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

THEATRE -8.0 Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. E. Backstone. T HIS EVENING (Nth time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN, Lord EtundrearY, Arr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck. atone. After which, a Household Picture, under Two Lights, ntiticd THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Yount - , (Sm. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. commence a 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, 124th time of the new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fill ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Hiss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and iliss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7. Buzz-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. .it'Arsee, Mr A. Eiarris. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE "HEARTH. Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicomb, Mr. Meadows, Mesdames Fielding, Carlotta Leclereq, &c. To conclude with the new Mystic Drama, in four parts, entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, bliss ctc. •lr E W TAI RATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL soIe Proprietor and Ilana9:er, Mr. B. Webster. THIS; EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQI7IRY. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. Billingt Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss El. Bland. Followed by THI4: LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Lion Bouc:cault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billinzton, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. A S FLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elept. - ..ants. 'IRIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH . OF NA GPOR E, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalle d Troupe of Equestrians. Con eluding with a lau hable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. I NTERBU RY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah," by Niclrme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Raynor, with Band and lull. Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jong - hmans. The (.10311C uepartment by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th ApriL Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ?THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET,- HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze EVERY EVENING. The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed expt essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme. Maria, and NJ dme. Enderssohn. Full Band and Chorus.— Mus,cal Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. 11 all, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA N.—Morning, 6h. 37m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m. To-monr tow. -Morning, 7h. 37m.—Afrernoon, Bh. 12m. NOTICE. Ail re mittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr.. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The eun office, 112, bt rand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. ft, s 'c ') „ • •• 'l* 4 r: " _id.~`ti_:__ ._ .~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1802. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1862. Island No. 10 on the Mississippi still holds out. Beaufort, on the coast of North Carolina, has fol lowed Newhern in surrendering to the active General BURNSIDE, Fort Macon having first blown up. A very severe fight at Winchester—a town on the railroad in Virginia from Harper's Ferry—has resulted in the defeat of Confederates, and their being driven further south to Strasbourg. The latter, it seemb, had attempted to re-enter Winches• ter, supposing the Federals bad quitted it ; they must therefore be in some force yet on the western bnk of the Virginian defence. New Orleans, according to rumour, has been attacked, be!, even rumour is silent in respect to the result-. They seem, however, to know at Chicago, some 800 miles north on the shores of Lake Michigan, what is doing in the south on the Gulf erf Mexico, since a despatch from that great, torn depot tells us that the Confede rates are br .ralding 13 gunboats at New Orleans. • Slich rs the sum of the naval and military news ' from. the States by the Africa ; and it cannot be 5r.,..f.a to point one way or the other. Of M'CLELLAN hear nothing, probably because he is working :down the Potomac, either to Acqnia Creek, f rom which the railroad runs to Richmond, or to Fort Monroe, thence to commence the movement upwards between the James and York Rivers to Richmond, which Mr. RUSSELL tbinli the most probable. In one of these two directions, or in both, our 'readers ought ere long to see some advance towards - what ought to be the first move of the North to capture the capital of Virginia. It appears, rather, as if the South were regaining military energy after its late reverses, since both in Virginia and on the Mississippi they are fight ing with vigour, though the North seems to be more than a match for them in regard both to num- I hers and military equipment. But the North itself is beginning to perceive that its hardest task is yet before it. All the more dis tieguished. Generals —BEAUREGARD, LEE, JOHN STON—are still in reserve, and have never fought yet but to win. APCLELI AN, BANKS, GRANT, and BURNSIDE, have not yet met these higher class men; and it remains, therefore, to be seen whether the Generals who could fight to win, or retire when the enemy could not fo;low, may not, when the miter circl e of defence is abandoned, be more than a match for Th eir pursuers. Retreating through a country in which t . he few inhabitants are hostile to the pur suers, and z in which the support of the invaders must be by a coat and difficult commissa r i a t, ha s been time o u t of mind the most effective means of defence. It i ut , b Edited all conquerors from the ,days OF JuLlus e2s.sAb to those of NAPOLEON. 'ore the summer is over we shall probably see whether this will be the Sout hern policy. All the jii : d a ih oo d appesrs t® be o n the " aide of the North being victorious in the fiel d throughout the Border States. If so, we shall see Wheth er the „original seven" will fight with the Fabian str ategy or give in - before they are attacked. But many in the North are begin n i ng to look further. We find that the opinion which thei r b est friends in England urged on them at first, a n d for slighting which opinion here cooled so rapidly towards the North, is making its way. Indulging their aversion to negroes, and thinking to keep their hold on the Border States by remaining faith fel to slavery, the North long refused to entertain the ides of fighting With emancipation as its right" hand weapon. We learn that the suspicion rapidly spreading, even amongst those who have so long stood out, that by emancipation only can the Sou th be either conquered, or what is of equal im- P°ll4Lee, vs - amalgamated with the North if con• quered. The* only - purtiNtoßhe South bitterly and implacably hostile to the MYth is the slaveholders and their immediate dependents. To re-unite them with the North while their