The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THEAT RE-RO Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (1::ot.: Time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Back stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitied LI CONTRA BAN DISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a' 7. 1-1) OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 1 Sole Lessee and Manazer. --Mr. Edmund Falconer. 153 d Night of the ^ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O' DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After witi4), a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Wartow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 0, to commence at Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A.. Harris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss Maria Harris. Alter which, at a quarter to 8, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-110 YAL, ADELPHI._ Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY: Messrp J. L. Toole, Billington ; Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, St e ph en son ; Miss L. Keeley, Miss oleo Emery, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. 11. Marston. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. T. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE AKTS GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RUIISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and Lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. UNSWOItIII, 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 beg to inform visitors to Lon don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free. between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. '''HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREFT.-- 1. " MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford, music by G. A. Macfarren ; Burns' "Jolly Beggars," also a cantata, with George Linley's music, and Grand Operatic !.:elections by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. —Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent; and HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze every evening. hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 2m.—Afternoon, 12h. 28m. To-sroßßow.-Morning, 12h. 50m.—Afternoon, lh. 14m. 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. 0 X 4F , Pit 4 ~ tr n •A•a' spalt;4lf.: ,1/4.T;ri, L" / • q t -=, z. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVI;NING, MAY 12, 1862. SADLER'S TVELLS THEATRE. Miss Catherine Lucette seems determined to carry on her management of this theatre with the greatest spirit. On Saturday evening a new ballet divertissement, entitled " Echo Fra Balsalan," was produced, in which the Misses Healey, from the Swedish Academy, sustained the principal parts with vary great etinnaac. The hnllat AVP.R cueePeded by a two act comedy, "Everyday Occurrerces," written it would seem especially for the fair mana geress,who sustained no less than four characters in the piece, each of which is a very felicitous imper sonation, while the author takes upon himself the representation of no less than three parts. Love, of course, is the foundation of the piece, and the story turns upon the idea of Lady Jane Airey, (Miss Catherine Lucette), to effect the reformation of a rollicking, thoughtless young fellow, one Richard Dashall, with whom she is desperately smitten. To effect her object, she becomes in turns a grasping landlady—a daughter of the same estimable per sonage, an old Scotch woman, who severally do their best to worry poor Dashall to desperation. Captain Spooney and George Dashall are the other parts personated by the author, and, with the aid of Timothy Trot, the lady succeeds in her task, and the "irregular good fellow " settles down into a sober married man. The piece was capitally acted throughout, and elicited the loudest applause. No less than three new pieces—a drama, a bur lesque, and an operetta by Tully, is announced as being in active preparation, The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland had a dinner party on Saturday, at Stafford House, St. Tames's. There were present the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Marquis of Hartington, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Count Szechenyi, Count Zichy, Count 0. Szechenyi, Lord and Lady Bagot, Captain Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield, Mr. and Mr. Bateson, Mr. De lane, &c. The Archbishop of Canterbury continues to improve in health, and, although slowly, is satisfacto rily progressing towards recovery from his recent ill ness. The Earl Granville entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Bruton , street, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Count Brandenburg, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl Stanhope, Viscount Sydney, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Viscount de Villa Maior, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, the Marquis Cavour, Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, M.P., Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. Henry Doyle, Mr. Grabau, Mr. Hoene, Dr. Quin, Dr. Karmarach, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Woods, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Tidemand, Mr. C. F. Warne, Mr. Weissmer, Mr. thlleras, Dr. Fink, Mr. Vogt, Mr. Alt gelt, Mr. Dietz, Mr. Ardt, &c. The Earl and Countess of Derby left town on Saturday for Tunbridge-wells, to pass a few days, The Earl and Countess of Lichfield aud family have London for Shugborough. The Ladies Cornwallis have issued cards for a ball, to take place on Tuesday, Juno 3, at Lady Mary Rose's residence, in Portland-place. Lady Emily Peel is detained in Paris by in. disposition, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hughes, of Kinmel, have arrived at 35, Dover-street, for the season, from Kin mel Park, Denbighshire, North Wales. Mr. J. Faulerton Leathes and Miss Faulerton Leathes have arrived at Edward's Hotel, from Leventhorpe Hall, Leeds. It is stated that a distinguished Admiral holding an important command has petitioned the Emperor of the French to be permitted to resign, in order to devote him• self to the completion of a fulminating ram which he has invented. lie expects with this instrument not only to defend the ship under his command but to blow up that of his assailant. A letter from Vichy announces that the Emperor of the French is expected there in the enilran of tho QOO,Oll. The Municipal Council has appointed a commission, to be composed of three members, to make preparations for the Emperor's reception. The establishments commanded by the Emperor last year are almost all completed, and the railway, of which the terminus is to be in Vichy, will, it is expected, be opened to the public on the 15th of the pre sent month. A small town has been erected on the left bank of the Allier, which was formerly deserted. The follo;ving extract of a despatch from Lord Lyons respecting political arrest::: in the United States, is printed to• day in a parliamentary return :—" Lord Lyons to Earl Russell.