The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-28 00:00:00

THEAT RE. ROYAL, HAYMARKET Levee, Mr. J. B. ituoktotte. THIS EVENING (88th. time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trcnchard, Mr. Buck stone. Alter which, a Household Picture, under Two Lights raffled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W: Farrel), Mrs. C. Youn!;, , , zze. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Commeuce a 7 OYAL LYCEUM TIIEATILE. l+taua;i. r- r. _Edmund Falconer. ills i V ENING, 116th time of the new and original Drama entitled, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelisb. Messrs Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original 'Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 6, 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, Mr. Shcre, Miss Maria Harris, &c. After which, RUY BLAS. Mr. Fechter. To conclude with THE GARIBALDIANS. NEW I'll FAIR, 14:- It( A ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE ENQUIRY. Mr. J. L. T•001e, Mr. Billington, Mr. Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss K. Bland. Followed by THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouecault, Messrs, Emery,J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne. Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with TIIE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford ; Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7 A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - 'Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. In consequence of the great sensation created by the won drous feats of the colossal Asiatic Elephants on the stage, and in the circle, their truly marvellous Performance will be continued till further notice. THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, with new and splendid dresses, scenery, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele phfir,ts, pronounced by the Press and the Public the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant Scenes in the Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of Equestrians. Concluding with a comic Ballet of Action, introduciner Mr. Harry Croueste (the favourite Clown to the Ring), the Misses Gunn's, and the whole of the Corps de Ballet. Commence at 7—Concl St ude at a quarter-past 11. age Manager, Mr. W. Searle. EW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, an entirely new Operetta, CHRISTINE. Followed by DELICATE GROUND. Pauline, Miss Re pecca Powell. After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERN ES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, HOMAGE TO FLORA, in which the Misses Morgan will appear. Commence at halt-past 7. AND FINE CI ANTERBU RY HALL ARTS GALLERY. VICTOR , JULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN," (Last Week) at half-past Nine, in new and extraordinary feats. tGrand Selections from "La Sonnambula," " Dinorah, and " La Circassienne," by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. The COMIC by Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hol lingsworth, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes. On Friday, 28th, for the Benefit of Victor Julien. Admission—Hall, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. THE OXFORD, 6 , OXFORD - S TREET.- ii EVERY EVENING. HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats or the Flying Trapeze. Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani," ifacbeth," "I 1 Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas mienne," Szc., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus — ( C on ductor —Mr. F. Jonghmans.) Violin mtv,Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac aons. The Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. A Grand Morning Entertainment EVERY THURS DAY, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the Company, appear. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY. —Morning, 111 a. 43m.—Afternoon, lh. 7m To-xoßnow.-Morning, lh. 28m.—Afternoon, lh. 45m NOTICE. A2l 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. e A rk .' f ; 4PP 4, ) t Via • 4 ' - - -- ' - i • 1!•,‘" ' " _h.l •:12' THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1862, If the Education Debates go on in the style of last night, the issue must be one very different from what the Government contemplated, in proposing the Revised Code, and the forty thousand benefi ciaries under the Old System, in opposing it. Mr. LOWE himself will soon be heard raising the cry of " vested interest," on behalf of himself, and of all expectant Vice-Presidents of the Committee of Council on Education. We shall ba much surprised if we find that the real impression, whatever partisans may say, of last night's debate, was not, that the whole system of grants in aid has proved a failure. Not a failure in one important sense. At a cost of four millions and a half, it has done much towards in creasing the attention already awakened to educa tion. It has also done much towards improving the standard required of teachers, though, it ap pears,with a heavy drawback on this account. But its failure has been in paralysing the voluntary exertions which it was designed to stimulate; and, in creating a mcst unwholesome dependence on the - cart of managers and schoolmastars upon Govern ment aid, where but for such aid, local energy and interest in education would have done the work far better. After the eloquent Irish barrister had handled his brief on religion with his well known ability, two or three speeches followed, which will do more to shake 'public confidence in " Treasury aid to education, than all the efforts of its advocates to sustain it. From Mr. BAINES, though his vast information on the subject will always carry the weight it deserves, we expect conclusions pointing to voluntary education; and an anticipated conclusion, ho Never ample the grounds on which it rests, is naturally received 'with a deduction for the supposed bias of the speaker. But no such discount need be made from the speeches of either Mr. OSBORNE, or of Mr. ADD ERLt _ x, who had himself the advantage of practical knowledge of the committee of council, and might be presumed to speak rather with the prejudices of office. Remembering this, his speech will probably tell, with many readers, even m ore than the powerful one of Mr. OSBORNE, in favou r of gradually with drawing Government aid from the support of edu cation, rather than pledging the country to the performance of a system whithi s shown a.. in so many ways to enfe eble the energies 11 desire to strengtnen. We all rcmomber the cry at One time, that the commons had vote d £70,000 for Princ © ALBtit , r , s stabit'..s, and only 130.000 for education. There has bean a reaction, indeed, from that cry, no , t h at nearly a m lion a year is - voted for the latter, with that, at the loscPst, corn putation, two an intimat millions millions will be wanted, and that five annually may