The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

R OYAL GLISH COVENT-G.A.RD.EN. OPERA.; Tinder the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, will be repeated the grand Opera, en titled LURLLNE, by W. Vincent Wallace. Messrs. W. Har Pisan, Santley, Corri, and G. Honey; Misses Louisa Fyne, Pilling*, and F. Cruise, Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. 11. Payne, 11. Payne, P. Payne, Barnes, Tanen, and Miss Clara Morgan. French Dancers—Mdlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Plerron, and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, entitled THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip „ pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. Follewed by the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto 'mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy Of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. 'THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.— Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING will be performed the drama of THE SERGEANT'S WIFE. Principal characters by Mr. James Vining, T. Lyon, J. Johnstone. J. Rouse; Mrs. Keeley (her first appearance), and Madame Celeste. After which, the magnificent Transformation Scene from RING THRUSHBEARD. Concluding with the new Drama of A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that Mame by Charles bickens, lsq. Principal characters by Mr. - James Vial= Walter Lacy, Villiers, Rouse. Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, H. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, are. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. Commence at 7. RO YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. For the Benefit of Mr. Ff. Barnett. THIS EVENING, to commence with the favourite comedy of EXTREMES. Messrs. G. Melyille, H. Bland, Meadows, J. G Shore, Widdicombe, Garden ; Miss Louisa Keeley, Mrs. Weston, and Mrs. C. Young. After the comedy the Princess's " Rifle Volunteers " in full Costume. Followed by the Farce, CRUEL TO BE KIND. Mr. A. Harris, Frank Matthews, and Mise Carlotta Leclercq. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime. by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Mils Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Ur. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Air. A. F. Forrest. ISTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS, Mr. J. L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billhrton, Mrs. Chatterley, Mrs. Kil lington, Miss Kate Kelly, and La4dlaw. After which, PAPER WINGS, Mr Alfred Wigan, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, Billington, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Sclby, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley. Followed by DINORAII UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kel:y. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are sicrictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. The eminent Tragedian, Mr. Charles Dillon. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Charles Dillon ; Pauline Desehapelles, Miss Katherine lliekson. After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. ➢lesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, and Mr. Charles Dillon. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, la. The Box-office open atom 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform • anoe commences at 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERT S.- THIS EVENING, LITCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizetti). Donna Lucretia Miss Russell. Mello Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. G eorge Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchlleld, and E. W. hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and eantified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant Nights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 13, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since "Loon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day at noon. BanowETER-29.54. WIND, North-Westerly ; fresh and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAT.—Morning, sh. 40m.—Afternoon, 6h. lm, To-monnow.-Morning, 6h. 24m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m, A{ z • " 70 • „ \ \ , zr , -. 7744 ,. % •r• 11 o ..14; i f t ' 12. ,.. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1860. ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE. We have just received through the rapid medium of Mr. REUTER'S telegrams the decision of the votes for annexation to Piedmont in the following places. This is a happy augury of the other parts, and NAPOLEON may thank his stars that the thing is settled so far. LEGHORN, MARCH 13. The following is the result of the voting in Sienna, Pisa, and Leghorn : For annexation to Piedmont .. For a separate kingdom 38,026 votes. 333 „ Majority for annexation ..37,693 „ The number of persons inscribed on the lists is 45,218. Whatever may be the undercurrents running between NAPOLEON and Count CAVOUR on the vexed question of Saxony, Tuscany, and other points in doubt, we cannot fathom, but the following may throw some light on the matter : " It is not easy to ascertain whether there really is an understandingbetween the Imperial Government and M. CAVOUR; or whether the disapprobation expressed by the former of the acts of the latter is not simulated. The easy transfer to France of Savoy might be evidence of a foregone conclusion, while the line followed by the Sardinian Minister in respect to Tuscany is an outward and visible sign of independence, and indifference to counsel and authority hardly expected from one in his position. Be this as it may, it is believed by some that CAYOUR is playing a game on the complete suc cess of which it would be hazardous to specu late. We hear that Piedmont is busy with mili tary preparations, and it is inferred that the annexation of Tuscany will be followed, as soon as possible, by another blow for Venetia, and the complete exclusion of every Austrian from the Mincio to the Adriatic. The French army in Lom bardy some time ago received orders to be ready to march at the first notice, and would, probably, have marched by this but for the intervention of M. CANOUR. What form that intervention has taken I cannot say. M. CAVOUR, perhaps, thought that his design of once , more trying for Ve nitia would be difficult of realisation if the French army had previously returned to France. If the French evacuated Italy, it might not be easy to get them back again ; if they re mained in Lombardy, when a collision took place it would be difficult to keep them out of the conflict— againstthe Austrians, probably; against the Italians, im p oss ible- At least so reasoned and calculated the energetic inu AT. • ster of VICTOR EMMANUEL. But the question as to whether the Emperor of the FRENCH is cognisant of the project, and whether he secretly approves or disapproves, is one of which time can only give us the solution. The order for the recall of the French army has, as I have said, been countermanded, a n d after a communica tion from M. CAVOUR. Is it in Consequence of a declaration from that Mini s t er that g h a e m h s a t sre nounced for the present his designs . Aus tria ?" The abolition of the paper duty was last night decided by a vote of 245 to 192—that is, th at i t is better to keep the income-tax addition of on, making it tenpence in preference to keeping on the paper duty. Well, be it so. As Mr. MILNER GIBSON frankly told the House—the repeal of the paper duty was a boon to the cheap press, without which it