The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. — The MEET ING intended to be held to-morrow at the London Tavern will not take place until after the Court of Common Council shall have received the report of the Improvement Committee, to whom the consideration of the Company's Memorial has been referred. The day of adjournment will be fixed by the Lord Mayor, of which due notice will be given. March 8, 1859. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT A-L GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa nrne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING THE ROSE OF CASTILLE. Messrs. Weiss, Honey, St. Albyn, and Mr. Wm. RarriSol l . Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, and Morrell. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's Clothing. Commence at Seven, THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, will be produced an original English Ballad Opera, entitled WILLIAM AND SUSAN. William Mr. Haigh ; Susan, Miss Lucette. ro conclude Fri ar Tuck new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD ; or, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 1.1) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be performed the play of LOUIS XI. Louis (King of France), by Mr. C. Kean. Atter which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince D;amond and Princess Brighteycs. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. - Farewell Season of Mr. CHARLES KEAN as Manager. Last Nights of thoundermentioned Plays : LOUIS THEELEVENTH, this Evening - , Tuesday, March the Bth ; on Wednesday, the 16th ; on Monday, the 21st, and (last time) on Friday, the 25th. Wednesday, March 9th (being Ash-Wednesday), there will be no performance. MACBETH, on Thursday, March the 10th ; and on Thurs day (last time) the 17th. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, on Friday, March the 11th ; on Tuesday, the 15th ; on Friday, the 18th ; on Tuesday, the 22d; and on Thursday, the 24th. THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, on Saturday, March the 12th ; on Saturday the 19th ; and with (last times) A MID SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, on Tuesday and Thursday, the 22d and 24th. HAMLET will be performed on Monday, March the 14th ; and (last time) on Wednesday, the 23d. * * These plays will not be re - produced, with the exception , perhaps, of one or two representations only, towards the ter mination of the Management in the latter part of the month of July. The Public is respectfully informed that Mr. and Mrs. C. KEAN'S annual• Benefit will take place OR Monday, March the 28th, when will be produced the Historical Play fNG HENRY THE FIFTH, being the last Shaksperian revival under the existing management. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. Trus EVENING, will be perfo rmed AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mr. Buckstone, &c. Followed by the new grand Comic Pa f the ntomime, entitled UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit o Waters. Commence at 7. coner 1. 0Y A m L im LYCEU M c sr Edmund Fa Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. THIS EVENING, will be produced THE FAIRY CIRCLE. Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams. After which, THE HOUR AT SEVILLE. Mrs. Barney Williams in ten characters. To conclude with THE LEPRACITAUN; or, Bad Luck's Good Luck with Good Looking After. Messrs. Barney Williams, Barrett, &c. And a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, is. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 6 to commence at 7 every evening. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING-, the performance will commence with WELCOME LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright. _ _ After whicII,STELWATERS RUN DEEP. John Mildmay, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Potter, Mr. Charles Selby ; Hawksley, Mr. Biliington; Mrs. Mildmay, Mrs. Billington ; Mrs. Sternhold Mrs. A. Wigan. To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Woolgar, Miss Arden, Miss Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough This Evening will be presented MATRIMONIAL PRO SPECTUSES. Atter which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Brilliant and unprecedented success of the new Dramatic Spectacle. THIS EVENING, and during the week (Ash Wednesday excepted), the performances will commence with an entirely new Spectacle, from the pen of R. Phillips, Esq., interspersed with (extraordinary hippodramatic effects and striking situa tions, in three Acts, and entitled THE HUNDRED CUIRASSIERS. Produced with new scenery, mechanical arrangements, gorgeous In 1 characteristic costumes, elabo rate equestrian and spectacular appointments, and the hand somest Stul of Horses in the world. Characters by Messrs. Holloway, Phillips, Anson, Francis, Anderson, M. Howard. Herbert ; Mesdames Dowton, Blanche, Julia Weston, Thorne, &c. clueing Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Bridges, Mr. A. Cooke, &c. Emily Cooke, together with the Star Riders. and Astley's unrivalled Troupe of Equestrian Artistes. To be followed by SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Maddlle. Fleurette, and Madame Fran cisco, being tne greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night at any theatre. Grotesques : Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the CAPTAIN IS NOT AMISS. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, :Is. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.: Stage Manager,,Xr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor —C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTA GALLERT,in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DA/ AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 )'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec .ion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters :and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. ` The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the S ,kITVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine an I ElevQn o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 60—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.7 3 . •- --- WIND, North-Westerly ; fresh, with fine weather. ‘v* - , e ze - . bfk 0., i t. t .. 6,y1-e•3;0 , •• oni4"1,11,1:64'!"- THE SUN. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1859. The manner in which the lonian difficulty has recently terminated at Corfu reflects discredit alone upon the lonians themselves. They have them selves alone wilfully thrown away a priceless opportunity. That opportunity was nothing less than the power, voluntarily proffered for their a cceptance, for the working out of their own reforms in their own Parliament, under the super vision of the Lord High Commissioner, as the representative of the Protecting S ovE _ REIG N. This tendered privilege they have per versely set aside, not merely with disdain, but with an air of contumelious an dinsolent indifference. They have brought affairs by this means round once more to the actual starting point. All the turmoil, anxiety, and agitation of the last four months go for nothing. Not a single abuse has been got rid of in the meantime. Nothing, abso lutely nothing, has come of all this popular efferves cence—literally nothing, good, bad, or indifferent. A preposterous appeal has been transmitted from Corfu to the Queen Protectress—coolly beseeching her MAJESTY to forego the rights of Sovereignty over the septinsular republic entrusted to the guardianship of the British Crown forty-four years ago by the united Powers of Christendom. This extravagantly absurd request has—as a matter of course been declined definitely and peremptorily. Magnanimous efforts have been made by the English Government to con ciliate the lonian people and the lonian