The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

BENSON'S W A TCHE S. " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Lend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGLISH OP"'9.A. p COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Henry Leslie's Operetta Romance of DICK TURPIN. Messrs. St. Albyn and G. Honey ; Misses Thirlwall and Cruise. After which_ will be repeated the grand Opera, en titled LURLLNE, by W. Vincent Wallace. Messrs.W. Har rison, Santley, Cord, and G. Honey ; Misses Louisa Fyne, Pilling, and F. Cruise, Condactor, Alfred Mellon. Doors open at hall-past at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee► Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE• And the new and original Comedy, THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. With HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Eic.,rlith Week of the eminently succesful Drama, "A Tale of Two Cities," and Last Week but One of the present season —Tenth Night of Mrs. Keeley's Engagement. THIS EVENING will be performed a new drama, entitled THE ABBE VAUDRECIL ; or, The Court of Louis XV. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste ; Louis XV., Mt. H. Butler ; Lieut. Mend Deleour, Mr. F. Villiers. Followed by LUCKY STARS. Barbara Bristles tiler elsaracter), Mrs. Keeley; John Bristles, Mr. J. Rouse. Concluding with the new Drama of A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that same by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vining*, Walter Lacy, Villiers, Rouse, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Morton, Palmer, White, H. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Airs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. Commenoe at 7. I{o YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to commence with the favourite comedy of EXTREMES. Messrs. G. Melyille, H. Bland, Meadows, J. G. Shore,Widdicombe, Garden ; Miss Louisa Keeley, Mrs. Weston, and Mrs. C. Young. After the comedy the Princess's " Rifle Volunteers " in full costume. And THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS, Mr. J. L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billing - ton, Mrs. Chatterlev, Mrs. Bil lington, Miss Kate Kelly, and Laidlaw. After which, PAPER WINGS. Mr Alfred Wigan, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, Billington, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Poweil, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley. Followed by DINORAR UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kay. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Mice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to oarria,ges and foot passengers all hours of the night. For the Benefit of Miss Clara St. Cease. THIS FTENTNG the performances will commence with THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Messrs. Bab. rya, C. Young, Miss Clara St. Cases. After which,:A ROUGH DIAMOND. After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, and Mr. Charles Young. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, 10. The Box-office open trom 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ante commences at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.- MISS LYDIA THOMPSON has the honour to an nounce to the nobility, gentry, and the public, that her BENEFIT, and Last Appearance but Four at the above Theatre, will take place on MONDAY, Marsh 20. Tickets to be had at the Box-oillec of the Theatre, and of Miss Thomp son, 0, Argyle-street, Euston-road, CONCERTS, CANTERB UR Y HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (llonizetti). Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell. 3laffio Orsini llrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghm ans. Oomic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critohfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and eautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, lincu 18, 11607 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROSIETIIIIt-30.03. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine weather. Some alight rain in the morning. MARCH 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.18. WIND, Variable—from S.W. to W.N.W.; light, with dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIII DAY.—Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 36m, To-mousow.-Morning, 12h. 57m.—Afternoon, lh. 17m. So far as matters look, the independence of Italy seems to be going on swimmingly. On Sunday Governor FARINI was presented to the King, Vic- TOR EMMANUEL, and delivered into his MAJESTY'S hands the legal documents containing the re turns of the universal suffrages of the people of Modena, Parma, and the Romagna. It was expected that the Tuscans would present their allegiance next day. The King accepted the solemn votes, and would henceforth be proud to call . them his people. We must now wait to see how matters will right themselves in so far as other parties are concerned. The neutrality of Switzerland seems to be bound up in a sort of tangled vein. Austria now steps forward and insists, on the faith of treaties, that the Neutrality of Switzerland shall be respected. This opens a new case for the consideration of the Powers who have been parties to the guarantee. It were idle to speculate on the event, for every new phase seems only to embroil matters more and more. Two Reform Bills are to be brought before the two Houses of Legislature to-night, one in each. That in the House of Lords for the first time ; that in the House of Commons for the second time. We know the contents of each Bill, however ; for that which the Commons will consider has been printed at length in our own columns ; and that which the Lords are to look at (no leave to introduce being needed by a lord) is one which may be comprised in a single word, or in one with a very slight addition —The Ballot—as in practice in our Australian colonies. The Bill for the Commons professes to be a bill to make " further provision for the due re presentation of the people in Parliament !" The Bill for the Lords, tacitly probably, makes the same profession. Both are enabling Bills. But that in the Lower House will enable persons to give a vorte who cannot now de so. That in the Lords will enable those who have a vote already, or ever shalt have one, to do their own voting." Lord JOll N IltissEm. says to th ree or four hundred thou• sand. new voters, you also may vote for a member of Pc:liament ; Lord TEYNIIAM says to all of these, vo she aid they get votes, and to as many more e WI" now Possess them , you may vote yo u please. Lord JOHN RUSSELL looks at the "outer man," and if he live in a ZlO hook vs in the county or a Xt3 house in the town, —your lips may pronouns© at the polling boot a the name of any of the candidates. Lord TEY NELOI looks to the "inner man," a nd says,— you vote for the man after your own heart. With the 3 ioord, by courtesy, " due representation" means, porn kitting all to vote who will not endanger aris tocratic ascendancy and institutions ; and to this end