must ultimately perish, for people cannot long afford to sell things cheaper than they can buy them. The right hon. gentleman said what was really too true, that the duty was ob noxious on several points, but most of pli on his own darling protigees—the cheap pr,- s ; but he did not tell the whole truth with respect to it. He did not own that repeal would not benefit the public generally, so far as the cheap press was concerned, for the penny papers would still be sold at a penny, and the proprietors would pocket the duty if the paper-makers would let them ! But that was a question between PETER and PAUL—if there was anything to be got out of the public revenue every one has as good a right as another to get his share, and as much more as he could, wholly regardless of the public morality, which is perfectly unheeded where it interferes with private advantage. The duty is three halfpence, and if that be divided into farthings, or half farthings, or even into cents —coins not yet legalised here—the cheapness of a paper cannot be made cheaper by any one of these denominations being subtracted from its published price. Those who have to pay the duty now—the paper makers—are merely local sub-excisemen, who receive the duty from the consumers of paper and hand it over to the Excise Inland Revenue Depart ment. Now, these gentlemen paper makers, like the leather sellers, wish to look at the money, before the delivery, and they suddenly find that the article of paper or rags has advanced in price all at once from an apprehension of sudden scarcity, and so they want to secure the falling duty just like the leather manufacturers, who imagined, or wished the public to believe, that a murrain bad got among the cattle, or they had run away, and leather would be very scarce !—so scarce that a pair of gentleman's boots would be only three halfpence cheaper on thirty stillings l—just the duty on paper per pound. This rea soning it was, no doubt, that gave rise to the familiar axiom of—" there's nothing like leather P'—and now it may have a twin brother axiom in the shape of there's nothing like paper ! for we have clutched the duty !! We fear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, however eloquent in prose, will not be able to bring down his tropes and figures to suit the market of expectation in his paper - speculations —no, not even with the help of Mr. GIBSON nor with that of Lucifer of the Morning Star com bined. But eventually we have no fear that the repeal will prove a real public benefit. It will relieve the paper manufacturers of the odious and vexa tious inquisition of the Excise—and it will open up the trade generally, but will not revive the little paper mills by the rivulets of Arcadia, as Mr. GLADSTONE so poetically fancied in his romantic revelry of " ideas" which have un fortunately been worn to " rags" in happier days! Mr. GIBSON says that if the duty were to be re tained we should have to get a bill introduced to define what paper actually was, and that too after we had been swimming in oceans of pulp for a long century of decomposed rags ! The penny paper is at the bottom of the duty—and its repeal may yet save the sharpers from their doom. We shall next have papers sold for less than their worth, and the world will be all the wiser, if not the happier, for a knowledge of their gains. We have ourselves assisted in the advocacy for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge with a heartiness as fervid as Mr. Gissores, but we did not suppose that we were thereby endeavouring to bring in speculators . sell papers, for a time, cheaper than they could buy their materials honestly. Our great Ally can do very little things. The Jess because they are done in cool blood. All the world readily forgave his acts of terror after the affair: Every individual felt that to be the r4 a 4 for bombshells might well excuse a few panic movements in any one. We forgave, because we were all conscious that, in the same situation, we might all need forgiveness for the same follies. But the follies just disclosed by yesterday's tele grams admit of no excuse. The veriest Bonapartist must be ashamed of them. The tergiversation, the shifting of ground for an obviously selfish purpose, the playing fast and loose with principles which had been so long and loudly proclaimed while they served imperial ends—are all worthier of the worst Old Bailey witness, and the most unscrupulous Old Bailey advocate, than of an Emperor, who we may suppose would have some concern for the appear anoe of honour, whatever care he had about the reality. No reader of the newspapers, and of extracts from the Moniteur and from the laudations of Parisian and of Manchester Imperialists, needs be told that Universal Suffrage, and especially in the choice of a governor and government, has been the boast of Louis NAPOLEON and of the Empire. " The Elect of Eight Millions " has been his favourite motto ; and if the election were a bona fide one, the boast was thoroughly legitimate. No one need also be told that the avowed object of the Italian war was the liberation of Italy, and the complete expulsion of the Austrians. The failure to accomplish the last has now been almost forgiven. More noble and glorious had the achievement been complete ; but it was felt that a monarch was at liberty to take account of the effusion of his sub jects' blood, and if he thought the prize would cost too many lives, to retreat. The right of nations, however, to choose their rulers and their govern ment by universal suffrage, and the liberation of Italy as the object of this war, remained the pro minent features of Imperial boasts and declarations. Both these principles the EMPEROR now shuffles with, like a card-sharper. He does not recant— that would be too manly ignominy. He refines, dis tinguishes, equivocates—enacts, indeed, the Im perial black-leg. e please, " in ()n The proof is not far to seek. "Z his vocabulary , must at least mean the right, by un i v ersal suffrage, to be governed as weib i p r tn this ground he maintains, and his friends at Bir mingham and Manchester maintain for him, that France is free. The Central States of Italy, to be " liberated," must have the same privilege as France. For some time the EMPEROR did not object to this view. He only objected that the elections by which annexation to Sardinia was voted were not decided by universal suf frage, and he asked for a second election on that Napoleonic principle. He had a Napoleonic reason for this. The illiterate peasantry, he well knows by experience, are at the mercy of the priests. In his own election, by purchasing the priests and the army, he secured at once the votes of millions and the swords of the Pretorians. In Tuscany, at least, perhaps in the other States, he long supposed the priests would be able to turn the confessional into an instrument for obtaining a popular vote hostile to annexation to Piedmont. While this seemed probable he asked only a " second vote," through the ballot and universal suffrage. Now, throughout all this, he could profess that he was not enacting the Dictator in Italy. " The people(he said) have not been tested, but only the upper sections of them. I am the Liberator of Italy, not of the middle and upper classes of Italy only/ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, IS6O. Well, CAVOUR, RICASOLI, and FARINI take him at his word. England, to please him, proposes a second vote; the Italians, to please him, accept the proposal; but then, at last, the danger of "falling into the pit which he had dug" stares him in the face. He leaps back. He meant the