be requiied. But whatever were the rival claims of Royal stables, and of Education, the question has been too much overlooked whether, after all, we can aid educa tion, as we can build stables; not to mention that the stables once built are substantially done with, but not so the education. A few of the far- seeing one, indeed, of the time, only intended to aid voluntary efforts till the country, appreciating the value of e ducation, should be able to " run alone." Unfortunately a highly-complicated and highly-paid agency of inspectors, teachers, and pupil teachers was gradually 'developed, till now we have a perfect army of State stipendiaries, all diteetly dependent uu a central Government office, strung enough to bully the Commons,and also to gain the wistful glances of the party which happens to be out of office for the hour. It has come to this, as Mr. OSBORNE observed, that the House of Commons has " something like a political blunderbuss presented at its heads, with threats that if they did not vote these grants, they should be turned out at the next election." Indeed, in the warfare with educational ignorance, we seem to be in the position of the horse in the fable. We have taken on our backs the schoolmasters and their pupil teachers, for a tem porary advantage, and now we find them an incum brance, they coolly tell us they are on the Treasury saddle and they mean to stick there. We do not much wonder at this. When we find one sect alone, the Wesleyans, pocketing £300,000 a year from the grant, it is not surprising that the central office of that highly centralized body should issue its orders to every school in every circuit to petition for what brings so much grist to the Methodist mill. This is but human nature. it is the same with the Church of England, and also with all the minor sects. Each looks at what it will lose as a sect, and the whipping up to petition, and also to assail members of Parliament individually, has been ac cordingly enormous. The Wesleyan Secretary, in a circular, doubtless not intended to leave confiden tial hands, explicitly says that lew of the members understand the subject of the Revised Code so well as to have an opinion of their own, and that they would be more likely, therefore, to comply with the wishes of their constituents, if " plainly and strongly" expressed. Our Wesleyan Educa tionists certainly seem to think Representative ignorance an advantage for their objects. It pro bably is so. We certainly begin to think that the more the public knows of the subject the less favourable will it be to the whole system of Govern ment grants. Mr. ADDERLEY'S conclusion was a statement of alternatives, his preceding speech not leaving it doubtful to which he leaned. If, he argued, the Voluntary system had broken down, let it be set aside, and let the Government take education and its management into its own hands. But, he con tended, and we believe rightly, the two systems could not go on together. "One must be the basis the other merely subsidiary." He therefore called on the House, if they were of opinion that the " Voluntary system was alive, or could be revived, to pause in time, and to take the means to prevent it from being overlaid and dwarfed by Government interference! Mr. ADDERLEY observed justly on the lowered tone of school managers since they had been in receipt of Government pay. At first they were reluctant to accept it, fearing to compromise their indepen dence ; now, "so far from the great educational societies being afraid to receive Government sup port, they were embracing and hugging the Govern ment, and trying to get more and more." The hon. member observed that he himself had felt the para lysing effect of Government grants. He has always been, as we may all remember, one of our most intelligent and liberal educationists; but he told the House that though he had supported schools for many years, when he found that Government was ready to do what he himself was doing, "he ab stained, thinking he might as well have a large share of the public purse as others." If Mr. ADDERLEY could say this, what must be the case with the great majority of school supporters. Indeed, as he added, " it is, in the nature of things that this should be so; and it had been the case with every sort of institution aided by the Government." This is common sense; and the country is much indebted to Mr. ADDERLEY tor uttering it in the House with the justly influential sanction of his name. It is also indebted to Mr. OSBORNE for calling attention to the weighty sentences in the Commis sioners report, which express the opinion of the minority, and which we have all of us too much overlooked. That minority consisted of Mr. MIALL and Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH. The former gentleman is, of course, a pledged voluntary, like Mr. BAINES, but confessedly a man of no ordinary intelligence ; but the leanings of the Regius Professor of History at Ox ford must be all the other way. He also is a man of high ability, and as such was placed by Lord DERBY on the commission, yet he -too concurs in reporting that the Government has done its work; that it should only, as a matter of fairness, make grants for school-building to parishes where it has yet granted nothing; that it should gradually with draw the annual grants, and confine its efforts to the improvement of union schools, reformatories, ana schools connected with public establishments; and that it would be impossible for the Government to " control the growing expenditure and multiply ing employments of a department, the operations of which:are regulated by the increasing demands of philanthropists rather than by the require ments of the public service. We must repeat teat the ferment created by the forty thousand has forced upon public atten tion what might otherwise have been hardly noticed, and that those who wish to see the other side would do well to study the speeches last night of the three able gentlemen to which we have invited attention. Mr. HUBBARD'S efforts towards the readjustment of the Income Tax are again about to be renewed. Let us hope—though under the existing regime we can do so, alas ! but feebly—that those honest efforts will meet during the present session with a trifle more of success than they did during its predecessor. For several years past the necessity for some modification in the mode of the assess ment of this particularly unpalatable and unpopular tax, has been growing more and more generally recognisable. Everyone almost nowadays admits that " some" change is in the highest degree de sirable. The only difficulties have been in the way of bringing about this wholesome improvement under the auspices of the Financial Minister of England, her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exche quer—the discerning in the first place of the extent to which the hoped-for innovation could be chi.