—',Received April 28.) Washington, April 14 . — Although the power to make arbitrary political arrests has not been formally renounced by the executi v e government, it has not, so far as I know, been recently ex ercised. lam not aware of any British subject baing now arbitrarily detained as a political prisoner. Arrests, without form of law, are still nla,q military authorities in places occupied by the forces of the United States; but they appear to by confined in general to persons accused of offences affecting, more or less, the discipline or the safety of the army. LATE THE ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COM rANY (LIMITED). Registered Pursuant to Act of Parliament. Capital—L..loo,ooo, in 10,000 Shares of £2O each, (0 f_wh ich a large portion has already been subscribed for). Deposit Ma Application, £1 per Share ; and £1 per Share on Allotment. _ Two Months to intervene between each Call. The Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his Shares. DIRECTORS. Rear-Admiral Barney, Ebury House, Twickenham, S.W. D. N. Giannacopulo, Esq., Director of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, (Giannacopulo and Cochilani), Merchant, Liverpool, Deane J. Hoare, Esq., F.R.G. S. Angus `'Kenzie, Esq., Merchant, Gresham House, Lon don. Constantine S. Panao b ulopulos, Esq., Merchant , Patras. George Pappa, Esq., M er chant, Smyrna, Edward Gibbon Swann, Esq., J.P., 17, Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde-park, London. A fuller list of Directors could have been presented, but the Promoters of the Company purposely limited their nomination as above, in order to leave an option to the subsequent subscribers for shares of participating in the election of additional English Directors. BANKERS. Messrs. Maaterman, Peters, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langford and Marsden, London. Messrs. Sale, Worthington, Shipman and Seddon, Manchester. AUDITORS. Charles F. Kemp, Esq., Accountant, 7, Gresham-street. Henry James Barker, Esq. (Barker Brothers and Co.) BROKERS. Messrs. Matthey, and Billett, 81, Old Broad 'street. MANAGER. Demetrio Pappa, Esq. OFFICES. 31, Threadneedle•street. AGENTS. Greece—The National Hellenic Bank and Branch Estab lishments. Salonica—Messrs. Semtoch Heschia, D. Blazzi, and John Demetriadi. merchants. Alexandria—Messrs. Duca, Paleologo and Cochilani, mer chants. Cairo—Messrs. Paleologo and Cochilani, Messrs. Charilagos Brothers, merchants. Beyrout—Messes. N. Ziffo and Co., merchants. Amsterdam—Messrs. C. L. Engleberte and Sons, bankers and merchants. Constantinople—Messrs. D, Pappa and N. SotiroPulos, merchants. Ibraila—Stephen N. Carallis, Ecq., merchant. Galatz—charalambo H. Giannussi, Esq., merchant. Other Agencies will be appointed in course of time. PROSPECTUS. This Company is established for the purpose of receiving consignments for sale under s easonable advances, of effecting purchases of manufactures and other staples of which this country is the great entrepot, and of executing orders on commission for account of correspondents in Eng land, the Eastern part of Europe, Asia Minor and Egypt, &c., with such command of means and confidence as may favour a large extension of the Commerce between the foreign regions named and Great Britain, with every regard to security and upo n the most favourable terms, as to the respective markets. The Returns published by the Board of Trade exhibit from year to year an immense increase of traffic between Great Britain and the rest of the world—and the Levant is found to figure in those returns upon a scale of considerable importance. A still great3r development, however, of which this branch of commerce is capable, remains retarded by the inadequate power and insufficient security cora maeded by private establishments—hence the idea of form ing this Association. The resources of the Levant itself, at present wasted for want of development, are unquestionably sufficient to sup port' a trade extensive and remunerative to a degree never yet attained as regards the East, The numerous ports in the Black Sea, the Archipelago, and on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, only require the existence of a finan cial centre of intercourse in England, commanding uni versal confidence, to acquire a flourishing importance in world-wide enterprise, contras ting greatly with the depres sion of uncertainty andi insecurity which has of late years paralysed their commerce. And the establishment of such an influential o rganisation as will provide this much needed financial centre, in materially enhancing the prosperity of the Levant, will promptly open out a wide and ever ex panding field for the operations of British capitalists, and the consumption of British manufactures. Such being the origin, purpose, and objects of the " Orien tal Commercial Company, Limited," an earnest and con current; co-operation in the various Levantine Ports secures to this Association the reasonable certainty of rapid and decided success ; whilst the great experience of the Mana ger who has been appointed is a guarantee for the prudent and safe course that will be pursued. A large and most respect,able body of shippers abroad having already promised to entrust the management of their interests to this Company, and the business connec tions of the appointed Manager being in like manner secured, the Directors believe that, with such assurances, the undertaking offers more than ordinary inducements for investment. The Capital of the Company has been fixed at Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling, of which more than Thirty Thousand Pounds have already been subscribed. It having been originally intended to carry on the com pany with Shares of £lOO each, the necessary steps are being taken to alter the original Articles of Association of the Company in that and some other respects. The substi tuted Article may be seen on application at the offices of the Company, where the fullest intormation of the objects and prospects of the Company will be afforded. In the event of the whole 10,000 shares, into which the capital is divided, being taken up, the Directors consider that no more than £5 per Share will be required at com mand, in full developing the business of the Company, and so as to afford a remunerative return to the 'Shareholders, and this proportion of £5 per share will accordingly be called up by instalments. Applications for shares must be made in the form an nexed. The deposit of £1 per Share must be paid to the Company's Bankers, by whom a receipt will be given. It' no allotment be made, or a less number of shares be allotted than is applied for, the deposit, or the surplus thereof, as the case may be, will be returned in full. Prospectuses and forms of application for Shares may be obtained at the Offices, 31, Threadneedle -street, as well as from the directors, solicitors, agents, and brokers of the Company. ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY (LIMITED), Incorporated pursuant to Act of Parliament. Capi nOO,OOO. Offices, 31, Threadneedle-street, London, E.C. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of " The Oriental Commercial Company," Limited. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of £2O each in the above Company, having paid your bankers the deposit of £1 per share thereon ; and, in consideration of such allotment, or of any less number of shares you may appropriate to me, I hereby undertake to pay any call thereon, and I further undertake to execute the articles of association wht7n. required, Dated this day of Names in full Residence Profession or Trade Place of Business Signature 1862. =l7_ COURAGEOUS ICESOUR AND FATAL RESULT.—On Saturday a poor cripple was crossing the road near the Liver. pool Exchange, when he was placed in great danger by the passing of a huge lorry laden with cotton bales. A labour ing man rushed to the rescue, and succeeded in removing the cripple out of the way, but unfortunately he was him self 'knocked down before he could clear the horses, and the wheels passing over him crushed him to death immediately. Great sympathy has been (apressed amongst the merchants on 'Change, and there is no doubt that a handsome sub scription will be raised for the family of the poor fellow who has met with so untimely a fate. A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation Com pany is called for the 29th inst., and of the East India Irri gation Company for the 31st. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China is called for the 20th inst. A general meeting of the Great Barrier band, Ilarbour, and Mining Company is called for the 29th inst. THE 4TII DRAGOON GUARDS.—A few days will, in, all likelihood, witness the official notification of the re moval of Colonel Bentinck from the command of the 4th Dragoon Guards. We are not aware of the particular form in which this necessary step will be taken. As the officer in question has not completed 25 years' service he is not in strictness eligible for the half-pay list, and possibly means may be found of allowing him to receive the regula tion value of his commissions, and thus retire altogether from the army. Colonel Brownrigg's period of service on the staff has aiready expired, and as soon as provision is made for replacing him he will revert to half-pay, we trust never again to b e put in a position of responsibility like that he has shown himself so singularly unfitted to fill. Some further changes in the 4th Dragoon Guards may also be looked forward to, an d we trus t sincerely that under new auspices this fine old corps may before long recover the honourable position for which, in former limes, it was dis tinguished in the service. —Army and .IVary P r ince %Anatole Deraidoff, of San Dona to, has died in the 61st y ear of his a ge. Be married n ato, as j oPrincerome Bonapar te and 1841 the P r i n d e ss Mathilde de Mo nttott, daught er of the Princess Cath er i ne of W mburte Jerome Bonapar te He Separated from his wife nearly 17 years ago. THE KHANS AT BRISTOL.—On Friday night Mr an . d Mrs. Charles Kean took their bene fit at the Bristol Theatre, on which occasion the pieces were ";;eeryand " The Wonder." The Western Daily Time s says the unanimous "call" at the ts rmination of each p la y , showed how thoroughly they had been appreciated. The lambardia, of Milan, states that on the sth a band of eighteen thieves entered the house of a M. Agnelli at Lodi, whom they knew to have received 36,000 fr. as a legacy, bound both him and his wife hand and foot, and then proceeded to take possession of the sum. M. Agnelli's daugh'er had succeeded in making her escape without being observed by the ruffians and gave the alarm to some peasant., who Pr''e to the spot arm e' 1 ith spades and pitch forks but the thieves fired upon them from th windows, and forced them tore tire. Soon after the carbineers arrived , but both the thieves and tho LONGFoitD ELF :TcY had disappeared. is being got up, in PETITION.—A sub v v(p)haN' part, for It 'man Catholic f Lel ind are pe t t a i k ti i o n n o• again , s . t ordcf ray i ng t h e ex opposing the for the county of Longford. the return of Major GREECE.—RAISING OF 'HIE BLOCRAD don, May 9.—Sir,--I am directed by his llellenicENTLon eovernment to inform yon that the blockade of partieoaftY's Argotic Gulf between the anchorage of Astros (not includtehde a nd the Bay of Veurla (included), which took effect on the 13th (25th) of February, 1862, was raised on the 10th (22d) or April, by virtue of a notification of the Royal Marine Department of the same 'date.—.l am. sir, your obedient *servant, A, A. lONIDEZ, Acting for the Consul. General.-- Cl , Ptaire G. A. Halsted, R,N , , Secretary, Lloyd's. strip peeves 0. 0' Reilly THE SLTN. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1862. New Orleans is captured. Since both Richmond and Washington send us substantially the same intelligence, it would be scepticism over strained, to disbelieve. Our readers may be aware that there are two approaches by water to the city, which a glance at any map of sufficient size will make plainer than we can do by any descrip tion. One of these is by the main channels of the great river, through which it flows into the Gulf of Mexico. On the principal of these was placed Fort Jackson, which the Federals have been some days furiously bombarding, till the Southerners thought they must have exhausted their ammunition. This fort, we are told, with another, Fort Philip, the Confederates still hold ; but, as if to give a much needed lesson to Lord PALMERSTON and Sir G. C. LEWIS, and to justify the opposition to sinking our money in the Plymouth and Spithead forts, the Federal fleet has sailed past both, and summoned the city, they should have protected in that direc tion, to surrender. A summons impossible for a city to resist, which lay on the other side of a vast em bankment, with the hostile fleet riding at anchor in the river, above the roofs of the houses. The other approach by water to the city is through the large lake Pontchartrain at its back, which by smaller lakes and channels is also con nected with the Gulf of Mexico. Fort Pike, and the other forts which guarded these channels, seem to have been abandoned as indefensible. New Orleans wanted, what we shall need at Plymouth and Spithead, not forts, which are almost innocuous to the quickly passing gunboat, but Merrimacs and Monitors. Had she had a few ironsides, the Federal fleet would not have passed them as easily as it did Port Jackson. •And not being fixed, if of small ser vice in one place, they would not have been blown up, but withdrawn to another. Along this lake passage General BUTLER, it is almost certain, had reached the city on the side opposite the river ; hence the place had no alternative but to treat for surrender. The specie was, however, first carefully conveyer'. away—to the amount, it is said, of more than three and a half millions sterling. The