The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

- ~~ fRE.RONAL, HAYMARICET. L ewi ee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. THIS EvEND/G (97th time)OUß AMERICAN COTT SIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, dr. f suck stone. After which, a Household Picture, under Two L fights, ntitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Dlr. W. Farrell, Mrs. C. Young, dm. L To conclude With FAMILY JARS. Commence a 7. TH ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager---Mr. Edmund Falconer. T HIS EVENING, 126th time of the new and oricr'inal Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY •, or, Savourneen Deelit ,h. Messrs Walter Lacy, Hermann Yezin, Charles Selby, El Imund Fal r'vner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque It xtrava.ganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, 'he Fairies of The Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Prit icipal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cit sly Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chattertion. Prices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to ,commence at Box-office open daily from 11 till& P OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. _ THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. Mr. J. G. Shore, Mr. B. Potter, Mr. Cathcart, dec. ; Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Maria Harris. Concluding with AS YOU LIKE IT. Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, Jordan, Meadows. Garden, Cathcart, Widdicorahe ; Misses R. and C. Leclercq, Miss Maria Karr's, and Miss Henderson. NEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. 1.. Toole, Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouc.cault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Ebume, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. o conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billingt/m, Misses K. Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. H. Marston. • - Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe of Equestriana. Concluding with a lauhable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CI A NTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. The renowned ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERS, at ten o'clock, for a few evenings only. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula" and "Dinorah," by "Idme. Negri, Signor Tivoli, and Sir. Raynor, with Band and tull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The CoMic Department by Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. W. Randall, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. The miraculous STECKEL, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, will make his first appearance on Monday, the 14th of April, Admksion—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze EVERY EVENING. The musical entertainment as usual, including Robert Burns' celebrated " JOLLY BEGGARS," with music composed calm essly for this establishment by Mr. George Linley. Operatic Selections by Miss Russell, Mdme. Negri, Mdme. Maria, and Iddme. Enderssohn. Full Band and Chorus.— Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comic—Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. RandalL Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 37m.—Afternoon, Bh. 12m. To-MORROW.-Morning, Bh. 57m.—Afternoon, 9h. 38m. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. :THE SUN, 'ALONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIV 8. 1862: Death to Justinian(lnstitu , lib L tit. a. ¢4) Code, ab a? by F zcroN' s Terra-firma Indn-1774-Allies, on raTT's ord n CL, 7..apsl 1 1797, Trinidad-1811s l o n Mt' ague s. Lucia-void, '96 Ghent'a Aug. 24, 1814-42 v s Christi- drama), Prisage. Cromwell's 15°N. 3ty .art. 5-9 a St. Denis Kamerica, (-.• 3.9 - 27 Deer FOOT day-611 6-h. tideile-menan-7 to 22. FIX CHRISTIAN -ORDER SHIP-BRIGANDS ON 'A ss , ROAD -R LINE RED FLAG HOIST. In re Benclitrs-Anderson, on Lafoitt's Armed neutrality (to Car-abemajor Anesre' s-1780 Cm-chase') Crimea' d so, Lockhart's Cro mwell 3t y , 23-M. 1655-8, in 16 Car. at c b 2 y B y 27 88. 24 (Lege Rhod lib. iv., § Tideral.6§6-jury on 11 Geo. ars, c. 83 Criminal-law, v. Justinian's habeas cor pus Juris-civilis. So 'la course' as lof the 4 pleas of blinCrown sky-transit rixt-earth. Arklow 530 N. (14u'. Mayor of Southampton, *rear-admiral of E n g land's fla g g alley—Man's - Jorfey isl 6 Wight's Gaulic-coq coastguard Istill-set Nashville ships Sumter, f or felony on Yankee Spy s kip Harvey Birch, by Bothwell:T o rphichen xts. Sumpter kors't-@annebroq'-fair ost•-(men, about 19th Nov., 1861, under f Dannebrof Ordr white + en red, malta-flag. In- (a)-E/Tex rota Court 'Ormond shire mote 6' the isles to eavarchlde' sites of Rhodes. Not Uof placer-jesu Civiles of 1802's Amiens ELsiere (au'oulTe'y in AD 1182, Kts., in DOWN b. , jaagobert's WILL slave-pirates of St. Denis' sser-ecum . curs Art. 191658, as Grey Lacy's Clare JCt bench'rs in Ship'ng 3ty 1854, § 4, Jan. 6—Lon. Gaze. By (b) Terra-neufnd land [Rexvini -factor of Lisbon wine license Co's newspaper let on It. Junot-invasion, 1807, for Pompey's voz-afric' ,on Bristee+g£iverepool, Zoned on), admiralty Coeli-sot kalendar 'super alt°mare qua) afcend 9 et deicentqbliquel ''''""r Placentia's Y 'Landfrieden' Cup. So (a) Ireland's mat le-rage Act 181 1 on ' 25 Finisterre warra nt [by Pertig,a/-brazil, Feb. 19, 1810, for 'l2 tariff-on = noly alliance abolition . i! trel 37. N. free Seavage-survey] Isienfaisance t clubs ;by Stuart. (Tutelv, -Rarbasign'd) PETER BASQUET (E. Maine's Gaspe medal-lay-pope), arephew of 9- J. Brant-1775 and CARotsacm° Peter Tome -1325 -£lO, N. Brunswic), Quebec's Bouche of Court' 6 R. n. Montague § C. AcRERLET, as London-Sydney-sworn *in 11.7 & S's (Final Survey- corafn. 1825-37) Executors- Dormer-Oct. 28, 1790 §-FERIA. L. wOTToNBOWES, P.C. :. . • Maiden -6.p N . gerwick/aw [F u nds 89 93 11 En n°ter 9 s rython*oqculus Jetru;can, Census master. TRT B AL-AMERICA'S 4. ULSTER' PLANTA TION-SHIFT, § IN E-SCU-RIAL WILL*TRUSTS. by B.wato-LONGITUDE 284 TR'S ACT, 2-3 Tv. Iv.. C. 92, § 4 o vle. c-39 § 4, 1842, NAVE : : 9th Q. AN-B'NTY. 132 yr, so cy, o lirys4Jetsam rota Le gsan-ser °PT-fret-semi f*o 117'9,11, 1 ,m nr4m 24 March-k a -29 Sept. wend finang/ 6 April A-jeu/ianq Cul de sac Twe- -, s-ed fishry-park /outsets, in conic sections 1200 Isospiral e • • . • • e by Enka Juptr comet„ , r. CABIBS.—It is my EASTPORT volt/ line Pleasant -pt. 90 1. a-year R.N. unsought duty, as of 16 Car. rt. c 6—to state, in opposition to aturratTi lawyers of British church, That the coastguard-map officers of San Jacinto & Santiago de Cuba, acted powNALL'd King's-post-grantee-Franklin, 1762- 4, on Penn's 21st Regula parliament, Art. xx.,—No planter can leave without a three week's market -notice of Utrecht 3ty-plot slaves-care, under a Justice pass. Ships aiding such Car. V's os life-Malta •1100 S. James'-street persons of Dane brog order of ile St. Thome. and ft. Jean—open to right of* *search' —a G. I c 2 § 4 on Jan.l4 May 1814-Dec. . • • : : : . . • A z i'cr-13.d.- [J. So CTIIWORTH, CL. of synode GrotaDost , spkr, Oct. 28, 1701]-Re-form 18gg bill'd '32, on (Ranover? algier 'l6-31y) in CASS by Palmerston, '57. so -COMPASS GAP(-)PONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL. JAR-1(ONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY, O N NAVE cINQUE PORTAL LATITUDE, REPULSION CURVE, In ginq'nt span-long 50° by Polar* above & below declin. sear„in /3 astre-geograph . • • : : to @over's es Anow off and-on'Diepp's-Rouen '—to Lizard-Pt. 9 'r &Nee's Quadra culmination Tropic-wend ewrds minorge.'s Longue ('ock 40a N. Its state rope-lay Anchor J. flag-tow'r pros-by Tyre round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter of yr 79, in 1824-35's L'E x chek 4 riar-Shellbred convolute-Leet-crth.