- ried with safety, and in the next place the solu tion of the proper and fitting time in which tha change (when decided upon) might be the most happily inaugurated. As to the extent of the modification that ought to take place in the mode of a.,:bment, that has hitherto been a problem towards the solution of which so many sugges ti'lts have been thrown out, that the House °I Commons itself has until now remained in its regard in a state of absolute bewilder ment. that—acAcodn to srtuithe fittest season for the change never the present Chancellor of th e Exchequer—has never b e tween the o Hier Set arrived. Interposed p l uVe and the imperial require ments of her MAJESTIN Treasury—at any rate during the said right hon. gentleman's tenure of THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, 1114,RCIT 28, 1862. office, according to his own showing at least—there has always inopportunely startei forth to view, searing back even the most adventurous innovator, obstaclle after obstacle. Now a revolt in Bengal— a revol It involving at the time the possible disrup tion of our whole empire in Hindostan! Now an other treacherous act of barbarity on the part of our dcttr friends the Chinese, an act of barbarity, and of treachery, and double dealing so heinous as to necessitate the sending forth of a new and costly warlike expedition, both military and maritime, and the sending it forth, too, to the remotest extremity of the Eastern hemisphere. Nay, a plea for the postponement of the endeavour to bring about some more equitable adjustment of the Income Tax, has often enough been found heretofore, in casualties less formidable of their kind than an imperial difficulty like the threatened downfall of our Asiatic dominion, er than the • renewal of a conflict with a distant power, peopled, • according to a :popular computation, by some 400,000,000 inhabitants. What the IRON DUKE so peculiarly reprobated—a Little War—has again and again before now been taken as a sufficient excuse—has been recognised as an adequate impe diment. A struggle WO will say at one moment between the might of England and the weakness of those wretehed Kaffirs ! Or, another while, even, a contest far away at our antipodes with the still more barbaric hordes of the Maoris clad in—nothing! and armed for the most part with boomerangs ! Anything, indeed, has been, eagerly seized upon by our Chancellor of the Exchequer as a sufficient reason for farther and further postponement. And so— to this very day—the evil exists in its full magni tude, undiminished and unmitigated. Still to this day the familiar words applied so long ago to the Income Tax (as hitherto assessed) are strictly and literally applicable to it. It has the same triple atrocity branded upon it. It is iniquitous, inquisi torial, and unjust ! Again, however, in 1862, as formerly in 1861, Mr. HUBBARD is about to revive this question as to the possibility of bringing about at last the long-looked for change in the present harsh and unequal mode of assessing the Income Tax. Last evening the Income-tax Association meet again under the presidency of Mr. R. W. CRAWFORD, when Mr. HUBBARD took occasion to move the following very admirable resolution :—" That the Property and Income Tax Act, which expires on the sth of April next, operates with great in equality ; that it in many cases taxes at the same time income and the property which yields the income; that it charges alike the products of capi tal and the industrial earnings of intelligence and skill, and tends to provoke on the part of the aggrieved fraudulent self-assessment, as the remedy for the injustice of the tax. That in any re-enact ment of an income tax the charge on the products of invested property should only apply to the net income; aLd that an abatement should be made of at least one-third of the amount derived from the profits of trades, professions, and salaries, pre vious to their assessment." While expatiating upon the reasonableness of the principle involved in that resolution, the hon. member towards the close of his really able, cogent, and logical speech last evening illustrated by the subjoined remarks, the singular injustice inflicted upon those whose incomes were just about the limits of £lOO and £l5O respectively. Observing that, "upon the £lOO income £2 10s. was charged, while the persons whose income was but ls. under, paid no thing; and while the £l5O income paid £5 10s., or 9d. in the pound, the £149 income paid only £3 14s. 6d., or 6d. in the pound. He proposed," he said, therefore, " that the rate of the tax should be equal upon all incomes under schedule D, but with regard to the lowest class of incomes, his proposal was that no less deduction should be allowed than £6O, which would be the one-third from £lBO, leav ing the tax-payer to pay upon £120; and the man whose income was £lOO would pay upon £6O or 305." A perfectly practicable plan this in the view of Mr. HUBBARD, and of many others who think with him. Before many more days of the ses sion shall have elapsed, we shall have an oppor tunity of observing how far Mr. GLADSTONE is dis posed to coincide in that opinion. 2HE OXFORD MUSIC BALL. FOURTH MORNING PERFORMANCE. The fourth morning concert of the series took place yes terday morning in the presence of a large and fashionable audience. There was a very pleasing variety of vocal, choral, and instrumental music. The whole performance gave unqualified satisfaction. The selection from " Simon Boccanegra " was given with all that force in the concerted pieces and completeness in the principal airs which distin guishes the performance of selections at this hall. Next in importance were the quintett and finale, to which ample justice was rendered. The familiar Scotch song was also beautifully sung by Miss M. Stuart. There are few singers, indeed, from whom Scotch ballads and duetts receive more exquisite treatment than from this lady and her sister. Mr.Viotti Collins, in his one-string solo, brought out the sin gularly resonant tone of the famous instrument which it ap pears had once for its owner the circumnavigator, Capt. Cook, and on which Mr. Jsaac Collins, the father of the celebrated family of artists of that name, used to tickle the ears of the town after the precedent set him by Paganini. The piano forte solo, also, of Miss Bryant, in which she exhibited de licacy of touch, and facility of execution, was well re ceived. We need not dwell upon the " comic element." A rich treat awaited the audience, and was fully en joyed. The performances were brought to a close by those justly-styled "marvellous gymnasts," masters Henri and Pfau, who performed their astounding feats on the Flying Trapeze. Mr. Jonghmans conducted the selection with his customary tact and spirit. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. (By Telegraph from Alexandria.) BOMBAY, Ma cu 12. Shirting and wale twist dull and declining. sr. lla. Cotton active and advancing. Broach 220. Copper dull and declining. Sheathing, 57r. ; tile, 56r. 1,510 r. per chest. Opium, Mahva, Exchange on London—First-class credits, 2s. 7- 7 ,d. Government Securities—Four per Cents., 881- ; Five per Cents., 101 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 107. Freight to Liverpool for cotton, 60s. to 625. 6d. (By Telegraph to Bombay.) CALCUTTA, MARCH 10. Shirtings dull and declining. Mule twist fair inquiry, but prices unaltered. • Copper dull and declining. Indigo and linseed unchanged. Rice quiet. Government Securities—Four per Cents., 871; Five per Cents., 101:1- to 101 k ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1071 to 108. Freight to London for seeds, 655. • and 16th. A band of peasants were, on a given signal, to enter the town. The signal was, in fact, given, but patrols of military surrounded and arres ted the authors of the conspiracy, whose object was to deliver the prisons and pillage the shops. Numerous arrests were made ; among others two barristers, M. Boudouris, ex- depnty, and )r. Soudas. At Nauplia 900 malefactors, and at Negropunt 250, have been either taken or killed. It was the sol diers of the line who chiefly contributed to the liberation of the galley-slaves. The revolt is purely military.," COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTE, MARCH 27. The Queen walked out yesterday afternoon. Earl Russell arrived at the Castle, and had an audience of her Majesty. The Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), Prince Alfred, and Princess Alice went to Buckingham Palace this morning and returned in the evening. Tho Ditb.op of Nova Scotia had an interview with the Mike of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial. office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from the Court of Arches, " Heath v. Burder" (part heard) was resumed. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. MUNIFICENCE OF T. J. AGAR ROBARTES, ESQ M.P.—This benevolent gentleman has intimated his inten tim to contribute £l5O towards the establishment of a life boat in connection with the National Lifeboat Institution at Port Leven, near the Land's End. Mr. Robartes had pre viously, in conjunction with the late llonble. Mrs. Agar, pru,ented £260 through that society towards the cost of the Lizard lifeboat station. He had also liberally contributed towards the expense of the lifeboat stations at Fowey, Pen zance, New Quay, and St. Ives, on the Cornish coast. It is earnestly hoped that the Duchy of Cornwall and the influ ential residents of that county will assist the institution in keeping up on the Cornish coast its numerous lifeboat esta blishments in a state of efficiency. FT.OODS IN YORKSBIRE.—Since Sunday an =- menu) quantity of rain has fallen in South Yorkshire, and so rapid has been the rise of the waters of the Don that that river in many places overflowed its banks. Yesterday an immense tract of country around Doncaster was under water, and it is feared before the fresh can be passed dtm - n a part of Doncaster known as Marsh-gate will be inundated. Bctween Sandal!, Burathy, Dun, and Stain • forth, on the South Yorkshire Railway, the flood waters have passed their naturA boundary and flowed with re markable rapidity upon the cultivated lands, principally on the western side. Great damage has already been occasioned. The Union confesses to being "bowed down with shame and humiliation at the perusal of the account of the soiree at Sir Culling Eardley's, wherein we had the spectacle of the Bishop of LOndon fraternising with heretics and schismatics of all denominations." The Union adds : it It is the first time, we believe, since the reformation that such a scene has been presented to the eyes of English churchmen, and we earnestly trust that it is the last." ITALY, The following is taken from a Naples letter dated the 22d :—" The fete of Victor Emmanuel was cele brated with every demonstration of joy. The city was illuminated as well as all the public establish ments. ATe Deena with full orchestra was per formed in St. Francisco di Paolo, in presence of the principal authorities. The Government at Turin is now busy devising further improvements for this part of Italy, and I am assured on good authority that in the provinces the public work for roads, bridges, and railways, will give occupation and food to all who will labour ; for which the account of this year 1862 reports an outlay or near five millions of lire. Of course the drain on the Treasury is heavy and gives great uneasiness, but it is to be hoped the sale of the rich church property and beni demaniali will soon more than remedy this grievous evil. Garibaldi's fete was even more glorious than that of the King. The hymn of the great hero was called for twelve times at the Opera by a crowded audience, whose applause deafened me for the time. San Carlo was brilliantly illuminated on the occa sion, and the performance gave general satisfaction, particularly the ballet of John of Procida,' which had never been allowed at Naples on account of its liberal and patriotic display. The ballet of Masa mello' is also much admired, both from its former prohibition and the various national emotions it recalls. There is a report of Garibaldi coming here soon, to organise the society of rifle• shooters, but many flatter themselves that he will remain here in quite a different and higher capacity. The de devoted affection felt for the General here is beyond description, and far too demonstrative for the noble and single-hearted hero, whose love of peace ful enjoyments is too well known to require expres sion." Another Naples letter contains the following : " General Franzini, the military commandant of the province of Avellino and the district of Nola, has just had his command extended to the districts of Bovino, in the Capitanate ; and Melfi, in the Ba silicate. He will thus direct the pursuit against the 130 brigands forming the bands of Crocco. Cop pa, Caruso, and Chiavone, at the same time that he continues to watch the 15 brigands, the remnants of the bands of Cipriano, La Gala, Miseria, and Zip patore, which remain in the mountains of Summium, under the orders of the last-named chief. Avenati replaces Della Chiesa, and Regis will for the present hold the command of Foggia, as well as Bari. He arrived at Foggia this morning. To those who ask how a handful of malefactors can thus hold their ground, notwithstanding the energetic atti tude of the national guard and a cordon of care bineers, the answer is easy. This same Crocco was the chief of a band under the Bourbons, and defied all the efforts :of the royal troops from 1848 to 1860. The other chiefs—Morra, Pipolo, and Sallarico—also did the same. A Turin letter of the 24th says :—" As Baron Ricasoli was absent from Turin, it was impossible to realise the idea of electing him to the pre sidentship of the Chamber, an effective pre sident being indispensable at the present moment. M. Tecchio, who