The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-19 00:00:00

State-sea Embankment f—Stoppage of all Pensions, and Pay, above £365 a-year —no Ministers' money. JAPANESE MISSION CO'S—'KATAY'D Baton Rouge'—RlTEß `H FLAG'D-AGENT ILE-MEN, By Articles 3.—.18, and 21, under texte Hollandaise' for 14 years' revision, signed on 26th August, 1858, and attested by the Russian intermediate, Count Ignatief in 1859, under l'ekin's Xun-Tien-('sin Treaty—in Alcor's Vi and 'lii caputulation), Obedient to the heaven's Zenith s-s- sol aia etayo as the Spiral -sphere fate 'Z overhead' earth-fixt. You are hereby called on to register the old La Montee Q' civic limit-wall of China, as the Jeso-horizon of London, 409 north, at England's Receipt of Exchequer, and take therefrom the Yedo copy of Standard weight for regional exemplification, under your red moon' disc mark—of the Menan-caVyian empire of the Borneo Yle's, as of Q. Eliz. and J. L's Enn'ani‘6 Sicily's subter font skyset link, be tween Man and God. You will explain to his highness the Tycoon that this measure results from my sole oath charge on the Holy Alliance of Christian-clubs Abolition, 29th August, 1825 by 11 Geo. 111. e 55—founded on 14 Geo. 111., c 83, 1774—f0r universal meter -rod of the world's empyreal spirit-'-level guidance—restored in 1824, suspended one year to kill off the life and death ' 1815 justice-men' for the Amish Pope —so cause of the illegal ' white Mitt e' being set to all the criminal law exchequer deeds, over which, if not removed the writer will sign for the people's equal rights. The suspended 1824 Act -- became re-incorporated in 18:35—and writer its State,l,wall trustee sworn 1837-43, for the lineal spirit-level inter-°-national oathing for all offices, without philosophic creed ideal—on Staff inn-set. Your MISSION was for this purpoy'ze to unite the treaty of Feb., 1664, with the Anglo-Dutch Executive to Holland as of Leicester's create 1560-85 so Cromwell and Louis in , ., 1655, affirmed by Parliament, of 16 Car. in, re-embody'd on Phillipine-isles 6 & 6 native jury -1764-Scholastic teaching the Red indians by Act of 1832 for making N. W. America Behring's land-guarantee of Dutch-loan extends to New foundland-1820, as Crown colony Antipodean to New Zea land, Siam, and its Ceylon tropic //word dexpendencies. You'll now see into the May 14 Bar'ing-visit (leading by Macdonald, to the son ASHBURTON Treaty) of my state-associate —and afterwards to Northumberland-house to pass before the Supreme Indian portraiture of Joseph Brant, (the Stamp Act Chief of 1774 SagAmoth of Anglo- America, west to east), the uncle and predecessor of the Siderial-crown Officer now Income-tax Freeman here unto Basquet'd as one of y our race under ligne firer , ' for the Washington Texas—Extradition act, 1843—its alien's having no French white' flag for their Cochin's-China Annam assumption " vers Panne() 1821 Colberti ?-xestau• ration," on my Mexi-Micmac sponsorship. By letter, save disproved acts, Ye are of the oned-1585 Dairy-sums. or high Sinto P a pi s t s state, separated from the m-kub'ship-coroner f so, not of the peoples 'scats-maiy-ftr. pole elect-Ty-cone Zenith courts—under the provincial Dal mi-A and district Sio-roi-6. If co----You'll have to 'Rip' or Ratify for China—as the Easterreost Light-men—since my water flag-limit review by the high contracting parties, W. Seward and R. B. Pemell, city nicinam'd Lyons Am. Ind. Comyoners by Art, i, rule 2 within the territorial waters of the other (L'aiitre neutre)party'—Carib'ian 1-sister to mother earth's legistatrice, Brantat in P4—Silence I For your satisfaction (7th April), ' and other's, the Anglo- Dutch Japanese treaty with China Oct. 1663 to Feb. 1664, signed by Tycoon, for BORT—Vander Does `&c.' whereby the White flag with a red moon was declared your Da'duche emblem, as displayed over your (Embassy in London. Une base' qui (fit Armer la naee-rouge si grande a Sous la loi civique ¢), pese avec Fiertii I • Oil l'on voit que jamais PENGLAND' ne marchande Quand it faut par la merleur donner Libertg . .. • lc] lI CHARLES ' ACKERLET, gi • • 1-2 W. Iv., eo. 54, Chamberlayne' Die-sworn. sz. • PETER BASQULT, Income-tax chief (1842, unpaid.¢ . • China Ruff wall circuit ho r i zon of—London, May 19, 1862), its Montezuma-Texas-peace Red Flag. 'IU 4 So Paris-gab-‘Wight ship' Selgire-vocant Kalfateren skiff' Om-ega " Het fchip seylt wel, het is ras in saylen, - het is een klock-ship in failen." >4 BV-G-awa I fßy 25 Hen. 111. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping Act aido'nus, to avoid Ty-cone Coroner's sequestration. (See The Sun of April 19, 28, and May 16.) EXHIBITION OF HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENT S, GARDEN POTTTERY, ke., at the ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S FIRST GREAT SHOW, Wednesday, May 21. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GREAT SHOW, May 21.—The Garden will be open at One o'clock. Visitors cannot be admitted either from the Exhibition to the Garden, or to the Exhibition through the Garden, before that hour. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S FIRST GREAT SHOW, Wednesday, May 21, at South Kensington. Open at One o'Clock. Bands com mence at Two o'Clock. Admission 7s. 6d. each, or by Tickets previously purchased, 58. each, at the Garden, and of the principal Librarians, Music-sellers, &c. Should the weather be wet, Visitors can pass under cover from the Exhibition or Garden Entrances to the Show. TREAT RE-RO 't A HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, at ball-past 7, will be performed (126th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck /stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothena. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA. CONTRA BA.NDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. 1.11 YAL L YCE UM THEATRE. 111) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 159th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; 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. Warlow, and Miss Lydia Thompson. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Flarris. THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss Maria Harris. After which, at a quarter to 8, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Me.srs. Ryder. J. G. Shore, Basil Potter, Widdicomb, Meadows, J ordan, Raymond, )auto, Cathcart, &C. ; Mrs. Weston, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss C. Leclerc I. To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden, j3bore, &c., and Miss C. Leclercq. Commence at 7. No half-price. NTH.. and MRS. CHARLES KEAN are 1111 L engaged at the ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE for a limited period, and Mr. A. HARRIS has treat pleasure In announcing their first appearance, after an absence of three years, on SATURDAY next. 24th inst., when LOUIS XI. will be performed. Mr, and Mrs. C. Kean will appear every evening during their engagement. E w TH RATRE-R0 YAL, Al) ELPHL— Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A PRIVATE INQUIRY: Messrs. J . L. Toole, Billington ; Miss K. Kelly and Miss K. Bland. To he followed by a new domestic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson ; Miss L. geeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss U. Sinuns, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs. J. T. T oo le, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw, K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston. AND FINE N TEE B Ult .A Y HALL RTS GALLERY. lJ The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to n. The renowned RUAISEY 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 be° to inform visitors to Lon don during 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. Tr' E OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STRE . T Every Evening.