possession of slaves fed perpetually all theirold fanatical devotion to slavery and equally fanatical hatred and contempt of the free North, would be impossible. Each Slave State, with its Legislature of slaveholders, would be a standing obstruction, and more than that, a nullifi cation of Federal action. Granting that the Slave States would find i't difficult to regain such power in Congress tts they might have exercised there last year at this time had they then preferred political to military action,they could cause much embarrassment in Congress itself, and their State Legislatures could be perfectly unmanageable. A re-annexed slave holding South could be governed only as Poland, Hungary, or Venetia are governed at this moment; Federal Republicanism would be gone for ever. The North has made its beginning by offering to buy off the Border Slave States—it will have no alternative but to make emancipation compulsory in all the States. If the North adheres to the plan of holding the Southern States answerable for their quota of the enormous taxation it has just laid, the purchase of the slaves will be easy. Each State in rebellion will owe enough to pay for the emancipation of its slaves, and if any mode rate compensation be offered in addition, with the alternative of military emancipation, they will be but too glad to accept, one would think, a dividend on their unlawful possessions, to which, whatever their constitutional claim, they have no moral one. However, one thing is certain, the North is opening its eyes to perceive that, after the repulse of the Southerns from the Border States, the alternative will be—to imperil complete conquest of the South and its re-union with the North, or to proclaim at once that, by some means or other, slavery must cease in the new Federation. America, it seems, has indeed produced a third Brother CHEERYBLE. The delightful " Brother CHARLES" and " Brother NED," famous in one of the earlier stories by Boz, beloved by the readers of Nicholas Nickleby, have now, it would, in truth, appear, had their number increased to three by the apparition of another, benignant merchant-philan thropist quite as worthy, in his way, of represent ing those two noble-hearted men, who are understood to have been the genaine prototypes of Mr. DICKENS'S beautiful idealisation, those twin em ployers of good old TIM LINKINWATER—known in the flesh, revered, and respected by all who knew them, as the Messrs. GRANT, of Manchester. To "Brother CHARLES" and "Brother NED" there ought now to be added—in every one's remembrance of the BROTHERS CHEERYBLE—our new American Cousin " Brother GEORGE"—Iong known familiarly and honourably to crowds of admiring friends on either side of the broad Atlantic, as GEORGE PEABODY, merchant (during the last quarter of a century), in London, denizen (before then) for a long while in the city of Baltimore; in the State of Maryland, native (not so very many years back) of the town of Danvers, in the State of Massachusetts. Says Mr. PEABODY, in the letter, to which we have already referred in these columns, the letter ad dressed by him, on the 12th ult., to the:diplonaatic re presentative of the Federal Government, at the Court of St. James's (Mr. ADAMS), "It is now 25 years since I commenced my residence and business in London as a stranger; but I did not long feel my self a ' stranger,' nor in a ' strange land,' for in all my commercial and social intercourse with my British friends during that long period I have con stantly received courtesy, kindness, and confidence. ' Under a sense of gratitude for these blessings of a kind Providence, encouraged by early associations, and stimulated by my views as well of duty as of inclination to follow the path which I had hereto fore marked out for my guidance, I have been prompted for several years past repeatedly to state to some of my confidential friends my intention at no distant period, if my life was spared, to make a donation for the benefit of the poor of London." This donation, Mr. PEABODY, we all know, now actually makes. To what extent ? London, through all its 3,000,000 inhabitants, has already marvelled to hear it, to the extent of what is popularly known amongst us as a plum and a half—to the munifi emit extent, in other words of £150,000! Remember, the donor to the Poor of London of this magnificent gift—is no well-to-do citizen, born within the sound of Bow Bells—but one who came, five and twenty long years ago, to these shores, as he reminds us now, as a stranger from the opposite shores of the broad Atlantic ocean, drawing his breath, origi nally, thousands of miles away in the State of Massachusetts ! Yet grateful for the brilliant suc cesses that have been attendant upon his commer cial enterprises for so long here in the British Empire—he now wishes, in as signal a manner as possible, to attest that gratitude by bestowing £150,000 upon the poor of London. Recollecting N v ai h st e a n u c c e e li_r i . r P oni Et, t l3 h o e D a Y h the a r s h co em m i e s -- ph fr e z_h t o h w e e g ir r c e u at m a . stances attendant upon this gift to the w po e or ho o n f honestly country than th e donor's, may, believe, be described without a particle of exaggeration as altogether unprecedented. Dona tions as munificent have been made before now in other ways, but not by one originally coming to the arena of his munificence from the shores of another and a distant land. Captain WILLIAM BROWN, we all remember—with pride and exultation as fellow countrymen of one with so princely a heart and hand, has within our own immediate recollection done great and splendid things for Liverpool. But then Liverpool was his birthplace. TURNER, the Great Landscape Painter, presented in our own time to the country of his birth, not of his adoption, a collection of art treasures (the product of his own extraordinary genius) the value of which art treasures is, in a manner, beyond the reach of computation. But then, while doing this, it is impossible not to remember that TURNER was not only conferring a benefaction upon his native land, but that he was at the same time building up his own most resplendent and enduring monument. Other benefactors of this country in a similar direc tion—not themselves artists, however, but simply lovers of art—Mr. VERNON, for example, and Mr. SHEEPSHANKS—have adorned our national collec tion of pictures by kindred gifts—time after time by an entire gallery. Here again, however, in each instance it was a native of tae soil beautifying his own Fatherland. Old English worthies whose names are still held in grateful veneration amongst us,noble hearted philanthropists like good ROBERT COLSTONE of Bristol, Founders of Schools and Hospitals, and scientific channels for the communication of their benevolent love towards their fellow-creatures through generation after generation to a remote posterity, have adorned our annals before now to our national honour, and to the honour also of our °°l3araon humanity. But here again the donors were h ome born or naturalised—in a word, they were Ruelieh enen The dis tinctive p ecu li ar it y o f M r. P EABO DY , S late spl endid act of munificence will, therefore, be obvious to ev , rY one at a g l ance . I t i s t h e benig nay of an A tn , rica 11 to th e poor of the British i ni etropolis• It s an alms, in its way, unparalleled. Since the publication of the correspondence an nouncing this noble deed to the world made its appearance in the middle of Ituit t month, we observe that a suggestion has been thrown out by an ad mirer of Mr. PEABODY'S munificence—a suggestion vaguely to the effect that Something, If hat is another matter, but at any rate that Something should be done by the people of London with a view to evidence towards Mr. PEABODY himself how truly they appreciate his beneficence. The notion of any thing at all in this way being done we cannot, how ever, ourselves but regard as altogether a mistake. W e cannot but feel persuaded upon the instant that it would be altogether alien to the 'wishes of the very man the proposer would wish to do honour to, and of course to gratify. Mr. PEABODY ) we are certain, would shrink with dismay from the ordeal of pass ing through some public ovation in recognition of what he has but just done —surely we must all say this of him—so very unostentatiously, His own emotion in giving this right royal alms of £150,000 to the very poor of London he might perhaps have b e st articulated by exclaiming, Liberavi animam mem . 1 The act, when done, is simply and most touchingly indicative of the donor's benignity to Lis fellow-mortals, and an attestation of his gratitude to Divine Providence. It would be mistaking Mr. PEABODY altogther, therefore, if the occasion were seized upon for the purpose of rendering it one for his own individual glorification. Some of our contemporaries express their fears lest the Government should be slow to act on the views they have at last expressed, in concurrence with those of the House of Commons and of the country. We do not like to indulge such suspicions; and we would rather accept the beginnings made as evidence, that, though a little slow to answer the helm, the Government intends to keep in the right course without a tack. We notice that they have begun well. The Royal Sovereign, three- decker, is already being stripped at Portsmouth ; additional hands are put on her; she is to be cut down to her middle deck, to be iron-plated, and to have six of Capt. COLE'S cupolas placed on her deck. We are also informed that the Victoria and the Duke of Wellington are to be treated in a similar manner. This is a good beginning ; and other ships are mentioned; and at Chatham orders are already given to stay the conversion of timber for shipbuilding purposes. We shall, therefore, believe that the Government means to act as well as promise. In deed, if it wished, it would find it very dangerous policy to cajole the public just now. We do not, however, believe that there is any need for extravagant haste. We are not in immi nent danger of a visit from an iron-clad frigate at Portsmouth, nor are we likely to be for some time. Nothing likely to be built across the Atlantic could venture to think of crossing it, and, with its coal exhausted, to have a try at our arsenals. European Powers certainly cannot overmatch us. The War rior and Black Prince make us safe against all they can do at this moment. And as war cannot be pro claimed in a moment, there is really no need for us to hasten on work in a way which will make us wish to do it all over again. If the Government does but begin earnestly, we do not deprecate but rather prefer its beginning carefully. Captain ERICSSON'S gasconade about driving the fleets of the Allies out of the Gulf of Mexico would be in deed foolish ground for hasty action. The Americans have plenty to do before they can afford to quarrel with two or three European Powers at once. The boast is on a par with the meanness which says not one word respecting the prior merits of our Captain COLES, while the copyist is glorying as if in inven tion, as well as in execution, he had the priority. We shall soon have, what the Americans have not yet, iron-plated ships which can keep the sea, and sail or steam with ease over half the world, while the American vessels must confine themselves to still waters. Of course the latter will build iron-plated seagoing vessels, but that has yet to be done. We have little to do but to strengthen ships ; we have also frames now ready for iron plates, with abundant mechancial means to apply them, as fast as the required quality of the works permits. The American total of 49 iron ships built, con tracted for, and proposed, looks indeed large upon paper, but of these, 20 frigates are as yet only recommended, and 20 more are iron-clad gunboats, chiefly intended for the western rivers, ordered by Congress. The other 19 are nearly all yet to be built. Indeed, the Monitor is the only one now at sea. Another or two of more doubtful powers may be ready soon, but the Americans themselves, with their present means, are not a little afraid of a second visit at Fort Monroe from the Merrimac. We think, however, that the press should keep the feeling of the public on the subject before the Government. It is undeniable that it required three evenings' debate to bring our Premier up to the mark, but when he does concede he generally does it frankly and manfully. Sir G. C. LEWIS seemed to have a little hankering after the shore forts, and justified it by the letter of the resolution, which pointed only to the Spithead forts. But Lord PALMERSTON is not the man to trifle with the public on a question of this kind. He probably is as convinced as any of us that floating defences have now the first claim—he knows that the battle at Hampton RoadS has convinced all his supporters of this, and he will not irritate them by wasting on stone what they all wish to be spent on ships. THE GREAT EASTERN.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. —At last the repairs to the big ship have been completed, and on Tuesday, the 6th of May, se will take her depar ture from Milford Haven for New York, returning from thence to this port about the middle of June. The Great Eastern while she has been laid up at Milford has had a complete overhaul, and nothing has been spared to make her as efficient as possible, and to prevent any repetition of such an accident as happened to her last September. NIP doubt much interest will be attached to the outward pas sage of the Great Eastern, as the new steamship Scotia, under Judkins' command, leaves the Mersey four days after the Great Eastern leaves Milford. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE ?—Brooke,' Club has blackballed Mr, Robert Lowe, the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, and also Mr, Owen Stanley, twin brother of Lord Stanley cf Alderley, the Postmaster-General. Mr. Lowe was refused admission to this sacred enclosure of aristocratic Whigs on the suspicion that he writes for the Times. But why a member of the illustrious house of Stanley was excluded is a question I cannot decide. Ho is a director of the Chester and Holy head Railway, and possibly this connexion with commerce is deemed by these haughty exclusives a disqualifying de filement. But Mr. Crossley, the manufacturer, is a mem ber. How came that about? These gentlemen seem to be capricious.