permitting them to vote only under the surveil lance of landlords or employers, of lawyers, bankers, and creditors. With the Peer, " due representa tion" means,—that it is " due" to each voter to be influenced by neither personal fears nor hopes. The comparative reception which will be accorded to each bill, it is not difficult to predict. In both houses there are nobler minds—minds which regard men as men, and think that their honour and their interests are equally concerned in securing to every elector in tho empire the most unqualified freedom in choosing his representative. It will be seen, we believe, through the introduction of Lord TEYN HAM'S bill, that there are more Peers than might be supposed who are as honest assertors of the elector's privilege of " free and independent" voting, as of the right of the Peers to vote freely in their own house. Their number may, indeed, be relatively small at present, but we are too old Reformers not to know that minorities like these are the leaven which has always, in its ap propriate time, leavened the whole mass. Hence, while we can be certain enough of the long list of Non-contents in the Upper House, and the compa ratively short one of Contents, we can feel equally sure that the length of the lists must be some day reversed—an early day it may be ; for light some times bursts with somewhat tropical snddenness even on the House of Peers ; but, with freedom of the Press, and freedom of commerce achieved, and with freedom of religion dawning rapidly on us, freedom of election is certain to be not far distant. We have emancipated negroes, Catholics, mer chants, even Jews—we must speedily emancipate our voters. But the so-styled Reform Bill—the RUSSELL Bill—the Cabinet, or half the Cabinet Bill—what will be done with that ? Debated, of course, it will be. Like the Treaty, after it had been substan tially decided on, it must be debated; we sup pose, also, it must be divided on; though, why, we never could make out." Not a point is there in it which Tories can divide on as to principle. The difference between borough and county fran chise which split their own Cabinet, can hardly be selected, anti the amount of the difference is a com mittee question. The disfranchisement of borough county voters will never be again, in our time, put to the vote. The number of boroughs to lose each a member, with the exact amount for a voter's quali fication, can hardly be points for a discussion on the second reading. The bill omits, indeed, the only clause which, as we believe, hindered Mr. DISRAELI'S bill from reaching committee without a division, and we can hardly see, therefore, what pretext can be found for not going into committee. The Radi cals have indeed ground enough for a division. The omissions of the bill are its unpardonable sins ; but then a powerful section of them have been duly purchased with a treaty and a budget, and the rest, we will not say unwisely, have made up their minds to take any instalment. With but the one fatal exception, we should gladly have taken Mr. DisßaELt's bill as an instalment—of course we shall Lord JOHN'S. There are, we know, some, both enemies and friends to Reform, who think the bill will effect more than we can hope. Amongst the former, our great morning contemporary presents to timid Whigs and listening Tories a frightful picture of the transference of some hundred seats or more to the Red Radicals. Amongst the friends of Reform Mr. JAMES ACLAND calculates that all the boroughs of which the constituencies will be increased fifty or a hundred per cent. will return Radical mem• bers ! while those increased from 25 to 50 per cont. will return Liberal members. Hence we are to be sure of 142 Radicals and 154 Liberals, and to have but 41 " illiberals" from the boroughs where the increase is smallest, though among these are the metropolitan boroughs. The Times, of course, gladly accepts such calculations as a reason for at tacking a bill it most cordially hates, though the writer makes them to induce Liberals to be thankful for what is offered them. We must believe tiat both the enemy and the friend of liberal politics are mistaken. Both estimate the increase of electors at far above what it will be. They reckon from the num ber of houses between £6 and £lO rental. But the deductions are so very large, owing to tenancies by females, indifference, the rate-paying clauses, ab sence, illness, and other causes, that in many cases probably not more than half of the houses in ques tion will furnish registered electors, certainly not half of them voters. But not only will the in crease be smaller than is computed—it will, under open voting, be a very dependent class of electors. Between employers of labour and buyers of vote., the additions will be nearly all liable to coercion,or purchase by the class above them, and in the coun ties no one doubts that this will be the case. Tho new voters will be servants or mercenaries of the same masters or hirers as now command their ser vices. What change will this effect? Some good amendments are already announced. Mr. BERKELEY is to proceed in regard to the Ballot, by way of bill, on the 20th. Mr: MAC EvoY Las a ballot motion for Ireland when the Irish bill goes into committee. And Mr. DIOS. DUN COMBE is in committee to move for an optional ballot, which, if it relate to individuals, is no ballot at all ; if to constituencies, unless it be provided that a small minority may require its adoption for the whole, the ballot cannot be introduced where the incorrupt or the independent are few—just where it is most wanted ! Mr. EDWIN JAMES, whose course on the Ballot and treatment of Mr. BERKELEY look as if he were thinking of an Attorney-General ship under Lord JOHN R USS EL L inf anda Lordfavour ur of the P .:L -MERSTON, has a good amendment better class of lodgers, and for discontinuing :the clauses. W e trust h an noying rate paying they will both be carried. It is too bad to be dragged up to a revising barrister, or to lose your vtotee, collector because you were aw a y from home whe n h called, and you f or g ot to visit him. Surel y i t is enough to be rated—the law can collect its own rates, without using them as an instrument of disfran chisement. As to lodgeri we all know that i n th e suburbs of large towns they are a numerous an d intelligent class, and ought to have a vote, with a reasonable residentiary qualification. It should not of course be one requiring that the occupancy be of the same apartments. This is no more need ful than that a person should be a tenant of the same house. Well—what with Budget and Bank ruptcy, and Parliamentary Reform Bills, it will be strange if 1860 does not leave us somewhat Reformed. The second reading of Mr. CROCIX'S bill . for bringing the hours of labour in the Bleaching and Dyeing works under the control of the Ten Hours' Act is announced for Wednesday next. We take this opportunity of bringing the fact before the notice of the public, and of earnestly enti eating the members of the Legislature to give their votes in favour of the bill. In these bleaching and dyeing works women and young girls, sometimes children under 10 years of age, are kept at work for eighteen and twenty hours at a stretch during several consecutive days. The temperature is maintained at the heat of an Indian summer; while the state of a crowded fac- I *?; bf ' 1 * • 11 'O5; t- - • 4[Z5 , -- k - • 1 Z,..ws, THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1860. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E*ENUfG, MAMA 19, 1 60, tory inhich work has been going on day and night may be more easily imagined than described. Frequently only an hour or two's rest is allowed to intervene between these long days of exhausting toil, and that rest is often snatched without change of garment, on piles of unfinished goods in the store-rooms. "Sometimes," says one of the mana gers, in his evidence, " fourteen or more girls will pass the night in this manner, after working nine teen hours, and coming out of those hot places dripping wet." No wonder, if the hours of labour are such that strong men complain of being stiff and tired in the morning, no wonder that the poor little ones drop asleep standing, as they try to " hook" the cloth. No wonder the very overseers have hardly the heart to rouse them, through pity for their worn looks. With aching limbs, festered fingers, and feet "blood-raw" these girls and children are kept at their work. Year after year they ask if the " short-time bill'' will pass ; year after year they learn that England prizes her cheap calicoes and her millowners' rent rolls more than the lives and limbs of her labouring toil-worn children. What is the use of talking about national education and the diffusion of know ledge among the working classes ? How can mind or soul either be properly cared for when the body is so cruelly oppressed? Is it not a state of things fostering to every vice, productive of every wretchedness, degrading to our national character ! We quote a few passages from " An Appeal to the Women of the United Kingdom," recently circu , lated, and we ask—Are these things consistent with our professions of charity and Christianity?— James Thomson (Mr. Wallace's Bleaching, Scouring, and Finishing Works for Cotton and Woollens, Burn bank, Glasgow)--" I am manager of these works, and nephew of the owner. In summer some of the hands work occasionally from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m." (18 hours) " the whole week through; we did this last summer several times. Three days we worked 20 hours each day. The ages of most of our girls is from 10 to 18." (Observe these ages—some of the girls mere children.) " The stove-rooms in which they work are in winter heated up to 100 or 110 deg. ; in summer the heat is from 120 to 130 deg." (and at times very much higher, as stated by the same witness in evidence given at a subsequent page.) " I feel, when lam urging the females to work these long hours that I am doing what is not right, but I have been urged to do it to get a lot of goods finished. Sometimes they stay here all night, and then we make a place for them to lie down upon in a store room upon the pieces of goods unfinished. Sometimes 14 or more girls will pass the night in this manner, after work ing 19 hours, and coming out of those hot places dripping wet with perspiration, an their clothes wet through with it."—lbid., p. 59, Nos. 643-645. And this in the country which is energizing through the world to put down slavery Alexander King.—" I work at Mr. James Your and Son's bleachworks, Auldhousofield, Pollockshaws. There are about 300 hundred hands employed ' • of these 250 are females. When we are busy the number is about 400. * * * Sometimes, about once a week, one shift will be • gin at 6 a.m., and go on till 6 the next morning" (24 hours). "This has happened once a week on an average for the last six months. The females all work in the stoves."—lbid., p. 61, Nos. 682, 683. They " fall asleep standing to their work. They fall asleep standing before their hooks. I have to keep them awake ; and my heart is so sore for them that I cannot speak to them. I have worked at bleach-works, in the finishing-room, twenty years, and it has always been so in all the works where I have been" (No. 462).—" It falls very hard upon the weaker boys. I have often seen them sleeping on their legs, and I have done so often myself. Their whole frame suffers. I have know at least eight In the last twelve years who have fallen into consumption and died" (No. 414). This retiring from work to die is of conrsevery common : " I have buried one little sister ; my parents always thought it was from the long hours. She came here at ten, and was fourteen when she died, and she used to work very long hours. She was ill" (that is, off work before she died) " ten days only" (No. 223).—" I have often been ill from working in the great heat. • My log is now bad from it, and the doctor told me I must give up. The girls very often suffer from it ; go away and die from it and the long hours" (No. 646). Ten consecutive witnesses (pp. 42-44)—ten consecutive witnesses, mark you, employed at different establishments mention " many cases within their knowledge, of boys and young men having been ill and off work, and who have died from the long hours" (No. 422). Naturally, with females matters are even worse. Henry Waring, examined— Mr. Kirk.] Has it not appeared to you that the hours of work were too loag ?—Much too long : but if we did not do it, they would turn us off. [Had known "many families" go on without undress ing for more than five days and nights in succession.] Joseph Crook, Esq., M.P , for Bolton, examined— Mr. Clark.] Do the employers oblige children to work in that manner e--Certainly. Mr. Packs.] If a child were taken off the over .work, would that involve the discharge of the parent from the bleach-works ?—Yes. There is nothing in this report more touching than the patient and almost despairing anxiety shown among the operatives for a protecting law : "We are all most anxiously looking for the bill" (No. 420).—" Is there any sign of the ten-hours bill being got ten" (No. 213) ?—" Is there any chance for the bill being passed this session" (No. 240) ?—" I feel very tired manv timer, bat I dare not stop. I would like the short-time (No. 211).—" I know that all in this room are very anxious for the short-time bill" (No. 221).—" Every girl in the room would like a short-time bill, though they would earn less wages" (No. 276).—" I should like the short-time bill very much" (No. 278).—" I have talked to them many a time about the hours being shortened like the factories. They wish that time would come" (No. 462).—" We have long been waiting for the short hours" (No. 494).—" We all very much want the short-time bill" (No. 496).—" They all wished for the short-time bill very much" (No. 509). " The short-time bill will do us all good" (No. 543.)