—HENßl and PFAU on the Flying Trapeze (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come dians, Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Unsworth and Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent.—Operatic Selec tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren) and the " Jolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the entire company, including Miss Russe Mdme. Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Gr eene, and Albert.—F ull Band and Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Ball, ad.; Balcony and Stalls, la. ; Private Boxes, 10s. Bd. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to :Ur. 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. tl , ' , • --• _"Roll'; THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NIAY 19, 1862. We shall all be awaiting with almost feverish interest the arrival of the next few mails from America. It is indeed hardly possible to conceive a position of affairs in a foreign country more f u ll of the gravest probabilities, yet of the gravest tin. certainties. The probabilities would be generally supposed to be in favour of BEAUREGARD being routed by HALLECK, and JEFFERSON DAVI S an d his generals who have just evacuated Yorktown, by M'CLELLAN ; but the possibilities also, are, that either of the great Confederate armies may inflict with the courrge of despair, a severe defeat upon the army opposed to it. The victories of New Orleans and Yorktown point, in the opinion Of most, to nothing but speedy Federal triumph. The North itself regards them in this light, even I their money market powerfully feels the effect of two such successes following each other so quickly. Still the more thoughtful remember the chances of war, and recollect that a great military triumph o f the Confederates in the East or in the West mi g ht protract the campaign over the hot weath er , and then, probably, through another winter. While, therefore, it would be unreasonable not to look for one or two more decisive Northern triumphs ► The great disaster at Yorktown appears to be chiefly due to the cause we at first suspected, the liberation of the Federal gunboats from their fear of the Merrimac. They had in fact taken York town in its rear, and were, with transports hasten ing up to West Point where the large estuary of the York river comes nearly to a termination, hop ing by landing troops there, to embarrass the retreating Confederates. The arrangements also of M'CLELLAN for a general bombardment of the works appears to have been such as to make the majority of the generals think resistance hopeless. Indeed MACGRUDER alone appears to have held out for fighting. As the Confederates have been driven from their first halting place—Williamsburg, and must, therefore, be still moving nearer Richmond, ( unless the second visit of M. MERCIER should issue in the submission which some American politicians look for, it would seem that a great battle before Richmond will take place before long. As, how. ever, HALLECK is watching BEAUREGARD on the Mississippi almost within cannon shot of him, the decisive battle may be fought there. For, notwithstanding what the friends of the South in this country may say, it seems pretty plain to us, that the Southern cause, since the fall of , New Orleans, could not survive long a substan tial defeat by either HALLECK or M'CLELLAN. One by the former would seal the fate of the planting States ; one by the latter would deprive the Confederates of their capital and Virginia. The North reasons now on the subject, as if assured of final and early success. The opening of New Orleans is formally announced, and that of the Atlantic ports promised immediately. The Northern politicians are also beginning to discuss that difficulty which has puzzled European poli ticians from the beginning —how to reunite hos tile sovereign States, in a working Federal Go vernment, with each other. Hence some propose to cut the knot completely, to declare the Southern States territories, to nominate their governors, therefore, by the Government, and to deprive them of a vote in Congress. This, of course, would be equivalent to a military occupation, with all its cost and despotism. But though the readmission of the Seceded States to the Senate and Con gress will be the signal for a long and bitter political war, we cannot believe any othEr programme to be possible. Americans are too thorough republicans to endure long anything like an Austrian occupation of one - half their territory by the other. One alteration will certainly have to be made in the Constitution, that which gives votes to the Slave States in proportion not only to the number of the whites, but of three-fifths of the slaves also. We are only sorry to believe that even in the hour of their triumph the North is too averse to tho negro to require the abrogation of that foul clause in their Constitution, wkich requires the delivery of the fugitive slave to his master. Mr. LINCOLN himself not only endures, but defends this , -- disgraceful blot on their republican constitution. If that blot be not removed, the North will deserve another secession, and another war, in no long time. 1 If ever th ere h as b een a d ou bt as to t h e i ntrinsic good e 0 r ev i l of what is popularly known (perhaps w ought strictly speaking to say unpopularly ; know n ) as the Billeting must at l as t be dissipated.mso-calledd to view beyond has been just I now, for once and fo r all, displsy the possibility of any further mis apprehensi on by a c i rc ular issued from the Home -offi ce by order f Secretary of State. A document addressed to thethe Chairman of Quarter Sessions of the County of Middlesex, and authenticated by the signature " H. WADDINGTON." It is a communication in every respect eminently well worth reading throughout, It has been circulated already among the magistrates of the county, and comprises within it a notification very pointedly addressed to the landlord of every public-house in Middlesex, "I am directed," says' over confidence is out of the question. The South is still strong, is fighting on its own