The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

E n OYAL NATIONAL LIF E BOAT INSTITUTION. 'The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of this Institution dll be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on TITESDAY NEXT, the 18th inst. , at Two o'clock precisely The Right Hon. The LORD MAYOR in the Chair. RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. 14, John-street, Adelphf, March 12. MR. and MR S. CHARLES KEAN will APPEAR at the Theatre-Royal Drury-lane, THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), March 14, in LOUIS XI. On Saturday, 15th, The Wife's Secret ; and on Monday, 17th, Othello. R YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. M isses r'ouisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, Patey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and B. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. THEATRE- if.o Y AL, HAYMARKET, Les , 4ee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUWAMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. After which (sth time) a Household Picture, under Two Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, acc. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, loith time of the new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY , • or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs Walter 'Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal coner Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. A.lber which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, The Fairies of th , a - Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac te rs by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and * Liss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb, 11r. Shcre, Miss Maria Harris, &c. After which, at Eic ht o'clock, OTHELLO. lago, Mr. Fechter ; Othello, Mr. Ryder. NEW THRATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TaIS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole. Ai - ter which, THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs . Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stu art, Eburne, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billing,ton, zirs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. Messrs. J. L, Toole, P. Bedford ; Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly, qL4aidlaw, Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. EIV ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. 'THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING.] Followed by MONSIEUR JACQUES. Mr. Ben Barnett. A Ballet Divertissement. After which, the suocesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason. Commence at half-past 7. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Ccratinued and Triumphant success of the stupendous Per i orm ing Elephants, whose wondrous feats on the stage, and afterwards in the circle, have created the most genuine cntr lnaiasm. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NA GPORE, with new and splendid dresses, sce' fiery, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele pit L nts, acknowledged by the Press and the Public to be the most wonderful animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats of Horse .ansllip by the Troupe of Foreign Equestrians. (Aracluding with a new Ballet of Action, introducinfr Mr. Blair .y Croueste, the Misses Gunnis, and the whole of the Corps de Ballet. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. A I ANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. VICTOR JULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN," • at half-past Nine, in new and extraordinary feats. (3 =rand Selections from "La Sonnambula," "Dinorah," an I "La Circassienne, " by Mdlle. Negri, Mr. Greene, Mr. He rbert, and full Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Last Week of "THE ENCHANTED HASH," By Mr. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten, performed 70 nights. comtc—Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Yorde, Mr. Marshall, and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. VT I HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET .- EVERY EVENING. HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. _ Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani," " Macbeth," "I 1 Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Orem blame," &c., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus--(Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmins.) Violin Solos— Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac tions_ The Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam. Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. A Grand Morning Entertainment EVERY THURS DAY, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the Company, appear. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 40m.—Afternoon, lh. 3m. TO -MORROW.-Morning, lh. 23m.—Afternoon, lh. 42m. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCII 14, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. B—lowest tnis morning and during the night. 42—this day at noon. BAROMETER --30.20. IVmD—North-Weaterly ; light, with dull weather. , tt t i- L 1 ,7 - --- T:ciTi7: - ,, s) : - ''';,, e it i , Ve , ~ ' ' j i--' t , 6, -----, 4:- , - .„ - ;: : : 2 . 34 ....''''' ~,,, ,1 „ p „1, 4 . -.4 , ,,„..., g.1, - :,...., , tv, •.^, " _ .2 , .4, Z, - -- , • ' ra j ''. , - .. s ii , I t.. rliE SUN, LOI.4IDON, FRI DAY EVENING, :MARCH 14, 1862. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1862. Mr. BRIGHT gives us the notion, only too fre .rntly, of a strong man beating the air. His recent letter to the Chairman of the Anti-Income Tax meeting at Birmingham is a most timely re minder—quite unintentional on his part—of his egregious shortcomings as a Financial Reformer. He enveighs, as, indeed, well he may, against the profligate annual expenditure of the public moneys nowadays under the aegis of the Free Trade system, and under the nominal influence of the new fangled ideas, as to the advantages of an economic adminis tration. The expenditure, he reminds us, is now actually twenty millions over and above what it was when he entered Parliament. That is to say, within a period of more than twenty years, it has advanced from an aggregate of £50,000,000 or thereabouts to one of £70,000,000. The con tinuance of the obnoxious Income-tax is, of course, the subject matter of the re tairXable epistle containing these impressive, alni!'"st impassioned, but utterly futile, lamenta tions on the national disbursements from year to year from our perpetually and constantly re plenished but continually drained and exhausted exchequer. That impost —an impost proverbially ini quitous, inquisitorial, and unjust—was originally ie trodu ee d i n t o our reorgan i sed revenue — rather, it a,n 'ula be said, more strictly speaking, it was re introduced at a period of considerable emergency by 2411,011E1a PEEL with a view to the rehabilita tion of oa r then delapidated Finances. Up to that time " —up to the period of its revival as a source of revenue by Sir Ro _ wEra PEEL—the Income-tax had collie to be regerded usage as distinctly a War pted by T a x. It was ad o 'howeve r , very reasonably and ju di c 7 ousl v adopt e d, b y sir ROBERT as an expedient say s o f i w t a pplicable to a period of Profound peace —as a t e mporary expedient, und o ; s h elter principle of Fee -trade mi g h t be