we insisted yesterday —to suspend the works Pt Spithead. He, too, did not ask for any precipitate action ; the works could be resumed, if it appeared ulti mately desirable; but he held that the battle in Hampton Roads had made out a case for delay and reconsideration, in regard to attempting the defence of the entrance of a harbour by forts. The member for Chatham was followed by supporters, some of them converts, sustaining what seemed his unanswerable appeal. The mem ber for Birkenhead—Mr. LAIRD—who knows, if any one does, all about iron ships, told the House that he looked on the action as the turning point in the adoption of iron for all classes of the QUEEN'S ships, and showed how the Government might save considerably by at once accepting the demonstrated fact. Mr. GREGORY saw in the battle the proof of a great revolution in naval warfare, and joined with Mr. LAIRD, and the Americans, in recognising the inutility of forts as harbour defences, in contending against invulnerable and moving forts. Sir J. D. HAY, the new member for Wakefield, who had written on the other side followed, confessing his conversion, and expressing his confidence, now, that it were better the public money should be spent on the construction of the new description of vessels for . the defence of ports. He declared that, now, the best use we could make of our proud three-deckers was to cut them down to the lower deck beams, plate them, and arm their deck with Captain COWPER COLES' cupolas —one such ship would cer tainly destroy eight or ten of our modern line-of battle ships. Mr. DUFF grumbled a little in favour of the forts; but Lord A. TEMPEST, who from per sonal inspection gave an account of the Merrimac, swept away Mr. DUFF and his pleadings for the forts, urging the Government to pause in the construction of these costly, and as was now known, probably useless forts. At length Sir G. C. LEWIS arises, with many long faced ar guments. He would have it that the recommendations of the speakers would involve a demand by Lord PAGET of ten or fifteen millions, in happy oblivion of the fact that we should save that in the useless fortifications we were erecting at home and in the colonies ; that the victorious little Monitor was built for £60,000 in three months; and that our liners could be converted for far less money than the forts would cost, leaving, besides, the cost of conversion to be still incurred in sight of the idle forts themselves. He pleaded, also the now anti quated defence report, as an answer to a fact the reporters could not have before them. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3b. 10m.—Afternoon, 3h. 28m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 43m.—Afiernoon, 3h. 47m. Meanwhile the Telegram to-day from Paris gives us a reminder, as we have said, that his Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON still enter tains the idea of coming to us. Six vessels of the Imperial Navy of France are to make their ren dezvous at Cherbourg for the purpose of escort. ing his Majesty to the Exhibition. When he comes we will give him a fitting welcome, of course, as our Guest and as our Ally. And while his coming may be a timely distraction to the heavy grief still weighing down the heart of our own Sovereign, it may also act beneficially upon the Exhibition itself, across the brightness of which the royal sorrow might other wise pass slowly like an eclipse. For the sake of the alliance between France and England, for the sake of the QUEEN, for the sake of the Exhibition, it becomes a matter of congratulation that the EMPEROR'S visit has not been set aside, as it was at one time expected that it might have been. In these days of Government Education, it is a curious variation of the subject to find one Govern ment instructing another. Whatever be the merits of "the three It's," our Government has certainly • the merit of teaching, with most approved " re sults," two others. The Indian Government has been, so far as its financial administration is con cerned, a practically separate Government from the Home one; to that Government we have furnished successively two certificated teachers, and the re sults in fiscal arithmetic have been entirely satis factory. A real balance-sheet has been produced, and a real balance on the right side secured. Seeing such good financial arithmeticians both at home and in India, it seems the Turkish Govern ment applied to our Training School for aid, and two competent certificated teachers were furnished as a matter of friendship. With what success may be seen in the simple fact, that while, previously, Turkey had in vain sought a loan on the Exchanges of Europe, under the new teachers, she easily obtained in this country subscriptions to the amount of several times more than she asked. The question of Mr. HIJI3BARD, and the answer of Lord PALMERSTON, last night were of consider• able interest. The important point was definitively settled that England took upon herself no respon sibility for the loan. Indeed, the letter of Lord RUSSELL, read by Mr. HUBBARD, could not bear any such interpretation. It stated the whole truth, and nothing more than the truth. No sub scriber to the loan could complain that he was led to suppose he had English security for his dividends. What he had was, the invited instruction and inspec tion of the English Government's Certificated Finan cial teachers in the Turkish Treasury. Lord HOBART and Mr. FOSTER first showed the Porte how its pecuniary affairs really stood, and Lord HOBART undertook to return to Constantinople to see to the employment of the loan for the purposes for which it was raised—the principal one being to get rid of the depreciated paper now in circulation. Mr. BRIGHT followed with, of course, a plea for economy, but this time, with the best men of th i a national party with him; he could tell them that from conversation, as well as from 'what had been heard in the house th a t night, .c those wh o vote d for the fortifications two years ago, were now very much ashamed of tb.'itr vote." Captain JERYIS put the whole quesAion in its cl earest li ght when he asked—" what was the use of solid fortifications built in the water, if you could have an equally solid fortification, which you could move about at will, and which could run past a fixed for tress." Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE complained of the meaningless speech of the Secretary for War, and adverted to the fact that Admiral Sir R. DtJNDAS had offered, when First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, to convert twenty useless old line-of-battle ships, at a cost of £840,000, for the defence of our harbours; and he, too, demanded that the Government should at least suspend operations. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON added the weight of his high authority on the same side, and expressed his regret that her MAJESTY'S Government should still persevere in building the forts at all hazards, attaching no weight to an occurrence which has so impressed all other perso is; he acknowledged the difficulties of the subject, bat When such a large cost was involved, he thought the G overnment ought to intimate, more clearly, that t h ey would not go on without considera tion or reitecti on . made the b After all this, L or d P AGET e at apol ogy h e could for the Secretary for 'W ar that forts were stronger , the substance of it being rot the u, er e than ships—which was it was s h own t h at the q ships would do their work on heeding the forts, and indeed other ships with ou t by their motion nullif PUNJAUI3 RAILWAY.—The su m o f £1' 6,350 was y e paid yesterday to the credit of th Secretary of State f or the effect of the fire of forts. H ow ° rex', Mr. BEN- 4 India in Council in an.ticiPation , of the final ea. The Turkish Government appears to have been in far better financial health than it was aware of. It had no idea that a mere audit, with an implied resolution to conform, in its management, to the course which the audit might require, would give such confidence in London. It finds, therefore, that it has not made anything like so good a bargain as it might have done. It might probably have easily secured another million of the eight millions it has nomi nally borrowed. A loan to which nearly five times as much was subscribed as was asked, might have been negotiated, doubtless, on better terms than 111 per cent. However, it need not much regret this. To re - establish its credit was the grand point. " The sick man" has done this. He will easily make better bargains in future ; and he will effec tually learn one all - itnportant lesson,—that to be really independent he must be financially indepen dent. lire cannot but think that the English Go vernment has shown itself a true friend to the Turkish Government in this business, and a wise friend to itself too. TINCK and Mr. CONINGHAM closed in again upon the representatives of the Government as earnestly as preceding speakers. We do not remember to have read for some time a debate, in which all the speakers, without the slightest regard to party, were so completely on one side—that side being, too, the very rare one of stay ing the public expenditure—and in which the Minis ters made so lame a defence. It would seem hardly possible, after last night, that the Government can persist in the Spithead works. Little doubt can be left on the minds of all those who will have ultimately to pay the enormous bill for these forts, that they will be worse than useless. First, they will guide the enemy into the harbour; secondly, they will require 2,700 trained gunners, which could not be spared them on the supposed emer gency ; thirdly, for what they will cost, we could, as the American case has proved, have a fleet of Monitors which in the waters between the Isle of Wight and the mainland would defy all the navies of Europe; and fourthly, this fleet would be moveable and could be taken elsewhere, should removal be necessary. In the face of these truths, we hope our ministers will do themselves the honour of following the other converts, who had the manliness to avow that they could learn from new facts. While it still remains a matter of conjecture as to Who will open the Great International Exhibi tion next month—the Submarine Telegraph to-day gives us a hint that the notion of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S visit to us is not by any means aban doned. Whether her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN, out of respect to the memory of her beloved and lamented Consort, will so far do violence to her own heart-sorrow as to preside over the ceremonial inaugurating the latest, and, as we all yet trust the event may prove, the greatest of his varied and resplendent intellectual achievements—still remains, of course, to the people at large, a matter of abso lute uncertainty. Whatever the QUEEN wishes in regard to this event, her People wish. Supposing the ordeal would be too painful by reason of the poignant regrets it might revive in the bosom of the Royal widow—then the loyal subjects of the Crown would, with one accord, be solicitous that the SOVEREIGN should not in any way take part in the religious• and regal ceremonial of the Opening. The Prince of WALES is precluded—without doubt designedly—from occupying (in such a contin gency) the place left vacant by the non-appearance of her Majesty the QUEEN, namely, by reason of his Royal Highness's absence just now upon his travels through Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land. Just possibly, therefore, unless the QUEEN can, out of her deep affection for the memory of her august husband, so far do violence to her feel ings as to stifle her great grief for the one day of the inauguration—just possibly, as happens occasionally in regard to the Im perial Legislature itself, as happened in regard to it indeed only this very year, the Sovereign may be represented upon the Inaugural Day, ac cording to constitutional usage, by a Royal Com mission. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 31. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia took leave of her Majesty this horning, and left the Castle at ten minutes before twelve o'clock for Gravesend, where the royal yacht Victoria and Albert is waiting to convey her royal highness to Antwerp. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, accompanied the Princess to Gravesend. The suite in attendance consists of the Countess of Schulenburg, Countess Blucher, Count Furstenstein, and Colonel the Hon. Arthur Hardinge, who attends the Princess to Antwerp. NOTICE. Ail 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. t el l se ~. , 4 ~,,,,... , ~ ...t rAz ..4.:_ , ... ., . at* , ''7 ; " itt 4-'- '' ''''.." 4) IL. -.• 4, ~,i 7 , -,- - ..., ' 5 ;4, t ''' e.: , 4 • -- I , l:ati-•• ~p,r, , kT, ,-. 1 " ,, , ..'\- \•<':. ,- ;: ri ', ' , ....,I,` . ' 45 , . .,_l,) , • -. 