—" I have seen the girls, when they have been taking a piece from the pulling-up machine, fall asleep ; one of them was not ten years of age. The child looked as pale as a piece of cloth. I have aeon men take this child in their arms and say they wished they could see it in London in this state ; —that is, so livid and wan from work. I mean that if they could see such things in London, they would know that there was a want of a bill" (No. 68). We confess our inability to see what logic can answer these facts. Master manufacturers may talk about the evils of legislative interference with private business: They may claim their right to regulate their own affairs, independent of state re strictions, where the prices of goods and the inte rests of commerce only are at stake ; but when hundreds of women and young girls are sickening, fainting, and dying from their cruel exactions, the voice of a free nation has a claim to be heard in behalf of her suffering chil dren. The profits of our manufacturers are surely large enough to permit " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work ;" their large incomes are surely not dependent on the sorrows of girls and children ! If so, farewell to the glory of commerce. Cheap cottons will not make up for a crippled and sickly population. If the benefits of commercial reciprocity be as great as the Manchester men would have us believe, let them take advantage of their increased profits to employ more hands at their mills, to claim no more than human nature can accord, without the fearful suffering consequent on keeping children of fourteen at work for "two nights and two days !" Elisabeth Edgfs—" lam 14 years of age. I have worked here" (at Mr. Sodden's, Breightmet Bleach-works) " fout years. Three months since I worked" (and of course she was not working alone upon the occasion) " two nights and two days. I slept four hours the first morning, and not at all th• next night. I have very often worked till twelve." —lbid., p. 49, No. 491. The strenuous efforts which are being made in this good cause must, surely, bring about the desired effect. The committee of ladies who have published the appeal referred to above contains names of dis tinction and eminence. It is truly a case in which the women of England, more especially the wives and mothers, have a right to use their influence. Let the mother of happy children think how she would feel if she saw her little ones compelled to work from before sunrise till far into the night; their rosy cheeks wan, their angers festered with the work, their feet blistered with long standing upon the burning floors. Let her picture a group of these hapless little ones standing at their dan gerous work, " nodding and trying to catch the hook ;" or kept awake by " shouting, and getting a board and rapping it on the table ;" or " kept awake for an hour, or more than that perhaps, by frightening them." It must be remembered that these things are not the exaggerations of Quixotieal philanthropists, but the evidence given before a Parliamentary Committee by the workers them selves, and the foremen aild managers of the works. Let the members of our Legislature look to it. They are now the responsible parties. The evi dence is before them ; it is uncontradicted. The facts of the case speak for themselves —speak with a voice of warning to the nation, whose hand is ever stretched out to aid the missionary and the hospital, but whose ears are apparently deaf to the claims of simple justice and the appeals of common humanity. Let those who will give their vote on Wednesday think of the weary frames and droop ing hearts that will watch so anxiously for the :re sult of th motion, of the long night hours when women and children are fainting and falling asleep over their perilous work. Let them think of these things, and then ask why this bill should be opposed except by those who are interested in obtaining the largest amount of labour at the cheapest possible rate. The principle of the Factory Act is certainly applicable to these establishments, though under a different name. It is another form of the hydra headed evil against which Lord ASHLEY battled so long and so stoutly—the tyranny of capital over labour, that must work for its bread. We do not wish to censure any manufacturer individually— most probably these things are not done with their cognisance, but through the hands of an agent or manager, who re ceives a general instruction to get the most pro fitable labour he can. But they may exclaim, with Hoop's " Lady"— " The wounds I might have healed, The human sorrow and smart; And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part. But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart." Surely the exertions now making on behalf of these over-taxed workers will not have been made in vain. When we remember the commotion ex cited by the discussion on the builders' nine hours' work, it seems incredible that young girls and tender children should be called upon to work double that number of hours for two or three days successively. It is almost a marvel that they can do it, but it is true that we do not at once see the consequences. We do not see the years of sickness and infirmity, the crippled limbs, the rows of early graves, that go to swell the profits of the proprie tors. Surely this infliction of human suffer ing is not to be passively encouraged by the British Parliament—surely the members of the Legislature—themselves men with families, will not tacitly encourage this system by absenting themselves from the division on Wednesday, or give it the sanction of their names and influences by voting against the bill. No sound reason can be adduced for the exclusion of these establishments from legislative interference. No valid argument can be brought forward in defence of such a state of things. The indefatigable efforts of Mr. HOPLEY deserve public acknowledgment, and we are glad to find that Mr. CROOK is determined to bring the question forward. We should imagine that few would like to range themselves openly on the side of such oppressive and con tinuous cruelty ; but there will probably be a strong opposition made to the bill under some specious pretexts. We, therefore, earnestly hope that the friends of humanity will not be absent on that occasion, but will unite in carrying this bill triumphantly through Parliament ; resolved that the miseries endured by these poor creatures shall not lie at their doors, that they will not incur the reproaches of their own hearts, and the indignation of the wise and good for the sake of maintaining an extortionate and relent less tyranny. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been reoeived at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, MARGII 18. A royal decree convokes the electoral assemblies of the Emilian provinces for the 25th March:; another decree appoints 15 new senators. FLORENCE, MARCH 18. A solemn religious ceremony has taken place on the occasion of the pablication of the result of the vote. The Archbishop intoned the Te Deum. The city is en fete. Shouts of " the King for ever !" " Rica soli for ever !" are general. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. Mr. Harrison's benefit took place at Covent garden on Saturday night, and the house was crowded in every part. Originally it was in tended that the season should have closed on the 17th inst. ; but, as already announced, the great success of " Lurlins" has induced the management to:extend it to the 28th of this month. Considering that the season was virtually, if not actually, ter minated on Saturday last, Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne have put forth the address which we now give, deferring onr resume of the season until the Royal English Opera really concludes its present successful career : " Ladies and Gentlemen,—The close of our third Eng. lish opera season presents us an opportunity of again thanking you for the liberal support with which you have hitherto met our endeavours to please you—a support which it shall ever be our pride to merit and constant endeavour to maintain. Allow us to place before you a few of the statistics of our past proceedings, and to request you to accept them as a guarantee for our future ones. In three seasons we have produced four English operas and one operetta by native composers—namely, " Rose of Castille" and " Satanella," by Balfe ; " Victorine," by Mellon ; Romance," by Leslie; and " Lurline," by Wallace. Also, "Martha," " Dinorah," and a repertoire to whose merits the public approbation has been the best test. Abair, we request English composers who have works complete, or in a state of preparation, to acquaint us with the same, in order that we may make our arrangements ac cordingly. We have been the means of introducing to the English operatic stage the following English artists :—Miss Parepa, Miss Corelli, Miss Pilling, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Cruise, Mr. Santley, Mr. Ferdinand Glover (an artist whose loss we much deplore), Mr. Patsy, Mr. Grattan Kelly, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Honey, kc. During the three sea sons we have expended for artists, authors, rent, &c., the sum of L 79,788. This being of a private nature, would not be intruded by us on you, our generous patrons, but that you may know we spare no expense to please you and to deserve your kindness, We are delighted that through us a great boon has been re-opened to our sister and bro ther artists, namely tao Covent garden Fund, which has been closed to all applicants since the year 1842. It is with feelings of gratitude and pride we take the op • portunity of acknowledging the high patronage we leave received from her most gracious Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the court, nobility, and public, adding a double incentive to our motives, and honour and brilliancy to our undertaking —an undertaking which (if you will confirm° to aid us therein) it shall bo the study of our lives t) support—that of establishing in Eng land a legitimate Royal English Opera. Trusting to find in you next season the same reciprocity to meet our endea• yours that has been so liberally manifested towards us this; and with sincere thanks to all who have assisted us, with out and within the theatre, we bid you most respectfully and gratefully (until next October) adieu. " LOUISA. PYNE, • (signed) " WM, HARRISON, Managerx. March 17, 1860." Their Highnesses the Prince and Princesses de Leonerte have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Continent. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Ccuntoss de Peraigny entertained a meleet circle at dinner last evening at Albert-gate House. The Countess Apponyi ;till have an assembly on Wednesday evening at Chandos House. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Charlotte Inner-Ker have left Grillion's Clarendon Hotel at Broxmouth Park, Dunbar, N.B. The Earl of Clarendon comes to town to-day from the Grove. Her ladyship and the Ladies Villiers are ex pected on Thursday next. The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Ara bella Sackville West will shortly leave town for Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor have taken possession of their new mansion at Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge. The Duchess of Inverness will have a grand dinner and an assembly this evening at her apartment■ in Kensington Palace. The Duchess of Dalberg and Sir John Dalberg Acton, Bart., M.P., left Brighton on Saturday last for Shropshire, preparatory to the funeral of the late Countess Granville. The Duke of Ilanilton left town on Friday on his return to Paris to join tho duchess and family. The Earl and Countess of Fife have left Grosve nor-crescent for St. Lecnards-on-Sea for a few- days. _ _ _ The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House, Park lane. Lord and Lady Egerton (of Tattoo) and the llon. Misses Egerton have arrived in St. James's-square frcui their seat in Cheshire. Lord unit Lady Ebury and Hon. Miss Grosvenor have arrived in:Park-street from Moore Park, Iferts, for the season. DEATII OF LADY DOVER.—Lady Dover, the widow of tho first Lord Dover, expired on Saturday at her resi dence, Dover house, Whitehall. Her ladyship was the sister of the Earl of Carlisle, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Lascelles (widow of the Light Hun. W. S. Lascelles), Lady Taunton, the Hon. and Rev. W. G. Howard, the Hon, Charles Howard, the Ron. Edward Howard, and Lady Elizabeth (irey. BOMBAY MAIL. The Madras reached Sues bn the 11th instant. The Vectis left Malta for Marseilles at 9 a.m. on the 16th inst. The Bombay letters will probably be delivered on Wednesday morning. The Delta left Malta at 11 a.m. on the 18th inst. for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 27th. The Benares arrived at Aden, en route for Aus tralia, on the 6th inst. PARIS, MARCH 18. A despatch from Vienna announces that Austria will pronounce herself against any violation of the rights of Swiss neutrality guaranteed 'by treaties. A despatch has been received here, stating that King Victor Emmanuel has accepted the annexa tion of Parma, Modena, and Romagna. To-morrow the King will accept the annexation of Tuscany ; both acts to be submitted to the Parliament. A deputation from Savoy will wait on the Em peror to-morrow. TURIN, MARCH 18. Signor Farini arrived here to-day at 12 o'clock, and was presented to the King at 4 p.m. Signor Farini said—" I have the honour to place in the hands of your Majesty the legal documents containing the returns of the universal suffrage of the people of }Emilia. May your Majesty deign to receive them with favour, as a token of gratitude and confidence' The King replied—" This manifestation of the national will is so universal and so spontaneous that it confirms to Europe at a different time, and under altered conditions, the vote already expressed by the national assemblies of /Emilia. This manifestation completes the proofs of the order, perseverance, patriotism, and wisdom by which those peoples have merited universal sympathy and esteem. I accept their solemn vote, and henceforth .will be proud to call them my peoples. In uniting to my ancient provinces, not only the States of Modena and Parma, but also