safely nrhodicuhcedth—e mig ht be introduced , that is t o y, w ithout any jeopardy of its introduction leading to an other wise apparently inevitable series of fina nc i al eni. bareassments. So introduced, so re-introduced, the Income Tax, by yielding our Fin anel • er au aropte revenue directly, afirniit.d of his gradually, nai . --after a brief interval of cantinas experiments way of concession after concession—admitted of rapidly getting rid of, one after another, of our in direct taxes. line greet financial scheme of innova tion inaugurated by Sir ROBERT PEEL, has, 3irace his fall' from power, and subsequently also, during a yet longer, and a fir mare momentous interval, since his lamented demise, been persis tently and consistently perpetuated. States men of all classes and of all parties, Whig j ana Tory alike, Canningite and Radical, Liberal and Conservative. It has continued to be thus uninterruptedly, session after session, from the remission of the impost upon cereals down to the remission only last year of the duty upon paper. Yet—after all with indirect tax after indirect tax thrown overboard from the good ship Britannia as so much lumber, until at last the merest frag mentary specimens of the old world system of in direct taxation left has been reduced to an abso lutely notable insignificance—there remains more firmly fixed to all appearance than ever as part and parcel of a regular system of finance, what was to have been a merely expedient or :commer cial stay-off for the time being—the abhorred but lucrative Income Tax. Promises of its gradual diminution and eventful abolition have been made and broken and eaten like so many pie-crusts— with a relish !—from Sir ROBERT himself down to our present arch-financier (Sir ROBERT'S most gifted disciple) Mr. GLADSTONE. The giant prop that was merely employed for the purpose of shoring up the financial edifice during the progress of many extraordinary and fundamental alterations, has seemingly long since been so far incorporated with the new design of this vast and complicated structure, that it has come to be one of the principal, and, to all present appearance, one of the permanent supports of it from the foundations upwards. Remove it—and all the rest would come ruining down about our heads upon the instant. For every penny of this tax there is involved a million sterling annually, more or less, for the Exchequer. The revenue could not recover it during the present arrangements, or by any means whatever do without it. The deficiency left by the abandonment any year of the Income Tax, as a source of revenue, would be ruinous. The question, in effect, has long been not at all one as to the remis sion or the retention of the Income Tax, but simply and solely as to its re-ad- justment—as to its wiser and more generous adjustment —as to its adjustment, that is to say, so that it might weigh, as it has done hitherto, with a frightful inequality of pressure upon precarious and upon certain or realised incomes. There it is, beyond all manner of doubt, that the shoe pinches ! It is for the relief of JOHN BULL from that agonising source of anguish that Mr. HUBBARD, with a very modest and a very wise rememembrance, upon his part, of the old proverb—ne sutor ultra crepidam— is about to drive in again his " last" so as to ease, if possible, the " best foot" (ever " put foremost") of the gouty old gentleman. Instead of contenting himself with bootless lamentations over the continuance wholesale of this obnoxious tax upon incomes, simul taneously with the enhancement of our annual expenditure to a profligate total of twenty millions in excess of what our national disbursements were twenty years ago, when he first entered Parliament —Mr. BRIGHT would do better for the interests of the community at large, and would be acquitting himself more nobly of his self-imposed re sponsibility as a Liberal and Financial Re former, if he were to do two things, instead of contenting himself with writing an idle letter of complaints and lamentations to the Chair man of the Anti-Income-tax meeting at Birming ham. First, if he would vigorodsly apply his splendid powers to the working out of that re adjustment of the Income-tax for which the toiling multitude has so long, and hitherto so vainly, sighed. Secondly, if he would manfully take his part each session in discussing piecemeal the whole of the warlike estimates, about the extravagance of which he has so often and so eloquently complained. Who shall be President of the United States in 1864 ? Would our readers believe that this ques tion is already seriously discussed in America ; that a meeting even has been held in Philadelphia, already, and that Mr. SEWARD has been declared as their candidate. MANHATTAN, to be sure, is our authority, and,whether he means to hoax us or not, our readers must determine. The meeting, he says, was held on the Bth instant, and the reply of Mr. SEWARD is dated Washington, D.C., December 16th, 1862. Commenting on the reply, MANHAT- TAN says :—" That is a spirit that will make either Mr. SEWARD or THURLOW WEED the next Presi dent of the United States. I think it will be Mr. SEWARD if he adheres to the above splendid pro gramme. He has captured me. I now am deci dedly in favour of making Mr. SEWARD the next President." Mr. SEWARD'S letter, as edited by this well known writer, declares that he had renounced all ambition when the present civil war loomed up before them, took neither of the courses requisite in a man who wished to be President, did not withdraw himself from home poli tics and factions, by either retiring into private life at home, or accepting a mission abroad—but gave himself at once and unreservedly to the public service. .. I came," he says, " into the executive government to aid in saving the consti tution and the integrity of my country, or perish With them. It seemed tome, then, that I must ne cessarily renounce all expectation of future personal advantage, in order that the counsels I might give to the President in such a crisis should not only be, but be recognised as being disinterested, loyal, and patriotic. Acting on this principle, I shun no dan ger and shrink from no responsibility. So I neither look for, nor, if it should be offered to me, would I ever accept any reward. The country is to be saved or lost by the highest efforts of public and private virtue before another presidential elec tion shall occur. If it shall be saved, as I be lieve it will, I do not fear my zeal in that great achievement will be overlooked by the grateful generations to come after us. If, on the other hand, it shall be lost, he who shall study the causes of the great ruin shall not find among them any want of self-sacrifice on my part. I could never con sent, if unanimously called upon, to be a President of a division of the Republic. I cheerfully give up my aspirations for rule in the whole Republic as a contribution to the efforts necessary to maintain it in its integrity." With such views he insists on his friends dropping his name henceforth. MANHATTAN seems to think that a better can vassing letter could hardly be written, and almost begins to canvass for him. Re says that "Mr SEWARD commenced public life very young. He was governor of this State (New York) when he was but 30 years old. He is not over 55 yet, and he is as certain to be President as he lives, if he will only adhere to that determination. Wo want men