The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL. HAY MARKET. 1 Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (121st time), OUlt AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord I)undreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. - To conclude with Al Y HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Am Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 154th Night of the -ontinuous 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 which, a new musical, pictorial, lam'poetica, and ballet interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna hitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. P Ices as usual. Doors open at half-I.lst 5, to commence at ?. Box-office open daily from 11 dill ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE : Messrs. 3, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at half-past 8, THE ANGEL OF MID NIG II I . Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, ('athcart, Wid dicombe , Jordan, Meadows, Raymond ; Liss Elsworthy. Miss F.elding,-and Miss Henderson. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, Shore, Arc., and Miss C. Leclercq. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billing-ton, Stephenson ; Miss L. - Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. `7 - After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr. Dion Boncicault ; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billington, P. Bedford, Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, Arc. Commence at 7. C NTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RUSISEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at N fne o'clock. Grand SelectiOns from " La Sonnambula," by 311149 Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. UNSWORRI, 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 free. between between the hours of Twelve and INGS well be Op en, Two o'clock on and after Monday. rcHE . OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, — MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford, mus ic by G. A. Macfarren ; Burns' "Jolly Beggars, " also a cantata, with George Linley's music, and Grand Operatic Selections by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. —Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to dhost of comic talent; and HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze every evening. Dail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 105. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 1213. 50m.—Afternoon, lh. 14m. TO-MORROW. - Morning, lh. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 2m. NOTICE. AA 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. tx, 4. 4 , IC ) V), -, o ,,cju , 24,3 re -4 r 4 ... ,, t 'l cti ,- - 74. :..-,,. ..., . 14 . 7 -2" 1., - 4 " :' '''N' 47'• 3i C.' 1 ,1:01 1- ..1 tr , it THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1862. So we are to have not only a renewed Income tax, but a renewal of it almost without discussion. take an fc. even of those who or observed that for the first time the tremendous Income-tax, under the infliction of which we writhe quarterly, was to be mixed up with the taxes which we may be said almost to eat and drink without knowing of them. Yet so it is. The reader in glancing at the Parliamentary de bates sees a heading, " Customs and Inland Re venue Bill ;" he looks perhaps at a few items hastily, selecting, it may be, some article of consumption in which he is interested, and then turns over to see what is doing in America. It does not occur to him that almost the only tax he feels painfully is mixed up with " tea, coffee, tobacco, and snuff." Now we protest against this. Technically it may be quite right and constitutional. Practically it is wrong and unconstitutional. It has not been done before ; it ought not, as we think we can show, to be done now. We are aware of the plea in justification. The Lords lately rejected a money bill which was sent up in a separate form. Mr. GLADSTONE triumphed over them last year in regard to that very bill ; this year he desires to complete their humiliation. He therefore puts into one bill almost enough money to pay the interest of the national debt, and thus says to the Peers, touch it if you dare. Now we never defended the rejection of the paper duties repeal bill by the Peers, as, practically, a constitutional act; but they have had their lesson on that subject. We do not think they need to have it repeated in another form, and to us the arrange ment seems something like that rather nu-English proceeding, kicking a man down. Hitherto the Income-tax has always been brought forward in a separate act. Sir ROBERT PEEL, Mr. GLADSTON s great master, always adopted that coarse. Those who have followed him have done the same ; and the quarrel with the Lords was cor- tainly no sufficient reason to depart from the prac tice,. The foundation of that practice we take to be, that every tax, and everything else, indeed, of spe cial importance and peculiar character, should have full and distinct co nsideration in the House of Commons. The Income-tax is of this class. As a peace tax it has an e xce ptional charact er , M r . GLADSTONE himself being our witness ; as a class tax it is of a peculiar c haracter, since it Singles out one part of the community, and lays upon it a t ax which a far larger part does not pay. As a tau involving essential injustice, incurable i n _ justice, sucla injustice as makes it endurable Only in emergencies, like war, or great financial crises ani changes, Mr. GLADSTONE himself has spoken with all the fervour of earnest conviction. Such a tax, we repeat, ought not to be huddled up with a list of duties on what may be regarded as luxuries, though very common ones; and of which not cve n t tl:e washerwoman complains while elle sips her tan, or the sailor when he buys his ounce of tobacco. li The income tax is a tax, of course, felt by all payers, but we believe Mr. GLADSTONE'S class has little idea of its ga lling pressure on th e lower divi bion of middle-class incoines—those who have the tit nicA difficulty in maintaining the soci a l appear uric?, they cannot bring thems?lves to forego, and to whom the income tE.x is deprivation, of the sum. tier trip for their family's health, or it may be necessitates a change of dwelling, or a mortifying economy in th e family c l o thing bills, even the education of children must often suffer. The large direct deduction of • ninepence from every pound of the income of such person ; of £3 15s. from every hundred pounds, i s • little less than the in flicting, we believ e i n the majority of cases, of direct pain. To this class, which is obliged to economise in every Way to retain its social position, the In come-tax does not permit an adj • ustment of ex pen &titre to means. Of almost every other tax the thrifty housekeeper can modify the - operation. If the " saccharine" part of this FIVE AND TWENTY MILLIONS bill bears hard on the family expenditure, she can retrench a little in her dealings with the grocer, without exposing herself to her neighbours, and so of the rest. The Income-tax almost alone demands the "pound of flesh," and holds the un fortunate clerk or• little