soil, and its fate still depends, for a long time at least, very much on that temper of which we have heard so much. The movements of M. MERCIER, the French ambassador, add considerably to the uncertainties of the case. Correspondents of the American papers from Washington begin at length to argue with an air of confidence that his mission could not have been on anything merely commercial or trivial. It was undertaken with the full acquiesence of the Federal Government ; he could not in honour go for any object hostile to that Government; the French Government has always been avowedly willing to offer mediation as soon as the position of military affairs gave the slightest hope that it could be of any use, and the reasonings of Washington politicians and the published gossip from Rich mond, concur in the representation that the visit was unofficial, and carefully kept so, but that the views of the EUFEROR were fully made known to the important personages at Richmond. M. MERCIER returned to Washington in more formal style than he left it—on board a French war steamer; the President and Mr. SEWARD received him on the quay, and were themselves received by the Gassendi with an imperial salute, whil e M . MERCIER was afterwards handsomely entertained by them. All this certainly does look as if importance were attributed to his visit. It is also very remarkable that hardly had he left the Southern capital when JEFFERSON DAVIS calls a council of his generals and Yorktown is evacuated, and again M. MERCIER immediately leaves for that place ! If all these movements indi cate nothing important, Americans themselves, and we on this side the water, may certainly be excused for supposing that thay must have an important purpose. To complete the ominous aspect of things, the Southern Congress had adjourned with such indecent haste before the evacuation of Yorktown, that they left JEFFERSON DAVIS'S despatches un opened, and were represented by Richmond papers as fugitives and cowards who would never return ! The opinion in the North therefore, from the way in which the President and Mr. SEWARD have treated M. MERCIER, from the break-up of the Southern Congress and the surrender of Yorktown, is, that M. - MERCIER told all their leading men his master's view of their hopeless position. That he undeceived them as to the likelihood of either France or England doing more than acknowledge them as belligerents; that he showed them how they had done enough for their honour; but, that longer resistance could be only prolonged injury to them selves; that he, at the same time, assured them of the certainty of his master's good offices to prevent the enforcement of hard terms by the North. That Louis NAPOLEON and Europe would be satis fied on the Slavery question with the present offer of conditional emancipation by Congress, and that reunion would be secured them with the full rights which they had previously enjoyed. Such are the most probable representations of the drift of I. MERCIER'S visit to Richmond, so far as we can gather it from both Northern and Southern ac counts; not a word has appeared, officially, yet, we can, therefore, vouch for nothing, but merely lay before o'ir readers what seems best to square with the facts of the case as interpreted by those most interested on both sides. ifinE suN, LONDON, MOND tY EVENING MAY 19. 18g2. resigned. NAPLES, MAY 18, PARIS, MONDAY, TURIN, MAY 17 ROME, MAY 17 , A CouLcil of Ministers will, however, be held today, after which the Government will give its reply, which, it is expected, will hardly be an assenting one, but will probably, as on previous occasions, be of an evasive and temporising cha racter. MAY 18. It is said that after the Ministerial Council, held yesterday, the Elector ordered his two recent ordinances to be withdrawn. The Ministers are said to have advocated the adoption of an opposite course. The information received up to the present moment from the electoral districts show that in nearly all of them the electors have unanimously abstained from voting. Thus, in point of fact, the elections have been without result. STUTTGARD, MAY 18. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Repre sentatives one of the members moved that the Go vernment should be requested to use every endea vour to create a Central German Power and a national German representation. Minister von Huge!, in reply to a question ad dressed to him by Herr Mittuaeht in a previous sitting, said a satisfactory solution of the Electoral Hesse question could only be obtained by re-esta blishing the Constitution of 1831 and the electoral law of 1849, which were to be considered as an integral part of that Constitution. THORN, MAY 17. Numerous arrests, chiefly of women, have taken place at Warsaw on account of prohibited songs having been sung in the Carmelite Church. Some conflicts with the police took place in Warsaw to-day. Cossacks are encamped in the public squares of the city. The Archbishop of Warsaw has addressed a let ter to Governor-General Kozizanowski, stating that the persecution of the people by the police in the churches must certainly be attended with sad conse quences. MAY 18. News has been received here from Warsaw that the Marquis Wielopolski has fallen into disgrace with the Emperor Alexander. It is stated that he will leave St. Petersburg and go abroad. RAGUSA, MAY 17. Niksieh was taken by assault on the 13th inst. by the Montenegrins. 800 prisoners were taken, among whom was the Mudir of the town. The prisoners were conveyed to Cettigne. A body of Turkish Militia, numbering 2,000 men, are hemmed in by the insurgents. CHINA. (By TELEGRAPH FROM JUBAL.) CANTON, APRIL 15. Water twist declining. Tea.—Higher prices demanded. Total export, 90,241,0001 b. Exchange on London, 4s. 61d. SHANGHAI, APRIL 5. Gray shirtings active and prices advancing. Tea quiet. Silk firm, but little doing. No. 3 Tsatlee, 400 taels. Settlements during the past fortnight, 2,500 bales. Export to date, 60,300 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. ;on India, 296. Freights lower. BUENOS AYRES, APRIL 14 (via Lisbon). Exchange, 655. Ouncers, 417. Wet salted ox hides, 45 rls; dry hides, American, LATEST His Majesty has laid the first stone of the new harbour works, on which occasion his Majesty received an immense popular ovation. The King will leave Naples on Tuesday next. BERLIN, MONDAY. It is asserted in well-informed quarters that a Prussian ultimatum has been despatched to Cassel, demanding the dismissal of the Ministry within 48 hours after its presentation, on account of the in sulting treatment to which General Willesen had been subjected. The Paris papers of to-day publish telegrams from Ragusa, confirming the capture of Nickrich. The loss of the Montenegrins was 200; that of the Turks 500, besides prisoners. The citadel still holds out. The Montenegrins are said to have made a reconnaissance in the direction of Mostar. MADRID, MAY 18, Official despatches have arrived from Mexico. A