—th America's sown-south meridian 1 ,0). w. for its Turloch base N. line September evapora-like y; %raves Nile-Q-metre'd lake (on : * 4.• Plough-ken 3 Jag°. I .), Vi/Bela'fackremento 1713 R. negro plotßrazil, C. Ruu d o n my Modon-turk 3ty, J . 6, 1827 28-Egypt-loan. Saclaims —The Illustr. London News, No. 1,119, p. 538, gives, Clareod on 's 6-Georgia Ti., carnineA in Philadeph's Pensylvars-arterialiword scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, resolve of its Councili,board' on Middletone's (Louis xiii.-James I. Fos.iinaa -regals in 72 New River share, 1631, 1-plug in London's i327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on "Enoland's royalty 36 de'ssoo) a-tested by cotton &Mon tague, so CAR. 11. H Swedish colony grant 1662's in Hildfheim Abbess, 1672-Foxy-Fenn's 1701, in Quakers affirm act 1749, on 77 Indn.'s Vectigal land 81- rents £lOO,, .on Can'ngs Rush-transfer by R. c. comite's (12 ' Feb. 1836, of'a tor a Percy-bastard Smithuoe's reguliarinstitution' (2akr-Jesu patrons & advocates), withundersign 'to Q. of Ann & Pombal n.r-Chapelr's Consul Act, 1826. a , So Te.ime's Jan. 6-yr papa/-comission of-1826, Education Code-+- 3,'-32-37 Aborigines-rep. N. 4461 for school 2d mars 1841, Convention, Bulo, Palmerston & Labouchere, thro' D. Webster & 3d Sept., '4l, election of Peter B. o'r 99 lifeleases, not Vithoui Aekerley's name, to 14 Geo m. 1774, J C Capitulation build'ng-in Sacm6 Brant (act on Q. Adams and H. Clay's Ghent note, Sept. 9, 1814), as Stow-tower'd, for filadelph-Lancoster Duchy Crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins Edgcumbe Khandds Chamberlayne (Hugh Cham berlen & ooldfmith Co's-a, N. R.-hd.), Steggles plug-z. Saqmqs—The cause shift of jPrida-Seminoles & Cherokee C re ek indians of Georgia's trust (by 1802 Hudson-R. &S. Sea Hs. Co's 1000 an. of Mississipi, lodg'd aw. of Mt. Plea sant in rear of The f -bred white planers or build'rs, under Lancaster FRAME 1746-65 (Anderson, LovelsPercival--ss Plasentia-pt. Ind. menan trust 1812-'43-61), Art. I. xay., for snixt Coati/in Crt. of 6.Plantera and 6 Native Indians, as r:*-eet on admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda 10 M, by ph . (fadel's partizans, p 66, coloniza-off, Roston—Judge Jay ,Afay, 1853 Gray's. Thus Deerfoot's gyefellow scholar ship' T,:cuity e-Col., Cambridge, 1861 [8 Dec. Exhibition-rs, lot '5l col. letter, term negro for In dian not in 1726- m n l e l wx 's Ma y .c . O G. J. Carib life-grant '32] in . for a fraud. So Galveston New shire-Crt' on French-british Andre 3tys, Jan. & Nov. 1840, as prefac'd to Extradition Washing ton Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Baskee- Spithead soul of Abbot Laurence & Ashburton. compact 1, on contrSler Sir Guir one Penn)-Ackerley's sworn Lan gauge law Sponsor of Indian lady 1820 for Act 1843's mmpery (9 Sept.lBl4) over cwt.-Texas-Hundred 6 & 6 partners, for England's Law-outing 1264 St. John's Jruflm las. of Goth land's C +Una Q. (Stvedon-65 to Boromeo's Kirk-tax-10ths & Trent council forage subsidy, 1776). so Rufes xt. Mathew, rd. 1807-8, in 'Kensington fir' M. Petol - Kt 54 -e , Teviot-1847 as Trent—The felon fix of Slidell & Mason, p aTm ke-papal vessels of Scarlet & Anton' //i, Dec. 1853, for ' 54 Ship act ? was right. So oodairform' d image, outcast Red Indian & •A. trusts, made the Kirk Scapegoats 40 yrs of Luther-calvin .Swisscrnsul fraters de Sac' a double titre, of bronzed-}PEN'S- P" statue, on 18 (not xix. Levit. v. 33)- Aratic'rs.—By pyre ; Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), §4.9, subjects or su'ject, have equal ASTOe- Jenner rdwards 'l6. Think on 3)5 Carib vote-swamp danger of joining the Vaccine pz.-me.rk -t d white faces or i cast In dian Fetish Zollicoffer Berbers, 1797. 6. So forbad noticing the late False Proclamation so headed in Times and Post of 16th Nov., " A britt'sh Convention between ENo‘ateva Trance, & Spain," dated Oct. 31, 1861. wherein [Gib'raltar inter-ropei nations' Voluntaires de 1814' on Ist Ratisbon tax sot'ng forth) Common law on :a' -ract is not for Indian by Hih contracting parties' on its K-Chanaos (Danowark °r ;Elbe-g° Itr I-G. 1714-23) arpent-ss-hogf hd tobac9—so " Command old words, that low', have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon. and brave Ralelat spake." _ 11. Ty admiralty RED-flag is the E > Maine Race-linetiree one o f vater '76 limits (the flag-union of the Crosses by 3rd Jacobi ) I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag ), x and not for war by Micmac Ordnance issue) from Tower nave T 343, of Jan. 31 1842. The merchant's sack, on board Car.rt's liotel-P.Offi. Trent, had no white border, Rome's transept- Justinian Code church, has no AcT or ' neuter' flag. 2. That the Latin'd words Britt' sh-{Britain St. Ge orge' s un St. Patrick's Order , 1783-channel , for outing , thword England from Log-wood 3ty 82 ' Court Christian Eea charts of (JENN, for a 1661) Digest of Justinian, lib. xi. Fugitive r un a-way' slaves, on avuer" X-Sp an ' s h Dou bl e ce xd'd. E _ g al R-ot July, 1521 on 1764 4,72's (law 11 Ge o ._ m, e 55 as w rong) the assumed by Clerk - pore - aon of St. D enis - 3, ni ,in Comes rercm Privatar'unr,' Trajan'd by Texas erts . 131, Hadrian edict. Cinder 578.1. So by words except franc; fn March 3, 1815, U.S. 3ty' prior to Blucher & Wellington's sin otture [for reset of Avignon .Tewjesuits of 2d Melohisidek order for 'Oblation 20'ths on a moving Bartheror] June 17, 1815, tii . e eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazird Pedro 2, nelgifweci's , Levpold-xesu '2B-30's Brune-4- aaillard'ng. 3, Saving :my N. Z. Waitangi'd 612, by t.-Bunbtuy-like Sir Gore Ouse_f eyes foist on the 800 Sachims sign for Gross :rebels in my nan'le, seen (by his Wabash Walker'd Central America, for 1047 i9amberg-Sigismond tie on Sav o y' s-Rhc ' d fol. by a Gov'ness P a Tquet'fan ° B Tech irrpheinos 1809 Ind No/yr-Turk • Facotif'lig Nez ico) from England, caused his envoy Aldham to be shot„ls sacrificing the Indians to "mac gme-priests iwolves fmen--against the umbilical Arpent nave Violation of God's : : Acre,. on Ackerley's Fini a erre pivot-peeral. 29th Aug. 1825 (to rithequal's isle,: ,400 and its Doubietitre scholastic)—at £9O for all, including the Momßon 4 doctrine as of Bohun'd Phil. tr.'e) Manila channel of official letter which elected Inds-Peter, the Grund/ichkeit law's font by Peel & Derby's Queen-kin Zolivereired-K t.- king of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842 —as, of Poland's red Russian Dutch loan 1832-act, 99 yr, on Mingan's Ofqr. NW. America (now in secret by Canada's 1837 IlmcksfhaverV. de Paul° rebels at Yanke's back), without his pay or ken. 4. The null'd-Russell 31st Oct. ratification (of § London Gazeta te, Nov. 16, not within 15 days, is illegal by Extra- Dition 1842-Parliament), it being on a supplement of the nun's Maury-regents of Macie'smithson Institution April, 1836,0 n Glatlsßux-ton's H.c. comtee.ll.S. 1 district Colum bia's midwife Congress '46, 1' Sertie 18-4-19, Art. 1. § 3. Cariba—This chain on 1730-2's Will-Crt. Assistants Royl. Scots Cor. of J. I. Georgia i proves the Cabinets named above are (not on RUSH & CANNING'S separate dispatch Oct. ; . _1 15 ,.) . adverse to the Norm&nOie .t , metre law on 1824 & 35, " 1- ,„ c ure-raiging taxes on yearly election of paid J. P. laymen. 4i ' x 'no_ . ll)th-yr Exhibition Lisbon as Exposition Cortes 'De f4d7l,,clix &us', to " Scorn arbitration as a stain tr To 9th, and 10th of William's reign." [nO 10th. This r urn k_ rigi , ll plow-wheel gist, for my Ennosigcen Monte upon Is t co/on' to give recognition of all X dues from America Afric cw, R. gailon of the whites [till Gov'nr. G. r. rr. Royal 0ur1730-46loctjhomas paplist Dane-pact, 1850 t- theft of love to Engiadruce-chief, to mylife . ], by a brother &sister churches t- Wate : skYviark (now dis-joined with t-pope, - , ng _Grzityeutte..ts on minister's money), of the site-A hang PETBx BASQ11 : as its Cone fall-on-era finite lace. T. 3 . 