The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-09 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — . Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. DAIS EVENING, the new farce of THE LADY OF THE 31 Followed by the grand spectacle of A LICE WINGOLD; the Pearl of London City. Characters by Miss Julia Sea man, Mr. F. lluntley, M, Mortimer. dm loneludino• with brilliant and novel scenes in the Circle by Brkish and Foreign Asts. Commrtience at 7 o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. C.l NTEIi BU HALL AND FINE CIALLERY. The miraculous wrEcK EL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RO.MSEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. rand S , lections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jough mans. U.S SWO /14 in his celebrated Stump Speech "Or any other man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancer, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley be.. to inform visitors to Lon don during' the Exhit ition that t& GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and Two o'e'ock on and after Monday. ri'HE OXFORD. 6, OXFORD -STREET._ A " MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford, music by G. A. Macfarren i Burns' " Jolly B egg „. , „ also a cantata, with George Linley's music, and Band and Operatic Operatic Selections by the entire company. Full Chorus. —CoLductor, Mr. F. donghm,ms. Runn 3 eY and New com b', Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a h ost of comic talent ; and HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze, every evening. Hall, ed.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, los. gd. 1-11G11 S✓ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE• THIS DAY.—Morning, 911. 30m.—Afternoon, 10h. 3m. Tn-xonnow.-Morning, 1012. 37m.—Afternoon, 1111. Bm. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to .11r. JOHN CHAPLIN', at The Run office, 112, ,strand, who has been appinted, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun neWsP4Pr' and the outstanding debts due in respcef thereof. • • ..*: ~_., I P 4 `l , f;:,- .- - '•-• , 11 1 • 77 c• ) ,, t , l. s . ) ,, fr r - ',- 3 • -4 '''' '-- • • c--"---; ,) ::',E '''- t . ' 1 't'',..-..-<;4441, -•,-; ' 7,.;Y'''-- ' Y..- , .-; ~~~• -~, ~ ~~ i-1 '. r,~~~~ v THE S UN• LONDON, FRIDAY , MAY 9, 1862. The country hardly yet knows the extent of its loss in the loss of PRINCE ALBERT. What with that sad event, coupled perhens with the Great Exhibition, t.nd another party consideration or two, the country is likely to lose the blessing of a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer. Who he would have y. b ee n there is a slight uncertaintlt has been rumoured that Sir STAFFORD INTORTIICOTE has served his apprenticeship, worked also creditably as a nd may now be trusted as journeyman, principal, Mr. DISRAELI betaking himself to what is under stood to be the object of his ambition—the great TIM SUN LONDON, FRID ,A.Y EVENING, AT :9, 1862: • '.I.ELEGRAX TO QUEENSTOWN, TRE7.AND. , --11 RJR. To Chief Magistrate and Harbourmaster.—By Extradi tion Act —Stop ship City of Baltimore, and Captain, for Death-cause to the brothers Leech on May 7's Liverpool departure—without Coroner's copy log. inquest—if true, by steam -tug report.—Signed by Chief ' Functional' Justices of the above (1842-3) Act. PETER BRANT BASQLIRT. May 9, 1862. CHARLES ACKERLET, J. P. t By 25 Hen. 111. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act Onus, to avoid sequestration.. nOZ.TRTON ON- THE -WATER RAILWAY, Branch of Midland & Great Western. —Title doubts. WESTMINSTER COIINTY CoURT. Lieut. CHARLES ACHERLEY, R.N., v. COLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street. (Before Judge F. Bayley).—On the rehearing-clause and Stec. 81, touching the 15s. costs against plaintiff on the 23d April last, as a 6d. Stamp Act tem°. 3). This tortuous suit for payment of loss of time, and con spiracy-fraud (by defendants' own letters to sign railroad conveyance deed), on Plaintiff's mercantile position in trade right of patenteeship (1840), with duplex use of his name in a petition to the Master of the Rolls Court on 27th February, having the word De Lacy disbared—to obtain a rLilway judgment, six days' before the expiration of 21st March—vide Gloucester journals of Ist, Bth, and 15th—as of u nlawful annex foist of Justinian Institute Code, lib. in, at 3, § 8 (for their Guisot and Brougham Soc. Act A me ndment of the Law for the Benchers De Societate in Aurea.-bulla pax religiose,' lib. 1, tit. I, § 4), with Mercer Company's' culpability. The Judge held that the Plaintiff's time lost Ras not tenable, tho' in his name Act, there being no contract. Plaintiff (with respect), maintained that as re-hearing was ad m itt e d, so followed (5 , 81,—reduction of costs with Rolls Registrar Disraeli subpcena fees, under judgment by default, on Defendant's non-appearance. This legal argument being granted, which appeared to place the Defendants in a cleft-stick, the Court were some what surprised by the hasty uprising of an Attorney who represented Mr. Cole, as of—Talbot v. Radnor and the ?cin-Atkyns Chamberlayne trustees, by 1-2, Will. 'v.,* leo 64, under which the Capt. (Ackerley) is heir 'in Chelten ham-let pivot remainder' for at. Western Branch deed eta life-title (as given in The Sun of 28th April). The Plaintiff reminded his Worship that as this case, although small, embraced contempt of the Rolls Court' and infringement of the Stamp Act—[the revenue on which must be increased to LBO,OOO a-year)—whereon he officially as the Meter-act-magistrate qualified at Worcester 1837, demanded the silencing of the intrusive Attorney of Cole, unless he could produce his Sixpenny stamped memo. randuna of agency, since Advocates' College word disbarr applied to him, by State loss on this ,) Anglo -Indian habeas .corpus jnris question, under 14 Geo. 111., o. 83 . This the Judge admitted, on Defendant's contempt of Covrt, as of Stow ' St. Edward's, 14 J. I. His ortour ordered the reduction of fees, and subpcena money of Plaintiff's witnesses to be returned, with permis sion of case-removal to Stow-tower County Court. * Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two brothers are named (to sue and bo sued in all courts eccle siastical, military, and marine, under one name—Joseph Chamberlayne oNLY)—one in the Royal Artillery, and the other [plaintiff, Charles, his 'enry by law struck out] in Roy al Navy, pledged as the JJ Montague Nulla 0' of 1825 over the Catholic' Emancipation Act of 1829—for Sect burden to the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the French say , faisant partie de leur police corporation seen liars') o n Primeval-tenet of Christianity—so Civil-service opposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c., by refus ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import. Now on final judgment, whence the parish rate wardens, successors in office (prior to 1603), will, with back to the East enrobe this Siderial days-man as Sunday reader seen by 58 canon of moral discipline—of late perverted by a gown warden-take for self-hold assumption, on ministers money (now ceased) of the white Surplice right. ¶By clauses 1 and 3 of the Bourton Act Co.s (on its hamlet unregistered Clerk of ?sada Inclotmre' award), they wish to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow Market tolls, byindiciel extra-namefribble of its King's Post Magistrate, by committee of foreigners in violation of the " Adam and Eve consorted" of 1822, for Criminal basis on 16 Car. Ir.'s Tent fire-hearth, yr-tax 2s for Common law 6 & 6 Native Crt., of the one Arbiter, by sec. 29 of its rider, 8 Vic., c. 18—he being the Prince Consort' with the Indian lady a for title to American soil Rohl.