pit to catch CATOUR, and to break his bones, not to break his own Imperial neck. He now has the folly and meanness to argue that universal suffrage will not do for Tuscany ! The immortal plea—for history will never forget or forgive it from such a man—is that universal suffrage is all right for the internal concerns of a people, but not for their external relations—those external relations being the re lation of monarch and subjects, representatives and represented, and union with, or separation from, an adjoining portion of their own race ! Ire- land and Scotland had, on this theory, far less right to vote on their relations to England than have the Tuscans to vote on their relation to Piedmont. Surely the indignant voice of Europe will pro test against such Imperial shuffling as this. Even Austria must despise it. He has placed, indeed, a pleasant bait before her. He, the violator of all European arrangements, whose very empire is a violation of them, who desires to violate them now in Savoy—he talks of Europe having engaged the throne of Tuscany for the LORRAINE dynasty ! As if it had not engaged also that of France for the BOURBONS ! It is impossible to maintain the least respect for such a diplomatist. While he adhered to his universal suffrage theory, pure et simple, although we should deny his right to enforce it on the States of Italy, yet he was self-consistent. We could respect consistency, as Englishmen are often prone to do when repentance would be more re spectable. But such open trifling with his own great principle, and for such manifestly self-willed and selfish objects, can meet with notking but uni versal contempt. Nor is this all—perhaps not the worst—univer sal suffrage would do, while it would be likely to keep Tuscany open for a BONAPARTE ; it would do, also, while it would give Savoy to France but immediately it would not do either of these things, its obvious rights must be cut down in Tuscany—but it must be given up in Savoy altogether ! VICTOR EMMA NUEL must cede Savoy to the Imperial Nabob by his own direct Royal act ! The Municipalities may be consulted, because purehaseable, but that will be sufficient ! We refrain from characterising such diplomacy by appropriate epithets. Every reader can supply them. Sincerely do we hope that this disgraceful pal tering with the rights of others, and with diplo matic decency, will meet its just reward, The King of Sardinia intends to ask the universal population of Savoy whom they wish to reign over them ; and he declares that he will accept the vote of all the States, be it what it may. He is threatened with the subtraction of French sup port ; but really should that bring Austria into the field again, we do believe Sardinia will obtain the addition of support which shall more than comnensate for the loss of that of France. Aus tria, however, has probably had enough of it for the present. With Hungary and Venetia to pacify if she can, and to garrison while she can not, she is pretty well bound over to keep the peace. She has experienced the results of fighting for territory where she is detested, and she may wisely think that quietness is her only safety. Naples, by the last accounts, also, has more than enough on her hands. We may confidently hope, then, that the only result of the French soldiers being withdrawn from Italy will be, that Italy will arouse herself to make her paternal army one which Austrian mercenaries may think it better to leave alone. THE TilE eIT.RES. COVENT-GARDEN. After a season of unexampled success, Mr. W. Harrison takes his benefit on Saturday evening next, on which occasion Wallace's grand legendary opera of " I.urline," and the grand pantomime of " Puss in Boots" will be repeated. The interest created in the musical world by Mr. Wallace's new opera is immense, and, if it be possible, the an nouncement of the close of the English Opera season at this theatre has increased it. The appli cations at the box-office already for places exceed the limits of the theatre. Mr. Harrison has, in order to gratify the wishes of the public, succeeded in prolonging his tenure of the magnificent build ing for nine additional nights, which will imme diately follow the benefit night of Mr. Harrison, and finally terminate on Wednesday, the 28th, which has appropriately been fixed for the benefit of Miss Louisa Pyne. An overflowing bumper is the appropriate reward of Mr. Harrison's abundant merit, and it is to be hoped that this well-deserved tribute of public esteem 'will be accorded to him on Saturday evening. LATEST' NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Iteuter's office : LEGHORN, MARCH 13. The following is the result of the voting in Sienna, Pisa, and Leghorn : For annexation to Piedmont 38,026 votes. For a separate kingdom 333 „ Majority for annexation .. 37,693 „ The number of persons inscribed on the lists is 45,218. PARIS, MARCH 12. The Paris papers publish the following, dated Antibes, March 12 : The attempted Italian manifestation in Nice has failed. Only 500 persons were present, nearly all of whom were Italian employes and children. The annexation to France is impatiently awaited. The Patrie publishes the following message, dated Bologna, March 12 : An almost perfect unanimity of suffrages for an nexation to Piedmont is reckoned upon in the Romagna. A calculation of the Patrie demonstrates that the Piedmontese army, when united to that of Central Italy, will number 200,000 men. BERLIN, MARCH 12. The Kreuz Zeitung announces, as a report, that Prince Alexander Ton Hesse, general in the Aus trian army, will shortly arrive here en route for St. Petersburg. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MALTA, MARCH 10. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. (20TH FEB.) The Panther (from Marseilles, lat) arrived here at midnight on the 3d. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS. The Delta (from Southampton, 27th) arrived at midnight on the 9th, and sailed at 8 a.m. on the 10th for Alexandria. The Veetis (from Marseilles, sth) arrived at Malta at midnight on the 7th. The Alhambra sailed for Corfu on the 4th, re turned to Malta on the 9th. HOMEWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Ceylon arrived from Alexandria at daylight on the 9th, and sailed at noon (will probably arrive at Southampton on the 11th). The Columbian for Bombay, and Benares for Australia, sailed from Suez on the 27th and 28th February respectively. PROFESSOR ANDERSON IN CALIFORNIA. (From the San Francisco Daily Times of lan. 23.) Professor Anderson, in his parting thanks to the citizens of San Francisco, said :—" A wish was expressed in the pages of the Alla California, some days ago, to know the number of persons who had visited my peiformances. I will here give the statistics collated from my books : A umber of magical representations in the evening 21 Number of magical representations on Saturday afternoons .. Total 24 Total of the audiences Number of representations of Rob Roy 6 Total of the audiences 9,510 Total number of payments at the door for a month 46,645 Now, I believe that the population of San Francisco is estimated at about 90,000, and out of this number there must be many who never visited, and who cannot go to a theatre. It will be seen that more than half the entire po pulation have attended the Opera House during my stay; that is supposing that each visitor came but once, though I believe that there ought to be a considerable discount aken off the above number for those who came two or three times. The receipts at the treasury of the theatre during the period have been as follows First week Dollars. , Magic Second week, Magic Third week, M agic 7,006 8,010 Fourth week, Rob Roy 31,895 His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the of the Netherlands, previous to his departure from Lon don, honoured Mr. Harry Emanuel, of Hanover-square, with an interview, and was pleased to order from him several pieces of gold presentation plate. Her Majesty has presented Mr. W. B. Donne, examiner of plays, who has had the direction of the recent theatrical performances at Windsor,with a handsome silver inkstand, in token that his services have been duly appre ciated. Mr. Donne has also received her Majesty's com mands to continue to direct the Windsor theatricals. THE EARL or ELGlN.