for the Presidency who feel that they are above it. That letter will call out tens of thousands of men who wield pens and have influence, who will do fur Mr. SEWARD, now that ho is out of the political arena, what he could never do for himself while he Was i.... , of thetunu.itt a n s amely, make him the next President it is a St that position; Quadrennially, Minister,—o r between the tw iall lii r aiz t:ttes, when the present joker quits Whatever there may be in all this for the highest office. installed, when he oa l I .o u er s e t hl r eih at ef i r o e n .s of the effect of electing h le i : , or friends least a Prime xactly, a kind of compromise Th l e no rest from canvassing new President is hardly begin pre parations for a Some other candidate, of course, generally steps into the field, either for a real contest or to be on the cards for the following election. The struggles which take place here on measures and Ministers in our House of Commons are aggravated then by a constant struggle for the throne. Hitherto no instance has occurred in which all pretenders did not bow to the decision of the ballot-box ; this is the first time in which any party has thought it worth while to dispute the subject at the point of the bayonet, and to shed blood over the question, who shall be President for the next four years. The alterations made by the South, in making the term of office six years instead of four, also in declaring the President not eligible for re election, are unquestionably both of them improve ments, they tend to diminish the causes of the worse kind of canvassing —that of subjecting the supreme authority of the State to the caprice of the millions who have elected him—while they also save the excitement of one election out of three. It is astonishing what a short flush of success can effect with a people so exciteable as the Yan kees. We have ourselves explained the great im portance, in every respect, of the victory at Fort Donnelson ; but unless the Northerns have infor mation not in our hands (though it may be in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S), we can see no necessary con nexion between the late successes and a thirty or ninety days' termination of the war. All must de pend on the spirit of the South. They know each other better in America than we can pretend to do. Yet the North was as mistaken as we were, in England in supposing that the South would not go to war rather than continue in the Union with LINCOLN as President; they may, therefore, be quite mistaken now, in supposing that the South will " cave in " after a few defeats. We think little of JEFFERSON DAVIS' language in his mes sage. His position explains it. Bat it is quite certain that no army from the North could garrison and keep in order, and no Federal Government administer a really hostile South. At the same time we should not be the least surprised if an early mail should bring us the information that all was over, either by a compromise, or by the pre. dicted a caving in" of the South. Baron James Roths3hild has gone to Frankfort, to be present at the wedding of his fourth son Solomon, who marries a granddaughter of Meyer Anselme Roths child. This is the seventh or eighth marriage between near cousins in the great Israelitish family. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN FOR THE WARD OF CASTLE BAYNARD.—Yesterday afternoon a wardmote of the electors of Castle Baynard was held at Johnson's Rooms, 4, Sermon-lane, for the purpose of electing an al derman in the place of Sir H. Muggeridge, who had recently resigned. The room was crowded, but the advertisement which Mr. Sheriff Cockerell had issued, announcing his withdrawal from the contest, divested the proceedings of that excitement which would otherwise have been mani fested. The Lord Mayor presided. Mr. White nominated Mr. Sills John Gibbons, citizen and salter ; Mr. Proctor seconded the motion, and there being no other candidate, Mr. Gibbous was declared duly elected, and briefly returned thanks. The Telegraph to India Coinpany has just re ceived a message from Mr. Latimer Clark at Suez, dated Tuesda),, announcing the opening of a station at Jubal Island, in the Red Sea, so that messages can now be sent to that point, to catch the mail steamers for India, China, and Australia (which, by the sanction of the Postmaster- General, are to call there), instead of being sent by tele graph to Alexandria only. A saving of two or three days will thus be effected in communication with the Eat. The company have issued a tariff of charges. At the meeting yesterday of the Universal Marine Insurance Company, whieh had been looked forward to with great interest, the directoz s' report was adopted. It was agreed that a call of £1 per share shall be made, but the time for doing so was left at the discretion of the board. No information was given with regard to the precise con dition of the premium account since the 31st December. SIR R. PEEL'S NEW IRISH POOR-LAW BILL.— The parish priests of the diocese of Ossory have petitioned Parliament against Sir R. Peel's new Poor-law Bill, as being inadequate in its provisions and oppressive in its tendency. A similar movement is being carried out in the diocese of Cloyne, and the lord bishop has addressed a long letter on the subject to his clergy. THE AFFAIR OP HONOUR ARISING OUT OF THE DUBLIN COURT-MARTIAL,—A paragrah lately appeared in our columns, extracted from the Freeman's Journal, from which erroneous inferen3es have been drawn respecting the conduct of Colonel Dickson. We are in a position to state that the difference between that gentleman and Capt. Henry was arranged in a manner thoroughly honourable to both parties and mutually satisfactory. FUNERAL OF MR. JAMES ROBINSON.—The funeral of this distinguished dentist, whose melancholy death, caused by an accidental puncture of the thigh with a pruning knife, we lately recorded, took place on Tues day, at Highgate Cemetery. Some thirty of his profes sional brethren, including the council of the College of Dentists of England, and the dental surgeons of the Na tional Dental Hospital in Great Portland-street, attended the funeral. Mr. Robinson was vice-president and trea surer to the College of Dentists. He was likewise consult ing dental surgeon to the National Dental Hospital. BROMPTON-ROAD IMPROVEMENT.—A circular let ter has been addressed to the inhabitants of Brompton and South Kensington, stating that the Turnpike road Com missioners propose, at their own expense, to widen the Brompton-road, from Knightsbridge-green (close to Sloane street) to the Bell and Horns (near the South Kensington Museum). The Kensington vestry undertake to widen the footpaths abutting on the improved road. The Turn pike Commissioners attach to their proposal the condition that the land required for the widening of the road should be delivered to them free of cost, The greater part of the land required consists of small plots of waste ground, abutting on the road ; but the value of this, it is conceived, will be more than compensated by the great additional value to be given to all the adjoining property by the im provement of the foot and carriage way. To complete the work, however, some buildings must be removed, and to the owners of those buildings compensation must •be made. The committee therefore appeal for a subscription by the inhabitants of Brompton and South Kensington, to make up the sum required to put the commissioners in a position to carry out the improvements. THE EMBROIDERED MUSLIN TRADE.