The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-28 00:00:00

1111111....•••••••••• _ ER, MAJESTY'S THEATRE., LA INTOZZE DI FIGARO. First appearance of Madlle. Marie Taglioni. TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), May 29, will be presented Mozart's opera , LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. The Countess, Madlle. 'Miens ; Cherubino, Madame Orto lani ; Susannah, Madlle. Piccolomini ; 11 Conte d'Almaviva, Signor BelleVelltaliO; Basilic., Signor Belart ; Antonio, Sig. Costelli ; Bartolo, Sig. Rossi ; and Figaro, Signor Belletti. To conclude with an entirely New Ballet Divertissement, by M. Mascot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The principal characters by Madlle. Marie Taglioni (her first ap pearance this season), Mesdlles. Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale, Morlacchi, and M. Durand. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Price 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box Office, at the Theatre. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— Titiens, Alboni, Ginglini. Piccolomini, Ortolani, Belletti, Beneventano, Aldighieri. The following arrangements have been m tde : To-morrow (Saturday), May 29—Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO (first time this season), and a new Ballet, LA REINE DES SONGES, for the first appearance of Madlle. Marie Taglioni. Tuesday, June 1— LES HUGUENOTS, and Ballet, with Madlle. Marie Taglioni. Thursday, June 3—LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, and Ballet, with Madlle. Pocchini. Saturday, June S—IL TROVATORE and Ballet. Monday, June 7—Grand Morning Performance, ON GIOVANNI, and other Entertainments. The B a l le t will include Mesdlles. Pocshini and Marie Taglioni. Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre ROY AL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. NEW THEATRE, The Oper3. to commence Rat 8 o'clock. TO-MORROW EVENING (SATUDA), May 29, will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. Valentina, Madame Gr:si; Margarita di Valois, Ma'llle. Marai ; Dama d'Onore, Madame Tagliafico ; Urbano, Madlle. Didiee ; Marcell°, M. Zelger ; Il Conte di San Bris Signor Polonini ; Il Conte di Nevers, Signor Tagliafico ; Meru, Sig. Pierini ; SiVaillleS, Signor Rossi ; Huguenot Soldier, Signor soldi ; and Raoul di Nangis, Signor Mario. Conductor—Mr. Costa. Prices of Admission : —Boxes—pit tier, 51. 15s. 6d.; grand tier, 6/. 6s; first tier, 51. ss. ; second tier, 21. 12s. 6d. ; orchestra stalls, 1/. ls. ; pit, 10s. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Application for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, under the portico in Bow street, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH CHARMS. After which KING LEAR.' King Lear, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. OPAL PRINCESS'S THE A.TRE. —Mr. X TE) and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN respectfully inform the Public that their ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place on SAPURDAY, Jane 12, upon which occasion Shaks pore's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will be pro duced, with the same accuracy of detail and historical cor rectness that have marked the previous revivals at this theatre. In consequence of this arrangement RING LEAR will be repeated EIGHT NIGHTS more, and then with drawn, to make room for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. KING LEAR, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Characters by Messrs. Buekstone, Chipendale, Compton, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Sedgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz william. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes._ .......... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit •••• • • Gallery THEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. TIES EVENING, will be presented the Drama of the GREEN BIISEIES. —______. Followed_ by the new Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR FRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame Celeste. Commence at Seven. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. —This Evening will be presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs. Emery, Ray, Belford, Mesdames M. Oliver, Portman, Victor, and Selby. After which, the new burlesque of FRA. DIAVOLO ; or, The Beauty and the Brigands. Fra Diavolo, Miss Swan borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young. To conclude with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. The characters by Messrs. N. IL Swauborough, J. W. Ray, Chas. Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Ternau, and C. Melville. ANTERBIJ RY HALL, Westminster-roar - I. '4,j OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follo sv inz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S ilections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dre. , viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jomghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. loner, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard , Messrs. W. T. Critchrield, John G. Fordo, and E. Macknoy. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening in a Selection from "LA DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English words by Desmond Ryan, Esq. THE WE ATHER—SIIN OFFICE, MAY 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.13. WIND, W.N.W. ; light, with cloudy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 10 min. aft. 2—Even., 28 rain. aft. 2 TO-MOSBOW—Morn., 4 min. aft. 2 —Even., 1 min. aft. 3 1. • T t t i ._ ~,_ . ..„, • LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1858. The confusion in King AGRAMANT'S camp was nothing to the consternation excited in the Pal merstonian ranks by the brilliant address of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The home truths revealed by the Right Hon. Gentleman have ex cited the minds of his factious opponents to the fiercest wrath. They wince under the energetic application of the scourge, which he wielded with such unsparing severity. There are howls of every character, from the thorough bass (or base) to the shrill squeak of a penny whistle —a bad imitation of the peripatetic Punch, who, wanting the wit of the Prototype, are con tented if they make it up in noise and clamour. Mr. DIsnAELI has stripped the lacquer off the native brass. Like St. PATRICE, in the Hiber nian myth, he has crushed the venomous reptiles, and their "pharisaical" patrons who gave, or seemed to give, implicit credence to " the leading articles written by themselves." The description of the Friday evening in the House of Commons was inimitable, when " the wail of distress " not from the Ministerial benches—was heard around. There was a com plete revolution. A mutiny only to be compared to that of " the Bengal Army. Regiment after regiment, corps after corps, general after general, all acknowledged that they could not march through Coventry. It was like a convulsion of nature rather than any ordinary transaction of human life. It only could be likened to one of those earthquakes which take place in Calabria or Peru. There was a rumbling murmur, a groan, a shriek, a sound of distant thunder. No one knew whether it came from the top or the bottom of the house. There was a rent—a fissure in the ground—and_ then a village disappeared, then a tat tower toppled down, and the whole of the Opposition benches became one great dissolving view of anarchy." Well might the Right Honourable Gentleman exclaim, " are these the people whom you want to govern the country ? People in pie whose camp there is auarchy,_between whom there is discord on every point, and who are not even incited by the common bond of wishin g to seize on the spoils o f o ffi c e." They are not. The so-called " inde pendent Falinerstonian Liberals," although they do not like the DERBY Government, do not see their way to any benefit, either for themselves or the nation, in the return to office of the veteran Viscount, while the really consistent men, like JOHN ARTHTIR ROUT/OE, JOHN BRIGHT, and Sir A. H. ELTON, have decided, and will decide on the real merits of the case, without reference to party feelings or undue motives. They at least would regard the premature return to office of the happy family as an evil of no ordinary character. But even that would not induce them to vote against their consciences, or in opposition to the real merits of the case. If the Government go wrong —if good measures