—lllustrated Times. REDUCTION OF TILE ARMY MEDICAL STAFF IN CANADA.—The strong medical staff which was so recently sent out to Canada is breaking up almost as rapidly as the ice in that frost-favoured colony. The following medical officers are on their way home, and may be shortly expected in England :—Four deputy inspector-generals, Messrs. Innes, Stewart, Fraser, and Rutherford. Seven surgeons, Macdonald, Schoales, Todd, Cogan, Home, Macdermott, Snell, and several assistant-surgeons, including Messrs. Davidson, Atkinson, Hemphill, Hutton, Pennington, Mad den, Bryson, Hyde, &c.— United Service Gazette. IRON TOWERS.—In the autumn of last year the Federal Government sent an order to this country for the construction of four iron towers similar to that now en board the Monitor. The commission was accepted, and would have been faithfully executed if the Trent affair had not occurred, and so prevented the shipment of all warlike stores, and among them these particular castles. The contractor is now saddled with the produce of his labour, as, in the meantime, the Americans supplied themselves on the spat; and he now contemplates offering them to the Emperor of the French, as on this side of the water we are provided with Cults' cupolas, which weigh only 72 tons to Ericsson's 200 tons. No little difference of weight for a ship to carry. —Army and Navy Gazette. LAMBETH RIPLE CORPS.—This corps mustered at head -quarters on Saturday, t T ruman, assisted by under the command of Cap ain Captains Prewett, Hill, and Grady, and marched with their two lands to Clapham , common for blank firing, preparatory to the Brighton Re- Views COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, APRIL 5. The Queen and royal family arrived at Osborne yester day afternoon at a quarter before seven o'clock, from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty travelled quite privately, all guards of hon our and salutes having been dispensed with. Zlis Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, went to Dover on Thursday to meet Prince Leopold, who arrived there on that day from the Continent. The two princes left Dover at twelve o'clock yesterday, and arrived at Osborne at seven o'clock last night. Lady and Miss Bowater have accompanied Prince Leopold to Osborne. APRIL 6. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold at. tended divine service at Whippingham Church this morn ing. THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. On the arrival of the Crown Princess of Prussia at Aix-la- Chapelle, on Wednesday, her royal highness was received at the railway station by the chiefs of departments civil and military. It had been arranged that the journey should be continued from that place by a special train on the arri val of the Crown Prince from Julich, but as his royal high ness did not arrive until after the appointed time, this arrangement was abandoned, and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess availed themselves of a train starting later in the day, by which they continued their journey. FOREIGN COURTS. PARIS, APRIL 5. Prince Oscar of Sweden, the day after his arrival at Toulon, visited the naval barracks of the arsenal at Mou nllon, the imperial yacht L'Aigle, and the military port, all the details of which he inspected with great minuteness. On the following morning he was to go on board the Ville de Paris, line-of-battle ship, and proceed in her to the Isles d'Hyeres. " The object in selecting that vessel," says the Semaphore, " is, that the prince shall have an opportunity of seeing the three finest specimens of French naval archi tecture. First, the iron-cased frigate Invincible, which brought his royal highness from Nice to Toulon; next, the Ville de Pari3, a magnificent opeciman of an old voaaol transformed into a screw; and lastly, at the Isles d' Hyeres, the admiral's ship La Bretagne, which was a month back one of the most powerful machines of war, when timber vessels were thought something of, and which doesnot the less remain a splendid line-of-battle ship." The Duke of Brabant arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th ult. on board the English steamer Intrepid, which had been sent by General Codrington to Malsga, and placed at the prince's disposal. A letter from Turin says :—"The Prince Royal is to leave at the end of the month for Paris and London. He will afterwards visit the two Northern Courts—Copen hagen and Stockholm—which showed great readiness in recognising the kingdom of Italy. If it be true that the Court of Russia, at the instigation of the French Govern ment, will not letag delay the recognition of the new king dom, the prince 'will also go to St. Petersburg. Almost the whole of the Legislative Body were, two evenings back, present at a dramatic soiree given by the Count de Morny, where two new pieces by M. do Saint- Remy (his dramatic pseudonym) were performed. The first, entitled " Bons Conseils," was admirably pliyed by artists from the Gymnase Theatre, Madlle. Delaporte and M. Dorval obtaining unanimous applause ; and the second, " Sauvo qui Peut; on, la Mania des Proverbes," was not less brilliantly interpreted by Madame Thierret and MM. Brasseur and Priston of the Palais-Royal Theatre. The Levant Herald says :—" On the occasion of the Sultan's visit to the arsenal on Wednesday last, his Majesty, after inspecting the different departments of the establish ment, expressed himself much pleased with their appear ance, and afterwards issued orders that two months' arrears of pay should be paid to all the employes. On being apprised of the approaching visit of the Prince of Wales, the Sultan at once tendered, through Sir Henry Bulwer, the use of a special palace for his royal highness and suite during his stay in Constantinople. As the prince, however, is travel ling in strict incognito as Lord Renfrew, the Queen, whilst gratefully sensible of the imperial attention, declined the proffered hospitality. His royal highness, who may be expected about the middle of the coming month, will con sequently be the guest of the ambassador during his eight or 10 days' halt in our capital." His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Friday, the 11th inst. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flahault entertained at dinner on Saturday evening at Coventry House his Excellency the Russian Ambassador, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, Count Pahlen, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord Clyde, Lord Stanley, M.P., Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour and Lady Seymour, Mr. Baring, &c. _ _ 'khe Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter taining a numerous family circle at Badminton, where the noble duke and duchess intend to remain until the close of the hunting season. The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Lismore Castle, his seat in Ireland, from Holkar Hall, Lancashire. The noble duke will return from Ireland towards the end of the month. The Earl of Derby has been compelled by indis position to absent himself from his Parliamentary duties during the past week. The noble earl has been obliged to keep his room since Monday last.. His illness commenced with influenza, since coupled with gout. Yesterday his lordship was considered much better ; but some days must elapse before the noble Conservative leader will be able to resume his place in the House of Lords. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres and Lord and Lady Lindsay have arrived at their residence in Berkeley square, from Haigh Hall, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess of Erroll will shortly leave town for Slaines Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Marquis de Galliffet and Baron Leon Niviere have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. Lord and Lady Ebury have arrived at their resi dence in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, from Moor-park, TzT erts, for the season. Lady Catherine Wheble was safely delivered of a daughter on the 2d inst., at Bulmershe Court. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Lyster have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Rowton Castle, Shrewsbury. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Fotheringham have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Lea mington. The Right Hon, B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Grosvenor gate. There were present—The Earl of Hardwic.ke, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Holmes dale, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, the Hon- Windsor Clive, Sir John. Dalrymple Hay, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir Frederick Heygate, Col. Leslie, Col. Dickson, Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Beach, Mr. Smollett, Mr. Peacocke, and Mr. Malin& His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flahault will shortly leave Coventry House, Piccadilly, for Albert Gate House, the residence of the French Embassy, A new Conservative monthly review will make its appearance in June, under the title of the Church and State Review. It is to be edited by Archdeacon Deni son, assisted by many eminent theological and political writers.—Literary Gazette. AN ODDITY: The _Halifax (Nova Seotia) Sun records the death of a Mr. Hart, of Wallace rrver, who was over 90 years of age, and had worked all his life at th problem of perpetual motion ; but 90 years had not been long enough to enable him to solve it, and on the day before his death he had just " a few more wheels" to make to com plete his work. Eccentric even in his grave, he was buried at his own request on one of the most lofty peaks of the Cebequid mountains in his ordinary clothes. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.- - Ort Sunday last a young girl, aged 15, the daughter of a mechanic, in the New Town, Ashford, vomited a live frog. She had pre viously been treated for bowel complaint. The frog has been shown to a great many persons in the town, and we believe has been taken by F. Shepherd, Esq., surgeon, who a ttended the girl at St. B ar th o lomew's Hospital, London. It is of considerable size, being as large as the palm of the girl's hand, and is very lively. She was nearly choked by it. The water supplied to the houses in the New Town is very impure, and in summer is full of insects. The girl has a recollection of swallowing something when drinking a draught of water last summer, but no attention was paid to the circumstance. She has been lately subject to disorders and pains in the bowels, for which she has been obliged to have recourse to medical advice. —Sussex Express. EARLY APPEARANCE OF THE SWALLOW. A number of swallows were seen in the neighbourhood of Newtownhamilton on Monday, the 31st ult. Their appear ance i n March is thought to indisate the likelihood of a dry and more than usually hot summer. We gratefully accept the omen, as the fall . of rain during the winter, and so far of the S pring months, has been unexampled for,sonue years. —lYetery 1 elegraph. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. WORCESTER, SATURDAY.—A. fortnight ago two gentlemen, belonging to this city disappeared under circumstances of great mystery. Mr. E. Walter, a gentleman of independent means, and a member of the local council, left his home one evening, and nothing- has been heard of him. A hat, identified as the ono he wore when he left his home, was found in the river Severn next day, but, if drowned, the body has not come to light. A few days previously Mr. W. Jones, cashier on tho West Midland Railway, left his home to take a walk, and ho too has never been seen since, although a person wh o knew him iby sight speaks positively to meeting hi m in M a nchester s t a te of health before he l e ft home. Rewards are offered a f i e g w h t days ago. Mr. Jones had been in a low for ipformatioxt roaPectitig either of the miaing geutlowl, LATEST NEWS. TURIN, APRIL 7. The King has signed a decree, ordering the re-organization of the magistracy in the southern provinces. The visit of the King to Naples will take place after Easter. According to news from Naples, the band of Crocco has been defeated near Lovello. 25 of the brigands were killed ; the rest fled towards the Roman frontiers. The French troops have attacked and dispersed Chiavoni's band, near Prato Bompoli. The huts of the brigands were destroyed. On Friday last a convoy of provisions, sent from Veroli, for the brigands, was seized by the French troops. The Movinzento of to-day says that 300 Rifle Clubs have already been organised under the auspices of Garibaldi. It is asserted that the Collar of the Order of the Annunziata will shortly be sent to the Shah of Persia. BERLIN, APRIL 6. The Vosszsche Zeitung of yesterday published a letter addressed by the Minister of Finance to the Minister of War, which it stated to have received from an anonymous correspondent. In this letter the Minister of Finance urgently requests the Minister of War to reduce his military budget by 21 millions of thalers, in order to allow of the removal of the present additional taxes and to enable the Government to give assurances to that effect to the people before the pending election talrpo The semi-official Allgerneine Preussische (Stern) Zeitung of to-day contains the following :—" The Vossische Zeitung of yesterday published a confi dential letter from the Minister of Finance to the Minister of War, which it pretends to have received from an anonymous correspondent. The person who sent this letter to the paper in question can only have obtained it in an illegal manner, for which reason the affair has been referred to the P rocurator-General." FRANCE. The Emperor has commuted to hard labour for life, the sentence of death passed at the last assizes of the Rhone on the young man Giraud -for killing a turnkey in the Prison St. Joseph at Lyons. The Moniteur publishes four decisions of Marshal Bandon, Minster of War, relative partly to exemp tion from military service in 1862, and partly to re enlistments and engagements as substitutes. The first fixes the sum to be paid by young men comprised in the contingent of the class of 1861, for exonera tion from service, at 2,500 f. By the second, the amount which soldiers now in the service, but wish ing to retire, will have to pay, is settled at 550 f, for each year of their unexpired term, The third enacts that re-enlistments for seven years will give a right to a sum of 2,200 f. ; I,ooof. to be paid at the time of joining the regiment, and 1,200 f. at the end of the engagement; also to the pay of 10e. a day. Any re-enlistment contracted for less than seven years will give a right up to 14 years' service to a sum of 310 f. for each year ; 140 f. to be paid at the time of incorporation, and 170 f. at the end of the period, and to the pay of 10c. a-day. After 14 years' service the soldier re-enlisting will only have a right to the high daily pay of 20c. Voluntary enlistments by men who have retired from the ser vice will also give a right to the above advantages. The fourth decision states that replacements made by the Administration, and for a period of seven years, will entitle the substitute to a bounty of 2,200 f. ; I,ooof. payable at the time of entering, and 1,200 f. at the end of the term. BOURSE, April s.