Ministerial Council will be held this evening. MADRID, MAT 17. In to-day's sitting of the Congress Senor Olozaga requested that the documents relative to the Mexican question should be communicated to the house. Marshal O'Donnell said, in reply, " I shall exa mine the papers as soon as I receive them, and shall communicate them to the Chamber if I see that there would be no inconvenience in my doing so." News has been received here from Bergamo and Brescia, announcing that perfect tranquillity pre vails in those places. Reinforcements have been sent to the frontiers, which are so guarded as to render the success of any attempt to cross them impossible. . _ .. General Goyon left Rome this morning for Paris, in order to confer with the Emperor. MILAN, MAT 18. It is asserted that the Prefect of Brescia has The entire Milan press approve the energy dis played by the Government with respect to the recently discovered project of crossing the frontier. The Ahanza publishes a manifesto from Kossuth calling upon the Magyars, Slaves, and Roumans to unite in a confederation. BERLIN, MAY 17, Evening. VI the farther election of a member for the second Berlin district Dr. Johann Jacoby was chosen by 250 votes against 225 polled for his opponent, M. Banck, a landed proprietor. There were 486 voters present. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussische (Stern) Zestung of to-day says :-- "It is asserted that General Schack (of the in fantry) has, for the time of the concentration of the 4th and 7th Corps cl'Armee, been appointed Commander•in -Chief of the two corps. Lieutenant- General Bonin, General Aide-de-Camp to the King, has been appointed Provisional Commander of the 4th Corps d' Armee, and Major Krosigk Provisional Chief of the General Staff of the same." CASSEL, MAY 17. The Electoral Government has not yet replied either to Prussia or the Federal Diet. Mr. WADDINGTON, in the note preceding this re markable paper, " I am directed by Sir G. GREY, to transmit to you the enclosed form of a billet paper, which the Secretary of State for "War is desirous should in future be issued by the civil authorities, in order that innkeepers, and other persons, on whom soldiers are billeted, may clearly understand their liabilities ; and I am to suggest that steps should be taken to ensure the use of the enclosed form of billet paper, on all occasions when billet papers aro issued in the county of Middle sex." Observe the words above italicised, "in order that innkeepers and other persons on whom soldiers are billeted may clearly understand their liabilities." Poor souls !—they may well, in truth, have vouchsafed to them at any rate this timely word of forewarning. It is the least that could be done in their regard—that they should learn be times what it is that is expected from them in this matter of the billeting—and expected from them, recollect, nolens velem?, under pretty sharp penal ties. There is the curt communication pending the very agreeable announcement we are here alluding to—a printed form with blanks to be filled up in each instance, as the occasion arises, with the dis tinctive indication of the victim-host and the cor morant-guests quartered upon his establishmeLt. The pleasant little missive, here spoken of, being in effect simply as follows GRMAT BRITAIN. "To the Landlord at the sign of the street, in the parish of .—You are hereby required to find quartere for of the regiment of for night. Dated the day of 18 . , Billet Master." Then comes a delectable extract from the Mutiny Act, intimating to the unfortunate landlord, with a really frightful precision, what it is that will (under penalty) be expected from him. Now, we need do no more here than briefly quote the first paragraph of this uncompromising quota tion. For, in point of fact, it contains the very essence of the jest. Though,"certainly, by the way, if the Billeting System be spoken carelessly thus as a joke, the unhappy innkeepers, at whose expense it is cracked, may, with full reason, object— " What's fun to you, is death to us." Here, how ever, is the first and sufficient morsel of this Ele gant Extract, taken, as already observed, from the Mutiny Act—and suggestive (or we are certainly much mistaken) to many an innkeeper of something, on his part, very like mutiny. Saith the Act—" The innholder or other person on whom any soldier is billeted on the march in Great Britain shall, if required, furnish him (but not exceeding two days when halted on the march) with one hot meal in each day, to consist of (but not exceeding) one pound and a quarter of meat, previous to being dressed, one pound of bread, one pound of potatoes or other vegetables, and two pints of small beer, and vinegar, salt, and pepper, for which the sum of 10d. will be paid, and 21d. for a bed." Now, for a moment, examine the items, and—remembering the average market price, even wholesale, of the various articles of food mentioned, meat, bread, potatoes, beer, and the etceteras —say whether or no it be a dead robbery upon the ink keeper to talk of remunerating (!) him while the soldier is wiping his lips after this hot meal, and preparing perhaps to solace himself with a digester afterwards in the shape of a comfortable pipe of tobacco—whether or no it be a dead robbery upon the innkeeper to rtmunerate him, forsooth ! by the payment down of a wretched little dole of tenpenceP A pound and a quarter of meat—(why, that of itself would take off about tenpence)—a pound of bread, a pound of potatoes or other vegetables, two pints of beer (the price of that alone at the bar being fourpence)—vinegar (a superfluous item to the landlord himself, we should suppose, for a little while after each billeting)—salt (for which at this rate he would find a difficulty in paying) —and pepper (a plentiful supply of which, in another form, is certainly supplied in this very way from the Home-office)—and all for the small charge, the particularly small charge, of Tenpence ! Surely upon all this, not one syllable of serious comment is, in truth, required. The flagrant meanness of the sum set apart for the reimbursement of the un happy wight upon whom these soldiers in the QUEEN'S army are billeted, speaks for itself. If, according to the old adage, every bullet has its billet—with a no less unerring aim (thanks to the sharp practice authorised by the Mutiny Act) every billet brings down the fated landlord at a long shot, dead as a door nail. There is no escap ing it. And, if we may regard the class victimised (as in the majority of instances we surely may), as affording favourable specimens of JOHN BULL—it is a shot, too, right in the Bull's eye. The news from India will gladden every thought ful _Englishman. It is hardly five years since nothing but regard to the national honour pre vented thousands from recommending that India should be turned adrift, to save us the prospect of interminable expense. The humanity, only, of Mr. BRIGHT prevented him, and others of the Man chester