—Yesterday morning the Earl of Elgin left town for Paris to consult with the French Government preparatory to taking his departure for China s The noble earl is not likely to be detained beyond the end of the week in the French capital, when his lordship returns to London, It is not expected that the noble earl will leave fur the East before the close of this or the first week in the en ouing month. With reference to the notice yesterday of the proposed acceleration in the day mail service between Lon don and Paris, which will be first-class only, it appears that this alteration will not interfere with the tidal service via Folkestone and Boulogne. Arrangements have already been completed between the South-Eastern and the French Great Northern Companies for the tidal service from the Ist of Mtv next being performed in about 10 hours, an un precedwated speed for the journey between the two capitals. According to a circular of Messrs. Arles, Dufour, and Co., of Lyons, transactions in the silk market during the past month have been checked by the uncertainty with regard to the result of the discussion on the commercial treaty in the English Parliament. The unsatisfactory ad vices from the United States have alsocontributod to create dullness in the French as well as in all other continental silk markets. The average decline in prices during the month has been limited, however, to between 2 and 3 per coot., the comparative smallness of stocks preventing any serious depreciation. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--The Zoological Society have just received an important addition to their menagerie, in the shape of a fine living specimen of the Gigantic ) Salamander of Jap a n, th e largest known species of amphibian. This singular creat ure , w hi c h somew h a t re !ebamsabtic les ammonnontsatrinous of Japan, s w ate p r an -n , eR-t, where in it w hab its a l is h d ela co k v es er o e f d the by the Dutch naturalist Dr. von Siebold, but even there is considered a scarce animal. It is famous as being the nearest living analogue of the Fossil Man or Homo diluvii testis of Scheuchzer (Anduias Seheueltzeri of geologists). The society'sandis specimen cnen is at p resen t a b ou t th ree f ee t i n length, first of th e sor t w hi c h h as b een b rought alive to this c ountry. meeting of propriet ors was hl omPAN Y.—The general e THE LEVANT MINERAL C 4 d in. st d ht oeo yesterdayd a t chair.tthe e Thecart orde the ipt o orft profit ro London fi Tavern, statedt that the sum P. A of £2n,ss 6e.tlr3ut he r e nt ec o te ' f i t i d t p e company, the offers made by the directors being rejected, m a n e d d i l a o t s e s . s p l p ' s G e r f e e e nl k e G r ;v i e n rn d e m p e e ja n had d t t o bo s u e t d ht e othey t s had i m - the satisfaction of stating that with refe rence ' emery their efforts had been successful. They had secured a continuance to the company of the right to the whole supply of Turkish emery for a limited period, upon terms which, by maintaining the value of the existing stocks of the company, would admit of their continuing to realise its property advantageously. The chairman, is moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said they had been gradually increasing in their sales. For the six months ending December, 1858, they sold 725 ; for six months, June, 1859, 1,197 tons ; December, 1859, 2,311; and the first two months of the present year, 1,101 tons. The re port and accounts were adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum declared. eun a de fu rs n t d and for WRECK arran OeFntTsl are lE being iiUNo. made GAßl to establish AN.—V that gem the relief of the sufferers bythe wreck of this vessel. More complete information, however, will be published shortly. l Mr. Padmore was yesterday elected for Worcester, in the Nona of Laslott, without opposition, DRURY-LANE. A new three act drama, entitled " Christmas Eve, or the Duel in the Snow," was produced here last night. The object of the piece is to introduce a grand tableau of the celebrated French painting, " The duel after the Masquerade," which all lovers of art must be well acquainted with. The author has invented a very telling plot, and it is worked out very well by Messrs. Emery, Verner, Roxby, Miss Page, and Miss E. Howard. The story is briefly as follows :—A certain Charles Andry, a poor poet, secures the assistance of a certain elderly lady, and owing to her patronage he rises in public estima tion, and eventually marries the lady, who is im mensely rich. The marriage turns out an ill-assorted one, as Charles discovers that the real object of his affection is a young and beautiful girl, Emily Londale. The wife discovers the cause of her husband's uneasiness, and in mistake swallows poison, which Sir Charles had mixed for himself. At the commencement of the second act we find Sir Charles married to his lady love, but borne down by melancholy, caused by the dreadful death of his first wife. The young lady, not liking the gloomy character of her husband, whom she expected to find a gay, light-hearted man of fashion, elopes with a certain Captain Dashford, a seeming friend of Sir Charles. Sir Charles, after a long search, finds the destroyer of his wife's fame at a masked ball in Paris, in the disguise of an Indian chief. Satisfaction is demanded, and then we kave a grand tablOau—"The duel after the Masquerade"—the re sult of which is death to both parties engaged in the conflict. The characters were all well sup ported, especially that of a coquettish lady's maid, by Miss E. Howard, who bids fair to become a finished actress. The scenery of the play is well painted, especially the Bois de Boulogne, with the telling effect of falling snow. The piece was given out for repetition every evening until further notice by Mr. Emery. STRAND. Miss Swanborough last night made her re-ap pearance in a pretty little trifle written expressly for her, entitled " The Loves of Arcadia." The plot is very simple. The Chevalier de Merrilac (Mr. Parselle) and Mdlle. de Launnay (Miss Swanborough), leave Versailles in disgust, and betake themselves to woodland solitudes, without previous arrangement be it understood, as they have never met, though, by the King's desire, they are about to be betrothed, and it is this very circum stance that has driven them from the court. In a forest some few miles from Versailles the Chevalier ar.d the lady meet, and immediately fall in love. The King breaks in upon their billing and cooing, and is so charmed by the beauty of the supposed shepherdess that he insists on her accompanying him to court. The Chevalier has followed her, and standing in an open picture frame hears her con fess her love for him to the King, and, after a little imbroglio he is rewarded with her hand. The act ing of Miss Swanborough and Mr. Parselle was capital, and the trifle met with the greatest success. The scenery and