The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

IPRINCESS'S THEATRE. under tne Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS KVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. 'THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARXET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. , THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original imnadT, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Messrs. Corn ton, Bnckstone, Howe, W. Far m, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwlck,dm After which, a new Cla ssical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW F.LECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Lecleroq. And A DAUGHTER T Com O ence at MARRY 7.. m NEW THEATRE - ROYAL , AD ELP HI. ..A.l Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. THIS F.VICNrNG the performances will commence with ICI ON PA RLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas. selby, BillingtOn ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Btliington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Kr. A. Wl an , C. Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laid law. A ft er which, THE. DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past Rix—Commence at seven. Box OinCe open from 10 toy --no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta. by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO Supported by the company. Atter which, THE MAID AND TFIE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYRF. BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. I "nparsileled and Continued Success of LNANFIOE. Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new grand s pc founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled' IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing (Mont; the vast resources of this grea t Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievements in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst ; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent. To conclude with the Farce of KILL OR CURE. The preparations for Whitsuntide are on an extensive scale already. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dregs Circle, 48. ; — Boxes, .; Pit, 2e, ; Gallery, le.; Upper Gallery, 'id. Private Boxes, .£4 4s, £2 2a, and £1 16. To commence at 7 ; Carriag-es at 11. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Westminster-road.—(den at Seven. EVERY EVENING thirlinr the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, eonsistinz of three Juvenile Vinlinisto, viz.. Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and ICIMIT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets. and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and XLEVEN o'clock, In addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SuN °MCP, MAY 28. TILEILMOMETEIL, IN TILE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 54—loweat this morning and during the night. 75--this day at noon. BAROMETER--29'80. WIND, S. E. ; light, with dull weather. Heavy rain in the morning. While the Austrians act strictly on the defensive Louis NAPOLEON will find if a task of no ordinary difficulty to dislodge them from the strong positions which they have occupied, and on which they may speedily fall back.' GARIBALDI, who appears to have obtained some success over the Austrians, and to have taken two pieces of cannon, is a hard man to deal with. He seems thoroughly to understand the art of war, and the no less important one of exciting the discontented populations in any locality where he may for the time being be situated. In the vicinity of Varese he has peculiar advantages. The people are ready to wear the tricolour at any moment. They only desire to have sufficient support to warrant them in shaking off the Austrian yoke, and the victory that has been obtained, or has been said to have been obtained by the leader of the volunteers, may supply the requisite stimulant to produce the necessary excite ment and create the intended insurrection. The movement was decidedly a bold one. It was carrying the war into the enemy's country, and that without either cavalry or artillery. GARIBALDI was obliged to trust entirely to the musket and bayonet, and although he had a majority of troops, the other advantages on the part of the Austrians were quite sufficient to counterbalance the nume rical odds against them. lie probably expected to have received additional volunteers from Switzer land, but the course adopted to ensure the perfect neutrality of the Cantons has prevented the rea lisation of his wishes. There would probably be several thou san d s w illi ng to take up arms, if only enabled to do so by the permission of the authorities where they aro located. This per mission has, however, been withheld, and the stronn. forces posted on the frontiers will effectually prevent the participation of the anticipated auxi liaries at the seat of war. It is true that the allies hav e rn pa are ion of Tuscany ; that Flore nce and Legh ar in their hands, and that the Grand Duke and his family have taken refuge in flight. Rut th e operations of the war can scarcely be carried on ' h eit er from Tus- cany or Naples, supposing even that the latter fall into their hands. It is Parma and Modena that they require. With these Duchies in their posses sion they could greatly annoy the Austrians, and would unquestionably do so. It would, as we have already stated, enable them to turn the flank of the Germans, and to conduct their strategetical affairs with the greatest possible efficiency. 'Whether they will violate the neutrality of the coveted duchies, or produce a similar result by exciting insurrection, remains to be seen. That they will take the course most to their advantage seems certain. LOUIS NAPOLEON will not allow minor difficulties to stand in his way in enabling him to carry out the line of policy which he has willfully and deliberately resolved on pursuing. If he desires to emulate his uncle .he will not stick at trifles or let any trifling impedi ment remain. Rut by so doing he may bring dawn t he whole force of the Germa n Confederation in opposition to his designs; and although in such case itus.sia may interfere on his behalf, it is not certain that x} 1e would do so, and the war would be prolonged f o r anindefinite period, which would exhaust the cu • mary resources of France as well .as of Austria. The latter Power has, indeed, already adopted the r g eat panacea—the issue of an inconvertible paper currency ; but she Has also committed the grav e m • istake of disregard- I ing the important • Points which would ren der it unii.ersall • y acceptable throughout the whole of the domi • nions subject to Aut.- trian taxes arid duties. It cannot be received in payment or either, and must therefore go to a heavy discount, in order that the taxpayers may provide for thei3• responsibilities. Should there not be the hoped-for revolutions, NAPOLEON rd. will find it difficult to proceed in the face f the powerful entrenchments and for. tifications a nder the Austrian control. It must be remember, that they have troops nearly equal in Point of r Ambers to the combined forces of the 1.6 4 44 , • ' : 1 " 4.:, ~ •••••••• 4 4 X i 2 JIP A s ~,, .., • 4 71 - OA . i. 4 .ii , .. # i , " • A 0_... , o s N p .... t. „._ 0 ' ' .., THE SUN. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1869. allies ; that these men are thoroughly trained and disciplined, and that the riflemen of the Tyrol exhibit a direful skill in the use of their formidable weapon. Their engineers are perhaps unequalled, most cer tainly unsurpassed, by those of any nation in the world. And there is just as much reason why Louis NAPOLEON should abstain from a forward movement while Piacenza and Pavia remain in the enemy's bands, as that GYULAI should have refrained from marching on Turin while the Allies held Alossandria. We know something of the time consumed in the capture of Sebastopol, and may therefore form some estimate of the results of improved engineering skill in the defence of such strongholds. LOUIS NAPOLEON cannot afford any amount of procrastination. His triumph, to be in any degree satisfactory, must be rapid and decisive. A Fabian policy would be his ruin. That, however, now seems to be the Austrian game, which will lead to very invidious comparisons between the first and third of the name, and induce the French to believe that they have accepted a Brummagem substitute for a brilliant oxiginai. If the commencement of grouse shooting is again, according to annual custom, to mark the close of the Parliamentary session, there remains now merely an interval of about two months within which to compress the whole of the future toil for 1859 of our hereditary and representative legislators. Within those two months, however, very mach will, of course, be decided. It is scarcely probable for that matter, indeed it is scarcely possible, that anything can be effected in the way of carrying out any scheme whatever, large or small, moderate or immoderate, for the revision of the popular representation. For this ses sion at least the question of Parliamentary Reform is shelved both for Whigs and Tories, for Libe rals no less than for Conservatives. It were simply waste of the little residue of the session yet left to us, to deliberate upon the problem of reform with a serious view, for an instant, of attempting anything in the shape of actual legislation upon the matter. For this postponement of reform to 1860 at the earliest, the present Ministry is certainly not in any way directly or indirectly responsible. It is the first Cabinet that has for many years past laid upon the table a definite scheme of reform, good, bad, or indifferent. The DERBY Government, if it has not contrived to solve the difficulty, has at any rate had the good faith and the honesty and courage to ventilate this " vexed question" in debate —it has laid a specific project of reform frankly upon the table of thdillouse—it has carried the subject boldly and unhesitatingly to a division ; and having been denied the opportunity of sub mitting its plan to the ordeal of the Committee for the ultimatum of its legitimate acceptance or its legitimate rejection, it has resolutely appealed to the country through the constitutional medium of a dissolution. That appeal has been unmistake ably responded to by the 400 constituencies. The result of the dissolution, it is impossible to deny, has, in many respects, exceeded whatever may have been the most sanguine hopes of the believers in, and supporters of, the present Government. The elec tioneering triumphs won by Ministerial candidates have not only been more numerous than any one could reasonably have anticipated, but they have many of them been most unexpected and some of them in their way quite extraordinary. It still remains remarkable, for example, among the " sur prises" resulting from the late general election, that both the Liberal members for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis have been replaced by staunch Derbyites. That exchange, moreover, is particu larly remarkable when it is remembered that one of those two Liberal ex - members for Weymouth was no other than Colonel WIL LIAM FREESTUN, who, as representative for the borough, has sat in the House of Com mons during the twelve years last past (ever since the general election of 1847), as virtually one of the two body-esquires of the knightly PALMERSTON. The rejection by Pontefract of Mr. MONCKTON MiLNEs, the other body-esquire of the noble lord the Member for Tiverton, and the preference, in lieu of that staunch Palmerstonian, of a thorough going Derbyite, by the hon. gentleman's hitherto faithful Yorkshire constituency—could hardly have surprised us more than the summary manner in which Lord GREY DE WILToN has superseded Colonel FREESTUN as the deliberate choice of the electors of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Another double triumph of a very surprising kind for the Derbyites is that gained by Messrs. POWYS and KINNAIRD at Newport,in the Isle of Wight, in place of the late Liberal representatives. Another —the return of Sir E. LACON and Sir H. STRACY by Yarmouth, instead of Messrs. YOUNG and MELLOR, until then enrolled among i the ranks of the Opposition. The twin successes achieved at Berwick-upon Tweed by Capt JORDAN and Mr. RALPH EARLE will not very soon be forgotten or forgiven by their discomfited anta gonists, any more than the ignominious rejection by Dover of its quondam representatives, Sir WIL LIAM RUSSELL and Mr. RALPH OSBORNE, borne down by the superior influence of the veteran Admiralty Candidates. But incomparably the most astounding among all these double victories won to the side of the Ministry were those gained in the western division of Kent, and in the southern division V acoa n i s a c d o ti u d aten t t le l s o i f o l no.ui LancAshire ! Here, by Sir EDMUND F ILmEn, and the heir to the earldom of Amherst, with EsDALE—there, by Mr. W. LEGIT H. A. Eozwrost. Meanwhile, coupled these brilliant triumph s f or new Mi n i s terial , there have boon no less than thirty•esOl g the Liberal candidates whose names appear w e h d ioh the tt s a i m on on the UNI rejectedatne t i d i e i b s dissolution, theirfactiousuti o n in --e ma j orit to have now been summarily , forl dwi n li icior anconstituents, h a a t n e d ve 654 national repro hes sudden dd find en who am e n the Consequently no t lo ng er the supporters sentatives. After passing t f h ort rou unge h , alternations of good and evil again having pP° of the Government and t h e su pporters the of O sition are about to co nfront eac h other in the new House of Common s— the De rbyit es won six-and-twenty seats, anii the Liberals lost six and-twenty seats during the late stormy struggle in as many constituencies a difference, co ,„,_ quently, of fifty-two upon a division—a clear advantage of more than half-a-hundrel—heartening the Ministerialists on to the Parliamentary strife which now, with redoubled energy, will be com menced. The result of that contest is dependent upon so exquisite a balance of parties in the new house that it must infallibly b?long to which soever throws most largely into the scale the triple weights of union, of patrioti• rn, and of principle. COURT CIRCULAR. - - Her INlAjesty the Queen and her Royal IlighnesA the Princess Alice visited her Royal Highness the Duchoot of Kent yesterday morning at Clarence-house, St : Jarnes',4. The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her 'loyal Highness the Princess Frederick William at Buckingham Palace. His Excellency the Ambassador of France has left Albert gate IlouAe, for PariA. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yexterday to the Governor of Canada. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly this evening at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. rH SUN, LONViON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1859. "1 E f ir NF W L A - TgE IVA.R IN ITALY. TURIN, MAY 28. OFFICIAL BiILiXTYY PUBLISHED TO-DAY. Garibaldi has occupied S position at St. Fermo, but many of his officei Is are killed and wounded. Our troops continue attackiog the enemy, and have penetrated as far as Como. The town of Como was .;finminated, and great joy prevails among the populaCe. The enemy is still at Camerlata. At Lanigiano, in Parma, the people have rjsen and pronounced for the King of Sardinia. General Ribotti, with Tuscan troops, military engineers, and yens d'armes entered Parma amidst the plaudits of the people, who declared for the King of Sardinia and Italian independence. The Parmesan troops have retired. TURIN, MAY 27. Austrian steamers are cruising about the Lago Maggiore, threatening the country on the banks of the lake. The inhabitants, being in arms, offer resistance to the menaces of the enemy. The steamer Radetzki appeared before the town of Cannobio and fired a few shots without effect, but the discharges from the small arms of the National Guard and of the Customs Guards soon compelled her to bear away again. A private message received here announces that General Garibaldi occupies a strong position near Varese. Yesterday evening Count de Saltnour departed for Naples. PARIS, MAY 28. The Moniteur of to-clay publishes the following telegram : ALESSANDRIA, May 27.