4 4 1• T warr 11 The flag-union Jak, M p m Bulo. regr income-tax s Temple. of 1 - 84 a 2 11 ;__ A ,!ltblod'n crown-colont chief ,(73 Labouch,ere. tion, , 1 „„ , , criminal law's Extradi r/I [2 March, '4l) bearin4 rn e e off- shore Sea-constable, 2 11. M. PerleY, court over ea Z t f_fC paddle of Admiral's .a * 3 S e pt, '4l's tlement for isi c ,";;7l's ,?C -ouisote set- Gap Trexilla'ry Crt., its ajai N, Zealand's deadprooffit crnely set ftz lZ lord Wardcn Capt 0/Halloran. r floe for your).,lot sin' by Aar 'Goat aaori_ 1 CHARLES ' ACkerley, §C. J. G a ‘ pe . , ,,, t 7; 3 tY .* N. CR hapdAs'-:822 .Enaland, as Special elect (2 9 f Aug. 1825, by Admiral G. Doughty Homoto, A ; • S riTART jec. Marcus Hill- SANDYS, Barbaceot) ow a on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King_ -9u, clubs). Standard weight-bearer of 1837 Lieut. s 4, eu, duplex-n athi'd Ay-victim— su PP orter QU' Ri m of Mohawk PETER.IO yrs. by Red India!) Mary March's (murder tie 1820 in 'habeas virginal s . • J T ose '75, lonerum corpus Christ;' of Quebec's Ormono - P ; _(:7 2 -18 Tianiliton-Dalliongie, on his Daphne's- 3.lide, z) ps Crown-page-Neking-ride c"r Gotlandfound BRANT'. dues with dug.-s. Foste r ) , as Monta g ue sub- in Norton sidy Rosekild loan Rescript J an. 14 May-1814- letter '2o's to major Cartwright 's surrogatecy on Tr. trove. 1322'991s red-turban'd Hen. 4 th , on Hen. V.'s 1792 ? Sigismond-W. Brydgss gap's- colona' martin 5, .11,' v to Gonsalvi 1816 regola-159, by 8.. 7. on urban 8' Scotch Orkney-oath on IL B's will 1749-Srigsmarin Vdvoeate STUART wortley-Newcomen's-en Gonfa/oniere'-motu 1 8241 pass'd in C.A.'S Heligoland name act 1-2 W 4, na V Jul 1521-62 Luther- calvin's ma n, as En g l and's .t n e 'Y ( 48 0, refused by Can'ing to Hamon d, as his L t. & 4 . 'al"- officer did the 2nd M imorancy hid BarOn duty. "Wil l„ ° : hmt A • j a a AH' X-shield of seven-fold, Pfulehier°l 's all safe, and makes lum—bold. APO 8 ' 1862 (431 - 1444 Christ-maxi pzima2o yrs), London. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1862. Whatever becomes of the Southern chivalry in arms, the " Chivalry in Petticoats" do not mean to be beaten. In Florida and Tennessee alike, they show themselves unconquerable. The sterner sex acquiesce when Federal troops fairly obtain posses sion of a town, in the decision of reason. They see they must obey, and they do obey. But General Rogers in Florida complains that the ladies will talk treason ; they think it courageous, and they mistake themselves for heroines. He attributes it part to the scandal which has promulgated respect ing his men, and he may be right; but it is a singular fact that the ladies in Washington itself long leaned to the Southern side. We hear little of of it indeed now. The loss of so many relatives in the war must have influenced their minds against its authors; but, at first the North seemed to the ladies the more vulgar, the South the more aristo cratic side, and how could they hesitate as to which to choose ? In Tennessee the Generals, more adroit than General ROGERS in Florida, have found means to punish the ladies by making them Angels of Mercy. The officers at Nashville received abuse from the fair sex, in proportion to their rank ; and, as the fair revilers were the wives or re latives of persons of wealth a and by no means of the lower na order orders , influence,the generals converted their houses into hospitals, selecting the dwellings of the most eloquent into small-pox hospitals. It cannot be doubted that the discipline, according to the ability of each, has converted them from curst and cursing KATES into FLORENCE NIGHTINGALES ; for, with all the novelists and poets, we may not doubt that the merciful and pitiful is the deeper nature of woman. We note the fact, however, as mere politicians, be cause it at least indicates which way female senti ment works in the South—a sentiment which will assnredly not be extinguished by force of arms, or by political skill, during the present or perhaps during several succeeding generations. We now know for certain that Fort Monroe, in front of which the Merrimac and the Monitor per formed their artillery feats, is to be the basis of a movement into Virginia. A sufficient force for protection will of course remain at. Washington, but already, on the authority of a correspondent, who writes in haste, because in haste to be off with the army, troops are moving rapidly down the now open Potomac to the Fort. General WOOL had previously about 40,000 assembled there, and more than that number are preparing to follow. They will have with them 4,000 cavalry and 100 guns. The distance of the capital of Virginia—Richmond, the seat of the rebel Congress—is about the same from the fort and from Washington ; nearly one hundred miles direct, but the fort being on the sea and very strong, affords probably a better base for military operations ; and the two parallel rivers, between which the army must intend to advance, can probably be used for the conveyance of sup plies. Hitherto the Federals have preferred to keep near the waters of the sea or of navigable rivers. The most important towns are, however, in the South, as well as in the North, situated on the rivers. natdvanein In a military point of view there seems to us, how ' t° 13e mere important work to be done than etallypeaprta of e the capture on Richmond. It is not very l of Richmond, masking as it were the Norfoic Yard, which lies up a creek opposite to Fort Monroe, would compel the a bandonment of that arsenal. It is there that the Merrimac was raised, eq,ip i r ton Roads, 1 ? e i. d, sent forth to the no w world-famous battle n. li t b ea rding Fort Monroe itself; ana e she now lies in dock, preparing for another sally. N ew York is to this moment trembling under the apprehension that she may elude the little Monitor, and make a deadly raid on the shipping of the great river. At Fort Monroe they are also fearing lest she should sally forth, and, despite its artillery, destroy the transport flotilla which has brought down the army from Washington, and the wooden ships of war, too. Cannot M'CLELLAN destroy this nest of dangers ? Can he not land on the west of the fort, seize the town of Suffolk, but a few miles off, on a railway, or march direct on the dockyard from the shor e ? It ma y seem presumptu ous in us, at this distance, and knowing the loca lities only from maps, to prescribe to Northern generals—but all things show the military impor: tance of the navy yard. The seizure of it by the Virginians, its destruction, as far as practicable, by the Federals when they found they could not help it, and the use which has since been made of it by the South, would all seem to show that it is the first place the Federals should attack when they can bring sufficient force to bear upon it. From the sea they could not do it, but its defences could hardly be equally strong landwards. We leave, however, one army congregating at Fort Monroe, and another pounding away at Island No. 10 on the Mississippi, which has already held out for a fortnight, and glance a moment at the politicians. Their progress is far from satisfac tory. The universal tax bill incurs as might have been expected, universal censure. The cry raised so vehemently a little while ago—" Tax us"—seems very much like the confessions of frailty we all are so ready to make, while we resent an individual charge. When it is seen that nothing can be eaten, drunk, or used indeed at all without first paying a tax, Northern patriots begin to be disatisited, and the general dissatisfaction emboldens to com plaint. Hence while Congress is endeavouring to weld and