school, from advocating the renunciation of our rule there; so that, happily, between a sense of duty towards peoples whom we had rendered helpless and of the dishonour involved in confess ing ourselves really worsted, the idea was not enter tained for a moment as a practical one. Probably, however, but very few of our statesmen did not look forward towards a long period of disordered finance, and of ill-will between the conquering and the subject races. That fear is now - passing away like a cloud. The letters just arrived bring us a more cheerful pic ture of our Indian empire than we can send back of our own. We shall soon have Mr. LAING's spoech in full, meantime a pretty full account of it, and of its effects, is eminently satisfactory. The day following his announcement of the Indian Budget, the Government Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Securities rose to ten per cent. premium, with every prospect of advance. Yet only four years ago the saline Government could not raise a loan at six per cent ! No money dealers in the world surpass those of Calcutta in shrewdness and knowledge of their constituencies ; and this single fact is conclu sive of the general character of the Budget. Its gene ral features are these. Owing to causes not to be for seen the expenditure exceeded Mr LAING'S estimates by £1,714,370. But he had estimated also his pro pable receipts with such entire freedom from exag geration, that the year closed with nearly that amount of surplus ! For 1862-3 this safe financier proposes a surplus of £1,428,600, and by ec l a f a sh balances, un lik e our own, are increased half million, and are actually five millions above a safe working minimum ! And here it is to be noted that railways and banks have already shown themselves in India to be equivalent to an increase in the circulating medium. Balances not quite so large as formerly being found to be quite as effective, when they can be made so safely and promptly available. able The surplus o t a s r t e o p which r A e l m r i L s s A i i o N n G s d o e f v t o a t x e s a t h i o i s o a: a ' a n i ld partly reproductive imperial outlay. Manchester is thankful to find her manufactured cotton goods sharing the benefit by a reduction from ten to five per cent. duty—this duty, as cottons are mumble tured in India, being one of the most singular for such an extreme free trader as Mr. WILSON to have dreamed of imposing; probably necessity was his real plea, as well as his avowed one ; the duty on yarn is also reduced to 31 per dent. A ten per cent. import duty on paper is also removed, and the duties on beer, tobacco, and cheap wines are all reduced. What English taxpayers will note as much as anything is the abolition of the income tax on small incomes, and the re-enacting a four per sent. tax on the larger incomes for a period of three years, with the moral certainty that it will cease in one year. But how is all this effected ? Not entirely, nor chiefly by the buoyancy of the revenue, but by judicious economy of army expenditure, an economy which has not impaired efficiency. In 1859-61 the army cost £20,909,307; i❑ 1862-3 it will cost £12,000,000 ! The native army of 350,000 sepoys has been out down to 125,000 ; the European force from 90,000 to 70,000. The native army was dangerous, requiring the large British army to watch it. The British army in India is very costly. Both are cut down, and the establishments con nected with them proportionably reduced. To this chiefly, as must be the case in all States, the reduction of expenditure is to be referred. And these splendid results, We are assured, are attained without impairing the -fficiency of the army, and after adding to the comforts of the private soldier. It is hardly possible that such splendid results from economical retrenchment in .India should fail to make their impression here. All kinds of differ ences it will, of course, be easy enough to point out, but the general lesson can hardly be lost. In 1859 India had " bloated armaments "—not adding to her real strength, and disastrous to her Exche quer. She reduces the cost of the armaments by more than £8,000,000, and ands nerself equally strong, in the military sense, while the state of her exchequer is giving the moneyed inhabitants a direct pecuniary interest in our rule, and the humbler classes, an evident, yet obvious, in terest, through the votes for the public works which are every way beneficial to them. No such budget has ever before reached us from India, not even in the days prior to the mutiny. Attention is again called, in a very startling way, by telegram, to the progress of events at Warsaw. It is the old story, once more, of course, but in new words, and with novel illus trations. Even the Archbishop, who has latterly been striving to effect all the good that possibly might yet be effected by conciliation—even the Archbishop has now intimated to the head of the military authorities there, in that ill-fated city, that the Russian policy may be carried, soon enough now, beyond the reach of further endurance. In a letter addressed to General KOZIAANOWSKI the prelate states plainly, in so many words, that the continued persecution of the people by the police, in the Churches, must inevitably lead to deplorable consequences. Who can doubt it ? Particularly remembering the past history of Poland ! Experience has told the Mus covite Power as distinctly as possible, and this, moreover, egain and yet again, that the Poles are a long-enduring race up to a certain point. Approach that limit too closely and even the iron rule of the Czar is set at defiance as at the dropping of a spark into a mine of gunpowder. Even, the adage says, a worm will turn when trodden upon. The recal citration of a race proverbially heroic becomes therefore perfectly comprehensible under circum stances of peculiar and especial irritation. Those circumstances are surely just now multiplying rapidly enough around the Varsovians. More arrests, "numerous arrests," the telegram from Thorn states, took plaae on Saturday at Warsaw. Upon the plea, too, of certain prohibited songs haviug been sung, contrary to orders, in the church of the Carmelites. And the majority of these arrests, it is especially noticeable —not this time among the students, but among the women ! No wonder that we hear immediately afterwards of fresh conflicts with the police having soon followed. Or of the Cossacks being encamped in the squares and other public places suitable for bivouacing. We shall look for the next tidings with some anxiety. It reads now—as it has so often read before—like the beginning of the end. If only it could be the end of all these Polish sufferings ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. On Saturday evening Signor Verdi's "Rigoletto" was performed for the first time. This opera has always been a favourite piece at this theatre, chiefly on account of the excellence of the performance of Mario, as the Duke. For this