cotton and steamboats were destroyed rather than the Fede rals should be permitted to have them. The Federal commander is said to have withdrawn his forces to Camp Moore, eighty miles distant. There seems to have been no motive for this when he was treating with the municipal authorities; the time hardly permitted such a long march ; and the probability is that there is some telegraphic mistake of names of persons or places. What is as certain, as first intelligence can well be is, that the City is in the hands of the Federals. The questions arise, 'how will the great capture affect the war, and how will it affect Europe ? Probably BEAUREGARD, who • four hundred miles north by the railway , at Corinth, at)d aboutmuch m ore by the windings of the river, will severely feel the loss. He is reported to have strength ene d him self much, and doubtless the troops liberated from New Orleans will now join him. Still he is now all but cut off from every means of communication with other Confederates, and from any large towns which could manufacture for him the materiel of War. The Mississippi is now closed, both north and south. General HALLECK, directly opposed to him, has also grea tly strengthened himself and GenPralMrrcuELL, master of two hundred miles of hi s Western communications, presses on that flank. H e can escape only by a desperate battle and a great v i ctory, and bloody' probably will be the fight which shall decide the mastery of the South Western States. On Secession goncrally the capture must operate es a heavy discouragement. The place is not indeed of military value, but New Orleans is the Now York o f th e South, and its loss must be disheartening. What its effect will be here, a little time will larobably show. Alreatiy information has been received, which appears to be of a trustworthy character, that the Federal Government is engaged in the cons i derat i on of measur es for raising, or at least seriou s l y mo dif y i ng, the blockade. It has now the great cotton port in its hands. It can pre vent the entrance of contraband of war, and yet allow the shipment of cotton. Its own manufac turers need the supply quite as much as ours do. If therefore Southern cotton planters will sell, pro vided their doing so will not bring them arms and ammunition in return, the Federals can have no reason for continuing to injure their own manu factures, and for annoying the manufacturing States of Europe, Still there is a great deal to be done be kre cotton can be obtained. The planters maybe too patriotic, as they may think it, to sell. Their leaders, thoroughly desperate politicians, will endeavour to prevent their doing it. The means of package and of internal conveyance are all disorganised, and even the ginning, we are told, is yet to be done. How ever, a short time will reveal the facts of the case. The effect of the news at New York on Government paper and securities has been to raise them to a premium. At Yorktown itself no change had taken place, but the Contederates are making strenuous efforts to keep Generals BANKS and M‘DowELL from uniting and capturing Richmond, while Nl' CLELLAN is holding the body of their army occupied at York town, and their Generals JACKSON and GUSTAVUS SMITH appear to have been successful, partly by destroying the bridges of the river, which BANKS must cross to get to Richmond, and partly by obtaining considerable reinforcements. Rich mond appears to be not only the Confederate capi tal, but it seems also to hive iron works of sufficient magnitude to plate gunboats, several having been taken there for that purpose. Indeed it is striking to notice how in almost every account both parties seem to be relying on the plated vessels they can construct, almost as much as on their armies ; and the grand effort is to get them dine best and first. Each side are now working to the utmost of their resources to construct an iron fleet. A lesson to England. Anyone who has visited the beautiful city of Edinburgh will perfectly well remember the hand some public building which is there devoted to the preservation of the National Records of Scotland. It is a structure itself of an admirably good out ward appearance. It stands upon an excellent site. There is an open space in front of it—in the midst of which, upon its pedestal, is a public monument, the equestrian statue of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON—unIike the majority of the public monuments adorning (!) our own unfortunate metropolis, for inasmuch as the one here referred to at Auld Reekie, instead of being an eyesore, is really worth looking at, Those who have—as we ourselves have penetrated into the edifice, upou the merits of which we are now descanting, will remember that the internal arrangements of the structure areas admirably well organised as even the most conscientious of our own Masters of the Rolls (say, for example, the present one, Sir JOHN ROMILLY) could reasonably wish. According to the wise advice of Poor RICHARD'S dictum, there is " a place for everything, and everything is in its place." During the daytime (the only safe period in the twenty-four hours for establishments of this precious and inflammable character), every crevice of the building is well lit. Winter and sum mer the whole structure is cautiously yet effectually ventilated. Wet or dry the weather may be—and is, as a matter of course, throughout the twelvemonth in this variable climate—yet the apartments which there constitute the muniaaent rooms of the Scottish nation, the saloons and galaries containing the archives of the northern kingdom are as sedulously kept, from year's end to year's end, now from - dust, now from mildew. In all this we are not in any way doing what Mr SNAGSBY, the law•stationer, was always in dread of doing, namely, " putting too fine a point upon it." We are simply stating the facts of the case as they stand. And to what purpose ? Those who may have remarked the discussion which took place on Friday's sitting in the House of Com. mons by the hon. member for Bridport, will, of course, upon the instant, very readily understand. Mr. B. COCHRANE, they will bear in mind, then brought once more under the consideration of the popular branch of the Legislature the deplorable plight in which the Record Office here in London is left to this day in spite of all that has been talked and written, or at any rate, understood to have been done in its regard in the way of improve ment. True, no doubt, that an entirely new build ing for the preservation of the archives of Great Britain was ordered by Parliament fully a dozen years ago. Nay, more than that, it was actually applied to the purpose for which it was intended. An estimate having been made as far back as 1850, this new Record Office was forthwith begun. As unsightly a building in its way as—what shall we say ?