The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

S a dlleT Ep tie A T R E. E appearance of SECOND APPEARANCE OF MADLLE. POCCHINI, LES HUGUENOTS. THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), April 17, will be re. pealed Meyerbeer's Grand pera, GLI UCIONOTTI. DRAMATIS PERSONA:. II Conte di San Bris (Governer of the Luvre) II Conte d i Nevers DeCowl ............... . ...... TaVAUIICS De Retz Signor BELLETTI. Signor ALDIGHIERI. Signor MERCURIAL'. Signor ANNONI. Signor BORCHARDT. Signor CASTELLI. Signor ALBELDA. Meru . . —.—. . Head of Night Watch Saul di Narigis (a Huguenot Gentleman)' Signor GIUGLINI. Marcell° (his Servant) Xargaritta di Valois (betrothed to Henry IV.) Madlle. ORTOLAN'. telaano (her Page) Mdme. LUCIONI LANDI. D ain .l. d'Onore 'Valentina (daughter of San Brie) Madlle. TITIENS. L a dies and Gentlemen of the Court, Pages, Citizens, Soldiers, Students, Night Watch, Monks, Musicians, &c. Conductor, Signor ADRITI. With scenery, entirely new and original, by Mr. Marshall ; dreaies, entirely new and taken from th e best authorities, by W a wa Copere, and executed by . Laureys and Mrs. Masterman ; principal mach inist, Mr. Sloman ; h ea d of the property department, Mr. Bradwell ; the miss-en-scene and incidental ballet, by M. Massot. To conclude w!tli a new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Massot, entitled OU, LE REN VOI DE L'AMOU R . MUST r; by Mlles. Pocehini , Annetta, Pas. The principal parts ti, F., Brow n, La Petite Philipe, quale, Morlaechi, Bio let and M. Caron. On TUESDAY, A.pril 20, Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI will make /her first appearance this season as fforina, in Donizetti's Opera of DON PASQUALE, and shortly afterwards in LUISA. MILLER. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Price 21a and 31s 6d each. The full prospectus of the season arrangements may be had at the Box Office. To commence at half-past 7 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARICET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 16, will be performed AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Chipendale, Compton, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Sedgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz wilham. Alter which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Concluding with MY Hu SBAND'S GHOST. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. a. d. Second price. 0. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Drees Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit . 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery to at Seven. Commend ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Sitakspere's Tragedy of KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. C. Kean. Preceded by SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. rpHEA.TRE ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Lessee--Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING will bo presented the drama of VIE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. B. Webstlr, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform. After which, a new operatic spectacle. TEIE CA.LIPII OF BAGDAD. Me characters by Mr. Rolfe," Paul Bedford, J. Bland, and Misses Rod3u, Keeley, and Arden. STRAND THEA.TRE. —Lessee awl Directress, Miss S vianborough. —This Evening will be produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyne, Esi., called NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. Supported by Messrs. Belton, Ray, Belfort, Kiuloch, and Miss M. Oliver. After which, the new burlesque of FBA. DIAVOLO ; or, The Beauty and the Brigands. Fra D avolo, Miss Swan borough ; Beppo, Mr C. Young. To conclude with CITY FRIENDS. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- In; company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, %fiss Brucell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, and Miss Montague; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. denshaw, S. fonec, J. Barker. W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. /lime, Mr. Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Hackney. Piaco:orte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &s., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Chirles Kean, Esq.) will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. THE WEATHER—Sum Orrws, Aram 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday, 51—lowest this morning and during the night, 53 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, down to 29.90—n0w up to 30.07. WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with fair weather. A heavy storm of rain, lightning, and thunder came on about ten last night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY—Morn., 53 min. aft. 3 —Even., 13 mm aft 9 To-Sionsow —Morn., 3 i min. aft. 4 —Even., 57 min. aft. 4 ‘ t e:e7 , -; A '''') (:&..,, -- ', - -4", „ . ,:', ' 7 * V , - e ' ' _ l e I , t),‘ . g.- 5 ,;, , ,:0 - r;- -- ,":" 7 : - ' -41 ' LONDON', SA.TD'EDA.Y, APRIL 16, 1858. On Monday evening, the financial scheme w be fully developed. The Chancellor of the Et chequer will explain " the ways and means" by which he hopes t) bo enablei to provide for every demand on the Treasury, and to maintain the national character for prompt payment of every just demand. As we have already stated, he has peculiar difficulties to encounter—difficul ties not of his own creation, but bequeathed to him by his predecessors. "The Oxford pet," Mr. GLADSTONE, laid the foundation. He had a handsome balance to his credit, when he conceived thenotion,sincesignalisedas "the GLADSTONE abor tion," of converting a considerable portion of the national debt into stocks paying less interest, and thus effecting a considerable saving in interest. It was a good idea, but very badly executed. The most seedy "punter" at a German gambling house would be ashamed of the total absence of calcula tion displayed by the " heaven-sent" financial Minister. Had he been guilty of so grave a mistake he would have abandoned his vocation, confessing with shame and regret his total unfitness for the occupation. But as there is a difference between murder on a large and a small scale, so there is in financial blundering. Aclerk wholost his employers 1,0001. by a gross and palpable error of judgment would be dismissed with ignominy from his situa tion. But one who has cost the nation a thou sand times a thousand pounds is a model financier, and has a right to criticise projects which do not enter into such dashing speculations, and have no concern with gambling of any description. We have already pointed out that it is the imperative duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—as a matter of common justice to the overburdened tax-payers, at least, to renew the six millions of Exchequer Bonds created by Mr. GLADSTONE, and which, as we have explained, will not by any means " destroy the beauty of the Invention." Parliament only sanctioned the sub stitution of one description of stock for another. it never contemplated that ten millions of debt were to 'be annihilated, and that the Exchequer was to be denuded of its balances and compelled to Sue " with bated breath and deep humility" for advances fro m " the Ohl Lady" to enable it meet the irresistible demands. It may be very well to pay off the debt, but the reduction was purchased at too high a price. Th e nat i on suf fered severely from the process. But it was not mutely the ten millions thus paid away without tha slightest neeessity or even pressure, that represents the amount for which the existing tax payer has been victimised for the sake of p os .. teprity. There is, besides, the Sardinian Loan of two millions sterling, the interest whereof Is duly paid, with a sinking fund for the reduction of the principal. Now, we unhesi tatingly say that this two millions is an available credit, of which the Financial Minister THE SUN, LOND ON, SATURDAY E V _ENING, APRIL 11, 1858 should take advantage. It should be sent into the market and sold for the benefit of the Trea- 1 sury ; and this, added to the ten millions squan dered by