struggling tradesman mer cilessly to "the bond." The taxation alike of precarious and permanent incomes, though often ingeniously defended by some mathematicians, is repudiated by the instincts of all who have to earn their livelihood by the sweat of their brow, or of what lies behind their brows. No subtlety can persuade any man, with an income of £5OO from professional efforts or trade, that he can afford £lB 15s. towards PAKINGTON investments in what turns out to be a useless navy, as well as the man, whose £5OO a .year is exposed to no casu alties from external causes, from his own sickness, or in case of his death, to none which interfere with its retention by his widow and family. There is also the crying injustice of the difference in the number of persons the same income has to support. The £5OO may have to maintain a bachelor at lodg ings, or a family of a dozen, with perhaps aged parents in addition. It may be, in fact, the income of such a number of persons that, if fairly apportioned to each, no tax could be demanded at all. Yet this unrighteous tax regards not the claims on the in come, nor its nature, but simply its amount. The old income-tax did take notice of the size of the family, and large families were exempt altogether. But on the injustice of a tax which the slightest examination shows to be, though nominally equal, yet the most unequal of all,we need not enlarge now. Enough if we have shown it to be so different from other taxes that it ought never to be confounded with them. All taxes must have a measure of in equality, but inequality is the distinctive character of the income-tax; an inequality which marks it out as the tax for occasions when necessity makes everything just. Let it, therefore, be kept separate. Let it bear the mark of a proscribed infliction awaiting an early extinction. Let us not wish to inflict a very ungentlemanly revenge on the Lords, jumble up things which differ, to our own disad vantage. The country is becoming alive to the extravagance of its expenditure, and it must not hoodwink itself, merely to vex the House of Lords. If we are compelled to censure the manner in which the Government has dealt with the income tax, we may express our pleasure in its giving up the very objectionable licence for private brewing. Happily the great brewers themselves did not wish to retain it. The revenue to be collected from it was quite insignificant; not a pretext remained' therefore, for what would certainly have been felt as a vexatious impost. There is the very double of " SmELL/PuNarrs" low in London. It is surely the unpolitest of visitors from the politest of nations that has come over to this country at the time of our Great Exhi bition in the person of M. ALFRED Ass—pshaw ! how do you pronounce his name ?—ASSOLANT. Monsieur is here just now it appears in the charac ter of Special Correspondent to the Courrier du Dimanche. He has evidently,in a manner avowedly, never before been in this metropolis. The capital itself is new to him—nay, with the capital, Eng land and the English people together. Yet he has scarcely been a fortnight in London, and behold he knows all about us! He does so of course by a sort of divine intuition. He cannot possibly write from the fullness of his knowledge, of his observa tions, of his experiences. He has not had time for superficial. It requires a travellerwith"tire noir,. oi courage and reticence of a D oc t or C ORRIGAN t o write a book about Ath ens a ft er a s t ay o f exact l y ' ten days under th e s h a d ow o f th e v i o l et - crowned • Acropolis. But then the pleasant gossiping Irish ▪ physicianwithgiving has of jotted his thus suchveryrecently frivolous memoranda, mingled incongruously in a sort of literary Notch-potch, or olla podrida, or lob scouse, with notes archeological, geographical, topographical, meteorological, and all sorts of other " cals" of a sesquipedalian kind, Not thus modest, however, is M. ASSOLANT. A fortnight's stay in London enables him to pronounce his opinions ex cathedra not simply upon the general effect, or defect, or however else we may express it, of our public streets and of our public buildings. With the instinctive pe netration of genius he has already fathomed the depth of our national character. He knows all about us, we repeat, from beginning to end—so cially, politically, religiously, morally—irreligiously and immorally, we ought rather perhaps to have said—and all this by a lynx-eyed scrutiny of us within a period of less than a fortnight. /t is won derful l Talk of clairvoyance, of the force of mes meric influence, of any spirit-rapping medium you may care to mention—bah ! it is nothing to M. Ass —what a difficulty there is about his name, to be sure—to M. ASSOLANT ! He, with his magical linsight, can look England and the English, London and the Londoners, through and through at a glance. He can bring everything in a twinkling under the microscopic lens of a judgment most accurate, searching, and profound—and, what is more, a judgment, it should be said, altogether infallible in its enunciations. Holding, as he does, a mirror so clear in the sheen of its pellu c idity u p beforein it, us—we cannot but marv e l t o see ourselves reflected alas ! with such frightful exactness ! It is a mercy that these severe reflections of M. As- SOLANT come to our knowledge in May, and not in the month supposed byFrenchmen, of M. ASSOLANT'S abounding in formation to be devoted here in England uicide—viz., Novemb er . Other to the purposes of S wise the consequences might have been dreadful , nay, might have told very alarmingly on our bills of mortality. A diametrically opposite surprise to 1 that g i ven t o N ARCISSUS—co ming abruptly upon the wea k nerves of poor old JOHN B ULL, m i g ht j us t possibly have incited the old gentleman to take an unpremeditated "h ea d er " out o f s h eer d es peration. That is, w e repeat, if he had chanced to catch this first horrifyin g 1 l ia r s e o o f sno himself , M. ASSOLANT'S lgulei at in good h f e o s r t t ur enaemhas it, in the flowery and refreshing month of May, but as ill luck might have had it, in that grimly, blue devil month—as Tosi HOOD sings of it—when we have— "No flowers, no trees, no fruit, no bees, No sun, no warmth—November!" Here is something, by the way—just a c h oice tid bit, selected from M. ASSOLANT'S correspon dence from London in the Courrier du Dirnanche —a pleasant little summary of our national pecu liarities, that will form for JOHN BULL, good, honest man, a capital theme for quiet and whole some medit a ti on . "Th e Englishman," says M. ASSOLAN T , with ingenious frankness—[he knows so much about Englishmen, remember!—been here actually a fortnight !]