The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THE ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COM PANY (MUTED). Registered Pursuant to Act of Parliament. Capital—£2oo,ooo, in 10,000 Shares of £2O each, (Of which a large portion bas already been subscribed for). Deposit on Application, £1 per Share; and II per Share on Allotment. Two Months to intervene between each Call. Tlae Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his Shares. • • DIRECTORS. Rear-Admiral Barney, Ebary House, Twickenham, S.W. D. N. Giannacopnlo, Esq., Director of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, (Giannacopulo and Cochilani), Merchant, Liverpool, Dean.. J. Hoar., Esq., F.R.G. S. Angus M'Kenzie, Esq., Merchant, Gresham House, Lon- don. Constantine S. Panagulopulos, Esq., Merchant, Patras. George Pappa, Esq., Merchant, Smyrna. Edward Gibbon Swann, Esq., J.P., 17, Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde-park, London. A faller list of Directors could have been presented, but the Promoters of the Company purposely limited their nomination as above, in order to leave an option to the subsequent subscribers for shares of participating in the election of additional English Directors. BANKERS. Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langford and Marsden, London. Messrs. Sale, Worthington, Shipman and Seddon, Manchester. • AUDITORS. Charles F. Kemp, Esq,, Accountant, 7, Gresham-street. Henry James Barker, Esq. (Barker Brothers and Co.) BROKERS. Messrs. Matthey, and Billett, 81, Old Broad-street. MANAGER. Deinetrio Pappa, Esq. OFFICES. 31, Threadneedle•street. AGENTS. Greece--The National Hellenic Bank and Branch Estab lishments. Salonica—Messrs. Semtoch Heschia, D. Blazzi, and John Demetriadi. merchants. Alexandria—Messrs. Duca, Paleologo and Cochilani, mer chants. Cairo—Messrs: Paleologo and Cochilani, Messrs. Charilagos Brothers, merchants. Beyrout—Messes. N. Ziffo and Ca., merchants. Amsterdam—Messre. C. L. Engleberts and Sons, bankers and merchants. Constantinople—Messrs, D, Pappa and N. Sotiropulos, merchants. Ibraila—Stephen N. Canting, Esq:, merchant. Galatz—Charalambo H. Giannussi, Esq., merchant. Other Agencies will be appointed in course of time. PrbosrEcTlJS. This Company is established for the purpose of receiving consignments for sale under reasonable advances, of effecting purchase's of manufactures and other staples cf which this country is the great entrepot, and of executing orders on commission for account of correspondents in Eng land, the Eastern part of Europe, Asia Minor and Egypt, &c., with such command of means and confidence as may favour a large extension of the Commerce between the foreign regions named and Great Britain, with every regard to security and upon the most favourable terms, as to the respective markets. The Returns published by the Board of Trade exhibit from year to year an immense increase of traffic between Great Britain and the rest of the world—and the Levant is found to figure in those returns upon a scale of considerable importance. A still great3r development, however, of which this branch of commerce is capable, remains retarded ley the inadequate power and insufficient security com manded by private establishments—hence the idea of form ing ibis Association. The resources of the Levant itself, at present wasted for want of development, are unquestionably sufficient to sup port a trade extensive and remunerative to a degree never yet attained as regards the East, The numerous ports in the Black Sea, the Archipelago,. and on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, only . require the existence of a finan cial centre of intercourse in England, commanding uni versal confidence, to acquire a flourishing importance in world-wide enterprise, contrasting greatly with the depres sion of uncertainty and insecurity which has of late years paralysed their commerce. And the establishment of such an influential organisation as will provide this much needed financial centre, in materially enhancing the prosperity of the Levant, will promptly open out a wide and ever ex panding field for the operations of British capitalists, and the consumption of British,manufactures. Such being the origin, purpose, and objects of the " Orien tal Commercial Company, Limited," an earnest and con current co-operation in the various Levantine Ports secures to this Association the reasonable certainty of rapid and decided success ; whilet the great experience of the Mana ger who has been appointed is a guarantee for the prudent and safe course that will be pursued. A large and most respectable body of shippers abroad having already promised to entrust the management of their interests to this Company, and the business connec tions of the appointed Manager being in like manner secured, the Directors believe that, with such assurances, the undertaking offers more than ordinary inducements for investment. The Capital of the Company has been axed at Two nunslred Thousand Pounds Sterling, of which more than Thirty Thousand Pounds have already been subscribed. It haviz2g been originally intended to carry on the com pany with Shares of i3loo each, the necessary steps are being taken to alter the original Articles of Association of the Company in that and some other respects. The substi tuted Articles may be seen on application at the offices of the Company, where the fullest intormation of the objects and prospects of the Company will be afforded. In the event of the whole 10,000 shares, into which the capital is divided, being taken up, the Directors consider that no more than £5 per Share will be required at com mand, in full developing the business of the Company, and so as to afford a remunerative return to the Shareholders, and this proportion of £5 per share will accordingly be called up by instalments. Applications for shares must be made in the form an nexod. The deposit of £1 per Share must be paid to the Company's Bankers, by whom a receipt will be gi ven. If no allotment be made, or a less number of shares be allotted than is applied for, the deposit, or the surplus thereof, as the case may be, will be returned in full. Prospectuses and forms of application for Shares may be obtained at the Offices, 31, Threadneedle-street. as well as from the directors, solicitors, agents, and brokers of the Company. ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY (LIMITED), Incorporated pursuant to Act of Parliament. Capital, £200,060. Offices, 31, Threadneedle-street, London, E.C. . FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of "The Oriental Commercial Company," Limited. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of £2O each in the above Company, having paid your hankers the deposit of £1 per share thereon; and, in consideration of such allotment, or of any less number of shares you may appropriate to me, I hereby undertake to pay any call thereon, and I further undertake to exemite the articles of association when required. Dated this day of Names in full Residence Profession or Trade Place of Business Signature 1862. COURAGEOSJS RESCUE AND ViiAiRESULT.