4 44 . , ,,M4e5- 1:-..., THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1862. Our analysis yesterday of the Revenue Tables for the last year and the last quarter, just expired, was .so complete and searching, that we may content ourselves with a very few remarks this morning upon the reports of the Revenue now officially published. Those tabular reports will be found to =corroborate our calculations, last evening, through out. And we cannot imagine to ourselves how any one can seriously rise from their examination 'without feelings of intense gratification—demon strating, as they most unquestionably do, the ex traordinary elasticity of the Finances of England even under the most trying circumstances. The simple fact that upon the year just now ended there should be found merely a net decrease of £609,000, is in itself something wonderful. For, within the very twelvemonth that shows this really trivial falling off—trivial we mean in remembrance of the facts we are immediately about to recapitu late —the Paper Duties (representing £1,330,000) were entirely abolished—a penny of the Income Tax (representing another £1,130,000) was quietly dropped : that is, a sum amounting in all to £2,460,000 of taxation wes foregone within the very year that now proves, upon the close of it, to have suffered a net decrease upon the revenue not exceeding £609,000 ! And, let it be remembered, I that in addition to the abolition of the whole of the Paler Duties, and of the concession of a penny in the pound upon the hoc:me Tax, the year's revenue has been liable to a serious diminution—among other reasons, because of the absence of the malt credit which swelled the receipts of 1860-1, and because of the blockading of rie Southern ports of the Republican States of North America, the ports whence we have consequently been enabled to obtain a less supply this year of corn, of rum, and of tobacco ! Yet, strange to tell, in very despite of that obstruction to our regular and increasing im ports, the Customs, as we intimated yesterday, only show a total decrease of £lOO,OOO altogether ; the diminished importation of coin and tobacco being balanced, except to the extent of that decrease, by the increased revenue derived through the agency of the duties upon malt and hops. Recollecting all this, it becomes, really, matter of very secondary consideration, that the year shows a decrease altogether under the head of Excise amounting to £1,101,000, and a falling off in the proceeds of the Property Tax of j ußt £558,816 --not, observe, of the whole pennyworth, or £1,130,000, but merely of £558,816! A trui ngincomprehensible, as we ad mitted yesterday. While reconuting the various items briefly in rouncl cumbers , a result altogether in comprehensible but for the fact that this year the proceeds of the Income.taz have been swelled so very considerably by the p a y _ in in at last of certain timely arrears. As a set off to those two solitary drawbacks upon the year, th e Tax and the dwindled Excise din. , there hu r e e d , P ho r w op e e v r e t r y , hi the way of an increase — a t the kjeetoins of littl e £368,223 ; through Stamps, of £242, 533 ; th ouch Taxes, of £33,000 ; through the Post- e fti oe, g ot , £110,000; through the Crown Lands of a ittlhe insignificant item of £4,432 ; and through th e Miscellaneous, of £294,433. An increase in all upon the year of 1:1,052,621—which, being deducted from the total decrease upon the year's revenue (amounting, as we have aceu, in all, to £1,661,816), leaves as the quotient in that little sum of subtrac tion the net decrease already specified of exactly £609,125. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may, therefore, prepare with a good heart for the Financial Statement he has now to subtni;, on Thursday even ing to the House of Com mons. His utmost expectations may be bail to have been more than realised. For, THE SUN, LO ADON, IVES AX EVENING, APRIL 1, 1862. THE DEPAR7'URE OF THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia and suite arrived at Gravesend shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon by special train on the North Kent Railway, and shortly afterwards embarked on board her Majesty's steam-yacht Victoria and Albert, opposite the Clarendon Hotel, near the Terrace pier, and left for the Continent. Her Royal Highness was received at the railway station by various officials of the South-Eastern Railway Company ; and the arrangements for the embarkation were carried out under the direction of Commodore Sir W. F. E. Nicolson, flag-officer at Wool wich dockyard, The Marquis Gallifett and Baron L. de Niviere arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, last night from Paris. The Earl of Chesterfield, Lord and Lady Hunt ingfield, and the Hon. Miss Vanneck have left the St. George's Hotel. Lord and Lady De Lisle and Dudley have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Lord and Lady Hatherton have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Teddesley Hall. Lady Holland has placed Holland House, Ken sington, at the disposal of the Countess de Neuilly during the International Exhibition. Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Miss Hoare have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Stourhead Rouse near Bath. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Lindsay and family have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Nice. A LADY MAYORESS IN HER OWN RIGHT.—At a recent city election in Oskaloosa, lowa, Mrs. Nancey Smith, Democratic, was elected mayor by a majority of 21 over the Republican male candidate for that office. PLYMOUTH, March 31.—The Young Australia, 769 tons, Captain W. Lowrie, from Melbourne, December 30, passed up Channel to-day; she has 19,584 ounces of golddust, 1,652 bales of wool, and' several passengers, in cluding Mr. Garlock, Mrs. Graham, and Mrs. Fleming. The Murray, Captain Legue, from Adelaide, in January, with 2 ,742 bales of wool and 200 tons of pure copper, landed several passengers here to-day. The Earl of Elgin, Cap tain Cuthbert, from Bombay, was off the Start yesterday (Sunday). All three ships are bound for London. A "SUPERIOR M.N."—A certain nobleman, some years ago, was conspicuous for his success in the world. He had been employed in the highest situations at home and abroad, without one discoverable reas , ,n for his selection, and without justify ing the selection by one proof of administrative ability, Yet at each appointment the pub lic said, "A great gain to the Government I superior man 1" And when from each office he passed away, or rather passed imperceptibly onward towards office still more exalted, the public said, "A great loss to the Government! superior man !" He was the most silent person I ever met. But when the first reasoners of the age would argue some knotty point in his presence, he would from time to time slightly elevate his eyebrows, gently shake his head, or, by a dex terous smite of significant complacency, impress on you the notion how easily he could set those babblers right, if ho would but condescend to give voice to the wisdom within him. I was very young when I first met this superior man; and, chancing the next day to call on the late Lord Durham, I said, in the presumption of early years, " I passed six mortal hours last evening in company with Lord —. I don't think there is much in him." " Good heavens 1" cried Lord Durham, " how did you find that out P Is it possible that he could have—talked ?"