Parliament so far as to induce them to undertake themselves the delicate and difficult office of the revision of their hitherto anomalous and ill-work ing Constitution. All in vain. The Hellenic agitators have only shown themselves to be mo re and more irrate, insolent, and implacable. Whatever advances have been made have been repelled. Whatever suggestions have been offered for their consideration have been refused. Sir JOHN YOUNG failed, through no lack of assiduity in his efforts, to disentangle the complicated knot of the lonian difficulty, woven and ravelled into The announcement made on Friday evening in the House of Commons, by the right hon. baronet the First Lord of the Admiralty, in answer to the inquiries addressed to him by the noble lord the member for Woodstock, eannot'but be accepted at once as in the highest degree satisfactory. It is the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty to have a sepa rate naval station for the defence of the Australian Colonies. The design was originally that of Lord AUCKLAND—and that design is at length to be realised. Negotiations have already commenced with the Government of Sydney with a view to the establishment in its immediate neighbourhood of this independent command. An island called Garden Island, situated in Sydney Harbour, is about to be appropriated by the Admiralty for the reception of stores for the benefit and assistance of her MAJESTY'S vessels in these seas. Meanwhile, as an indication of the solicitude felt by the Lords of the Admiralty under the present Administra tion, to do whatever nay be most advisable for the protection of British interests at our antipodes, it will be sufficient to note that whereas on the advent of Lord DERRY'S Cabimet to power only a twelvemonth since, the whole of our naval force in those seas amounted to just one vessel, it has within this year been increased to an efficient SQUADRON of four men-of-war, two of them moreover being screw steamers ! There is obviously no apathy in this matter to be charged against the existing Government. Even as far as provi sional arrangements have yet proceeded, enough has been already accomplished by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON and his colleagues at the Ad miralty to relieve their lordships from the weight of any such accusation. Indeed, Capt. LAURIE, the commanding officer of the squadron already specified, has but very recently written to the First Lord of the Admiralty, as Sir JOHN him self intimated to the House on Friday, assur suring the Admiralty that in his (Captain LAURIE'S) opinion that squadron was amply suffi cient for any emergency which could arise within the colonies. Nevertheless, excellent though all these arrangements are in themselves, they are avowedly* only temporary—they are merely makeshifts for the time being, until the day-dream of Lord AUCKLAND, the substantial project of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON shall have been actually realised. The squadron of four men-of-war under the command of Captain LAURIE, the occupation and appropriation to Admiralty purposes of Garden Island in the harbour of Sydney, are merely antici patory of the organization in the Australian Seas of an independent naval establishment. Though the arrangements at present arc in their infancy, says Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, " I mention it to show my noble friend that we are not unmindful of the necessity of having some naval establishment in those seas, and I hope that it will soon be so far matured as to meet all the requirements of our fleet." Indeed, the First Lord added immediately afterwards explicitly in so many words, " The Board of Admiralty have come to the determination that the Australian colonies ought not to be nomi nally attached to the India and China station, and m a littleke it ;lateran during thi com mand." as we therefore Thereupon, to pon, a di scuss i o n on Friday evening , Mr. BRIGH T , i n a burst of vituperative elo q uence alto g ethe r uncalled for, repudiated the ain u e d n i t a e t r e t d ed by h o t tio e n Go ( i 7 ernra noti n o n n t)of never for"loading the industry of the people of England for the p ur . pose, whether of protecting our rich and prosperous colonies, or of merely gratifying the .taste and sentiment of persons living atthe other side of the world." Let us go on in this way, said the lion. member for Birmingham, adding as we have done during the last twenty years at the rate of £10,000,000 or £12,000,000. per annum to the expense of our mili tary and naval estimates, and we shall have an opportunity of witnessing that "ugly rush," spoken of the other evening by the Right Hon. Member for Oxfordshire ! "It is one of the many gordian. involutions long anterior to his n omination as Lord High Commissioner. Mr. GLADSTONE, first of all, as his colleague, and afterwards as his succcessor, found even his elaborated endeavouri to solve the problem of Hellenic discontent, baffled, if that could possibly be, even yet more summarily, yet more provokingly. The upshot of all being that after all that, has been said and done of late, affairs revert at Corfu to the status quo ante jur glum !—for it has literally been nothing more dignified from first to last than a squab bling jar and wrangle. The customary biennial session began just a week ago, according to usage, on the Ist of this present month of March. By the arrival of midsummer, it will, as usual, have been brought to a conclusi& And, then, for a period of nearly two years his Excellency the newly appointed Lord High Com sioner will have it entirely to hiMself to initiate and inaugurate whatever reforms may appear to him to be in any way most desirable, without being for a moment embarrassed during the interval destined to elapse between the two sessions—the session of 1859 and the session of 1861—by the perversity of a disingenious and impracticable legislature. . . _ Sir HENRY STORKS gave fair warning to the lonian Assembly of what would be the inevitable consequence of their own final perversity in re jecting the proposals of reforms submitted to their consideration by his right hon. predecessor. His Excellency acknowledged that he received with regret that refusal of the Legislative Assembly, brought to him by the President (FLAMBuRIANI), at the head of a deputation of the representatives —adding significantly, " I believe a change in the existing system would have strengthened the lonian Government and lightened the burdens of the people." Reminding the members that the question already answered by her MAJESTY, the Sovereign Protectress of those States—namely, the extravagant question about Greek annexation—had, by reason of that Royal answer, been finally settled' insomuch that it has become impossible to enter upon it again " at any time or under any circum stances"—His Excellency added this expressive intimation My duty is to observe the Consti tuion and enforce obedience to the laws. I shall never be found wanting in the dis charge of it." And further, "As the as• sembly has refused its aid to England on this occasion, the whole responsibility now rests with that body." Sir HEN RY adding yet more this important declaration " Deprived of the sup port which the assembly might have given to me, I shall, in prosecution of the bene volent intentions of the Protecting Sovereign, labour in the work of improvement by a free exer cisejof the powers which the Constitution has placed in my hands." And those powers ? The history of our four and forty years' rule over the United States of the lonian Islands furnishes us with abundant testimony that -whenever a Lord High Commis sioner so pleases they may be stretched con stitutionally to the utmost limits of a military despotism. A soldier like Sir HENRY STORKS will know how to wield befittingly