Mr. GLADSTONE, would give nearly double the anticipated deficiency—the damnosa luereditas bequeathed by Sir G. C. LEWIS to his successor. In addition to this there was the sum paid for the redemption of the Sound Daes, which might, and ought to have been spread over a quarter of a century, but which was at once liquidated. This makes nearly thirteen and a half millions, for which the present tax-payer is entitled to credit against posterity, and less than half the amount would enable the Financial Minister to meet every probable demand, and the balance would be avail able for the reduction of the taxes on pru dence, knowledge, and other matters which have strong claims for the attentive consideration of the Financial Minister. We cannot, however, at present, anticipate anything in the way of reduc tion. If Mr. DISRAELI does not largely enhance the imposts by which even Paterfamilias is assailed, we shall have cause to bless the change that placed him in the situation occupied by Sir G. C. LEWIS. We trust and hope that he will do some thing with respect to the income-tax. There are two millions waiting for acceptance that can easily be made available in 1859. If the DERBY Cabinet were so ephemeral as the Times and Post would wish us to believe, it need not care much respecting the provision for next year ; and should therefore not embarrass itself by providing for the future. But if, as we anticipate, the Budget should prove satisfactory to the nation— the foreign policy is all that could be desired, and the voice of faction is hushed by the knowledge that the country would not sanction any descrip tion of foul play or factious opposition—then we may hope that Lord DERBY and his colleagues will remain in power until, by some act either of commission or omission, they excite the indigna tion of the people, and prove that they are not prepared to legislate in accordance with the spirit of the age. The difference between Lord CLARENDON and Lord MALMESBVRY is becoming more perceptible every day. The former permitted the English engineers, WATT and PARK, to linger in a Neapo litan prison nine months, while he was courteously remonstrating with Signor . CARAFA, and asking as a favour permission for the Euglish Consul to ob tain an interview with men innocent of any crime, who were illegally captured and illegally detained, under circumstances of the most intolerable cruelty and hardship. The other has already not only insisted on good treatment, but obtained their discharge and restoration to their country. Nor is that all. A demand for compensation—ample and liberal compensation—has been preferred ; and unless we are greatly mistaken, it will be supported by the irresistible arguments of a most efficient Envoy Extraordinary. The Chancellor of the Exchequer clearly ex plained the present state of the case last night. He showed that there were two distinct questions arising, one of which he properly designated as " the national," and the other as the " interna tional " question. The first referred to the treat- ment of our countrymen, Warr and PARK. On that point the present law officers of the Crown were unanimous. They did not wander off into specious conjecture, to find excuses for BoarsA, or to prevent the British Government from demand ing justice for the British subjects for the flagrant grievances to which they were subjected. No, they delivered a straightforward and intelligible opinion that " the detention and imprisonment of WATT and PARK were illegal." The an nouncement of this fact was received with enthusiastic cheers from all sides of the House, which were, if possible, increased when it was stated that Lord MALME3BURY bad already forwarded a despatch to Naples demand ing compensation for the grievances experienced by our countrymen. This is as it should be. This is indeed maintaining the honour and dignity of Great Britain, and defending the rights of even the humblest British citizan. This is no diplo matic humbug or vacillation in this course. e " international" question has not yet been decided, and for a very good reason. It was only on Saturday last that most important docu ments in reference thereto were, received, and they were forthwith submitted to the Attorney- General. But the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman has been ever since busily engaged in reference to the State trial still pending, and he certainly could not bestow that attention on the subject, which it so imperatively required. Nor was it so pressing, f or it did not relate to theinterests of individual citizens, whom Eag- Itud was bound to protect, but was rather one affecting the comity of nations—a matter in which all the States of the civilised world were equally concerned. On that there must not only be the opinion of the law officers, but also conferences with the representatives of other nations, in order that all may, so far as practicable, act in concert. We have spoken of a very efficient Envoy Ex traordinary, whom we believe to have been sent to enforce the demands of our Government. That Envoy is Lord LYONS, and his arguments will be sustained and supported by the guns of a British naval squadron the real peace-makers who speedily disp)se of every difficulty, and induce opponents to take very moderate views respecting " vexed ques tions." It has been announced that Lord LYONS has sailed from Malta in some unknown direc tion. Tunis was guessed at—but what could he do at Tunis I There he could not, by any possibility, be required. presence in the Bay of Naples would ba very op• portune. The Royal salute delivered from a British fleet would be a striking demonstration that would bring Boanti and his advisers to a sense of their situation. If L)rd MALMESBURY has suggested this course it will give additional reason to rejoice at the advent to power of the DERBY Cabinet. But even shou'd it not be so, the decided course adopted in demtndino' compensation for the injury inflicted on our countrymen makes the conduct of Lord MA LMESBDRY stand out in broad contrast to that of Lord CLARENDON, and shows that, so far as foreign affairs are concerned, we have indeed profited into private lif e o f Lord PALMERSTON and his Foreig n the retirement Secretary. But hi 3 Yesterday Admiral WALCO TTsustained rig th L e t honour of the British fla g , like a true goad earnest. Our wooden walls were " ar onc e e t s l t ie ill bo t a he boast L f freemen, "as our heart ) of oak, boast and hope of the nation. The man of all others who shone forth the most conspicuous iu our great struggle for independent', and who by his daring deeds achieved triumphs unequaled, was adored in his life, only to be for gotten after the sacrifice of that life in devo tion to his country. We exulted in his heroism yet delayed to honour his name. At length stung by a sense of shame for national nsgleot, the people came forward to erect a monu- Iment to his memory. But as memorials, on a scale commensurate with the fame of NELSON, took time to complete, the Government support was solicited to do ample justice to the greatest of our naval heroes. That support was, indeed, accorded— but so parsimoniously that a foreign Monarch atept forward to save our national cha racter from disgrace by freely subscribing a large sum ! Still, the proposed honour to NELSON was tarnished by the beggarly reluc tance of men, who, themselves, lived on the national bounty, and wasted millions by their folly where a few thousands would have crowned the memorial with a nation's grateful sense of glory. And yet many Ministries promised to com plete the column erected to NELSON, but somehow or other contrived to evade their promises or forget their purpose. Happily for the honour of our country, due homage will be done at last. Admiral WALOOTT brought the subject be fore Parliament last evening in a manly spirit, and much to our delight he was generously supported by Mr. WILLIAMS—a member who deals more in substracting from, than in adding to our national expenses. We gladly re cord this to his honour. Mr. WILLIAMS deserves well of the people of Lambeth, as does Mr. DISRAELI of the nation at