—The situation of affairs affords nothing new to note. MADRID, MAY 27. According to adviees received from Lisbon, the Portuguese Government has declared to the Cortes its intention of remaining neutral during the pre sent war. BRIINE, MAY 27. According to a message from Lugano of to-day, Garibaldi left Varese this morning for Como. 6,000 Austrians are concentrated at Camerlata. Railway communication between Camerlata and Milan is interrupted, and also the telegraphs from Collico to Jocco and through the Valtelinc. TRIESTE, MAY 27. A Turkish steamer ' has arrived bringing the overland mail, but the news is unimportant. Advices have also been received from Corfu, the 23d instant. Two Austrian steamers have arrived there with out hindrance. BERNE, NIAY 27. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : Yesterday General Garibaldi overcame the Aus trians at Varese, took two pieces of cannon, and pursued the retreating enema•. On both sides the losses were great. The inhabitants of the sur rounding country have revolted and ri,en in arms. Garibaldi has issued a proclamation calling on the Lombards to rise. TURIN, MAY 27. A private telegram received hero from Naples announces that the King of Naples has, on his =- cession to the throne, published a proclamation, in which he enumerated the good qualities of his pre decessor, but avoids making any engagements for the future, and abstains from pronouncing his opi nion on the events now going forward in the Italian peninsula. Garibaldi's corps have had their first serious affair with the Austrians. On the 26th, an Aus trian force, about 6,000 or 7,000 strong, attacked the Piedmontese at La Malmati, in the direction of Como. The fighting was highly creditable to the Italians, who charged with the bayonet as soon as they could get up to their enemies. After a three hours' contest, the Austrians retreated towards Como—Garibaldi's men following them up. The Italians were 4,000 strong, but had no artillery. A second despatch says :—" The Chasseurs des Alpes have fought bravely, charging with the bayonet. Varese and the surrounding country, in full insurrection, are under arms. Garibaldi is in pursuit of the retreating enemy. To day the Emperor has visited Vercelli in company with Marshal Vaillant. He was received by General La Marmora, the authorities, the clergy, and the people, who greeted him with enthusiastic cheers." Garibaldi's forces and those of the Prince Napo leon aro rapidly closing on the Austrians, and by the end of.the month an important engagement is axpected to take place. Should the Austrians be defeated we shall hear of propositions for peace, England being used by the Cabinet of Vienna as the medium. The following proclamation was issued by Gen. Garibaldi to the inhabitants of Lombardy on his arrival on their territory : " Lombards,—You are called to a new life, and you must answer the appeal as your fathers did at Ponsida and Legnano. The enemy is still the same—the:same atrocious, pitiless, plundering as sassin. Your brothers in other provinces have sworn to conquer or die with you. It is for you to revenge the insults, the outrages, the servitude of 20 past generations. It is for you to leave to your sons a patrimony freed from the stain of the domination of the stranger. Victor Emmanuel, whom the national voice has called to be your chief, sends me into the midst of you to organise you to fight for your country'. I am deeply impressed by the holy mission which is confided to me, and proud of commanding you. To arms then let vour slavery cease. Whoever has strength to hold an arm, and refrains, is a traitor ! Italy, with her children united and freed from foreign bondage, will suffice to reconquer the position which Provi dence has assigned her amongst nations." The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the 48tb, 49th, and 50th bulletins. The latter has been an ticipated by telegraph : the others are as follow: " No. 4t3. 24th, :1.30 p.m.—The whole of the Irn- Peri l Guard is to follow the Emperor to his new been e - qu arters at Voghera. Th is movement hail delayed because the cavalry of the guard was expected ; but it has now begun to arrive. alarm " No. 49.24 th, evening.—Yesterday the Austrian Ticino sheered steam give Ticino u p two approached persons lntr a , arr es arrested summoning o n spies.i n g r t i fi l a ke t place steamer Giovanni and ° was beat , the bells rung, and the National men were hurt G u a r d off large numbers ; whereupon the firing against the island of San i t La Castagnola. None of our of the fury of the m a ) T a is in great apprehension reactionary party hadto *cry, who arc excited by the Austrians that east off all discipline. The with the Nfodenese troo p' ar rived at Reggio an. retiring Duke is preparing for p d i er to lirescello, where the trees and laying the country under elating down er water." 1 Intra is on the Piedmontebe side of the Lugo Nfaggiore, north of Pallanza, an d I x , a ut 10 kilometres from the Swiss frontier. A Vienna letter of the 221 says :..._" An army . of 120,000 men is about to be formed i n 1 - lohemia It is said that the A is )e appo i nt edrchduke Albert to 1. to the command in chief of all the troops of the Em pire with the exception of those of Italy and Hun gary. The Archduke is not, as at first intended, to be placed at the head of any army which Austria might send if necessary to the Rhine." Russia has pledged herself not to enter into the war unless Germany moves; she has pledged her self to that policy, and has caused her intentions to be clearly known at Berlin and elsewhere. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg therefore advises the German States not to employ any of their diplo matists on a mission which would end in their complete failure. The responsibility of making, the war European will fall on those who wish to thwart France in freeing Italy from Austrian rule. His Excellency M. de Persigny is expected in P ar i s . His visit is occasioned by purely domestic necessities, and he will return to London within a week. THE STATE OF PIEDMONT. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) TURIN, M. 25. Until the French have got up all they want, and are in a perfect state of efficiency, there seems little c .hance of my having any important event to record. From one day to another, however, they may find theint , elves complete, and assume the offensive. A bulletin published yesterday afternoon announces that the French Emperor was starting for Voghera, there to establish his head-quarters. He was to be followed by the whole of the Imperial Guard, of which a good deal of the cavalry is now arrived. Voghera, as you will see by the map, is well on towards the present front of the Franco-Piedmon tese, on the high road to Piacenza, and at little more than three Italian miles from Montebello. If this army remains inactive for many days longer, it will, I suspect, be less for want of men, horses, or guns, than from the necessity of getting up large stores of provisions before commencinga forward movement. The Austrians have cleared the frontier provinces, and should they have to retreat, will probably not leave a great deal behind them in those of Lombardy. I hear that the French have already consumed a great part of the rations laid in for the Sardinian army, and it is certain that at the Piedmontese head-quarters there is no superabun dance of forage for horses, and that some kinds of it were running rather short a day or two ago. It is no light matter to victual an army of upwards of 200,000 men ; the =bunt of transport required is prodigious, and in this the French arc said to be deficient. I know not how the Turinese will demonstrate their delight should great successes be achieved by the Franco-Piedmontese army, for they seem to be expending all their enthusiasm and exultation upon trifles. They an important victory, and last nig ht the y could magnified the affair of Mont ebello into think and talk of nothing but of Garibaldi's capture of 47 men. A squadron of French Lancers arrived here yesterday, and were the object of intense in• terest and curiosity. One of this afternoon's papers announces that the Bey of Tunis has sent his Prime Minister, Chevalier Raffo, on a mission to the King, with a generous offer of soldiers for the war of in dependence. The envoy arrived at Genoa on board a Tunisian man-of-war, and left immediately for head-quarters. Certainly the cause of liberty in Italy finds strange supporters. First steps forward the despotic Sovereign of France, and now the Bey of Tunis tenders his old. Letters from Genoa speak of the crowded state of the port and of the con tinual arrival of French vessels, from which large quantities of provisions and military stores arc landed. The presence of the terrible does not seem pleasing to the Piedmontese, although why they should object to it is hard to say, except that in their present temper they would object to any thing English, and if a member of the Royal Yacht Club chose to put into a Sardinian port in his cutter we should soon be told of some deep and dangerous designs on his part. Captain Blackwood arrived here yesterday, with despatches from the Foreign-office for Sir James Hudson, and proceeded at once to Rome. The weather continues extremely unsettled. This week we have had daily thunderstorms, followed by heavy rains. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAT 25. Pavia is in a state of siege, and on the 19th inst. the inhabitants of the city were ordered 1 to deliver up their arms to the military authori ties within " three times twenty-four hours." The Pavia correspondent of the Oesterreichishe Zeitung observes that it would have been better if the order had been given some time ago, as many persons have recently been assassinated in the streets. Among the victims are the correspondent of a Cerman paper, who ventured to write against Sardinia, and a young Italian girl who had formed an intimate connexion with a German. The fortifi cations at Pavia are on such a grand scale that it is evident the Austrians are resolved to make a firm stand on the left bank of the Ticino, and to retain possession of Lombardy as long as they possibly can. Almost all the labourers employed in the construction of the fortifications at Pavia are Pied montese, who arc but too happy to receive two zwanzigers (16d.) a day for their work. More troops are about to leave this city, for notice has been given to the public that for some days after the 0 6th inst. no local trains will run on the Southern railroad. The two trains which take passengers and the mails to Trieste leave at 8.40 in the morning and at the same hour in the evening. The Sardinians are trying to destroy the bridge at Vacarrizza by sending trunks of trees down the Po, but their labour is in vain, as the Austrians did not make use of pontoons. Such strict discipline is maintained in the Austrian camp that he who "loots" is almost sure to make acquaintance with the "Ilaslinger" (the hazel stick used by the cor porals in castigation is so called). Some men belong ing to the train thought fit to carry off several look ing-glasses, in handsome gilt frames, from the theatre at Mortara, and within two hours after the theft had been committed the culprits had received their dose of stick on, the stage of the theatre, and in the presence of some of the municipal authorities. As you have doubtless heard from your correspondent at head-quarters, two soldiers who had " borrowed" some trinkets, from a figure of the Holy Virgin, which was in a chapel on the roadside, were tried by a court-martial, and shot. On the 21st inst., a brigantine managed to run into the port of Venice, and her crew related that a part of the French fleet had made an attack on the Island of Lissa, which Is the Malta of the Adriatic. The island is strongly fortified, but it is not probable that it would be able to hold out very long against a powerful enemy. It need har4lv be said that no official information of what is passing at Lissa has been received here. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. BOURSE, May 27.—Tii opening of the market was rather buoyant, owing to a telegram announc ing that ' Garibaldi had defeated the Austrians, but prices afterwards gave way, and business be came heavy. Threes, after having been done at 61f. 50c. and 61f. 55c., receded to 61f. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 590 f. to 585 f.; Austrian, 562 f. 50c. to 5601.; Orleans, 1,177 f. 50c. to 1,1751. ; Lyons, 7771. 50c. to 775 f.; Southern 435 f. to 4421.50 c.; Northern, 8801. t0877f. 50c.; Eastern, 600 f. to 5971. The following were the closing quotations:- 4} per Cents. 6189 5. 2. 5 ". i ; C p rid iedn it i. F n o t n ema cier c . ,) 6 7_ 2. 7 ; Do. end month .. 89 2.i (Belgian 4t— -3 per Cents . hU Do. enl month.... 61 60 Roman Bl 50 Bank Shares. "710 Austrian Credit Mobilier .587 50 Spanish Threes • Do. Account INDIA AND CHINA. THE CALCUTTA MAIL, The India anti China journals brought by the Overland Calcutta Mail have arrived. The dates from Calcutta are to the 22d; four days behind the news which we last received from Bombay. The Englishman says : _ The condition of the rebels still in arms becomes daily more desperate and more wretched, as they are hunted and their resources cut off from them ; but though beaten they are still numerous enough to be troublesome, and from.the mis taken course pursued with them many of them are by no means hopeless of another chance. They tight only when compelled, but plunder at every opportunity, and oblige us at great cost to follow their movements, and when at last any number find themselves hemmed in, they give them selves up, with arms in their hands yet hot from their last exploit, and are received under the terms of the still open amnesty. Literally such was the case with a party of about io men who looted a factory near Buxar, and when they found themselves cut o ff f rom escape, next day gave themselves up as we have said. Officers coming down assert that the Sepoys are often heard to say,—" Yes, we are beaten; the Bengal army has lost its chance ; but you have got the Madras and the Bombay armies, and the time will come." We should be glad to have ground for saying the struggle is at an end. The country is settled ; but a glance through our columns will show that, though ap proaching that consummation, there is yet work to be done, and the worst season to do it From Hong Kong intelligence is to the 13th of April. The Overland China Mail of that date gives the following in its summary : Baron Gros, the French plenipotentiary, left this on the ith instant in the Audacieuse for Singapore, from whence he returns to Europe. M. do Bourbonllon, at present at Macao, is now the French Minister, and the Legation will be removed to Shanghai next month. The Bishop of Vic toria has also left, on a visit to Australia. From Cochin China there are more particulars of the taking of Saigon, which does not seem to have cost a single life to the allied French and Spanish force. The booty is said to have been immense, both of arms and of copper cash. From Shanghai there have come rumours which may possibly have some influence on the course to be pursued by the British Minister to China. „It is said that the Rus sians have established their. legation at Peking, and that their Minister has been attended there by a large retinue, but that he has already had a difference with the Chinese Government, from his refusing to communicate officially with any one but the Emperor himself. It is also reported, that Tien-twin (where the treaty was concluded) has been occupied by a large number of Chinese troops, and " diffi culties" are apprehended when our Minister advances to Peking with the ratified treaty. Business is almost entirely suspended at Canton, and the rumour that the city is about to be evacuated by the allies is one great cause of fear. No teas are making their ap pearance, and almost no purchases aro made of our imports except of manufactures used in Canton itself and the imme diate neighbourhood. It is reported that the rebels who hold the possession of the . passes to the tea districts, have intercepted the small remaining quantity of this season's tea which was on its way down, and are interfering with the