The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Poet. Gold] Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, deser'p tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 3. and 34, Ludgate-hill. Londou, E.C.Esthb l ished 1749. T HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokatone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. R OYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE. - Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to cor._:ncnce with MY 'WIFE'S OUT. Mr. Widdicomb and )Tice L. Keeley. To be followed by the comedy of THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps and Miss Atkinson. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louie Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, April 17, will be reproduced the popular original Adel hi drama of THE DEAD HEART. , Robert Landry Mr. . Webster (who will make his Bth appearance since his return from his greatly successful provincial tour) ; Messrs. P. Bedford, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Stuart, C. J. gar, Miss Bil K. K elly, Miss on, Eburne L, aidlaw Powell, Romer, Page; Miss Woo l which (Bth time at this theatre), the Grand Musical Fain - Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq.. of THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Graceful. Miss Woolgar ; Queen Lucidors, Miss Emily Thorne (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 l 2e. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3e. ; Pit Stalls, 2e.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the manaf!•ement of Mr. Wm. Brourrh. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &C. ; Mesdames E. Travers and K. Saxon. After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss Lyd:a Thompson. Miss Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers, Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ; and a •nrnerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. R - poyAL ST. JANIES'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 Ilarriages and foot passertgers all hours of the night THIA IifEVING the perform anms will corn MC now. with A BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. C. Young. After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT HOME AND ALL ABB, )AD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with No. 49." Reduced Prices--Gallery, 9,4 ; Pit, Is. The Box-oil/ix open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform • lance commences at 7. A STLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Propriotor, Mr. Witl. BATTY. Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN Hum'Es. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the immensely successful Grand Military Spectacle, entitled "THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." New and splendid scenery, costumes, and appointments, introducing the stud of beautiful horses, ponies, camels, &c. &c. To be succeeded by the Scenes in the ircle, supported by Madles. Moret, Marie, and De Fier_, and Me.srs. N. Williams, De vereux, Fernando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan Jaok. Doors open at half-xst 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CANTERB UR Y HALL THIS EVENING, LITCREZIA BORGIA, (Denizetti). CONCERTS.- Donna Lnerezia Miss Russell. Matt.° Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jon gh m ans. Comic Vocalists --Messrs. George 'Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critchfield. and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis The zallery is ope‘ , from 5 till ll on Sunday Evening'. W BATH OFFICE, APRIL 17, MO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADL 57—highest since noon yesterday. 45 —lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.27. WIND, North-Easterly ; fresh and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. Om. To-moßuow.-Morning, 12h. 16m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m. , j, c. - •-L.I•T'A z -, -".i. , ',,Y* , t - 4. --, ~- . 2) ,tf . ;', 34E . ,..;,',c Dn. ; I , ,-Z,,,ts, /.. It 0 s._ bp _s mi __ r , ‘,, ._. •• •,,- . , ,-- ,-g ~- • ~t --, •,? - • ____ ••• ....,,,_::• _,,,, i THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL:I7, 1860. So Mr. MASSEY has given notice to refer the Reform Bill after the second reading to a select committee. What is his object—as Mr. DISRAELI once said, to " waste a year ?" No other effect could it possibly have. We cannot suppose that the bill can undergo such an ordeal and then that of discussion in the House of Commons in time to be presented to the Lords this year. A select com mittee is the approved method of getting rid of proposals which are too good to be openly rejected, yet too unpalatable to powerful interests to be swallowed willingly. It is a kind of painless ex tinction. No one better knows this than Mr. MASSEY, and we must tell him plainly that it were English and straightforward to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. The Whig Chairman of Committees ought not to have given his party so unkind a cut as this. Of course, the Opposition will take fresh courage, and if Mr. WurrEsiDE's phalanx of speakers cannot defer the second reading for ever, they can, after that, join Mr. MASSEY and the hostile Whigs, and get the select committee appointed. They will then be sure of their object. Reform will be burked for the session ; hon. members will be furnished with a plan siblo excuse for for declining to seek re-election, and all will be " merry as a :.carriage bell." But where will the Whig leaders be ? Can even the head of the Cabinet, with all his well-known aver sion to Reform, oc3upy a decent position, while Lord JOHN RUSSELL could do nothing less than retire from office. Reform was, however, so dis tinctly avowed a part of the programme of the present Ministry, the leading feature of the com pact at Willis's Rooms, the very thing indeed on which they rejected their predecessors—that to be baulked of it and to retain office, without at least appealing to the country, rust disgrace them for ever. We are inclined to regard the proposition of a select committee, as emanating entirely from the discontented sections , of the Whigs. Something not unlike it is proposed by Lord GREY in the Upper House. There is a large number of the Whigs, who in heart quite out-Tory the Tories, are far more opposed to trusting the people, and whose main object is to limit Cabinets and Ministries to a few family cliques ; they are merely party Whigs, just as many valuable men among the Tories are but party Tories. Well would it be if some conjuror could bag all these individuals and shake them out again into their right places—could ttrh( L insf .i er the accid en t a l C onserva ti ves to the ranks of )erals,and the aceitl(mtal Liberals to the ranks of Conservatism . We should then have at least united parties and intelligible. action. Mr. MAssEY has hitherto merely waked another member for Salford, his own borough, and a very reasonable request, if members were in the market. But if the Bill is nu t to be a readjustment Bill, but substantially only a F r ancbi , e Bi 1, it will of course b e diftk.ult fur Salford, and for Scotland, to get their .fair propor- Mons, We have never concealed our contempt for the bill considered as a Reform Bill. But we cannot say as much of it considered as a franchise bill. The franchises it offers have been declared by every meeting of Reformers N dlich has assembled yet, as well worth their acoeTtAUCe, even while, like ourselves, they have avowed that 'without the Ballot and further readjustment of seats it can never be satisfactory to the people— we must adhere, therefore, to our demand — nothing less than the Bill. The very fact that the country regards the Bill