large. We shall not detract from the noble eloquence of the-Chancellor of the Exchequer by any terms of our own, for his praise is now echoed from the hearts of the British people. We direct attention to his speech that people may see with what earnestness he enters into the subject, and takes upon himself, though crip pled by a poor exchequer, the responsibility of fulfilling the wishes of the country by completing a monument which shall no longer be a people's shame, but a nation's glory. EA &TEST NEWS. at their head a certain Nasser, an old mameluke of Mehemet Ali. In the second affair Nasser sur rounded half of the army of Gorman Bey, and massacred without mercy all the Egyptian soldiers who fell into his hands. Arak Bey, governor of the Soudan, is animated with the best intentions ; but it must not be concealed that it will be long before the savage and warlike nations confided to his management will admit Egyptian rule, and that it will require the most persevering efforts on the part of Said Pacha, and a consider able force, to reduce them to submission." A letter from Mostar of the 2d. says :—" The Turkish troops are still in the camp of Stolaz, and it is not improbab l e that hostilities will soon break out. The commanders Kadri Pacha and Selim Pacha have 12,000 men, one - third of them regular troops, and 2,000 irregular cavalry, under their orders. The greater part of these troops are only at two days' march from Trebigne, but they do not appear in any haste to arrive there." According to the Independance of Brussels the idea of referring the dissension between the Two Sicilies and Sardinia to arbitration gains favour in diplomatic circles, and the King of the Nether lands is spoken of as likely to be chosen arbitrator. The Second Chamber of Holland resumed its labours on the 13th, when M. Rochussen, the minister for the colonies, explained the poli tical programme of the cabinet. It may be summed np in these few words :—To promote the better appreciation and the more general approval of the constitutional ideas of the pre sent epoch ; and to speedily realise what the gene ral interests of the country most urgently call for. " Such," the honourable Minister declared, "is the object of the present Ministry, and the basis on which its members have consented to take office." The Madrid journals of the 12th do not contain news of much importance. The bill on the hon ours to be paid to distinguished men, presented by the Government to the Senate, enacts that no monuments to such men shall, be erected at the expense of the Government, except forty or fifty years after their death, and then in virtue of a law ; also that monuments which privdie individuals may raise shall only be in cemeteries. The committee of the Congress on the bill on the press had pro posed various amendments favourable to journals. Accounts from Venice state that the Count and Countess de Chambord are still in that city, but will shortly return to Germany. M. Berryer has lately passed a week with the count and countess, and he subsequently visited the Duchess Regent at Parma. He has since returned to Paris. "It is positively stated at Berlin," says the Cologne Gazette, " that Russia intends to give notice of the cessation of all her treaties of naviga tion andcommerce with other States, and to modify them in conformity with the new Customs Tariff, taking the treaty between France and Russia as the model. The relations of Russia with foreign coun tries will thus become more free, and will acquire more extension. It is thought that the treaty of commerce between Russia and Prussia will also be revised." According to advices from Cattaro, received by the Cologne Gazette, a band of Montenegrins in vaded the Austrian territory on the 2d April and opened fire on the garrison of Castel-Lustna. They had hoped by this step to divert the attention of the Auslrians from a vessel laden with gunpowder which stood in the offing, ready to run her cargo. But the Montenegrins were repulsed, and the vessel was obliged to stand out to sea again. The Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. A. royal decree reorganises the General Commission Statistics, and fixes the salaries of the commis sioners and of its officers. In the Congress the bill relative to the levy of 25,000 men had been approved of, and in the Senate a bill relative to the honours to be paid to distinguished men was pre sented. The Espana denies, on authority, that Borges, the Carlist chief, has reappeared in the mountains of Catalonia. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.) BROOK V. BROOK.-MARRIAGR AT ALTONA OF A BRITISH SUBJECT DOMICILED IN ENGLAND WITH THE SISTER THE FORTHCOMING BUDGET. (From Ike Times.) For producing a really strong effect there is nothing like putting great things in a scan compass. Year ago, whe❑ country cousins were brought once in their lives to London, and introduced to the novelty of city scenes, they used to be taken to the Bank of England, where they were shown, among other marvels, 1. small cinder about half the size of a walnut. After being permitted to handle and examine for a minute or two this unpro- mioing relic they were told that it represented about seventy millions of money —real genuine money, such as rents were 'phi in, and all the business of life trim. sacted with. The simple truth was, that the little cinder formed the ashes of the bonfire which had been kindled with the disused and cancelled 13anliofEngland notes, but wonderful was the impression created by the con trast between the reality and the symbol. At this mi nute, however, there lies before us a piece of papor, the appearance of which is still more extravagantly at vari ance with its import and its disclosures. In dimensions it is not half as large as a playbill. It is not thickly ccoeered with figures, nor anything like so difficult to comprehend as a railway time-table. To be sure, the items of the account seem rather large, but sot much larger than those in a Portuguese hotel bill, where your reckoning is made out in reis, and where a light and tem perate refection appears to have cost you about 18,000 pieces of some coin or other, Vet this short, compact and easily calculated account, which might be entered without much compression on two pages of a lady's pocketbook, actually contains the whole income and the whole ex penditure of the British nation, not only to a single pound, but to a single penny. The entire cost of every kind of public outgoing is summed up, item by item, to an odd eightpenoe ; and the entire produce of every species of tax is given to an odd threepence. So com pendious is the exposition that in introducing it to tke reader we shall rather expand than contract it, but the end will be such a " ready-reckoner" as will make every man a match for the Chancellor of Exchequer when he opens his Budget next Monday. One thing only need be premised—though rather a significant one, certainly, and that is, that the unit of notation is a million of pounds sterling. With this preface, however, let it be understood that our income, in round numbers, amounted to 68—that is to say, 68,000,0001. How was it obtained ? In this manner :—Duties laid upon imported commodities, lumped under the name of " Customs," produced 23,000,000/. ; duties levied on commodities of home manufacture, 18,000,0001. ; and Stamp Duties, 7,000,000/. Taxes, properly so called, yielded only 3,000,0001. ; for, though in common conversation we apply this term to every species of impost paid into the public treasury, it is confined in official accounts to those particular duties which are laid upon land or "assessed " on certain well-known luxuries. Here, in rough reckoning, is 50,000,0001., and this sum —or, as we should rather express ourselves, the sum derived, whatever may be its amount, from these sources—constitutes what may be called the regular in come of the nation. Odd things come in besides, just as they might in any private household. There are " miscellaneous" receipts ; bits of "lucky money" from some quarter or another, bringing in a million or two ; and, in addition to these, the State manages the Post office at a profit, and gets another easy million out of that. Call the whole 56,000,0001., and it will be some where about the mark. But then there comes something beyond the regular income—something raised under pressure on extraordinary principles to meet extraordi nary demands. Such is the Property and Income-tax, which produced last year 12,000,0001. Add this to the 55,000,000/. and the gross amount of the wh o le n ational revenue-67 millions odd—is pretty clearly obtained. And, now, where did all this money go to ? Here is the wonderful and not very comforting discovery. We didn't spend or want to Tend for our own particular and actual domestic requirements one-sixth of this sum. All our civil services of every kind and description could be paid for by 10,000,000/. All that we should need if we were never going to war again, or had never been to war already would be covered, or nearly so, by that sum. Then what became of the balance of 57,000,000/. ? We can very soon answer. Fully half of it or all but 29,000,000/.