character Verdi has imagined some of his voluptuous melodies, and Mario warbles them as no one has ever warbled them before. His rich mellow voice, which he never mars by overstraining it, has a charm which the most powerful tenors of the day, with all their efforts, are unable to reach. Madame Miolan-Carvalho sang the music of Gilda elegantly and brilliantly, and Madame Nantier- Didiee was again Maddalena. Signor Tagliafico, as Sparafucile, likewise honourably sustained his , reputation. Signor Delle Sedie, who personated Rigoletto for the first time on the London stage, had the disadvantage of coming after Signor Ron coni in one of that eminent artist's very greatest parts. Signor Delle Sedie sang much of the music tastefully, and with appropriate expression, but his entire performance wanted force and colour. VER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Owing to the illness of Signor Giuglini, "Il Barbiere" was given instead of " I 1 Trovatore" on Saturday evening. The Rosina was Madlle. Tre belli, who sang so well as materially to increase the favourable opinion induced by her previous per formance of Orsini in " Lucrezia Borgia." Madlle. Trebelli kept more within the meaning of the composer than many Rosinas of the present day, and where she varied or embellished, the general character of the music was not lost sight of. Madlle. Trebelli sang the florid passages which Rosina has so lavishly bestowed upon this part with brilliant fluency, and further exhibited her command over the bravura style by executing with rare skill and effect some new variations upon the old air, " Sul margine d'un rio," written expressly for her, we believe, by Signor Alary, and which were intro duced into the "lesson scene." Madlle. Trebelli's acting, full of vivacity and point, was as successful as her singing. Signor Zucchini, who made his debut in England on this occasion as Don Bartolo, made on the whole a favourable impression, and seems likely to prove useful to the management. Signor Bettini acquitted himself satisfactorily as Almaviva, and the Barbiere of M. Gassier was in every respect a most admirable performance. After Rossini's opera, one act of "Lucia di Lammermoor" r w . as given, it s attract i ve feature being M adlle. fitiens' rendering of the grand scena, the so-called " mad scene." Foreign pipers speak favourably of "Il Menes trello," by Signo r do Ferrari, as a charming comic opera which is making the tour of Italy. Herr Abert's new opera, "King Enzio," which has just bet n represented at Stuttgart, is described as show ing a real advance upon his first musical drama, "Anna von Landskron." Herr Mangold has treated " Abraham" in the form of an oratorio, which work is to be shortly, if it has not been already, performed at Ratisbon. Professor Sterndale Bennett has presented to Sainton the manuscript score of his Ode writ,n for the opening of the Exhibition, elegantly bound, as an expres sion of his sense of the great care and ability with which M. Sainton conducted the peefo rruan e 9 of his work, on the emergency caused by the refusal of Signor Costa. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS.. The popularity ,of Charles Dickens as a Reader vies, so far as that is in any way possible, with his popularity as a Writer. And this latter—it can in no respect be invidious to assert—is, if not unrivalled, certainly unsur passed. Whenever Mr. Dickens is announced to give one of his "Readings" the Hall selected for the occasion is, as a matter of course, crowded in every part. Directly he makes his appearance upon the platform he is received with acclamation. For two hours, as accurately as time could be marked out by Shrewsbury clock—with a midway interval of ten minutes by way of breathing-time —he keeps his audience upon the alert, with the greatest ease to himself, and with quite unmis takable evidences of delight to his hearers. The more frequent among these tokens of delight being—breathless silence and uncontrolable bursts of laughter. The less frequent among them being —occasional rounds of applause, given at intervals few and far between, as if grudgingly, on the part of an audience especially unwilling to interrupt their entertainer. On Saturday evening, at St. James's Hall, the customary scene in this way was witnessed by about as many as that noble structure could hold conveniently. The Selection set apart for the Readings on Saturday being unusually varied, and for that reason perhaps more than ordinarily at tractive. Nicholas Nickleby at Air. iSqueers's School, in Four Chapters, to begin with. An inter lude, in the shape of that famous little Christmas story of Boots at the Holly Tree Inn. And, to com plete all, like a roaring farce after an elegant little comedy—Bob Sawyer's Party from Pickwick. There is one invariable source of disappoint ment, however, to us, in all these delightful Read ings by our great novelist. It is the crumpled rose leaf, of course—we are never satisfied in this world—there is a discoverable want everywhere : and all that ! Yet, at the risk of apparently carp ing idly, it does always appear to us matter for regret when, one after another, a series of " good things," in passages that we know absolutely by heart, cannot but be missed with a sense of some thing very like disappointment. For example, in " Bob Sawyer's Party from Pickwick," not a word is read about the anecdote partially told by the "prim personage in cloth boots:" in fact, the whole of the preliminaries up to the very point of the joke— which the narrator has unhappily forgotten! Again, in the description of Nicholas's supper that first wretched night at Squeers's, the uncut pie is, in the Reading, passed by without men tion. However, when we have said this in the way of exception, we have said everything. Be sides —in the very eliminations themselves that we are carping at, we do not fail to recognize the hand of the consummate artist. What is left, moreover, is just—read to perfection. Not read so much either, as—impersonated. That rascally Squeers, the one-eyed schoolmaster—poor jaded, worn out Smike—and, best of all, that glorious incarna tion of the burly, warm-hearted Yorkshireman, John Browdie : one after another they live and move and breath before us, as the creator of them reads on with his plastic features ever varying in expression and his voice sounding less like that of a Man than like that of a Chorus. It is something alone to hear John Browdie's laugh ! The most exhilarating and contagious sound in the way of laughter surely that one could well listen to anywhere —a laugh some what resembling the description given by Mr. Dickens himself of the laugh of Scrooge's Nephew--" If you know anyone with a better, introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance." The charm of the whole evening to us, however, was, beyond a doubt of it, the im personation by Mr. Dickens, in look, in voice, in manner, of that delightful fellow—(own cousin on the father's side, we