-law Gyre-on,' as cause for 1842's (Mo.n in God) election of Peter B (nephew of Jos, Bruit, of 1776 stamp-act) as now colonial tamp Income tax Chief, unpaid 2n years-11 yrs supported by plaintiff on Stamp oath—for all ti. s e native coloured races—religion-tied to the imbedded Spirit4-level Nob-equerry Staff arsbook of nature. trne base' . (qui fit Charmer la Race-noire si grande 2 Sons la loi Civique ¢), pass avec Fiert‘ OA l'on voit que jamais I'EmuLAND' ne marchande 8 Quand it faut par la mer leer donner Liberte . . • N. ) CHARLES ' ACKERLEY, 1-2 Will. iv., No. 64. Chamberlayne' sworn. • PITSR BAsQUET, Income Tax Chief, 1842, unpaid. 4 • China uu'., wall circuit horizon of-. London, May 8, 1862, its Mont4zuma.—(lhe Sun of 19 and 28th.) 0 • i 54 al F ... . . 1 TtiEA'fRE-R0 YA , HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Bnckstone, THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (118th time ) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord . Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Folloired by the Spanish Ballet entitied THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo. and the Corps de Ballet TocoAciude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. • Commence a 7 OYA I , LYCEUM THEATRE. A-a ) Sole i.essee and Manager —3lr. Edmund Falconer. 151st Nighi of the ,:ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EvENINer.W.:EP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy; Addison, Charles St lby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund l"alconei : D. P. Bowers, Bites Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, piciZeal, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. iliss Anna Whitty and Mies Lyclht Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled COULDN'T 'HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Alma Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at Box-office oven daily from 11 till s. LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. I,,,see, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE : Messrs. 5, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Maria Harris. —Alter which, at balt-past 8, THE ANGEL OF MID- Nu ; Ei Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, Cathcart, Wid diem:lane, and Jordan, ss MHenderseadows, Raonymond ; Miss Elsworthy, Miss F.elding, Mi. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, Shore, &c., and Miss C. Leciercq. NEW THI ATRE-R0 ir AL, ADELPHI.— Sole Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Alci4sro. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss L. Keeley , Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, - Miss H. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr. Dion Boncieault ; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billington, P. Bedford, Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Commence at 7. Foreign Office ; of course, to the great joy of ' FRANCIS lOSEPII, Baron SCHMERLING, and the Rump Reichsrath, and to the sorrow of Hungary, Venice, and Italy. If, however, the speech of the hon. member for Bucks, when he made his formal onslaught on Mr. GLADSTONE, indicates his own real policy, which the country can but suspect, it will not regret his remaining in opposition yet awhile. That speech asserted as its leading object that Mr. GLAD STONE ought to have asked for more money—there fore not to have repealed taxes during the last three years, but to have laid others on. He demanded larger balances, and denied that the expenditure was abnormal. The inference was clear, that to get the three millions balance Mr. DISRAELI de sired, we must pay threepence more of income tax. Veil it how he might, Mr. DISRAELI's speech, then, meant " raise the income tax," or, it had no mean ing at all. If he endeavoured to writhe himself out of this last night, it was in deference to that power which he blamed Mr. GLADSTONE for in voking—the power of pressure from without. The sorest point of all with the Tories ap pears to be Mr. GLADSTONE'S taking the people into his councils at Manchester. He had said much the same thing at Stephens', but that the people should be asked to assist in reducing public expenditure, this was the unpardonable crime. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, was in no mood for begging pardon, either of Sir STAFFORD NORTH COTE, or of the whole Tory oppostion. He had done what he felt to be his duty, and he stood to it. He maintains that in a free and intelli gent country like this, the Government must, to a large extent, follow the demands of free intel ligence. It may think the neonlo wish to spend too fast, faster than is for its real interest ; but, as the money comes from those who desire to spend it, the Government can but gratify the people in doing what it will with its own. It is equally the duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer nevertheless, as an honest steward for the nation, to tell it, while he obeys its wishes, that it is time for it to restrain them. This the sum of isMr. GLADSTONE'S defence, or rather of his exposition of his duty as he views it. We doubt not the country will prac tically and speedily show their sense of its correctness. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had easy work indeed with Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE—it Was pretty much the "breaking of a fly upon a wheel" —but there was yet a more potent warrior in reserve. Mr. GLADSTONE looked around like one of the old heroes before Troy searching the ranks of the commoner men, for the antagonist worthy of him, but Mr. DISRAELI was not tobe seen. By a convenient "accident" the opposition leader was out of the way when he was wanted to back Sir STAF FORD NORTHCOTE, and left the Chancellor of the Exchequer to expend his oratory in reply to the humbler antagonist. By another convenient "acci dent," Mr. DISRAELI re-appeared, and turned up, just at the convenient moment, to make his on slaught on Mr. GLADSTONE and the whole Govern ment when the chief Government orator had done his part. But Mr. DISRAELI had, this time, reckoned without his host. He had intended to retire with the lau'rels of the evening, but he left with only the stalks of them. The veteran Premier coolly rose, and in one of the happiest re plies he, perhaps, ever delivered, quietly, but ruthlessly, plucked away every leaf, till all were gone. " Accidentally," perhaps, at least as accidentally as he was absent before Mr. GLADSTONE spoke, Mr. DISRAELI was silent during the BOWYER Italian debate. But having '' accidentally" turned it over a good deal since then, and devised what he could best say about it, Ro as not to lose Catholic votes while he should keep Orange ones, he drags the whole subject into a financial debate. Ingenuity like his could easily accomplish that. Our expen• diture, he said, in brief, was caused by our policy ; and our policy was one which did not harmonise always with that of others. And here he slipped in a word to please the Catholics—a sad thing it would be if the POPE had to run away from Rome because the French marched away from it. LOUIS NAPO LEON could not afford to hazard such a mischance as that. A loud " hear, hear" from Sir G. BOWYER, assured Mr. DISRAELI that he had bagged a hatful of Catholic votes. Yet we went on, he