Cultivation in some districts. It is feared by the Chinese that immediately after our evacuation of the city it will be seized by the rebels, and so they are unwilling to engage in commercial operations which may only serve to enrich others. Both in - the east and of the north-west of the province of Kwang-tung, the rebels have been successful of late-, and aro pressing towards Canton. In 1846 they nearly took that city, and were driven back with some difficulty ; but now there is no determined Yeh to govern the province, or to intimidate t he rebels by wholesale executions in the event of the foreign troops being withdrawn. Ai all thi; ports business has been dull during the last fortnight : but the resumption of the immigration of Chi nese to California has slightly increased the demand for shipping. The continued dryness of the spring has caused a considerable rise in the demand for rice at all the porta and at Macao. There have been lately many and gross instances of kid napping Chinamen in order to s end th em as con t rac t coo li es to the Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neigh • bourhood of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen thus kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in lorchas, to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off, chiefly in French vessels, for Cuba. NAILWAYA. enah. Account. Orleans Nortlwrn New ditto. 7%5 - Lyons and 31,..literraise.,! - 742 Oencva 462 50 .. 465 Southern - 413 75 %leAt4;rn KaAtern Sardinian Atotriun Exchange on Loudon, at sight. paper, 2.'(. ; money, ; three mouth'', paper, 21r. 85e. ; money, 2it B,lc. TRADE WITH RUSSIA.-0 - n Tuesday last Messrs. p ee a nd Co's steamer I:niperor arrived at Hull from Cron. stailt, after a five days* voyage, exclusive of a delay of 30 hours on her passage by fuggy weather and ice in the (;ulf and a nine bonne detention at Copenhagen. She brings a fu ll „ anti) , consisting of wool, hemp, Ibis, tow, bristles, Sic.. £111.700 bullion, and 68 1xueengerm. Thu steamer Moseawi which arrived at Hull on Friday last, also brought bullion from Cronstadt to the amount till:104000. EXCHANGE AND BULLION. lioNn Komo, April 13. ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.—OR London, 6 months' sight, 4s. 81d. •, on Calcutta, 16 days sight' 219 Its. per 100 dols. ; on Bombay, lo days' sight, 219 Rs. per 100 dohs. Gold leaves, 23,80 dols. per tael; gold bar, 23,00 per tael; Sycee silver, Ts. 81 per cont. premium. OTHER BILLS.—On Loudon, 6 months' sight, 4s. 9d. to 4s. OW. ; on Calcutta, 3 days' sight, 219 per 100 d 015..; on Bombay, 3 days' sight , 219 per 100 dols. SHANGHAI, April o.—On London, six months' sight, 6e. 4d. per tael; on Calcutta, 3 days' sight, Its. 297 per 100 taels ; on Bombay, 3 days' sight, Its. 295 per 100 taels. Drafts on Hong Kong, 27 per discount. AMERICA. The Bremen arrived at Southampton yesterday. with the United States mail. She left New York on the 14th inst. The news, which is one day later, is unimportant. The packet ship William Tapseott, Captain Bell, arrived at New York on the 13th, from Liverpool, bringing 726 Mormon emigrants, including women and children. One half of them were from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and the other half from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. They are a better class than the average of European emi grants. With the exception of some seventy-five, the whole party left for Florence in Nebraska territory the same evening, via the Suspension Bridge route. A 'Washington telegram of the 13th inst. says : —" Letters received here, from sources entitled to credit, mention that rumours were prevalent in various portions of Italy that the Pope might be compelled to take refuge in the United States. Our ministers at Rome and Naples speak of it as highly probable, owing to the unsettled aud pre carious condition of things?' • COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 13. There was to-day a reaction from the late panic, and prices at the Stock Exchange advanced considerably. The market closed firm, the following being the last prices : Teneseees, 911 to 1 ; NH souris, 831 to 81 ' • Virgituana, 941 to Id ; Canton, 18} to 19; Cumberland Preferred, 17; New York Central, 71} to 1; Erie. it to ; Harlem, 101 to 11, ditto Prefentsl, 361 to I ; Hudson liver. 311 to 32 ; Reading, 461 tot ; Michigan Central, 421 to 1 ; Michigan Southern, 91 to a ; ditto Preferred, 311 to f ; Panamas, to 119; Illinois Central, 57 to I ; Galena and Chicago, 621 to 63 ; Cleveland and Tole4lo, 26/ to I ; Chicago and Rock Island, 61/ to 1; Illinois Central Bond s , 811 to 82; Pacific Mail, 8.3 to 1. We learn by telegraph from M ashington that the Treasury receipts last week were 920,000 doh'. The amount subject to draft is nearly 7,000,000 dol.. The exchanges at the Bunk Clearing-house to-day were 22,467,502 dok, and the balances 1,447,377 doll. Money continues as easy as could be desired by borrowers. A few of the private lenders have put the rate up to the Bank standard, .5 per cent.; but there is no difficulty in borrowing any amount on good securities at 4. Mercantile paper is so scarce that the competition fur it among leaders effectually prevents an advance in rates. Foreign exchange is net quite so strong. Wo quote sterling GO-day bills (bankers) at 110 to 110 , the leadi ng d rawer .1 asking 1101 • and francs at 5 ' .lO to 11k. The Bremen, to morrow, will take out about 500,000 do m.; and, as th ere i s no Cunard steamer from this port next week, it looks as though the specie shipments, so much dreaded, were not going to ruin the banks as yet. COTTON.—Tho sales embraced about 700 to 800 bales, closing on the basis of about 111 e. for middling uplands, while seine persons quote them at a fraction more. Dealers were again anxiously waiting the reeeita of another steamer's news, which they expect will settle the question whether war has been actually commenced. BILY.ADSTUFPA.—FiOnr.—The market for all the better grades continued firm, and generally closed nt higher rates, while low and common grades were unehaerd. There was some abatement in the fever of speculation. The autos footed up about '22,000 brls. Canadian flour was firm but nominal. Southern flour was again firm and active, The sales embraced about 7,0)0 bbls., with the above ad vanced range of quotations. Corn meal was steady and prieee unchanged. Wheat was again firm, with sales of about 20,000 bushels, including white Kentncky at 2 dots. to 2 dols. Sc.; poor Wilwaukm club at 2 Dols. 2.5 c.; fair white Southern at 1 dol. 90e. ; red Western at 1 dol. 80c. to 1 dol. 8.5 e., and inferior mixed at 1 dol. 6.5 c. to 1 dol. 70e Corn was less buoyant, while the sakes were about 31,000 bushels, including round yellow at 93e., prime Jersey yellow at 1 dol., and Southern white lit 91!... to 9.5 c. Rye WAS quiet, but firmly hold. Betios was steady, and about 3,000 bushels California were reported at p. t. oats were in fair demand at 60c. to 61e. for State; and at 62e. to 63c . for Canadian. FttP.utilis.—To Liverpool, 100 tierces beef were engaged at 2K , 200 brls. pork nt Is. Gd., and 50 tons dead weight nt 100., 170 tierce?' lard at 20s. to 2'2s. Gd., 400 Ink perk nt p, t.,•50 to 100 hales hogs hair at Ms. To Glasgow., 10 tons t 4 ;11ow at 205., 10 do. grease nt 255. - - SIR JAMES GRAHAM AOAIN.—The onslaught of Sir Jallleil Graham on the Derby Govenunent is destined to be repulsed on every side. It will be remembered that, in support of his charge of obtaining Roman Catholic support on the ground of the Austrian leaning of the Government, he reud a confidential letter from a Liverpool letter, pur porting to be written by the Secretary of the Roman Calm • lic Bishop of Liverpool. The Weekly Itrqister is authorised b t r t he auPposed writer himself, the Very Rev. Canon N 'nlker, to declare that letter a forgery. V ACANCIES , APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN TIIF. CIVIL. SERVICE. —Tbe Admlridty : A vacancy has been created in the d e partment of the )101(4%11Am:tor- General of the Navy, Somerset-house, by the death of Mr. Henry Moseley 31*Cay, third class clerk. 