are rejected, they will strive to bring them into a proper course. If perverse u Lstinacy, or contu melious insolence, such as they were long accustomed to, were attempted, they would speedily vindicate their own cause ; but so long as Minis ters pursue a straightforward and honourable course, beneficial to the nation in its foreign and domestic relations, they have nothing to fear from the really independent Liberals. Sir A. H. ELTON clearly explained the policy of the true Liberals, at the meeting of his con stituents on Wednesday evening ; and that policy was endorsed and approved of by men of all shades and varieties of political opinion. He could not join in the onslaught against the celebrated despatch—which, if even, indiscreet, was certainly "honest ;" and any fault, if fault there were, was more than atoned and expiated by the resig• nation of its author—a resignation deeply re• gretted by every true-hearted Englishman, and one which we would gladly see recalled, and " the right man restored to the right place." The earnest pretest of Sir JAMES OUTRAM against the " confiscation policy" was identical in sentiment, if not in language, with that of Lord ELLENBOROIIGH. It was con clusive on the question at issue ; and oven those who had improvidently promised the Palmer stonian whipper-in, shrunk from the redemption of their ill-advised pledges. Had there been a divi sion, there would have been a large majority on the side of the Government, and many absentees, who, like Mr. DIINCOMBE, would have taken up their hats and made their respective conges. The feeling of the House, so plainly and unequivocally displayed, however prevailed, and the ignominious withdrawal of the motion—so humiliating to the conspirators and damaging to their cause—was the result. We do not believe that there will be any other factious attempt this session, although the modern Pharisee, who " thanks GOD that he is net as other men," is reported to have exclaimed, in an ebullition of pious wrath, " that Ministers should sot long retain their places." More sagacious men will, however, see the danger of a second abortive effort, and therefore we may hope that the remainder of the session will be devoted to the pressing business of the country, and that another week may not be wasted iu a " faction fight," occasioned by the ex-Premier trailing his skirts through the house, and challenging any one to tread on them. Another ingenious plan for the better drainage of the metropolis has been submitted to the con sideration of the metropolitan commissioners. As if there were not enough plena already to bewilder any ordinary board, and to render as dubious as possible the chance of any speedy attempt at one comprehensive improvement. Engineer after engineer has proffered his suggestions under this head, and up to the present moment nothing at all definitely has ever yet come of it. The Metropolitan Board of Works has been particu larly hasty in the matter. The General Board of Health has taken it into its serious considera tion. The Deodorisation Commission has not been by any means idle. Reports have been drawn up and published periodically. Statistics have been sedulously acoum ulated. Sir BEN JAMIN HALL has scruti nixed the problem from every imaginable point of view, in the hope of at last arriving at some satisfactory solution. Lord JOIN MANNERS has endeavoured, is still endea vouring to emulate the industry, and to surpass the sagacity of his energetic and indefatigable pre decessor. Dr. IdiTHSBY has " many a time and oft" insisted upon the necessity for some resolute and instant reform in this direction being forth with undertaken by Hor MAJESTY'S Government. Dr. SOUTIWOOD SMITH has lent the aid of his great authority towards the improvement of this all but universal and overwhelming conviction. Mr. EDWIN CHADWICL has sustained with hie great authority the same powerful and convincing argument. From Gwydyr House, from Guild hall, from Whitehall-place, there have been per petually pouring in additional facts demonstrative more and more clearly of the sore need there is of some determined effort being made towards the purification of London and Westminster. Mean while—so much having been spoken, written, end printed upon the subject—what has been actually clone ? Surely nobody needs to be told that after all these years, after all the hubbub in the way of argument and consultation, what has actually been done amounts just Madly to—Nothing. Not only nothing has been Done, however, but absolutely nothing all this while, up to the pre sent moment, has even been Attempted to be d o ne ! There have been plans in abundance, but not one of these plans has ever once been frankly and boldly taken in hand. And now—after all the time and the toil thus wasted—forth comes a bran new plan for the better drainage of the metropolis—to what end of what precise cha racter ? Now, mark The last new plan in re ference to the main drainage question, the plan now formally submitted to the consideration of the Metropolitan Commissioners affects not in any way to purify the Thames, and beyond that goes the length of explicitly proposing that the sewage shall be discharged within the metropolitan area. So that literally the short and the long of it is— that before this new Government plan could by any possibility be accepted and acted upon, a new act would have to be framed and passed through both houses of Perlin. ment. For so long as the Metropolis Local Management Act continues in existence in its pre sent form it would be a direct' infringement of that particular act of the Imperial Legislature, either to discharge the sewage within the metre politan area or not to see to the purification of the river Thames. And, what ie more, we don't think it at all within the bounds of mere probability that the Lords and Commons can be iaduced now-l a hair's breadth, the terms of th a t days to alter by special enactmen t . It is obviously, therefore, sheer waste of time for the Commissioners to be pottering over the impracticable suggestions of an illegal plan like t he one j ust now sagely sub mitted to their consideration. Let us hope that the last of these abortive p l a ns may, without any further delay, be strang led betimes with its own swathing bands of red tape , a nd buried away decently in the cerements of circumlocution. Several journals have announced that the Caimacan of Moldavia, Pinco Vogorides, was at the point of death . . A telegram from Jassy, dated May 24 , contrad :ots this news. COPYRIGHT IN WORKS OF FINE ART.—A petition to the House of Lords, praying an amendment of the law of artistic copyright, already signed by Sir Charles East lake, P.R. A , is now arid will be lying at the house of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi for the next few days. All persons interested in the subject should lose no time in signing it. THE SUN, SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES. Yesterday the judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleaq, and Exchequer, assembled in the Exchequer Chamber for the purpose of choosing and arranging the several circuits upon which they will respectively proceed to hold the ensuing assize of oyer and teimiuer and general gaol delivery in and for the several counties in England and IfVale3. The following are the arrange ments made : HOME CIRCIIIT.—Judges : Mr. Justice Willes and Mr. Baron Bramwell. Assizes to be holden at Hertford, Chelmsford, Croydon, Maidstone, and Lewes. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Judges : Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Justice Wight man. Assizes to be holden at Aylesbury, Bedford, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich and City. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Judges : Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of the Common ['leas, and Mr. Justice Williams. Assizes to be holden at Northampton, Leicester, Oakham, Lin coln-over-the-Heath, Nottingham, Derby, and Warwick. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —Judges : The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Mr. Baron Martin. Assizes to be holden at LancastPr, Appleby, Carlisle, Newcastle, Durham, York, and Liverpool. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Judges : Mr. Baron Wat son and Mr. Baron Channell. Assizes to be holden at Winchester, Devizes, Dorchester, Exeter, Bod min, Wells, and Bristol. OXFORD CIRCUIT. —Judges : Mr. Justice Cole ridge (or Mr. Hugh Hill) and Mr. Justice Byles. Assizes to be holden at Abingdon, Oxford, Wor cester, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Monmouth, and Gloucester. NORTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.