is a Venetian, is held in high esteem, and belongs to the same political party as M. Ratazzi, whose personal friend he is. The majority was less than on Monday last. It is natural enough to see a portion of the late majority yield to its old sympathies in personal questions. M. Ratezzi will have to fight another battle on the subject of the provisional twelfths (liberty to collect the taxes for two or three months as may be agreed to) the Budget not being yet voted. It seems likely, however, that on that question he will have as great a majority as in his first battle. All the Ministers and Secretaries- General have been re-elected without opposition. The college of Aosta has replaced M. Cerutti, now Minister at the Hague, by M. Berti, Secretary- General of the Ministry of Commerce, a dis tinguished author and professor, who was elected unanimously. I mention this election as a decisive answer to those who represented the Valley of Aosta as tyrannised over by the Italian Govern ment." AMERICA. (Per Steamer City of New York, via Queenstown , NEW YORK, MARCH 14 (Evening.) The Evening Post says the balance of advantage in the late movement of the rival armies on the Potomac is generally considered to be on the side of the Confederates, even by the Federal Generals and the warmest friends of the Union. The correspondent of the New York World says that the Confederate army made the most success ful evacuation and the most secure and perfect re treat of which history furnishes example. It escaped safely with its entire right and left wings from every point threatened by the Fede ral lines, and securely carried off all its guns and three-fourths of the population, black and white. The next stand will be made on the banks o Rappahannock River, from Port Royal to Frede. ricksburg. The Confederates have evacuated New Madrid, leaving guns and stores, which they could not carry away. The Federal troops have occupied the town. A rumour is current that island Number Ten has also been evacuated by the Confederates. Reports have reached this city that General Beauregard has been appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Confederate army, and that Manassas was evacuated at his suggestion. The Naval Committee has introduced a bill in Congress providing for the construction of an iron clad steamer of 6,000 tons burden, to be used only as a ram, and appropriating 1,000,000 dols for this, and also 13,000,000 dols for iron-clad gunboats. The bill also appropriates 700,000 dols for Stevens' bat tery, and 500,000 dols. for the extension of Wash ington Navy Yard, by erecting machinery to roll and forge plates for armour-clad ships. President Lincoln has issued a war bulletin assigning General Fremont to the command of the military department of the country west of the Potomac and east of the departments of the Missis sippi, to be called the Mountain Department. General Fremont's appointment is regarded un favourably in some quarters, and is looked upon as a conciliatory concession to the Republican party. Mr. Wadsworth, of Kentucky, in a speech in Congress opposing ill ° tax bill, said that Fremont's appointment proved that an ultra class were all powerful with the Administration. The _Richmond Examiner says:-- , ‘ We have a positive assurance that the evacuation of Manassas was not caused, by pressure of the enemy, but took place purely from strategic reasons. "A new line of defence will be organised, which will probably extend from Staunton to Gordons ville." A portion of Gen. Banks's division has occupied the important town of Winchester, Virginia. Twelve hundred Confederate cavalry, after a slight engagement, fled, and the Federals occupied the town. Associated Press despatches state that the Fede rals were received with loud cheers by the inhabi tants of Winchester. A bill has been brought forward in the House of Representatives proposing territorial Govern.- went for the seceded States. It was ordered to be laid on the table by a majority 9. President Davis has suspended Generals Floyd and Pillow for their unsatisfactory report of the evacuation of Fort Donelson. The Merrimac is at the Norfolk Navy Yard. A large force of workmen is engaged in repairing her. One of her prows was seriously damaged, and the forward part of the vessel was stove iu. These are being strengthened. General Bragg has arrived at Memphis from Pensacola with 20,000 men. Memphis is reported to be in a state of anarchy, and martial law has been proclaimed there. General Halleck officially reports that the Union forces had driven the Confederates from Paris, Tennessee. The Federal loss was 100 killed and wounded: A desperate fight, lasting one day, occurred on the 21st ult., near Fort Craig, New Mexico, but with no decisive result. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, MARCH 14, EVENING. Money easy. Gold, 11 to 1„ premium. Exchange dull. Bankers' Bills, 1121. Stocks very firm. New York Central, 834 ; Illinois, 66 ; Erie, 36a. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 28c. to 29c. Flour steady. What inactive. Corn, good in quiry. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar in good demand. Molasses flat. ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 27, Evening. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Borussia, Captain Trautmann, arrived off Cowes this evening, en' route for Hamburg. The Borussia brings 94 passengers, 14 of whom are for England and 80 for Hamburg. Also 258,467 dole. in specie, of which £lOO,OOO are for England, 155,717 dole. for France, and 2,750 dols. for Hamburg. She left New York at 3 p.m. on the 12th instant. During her passage she spoke the following ships : —At Staten Island, the English barque Hadding ton, going in ; on the 13th, at 12m., in lat. 4 26 N, long. 69 46, the British ship Edward Parry, steer ing westward; on the 20th, at 4 p.m, French brig Jacques Granrible, in lat 47 25 N, long 36 W ; on the 24th, at 5 p.m, in lat 49 40, long 18 10 W, American brig Eliza Jane, from Boston ; on the 25th, at 8 a.m, in lat 49 40 N, long 14 40 W, Eng lish steamship Saladin, from Jamaica to Liverpool, with engine shaft broken six days before, did not want any assistance, wind south-easterly; on the 26th, at 10 a.m., in lat 49 25 N, long 8 45 W, the English barque Maria Louisa. The Borussia, during her passage, encountered easterly winds and high sea. Her news has been anticipated. The steamship Hammonia arrived at New York on the 10th inst. at 11 p.m. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN IRON-; CASED SHIPS. The opening meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects, held yesterday at the hall of the Society of Arts—the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington in the chair—was signalised by a circumstance of great scientific and scarcely less public interest. After reading the report of the Council, in which the members and associates were congratulated upon the extraordinary success of the institution, the secretary, Mr, E. J. Reed, announced that he had received a letter from the Hon. Captain Cochrane, in command of her Majesty's steamer Warrior, ac companied by a chart or diagram of a perfectly novel kind, in which what might be called a com plete scientific record of that vessel's voyage to Lisbon and Gibraltar and home again was set forth. Some idea of the value of this document and of the extraordinary knowledge and skill exhibited by Capt. Cochrane in its composition may be gathered from the remarks with which the secretary laid it before the institution. Mr. Reed stated that the paper had been placed in his hands only a very few hours before the meeting assembled, and that he had consequently had no time to give it a detailed examination, or to extraet from it those valuable facts which it manifestly contained ; but he had found opportunity for examining it sufficiently to discover that it was by far the most perfect and important record of a steam voyage that had ever been brought to the notice of a scientific man, This statement was made not alone on account of the variety and exactness of the in formation which it afforded, but also because a very remarkable amount of scientific acumen and judgment had been brought to bear upon the methods of record which Captain Cochrane had in troduced into it. The diagram consisted substan tially of three sets of facts. First, those which related to the state of the wind and sea at every point of the ship's progress ; secondly, those which concerned the ship herself, especially as regarded her behaviour; and, thirdly, those which depended upon the performance of the engines of the ship. Under the first head are recorded from hour to hour , throughout the entire voyage the force of the wind, and its direction relatively to the ship's course, the atmcspheric pressure indicated by the barometer, and the direction and amount of the sea's swell. Under the second head are given the draught of water, displacement, and midship section of the ship, the speed at which she went, the sail which she had set, and the duration and extent of her pitches, rolls, and lurches. Under the last head Captain Cochrane states the quantity of fuel con sumed, the number of boilers at work, the grade of expansion to which the side links were set, the actual indicated power given out by the engines, the number of revolutions made by the screw, the proportion of coal burnt per horse-power per hour; and the miles run per ton of coal under all circumstances. Those various facts, which are of vital importance in a scientific point of view, and by no means unimportant in their bearing upon the economical working of our im- manse navy, are brought together in so ingenious and perfect a manner in Captain Cochrane's diagram that all of them may be ascertained at a single glance for every hour throughout the entire voyage to Gibraltar and back. There can be no doubt, as the Secretary observed, that if the Admi ralty could secure records like these from officers in command of our seagoing ships, and would liber ally sanction, as they have done in this case, their communication to such professional persons as were then assembled, most valuable results would speedily follow. It may, perhaps, be doubted whether some of our naval captains would be com petent even to imitate the work which Captain Cochrane has so ably and laboriously initiated ; but there are many by whom the task wou l d be s p eedil y mastered, and others would gradually fit themselves for it when they knew the Admiralty were anxious to see it done. It may bo interesting to mention that, from Mr. Reed's explanatory statement it ap peared that the Warrior rolled or lurched worst on January 24, when entering the Bay of Biscay, where she met with exceedingly heavy rollers nearly a-beam, and a head sea. The greatest angle through which she lurched on that day was 39 deg., mea sured from the extremes. This was at 7 o'clock in the morning, and she continued to lurch through angles exceeding 30 deg at intervals until 12 o'clock, the rolls being measured in all cases by a clinometer placed 20ft. bin. before the foremost sternpost, and 3ft. 6in. below the upper deck. It was even stated by some on b oar d that the ship inclined three several times on this 24th of January through angles exceeding 3 9 deg.; bat the correctness of the observations in these cases is doubted. On the homeward voyage on such extreme rolling was experienced, th e greatest inclinations then attained being 17 deg. to port and 6 to starboard on ono and 10 to part and 15 to starboard on another. It should be observed, however, that the time of rolling, taking the worst days on the outward and homeward voyages respectively for comparison, did not vary greatly, the average oscillation being in the former case 6.5 per minute, and in the latter 6.25. The average number during the whole outward voyage was 0•; during the homeward 4.77. The horse-power developed by the enginet, of the Warrior on the trial trip at Portsmouth was 5,471.4, but the greatest ever developed during the trip to Gibraltar and back was but, slightly over 3,000, and this was kq>t up for a very t period only, showing that on an experimental voyage it is not thought desir able even to approach the circumstances of a trial trip at the measured mile. It is highly satisfactory to learn, however, that, even when unassisted by her sails, the good ship :everal times approximated. towards the speed produced at the measured mile, which was 14.35 knots. On leaving Lisbon for Gibraltar, for example, with all sails furled, she ran at more than 13 knots for nearly a day, and part of the time actually exceeded 14 knots. These are the kinds of facts with which Captain Cochrane's diagram abounds, and they are recorded, not loosely, or in a written report, but in a rigidly scientific form, and with out colouring or modification of any kind. Both the officer who recorded them so carefully, and the Admiralty who permit their publication, cer tainly deserve great credit. It should be added that Captain Cochrane has appended to his diagram a track chart of the voyage, in order that the ship's position at any period of it may be known, and a figure showing the deviations which the ship's com pass underwent as she proceeded to sea and back again. He oven heeled the ship over when in port, in order to determine the effect which her inclina tion exerted upon the compass, so that no pains should be spared to make the record complete. It may not be out of place here to state that the Astronomer Royal has sent in to the Institution of Naval Architects, to be read at one of the meetings this week, an important paper setting forth the manner in which the magnetic character of the iron employed in shipbuilding may be improved by cer tain modifications in the mode of rolling it. The compass question will at the same time be explained with regard to iron cased ships by Mr. Archibald Smith, F.R.S., and Mr. Evans, of the Admiralty, and with reference to merchant vessels by the se cretary of the Liverpool Compass Committee. As the brief letter in which Captain Cochrane submit ted his diagram to the institution contains an im portant and characteristic expression of opinion concerning the general qualities of the Warrior, we will add it here. It is addressed to the Secretary, and is as follows : " March 26. " Sir,—l have the honour to state that the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty have allowed me to forward to the Institution of Naval Architects the enclosed diagrams, which I hope may prove interesting, relative to the cruise of her Majesty's ship Warrior; and I cannot refrain flora taking this opportunity of mentioning that the Warrior tie hayed nobly in the severe gale and heavy sea she encoun tered, and that on her return to England she had suste.ined no damage, and was perfectly ready to proceed on active service to any part of the world.