said, irritating France by objecting to the occupation, and then demanding millions for " bloated "defences, that we might be secure against the consequences. The whole Italian policy of the Government was, indeed, censured in the way most acceptable to Priest ridden Irish constituencies, and most in opposition to the sentiments of all freedom-loving English- wen. " Very glad," said Lord PALMERSTON, "are we to see the giant, lately so silent, shaking off his lethargy"—still he intimated that he was hardly awake enoagh to know what he was about—for he fired off on the Italian question in a financial debate, much as a sol dier, whose musket would not go off at a review, fired it off when straggling home at some country house. Then, as to his main object in the speech, he presumed it was delivered as a prepara tion for a grand attempt to storm the Treasury benches. " Sir, I assume," said Lord PALMERSTON, from this, that the quietude which has hitherto prevailed during this session is likely soon to be disturbed, and that we may expect what is corn money called a political crisis. The right hon. gen tleman has very dexterously prepared the way for that event. He began by throwing out an oily bait to the Catholic gentlemen below the gang way on his side of the house, and then he encouraged expectations in the country gen tlemen sitting behind him ; then he coquetted with the economists and reformers sitting below the gangway on this side of the house. But he certainly did not hold out much encouragement to us who sit here on the Treasury bench. Nevertheless, I com mend the discretion and the tactics with which he impartially distributed his praise on the different quar t e rs of the House." Well might the House laugh and cheer, for a more terse exposure of the drift of a long harangue was hardly ever uttered. Equally happy was his censure of the hon. gen tleman's attack on the Estimates, on the re-con struction of the Navy, on the increase of our mili tary strength. and on the encouragement of inven tions and improvements in arms—right or w rong , all this has been the work and policy of his own colleagues, and, as we all remember, within a very few years. But the most ludicrous thing of all, perhaps, was the exhibition of the negative policy of Mr. DISRAELI. What would he himself do ? What power would he exert ? He attacked the Government for exercising moral power, that is the Power of persuasion—" He objects to moral power, but what other power would be wish his country to exercise? The right hon. gentleman objecfs to military power—to naval, and to moral power. It is difficult to say what kind of power would meet with the approval of the right hon. gentleman, or what power this Government ought to exert for the purpose of maintaining our proper position among the nations of the world." easily answered that qAulre.stiDonis,BLEtLlthcaotald have b e justly feared he might be i" casting pearls before twine." Lor d PALMERSON had omitted one po vver —t h e power of Toryism on the Treasury benches ; for, whether it be a naval or military power may depend upon accident, but Toryism certainly is not a moral power. Very unfortunate, indeed, is this over-eager attempt of the hon. member for Bucks. Badly managed as well as ill-timed. The trick of evading a reply from Mr GLADSTONE was more than counter balanced by the reply of the Premier. Mr. GLAD STONE would not have managed it half so well as the humorous lord. The speech of the great Tory was a capital subject for banter, and Lord PALMERSTON met it by the most clever combination of banter and argument. Mr. DISRAELI discovers in Mr. COBBEN'S pamphlet, and the growing dissatisfac tion with our expenditure, and of the Irish mem bers with the Liberal Italian policy of the Govern ment, an opportunity, as he thinks, for a hostile resolution before this session is over. But he has not caught the Premier at least napping. He knows his ground. He justly scoffs at the elaborate attempts to prove that sympathy with a free and united Italy is the cause of our high army and navy estimates—he decclares himself proud of his Italian polioy, and very distinctly insinuates thatif the hon. member for Bucks means fight, the country must settle between them ; these were his conclud ing words—" My belief is that the ()Pinions and sentiments we entertain and have expressed on the different affairs now going on in Europe are in unison with the feelings of the country, and that attachment for freedom and constitutional govern ment which is so peculiarly characteristic of the whole people of this united kingdom. That being the case, I am somewhat surprised that the right hon. gentleman, who is evidently prepared to be a member of some new administration, should have, in the course of his speech, given expressions to opinions so much at variance with the feeling of the country, merely because he thought that they were at variance with the opinion of the Govern ment to which he is opposed." The twentieth annual meeting of the Field Lane Ragged School on Wednesday in St. Martin's Hall was almost, as a matter of course, presided over by the good Earl of SHAFTESBURY. Growing grey in the service of his humbler fellow-citizens though the new K.G. elect is of late years—himself as yet but in his prime, it must be like the autumnal fruition already of his earnest and life-long labours to note as he could note the other evening, in his capacity as chairman, the signs of the benefits already accruing to the very poor in this great metropolis, from the opera tion and development of one of the chief among those humane institutions to the promotion of whose interests his energies have so long and so very earnestly been devoted. From the reliable statistics of the past twelvemonth submitted to the consideration of the assembly last evening gathered together in St. Martin's Hall, it appeared beyond a doubt that the attendance during the year at the Field Lane Ragged Schools for boys and girls, and for infants,has been of the most satisfactory character imaginable. Upon an average throughout the whole year that attendance in the infant school alone has been daily-205! During the twelvemonth as many as 201 new baby-scholars have been admitted there within the walls of the institution. The average during the interval of time has meanwhile in the boys and girls school, been 330 daily-4,370 of these children having been duly passed through the establishment. And it must especially be borne in mind that it is not alone the education of these little ones that the institution cares for. They are not merely sedulously instructed during the period of their daily attendance, month after month, and from year's end to year's end. Situations are, wherever it may be found suitable, discovered for each—the boys even being, not unfrequently, drafted into her MAJESTY'S navy as opportunities have arisen. For example, during the year last past, as many as "seventy-nine" of these urchins have passed into the QUEEN'S service afloat, upon crossing the threshold of the Ragged School of Field-lane. While within the same period 115 other boys, having duly passed through their educa tional course, according to the system in vogue at the institution, have been enabled at once to enter upon the honest, thriftful pathway of regular em ployment. " Eighty-seven" girls, also, obtaining in like-manner the absolutely priceless boon of opportune situations. As if to .indicate, in as vivid a manner as possible, the untiring assiduity with which the interests of these poor