—The market has been without animation, but prices maintained with but slight variations throughout the day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. Railways also pretty firm, but with only a moderate amount of business doing. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 97 75 Bank Shares 3095 Do. end month.... 98 20 Credit Fonder 1535 50 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 7 - 7 Piedmontese Fives 6B -- New 3 per Cents .. 68 90 Roman — Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 783 75 Spanish Threes 5l/ Do. Account — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern i•iew7liiio --- -- - - Lyons and Mediterranean 1137 50 .. 1135 Geneva .. 378 75 .. 380 Southern 786 25 Western Eastern Sardinian 365 . .. Austrian Lombard 570 .. 672 50 PRUSSIA. The Pr ussian Constitutional party has published in its turn, an electoral manifesto, of which the following are the principal points " Ist. Conscientious respect for the Constitu tional rights of the Crown, and complete efficacy of the rights guaranteed to the people and their re presentatives. 2. The Chamber of Deputies has undoubtedly the right, according to the terms of the Constitution, to amend the annual budget, by ape• cialising the chapters, as it thinks proper. 3. The Constitution exacts that the budget be voted before the commencement of the year to which it belongs. 4. No one can approve of the charges imposed upon the country by the new organisation and by the increase of the standing army becoming durable in time of (peace. 5. The Chamber of Nobles, in its' present composition, forms one of the principal obstacles to a national and liberal policy." The Progressionist party, on its side, has replied to the circular of the Minister of the Interior, by an address to the electors, in which we remark the following lines : _ _ "We rely on the Prussian people not allowing themselves to be disturbed, but that it will show by the new elections that it has not advocated the liberal development of Prussia in consequence of momentary feelings of irritation, but seriously and with resolution. If we hold firmly to Consti tutional right, to the reality of Constitutional in stitutions, and to the success of progress, the period of trials will be abridged, the last hopes of reaction destroyed, and the union between the people and the Government, which cannot be interrupted, but to the detriment of the country, be re-established." The Prussian Minister of Justice, Count Lippe, has just addressed a circular to the functionaries of his department on the subject of the coming elec.. tions. It was rumoured that many magistrates had protested against their being obliged to assume an attitude in the elections not in accordance with their constitutional position. Count Lippe's circular is less stringent than that of the Minister of the Interior, the functionaries being recommended not to join in the electoral exc it emen t, so as t o d e p ar t f ro m the impartiality so necessary to every magi strate. The municipal council of Berlin, at its last sit ting," says a letter from that city, " resolved unani mously that all the 41 per cent. stock held by the city should be presented for reimbursement. That decision is considered a vote of want of confidence against the Ministry, and will probably beimitated by a number of fundholders, and thus give a rude blow to first financial operation of M. Von der Hey dt." A Berlin letter in the Cologne Gazette says:— "It is stated that Belgium last mouth expressed a desire to open negotiations with the Zollverein on the subject of a treaty of commerce. The Prussian Government replied that it would ask the assent of the other States of Zollvereie. This is the sole foundation for the rumour current in political circles that Belgium had already made certain definite proposals." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Ist announce that 'orders him been givers to evacuate Tetuan. The stores were first to leave, and then the garrison. In the Congress, on that day, in answer to an inter pellation of M. Olozaga, Marshal O'Donnell stated it was quite true that four Spanish subjects had been murdered in Venezuela, from motives, it would appear, of private vengeance. The Queen's Govern ment had transmitted the strongest remonstrances to the French representative, who was charged with the interests of Spain in that Republic, praying him to demand in firm terms the punishment of the guilty parties. The Spanish Cabinet did not con sider that the Government of Venezuela could be held responsible for the crimes in question. If Spanish subjects had complained of vexatious pro ceedings on the part of the Republic alluded to, the case would be different ; but in the present instance, private motives alone seemed to have actuated the parties. Hence the Spanish Government could not interfere. The matter then dropped. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 6. The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here at 950 p.m. this evening, with 77 passengers and 203,000 dols. in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails and six passengers, and proceeded at 10 10 p.m.; all well. The Royal Mail steamship China had arrived out, after a passage of nine days and a half. NEW YORK, MARCH 25, EVENING. A portion of General Burnside's expedition is reported to have advanced on Beaufort, North Carolina, which the Confederates, after blowing up Fort Macon, are said, to have evacuated. It is also reported that the blockading squadron had captured the steamer Nashville while endea vouring to run the blockade. It is generally believed that an attack has been made on New Orleans, but the result is not known. No decisive news has yet been received from Island No. 10. A Chicago despatch says that the Confederates have 13 gunboats at New Orleans nearly completed. The il'eto York times says that President Davis's reported proposed visit to the West means his flight from Richmond. The New York press strongly repudiates all idea of foreign mediation between North and South. The New York Times fully confides in the entire com petency of the North to subdue the insurgents and restore the South to order, peace, and prosperity. The New I ork World considers that Earl