—Sir E. B. Lytton, in Blackwood's Magazine. THE CONTTCTED MURDERER AT OXFORD.—The convict John Hall, upon whom sentence of death was passed at the recent Lent Assize for Oxfordshire, for the wilful murder of Lord Dillon's gamekeeper at Spilsbury, has had his sentence commuted to one of penal servitude for life. STOPPAGE OF CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY ARCHES. Yesterday notices were posted on all the newly-erected arches from Waterloo-road station to as far as the works have proceeded to London-bridge, prohibiting any persons from passing through under any pretence whatever, under penalty of prosecution by the company. This step will save, probably, many persons from being injured, and likewise relieve the police from a gang of juvenile thieves, who after dark have availed themselves of the arches for escape. ORDNANCE SURVEY.—Up to the end of March, 1861, there had been expended upon the Ordnance surveys of England, Scotland, and Ireland the sum of £2,616,447. The vote last year for this department and the vote passed for the financial year which has just commenced were £71,000 each, but a part of this is repaid by the sale of maps, and the real expenditure on the survey for the finan cial year 1862-3 is therefore estimated at £58,500. It in cludes £6,000 for the military survey round London, but the sum of £13,000 for other surveys required for the national defences will be taken from the loan for the defences. ANOTHER IRISH OUTRAGE.—DUBLIN, Monday Evening.--Colonel Knox, of Brittas Castle, was fired at today near Templemore, and slightly wounded over the right eye, by two men, who lay in wait for him behind a hedge. They both escaped. THE STATE PAPER OFFICE.—This beautiful structure, erected thirty years ago, is doomed to destruc • tion, and the work of demolition will be commenced in a week or two, for the purpose of clearing the space for the New Government Offices, which will extend into St. James's Park. All the documents contained in the State Paper Office will be transferred to the new buildings on the Rolls Estate in Fetter-lane, where readers will in future have the opportunity of consulting them. The accommo dation is, however, very small at present, but the Master of the Rolls is taking measures to extend it. THE POUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR- SQUARE. Judging from the elaborate apparatus which has been in operation during the last two or three weeks, the foun tains in Trafalgar-square, which have not hitherto enjoyed a high reputation as works of science or art, are destined to astonish the visitors to London during the forthcoming Exhibition. They have been boarded round, and large numbers of men have been at work, but all that the out site public could see was a multitude of jets of water thrown up to a considerable height, and all appearing to be playing towards the great centre fountain. The impres sion conveyed, of course, is that the fountains are to be main to represent, on a very small scale indeed, those of the Crystal Palace, or perhaps those at Versailles, but the mystery has been carefully preserved. Now that the hoard ing round one of the fountains has been removed, it is dis covered that a large number of small pipes have been in serted, with a view no doubt to produce some sensation effects, but the centre fountain does not appear to have been much improved. One great result, certainly, has been achieved, the water has been made a little cleaner. THE REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON.—The Man chester Guardian of yesterday says the nomination for Pres ton is fixed for Thursday. On Saturday hilinerous meet ings, in connection with the interests of the two candidates, were held. At half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Melly, the Liberal candidate, addressed a meeting •f electors at St. Mary's Hotel. At the conclusion a resolu tion, pledging the support of the meeting, was passed. At half-past four o'clock a large meeting of non-electors was held in the Orchard, at which it was resolved to give Mr. Melly all the support possible. In the evening some en thusiastic meetings on behalf of Sir T. G. Hesketh, Conser vative, were held ; and at half-past six o'clock Mr. Melly addressed a large meeting of electors. At the close of the hon. gentleman's speech it was unanimously resolved to lend him every support. THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.—Part V. of the Civil Service Estimates was issued yesterday. It contains the estimates for " Colonial, Consular, and other Foreign Service," the total sum required for which is £937,400 showing an increase of £248,117, for which the item "Treasury Chest" is in a great measure responsible, the estimate on account of this item being this year £242,971, or £117,873 more than that for last year. There is also an additional expense of £55,000 incurred on behalf of Van- couvor's Island, which was not mentioned at all in the former estimates, and £79,193 to repay the treasury cheat of British Kaffraria, which made no claim upon us last year, The expense of services in China, Japan, and Siam Is £86,74S against £64,646 last year, and some other items show an increase of expense. SUSPECTED MURDER OP A WOMAN.