—Judge : Mr. Justice Crowder, Assizes to be holden at New town, DolgelTy, Carnarvon, Beaumaris, Ruthin, Mold, and Chester. SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT. —Judge : Mr. Justice Crompton. Assizes to be holden at Cardiff, Haverfordwest, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Brecon, Presteign, and Chester. Mr. Justice Erle remains in town as vacation judge. PRINCE ALBERT'S DEPARTURE FOR OSTEND. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal family steamed up from Osborne to Portsmouth this evening, and entered the harbour at half-past five, under the usual salutes and ceremonies, naval and military. The Fairy ranged off the dockyard, where the Prince alighted, and where the naval Commander in-Chief and the dockyard staff and guard of honour were in attend ance. The Prince entered Sir George Seymour's car riage, attended by Col. Ponsonby and one other officer, and was driven to the Landport station of the London and South-Western, and London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, where a special train bad been prepared by Mr. Alfred Mountain, the joint superintendent, to oonvey the Prince Consort to Dover, via Hastings and Ashford, on the South-Coast and South-Eastern lines. This train, in charge of Mr. Craven and Mr. Hawkins, officers of the Brighton Company, left the terminus for its destination at four minutes past six, The R )yal yacht Fairy returned to Osborne immedi ately on the departure of the Prince from the dockyard. The salutes, &c., were repeated. DOVER, THURSDAY NIGHT. 7,1, His Royal Highness the Prince Consort arrived at Dover at 9.24 p.m., per special train of the South- Eastern Railway, and embarked on board the Admiralty yacht Vivid, Commander Allen, which was lying in the harbour with her steam up ready for immediate depar tare for Ostend. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Colonel Ponsonby, and attended by Mr. S. Teulon, one of the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway Company. A large concourse of persons had assembled at the railway station, and upon his Royal Highness alighting from the State carriage every mark of respect and loyalty was evinced. The Prince Consort was received by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G., Colonel of the Royal West Sussex Infantry Militia; Major-General Crau furd the Commandant of the Garrison, who was attended by his aides-de-camp, Major Bernard and Major Doyley ; the Hon. Captain Gage, of the Sussex Militia ; Captain Seymour, R.N. ; and the Admiralty Superintendent of the port, Captain Mclllwaine, R.N, On alighting from the railway carriage his Royal Highness shook hands with the Duke of Richmond, Major-General Cranfurd, and Captain Seymour, and returning the salutations of the cro wd, among which there was a large number of ladies, at once stepped into a post-carriage, which had been prepared by Mr. Birmingham, of the Lord Warden Hotel, and which was then driven direct to the quay, at which the Vivid was lying. In a few minutes the steamer u as on her way to Ostend, where it was ex pected she would arrive about half•past 2, there being every prospect of a favourable change. The whole of the arrangements for the reception of the Prince Consort at the railway station were under the direction Mr. of E. J. Wray, the Railway Superintendent. Tee destination of the Prince Consort is stated to be Cobourg, and, ultimately, Berlin, where his Royal Highness will pay a visit to the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia. COURT CIRCULAR. -► --- OSBORNE, MAY 27. The Queen and the Prince drove out yesterday after noon. The Duchess of Kent also took a carriage drive. The Earl of Derby arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Mr. P. G. Dodd, jeweller, of Cornhill, had the hon our of attending at Osborne on Monday to submit a gold sword made by him for the First King of Siam. The Earl of Darby returned to London yesterday evening from a visit to the Queen at Oslo,,rne. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Ditraeli have returned to town from Langley-park, Slough. The Rev. J. Irvin had an intsrvie A , with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Danoughmore has returned to London from Cebham-hall. The Earl of Derby returned to London yesterday evening, from a visit to the Queen at Osborne. The Earl of Donoughmore has returned to London from Cobham Hall. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have returned to town from Langley Park, Slough. Toe Count Blucher hae arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Baden. Mr. Henry Silvertopp and the Hon. Mrs. Silvertopp have arrived at the Clarendon from Paris. Sir OM y Wakeman has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from his seat, near Worcester. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,—The Queen's box was oc copied last evening by the Lion. Lucy Kerr, Sir George and Lady Charlotte Osborn and the Misses Osborn, General Sir William and Lady Gomm, Cal. Cuppage, and Lieut. Cuppage. Amongst the fashionable company attending the theatre were the Duke of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, his Excellency the Russian Minister and the Baroness Bronnow, the Duke of Wel lington, the Countess (Dowager) of Harrington and party, the Earl and Countess of Wilton and the Ladies Katherine and Alice Grey Egerton, the Earl of Mount charles, the Earl of Chesterfield, Count A. Serristori, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Curzno, Viscount Power - court, Hon. P. Doyle, Sir W. Tephatn, Lady Lawley, Lady Nicholson, Lord and Lady Macdonald, Mr. P. Aiken and Mrs. Aileen and Miss Aiken and party, M. Carlos Maria Lamarca, Gen. the Hon. H. Cavendish, Hon. Otway Toler, Mr. Geo. Peabody, Mile Horace Twiss, Mrs. Trelawney, Captain Baron, Mr. C. Mur doch, 1 - 4 c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening. Their Royal High nesses occupied the Qeeen's box and were at tended by La ly Geraldine Somerset and Baron }Cues- beck. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge aso honoured the performances with his presence. Among the fashionable company attending the theatre were : -- the Duchess of Montrose, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Eta Cawdor, the Countess of Boctive, the Earl and Countess of Mounteharles, the Earl and Countess of Munster, the Earl of Luc in, Viscount Exmouth, Count and Countess Alfred Putocki, Count Louis Corti, Lady Louisa Mcncrieffe, Lady Nam, Lord Charles Bruce, Lord Braybrooke, Lady Waltscourt, and the Hon. Misses Blake, Lady O'Cennor and Miss O'Connor, the Lord C lief Justice and Miss Cockburn, Lord and Lady Al b ernon St. Maur, Hoe. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Hon. Dudley Fortescue, lien. Mr. Pouncefort Dun , combo, Lion. H Stanhope, Hon. F. Petre, Hon. John Ferree cue, Sir ‘Villiam de. .rll 4- ,lite Sir Alexander Banner man, Sir 1.1.-nry Cetterell, M.P., S r George Ai mytage, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, :Sir Jubn Lawther, M.P., C de Bathe, Col. Meyrick and Lady Laura ' 1 Meyrick, Col. Browulow Knox, M.P., Col. Tyra hitte Capt Clayton, Capt. Peel, Capt. Knox, Capt. Vivian, Capt Maunsell, M r . Schuster, Me. Bulteel, Mr. Bentinek, Mr. Henry Greville. Mr. H. B tiling, M.P., Mr. Antrobus, Mr. and Mrs. Petre, &o. DEATH OF FAB, HENRY MEREDITH.—This venerable and learned gentleman, 0,.e of the Ecelesiasticel Cam . missioners f.r Ireland, expired at his residence, Rutland ajoeervaenTnni engc;Nu inquest was a Ks heldEsz e t ? . 4 - , i F ua ß r l e G , H D TF u ti b L lin A , y c e c s l t D e E rd s R WA ai Y i;T a y Y l e l s a t :r d e:, Y L in ee o , "' b i e n fo g re Mr. C. J. Carter, coroner for West Kent, on the body of John Diggins, aged 27, a porter, employed a t the B ' ackheath station Of the North Kent Railway, whose head was completely severed from his body by an express train, on the previous Tuesday morning. Verdict—" Accidental death," LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIN - G, MAY 28, 1858. BRADSHAW'S RAILVAT AND STEAM NAVIGATION ITIDE.