Russell gives his entire moral support to the South by stating that he trusted the North would consent to a peaceable separation, as this is all the South de manded. A fight took place at Winchester, on the Upper Potomac, on the 23d inst. The Confederate General Jackson, supposing the Federals to have deserted Winchester, advanced to retake the town. The Federals being still in possession of it, how ever, a fight ensued, with heavy loss on both sides. The Confederates retreated to Strasbourg. The latest despatches from the Federal General Banks are dated five miles beyond Strasbourg, and state that the Confederates were still retreating. The Federals were in hot pursuit. Terrible havoc had been made among the Confederates in their flight. Wendell Phillips, an anti-slavery lecturer, has been mobbed in Cincinnati. The Nova Scotian, America, Hansa, and Edin burgh have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MARCH 25, ETENING. Money easy ; Gold, 19 per cent. premium ; Ex change inactive; Bankers' bills, 1111 to 112. Stocks flat—New York Centrals, 831 ; Illinois, 651; Erie, 36i. Cotton quiet ; middling upland, 271 c. to 28c. Flour depressed. Wheat tending downwards. Corn, good inquiry; lc. lower. Provisions quiet. Coffee inactive. Sugar, good inquiry. Molasses unchanged. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND LIFEBOATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--The press of this country has, during the last few years, rendered invaluable service to the cause of humanity, which is the cause of all nations, by its appeals in behalf of the National Lifeboat Institution, and by the publicity which it has given to the important services performed by its lifeboats in saving human lives on our shores. I venture in its behalf to solicit again the power ful advocacy of The Sun at this moment in a matter of much importance to its interests, and to those of the cause it advocates, when all other influences have failed to aid it. At the forthcoming International Exhibition, where the present status of the arts and sciences in this country, and especially of the useful arts, is to be exhibited and compared with those of all the nations of the earth for the common and manifest good of all, the managers of the National Lifeboat Institution had hoped to have presented to the view of all the visitors to that noble representation of human industry and progress, and especially to the visitors from foreign countries, a full sized lifeboat, fully equipped, and mounted on her transporting carriage, just as one might be seen at any of the numerous lifeboat stations on our coasts ready for instantaneous service. It was thought that such an object could not only not fail to attract great and general interest, but that it would be singularly appropriate to such an assemblage, showing to all men, and in particular to those who must have first crossed the sea, to be there present, that the great national duty of pro viding for the safe landing on our shores of all who may visit them, in the event of accident, is not a neglected one in England. Accordingly at an early period of last year appli cation was made by this institution to the proper authorities for the requisite space at the forthcom ing Exhibition; but want of space, in any part of the building, was the reply. Yet until the last moment the committee of management of the insti tution had hoped even against hope that the same would not ultimately be denied them, and the life boat accordingly with her equipments is now ready, and silently pleading for admission into the building. The institution has, to be sure, some counter space afforded to it fo'r the exhibition of models and plans, but the modei of a lifeboat looks a mere toy, con veying to the ordinary spectator but a slight im pression of the fitness and completeness of that which it represents. Whilst therefore the full sized realities of chariots, carriages of pleasure, and of numberless machines employed in agriculture and commerce, will be sub mitted .to the world's view, why must a great national object be represented by a toy P Last year the lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom were instrumental in rescuing 743 per sons from different shipwrecks, many of whom were foreigners. Hoping that even at s the hs eleventh t h a o t i n v r e t o li f e p v u o b i l c ic e of the London press, as opinion, may avail the Lifeboat Institution, and that an object of which the British nation may well feel proud, and which cannot but excite the admi ration of its guests, will yet appear at the forth coming International Exhibition, I am, sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 14, John. street, Adelphi, W.C. April 7. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, ExETER-HALL.- The usual Passion-week performance of Handel's " Mes siah" will take place on Wednesday, April 16. Principal vocalists already engaged—Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti. SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER. —On Saturday m a fiightful oc currence took place, by which it is feared rs. Catherine Brainly, aged 10 Brainly,aged 33 years; Mary Ann years ; and Phmbe Cornelius, aged 20 year s, residing in Artillery-place, Horselydowt, will lose their lives. It appeared a child of Mrs. Brainly found a packet of gunpowder, put it in a saucer an, and placed it on the fire. As might be expected, a terrific explosion took I lace, mutilating the persons named in a frightful manner. They all remain at Guy's Hospital in a deplorable eon ditiOU.• _HEAVY ILIORTARS AT SEA. The following is a letter dated United States schooner Norfolk Packet, at sea, March 1; — Yesterday afternoon we fired our 13-inch mortar for the first time at sea. The wind was very light, the sea quiet, and the day pleasant and sunny. In order to make the trial sufficiently thorough, the piece was loaded as if for actual bombardment, with the full charge of 20 pounds of powder and a shell weighing over 200 pounds. The mortar was trained directly a-beam, and re ceived an elevation of about forty-five degrees. The machinery for training the piece is remark ably compact, and, although difficult to under stand, with its eccentric and other novel pieces of ironmongery, seems to work with ease and precision. The foresail, foretopsail, and the head sails of the schooner were lowered away and hauled over to windward. All the ship's com pany, except the powder division, who were be low attending to their peculiar duties, stood on deck, mostly in the rear of the piece. The word to fire was given, and almost immediately 'the stunning report followed. The mortar recoiled eighteen inches, and us the shell went humming away all eyes were turned to see it explode. The shell was half a minute in its flight, and when it burst was apparently several hundred feet in the air, and distant by computation more than two miles. All we saw of the explosion was the sudden appearance in the sky of a little cloud of smoke resembling a balloon. Ten seconds after first seeing the cloud we heard the report. It sounded like an answering gun from one of the ships in the offing. The little cloud slowly increased in size, and faded