as so small an ino - alment of its demands will create a very strong feel ing against members who refuse even so slight a concession. We certainly are half inclined, how ever, to suppose that we have u nder-estimated the concession. The determined hostility of the great Berkshire interest, the schemings and grumblings of uneasy Whigs, with the more natural opposition of the professed Conservatives indicate at least their belief that the really Liberal cause will be pro moted by the proposed extensions of the franchise. It is difficult to see it. In the counties we cannot believe that a single constituency will return a member of different politics from what it has gene rally done; and as to the boroughs, we should hardly expect that it will do more than strengthen a little the liberalism of members already liberal. We may be wrong, but, till we ob tain the Ballot, we look for no increase of electoral independence, and for no improvement in the popular character of the House. We can not think Mr. MASSEY and the Tories have much reason to be frightened, but, if they have, we are quite sure they will do wisely to conceal it. A Select Committee would be an insult both to the country and to the Government. The former knows all it wants to know, so does the latter. What is wanted after such long dangling of reform before us is not dis cussion but—ACTION. The House of Commons reassembled yesterday after the Easter vacation, and proceeded directly to business on the Navy estimates, which, after some smart debates were eventually carried to the amount of about £530,000. Sir CHARLES NAPIER, as usual, enlarged upon the insufficiency of the Navy—both in ships and men ; then he repeated his charges against the constitution of the Board of Admiralty. That there is great truth in all the gallant Admiral has said there can be little doubt, but we must wait for a more re formed Parliament before an efficient remedy can be applied. That the blame chi6fly rests upon the Board of Admiralty, being more of a political than that of a real naval business department, is unques tionable. Hence the corruption in the dockyards, and the gross expenditure of past times, for which no one was considered to be responsible. Promotion went by favouritism, and hence the overcrowded list of officers on the pension list ; for when once an officer, however incompetent, had got placed on the ladder of promotion his fortune was com paratively made for the rest of his life, so far as to be safe from the 'cissitudes incident to his less favoured companions. Thus we have a roll of Admirals, Vice• Admirals, Rear-Admirals, and Captains on the reserved and re tired lists long enough to man a squadron of block-ships! Lord CHARLES PAGET attmpteit to make the best of things for the present, and promised much for the future. No doubt it is all meant to be realised, and when it is, the country will be saved much money and be better defended. The sooner the better. A charming illustration of the extreme absurdity of the high science, art, profession, or whatever else you may please to call it, of Diplomacy, has just been afforded by a communication addressed to Count BERNSTORFF, Prussian Ambassador at Lon don, by Baron SCHLENITZ, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Prussian Government. It is a re markable document, which we published in its en tirety in our impression of Saturday. Its date, by the way, is—not inappropriately—the First of April. It really means scarcely anything what ever. All that it appears actually to express might in point of fact have been very well articulated in about two sentences. Nevertheless the epistle runs on garrulously to the extent of thirteen distinct paragraphs. Like most State papers of this character it seems to have been composed throughout, under the guidance or influence of that cynical axiom which declares that language was given to man to hide his thoughts—a saying popularly but erroneously attributed to Prince TALLEY RAND (and one, certainly, it must be al lowed, in perfect acordance with his atra bilious philosophy), but originally enunciated in truth, among so many other whimsical observations in the humorous " Citizen of the World," of guile less OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Nothing, upon the first blush, could well appear more naifthan this curious despatch written from Berlin on the Ist of April by Baron SCHLEINITZ. Upon a careful scrutiny, how ever, it will be found far more ingenious • than in genuous. To render this apparent, it will really be worth while to submit the document in question, before it is forgotten, to some passing scrutiny. It is ostentatiously, quite ridiculously, precise in its explicitness, this verbose communication. It is about as ludicrous in its elaborate peculiarity as that comical gentleman Dr. DODGE in " Divorce a Vinculo," now periodically testing the risibility of the readers of Once a Week—that excessively matter-of-fact personage who, when he is reminded of a lady's hair having been cut cff at Brussels, observes, " You allude, I presume, to its severance, or abscission or curtailment." The Dr. DODGE, in more than one respect, of the Berlin Cabinet is manifestly the Foreign Minister, Baron SCHLEINITZ. It is absolutely droll to recognise, at last, what is really and truly the source and the significance—perhap s we should more accurately express the fact by saying the insignifieance—of all the extraordinary " pother" indicated through the thirteen carefully elaborated paragraphs of this amazing communi ca ti on . Observe, however, in the first instance the obtrusive moderation and D o dge-like simplicity of its commencement. Monsieur le Baron , addressing himselfto:onsSiaeuysr le Comte,—" Among the docu , lents relative to the affairs of Italy which the English Cabinet has commu nicated to Parliament is a report addressed by Lord BLOOMFIELD to Lord J. RUSSELL, giving him an account of a conversation which I had .with the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE relative to the project of the French Government of incorporating Savoy and Nice with France." It is an asserted inaccuracy in this "account" of the conversation here alluded to, which has aroused the ire and elicited the denial of the Prussian Foreign Mini ster, as expressed in the de,patch addressed to Count BERNFrrottFF. Before entering at any l* ngth, however, into the explanations that se em to he de manded from him by this asserted inaccuracy-, Baron SCHLEINITZ must in the first instance apparently give vent to his feelings somewhat ironically — namely, in the manner following :—" I have no need to tell you," he writes, "Monsieur le Cotnte"—[and, th , refore, as a matter of course he immediately goes on to tell him Monsieur le Comte .!]