—The new edition of Bradshaw contains several mprovements which renders the publication so complete in all its details as to be as easy and ready of reference to the inexperienced railway traveller as a work of such magnitude can possibly be made. The map now em braces the whole of the United Kingdom, and shows in a clear and distinct form every line tf railway in Great Britain and Irelind. The classification of rail- ways is drawn up on entirely new plan, and the unique index to towns is now so arranged as to avoid unnecessary repetition 3f reference when the same place is referred to in severa pages. The key to the general arrangement and plan )1 the Guide is a most welcome and convenient auldi:iol, by coniult . ng which the travel ler will be greatly facilitated in his references to the publication. Another important improvement is the introduction of an abridged time and faro table of all the great lines of railcay. They embrace all the prin cipal town, and precele the usual ordinary time tables of the Guide. By then the public are enabled to see at a glance the departura and arrival of the trains, with the fares, between a'l the most important places i❑ the kingdom. In every page of the Guide it is evident that the grea`est care and vigilance has been exercised to simplify every rEfeier.ce and to lender the work as complete as possible. A. NOVEL DOG KESNEL.—One day la - it week (says a correspondent of the Birmingham Daily Post) we were much amused by observing a contretemps which hap pened to a lowly. According to the fashion of the pre sent day she wore a tremendous display of crinoline. She wa3 accompanied by "a duck of a dog," and the frolicsome dear popped and frisked about as little dogs do, until at length he popped under the crinoline, and there, despite her efforts to di-I,dp him from his snug abode, ho remained for several minutes. The lady blushed and looked sngry at the curious predicament she was in, the passers by smiled at the incident, - but we of course were not so rude as to wait the denouement of the affair. ••••••• ••••......••• • REMEDY FOR TY?litiS FEVER.--In 1845, Dr. Chew, of Baltimore, first tried the chlorate of potash in typhus fever, and with extraordinary success, having only lost two patients out of 72. His formula was : chlorate of potash, 4 grammes ; bi-carbonate of soda and gum of acacia, 8 grammes of each ; water 250 grammes ; a table-spoonful of the mixture to be administered every two hours, until the period , of convalescence had. com menced. Last year, Dr. Bellentani, of Ouarville (Eure• et-Loir), obtained similar results by administering in the beginning 2 grammes per day in a mixture of 60 grammes of gum•water and 40 of syrup of lemons, and increasing the ehlorate by or-e gramme every second'day. The drink of the patient consisted in some cooling decoction, and oftener still, in an abundant supply of 13 , re cold water ; an Enema of cold water was moreover adminis tered once a day, besides cold applications on the abdo men of a solution of 30 grammes of chlorate of potash and 10 of hydrochloric acid in 1,000 grammes of wafer. The Abcille Medkale now publishes certa:n observations made by Dr. Taliaferro, of Atlanta, in Georgia, on the t fff.cts of this new remedy. Having lived for several years in a locality where the typhus fever is endemic, he bad ample opportunities for experimenting on the subject, and it will be remarked that the doses ie administers are much larger than those of his pred3cessors. He, moreover, adds a small quantity of tincttte of weratrum, wiride to the chlorate as a sedative ; his brmula being : Chlorate of potash, 120 grammes ; tincture of veratruen, 2 grammes; a table-spoonful of the mixture every three hours during the day, and a dose of opium in the even ing. The result is a speedy abatement of tee most alarm ing symptoms, no delirium in most cases, end great mit i•• gation rf nervous irritation. Convalescence begins at the end of about a fortnight. Dr. Taliaferre allows his pa tients some food aad wine during the who e period of the disord-r. A- REMEDY FOR CHRONIC CORYZA.—Er. Soubrier, of Bruyrres (Seine-et-Oise), recommends the following powder as a certain cure for this affection of the nose, which, when chronic, is extremely iucotvenient, offen sive, ansl difficult to remove. Four grammes of subni trate of bismuth, mixed with six or eight grammes of powdered liquorice, may be taken as snuff, at the rate of 10 or 12 pinches a day, until the cure is effected. Some times from 30 to 40 centigrammes of the indide of sul phur are aided to the above dose, to increase its activity. This powder penetrates into all the irregular cavities of the nostrils, promotes the secretion of mucus, prevents the i artial decomposition it undergoes in consequence of a prolonged stay in the nostrils, and ultimately re duces the secretion of the mucus mernbrance to its ordinary proportien. Should the membrane, by an excessive use of the powder, become dry and irritable, a little fresh butter may be introduced into the nostrils, and the powder discontinued. It may be added that the latter has an agreeable smell, and is perfectly innocuous, ALPHABET OF PROVERBS.—A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. Boasters are cousins to liars. Confession of a fault makes half amends. Denying a fault doubles it. Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself. Foolish fear doubles danger. God reaches good things by our bands. He has hard work who has nothing to do. It costs more to revenge wrongs than to bear them. Knavery is the worst trade. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Modesty is a guard to virtue. Not to hear conscience is the way to silence it. Proud loo'ss make foul work in fair faces. Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. Richest is he that wants least. Small faults indulged are little thieves that let in greater. The boughs that bear most hang lowest. Upright walking is sure walking. Virtue and happi ness are mother, and daughter. Wise men make more opportunities than they find. You never lose by doing a good turn. Zeal without knowledge is without light. THI GOLD IN VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.—We learn from advices via Olympia, United States, that a gentleman who had arrived there direct from - Victoria, Vancouver's Island, represents the specimens of gold found in the Fraser River district as being quite coarse ; ono piece, weighed in his presence, was worth a fraction over 12 dole. He also states that from 5 dole. to 15 dole. and 20 dols. a day had been washed out, brit thinks that there are more miners whose average product is under 8 dole, per day than above that amount. The Hudson's Bay Company's steamer Beaver, recently arrived at Victoria fram Forts Hope and Langley, brought 16.bs. of gold dust that had been traded from the miners on Fraser's and Thompson's Rivers. Several private parcels were sent down for the purchase of supplies, mining tools, &c. Nearly all the half-breeds and French, together with many other residents on Van couver's Lland, were in the gold region, and it is thought there were already there, and en route, from 600 to 800 persons. The northern portion of Washington territory was becoming well-nigh deserted. The lumbering esta blishments on the waters of Puget Sound find it ex tremely difficult to keep in operation, owing to the num ber of hands that had lett and were constantly leaving for the north.—Canadian New. THE IRON AND COAL TRADES. —We have this week to report a still further improvement in the tone of the iron trade, and some good orders have been received in the district,. Not only so, but the accounts fr,m Ame rica are of a more cheering character. Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, and Co., of Sheffield and Liverpool, who sus pended payments in Noven.bet last, have announced their intention, owing to favourable advices from Ame rica, of at once resuming payments, instead of allowing, as arranged, their liabilities (as far as their settlement was concerned) to extend to nex; year. Another large American merchant has received remittances from thence, which far more than cover his account, and he is of opinion that in the course of a month, or two at the farthest, some good orders will be received from Arne rice ; and the manner in which their indebtedness to the merchants in this country is being settled imparts a brightening prospect as to the future, In South Wales things are assuming a much better aspect ; the docks begin to be full of shipping, and at the present time large quantities of railway iron are being sent away. It is hoped that the very perceptible alteration in the trade which has recently taken place will be continued, and that we shall not relapse again into a quiescent state, which has been the caee of late after our hopes have been excited. Former signs of activity have been regarded as omens of prosperity, but these expectations have not been realised. Now, however, the fact cannot be controverted that the prospects in America are daily becoming more hopeful, and ere long we expect to be benefited to a greater or less extent, as the stocks in that country are very bare. The coal trade is rather in clined to langour, but with few exceptions prices remain unaltered. Stone, the yield of the district, continues in god demand at our last quotations.