—It appears that, in 1856, there were employed in this branch of indus try no fewer than 200,000 females in Ireland and 25,000 in Scotland, affording wages to those employed in em broidery alone to the extent of £180,300 annually; whereas in 1861, the annual wages bad dwindled down to about £100,000; the whole labour employed in the vari. ous details of this manufacture having afforded annual wages to the extent of £700,000 in 1856, and only about £200,000 in 1861. Some time ago it was resolved to me morialise the Queen, who, it was hoped, might bestow her patronage on a failing trade, and thereby show an example to the nobility, gentry, and middle classes, likely to be ge nerally followed. Her Majesty, on receiving the me morial, not only gave an order for various articles of embroidered muslin work, but also sent to Paris for the newest designs, with a view to improve the ma nufacture. The articles ordered, which were for her own use and that of the Princesses, consisted of dresses, robes, petticoats, mantlets, chemisettes, collars and sleeves, sprigged muslin, muslin trimmings, cambric hand kerchiefs, and caps. This instance of the Que en ' s benevolence would have been published some time ago, but for the lamented death of the Prince Consort, and the consequent general mourning. It is now felt that the act and intention of her Majesty should be made kilown ; and 1 it is hoped that the example so nobly set may be generally followed by the ladies, and the fruits speedily realised by many thousands of poor embroiderers. Indeed, such is the position of the trade at this moment, that should en couragement to the extent looked forbe bestowed, the bene ficial effect would be immediately experienced by the workers. The vast stocks of goods accumulated prior to 1857 are now disposed of; and should a general demand come for the style of articles patronised by the Queen, im mediate, and probably permanent, employment would be given to great numbers, and many an humble home would be again made happy. A CONFEDERATE STEAMER IN THE MERSEY.-- The Confederate steamer Annie Childs, Captain Hanmer, from Wilmington, North Carolina, arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday afternoon, and went into the Wellington Dock at evening tide. She lett Wilmington on the lith of February (having run the blockade on a clear moonlight night), and arrived at Fayal on the 23d, whence she sailed for Queenstown and Liverpool on the 3d of March. Her cargo comprises 681 bake of upland cotton, 87S barrels of resin, and 225 cases of tobacco. She brings as passengers from 'Wilmington five gentlemen, and from Fayal the cap tain, first office r , and three seamen belonging to the British ship Kitty Cordes, abandoned at sea. The Annie Childs jig a vessel of 600 tons burden, with a crew number ing 27 ; she is owned by Messrs. Fraser, Trenholme, and Co., of Charleston and Liverpool, and prior to the secession of the Southern States was plying between Wilmington and N e w York. When this vessel left Wilmington the inha- Maids of that place were still d e t erm i ned to a man to resist the encroachments of the Northerners, and felt convinced tlAat their enemy could never force therm iA,t9 oubruieolout D.RUBI-LANE THEATRE. The performance of " Othello" last night, for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, was interesting for two especial reasons. First, Mr. Charles Kean had not sus tained the character of the Moor in London for fourteen years; secondly, curiosity was naturally excited to see how the most accomplished of living Shakespearian actors would treat the part in these somewhat backsliding times. Fourteen years must needs make a vast difference in the performance of a character by an actor who is given to studious contemplation, and whose desire is to attain the remote and fleeting goal of perfection. The simplicity of the Moor, so necessary to excite our sympathies at the commencement of the play, is evidenced in a manner not to be mistaken in the opening scenes, especially in the scene before the Senate, which for frankness and unsophisticated energy could not possibly be surpassed. Mr. Kean never loses sight of the dignity and loftiness of the Moor's cha racter. If he is simple and free to a fault, he is also proud and of a noble nature, and so appears in the actor's imper sonation. So much has been written about Othello's jealousy that one who interprets it on the stage may or may not take fire at lago's earliest words in the great scene in the third act, without having his judgment impugned. We are of opinion that Mr. Charles Kean here takes the correct view of the character, and that Shakespeare inten ded to make Othello jealous to a degree, although his own expression— " Of one not easily jealous," would lead to a contrary supposition, if a man's own opi nions of himself are to be received as conclusive. At all events, Mr. Kean follows the example of his illustrious father—a shining precedent—in making the Mocr highly susceptible to jealousy, which we cannot help thinking is in strict accordance with his enthusiastic temperament, the circumstances of his marriage, the ineffaceable marks of his race, and the burning clime to which he owed his birth. Whether, however, jealousy be or be not easily excited in Othello's breast, it cannot be denied that he is moved to madness by lago's insinuations, and that the actor who fails to embody this frenzy is incapable of representing the character with any degree of truth. Mr. Charles Kean's passion is fearfully real, and the effect he produced last night throughout this trying and ever-changing scene, which involves such a complication of emotions and so much physical force, was immense. It was perhaps the greatest and most legitimate triumph of tragic acting witnessed for years upon the stage, and no doubt recalled vividly to the minds of many the transcendant " hits" of former days. The applause was incessant throughout, and the aetor was summoned at the fall of the curtain, and received with tumultuous acclamations from every part of the theatre. Indeed the effect was so great as to astonish the majority of the audience, who in all probability had seen nothing of the kind in their experience of British acting. It was imme diately acknowledged that Mr. C. Kean had created a new sensation, and that henceforward Othello would take rank with Hamlet in his Shakesperian impersonations. The fourth act of Mr. Kean's Othello abounds with innumerable touches of art and genius, exhibiting the pro found conception of the actor, and the ease with which he accommodates himself to the most adverse circumstances and the most varied feelings. The final scene was worthy of all that preceded, and Mr. Kean indeed seemed only to have reached the culminating point of his performance with Othello's last speech previous to his stabbing himself with his dagger. The death was powerfully impressive from the artistic manner in which it was managed, and the audience were moved to a degree they certainly had not anticipated. In short, Mr. Charles Kean's Othello now is a great, a highly -finished, and a powerfully-sustained performance; and, even perhaps more than his Hamlet, will tend to vin dicate legitimacy and tradition, and rescue them from the ruthless hands of modern innovators. No living actress can give