waifs and strays of the metropolis are watched over, physically and intellectually, there is another branch of the institution not yet particularised eminently well deserving examination. It is, of course, quite obviously the Night-School for Boys in connection with the Ragged Institution in Field lane, that we are here more particularly alluding to, the Night School for Boys, the Secretary informs us, having as many as 180 as the average of its daily (meaning nightly) attendance. Before closing our remarks upon the progress of this most humane establishment, we would especially direct the attention of our readers to the circum stance that it is not simply beneficial to the children who are there harboured, by its housing their poor bodies for the time being, and by instructing their previously blank intellects—it is in a worldly way even wonderfully advantageous to them for the rest of their natural lives, by its enabling them to acquire, during the period of their attendance, knowledge of some handicraft capable of furnishing them afterwards with remunerative employment. Proof positive of this is discoverable in the signifi cant items jottod down for the past year by the Secretary's pen —items to the effect, for instance, t hat within the last twelvemonth in the industrial classes of one division of the school as many as 915 boys have learnt their craft as tailors, and 810 boys their's as shoemakers. A similar tale to which might be told in regard to the industrial classes of the other division—namely, in pleasant illustration of the fact, the very large number of girls who have simultaneously been acquiring there various skill with their needles—now, let us say, as shoe-binders, now as sempstresses. Is further evidence desireable by way of indicating the beneficent influences set at play among these little Bedouins of civilisation ? Is such not abundantly visible in admirable offshoots of the Field Lane Ragged School, like the " Mother's class," like the " penny bank," or like the " clothing association," all of which little offshoots we here, with unaffected de light, give promise to grow and flourish surprisingly. Take the penny bank by way of illustration—a bank in which, at this time, there are as much as L 231 paid in, bit by bit, by some 500 depositors ! There are little luxuries, too, in the way of allure ments to knowledge and good behaviour, distributed periodically, and with the most judicious discrimi nation, among the poor children of this Ragged School in Field Lane—hitherto neglected little creatures, who certainly never had an oppor tunity of knowing what a luxury of any kind (even the humblest) was before. Unless, perchance, it might have been after the fashion of the poor little Marchioness in the 44 01 d Curiosity Shop," who (it wil l . be remembered) astonished Mr. RICHARD SWIVELLER, so very much water ! Or unless, again, at their first meeting b y describing to him the deliciousness of orange peal squee ze d an d soa k e d i n their exp er i ence o f Qom fort night have been brought home to them pre viousl7 by some supreme misfortune, as in the in stance of Maggy, in " Little Dorrit," who having been,once upon a time, in consequence of an acci dent, tenderly nursed and nurtured in one of !the London Hospitals : whenever afterwards she en joyed a treat, would smack her lips and cry out with a relish, "0 ! ain't it Hospitally ! To these Maggies and Marchionesses sent forth by the Field Lane Ragged School, what must not have been their enjoy ment of the 231 successful competitors among the girls out at place ! Who carried of during this last year each a prize varying from half-a-crown to three half-crowns—for what ?is it asked. For the very substantial merit of retaining each her place for a whole twelvemonth ! We have not fi u ishe d, ho w ever, by any means with our record of all the good done, the practical, phy sical, substantial good done, by means of this bene ficent, charitable institution in Field-lane. Besides the blessings squandered about, as we have shown, among hundreds, nay among from 4,000 to 5,000 boys and girls and little infant ohildren, there is the material comfort it has distributed all the while, moreover, among the very lowliest members of our adult pauper population. Within this same year last past, as many as upwards of seven thousand and a half (exactly 7,537) poor creatures have passed through the male refuge connected with the insti tution. And the good done to these poor souls, it should be observed especially, is of no merely fleet ing or temporary kind either. Out of those . 7,537 persons thus relieved in the direst extremity of want —233 being placed . in situations, 181 having tem porary employment given to them, 25 being en abled to enlist in the Army, and WS in the Royal Navy. Again, there is the female refuge in Field- Lane with its 2,300 recipients of charity during the year, besides very nearly 300 (to be precise, 278) servants out of place who, within the same interval, had received shelter in the servant's home. Alto gether there have been 13,000 of the utterly home less and very destitute population of London who, within the year, have received the aid of this benig nant charity. Nearly two thousand of their num ber having been permanently transferred from the squalor of the back slums of the metropolis, to situa tions in which, by the honest labour of their hands, they can earn for themselves and their families a thrifty but comfortable subsistence. Here is precisely one of those hard working charitable institutions scattered here and there about London and Westminster—" Supported by Voluntary Contributions"—that the foreign visitors now crowding into our metropolis ought not to pass by altogether unnoticed. The more ardent philanthropists among them, at any rate, would do well to pay a casual visit to Field Lane— not restricting their attention exclusively during their stay amongst us to the splendid side of our London life. Let them feast their eyes, if they will, with the fruit cf our wealth and industry. Yet to obtain a juster knowledge of the working of our whole complex social system, it cannot but be well also to cast a look askance, however fleet ing, at the perpetual war with poverty that is going on underneath. A testimonial of £5,000 to an editor, and as an editor, is something not of every day occurrence. Were it so indeed, our profession might be exposed to rather severe competition. Such, however, was the noble but well earned tribute offered by the Nonconformists of the kingdom to the Editor of the Nonconformist, on that now well known weekly journal attaining the age of twenty-one. For a long time the journal was hardly heard of beyond the limits of one class of Dissenters ; but after Mr. MIALL became member for Rochdale, and he and his journal, became the subjects of vehement attack by the clerico-political men of the day, it rapidly attracted public attention. The 2vonconfornzist has certainly done great ser vice to the cause of Religious Liberty. It was originated to fight that battle, or more precisely, the battle of Religious Equality; and with untiring zeal and perseverance, and with confessedly distin guished ability it has fought that battle ever since. If we ever wanted to turn to a source whence we could derive the fullest and latest information on such topics, with the beet arguments upon them, we have always found the Nonconformist a perfect repository of facts and reasonings. Mr. MIALL has been, what Englishmen like so deservedly, a thoroughly