—On Saturday a poor cripple was crossing the road near the Liver pool Each an ge, when he was placed in great d anger by the passing of a huge lor r y laden with cotto n b a l es. A labour ing man rushed to the res c u e, and succeeded in r emoving the cripple out of the way , b ut unfortunately be wa s him self-knocked down before be could clear the horses, and the wheel e passing over him crushed him to death immediately. Great sympathy has been expressed amongst the merchants on 'Change, and there is no doubt that a handsome sub scription will be raised for the family of the poor fellow who has met with so untimely a fate. A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation Com pany is called for the 29th inst., and of the East India Irri gation Company for the 31st. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China is called for the 20th inst. A general meeting of the Great Barrier Land, Harbour, and Mining Company is called for the 29th inst. Dig 4Tli DRAGOON GUARDS. —A few days will, in all likelihood, witness the official notification of the re moval of Colonel Bentinck from the command of the 4th Dragoon Guards. We aro not aware of the particular form in which this necessary step will be taken. As the officer in question has no t com p leted 25 years' service he is n o t in strictness eligible for the half-pay list, and possibly means may be found of allowing him to receive the regula tion valne of his "Commissions„ and thus retire altogether from the army. Colonel Brownrigg's period of service on the staff has aiready expired, and as soon as provision is made for replacing him he will-revert to half-pay, we trust never again to be put in a position of responsibility like that he has shown himself so singularly unfitted to fill. Some further changes in the 4th Dragoon Guards may also be looked forward to, and we trust sincerely that under new auspices this fine old corps may, before long recover the honourable position for which, in former times, it was dis tinguished in the service.—Army and Navy Gaztte. Prince Anatole Demidoff, of San Donato, has just year of hi s age. He married i n 1841 th e died in the 51st Princess Mathilde de Montfort, daughter of Prince Jerome and of the Princes s C atherine of Wurternberg. Bonaparte He separated f ro m his wife ne ar l y 17 years ago. THE KEANS AT BRISTOL.-0a Friday n i g ht Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean took their benefit at the Bristol Theatro, on which pc nasiowthe pieces were "Henry and " The Wonder?' The Western Daily Ti mes says the unanimous " call" a t thy' termination of each play, showed how thoroughly they had been appreciated. The larnbardia, of Milan, states that on the sth a band of eighteen thieves entered the house of a M. Agnelli at Lodi, whom they knew to have received ;36,0001r. as a legacy, bou n d b o th hi m an d his wife hand and foot, and then proceeded to take possession of the sum. N. Agnelli's (laughter had sucoooded in making her escape w ithout bein g ob , orved th eniftra ", and gave the alarm to some peasant 4, who proceed e d to the. spot., - armerl with spades and pitch forks but the thieve s ti acd . ion them from the windows, and forc , .‘l thorn to retire., goon after the carhiceeril arrived, bat both the thieves and the money had disappeared. THE LONGFORD ELECTION PETITION. —A sub perintion is being got u p, in which the R . rnan. Catholic bishops of Ireland -aro takingpart,defraying the ex of o pp, a ing t he.petitionaai for; the return of Major I I for the county of Longford, ponscs O'Neil GREgCE.—RAISING OF -TriE BLO his Hellenic ade leni c Majesty's ' , f KADELon- , don, May 9.—Sir,--I am directed b y part of the Covcintnent to inform you that the block Argo'ic Gulf betwe en the anchora g e otAs tros (nota ct on t eluded) and the Bay of Vourla (included), which took effect 13th (25th) of February, 1802, was raised on th e 10 th (2 . 2 11 2)! of April, by virtue` of . a =n6tifteation of the , Royal Marine! Department of the same date.—l am, sir, your obedient !ervant, A. A. loNlDEzcAotinglor the Consul , General. Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's. . THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (120 t `"me) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. 141 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 153 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falcone? ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet Interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna 'Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. 'Carlow, and kllss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at '• Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. . Lessee , Mr A. Harris, THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at a quarter to 8, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Commence at 7. No half-price. NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL soIe Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVl"vry A PRIVATE INQUIRY: Messrp , J. L. Toole, Billing-ton Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To be followed by the new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billing - ton. Stephenson ; Miss L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. J. T. Toole, Billing-ton, Errnry ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7. C A NTERBURY HALL AND FINE GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11. The renowned RUMSEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS at Nine o'clock. Grand Selections from " La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. UNSWORM, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any other man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and Dancer, at Ten o'clock. The best Comic talent in London. Messrs, Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon don durino; the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and Two o'clock on and after Monday. 'F HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- " MAY DAY," a cantata written by John Oxenford, music by G. A. 3lacfarren ; Burns' " Jolly Beggars, " also a cantata, with George Linley's music, and Grand Operatic Selections by the entire company. Full Band and Chorus. —Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmsns. Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent ; and HENRI and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze every evening. hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis DAY.—Morning, 12h. 2m.—Afternoon, 12h. 28m. TO-MORROW.- Morning, 12h. 50m.—Afternoon, lh. 14m. NOTICE. Ail 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. ji 4 t) .- , , tVIS,--.'Ml_4•'' • i ' 4 r i l:';. - * •.‘ . A '' :' . :7.t, tst-i:„` - --\ 4A 41 4 , --,,., ' 7, ' ' ?s.t7 - Afr-i . .".....,i .:. - -7 , ' ' ''' 17 -=',l, ~.t" ' . • lli f - ~ _ , ,--, -, , ..., , - t• - • Tz5.....,, , t 1., „„ , - - - ty ,........ 4,,, ty • r • ~,,),.. I DR, :1-i . ..-t 4 - 1L ...1 , - o , ..M.-. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1862. • New Orleans is captured. Since both Richmond and Washington send us substantially the same intelligence, it would be scepticism over strained, to disbelieve. Our readers may be aware that there are two approaches by water to the city, which a glance at any map of sufficient size will make plainer than we can do by any descrip tion. One of these is by the main channels of the great river, through which it flows into the Gulf of Mexico. On the principal of these was placed Fort Jackson, which the Federals have been some days furiously bombarding, till the Southerners thought they must have exhausted their ammunition. This fort, we aro told, with another, Fort Philip, the Confederates still hold ; but, as if to give a much needed lesson to Lord PALMERSTON and Sir G. C. LEWIS, and to justify the opposition to sinking our money in the Plymouth and Spithead forts, the Federal fleet has sailed past both, and summoned the city, they should have protected in that direc tion, to surrender. A summons impossible for a city to resist, which lay on the other side of a vast em bankment, with the hostile fleet riding at anchor in the river, above the roofs of the houses. The other approach by water to the city is through the large lake Pontchartrain at its back, which by smaller lakes and channels is also con nected with the Gulf of Mexico. Fort Pike, and the other forts which guarded these channels, seem to have been abandoned as indefensible. New Orleans wanted, what we shall need at Plymouth and Spithead, not forts, which are almost innocuous to the quickly passing gunboat, but Merrimacs and Monitors. Had she had a few ironsides, the Federal meet would not have passed them as easily as it did Port Jackson. And not being fixed, if of small ser vice in one place, they would not have been blown u p , but withdrawn to another. Along this lake IPassage General BUTLER, it is almost certain, had reached the city on the side opposite the river ; hence the place had no alternative but to treat for surrender. The specie was, however, first carefully 0, away —to th e amount, it is said, of more m re ted t o have than three and a half milli ons sterling. The cotton and m shouldtea b° b destroyed rather th an th e Fede rals we: them. The Federal steamboats s p commander is said to have withdrawn his forces to Camp Moore, eighty miles distant. There seems to have been no motive for this when he was treating with the municipal authorities; the time hardly permitted such a long march ; and the probability is that there is some telegraphic mistake of nam es of persons or places. . What is as certain, as first intelligence can well be is, that the City is in the hands of the Federals. The questions arise, how will the great capture affect the war, and how will it affect Europe ? Probably BEAUREGARD, who is at Corinth, about four hundred miles north by the railway, and much more by the windings of the river, will severely feel the loss. He is reported to have strengthened him self much, and doubtless the troops liberated from New Orleans will now join him. Still he is now all but cut off from every means of communication 1 with other Confederates, and from any largo towns which could manufacture for him the materiel of war. The Mississippi is now closed, both north and south. General HALLECK, directly opposed to him, has also greatly strengthened himself and General MucuELL, master of two hundred miles of his western communications, presses on that 111111 " He can escape only by a desperate battle and a great victory, and bloody probably will be the fight which 6h P.ll decide the mastery of the South Western States. On Secession generally the capture must operate as a heavy discouragement. The place is not indeed of military value, but New Orleans is the New York of the South, and its loss must be disheartening. , 1 2 What its tifeet will be here, a lit t l e t i me v i probably show. Already information has been received, which appears to be of a trustworthy character, that the Federal Government is engaged in the consideration Gf measures for' raising, or at least seriously modifying, the blockade. It has IHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY 7.EVE NI NG, MAY 12, 1862. now the great cotton port in its hands. It can pre vent the entrance of contraband of war, and yet allow the shipment of cotton. Its own manufac turers need the supply quite as much as ours do. If therefore Southern cotton planters will sell, pro vided their doing so will not bring them arms and ammunition in return, the Federals can have no reason for continuing to injure their own manu factures, and for annoying the manufacturiug States of Europe, Still there is a great deal to be done be fore cotton can be obtained. The planters may be too patriotic, as they may think it, to sell. Their leaders, thoroughly desperate politicians, will endeavour to prevent their doing it. The means of package and of internal conveyance are all disorganised, and even the ginning, we are told, is yet to be done. How ever, a short time will reveal the facts of the case. The effect of the news at New York on Government paper and securities has been to raise them to a premium. At Yorktown itself no change had taken place, but the Contederates are making strenuous efforts to keep Generals BANKS and M'DOWELL from uniting and capturing Richmond, while M'CLELLAN is holding the body of their army occupied at York town, and their Generals JACKSON and GUSTAVUS SMITH appear to have been successful, partly by destroying the bridges of the river, which BANKS must cross to get to Richmond, and partly by obtaining considerable reinforcements. Rich mond appears to be not only the Confederate capi tal, but it seems also to have iron works of sufficient magnitude to plate gunboats, several having been taken there for that purpose. Indeed it is striking to notice how in almost every account both parties seem to be relying on the plated vessels they can. construct, almost as much as on their armies ; and the grand effort is to get them done best and first. Each side are now working to the utmost of their resources to construct an iron fleet. A lesson to England. Anyone who has visited the beautiful city of Edinburgh will perfectly well remember the hand some public building which is there devoted to the preservation of the National Records of Scotland. It is a structure itself of an admirably good out ward appearance. It stands upon an excellent site. There is an open space in front of it—in the midst of which, upon its pedestal, is a public monument, the equestrian statue of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON—unIike the majority of the public monuments adorning (!) our own unfortunate metropolis, for inasmuch as the one here referred to at Auld Reekie, instead of being an eyesore, is really worth looking at, Those who have—as we ourselves have penetrated into the edifice, upon the merits of which we are now descanting, will remember that the internal arrangements of the structure are as admirably well organised as even the most conscientious of our own Masters of the Rol]s (say, for example, the present