—Well, as unsightly as even Captain FOWKES himself, when, at his worst, could in an interval of the wildest hallucination have imagined. There it stands, even now, in a more literal sense than in Lord MACAULAY'S " Lay of Ancient Rome" "The figure of HORATIUS halting upon one knee;" there it stands, we say, far more literally than that classic effigy of HORATIUS—" Plain for all folk to see !" Fortunately for our national credit the pile, such as it is, and so far as it has yet been carried I towards its still apparently remote completion—is hid away in one of the most obscure, crowded, and in parts alsosquallid and dirty slums of the metropolis. So that even the most inquisitive and peripatetic sight-Eeeing of the multitude of foreigners now traversing London in all directions, could only by possibility come upon it by sheer accident ! And observe ! even when reached down, in the heart of that jumbled labyrinth of slaughter-houses and meat markets, the visitor, startled by the unex pected intimation that he has reached the New Record-office--discovers for himself immediately afterwards, upon inspection, that so far from the building there itself in its entirety, he beholds be fore him only a fragment of it. As yet in point of fact it is no more than a single wing that has b een raised. And seeing what that simp:e wing really is, rather would we that it should now be very summarily rased ! For when viewed ex ternally, it is as plainly as possible almost at the first g l a nce both ugly in its appearance and inadequate in its dimensions. Mr. COCEIRANE told the house the other evening that the arrangements inside were as bad and as inefficient as though they had been made to match. It would be ridiculous in effect, in the presence of the glaring facts that have been brought to light, to argue for a moment otherwise. It seems absolutely as if a sort of craze haddictated every suggetion that had 3 et been made throughouts r a ie e e le the ss d o mark documents. ) throughout, with a vi ew t o th e better preservation (y t s. One of memoryit of s these coo ll y pro posed r ea p that they should ba bodily sent up aloft 350 steps of the winding staircase, to be stowed away safely, perhaps (though even that is questionable enough) but certainly quite inaccessibly (for the purposes of ordinary consultation) in the Victoria Tower. As the member for Bridport indig nantly remarked, when recalling this preposterous proposition to mind—it might quite as rationally have been suggested (in same respects we cannot but think far more rationally) that they should have been arranged and pigeon-holed in the so called dry arches of the Adelphi. Eventually, .me proposal after another is set aside as impracicable. The new Record Office is ordered to b built, and, as wo have seen, is nearly a dozen 'ears ago ac tually commenced. Yet, after all this interval I has elapsed, there is but one ungainly wing of it to show. And meanwhile, th inestimable Records of the realm remain even ne,v deplorably scattered and wretchedly housed. What is Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S evidence on 'friday in the House of Commons as to the state in vhich so many of these unreplaceable documents stll continue to be—we wont say parcelled out, bat shamefully interred ? Why, of the houses set apart for this purpose in Chancery-lane Mr. COCHRANE speaks as dark, damp, ricketty, perpetualy undergoing repair of one kind or another, Ind Set always ill-ventilated and wholly nnprobcted from the ever-eminent risk of destruction by fire. There they are in piles upon piles of absolutely invalu able documents, "packed in racks from floor to ceiling." It puts one on the wrack merely to hear of it. Yet, we do still continue to hear of it, and with only too serious reason. And this, won derful to tell, under the regime of cne of the ablest and most conscientious and echolarly Masters of the Rolls that England has had for many years. It is to Sir JOHN ROMILLY espe cially that we owe the little that has yet been done of late years towards the bette'r preserva tion of the records belonging to the nation. He it is who but a very few years back began the laborious series of Calendars of Historical Documents that have already brought so many important particulars to light—of our Domestic Papers," Mr. Brewer's Papers or " henry the k.ightn," one volume ; Mr. Lemon's " Elizabeth," one volume ; Mrs. Green's "James the First," four volumes; Mr. Bruce's " Charles the First," five volumes ; and Mrs. Green's " Charles the Second," three volumes ; of our " Colonial Papers," one volume by Mr. Sainsbury ; of our " Irish Papers," one volume by Mr. H. C. Hamilton ;--of our " Scot tish Papers," two volumes by Mr. J. Thorpe ; of our " Foreign Papers," two volumes by Mr. Turnbull. Beautifully printed as those Calendars have been, and perfectly accessible to men of letters anxious to consult them—yet even here these sub stantial proofs of the good work begun by Sir JOHN RoMILLY as Master of the Rolls, work already, as we have shown, partially accomplished—the old Routine, Red Tape, How Not to Do It system steps in at the tail of all these improvements to spoil everything ! Insomuch that Mr. BENTINCK is enabled on Friday last, after mentioning the fact that 170 searchers have been enabled during the past year to make among these historical documents so calendared as many as 12,435 searches—to de clare also that all these 12,435 searches have been made by these 170 searchers in a room so admirably commodious that it measures exactiy 18 feet by 12 ! No wonder these indefatigable literary gentlemen are indulged with the luxury of frequenting the this Black Hole at the Record Office—gratuitously! It would be hard and extortionate indeed if they had to pay any fee for shutting themselves up (in the interests of historial truth) in a den like that. Remembering all that has been particularised, it is surely time that something further should be attempted, and that, moreover, this once, in right down earnest, in order to render better in every way—larger, safer, and in all respects more com modious and worthy of the object to which it is intended to be applied—the Record Office of England.' It is* but justice to the brave men of Lanca shire, both masters and workmen, that their case should be fully discussed and their position consi dered in the House of Commons. The British Empire ought to know it, that it may sympathise for the present, and be prepared to act in future, if action in any way should become a national duty. Europe ought to know it, that it may learn how intelligent operatives can bear such a fearful reverse and yet in no way abuse that liberty which Britain confers on all. India ought to know it, for though sympathy does not go far where trade is the question, yet so much there, of the cotton supply, depends on the class which can appreciate Man chester manliness at the present crisis, that we can but believe the report of it will stimulate the zeal of many of the energetic Englishmen in India who are now working to open to us the cotton growing districts. Above all, we think, the Northern States of America ought to know it. Tuesday evening's discussion, with reports of