—" The Englishman is brutal, and tbat is his chief defect. The English workman is far inferior in appearance—and also perhaps in heart—to the French workman. Those one sees in the streets look soured and brutalised by ceaseless and hopeless misery. In France the workman is a man who esteenvi himself, and 'feels himself respected. He is p oor , but always IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1862. proud. He neither lowers himself, nor asks for alms. His grandfather was a soldier in the First Republic. He has entered as a master the capi tals of Europe, and has seen more than once the backs of Kings. His father was at Austerlitz. He himself has burnt a cartridge in Africa. He knows that he is the equal of any one. He has seen the Revolution of 1830, and that of 1848. He is a man and a citizen, and if he still wants several things he knows that he shall have them sooner or later." So that—while M. ASSOLANT begins with a , diatribe of the most uncompromising kind upon the Englishman---we find, after all, that ho has trailed off here this long while into a studied panegyric upon the Frenchman. Did he come to London, one is tempted to ask, to learn all this the more vividly about his fellow-countrymen ? All, yes ! by the sheer force of contrast. The very crass stupidity and bruta lity of. the Englishman brings out to this amiable Frenchman's eyes the charming excellencies he has left behind him at home. Stich tight-fighting Paris spectacles as he has upon his nose, this genial, charming, delightful, outspoken M. ASSOLANT! He sees everything according to the conventional tint of those glasses. Does he visit any place of amusement here in London any place that is to him of so called amusement? "Excepting the great play houses," he says, " which I have not yet seen" [their turn will come next !] they are, he de clares emphatically, " miserable !" Our London squares he pronounces " sad looking things." Each individual Englishman, he observes, " dines apart, shut up in his box at the eatinghouse, like vicious horses in a stable." Only one thing can he find in all London and Westminster on which to sprinkle a few syllables of cool approbation—our parks ! Though certainly in this regard he could hardly in reason have written otherwise. " The Luxembourg," he condescends to remark, "and the Tuilleries do not approach them. They are vast prairies, where you see flocks of sheep browsing pell-mell among women and children, who are lying down in the grass, or playing on it. In this consists the real superiority of London, and I must admit that Paris has nothing like it." With the opening of the Great Interna tional Exhibition, on Mayday, however, M. Asso- LANT was not by any means satisfied. Everybody else, it is true, thought pretty well of the inaugural ceremonies as a whole, but—ah, me ! after all, there comes that fatal counter opinion of M. ASSOLANT. And a bitter disappointment the knowledge of it must be to the Earl GRANVILLE and the rest of the responsible committee of Manage ment. " Decidedly," writes this egregious gentleman, " the opening of the Exhibition was very badly conducted. Snob," he adds, "is the opinion of every one"—meaning himself ! " The English," he observes axiomatically, " understand everything except organization. The art of ad ministering brought to such perfection among us (a little too much so)," [innocent admission !] "is abso lutely unknown to them. Every one goes on wildly, lives as he can, works where he can, and spends pro digious force with very little result." [Then follows the proof of this, drawn from his personal experi ences.] " Though I was by chance and by my own exertions one of the best placed for seeing the cor tege and the whole ceremony, I hardly heard any of the music, and the speaking not at all. I did not even see the speakers. A mass of trophies and ornaments. very much out of place on such an occa sion, concealed from every eye half the gallery. There remained, it is true, the spectacle of the Paris, a assembly, ris, a nd w , h i i n ch m i y n t o e p r z e .n s t t .o e n d , mweemsuocrceetehdamn much the official o b ffi et c le ia r l . ahalope throughout erosfntdelightfulhage „ , 41. .„„,, things are done in I h d e n ltel Paris,waf-rgi lallonbglorification tliteohanest observedp, rrtwuihnhnocsa principal h e ei spectators fantgndoraratss so on. personage." s Frenchman's comments_ upon En/Ala and proceedings. Why, even that sad vagabond of a clerical humourist—the Rev. LAWRENCE STERNE—went forth upon his Sentimental Journey in a nobler spirit than this. Immediately he had landed at Calais, upon the first page of his diary, he did not thereupon, after the fashion of M. ASSOLANT, at once set it down that he saw nothing to compare to himself or to his countrymen. No! instead of that—why the words are household words by this time—instead of that, STERNE scarcely has pen in hand before he writes in a generous, manly, cosmopolitan spirit upon his very first page, almost in his first sentence, "They manage these things better, said I in France." We have no hope for M. ASSOLANT as a generous observer of things new and strange to him. Four months would hardly do better for him than this first fortnight of his stay in London. He comes with malice prepense and aforethought, determined to view everything captiously, carpingly, the veriest JEAN CRAPAUD of a Curmudgeon ! So soon as he cares to return to the scenes and haunts he loves best, let him be off. For, honestly, we have had quite enough of him. Mr. BERKELEY, old stager as he is, seems to have been caught napping. If any one's business, it was his to watch against a surprise in the interest of electoral corruption. The preceding discussions were, it is true, on a subject too likely to make honourable members seek "tired nature's sweet restorer," even while occur)) ing their seats, or to quit their seats till something more attractive was before the House. We do not, however, know the nature of the accident which caused the second reading of the " Corrupt Practices Protection Bill" to be read a second time without Mr. BERKELEY'S cognisance. He did his best to atone for the mis take by giving notice of moving its rejection on its third reading. An important opportunity has, however, been lost. It was the duty of the Liberal members, and there surely are some, who are really opposed to bribery and intimidation, and who consider their seats safe, if the people voted under no influence whatever but their own political opinions, and their opinion of the candi dates,—it was the duty of such members to have staved off the second reading of this discreditable bill, to have compelled a discussion, and not one dis cussion only, but a second, and perhaps a third. If Tories can at the demand of interested clamour co mpel the Government to modify an honest scheme, at the cost of the income-tax payers, surely sincere Literals, and we are sure there are such, might with irresistible arguments on their side compel the Government to halt in a" corrupt prat_ tices" course. %Ve know clamour is a mighty power; but so is fact and argument. Now the fact is undeniable that the dishonest bill, read a second time lest night, has utterly failed of its professed obje c t, and that Sir WILLIAM HAYTER, the man who, of all others, was competent to judge, declared on his oath that he regarded it from the day of its passage " ae a dead letter," It has not brought one single 'fftnder yet to justice; it has not rescued one tenant-at. will, or a debtor, or a mortgagor, from political serfdom; it has not prevented the most lavish expenditure of money in direct bribery. It is a disgrace to the Government to reproduce the bill—a disgrace to the House quietly to