the Romagna, which has already separated itself from the Papal Government, I do not intend to fail in my deep devotedness to the chief of the Church. I am ready to defend the independence necessary to the supreme minister of religion, the Pope, to con • tribute to the splendour of his Court, and to pay homage to his sovereignty. Our Parliament, in receiving the representative of Central Italy, will assure prosperity, liberty, and independence to the new kingdom." The official Gazette publishes a royal decree annexing the provinces of //Emilia to Sardinia. The city is en fete. ROME, MARCH 16. This morning a great manifestation in favou r o : the Pope has taken place at the Vatican. PARIS, MARCH 17. The Patrie publishes a letter from Turin stating that the question of the annexation of Savoy has been definitively settled between France and Pied mont. The Patrie also thinks itself enabled to state that, the negotiations with Sardinia in reference to Tuscany are in a fair way of being concluded. The Emperor has received a deputation from Savoy. In the lawsuit against Bishop Dupanloup the Attorney-General proposed to-day to reject the complaint brought forward by the editor of the Siecle and to admit that of the heirs of the late Bishop Rousseau, who have likewise brought an action against M. Dupanloup. NAPLES, MARCH 17 (via GENOA.) Six Neapolitans have been sent into exile. Other Neapolitans have been informed that they may re main at Naples. The Court of Vienna has disap proved of the severe measures which were intended. An Austrian general has arrived at Naples. The Ambassadors of the Western Powers have given advice to the King. VIENNA, MARcn 18. The French Ambassador, the Marquis de Mom tier, informed the Austrian Government a few days ago of the approaching evacuation of Lombardy by the French troops, and in the name of his Govern ment expressed a wish that, after the departure of the French troops, Austria, in accordance with the principles contained in Count ltechherg's despatch of the 17th February, would continue to observe nonintervention in the affairs of Central Italy. - The Austrian Government has despatched its reply direct to Paris. The Austrian note says that since the interview at Villafranca the Emperor Francis Joseph has made too many sacrifices for the maintenance of peace to be able to recommence a struggle which would soon become a European war. But, although keeping a merely observant attitude, Austria believes, nevertheless, that she must draw the attention of France to the secret intrigues of Sardinian agents in Venetia, as well as to the continued provocations of the Piedmontese Ministry, and she repeats most distinctly that the Emperor Francis Joseph would not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices in defence of his rights over Venetia. BERLIN, MARCH 17. The despatch of M. Thou vend explaining the mo tives for the annexation of Savoy was received hero yesterday. Its contents have been communicated to the Prussian Government. BELGRADE, MARCH 17. The Porte has recognised Michael Obrenoisich as successor to his father, Milosh, Prince of Servia. FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, MARCH 17. In to day's sitting of the Federal J)iet, Prussia gave her vote in reference to the affair of Electoral Hesse. Prussia demanded the re-establishment of the constitution of 1831, after being submitted to ex amination by the Federal Diet. The committee of the affair of Electoral Hesse - presented their report today. The majority of the committee proposed that the petition of the Second Chamber of Hesse should be dismissed, stating as reason the incompetency of the Diet. The minority declared that it could not join in this proposal. ST. PETERSBURG, SATURDAY. It is expected that Prince Gortschakoff, who for some time past has been seriously ill, will, on his own demand, be shortly released. from his duties as Minister for the Foreign Affairs of Russia, and that Baron de Budberg, Russian Minister at Berlin, will be his successor. FRANCE.• PARIS, SUNDAY. A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" It is stated that the Cabinets of Paris and London have sent new instructions to their Ministers at Naples, in consequence of the discovery of a plot in that city against the Government ; and it is said also that it is to support those instructions that the English fleet has been sent to Naples. The plot is stated to have extended to the army, and nearly 200 officers are said to have been concerned in it. England and France are seriously occupying themselves with a state of things which may produce new and grave complications in Italy, and may compromise the tranquillity of Europe. In what they are doing, however, they are anxious to avoid any ap pearance of pressure on the Neapolitan Govern ment ; they are, in truth, only acting for its in terest, and for the security of other States. But it is doubtful whether their representations will meet with greater attention than those they have made at different times during the last ten years." The Duke of Bauffremont died in Paris on the 10th inst., in the 69th year of his age. The Duke was a Senator, and the lifoniteur devotes a small space at the bottom of its second page to a short biographical sketch of him. Under the Imperial Government the Duke was aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, to Murat. He shared in the hor rors of the Russian campaign ; and comported him self as became a French gentleman and a soldier in the desperate struggles which immediately preceded the extinction of that dazzling meteor, the Empire. He was made an officer to the Legion of Honour on the field of Dresden BOURSE, March 17.—The market has been de pressed in consequence of a further fall in Consols. Threes are now at 67f 85c ; Mobilier varied from 746 f 25c to 744 f 25c; Austrian, 504 f 25c to 4981 75c; Lombard, 537 f 50c to 5351; Orleans, 1,3995 f to 1,392 f 50c ; Lyons, 895 f to 892 f 50c. The fol lowing are the last quotations : ti per Cents. .... 95 75 I Credit Fonder.... 745 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 .. 1 per Cents 67 80 Piedmontese (5) .. 81 25 Do. end month 67 80 Roman Bl 25 Bank Shares 2805 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 741 25 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 741 25 Home Debt - 43 75 • AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Leitch, has arrived. She left Boston•on the 7th and Halifax on the 9th of March. She brings 44 passengers, 90,000 dols. in specie for England, and 5,000 dols. for Havre. She landed all the mails and proceeded on to Liverpool. _ The Europa passed the America, from Liverpool, on the 10th of March. The rejection of the treaty with Mexico by the Senate was anticipated, in which event Mr. M'Lane, the American Minister, would not return. Troops were under orders for Texas and Mexico. The black crew of the British ship Oramingo had mutinied. One of the mutineers was shot, and the others were arrested at Charleston. The Russian fleet had sailed from Honolulu for Cron stadt. Mr. Nelson was in California. The news from this place is unimportant. Busi ness was dull owing to a large number of arrivals. Havannah advices to March 1 state that the steamers General Miramon and Morquez left for Vera Cruz on the 27th ult. under the Mexican flag. Sugar steady. Stock, 90,000 boxes. Freights unaltered. Advices from Victoria, British Columbia, to the Bth ult., state that 82,000 dollars worth of gold had been exported in the month of January. NEW YORK, MARCH 6.