hammer the details of the bill into working shape, Mr. Secretary CHASE is preparing another, simpler in its details, which is intended to super sede it. Financially, at present the vast expendi ture of the Federal Government is sustained by the issue of inconvertible paper. As to the slavery question, it fares but poorly in Congress. To the world-wide disgrace of the American Geveanment, the little territory called Columbia, over which the power of Congress is uncontrolled, remains to this day a slave State ! A bill on the subject is before the Houses, but it can make no way. The capital of republican govern ment refuses to be anything but a slave city ! And now, while slavery is imperilling the Union, and while the representatives of slave States are but a small minority indeed, Congress yet hesitates to declare its own littla territory—Free soil. The PRESIDENT'S Compensation Resolution—proffering pecuniary co-operation from the Federal Govern ment towards emancipation of the slaves, and in tended practically for the Border States—also cannot quite get through the Senate. It will, we hope, do so ; but at present it has only obtained a favourable report from the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. The great problem to be solved is this —to end the war, and, much more, to insure a per manent Union when it is ended, slavery must be gDt rid of; but how is this to be done when-Ist, the Southerns all cling to the abomination as a virtue; and when, 2dly, the whole North dislikes free negroes, Never in history was a great crime its own retribution, more obviously, than in the pun ishment new suffered by the Pharoahs of the North and the South for their refusal to let the African go free. Mr. DISRAELI, last night, indulged the House of Commons with on, of his most brilliant, humorous, and sarcastic invectives. The right honourable gentleman spoke for two or three hours—the re port of his oration, if given in full, would occupy four or five columns at least—the close of each telling sentence was greeted alternately with ring ing cheers and with roars of laughter. And yet— when all is said and done, when all is reported and printed, when the cheers of the Opposition have died away, and when they have all of them laughed to their very heart's content—nothing at all comes of it ! Absolutely nothing. There is no amend ment moved by the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer with a view to converting—somehow or another— into a pleasant little surplus the awkward little no-surplus, the almost inevitable deficit with which Mr. GLADSTONE finds himself compelled to begin the new financial year. Mr. DISRAELI'S speech of last evening is undoubtedly a witty speech. Throughout it—there is not a moment's question of this—he " has our MICHAEL CASSIO on the hip," and (as the saying is, too, and here literally) " with a vengeance." For example, who is there amongst us all—no matter how great admirers we may be of Mr. GLADSTONE'S resplendent abilities as a financier, and of his unrivalled genius as a rhetori cian—who is there amongst us all, Free Traders though we be to the back-bone, advocates though we are of financial as well as of political advance in the way of judicious reforms, and of search ing and comprehensive retrenchments—who is there amongst us all who can for a moment gainsay the accuracy of any one of Mr. DISRAELI'S statements here following? That the year of the French Treaty, for example, left us with a deficiency of £2,558,000 ! That the year of the abolished Paper Duty, and of the dropped penny on the Income-tax, resulted in a deficiency of £1,164,000! That during those two financial years last past, the year 1860-61 and the year 1861-62 other excesses of expenditure have been brought to light to the comparatively trifling additional amount of little over a quarter of a million, of just £278,000! That altogether dur ing those two years, years during which, as Mr. DISRAELI wickedly reminded the House, the present Chancellor of the Exchquer had remained perfectly master of the situation there had been a combined deficit—in only two years, remember—of just as nearly as possible £4,000,000 Of, in point of fact, precisely one pound sterling short of it. A united deficit of £3,399,0001 Well—granted all this. We will meet the discomfort fully and unflinchingly face to face. We will candidly weigh the late financial doings of our gifted Chancellor of the Exchequer during 1860.61, and again during 1861-62—against that combined deficiency of £4,000,000. Nay, we will follow Mr. GLADST ONE ' S formidable critic further in his argument, we w ill throw into the same scale with these last two years' deficit of £4,000,000, Mr. GLADSTONE'S temera rious anticipation of the national resources by a further sum of £3,500,000! We will put the two together, and will follow the direction of the ac cusing finger with which Mr. DISRAELI points to this excess of expenditure over revenue during these two years, amounting collectively, he takes a dreadful joy in reminding us, to the awful sum of £7,500,000. Yet even then one can't help remembering what the Leader of the Opposition almost appears to lose sight of, while laying bare these melancholy particulars (known, by the way, already) of deficit upon de ficit, of resources forestalled again and again— one can't for the life of one help remembering too that simultaneously with these doings of Mr. G LADS TONE upon th e one hand, he has certainly upon the othe r —T o open th e flood- ga t es contrivedof Comm e rce between Engl an d a nd France by means of Mr. COBDEN's Commercial Treaty ! To drop within one year (1861.62) a penny of that most odious of all the taxes, the taxes upon In comes, thereby relieving the nation within each subsequent financial year of, at the very lowest computation, a rotud million ! Finally, he has contrived again during the very twelvemonth in which the last wh)lesome remission was made —h e has boldly contrived, by sweeping away the whole of the paper duties, to re lieve the people of this country from a burthen of taxation annually amounting to the sum of £1,300,000. So that if we must needs look at the dark side of the picttre, we must at least, in simple justice, lock also at the bright side of it. And cer tainly when we do—we see as plainly as we can see anything, that Mr. GLADSTONE gives us a Quid pro Quo. Besides which, it ought in reason to be borne in mind at the same moment, that while there has during these last two years been these successive deficiencies, for example, in one of £1,164,000, and in the other of even £2,558,000, there have been a positive decrease in our annual burdens, in the way of taxation, to the tune (within the last year alone) of £2,400,000. A remission of taxes that we shall all have occasion henceforth annually to rejoice in—amounting to £2,400,000 ! And all the while the resources, and therefore with these resources the revenue also of the country, can not by possibility fail to be increasingly benefitted hereafter in all time to come (so long as the two countries maintain their present position of supre macy in Christendom) through the development of the beneficent influences already beginning to be exercised by the new Commercial Treaty between France and England. When the applause and laughter which greeted the brilliant and effective speech of the witty Leader of the Opposition last evening in the House of Commons had been entirely exhausted, when the right hon. gentleman had resumed his seat amidst the readily comprehensible cheers of his delighted supporters—and of a House altogether exhilarated by the radiant oratorical display it had just been witnessing—it was impossible not to recognise at once the futility of all theiia telling, and some of them really damaging, sarcasms, in the plain and simple fact