cannot but feel certain, to Sam Weller)—Boots at the Holy Tree Inn ! And the impersonation here—perfect though it is, as were, to a hair, to the inflexion upon a syllable—is accomplished throughout with such inimitable ease! If the creatures of his imagination stand thus vividly before his mind's eye while he is writing about them, no wonder Charles Dickens has peopled our literature with beings as real and actual to every one of uv, in filch. all but tangible individualities, as any among our own living flesh-and-blood con temporaries ! At first the great and prominent attraction of the public at large to these Readings, was—as a matter of course, and, under the circumstances, not at all unnaturally —to catch a glimpse of the Great Author whose name has so long been a cherished " household word" in so many homes throughout the land. That attraction, with a very large part of the multitude, still remains, of course, undiminished. But, added to it, beyond the mere gratification of an amiable curiosity, there is that higher and more enduring attraction still —the knowledge that, while Charles Dickens is one of the most delightful Writers, he is also, and quite as indisputably, one of the most delightful Readers in the world. It is expected that her Majesty will leave Bal moral on her return south about the 28th inst.—Court Journal. Preparations are commencing at Osborne for the approaching marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Alice with Prince Louis of Hesse. We believe the cere mony will take place about the 9th of June, though the state of the health of the King of the Belgians may have a considerable influence in determining the exact date, as it is understood to be her Majesty's wish that the Ii ing should, if possible, represent the late Prince Consort on this occa sion, and give the Royal bride away.—Court Journal. We believe that Lady Victoria Scott, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, is destined to the honour of being ono of the bridesmaids of the Princess Alice. Lady Victoria has not yet been presented at Court, but, had her Majesty held a Drawing-room this sea son, her ladyship's debut would have been for every reason a marked one in the beau monde. Lady Victoria is goddaughter to the Queen, and this may be one of the reasons why so marked a distinction has been conferred on her previous to her presentation.—Court Journal. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.—The concert of Saturday last was rendered specially interesting by the performance, for the first time in this country, of the march composed by Herr Me 3 erbeer for the coronation of the King of Prussia. It is every way worthy of the authhor's fame—a work thoroughly characteristic of his melodic genius and masterly use of modern orchestral resources. The performance, under the able direction of Herr Manns, was admirable, and at its termination Herr Meyerbeer, who made one of the audience, was summoned to appear by the delighted visitors and heartily cheered. The concert was altogether of unusual excellence. The universally celebrated Sisters Marchisio contributed some of their duets with the greatest possible success. Sir John Trelawny, on the 27th, will bring for ward a bill to allow certain persons to make affirmations in all cases where an oath is or shall be required. • Lord Henry Scott intends to move, as an amend ment on the second reading of Education (Scotland) Bill, " That this house is of opinion that legislation as to educa tion in Scotland is inexpedient, until Parliament shall have been put in possession of more full and accurate informa tion with regard to the state of popular education in that part of the United Kingdom." THE JAPANESE MISSION.—On Friday several of the Japanese suite, in company with Dr. Chambers, visited the writing, drawing, and mathematical classes at King's College School, and examined the mode of teaching in those departments. They requested that a half holiday might be given in memory of their visit, to which Dr. Major kindly consented, and thus gave our Oriental friends an opportu nity of hearing some hearty cheers from 400 or 600 school boys' throats. They then went over the Blind School in St. George's-fields, and were presented by Mr. E. Johnson with specimens of printing for the use of the blind, cipher ing types, basketwork, &c. They remarked upon the loss of sight which so frequently follows smallpox, and stated that in Japan compulsory vaccination had been rigidly car. ried out with excellent effect for the last 10 years. Th ey then went to the workshop of Messrs. Whicker and Blaise, the cutlers, and saw the process of making razors, surgical instruments, &c. The swords of the party (each gentle, man carries two) were inspected with much interest by the workmen, and pronounced equal, and of similar make, to the best Damascus blades, The steel has the curled grain so much admired in the latter. It may be remarked that these famous blades are only to be found in private hands, being costly heirlooms, often of great antiquity; one of those examined had a Japanese cutler's mark, showing it to be more than 200 years old, A ROMANCE OP THE PEERAGE. --An advertise. ment in a recent number of the Melbourne Argus (Aus tralia ) seeks for information concerning Viscount Guilla more, who was last heard oi under the name of Dennis Grady, as a stock-keeper at one of the remote cattle stations of the colony, Information was earnestly requested to be directed to the superintendent of police at Melbourne. Paget Standish O'Grady, fourth Viscount Guillamore in the Irish peerage ; born ill 183 j) succeeded his brother hi 1860. 43 rls; wool, 80 dols to 95 dols; tallow, 161 rls lumber, 38 dols to 41 dole; flour, 7 dols to 8 dols; refined sugar, 21 rls. MONTEVIDEO, APRIL 15. Exchange, 4q-d. Wet salted ox hides, 67 rls ; dry hides, American, 56 rls ; wool, 4 dols to 5 dols ; tallow, 20 rls ; lum ber, 34 dols to 36 dols; flour, 7 dols to 8 dols; re fined sugar, 25 to 26. INDIA. The following is from the Bombay Gazette of the 26th April:— His Excellency Sir G. R. Clerk, K.C.8., took his departure from Bombay on the 24th April, having embarked on board her Majesty's steamer Dalhousie at 5 p.m. His Excellency the Hon. Sir 11. B. E. Frere, K.C.8., assumed the charge of the Government of Bombay and its dependencies on the 24th April, and took the oaths and his seat under the usual salute from the garrison. The budget of the Government of India for 1862-- 63 was brought forward in the Imperial Legislature by the Hon. S. Laing, on the 16th April. The financial statement of our able Chancellor of the Exchequer occupied more than two hours in the delivery. The general results were stated as fol lows :—" The year 1860-61 closed a long series of deficits with one still estimated at £6,000,000, and which in reality was upwards of £4,000,000. 