one, Sir•JoHN RoMILLY) could reasonably wish. According to the wise advice of Poor RICHARD'S dictum, there is " a place for everything, and everything is in its place." During the daytime (the only safe period in the twenty-four hours for establishments of this precious and inflammable character), every crevice of the building is well lit. Winter and sum mer the whole structure is cautiously yet effectually ventilated. Wet or dry the weather may be—and is, as a matter of course, through out the twelvemonth in this variable climate—yet the apartments which there constitute the muniment rooms of the Scottish nation, the saloons and galaries containing the archives of the northern kingdom are as sedulously kept, from year's end to year's end, now from dust, now from mildew. In all this we are not in any way doing what Mr SNAGSBY, the law•stationer, was always in dread of doing, namely, "putting too fine a point upon it." We are simply stating the facts of the case as they stand. And to what purpose ? Those who may have remarked the discussion which took place on Friday's sitting in the House of Corn. mons by the hon. member for BridPort, will, of course, upon the instant, very readily understand. Mr. B. COCHRANE, they will bear in mind, then brought once more under the consideration of the popular branch of the Legislature the deplorable plight in which the Record Office here in London is left to this day in spite of all that has been talked and written, or at any rate, understood to have been done in its regard in the way of improve ment. True, no doubt, that an entirely new build ing for the preservation of the archives of Great Britain was ordered by Parliament fully a dozen years ago. Nay, more than that, it was actually applied to the purpose for which it was intended. An estimate having been made as far back as 1850, this new Record Office was forthwith begun. As unsightly a building in its, way as—what shall we say P—Well, as unsightly as even Captain FowliEs himself, when, at his worst, could in an interval of the wildest hallucination have imagined. There it stands, even now, in a more literal sense than in Lord MACAULAY'S " Lay of Ancient Rome" " The figure of HORATIUS halting upon one kn.2e;" there it stands, we say, far more literally than that classic effigy of HORATIIIS—" Plain for all folk to see !" Fortunately for our national credit the pile, such as it is, and so far as it has yet been carried towards its still apparently remote completion—is hid away in one of the most obscure, crowded, and in parts also squallid and dirty sluml of the metropolis. So that even the most inquisitive mid peripatetic sight-seeing of the multitude of foreigners now traversing. London in all directions, could only by possibility come upon it by sheer accident ! And observe ! even when reached down, in the heart of that jumbled labyrinth of slaughter-houses and meat markets, the visitor, startled by the unex- pected intimation that he has reached the New Record-office—discovers for himself immediately afterwards, upon inspection, that so far from the building there itself in its entirety, he beholds be fore him only a fragment of it. As yet in point of fact it is no more than a single wing that has been raised. And seeing what that simp:e wing really is, rather would we that it should now be very summarily rased! For when viewed ex- it is as plai n l y as both ugly i n i ts appearance and ternally, possible almost that th e arrangements Mr. C OCHRANE t o ld at the first glance i t n h a e d h e o q u u s a e t e t h in e i o t t s h edri mevening s . inside were as bad and as inefficient as though they had been made to match. It would be ridiculous in effect, in the presence of the glaring facts that have been brought to light, to argue for a moment otherwise. It seems absolutely as if a sort of craze had dictated every suggestion that had et been made throughout, with a view to the better preservation (save the mark!) of the memory of these really priceless documents. One while it is coolly pro posed that they should be bodily sent up aloft 350 steps of the winding staircase, to be stowed away sa f e ly, perhaps (though even that is questionable enough) hut certainly quite inaccessibly (for the purposes of ordinary consultation) in the Victoria Tower. As the member for Bridpprt indig- nantly remarked, when ritallirf e v, nrenosterous proppshoy to mind—it might quite as rationally (in $Ol2lO reSPeCtB weeannot have been suggested bin think flit thore rationally) that they should have been arranged and pigeon-holed in the so•ealted dry - arches of the Adelphi. Eventually, one proposal after another is set aside as impracticable. The new Record Office is ordered to be built, and, as we have seen, is nearly a dozen years ago ac tually commenced. Yet, after all this interval has elapsed, there is but one ungainly wing of it to show. And meanwhile, the inestimable Records of the realm remain even now deplorably scattered and wretchedly housed. What is Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S evidence on Friday in the House of Commons as to the state in which so many of these unreplaceable documents still continue to be—we wont say parcelled out, but shamefully interred P Why, of the houses set apart for this purpose in Chancery-lane Mr. COCHRANE speaks as dark, damp, ricketty, perpetually undergoing repair of one kind or another, and yet always ill-ventilated and wholly unprotected from the ever-eminent risk of destruction by fire. There they are in piles upon piles of absolutely invalu able documents, "packed in racks from floor to ceiling." It puts one on the wrack merely to hear - of it. Yet, we do still continue to hear of it, and with only too serious reason. And this, won derful to tell, under the regime of one of the ablest and most conscientious and scholarly Masters of the Rolls that England has had for many years. It is to Sir JOHN ROMILLY espe cially that we owe the little that has yet been done of late years towards the better preserva tion of the records belonging to the nation. He it is who but a very few years back began the laborious series of Calendars of Historical Documents that have already brought so many important particulars to light—of our " Domestic Papers," Mr. Brewer's Papers of " Henry the Eighth," one volume ; Mr. Lemon's " Elizabeth," one volume ; Mrs. Green's "James the First," four volumes; Mr. Bruce's " Charles the First," five volumes ; and Mrs. Green's " Charles the - Second," three volumes ; of our " Colonial Papers," one volume by Mr. Sainsbury ; —'of our " Irish Papers," one volume by Mr. H. C. Hamilton ;—of our " Scot tish Papers," two volumes by Mr. J. Thorpe ; of our " Foreign Papers," two volumes by Mr. Turnbull. Beautifully printed as those Calendars have been, and perfectly accessible to men of letters anxious to consult them—yet even here these sub stantial proofs of the good work begun by Sir JOHN ROMILLY as Master of the Rolls, work already, as we have shown, partially accomplished—the old Routine, Red Tape, How Not to Do It system steps in at the tail of all these