—Yesterday morning., between twelve and one o'clock, the inhabitants of Canal .road, Stepney, heard loud shrieks and cries of "Murder I help I" which seemed to be in the direction of the Regent's-canal, which runs parallel with the houses at that spot. Several of the inhabitants raised their windows, but were unable to see any one in the water near the towing- path of the canal. After searching the bank, however, they discovered portions of a dress and a crinoline lying near the edge of the water. There were marks of footsteps on the path, and evidence of severe struggling at this spot. The drags were speedily put into requisition, and in about half an hour the body of a respectably-dressed young woman was found. She was without a bonnet or shawl ; and a sur geon found several marks on her face and arms as if she had been brutally beaten. The police had observed a woman answering the description of the deceased and a young man wandering about the fields near the canal at a late hour on the previc,us evening, and measures have been taken to apprehend the suspected person, LATEST NEWS. PARIS, APRIL 1. The 2tloniteur of to-day announces that the Italian Ministry has been definitively constituted as follows : Signor Ratazzi—President of the Council and Minister of the Interior. Signor Durando—Minister for Foreign Affairs. Signor Mateucci—Minister for Public Instruction. Signor Conforti—Minister of Justice. No change it made in the other Ministers. MADRID, APRIL 1. Morocco will soon fulfil her engagements. Spain is making preparations to evacuate Tetuan. In yesterday's sitting of the Congress, Senor Salaverria read a Royal decree, increasing by 6,000,000 reals the yearly redemption of the Passive Debt, commencing from January, 1863. THE EMPEROR'S VISIT TO LONDON. TOULON, MARCH 31. The French squadron stationed in the Mediter ranean will return on the 12th April. Six vessels will be sent to Cherbourg, to escort the Emperor on his visit to the London Exhibition. Admiral Eouet has been called to Paris. The Eldorado, conveying troops from China, is expected. TURIN, MARCH 31. Signor Ratazzi announced in the Chamber of Deputies to day that the Ministers Cordova, Man cini, and Pcggi had tendered their resignation, and that General Jacques Durando had been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Signor Matteucci Minister of Public Instruction. Signor Ratazzi stated that he retained the port folio of the Interior, and should take that of Justice for some days, until the member of the Chamber of Deputies who had been appointed Minister of Jus tice had settled some private affairs. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. BOURSE, March 31.—Two o'clock.—The market has been without animation, but the prices of Saturday have been well maintained, with even a slight improvement. For the Account, Threes are now at 69fr. 70c. The Railway Share market has been firm. Three o'clock.—The market improved towards the close, when the following were the quotations : 4t per per Cents ... 97 25 Bank Shares 3090 Do, eud month.... Credit k oncier 1530 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 90 Piedmontese Fives 67 70 New 3 per Cents 68 90 Roman — Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 771 '25 Spanish Threes — Do. Account — Home Debt RAILWAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans 1368 75 .. 1372 66 Northern 1043 75 .. 1043 75 New ditto - . . . Lyons and Mediterranean 1123 75 1123 75 Geneva.. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard 561 25 .. 560 FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. A despatch from Berlin, dated March 29, says : —" The negotiations with France on the subject of the Treaty of Commerce are terminated. The French and Prussian Plenipotentiaries have to-day decided upon the tariffs of the entrance dues, the treaty of navigation, the convention relative to Custom-house measures for the international transit on railways, and, finally, the convention destined reciprocally to protect the literary rights of both countries. The treaty will be definitively signed when it shall have received the adhesion of the States of the Zollverein. Those States will imme diately receive a detailed communication on the subject." ITALY. The following letter has been addressed to the journals by General Klapka, dated Turin, 27th March : " An incident which may give rise to malevolent interpretations obliges me to explain myself clearly as to the position of the Hungarian emigrants. A French gentleman—Prince Crony, of Hungary— offers his co-operation in the emancipation of the country of his ancestors. As our cause is that of liberty, which is common to all nations, we shall always give a fraternal welcome to any friend who may wish to unite in our efforts. As, however, the traditions of the family of Crouy have already furnished an opportunity to presumptuous friends, or to malicious enemies, to set up this chivalrous old gentleman as a pretender, and to thus give a colour of adventure to the patriotic work of Hungarian emancipation, it ie my duty to loudly declare that we, Hungarians in a foreign land, unanimously protest against any private interest, and against all pretenders, whoever they may be, that would wish to make the battle-field of liberty an arena of personal ambitions. We only recognise the will of the nation. All our ideas, like all our efforts, have only one object—to restore the nation to herself, and to enable her to freely dispose of her destinies. Let the Prince of Crouy call together his friends in France, in order to acquire fresh sym pathies in Hungary; let him come at the decisive moment and place himself under our flag, and we shall know how to appreciate his generous senti ments. But, in the event of his presence exciting any embarrassment for the accomplishment of our mission, we should make an appeal to his good faith, and we are persuaded that it would be at tended to,—Accept, &c., " GEORGES KLAPICA." THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 lOs per load. Both hay and straw were in slow request at our quotations. IIriITECITAPEL.—Neadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; cloves, £3 10s to &5 lOs ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 Ns per load. A slow trade. COLONIAL. TEA —There has been only a limited business:trang acted ; prices, generally, however, are well maintained. SUGAR.—Business has been dull, and for all descriptions rather less rates have been accepted by holders. Refined descriptions have continued at about previous quotations. Covytt.—A good business has been transacted, and prices have shown a slight advance, particularly for good and fine descriptions of Plantation Ceylon. RicE.—Only limited transactions have been entered into, and prices have shown no change of importance. SA.LTPETIII —A fair amount of business has be trans aetA during the last few days, and the late advance has In most instances been fully sustained. TALLOW.—Business has continued moderately active ; chiefly, however, of a speculatiye character. P. Y. C. on the spot is quoted 46s to 46s 6d, and last three months' delivery 48s 3d per cwt. A LIVERPOOL PEABODY.