some of the proceedings of operatives themselves, in Manchester, ought to be reprinted for the special instruction of the Federal Government and people, if it did not for ever silence all their unkind thoughts and utter ances about the mother country, we should give them up, as incurably envious. We may suppose a case, and we know such, in England, of a parish consisting of but a single estate, not a cottage on it—yet a large number of men from over populous adjoining parishes employed on it. In consequence of some unmanageable litigation conducted by some impracticable litigators, its cultivation Lis given up, and suddenly a number of excellent labourers, wanted nowhere near, find themselves out of work, and unless they become paupers, out of food. Even the most anti-British Yankees would commiserate such perfectly innocent suffering, and would admire the respect for law which attempted no violent methods of relief, never uttering the name of Judge Lynch; and the self respect which "to beg," even of the parish, was ashamed. But this is exactly the case with out men of Lancashire and the North. A quarrel of the North with the South, whet her the estate shall belong to the two in partnership, or whether each shall take his own portion and separate from the other, throws our men out of work, and out of the means of earn ing their livelihood by thousands, They have no earthly interest in the litigation. It makes not the smallest difference to them who possesses the legal or political estate, so that the earth itself is but allowed to yield its produce, and the produce to come freely to market; The sufferers in Lancashire have been splendid commercial benefactors to both litigants, and only beg to be allowed to become so again. But no—to gratify Northern love of almost boundless empire, with a territory ample for the formation not of two only, but of four kingdoms, the men of Lancashire must starve without a mur mur, or, what they hardly revolt from less, they must, after exhausting their hard-E-arned eavingF, throw themselves on parish relief. The North was indeed always afraid we should intervene, and tried with us, and with France, the ungene rous expedient of minatory languago. It ought with manly shame to confess its error in this re spect now ; it ought to show itself sensible of the wonderful forbearance, in F,ngland, not only of statesmen who do not suffer to the extent of a sove reign, but to those noble millions whom Northern ambition of empire deprives them of their vet y bread. If these sufferers in France as well as in , Englund, though they are far more numerous with us, were to demand as one man, and with angry voice, that the men-of-war, built with the taxes they have paid, should open the cotton ports for them, it is not easy to say what our CioVeril meat might be compelled to do. If, then, American senators have any magnanimity, we shall hear in Congress grateful acknowledgments of the gene rous forbearance of Manchester and of all Lanca shire. The change of condition to many of these poor men is heartrending only to hear of. They have been earning wages which, according to their dispo sition,were spent in very comfortable living,or econo mised, and provision made against the "ills which flesh is heir to." But, amongst those ills, they unfor tunately never dreamt of what, like illness, should deprive, not merely one member of a household of his earnings, but throw the whole family out of employ—Northern Americans blockading the ports of Southern Americans was a casualty less expected than a flood or a ruinous hailstorm by a farmer. It has, therefore, beggared thousands of the most prudent. A deputation from the meeting of ope ratives we lately noticed in Stevenson-square, waited on the Board of Guardians last week, and one working man, who addressed the guardians most ably as well as calmly, described his own feel ings and course of action most touchingly. He had been 42 years in Manchester, beginning as a school boy at eight years of age—he " would not depend upon anybody so long as he could work out his own salvation." " I sold," he said, "every vestige of furniture, I pawned every article of clothing, I parted with that which hurt my feelings far more, a library of books that at one time I would not have given for £lOO, and of which I have not one now—l parted with all sooner then I would come here, and place myself in the ranks of those whom I knew to have been paupers for years." and this is the spirit or the men whom the North call upon to starve or turn paupers, that they may starve and pauperise their:Southern fellow coun trymen into reunion with them ! Mr. BRIGHT mentioned also some genuine noble-mindedness in Rochdale. A committee there collected funds, and gave relief to all who had not earned above a certain amount—nany of these, if any of the family had obtained unexpected employment, had brought the tickets back, that others more needy than themselves might have them ! Verily, there are genuine heroes in cotton mills as well as in fields of battle. The speeches of Mr. BRIGHT indeed of all the Lancashire men, were a noble testimony also to the determination of the great towns and counties not, as he said, "to send round the hat." Generally, the rates were not yet ruinously high. This test is, indeed, somewhat fallacious. Some towns suffer so much more than others—some are now actually fed through the French treaty—and the particular articles manufactured enable some to continue their industry. Hence, though the average rate be not high, in some places it is very oppressive. Then many of the wealthiest, from the nature of their occupations, pay small amounts to the rates. Arrangements are, however, in progress to remedy this by voluntary means. The landed gentlemen at first seemed to shrink from the prospect; but the courage and liberality of the manufacturers appears to have inspired them with a like spirit, and for the preeent, and for long, it is hoped, Lancashire wealth will take care of Lancashire poverty. We trust it will be sufficient—for if the great manufacturing county of England thus grapples with this cruel difficulty, it will merit the admiration of the world. Sr NE W S. BRUSSELS, MAY 12. According to the Moniteur Beige of this morning, and more recent information derived from other sources, the state of the King is satisfactory. His Majesty's health continues to improve, and promises to be soon re established. MESSINA, MAY 11, Evening. The King arrived here to-day, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm. A Te Deum was sung in the Cathcdral, which his Majesty attended, The King wilt visit the theatre this evening. The city is illuminated. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 10.