-- " that in commu- nicating to Lord BLOOMFTELD, in a perfectly confidential manner, what had taken place between the Minister of France and myself, in an interview which had the character of a private conversation, I did not expect that those details could be destined to become the subject of a Parliamentary debate." Aud, lie adds, in a mariner evidently designed to THE SUN,YLONDON, TUESDAY:EVENING, APRIL 17, IE6O, be cuttingly sarcastic — " I cannot disguise from you, Monsieur le Comte, the painful impression which the publication of that document has produced on my mind." We may here observe, en passant, that it is fast becoming in the science, or art, or profes sion of dipirni.r-5 , a flling (rite intekrable, 11 - le re fined distinctions which are perpetually being drawn of late between what is held to be public or official, and what is, on the contrary (like Mr PECKSNIFF'S drunken repetition of his ad vertisement, in a whisper, to Mrs. TODGER), "strictly private and confidential." We hold this incessant reference to the privacy and confidence of diplomacy to be one among the meanest and paltriest of its devices. It is a refer ence which, if it continue much longer to be tole rated thus upon any and every occasion, must in volve diplomacy in its last possible entanglement, and reduce it to its lowest depth of degradation. To return, however, to the Ist of April despatch of Baron SCHLEINITZ and its real significance or in significance, we find that, in his despatch, the Minister immediately goes on to remark, "Never theless, I should willingly have abstained from referring to this incident, if it had not afforded to the German and foreign press the pretext for a host of false appreciations and of commentaries, more or less malevolent." The Minister adds, with a parade of individual magnanimity, "If what is said were only attacks against me per sonally, I might easily dispense with any retro spective discussion ; but, as the attempt has been made to deduce from the expressions which I employed to the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE erroneous conclusions with regard to the policy of Prussia, I believe that I have not the right to allow by too long a silence Lord BLOOMFIELD'S despatch to acquire the value of a historical do cument." Hence, he writes, "It is with regret, but in order to accomplish a rigorous duty, that I address to you, Monsieur le Comte, the following observations with •the double object of stating facts precisely, and of expressing a wish as regards the future." We are then called upon as pointedly as Queen GERTRUDE was by HAMLET, in the presence of the contrasted portraits of her two royal husbands —to " look upon this pic ture and on that !" The Foreign Minister of Prussia first cites the account to the accuracy of which he takes exception. He writes—" Lord BC,OO3IFIELD relates in these terms what I said to the Minister of France .—‘ Baron SCH.LEINITZ seems to have also observed to the French Minister that the present Government of Prussia had been the means of restraining the vio lent feeling which had been excited in Germany by the war in Italy, and to have made themselves un popular by so doing ; and that on the question of Savoy it must be considered, because they have re mained silent up to the present moment, that this meant indifference ; for they should view this ab sorption with the greatest distrust." Appending the following words to the quotation by way of corn. mentary, " I believe that these terms do not ren der with all the precision desirable what I said to the Prince DE LA Toun D'AUVERGNE." Baron SCHLEINITZ then gives his own version of his own assurances : he writes—" I said to the Minister of France that the Cabinet of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in relying on the assurances of the French Cabinet that France would seek no aggrandisement, had exposed itself to the bitter reproaches of part of Germany ; that in con quence it must be painfully affected by the contra diction which the project in question appeared to give to its confidence ; and that though having up to that time maintained silence on the affair of Savoy, it could not the less feel regret at that pro ject, which, in its opinion, contained the germ of grave complications." The rest of the despatch— r about half of the entire document—is made up of • triumphant comments upon the extraordinary dis crepancy apparent between these two accounts of the same occurrences, or rather of the same assur ances. To the discernment of the English public however, we leave the discovery of this said dis crepancy. To our readers we leave the task of weighing in the balance this six and this HALF- A - DOZ EN, the problematic pastime of pronouncing accurately— " What all this difference can be 'Twixt Tweedledura and Tweedledee I" His Excellency the Sardinian Minister corn es to town to-day, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston at Brocket Hall. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and family will return to Hamilton House to-morrow, from Paris. The Marquis of Salisbury came to town yester day from Liverpool, and left in the afternoon for Hatfield. Her ladyship will return to London on Thursday, from visiting the Earl and Countess Delawerr at Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith are expected in town on Thursday, from Boughton House, Northamp- onshire. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have returned to Grillon's Clarendon Hotel, Albermarlo-street. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Brocket Hall. Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have left Gol den Grove, South Wales, for Waresley, Huntingdonshire, on a visit to the Hon. Octavius and Lady Caroline Dun- combe. Lord Ravensworth and family have arrived at his lordship's residence, Percy -cross, Fulham, from Ravens worth Castle. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived in Hertford-street, yesterday, for the season, from Stonor Park, Oxfordshire. Sir William and Lady Jolliffe arrived at their residence, in Stratton-street, yesterday, from Merstham House, Reigate, for the season. We learn from Harwich that at a meeting of some of the Liberal electors who were desirous of testing the comparative popularity of the three Liberal candidates, the following was the result of a ballot :—Thompson, 41; Brett, 36 ; Chambers, 11. INSTALLATION OF LORD BROUGHAM AS CHAN CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—We are authorised to state that Lord Brougham will be installed as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday, the 16th of May.—Scotsman. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Wm. Goode, Rector of St. Margaret, Lothbury, to the Deanery of Ripon, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, now Dean of Lincoln. A French paper manufacturer has invented a new pack of playing cards ; each card represents some remark• able fact connected with the history of Napoleon I. or of Napoleon 111. All the figures are of the same period, the costume is perfect, and remarkable for the execution and the brilliancy of the colours. The pack of cards is called Cartes de l'Ere Imperiale. In place of kings there aro four emperors, including the Prince Imperial; four empresses, including the Empress-Mother • and in place of knaves, four Bonapartes, brothers of Napoleon I. For aces there are four islands, viz., Martinique (where the Empress Jo sephine was born), the islands of St. Croix, Elba, and St. Helena. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The appearance of the foreign exchanges, according Con tinent received yesterday, t any period during i in % e t hdemaiddvie decidedly sy favourable from the thanan inevitable result of e I created by the recent abortive past two or three years. This is houses. At Paris the Bank ltwe at . e artificial scarcity of money rate is only' proceedings of the discount there is a plentiful supply 3} per cant., and in the open market at 3 per cent. At Amsterdam also the charge r i b , :e is but 3 per cent., while at low as 2 per cent. Of course,ilamhu rtghearnedfoFrer,anlakrfgoert quantities t ltr! i n ties 4 will be attracted here. g uch per a cent. for deposits, 1 has been given •Our joint stock banks are offe n d as of a w e e ti r r fot l e o b d o a r y o s a . lise A d y a . n es cl e b i v d a t the e f,)r discountloans h w o i u th s e n s o a t transmit\Ve their soon there clear profit at the rate of 2 per cent. will ler e a t l o l e f o o r re re ig sp n o h n o d u en se t s s w on ho th mi:yside.floating capi btayl fore, have more than enough for all oar requirements, the sole result of the locking-up process, lleo and dis grace involved in it, will be that its concocte y rs will l certain amount of interest, which will find its way to oen th a e pockets of more sagacious money-dealers in France,. Ger • many, and Holland. A telegram from Charleston states that.during a legitimate trading voyage on the coast of Africa the brig Jehossee was overhauled and taken forcible possession of by a British vessel of war, and the officers and crew treated with gross indignity. LIVERPOOL, Monday.