improvements to spoil everything ! Insomuch that Mr. BENTINCK is enabled on Friday last, after mentioning the fact that 170 searchers have been enabled during the past year to make among these historical documents so calendared as many as 12,435 searches—to de clare also that all these 12,435 searches have been made by these 170 searchers in a room so admirably commodious that it measures exactly 18 feet by 12 ! No wonder these indefatigable literary gentlemen are indulged with the luxury of frequenting the this Black Hole at the Record Office —gratuitously! It would be hard and extortionate indeed if they had to pay any fee for shutting themselves up (in the interests of historial truth) in a den like that. Remembering all that has been particularised, it is surely time that something further should be attempted, and that, moreover, this once, in right down earnest, in order to render better in every way—larger, safer, and in all respects more com modious and worthy of the object to which it is intended to be applied—the Record Office of England. It is but justice to the brave men of Lanca shire, both masters and workmen, that their case should be fully discussed and their position consi dered in the House of Commons. The British Empire ought to know it, that it may sympathise for the present, and be prepared to act in future, if action in any way should become a national duty. Europe ought to know it, that it may learn how intelligent operatives can bear such a fearful reverse and yet in no way abuse that liberty which Britain confers on all. India ought to know it, for though sympathy does not go far where trade is the question, yet so much there, of the cotton supply, depends on the class which can appreciate Man chester manliness at the present crisis, that we can but believe tile report of it will stimulate the zeal of many of the energetic Englishmen in India who are now working to open to us the cotton growing districts. Above all, we think, the Northern States of America ought to know it. Tuesday evening's discussion, with reports of some of the proceedings of operatives themselves, in Manchester, ought to be reprinted for the special instruction of the Fe.'ieral Government and people. If it did not for ever silence all their unkind thoughts and utter ances about the mother country, we should give them up, as incurably envious. We may suppose a case, and we know such, in England, of a parish consisting of but a single estate, not a cottage on it—yet a large number of men from over populous adjoining parishes employed on it. In consequence of some unmanageable litigation conducted by some impracticable litigators, its cultivation fis given up, and suddenly a number of excellent labourers, wanted nowhere near, find themselves out of work, and unless they become paupers, out of food. Even the most anti-British Yankees would commiserate such perfectly innocent suffering, and would admire the respect for law which attempted no violent methods of relief, never uttering the name of Judge Lynch; and the aelf respect which "to beg," even of the parish, was ashamed. shire. But this is exactly the case with our men of Lancashire and the North. A quarrel of the North with the South, whet her the estate shall belong to the two in partnership, or whether each shall take his own portion and separate from the other, throws our men out of work, and out of the means of earn. ing their livelihood by thousands. They have no earthly interest in the litigation. It makes not the smallest difference to them who possesses the legal or political estate, so that , the earth itself is but allowed to yield its produce, and the produce to come freely to market. The sufferers in Lancashire have been splendid commercial benefactors to both litigants, and only beg to be allowed to become so again. But no —to gratify Northern love of almost boundless empire, with a territory ample for the formation not of t wo on ly, b u t o f f our ki ng d oms , the men of Lancashire must starve without a mur mur, or, what they hardly revolt from less, they must, after exhausting their hard-earned savings, throw themselves on parish relief. The North was indeed always afraid we should intervene, and tried with us, and with France, the ungene rous expedient o f minatory language. It ought with manly sham e to confess its error in this re spect now ; it o ug h t to show itself sens ibl e o f t h e wonderful forbearance, in England, not only of statesmen who do not suffer to the extent of a sove reign, but to those noble millions whom ambition of e though Northern empire deprives them of their veey sufferers in F ran „ as well as in bread. If these England, they are far more numerous with us, were to demand is one min, and with angry voice, that the' Otvof,warilAiilt . sicith taxes they have paid, should open the (*fon ports for them, it is not easy to say what our Uovern- ment might be compelled to do. If, then, American LATES senators have any magnan i m it y, we s h a ll h ear i n Congress grateful acknowledgments of the gene rous forbearance of Manchester and of all Lanca- The change of condition to many of these poor men is heartrending only to hear of. They have been earning wages which, according to their dispo sition,were spent in very comfortable living, or econo mised, and provision made against the " ills which flesh is heirto." But, amongst those ills, they unfor tunately never dreamt of what, like illness, should deprive, not merely one member of a household of his earnings, but throw the whole family out of employ—Northern Americans blockading the ports of Southern Americans was a casualty less expected than a flood or a ruinous hailstorm by a farmer. It has, therefore, beggared thousands of the most prudent. A deputation from the meeting of ope ratives we lately noticed in Stevenson-square, waited on the Board of Guardians last week, and one working man, who addressed the guardians most ably as well as calmly, described his own feel ings and course of action most touchingly. He had been 42 years in Manchester, beginning as a school boy at eight years of age—he "would not depend upon anybody so long as he could work out his own salvation." "I sold," he said, "every vestige of furniture, I pawned every article of clothing, I parted with that which hurt my feelings far more, a library of books that at one time I would not have given for £lOO, and of which I have not one now--I parted with all sooner then I would come here, and place myself in the ranks of those whom I knew to have been paupers for years." and this is the spirit of the men whom the North call upon to starve or turn paupers, that they may starve and pauperise their :Southern fellow coun trymen into reunion with them ! Mr. BRIGHT mentioned also some genuine noble-mindedness in Rochdale. A committee there collected funds, and gave relief t0,.a1l who had not earned above, a certain amount—nany of these, if any of the family had obtained unexpected employment, had brought the tickets back, that others more needy than themselves might have them ! Verily, there are genuine heroes in