that they just led to absolutely Nothing. Not a whisper of an amendment to be moved in Committee by the Right Hon. Leader of the Opposition ! Not a hint of anything in the faintest degree approaching what must surely have been inevitable, as a matter of duty, as a mere matter of course, if not one of these apparently (every one of them) overwhelming arguments were to be taken cum grano salis— namely, a vote of want of confidence in her MAJESTY'S Government. No, The upshot of it all merely is this, that Mr. DISRAELI makes as brilliant a speech as he has delivered for many a long day. His shaft flies—winged with eloquence, glittering with sarcasm, pointed with wit—but it falls blunted to the ground upon striking —even this despised Budget ! And when we lift it up and scrutinise it more closely, we find there is absolutely no barb to it ; there is no barb of resolute " pur pose," steeped in the poison of a malicious ci deter mination." The Leader of the Opposition has for once fulfilled his intention when be has rallied his Parliamentary forces around him to witness one of his most brilliant displays as a sarcastic debater— and at least to embitter the triumphs of his con fronting antagonist by the poignancy of his own ridicule. It is gratifying to notice that even France feels compelled, for very shame, to move against the Papal brigands. But a fortnight ago General GovoN is reported to have reviewed some 5,000 of these agents of ANTONELLI and FRANCIS 11., who, after the review, broke up into small parties ; their arms were despatched separately ; and they them selves made their way by mountain paths into Nea politan territory to find those leaders, who would guide them to murder and plunder in the most helpless villages. As soon as troops approach, these wretches post off into the territory of his Holiness, where, of course, they are safe. A large number also were known to be plotting maritime descents in Sicily and on the mainland, and they even pro posed to use the French port of Marseilles for their attacks on the country of the EMPEROR'S neigh bour. The Italian Government was, however, well prepared for them. Yesterday, however, we had, so far as France is concerned, better news. The French troops them selves are represented to have attacked the band of the notorious robber and murderer CHIAVONI, to have dispersed the men, and destroyed their huts. They also intercepted a convoy of provisions sent to the brigands. We can only hope that they will have orders utterly to exterminate these scoundrels. Although they are the licensed plunderers of FRANCIS 11. and the POPE, they deserve no more mercy than pirates at sea. Indeed, while France assumes the military occupation of the residuary States of the Church, by the law of nations she is answerable for all military inroads from those of neighbouring States. The French EMPEROR has too long played this suspicious game. People have come to doubt whether a NAPOLEON at Naples be not his object. He must, therefore, either quit Rome at once, or put down the brigands of the Vatican. It is but justice to the Spanish Government to correct a mistake into which we were led by earlier Spanish papers. Later ones inform us that the Government has behaved very differently from the priests in regard to the prisoners in whom Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord CLARENDON have shown so much interest. We stated on the first authority that, on appeal to a higher court, their sentence of seven years labour in the galleys had been increased to eleven years. Later journals inform us that this was what the prosecutor, at the instigation of the priests, demanded. Also that he demanded banishment as their ultimate punishment, because they were " guilty of apostasy in continuing Pro testants"—sentence to the galleys he demanded, for their " trying to subvert the Roman Catholic reli gion in the country, by the propagation of Pro testant ideas." We are happy to learn now, how ever, from Spani s h sources that " The Government at Madrid have sent down orders to the' Audiencia,' in case they find the prisoners guilty, and sentence ho punishment, to send up immediately to Madrid a statement o f th e c ase, and for the prisoners tm to not to be removed to the galleys until the will of the Government be known. Some time must before anything positive can be known, still the prisoners have both to be defended nwiit a writing elapse t.nd verbally ; but we may hope that the meaning of this order from Madrid is that the in tentions of the Spanish Government are favourable to these poor men." Wh a t Lord PALMERSTON said in the House of Commons prove s to be true to the letter. Both the Spanish Prime Minister and the Due DE MONT PENSIEr showed a spirit the reverse of that of the Priest ; s readers have seen, has the best portion of T Spanish Press ; and in France it ap pears that M. -RouvENEL and M. GuizoT have ea ch taken a deep es f% as our and active interest in the matter. But just now the curse not only of Spain,P cra Italy s bleeds b enea th it, and ev en England feels it at her rietft is Popular elections. The Duchess de Stacpcole and Count de Stac poole have arrived at the London Hotel from Faris. wo. LATEST NEWS. MADRID, APRIL 7. The Government has again declared that nothing will change its firm determination to abstain from any demonstration prejudicial to the independence of Mexico. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN NOVA SCOTIA. HALIFAX, MARCH 24. A Ministerial crisis has been caused by the Oppo sition moving for a retrenchment of public salaries instead of increased taxation. The Ministers, however, gained a majority of The Opposition has demanded what course the Government intends to take. Mr. Howe, the Premier, gave an evasive reply. BERLIN, APRIL 7. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussische.(Stern) Zeitung of to-day says : "We learn that on the 10th inst., by order of his Majesty, and in conformity with the views of the Minister of War, a commission, composed of the highest Generals in the service, will meet to con sider the possibility of effecting a further reduction of the military budget. The Presideßt of the Ministry and the Minister of War will take part in the discussions. " General Wrangel is to preside over the com- mission." The same journal also states : "We understand that not only the budget of 1862 will be laid before the Chamber in greater detail than hitherto, but that the items of the bud get of 1863 in detail will also be submitted to the Deputies, to obviate the inconvenience of the pre sent arrangement felt by the Chamber as well as by the Government. " We believe, also, that no bills for new taxes will be submitted to the approaching meeting of the Chambers, but that the Government, on the contrary, will endeavour, by economy, to provide that, from July next, the increase of the income tax by 25 per cent. shall no longer be required. " Bills bearing upon principles of importance will not be brought before the Chambers during the sum mer session. " Several bills upon changes in the tariff may be expected. "It is the intention of the Government to propose extensive alleviations in the interests of the working classes, bearing upon the price of the most necessary articles of provisions, and including the total re peal of the taxes upon corn, and a considerable re duction of the import dues upon rice, cattle, and meat. For the same reason a diminution of the taxes on mining products may be expected, to con sist of a reduction of 1 per cent. annually for the next three years, in order to support the iron trade of Prussia against foreign competition. " A bill will also be brought in to lower the rate of postage upon letters circulating within the country. "A proposal is also under discussion to increase the price of salt to its former rate, for the purpose of raising a fund which shall be devoted to the aug mentation of the Prussian fleet." • • i?ri; `E I'. st . - -Root • - • THE SUN. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 7.—The English funds arriving with a fall of g per cent. has caused some little heaviness in this market, but prices have, notwith standing, been maintained at the closing quotations of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. Railway Share Market also dull. Tile following were the last quotations : 4t per per Cents 9B 30 Do. end month.. - 98 30 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 10 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 792 60 Do. Account — Bank Shares — Credit Foncier 1530 Belgian 4}.. — Piedmontese Fives. 68 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt RAILWAYS, Cash. Account. Orleans 1270 1276 Northern ....• 1052 50 .. 1047 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1133 75 .. 1131 25 Geneva.. 387 50 .. 385 Southern 787 50 .. 786 25 Western Eastern _ Sardinian Austrian Lombard PRUSSIA. A Brussels letter, in the Journal de Liege, says : —" The King is getting better ; he has resumed his ordinary occupation, and takes long walks in the Park of Laeken every morning. No surgical operations ever succeeded better, nor has any operator ever had a patient evincing greater courage and firmness. A man in the prime of life could not have shown more. During the whole treatment, his Majesty attended to public business, as may be seen by the date of the laws and decrees in the official journal. Dr. Civiale, who so successfully performed the operation on his Majesty, received the decoration of the Order of Leopold before he left for Paris, about ten days since." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d state that 20 millions of reals have been paid at Tangiers by the Emperor of Morocco, which, with the 40 millions at London, make the sum of 60 millions stipulated by the last convention. The Epoe'a says :—" We have always asserted that the Cronica gave way to passion in its news from Paris. What proves this is the fact that in giving the note of the Moniteur, stating that the Emperor regarded the convention of Soledad as contrary to the dignity of France, the Cronica says the Emperor disapproved of the treaty as contrary to the dignity of the Allies. The Emperor had a perfect right to judge the con vention as it regarded France, but he could have no right to judge of the dignity of other nations. The Emperor did not say what the Cronica supposes, and we take the liberty of asking whether it thinks itself justified in thus mis-stating the ex pressions of an official note." MARKETS-THIS DAY. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 18s Od per load. Trade slow, supply moderate. CUMBERLAND. -- Meaiow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover do., lOs to S 5 10s; and straw, V. 8s to £3l 18 s p er l oa d . A slow demand. NVIIITECHAPEL. — Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clove?, £3 10s to £5 10s ; and straw. 8s to £1 ]6s per load. An inactive trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—The dealings have been limited, but holders de mand fully late rates for good and fine qualities. SUGAR.—The market has continued (inactive, and prices in some instances have shown a downward tendency. Re fined descriptions, however, have remained at about pre vious quotations. COFFEE.—OnIy limited dealings have been recorded, and late prices are demanded by holders, which has in some measure checked operations. RICE —l3twinesB has been dull, and the few b ar g ain s recorded have been at about previous prices. SALTPETRE. The demand has been more active, and prices have shown an upward tendency, particularly for British refined. TALLow.—The market has continued dull, although little change of importance can bo recorded in values. F.Y.C. o n the spot is quoted 46s 3d, and for last three months' delivery 48s 3d per cwt. " SPINSTERS AND TIIEIR IDOLS."-" WalrOild v. Long and another."—ln this case, the action against the Morning Post tried on Friday at Kingston, with a verdict o ne farthing, Mr. Ch ambers, on for the plaintiff , d amages Saturday, applied for a certificate to carry costs. Mr. Lush, for the defendants, objected that his lordship could not possibly certify that the libel was " wilful and malicious," the jury having given only one farthing. The Lord Chief Justice said he thought the question was one for the jury, and he did not like to take it out of the usual course. The certificate for costs was therefore refused. LAW-THIS D.Y. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before 111 r. Registrar Roche.) IN RE BONNEY. This was a meeting for choice of assignees, &c., in the case of this bankrupt, Rebecca Bonney, who carried on business as a wholesale confectioner, at Riegate. The accounts by Mr. M. Thomas, Gresham-street, shows debtor to creditors, £1,133, to ditto holding security, £230 ; assets, good debts, £45; property given up, £265; ditto in the hands of creditors, £400; debts, £45. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE THE CUMBERLAND LEAD MINING COMPANY. This was a petition to wind up the affairs of this com pany, which was formed in December, 1858, for the pur pose of working a lead mine in Cumberland, and were duly incorporated. The nominal capital was £20,000, in 4,000 shares of £5 each. 3,356 shares were subscribed for, and business was carried on until September, 1861. The whole of the capital had been absorbed, and a resolution had been passed for winding up voluntarily. The petitioners are Mr. Thomas Bell, of Headingham. Essex, the holder of 200 shares ; and Mr. N. Linds, Moorgate-street, gentleman, holder of 580 shares. IN RE HALL.-APPLICATION FOR RELEASE. This bankrupt came up from Horsemonger-lane Gaol, on an application to be discharged from custody. Mr. G. Lewis, Hatton-garden, opposed, on the ground that the notice was insufficient, having only reached him by post last evening at seven o'clock; besides which there was no affidavit. Mr. Aldridge said that one had been sworn. Mr. Lewis—lt is not in the proceedings, and until it is I can't be supposed to know it. I cannot know what is in your office. Mr. Aldridge—The non-delivery of the notice is the fault of the post office. I believe the letter was posted in time. Mr. Lewis—You can see by the post-mark I could not have received it till after seven last night. Mr. Roche—That is a matter for the Postmaster-General —you must apply to him. Mr. Lewis—Eight and forty hours is absolutely requisite and in Mr. Commissioner Goulburn's Court three days' notice is required. Mr. Aldridge—in some cases another detainer is lodged after notice—is this one? Mr. Lewis—No ; this is a very different thing, there is only one detained; he would, to save trouble, take notice for Friday next. The Registrar said, after the case of Newton, before the Lords' Justices, it was better to keep to the full time. =-; Mr. Lewis proposed to examine the bankrupt, which was objected to until the question of release was argued. The case was therefore adjourned until Friday. IN RE ROUSELL, This bankrupt was a commercial traveller at Dalston, and his last examination bad been adjourned sine die, no account having been filed. Mr. Drew, Basinghall-street, now stated that the ac counts had been duly filed, and applied for a day to be appointed for the examination. Order made accordingly. STEAM RAMS v. IRON-CASED SHIPS. Mr. Nasmyth, in a letter to a contemporary says: Nothing but the most earnest conviction that the few remarks I desire to offer may have an impor tant bearing on the subject of our national defences would have led me to presume to solicit for them a corner in your valuable columns. Late events have, however, brought the subject of iron-cased