the viceregal sceptre entrusted to his safe keeping—a magical sceptre, none the less invested with a heavy re sponsibility, because, at any moment, at the will and pleasure of its holder, an olive rod, or a rod of ron. THE SUN, 9 'LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1859. most monstrous things ever heard of," said Mr. ( BRIGHT, " and probably has never been dreamt of in any country but this, that we should have an extended empire, abounding in colonies, such as Canada and Australia, where the people are in finitely better off than we are, and yet should con tribute not a single farthing in any shape either to the sums necessary for paying the interest of the national debt incurred in past wars, or for the naval and military service of the home country. If they are to be parts of the empire, and allowed to demand military succour, I do not say even in time of war, but in time of peace—regiments upon their shores and fleets upon their waters—l say every farthing of the cost they ought to defray themselves." Well —happily for the Imperial exchequer, happily for the over-taxed people of the United Kingdom—all this is pretty much the feeling of our administra tors. Scarcely has Mr. BRIGHT resumed his seat after this rhetorical outburst of economic and patriotic indignation, when the Colonial Seci•etary rises for the purpose of uttering a few quiet and pithy words of commentary. "The Hon. Member for Birmingham," said Sir BITLIVER LYTTON, " has not perfectly comprehended the overtures made to the colonies with respect to the expense of their naval and military defence. In 1856 Sir War. DENISON proposed a plan for the naval and military defence of Australia. According to that plan he proposed that the colony should be at all the expense of the naval force required for purely colonial defence, and that the Imperial Government should pay the cost of what was necessary for imperial pur poses. In fact," added the right hon. baronet, "it has been the object both of my predecessors and myself to urge upon the colony the necessity of contributing largely towards its defence.7 Rational economists, and enlightened statesmen, as well as naval and military men, are all, long since, agreed about this. They are agreed as perfectly as they are also happily long since agreed, that it is no false economy to maintain in time of peace efficient naval and military establishments. Mr. BRIGHT , of course, is an exception. So also are those who sympathise with his peace-at-any-price fanta sies. But rational economists we maintain are altogether of a different opinion. They recognise the wisdom of acting up to the recommendation of he old adage—Si cm pacenz pars bellunz. Hence it is in the interest of peace that, according to the heroic motto of the NAPIERS, we should be " Ready, aye Ready." Hence it is with a view to the main tenance of peace that QUEEN VICTORIA, in her Speech from the Throne on the re-opening of Par liament, announced the prospective reconstruction of the Royal Navy of England—and upon the occasion of her MAJESTY'S first levee this season, with her gentle womanly hand, she gave the knightly accolade to Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, the inventor of that terrible rifle cannon, which is the deadliest implement of war yet contrived by man ; and for the manufacture of which, as rapidly as possible, unlimited orders—still in the interests of peace—have emanated from her BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S Government. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held an Investiture of the Mosi Ancient Order of the Thistle yesterday afternoon at Buck• inghant Palace. The Queen, wearing the Mantle of the Order of green velvet, together with the Collar, was conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Throne-room, in which the Chapter was held. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince Consort (who wore the Mantle and Collar of the Thistle), and was attended by the ladies and gentlemen of her court. The band of the Foot Guards, on duty with the Guard of Honour in front of the Palace, played the National Anthem as her Majesty passed to her seat. The Knights of the Thistle were called over by the Secre tary, and entered the Throne-room wearing the Mantleand Collar of the Order. There were present the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Earl of Rosebery, the Duke of Montrose, and the Duke of Athol]. The officers of the Order in attendance were the Secretary, Sir John Stewart Richardson, Bart., and the Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, Frederic Peel Round, Esq. The Knights, by the Queen's command, took their seats at the Chapter table, and her Majesty's pleasure was sig nified touching the election of a Knight into the Order. , The Knights proceeded to the election, the Suffrages were collected by the Secretary, and by him, kneeling, were presented to the Sovereign. The Queen declared "the most Honourable Archibald Marquis of Ailsa had been duly elected a Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle." The Marquis of Ailsa was received at the door of the Chapter -room by the two Junior Knights, and, supported on the right by the Duke of Montrose and on the left by the Duke of Atholl, was conducted to her Majesty, preceded by the Secretary (bearing the ensigns of the Order on a cushion) and by the Usher of the Green Rod. The Sword of State was presented by the Prince Consort to the Queen, the Marquis of Ailsalmelt down, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him by her Majesty. His lordship kissed the Sovereign's hand. The Marquis rising, the Secretary administered the oath to him. Lord Ailsa again knelt ; the Secretary then, pre sented the Riband and Jewel of the Order, which the Queen, assisted by his Royal Highness the Senior Knight, placed over the left shoulder of the noble marquis. His lordship again kissed hands, and afterwards received the congratu lations of the Prince Consort and the other Knights of the Order. The Chapter being ended the Knights Brethren were again called over, and withdrew from the royal presence. Albert W. Woods, Esq. (Lancaster Herald), the deputy secretary, was present. The Queen and Prince Consort honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with their,presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Caledon, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Viscount Strathallan, Col. Biddulph, and Col. the Hon. A. Harding°. The Prince Consort, attended by Col. the Hon. A. Har dinge, rode on horseback yesterday morning, and visited the British Institution. THE MALTA An) CAGLIARI TELEGRAPH.—We are sorry it /report another interruption to the line of tele graphic wire between Malta and Cagliari. By a telegram dated yesterday, from the last-named place, we learn that communication ceased at two o'clock on the morning of the 6th, and that the fault in the cable was apparently further off thin last time: THE PENTIN•§UtAit MAILS.-SOUTHAMPTON, March 7.=Thce lieninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain Hall, sailed hence to-day, with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, eight passengers, £1,500 in sovereigns for Liston, and a general cargo. The Alhambra, Cartnin Steward, is due on Friday next, with the mails from the abovenamed ports. The Independance ) of Brussels, states that Prince Napoleon has ryivea aders that a complete hydrographical survey of the Rea Sea shall be eommenced in the spring. Caphlth Itussell, formerly aide-de-camp to Admiral Par ceval Deschenes, will be charged to superintend the operations. It has been intimated that, looking to the fact that by the Fraudulent Trustees Act lately passed the offence for which 11r. Strahan and Sir John Paul were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment would now be visited by a punishment limited to three years, the infliction in their case will be commuted to a period of four years. Their liberation will, consequently, take place in October next. MR. GLADSTONE.