—vvent to pay the interest and charges of our perma nent and floating debts—to satisfy the creditors of whom we borrowed money in times past. On the other half, 23,000,0001. goes to the army and navy, and about 5,000,0001. is consumed in getting the above-mentioned revenue fairly in ; for now, owing to an improvement in the public reckonings, all items of income are brought to account in the gross, and the expenses of collection charged afterwards. Here, then, is the expenditure of the country simplified to anybody's satisfaction. It is a sad thing to look at—a very annoying thing to find, that such a prodigious amount of money runs away upon old scores and insurance, while such a much smaller sum would meet all our present occasions. This is very disagreeable, no doubt ; but it comes of human nature, after all. The stoutest economist in the country has probably just such another account in his own private ledger. He borrowed money to start with. and has got to pay interest on it. He inures his I.fe and property highly for the sake of those who come after him, and, what with local rates and taxes, sub scriptions and sacrifices, be finds that out of 1,0001. a year income he is hard pressed to find an odd 501. for a holyday. The most precise housekeeper in the quietest town in the kingdom knows perfectly well, and will feel as she reads these lines, that what she eats or drinks or spends upon herself comes to a mere no thing in her whole yearly expenditure. She may scrape and save as she pleases, but the money is stare to go. People knock at the door for it every day. It is carried off by one man ulcer another on some pre tence or another, till next to nothing remains behind. Whether the establishment is large or small signifies little ; the difference is only in degree, not in kind, It is the "establishment," in any case, and not the indi vidual, which swallows the money up. Then, what have we ever gained, or what do we gain now' Everything that makes us what we are, Folly, utterly profitless folly, there has been, no doubt; but there is really a return for these outgeiugs, though it is commonly overlooked and forgotten, both by the nation and by individuals too. The individual gains that very quiet and comfoit in which he passes his day—the abso lute peace of the town and highway, the infallible secu rity for property and life, the comparative purity of the air around him. The nation gains its character, its re putat'on, and its safety—a safety which enabled us, even in war time, to traverse the seas with perfect freedom, and which has never for centuries been dis turbed by the presence of an enemy in these islands. It would be far better if wars could cease, but it would also be butter if crime could cease. The army, after all, is not a more painful necessity than the police. The money spent upon courts of law, prisons, penal atttle tnente, and penitentiaries is spent quite as unsatis factorily as that lavished upon iron ordnance and rockets. If the world was a sinless world we should escape all these burdens together ; but its way is linked with that of the flesh and the devil, and we must face things as they stand. There is another fact, however, and one of some little consequence, which ought to be noticed in any business like sketch of a balance-sheet. The ends didn't quite meet ; in fact, we were mere than 2,000,400/. short last year. But upon this it should be remarked that we paid an extraordinary million and a quarter as compensation for the Sound Dues, and 2,000,0001. for redemption of Exchequer Bonds, otherwise the balance would have been on the right side of the account. Then our means, as at present arranged, will fall off next year ; for, as our extraordinary demands are presumed to be ceasing, our extraordinary supplies will bediminished accordingly, and the Property and Income-tax fell 2d. in the pound on the sth inst. This deduction will shear off a tolerable slice from the 12,000,0001. without a corresponding saving being yet visible en the other side. To get over this hitch on the best terms practicable will be the duty of Mr. Disraeli, and we have only to wait till the day after to-morrow to learn how he succeeds. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. We understand that Major-General Gascoigne will succeed to the colonelcy of the 69th Regiment, rendered vacant by the death of General S.r Ralph Darling. Maig-General Lord Rokeby, K.C.8., has during the last few days been engaged in his half-yearly inspection of the Foot Guards. The Hero, 91, line-of-batt!e screw steamer, proceeded as far as Gillingliarn•reach after her launch from Chat ham Dockyard ma Thursday afternoon, and yesterday was towed to Sheerness Dockyard to be supplied with her machinery. The launching draught cf this vessel was 18 feet 3 inches forward, and 19 feet 7 inches aft ; her " break" in launching was only 2 inches. The Duck freightship, %Veal mater, has completed taking in her war stores at Chatbam dockyard, and will sail for Portsmouth this day. The Aid is being laden at Chatham with war stares fur Devouport and Pembroke dockyards. The undermentioned qualified cadets from H.M.S. Illustrious have been removed to H.M.S. Victory : Messrs. W. J. S. Wharton, C. Johnstone, J. Hop-, A. Hutchinson, A. D. Douglas, F. Dodsworth, W. Jocelyn, A. H. Do l3oulay, W. H. Braekenbury, and J. Hext. The freightsbip Flying Foam, laden with war stores, yesterday embarked a number of rockets from Woolwich Arsenal, and sailed for her destination. The trei4htship Millicent was yesterday appointed by the War Depart ment to ship stores from Woolwich for Newfoundland. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, C .m -rnander Joseph Dayman, employed last year in bringing home the valuable cargo of marble antiquities from Budrum Bay, yesterday hauled a!ongside the coaling wharf in Woolwich basin and commenced taking in fuel and sea stock. Many of her late officers and ship's company have been re-appointed under the new commis sion, the whole of whom have taken up the r berths on board. Her sailing orders have been issued for the 24th inat., whence she is to proceed to Plymouth to join the Agamemnon fur a trial cruise in paying out the electric cable. ENCOURAGEMENT TO LIFE INSURANCE BY THE POST OFFICE —The operation of the regulations for encourag ing provident ha bite amouv the Post -office employes by aiding them to enPure their lives, thus satisfactorily excinvilied timing the past year. The amount in aid of premiums in 1857 was 2,1291., and the amount f,ir which the officers who received aid bad insnred their lives was not less than 280,0001. These facts strongly demonstrate the providence of the Post-office officere.