consistent man. His views have been as liberal on politics as on ecclesiastical matters. He has always dealt with the two as inseparably connected. He has, however, nothing of the firebrand about him. He is a careful, we may say, a profound thinker. He would not care to convince except by arguments which ought to convince. He has been often in advance of his constituency, as we may call it, but it has always been the advance of a clearly ascertained position. Mr. BRIGHT, who spoke at the meeting, told the assembly that In 1860, Mr. MIALL was ap pointed one of the Commissioners on National Edu cation. Ne better selection could the Duke of NEWCASTLE have made when he asked for a man of intellect and judgment, one who had the confi dence of the voluntary party, to appoint upon that Commission. He (Mr. BRIGHT) had heard from the lips of the Duke of NEW CASTLE what he thought of Mr, MIALL after the work of the Commons was over. He had heard him speak of his courtesy, his moderation, his libe rality, his sound judgment, and his laboriousness, in language at least as eulogistic as anything which has been uttered on that platform." This is high praise, but we have no doubt it was well deserved. The friends of Mr. MIALL's principles have done themselves, as well-as him, honour, by this well timed testimonial. He has succeeded, in connec tion with the Liberation Society, in calling public attention to the Religious Equality movement. For many years ecclesiastics and politicians treated both the journal and the society with silent contempt. They do so no longer. They are put on the defensive. They get up counter-societies and edit counter-journals. No better proof of the power of the religious equality movement can be furnished than the fact that it is at this moment the boast of the Tory Opposition that its House of Commons victories have all been gained at its expense. The Wednesday bills on different matters affecting religious liberty, includ ing the Church Rate one, have all been more or less promoted by Mr. MIALL and the society with which Le works. To the exertions of these gentlemen Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, in truth, owes his Parliamentary position. And all the Wednesday musterings of the Tories last year, were so many proofs of the strength of the new power, which it required their utmost exertions to defeat. Even the House of Lords Committee on Church Rates owed its origin to an tagonism to the Liberation Society. A man who has in so short a time accomplished so much, well deserves the honour he has received ; and the aelvo cates of Religious Equality have done wisely to show to all the kingdom, by that kind of proof which all Englishmen respect, that they are not ungrateful. We hope dissenters will be strong enough, in some constitutency, to return him again to Fsrliament, W e Wan , , such an accomplished representative of Voluntaryism there, as much as the Duke of NEWCASTLE did in the Educational Commission. Another step—a very small one, but still a step —has been taken in a right onward direction by the promoters of the Concentration of the Law Courts upon a convenient site. It is well known that not only has that convenient site been selected in the neighbourhood of the Courts as they at present stand—this chosen site being midway between Carey-street, Bell-yard, and the Strand—but that a Government Bill embodying the scheme was this session introduced by the law officers of the Crown, and was only defeated inopportunely in one of its earlier stages from a misapprehension as to certain purely financial considerations. Well, with a view to dissipate these obstructive, and for the present session at least, disastrous misapprehensions a deputation of gentlemen connected with the Law Amendment Society deemed it advisable to wait upon the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The deputation, it should be observed at once, there and then took oocasion to wait upon Mr. GLADSTONE, not simply with an argument upon the matter, but with a distinct proposition to get over the financial difficulty. They submitted it to Mr. GLADSTONE as a shrewd and keen witted and practised financier, whether or not the whole difficulty referred to might not be readily enough scattered to the winds by some such device as the following, i.e., if the Government would but propose to Parliament that, "as a means whereby to protect the public purse, there should be a small tax of 3s. 4d. charged on each writ issued from the common law courts, and on the inceptiel of any suit in the Admiralty, rronate, ur Divorce Courts, which would raise an amount equi valent to the annual interest upon any sum in excess of the estimate which it was probable would be spent upon the undertaking." While listening attentively to this proposition, and to the argument with which it was enforced by the gentlemen constituting the deputation that sub mitted it to his notice, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer abstained as a matter of course from pledg ing himself distinctly to its support. Yet, at the same time, Mr. GLADSTONE added that if the Society would but furnish him with their calculations he would—if the law officers of the Crown should again bring the matter forward, as they will beyond a doubt next session —he, Mr. GLADSTONE, would " clear up to the House of Commons the financial objections to the scheme." More that. that in the way of a promise the deputation of Wednes day could hardly have hoped for. OXFORD MUSIC HALL. The admirable manner in which the operatic selections are performed by the well-trained forces of this Hall has not been without effect on the musical publishers, who are manifesting a desire to have cantatas and other concerted pieces made public through the medium of thoroughly efficient singing. The execution of the cantata of the "Jolly Beggars," of Burns, is a very recent instance of able vocal interpretation, and Messrs. Cramer and Beale have done well to place the "May Day" cantata of Mac farren in the same hands. Nothing can be more satisfactory than the singing of the music, which is so constructed as to bring out in strong relief the different voices, more espe cially the basses and contraltos. The cantata, which was performed we believe at the St. James's Hall, is divided into four parts,—" The Choosing of the May Queen," " The Hunt's up," "The Queen's Greeting," and "The Revels,"—Miss Russell taking the part of the May Queen. There is a delicious flow of melody in the cantata, which is never unduly encumbered with instrumental or choral elaborations. Mr. Oxenford's words have the great merit o combining simplicity with beauty, and every note of the music falls naturally upon its kindred word, to the complete preservation of the sense. The pastoral colouring is alike kept up in words and music. The Chorus—" Lads and Lasses, hasten all—to the rural fes tival," which introduces the Maypole " Revels," is deli cious in its bucolic playfulness, the noisy little pipes and tabors with which it opens leading to a highly-charac 11 , 16I11; alltl .y. alu. Tho vAma....0,1013. 