the same reality and force to Emilia as Mrs. Charles Kean. The part is brief and a mere name in the earlier portions of the play. In the last two acts, however, Emilia figures as prominently as any cha racter iu the tragedy, and the great actress is afforded full scope for the exhibition of her capabilities. The life and power infused into the scene is the bed-room by Mrs. Kean last night was quite startling, and made the theatre ring with applause. Hardly less effective was the speech in the fourth act— " I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue," &c., which was also cheered to the echo. So much is to be said about the performance of " Othello" that we are aware we are omitting many things worthy of mention. We must not forget to call attention, however, to Mr. Charles Kean's dress as the Moor, which was the most becoming we have ever seen, and what is much better, the most appropriate. If any one doubts this we refer him to the illustrations to Knight's " Shakespeare," which we take to be good authority. ROY AL ENGLISH - OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN. MR, W. HARRISON'S BENEFIT. The benefit of the talented director and manager of the Royal English Opera—Mr. W. Harrison, will take place on Saturday evening, on which occasion we are to have Balfe's ever-pleasing opera "The Rose of Castille," and a new operetta entitled " Court and Cottage," the music by M. F. Clay, and the words by Mr. Tom Taylor. The selection of the "Rose of Castillo" will, doubtless prove of itself a great attraction, because it affords Mr. Harrison, in the part of Manuel, the muleteer, and Miss Louisa Pyne, as the Queen, such excellent opportunities of displaying the great talent each artiste possesses in rendering the over-pleasingmusic of Ballo. Of the novelty, the " Court and Cottage" reports speak in very high terms of praise. Setting aside the en tertainments provided for his benefit by Mr. Harrison, there cannot be a doubt about the strong claim he bas upon the music-loving part of the community ; for, had it not been for him, the metropolis would doubtless have been without one theatre in which native music sung by native artistes could be heard. Through the untiring exertions of Mr. Harrison, the English opera season is now as regu larly looked for as the Italian ; and, such being the case, the manager's benefit must undoubtedly be the great night of th6:season, as "a bumper at parting" is most eminently due to " the founder of the feast." LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF NASHVILLE —REPORTED ADVANCE OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. (PER KANGAROO, VIA QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, MARCH 1 (Morning). The Federal occupation of Nashville is officially confirmed. General Buell is reported to have surrounded the Confederates at Mursfreesborough, and to have allowed them two days to surrender uncon ditionally. General Banks's division of the Federal force has crossed the Potomac from Sandy Hook to Harper's Ferry, has occupied Bolivia and Charleston, and the surrounding country on both sides of the Shenandoah. No opposition to the Federal advance has yet been offered. . It is believed that a general forward movement of the army of the Potomac is in the course of taking place, as the transmission of all military news from Washington is forbidden. The Memphis journals say that General Polk has ordered the track of the Memphis and Ohio Rail way to be torn up, previous to the Confederate evacuation of Columbus. The Confederates are to fall back from Columbus to an island on the Mississippi 44 miles below. This island is said completely to command the river. Lord Lyons's correspondence upon the Trent affair is favourably criticised by the New York papers. A meeting of cotton and tobacco planters was held at Richmond to consider the question of the voluntary destruction of the cotton and tobacco crops, and a committee has been appointed to pre pare the business for an adjourned meeting. A resolution has been introduced in the Confe derate Congress to the effect that the South will pledge the last man and the last dollar to prosecute the war and to maintain the right of self-govern ment. The resolution has been referred to the Military Committee. Another resolution was offered, providing a com ponsatiol for cotton and tobacco burnt. The Raleigh .Registor considers it would be cri minal to deny that the present is the most gloomy period the South has witnessed since the commence ment of the war, and urges the people to fight to the last. The Southern journals state that the Federals oocupied Nashville on the 23d of February. The Federal Post-office at Nashville will shortly he reopened. The Savannah Republican says " The Federals have effectually closed communi cation between Pulaski and Savannah, and have erected three batteries for heavy guns at the com manding points." Two Federal Commissioners have been appointed to examine into cases of political prisoners, and to determine if they shall be discharged, or remitted to military or civil tribunals. The Federal General Curtis has occupied Fay etville, Arkansas. The Confederates have burnt the town. General Price's army has retreated into the Indian territory. General Scott's nomination as Ambassador to Mexico has been withdrawn, The British prize steamer Labuan, which was captured off Texas, has arrived at New York. The Hibernian has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MARCH 1, MORNING. Money tighter. Exchange dull—on London, 112 k to 113. Gold, 2k premium ; Treasury Notes, premium. Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 831 ; Erie, 34! ; Illinois Centrals, 64. Cotton firm and advancing; sales of the day, 1,600 bales ; middling Upland, 23c. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH 14. The Illoniteur of this morning published the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the February account : HALMARKET THEATRE. A very excellent two-act petite drama, from the pen of Mr. Westland Marston, entitled "The Wife's Portrait," has been produced here with very great and deserved suc cess. The piece is admirably suited to the talented Hay market company, and each artiste has been fitted with a part to a nicety. The plot of the drama turns upon the difficulties encountered by a highly educated literary gentle man, Mr. David Lindsay, in his endeavour to obtain an in come by the produce of his pm. His works, though full of ilearning, do not meet with that success which he anti cipates, and thus we find him a disappointed, though not a discouraged man. As a contrast, we have a Mr. Dexter, also an author, but he discovers the sort of works that sell, and writes accordingly. The success of the one, and the disappointment of the other, produces a disagreable feeling in the mind of Mrs. Lindsay, and she reproaches her hus band because he does not pursue the same course as Dexter. The result is a quarrel and separation. After some time news arrive that Mr. Lindsay has been a passenger in a railway train that had met with an accident, and then the true feeling of Mrs. Lindsay is discovered by the tor ture she endures at the agonising thoughts that arise in her mind respecting the fate of her husband. Her fears turn out groundless, reconciliation takes place between the parties, and all ends happily. The part of Mrs. Lindsay was sustained with very great effect by Mrs. C, Young, and