—The arrival of the English funds with a decline of per cent., has produced a degree of heaviness in this market, but without causing any very material decline in prices. Threes, for the Account, being now at 70f. 70c. Railway market also heavy, and in many cases rather lower. The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows : 4t per per Cents 97 80 Do end month 97 85 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 70 New 3 per Cents Do, end month 69 55 Credit Mobilier 836 25 Do. end month 836 25 RAIL Bank Shares — Credit 1. oncier 1563 Belgian 4/ — Piedmontesc Fives 72 Italian Loan 7l 8 Austrian .. — Spanish Threes s2a Home Debt 7Altd. Cash. Account. Orleans l3lO .. 1311 25 Northern New, ditto . 995 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1108 73 Geneva.__ klouthern 845 .. 843 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 382 50 .. Austrian - , . 525 Low bard 6OO .. 598 75 AMERICA. FEDERAL CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS. QUEENSTOWN, MAY H. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston on the 30th ult., and Halifax on the 2d inst., arrived here at 11 10 a.m. She brings 108 passen gers and 50,000 dols. in specie. The Canada landed 83 sacks of mails and 13 passengers, and proceeded at 11 20 a.m. for Liverpool ; all well. NEW YORK, APRIL 29, EVENING. Advices have been received through the South which leave but little doubt that the Federals have captured New Orleans. The _Richmond Inquirer of the 26th, says:— " The Federals passed Fort Jackson yesterday, when news was received that the excitement at New Orleans was intense. All the cotton and steamboats, except such as were necessary to trans port coin and ammunition, were destroyed. The telegraphic operator at New Orleans ceased tele- graphing, as he said the Federds had appear",a before the city." General Wool has sent to the Wc.','‘ Department the following despatoh " FORTRES, MONROE, APRIL 27. " A fugitive bla6c, just arrived from Portsmouth, bring the Petersburgh Express of yesterday, which contains the following despatch : " NORFOLK, APRIL 25. " ' The enemy passed Fort Jackson at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. When the news reached New Orleans the excitement was boundless. Martial law was put in full force, and business was com pletely suspended. All the cotton and steam-boats, excepting such as were necessary to transport coin, ammunition, &c., were destroyed. At 1 o'clock to-day the operator bade us good-bye, saying that the enemy had appeared before the city. This is the last we know regarding the fall. W:11 send particulars as soon as they can be had. The negro bringing the above reports that the rebels have two iron-clad steamers nearly com pleted, and that it is believed that the Merrimac will be out to-morrow. " JOHN E. WOOL. "Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." General M'Dowell writes as follows : " Head- quarters of the Department of the Rappahannock, April 27, 1862. " I have just returned from the camp opposite Fredericksburgh. I was told the Richmond Exa miner of the 26th had been received in town, an. nouncing as follows: "New Orleans taken. Great destruction of pro perty, cotton, and steamboats. Steamboats enough saved to take away the ammunition. Great con sternation of the inhabitants. " IRWIN M`DOWELL, Major-General. " Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Later there is a further despatch from General Wool : "FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL 28. " The news of the occupation of New Orleans by our forces is confirmed to-day. No further news. (Signed) " JOHN E. WOOL, Major-General. " To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." The A ssociated Press contains the following:— "FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL 28. "A flag of truce to-day took despatches and letters to prisoners, No papers received. " The telegraph operator having left New Orleans, no further news has been received from there. The operator attempted to return, but found the city occupied by the Federal forces. No other news. The following despatch from Gen. M'Clellan has appeared : " Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac ; Camp Winfield Scott, Saturday April 26, 11 a:m. "Early this morning an advanced lunette of the rebels on this side of the Warwick, near its head, was carried by assault by Company H, Ist Massa chusetts Regiment. The work had a ditch six feet deep, with a strong parapet, and was manned by two companies of infantry—no artillery. Our men moved over open, soft ground, come 600 yards, received the fire of the rebels at 50 yards, did not return it, but rushed over the ditch and parapet in the most gallant manner. The rebels broke and run as soon as they saw that our men intended to cross the parapet. Our loss was three killed, and one mortally and 12 other wise wounded. I , ‘ e took 14 prisoners, destroyed the work sufficiently to render it useless, and re tired. The operation was conducted by General C. Grover, who managed the affair most handsomely. Nothing could have been better than the conduct of all the men under fire. The supports, who were also under artillery fire of other works, were com panies of the Ist and 11th Massachusetts. In spite of the rain our work progresses well. (Signed) "G. B. M'CLELLAN, Major• Gen. I , Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Later he has another, as follows— " Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, April 28, 11 A.M. I, Nothing of interest during the night. No firing on our right, where the work proceeded un disturbed. "On tho left the enemy fired a good deal, but hurt no ono, nor woe the wrik interrupted. Have just sent a heavy field battery to silence a gun or two of the enemy's that have been impertinent this morning, but nave hurt no one. The weather has improved, and we are making good progress. " G. B. M'CLELLAN, Major• Gen. Commanding. "Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Washington despatches also state that the Federals have occupied New Orleans, although r.o Federal official account has been yet received. The news o f t h e Federal occ u p a ti on i s fully cre dited, but it did not cause very muc h excitement in New York, as the intelli gence b eing received through Southern sources did not, and has not, ga i ne d universal crdence. There does not, how ever, seem to be much room for doubting its accuracy. The Confederates are supposed to have carried away from New Weans 18,000,000 do's. in specie. The effect of the news on cotton was not material, but Federal. Government securities rose 3 ner cent., and Treasury notes advanced to 11 pm. The Swedish and Norwegian Ministers have re turned to Washington; they did not proceed to Richmond. The Secretary of the Spanish Legation has left Fortress Monroe under a flag of truce for the South. President Lincoln has visited the French frigate Bassenda at Washington Navy-yard. The French Minister received Mr. Lincoln on board. The yards of the vessel were manned, and a national salute fired on the President's arrival and departure. General Halleck officially reports that General Beauregard h , s been strongly reinforced since the last battle at Corinth. General Banks's advance has been checked by the destruction of the bridges across the Shenandoah. The