—Some twenty years ago no Liverpool merchant was better known on 'Change than Mr. Charles Sheila ; no one was more universally re spected. In polities he in% an ardent,Liberal ; but among the Tories ho had more friends than among the Whigs. In the terrible crisis of 1825 he, like many others, found his resources, ample as they were, unavailing at the mo ment; but he quickly surmounted the difficulty, and dis charged promptly all his obligations. Soon after 1840 he retired from business, and took his residence in Kingstown, near Dublin, where he died. He was, long after his re• tiretnent, in constant communication with Mr. J. Camp bell, who was to have been his executor, about the disposal of his property, observed frequently that it gave him more trouble what to do with it than it did in getting it. lie was alone in the world ; he had no relative, near or remote, living, and of course ho contemplated being bountiful to some public charity. Col. Brown's example did not inspire imitation, and Mr. Peabody's benevolence had not suggested indirectly the claim of the place where he had acquired his wealth. Mr. Campbell having ceased to be his adviser, nothing was known of his purposed bequests until after bis death. Then it was found that he had distributed £120,000, all his fortune, among charitable institutions, chiefly alms houses, in the following places :—viz., Killough, County Down (his native place), the city of Dublin, and the towns of Down, Armagh, and Tyron.o.—Liverpooff Afercury. THE NAVY. Yesterday the lower portion of the projecting iron prow for the Achilles, 60, building at Chatham, was successfully fixed in its place, under the super intendence of Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder, and his staff. The stem-piece fixed yesterday weighed 12 tons, and was forged in the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall. An additional number of mechanics and labourers were entered at the dockya?d yesterday to be employed on the Achilles, the works connected with which are advancing rapidly. The Racoon, 21, 400 horse power, in dock at Chatham, has had the whole of her copper sheathing removed, in order that an examination may be made of her timbers and planking by the dockyard officials. This fine corvette, built but a few years since, is found to be in a very sound state, and the whole of her repairs will probably not exceed a cost of £6,000. The Albuera, No. 5 sailing transport, yesterday commenced unshipping her cargo at Woolwich pier, consisting of old pattern guns, shot, &P., re turned from Hong Kong, as well as 12 cases of works of art and curiosities forwarded for the In dustrial Exhibition. She brought home 216 officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, in command of Major Gray, the surviving portion of A, B, C, and D troops Military Train, who sailed last year for China 370 strong. Ten were killed in action, 140 fell victims to dysentery and other dis eases incident to the climate, and four (wounded severely) died at sea during the voyage home of 125 days. The Victoria iron steam transport (returned to Woolwich disabled from the Altantic) has dis charged the whole of her stores, and yesterday left the buoy off Woolwich arsenal for the decks, to be overhauled and repaired. During the time she lay moored at Woolwich her pumps were constantly at work, and it was admitted that but for the stre nuous and incessant labours of the troops at sea the ship must have been lost. Some of the cargo is much damaged, but the galvanised iron wire in tended for the telegraph is uninjured, it having been carefully coiled and wrapped in thick canvas covering. Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, junior Lord of the Admiralty, yesterday made an official in spection of the ships under construction in Wool wich Dockyard, and also of the steam transport Fox, lying off the yard awaiting high tide. Rear-Admiral Lewis T. Jones, K.C.8., has been appointed senior naval officer at Cork, to succeed Rear-Admiral Smart. The crew of the screw steam corvette Cordelia, 11, recently returned from the Australian station, will be paid off at Devorport to-morrow. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty:—Capt. Henry Broadhead, to the Asia; Commander John Palmer, to the Castor, recommissioned ; Commander Thos. Heard, to the Trincomalee, commissioned ; Commander John W. Whyte, to the Hastings, commissioned; Commander William Henry Fenwick, to the Dseda lus, commissioned; Commander Edward Lacy, to the President, commissioned; Commander Grey Skipwith, to the Brilliant, commissioned ; Com mander David Miller, to the Asia; Lieut. Thomas M. Campbell, to the Castor; Lieut. Richard Hoops, Lieut. John P. Cheyne, Lieut. Charles F. Hill, and Lieut. Charles N. Streatfield, to the Asia ; Williams Long, promoted to master; Benjamin Carr, first class assist.-engineer, to the Mugicienne, vice Pillar, appointed to the Indus as supernumerary ; and George Bartlett, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Magicienne. THE ARMY. The 96th Regiment is appointed to embark to morrow at Plymouth on board the screw steamship Revenge, 89, Capt. C. Fellowes, for conveyance to Portsmouth. The 96th will probably go first to the Camp at Shorncliffe, and then to Aldershott prior to the opening of the Great Exhibition. An order has been received at Chatham, from the War-office, laying down a ccde of regulations for piling and arranging the Armstrong shot and shell delivered into store. A redistribution of the Corps of Royal Marines and Royal Marine Artillery, and an alteration in the system of promotion, was authorised by an Order in Council, dated March 21, in conformity with which the following regulations were pro mulgated :—The Royal Marine Artillery division will be composed of 24 companies, each consisting of one captain, two subalterns, eight sergeants, six corporals, five bombardiers, two drummers and buglers, and 107 gunners; total, 131. The Royal Marine Light Infantry will comprise 116 companies, each consisting of one captain, two subalterns, aix sergeants, six corporals,three drummers and buglers, and 109 privates ; total, 127. The whole of the subalterns of companies to be two-thirds first, and one-third second lieutenants. The regimental staff of the artillery and Light Infantry divisions will in clude five colonels commandants, five colonels second commandants, 20 lieutenants-colonels, five paymas ters, five barrack masters, five surgeons, five assis tant-surgeons, one laboratory instructor, five gun nery instructors, five musketry instructors, 10 adju tants, five lieutenants and quartermasters, five quar termasters, 10 sergeants-major, five quartermaster sergeants, and five barrack sergeants. The general staff will consist of one deputy-adjutant-general and one assistant adjutant-general. The following pro motions and appointments have taken place in the Royal Marines, by order of the Admiralty, conse