Accept it; and it is anything but honourable to the supporters of the ballot in the House th a t th e y s h ou ld no t have in a body and d emanded that the glar i ng he old bill sh ou ld b e followed by a tr i a l f r a is il e u n re of t of their simple, easy, and—wherever it has been honestly tried—effectual plan. We only hope that in committee, and on the third reading, Mr. BERN KELEY mad the ballot members will vindicate their SINCERITY and their GOOD FAITH towards their con stituencies. We would just call the attention of Liberal mem bers and their supporters to the second reading of Sir JOHN TR.ELAWNY'S bill, which is fixed for to morrow. Sir JOHN has given his opponents all this time that they might bring in their compromise bill, which the Speaker's vote in their favour last year requires of them. They have no bill. They can only doggedly oppose. Last year they wanted some other settlement than total abolition. " Pro duce it then," say the abolutionists. Instead of producing their settlement, this helpless party still calls for "some other provision," and has no bill to tell us what it shall be. Mr. ESTCOURT has, on the , contrary, given notice of his intention to move the following amendment for to-morrow :—" That it is unjust and inexpedient to abolish the ancient and customary right, exercised from time immemorial by the ratepayers of every parish in England, to raise by rate among themselves the sums required far the repair of their church, until some other pro ♦ision shall have been made by Parliament for the discharge of those obligations to which by custom or statute the churchwardens on the part of the parish are liable." The Tories, who add to their zeal for the POPE'S temporalities equal zeal for the temporalities of the dominant religious sect in England, are whipping up, we understand, to the uttermost to carry this ignominious resolution. They are not ashamed to vote themselves incompetent to offer any scheme, yet to obstruct the only proposal which can over be a final settlement. Will the great Liberal suffer this? Will the real friends of the Church suffer the Tories to drag them through political dirt, merely to save them from these expenses of worship which the very humblest sect of Dissenters freely meets? It is surely time that such a piece of ecclesiastical tyranny—one so out of harmony with the spirit of the age as compelling persons to pay for the worship of their Maker—should come to an end. The real question is a very simple one, although Mr. ESTCOURT may wrap it up in a sentence as long and roundabout as a collect ; it is this—" Cannot Churchmen pay the expenses of their worship as well andeasily as Dissenters P We are ashamed of the Churchmen who, to-morrow, will not be ashamed by their votes to say—No, The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are ex pected in town to-day, fron their seat in Scotland, for the season. The Countess of Ashlurnbam has issued cards for an assembly on the 15th, Lady Fitzwygram's morning concert in Con. naught-place will take place on Wednesday, the 21st inst. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Mar chioness of Ely, the Marcuis of Clanricarde, Earl Gran ville, the Dowager Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, the Countess de Persigny, Earl Cowper, Lady Frances Gordon, the Hon. F. Caltiorpe, Viscount Castlerosse, Lord Dufferin, Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Town ley, and Dr. Quin. Lord and Lady Catroys and the Hon. Misses Stonor are expected to arrhe at 31, Dover-street, for the season, in the early part of the week. The Rev. Mr. and tle Hon. Mrs. Edgell and family have left town for Stanford Hall, Leicestershire. Mr. and Mrs. R. liddulph and family have arrived in Eaton•place for tie season, from the Continent. Mrs. Gardner's concert will take place on Friday, the 6th June, at her house in Eaton-square. Mr. Alex. Oswald has returned to Hampden House, Green-street, from Paris, for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt have arrived at their resi dence in Lowndes-square, from the North. Mr. Augustus Keppel Stephenson, of the Norfolk },as been appointed Recorder of Bedford % in eueces • stun to Mr. R. Crouch, appointed a judge in India. THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS.—The Japanese Ambassadors and suite arrived at Greenwich yesterday at 12 o'clock, on board Mr. John Penn's steamyacht, and after disembarking at the pier proceeded in five carriazes.tostiv and Son, at Deptford. After inspecting various objects of interest at this and other establishments, the distinguished foreigners re-embarked, and returned to town The Am bassadors are expected to visit Woolwich dockyard during the present week, a notice to that effect having been received from the Admiralty. PLYMOUTH, May 12.—His Royal Highness Prince Arthur and suite visited the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, at Mount Edgcumbe, on Sunday after noon, lunching there, remaining in the house and park several hours, returning in the evening on board the Vivid. The Vivid went outside Plymouth Sound this morning with the royal party, accompanied by the screw gunboat Clinker, in order that the prince might witness Armstrong shot practice from the gunboat. His highness is expected to visit Tregantle Fort and the Royal William Victualling yard this afternoon and to-morrow. THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.—The seventh season, to commence in the Regent's and Victoria Parks on May 25, is expected by the committee to be a highly successful one, and preparations are being made ac cordingly. n the Regent's Park the platform enclosure will be enlarged, and chairs placed in rows therein, so that the visitors, having paid id. admission, may promenade or be seated at pleasure. Increased accomrnodat on and aid to the band fund will thus be provided, no support to the band having been derived from the chairs placed in front of the platform by parties unconnected with the committee. The Chief Commissioner has just completed a drinking fountain of chaste design in the broad walk, and is now erecting a commodious refreshment stand near to the platform. In the Victoria Park liiss Burdetts' fountain will doubtless have its thousands of admirers. MURDER OF A BROTHEL—A shocking fratricide was committed in Newcastle, about midnight on Saturday. A party of men, living in the neighbourhood of St. Peter's Quay, had been drinking at the Grapes public-house, at St. Peter's, on Saturday night, and were ejected at 12 o'clock. A quarrel took place between two of them, named John Berry and Henry Shafto; and on another of the party, named Wm. Redhead, encouraging Shafto to fight, Berry asked Redhead to fight, and they immediately set to work. Berry got Redhead down, and was uslng a knife, when the brother of his antagonist and others pulled him away. Berry seems then to have placed himself in an attitude of defence against a wall in the neighbourhood ; and on his brother, Geo. S. Berry, going up to him to get him home, ho struck him such a blow with the knife in the lower part of the body, that death was almost instantaneous. The as sassin gave himself up to the police. Ills unfortunate brother has left a