—We have reason to believe the return home of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone will take place sooner than was expected. A letterwas received in London yesterday from Pans in which the right hon. gentleman expressed it to be his intention tot save the French capital last evening, so as to be in town to-day, in order to take his seat in the House of Commons at the meeting of the house this afternoon. Mrs. and Miss Glad stone accompany the right hon. gentleman; also his private secretary, Mr. Lacaita, and the Hon. Arthur Gordon, son of the Earl of Aberdeen, who was attached to the mission of the right hon. gentleman to Corfu. Two FEMALES FOUND DROWNED.—Yesterday Mr. Woodman, the chief constable of the parish of Cam berwell, waited upon Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, with information that two females had been found drowned in the Grand Surrey Canal. The bodies were taken to the deadheuse at the workhouse to await the coroner's inquiry and to be identified. FATAL STREET ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquiry was instituted by Mr. Wakley, at the Royal p ree Hospital, into the circumstances attending the death of a man named Chapman, aged 23, who while crossing Margaret-street, in a state of intoxication, was run over by a four-wheel cab, and received such severe injuries to his head and neck that he died soon afterwards. Verdict—Accidental death. TORTURE IN PERSIA.--Letters from Teheran, dated New Year's-day, mention that his Majesty the Shah had applied torture of the most revolting barbarity to ex tort moneys out of the brother and nephew of the late dis graced Minister, the Sader Azam, which had had the effect of making them disgorge about £50,000, but that his Ma jesty would not rest content until this sum was doubled. SCENE IN A SCOTCH CHURCH.—There was a scene in the parish church of Keith on Sunday last, which rather astonished the minister and congregation. Just as the minister was about pronouncing the bene diction, a young man stood up in the middle of the church, and proclaimed with an audible voice, that the girl who stood by his side was his wife, and forthwith placed on her hand the marriage ring, emblem of the union be tween Donald Coutts and Jessie Rose. They are a good looking young couple. Jessie, it is said, had been under enagement to another Lothario, who would have forbidden the banns; hence the necessity of making short work. They are both strangers, though presently residing in Keith, and belong, we believe, to Strathspey. Coutts is a carpenter by trade.—Banifshire Journal. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CAMBERWELL—An alarming and destructive fire broke out on Sunday night, shortly before 12 o'clock, and which for nearly hours illu • minated the southern side of the metropolis, destroying in its progress a great amount of property. The scene of its operation was Diamond-place, Southampton-street, Cam berwell, and the premises in which the disaster commenced were in the tenure of Mr. Crouch, a furniture dealer. The engines from Southwark-bridge-road, Waterloo-road, Far ringdon-street, and other stations, were soon in attendance, but the firemen were unable to get the flames under until the premises and their contents were destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. DREADFUL DEATH OF AN OLD MAN BY FIRE.- -Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Royal Free Hospital on John Crane, aged 64, who met his death by fire under the following dreadful circumstances. The deceased was a person of very eccentric habits, and at the same time given to drink. On the day of the shocking event, about midnight, his fellow lodgers were alarmed by his cries for help, and upon getting out of their beds to see what was the matter, they found him standing on one of the upper land ings enveloped in flames, the whole of his clothes being on fire. They extinguished the fire as quick as possible, but not before the sufferer was burned in a frightful manner. He was conveyed to the hospital, where everything that medical skill could do was resorted to to save his life; but he gradually sank and soon died. It could not be proved how the fire originated. An open verdict as to the origin of the fatal occurrence was recorded. COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—LOSS OF THE THALIA, STEAMSHIP.—A telegram was posted at Lloyd's on Saturday afternoon, from Dartmouth, announcing that a very serious collision had taken place in the Channel between the Thalia, iron screw steamship, and the Beagle, Captain. Barter, bound to Oporto, which resulted in the foundering of the Thalia, with a valuable cargo. The collision took place early in the morning, about 30 miles S.W. of the Eddystone Lighthouse. The steamer was making her way up Channel, from Cadiz, for the Thames, and the brig was bound down. Both ships sustained con siderable damage, and such was the injury the Thalia had received, that the pumps could not keep her free of water, and she went down in some 40 fathoms ; the crew suc ceeded in getting on board the Beagle. The latter lost her bowsprit, her cutwater and stern were crushed, with other damage, and she sprang an extensive leak. She succeeded, however, in reaching Dartmouth in the course of the fore noon. Wine formed a great portion of the Thalia's cargo, and her loss will involve a large amount. CHARGE OF ROASTING A MAN TO DEATH ON BOARD A STEAMER.—John Buchanan, chief engineer of the screw steamer Bogota (just arrived at Liverpool from the Pacific), was charged before the local magistrates yes • terday with causing the death of a stoker (Thos. Launder), by having him tied to a ladder in front of the 'furnace on board the above vessel. The outrage was reported to the police authorities on Sunday by several persons who had ar rived in the Bogota, and no time was lost in the apprehension of the prisoner. Mr. Clough (superintendent of police) stated that, so far as he had at present been informed, Launder had disobeyed some orders, and when about five hours' sail from Rio the prisoner instructed the second en gineer to tie Launder to an iron ladder in front of the fur nace. The heat was fearful, and in half an hour Launder died (as the doctor on board said) of apoplexy. His body was thrown overboard without removing the clothes, and before the doctor had examined it. At the request of Mr. Aspinall, barrister, the case was remanded until next day, bail for Buchanan's appearance being refused. FATAL AFFRAY IN MANCHESTER.—A few mi nutes before one o'clock on Sunday morning a policeman received information that two men had just been stabbed in Spinning-field. He went to the spot and found the men, one in the house No. '59, and the other in the street a short distance off. The constable immediately fetched Mr. Hand cock, surgeon, Bridge-street, who pronounced one man to be dead, and the other was removed in a cab to the ILJyal Infirmary. A youth, named John Brown, who saw the affray, states that he was going home about half-past 12 on Saturday night, when he noticed there was a disturbance in Spinning-field. He went to the spot, and found that a man and woman, named John Mackie and Jane Cooper, were quarrelling in the house No. 59. Mackie accused the woman of having stolen his handkerchief as he was going home along the street, and he wanted it back. She denied having it, and they then stepped out of the house, when the woman struck Mackie on the head with a candlestick. The occupier of the house, John Wharrior, came out, and asked Mackie where his coat was. Mackie replied angrily, and Wharrior struck him. Mackie then rushed at his assailant, with a shoemaker's knife in his hand, and in the struggle Wharrior was stabbed in the back. The injured man was carried into the house, and the woman Cooper, with a man named Benson, followed Mackie. Cooper carried a poker, with which she struck Mackie, who kept running backwards holding the open knife before him. The woman also got up to hint and struck him in the face. Benson then attempted 'to seize the knife. Mackie and he struggled together, and Benson was stabbed several times in the abdomen and thigh. He ran a few yards, then fell down, and died in a few minutes. Mackie was appreehended shortly afterwards in his own house. He lives at No. 54, Spinning-field, and is a shoemaker. He said he had done all in self-defence. The deceased was a married man, a joiner, and lived in lodgings in the same street. The injuries received by Wharrior are not dangerous.