—Flour and corn firm, and prices tending upwards. Provisions quiet. Sugars heavy. Coffee quiet. Iron and stocks firm. NEW ORLEANS, March 6.—Sales of cotton 18,000 bales. Middling, 10A-c. to 11c. Sales in three days, 42,000. Receipts, 26,000 bales. Freights to Liver pool, -2-d. Exchange, 7Z- to 81- prem. TWO DAYS LATER FROM NEW YORK, BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX. NEW YORK, March B.—The loss of every soul on board the Hungarian is fully confirmed. Stocks in improved demand, and slightly dearer. Cotton steady. Sales in the last three days 9,000 bales. Middling Uplands, 111 c. Flour and wheat rather dull, and better grades somewhat easier_ Previsions steady, except pork, which is rather lower. NEW ORLEANS, March 7.—Cotton unchanged. Sales today 16,000 bales. Sales in the previous two days, 29,000 bales. SPORTING NOTES. THE WEEK IN WARWICKSHIRE. Although the meeting is limited to three days only, yet gentlemen turfites at least make up their minds to spend a pleasant week in Warwickshire. To-day they may be seen sauntering through the parade of Leamington watching the busy cawing rooks in their gyrations about the trees on the Promenade, and revelling in the sweet mild atmosphere of the early spring. The town of Warwick is not so quiet and enjoyable, for list sellers are already pur suing their calling with stentorian lungs, the sporting hostelries are surrounded by touts and stable boys, and Sergeant Banks, the Cerberus of the weighing stand, is complacently observing the incoming guests from the antique terrace in front of his quaint old house. The race lovers of the neighbourhood, too, are in good spirits, for they have knocked off' the skid which. impeded the progress of their committee coach, and have placed the reins in the hands of persons who will enable their vehicle to climb the hill of popularity in good style. Lord Warwick has taken an active part in promoting the prosperity of the meeting, and the executive department will no longer be re gulated by parsimony and prejudice. The programme is net unattractive, albeit it will not furnish very large fields. The Trial Stakes seems likely to occasion an interesting race. Some doubts, however, exist whether Promised Land will show for it. Dartmouth possesses speed, and, as I think the dis tance will suit him, I shall give him the preference. Philomel is in such force for the Northamptonshire Stakes that I fancy that it is scarcely probable she will be brought out for the Willoughby. Nevertheless it is stated that Mr. Thompson has been retained for her. Having a a doubt about her starting, I must award the stakes to Prince of Orange. For the Handicap Plate of £5O I shall select Spiteful Dick and Norton. The gentlemen riders' races at Warwick invariably occa sion so much squabbling that I shall not refer to them. The"acceptance for the Great Warwickshire Handicap is numerically insignificant, and the race itself is not likely to be very exciting. If Philomel starts she ought to win to sus tain her Northampton pretensions, but in her default I stall stand on Chirp. The fine, good-looking filly Lady Clifden, may follow uP her Liverpool success by winning the Two-year-old Stakes, and Fractious should carry off the Handicap Plate of 40 Soya. For the Welter Handicap Romeo and Pactelus are most to my fancy. Despite Goldsmith's running at Birmingham, I shall not think slightingly of his chance for the Grand Annual on Thursday. Leamington. A FRESH MAN. RAILWAYS. Caih. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto B3O .. 835 Lyons and Mediterranean 892 50 .. 891 25 Geneva 470 .. 468 75 Southern Western 582 50 .. Eastern Sardinian 397 50 .. 400 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. no.; three months, paper, 24f. 872 e. ; money, 24f 85e. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 16. The Wiener Zeitung gives the following account of a political demonstration which was yesterday made at Pesth : "According to advices from Pesth about 200 students, who had in vain attempted to force their way into several churches in the course of the morning of the 15th of March, went to the cemetery in the Franzensstadt. The crowd was desired quietly to disperse ; but, as no attention was paid to the official summons, the police, in order to prevent further excesses, was obliged to arrest several persons. "In consequence of this measure the crowd began to move towards the Kerepesch Cemetery, and as the employes of the police sought to prevent • its effecting its purpose the officer of police and his men were derided (verhohnt). This conduct rendered further arrests indis pensable, and the police were at last obliged to make use of their arms, as an attack was made on them with the intent to liberate the prisoners. Unfortunately, some persons were wounded. " The inhabitants of Pesth had nothing whatever to do with the affair, and, as the peace of the city was in no other way disturbed, the soldiers of the police were able com pletely and without other assistance to enforce the law. In the evening the students tried to keep the public from enter ing the national theatre, and the interference of the authori ties and mounted police proving ineffectual, a 'division (two companies) of regular troops was called out, which cleared the place. The peace of the city was not again disturbed." By private advices from the Hungarian capital we learn that the crowd was composed of about 500 students, four of whom were wounded. It is here supposed that the young men wished to celebrate the anniversary of the day on which—in the year 1848 —the ex-Emperor Ferdinand I. expressed his resolve to grant a constitution to his subjects.. A Hunga rian, who must be well acquainted with the opinions and intentions of his fellow-countrymen, has to-day expressed to me his apprehensions for the future of the Austrian empire. Nothing but the restoration of their constitution will satisfy the Hungarian nation; and there is great reason to fear that many influential Magyars now aim at a complete sepa ration of Hungary from the empire. "If the Hun garian Diet should meet to-morrow," said my interlocutor, " its first measure would be publicly to declare that the kingdom of Hungary was not responsible for any part of the Austrian National Debt, which was contracted without its cognizance and approval." The separation of Hungary from Austria would probably be fatal to both countries, but the Imperial Government eannet be of this opinion, as it rarely or never neglects an opportu nity of widening the breach between them. The domiciliary visit recently paid to Count Stephen