cotton mills as well as in fields of battle. The speeches of Mr. BRIGHT indeed of all the Lancashire men, were a noble testimony also to the determination of the great towns and counties not, as he said, "to send round the hat." Generally, the rates were not yet ruinously high. This test is, indeed, somewhat fallacious. Some towns suffer so much more than others —some are now actually fed through the French treaty—and the particular articles :manufactured enable some to continue their industry. Hence, though the average rate be not high, in some places it is very oppressive. Then many of the wealthiest, from the nature of their occupations, pay small amounts to the rates. Arrangements are, however, in progress to remedy this by voluntary means. The landed gentlemen at first seemed to shrink from the prospect ; but the courage and liberality of the manufacturers appears to have inspired them with a like spirit, and for the present, and for long, it is hoped, Lancashire wealth will take care of Lancashire poverty. We trust it will be sufficient—for if the great manufacturing county of England thus grapples with this cruel difficulty, it will merit the admiration of the world. ~,. T N E WS. BRUSSELS, MAy 12. According to the Moniteur Belge of this morning, and more recent information derived from other sources, the state of the King is satisfactory. • His Majesty's health continues to improve, and promises to be soon re-established. MESSINA, MAY 11, Evening. The King arrived here to-day, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm. A Te Deum was sung in the Cathedral, which his Majesty attended. The King will visit the theatre this evening. The city is illuminated. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 10.—The arrival of the English funds with a decline of a per cent., has produced a degree of heaviness in this market, but without causing any very material decline in prices. Three% for the Account, being now at 70f. 70c. Rai.l way market also heavy, and in many cases rather lower. The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows : 4t per per Cents.,, 97 80 Bank Shares — Do. end month.... 97 85 Credit I oncier 1563 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 70 Piedmontesc Fives 72 New 3 per Cents .. 69 50 Italian Loan 7l 8 Do, end month.... 69 55 Austrian Do. end month.... 836 25 Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3lO .. 1311 25 Northern ......... 1065 —,. 1068 25 New ditto Lyons and Medit erranean 1107 50 .. 1108 73 Geneva 372 50 .. Southern — .. 843 75 W estern Eastern .... 570 .. 567 50 Sardinian 382 50 .. Austrian Lowbard 6 OO 598 75 1. AMERICA. FEDERAL CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS.. QUEI4:NSTOWN, MAY 11. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston on the 30th ult., and Halifax on the 2d inst., arrived here at 11 10 a.m. She brings 108 passen gers and 50,000 doll. in specie. The Canada landed 83 sacks of mails and 13 passengers, and proceeded at 11 20 a.m. for Liverpool ; all well. NEW YORK, APRIL 29, EVENING. Advices have been received through the South which leave but little doubt that the Federals have captured New Orleans. The Richmond Inquirer of the 26th, says:— " The Federals passed Fort Jackson yesterday, when news was received that the excitement at New Orleans was intense. All the cotton and steamboats, except such as were necessary to trans port coin and ammunition, were destroyed. The telegraphic operator at New Orleans ceased tele graphing, as he said the Federals had appeared before the city." General Wool has sent to the War Department the following despatch:— 4, FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL 27. " A fugitive black, just arrived from Portsmouth, bring the Petersburyh Express of yesterday, which contains the following despatch : " NORFOLK, APRIL 25. " The enemy passed Fort Jackson at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. When the news reached New Orleans the excitement was boundless. Martial law was put in full force, and business was com pletely suspended. All the cotton and steam-boats, excepting such as were necessary to transport coin, ammunition, &c., were destroyed. At 1 o'clock to-day the operator bade us good-bye, saying that the enemy had appeared before the city. This is the last we know regarding the fall. Will send particulars as soon as they can be had. The negro bringing the above reports that the rebels have two iron-clad steamers nearly com pleted, and that it is believed that the Merrimac will be out to-morrow. "JOHN E. WOOL. "Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." General 111‘Dowell writes as follows : i • "Head-quarters of the Department of the • Rappahannock, April 27, 1862. "I' have just returned from the camp opposite FredericksbUrgh. I was told the Richmond Rxa miner of the 26th had been received in town, an• nouncing as follows : "New Orleans taken. Great destruction of pro perty, cotton, and steamboats. Steamboats enough saved to take away the ammunition. Great con sternation of the inhabitants. " IRWIN MeDowELL, Major-General. " Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Later there is a further despatch from General Wool : "FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL 28. "The news of the occupation of New Orleans by our forces is confirmed to-day. No further news. (Signed) " JOHN E. WOOL, Major-General. " To lion. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." The Associated Press contains the following : " FORTRESS MONROE, APRIL 28. " A flag of truce to-day took despatches and letters to prisoners. No papers received. " The telegraph operator having left New Orleans, no further news has been received from there. The operator attempted to return, but found the city occupied by the Federal forces. No other news. The following despatch from Gen, M'Clellan has appeared : " Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Camp Winfield Scott, Saturday April 26, 11 a.m. "Early this morning an advanced lunette of the rebels on this side of the Warwick, near its head, was carried by assault by Company H, Ist Massa chusetts Regiment. The work had a ditch six feet deep, with a strong parapet, and was manned by two companies of infantry--no artillery. Our men moved over open, soft ground, come 600 yards, received the fire of the rebels at 50 yards, did not return it, but rushed over the ditch and parapet in the most gallant manner. The rebels broke and run as soon as they saw that our men intended to cross the parapet. Our loss was three killed, and one mortally and 12 other wise wounded. e took 14 prisoners, destroyed the work sufficiently to render it useless, and re tired. The operation was conducted by General C. Grover, who managed the affair most handsomely. Nothing could have been better than the conduct of all the men under fire. The supports, who were also under artillery fire of other works, were com panies of the Ist and 11th Massachusetts. In spite of the rain our work progresses well. (Signed) "G. B. M'CLELLAN, Major. Gen. " Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Later