01 LUG ,ul4 uuixs is excellent. Some celebrities have been added to the com pany in Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, Rho also ap pear at the Canterbury Hall, are the most grotesque we have seen. They give a varied picture of nigger life, and keep the audience in a roar by their eccentricities. Messrs. Unsworth and Eugene are conspicuous in their drolleries. The burlesque dancing of the latter, a-la-Duvernay is inimitable, hardly reach ing the verge of caricature and being wholly with out coarseness. The feminine exaggerations of the stage danseuse are given to the life, and not a point of re semblance is lost. Not less surprising is the truthfulness of this artist's imitation of the voice and style of a prima donna, his falsetto being almost identical with a soprano, whilst he contrived to parody the little arts and wiles of our lady operatic singers with rich effect. Mr. Unsworth is rapidly becoming famous for his stump speech, " Or Any Other Man." His address is a series of non sequeturs, which he enunciates with the additional force required from the emphasis of an umbrella, which he bangs upon the table before him. The assumption of the manner of the Roman orator, in which the artist folds the toga over the shoulder, added to the Stiggins-like sparrings of arms and contortions of legs, to give force to the flashes of his oratorical genius, stamp the artist as a comedian in no mean sense of the word. The " Olio of Oddities," in which the rest of the party figure, is replete with food for laughter. We are glad to state that the Archbishop of Canterbury continues to improve in health, without check or drawback. His grace, however, has not yet been per mitted to attend to business, and it will probably be some time before he is able to preach. The Countess de Persigny, with her aunt, the Duchess d'Elchingen and family, will arrive this day in Lowndes-street, to pass some weeks in London. '1 he count is expected here shortly. The Earl Delawarr has arrived in Grosvenor• street from Ruthin Castle, North Wales. The Countess of Craven's second dancing party will take place on Tuesday, the 20th inst., not the 21st, as announced. Mr. and Mrs. Matheson have arrived in South. street, from Ardross Castle. Mrs. White's (of Woodlands) ball is postponed to Monday, the 19th inst. Mr. and Mrs. John Burns have left Fenton's Hotel for North Britain. Mr. J. Hall Maxwell, C. 8., has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Edinburgh. THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOE , S. - ----Yesterday morning five of the medical gentlemen attached to the Ja panese mission paid a visit to King's College Hospital. They went over all the wards, examined several of the most interesting cases, and minutely inspected the arrancemprit, for the comfort and convenience of the patients and nurses, which, as this hospital is the most recently constructed in London, are all of the best and most approved description. They spent a considerable time in the dispensary, examin ing the drugs in most frequent use, many of which were quite familiar to them, and they seemed struck with the simple machine used in the manufacture of pills. They were also particularly interested with the various descrip tions of plasters, the mode of preparing which was shown to them, and they carried away small pieces as specimens. They afterwards visited the kitchen, where for the first time they saw joints cooked by gas; and the machinery of the hydraulic lifts for sending up patients and diets ap peared greatly to interest them, as they all ascended in the lift to the top of the building. As their visit was quite un expected, none of the committee or principal medical offi cers were in attendance, but the strangers were conducted over the hospital by the eecretary. King's College Hospi tal is the first London hospital which has been honoured by a visit from the Japanese, which is probably owing to the fact that while they were in Paris a discussion was going on as to the comparative mortality in the French and English hospitals, and King's College Hospital was fre quently alluded to with approbation asiatlording the greatest number of cubic feet of air, namely, 2,500 to each patient. They were altogether more than two hours in the hospital, and expressed themselves very much pleased with their visit. It is probable that they may repeat their visit to wit , . ness some surgical operations. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN FOR NEW YoßK.—The Great Eastern leftrMilford Haven on Wednes day, under a salute—all well, with fine weather and fair wind. She had a good many (especially steerage) passen gers on board. She had undergone a thorough refit at that port since her arrival, and had all defects wade good, so there is every reason to calculate upon a prosperous voyage. She started at 1.30 preci , 3ely, London time, paddle and screw engines being in use. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is to receive a deputation on Friday, the 16th inst., of mombero of parliament and others on the sub ject of Milford Haven and its capabilitie; for iron-clad ship building. Mes~ .6. Coutts and Co, have given to each cf their clerks a . season tiriket for the Exhibition, with three days' leave of absence, VARIETIES. (From the Times of May 1, 1962.) WANT PLACES. AS ACCOrNTANT, a Gentleman accustomed to take care of No. I.—A. Dot, Tokenhouse-yard. As WAITING WOMAN, at a Railway Terminus, a Young Person who wishes to get to Liverpool - for nothing.—Miss Fortune, Lock's -fields. As VALET, one who has been In the service of a man of fashion, and who has no objeetion to teach his employer the most modern airs and graces.—Letters to Narcissus Tallant, Lavender-Lane. As PAGE.—Wants a place, a genteel boy, with a soul above buttons.—Letters, p.p., to Walter Theodocia Pretty- man, at the sign of the Rising Sun, World's-end. WANTED, by an Attorney and Solicitor, a few Rich and Obstinate Clients.—Apply to Mr. Kennedy, Pump court. WANTED, an Oculist, who will open the eyes of a Gen tleman, nearly blind, so as to enable him to see things as they exist in their true and proper light.—Apply to Mr. Elder, at the sign of " Blindman's Buff," Bath-street.— N.B. The earliest application is requested, as the case is very urgent, and almost hopeless. WANTED, a Person of Rank, who will undertake to dis pense once a month, upon rather a liberal scale, tea, lemon- . ade, and biscuits for a large assembly. The company is select, and he will be allowed to mix with some of the greatest men in England. Sealed tenders, stating most liberal terms, to be sent to the curator, British Museum. MISCELLANEOUS. S. I.K. E. S. is earnestly requested to Return home. All is forgiven, and he may kick his mother, beat his wife, and rob the till. Nothing will ever be said of the past. A RARA Avis.—A POPE'S BULL, and an ALDERNEY Cow.—These Curiosities will only remain on exhibition during the week. Now exhibiting at Drover's-yard, West Smithfield,—Admission : Adults, 2s. 6d. ; children, half price. THE HEADACHE CURED IN ONE MINUTE by Immersion in smith's celebrated Cold Bath. The patient is merely required to keep his head in the water until the cure is effected. —Peppin' s- court, Fleet. street. LIKENESSES,— Correct Likenesses taken by Mons. Paletot, without troubling his patrons by sitting to have them sketched. Persons transmitting to Mons. P. the length of their nose, the width of their mouth, and the colour of their eyes and hair, will have a most faithful miniature return ed by post. Please .-melose th. faa, 91s Jan. 1, 1962. THE HOUSEMAID'I4 GUIDE TO THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . ; with What to Look at, What to Wink at, and What to Avoid.