— CWil Service Gazette. CORK BUOYS FOR LETTER-BOXES —Had those been in general use 18 months ago, when the late Queen of Oude, in th e h urry to embark, in the East dropped a box containing precious stones, & amount- Mg to 50,000/., ai a prebent to our Queen, and although it happened in port, has never been found by the divers, the same might easily have been recovered. —Givi/ Service acczette. OF HIS DECEASED WIFE. Vice-Chancellor Stuart this morning delivered his judgment in this case, which involves the question of the validity in this country cf the marriage at Altona, in the dusty of Schleswig-Holstein, where, by the lex loci, such marriages are said to be legal, of a British subject domi ciled in England with the sister of his deceased wife. The following are the facts of the case :—ln 1847 Char lotte, the first wife of the late William Leigh Brook, of Meltham-hall, near Huddersfield, died. By her he had one son and one daughter. In 1850, William Leigh Brook intermarried at Altona in the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, with Emily, the sister of his deceased wife. On the 17th of August, 1855, Mr?. t3rook died at Frankfort of cholera, and two days after- wards Mr. Brook died of the same disease at Cologne. By his second wife Mr. Brook had one son and two daughters. By his will, which was dated on the day of his death, Mr. Brook gave his real and personal estate, which was of considerable value, to the children of his two marriages in certain proportions. In 1856 Charles Armitage Brook, the son by the second marriage, died. If the second marriage was valid, and the children thereof, therefore, legitimate, the son of Mr Brook by his first marriage succeeded by inheritance to Charles Armitage Brook's share of Mr. Brook's real estate, and the four surviving children of the two marriages suc ceeded as next of kin to Charles Armitage Brook's share of Mr. Brook's personal estate. But if the second marriage was Invalid, and the children thereof therefore illegitimate, the Crown was entitled to Charles Ar mitage Brook's share of Mr. Brook's real and personal estate. Further, if the marriage of Mr. Brook with the sister of his deceased wife was valid, the duty pay able by the surviving children of the second marriage on their succeeding to their father's property would be only II per cent, whereas if such marriages were inva lid, and they should be illegitimate, they would pay the duty of 101. per cent., which is the duty payable by strangers who succeed to the property of a deceased person. The contest in the present case, which was a suit for obtaining a declaration by the Court of the rights and interests of all parties in and to Mr. Brook's real and personal estate, was between the eldest son by the first marriage, who claimed to be the heir•at-law of Charles Armitage Brook, and all the surviving children of the two marriages, who claimed to be the next of kin of Charles Armitage Brook on the one hand, and the Crown on the other hand. Letters of administration bad not yet been taken out to Charles Armitage Brook. Prior to the sth and 6th of Wm. IV., cap. 54, the marriage of a widower with the sister of his de. ceased wife was voidable in die Ecclesiastical Court, as being a marriage within the prohibited degree of affinity, but such marriage was voidable only during the life of both parties, and, if not avoided daring the life of the parties it could not after the death of either be questioned. In 1835, however, that Act, which is entitled " An Act to render certain Marriages valid and to alter the Law with respect to certain voidable Marriages," was passed, and by the first section, it was enacted that all mar riages celebrated before the passing of the Act between persona within the prohibited degrees of affinity should not thereafter be annulled for that cause by any sentence cf the Ecclesiastical Court, unless pronounced in a suit then pending; and by the second section it was enacted that all marriages celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of con sanguinity or affinity should be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. On the 4th of Dec, 1857, Mr. Justice Cresswell having had the case referred to him for his opinion, delivered it at great length, in doing so said—" In this case I have been called upon by Vice-Chancellor Stuart to assist him by giving my opinion as to the validity or invalidity of a marriage solemnized at Altona, in the kingdom of Denmark, between William Lsigh Brook and EMily Armitage, the sister of W. L. Brook's former wife, then deceased. In answer to certain inquiries, the chief clerk of the Vice-Chancellor certified as follows :—' That W. L. Brook and Emily Armitage were respectively, up to and at the time of such marriage, and at the time of their respective deaths, domiciled in England, and that they had not any permanent residence in the country, where they married ; that the marriage between W. L. Brook and the said Emily Armitage was a lawful marriage according to the law of the duchy of Hol.tein ; and that, according to the same law, the children of such marriage are legitimate children." 'Upon the latter . part of the certificate it was observed in argument that ; it must be taken as a certificate that such marriages be tween Danish subjects are good, and not that the Danish courts would hold them good when solemnised between the subjects of another country domiciled in that country where such marriages are prohibited by law. The opinion which I have formed in this case renders it unnecessary to inquire into that matter. For, even assuming that in Denmark the marriage now in question would be held good, I think that by the law of England it was invalid, and the children cf the parties to it illegitimate." His Honour, after citing at great length a number of cases and authorities bearing on the point, raid, the conclusion arrived at by Mr. Justice Cressweil was cor rect, and he therefore agreed with him that the mar riage between William Brook and Emily Armitage, which was celebrated in Holstein, although a valid mar , riage by the law of that country was not valid in England. HOUSE OF LORDS. Peers present—Lord Cranwortb, Lord Wensleydale, and the Lord Bishop of Ripon.) CROFT V. LTJ3ILRY. Their lordships affirmed the judgment cf the Cuurt of Queen's Bench, finding there was co breach of the cove nants of the lease of her Majesty's Theatre by the de fendant, Mr. Lumley, and dismissed the appeal, v,ith costs. COOPER V. SLADE. The judgment of the Court below was affirmed, sub jeo to the correction of the Record. This cause arose out of fb. being paid to Carter, a voter, to pay his travelling expenses from Huddersfield to Cambridge, to vote at the last general election for a member of Parliament but one. The appeal was dis missed, with costs. BUDDY V. FITZGERALD AND ANOTHER. The judgment of the Exchequer Court in Ireland was a ffi rrne :i. The question raised was whether the technical law term " issue" meant " heir." The Court held that it did mean heir, and dismissed the appeal. ANDERSON V. ANDERSON. This appeal cause has already been reported in The Sun. It will be recollected that the appellant Mrs. Anderson claimed, in right of her late husband, Peter Anderson, the office of executor and reseduary lagatee of the late Alexander Anderson, farmer, Aberdeen, by appointment of her husband to tlvit office, in the will of the late Alexander Andcrsor, which will was alleged to La a forgery. At the conclusion cf the arguments of counsel this afternoon, their Lordships delivered judgment affirming the decision of the first division of the Court of Session, in Stotland, and dismissed the appeal. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE PAINTER. Nis bankrupt was described as of the Strand, pr inter, and to-day came up for his certificate. The accounts, prepared by Messrs. Hart Brothers, shows—debtor to creditors, 1,3391. ; surplus, Feb. 23, 1856, 333/. Assets —good debts, 225/. ; property, 703/. ; trade expenses, 4171. 12 . ; house ditto, 1961. ; losses, 422/., principally on the sale of the plant and machinery and the copyright of the Union newspaper. Honour granted an immediate certificate of the second class. Mr. Sherivg Appeared Lir the assignees, and Tn.