away till its outlines were lost. Several curious incidents attended the firing,. The facings of the bulwarks between the ports or' the larboard side, that from which the shell was thrown, were blown off and fell into the water. Several glass windows were broken in the ward room, and sashes were violently thrown open. The partition between the cabin and ward room was started, and tables were jostled out of place. But these little mishaps obviously resulted from the concussion of the air caused by the explosion of so heavy a charge, and were not produced by the recoil of the mortar. Persons who were on duty below say that the shock which the vessel felt was less severe than that attending the discharge of one of our 32-pounders. THE HARTLEY WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. At a general meeting of the Hartley Relief Com mittee, held at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Friday, the Mayor of that town in the chair, it was reported that the amount now received was over £75,000, and that the gentlemen nominated at the last meet ing as trustees had all consented to act, and in con sequence of the instructions also given at the last meeting the committee had proceeded to invest £60,000 in proper securities. The committee pro ceeded to fix the scale of allowances, and the follow ing was adopted:—To each widow 7s. a-week; widow and one child, 10s. 6d.; widow and two chil dren, 13s. 6d.; widow and three children, 15s. 6d.; widow and four children, 17s. 6d. ; widow and five children, 19s. 6d. ; widow and six children, 21s. 61. a-week, the allowance to continue, except in cases of gross misconduct, to widows so long as they re main unmarried; to girls until they reach the age of 15 years ; to boys until they reach the age of 12 years ; the allowance for infirm adults to remain, as a general rule, at ss. per week ; special cases to be considered. The committee will educate the chil dren, and furnish medical attendance to the fami lies in addition. At present the families enjoy their cottages rent free and pay nothing for coals. But if they have to remove from their cottages a general opinion was expressed by several of the committee that they should have their rents paid them. These are the largest allowances ever made from a fund of this character, and to maintain them for 15 years it is estimated £40,000 will require to be sunk, and a: further sum of £lO,OOO will be required for those widows who may be alive at the end of 15 years. Mr. T. E. Forster informed the committee that the amount of the sinkers' testimonial fund was about £1,500. Nothing was positively determined with. regard to the surplus. The subject of a permanent fund is being taken up by the coal trade' But, us many of the committee are most anxious that the large number of orphan chil dren placed under their care by the melancholy catastrophe shall have a good honest English education, and that they shall have a fair chance of making their al ay in the world, the surplus, after everything is honestly met, will not be so great as was expected. CAPITAL SENTENCES. Seven persons have been sentenced to death at the Lent Assizes for murder. Of these three have been executed—viz., William Charlton, at Carlisle, for the murder of an aged female gatekeeper on a line of railway, who was supposed to have in her cottage a small sum of money, which it was the object of the murderer, an enginedriver on the same line of railway, to obtain ; John Gould, at Reading, for the murder of his own child by cutting her throat ; and RichaL-d Rrv lands, at Beaumaris, for the murder of his Vlfe's father. Appeals were made in each of these tbree cases to the mercy of the Crown ; but the offenceg were of so shocking and aggrava ted a character as to render any interference with the sentence alto gether inconsistent with the due administration of justice. One other convict, Richard Thorley, re mains for execution at Derby o n Friday next, the 11th inst. He was convicted of the murder of a young woman who refused to receive his addresses by cutting her throat in a most cruel and barbarous manner, and, as no attempt has been made to pro cure a commutation of his sentence, it is all but cer tain, considering the nature of the offence, that the law will be left to take its course. In the case of George Clark, who was convicted at Newcastle-• upon-Tyne of the murder of a tax-collector in that town, it was found after his trial that he was in an unsound state of mind ; and, upon medical certifi cates of that fact, his sentence has been respited, in order that he may be placed under observation, and dealt with as his mental condition may seem to require. With respect to the two remain ing prisoners, John Hall and Ismael Jones, the former convicted at Oxford of shooting a. gamkeeper in the service of Viscount Dillon , and the ' latter at Montgomery, of murdering hi s wife in a paroxysm of jealousy, it appeared, upon inquiry, that there were certain extenuating facts in the re spective cases; and that, under the circumstances, • the ends of justice might be satisfied without the that other e r expected infliction of the extre me penalty of the law. Their sentences have, therefore , been C ommitted an to y penalh servitude for life. It is no t capital convictions will take place at these assizes, which have been heavy, and are now on the eve of conclusion. The Vocal Association having obtained the con sent of Miss Louisa Pyne, and W. Harrison, Esq., to give a Selection from Mr. Benedict's Opera (The Lily of Killar ney) will introduce, for the first time in the Concert-roonlp an entire Selection of the principal gems of this d e lightful opera on W e d nes d ay even i ng n e xt, April 9th, at St. James's Hall. Th o so l o s i n gers announced are Miss Banks, Miss Augusta Thomson, Mr. Swift, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. Sant ley. The choir of 500 voices will sing the Boatme n, Chorus. Mr. Benedict will conduct • the performance. THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—The public must not expect a very speedy promulgation of the finding of tha court-martial in the 4th Dragoon Guards. The volumin ous proceedings will have to be examined by the Judge' Advocate-General as regards their legal sufficiency, and by the General Commanding with a view to their bearing on the discipline of the army, before the result is known, and it is not probable that it can be made public for some weeks.—Army and Navy Gazette. The execution of Gresse, alias Livache, condemned to death at the late assizes of the Isere for pcisoning 13erthier, a farmer at Motte d'Aveillan, took place at, Grenoble the day befiwe yesterday. The prisoner ever since his trial had shown the u tmost contrition fur his crime, and when informed tha t his last day was come, re , - intelligence with resignation. After hearing mass, ceived the int el li he was taken in a cart to the Champ-de-Mars, and on ar , riving there, he ascended the scaffold unaided, rpeatcd short prayer with the priest, and a moment after had ceased to exist. A crowd of not less than 6,000 persons, more than two-thirds females, had assend.led to witness the (=QUO. CO 4 ad lkie 1) , ):: fi e l d ' 1%41