Szecheny has given such extreme offence to the Hungarians, that they now pass the Archduke Albrecht, who was the author of the injudicious measure, without taking the least notice of him. RUSSIA. The following letter has been received from St. Petersburg, dated March 8 :—" I have frequently spoken to you of the abnormal situation of the Russian empire with respect to her finances. The complete stagnation of trade—the general dearness of produce—the complete absence of gold or silve r coin; and this situation, far from improving, i s becoming worse every day. The dullness of trade is the principal cause of this financial crisis. It is calculated that silver coin to the amount of 175,000,000 roubles was exported be tween the Ist of January, 1854, and the let of January, 1860. The total amount of the gold and silver coin current at present in Russia does not exceed 220,000,000 roubles. The paper money in circulation increased on the Ist January, 1859, to 735,000,000 roubles. The financial condition of the country is becoming worse, in consequence of the continued stagna tion in our foreign trade, which h as b een i n a mos t deplorable condition during the last threo years. There is but one opinion among our official finan ciers, and that is, that our Government must con tract a foreign loan on any terms, and that the amount cannot be les s th an 40 ,000,000 rou b les. The circulation of such a sum in the interior of the coun try exclusively can alone facilitate the operations of the Minister of Finance, and relieve from paying the interest of the national debt in gold. The Government is about to make an appeal to private speculators to work the gold mines, discovered in the districts lately ceded by the Emperor of China to the Emperor of Russia. The Government will offer advantageous terms, not so much on account of the quantity of gold to be obtained as to en courage emigration to that fertile country, which is now a complete desert." THE STEAMERS IMPERADOR AND IMPERATRIZ. —These vessels, the property of Messrs. Newell and Co., the electric cable contractors, have completed the laying of the Red Sea cable, and the Imperador returns to England at once. The Imperatriz had been offered a charter to convey troops to China.—London and China Telegraph. SINGAPORE AND BATAVIA CABLE.—TIIG break in the Singapore and Batavia cable, reported in our last, has not been repaired, and no further detailed intelligence has reached us, except that the injury is supposed to be about 20 miles from Batavia.—London and China Tes• graph, THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 19.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. to W.N.W. ; light breeze, and dull weather. DOVER, March 18.—Wind, W.—Arrived—Celerity, from Sunderland, leaky. QUEENSTOWN, March 17.—Wind, W.—Arrived—Eagle, from St. Domingo ; Sydney, from Macao. Off port—The Cleveland, from Fow-chow-Foo ; Samarang, from Calcutta; Dunrobin Castle, from Callao. COWES, March 17.—Wind W.S,W—.—Arrived—Char lernagne, from New Orleans. Bo r ityLlux, March 17.—The Tamaulipus, steamer, sprung a leak in port. Survey appointed. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind W. Arrived, March 17.—Sisters, Dayspring, Spirit, and Elizabeth, Little, from London; Contender, from Seaham ; Swanage, from Swanage ; Francis, from Warkworth; Anne Vernon, steamer, from Cardiff; Malvina, steamer, from Dublin ; Dispatch and Atalanta, steamer, from Jer sey ; Havre, steamer, from Havre ; "William and Eliza, from Newport. Sailed, March 17.--Ouse, for Aberdeen; Good Design, Elizabeth and Jane, and John Watson, for Sunderland ; Express, for Middlesborough ; Visitor, for Newcastle ; Hugh Barclay, for Cardiff; La Plata, steamer, for St. Thomas ; Wonder, steamer, for Havre ; Malvina, steamer, for London ; Tagus ; steamor, for Lisbon. Arrived, March 18.—Felicity, from Woodbridge ; Star, from Guernsey; Edward and Mary, from Jersey; John Masterman, London; Constantia, from Shields; Robert and Mary Branch and Queen, fr om Sunderland ; Tweed, from Ne w p or t ; L'Etoile, fro m C arenton ; Le Coq, from Cherbourg ; Bee, from Cowes. Sailed, March 18.—Bavaria, steamer, for New York. (13y SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Wind, IV.` l tide, three-quarters flood ; weather fine. Arrived, 11 arch 18 .—Lesbenance, from IVydah ; George A. Philips, from Belize • Southern Bell, from Foo-chow foo ; Frie n d s hi p, from iouen ; Imogene, from St. Helena; Euphrosyne, from Mauritius; Royal Charlie, from Mau ritius ; Eliza Jane, from Palermo ; Louisa, from Guernsey. Arrived, March 19—William and Mary, from Guernsey; Lesler, from Alexandria ; Humility, from Guernsey; Wil liam, from Shanghai ; Queen of India, from Colombo; X. L., from Caen ; Constantine, from Barbadoes. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind, W.N.W., moderate. Passed—Harrington, from Algoa Bay for London; the barque Witch of the Sea, from the Mauritius, for Londo n; Gipsy, from H avre f or Shields ; Redesdale, for Newport. Anchored—Waltermina, from London, for Fowey ; Gowrie, from London for Trieste. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Greyhound, for Harwich; Robena, for New York. The ship Woogola, which was on shore at Folkestone, has been got otf the main, and has arrived safely in London. Frederick Gye, Esq., has kindly granted the free 4se of the Theatre Royal, Covent •garden, for a benefit in aid of the funds of the Royal Dramatic College, on Thursday, the 29th instant. Most, if not all, the prin cipal members of the theatrical profession are to be brought together. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.—On Saturday evening Mr. Phelps, the enterprising and liberal lessee, took his benefit at the theatre which he has done so much to render popular with all classes. The performances con sisted of "Coriolanus" and " Raising the Wind." After the tragedy Mr. Phelps was loudly called f or , an d a ft er observ ing that this was the first time for 16 years that he had made a speech before the ourtain, alluded to the reports which had been propagated, to the effect that he was about to leave the management of Sadler's Wells Theatre. It was true that there was some slight foundation for this report. His respected coadjutor, Mr. Greenwood—(cheers) —was about to part from him, desiring to quit the cares of theatrical management, and henceforth he (Mr. Phelps would be the sole manager of the theatre. (Loud cheers.) He promised to spareno pains to deserve the approval of his friends—(cheers)—and he hoped to continue to win their patronage as ho had always done. (Cheers.) Various offers had been made to him to take a theatre in what some people called—though he could never see why—the "fashionable" part of London, but he could not bring himself to leave the pleasant old boards of Sadler's Welts. (Great cheering.) Tb e address was enthusiastically applauded by the auditory, who thronged the house in every part—pit, gallery, and boxes being equally crowded to a most inconvenient state of repletion. 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