- herrie, Guildhall-chambers, for the bankrupt. Mr. Smith, the foreman of the Woolwic:i Arsenal, who went, to Paris with the field piece lately presented to the Emperor, has received as a present from his Majesty a handsome gold watch with the imperial cipher engraved on it, and a gold chain. MR. LAYARD. —By vrivate letters received from Mr. Layard, dared D Ahr, Feb. 23, we learn that that geu tl,alan, having travellA throu.Al the Nizain's dornioions and the R.jpootana States, it.; on his way to Calcutta, arid expects to airivl in England iu the course of next mouth. The judgment cf the Lords Justices upon the appeal as t,r the mode of winding up the Northumberland arid Durham District BAnkitg Company will be delivered on Monday next. THE CORPOIiATION REFORM BILLS.—The select com mittee to which the GoverumenL measure for the reform of the corporation of Loudon, as well as that promoted by the City authorities:, has been referred, sat yesterday fur the first time. The inquiry will be conducted with closed doors. The Turkish Government have just completed con tracts with three Eagli.,•h shipbuilders and three London engineers fur ten war-steamers, ranging from 200 to 800 tons, to establish the Black Sea fleet allowed to them under the terms of the Treaty c f Paris. It is thought the total cost will be littie lees than '300,0001. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—{This Day.) LONDON, April 17.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.; light breeze, and cloudy. SWANSEA, April 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived —Kam chamcha, from Cildeira. NEWPORT, April 16.—Wind W.—Sailed—Louisa Bliw. for Havanna'. QUEEN wrowN, April 15.—Wind A.RM&IIP from Callac,; Trieoloux, ditto; Nelson, from Newport for Valparaiso, leaky. PLYMOUTH, April 16.—Wind 5.8.--Arrived —Salva dor, from Trinidad. Sailed—Roslin Castle, for Quebec ; Cape Range, ditto. CLYDE, April 16. —Wind S.E.—Sailed—Clutha for Blelbouvne ; Peruvian, Bueno s Ayres ; Allen, Quebec ; Euxine, ditto: OFF PLYMMITH, April 16.—Arrived—Sylph, from Barbadoes. HULL, April 16.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Pioneer, for Quebec. CARDIFF, April IG.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Red Rood, for Hong Kong. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SoCTRAmProx, Saturday Morning. Wind N. Arrived.—Dispatch, steamer from J ersey ; W on d er, ste Sails l.—Argyll, amer, Havre. s teamer, for Carent au; H avre, steamer Havre ; Courier, stoatuer. Jersey ; William, Lyme. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived, April 16th—Argonaut, from New Orleans Highland Chief, from Savannah. Arrived, April 17th—Chili, steamer, from Valparaiso ; Black Hawk, New Oilaans ; Wihelmina, Rotterdam ; Berendina, bcheidatn ; Augusta . Hamburg ; Vrow Marie, itFoR D;b A lin pr . April 15. Amsterdam ; Scawfell (new ship), Workin g t on . The Madras, for gnebec , has put back with l oss o f fore yard. in sunken go ld en l etters, came TPhaseseSda—ntTahaet Mary,Droghe f d ro a ln , 11-StihvewirgtAo.TlE' for Crew saved. A board, painted blue, tipped with red, formi ng a guar atsehrocrierctloe.,clwayithat`T` "Marion ashore and also a very l arge quant i ty of dyewood. (111 r SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELZGRAPII.) _ _ GBAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb ; cloudy. Arrived, April 16—Emerald, from trber ; Margaret Edward, Poiat de Galle. Arrived, April 17—Aliwal, and Don Colina, from Guernsey; Mowe, steamer, Bremen ; Beirout, Odessa. Sailed, April 17—Holland, steamer, for Ostend ; Don Ricardo, Valparaiso ; Sir Edward Banks, steamer, Calais ; Paris and Loudon, No. 5, Paris ; Walton, Cuba. DEAL, Saturday, 9 a.m. Wind N.N.W., light. Passed—Her MilieStY'S Ship Dee, from westwtra, for Woolwich; Ann Duncan, Licator, London; Auguste, Taganrog, Hull; Western St.ir, Barbados, London; William Parks, brig, westward, London; Pepoin, Balduck, London (in tow) ,• Borderer' Madras, L on d on ; Vivid, Patras, L on don ; Mary Ann, London, Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Tropic, Mariner, and Bard of Avon, with all the outward b mind. Admiral Ryder Barton has arrived at his house Park-square, from his seat in sent. The Countess Perigny has taken apartments at Far rance's Hotel, Belgravia, where she will continue to re side during her stay in Lsndon. His Excellency the American Minister and his family honoured the mid-day performance of the great 'United States Circus with their presence, on Thursday, at the Alhambra Palace, in Leicester-square. The Marquis of Sligo is, it is uoderstood, about to foray, a matrimonial alliance with Miss Nugent, daughter of Mr. Anthony A. Nugent, of Pallas, in the county Galway, and sister to Lady Burke, of Marble Hill. The marriage of Mr. Groville Vernon, son of the Right lion. Vernon Smith, late President of the Board of Con trol, with Miss Cockerell, step-daughter of his Excellency the Earl of Egliuton, was solemnised on Thursday, in the The Derby Repo ; Chapel Royal, D u bli n C as tl e , i n the presence of a distin guished party. count of the mar r i age o f L or d Edwin Hill, M. Hon. with till© Hon. Miss Curz on , younges t d au ghter of the fate Ho n . Reporter of yesterday gives the followine• and Rev. Rev. Alf r ed C urzon, an d s i s t e r of Lord Scarsda l e , which took pl ace on th e prev i ous day a t Kedleston. The morning being fine, a number of villagers assembled to oun de Persieny witness the i n t eres ti ng ceremon y, and as the wedding pro cession passed t o an d f rom the church, groups of young persons scattered fl owers a l o ng the pathway as a mark of the esteem in whi c h th e b r ide was held. of F The ranc C e) has te ss taken apa fe aments a t Claridge's Hotel, where the countess will res id e d u ring her stay in London, and (wi of the late Ambassador not ut Fai raDeu'rs Hotel. DEATH OF SIR H ENR Y STRACHEY, BART.--News has jest reached London cf the death of Sir EL S rachey, Bart., which happened a few days since at Sutton Court, Som, rsetshire, in the 86th year of his age. In the Chamber of Deputies of Sardinia on Mon day, M. Crotti requested the pre idvnt of the coun cil to fix a day f , r a qu ston he wished to put re specting a strange painplAat published in England by Mazzini, on the policy of the Piocmontese Cabinet. Count Cevour, in reply, expressed his astonishment that a deputy sh,uld want to que. , :tiou the Cabinet about a pamphlet by llazzitii, and declared that he woald not reply to any such question. "I am ready," h . added, "t) give th e tullest explanations as to the Conspiracy tin, and any question M. Crotti may wish to put in his own name on that matter shall recese an answer. But if he intends to call a . ttnlion. to the attacks against the Sardinian government M. Mazzini has thought proper to make, my only reply will he a eon ternptuous silence." 'This declaration was ie.-leived with loud and prolonged cheering from the chamber ; and the galleries. M. Crotti declared himself per fectly satisfied, only remarking that as the British press enjoyed a wide circulation, he had thought it might be expedient to enter into some explanations on the policy of the governtnent. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Emperor returned to Paris last evening at half-past seven from the Sologne, His Majesty is in excellent health. _ . Three Opposition candidates have sent in their names as desirous to become deputies for Paris, in place of Messre. Cavaignac, Carnet, and Goudcb aux. The new candidates are Messrs. Lionville, Jules Favre, and Ernest Picard, advocates. Gomez has left Brest in the Ocean, for Cayenne. Ho will be shortly followed by Rudio. The Emperor has issued a decree authorising the opening of a credit for 180,000 francs (7,2001.) for the purchase of the tomb and residence of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles announces the arrival there of Feruck Khan, who was warmly received by the authorities, and was present at a fete given in his honour by the future Persian consul. It is said that two frigates are to be constructed on the plan of the ships of the line, plated with i ron, as invented by the Emperor. They are to be first class, and built after the model of the Auda cieuse and the Impetueuse. It is stated that the French riflemen are to be armed with double-barrelled guns ; and that the experiment will be made with a few companies at first. The following telegraphic despatches have been received here : " MARSEILLES, April 16.