—Manchester Guardian. THE MINISTERS OF SOULOUQUE.—After the Emperor himself had escaped a mob surrounded the Con sulate, where some of the ex-Ministers had taken refuge. For three days and nights the mob guarded in all directions every door and possible means of escape. -At length, on the night of the 17th, a fire broke out in the city, and the idea was suggested to the multitude to set fire to the Consulate, and thus compel the refugees to come forth. Hearing this, the French Charge d'Affaires, utterly exhausted and worn out, with the full consent of the British Consul, sent off a boat to the Melbourne, requesting Captain M'Crea to come to his immediate assistance. Within half an hour 150 men of the Royal Artillery, commanded by Captain M'Crea, landed, and, marching in perfect order and silence up two different streets, closed round the Consulate and separated the crowd from the building. In an instant the savage yells which had predominated gave way to doubt and wonder. The Ministers of the new Government, having been in formed of the landing of the British troops, galloped down from the palace in full uniform, escorted by troops, when, on questioning the officer commanding the Royal Artillery, and receiving his explanation, the Minister replied that, under the extraordinary circumstances of the country, the British officer had acted perfectly right, and he was thanked in the name of the President. A conference was at once held at the Consulate, and the Republic accepted the respon sibility of guarding th e building, and a proclamation was issued warning the people not to surround it. Captain M'Crea, as the result of this arrangement, re-embarked his troops, and the Consulate was guarded by the troops of the Republic. On the two following nights the Ministers of the ex-Emperor escaped in disguise. METROPOLITAN TOLL AND ROAD REFORM.— A lengthy statement has been submitted to the chairman of the Metropoliten Toll Commission (Lord Eversley), on the state of the roads, and the best means of keeping them in an efficient state of repair. It appears that the destruction of the roads is attributable to the formation of the carriage wheels, and therefore it is politic that the toll on carriages should be maintained as at present, being regulated by the shape and breadth of the wheel. Bearing this object in view, as a patent caoutchouc wheel, invented by Mr. Davies, by reason of its moderate cost, promises extensive applica tion, and to encourage the use of such wheels, as well as to mete out equality in the law, it is proposed that carriages with caoutchouc wheels, for business or pleasure, be not liable to tax or toll. It is then essayed to show the destrue • tion committed on the roads by iron-tyred wheels, and re ference is made to the narrow roadways in corroboration — instancing the north end of Chancery-lane, New-Street, St. Martin's-lane, and other places—showing that in these nar row ways, where the horse is compelled to keep. in the centro of the road, the sides are worn into ruts, and require fre quent repairing, whilst the centre remains good and per fect. The method of throwing down loads of broken granite or flint, for the roads to be made by the traffic, is described as "barbarous and inhuman," by reason of the cruelty to the horse, causing lameness and other calamities. The ad vantages of caoutchouc wheels are then stated to be, that the formation of good roads would result as a measure of polio) , and necessity. The rolling machine would effect this instead of the carriage wheels, and as the material (caoutchouc), goin g over th e grou nd like a soft cushion, is not destructive, the roads would be much cleaner than they now are, and an immense amount would be Annually saved to the country in toad-snaking. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Iteuter's office : PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8. The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed by its political director, A. Renee, on the recent article of the Moniteur. It explains that the publi cation of the Moniteur article must not be regarded as a retrograde movement (reculade), caused by the crusade which an active propaganda had succeeded in raising against the Emperor in Germany, as some persons have asserted. The article proceeds thus :—" Government has loyally submitted to European diplomacy the charge of discovering a means to solve the different political differences of the day. The Emperor has expressed his hope that the solution will be peace ful, and when such a declaration is made by a Government which is well assured of its own power, it ought to be believed, and not regarded with sus- icion as an instance of reticence or weakness. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol lowing decree : " Our well loved cousin Prince Napoleon ceases, at his own request, to be entrusted with the port folio of Minister for Algeria and the Colonies." Prince Napoleon had already, on Saturday last, tendered his resignation in the Council as Minister of Algeria and the Colonies, which, however, was then rejected by the Emperor. The Prince yes terday repeated his request, and the Emperor acceded. Both the Prince and the Emperor, how ever, are on the best footing towards one another, and the Emperor is stated to have said that he understands aid honours the sacrifices of the Prince. Count Prosper de Chasseloup, Loubat, deputy, and manager of the Western Railway, has been ap pointed successor to the Prince on the Prince's own proposition. HANOVER, MONDAY, MARCH 7. The Minister of Finance has published a decree prohibiting, in pursuance of the treaty with the Zollverien the exportation of horses from the king dom to thee countries lying on the Zollverein frontiers. CORFU, MARCH 2. The ordinary Parliamentary season for the busi ness of the budget has been opened. The Lord High Commissioner has announced to the Deputies his intention of making a journey of inspection through the islands. VENICE, MARCH 6. A demonstration of no importance against the visitors to the bal masque has taken place here. VIENNA, MONDAY, MARCH 7. The Vienna papers of this day criticise in a sceptical spirit the recent important article in the Moniteur. Lord Cowley will probably take his departure hence on Thursday next. Five per Cent. Metallic - Ines rose today to 75f. 60c. BERNE, MARCH 7. The circular note of the Federal Council to the European Powers states that Switzerland will, in case war should break out, defend with all her power as well her own integrity and neutrality as also that of Savoy, the neutrality of which has also been guaranteed by treaties. The military and financial departments have been ordered to commence all necessary preliminary works. In case the signs of approaching war should become more threatening, the Federal Diet is to be forthwith convoked." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. Mr. Gladstone leaves this evening for England Lord Brougham arrived here on Saturday, and leaves to-day for his seat at Cannes, where he re mains till after the Easter holidays. The first day's procession of the Bceuf-Gras took place yesterday with all the ceremonial which tra dition has consecrated. The weather being ex ceedingly mild and spring-like, an immense crowd thronged the Boulevards and all the leading thoroughfares. Everywhere the procession was attended by a vast number of sight-seers, whom the spectacle appeared to amuse highly. A de tachment of the mounted municipal guard opened the cortege, then came a certain number of run ners in rich dresses of red and green embroidered with the arms of the city of Paris : next, a band of forty musicians, dressed as musketeers ; then a certain number of cavalry, serving as a guard of honour to M. Meeh, the purchaser of the oxen ex hibited this year, and M. Aveline, the person who bred them, both of whom rode in plain clothes. Next were seen a large body of horsemen in varied costumes, representing the inhabitants of various nations of the world, preceding the car on which the hero of the day, the illustrious Bastien, was borne along amidst the gaze of many thousands of admirers. At the corners of the car stood four brawny figures with club in hand, and clad in crimson mantles, representing the sacrificing priests of old. Then came another body of horsemen, fol lowed by the mythological car drawn by six horses. Aloft sat Father Time, Venus, Cupid, and several other of the deities of Olympus. Behind came another body of horsemen clad in rich fancy dresses, while another party of the municipal guard closed the procession. The cortege was about eight hours in making its wide-spread round, as it left the abattoir at eleven, and did not return to its starting point until seven in the evening. BOURSE, March 7.—The market has been very buoyant, and a further rise has taken place in secu rities of all kinds, as hopes of a speedy termination of diplomatic differences are sanguinely entertained. Threes have been done at 69fr. loc., improved to G9fr. 50c. Mobilier varied from 810 fr. to 830 fr. Austrian, 557 fr. 50c. to 555 fr.; Lombardo-Vene tian, 520 fr, to 525 fr.: Lyons, 842 fr. 50c. to 825 fr. to 50c. ; Orleans, 1,345 fr. to 1,355 fr. ; Southern, 522 fr. 50c. to 5271 r. 50c. ; Northern, 940 fr. to 945 fr. The following are the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 95 70 Credit Fancier 645 I Do. end month .. Belgian 41 99k 3 per Cents. 69 101 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 69 25 Roman B6 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian — Credit 111obilier .. 812 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account STRAND THEATRE. "Matrimonial Prospectuses" has been revived at this house for the purpose of affording Miss Charlotte Saunders an opportunity for the display of a talent which is as pecu liar as it is original. From a mere shadow she creates a living picture, and the elaboration with which she works out the character is remarkably striking from its truth to nature. Giggles, the uncouth, shrewd servant girl is before the audience, and not the actress. Every motion and every gesticulation are suggestive of a peculiar idiosyncracy, and the broad grin, the continual rubbing of the arms, the angular movement, and the entire deportment, are veritable photographs from life. Yet no vulgarity is infused into the character, and the audience can only admire the con summate tact of an artist who can impart a reality and an intention to the most commonplace and conventional farce personage. A song, something after the style of " Villikins and his Dinah," elicited an unanimous encore, and indeed Miss Saunders' talent rendered amusing a piece for which the author had done little either by ingenuity of construc tion or smartness of dialogue. At an interview, on Friday last, with the Prince Regent of Prussia,- Lord Raglan presented to his royal highness autograph letters from her Britannic Majesty and the Prince Consort on the occasion of the baptism of their grandchild. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who is a vice-patron of the society, has forwarded a donation of £5O to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale had a dinner party, followed by a juvenile ball, last evening, at Orleans House, Twickenham. The youth ful members of the families of their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Joinville, from Clare mont, were present. The Princess Mary of Cambridge accompanied by Lady Augusta Cadogan, and a select circle of the members of the aristocracy, were also present. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge entertained her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and a select party at dinner, last evening, at his residence at St. James's Palace. Viscount Palmerston returned to town, early yesterday morning from Drocket Hall. Her ladyship is expected in town to-morrow. Application has been made to the Stock Ex• change Committ ee for the admission of the shares of the Great Ship an d the official list. London District Telegraph Companies into Mr. Hughes, her Majesty's Consul at Erzeroum, the last remaining Oriental attache, has been promoted to the post of Oriental Secretary at the embassy at Constan tinople. Mr. Robert Dalyell, Acting-Consul at Belgrade during Mr. Fonblanque's absence, is to take the post at Erzeroum. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. BO5 .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean B5O .. 845 New ditto — 545 Geneva 545 . • Midi Southern Western 6OO .. 602 50' Eastern - .• 685 Grand Central - • • —-- Sardinian — .. 407 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 251. 15e. ; money 25f. 10e. ; three months, paper, 251. ; money, 24f. 95e. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 26th ult., says :—" M. Sillem, a partner in the house of Hope, of Amsterdam, and Mr. Baring, of London, having arrived in this capital, negotiations were imme diately opened on the subject of a loan—negotia tions which, although carried on with activity, have not yet led to any satisfactory result. It is possible that an understanding may not be come to, and that the loan, at least for the moment, will not come to anything. The Russian Government, in its desire to borrow money at present, is im pelled by the necessity of effecting a radical change in the banking -system in Russia, and not by any immediate deficit in its budget, or by the want of preparing any defensive armaments. Messrs. Bar ing and Sillem will, I understand, remain at St. Petersburg for ten days longer, by which time the question of the loan must be definitely decided on. The Grand Council of Credit which had been formed at the Ministry of Finance, to deliberate on ques tions relative to the reorganisation of the banks, being too numerous to discuss the various questions of detail with any advantage, the Government has established a special financial committee for that purpose, composed of Baron Meycndorff, M. Knia jevitch, M. Hoffinann, and M. Tchevkine, and over which Count Nesselrode, Chancellor of the Empire, will preside. M. Tchevkine, however, will not for some time be able to take part in the deliberations, the state of his health being at the present time so critical that his friends feel some alarm on the sub ject." SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin of the 4th, notwithstanding the general opinion which prevails that the mission of Lord Cowley will be attended with some favour able result, has the bad faith to affirm that Austria, fortified in Piacenza, and able when she pleases to bring troops into the Duchies, being convinced of war being inevitable, intends to invade Piedmont. A letter published in that journal even goes the length of fixing the day for the pretended invasion. " More than 800 men," says