dresses were superb. THE LATE JAMES GRIFFIN, ESQ. The hand of death has just snatched from us one of the oldest and most respected members of our establishment. Mr. James Griffin, who was for many years a member of the Parliamentary report ing corps of the Morning Tlera ld, expired yesterday morning, after a somewhat prolonged illness. This intelligence will be received with deep regret by all those to whom the deceased gentleman had ever become known. To the charms of a refined and an accomplished intellect Mr. Griffin united a geniality of temper, a sunshine of the heart which diffused a contagious and irradiating joyousness over every circle that ever shared his welcome presence ; and none of those troubles or disappoint ments of life to which the kindliest and the most unsuspecting natures are necessarily ever the most subject, seemed capable for a moment of checking his inherent refinement of feeling or creating in his mind a shadow of worldly distrust or resentment. He was one of a rarely endowed family, to whose virtues and whose talents fortune has hardly awarded an ade quate amount of rewards and distinctions, although one at least of the number, the gentle and gifted author of " The Collegians" and of " Gysippus " still holds an honoured place in the annals of our modern popular literature. James Griffin was one of the best known members of the profession to which his life was principally devoted, for a period of not less than five-and-thirty years ' • he was one of the few people of his class w h o could speak from per sonal knowledge of the debates of the unreformed Parliament, and of the brilliant intellectual gladia torship of Henry Brougham and of George Can ning ; and among the younger men by whom he was surrounded he figured as one of those fine and noble natures which, by the combination of mature discernment and of a gracious and cheerful tempera ment, seem made to keep alive in the human heart the faith in an old-world generosity, courtesy, and kindliness. The place which had known him will now " know him no more ;" but the friends who valued him in his lifetime will long tenderly , cherish the gentle and loved memory which sur vives his earthly dissolution.—Morning Herald. [We cordially concur in the above tribute to a most amiable and worthy man.—ED. Sun.] THE APOLLO AND 111ARSYAS PICTURE TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I enclose for publication a translation of a document which has been forwarded to me, by order of his Excellency the Governor of Venice, and signed by him. So high a tribute to genius cannot but prove of great interest to every man of refine ment.—l am, sir, yours obediently, MORRIS MOORE. (Translation.) We have the pleasure to communicate to you that in consequence of your having, with immense success pub licly exhibited in Pari s ,. M un i c h, D res d en, and Vienna, in furtherance of pious and . philanthropic objects, the pic ture of Apollo and Marsyas in your possession, and of this picture having been everywhere acknowledged to be not only an undoubted original by Raphael, but one of singular interest, and in consequence, moreover, of your having de sired to exhibit the said picture in this Aocademia di Belle Arti side by side with the corresponding original draw ing by Raphael, the Supreme Ministry of Worship and Public Instruction, in reply to the petition which you had addressed to it, and in consideration that the exhibition of your famous picture, side by side with the ori ginal drawing belonging to this academy, would be of the deepest interest to all artists and lovers of art, forwarded orders to the Government of this Suogotenenza, not only to grant you the public exhibiti o n of your picture of " Apollo and Marsyas," side by side with the correspond ing drawing belonging to this academy, in a suitable place in the same, but in every possible way zealously to assist you towards this object. At the same time, the Supreme Ministry of Worship and Public Instruction, in order to protect so great a treasure as an original picture by Raphael from every possible risk through inadvertent handling, enjoined the Government of this Suogotenenza to make arrangements that the usual Custom-house operations bo waived respecting the case containing it, especially on your quitting Venice; and that, above all, be omitted tho opening of it, or the placing of any seal upon it, lest its contents be endangered. In the orders given on this head to the Presidency of the Accademia di Belle Arti, and in the understanding entered into with the I. R. Prefecture of Finance, you will have recognised the ready zeal with which the Government of this Suogotcnenza has fulfilled the high bobcats of the Supreme Ministry. In the meantime steps will at once be taken that the name of Montagna be removed from Raphael's original drawing of " Apollo and Marsyas," belonging to the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, and that its authenticity be established in a way to cause all doubt to cease. Accept the assurance of my highest consideration, Venice, March 1, 1860. TOGGENBURG. * The " Apollo and 11arsyas" was not so exhibited at Paris. At Munich and at Venice it was exhibited in aid of the Artists' Benevolent Fund; at Dresden and at Vienna, in aid of the Schiller Foundation Fund, AMERICA. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, six days later from America : GALWAY, TUESDAY. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Prince Al bert arrived at 7 a.m. from New York and St. John's, Newfoundland, after a passage of six days eight hours from the latter port. She brings a large cargo, heavy mails, 95 passengers, and New York advices of the 6th inst. The Africa arrived out on the 4th inst. Mr. M'Lean had returned to Vera Cruz with full powers to act in any emergency. Two war steamers had sailed from Havannah under the Mexican flag, and were reported as being engaged by Santa Anna to aid the Church party. Miramon's whereabouts were unknown at the latest dates, but he was understood to be on his way to Vera Cruz, and had issued a proclamation commanding its submission. The Indians on the northern frontiers of Texas were massacring the people. Nine companies of regulars have already taken the field against them and the robbers on the Rio Grande. Wall-street, Xavier Church, Cincinnatti, fell on the Ist inst. Fourteen persons were killed. California dates are to Feb. 14. The ship Oracle arrived on the 10th of February, from Liverpool. Victoria dates Bth of February, unimportant. No later news of the Hungarian. Agents have been at the wreck, but discovered no bodies, it was supposed they had been carried to the eastward. The cargo was floating about. Sealing vessels sailed on the Ist inst. Fine wea ther. The ice had cleared off the coast, but passed in large quantities 200 miles distant. New York Markets.—Cotton dull, and declining. Middling Uplands 11. Flour firm and 10c. better. Wheat 3c. higher. Corn and provisions firm, ex cept lard which is heavy. Sugars heavy. Coffee firm. Turpentine firm. Rosin dull. Freight un changed. NEW ORLEANS, 2d inst.—Cotton unchanged. Sales for the week 50,000 bales. Receipts of the port, 649,000 bales. 3d inst.-13,000 bales at irregular prices. Mid dling 101 c. to 11c. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 12. The Cunard steamer Arabia, Captain Stone, with the New York mail of the 29th ult., has arrived. She was detained until 2 o'clock on the morning of the Ist inst., owing to fogs. She brings only 1,400 dollars in specie. , The Jura, hence for New York, put into New Bedford on the 27th ult., with engines disabled. She was subsequently towed to New York. Nothing important has transpired relative to the loss of the Hungarian, but it is certain that not a single person was saved. No additional bodies had been found, but 15 mail bags and many loose let ters had been recovered. The Senate was discussing the treaty with Mexico. Senator Seward had made a great apeech in favour of the admission of Kansas into the Union. The house had at last elected a printer, in the person of ex• Governor Ford, of Ohio. The Senate had called upon the President for a copy of any report which may have been made by the commissioner for marking the boundary between the United States and the British territory. The steamer with Californian mails of the 6th February, and 1,900,000 dollars in gold, had reached New York. The San Francisco markets continue dull. The English minister in Nicaragua had nego tiated a treaty with President Martinez, having for its object the gradual extinction of the protectorate over Mosquito, the King of which is to be pensioned by Nicaragua. The reported revolution in Bagota proved to be unfounded. _ _ The Canadian Parliament was opened at Quebec on the 28th ult. In his speech the Governor- General announced that the Prince of Wales will visit Canada in the ensuing summer. He also con gratulated the Parliament on surmounting the financial difficulties, and on the consolidation of the public debt. Notwithstanding the Governor's veto, the bill abolishing slavery had again been passed in the legislature of Kansas. HAVANNAII, Feb. 25.—Sugars steady. Sterling exchange, 13 to 131 premium. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Feb. 29.—Money market easy, but rates un changed. Exchange quiet. Londo n , 1081 to 109. Stocks inanimate and weaker. Cotton dull and lower. Flour unchanged. -Wheat buoyant. Corn heavy at lower prices. Spirits of turpentine firmer. Pork easier. Beef firm. L ar d steady. Sugar depresssed. Freights still un changed. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28.—Cotton unsteady. Middling, 105 i to 11. Sales in three days, 21,000 bales. Receipts, 44,000 bales. Receipts ahead of last year, 634,000 bales. Sterling Exchange, Bto 8; prem. TILE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, arrived at South ampton yesterday evening, at 6.30 p.m., with these mails, in charge of Lieut. La Touche, It N., Admi ralty- agent. She left Lisbon on the 7th inst., Oporto on the Bth, and Vigo on the Bth, She has eight passengers, £4,154 in specie, one package of jewellery, 200 boxes of onions, 548 half-chests of oranges, 23 boxes of tangerines, 60 baskets of almonds, 70 packages of elephants' tusks, 302 boxes of eggs, and 11 packages of sundries. The Tagus had fresh breezes from N.E. to N.W. during the voyage home. The Dutch frigates Admiral Evertsen, 52 guns, and the Admiral Van Wassenaer, 45 guns, were lying in the Tagus when this steamer left. The Channel Squadron had not arrived when the Tagus left Lisbon. On the 7th the Tagus passed a British screw steamer standing up the river Tagus, showing a Greek flag at the main ; unable to make out her name. She wished to be reported. On the 12th inst., off Portland, passed the bark Strathmore, bound up Channel; she wished to be reported at Lloyds'. On the 6th inst., at 8 a.m., the schooner Gipsy sailed from Lisbon for England. Same day the screw steamer Warrior left for London. On the 7th inst., at 9 a.m., the screw steamer Douro arrived at Lisbon from Liverpool. PORTUGAL. When the Tagus left Lisbon, on the 7th, the de bate on the reply to the Throne in the House of Deputies had not ended. The committee's report had been presented, with a majority in favour of Salamanca's railway contract, against which the minority were likely to raise a serious opposition in the Cortes. Lisbon exchanges for three months are qu o ted this mail :—London, 53'i 54; Paris, 530; Ham burgh, 47; ; Amsterdam, 42 ; , 1 , ; Genoa, 526; Bank of Portugal shares, 10 1 ; to 111 per cent. pm.; Bank of Oporto shares, 271 to 29 per cent. pm.; Three per Cent. Stocks, Registered, 477, to 47a ; Coupons, 461 to 461 ; Deferred, 331 to 34. THE TREATY OF COMMERCE. Yesterday's Moniteur publishes the treaty of commerce, followed by a long report to the Em peror, by M. Rouher, on the negotiations which preceded the treaty, and on the advantages to both countries which may be expected from it. At dif ferent times and under various forms, the report says, the two Governments had exchanged ideas on the subject of a closer union of the two nations by means of a treaty of commerce. The treaty of navigation of January, 26, 1826, was the natural prelude of a co mmerc i a l nego ti a ti on , for which the lib era l v i ews on th e cus t oms duties held by many statesmen o f t h e Re storation, and the initiative taken in 1824 by Huskisson, had paved the way. After the re volution of 1830, and in th e course o f 1832 , p l ans for developing the com merc i a l re l at i ons of the two countries were discussed, but official communications on the subject between the two Governments were not exchanged till 1839. One of the chief proposi tions then made by the English Government was for a reduction of the duties on brandy, wines, and silks imported into Great Britain, which were, how ever, still to pay duties much higher than they will pay under the present treaty: For this compen sation was offered in the shape of substitu tion of an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. for prohibition, on woollen and linen fabrics, cutlery, and hardware. Private interests, how ever, were powerful enough to oppose success fully these moderate reforms though the Govern ment was still willing to replace prohibition in many cases by protective duties of from 20 to 30 per cent. These negotiations were put an end to by diplomatic complications arising out of the Eastern question. They were resumed ineffectually in 1843, and it was not until a long series of free-trade measures, in cluding the Navigation Bill, had passed in England that they again occupied the attention of the two Governments. After referring to the memorandum addressed by Lord Cowley in 1852 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the despatch of the French Minister of Commerce in the same year, and the spontaneous revision by the English Parliament of the duties on certain French articles, the historical sketch concludes : " A special circum stance occurred to give to these relations, time after time resumed and abandoned, the strongest activity. Certain annuities of the English debt amounting to 53,650,000 f. fell in 1860. The extinc tion of this charge renders possible great reductions on certain articles of the British tariff. Official communications having permitted us to think that these reductions would chiefly benefit French pro ducts, your Majesty authorised the negotiation of a treaty of commerce with the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain. In giving this authorisation, the Emperor clearly marked the character and the ob ject of this negotiation. The sole aim of the repre sentatives of France was to be the loyal, conscien tious, and profound study of the interests of in dustrial and commercial classes together with those of the consumer of that country. No political consideration of an accidental or temporary or even permanent order was to be mixed up with our examination, or to exercise any influence on our judgment. That the amelioration of com mercial relations should have as a corollary the strengthening of the bonds of friendship between nations is a great benefit for civilisation. Your Majesty, who