—Accounts have been received from Constantinople to the 10th. The projected prison reform had been approved of by the Sultan. M. de Prokesch had taken his depar ture on leave of absence. Omer Pacha had de spatched from Bagdad an expedition against the neighbouring hostile tribes. The Presse d' Orient announces that the Porte has severely punished the the Armenians who obtained passports as natu ralised Russians. It was desired at Constantinople that this lesson should not be lost on the Armenian population of the empire. M. Benedetti, French consul at Trebizond, had been active in direct ing the salvage of the cargo, bullion ' and machi nery of the Egyptus. The son of Sefe r Pacha bad diwcovered, by means of intercepted letters, a plot organised in Circassia in favour of Russia. The Hungarian Bangya, who had taken service with the Circassians, had confessed his share in the plot, and had been condemned to death, with seve ral emissaries of the Russian General Philipson." " TRIESTE, April 16.—Intelligence has been re ceived from Constantinople to the Bth. The Sultan had decided on augmenting the pay of the troops. Mustapha-Pacha was to be sent on a hydrographical miss'on to the Black Sea. The Greek Chambers have voted a pension to the family of Conduriotis." " BERLIN, April 15.—Letters from St. Peters burg announce that Prince Vassiltchikoff has been named ad interim Minister of War during the absence of General Soukhozanett, in consequence of ill health." " LISBON, April 15.—Prince George of S ixony has arrived here after a favourable passage of four days." Another proof of the extraordinary credulity of the French peasantry was presented to the Tribu nal of Correctional Police of St. Flour (Lozere) a few days ago :—A farmer of the village of Le Fayat stated that his daughter having fallen ill, he consulted one Moraud, who was considered a con juror, and that man persuaded him that the girl was bewitched, and that the way to cure her was to buy a handful of new Bails and boil them in a new pot until the pot broke, at the same time bury ing with sundry incantations time sous under a stone at a distance ; but this did not succeed. Morand then made him try new experiments, such as boiling calf's liver with horse nails, &c. All, however, failed. Morand did not give these valu able counsels gratis, but got from the man 50f. in money, a cow worth 120 f., and a mare worth 130 f. The man's neighbours, however, told hlm at last that Morand was no conjuror, but an impudent swindler, and the dupe had him arrested. The tribunal condemned Morand to four months' im prisonment, and to restore what he had obtained. BOURSE, April 16.—The following wore the closing quotations : 4A per Cents 93 40 Do. end month — —i 3 per Cent. ..... Do. end month 69 40 Bank Shares . Credit Fon cier Belgian 4,1 Piedmontese (5) Roman Austrian Credit Mobilier 717 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account 717 50 home Debt RAILWAYS.— FOR CASH. Orleans Northern New Ditto — Strasburg Lyon and Muditeran. fO7l Grand Central — New Ditto 772,1 Sardinian Geneva MALTA. VALETTA, APRIL 10. A meeting of the Council of Government took place on the 6th inst., when, at the termination of the business of the sittin g , his Excellency the Go vernor, Sir W. Reid, as President of the Council, delivered the following farewell address : " I now propose to adjourn this council to the 7th day of May, by which time my successor will have fairly entered upon the duties of Governor. " As I have now met you for the last time let me, gentlemen, in the most earnest manner thank you for the difference you have uniformly paid to the chair, and for the orderly manner in which all our proceedings have been nuiducted for mo; e than six years that I have been honoured by presiding here. " You have not only made my duties of Presi dent easy, but what far more important, you have thereby established a character for decorum in your proceedings whilst engaged in the grave subject of local legislation. " There is nothing which I have had more at heart whilst I have been Governor of Malta than that the measure adopted in the time of my predeces3or of placing a limited portion of elective members in this council should prove successful. My opinion is that it has been success ful. I trust that, through a continuance of mode ration cti hii gradually :anesedl ioB use yt : ato s t e o in ju s v t a value to su : ta t Malta. e g in all your proceedings, this council will r ire 0 v l e t r l i t l i oi n e k n !t , G al r t ac ti i i o e u f s o Q re u iz e t e i n po a s i s id ess t io he ns ß o r f it t i h sh e Crown should enjoy. "TWA council - lanow adj•surned to the 7th day of May, at Lalf-pa,it two o'clock. (Signed) " Wm. REID, Governor. "Palace, Valetta, 6th April, 1858." A letter from Alexandria of the 3d says :—" The am bassadors of King, Theodore of Abyssinia, accom panied by the Copia Patriarch of that semi-bar barons empire, have arrived here, and w e r e . y es t er -: day presented to the Viceroy. They have brought an immense nuualx , r of presents fur his highness. The disturb inces of the Soudan are far from being appeased, and fur the second time the armies of the Viceroy have been defeated, The insurgents have THE DESPATI >PS TO INDIA. Further papers on this subject have just been issued (in continuation of those presented at the end of 1857). They conclude a long series of de spatches from Governor Sir G. Grey, of the Cape of Good Hope. In the first of these, dated the 28th of October, Sir G. Grey says Le cannot possibly comply with a demand of 500 horses for the Government of Bombay and at the same time furnish 1,000 horses for Calcutta, He proposes to send 280 horses to Bombay and to send no more thither " till 1,000 had been shipped for Calcutta. On the 2d of November Sir George refers to the very exaggerated statements of the force then serving in the colony, and adduces figures to prove that on the 31st of July, 1857 (in cluding the German Legion), the force in that "command" but slightly exceeded 10,400 rank and file, and was very deficient in cavalry. "Nothing but the presence of this force," adds the Governor, " prevented a war which would have been as ex- . pensive and lasting as other Caffre wars have been. Let the consequences be what they may, I shall do my duty, and not, in so far as I can prevent it, permit any imprudent risk to be incurred." Tho force in the colony • in August, 1852, was 13,122, and strong in cavalry. Under the same date Sir G. Grey gives a list of 92 officers and 1,743 men under orders for China, who ha-t been diverted to India. Sir G. Grey enters into a long and elaborate defence of his conduct about the transmission or non-transmission of regi ments ; he says that a " misconception" has arisen from the use of the term " regiment" in a nu merical point of view ; and he expresses his fear, from certain expressions, that he shall be considered to have fallen short of the instructions sent him from home. He asserts that he will not attempt, . by sending weak regiments, to enable himself to say that he has sent "so many" regiments, but that the force sent shall be useful and efficient. On the 3d Nov. the despatch of 1,095 horses to India " (in all) is reported to the Colonial-office. Sir G. Grey, on the sth Nov., says that he intends to complete the horses demanded by the Government of Bombay. He estimates that four troops of horse artillery have been sent on to India, seven field batteries, and, in addition, 19 or 20 companies of artillery, with several cavalry regiments ; he thinks, therefore, more than 1,000 horses will be required to render the forces effective in the field. Sir G. Grey at this date again harps on the actual paucity of the force in the colony as an excuse for not send- -. ing out the six regiments originally demanded for India and Ceylon. He considers certain previous (discretionary) instructions of the let of August non-applicable to the present state of affairs, and on these the Governor decides