13ritish Museum : There is a vacancy for an assistant libr.trinn : commencing salary f 150 per annum. The Dockyards : There fan elerk sliip vacant nt Dovonport-y ar d by the rcsigtmtion of Mr. Alleyne Barker. Ther e are s evera l vacan cis.: in the different doekyards for foremen of Fhipwrizhts. Mr. Breaks has boen appointet. I a e . Mr. Ilritski has ht en emintant at 1) ptford•Tard; „ t f .pdord ; Mr. Jamieson has been n mthrf t N '' )er n , — of ) tbe S'ietnalling y a rd, lhptfi a pp. 'Wits] Customs: ;trri.'''(-I,et.X • ..r?sl'eanim„ma has i boon .:appo.itite(.l gclenli k . and searcher at tho pert of votiams , isle of Am. M r. Johu Rec. has 'wen appointed a 'lyric at Arbroath. Mr. J. B. I Itapk ins has boon appo J An Nl inted prpal eO:lAt °Meer at Ferryside, LtanbilY, Mr. wlley, r o ik,t„ r at humigion. has been promoted Le hoeulleetDr4t, 1141 1441, Mr. ji, n ry 1/64d, collector at I) over , has L ou roinotili to be eislieetor at Whet: en, Mr. Charles S. Saund r e b rs, 00 0 4 ° r " Shoreham, kit.. Wall 1W0110404 to be eoll e ct or at Dover Mr Thomas L. st ; .pledon, eolloctor 14 Cqrun.„ ll, 1 11111 ' ken ' •collectort Sh oreham... wornotcd to be a Mi. . John Cronin, coon/Volk* at pr"Shedu, has aen promoted to be oollector at ci mar yan. MI ; ilQbPrt . Joules, collector at Arundel, h,., been promotsst to be • )ter,o, nips , F 1161 1,61 L. Shaw,_pomptro ,r, i i .14 ~...t ati n 44 l . Mr. i r to in . collector at 43u4.1td, n 6d fp •,- , c „. premoted Stamps and Taxes Branch . Aft p eyenue mepitrtment, p..rotimerury surveyor of L a i" ; r oma , * t 4 l i V a eldWY for a 414. Sir. J a w' Stai)""n Clare has teen : a aPpnl i n n tell "l a :u r) plt i :- . merely eurveyorof taxel,....O r d ,y ov i c i, onsfilf. 7ILE BOMBAY MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Orissa, Capt. J. K. Joy, bringing the heavy portion of these mails in charge of Mr. Casson, of the General Post-office, arrived at Southampton yesterday morning. She left Alemndria on the 12th inst. ; Malta, the 10th ; Gibraltar, the 21st ; and has had fine weather throughout, but strong head winds from Malta. The Orissa brought 133 passengers, among whom were—From Bombay—Lieut.-Colonel Kane, Major Welman, Captains Newnham, Taylor, Baldwin, Cordner, Pulman, and Pye ; Lieutenants Higman, Be Vitro, and Butd ; Ensign Middlecourt ; Com thander Worsley, Indian navy ; I)rs. Barnet, White, Pirie, Sommerville, and Harrison, wife, and two children ; Mr. Masson, Mr. Airey, Mr. T. Marshall, Mr. Ardasseer, Mr. Crowe, Mr. Anderson, Mrs. Cooper and child, Mrs. Mackinnon and three children, and Mrs. Holloway and two children, Mrs. Smallpage and two children. From Aden— Lieut. Walker, Indian navy; Lieut. Phillips. From Alexandria—General and Mrs. Lawrence and two children ; Earl Gifford, Mr. Leadam, 1)r. and Mrs. Bennett and child, Capt. Robertson, Capt. Miles, Mr. Short, Mrs. Anderson, Dr. and Mr s . Woodman and child. From Malta—Capt. and Mr. Twynham, two Misses Twynham, Capt. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Maude and child, Mrs. Callaway and son, Miss Pennefather. From Gibraltar—Col. Staunton, Captains Caulfield and Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins and child. On freight the Orissa had ono package of specie, value not stated, 48 bales of flax, 25 bales of senna, 97 cases of shawls, and 106 packages of general merchandise. The ugual Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Victor Emmanuel, Orion, Medina, Racoon, Ariel, Argus, Boxer, Lapwing, Terrible, Vigilant, and Hearty. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ships Osborne and Quail. Our correspondent at Gibraltar writes as follows on the 21st inst.:— " Her Majesty's steam-sloop Gannet left yesterday after noon for the West, but eventually proceeds to Malta. " His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales who has gone to the Ronda f a i r , w ill, i t is expected, visit Malaga and Granada before pr ocee di ng to England. "The merchants of this city, having invited the Prince to a ball, the same will come off on the return of his Royal Highness from Spain. Great preparations are in the mean time going on to give it on a scale of unusual splendour. "The Second Battalion of the King's Regiment is to have the colours presented on the 25th. "Captain Freelin g , R oya l Artillery, now acting Coloni a l Secretary, will, it is said, be definitely appointed. "Captain Pitcairn, 25th Regiment, proceeds to England on six months' leave. " There are now six Austrian vessels in port, which will be dismantled or disposed of, if possible, as circumstances offer, in consequence of the war. Ono of them has been sold to a British subject. "Her Majesty's ship Vulture, Captain Campbell, has not yet returned front Lisbon, whither she conveyed our late Governor, Sir James Fergusson." The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the Bombay and Australian mails of the 12th from Southampton, arrived at Gi b raltar at 10.15 p.m. on the 16th, and resumed her voyage at 1 a.m. on the 17th. The Janet Pitblado, arrived at Gibraltar, reports that on the 25th of April, off the island of Sardinia, she boarded the brig Marchioness of lireadalbane (of Dundee), Captain Dunn, from Girgenti, in Sicily, bound to the United Kingdom ; she was in a very leaky state, with ensign down. Remained on board her for 36 hours. The following British merchant steamers had arrived at Gibraltar; May 16th, the Dom Pedro, Captain Taylor, from Glasgow and Lisbon, with general cargo for Gibraltar ; 16th, the Oscar, Capt. Trapp, from London, with Government stores and general cargo for Gibraltar and ('adiz ; 18th, the Marco Bozzaris, Captain Staves, from London, with general cargo for Malta and Constantinople; 19th, the Demetrius, Captain Young, from Liverpool, with Feneral cargo for Malta; 20th, the Melita, Captain Langlands, from Liverpool, with general cargo for Malta and Constantinople. On May 13 the Orissa exchanged colours with the English barque Speedwell, in lat. 32.18, long. 26.40 E. ; same (lay, with the English barque Washington ; 16th, with th e P eninsu l ar an d Oriental Co mpany's steamer Indus, lat. 36.25, long. 17.19 E.; same day, with the P en i nsu l ar an d Oriental Company's steamer Nepali', lat. 34.32, long. 16.14 h,. ; 16th, with the Peninsular and Oriental Cothpany's steamer Jeddo, lat. 36 . 33, long. 13.8 E.; 18th, with an English paddle steamer of war, lat. 37 . 42, long 4.59 E., steering eastward ; same dav, a large French steamer, s te er i ng same course ; .19th, two French steamers off Cape Palos, steering eastwards; 20th, passed the French ship Madras, off Malaga ; 21st, off Cape Trafalgar, a screw steamer with a gunboat in tow, and at the same time a lar g e French screw line-of-battle ship ; 23d, exchanged colours with the troopship Mel bourne, off the Burlings, steering southward ; same day, the English brig Catherine Anna, lat. .10.11, long. 9.46 W.; same day, at 7.36 p.m., with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, lat. 40'61, long. 9.46 W. THE WAR-A USTRIAN VESSELS. The following communication, from her Majesty's (;overnment, has been received at Sydney : (COPY.) FottEmN-OrFICE, May 27, 1859. Sir,—With reference to my letter of the Wth instant communicating to you the answer which had he received from the French Government respecting the extent to which Austrian vessels are liable to capture by the French and Sardinian Cruisers, I am dir e ct e d by the Earl of Maline,,bury to state to you, for the information of the committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's, that in answer to the inquiries which, in obedience to his instructions, have been addressed to her Majesty's Minister at Turin to the Sardinian Government-- First, as to whether Austrian vessels arriving at ports of call would he allowed to leave such ports for their destination without being liable to capture, and, secondly, as to whether Austrian vessels which have sailed for Austrian er fur neutral ports prior to the declaration of war, will be liable to capture, the Sardinian Government state that they consider all Austrian vessels met with by the ships of his Sardinian Majesty under the eircunistaneos above-mentioned to be subject to capture.