—l have the honour to bet your obedient servant, "ARTHUR A. Coutißotu. ‘‘ To E. J. Read, Esq., Secretary, Institution of Naval Architects, &c." Sir J. PAKINGTON read a letter, handed to hire by a friend and written by Commander Tryon, Of the Warrior, in which the ship was spoken of in the highest terms. Sir J. C. D. HAY, M.P., !chairman of the Iron Plate Committee, in the course of his remarks upon ships' armour, stated that the report of the com mittee was now in the printer's hands, but that no satisfactory conclusion had been reached as re garded the best mode of attaching the armour to the ship's sides. He stated, however, the committee were persuaded that what is called angulated sides possessed no real advantages as compared with the usual upright sides, when all the circumstances of the case were considered. At the evening meeting of the institution, 3. 11 r' John Laird, M.P., presided, and, after g iving a general description of the Merrimac an d Monitor, and exhibiting drawings of these 'vessels, he read an extract from a private letter which he had re" ceived from a reliable friend at New York, to the following effect : " The success of the Rodman gun has induced our Government to try experiments on a scale stil l , larger, and they are about constructing gu ns 01 . 20-inch bore, throwing shot of 1,0001 b., which, it i$ thought, will crush in the side of any iron-plat ship, no matter what the thickness of the plates: The little Monitor iron-plated gunboat, with revolves tower, built by Ericsson, has proved a great success, and withstood a storm of shot and s h e ll for ni six hours from guns of very heavy calibre. I a quite satisfied that gunboats will be o f more se rvice than large ships with iron sides. W e are making rapid progress in building up a navy effective and not expensive. It is the intention to make oa r power on the ocean equal to that of any other natior l y and then we are sure of peace from all parties." THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Vectis and Indus, with the above mail, left Alexandria on the 26th, at sunset, for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. "The extraordinary Budget for 1863, which has just been presented to the Legislative Body," says a Paris letter in the Journal de _Rouen, " contains the financial arrangements pointed out by M. Fould in his report to the Emperor. The chapter of the receipts contains the duties on salt and sugar. It would, however, result from positive assurances emanating from the administration of the finances itself, that the proposition of those taxes does not imply the firm resolution on the part of the Go vernment to adopt them. They stand in the Budget to form the equilibrium, leaving it to the Legislative Body to find 'measures which would allow the withdrawal of the projected taxes. For salt, for instance, the amount which it is hoped to realise is 33 millions ; if that sum can be obtained in another way, or if a saving to that amount can be effected in the Budget of the Army or of Public Works, the Finance Administration would accept the proposition. The idea therefore entertained is, that the reduction of 30,000 men in the contingent in active service is kept in some mea sure in reserve, in case of an absolute refusal rela tive to the salt duty." The Siecle publishes the subjoined observations: —" The bulletin of the Gazette de France contains the following lines under the signature of M. Charles Gamier The army of Garibaldi con tains, as is known, as many officers as soldiers, generals who have borne the cassock, the kitchen apron, and the coachman's whip.'--As we have the honour of being personally acquainted with the generals of the army of South Italy, we shall be grateful to M. Charles Gamier, if for our information he would kindly give us the names of those who according to his statement have borne the kitchen apron and the coachman's whip. Whom does he mean by it ? Let him explain. Is it Bixio, is it Sirtori, is it Turr, is it Medici, or Cosenz ? We await his reply." " The Chevalier Ramirez, ex-Consul-General of his late Majesty the dethroned King of Naples, has," says the Malta Observer, " received intimation from the local Government to haul down the flag of his deposed Sovereign. We wonder at the toleration of the authorities in having so long allowed the Chev. Ramirez to hoist ex officio the flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, now no longer re cognised by the English Government." BOURSE, March 27.—The market has been heavy, and prices on the downward scale. Threes, for the Accotint, opened 691. 85c., the closing rates of the previous day, but immediately after eager sellers appeared, and quotations retrogaded to 69f. 50c., at which they now remain. The Railway Share Market has been similarly affected, and quotations are generally rather lower. The follow , ing were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 97 50 Do. end month.... Bank Shares 3100 Credit Foncier 1485 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese FiVQS 66 8, 3 per Cents .. 69 60 Do. end month 69 60 New 3 per Cents .. 68 55 Do, end month.... Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 5ll Home Debt Credit Mobilier 762 50 Do. Account — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto . 960 —. .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1107 50 .. 1112 60 Geneva.. Southern 775 .. 778 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 362 50 .. 360 Austrian Lombard 542 50 .. 