--The Canadian Royal Mail Steamship Company have chartered the Cunard Company's new screw steamship Palestine, and intend to despatch her with the mails,&e., for Quebec on the 16th of May next. GOLD DISCOVERED AT NELSON, NEW ZEALAND. —The New Zealand _London _Examiner states that gold has been discovered at the river Bul:e - , on the west coast of the province, and is likely to prove very valushic, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : MARSEILLES, APRIL 17. The direct steamer from Naples arrived this even ing, and brings advices from that city to the 14th instant. It is asserted that on Thursday last a large bomb was thrown before the palace. The explosion shat tered all the windows. No person was injured. The rev3:utionary attempt of the Bth at Messina commenced by the killing of two sentinels. The movement was less serious than reported by the passengers of the Meandre, which remained a gn=at distance off the spot where the combat took place. Flying columns were pursuing the bands of in surgents, who had taken refuge in the mountains. It is positive that no preparation had been made to pass the Roman frontier unless an attack were made against Rome by Piedmont. Intelligence from Rome adds that the Pope had resolved to take no initiative in a war in the Roinagna, and that Gen. Lamoriciere would only concentrate a corps in Umbria, between Rome and Ancona. PARIS, APRIL 17. The Constitutionnel denies the existence of direct negotiations between France and Switzerland on the question of the neutralised district of Savoy, and adds that the negotiations are only between the Powers who signed the treaties of Vienna. PARIS, APRIL 16; The Motziteur of this morning gives the fol lowing as the definitive result of the voting in the city of Nice : Yes The Patrie of this evening says :—The report that General Changarnier had accepted the com mand of the Neapolitan troops is completely false. The Patrie also states that the Neapolitan Go vernment has resolved to observe an absolute neu trality, and to confine itself to the defence of its own territory. NAPLES, APRIL 12 (via Genoa.) According to advices from Sicily the revolution ary movement is increasing in the country, which is full of armed men. The Royal Intendant Celeste has made common cause with the revolutionists. The 14th and 15th Regiments are being despatched from Naples to Sicily. Artillery and other troops have been sent to the citadel of Messina. A popu lar demonstration has taken place at Aversa in favour of Victor Emmanuel, in consequence of which the town has been declared in a state of siege. Arrests have been made at Naples. BERNE, APRIL 16. England and Prussia have replied to the Swiss note of the sth of April, relative to the assembling of a Conference, by consenting to the demand of the Federal Council. GENEVA, APRIL 16. M. Thouvenel having stated in a despatch, of the 13th March, to M. Tillos, that the Federal Council had proposed a secret treaty for a partition of Savoy, the Federal Council has given an official denial to the statement of M. Thouvenel. Russia has replied in a favourable manner to the note of the Federal Council of the 19th March. BERNE, APRIL 16. The address of the Society of Helvetia to the Federal Council, demanding the immediate occu pation of the neutralised provinces of Savoy, will have no result. TURIN, APRIL 16. The Perseveranza publishes the text of the letters of King Victor Emmanuel to the Pope, dated February 6 and March 20, and the reply of his Holiness thereto. The same paper- also publishes the letter of Count Cavour to Cardinal Antonelli, and the reply of the cardinal, which is dated the 2d of April. The archives of the Legations of Russia and England have been transferred from Florence to Turin. VIENNA, APRIL 16. According to reliable information, the total amount subscribed to the new loan is about 75,000,000 florins, The quotation on the Exchange is 93.50. Rumours of Ministerial changes are circulating. MADRID, APRIL 16. It is asserted that the sentence of death against General - Ortega will bo executed this evening. Universal tranquillity prevails. The Moorish rishPlenipotentiaries are expected at Tetuan. The civil war in the interior of Morocco has pre vented them from setting out at an earlier period. The Emperor of Morocco has been obliged to pursue the pretender. MADRID, APRIL 15. An order has been given to all the provincia' battalions to return to their homes. The factious partisans of Count Montemolin are everywhere disappearing. The cholera is increasing in Africa. SWITZERLAND. The Swiss Government have sent the following memorandum to the powers that have guaranteed the Treaty of Vienna : 44 CIRCULAIRE. " Berne, April 11. "From trustworthy and agreeing reports, the vote upon the annexation of Savoy to France has been fixed for the 22d of April next. The question is to be put as follows : Annexation to France, Yes or No ; the voting will take place in each commune. " The Swiss Federal Council cannot accept in silence the new phase into which the pending question is entering. They have already had the honour to set forth in the Note Circulaire of the 19th of March from what point of view they think it right to estimate in a general way the results of such a vote. They then already expressed the opinion that the existing rights on the neutralised provinces 41 Savoy—rights so solemnly guaranteed by Europe—cannot be cancelled by a simple cession nor by a popular vote. As to the voting itself, the Federal Council have thought it well to express their views quite frankly and repeatedly, and have reserved their rights on the subject. " Immediately after the well-known proclamations of the Governors of Annecy and of Chambery, of the Bth and 10th of March, the Federal Council instructed their representa tives at Paris and at Turin to protest against any voting until an understanding had been come to with Switzerland. They formally declared that they could not consider as binding a vote taken without a previous understanding— a vote in which Switzerland and her legitimate pretensions would be forgotten. " The Fedezal Council have absolutely maintained this point of view in th e i r f res h pro t estat i on o f t h e 27 t h M arc h, when they asked that Switzerland should be consulted upon the mode of voting in the neutralised provinces, and that nothing in this respect should be done without her consent. The Federal Council have had the honour to give informa tion about this to the Powers guaranteeing the European treaties in a note dated the same day, in which they added that they must insist upon the absolute maintenance of the status quo until the proposed understandin g with the Powers and with Switzerland herself should be come to. " By the above -mentioned projected voting all these re quests, all these just and equitable demands of Switzerland, are entirely passed over. A most important political and moral act is to be proceeded with without, the concurrence of one of the principal parties interested, and without any previous understanding with the Powers whose concert, in participation with Switzerland, has been positively solicited by the note of the sth inst. " In the presence of this fact, showing an open contempt of their rights, the Federal Council feel anxious to declare positively that they cannot look