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. THE NEw PAUL VERONESE IN THE NATIONAL GAL LERY.—" This fastidious Roman expressed also his an noyance at he inaccuracy of the costume, in Paul's fine picture of the ' Family of Darius present eet to Alex wader,' and lamented that so admirable a work should have been blemished by this gross anachronism. You are, doubtless, well acquainted with a painting which belongs to a branch of your family. It may . be truly called the triumph of colouring; and certainly m ore haa loony, spl en d o ur, and lovelinesa never met together in one picture. To these merits must be added the truth of character which prevails inall the heads, most ( f which are portraits. Forget for a moment that the incident is borrowed from ar cleat story ; imagine it the victory of a here of the sixteenth century, and the painting becomes, in al respect a masterpiece. The archi tecture, in the background, gives a tone to the wenle ; but it required the delicate outlines and the exquisite perception of harmonious c Touring which distinguish Fa 1 Veronese, to give relief and contrast to the figures an I draperies on so light a ground. The pyra midal group, formed by an old man and f ur female figures, is superlatively lovely ; the countenances won derfully expressive, and apartling with animation. The head of Alexander is beautiful, but deficient in nia , eouline firmness, and more adapted to charm the softer sex than to awe the world ; while the nobler features of Parmenio ex'iibit a strength of character finely contrasted with the more feminine graces of the rably foldedc a o n n c u i r o o u r, r eadn. 110 y ,,, el e l x o q w u is d i r t a e i d y e rhy. finished; the lone and beautiful y braided 11 toren hair of the Persianerb e pie i Princesses c" 11 8 178 o f And thorn' what h a t the ea host c ‘afi n f fi l life, as i s r a es s n i n n e a the, n e 'Nuptials of Cana!' Certainly, this painting unrivalled in el ere fidelity to nature ; and in the truth 11A splendour of its co miring, it yields only to that o/r triumphant ita, specimen itian,s, f Presentation V en tia o a f r t t !l to t, the Su Virgin r4 c i n o t! delta e Temple." Teese t pictures will long maintain there glorioussuprensacy, and will prof ably never be surpassed. This painter's violation of costume is, in fact, only a defect in the eyes of antiquarians. The great mass of society overlook it, and care only for what gratifies the eye and the imagination. Nevertheless, I would re commend to artists generally the avoidance of subjects borrowed from ancient history. It is far easier to excel in the folds and colourings cf modern drapery, than to delineate the light garb and native elegance of Grec a forms. Nor could any painters, but those wh o li t e I in the times of Pericles and Aspasia, do justice to those most classical and graceful of all subjects. —From No 11. of Tales front Blackwood. —" Colonna the Painter." L&TEST NEWS. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Ariel, steamship, Captain Ludlow, has ar rived from New York. Advices anticipated by the Borussia. The Ariel brings 306 passengers, 60 of them for Southampton, and the rest for Bremen. She has no specie. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. The arrival of the steamer Valetta puts us in possession of news from China to the 12th April. They confirm the statement that Lord Elgin had declared himself ready to employ force to penetrate to Pekin itself, for the purpose of opening the free access to the interior of China to the world. The journals express hopes that Teentain, situated about GO miles from the capital, will be easily taken. A demand for gunboats for river service has been made. The authorities continue their tortures of all suspected to be favourable to the Allied Powers and to the throwing open of ths ports. Some horrid acts of barbarity have cone to light, and anarchy prevails in the interior. CALCUTTA, APRIL 22.—The insurgents at Azim ghur have been crushed ; but the insurrectionary spirit has extended to the north and west. The hot season has brought sickness, as usual, in its train. The commercial position is unfavourable. VIENNA, THURSDAY. The French ships of war ordered to the Adriatic have received the order to return. They quitted Gravosa this day. Tho Montenegrin affair will be settled definitively at Constantinople. The Turks are landing large forces at Ragusa, but the English and French Consuls are doing their best to prevent collision. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Conferences ara not expected to meet again before Monday next. Count Walewski and Earl Cowley have returned to Fontainbleau. The Prince Royal of Wurtemberg took leave of their Majesties yesterday morning at Fontaine bleau, and returned to Paris, where his Royal Highness intends rem•iining until to-morrow (Sa turday), when he leaves for Stuttgard. It is not true that a naval force will make a de monstration on the coast of Morocco. M. de Pens, who was wounded in a duel with Lieutenant Hyenne, of the 9th Chasseurs, is dying. It is not expected that he will survive this night. In c•ise of his death, his father will institute proceedings against Lieutenant Hyenne. The screw transport Loire, which sailed yester day from Brest, with convicts for Cayenne, had on board Rudio, the confederate of Orsini in the at tempt to assassinate the Emperor on the 14th of January. Accounts from Toulon, dated yesterday, state that the screw ship of the line Napoleon is being prepared for sea, in order to reinforce the Mediter ranean fleet. M. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister to London, has been in Paris for some days past. He is anxious while the Congress is sitting that the three protect ing Powers shall define the meaning of the treaty entered into between Greece and Turkey in 1854, with a view to avoid misinterpretation in future. The commission appointed by the Prefect of the Haut Rhin to ascertain the precise result of the late election, in the circumscription of Belfort, for a deputy to the legislative body, has declared that M. Migeon obtained 16,020 votes, and M. Keller 14,592. BOURSE, May 27.—The following were the last quotations 4i per Cents 9:3 35 Do. end month__ 93 35 Credit Foncier Belgian 4,1 Piedmontese (5) Roman 9 li Austrian I Spanish Threes Ilome Debt ---FoR, CASH. 3 par Cent. . ... 69 65 Do. end month 69 65 Bank Shares - Credit Mobilier 6t7 EO Do. Account 645 RAILWAYS Orleans Northern New Ditto 735 Midi - 490 Western 560 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian Lyon and Mediteran. New Ditto.. Geneva . 732 k EG By the Euphrate, which has just arrived at Marseilles from Alexandria, we have received de , ails r.