he has another, as follows— " Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, April 28, 11 A.M. "Nothing of interest during the night. No firing on our right, where the work proceeded utt clinturbod. " On the left the enemy fired a good deal, but hurt no one,nor was the work interrupted. Rave just sent a heavy field battery to silence a gun or two of the enemy's that have been impertinent this morning, but nave hurt no one. The weather has improved, and we are making good progress. "G. B. M'CLELLAN, Major-Gen. Commanding. "Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War." Washington despatches also stat e t h at t h e, Fe ls hay© occupied New O r l eans, although ro Federala officialaccount has b een yet received. der The news of the Federal occupation is fully cre dited,but it did not cause very much excitement in New York, as th e i ntelligence being received through Southern sources did not, and has not, gained universal crdence. There does not, how ever, seem to be much room for doubting its accuracy. The' Confederates are supposed to have carried away front New Orleans 18,000,000 doffs: in speeie. The effect of the news on cotton was not material, but Federal Government securities rose 3 per cent., and Treasury notes advanced to l pin. The Swedish and Norwegian Ministers have re turned to Washington; they did not proceed to Richmond. The Secretary of the Spanish Legation has left Fortress Monroe under a flag of truce for the South. President Lincoln has visited the French frigate Bassenda at Washington Navy -yard. The French Minister received Mr. Lincoln on board. The yards of the vessel were manned, and a national salute fired on the President's arrival and departure. General Halleck officially reports that General Beauregard has been strongly reinforced the last battle at Corinth. General Banks's advance has bee':, checked by the destruction of the bridges acres The Confederate Gener ss the Shenando a h. Jackson is said to have been reinforced, and f .. 0 be 16 miles from Harrison burg. The North American was intercepted at Cape Race on t } ',e 27th. The 'Bremen has arrived out. (BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFA X. AY 1,. X. AND via EVENING QUEENS- TOWN.) The arrival of the Federal fleet before New Orleans is Confirmed. The Federal commander had demanded the sur render of the city, but had retired with all his forces to Camp Moore, 80 miles away. The Federals had not shelled the city at the last accounts. A correspondence was going on between the Federal Commissioner and the civil authorities of the city regarding surrender. The Confederates still occupied Forts Phillips and Jackson, and had evacuated and destroyed the forts on Lake Pontchartrain. General Butler's forces would approach New Or leans by way of the lakes, and land at the rear of the city. News had not yet been received of his movements, but it was supposed he had arrived at New Orleans. It is supposed that the Confederate General Lovell may take his forces to reinforce Gen. Beau regard at Corinth. A portion of the Confederate fleet from New Orleans is reported to have arrived at Fort Wright, on the Mississippi, and to have attacked the Federal gunboats which were bombarding that fort. A battle was expected to take place north of Richmond between the divisions of Generals Banks and M'Dowell and the Confederates under Generals Sackson and Gustavus Smith. Both belligerents in this section had been largely reinforced. A great rise of the Mississippi River has occurred, and. New Madrid and Columbus are under water. The freshet is reported to be disastrous in that part of the country. A Congressional committee has issued a report that the Confederates committed inhuman atrocities upon the Federal dead and wounded after the battle of Bull Run. Affairs at Yorktown unchanged. The cotton-planters in Alabama have restricted the cultivation of cotton to 600 lb. for each hand employed, and recommend the cultivation of bread stuffs instead. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. Miss Catherine Lucette seems determined to carry on her management of this theatre with the greatest spirit. On Saturday evening a new ballet divertissement, entitled "Echo Fra Balsalan," was produced, in which the Misses Healey, from the Swedish Academy, sustained the principal parts with very great success. The ballet was succeeded by a two act comedy, "Everyday Occurrences," written it would seem especially for the fair mana geress,who sustained no less than four characters in the piece, each of which is a very felicitous imper sonation, while the author takes upon himself the repreAentation.,of no less than three parts. Love, of course, is the foundation of the piece, and the story turns upon the idea of Lady Jane Airey, (Miss Catherine Lucette), to effect the reformation of a rollicking, thoughtless young fellow, one Richard Dashall, with whom she is desperately smitten. To effect her object, she becomes in turns a grasping landlady—a daughter of the same estimable per sonage, an old Scotch woman, who severally do their best to worry poor Dashall to desperation. Captain Spooney and George Dashall are the other parts personated by the author, and, with the aid of Timothy Trot, the lady succeeds in her task, and the "irregular good fellow " settles down into a sober married man. The piece was capitally acted throughout, and elicited the loudest applause. No less than three new pieces —a drama, a bur lesque, and an operetta by Tully, is announced as being in active preparation. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland had a dinner party on Saturday, at Stafford House, St. James's. There were present the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Marquis of Hartington, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Count Szechenyi, Count Zichy, Count 0. Szechenyi, Lord and Lady Bagot, Captain Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield, Mr. and Mr. Bateson, Mr. De lano, &c. The Archbishop of Canterbury continues to improve in health, and, although slowly, is satisfacto rily progressing towards recovery from his recent ill ness. The Earl Granville entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Bruton. street, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Count Brandenburg, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl Stanhope, Viscount Sydney, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Viscount de Villa Maior, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, the Marquis Cavour, Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, M.P., Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. Henry Doyle, Mr. Grabau, Mr. Hoene, Dr. Quin, Dr. Karmarsch, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Woodg, Mr. Peteroon, Mr. Ticleinantl, Mr. C. F. Warne, Mr. Weissmer, Mr. Balleras, Dr. Fink, Mr. Vogt, Mr. Alt • gelt, Mr. Dietz, Mr. Ardt, &c. The Earl and Countess of Derby left town on Saturday for Tunbridge-wells, to pass a few days. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and family have London for Shugborough. The Ladies Cornwallis have issued cards for a ball, to take place on Tuesday, June 3, at Lady Mary Rose's residence, in Portland-place. Lady Emily Peel is detained in Paris by in disposition. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hughes, of Kinmel, have arrived at 35, Dover-street, for the season, from Kin mel Park, Denbighshire, North Wales. Mr. J. Faulerton Leathes and Miss Faulerton Leathes have arrived at Edward's Hotel, from Leventhorpe Hall, Leeds. It is stated that a distinguished Admiral holding an important command has petitioned the Emperor of the French to be permitted to resign, in order to devote him• self to the completion of a fulminating ram which he has invented. Ile expects with this instrument not only to defend the ship under his command but to blow up that of hica signailfinf A letter from Vichy announces that the Emperor of the French is expected there in the course of the season. The Municipal Council has appointed a commission, to bo composed of three members, to make preparations for the Emperor's reception. The establishments commanded by the Emperor last year are almost all completed, and the railway, of which the terminus is to be in Vichy, will, it is expected, be opened to the public on the 15th of the pre sent month. A small town has been erected on the left bank of the Allier, which was formerly deserted. The following extract of a despatch from Lord Lyons respecting political arrests in the United States, is printed to-day in a parliamentary return :—" Lord Lyons to Earl Russell.—(Received April 28.) —AV,shingten, April 1 4.—Although the power to make arbitrary political arrests has not been formally renounced by the executi v e government, it has not, so far as I know, been recently ex ercised. lam not aware of any British subject being now arbitrarily detained as a political prisoner. Arrests, without form of law, are still made by the military authorities in places.oceßpied 13, the forces of the United States; but tie) , appear to be confined in general to persons accused of offences affecting, more or less, the diScipline or the safety of,ttle army, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 1 (Evening). Money abundant. Go!d, 2k prem. Exchange steady at 1121 Stocks, large speculative sales. United States' Registered Sixes, 971; ditto, Coupon Sixes, 98 ; Treasury Notes, 2 per cent. prem. Cotton inactive. Breadstuffs firm. T. P.ENINSULAR The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, arrived at South ampton yesterday at 1 p.m., with mails from Lis bon of the 7th inst., and from Oporto and Vigo of the Bth, in charge of Lieut. Balfour, R.N., naval mail agent. Fresh westerly winds, with pretty fine weather, were experienced as far as Ushant. The Tagus brought 44 passengers (viz., 36 first class, three second, and five deck), £1,609 in specie,. 398 half-cheats of oranges, 280 cases of eggs, 49 , cases of potatoes, and 11 packages of general mer chandise. When the packet left Lisbon the Governmfant had suspended the contemplated transmission of troops from the capital to the Northern Provinces, where the tumults appeared to have been of slight importance, promoted under pretext of opposition to the new system of taxation. The debate respecting the Sisters of ,Charity bad commenced in the House of Deputies, and, being made a political question to turn out the Government, was likely to continue many days. The public seemed to take little interest in it. The report that King dom Luiz I. was in treaty to marry the Princess Maria Pia, daughter of the King of Italy, gained ground in Lisbon, and was very popular with the people. The Lisbon exchanges by this packet at three months are—London, 534, bills over; Paris, 528 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Amsterdam, 421 ; Genoa, 524. Three per Cent. Stock, 441 to 45 ex dividend. The Prussian gunbrig Hela, the America corvette St. Louis, and the usual Portuguese squadron were at Lisbon. Heavy rains were falling at Oporto when the Tagus called off that port. At Vigo several anchor-barges were at work over a sunken Spanish steamer. On the 10th inst., off Ushant, the Tagus spoke the Royal Mail steamer Parana, with the outward Brazil mails, and a British sailing corvette, bolth standing to the south-west, The Tagus will leave Southampton again o•n Saturday next, with the outward mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon. WEST AFRICAN MAILS. FEARFUL SACRIFICE OF LIFE-TI.IE KING OP DAHOMEY AGAIN-ONE THOUSAND PEOPL E BEHEADED. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIGHT. The royal mail steam-ship Ethiope, Commander Delamotte, arrived here this evening with the USIJEI 1 monthly mails from the West Coast of Africii, Teneriffe, and Madeira. She brings 1,3000 z. gold dust, 940 sovereigns, 260 doubloons, 2,500 dollars, and 2,400 5 franc pieces, with a full cargo of palm oil, ivory, &c. Lagos was healthy. In the beginning of April a large French screw steamer, under French colonm entered Whydeh harbour within a cable's length. from the beach, and successfully loaded a cargo if 1,600 slaves, and proceeded to sea without interrv,p tion. The King of Dahomey had attacked toad burnt the town of Ishaga, about 16 miles west of Abbeokuta. He beheaded about 1,000 of the inha bitants, and took the remainder (about 4,000) pri prisoners, including a native missionary agent. The large town of Ijage, five days' journey in the inte rior, had been destroyed by the Ibadans. An Eng lishwas made p r i soner, an d a ransora equal missionary to about ut £2,000 d eman d e d for his release, but the Governor at Lagos was taking the neces sary steps to enforce his release. CAPE COAST CAS TLE. —Th e M anuel Ortiz had been conde mne d as a slaver by the Court of Adtni - ralty, and ordered to be sold. I T IIE AIERRIMAC.--Irie Wasnington A3Cur babes the following despatch, dated Fortress Monrov, April 23 :—" From the refugees that reached here thi morning we learn that the Merrimac is being plated thre e feet lower (under water), and sunk in the water one focit deeper than before. We also learn that the rebel plan is to board the Monitor with 20 men armed with mallets and wedges, prearranged to spike her turret port-holes in an in-tant. This was expected, and lam happy to be able to say, has been thoroughly guarded against by changes made in the Monitor's means of defence." THE THEATRICAL WORLD.— On flit, some great changes are about to take place in the theatrical world. Mr,,, Benjamin Webster, the popular and deservedly successfni lessee of the New Adelphi Theatre, will shortly take a fins d leave of his old friends, the London public, and retire int o private life. Mr. Dion Boucicault win, at the same time, quit the scene of his recent triumphs, and assume Ole management of the Princess's, in, place of Mr. Fechter, Ito migrates to the Lyceum. It is further rumoured that Ar.r. Falconer, the manager of the last-named theatre, is :in negotiation for the lease of the Adelphi on the abdicati4 n of Mr. Webgter, in Whic'h case we shall have the most complete Thespian revolution ever recorded in the taln4 Is of the London stage.