—To be had at all po/ke stations. In the press, and speedily will be published, price 10s. 6d. " The Tale that the Ghost of :Hamlet's Father said he could Unfold." As only a limited number of impressions will be printed, early applications for copies is suggested. —Claudiva and Son, Booksellers, Denmark-hill. TIC 1: ALPS AND MONT BLANC LEVELLING COMPANY. —The Prospectus of this Society, for which an Act of Incor poration is now before Parliament, and which, when its object is attended, and greatly facilitate travelling, will be issued in a few days. A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says :—I am told that we may shortly expect to see ga zetted the retirement of Colonel Bentinck on half pay. The inquiry in the case of the 2d Life Guards, if I may believe report, has terminated technically in favour of Col. Mount joy Martin. But nobody at the Horse Guards, or in the military dabs within a half mile radius of St. James's, will be surprised to hear, before long, of Colonel Martin selling out, and the officer next to him in regimental rank exchang ing, so as to open the way for a change of command of that highly fashionable but, of late, unpopular corps, the 2d Regiment of Life Guards. SIR B. BRODIE, BART., F.R.S.—This distin guished surgeon having resigned his seat in the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the following testimonial of the estimation in which he is held by his late colleagues at institution has been forwarded to Sir Benjamin at Broome Park, Betchworth, Surrey, where, we are happy to add, the learned baronet is in the enjoy ment of excellent health :—" The council, in accepting the resignation of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, express their unfeigned regret at the loss of his services in maintaining at all times the dignity and efficiency of this college. At the same time they desire to record their estimation of his high professional character evinced by researches which have contributed to enlarge the boundaries of science and enhanced, by offering in the course of a long and successful career, an example of conduct calculated by its adoption to elevate the surgical profession in the respect and esteem of society. The council fervently trust that Sir Benjamin Brodie may long enjoy the well earned fruits of his unble mished reputation, and the priceless satisfaction of - having conscientiously discharged his duties.—(Signed) C/ESA.R H. HA.WKINS, President." MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—An extraordinary acci dent, and one which had very nearly proved fatal, occurred to a navvie employed at the railway works at "the Craig," on the night of Friday last. This man, whose name is James Copetrie, has for some time been working extra hours on the line, and on the night in question he was en ,,uu rubbish to ga , e d w ;th th c , 41-4 -- form the embankment. It is supposed that, overcome by fatigue, he had fallen asleep, and lain down across the rails, and he was not observed in this dangerous position until a loaded truck, advancing at great speed down the incline, was almost upen him. No sooner was he observed than a loud shout was raised to warn him of his danger, and almost instantly thereafter the truck passed right over him. Those who had witnessed this painful scene at once rushed to the spot, anticipating nothing less than that their fellow workman had been crushed to death; but to their joyful surprise they found he had miraculously escaped this fate. It appears that, short as his warning had been, he had instinctively drawn himself together, and had thus saved his life. One foot, however, was caught by a wheel, which cut the thick-soled boot through, crushing the large toe, and severing the next two from the foot as if done by a knife. How narrowly he escaped decapitation may be judged of from the fact that the wheel on the other side of the truck has left its mark on his scalp, The patient has since been under the care of Dr. Robertson, and we are glad to hear is now progressing favourably. Copetrie is a steady and attentive workman.—Ross-shire Independent. ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACCTDENT..---YeS terday Mr. Sergeant Payne held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of a fine young woman, named Mary Ann Lane, aged 17, who fell another victim to the prevail ing fashion of wearing crinoline. Mr. J. Cogan, of Nep tune-street, Rotherhithe, deposed that the deceased, with her parents, lodged at his house, A few days since he was alarmed by hearing loud screams, and immediately after wards she rushed out of her room with her clothes on fire, the flames reaching above her head. Witness at consider able risk tore away nearly the whole of the deceased's c!othes, and afterwards wrapped her in a large quilt and blanket. The deceased was much burnt, and exhausted by the fright. It was ascertained that she placed a looking glass on the table, and began dressing her hair with her back to the fire, and in stooping forward her crinoline ex tended her dress to the grate. Almost instantly the hack part of her clothing was in flames. The house surgeon stated that the deceased was much burnt about the legs, and expired from the combined effects of the burns and the shock to the system. Verdict, " Accidental death." The Imperial Library in the Rue de Richelieu has undergone a complete transformation, and the new reading-room, which is of immense size, will shortly be opened to the public. The library contains 1,800,000 volumes, and the shelves on which they are arranged mea sure 28 kilometres, or 17 miles. It is generally supposed that the library collected by Charles V. in the Louvre formed the stock for the Imperial library, but this is an error. That library was purchased for 1,206 livres by the Duke of Bedford during the English occupation. The few books existing in Paris of that period were scattered among the other Royal palaces, and were saved by their insignificance. It was Louis XI. who collected them in tho Louvro. Louio XII. transferred the new collection to Blois, and Francis I. to Fontainebleau, It was in the year 1722 they were transferred to the Hotel Nevers, in the Rue dc Richelieu. A WORD ABOUT DINNERS.—I am decidedly for having the wine on the table, including Champagne (which should be decanted into long w hite bottles), so that people can help themselves when and how they like. I hate a servant coming round to you with wine; he always comes at the wrong time, and interrupts you when you are saying something remarkably clever to your neighbour or to the company generally, or he fills your glass too full, or if you are in deep conversation fills it when you don't want it; in fact, it is a bore, and it is much more jolly to help yourself ; and as there is never more than one dish on the table, and no lollipops a la Rune, there is plenty of room for the wine; besides, John and Coachee (if you have one), or the man round the corner with Berlin gloves (the thumb ends of which, by the way, often get into your gravy), have quite enough to do to see to the changing of plates and heating of the same (except for iced pudding), and the " exits and entrances" of dishes.