upon the result of the coming vote as decisive, and that they must explicitly pro test against any inference to be drawn from this act for the purpose of interfering with the rights of Switzerland. " The Federal Council can all the less admit the validity of the voting as, while on the one hand the free expres sion of the will of the people of North Savoy, which has been constantly asked for, is not ensured, on the other the voting will be proceeded with without previous understand ing with Switzerland. Finally, the Federal Council have no means to control the voting, while it is notorious that French agents, having Senator Laity at their head, are working in Savoy in the interest of France. " The Federal Council find themselves thus in the neces sity of renewing, in the face of all Europe, their protesta tions to the Powers guaranteeing the European treaties. They earnestly recommend them .0 deliberate seriously and impartially ”.pon the present request, and also to take into due consideration the rights of Switzerland, and to take prompt steps to maintain the status quo. "In the name of the Swiss Federal Council." Under date of the 11th inst. the Federal Council of Berne has issued a note to the great Powers re presented at the Vienna Congress, protesting against the voting which is being organised in Savoy for its annexation to France, and declaring that Switzer land cannot admit the validity of such a proceeding, as it is notorious that French agents, directed by Senator Laity, are canvassing the population in French interests. FRANCE. A despatch from Madrid says that among other advantages which the Count Montemolin meant to endow Spain with if he succeeded was universal suffrage. I think it is extremely probable. There could be found no surer means for restoring to Spain the despotism of FC7 3 nand VII. With uni versal suffrage Count Mo ate:lll°lin might easily efface every vestige of liberty, and, in fact, do any thing he pleased. A very expressive mot is now current in Madrid. " Quien siembra Dukes recoje Ortegas." (He who sows sweets shall reap nettles.) Ortega, the name of the General who deserted his post to join the Carlists, is the Spanish word for nettle ; and Duke is the name of the General who, while Inspector of Cavalry, carried over his men to join the insurrec tion of Vicalvaro, of which O'Donnell was the head. The expression is true, and as stinging as the herb whose name the unsuccessful rebel bears: BOURSE, April 16.—The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 70! 25c for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 96f 20c; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,385 f 75c ; Great Northern, 971 f 25c ; Strasburg, 642 f 50e ; Paris to .Lyons and the Mediterranean, 943 f 75c ; Western of France, 575 f ; Bordeaux and Cette, 5181 75c ; Lyons and Gezieva, 447 f 50c ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 792 f 50c ; Aus trian Railways, 528 f 75c; Roman Railways, 345 f; Russian Railways, 480 f. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18e. ; money, 25f. 160. ; tnree months, paper, 241.871 c. ; money, 24f Sse. TILE EIGHT HOY. SIR C. WOOD, BART., M.P. V. THE RIGHT HON. JAMES WILSOY, MP, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sit,—ln the correspondence between these right hon. gentlemen on the Indian currency scheme proposed by Mr. Wilson, we find the advocate and the opponent of the act of 1844 fairly at issue on the principle of a sound system of currency—Sir Charles Wood contending for the applicatiGn of the principles of restriction imposed OR paper money by the act of 1844, and Mr. Wilson throwing them overboard. Which of them is in the right, and which will have to give way to the other, are questions of great interest to the public, who, as a jury, will have to try and decide them. Mr. Wilson, in paragraph 13 of his minute, says : "By maintaining at all times a fixed proportion of silver to the amount of notes in circulation, and convertible pub lic securities for the remainder, not only is the immediate convertibility of any probable portion of notes likely to be presented, provided for, and the ultimate payment of the whole specially secured, but a natural and self-acting limit is placed upon the amount of the circulation—a limit which would expand and contract, according to the wants of the community, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as a purely silver currency would do." Sir C. Wood in his rejoinder denies that the immediate convertibility of notes into bullion will ensure a natural and self-acting limit ; he says— _ . • Par. 13. " The sound principle for regulating the issue of paper circulation is that which was enforced on the Bank of England by the Act of 1844, i.e., that the amount of notes issued on Government Securities should be maintained at a fixed sum, within the limit of the smallest amount which experience has proved to be necessary for the monetary transactions of the country ; and that any further amount of notes should be issued on coin or bullion, and should vary with the amount of the reserve of specie in the Bank, ac cording to the wants and demands of the public." Tf this principle be sound, then are the principles of Free Trade unsound, and should be suppressed by restriction on all other trades as well as on that of money. This sound principle ensures a constantly diminishing quantity of currency for the wants of an ever increasing commerce, inasmuch as the quantity of notes issued by the Bank of England against securities is a fixed quantity, and cannot be increased, and those issued by country banks are subject to diminution in quantity, for when their issue ceases from any cause whatever the vacuum can only be filled up to the extent of two-thirds of the amount by the Bank of England. Thus, were the present aggregate amount of about £17,000,000 to be in the course of time with drawn, only about £11,000,0)0 could be issued by the Bank of England as substitutes. This vaunted principle, there fore, makes the unlimitable increase of our commerce de pendent on the accidental and fluctuating amount of gold for the supply of the medium of exchange for carrying it on, it seeks to regulate the quantity of money, not " ac cording to the wants and demands of the public," but ac cording to the ebb and flow of gold in the coffers of the Bank. Hence naturally the monetary panics of 1847, 1857, and 1859, and the constant apprehension of their re currence. On Mr. Wilson's plan any person taking silver bullion to the Bank can obtain Government notes in exchange, or, taking notes, can have bullion in exchange ; but power is given to the commissioners to sell and invest two-thirds of the amount of the bullion in Government Securities, so that the only limit to the issue of notes is the maintaining the proportion of one-third of bullion to the whole issue. This plan takes care of the quality of the currency, but leaves the quantity to take care of itself; it sanctions free trade in a sound currency—a principle for which we have long contended. Is not the time arrived for acting upon the same principle here, by establishing a national bank of issue, where all can have as many national notes, payable in gold on de mand, as they may want, on depositing one-third of the amount in gold and two-thirds in Government securities , and which notes, when no longer wanted, could be returned and the deposit recovered ? Should not an end be put to the squabbling between the great money dealers, the discount houses, and the Bank of England (a dispute highly prejudicial to the commercial community, from the artificial absorption of money which it creates), by allowing the public, whose agents they are, to have an unrestricted and natural supply