Confederate General Jackson is said to have been reinforced, and to be 16 miles from Rarrison burg. The North American was intercepted at Cape Race on the 27th. The Bremen has arrived out. SAY 1, EVENING. (BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIP?a. AND via QUEENS- Tawn.) The arrival of the .:federal fleet before New Orleans is confirmed. The Federal commander had demanded the sur render of the city, but had retired with all his forces to Camp Moore, 80 miles away. The Federals bad not shelled the city at the last accounts. A correspondence was going on between the Federal Commissioner and the civil authorities of the city regarding surrender. The Confederates still occupied Forts Phillips and Jackson, and had evacuated and destroyed the forts on Lake Pontchartrain. General Butler's forces would approach New Or leans by way of the lakes, and land at the rear of the city. News had not yet been received of his movements, but it was supposed he had arrived at New Orleans. It is supposed that the Confederate General Lovell may take his forces to reinforce Gen. Beau regard at Corinth. A portion of the Confederate fleet from New Orleans is reported to have arrived at Fort Wright, on the Mississippi, and to have attacked the Federal: gunboats which were bombarding that fort. • A battle was expected to take place nor, - 11 of Richmond between- the divisions of Gel:IF:AT:is Banks and M'Dowell and the Confederates 7 :4nder Generals Jackson and Gustavus Smith. iloth belligerents in this 'section had been large),y reinforced. A great rise of the Mississippi River has occurred, and New Madrid and Columbus are under water. The freshet is reported to be disastrous in that part of the country. A Congressional committee has issued a report that the Confederates committed inhuman atrocities upon the Federal dead and wounded after the battle of Bull Run. Affairs at Yorktown unchanged. The cotton-planters in Alabama have restricted the cultivation of cotton to 5001 b. for each hand employed, and recommend the cultivation of bread stuffs instead. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 1 (Evening). Money abundant. Gold, 21 prem. Exchange steady at 1121 Stocks, large speculative sales. United States' Registered Sixes, 97/ ; ditto, Coupon Sixes, 98 ; Treasury Notes, 2 per cent. prem. Cotton inactive. Breagistuffs firm. TBE PENINSULAR MALLS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, arrived at South ampton yesterday at 1 p.m., with mails from Lis bon of the 7th inst., and from Oporto and Vigo of the Bth, in charge of Lieut. Balfour, R.N., naval mail agent. Fresh westerly winds, with pretty fine weather, were experienced as far as Ushant. The Tagus brought 44 passengers (viz., 36 first class, three second, and five deck), £1,609 in specie, 398 half-ct ests of oranges, 280 cares of eggs, 49 cases of potatoes, and 11 packages of general mer chandise. When the packet left Lisbon the Government had suspended the contemplated transmission of troops from the capital to the Northern Provinces, where the tumults appeared to have been of slight importance, promoted under pretext of opposition to the new system of taxation. The debate respecting the Sisters of Charity had commenced in the House of Deputies, and, being made apolitical question to turn out the Government, was likely to continue many days. The public seemed to take little intereEt in it. The report that King dom Luiz I. was in treaty to marry the Princess Maria Pia, daughter of the King of Italy, gained ground in Lisbon, and was very popular with the people. The Lisbon exchanges by this packet at three months are—London, 53/, bills over; Paris, 528; Hamburg, 48; Amsterdam, 42k ; Genoa, 524. Three per Cent. Stock, 44/ to 45 ex dividend. The Prussian gunbrig Hela, the America corvette St. Louis, and the usual Portuguese squadron were at Lisbon. Heavy rains were falling at Oporto when the Tagus called off that port. At Vigo several anchor-barges were at work over a sunken Spanish steamer. On thelOth inst.,off Ushant, the Tagus spoke the Royal Mail steamer Parana, with the outward Brazil mails, and a British sailing corvette, both standing to the south-west. The Tagus wiii leave Southampton again on Saturday next, with the outward mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon. TV.EST AFRICAN 211 AILS. FEARFUL SACRIFICE OF LIFE-TIE KING OF DAHOMEY AGAIN-ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE BEHEADED. LIVEIgOOLy SATURDAY NIGHT. The royal mail steam-ship Ethiope, Commander Delamotte, arrived here this evening with the usual monthly mails from the West Coast of Africa,. Teneriffe, and Madeira. She brings 1.3000 z. gold dust, 940 sovereigns, 260 doubloons, 2,500 dollars, and 2,400 5 franc pieces, with a full cargo of palm oil, ivory, &c. Lagos was healthy. In the beginning of April a large French screw steamer, under French colours, entered Whydah harbour within a cable's length from the beach, and successfully loaded a eslr43" of 1,600 clava , and prvceecied to sea without interrup. tion. The King of Dahomey bad attacked and burnt the town of Ishaga, about 16 miles west of Abbeokuta. He beheaded about 1,000 of the inha bitants, and took the remainder (about 4,000) pri prisoners, including a native missionary agent. The large town of Ijage, five days' journey in the inte rior, had been destroyed by the Ibadans. An Eng lish missionary was made prisoner, and a ransom equal to about £2,000 demanded for his release, but the Governor at Lagos was taking the neces sary steps to enforce his release. CAPE COAST CASTLE. —The Manuel Ortiz had been condemned as a slaver by the Court of Admi ralty, and ordered to be sold. THE MERRIMAC.—The Washington Star pub lishes the following despatch, dated Fortress Monroe, April 23 :—" From the refugees that reached nere tnis morning we learn that the Merrimac is being plated three feet lower (under water), and sunk in the water one foot deeper than before. We also learn that the rebel plan is to board the 11.1onitor with 20 men armed with mallets and wedges, prearranged to spike her turret port-holes in an instant. This was expected, and lam happy to be able to say, has been thoroughly guarded against by changes made in the Monitor's means of defence." THE THEATRICAL WORLD.—On dit, some great changes are about to take place in the theatrical world. Mr. Benjamin Webster, the popular and deservedly successful lessee of the New Adelphi Theatre, will shortly take a final and retire into at the same time, private e r a i v v a e t of e life. i s o 1 ; 1 4 r. Dion B t h o e u L c o c a n u d lotn public,will, quit the scene of his -recent triumphs, and assume the management of the Princess's, in place of Mr. Fechter, who migrates to the Lyceum. It is further rumoured that Mr. Falconer, the manager of the last-named theatre, is in negotiation for the lease of the Adelphi on the abdication of Mr. 'Webster, in which case we shall have the most complete Thespian revolution ever recorded in, the annals of the London iatage,