the writer, " are every day employed on the fortifications of Piacenza. These works have more particularly for object to protect, in case of need, the retreat of the Austrians. It is stated that they are to cross the Po on the 14th, and surprise the Piedmontese army." A Vienna letter of the 4th, in the German Jour nal of Frankfort, says :—" The conferences between Lord Cowley and Count de Buol are for the mo ment suspended. It is stated that the Cabinet of Vienna has made such statements on the subject of special treaties with the different Italian States, that his lordship has found it necessary to refer the matter to his Government, and that a Cabinet courier has been despatched to London to apply for fresh instructions." BOMBAY MAIL. We have received, by the Overland Mail, our correspondence and papers from Bombay 'to the 9th of February. We take the following summary from the Bombay Standard : OUDE. The province of Oude is, as Lord Clyde truly says in his despatch, " free from every vestige i of rebellion." The forts are dismantled, the people disarmed, and the military police in the full exer cise of their functions. A new settlement, entirely on the Zemindaree principle, is in progress, and the people of Oude, as far as we can judge, are content. There was only one drawback to the sense of abso lute security in this province. The Begum, Nana, and Beni Madho, at large on the Nepaul frontier, could, it was said, boast of 12,000 adherents. Jung Bahadoor had not yet declared his intentions re specting them. It was expected that he would not be in haste to act against them. He might hope that time would work as a dissolvent upon the insurgent army. It was probable that a great many would abandon a cause fallen so low as that of the Begum and the Nana, and that small parties of insurgents would for a few months to come creep back to their homes through the jungles of the Terai. Even though loyalty to their chiefs and hatred of Europeans might deter them from abandoning a standard for which they had, we were about to say, fought, one great obstacle would re main to be overcome. Armies cannot hold together without money. The Begum and the Nana must be pretty well exhaused of supplies in cash. And as for Beni Madho, the discovery of his treasures lately made in the ruins of Doondeakheera tended to show that his military chest must be tolerably empty also. The existence of the Begum's army might therefore be considered as a question of finance, and probability being in favour of empty treasures, the prolonged cohesion of the rebel forces was doubtful. This point would not fail to strike the provident mind of Jung Bahadoor, and it was very possible that he might trust to time for the dissolution of a hostile array which could, if at once attacked, offer strenuous resistance. Jung Balladeer, however, was more energetic than people imagined. He at once took up a decisive position with regard to the Oude rebels, refugees within the borders of Nepaul. He issued a proclamation to the effect that all murderers and rebels in arms, who entered the Nepaul territory were to be given up to the British Government, and that all armed bodies would be utterly destroyed. The spirit of this proclamation was, in fact, all that could be wished. Appropriate action rapidly followed words so much to the point. The Ghoorka army, we arc told, has moved against the rebels, and Jung Baha door having applied to Lord Clyde for the aid of British troops to assist him in reducing them, Lord Clyde ordered Brigadier Horsford to advance into Nepaul. Brigadier Horsford accordingly crossed the Raptee for the purpose of joining the Ghoorka army. The rebels under Beni Madho, Nano Sahib, and others, were then at no great distance from Baukee, in Nepaul. Lord Clyde is indisposed. He will not leave Lucknow till his health is a little restored. The order by which the Oude army has been broken up reduces it from a total force of 35 regi ments of infantry, 11 of cavalry, 28 companies or troops of Artillery, and 5 of Sappers, to 20 regi ments of foot and 8 of cavalry, 17 companies or troops of Artillery, and 3 of Sappers. The Oude army is thus diminished by more than one-third. Of the force which remains in Oude, the chief part will be concentrated at Lucknow, consisting of Soady's and Mackenzie's companies of Artillery, the Ist reserve company 6th battalion Bengal Artillery, and Olphert's company, the 24th company of Royal Engineers, 15th Punjaub Pioneers, Ist battalian 23d Fusiliers, 88th Connaught Rangers, 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, 2d Dragoon Guards, and 2d Hodson's Horse. Seetapore will be garrisoned by Hiddlestone's E troop of Royal Artillery, the 4th company of the 4th battalion Bengal Artillery, the 60th Rifles, Ist battalion of her Majesty's 90th, and the 69th Ghoorkas, the 4th and Bth Irregular Cavalry. Goruckpore will be held by the sth company, 12th battalion Royal Artillery, with battery, her Majesty's 13th and 73d, and the Jat Horse. Fyzabad by the sth company 3d battalion I. L. Field Battery Royal Artillery, her Majesty's 34th, 54th, and 9th Punjaut Infantry, and the Ist Hodson's Horse. Roy Bareilly by the 4th company, No. 3 Light Field Battery, her Ma jesty's 38th and 42d Highlanders, 19th Punjaub Infantry, and Ist Sikh Cavalry. Ghazeepore by her Majesty's 37th. Thus Lucknow in the centre, Seetapore, north west, Fyzabad and Roy Bareilly east and south, are the chief garrisons of Oude. Of the 11 companies or troops of artillery which have left or are leaving Oude, Fraser's I troop goes to Meerut, Calvert's company to Benares, Le Mes surier's and Kave's to Allahabad, Smith's to Futteh ghur;Money's to Umballah, Ramington's to Muttra, the 2d company 3d battalion and the Reserve Com pany sth Battalion Bengal Artillery to Cawnpore, and the A Company of Madras Artillery to the Saugor districts. Of the infantry corps her Ma jesty's 64th and 3d Battalion Rifle Brigade go to Agra, the Belooch Battalion to Jhansi, her Ma jesty's Ist Battalion 6th Foot to Benares, her Ma jesty's 79th Highlanders and Ferozepore Regiment to the Punjaub, her Majesty's Ist Battalion sth Fusiliers and 77th to Allahabad, her Majesty's 80th to Cawnpore, Ist Battalion Bth Foot to Fut tehghur, her Majesty's 97th to Banda, Ist Bengal Fusiliers and 93d Highlanders to the hills at Dug shaie and Subathoo, the Sirmoor Battalion to Dehra Doon, and the Kumaon Battalion to Kumaon. The 7th Hussars go to Umballah, the 6th Dragoon Guards to Agra and Muttra, 9th Lancers to Cawn pore, and ultimately to England. The Bengal Sappers proceed to Roorkee, the Madras Sappers to Banda. Jones's, Hogart's, Pinekney's,l,Evelegh's, Taylor's, Troup's, and Purnell's Brigades are broken up ; Barker's, Horsford's, Rowcroft's, and Walpole's re main. Maude's Battery goes home to England. The order directing the return of the 9th Lancers home has been issued. NORTH BERAR. Sir Hugh Rose has resolved to make a fina effort for the destruction of the Rohillas, who hay so long pestered the province of Berar. Sir Hugh Rose collected a force with which to reduce finally the spirit of the Rohillas, and. then returned to Ahmednuggur to complete his arrangements, and on the sth instant started again for the scene of operations. The 3d Dragoons and 4th troop Bom bay Horse Artillery, on their way from Jaulnah, were ordered to stand fast, whilst Captain Hardy, with siege guns and mortars, and Captain Battis combe, with the mountain train, atie under orders to march instantly from Ahmednuggur to Jaulnah. The Rohillas, it seems, occupy two or three strong forts in the neighbourhood. TANTIA TOPEE AND FEROZE SHAH. These chiefs are still occupying our columns in a chase which has become irksome to the troops. After the action of Dowsa on the 16th of last month Brigadier Showers retired with his force to Bhurtpore, leaving the