quent upon the re-appointment of captains to com plete the separate establishment of the Royal Ma rine Artillery:—First Lieut. and Quartermaster W. F. P. S. Dadson, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the same divilion ; •First Lieut. H. A. Brenan, of the Portsmouth division, to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, and appointed to the same division ; First Lieut. C. F. Short, of the Woolwich division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Plymouth division ; Second Lieut, R. W. F. Holt, of the Plymouth division, to be First Lieute nant, and appointed to the Woolwich division; First Lieut. and Adjt. F. Lean, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Ply mouth division; First Lieut. S. B. Colwell, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the same division ; First Lieut. and Quartermas ter H. Swale, to the Woolwich division, to be Cap tain, and appointed to the same division ; First Lieut. T. Bent, of the Chatham division, to be Lieu tenant and Quartermaster, and appointed to the Woolwich division ; Second Lieut. R. H. Dovyer, of the Portsmouth division, to be First Lieutenant, and appointed to the Chatham division ; First Lieut. R. Woolcombe, of the Artillery division, to be Adju tant, and appointed to the same division; Second Lieut. F. F. Evans, to the Chatham division, to be First Lieutenant, and appointed to the same divi sion, vice Hemmaus, pi.,tced on half-pay. We understand that a soiree, under distinguished patronage, for the sale of works of art, ladies' work, ttc., with music and singing, will be held on Thursday evening, the 10th April, at the Female School of Art, 43, Queen square, Bloomsbury, in aid of the Building Fund. Lady Goldsmid, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Temple Bowdoin, and other ladies have kindly promised to assist. We hope that the public will give their support on this occasion to this excellent institution. GARIBALDI AND MANZONI.—An anecdote con nected with Garibaldi's stay at Milan is going the round of the Italian papers. The general visited Manzoni in the afternoon of the 25th, "Allow me," said the general, "to do homage to a man who so greatly honours Italy." " It is for me," answered the poet, "to do homage to you; 1 feel very small before the lowest of The Thousand of Mar sala ; how must I feel before their leader, who has re deemed so large a part of Italy, offering it in the hand somest manner to Victor Emmanuel ?" Garibaldi replied, " I have only done my duty." Ho then embraced Man zoni, and offered him a bunch of violets. " I will keep these flowers," said the poet, "as a remembrance of one of the brightest days in my existence." Inisn ExPORTS.—A mon g the exports from Ire land to Great Britain in 1861 were 1,068,883 proof gallons of home-made spirits, 123,812 quarters of wheat and wheat flour, and 1,551,524 quarters of oats and oatmeal, an in crease in both the two lat ter items upon the previous year, but in spirits a decrease. These returns are from official records. According to non-official documents collected by the officers of Customs, Ireland also exported to Great Bri tain last year 334,304 oxen and cows, 24,360 calves, 407,426 sheep, and 358,187 swine. CAPE TOWN RAILWAY.—It appears that this railway was opened for public traffic as far as the Erste , River on the lath of February last. POLICE INTELLIGENCF.—( This Day.) BOW STREET. A dirty looking woman named Emily Brown, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers, a watch, and other articles, the property of a young man named Garnish. The prosecutor said last evening he had been with a few friends, and as he was passing down Parliament-s 1 reet, on his road home he met the prisoner. She induced him to accompany her home, and he supposed he consented, as. when he was awoke by the constable in a low brothel he did not know where he was. After he got out of bed he found the constable had got his trousers in his hand. Ho had been undressed by somebody, and put into bed. Police Constable F 13, said he was on duty this morning about three o'clock in the Coal-yard, in Drury-lane,'when in consequence of a noise proceeding from a low brothel, he went in, and while there he saw the prisoner pass the par lour door with something in her hand. He went out and found her with a pair of trousers, in the pocket of which were a silver watch and chain, a gold pin, and a bunch of keys. He asked her where the man was who owned the trousers, and she said she did not know. He (witness) went to the opposite house, No. 8, and there found the prisoner in bed. He roused him up, and asked him if he had lost anything, and he said he did not know. He showed him the trousers, and he at once identified them as his property. The watch, pin, and keys, he also said, be longed to him. When he took the prisoner into custody she denied robbing the man. Prisoner—l didn't rob him ;he gave me the watch, as he had no money to pass the night with me. Mr. Corrie—Well, but he did not give you his trousers. Prisoner—You see, sir, the watch was in the pocket of the trousers, and I thought I had better take the things as they were to a friend of mine, to see that the watch was worth anything. Mr. Corrie—l don't believe a word you say. I shall commit you for trial. Prisoner—Very v ell. I still say he gave me the watch. The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute the prisoner at the Sessions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A COFFEEHOUSE KEEPER CHARGED WITH THREE As- SAULTS.—James Hudson, the keeper of a coffee-shop in Great Portland-street, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with committing violent assaults on Margaret :Watts, George Watts, husband of the former, and Duncan Tait. Mr. Edward James, of Great Marlborough-atreet, ap peared for the defendant. From the evidence of several witnesses it appeared that the complainants were in a public-house in Great Portland street, when the defendant was seen by Mrs. Watts to pour some water on an old man's head. She expostulated with the defendant, saying it was a shame to do so, when the defendant knocked her down, causing a wound in her eye, and then kicked her. Her husband went to her assistance, and he was also struck in the eye, and the complainant Tait then interfered, and tried te put an end to the scene, when he was also assaulted by the defendant. Mr. Lewis called some witnesses for the defence, from whose evidence it appeared that the defendant was, attacked by the complainants, who thought he was ill-using the old man, while he was only joking with him. One of the witnesses also said that the man Watts freely used a stick, and that there was a melee. Mr. Mansfield discharged the prisoner. ROBBERY AT MESSRS. CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S.