widow and ore child, and his wife is again pregnant, The murderer has a wife and six children. Newcastle Journal. The commercial letters from New York yesterday show that there is still a total absence of consideration with regard to the way in which the present and prospective debts of the country are to be provided for. It was now doubted if any tax bill would be passed before next Session of Congress, so that meanwhile not only the expenditure for the war, but for the interest on the liabilities already in curred, will have to be met by an increase of inconvertible issues. Yet it is affirmed that a universal opinion prevails that before long Europe will be a large customer for Trea sury notes and other Federal obligations. This belief has, it is said, considerable influence in upholding prices, and as the banks, in the absence of commercial paper, are lending to almost any extent on Government securities, there is a general readiness to speculate from the great rise which it is fancied will occur whenever the sudden announcement shall be made from Washington that the subjugation of the South has been consummated. The chief cause of uneasi ness to these operators consisted in the apprehensions as to possible reverses at Yorktown and Corinth, but it is re marked that "whatever battles may be fought, nothng will be heard of them unless we win." The reported oc cupation of New Orleans had not created much sensation, and the question as to the prospects of a Northern garrison at that place during the fever months of July, August, September, and October were, of ,course, a subject of un easy contemplation. With regard to the Mexican ques tion, great indignation has been excited by the news of the probable march of the French army on Mexico, and " a possible quarrel with the French Emperor" is discussed as if the Washington Government had no other matters on their hands. The motives of the visit of M. Mercier to Richmond were still deemed inscrutable; but the journals are full of conjectures on the subject. Gold was leaving the country, a n d th e ra t e o f exc h ange was a d vanc i ng , th e latestquotations being 1121. N THE BANK ROBBER Y A T GEOA.—A Government despatch just received from Spezela announces the arrest of the perpetrators of the audacious robbery committed on the Ist inst. at the bank of Messrs. Parodi. The prisoners are five in number, and had embarked on board a sailing ship in the Gulf. Upon them wero found various effects, valued at more than 300,000 f. The men were furnished with arms of different kinds, LATEST NEWS. THORN, MAY 13. It is said that Governor-General Krzyatowski has tendered his resignation. Some Directors of public schools who had offered resistance to the Government have been dismissed. Several officers of the garrison of Warsaw have been arrested on account of prohibited prints having been found in their possession. FRANKFORT, MAY 13. Reports are in circulation of the intended mobi lization of the fourth of the 7th Prussian Corps d'Armee. It is strongly believed that Austria and Prussia will occupy Electoral Hesse in case the mission of General Von Willisen should remain without result. It is probable that an extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet will take place. PARIS, MAY 13. The illoniteur of this morning publishes Admiral Bonard's report, dated Saigon, March 28, confirm ing the taking of Vinhlong after an energetic resist ance on the part of its defenders. Sixty-eight cannons and an immense quantity of rice were captured. The French losses were very small, and the gun boats sustained no serious damage. BRUSSELS, MAY 12. All the complications in the illness of the King have disappeared. The physicians believe they will shortly be able to authorise a fresh, and it is hoped, final operation. PARIS, MAY 12. The King and Queen of Holland will leave Paris on Wednesday next. The Patrie of this evening says :—" The Govern ment andthe committee on the Budget have agreed to withdraw the bill for augmenting the tax on salt. " The session of the French Chambers will pro bably be prolonged until July." The Paris papers publish a despatch from Saigon (Cochin China), dated the 24th of March, announc ing that the French troops had taken Fort Vinlong. PARIS, MAY 12, EVENING. The Paris papers of this evening publishes a tele gram from Alexandria, dated to-day, containing news from Beyrout to the 9th inst., asserting that matters had reached such a crisis at Aleppo as to render disturbances imminent. The Christian priests and population had, it is stated, been insulted and provoked. The same despatch adds that the Prince of Wales, while in Syria, was cheered by the Druses. MESSINA, MAY 12. Yesterday the King received the authorities o: this city and the clergy. His Majesty set out this morning for Reggio. TURIN, MAY 12. Signori Sella and Depretis have set out for Naples. Signor Durando and the Marquis Pepoli will leave for Naples this evening. A conciliatory circular has been issued by Signor Rattazzi on the subject of the celebration of the National fete. BERLIN, MAY 12. The semi-official Allegemeine Preussische ( Stern) Zeitung of to-day announces that General-Lieute nant Von Willisen, General Aide-de-Camp of the King, yesterday proceeded to Cassel, by order of his Majesty. THORN, MAY 12. A report is current that a military conspiracy in favour of Poland has been discovered in St. Peters uu►s. A great numbtr of officers, all of whom are Rus sians, are said to be seriously implicated, more especially those belonging to the garrison of Kalisch. A full and searching inquiry into the affair has already been instituted. RAGUSA, MAY 11. Dervisch Pascha is still at Gatzko, but the Alba nians occupy the surrounding country. Two detachments of Turkish troops, while escorting a convoy of provisions, were attacked and put to flight near Gatzko. The Montenegrins captured all the provisions. FRANCE. La Patrie publishes the following : "Prince Napoleon reached Marseilles on the morning of the 11th. At nine o'clock the same evening the Imperial yacht steamed out of port direct for Naples." La Patrie also says " We learn from Toulon, under date of the 11th inst., that the steam frigate Asmodee had received orders to be ready to start for Civita Vecchia, to bring back to France the soldiers of the Army of Occupation at Rome who had a right to their conge. They number about 1,100. They number about 1,100. The soldiers destined to replace them and fill up the vacancies in the regiments have already arrived at Rome. The King of Holland, on Saturday morning at eight, visited the fort of Vincennes, the Salle d'Armes, and the Donjon. His Majesty also went to the gunnery school, and the artillery executed some manceuvres at field filing as well as at long range. The visit lasted upwards of three hours. The King in the afternoon, accompanied by his suite, visited the Luxembourg. His Majesty, who was received by General the Marquis d'Hautpoul, Grand Referendary of the Senate, passed through the state apartments, the hall of assembly, the library, and the museum. Tho Princess Mathilde gave a grand ball on Satur day night at her residence, Rue de Courcelles, in honour of the King and Queen of Holland. The illustrious