Mr. Howe acted with his usual excellence and good taste. Mr. barren rattled through the character of Dexter with the effervescence of champagne, and Mrs. Wilkins was the complete embodiment of good nature. The fall of the curtain is nightly followed by the most enthusiastic applause, which certainly, for some time, has never been evoked by a better or more interesting piece. " Our American Cousin," in which Mr. Southern gives his inimitable embodiment of Lord Dundreary, still continues to draw immensely, and even in these days of '• sensation dramas," we think it would be difficult to discover a better night's entertainment than that which is to be had at the little theatre in the Haymarket. AN IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE ON THE TRAPEZE. OXFORD MUSIC HALL. At the conclusion of the second morning concert at the Oxford Music Hall yesterday, the apparatus of the trapeze was let down from the ceiling fur the performance of the youths Henri and Pfau, It immediately became evident that the perch of the centre trapeze was not in the hori zontal, and the cause was as quickly traced to the fact that one of the hooks attached to the cross-tree, some 20 feet aloft, had become entangled in the ring to which it is linked. The first remedy tried was that prescribed in the pharmacepesia—a good shaking—but without avail, for no malicious littl e bit of whip cord, in a new Mayday har ness, could be more provokingly intertwined. Then the expedient was tried of poking at the hook with a pole, but failure was again the result. Next came a solemn debate amongst the familiars, who assist in the putting up of the temporary platform, as to who should climb the line to tackle the knot by hand, but none of this forward but irresolute band seemed inclined to go up aloft. At this juncture, critical of a ridiculous delay in the performance, Mr. Morton, the spirited proprietor of the hall, determined to cut the Gordian knot himself, and gallantly, and•with some effort, ascending the rope, reached the spot where the obstruction lay, and hold ing on with one hand, succeeded with the other in restoring the equilibrium of the ropes. To undertake such an office in propria personce, in the presence of a public assemblage when failure could only have awakened a sense of the ludi crous, was a proof of great moral courage ; and the he'.irty cheers which followed the accomplishment of the feat were as appreciative of quiet force of character as of the clever ness with which the difficulty was overcome. After this littler episode, the daring, young lads went through their performance, ca using the customary furore. We (GaUgnani) hear with sincere regret that Meyer Deer is seriously indisposed at Berlin, INCREASE, Francs. Cash in hand Bank-notes Treasury balance Current accounts Advances .... DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due 24,- millions. TURIN, MARCH 13 (EVENING). Garibaldi is expected here to-morrow, and will be present at the sittings of the Chamber. At the meeting of the National Rifle Association, which will take place on the 16th inst., under the Presidency of Princ© Humbert, Garibaldi will be Vice-President. Garibaldi also intends to make a tour through Italy, and will preside at the inauguration of the National Rifle Association in the Italian towns. MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING, The Sultan, with the Calcutta, China, and Aus tralian mails, arrived at Marseilles at 5 a.m. this day. The mails leave for London at 10 a.m. VIENNA, MARCH 13. In the Lower House of the Reichsrath to-day, the Government brought in bills to increase the taxes upon ground, upon buildings, upon classes, upon trades, upon incomes, with the exception of the proceeds derived from rent, and to raise the amount of the poll-tax. The Bank Act was also introduced at the same time. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCEC 13. The official budget for 1862 has been published, and shows a net surplus of £884,163, including the proceeds of the new tax. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MATNE, MARCH 13. In the Federal Diet to-day the committees on the Holstein question moved that the approval of the negotiations carried on by Austria and Prussia with Denmark since August, 1861, should be joined to the reservation made by the Federal Diet on the 14th February. TREBIGNE, MAncii 12 (Evening. Yesterday Dervish Pacha set out with his entire force for Zubzi. No fighting whatever has taken place up to the present time. BOMBAY, FEB. 2G. (By Telegraph direct from Suez.) The license tax has been abolished as unneces sary, tie financial equilibrium being restored. The cash balances of the Treasu?y amount to 18 millions. FRANCE. BOURSE, Mar ch 13.—There has been rather more buoyancy apparent in the market, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at an improvement on the closing rates of the previous day. Sellers have been somewhat less urgent, and purchasers have shown a greater inclination to operate. Threes, for the Account, which opened at 69f 70c, are now at 69f 80c. The Railway Share Market has been also firmer, and some few of the lines show better quotations. The following are the closing quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 97 75 Credit F ancier 1485 Do. end month.... 97 95' Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 75 , Roman — Bank Shares 3100 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 767 50 , Spanish Threes slk Do. Account — I Home Debt .. 4B AN ENGLISH SHIP BOARDED BY THE SUM ER. The captain of the Liverpool barque Itichibucto, gives an account of the boarding of his ship by the Sumter, on the 27th December. He says Im mediately after hoisting our colours, the steamer hauled down the English ensign and ran up the Southern Confederate flag, a flag that I had never seen, and did not know what to think of it, but kept on my course, though he had fired two guns while under English colours. At twelve o'clock he ranged up on the weather quarter, and commanded me to heave to. What for ? said I. Haul your mainsail up, said another. What do you want P said I. Back your mainyard, said the first speaker, in a rage ; I want to send a boat on board. Well, thought I, I will gain some information respecting the block ading squadron in the Gulf, so I threw the main topsail to the mast, and he sent a boat alongside with an officer (an overgrown boy) and six men, all armed with cutlasses and pistols, the officer with a ten-inch revolver in his girdle. 1 asked what he wanted, and what right they had to stop me on the high seas in such a piratical manner, using the British flag as a decoy, and then hoisting a flag that we did not recognise. He said they only wanted news,--if any battles had been fought, and whether the British Government had recog nised their independence; and could I spare him a newspaper? and would I be kind enough to let him see the ship's papers P So I showed him the bill of health. " That will do," said he ; and I gave him two or three old newspapers, but could get no in formation respecting the Gulf ports or any other. The boat's crew seemed to be all English but one. They told my sailors that they had nothing to do but eat, sleep, and drink; but they were tired of such work, and wished their own Government would interfere to put a stop to it. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1372 50 .. 