— John Robinson, in the employ of Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's, SAm-square, the well-known Italian ware housemen, was charged with stealing a quantity of bladders, the property of his employers, and James Robinson, his brother, was charged with receiving the same. It appears that Serjeant Holmes, 3 F, in company with Acrill, 48 F, followed the prisoner John from his em ploy ers the previous night, and watched him till he met his brother James, when the prisoners walked away together. Holmes continued to watch the prisoners, and saw John take from under his coat two parcels containing the dried bladders, and hand them to the other prisoner. The officers then took the prisoners into custody, and at first John denied taking them, but afterwards admitted it. It further appeared that Holmes had been watching the prisoner John for about five weeks, in consequence of the prosecutor's missing a large quantity of property, over which the pri soner had charge. The property produced having been identified by Mr. Henry Joseph Bell, assistant to the manager of the firm, the prisoners were remanded. TILE EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. At the meeting of the Royal Commissioners on this subject on Thursday, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair, Mr. Henry Howell, Manager to Messrs. Goding, Jenkins, and Co., of the Lion Brewery, Belvedere-load, Lambeth, in giving evi dence against the proposed embankment, deposed that the brewery had been built at an outlay of £50,000, exclusive of plant and machinery, with a frontage on the river of 140 feet, constructed on the best and most improved principles for the purpose of saving a large amount of manual labour and expense in loading and unloading barges and other craft alongside the river frontage, and under the hoisting pent over the river that com municates with the several floors of the brewery, malt bins, and other parts of the premises ; and the plant and machinery of the brewery has been constructed expressly for• working the same in connexion with the facilities afforded by the extensive and convenient frontage on the river. The present river frontage, with the appliances of the brewery, form a considerable adjunct, and afford every facility for unloading malt, bops, and coal, and at the same time for shipping beer, of which about 10,000 tons are annually put on board craft all which is now done without interruption or in convenience to the premises in front of the brewery in the Belvedere-road. The barges and other craft are enabled to be brought close alongside the brewery, and can be either loaded or unloaded during high or low water without inconvenience or damage. If the present facilities and convenience for unloading goods or shipping of beer were in any way disturbed it would materially affect the expenses of working the brewery, and thereby create considerable loss and much additional cost, as well as materially affect the value of the brewery, and premises, which are held under a lease, and for which a large rent is paid. The obstructions that would be caused to the business of the brewery during the progress of the works in forming the embankment would be both serious and ruinous to the firm, the present lessees. Mr. Alderman Gabriel, timber merchant ; Messrs. Cory, coal merchants ; Mr. Bennett, forage Barge Berridge,salesman H House, jug ': h i e Messrs. s e sr gave aav ne A ; s s t ai e mn , l c a o ri r r ne.vpi evidence ev e ne r ey e e h , a oa n fs t str the eg ao A r l dl Mr their trades, and against the expediency of the proposed embankment. FORTUNE-TELLING. On Saturday last Sarah . 11all . was taken before • the sitting magistrates at the Shire-hall, Notting , ham, charged with obtaining two shawls, a dress, and a quantity of clothing from Rachel Sparrow, domestic servant, by means of false pretences. The prosecutrix stated that about a month ago she was in service in Nottingham-park, and on the 19th of February the prisoner came to her mistress's house and offered some caps and lace for sale. She said to witness, " I should like to have a few words with you, my dear." Witness replied, " Yon cannot tell me more than I know." Prisoner replied, " Yes, I can tell you who is to be your husband, when you saw him last, what he said to you, and when you will see him again. I can, moreover, show you his likeness through a glass I generally carry with me , but which I have now left at home." She also said, " I tell many people their fortunes, but if I tell you I shall require to have two of the heaviest pieces of money you have in your possession to tie up in a handkerchief." The prosecutrix gave her some clothes, sa well as money, and the prisoner said she • would return on Saturday and tell her who would marry her. She returned on Thursday, and said the clothes were not heavy enough, and wanted more. She said she must have more clothes or the glass would not :act. Prosecutrix did not see the prisoner until a week after, and then told the gar dener in her master's employ to have her appre hended. Prisoner—" Now, my dear, did you not say to me, when I called upon you, that a woman had been to tell you your fortune a short time before, and that you gave her some money and some clothing ?" Proseeutrix—" Nothing of the sort." Prisoner—" Had you your fortune told a fortnight before ?" Prosecutrix—" You are the person who took the clothes." Prisoner—" That is not the question 1 asked, my dear." (Laughter.) After some further examination the prisoner ad mitted receiving the clothes, but denied stealing them, but in the end pleaded guilty, and hoped the magistrates wculd he as moderate as they could. The Bench—" We sentence you to six months im prisonment, and are only sorry you can lay hold of such simpletons to enable you to get a_ . liv ” ing in you, Sir . such a way." Prisoner—" Thank SPECIAL SERVICES, WESTM INSTER ABBEY.— The following is a list of the p reachers in Westminster Abbey at the special evening serv ices during Lent : —April 6, the Dean of Westminster ; A p ril 13, the Rev. Henr y M i ln ns;ter. April 27, the R ev . D r . Mackenzie, Rector of Ty dd St. Diary; April 20 (Easter 1 S an Wordsworth, day)7 the Bishop Canon of of Westminster. nen, the 1: Ar 4 td 'day, the p Sutha and t Ray, raisin 11 , 0 Wei been i bat ro l'ropo, Bert ti k' N 81 C eti k k t . I V 3 e 4 b tu tt l i ttO 5 E b• tt ° 5 et° 6 1 Itto the the traf rual terd XlO of c; Cott tere,