guests arrived at nine o'clock with the Empress, accompanied by several personages of the Court. The salons, which were magnificently deco rated, could scarcely contain the brilliant society that had been invited. Among the number were the ministers, the diplomatic representatives of England, Russia, Prussia, Turkey, Italy, and Sweden, the Marquis de Lavalette, the French Minister at the Papal Court, and a great number of high dignitaries. The fete was organised with exquisite taste, and the objects of art which orna mented the rooms were the subject of general admi ration. The garden was illuminated by the elec tric light, which produced a most brilliant effect. Dancing commenced about ten o'clock, and was kept up to a late hour. The Queen of Hol land wore a dress of blue gauze with a coronet of diamonds of the richest kind. The Em press had on a white dress, remarkable for its simplicity And eDl.Banee_ llor Ilejenty appeared in excellent spirits, and seemed to enjoy the scene. The King was in plain evening dress, with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. The Im perial party remained till one in the morning. The Princess 'Mathilde did the honours of the evening with her usual grace. The Jloniteur publishes the following notifica tion : " Prince Napoleon, who proceeds to Naples to pay a visit to his father-in-law, the King of Italy, has not been charged with any political mission by the Emperor." The Prince left Paris on Saturday evening by ex press train for Marseilles, where, according to a telegraphic despatch received from that port, he embarked last night at nine o'clock in the Prince . Jerome stem corvette direct to Naples. A 01" sion of steam frigates will meet H.I.H. off the island of Pouza, and escort him to his destination. The Prince cs accompanied by Colonel de Fran coniere, his first aide-dc-camp; Lieut.-Colonels Ferri Pisani and Ragon, aides-de-camps, and by M. de Longperrier, member of the Institute, and M. de Chancourtois, engineer-in -chief of mines. "We have reason to believe," says the Patrie, " that General Count de Goyon will be detained some days longer at Rome by the necessities of the service, and will not arrive in Paris before the 21st or 22d. The Marquis de Lavalette will leave for Rome towards the end of the month." The Duke de Brabant passed through Paris on Saturday afternoon from Spain, and vas to arrive in Brussels during the night. BOURSE, May 12.—There has been but a very limited amount of business doing, but the quotations of Saturday have been pretty well maintained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 65c. Rail- way Share Market quiet follows:- 41 per per Cents 97 40 Do end month 97 85 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 80 New 3 per Cents The market closed as Bank Shares 3145 Credit F oncier 1557 50 Belgian 4-1 — Piedmontest Fives 72 30 Italian Loan 7l 90 Do, end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 845 Do. end month.... 846 25 Austrian Spanish Threes 52 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1315 .. 1317 50 Northern .... lO7O .. 1067 50 New. ditto - -- • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1110 .. 1111 25 Geneva 375 .. Southern 852 50 .. 851 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard .ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The performance of "Don Giovanni" last night was one of the most brilliant and successful ever given. The house was crowded to the ceiling, and the audience was enthu siastic. No less than five pieces were redemanded and re peated—" La ci darem" (Mademoiselle Patti and M. Faure) ; " Batti, batti" (Mademoiselle Patti) ; the trio of masks (Madame Penco, Madame Csillag, and Signor Tamberlik) ; " Vedrai carino," (Mademoiselle Patti) ; " Il mio tesoro" (Signor Tamberlik) ; and all the principal singers were re called before the curtain after the grand finale of the ball scene. HA Y MARKET 2HEAT.RE. Last evening a new ballet, entitled " La Contrabandista," was produced, in which the fascinating and enchanting Senora Perea Nena sustained the principal part. The ballet is a very pretty trifle, and affords ample opportunity for Miss Fanny Wright and a very talented corps de ballet to display their talent. The military movements of the pretty would-be-heros, with Perea Nena as their chief, and Miss Wright as second in command, were executed with great spirit, and elicited the loudest applause. The dresses are exceedingly pretty, and the scenery picturesque. Mr. Sothern's Lord Dundreary seems to increase in attraction every evening of representation. This circum stance is easily explained, for so cleverly does Mr. Sothern introduce fresh "wonders" into the part, that a third and even a fourth sitting to witness the performance is engaged as if it were the first. The house was crowded in every part. MR. IFOODIN'S _ENTERTAINMENT. Last night Mr. W. S. Woodin re-opened his cabinet of caricatures (which has been thoroughly repolished and re lined) at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Strand. The favourite entertainer appeared in the best health and spirits, and after acknowledging the warm re • ception accorded to him, he at once dashed into his enter tainment in capital style. We still have the illustrations of the four seasons, but many new personages are intro duced, the most notable being a certain Professor Klack, and Mr. Hipsy Dixit. Notwithstanding that Mr. Woodin has done a number of good things he has not in the whole range of important persons he has brought before his audience produced two more perfect portraitures, the doubting professor and his over confident companion. In his female novelties, Mr. Woodin intro duces us to a new acquaintance, a lady dwarf, who is anxious to play Lady Teazle, and the entertainment is brought to a close with a wonderfully close imitation of Mr. Sothern as Lord Dundreary. A variety of new songs are also introduced, and the scenic illustrations are supplied by Mr. William Calcott, a certain guarantee for beauty and splendour. Our country friends now in the metropolis will find an excellent evening's entertainment at the Polygraphic Hall. Sir William Don died somewhat suddenly at Hobart Town on the 19th of March fast. He had been in indifferent health for some time, but almost up to the fatal Complaints are becoming more numerout, among the trading classes in Paris. Shopkeepers declared during the last week that business had not been worse since the year 1848. That these complaints are not quite unfounded is evident from the fact that shops are to be let in the best situations. The monthly account published by the Gover nor of the Bank of France on Friday last shows how much commercial transactions are contracted and how greatly un employed capital is accumulating. The Bank notes in cir culation at present amount to only 8 18,000,000 f. against 418,000,000 f. cash in hand, and 489,000,000 f. in commer cial bills discounted but not yet due. This position of the Bank may rejoice those who everlasting exclaim against an over-issue sf bank notes, but in the eyes of commercial men it is not at all satisfactory. EXTRAORDINARY BLASTING OPERATIONS AT THE CAULDON Low QUARRIES.