545 PRUSSIA. Advices from Berlin, of the 26th, announce that M. Deibruck, Director of the Ministry of Com merce, has been appointed Minister of that depart ment. It is this functionary who was charged with the negotiation of the Treaty of Commerce with France. M. von der Heydt resigns his post as Director of the Prussian Bank, as incompatible with his Ministerial functions. The Cologne Gazette of the 26th inst., says : " - Yesterday a preliminary meeting was held of 2,000 electors. The following resolution was pro posed : " The Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved, consequent upon the adoption of the Hagen motion. Those Ministers who have admitted, at least in prin ciple, the legitimacy of the Hagen proposition have been dismissed. The Ministers that remain in office, and those newly appointed, are in opposition to the principle of right proclaimed by the majority of the Chamber. This fact brings into question the most essential right of the national representation, the control of the budget. In the electoral circular of the Minister of the Interior, the party of pro gress, which, with the independent deputies, formed the majority of the Chamber, is represented as hostile to the right of the Crown. The dissolved Chamber, therefore, rests under the accusation of having abandoned constitutional ground, and of having manifested hostility against the sovereign power. " The Assembly, on the contrary, declares : " 1. The Deputies who voted for the Hagen pro position have exercised a right and done their duty. " 2. All aggression against that constitutional right is an attack upon the Constitution itself. " 3. The constitutional rights of the Crown are not in any manner attacked by the right exercised by the Chamber. " 4. The electors will have to prove, at the new election that they are resolved to respect in the same degree the prerogatives of the Crown as they are resolved to respect those of the national repre sentntion." The above resolution was unanimously adopted. A second resolution, tending to recommend the formation in each electoral district of the Rhenish province of a committee of the party of progress, was also adopted, and the Assembly appointed 42 electors to form the electoral committee at Cologne. M. de Gruner, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affitir9, remnins in office. The foreign policy of Prussia will n o t un d ergo an y change. A deputation of the Brandenburg Dragoons, of which Prince Witidicligrat z was honorary colonel, has gone to Vienna to attend the Marshal's funeral. The con version of the loans has not been favourably re ceived in financial circled. It is feared that this measure will become a source of embarrassment to the Government. GREECE. A telegraphic despatch in La Presse, dated Athens, 20th March, says :- 4, Disturbances took lace at Athens in the night between the 15th and THE BANK OF ENt3L.LND. 1862. The following is the House List of the Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, vie.:— FOR GOVERNORS. Alfred. Latham, Esq., Governor. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. James Pattison Currie, Esq. Bonamy Dobree, Esq. Benjamin Buck Green, Esq. Charles Pascoe Greiafell,E sq. Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. *John Saunders Gilliat, Esq. George Joachim Goschen, Thomson Hankey, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Es q. Henry Lancelot Holland, E sq. John Gellibrand Hubbard) Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Charles Fredei ick II uth,Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sheffield Nea.e., Esq. George Ward e Norman, B sq• Edward Howley Palnier, Es James q . Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Esq. Thomas Charles Smith, Esq . *Clifford Wigram, Esq. oast whose names an aster or the Direction. and Deputy-Governor will be , the Bth April, and for Dirl e April, from ten o'clock in noon. N.B.—The gentlemen agai is placed are new candidates fi The Election for Governor held at the Bank on Tuesday, tors on Wednesday, the 9th forenoon till four in the aft(' It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Cou nt Bernstorff, the late Prussian Minister, is likely bofb rci a long to reassume his former duties as rep resen t a tive of 111- King of Prussia at the British Court., FlRES.—Yesterday morning, between the boll of four and five o'clock, a fire broke out on th o p r emises 0 , Mr. Franklin, confectioner, 36, Road-side, Mile-end - r oauf which was not subdued until the lower part of the / 101.s° 0 was burnt out. Canso unknown.—Anoth er d e structive fi r broke out on the premises of Mr. A. Taylor, corn and 01 1 0 dealer, Matthias. place, Stoke Newington. The houso question was in the joint occupation of three families, w' had to make their escape by the windows. ltA WOMAN IN MAN'S CLOTHING FOR Six YEA —Yesterday, a woman dressed as a man was charged be f° ' d the Manchester city magistrates with annoying the lanal aug of a lodging-house in that city, by creating a disturbanc° and threatening to beat another woman named Sarah JcT,, e i f; with whom the prisoner had been living as h us b a nd. -1 ;; $ prisoner's name is Ann M`Gaul, a li as A nn Hug h es , 14 "" John Jones. It appeared that she had dressed as a via g a lit and passed as one for th e l as t 6 years, in order to cam 2s. 40—‘ a day at man's work, i ns t ea d of ls. a day at won , all' s • ; -1 one occasion the p r i soner had slept four nights w ith th e lodging-house k ee p er ' s son, owing to shortness of room in t; establishment, without the sex being discovered. f ° , f r a time also she h a d wor k e d as bankaman in a colliery- '''so own account w as th a t s h e came or i g i na ll y f ro m Gill :a 4; and that she had no clothes but those she stood in• fie() was discharged on p r o m i s i ng no t to re p ea t the annoYl-- to to the landlady, but had to be kept in the dock awhi le protect her being mobbed outside the court. SPIRITUALISM IN FRANCE.—In France the l iter !; ture of fate and necromancy, which was strewn broadc':;!o over the land by the colporteurs, did not fail to attract trii notice of a cc paternal' government, and was sumralriie suppressed a few years ago. Lo Petit Albert and cot Grand Grimoire aro still smuggled through the prov ill where the peasants prize them all the snore highly ou t of count of their condemnation by the authorities; bu course, the circulation of such works is very tol cil • Lcol ls stricted. The " Triple Liegeois" of Martin berg now limits its predictions to the weather rtto the disposition of children born under the signs , 01 _ 0 ,0 Zodiac. "The prognostication of the future, the editor, is best accomplished by a study of the past- , so, under the head of " Productions for each Mont- 1 2, gives only a selection of meagre anecdotes from the 13.0 teur." In England, ho wever, we ma y safel y leaf"`' t'uo extinction of such trashatshethier:g' , Gi v ir o y f a f ,ntsitic h . j o t "Prophetic Alinautio" to ; , r , r , f , ( l o f c h e ap and wholesome listreanrc. liefor' r potent influences the books of fate m ust v anish as au cuo the a years we may expect to see the Sibyl of of a fewP a' f a mists before the sun or ghosts at cockcrow ; and in the cr: re ; Dials bum her last volume from sheer default, 0 chaser.— Once a Irk eck. th 4 Se ha. ter ha` is be( r des of t 8p p, Ind