to act in preference. He again raises an alarm about the Caffres, but says that he will send such troops to India as he thinks he may send with safety. On 11th November Sir George " intends" to forward 2,000 barrels of flour to Calcutta at once, although half the supply - was only asked for six mouths thence. Other horses were from time to time despatched. On the 26th of December Sir George tells the Colonial. ‘, Secretary that it would be impossible to send the 45th Regiment to India, as it was broken up in detachments, but he promises its concentration as soon as two young regiments reach the colony from home. Mr. Secretary Labouchere, in his despatch/ to Sir G. Grey, eulogises his aid to India in the way of horses ; as regards the despatch of troops, referring to the original demand for six regiments, and to Sir G. Grey's actual despatch of only four with a detachment of artillery, he says : "I am bot insensible to the weight of the reasons which you allege for not having fully carried into effect - the instructions of her Majesty's Government in regard to the number of regiments which you were to send from the Cape ; and I am unwilling to urge you to weaken the military defences of the colony beyond what in your deliberate judgment you may consider indispen sable to its security. You will, however, bear in mind that any troops you can spare will assuredly be readily provided for and usefully employed in India ; and her Majesty's Government rely with confidence on your as surance that you will afford to the utmost extent of your - power such a-sistance to the Government of India as cir cumstances will admit of. Your greater proximity to that • country may give you opportunities of doing so without the delay which would be occasioned by reference to England ; and her Majesty's Government think it best not to fetter your discretion and that of the Commander of the Forces by more definite instructions in this . respect." This letter was dated the sth of February, 1858, and on the sth ult. the Government (Lord Stanley being then at the head of the Colonial Office) ap- • prised the Governor of the Cape that the reserve battalion of the 12th Foot was to be withdrawn from the Cape without further relief. A MELANCHOLY STORY, On Wednesday morning Mr. Coroner Hitchens • was called upon to investigate a very melancholy caso of suicide. The inquiry was touching the death of a young girl named Fanny Coxon, a domes tic in the service of Mr. Joseph Brocklebank, of Carlton-le-Moorland, who on the previous Monday night had destroyed herself in a pond in the farm yard of her master. The following letter in her handwriting, directed to her father, was found on her table : " Dear Father, Mother, and Sister,—With a trem bling hand and a sad heart for the last time I now take up my pen to write these few lines to you, hoping they will find all in better health and spirits than they leave me, for my heart" is well nigh broken. You will be horrorstruck with surprise when you see this note frora • your own daughter's hand ; but before it reaches you I shall have found a watery grave, for I have the news to tell which, if I was to live, it would disgrace both my self and you all; but, my dearest friends, it never wag my wish. I was led astray, and it has been my grief for weeks past, but I never dare tell any one. There is not one in our house knows how I am fixed ; neither can I bear the idea of it being known to any one ; but lam six mouths gone with child ; so I can see the differenoe my self, and feel it too, and I cannot bear it any longer. It will be a sal stroke for you all ; but do not grieve ; for I have grieved myself, and it is no use. You have an other daughter ; but it is one who ought to have been her guide through the path of youth. Give my love to tier, and tell her to think of me, but not to do as I have done ; tell her to follow the steps of her dear mother more than I have done_ There is a little book in soy box that Edwin gave.to me ; give it to her, and tell het it was the last wish of her dear sister that she should have it, and keep it ; and it is my wish that Edwin should have my Bible for a keepsake from me. I hope you will look upon him as one of your own, for he would have been if this dishonour had not befallen me. So take pity on him, for Ido not know how he will get over it, for he does not know any mere about it than you do. It is not him that hal done me this dishonour, or I could have borne it better ; but it was one that was nothing to me, but shall not ea/ who. This is my box-key ; so come and see me as soon ac you get this note ; but if I am not found before then, you will find me at the bottom of the stack-yard. I have no money in my box. I owe John Wright for a now frock that is in my box now, 4s. 6d. ; and I owe Aire. Ash 2s. 3d. for making me one ; and Miss Wade 10e. for doing my bonnet ; and Mr. Wade for two pairs of new boots ; and I owe Mr. Wilson a bill for some things, but do not know how much it is, so I cannot say. I hope you will pay them all. lam afraid I shall not be allowed to be buried in the churchyard." Edwin Key, who was much affected while giving his evidence, stated that it was near 10 o'clock when he left the deceased in the back kitchen. She had said to him she should not live long; but hig had no thought that she would destroy herself. They had had no words ; she seemed as usual. 11 0 was ignorant of her being in the faruilyway. Se had kept company with her for two years, and never he trd of any other young man keeping company with her. She had left him a letter, and until lie had received it he was not aware what had hap pened. (Letter produced, and read as follows) " My dearest Edwin, —With a trembling hand and a half-broken heart, I now, for the first time, write these few lines to you ; but I know not how to tell you the news. You will be horror-struck with surprise to see it from ene you have loved so dear that I am with child ; but before this note arrives to you I shall have found a watery grave. It never was my wish to be in this way, but I was led astray ; but I hope, my dear, you will n ot think me deceitful fur not telling you ; but I could not bear the idea of parting with you till I was obliged ; but, my dear, I cannot live in this way any longer. I hops you will go to see them at home after I a u , go ne, to bear them cumpauy sometimes. It is my wish, my dear, for you to have my Bible, and keep i t f or my sake. I b a re i chosen my bearers t lam allowed to be bur ice in the church yard. I hope, my dear, let rue be buried wherel may, you will come to my funeral, but do not grieve much for rue; but if we had parted sooner I should have died sooner , for it would have broken my heart before now. No 0 06 linovs the hours I have pissed in silent grief. I hope you will have a company keeper to behave well to you.. vs bile you are single ; also when you are marr i e d , f or am sure you are worthy of the best that steps ; and, my dear, I do sincerely wish youwell have readbrou thghliis yte,oaund a !il happy d ea th . I h ope w hen you h forgive me. So good-bye, and a long farewell.—Frommyours till death, "F. Coxori. caused d a verdict herself, t beingthe d a e t a l t h h eat ittulleo d T e fi c e e a j s u e r d y was retu e r of a sane mind ; and the coroner issued his w!ir rannt for leer interment between the hours of niun and twelve o'clock. —lVottingliam Review. It is stated that Messrs. Calvert and Co., for the satis faction of all persons interested in their affairs, hay! placed their books in th e h an d s o f M essrs. Q u itt er 1 4 n u . Co., the accountants, to undergo a thorough sxamint i Lion. In the po s iti on i n w hi ch t h ey h ave l ate l y f o ul'a themselves this step became essential. The advicea from all the commercial centres of 111 Continent d escr ib e a stagnat i on of b us i ness an d a gelor3„ exercise of cauti on as h as perhapl never prev i ous l y bee; witnessed to a s.milar extent. At most places the rat% for money ar e una l tere d . A t P ar i s the charge i s 3; ; Hamburg, 14 to 2 ; at Amsterdam, 34 ; and at Brussel-P 3 ptr cent. va th at