ships so prominently before the atten tion of the Government and of the public generally, as a subject involving the most vital interests of the nation, that I trust you will afford me the oppor tunity I so much desire of saying a few words on the subject. It appears to me that in the remarks which have been made in Parliament and elsewhere, in refe rence to the successful attack by the Merrimac on the Cumberland, sufficient attention has not been given to the steam-ram action of the Merrimac, which, however imperfectly constructed as a bona flu steam ram, yet performed her duty in that respect with such complete success as to have settled the fate of the Cumberland by her first blow acting as a steam ram, as from that moment the Cumber land began to sink into the water a hopeless wreck. The guns of the Merrimac, no doubt, added to the destruction of life, but that was not requisite to secure the destruction of the vessel, the fate of which was decided, as before said, by the first steam-ram brow given by the Merrimac. Ever since 1845, when I first introduced the subject of steam-rams to the Admiralty, I have given my earnest attention to the subject, as one of the most simple and effective agents in naval warfare ; and, having watched the results of the experiments that have been made on iron plates, by which we seek to render our ships of war in vulnerable to shot, experience and reflection have satisfied me that, unless we provide ourselves with bona fide steam-rams, great as the shot-resisting capabilities of our iron-plated war ships may be, not one of them could. exist above water after receiving on its side a single blow from an iron-plated steam ram of 2,000 tons. Such a weight of ram moving with a velocity of eight or ten miles an hour, would, if it deposited its momentum on the side of the strongest iron-plated ship, transcend in the destructive effect of one single blow all the broadsides that could be delivered during hours of continued firing. As the grand object of naval warfare is the destruction by the most speedy mode of the ships of the enemy, why should we con tinue to attempt to attain this object by making small holes in the hull of the enemy when, by one single masterly blow from a steam ram we can crush in the side of any armour-plated ship, and let the water rush in through a hole " as wide as a church door,' and certain to send her below water in a few minutes ? No iron plates, however thick, as forming the sides of an iron-plated war ship, could ever with stand the crushing-in action of an end-on blow from a steam-ram possessed of the momentum due to 2,000 tons, moving with even S 3 moderate a velocity as 10 miles an hour. While such a crushing blow would be fatal wben delivered on to the side of the enemy, the result to the steam-ram would be prac tically harmless. In the construction of such a ram as I refer to everything would be done to give her " end-way strength," while at the same time being hampered with no interior fittings except what was due to the attainment of high speed. Under such fa vourable conditions a degree of speed might be given to her such as to enable her to overtake any more cumbrous vessel, against the rudder and screw of which she could easily rush, and so, in the first place, utterly disable the locomotive power of the enemy and then sweep round to gain due momentum and direction, and crush in the plated sides of the then comparatively helpless enemy. For such purposes it would be well to have a covey of smaller nimble rams, to act as what I would term " cripplers "—namely, to rush at the rudders and screws of the enemy's ships, which would render them an easy prey to the great rams and other agents of destruction. Vast as has been our expenditure on such vessels as the Warrior and other vessels of her class, the steam ram principle in them is so imperfectly car ried out, and overlaid and hampered with traditional naval details, as to render it more than doubtful if any of them dare to act as "steam rams," certainly not as such against an iron-plated enemy. I earnestly trust the Admiralty will not lose a r day , in testing the efficiency of a bona fide steam ram, and not let us have to be taught a humiliating lesson as to the capabilities of such tremendous agents as they are certain to prove from some hostile quarters. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge ham been suffering from an attack of influenza and cold for the last few days. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury entertained at dinner on Saturday evening the Marchioness of Lothian, the Countess of Bective, Lord and Lady Burghley, Lord West, Mr. and Lady Augusta Fremantle, Mrs. Lane Fox, Mr. Whiteside, M.P., &c. The health of the Earl of Derby continues to improve, and hopes are hold out by his lordship's medical advisers that in a few days the noble earl will be so far re covered as to leave town for the country to recruit his health during the Parliamentary rec ess. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon intend to receive a succession of visitors at the Grove, near 'Watford, during the holidays. airing tile Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening the Earl of Cork, Earl Granville, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess Somers, Viscount and Viscountess Enfield, Viscount Torrington, Viscount Strat ford do Radcliffe, Lord Elcho, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Delano, and Mr. Hayward. The Hon. Gerald and Lady Maria Ponsonby have returned to town from visiting the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, Watford. CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) EMBEZZLEMENT. Abraham Emden, traveller, pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging him with embezzlin g the sum of £l4 35., and various other sums of money, the property of Robert King, b is employer. The Recorder sentenced him to three years' penal servi tude. RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY. Gothard Poehler was indicted for feloniously receiving a quantity of muskwash skins, and Wm. Patzolt was indicted for stealing the same from his employer. Patzolt, who pleaded guilty, was admitted as a witness against the first -•named prisoner. The prisoner Patzolt was in the employ of Messrs. Op penheim, furriers, Cannon•strect West, and the property in question had been stolen from their stock. It was after wards disposed of by Poehler to a person named Lilly cramp, much below its value. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and at the same time said they highly disapproved of the conduct of Lillycramp. The prosecutor said he had many reasons to believe that Patzolt hal been made a tool of by the other prisoner. The Recorder said he entirely concurred in the verdict. He should, therefore, refuse to allow Lillycramp his ex poises. With respect to Patzolt he had no doubt he had been incited to rob his employer, and that he had unfortu nately yielded to the temptation. As the prosecutor had spoken favourably of him he would only sentence him to , 6 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, but as for Poehler he appeared to be a person whose object was to in cite people to rob their employers. He should, therefore, sentence him to 4 years' penal servitude. STEALING FROM A PAWNBROKER'S WINDOW. ___ _ John Roberts, an elderly man, was indicted for stealing a gold watch and some gold chains the property of Joseph, Harris. The foreman of Mr. Harris, a pawnbroker at Deptford, said on the evening of the robbery he heard a crash of glass and saw a man's hand being withdrawn from the window. He ran out and found the prisoner, whose hand was bleed ing, near the window ; a gold chain was lying at his foot and a gold watch was in his pocket. The pii.oner, in his defence, said he was drunk at the. time, and he had no recollection of the affair. He said 1 - 1 0 was very drunk, and fell down near the window, which was broken by a stick which he carried. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. .... .._ The Recorder sentenced him to twelve months' in'Aprison ment with hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Serr g e a nt.) MINT PROSECUTIONS. Eliza Scott and Maria Williams pleaded guilty to an in dictment charging them with u.tt'dring counterfeit coin. The learned judge, in passilig sentence, cautioned the prisoners against appearing at that court a second time for a like offence, because then, instead of escaping with simple imprisonment, they would most assuredly be sentenced to penal servitude for a long time. He then sentenced them to 18 months' imprisonment. Eliza Macarthy also pleaded guilty to a similar offence. She was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Sarah Warner and Sophia Haden were indicted for having in their possession a plaister of Paris mould for tho manufacture of counterfeit shillings. The first prisoner pleaded guilty. Brennan, the policeman employed by the Mint, said. ho went to 4, Caroline-place, Whitechapel, on the 12th March, and,on entering the room he saw the prisoners Warner and Haden. On a table which stood near a bright fire he found a plaster of paris model for making a shilling, quite hot. In a tea cup he found 56 shillings, some of them so hot that he could not hold them. He also found some white sand y and all the materials for coining. He asked for a Lem named Bill Wybrow. The prisoners said they did not know him, :and that they had both been picked up quite drink, and had been brought home there without their knowledge. He went down for the landlady, when she said Haden was the person who took the apartment, She said it was a lie. Mr. Webster, of the Mint, proved the coin counterfeit, and also that the whole of it had been made in the mould produced. Mrs. Lyon, the landlady, said'she let the ',room to Van prisoner Haden. She had only been there one day. 7:10 first time she saw the prisoner Warner was when she was taken into custody by Brennan. Police-sergeant Elliot said he had seen both p risoners constantly together, and knew that they lived together. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Brennan said he had b nown Haden for three years, and he believed this to be her third conviction, and immediately she came out of prison she started a business again, the , only stock-in-trade that was required to begin, being is pennyworth of plaster and a stolen pint-pot. Haden said her companion Warner was entirely in nocent. The Common Serjeant sentenced Haden to four ye a rs' penal servitude, and Warner to 18 months' impriBol3lnent, POLICE-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH -STREET THIS DAY. ANNOYING THE MEMBERS OF THE ARMY AND NAvir aux—Hannah Campbell, a respectably-attired widow, wearing two medals on her breast, was charged wi + .h annoy ing the members of the Army and Navy Club by begging. Shillingford, 141 A, said be saw the prisoraer following the members of the Army and Navy Club as they left the clubhouse, and from her manner he believed she was beg ing, of them. He cautioned her, and afterwards seeing her again he took her into custody. She was wearing at ale time two medals on her breast, and had a box with her with some penholders and penwipers in it. Mr. Knox asked if she was known, and received as an_ ewer in the negative. The prisoner said she was a widow, and had a grand. daughter to support. She had a hawker's license lor which she paid two pounds a year, and was obliged to sit up late of night to make her penwipers, and to enable her to get her little stock together. She did not go out with the in tention of begging, and received no parochial relief. She , never asked any one for charity, but to buy her articler,, She was told that she could not hawk her goods without a license, and then when she got a license and did so , Ahe was taken into custody. She had lost one son in the Crimea, and another in India. Mr. Knox asked whether the prisoner had been se en by the officers of the Mendicity Society, and recehred an answer that she had been seen, but was not known, Mr. Knox said that begging was carried on very largely at this part of the town, and one-half of the persons were impostors and thieves, who went about annoying people under the pretence of selling bobbins, &c. She was seen standing by the club-house with medals on her breast, and he had no doubt, to incite members to relieve her. He could not imagine anything more ann o yi ng than for a per son to stop every person leaving the club and stating that she had lost two sons. He should discharge her this time, but would tell her that she was tow known, and had better keep away from the clubs, One of the prisoner's sons here stepped forward to make an application, but was not heard. THAMES THIS DAY. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY AN AMERICAN SAILOR.— J ohn Burke, a tall and powerful fellow, who said he was a Yankee seaman, and had lately arrived in this country in a New' York packet-ship, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with committing a savage assault on Mary Dono van, a poor Irishwoman, and the wife of a coal-whipper, dwelling at No. 3, Chancery-court, Shadwell. The complainant, whose face was swollen and bruised, and her mouth cut, said that at three o'clock this morning. she heard a loud knocking at her door, and believing it to, be her husband, who did not come home last night, slao opened the door, and the prisoner immediately rushed in. Discovering who it was, she said to him—" You must go out here; this is not your place." The prisoner uttered a savage oath, and immediately struck her a heavy blow with his clenched fist on the side of the head and knocked her down. She got up again and called out murder, and he struck her repeatedly about the face and chest, cut her lips,. and knocked out one of her teeth, and another Ras nearly dislodged. She rushed into her front room, opened the window, and dropped from it into the street; leaving the prisoner in the house, Mr. Woolrych—Did you ever see the prisoner before P Witness—l never saw him before in my life, sir. H hit me on the chest, and it is all black and blue. A police•constable of the K division said he heard loud, screams and cries of murder proceeding from a woman int Chancery-court, and upon going to the spot saw the com plainant, Mary Donovan, in her night dress and bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth. Ile went into the house, and found the prisoner there with a lucifer match in his hand. Mr, Woolrych—ls the complainant a person of good cha racter ? • Witness—Yes, sir ; sho is a very honest, industrious Woman. Tne prisoner, in defence, said—As far as my recollection goes and gives me to understand, I had no conversation with that woman or any other person, I don't believe I struck her at all. Mr, Woolrych—Have you any witnesses to call ? The prisoner— I calculate I have no ono to say a wo rd what 1 did and what I did not. _ Mr. Woolrych:171;;;;;been guilty of a most violent and cowardly assault on that poor woman. I Commit you for an aggravated assault, and sentence you to two mon.the imprisonment and hard labour. Lord Hobart, ----- who has been selected by Earl Russell as British Commissioner to Turkey, takes his de parture to-day for Constantinople, to assume his diplomatic duty. Lady Hobart will accompany his lordship to the a East. B OROUG H OF 14 AMBETIL—It is 'rumour e d that vacancy will short l y occur in the representation of this bo rough,ll being aboutnoupe t Mr. 0, accept the Chiltern Hundreds. of ti Ras Bequ rs t gotil in t 1)t icy tan] Lisb N. 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