1861-62 sees this deficit extinguished by a reduction. of £5,000,000 of expenditure effected within 12 months in a total expenditure of £20,000,000 open to revision. Further reductions and continued buoyancy of revenue find us in 1862.63, notwith standing the remission of the licence tax, and a large increase of outlay on opium and public works, with a surplus of £1,428,623. We apply this surplus -Ist, In further augmenting by £524,813 the grants for public works and education ; 2dly, in reducing to the normal rate the exceptional import duties imposed on manufactures ; 3dly, in relieving two thirds of the payers of income tax from all further assessments. We close the year 1861-2 with a cash balance of £17,690,000. We have every reason to be lieve that our estimates are on the safe side, and that we shall close the year 1862-3 with at least an equal balance." The statement must give the greatest sa tisfaction to the people of India and of Britain; to the former especially, for the announcement it con tains that " there is every fair and reasonable pro bability that we may in three years or sooner be able to dispense with the income tax." Mr. Laing concluded his clear, able, and satisfactory statement with these sensible words—" This is the simple state of facts laid before you without exaggeration or embellishment. There is no doubt that it contrasts favourably with the financial statements which In dia has been accustomed to receive, and with those which other great empires of the civilised world have been recently making. Let us not be too con fident in this prosperity or relax that wise economy which has been the principal means of effecting se beneficial a change. And, above all, let us not for get that, while thankful to the Almighty Ruler of events for giving us peace and tranquillity and this foretaste of material prosperity, we shall best merit the continuance of these blessings by using them as means for higher ends, for the diffusion of civilisa tion, the moral and intellectual elevation of our people, and all that goes to the mighty task of building up solidly and securely the foundations of a great and enduring empire. It is, I trust, a happy augury, that as our late viceroy was able to close his career in India by relieving 5 ,000,000 of her Majesty's Indian subjects from the imposition of the licence tax, his Excellency the present Governor-General is enabled to inaugurate his go vernment by relieving two-third s of the income tax payers, and reducing duties which press on the commerce of India with the mother country. I closed my statement last year with the expression of a confident hope that India might become the brightest jewel of the British Crown. I close it now with a still more confident expression of the same hope, and with a feeling that the twelvemonths would not have elapsed without something bein done towards its rea li sa ti on. " g Mr. Saunders, commissioner to report on the cul tivation of cotton, has published a very interesting report on the province of Oudh. The province contains 25,000 square British statute miles, or :6,000,000 of acres. The population is 280 persons to the square mile. The soil is most fertile, well adapted to the growth of cotton, flax, sugar-cane, and all the cereals and other crops that are grown in any part of India. The climate is cool and moist. Oudh possesses fine rivers, navigable for steamers. It contains a million of acres of waste lands, the soils of which are open, free, and porous. The pro vince is capable of producing large quantities of excellent cotton. The great Maharaj libel case has been decided in the Supreme Court of Bombay. There was but one opinion in the community as to the nature of the judgment that would be pronounced in this case. It was universally expected that it would be one which would vindicate the liberty of the press, the justice of English law, the cause of progress in this land, and more especially the moral reform which is struggling to make headway in this community against the most powerfully antagonistic influences. The judgment delivered by the puisne judge, Sir Joseph Arnould, has fully realised and justified the public expectation of libel ; there was the most fully justifying occasion for his exposure of the scandalous practices of the Maharaj, and the justi fication has been completely established. We regret that we are not able to characterise in the same terms the judgment of the Chief Justice, Sir Mathew Sausse. In his judgment, Kursondaa is guilty of libel, and there was not justifying occasion for his accusations against the Ma haraj. At the same time, the Chief Justice con sidered the justification established. His judg ment, therefore, was for the Maharaj on the plea of libel—damages five rupees, without costs. This will go forth as the judgment of liar Majesty's Supreme Court in this important case. We greatly with that her Majesty's judges had been of one mind in this matter. We need not say that we fully agree with the puisne judge; if we did not, we be lieve we should stand alone in an inglorious isola tion from the public of Bombay, European and na tive, unconnected with the case. The capture of Furrah by the Persians under Sooltan Ahmed Jan is confirmed by latest intelli gence from Cabul. Ahmed Jan's troops at Furrah are said to be 14,500. Persian troops near Herat "reported to be innumerable." All Affghanistan is up. Our ally, the old Ameer of Cabul, has taken personal command of his troops and marched to Khandahar, resolved either to take Herat from Sool tan Ahmed Jan or djiyenunadhesr areits wstaillllsg.iving serious tro T u b b e le e in ss Sh Y ;l hs e a t a nd te nd Cachar. Th e Murre:Js on the u manifesting an ication on the river Indus has taken place, 'opening the r i ver as far as Kala Bagh. Anffluhfurtherie dfrondt rio extension n f the of pu steam It is stated that there is a compact between the Peninsula and Oriental Company and the Alessa genies Imperiales that in the matter of passenger carriage the Frenchmen are not to underbid the Englishmen, but are to charge precisely the same rates between the different ports on the steam line . - The head quarters of the Commander-in-Chief of India are now established at Simla, where his Ex lency Sir Hugh Rose arrived on the Ist April. Pandurang Rao, called Rao Sahib, a nephew of the miscreant Nana, and an adherent of Tantia Te pee, has been captured at Chenanee, in the territory of Jammoo, by the deputy commissioner M'Nabb. The Hon. C. J. Erskine, Bombay member of tite Vice-regal Council, has been appointed Vice-Chan cellor of the Calcutta University, vice the late Hon- Wm. Ritchie. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company have sustained a considerable loss from a fire which occurred on the 15th April a t their Campolee sta tion. Incendiarism is very prevalent in India. Treasure to the amount of eight or ten lakhs of rupees has been found by some convicts in an old havelee near the Lahore Gate in Delhi. The proclamation for the transfer of North Canary from Madras to Bombay has been published. The transfer took effect on the 16th of April.