-specting the fatal accident already briefly announced by telegraph : " After attending the solemn reception given to the Viceroy of Alexandria, on the occasion of the fetes of Bairam, AhmetPasha, nephew, and Halim Ibrahim Pacha, brother of the Viceroy, Kereddin Pacha, Rifaat Bey, Minister of Commerce, and a number of distinguished personages left by,rail way to return to Cairo. On arriving at Caffre el Eis the carriages composing their train, which were four in number, had as usual to be pushed on to a steam ferry to be conveyed across the Nile, but the Arabs employed pushed them too fast, and the consequence was that the vehicles fell into the water. On seeing the accident, some persons raised loud cries ; and Halim Ibrahim Pacha jumped through the carriage window into the Nile, and was saved. The greatest efforts were made to save the other personages, but Ahmet Pacha, Re reddin Pacha, and Rifaat Bey was drowned, as was also a negro slave, who was in the same car riage with them. Several other personages shared the same fate. The dead bodies of the prince and other victims were subsequently got out of the river, but several could not be found. The news of the fatal accident having reached Cairo, the Viceroy manifested the greatest sorrow, and the other princes of the reigning family, attended by the Ministers of the Interior, Finance, and Foreign Af fairs, hastened to the scene of the disaster, and ac companied the mortal remains of Ahmet Pacha to the capital. Ahmet, who was the heir of the reigning Viceroy, was educated in France, and was noted for his liking for Europeans. It is said that he leaves a fortune of from 45 to 50,000,000 talaris (250,000,000 fr.), and that by his will, written with his own hand, he bequeaths one-third of it to his mother, one-third to his wife (he h a d on ly non e), egli and genceo o n the persons partsc Some thertaohriibs 3ostofhaccident to culpable negli gence who is only one y ear o ld. the railway functionaries ; others affirm that the carriages were wilfully pushed into the river, in execution of a plot. It is said that some months ago an attempt was made to poison Ahmet Pacha." TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITHIBATTLE OF GRAHOYO-THE MONTENE INDIA. GRIN DESPATCHES. The following letters have been addtessed to the editor of the Times : Sir,—Mr. Andrew's letter, in your impression of to-day, calls for a few remarks from me. My mis take as to the route of the proposed telegraphic line through Asiatic Turkey hardly affects the argu nlats which I urged against its feasibility, for %haler the line runs through Sivas or Aleppo it Inuit touch at Diarbekir, and from Diarbekir to Basra the risk awaiting it ill be in fad play. Again, none of the post-houses in Turkey are nearer than 20 miles apart, and are generally located near towns or villages. While this arrangement suffices, under ordinary circumstances, for their protection, the inter mediate distances are frequently overrun by marauding Arabs. Were this not the case, the post might travel unprotected, whereas up to the present day it is av,om panied by an escort ; and most Europeans, even when journeying by pot, are not deemed safe without a similar guard. I know of no district between Bagdad and Bara where the wires would be safe ; for, though the Arabs for a part of the distance are not, strictly speaking, Bedouins, they are not therefore more under the control of the local Turkish authorities, or better disposed towards them, and the Arabs who have settled and have become cultivators of the soil are themselves frequently exposed to the inroads of their nomade neighbours. The state of the tribes might have been more favourable during Captain Lynch's residence at Basra, but this only serves to show that a country so liable to change, and upon the security of which no dependence can be placed for a month together, is little adapted for a line of telegraphic communication. General Chesney's remark upon the proffered assist ar co of the Sheikh of the Shammar may be adduced in illustration of the above observation. The Shammar a few years ago were at feud with the Government; now they ara subsidised by them. But can any one tell how long the alliance will last T And in case of a rupture what would became of the wires which the Shammar had helped to erect ? Besides, it mast be borne in mind that the Shammar have no influence south of Bagdad, where many of the tribes, though smaller, are far more lawless than thosd in Upper Mesopotamia, and vary lately, as I observed in my last letter, the Shammar, aided by the Turkish Nizam, were thoroughly beaten on their own ter ritory by the more powerful Anis. Omar Pasha may, in deed, do something to bring about a better state of things in his Pashalic, just as Mohammed Pasha of Mosul did 20 years ago ; but what security is there that his successor will not suffer the country to lapse into greater disorder than before I Persons at all acquainted with the history of those districts for the last half-century will at once acknowledge the force of the foregoing observations. . General Chesney, I perceive, suggests that the cable might he laid from Basra to Bagdad, in the bed of the Tigris. Should this be practicable, the Asiastic Turkey line would be rid of one of its most formidable difficul ties. I remember, however, that while on the river last year one or two scientific men remarked that owing to the rapids and the shifting nature of the banks in the stream itself the cable would not be safe. On the feasi bility or otherwise of General Chesney's suggestion on this point I am myself quite incompetent to offer any opinion. With regard to expense, and what remains to be done by parties in England to complete or set on foot either of the two lines proposed (on which Mr. Andrew lays great stress), I have nothing to say, having no interest whatever in that respect in the one or the other, my sole object to point out to the public in a matter of national importance which of the two routes is most available and advantageous ; for it will readily be allowed that all the preparations made by the Turkish Government will be of little use to us if the wires are to be destroyed as soon as laid down. Besides, it is, unfortunately, no war rant for the wisdom of any such scheme that the Porte has taken up this line of telegraphic communication through Asiatic Turkey to Basra. Strong influence from with out has frequently induced the Porte to engage in the most chimerical projects, just as the present said Pacha is being urged to father that monstrous folly the Suez Canal scheme, so that he may not be behind his prede cessor, Mohammed Ali, who was bad enough to build the Barrage. I am quite ready to admit Sir Henry Rawlinson's authority on many pcints connected with the East, but I must join issue with him on the subject of the great difficulty of establishing telegraphic communication via the Red Sea, as expressed in a quotation from his speech given by Mr. Andrew. That opinion was advanced - before the publication of Captain Pullen's report, and I am strongly inclined to believe that Sir Henry on the occa sion named referred to obstacles which since Capt. Pul len's survey have been proved to be purely imaginary. The case, therefore, stands thus :—Gen. Chesney sees no difficulty in establishing a telegraphic line by the Red Sea, and Capt. Lynch is of the same opinion ; indeed, the facts of its practicability and security are now be yond question. On the other hand, its warmest sup porters cannot give the same guarantee for the security of the Asiatic route ; besides which, as Geo. Chesney most judiciously remarks, in the one case we shall have a complete command of the cable ; in the other, if adopted, the line would include Constantinople, Asia Minor, Bagdad, and Persia also. The British Government well know how to estimate an advantage of this nature in connection with the eventualities of European politics'. In conclusion, I beg most sincerely to disown any hos tility to Mr. Andrew's scheme ; let his line be laid down by all means, but let not the supporters of the Red Sea route (with whom, I may say in passing, I have no ac quaintance whatever) be deterred from carrying out their project without delay. There is no rivalry to fear, since I feel convinced that as regards India only the Red Sea line will be permanently available.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, GEORGIC PERCY BADGER. 17, St. Petersburg-place, Bayswater, May 26. Sir,—ln your impression of to-day Mr. Layard, in Lis haste to find objections to the Persian Gulf route, among other mistakes asserts that because I have not been in Turkish Arabia my information is incorrect, ignoring entirely that part.of my letter which refers to the opinion of Sir Heary Rawlinson, as expressed in the House of Commons, and what I stated on the authority of Capt. Lynch, and forgetting what he himself had written in his work on "Nineveh and Babylon," that the worst of the Arabs "may be easily governed and moved by kind ness and equitable-treatment." From the moment I ventured to advocate the establish • ment of telegraphic c•mimunication with India through Asiatic Turkey I have been aided by the information and advice of those who have resided among, and have traded with the Arabs, or who have scientifically ex plored and surveyed their country, and whose opinions on the great question at issue I mu,t prefer, for many reasons, to those of Mr. Layard. Thanking you for having allowed me an opportunity of stating my views in your columns on former occa sions I once more request the favour of your inserting this letter.