has always shown so firm a will to maintain intact the English alliance, in spite of so many difficulties and misgivings, was not indeed indifferent to this new guarantee given to the peace of the world. But you apprehended, from the first day of the negotiations, that the powerful element of security would be only ephemeral, and would not be long in degenerating into an element of discord (une cause dissolvante) if an industrial or commer cial interest could be sacrificed in compensation for a political interest." .PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. This committee, fer inquiring into the practicability of opening the National Picture and other galleries, met this morning—Sir J. Trelawny in the chair. Mr. Scharf, keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, said the gallery was opened to the working classes upon procur • ins a ticket at any of the printsellers. A working man would get the ticket as a matter of course if he was cleanly in his attire. There would be no ceremonious process for him to go through. It would be at once deli ve red to him. The effect of gas on pictures, be thought, was not at all beneficial. As far as the principle went, he was decidedly in favour of opening picture galleries in the evening from 7 till 10. The collection of pictures, however, at the gallery witk which he was connected was far too small to reward a working man for the trouble of a visit. There were a certain number of persons who wo uld g o a great distance to see a single picture if it had been generally talked about. If the pictures from the British Museum were removed to the gallery, it would do great good and become attractive. The space left vacant at the Museum would give th a t in stitution additional room. If the collection of portraits in the gallery were greatly augmented and well classed, so as to make them interesting, he had no doubt the gallery would be very largely visited. The attendance at the National Portrait Gallery up to the present time was very small, and consisted of the educated, not the working class. The greatest number of visitors in a week was th a t of last Easter, over 463. He thought if portraits of living celebrities, such as Lord Derby and Lord J o h n Russell, were added to the gallery, it would prove highly at tractive. He could not state the nature of the evil that would result to the pictures from gas, as he was no chemist. When gas was first i n t roduced in the library of the Athenssum, it nearly destroyed the books arranged above the gas lights. The gasfittings were removed, and the gas carried up above the books, which did away with the ill effects, but the place was now so very uncomfortable from draughts as to pr even t many persons from sitting there. There is no a ccommodation for stud en t s f or co pyi ng —th e directors having determined not at the present moment to grant the privilege of copying. It was highly desirable that the National Portrait Gallery should remain a sepa rate institution, as in time it would become of the greatest importance as affording a place of reference on subjects of costume and works of art. - - His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has been graciously pleased to become patron of the National Rifle Association. NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held at Edinburgh on Monday, sth March. The report stated that during the 50 years th'e company had been in existence they had paid to the public for damage by fire £171,577 18s. 4d. ; and in the life department they had paid to the representatives of deceased assurers the large sum of £1,346,465, and had allo cated to policies, as bonuses out of profits, the sum of £643,956 2s. 11d. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. was declared, and the report, which gave great satisfaction, was unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded:the proceedings. An influential meeting of merchants and capital ists interested in the progress of India was held yesterday at Messrs. Freshfield's, with the view of considering the desirableness of forming a "Bank of India" on principles that should meet the concurrence of existing establishments, and at the same time facilitate the public transactions of that empire, and the following resolution was adopted : " That a deputation wait upon Sir Charles Wood to ascer tain his views in reference to the minute understood to have been received from Mr. James Wikon ou the subject of the establishment of a State Bank of India, with a view, if ,deeme(lexpeclivnt, of giving effect to them." LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—(Mis Day.) SHERIFFS' COURT. (Beforo Mr. Kerr.) 110 W TO GET RID OF A TROUBLESOME CUSTOMER.- COHEN V. BEItENS. Plaintiff is a general dealer, and defendant keeps a very large warehouse for French and fancy goods. There were two actions—one for £2, damages alleged to have been sus tained by the non-delivery of some goods ; and £3, damages alleged to have been sustained in consequence of some per son in defendant's service having pitched plaintiff down stairs and torn his coat. In the first action, his Honour decided that the goods had not been sold, and non-suited the plaintiff. In the second case, plaintiff said that a great Irishman in defendant's service took him by the collar and threw him down stairs. His coat was torn, and some goods in his pocket broken. His Honour—lf you were kicking up a row they had a right to remove you. Plaintiff—They ought to have sent for a policeman. I was not troublesome, and they had no right to tear my clothes. His Honour—They might have sent for a policeman ; but if you annoyed them, they had a perfect tight to turn you out of their house. You had no business there. Mr. Patchett called for defendant a witness named Miller. That person said that plaintiff was in the habit of ealliug to buy job lots, and after being told the price he in variably offered a smaller sum. There was a tray of goods or which witness had asked 705., and plaintiff had on se veral occasions bid a less snm, haggling over it, and wasting a great deal of time. On the day of the alleged assault, plaintiff again asked the price of the tray ; witness told him that he could not waste any time. Plaintiff went to a joiner, and that person agreed to let him have it for £3. Plaintiff put down £2 155., and put some of the goods in his pocket. He was then seized and removed. As to the great Irishman, that was witness's brother. Witness took plaintiff by the collar and walked him to the door. Upon arriving there plaintiff sank down, and witness's brother just put his hand behind, and plaintiff went down stairs. (Laughter.) His Honour did not see why defendant should be an noyed by such a troublesome fellow as plaintiff. Nonsuit with costs. I.IOUSTER V. SPENCER--131FORTANT HOUSE AGENCY CASE. This was an action to recover commission, as house ageat, for letting a house for the defendant. On account of its general application the decision is one of considerable im portance. The owner of a house employed plaintiff to let it, and plaintiff put up a board. A person saw the board, and after some interviews with defendant (the owner) took it. Upon these facts his Honour decided that the tenant having taken the house of the defendant from merely seeing the board, the commission claimed was not recoverable. Plaintiff would have a verdict for 10s. 6d., the price of an advertisement inserted in a morning paper, and 2s. for his trouble in putting up the board. Plaintiff declined to accept the 25., as he could not keep clerks and offices upon such a remuneration. STUART V. HIGGINS..