1373 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1087 50 .. 1087 50 Geneva.. 368 .. 360 Southern 761 25 .. 758 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard PRUSSIA. The National Zeitung of Bex lin publishes a decla ration, signed by a great number of members who voted in favour of M. Hagen's proposition. They justify their conduct, and appeal to the judgment of the country. The Prussian Gazette announces that the elec tions will commence immediately, so as to enable the Chambers to meet in May. M. de Bethmann- Hollweg's resignation is officially announced in the Gazette. According to a letter from Berlin, of the 11th, the King entreated him, but in vain, to re tain office. The Gazette also publishes a Royal deeree,appointing Prince of Hohenlohe-Inglefingen- Oehringen (a General of Cavalry) to act as Presi dent of the Council of Ministers, in consequence of the prolonged illness of the Prince of Hohen zollern. GREECE. We have advices from Athens to the sth inst. The Journal d' A thenes publishes the following : " There can be no longer any illusion as to the re sistance the insurgents are resolved, or at least ap pear to be resolved, to make. They understand the advantage of tbeir position within the walls of a fortress with every means of defence. Moreover, in the isolated position in which they are actually placed, they must be animated by the courage of despair, as their leaders must know that their only chance is to die, arms in hand, to escape an ignomi nious death. The struggle may be prolonged, but the issue is certain. The number of Royal troops concentrated at Tirynthe amounts to about 3,500 men of all arms, to which must be added a number of volunteers led by experienced chieftains of the War of Independence, such as Generals Gennaios, Colocotronis, Petros, and others, who, if neces sary, will act in concert with General: Hahn. Taken suddenly by surprise by the military in surrection at Nauplia, the central depot of all the military stores and provisions, the Govern ment naturally found itself in an embarrassed posi tion to meet at once the urgent and indispensable wants of the moment. Nevertheless, thanks to the energy of the Minister of War, no time has been lost in developing the resources at hand, and in pro viding for the exigency." The same journal announces that order prevails throughout the rest of Greece, and that loyal addresses come in from all quarters. The King has issued the following proclamation : " We, Otho, &c., informed that among the insur gents of Nauplia there are many soldiers who, mis led or constrained by force, have taken part in the insurrectional movement, and wishing to give them a proof of our Royal clemency,on the proposal of our Council of Ministers, we decree : " I. We will grant an amnesty of the crime of high treason to all those who will make their submission to the Royal authorities before the bombardment of Nauplia by sea and land commences. " a. To all soldiers in general. "b. To all officers up to the rank of sergeant major who can prove that they did not participate in the conspiracy, but were either forced or induced to join the revolutionary movement afterwards, or against whom no proof exists that they afterwards prevented the soldiers from taking advantage of the present amnesty. " 11. We reserve the right of extending our Royal favour even to those officers and subalterns who, by their endeavours to restore legal order, shall show themselves deserving of the same. " Our Minister of War is charged with the pub lication and execution of the present decree. " Athens, Feb. 27, 1862." The above proclamation is followed by another in the shape of an appeal to the loyalty of the Greek people. It concludes as follows : " Greeks ! persist in the generous and patriotic sentiments you have displayed, and which are so worthy of you. Surround with fidelity and recip• rocal love that throne to which you are indissolubly bound by the oaths of 1832 and 1844, and which the public conscience recognises as the surest guarantee of your independence and desires. Be persuaded that your King, wbo watches over the authority of the laws for the sole welfare of the I eople, feels that he is the father of all Greeks ; that if paternal affection joyfully rewards good deeds, and punishes bad acts with sorrow, it always restricts chastise ment within the extreme limits of the general in terests. " Athens, March 1, 1862." TY ES7' COAST OF AFRICA. - LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13. The African Mail steamer Armenian arrived here at 10.5 p.m. Her dates are—Bonin, January 26; Cameroons, Jan. 29; Old Calabar, January 31 ; Bonny, Feb. 5; Fernando Po, February 6; Brass River and Nun, Feb. 7 ; Lagos, Feb. 10 ; Accra, Feb. 12 ; Cape Coast Castle, Feb. 13; Cape Palmas, Feb. 16; Sierra Leone, Feb. 21; Bathurst, Feb. 26; Teneriffe, March 4. The Armenian brings 2,3100 z. of gold dust, £2,508 in gold, 3,003 dollars, and 20,500 francs in specie, and 14 passengers. Her news is unimportant. Her Majesty's ship Rifleman left Teneriffe Feb. 4 for China, and her Majesty's ship Brunette had put back 800 miles for coal, and sailed on the 24th February. The mail steamer Athenian had arrived at Cape Palmas. FORGERY BY THE ELDEST SON OF THE REV. H. S. FLETCHER.—Yesterday Horatio Lester Fletcher, the eldest son of the Rev. Horatio Samuel Fletcher, the incumbent of St. Leonard's, Bilston, whose proceedings in connexion with the Bilston Savings Bank are so notorious, was brought up in custody, and went through his preliminary examination before Mr, W. Partridge , the stipendiary magistrate at Wolverhampton, charged with forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for £BO. The prisoner was, up to the Ist of August last, a partner in the firm of Pitt and Fletcher, iron merchants, of Willenhall. On the application of the solicitor for the prosecution, the prisoner was remanded for a week, but the stipendiary refused to accept bail for hi s appear ance on that occasion ; and he was therefore removed in custody to the gaol of Stafford, in which town his father is now waiting to surrender to his bail at his trial at the cur rent assizes for Staffordshire. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE THROUGH A DOMESTIC QUARREL.—Yesterday Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle sex coroner, held an inquiry at the Wellington Tavern, Cannon-street-road, touching the death of Henry Muller, aged 30, who committed su'cide under peculiarly distress ing circumstances on Sunday last. Mrs. Anne Muller said that the cleGoased was her husband, and had been•a sugar refiner iu Messrs. Davis's factory, About a fortnight since a man throw a heavy weight of sugar at him which struck him on the foot, and his toes had to be amputated. That made hi m very irritable, and on last Sunday evening wit ness said something that caused him to strike her, and a violent scene ensued. He became very wild looking and went to bed, saying nothing. During the night she missed him from her side, and upon searching she was horrified to find him'hanging by a handkerchief to a nail in the wall She gave an alarm and ho was cut down, but life was quite extinct. In her opinion the quarrel and his recent suffer ings had deprived him of reason. Th's evidence having been corroborated, the jury returned a verdict of " Tempo rary GALLANT _RESCUE. A gentleman resident at Pakefield, Suffolk, thus describes a gallant rescue accomplished