—Once a IVeek. It is announced that this day the authorities of Orleans will celebra' e the 433 d anniversary of the delive rance of the town by Joan d'Arc. It is the custom in the town of Orleans to ring all the parish bells at eight o'clock in the evening preceding the festival over the b ridge, after having taken the fort of the Tourelles by assault. Thi s day the Corps Municipal, together with the civil and mili tary authorities, will march in procession to the monument of Joan d'Arc. All the public buildings a s well as the pi ivate houses are to be illuminated. DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—D ur i ng the severe _ storm which raged in the midland counties on Wednesday evening, a labouring man, about 60 years of ago, named Bunny, wa s killed by light n i ng. He was walking between Swithland and Loughborough during the storm, when a flash o f the electr,c fluid instantly deprived him of life. The Loughborough postman was walking close behind him and many stumbled over the prostrate body. On exami nation the man's hat was found torn int o s h re d s , an d his boots I .:fawn completely off Ms feet. Stag hunting now takes plac e ever y fi v e days in the fore s t o f R am b ouillet. On k'riclay last the meet was very numerously attended , LATEST NEWS, BRUSSELS, MAY 9 (Morning). The Itioniteur Belo of to day says : " The state of the King's health has undergone no notable change. " The Archduchess Charlotte arrived at Brussels last night. " The Archduke Maximilian is expected here on Monday, and the Duke of Brabant on Saturday next." THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the April account : INCREASE. Cash in hand. Advances ... Francs. . . 24 millions 281 millions . DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due . Bank-notes 741 millions 201 millions. 20 1.3 millions, 6 2-3 millions. Treasury balance . Current accounts . MADRID, MAY 8, EVENING. The Duke of Brabant has left for Brussels. AMERICA. ROCHE POINT, MAY 9, 2.55 A.M. The Inman steamship Kangaroo, from New York on the 26th ult., is in sight. Her news has been anticipated by the Norwegian. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA- LIAN MAILS. MALTA, MAT 8. The Veotis, with the above mails, sailed this day, at four p.m. for Marseilles. The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the mails, left at six p.m. She may be expected at South ampton on the 17th inst. MEXICO. We read in La Presse : " We have despatches from Mexico to the 6th of April. The Freneh Expeditionary Corps had com menced its march." FRANCE. BOURSE, May B.—The English funds having again arrived with an advance of 4 per cent., addi. tional firmness has been imparted to this market, but without causing any improvement in prices, the business transacted up to this time having been done at about the quotations of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 80c. Railway Share Market quiet. The market slightly improved to wards the close, and left off as follows : , tt per per Cents 98 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 90 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 842 50 Do. end month 846 25 RAILI Bank Shares 3150 —. Credit Fancier 1550 Belgian 4f.. — Piedmontest Fives 72 10 Italian Loan 7l 70 Austrian Spani,-h Threes 521 Home Debt reys. Cash. Account. Orleans 1316 25 .. 1317 25 Northern New. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1115 .. 1116 25 Geneva.. 375 .. 375 Southern B4O .. 843 75 Western Eastern ... , Sardinian Austrian - Austrian 530 Low bard ROME. A letter from Rome, in the Gazette de France, contains the following :—" Between ten and eleven in the morning the Pope and King of Naples were, ou the day of the latter's visit, enjoying the sea breeze at Porto•d'Anzio, when the smoke of a steamer was observed on the horizon, Gradually the vessel approached, appearing to come from the direction of Genoa. No flag was displayed, and she was at first thought to be a trader, but her deck was soon discovered to be crowded with soldiers. The vessel approached within gunshot. The PontiL. cal Zouaves were at their posts, and the artillerymen were asking themselves if their services were not about to be required. Opposite the camp the vessel audaciously slackened her pace, and hoisted the Pied montese flag. The display of those colours was a defi ance—an insult. The Neapolitan steamers are not even allowed to show them in the hdrbour of Civita Vecchia. The Pontifical army trembled with anger and asked to be allowed to sink the offending vessel. Mgr. de Merode calmed them. Three minutes would have sufficed to cause flag, ship, and Pied montese soldiers to disappear. But the Pope, with that mildness which the insults of his enemies have never been able to impair, formally forbade any reply to the provocation. When lam present,' he said, ' arms must not be used, I can only pray for them.' The Pontifical soldiers were obliged to repress their indignation, but the white and yellow flag was raised, and the Roman camp resounded with cries of ' Long live Pius IX ! Long live the Pontiff King !' In the face of that demonstration the Piedmontese vessel put about, and steamed away in the direction of Naples." ITALY. A letter from Naples, of the 4th May, in the _Debate, says :—" The stay of the King at Naples continues to produce the best results, and it is even certain that all the reasonable members of the Bour bon party are successively deciding to accept the decree of Providence. Already the news from the provinces represent brigandage as almost expiring. There only remains some few isolated bands, flying and concealing themselves in the mountains. The Government understands that its task is not yet con cluded; if the acclamations, the popular joy, the illuminations, the undeniable proofs of the state of public feeling have a value which cannot be contested, more than that is required to definitely consolidate the public edifice. One of the most urgent neces sities is the creation of vast estahli.hmGmta for public works. The Neapolitan people do not dis like work so much as is generally supposed ; but they have been systematically accustomed to demand a subsistence from charity rather than from hon ourable labour, that being one of the principles of the former regime. Until now that very little has been done m us t be acknowledged; the Ki ng even made the remark the day before yesterday to the persons who surrounded him. The Syndic, thinking that the royal words were intended as a reproach to him, offered his resignation, which he however after wards withdrew on the King saying he was referring to his Government. M. Depretis, Minister of Public works, is expected here in four or five days. Dur ing his stay the business of the concession of the railways will be terminated, and the plan of the new p or t will be decided on, and the works imme diately Commenced. The city of Naples will be invited to follow the example of the Government. Indeed, it has plenty to do in all the different ser vices, but it will be forced to act under the double pressure of public opinion and the Government. The idea of the Ministry is to ameliorate the mate rial condition of the country by the assistance of the Government, the provinces, the communes, and great companies." NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ADELPHI THEATRE FROM FlRE.—Yesterday evening, shortly after 9 o'clock, and during the performance of " Dot," the supernumeraries engaged discovered the " flies" to be on fire. Without the slighest alarm to the audience a man named Bates tore down the wing canvass, and eventually succeeded in extin guishing the flames. _ THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM.—Tho council of the Royal College of Surgeons of E ng l and have given directions thatthemuseum be thrown open to the public every day during the summer months, except Saturday,from 11 o'clock until 5, instead of four days from 12 to 4as heretofore; and in order to make the treasures still more available to the general public a very interesting synopsis of the eon. tents of the museurg has just been published, t I-