--RUNICING DOWN-NEGLIGENCX. This was an action to recover a sum of money for damages sustained, in consequence of a trap driven by defendant's servant running into a photon driven by plain tiff. Mr. Mason (Mason and Sturt) appeared for the defendant. The whole case turned upon whether the driver of the phLeton had given the signal by holding up his whip. Plain tiff and his witnesses swore the whip was held up ; defen dant and his driver swore they saw no whip. His Honour thought that there was negligence in persons keeping so close together, and he wished the law would enable him to make defendant pay. In this case there was not negligence of that kind shown which would malt* plaintiff to recover. Next time defendant would suffer. Now there would be a verdict for the defendant with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. ATTACK ON A BROKER'S MAN IN P OSSESSION.—A LENIENT DEClSlON.—Frederick Lavender, 2, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, tailor, was charged before Mr. Beadon with assaulting Charles Custell, a broker's man, living at 22, Upper Charlton-street. The complainant, who said he was in the employ of Mr. Rutherford, a broker, and was put in possession of the de fendant's furniture by his landlord, Mr. Josh. Newton, for rent. The defendant, who had been drinking, struck him on the cheek, arms, and ribs—said he did not care for the police, and that he would get a dozen of his "pals," and make away with him before morning. The defendant then opened the window of the room and tried to throw him out. The wife also attacked him and threw several things at him. Mr. Joseph Newton said he had put a distress into the defendant's apartment, having previously offered to forgive him the rent if he would leave. The defendant, however, put him at defiance, and refused to leave, and said no ma gistrate should make him do so. Hearing cries of " Mur der" the previous day, he went up stairs and found the defendant grasping the man by the throat, and he refused to release him. The man's coat was much torn, and the inkstand produced was thrown at the man by the defend ant's wife. The window was open, and there had been an attempt to throw the man out. Mr. Beadon said the defendant had assaulted the broker's man in the execution of his duty. He should order him to make good the damage done to the man's coat, and be well out of the house that day, and should send a constable to see it done, or ho should order him to bo brought back. The defendant said he would leave the house, and went away with the constable for that purpose. THAMES. ATROCIOUS ASSAULT BY A SON ON HIS MOTHER.— Timothy Mahony, an Irish labourer, aged 22, was brought before Mr. Selfe charged with committing a brutal assault on his mother, Ellen Mahony, a poor and industrious wo man, who has been the main support of her idle an died pated son for some time. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Mahony that her son came home drunk this morning and abused her, and on her remonstrating with him he broke a table, used the most abominable language and threats, and gave her a most aw ful blow on the nose with part of the broken table, and caused her to bleed profusely for some time. it was not the first time that her son had struck her. The woman, who appeared to be sufferingmuch both mentally and physically, produced a handkerchief and towel saturated with blood, of which she had lost a large quantity. The prisoner said he was drunk this morning, and did not know what he did. Mr. Selfe—Are you not ashamed of yourself for striking your mother ? The prisoner held down his head, and growled " I doa't know." Mr. Selfe—You are a great brute. You are sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, for an aggra vated assault. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 13.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ; moderate breeze, and fine clear weather. DoyEn, March 12.—A second attempt was made this morning to get off the Woodcote, London to Adelaide, S.A., ashore at Dymchurch, but without success; the cargo is being discharged. A large quantity of the cargo of the Wagoola, of and from London for Shanghai, ashore a mile to the eastward of Folkestone, has been landed on the beach since last night, and the ship remains in the same state. Arrived off—Teutonia, from Bremen for Cubs. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Wind N. Arrived—Margaretta, from Dublin; Scotia, from Newry; Vigilant, from Waterford ; Courier, steamer, from Jersey; Tagus, steamer, from Lisbon; Mary Davies, from White haven ; Glaslyn, from Port Madoc ; Diana, Jessie, and Aurora, from Sunderland ; Princess, from Newcastle ; Hopewell, from Swanage ; Robert and Alfred from Cowes. Sailed—lndus, steamer, for Alexandria; Wonder, steamer, for Havre ; Dispatch and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey; Bee, for Cowes; Gipsy, for Llanelly. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind, N..N.W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather fine. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Wind, N. by E. ; moderate. Passed—Nightingale, and Vistula, steamers, from Lon don for Cadiz; Enmore, from London for Barbadoes. Sailed—Sourisquoin, Gauntlet, Athena, 2Erolite, Match less, Caradoc, and Sarah Charlotte, with all the outward bound, except the Sir Richard Jackson, for Singapore. ETON COLLEGE.—A resignation from King'a College, Cambridge, has arrived at the Provost's Lodge, Eton College, occasioned by the marriage of Mr. C. Booth ; and Mr. Young, captain of the school, third son of Lady Young, of Formosa, Cookham, Berke, after undergoing the ancient ceremony of "ripping," will consequently take his departure for Cambridge in the course of the present week. LUXURY AT LIVERPOOL—Let any man who has known Liverpool intimately for the last 30 years recount the history of the men who at that period, or for 10 or 15 years afterwards, were largely engaged in commercial pur suits, and of those who aro still alive how very few could he reckon to be affluent, and of those who have gone to their account what lame n t a bl e recor d s o f th e i r i n d us t ry are visible in their scattered families 1 Now, it cannot be denied that in too many instances improvident expenditure has contributed in some degree to such results; but improvi dent expenditure is the rule, and the young people of the present day don't feel satisfied to begin the world unless in a style approximating to their fathers', and hence £3OO a year is tabooed entirely as at all adequate for young married life. Nor does the evil stop here. The inclination to affect the style and habits of the " upper ten thousand" is sensibly ou the increase, and you go to a mer chant's dinner party now-a-days, probably of 16 or 18, and find a man-servant behind almost every chair. Nay, we have coup: , to a climax in Liverpool, for we have a local Alinack's ; and even among this select set the East and West Indies keep aloof at their balls from North America or the River Plato; the Brazils and the West Coast of America pooh-pooh Irish provisions or Baltic wheat ; while ship, share, and produce-brokers are mixed up in a hetero geneous mass, and admitted according as they suit the fan cies of the busybodies who fuss their lives away riddling such chaff. Now, if this view of our middle classes be cor rect, the condition is not a healthy one, and the sooner its hollowness is exposed the better. It is in vain to be lec turing at and to the working people while those above them, and to whom they ought to look for an example, are mere ircfpool ion.