—l arn, sir, your moat obedient humble servant, E. IlAstmoNn. Capt. CI. A. Halsted, Secretary, Lloyd's. THE REIN SEA TBLE(iRAPH. The Red Sea telegraph cable has been sneeeSs fully laid down LIN far as Suakin. MAY 16, EVENIN(;. Forty miles from Suakin. —Cable has been laid so far most successfully. We hope to land t lie end to-morrow at noon. All well. MAY 17, 11.15 A.M. Arrived at S ua ki n. All well. M. KOSSU27I AT GLASuolr. GLASGOW, FRIDAY NIIIIIT. M. Kossuth tuldressed a densely crowded and most en thusiastic nuaqing in the City Hall this evening, Professor Nichol in the chair. M. Kossuth stated that ho PhOUIII shortly leave England, to aid, if ho could, the emancipation of his muntrynien. Resolutiolui in favour of non-inturvuution in the pn.sont war were unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks to the illustrious exile, reapondod to with intense enthusia,:in, was proposed by Mr. Dalgloish, M.P. W 11.1.14 AND IlEtieEßTS.—Tho late Venerable Walker King, M.A., Archdoacdn of Rochester, exocutvd hie will on the 3d of Apt il, 1853, to which an+ added two codicils, dated respectively the 17th of August, 1861, and the 21st of February, 1t409; nail he died nt Stone, near Dartford, on the 1 3 th of March, 18.59. The will w un p roved in the London Court of Probate by his nou n , th e R ev. Walker King and the Rev. Edward King, and Chador, Ilebertlon, Esq., his brother-in-law, this joint executors, and s worn under .Ciii,o4.X) personalty. lie has bequeathed to his children specific and pecuniary N 41110141. 11 e leaves his German, French, and Italian books to his dautchters ; his ()reek, Hebrew and Latin books to him and Edward ; and his English books to ratan \V a lk or be divided am ongst his SOTIN generally. Ile leave .1:1 s 00 to the rector of Stone, tc, Ise laid out in bread for the poor at ehrint mos, and directs that his annual sub table institutions be con ti mim i seriptiong to titan present. Ile bequeaths to his wiruio.ne year beyond the and the furniture, for her al:welt-le" carriage s and horses house at Woodside for her lit! use, and the freehold lands, which at her decease fire e, with the farm and children. Ile also leaves to his to to divided tunonget his to melt daughter a lope of s wife an annuity of .£4OOO ; son Walker un annuit o f Y .£ 47,°04) in "in runds ; to his annuity of Imo; to the MO ;to his son Edward an £2.0 each; an annuity of three younger sons tat !inutility of hi service ; a repo (If iv £ l7 to n nurse gorne time in Id. duo of his )00 to his coachman . and the rod will of Thomas Pr operty , St real and porter:nil. to his meas.—Tito Cooks, bankers) :ffirs Cocks, Esq. (Corks, itiddidpli, and by Thontna So an proved in the London t 'nun of Probate niers Cocks anti Reginald Thimtlewavlo Cocks, Esqra., the sons find executors. The personalty, C 3,1,000. Ile has nutd ) entan • ed si)"11k bequests to ids sons and daughters, and ha s di v i t l his real estate anal the residue of his personal (Ante equally attempt then,, except the I' 4-1 , 1 I ..t ~Ili Vlll4i 114 Milli!) , NOVidel 1 for.—The will of A Militant Farcbrother wits only proved on the sth of this pre.vnt month Of May. It "'Wain ., many %pee* bequests to his children. hlo !eaves to his eldest son his freehold estate at Ilitoknoy I find amongst other things has bequenthed to hint the sliver Nip which was presented to him by the N'intners' Company ;.. also tlio dessert eervioe used by hint when Lord Nlayor o f London, which ham his etvst engraved thereon. Ile leave , to be sharp! auttnuot his children the spoons thst were 0411 to law by the Viutner.'Couilawy, and It. h is i i migh ., tun is panto!' of his alderinante 44114. The residue of him real and !ammo I c Cato to he t ividod attionwit his children, There is a most remarkable request in his will—quit in his coffin there should Is e iiepos.ipmf some lcitt44 which would be .4r. hey s_rou_i_ a , !Lace, found in a cover with Ili% l'ii 1 t 1 t I II 1 1 ,i ii) „, it hi,, hem; f, WWI 4 Kayer- )oo and hymn-book ; i k i,,,, , nag, ihich low er Id* daughters Illkd glVV'f %14 1 / 1 ,11, shoull be noon his noise'. 'rh o *ill h 45 wade on the title of Aiw a , ' mil , 4 1,4 !I co.licil on the sth ofJanunry t 1817, The ea , ,, eut Z ra w ere ins song, the Ilov. Charles Fart.brotity r ti" Rev. Ifenry W. Earebiothur, and Wui, it, 11. Vetvbrollau'r Es* rvitoulilly, £;110q1. - _....... - --..._ MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. It is with sincere gratification that we pnbliah in this day's impression the new " Warrant, by which the rank, pay, and general position of the • medical of fi cers of the Royal Navy are henceforth to be regulated. this Although somewhat tardy of appearance, document, which, when we except the clause relating to the awar d o f prize money, is as nearly as possi ble a dague rro typ e of the Army Medical Warrant at the Ist October last, fulfils in spirit and in substance all that was h e ld out b y the Fi rst Lord of the Admiralty, and must be regarded as conferring the, greatest boon ev er gran t e d to t h e nav al medica l service since the early part of the present century, when the department was rescued from a b s olute destruction by the first Lord Melville, certainlYell e of the ablest men that ever occupied the presidential chair at the Admiralty. Since that period, it is true, various points have from time t o ti me b een y i e ld e d i n f avour o f naval medical officers. But the present assimilation (?` the naval with the other public medical services is a stride in the march of improvement which leaves all partial concessions far behind, and which, irre spectively of the justice it renders to an important and most meritorious class of officers, possesses the still higher adv an t age o f ma i nta i n i ng t h e med ical department of th e navy i n a state o f d es ira ble efficiency, and of thus securing for our equally with our so ldi ers, the most approved skil l and attention in sickness and in battle. Opposed as wo aro on political grounds to Sir . 1 ; Pakington, we have uniformly admitted his zeal an d honesty of purpose. On the present occasion t h e medical office rs , an d i n d ee d the whole naval servi ce ,: owe him much f or h av i ng, under a strong se nse of duty, carri e d ou t a reso l ut i on to raise t h e na va l medical department to a position adequate to the intelligence and the claims of that profession nP OII which the health, and consequently the efficiencYP of our right arm, the navy, so largely depends. Of a truth, the snail-like progress of reform M the naval medical service for the last half century and upwards, during which in civil life old custom s were constantly being superseded by those changer. and improvements d eman d e d b y t h e advance c" knowledge and intelligence, as well as by the dis coveries of science, expresses but too forcibly the apathy with which the department has been so long regarded at Whitehall. In 54 years the only he: provements effected in the medical departmen t worthy of enumeration aro the institution of the inspectoral grades and sonic increase of pay to th° various classes of medical officers, resulting frl the Royal Commi ss i o n o f 1839-40 ; t h e con d i tiee d admission of th e ass i s t an t- surgeons to th e war . room in 1850, whil e Si r Francis Baring was at he head of the Admiralty—a concession which, 11° ` . ; ever, was wrung f r o m th e Ad m i ra l ty, no t until aft er a division on th e ques ti on i n the Ilouse of Cornur n hostile to the Ministry of the day ; and the ans d ° : lute right of the assistant-surgeons to the tfL ir s, room on their entering the service, ceded in_r • ii while Sir C. Wood was First Admiralty L en ; an d to these we add a more recent increase of n ks, a better plan of retirement to the inspectori at and some addition of pay to the assistant'surge;'oo with a more advantageous scale of widows r e ; l d s e i rg o (which by the present warrant must again üb , t b - at reconstruction), wo shall have mentioned all ;. eal has been done for the naval medical officers , ' I 1805 up to the date of the new warrant. But for the disasters in the Crimea the states9ll° of