—l am, S►r, your most obedient servant, W. P. ANDREW, Chairman. European and Indian Junction Telegraph Co., Gresham house, Old Broad•street, London, nay 27. Sir,—Having seen in the Times of to-day a letter from Mr. Layard, in which he expresses his belief that a line of telegraph through Asiatic Turkey could not be maintained, on account of the Arab tribes, I have no hesitation in stating the substance of the evidence whit's was given by me before a c3mmittee of the House of Commons 1 tst year upon this subject, the purport of which was that no difficulties whatever were to by ex pected from the Arabs if proper relations were estab lished with their chiefs. The following extracts from Mr. Layard's book, pub• lished shortly after his return from Asiatic Turkey, wi;l convey a good idea of the high opinion then entertained by him of the trustworthiness of the Arabs. lam igno rant of the cause which has now led him to arrive at a different conclusion : " That these wild tribes, however, are not insensible to justice and to a feeling of gratitude—that even they, igno rant and barbarous as they are, may be easily governed and moved by kindness and equitable treatment, has boen proved by their conduct towards the few English mer chants and travellers who have had dealings with them, and .have visited the rivers on which they principally dwell. _ "Mr. Rassam frequently sent Saturn across the desert with as much as 5001. or 600/. in money, and always with the most complete confidence. His only reward was an occasional silk dress, or one or two camel loads of corn for his family, the whole of the value of a few shil lings. Of late years the wool of the Bedouin sheep has been in considerable demand in the European markets, arid a large trade in this article has already been opened with the Shammar. Money is generally advanced some months before the sheep are sheared, to enable the Arabs to buy their winter stock of provisions. Mr. Bassani has thus paid beforehand sever al thousand p ounds without an y written o r other guarantee whatever. The tribes leave the neighbourhood of the town, and are not again heard of until their long strings of camels are seen bringing the promised wool. I remember a Bedouin coming all the way alone from the neighbourhood of Bagdad to pay Mr. Rassam a trifling sum, I think between 3s. and 45., the balance of a wool account between them." s uppos i n g, however, that any apprehensions were to be entertained from the hostility of the Arabs, it so hiqi pens that the proposed line goes through Asia Minor to Diyarbekir—A country where there are no Arabs what soever, and thence to Mosul, where there are only a few tribes prriectly under the control of the Turkish Goverte meat, and who afforded such valuable aid to Mr. Layard in his explorations at Niinroud ; the telegraph will alt r wards, as stated by Mr. Andrew, fine w the line of the post road by Arbil and Kirkuk to Bagdad through a quiet and cultivated courery. "I may perhaps claim as mue% knowleilge and experi ence as any Englishman ( f the country proposed to be crossed by the telegraphic line, and of its inhabitants," having accompanied General Chesney's expedition to the Euphrates, and Laying afterwards c nipleted a survey, vrhic , i occupied three years, on behlif cf the R' , 372.1 Get:- gtaphicAl Society, of the country extending from Con stantinople along the valley of the Tigris.-1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant, WILLIAM A INSWO RTH Ravengcourt Villa, Hamra , rsmi;h. M.y 27. PAVING OF REGENT-STREET.—The election for vestry men in St. James's, Westminster, took place on Tues,'a) amid an unu , ual amount of excitement, consequent on Vie rye, nt discw sions with referents to the paving Ltegent-street. The ratepap-ri who are oppoed to th , additional paving mustered in great numbers, an t Fus e: Ksfol~y carried their obj , ct by the election of a inaj city of non-paving members, and which, tb-y arc it c teed to rope, will for a time set the question at rest—a fact, a any rate, most gralifying to the inhabitants a 11,gent str, et, who have strenuously resisted what they considEr to bo an encroachment on the privileges of their pro ty, and an unjustifiable outlay of parish money. The Nord publishes the following despatches. The first is the report of the Voioode Mirko Petrovic Njegos, brother of Prince Danilo, and Presi lent of the Montenegrin Senate : " Your Highness,—Tuesday, May the lltb, at eeven o'clock in the morning, the weather thick, the infantry of the Ottoman army attacked the columns on our left flank, formed by the militias of Ceolyani, Cuci, Gravljani, Knit:lmi, and Z.tgarac. At the com mencement our columns slowly retired, then they opened a- rapid fire on the. Turks, and finally seizing their handjars, they threw themselves on the enemy, singing the national song, Glory to God, and honour to our Prince.' The Turks fled and we pursued th'm to their trenches. They left on the field of battle 208 killed, without counting the wounded. Seeing that, the right wing, which I bad the honour to command, also advanced, handjar in hand ; the centre advanced as well, commanded by Senator Djuro Kusovac. This c ilumn, formed of the guards of your highness, attacked the cavalry with the sword. Soon the contest became general, and the smoke of the Tnrkish artillery and mus ketry enveloped the field of battle like a thick fog. Finally, towards evening, the Turks were beaten aloeg the whole line, and found refuge in their entrenchments. "Wednesday, 12th May, I passed in review the forces in our camp. Our 1 ,ss was 55 killed and 110 wounded, amongst whom is one chieftain and the brave commander of the guards of your highness, the Senator Djuro Kmovac, whose life is despaired of. The Turks left 520 tetes eoupees on the field of battle. At present, your highness, I have so disposed our colums as to close in the enemy on four sides. We have thus nut off the enemy from all communication with his head-quarters, so that he cannot longer draw his means of defence for his entrenched camp.—Receive, &c., (Signed) " Mingo." The s2cond report is addressed by the same Com mander-in-Chief of the' Montenegrins to Prince Danilo, and is'as follows " Great Conqueror, Prince of the valiant Montene grins,—ln the name of the Lord Almighty and of St. Peter, and in honour of my prince and well-beloved brother, I disposed my troops on Ascension-day, 13th May, t afore: the sunrise, for a general assault on the Turkish entrenchments. Immediately the columns of attack were formed I opened fire in the valley, where we massed the guards of your highness to cut off the re treat of the Turks. At the same moment our faithful and brave falcons (an epithet the Montenegrins apply to themselves) raised their handjare, crying with an un speakable enthusiasm, Long live Prince Danilo I saw there, my prince, prodigies of valour, of heroism, and love of liberty. " The advanced guard of the left wing rushed straight upon the enemy's entrenchments and carried them, whilst the troops of the right wing pressed the fugitives at the point of the sword. It is impossible for me at this moment, my prince and brother, to give you a de tailed recital. Thanks be rendered to God, the All powerful I our blows f-11 on the masses of the enemy as though we had been chopping sticks. "Of the 13,000 men of which the Turkish army was cemposed, scarcely 200 or 300 have been able to *map(' to bear witness how the Montenegrins knew to fight for their country. Your soldiers have felled 7,000 Turkish heads, taken eieht pieces of artillery, 1,200 caparisoned horses, and 300 field-tents. At present it is not pos sible to enumerate the arms captured, nor all the rich booty which we have just acquired. " The field of battle has the aspect of a felled forest, and the mutilated corpses of the Turks is a sight of horror. " It is here, my lord, that the Montenes rine have ill part avenged the defeat on the plain of Sossovo (June 15, 1389) ; it is here that they have avenged the memory of the hero Milosch, in thinking of their prince. Thel rushed onwards, one over the body of the other, braving death to distinguish themselves in thine eyes. In this assault we had killed and about 60 wounded. "On the side of the Turks two pachas were killed; the head of one was taken by the heroic Captain Iltjib Djukanov de Cuca, and the other fell by the sword of the standard-bearer of your highness's guard. In the combat, body to body, officers were undistinguishabl e from the common soldiers ; all conducted themselves ° true heroes. " Honour to them all before God and before you, 1 13 1 prince. When we shall have rendered the last honoura to the dead, given attention to the wounded, and diet& buted the booty, I will repair to your highness, &c., (Signed) " "Grahovo, May 13." The Cologne Gazette says ; " Princo Danito has announced to the Governor of Del" matia, that in spite of contrary conventions, the Turk. pillaged Grahovo, and that he was under the n ecessil of repelling them. Oa the o th er h an d, it i s prove, by official reports, who se au th en ti c it y i s un d ou bt e d, the , ' it was the Montenegrins who broke the armistice Or eluded by M. Defame." Prince Danilo paid a ducat for each Turk's SO ° that was brought to him. Up to the present tbei, have sent him 250 noses, as well as the sword Senator Djuro, killed in the combat. The di n ; nonade during the battle was distinctly heard.