chase to be taken up by Brigadier Bonner and a column recently despatched from Delhi. Ulaur was the point for which the rebels were making, and some anxiety might reasonably be felt for a city in a district not far from Delhi whose population had not shown any affection for us. People learnt with great satisfaction, however, that, notwithstanding the existence of this feeling, Tantia Topee and Feroze Shah had not been able to effect an entrance into any city of magnitude, even in the vicinity of Delhi, and in that country which, during the siege of 1857, gave us so much trouble and afforded so much assistance to the rebels. Feroze Shah in vain pinned a proclamation on the gates of Ulwur, declaring himself sole heir to the dignities and titles of the descendants of 'timour. The Ulwur Contingent, not believed to be particularly loyal, gave him no assistance. and he was forced to sheer off with his colleagues to the northwards towards Rewarce. It would have been a pleasant thing for them to have plundered that city and collected some of the treasure of its wealthy bankers ; but the column under Major Redmond arrived there before them from Delhi, while some of Van Cort land's Punjaub Cavalry converged on the same place from Kanoud. The Delhi column, indeed, left Rewaree for Ulwur almost at the same moment that the rebels left Ulwur for Rewaree. Both forces gained intelligence of each other. The rebels gave up the idea of proceeding to Rewaree, and turned towards Narnool to the west ward. The Delhi column followed them in that direction, and reached Shahjehanpore, midway between Narnool and Rewaree, on the 17th. The rebels, pressed by this advance, as well as by the pursuit of Holmes's Brigade from the southward went by Narnool, and made for a pass across the hills into the Shekawattee district by Oodeypore, and from thence proceeded north-wettward to Ramghur, with the intention of plundering it. On the 21st they were again very nearly caught by Brigadier Holmes. This officer, after marching 294 miles in 12 days, and 52 miles in 48 hours, came up with Tantia on the morning of the 21st of January at Seeker. Unfortunately, too .long a halt was made in the vicinity of the enemy, who heard of Holmes's approach before the cavalry (200 Sikhs and new levies) went to the front. The artillery was also sent up tardily, and had only eight part ing shots at Tantia as he fled. The cavalry cut up 40 or 50 of the rebels, but ultimately they escaped to the westward. Where they have gone to since is not ascertained. The latest accounts leave it uncertain whether they were moving towards Joudhporo or Bikaneer. We believe Tantia will make for Joudhpore. Michel's and Becher's columns were in Kotah on the 22d ult., and have not since been moved. Two hundred and fifty Europeans and. guns had been ordered from Nusseerabad to Sonahpoor, and their place was to be filled by part of the 95th, from Smith's Brigade. Sir Robert Napier withdrew early from the pur suit of Tantia and Feroze Shah, and returned to Gwalior, leaving his force at Sepree. CENTRAL INDIA. The only chiefs who remain in arms against us are Maim Sing, in the State of Gwalior; Burjore Sing, in the Dutteah territory ; and Derput Sing, in Jaloun. Maun Sing seem to have been once on the point of surrender, but this purpose he did not carry into effect. Since then he has aggravated his position singularly by an act which seems to place him out of the pale of mercy. As Sir Robert Napier's force was retiring, after the flight of Tantia Topee to the north of Chumbul, a party of Highlanders came to Narghur, between Goona and Parbutty, and applied for provisions. Their demand was refused, and the party was attacked by a gang which turned out to be composed of Mann Sing's followers. Seven Highlanders were killed. Maun Sing is now in Narghur, which Sir Robert Napier is about to besiege. For this purpose the force at Sopree has been prepared, and siege guns have bees. sent out from Gwalior. In Dutteah Buijore Sing was surprised, and many of his followers killed, on the banks of the Sind on the morning of the 15th ultimo. The Rewah Contingent having taken an effective part in the reduction of Kirwee, are now occupied in pursuit of Derput Sing. They marched to Jeitpore, in Jaloun, on the 15th ult., and are to assist Brigadier Murray in destroying the remnant of insurrection in that province. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. FROM JAN. 26 TO FEB. 9. The most important feature in the Money-market since our last advices has been the appearance of a notification from Government, opening a new loan on Treasury bills at Its 5 .11-3 per cent. ; and closing, after the 30th April next, subscriptions to the long open Five per Cent. Loan, as far as the receipt of notes of the other loans in part pay ment is concerned. We shall thus, after the 30th April next, have a Government loan open at 5 per cent. alongside of another Government loan at about 5/ per cent. Notwithstanding the tightness of Money-market, Govern ment securities remained firm in price till the appearance of the notification regarding the new loan, when a fall of from 5 to 7 per cent. immediately took place, from - which there has been no recovery. Five per Cents. are now 871 to 87Ip and Fours 77. Cotton Piece Goods—The accounts from the interior are still encouraging, but though the arrivals of the fortnight have been small, and the stocks in first and second hands very light, and the market has not recovered any of the heavy fall reported in our last summary. Freights havo advanced both to London and Liverpool. To the former port the rate is £1 2s. 6d. to £1 ss. ; to the latter, £1 2s. 6d. to £1 7s. 6d. We have heard of small lots having been engaged at £1 10s, Exchange—A large business has been done in exchange during the fortnight, and the rates have varied consider ably. Credits are 2s. 1 d. ; documents, 2s. lid. ; French documents, 2s. 2d. REVOLT OF THE NEAPOLITAN .REFUGEES. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning a 'ressel under the American flag dropped into Queenstown, and very soon became an object of much curiosity and interest when it was discovered that she had on board the Neapolitan patriot, Count or Colonel Poerio, with his companions, 69 in number, including one bishop and seven priests. They had been permitted to transport themselves to Now York, the Neapolitan Government stipu lating to give each of them on arrival at New York the sum of 130 dols. "to begin life" with anew in America. On the arrival of the vessel at Cadiz, outside the Straits of Gibraltar, the refugees, who greatly outnumbered the crew, the latter being only 17 in number, rose in "mutiny," and insisted that the captain should steer direct for Cork Harbour. To this request the captain of course gave a flat refusal, but he was forcibly deprived of the com mand of the vessel for the time being, and his second mate appointed in his place pro tem. Some of the refugees are noblemen by birth, and all, both ecclesiastics and laymen, are fine-looking men. What their designs are has not yet transpired -- whether they will stay in England, or return to take service under the Sardinian flag, whose pro tection, doubtless, they will readily obtain. MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AND THE REFORMERS OF LIVERPOOL.—A deputation from a section of the Reform party of Liverpool waited upon Mr. Bright on Saturday' and solicited his attendance at the meeting at the Arapb l " theatre on Friday evening next. The hon. gentleman w B5 compelled to decline, owing to his Parliamentary eng a F molts, but promised, if possible, to visit the town du ring the Easter recess. N0.N.1 There Foreign last f ew stances but at I been ch better di values. there h Wie n c "d the Rice has to rep or t Steady i . 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