the army me di ca l department would in allPlf:°; liability hav e rema i ne d undisturbed ; and be t the stern and i n d epen d ent sense of right po s ; t by the First L or d o f th e Admiralty, we mig ht --a°r have seen the c on diti ons of the army medical rant extended to the medical service of the 11° / - Navy. Most earnestly, then, do we thank Sir John l'akington for h av i ng h ad the courage to d e part from the "use and wont" so long dominant at t he Admiralty—fo r h av i ng shown an entire freca °ll/ from sympathy with those who in the just elevatieu of the Medical Officer can see nothing but peril to the service, in the varied forms of subdivision 0 discipline, unfairness to other c l asses , and a host o f other imaginary evils, which Admiral Berkeley , in former days, was won t to d ec l are i n Parliamee', would certainly follow the introduction of the As" sistant-Surgeons into the ward-room. Fortunately for the Navy, the Fates have been singularly . un" propitious to the prophecies of the gallant Admiral. Discipline continues to exist unimpaired in the Navy, notwithst anding that the Assistant-Surgeons have been ward-room officers for nine years ; and we have too great confidence in its stability to sup pose that it can in any wise be endangered by the • operation of the present warrant. The whole ob jections, in fact, to this excellent measure are se, opposed to all exp er i ence , so utterly untenable Our absurd, that they may be said t o artake more 0 ' the bigotry of the second James's t i me than of the intelligence of our own. • The warrant for the Medical Officers of Of Navy will, as a matter of course, be received with great satisfaction at th e U n i vers i t i es an d o ther , great Schools throughout the kingdom. The fore most students will n ow enro l th emse l ve s as cijnohn dates for the Nav a l M e di ca l Service. S ir among Pakington, long aft er h „ e has passed from f us, will be rememb ere d by th e M e di ca l O ffi cers of Navy as One o f th e grea t es t b ene f ac tors 0-f their or class. Nor (.1111 Sir John Lidd e ll de s ire a ! l ig reward for his well-known devotion to the nePa intit over which he so wo r thily presides than ta see it recruited by y oung men of approved talent and attainm e nt s , an d to f ee l that the N a val Mcw:' al ,„ Service, from b e i ng . most unp o p u l ar , h as become I of the most popnlar brandies of public medics, employment. —Dad,/ News. wised utho ptomeredo l n t ,1 1 1 . a i i t ot T L E ,7 ll lnt A ni it.: of cf, WagnerPt h O e n r ; ,,p t.: , i , wtt —as We eand a v r eod e rev : having been sustained, on the contrary, by Mr. Eliii-court, Temple. +. the The town of Grosseto, in Tuscan has ri Tt im is mi t t lre n it i t r t n t! y n t i lt p n re t y, s ou - „„de soenf presort of t a w n e t l , t i •it w i s c e s s ; we --Win stand, to form an encampment on Tog Down, near Chester. , T roN PENINSULAR AN 1) ORIENTAL STEAM NAV ,„ ,"* i i r CoNtrANT.—The usual di v id en d o f throe-and-a-an': cent., with I,u additional payment of ono-half per een .;t will, w e un d erstand, ho rticommended to the proprietors the half-yearlT meeting on the 241 proximo. MINES.— rho mining share market has shoW il tnure activity this w e ek, and large business transitetioa: 1 , have taken pl ac e in s everal speculativeative mines, as well as 1 dividend and progressive stocks ; awl the market luim als o experienced great and sudden changes. A short time back a recommendation was pub lished signed by am almost unprecedented number of the leading firms in London, in favour of the proposal for the : business eroun on de S r:t tlr d dax be at t d w e o mi o r ' o c l l i ( , c o k i : 1 1 4 , 1 g 1 m, acceding to the arrangement, but left it to be initiated by the Committee of Bankers. No steps, however, appear t o have been taken, although the season has arrived when the benefits of the measure would be most felt. The nierclor tile body have expressed th e i r w i shes in the only j)"BBTifi manner,. and it remains for the bankers to complY those wishes, or to state what further demonstration 1 1114 require upon the point. PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAINS IN TILL PAILKS' --- At the mooting of the vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fi eld* held yesterday, a resolution Wits adopted in favour fountuius in ano i t to e t a t t l e(h i , : esu p pi a v: jkootimr itti(110:1)Ii11.110ii8410114141).: James's ii: l ti.(e t i fountains s , w mf ra, a lvu u t r iti g i,inio t: : vestry memorialising the government to erect (Ill:Ti t :1 e rn it there wen, e Parks the r Yll wh which pass (long frolll the artesian well in Oratige 4 " .~ a the wat er b e i ng the purest ill London. The motion VC-4 UniSanUiNHIoTAI l NI ' Y a TiC ' :; I (:; ) :ItAPIIINO.—At the meo u t ill ,g r d a l t he vestry of St. Martin - in -the-Fields, Mr. Chtut•-w. to Potter in the chair, coninlitints w e re received li the Sunday , : 4 , puotograpning nuisance, especially with ;,,ct once to New-strest, Covent-garden. A letter on the sin - a from the Commissioners of Police was also received, that immediate inquiries had been made as to whetlisitom.tteiri: circuinstaneem were much us to give the police legal P i n ", t of to int er f ere. Should there be no existing legit] "l e i ? he abating th e nu i sance, t h ere exists strong 18164 li in favour of applying to it overnment on the se • 1 ,,v Di V oftCE IN CANADA.--The following in a co he of the despatch addressed to the (lovernor-General hY w . Imperial authorities, recommending the Cauxdian 19° T ro er et, inent taken taketimi on the l ow a divorce :—" Downing: li , 4 to April 12. Sir-- In transmitting to you copy . of the 11 ,, c Iise s amend the Ins relating to Divorce and 'Matrimonial ut.0)14., in England,' I wish to call your 11114.11t1011 to the great i m i r d o l twee cf the subject. 1 ler Majesty's (lover:lntent this subject as within the general class of internal the. duty and right of regulating which belong; to the i v la t vial Legislatures under free institutions. But they u e ni . the 148114(1 tiiiie hilly senieble of the great iniportanc,° of fortuity of legislation on this head, so far an It c an attained without. injury to theme principles of e a " $s tiovernment, and the danger WOll to public remitshov to family interests which might arise from the ( of the eoloniva on the subject of marriage and diveree dif- O f fining materially from that of the mother courtly, 1111 00 .. each other. It is therefore the wish of her MajestyH , Ile verninent that you should einimult your Council as b.. expedieney of at once intr o d uc i ng a measure which Pllfill corporate, as nearly as the ei r(unistanees o f t h e co lony " 1(1. «dein, the provisions of the A c t recently passe d in Etti4 l9l Seine of the minor previsions of flip Act luny probably „ l it incompatible with the requirements of the eeleily, I") . lily wish 111 preaeribe uniformity in such unelociitial 1) 11 ail sours. Hut the serious questions which might arise!". dinerenve oflegimlation on that portion of the subject w11 . 1 , : io Minks to dissolution of marriage, or divorce ft"' ~ emit raeted one —questions possibly atlecting the validity of n'arril*'%l varying another, nod eonsequentiv legitimacy of offspring . - """Act it tulvisahle that if tile Legislature should pass (Inv f part of the saiipire lifter divorce 11,1. ill England IQ this particular you should reser...4• it ci an important degree from present law ;IL * 4 10410n 4.f her Majesty. Tho clause in Inos" ° ‘, ) o l 9 neve' minting to divorce Acts 111 ,5 Ilsttillly 114.1(1 141 appy only to special tor O.' ( (l i efl ul,fany named peri.oos and you n 1.441 not consider 3-ourself iii way &tiered by it s provisions, I thid, from eutomunica . „sl l uus o t's, received from parts of her Majesty's colonial poss , Hutt an improssuut existed that the late UoVeriliii4(lll hitcillsl lit 144.0 1 ,4(4.4411, 11103,4111144 ibreXteltding nbo the dominio 11 s of the Crown general. I 3 1,1 0 : 1 ,'., aware on wh a t green( ' this has been supposed. and can .1Y state that no such IUSSIIIII is coutemplation.—l ha% u, &e l &WIS./it IC."