% Cattaro. Some of the wounded Montenegr in have been received and taken care of in an A u ' _ trian fort. AUSTRIA. The last bulletin issued at Vienna of the state of the Empress Ca!oliuo Augusta states that the measles have all come out favourably. The fever continued, but her Majesty slept for some time during the night. SPAIN. The Mairi I journali of the 23d have arrived. The Regeneration complains that the authorities had allowed portraits of Orsini to be exposA for sale. The Monappia, a dally paper recently started under the auspices of the Vic LI varist p -toy, had ceased to appear, and the Occident. had been again seized. In consequence of the sudden, and what the Espana calls " unjustifiable" rise in the price of bread at Madrid, most ofthe journals recom mend the Government to decree the free import of grain. The execution of the works on the Guipuzc -a section of the Northern railway, sanctioned by the Government, was about to commence ; works were also about to be undertaken on different points of the same line between Burgos and the French frontier. The Espana announces that the postal treaty between Spain and England had been signed at Ara.nj nu by M. Is utitz, President of the Council, and Lord Howden, English Minister. A letter from Oldenburr , h, in the' Emancipation of Brussels, says :—"ln consequence of a dissenon b tween the Ministry and the Diet, who cannot agree on the nature of a new temporary tax, although both ry.rties admit the necessity of it, the Diet has just decid.ed by a maim ity of 2G to 17 00 on presenting an addr•?ss to the Grand Duke, re questing him to convoke for next winter an extra• ordinary Diet, to which shill be submitted the ques tion of creating new resourc3s for the Senate The ad dress is to he drawn up by a commltee, and pre sented to the Grand Duke by a deputation. This will be the first tine 3 I h•it the Diet has had recou: se to a direct appeal to the Prince." "It is reported in well informed c'rcles," says a letter from Carlsruhe," that the Princess SopLis, eldest tlau2httr of t!e i rgrave Wiliam of Baden, is about to be betrothed to:Princo William of Win temberg, Governer of Ulm." The Second Chamber of Saxony, at ifs sitting of the 21st, voted by a large majoiiiy the credit of 3i millions demanded by the Government for the con stiuetion of a railway from Freeberg to Dresden. MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S READIO Tho readings of the " carol," the " Chiraes, and the " Cricket on the Hearth," by their author, are the most attractive entertainment of the at s g and on each occasion crowds of disappointed visi t° ,l —unable to obtain even standing room—are tur ne i away. On Wednesday Mr. Dickens gave his foi s morning reading of the " Carol," which was 0 only most fully but moat fashionably attended. -I addition to the Christmas books, Mr. Dickens P u f f, poses, on the, 10th of June, to give a reading titled " Little Dombey," which will consist of those passages in Dombey and Son " which ohs' solely to the life of little Paul, and which 131f ' Dickens has arranged for the purpos e . In 0 11°,,, 0 ' quence of some interruption caused by pers o o leaving their seats before the conclusion of ! b e reading, it has been found necessary to issue " following notice 10 " On Thursday evening, the 20th of May, ° 0 . n ladies and gentlemen in the stalls caused great. 1 0 ": convenience and confusion (no doubt, unintent ° ,o gua r ally) by leaving their places during the last iasr', cif an hour of the reading, when the general atte n d tion could least bear to be disturbed. This eli,Tio• a strong disposition in other parts of the ba ll wards au angry but not unreasonable protest. do case any portion of the company should be tin, the necessity of leaving before the close of the r ing in the apprehension of losing railway trn,• they are respectfully entreated, as an act of sin° deration and courtesy towards the remainder, avail themselves of the opportunity afforded bi interval between the parts, when Mr. Dickens ' tires for five minutes." MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. 1 /t/ st Notwithstanding that the supply of English vr.- e • t ioe sale in to-day's market was very moderate, no diepeolood was shown on the part of the millers to purchase WI, immediate wants. The trade, therefore, ruled yell 1P tive, at about Monday's currency. fre6ll Over 14,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come co to hand. , Even the finest samples were very d u ll, be actual change took place in the quotations. t We had a dull inquiry for all kinds of barley, rates. ed The show of malt was good. Selected samples re!, full currencies, but inferior parcels r u l e d h eav y, et l '"" t late rates. t Ol e Scarcely any English oats w ere i n th e mar ket, be,- 00 supply of foreign was large. M os t ki n d s sold 0 1 ° 4 ' former terms. Beans, peas, and flour were unaltered in value. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. i Barley. I Malt. 2,610 1 150 1 5,080 FlO 4l Oats. Ao 20 7v • 91 -°-t : 1 :1; 39,210 2660 b English Irish Foreign i 14,330 I 12,590 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. 1 {be The supplies of meat here to-day were moderate, an d trade generally ruled steady, at full prices. Per Sibs by the carcase. d. °' i s. d. s. d. s. 3 Beef, interior 210 3 2 Mutton, inferior 3 v a 3 1 4 0 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling..... 3 7, 4 g Do. prime large 3 8 3 10 Do., prime 4 u 4 4 Do., do. small ....3 10 4 01 Veal 3 8 4 Perk, 1arge. ...,.. 30 3 6 Pork, small Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 3d. BOROUGH HOP. buo • " of col Our market has become somewhat firm, but the doing is by no means extensive. Medium clua'' 9h olf - n , ..gv and yearlings are most in request. The . „f samples continues extensive. invo la; New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70s to 11251 `: Kent do., 54s to G6s ; New Sussex do., 50s to 60a' lings, 21s to 50s. COLONIAL. old' TEA.—The public . ales were concluded Ye.,9te •01l o iti n o 13,0i° packages were offered, and rather more clier-por was evinced by the trade to purchase. Common e e .1 t sold at 94(1 to 9ii,(l per lb, , "- SUGAR.— Large quantities were offered at ptry." .c pre l , and the pressure upon the market has affected priel o Old descriptions exhibiting a further slight decline. ; dri redued market there was a moderate enquiry f° 0 0 goods, and prices wore fully supported. otiP(l , COFFEE.—The inquiry for Plantation Ceylon ce ta ,irie r slowly, and at public sale late rates were ful l y h t red° Other qualities met a moderate demand at a slig'" ih OP tion in values. 11 10 RICE. —lhere were ltrge qualities offered at p A tie and prices declined about 11. per cwt. o' et c l ' A Rum.— Only a moderate bus i nes s has be en rep kV ' there is litte alteration to noti ce in prices. . ak ci ' SALTPETRE.--The market continues very firm, — „ "e t is a brisk inquiry for mo st q ualiti es at full rates. ,pre,...i TALLOW.—There is very little activity in thediv P.Y.C. on the spot has declined to 53s 6d; Jun e so 535, and last 3 months 51s per cwt. ~ A 0 11 1 4 GREEN FRUIT. — The market is well suppor,,e...• 0 d f sustain their value, some parcels Lisbon per stearueofl%, by Keeling and Hunt, brought prices equal to thoe ° ip e week. 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A mode 111 most in qiloted. 41 1 Line Northern, Western I Caledonia littl e Colox --s. Joints "`"' 1 8. L do n and 'la 46. For the a ny in qu tO 30, an —toes 3 Per Cent, Per Cent. ~ 3 Per jaa Sto dia, Locat r. Di tto Sc re . ._ t6 Ola fei ....411e 4tier 1000 1500 Ditto sr a!ztlan 5 Ditto 1, , aeons A y n . 411 -jail Bo mrenadg N Milo n , airdini an 413, nisb P Ditto 1/ 4 xarkleh B Vre nch 1 , Do. 3 , a "'elgian 13 itto 4 "Act) Ea C011e( 00tup CONII4