by the fishermen of that village a few days ago :—" The brig Adonis, of Colchester, 150 tons, William Lay, master and part owner, left Shields on Sunilay afternoon, with a crew of six men and a cargo of coal, the master's wife being also on board. On the Wednesday following the ship was off Lowe stoft, but the state of the weather did not allow of her being brought into the Roads, and towards evening the master stood away to sea. Between 3 and 4 o'clock next morning the ship struck on the the south end of the Newcombe Sand, and filled directly. No lights had been seen during the night. The master and his wife were washed overboard and the crew took to the rigging. One torch was lighted, which burnt only for about a minute, and no other signal could be made, as all the fires were quenched. The night was dark, with heavy rain and a gale from the south-west. About the time stated the two men on the usual watch at the Pake field Lifeboat station saw the flicker of a light for a few seconds, but as it was not repeated, and they had no other guide, the boat was not launched. Day break showed them the hull and masts of the brig, but they could not distinguish any of the men. The Yarmouth passenger-steamer then came up and stopped at the wreck, though she c9tdd give no help. The men of Kessingland, who were to the southward, and could better see what was on the vessel, launched their boat. She was, however, cast on the beach by the heavy sea. Seeing this, 18 Pakefield beachmen at once put off in their yawl, the Clara, and spoke with the captain of the steamer, who told them there were men on the wreck. They then rowed direct to the spot, and at great risk so placed the boat that the men could drop into her from the rigging. While this was going on the captain of the steamer laid by, then took the boat in tow as far as the Pakefield beach, and sup plied the men with a bottle of spirits. In the meantime others of the beachmen took the Pakefield lifeboat down to the water's edge in readi ness fer launching, under the impression that there was too much sea on for the yawl to reach the wreck. The whole of the crew of six men were. thus rescued and brought on shore, after being ex posed to a sea which broke completely over them for nearly four hours. They were taken to the vil lage, and their wants attended to most kindly. It should be added that the cane of these brave boat men has been submitted by Captain Joachim, R.N., to the consideration of the National Lifeboat Insti tution for a reward. WYCOMBE ELECTION.—Mr. Campbell * Sleigh, who had announced his intention of becoming a caL edidate, has retired. WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, GREAT ORM° ND' STREET, QUEEN-SQUARE.—The new term commences OU the 17th inst. The fee to each class averages 6d. per week.. Lectures, free to members, will be delivered during the term by the Principal (the Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A.),. J. R. Seeley, Esq., M.A., Thomas Hughes, Esq. (author of " Tom Brown's School Days"), F. J. Furnivall, Vernon Lushington, Esq., and other teachers. At the annual meeting yesterday of the Van Diemen's Land Company, the directors' report, which did not recommend any dividend, was adopted. Owing to the depression in the prices of agricultural produce, the remit tances from the colony during 1861 have been only £1,700. It is hoped, if there be no extraordinary expenses, that there will be a small dividend during the present year. A share holder remarked that, if there is not a reasonable prospect of success, the undertaking should be wound up. After some discussion the meeting was adjourned till June, to enable the directors to present the accounts up to the end of 1861. We are informed that there are now at least 60,000 barrels of oil awaiting transport over the Atlantis and Great Western Railway. A piece of wood was lately found by Mr. Ste phens, Coastguard officer at Lambay, on which were writ ten in pencil the following words :—" Jan. 12, 1862.-- Ship Ellin, of Bristol, sinking. God have mercy on our souls." The fragment of wood, supposed to have floated from a wreck to the island, has been left at the Daily E% press office in Dublin. The court-martial on Captain Robertson still drags on. It seemed drawing to a close when the prisoner reviewed the evidence adduced against him ; but after that, fresh evidence was brought forward Against him, which he meets by counter evidence. It was arranged on Wednes day that when all his witnesses have been examined he is to speak again in his own defence, after which the prosecu tor, Col. Brownrigg, will have the last word. The Poles in Paris lately conceived the id©a of making a national demonstration in front of the Russian embassy in the Faubourg St. Honore. The Government, getting wind of the project, had as many as 50 Poles ar rested, and sent in their names to Count Paul de Kisseleff, together with all the information which the police had ob tained about them. Most of these prisoners were spcledily released, with a caution to be more circumspect in futtxrei but I believe three or four still remain in custody, A correspondent refers to a paragraph copied from a Cape paper to the effect that the Bishop of Cape Town had presented, or was about to present, the Bishop of Natal to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for heresy con tained in his lordship's recent work cn the Romans. Our' correspondent points out that this report carries its own refutation on the f ace o f i t. " The Bishop of Cape Town? being a metrop o lit an bishop, hat no function to present anybody. On e o f hi s suffragans could come into the Arch bishop's C ourt, if at all, only as an appellant from the sen tence of the Bishop of Cape Town. And the Bishop of Cape Town would certainly wait for presentment, which, if duly made, he could not, I apprehend, ignore before for mally taking up the case in any way?'—London Guardian. ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A LADY, FRO3I MACIIINERY.—A melancholy accident has occurred at Acklam, near Mallon. A. threshing machine was at work, and Miss Charlotte Boulton, the daughter of Mr. F. if• Boulton, of Acklam Lodge, the occupier of the farm, m' s standing near, looking at the machine. It seems the wind carried her dress too near the tumbling shaft, which drew her in, and whirled her round and round repeatedly. When the machine was stopped, it was found that, in addition to other serious injuries, both the young lady's le gs were broken. The case is a most dreadful one, and results ( 38 was the case at Burytborpe) from a neglect of covering the tumbling shaft. Miss Boulton is said to be in a veil critical state. EXPORT OF COTTON GOODS TO INDIA.—It al ) " pears by a Parliamentary return issued yesterday that the value of British manufactured cottons and cotton Ya rn exported from the United Kingdom t) the British fas t Indies within the last seven years has been as follows :--- In the year 1855, £6, 458 , 086 ; 1856, £0,684,835; 1857, £6,933,850; 1858, £11, 358,6 ; 6 ; 1859, £14,713,812 ; 1860, £12,42 5,736; 1861, £ 11 , 618,350 . The quantities of co tton itnportCl from the B riti sh East Indi es w ithin the sa , " period has been :-1,296,243 cwt. in 1855 ; 1,611,577 ocwt. in 1856, 2, 235,162 cwt. in 1857, 1,185,023 cwt. in I ' ) „, „ ',' A 1,717,210 cwt. in 1859, 1,822,689 cwt. i n 1860, 3,296,vv" - 1861, t ob L I th e kci kit e , k , 04 tz t t ei trov