—In consequence of the large demand for limestone for supplying the ironworks in South and North Staffordshire, it has become necessary at the Cauldon Low Quarries, belonging to the North Staf fordshire Railway Company, occasionally to use large blasts cf powder, with the view of obtaining a greater supply of the stone than it has been possible to obtain in the usual way of quarrying by the wedge, hammer, lever, and small blasts. This led, on Wednesday last, to an ex periment on a very large scale, when 30 cwt. of powder was used for a single blast. In carrying out this experi ment, a gallery was driven in 50 feet from the face of the rock, which at this particular point was about 136 feet high. At the end of the gallery was constructed a cham ber, in which was deposited the powder, being nearly on a level with the external surface of the quarry, and the line of " least resistance" being ten feet. The object was to blow out the bottom by giving a moderate preponde rance to the powder over the superincumbent mass to be moved. The object sought was fully attained. About 25,000 tons of stone were brought down in good working condition .—Staffordshire Advertzser. THE SUPPLY OF COAL TO THE METROPOLIS.—The quantity of coal carried to London by rail, sea, and canal, o r the month of April, shows a decrease as compared with 1861. As contrasted with the month of April, 1861, 51,275 tons 18 cwts. of coal have been entered as a total decrease, and for the four months ending the 30th of April, this diminution is still more striking. In April last the North- Western conveyed 45,972 tons 11 cwts.; Great Northern, 34,618 tons 11 cwts ; Eastern Counties, 12,494 tons ; Great Western, 7,003 tons ; Midland, 4,350 tons, and the Chatham and Dover, 177 tons 14 cwts. making a total of 104,613 tons 6 cwts., against 141.950 tons 19 cwts. for the corresponding period of 1861; from the Ist of January to the 30th of April 463,768 tons 1 cwt. were entered, as against 593,171 tons 8 cwti. for the first four months of last year, or a diminution of 129,403 tons 7 cwts. The canal receipts have fallen from 6,710 tons 15 cwts. to 4. 111 tons 15 cwts.; and for April alone from 1,949 tons 5 cwts. to 775 tons. The seaborne importation% hava as remarkably small as either the railway or the canals. From Newcastle-on-Tyne the entries are 86,297 tons ; Sunderland, 87,301 tons ; Hartlepool and West Hartlepool, 58,905 tons; Seaham, 16,514 tons; Welsh, 10,786 tons; Middlesborough, 5,288 tons; Scotch, 2,889 tons ; Yorkshire, 2,1?6 tons ; which, including others of small tonnage, show a total of 272,584 tons against 284,348 tons for the same month of last year. For the four months of the present year the guar ity entered at the port of Lon don was 1,109,692 tons against 1,197,418 tons for an equal period of 1861, or a decline of 87,728 tons. The total from all sources of 1862 reaches 1,577,574 tons 16 cwts., or about 218,925 tons below that of 1861. A destructive fire occurred two nights since at the small village of Noe-les-Mallet (Aube). Tho flames were first perceived about midnight by a farmer named Frapperet, who hastened to alarm his neighbours and turn out his own cows. On his return a few minutes after, he found his own house in flames, and all efforts to rescue his wife, 72 vears of are. proved fruitless. A a all tho b a uadin E ,o in n were thatched, four homesteads were in a blaze incre dibly short space of time, and burned so fast that the roof of one house, belonging to a farmer named Boge, fell in before the inmates could be awakened, and Boge with his wife and son perished. The fire-engines from the neigh bouring town were soon on the spot, but all they could do was to confino the conflagration to the four houses on fire. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANK S. — According to a return published today it appears that the total deposits received at the new Post-office Savings Banks from the date of their formation to the 31st of March last has been £735,253, from 91,965 persons, of which sum £697,271 be longs to England and wales, £10,237 to Scotland, £26,064 to Ireland, and £1,679 to the Channel Islands. The total withdrawals have au.ounted only to £40,650. Of the entire amount of deposits the sum of £139,171 was from 3,674 persons who h ave transferred their aocounts from the old saving banks,being while only a single instance has occurred of an amount transferred from one of the now banks to Ole of Ulf , old, • CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Ommissioner Kerr.) FORGERY. Charles Pinkstone, 19, a young man very respectably connected, pleaded guilty to an indictment of forging and uttering two cheques for the respective sums of £lOO and £2OO, with intent to defraud Messrs. Masterman and Co. Mr. Sleigh said the prosecutors were solicitors of the highest respectability, carrying on busim. ss in Austin-friars, and while the prisoner was in their employ he forged the cheques alluded to. On his capture he gave every facility to the polies, and great part of the money was recovered. The young man had been employed in several re spectable firms as clerk, and the only conclusion that he (Mr. Sleigh) could arrive at was that he had got into the hands of bad companions. He likewise said that in the event of a lenient sentence being passed the friends of the prisoner would, at the expiration of the punishment, send him abroad with a view of retrieving his character. Several gentlemen gave the prisoner a high character. The detective officer (Packman) who apprehended the prisoner was then called, and informed the court that he took the prisoner into custody at Exeter, where he was in charge of the police for being drunk and disorderly. The counsel for the prosecution (Mr. Boyle) said the late employers of the prisoner recommended him to mercy. The Learned Judge, in passing sentence, said it was very painful to the court, and also, he felt certain, to every person in court to see a person of the prisoner's respectable position in life in the dock. According to information given to the court it appeared that the prisoner had been in the confiden tial employ of several legal firms, and he must have known the importance of acting honestly to them. The confidence reposed in him had been abused, and that which appeared to aggravate the crime was that there appeared to be no temptation. It had been urged by the learned counsel that as the friends of the prisoner were in a respectable position of society, if a lenient sentence was passed upon him that at the expiration of his imprisonment he would be sent abroad. He could not listen to such a proposition, because if he did so these unhappy and un friended persons who committed crimes, and had not the means of making such a proposal to the court, would have to undergo the most severe punishment. The learned judge then sentenced the prisoner to four years' penal servitude. ROBBING EMPLOYERS. John Cooper, carpenter, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a quantity of property belong ing to his employer, William Valentine Wright. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. OLD PIDKPOCKITS. Thomas Tomlinson was indicted for stealing a pocket handkerchief. He pleaded guilty. One of the warders of the House of Correction said there were seven previous convictions against the prisoner. The learned Judge said the prisoner seemed to think that he had no chance to escape, so he had pleaded guilty. He was then sentenced to penal servitude for six years. Thomas•Papworth also pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with picking pockets. The Judge asked how many convictions there were in this case, The Warder said he had known the prisoner for the last twelve years, and he had undergone no less than eleven terms of imprisonment, . The Judge said it would be all nonsense to pass another term of imprisonment on the prisoner. He should, there fure, sentence him to be kept in penal servitude for the term of 10 years. WATCH STEALING. Eliza Evans pleaded guilty to au indictment charging her with stealing a gold watch. She was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, STEALING BRASS TAPS. James Hill pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a quantity of lead pipe and brass taps from a dwelling house. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. STREET ROBBERY. Thomas 'Walters pleaded guilty to an indictment charg ing him with stealing a watch, the property of a deaf and dumb gentleman. The officer who apprended the prisoner said there were ten summary convictions in this case. The prisoner asked the judge to give him another chance. Sergeant Holmes, of the F division, said he had known the prisoner for 14 years as the associate of thieves. He had the prisoner in custody on one occasion, when he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. The learned Judge said it was ridiculous the prisoner asking for another chance, when the present robbery for which he was indicted was committed under the very walls of the Old Bailey. He would not be doing his duty did he sentence him to a less punishment than ten years' penal servitude. POLICE---THIS DAY. BOW-STREET, THIS DAY. Albert Myers, a fashionably dressed young man, was charged with stealing seven gold and turquoise buttons, value £2 25,, from a lady's dress, in Debenham and Stores auction rooms, Covent-garden. Constable Ackrill, F 78, said ha was on duty 5,, the auc irly, - -+•- r n "v. 4- 11., 1 r ...E'en he saw the prisoner examining the goods which were suspended from the walls. Suspecting the intention of the prisoner he kept a sharp watch on his movements, and in a short time he perceived him fumbling about a lady's silk dress, and then he noticed he had a file in his hand. After he had moved away from the dress, he (Ackrill) went up to it, and found that four gold and turquoise buttons had been forcibly taken off. He still watched the prisoner, when he observed him return to the silk dress and handle it as he had done before. As soon as he left it the second time, he (witness) went up and found three moll) of the buttons had been removed. He then went up to the prisoner and charged him with stealing the property. He told him that he must submit to be searched, wnen the prisoner said he should do no such thing without Mr. Debenham gave him into custody. Witness said he sh'ould take the responsi bility of examining what he had in his pockets on his own shoulders, and on putting his hand into one of the pri soner's pockets he found the seven gold buttons which he had previously seen safe on the dress. He also found the file he had seen him "at work" with ; a small tool of a pecu liar description, called "a prise," which consisted of a screw driver and lever for breaking open desks and oases ; a large assortment of keys of every variety of pattern and size, in cluding safe, room door, latch, desk, and watch keys, a pocket-book containing 55. in silver, throe visiting cards bearing the name of " Mr. F. T. Perry," a number of blank forms of cheque on Messrs. Hayward, Hills, and Co.'s bank at Gravesend, and a memorandum book in which about a hundred addresses had been entered. John Wicks, head porter to the Messrs. Debenham, identified the property as having been safe in their room in the early part of the day. He said that robberies of a similar nature had of late become very common, and in order to protect the property sent to their room the Messrs. Debenham had consulted with the police, and the most active steps had been taken to protect the property. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and begged the magistrate to deal summarily with the case. Mr. Corrie said he should do no such thing. The pri soner was then fully committed to Newgate for trial. MARLBOROUGH •STREET, THIS DAY. ROBBING FOREIGNERS.--DARING CASE.—CarOIiIIO James, a smartly-dressed female, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with robbing Mr. Wilhelm Schmidt, a German engineer, of 5, Grove -place, Brompton, in the following daring manner : Mr. Albert interpreted the evidence. The prosecutor was talking to a friend in Piccadilly at 1 o'clock this morning, when the prisoner suddenly went up to him, thrust her hand into his trousers pocket, and took out his portemonnaie, with which she ran off, but was caught by Sergeant Horsey, 6 C, who, on the prosecutor immediately coming up to him, saw him take from the prisoner's hand the portemonnaie, which was produced and identified, along with :4---t,.tts—a sovereign, some silver, ana postage stamps—by Mr. Schmidt. Prisoner's defence was, that she did not take the porte monnaie, and that she was running because she wanted to get home. Committed for trial. Elizabeth Stanley was charged with robbing a German, named Shermann Veit, of a 20-franc piece at a coffee-shop brothel in Earl's-court, the landlord of which house, the prosecutor said, facilitated the prisoner's escape. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he supposed the house was a coffee shop outside and a brothel inside. Some of the officers said that was the case. Prisoner was remanded. The Aberdeen Herald of Saturday says :—" Her Majesty has lived in quiet retirement since her arrival at Balmoral. Everything and place in and around the palace are full of associations of the late lamented Prince, and no doubt, as each sight is brought freshly to her view, an ad ditional roalei seems duller than it was before she came. There is not a servant within the policies but is clothed in deep mourning. The Queen remains in the strictest privacy. At times she takes a short drive in her carriage to a distance of five or six miles from the castle. She has, as is usual with her at Balmoral, calla on a number of the deserving cottagers on the royal estates—kindly inquiring into their circumstances, and relieving their wanes when necessary. The Duke of Ar,-ryll is still in attendance at Balmoral." ARRIVAL FROM CHARLESTON. LITERPOOL, Monday.—The screw steamship Economist, Capt. Burge, arrived in the Mersey this afternoon from Charleston. She left that port on the 2d April, NI ith 837 bales of cotton, 404 barrels rosin, and a mail. The papers by this arrival con tain little news of interest, and all the items of interest contained in them have been already anticipated by th New York papers. Private letters, however, show that a great deal of distress prevailed in Char;eston. The Econo mist is consigned to Messrs. Frascre, Trenholm, and co., Liverpool. I