of a perfectly convertible medium of exchange ? The mischief is owing not so much to the directors of the Bank of England as to the restrictive clauses of the Act of 1844, by which they are fettered. _ _ . Is it consistent for this country, the commercial mistress of the world, to sanction opposite principles of currency at home and in her dependencies—to permit free trade in a sound currency in India, and to impose restrictions in the currency in Great B:itain and Ireland ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant. HALTER STAN SFELD, The Grange, Burley, S. Otley, April 14. piE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—On the 10th October last the agents for the Tur kish loan deducted from the interest, due that day on the bonds, income tax at the rate of thirteenpence in the pound, and it was naturally inferred that the deduction for the half•year falling due yesterday would be at the rate of five pence, thus making the tax ninepence for the year. In stead of which the agents deduct on this second half-year te;rpence in the pound, in obadience, we are told, to orders from Somerset-house, while the deduction from other sneu• rities, of which the interest,fell duo on the sth instant, is only at the rate of fivepence. Is this just? I doubt if it is legal. But I have no doubt that it furnishes a strong argument for the evasion of payment in those cases which the fiscal power cannot reach except through the conscience of A TAX PAYER. April 11. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer, on his taking office, vacated his house in Carlton gardens, to occupy the official residence in Downing -street. Our brilliant Finance - Minister is now, without going out of °Moe, about to return with his family to his own private house. Of course, this proceeding has given rise to all sorts of conjectures. They have,thowever, no other foundation than the fancy of those who indulge in them—the truth being, that Mr.'and Mrs. Gladstone have this year a daughter to introduce to the beau monde, and that a series of brilliant parties in the paternal mansion will usher Miss Agnes Gladstone into the gay world of London, her pre sentation to the Queen having taken place at the last Draw ing-room. The term for which Earl de Grey had taken. Mr. Gladstone's house having expired, the right hon. gen tleman took the opportunity of resuming possession. --Court Tounia4 2HE NAVY. Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce, Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth, with Major• General S. R. Wesley, Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Marine Forces, yesterday concluded their inquiry relative to the late disturbance on board the Edgar, at, Spithead. The report of the inquiry will be for-' warded to the 'Admiralty. We have to announce the death of Rear-Admiral the Hon. C. 0. Bridgeman, which took place on Saturday last, at his residence, near Oswestry. The deceased Admiral was second son of Orlando, first Earl of Bradford, by the Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Byng, eldest daughter of George, fourth Viscount Torrington, and was born on the 3d of February, 1791. He married, on the 2d of December, 1819, Eliza Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Chamberlain, by whom he leaves a family, being father of Lady Lone -- , sborough and Lady Corbet, wife of Sir V. R. Corbet. The late Rc.e:Admiral entered the navy at an early age, and obtained his commission of lieutenant on the 10th of September, 1810 ; that of commander on the 6th of May, 1814 ; captain, 2d of September, 1819 ; and rear-admiral on the 19th of January, 1852. Numerous families of rank are placed in mourning. Capt. Farrant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, with Lieuts. Haseltine, Fuller, and Carlyon, and a detachment of Royal Marine Light Infantry and Artillery, are ordered to' embark from the Ports mouth Division for service on board the Edgar, re lieving the detachment on, board under the com mand of Capt. C Louis. The Osborne, Royal paddle yacht, Master-Com mander G. H. K. Bower, got up steam in her new boilers yesterday in the steam basin at Portsmouth. The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell, K.C.8., is ordered into Portsmouth Harbour from Spithead for the purpose of being docked, having a leak in the vi cinity of her sternpost. This will delay her depar ture for the Cape of Good Hope for some days. The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 4, Com mander J. M. Bruce, from Portsmouth, arrived in the Sound yesterday morning, with two batteries of the third brigade of Royal Artillery, to join head quarters in Plymouth Citadel. Two batteries be longing to the same brigade will leave the Citadel, and take passage in the Firebrand to the Channel Islands. It is reported in Plymouth that the screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, is to be put in commission about Thursday next, and that Captain Parker will have commad. Mr. ?ohn Burnell, mayor of Plymouth, and Mr. Tracey, magistrate, are appointed by the Board of Trade a Court to inquire into the circumstances attending the stranding of the Government trans port Havering, now on Batten reef. She will pro bably be lifted by Mr. Orchard on Wednesday next. The sailing sloop Atalanta, 16, Commander T. M. S. Pasley, from the West Indies, having been descried becalmed outside Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon, the tug Zephyr was sent off to assist her in, when she saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., which was duly ac knowledged by the Impregnable. The Atalanta left Antigua on the 15th March, and has experienced a very favourable passage, with the wind ranging from north-west to south-west. The Atalanta was commissioned by her present commander, May 26, 1856, and has been constantly employed on the North America and West India station ; she is re ported to be in first-rate condition. During the commission she has lost three officers by death— viz., Mr. Norman, master, Oct. 26, 1856 ; Mr. Kerr, assist.-surg., Feb. 4, 1859 ; and Mr. Creak, master, in September, 1859. Mr. Nicholson, was appointed master of the Atalanta, but died before joining. The paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6, Commander Charles Vasey, was appointed to leave Antigua on the 17th March for Barbadoes. The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain Henry Lacon, discharged her powder and shell on Friday, and on Saturday steamed from Plymouth Sound into Hanioaze for the purpose of being taken into Keyham steam-yard to receive new boilers. Rear-Admiral George Elliott, Captain of the Fleet, hoisted his flag (blue at . the mizen) the same day, as second in command, during the absence of Sir Charles Fremantle, K C. 8., who is now on leave. The flag was saluted by the Impregnable, 104, in Hamoaze. A room has been appropriated in the dockyard for the use of Admiral Elliott. It is reported at Devonport that the screw steam ship Duke of Wellington will go there to take the duty of the Royal Albert, and that a portion of the Royal Albert's crew will assist in navigating the Duke of Wellington to Devonport. The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Edward K. Barnard, was expected to leave Plymouth Sound yesterday for Bermuda. The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 51, Capt. Charles T. F. Ewart, at Plymouth, is to be fitted for a flagship, and will convey to the Mediterranean Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, the newly ap pointed Commander-in-Chief on that station. The defects of the paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Frederick H. H. Glasse, C. 8., in Plymouth Sound, will be made good there. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Capt. George H. Seymour, preparing at Plymouth for the convey ance of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to Canada, will be ready for sea about the 6th of May. The repairs of the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Captain Henry Broadhead, at Plymouth, are com pleted. The paddlewheel steam surveying vessel Bann, Master James S. Wells, under repair and refitment at Plymouth, will be ready to resume her duties about the end of May. The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com mander Montague B. Dunn, in Plymouth Sound, received on Saturday the men lent from the Sans pareil, 70, to navigate the Howe, 121, from Pem broke to Plymouth, and on Sunday morning sailed for Queenstown. The crew of the screw steam sloop Surprise, 4, Commander Lord Edward Cecil, were inspeeted on Friday morning by Capt. Jerningham. In the afternoon she was towed from Plymouth, bound into Hamoaze, by the tugs Zephyr and Confiance. Her crew will probably be paid off on Tuesday, the 24th inst. The gunboat Hind, tender to the coastguard ship Russell, 60, having completed her tour of inspection, left Plymouth on Friday for Falmouth. The gunboats Steady and Penguin, built at Liver pool for the Government, are expected shortly at Devonport. The screw steam frigate Forte, M, Capt. E. Tur- nour, bearing the flag - of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Henry Keppel, is appointed to call at Plymouth on her way to the Cape of Good Hope. The screw steam sloop Curlew, 9, went outside the breakwater at Plymouth on Saturday, and after several hours' trial of her machinery returned to Hamoaze. The topmasts of the Indus, 78, Capt. W. K. Hall, at Plymouth, were struck on Saturday, and she is fast dismantling. Her crew will probably be paid off on Thursday next. A large number of naval officers assembled at the office of Admiral Superintendent Sir John Pasley in Devonport Dockyard on Friday, when, it is said, the subject of leave was discussed. Eighty-four artisans and labourers were dis charged from Devonport Dockyard on Saturday last, being the same number as on Saturday, the 7th. Eight shipwrights from the hired list were entered on the establishment of Devonport Dockyard on Friday. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Allan Brown, surgeon to the Bacchante ; Edward Faulkner, paymaster addi tional to the Asia ; J. M. Lowcay, paymaster to the Bacchante; C. D. Lee, assist.-paymaster to the Bacchante ; G. B. Westcott, clerk to the Bacchante ; B. F. Meyer, assist.-clerk to the Bacchante ; Fre derick H. Herrmann, confirmed in the rank of second-class assist.-engineer in the Opossum; Ed ward T. Read, second-class assist.-engineer to the Wellington, for charge of the machinery of the Charon ; and Malcolm Baird, acting third•class assist.-engineer to the Fisgard, for service in the Shamrock. TOUTING TAILORS.—We are sorry to learn that a very disgraceful and very injurious system of touting pre vails in connexion with the examination of candidates for direct commissions in the army, which now takes place pe riodically at Chelsea Hospital. Emissaries of a certain portion of the tailoring interest manage to scrape up an ac quaintance with the candidates, insinuate themselves into their confidence, press small loans of money on their ac ceptance, and get their promise to employ Messrs. or Messrs. -- to furnish their outfit, undertaking that the items will be so charged that the amount of the loan will be slipped in in the shape of an addition to each item, so as to make thhigs pleasant with " the governor." The outfit is thus made to assume proportions of a character sorely to try the patience of " the governor," and, in one instance that came to our knowledge, an ensign in a very unpre tending marching regiment in India had uniforms and fur niture provided for his use during his brief stay at the depot amounting to £4OO. Some of these worthies even persuade the candidates that they can obtain copies of the examina tion papers for them beforehand, and this furnishes a ready means of introduction. The matter has been brought to the noire of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who is determined to take prompt steps to check a practice so disgraceful.—Army and Navy Gazette. THE COINAGE.—A return relating to tl'e opera tions of the Mint was issued yesterday. The number of sovereigns coined in 1859 were 1,547,603 ; of half-sove reigns, 2,203,813, a greater number than those for the former year, when 803,234 sovereigns and 855,578 half-sovereigns were coined. The total value of all the gold coinage manufactured at the Mint during the last ten years was £54,490,265 , The number of 2,568,060 ; of shilli ngs , florins coined in 1859 was 4,561,920 ; of sixpences, 4,688,640 ; of fourpences; 4,158 ; of threepences, 3,584,228 ; of silver twopences, 4,752 ; and of silver pence, 7,920. In copper the coinage was as follows 1,075,200 pence, 1,290,240 halfpence, and I,29o,24ofarthi m . Half-farthings have not laces coinecl since 1850, LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day•) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly). JUDGMENT-HOLDERNESS V. RANKINE. His Honour said the questions which arise on the facts and evidence in this cause may be stated to be two—lst, Whether an assignment of certain unfinished or un built ships made to the plaintiff by his brother, who afterviarc l9 became bankrupt, was a valid assignment ; or, 2d, Whether it ought to be regarded in the light of a fraudulent pre feience. John Holderness became largely indebted to his brother, the plaintiff, and, on his pressing him for payment, on 1 601 November. 1857, he executed a deed of assignment in the plaintiff's favour of three unfinished ships, of the aggregate value of .L 26,420. His Honour came to the conclusion that the assignatio n to the plaintiff was a good and valid assignment, and de creed accordingly, with costs. JUDGMENT—JOHNSON V. JOHNSON. His Honour allowed the defendant his costs from tha date of his lodging a letter of disclaimer in this suit. THE NEW JUDGE. Mr. Baron Wilde was sworn this morning, and took his seat on the bench, in place of the late Baron Watson, on e of the judges of the Court of Exchequer. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Wighttnall.) ARBON AND ANOTHER V. BULL. • This was an action brought by the plaintiff against th e defendant for the recovery of the value of a horse which ha d been killed by the negligence of the servant of the defers' dant. Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., was for the plaintiffs, and Mr' Hawkins, Q.C., for the defendants. The learned counsel for the plaintiff having stated 1 case, called a 'great number of witnesses, fo il ; whose evidence it appeared that on th e e vening 0 : the 25th of November last a carriage and pair ' 3l horses, the property of the plaintiff but let on hire to filed,' named Fussell, was proceeding slowly along Westowa" grove for some distance behind an omnibus. The coach . man, intending to pass the omnibus, drew towards the middle of the road, when a large van, driven by the ser vant of the defendant, came rapidly up and recklessly, a s was alleged, drove the shafts of the van into the breast of one of the horses, valued at £lOO, which very shortly :after the accident died. The case for the plaintiff having closed, Mr. Hawkitia called witnesses for the defendant, who gave it as thei r opinion that the van driver was not in fault. The case had not coneluded when we went to press. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Before Chief Baron Pollock and Barons Martin, Erastro well, and Wilde.) WARD V. LUMLEY. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., this morning moved for a, rule for a new trial in the cause which was tried a short time ago at Guildhall, when a verdict was given in favorer of the plaintiff. The question at issue was in effect whe the r the defendant had forfeited his right to the lease of he r Majesty's Theatre. The learned counsel contended tI l et * certain document had been admitted as evidence at the tri sti which should have been rejected. The Court refused the application. THE RELIGIOUS DISTURBANCES lA 's ll' GEORGE'S-IN THE-EAST. CONSISTORY COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Dr. Travers Twiss, Judge.) THE REV. BRYAN KING V. ROSIER. This morning having been appointed by the lstall eti judge to deliver his judgment in this painfully note rioas case, Mr. Rosier, accompanied by several friends, appeared in court to receive such judgment. It will be recollected that the case was heard befory Dr' Twiss on Tuesday, the 3d instant, when a great many wi t. nesses, including Capt. S. Hall, were examined. Mr. Roevleit the schoolmaster, and Mr. Blatchford, positively a We ° to the fact that on the 14th August, during the celebr etioa of the afternoon service, the Rev. W. P. Burn, the offi ing curate, fell down in a fit, when Mr. Rosier exclai toes , "Itis a judgment of God upon him I God has strucli down 1 Down with Bryan King l" On the part a f Rosier, he himself, as also a large number of parishio net* were examined, who denied that it was Mr. Rosier 1' 713° uttered the words. The second charge preferred agains Rosier by the Rev. Bryan King was, that when the cl Lurch was re-opened on the 6th of November, he approa ch e4 Capt. Savage Hall, a member of the congregation but 'not parishioner, and exclaimed, "This thing calls himiself captain. He is a disgrace to the army." It was also alleg ed that he approached Mr. Blatchford, another member e.f the congregation, saying, "This man means to swear 1: upon him in Wellclose. square." Out of these transao tlo° proceedings took place at the Thames Police Court, Nil:de' were fully reported at the time. Dr. Travers Twiss, in delivering his judgment, cool' menced by saying that the suit was instituted by the Ret' Bryan King, the rector of St. George's-in-the-East, aigains t Mr. Rosier, a parishioner. The decree, which was eierve l on the 28th of January, cited Mr. Rosier to appear it. th at Court to answer certain articles charging him with bra's+ . ing, chiding, and quarrelling during and after the perforal; anee of Divine service, on Sunday, August the 14th, a Sunday, November 6th. The proceedings were insti tote d under the General Ecclesiastical Law, but the charg e : were laid in the terms of the sth of Edward the 6th, otIP• " which enacted that in the case of any person wh o words or otherwise chided, brawled, or quarrelbed , it should be lawful for the ordinary of the place to Buse, him from entering the church, and of a clerk to suspe nd him from the ministrations of his office. The same stst a ' went on to enact severe penalties upon those who smote o, laid their hands upon one anotherin any church or &Are' s ; yard. The immediate object of the act was to repreeS disturbances, which in the early period after the fLef ar t mation were apt to break out amongst the lar i , ardent supporters of the Reformation, and the tactual zealous supporters of the Latin ritual. Since t l/ :, time it been made of wid er a ppli ca ti on . Al same time he must say that the jurisdiction exeVo o by the ecclesiastical courts in this country did not dept upon that statute, n or did th e statute crea t e the crittae_, brawling charged i n thi s case , i nasm uch as th e s t a tul passed to aid in the punishment of, and by no means to crest" the offence. Any disturbances (vide Hawkins in his. f of the Crown) in a church were visited with severity rat r loci, which in other cases would probably pass altoget be O f unnoticed ; the object clearly was to protect the worship the sanctuary from desecration, and to preserve the rep o of the dead. Th e ev id ence w hi c h h a d b een a dduced 10 01 °: the Court imputed to Mr. Rosier that he brawlegl 0c words ; and he was, moreover, charged of being gail t i o je that offence on two occasions. When application was ra to the Court by the Rev. Bryan King, the promoter of the suit, to permit the office of the judge to be promoted/ 0 , (Dr. Twiss) required an affidavit to be put i n by all d witness of the transactions. This was done, a n d aprinielf a4 to case having been made, he allowed the office of thejeldgto be promoted. He would n ow p rocee d t o cons ider 1 " 1 . 0 were the specific charges aga i ns t M r. R os i er. They 19fnee. of a twofold character, and Mr. Rosier had given ill a gative issue to both. In the first place, it was che r : r e against him that on the 14th August, at the 4 o'clock , vice, when the Rev. W. P. Burn, the officiating e ar : o l fell down in a fit, h e exc l a i me d—" It i s a j u d gme nt of V .49 upon him—Down with Bryan King" or words to that vele", effect, and that he thus caused great disturbance church, whereby the service was interrupted. 1 /1 0 these points three witnesses had been called, o g a parishioner, and two non-parishioners. (The le a i f judge then went through their evidence, which has al te o o been reported.) This evidence (he said) if it stood eel would go to show that two of the witnesses had n et 0 3 Mr. Rosier until that date, and that neither of there lo f heard him say "Down with Bryan King," although 'sof heard him use the other words. In his defence Mr. 110 o f called thirteen witnesses, the accuracy of one or t%c° or whom could not be relied upon, but the general accura a e l a try the witnesses called by Mr. Rosier he was fully prePa t , ; o f admit, Into the details .f that evidence he would ue_ . ' 40 0 but he would state his general impressions founded et an examination of the general testimony—the result Of t lire was that the Court did not think the charges ag ainst Rosier had been established. 6tli With regard to the second charge, that of the 0000 3. November, in which it is alleged Mr. Rosier aPP r se ie a' Capt. Savage Hall, saying "This thing calls hira-oesf captain ; be is a disgrace to the army ; he is a t- co llec l ; swell ;" and other words, two witnesses had been C osa by the prosecutor, while Mr. Rosier had oily w ee one (Mr. Tzone) who evidently did not speak to the d 9 or transaction as that charged. Those words were w a eci i i it o great aggravation, and calculated to produce ief ha t the disturbance. The prayer of the prosecutor was et) Court should admonish Mr. Rosier. The Court % v et' • difficulty in complying with that portion of the P s ' cs i o r The Court was further prayed to condemn Mr. P ar 4 in the costs of the proceedings ; and in this Y o oaf the prayer it would be necessary for hi m a few words before pronouncing Lis decisiole.9,.„o had always been laid down in the Ecclesf. aistewre, Courts, that the cost of causes were in the t hat tion of the Court. By that it was not mean that tbei costs could be granted or withheld at discretion, se', t t he were always withi n th e di s c uss ion of the counsel. the d beeu same time costs mi g ht be mitigated, and ft had the practice of the Consistoty and the Arches Court, vr t t he promoter had not proved all his case, to direct rhold person be condemned to a certain sum, w hich h fix at D h f co , admonishedr.P hi l li and m or e asked condemned, the judge and t to tell oud Mbre r . Rost' o tempt if he did not obey the order of the Cour t to e nat io Mr. Rosier said—l appeal from this Cour malicious Pre s° "as an innocent man, and declare it is a . ti on, t Mr. Rosier and all the parties left in a a citement• and as a Britissubject I state 0f 1 roe, .....,^"."'.--' ~~.`