The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold Silver 2 to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descr'p tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 And 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1149. r .l " ar ATRE YA L, HAYMARKET. Lesi2e, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. • THIS EVENING, will be performed AN UNEQUAL MATCH. .11essrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Comp ton, Buckstone, Airs. B. White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Followed by the Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, ktr 4. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S OUT. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss L. Keeley. Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertucclo, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Lac'ern Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard. Miss Rose Leelercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, _ Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- OPERA COMIQUE. M. LAURENT, Sen., respectfully informs the public that, in consequence of the non-completion of the nece , sary altera tions required for the production of V. Auber's celebrated Opera "La Part du Diable," the commencement of the sea son will be deferred until WEDNESDAY next, the 9th 'inst. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. IX Sole proprietor and Manazer. Mr.Benj.Webster__. Eno-agement 'of the celebrated American Actress, Mias JUL IA DALY, and Mr. L EIG if MURRAY. THIS EVENING, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Mr. Leigh Murray, J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Romer; Miss 11. Simms, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR NE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso, r. J. L. Toole; Count Pleniposo, Mr. I'. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Sir. C. J. Smith ; Graceful, Miss K. Kelly ; Queen Lueidora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa,Mrs. Billington. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Bd. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL 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. Tii IS EVENING the performances will ,w,mm.nee with a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED. P` Robinson, C. Young, &c. To be followed by DIDO. After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform anee commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor Mr. WM. BATTY. Manager, Mr. EDWIN IluGras Brilliant career of the GREAT MILITARY SPEC TACLE. Enthusiastic reception of the renowned Artistes of the Cirque. Second week of the celebrated Delavanti Troupe and of the extraordinarily gifted wonder of the age, Little MENONT. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the Great Military Spectaele, in Four Acts, entitled "THE HISTORY OF A FLAG," in Austria, Egypt, Russia, and France. Fail Military Band, real Camels. The entire stud of trained Horses. The amusements supported by the most celebrated Star Riders of the day. The novel and elegant arrangements of the Arena are universally admired. =The magnificent Chan 'eliers manufactured by Messrs. De fries and Sons, Houndsditch. Doors open at half-past 6. performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS.- CANTERBUR Y HALL THIS EVENING. C. 11. GOUNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. First Time in this country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorab, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls, Hall, Rd. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfleld. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 8, 1860. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 59--highest since noon yesterday. 38—Lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BA.RO3[ETEIL-29.63. WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with eloudy weather Rain in the night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tllie DAy.—Morning, 3h. 36m.—Afternoon, 3h. :57m. To-monnow.-Morning, 4h. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h. 39m. • I, Csz 1, • • ' 4(\ 'ell, • .1, • . ‘ 1 4 • I ' ' l O4 R, • THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1860. In the case of HoRsmAN versus "THE TIMES," heard last night before the House of Commons, we are constrained to concur in the judgment of the House, as delivered by its two leaders—which judgment, we understand, to be for the defendant. In the words charged as libellous to the House, through one of its members, we really can see nothing which the House, when most conscious of its dignity, or the hon, member himself as a public man, has the slightest occasion to resent. If we remember rightly, we smiled when we read the happily illustrated idea of members all desiring what they would not like to ask openly, and of their being influenced by the motives com mon to all men—and, as things stand, members may reasonably dislike frequent elections. Were our elections even annual it would be far less tax upon the purse and time of candidates. More would be returned without costly opposition, because the prize of a year's membership would be comparatively small ; but when membership may last seven years, and elections are repeated frequently, they require all the cost of the greater prize to secure the lesser We all know, too well, that the last election was not inexpensively fought. We must agree, therefore, with our contemporary, that without thinking at all worse of representatives than he thinks of himself, not merely ninety-nine, but one hundred Englishmen out of a hundred would think that perhaps every member of the House, so far as he is personally concerned, would have thought none the worse of the house, or of Mr. I-IOE.smAN, merely because recent public events at Stroud had made his name a suitable one with which to point the closing senten:e of the paragraph. If, indeed, the limes were guilty of insulting the house, we also must humbly beg its pardon for in nocently doing the same thing. We had before we saw Mr. WALTER'S speech in the Times article surmised that it could not be veiy agreeable to members to hazard, so soon in some cases, the loss of their seats, and, in all others, to incur so soon again the cost and trouble of another election. It is not much of a libel to suppose, even members of the House of Commons would prefer that this Parliament should'sit another year, and do not doubt that an understanding to that effect would have a mollifying influence on the re p ignance of too many to the bill. We must remind Mr. IlonsmaN too, and he kro ,vs that ive have been ready enough to do him justice en other questions, that his else looks alto gether like one of constructive libel. The allusion to his name was founded on public and notorious occurrences—those who, as we did, might censure the electors of Stroud, might get with equal pro priety advert to the presumed unwillingness of their represensemtative to become a candidate there before next session. Surely there would be in this no reason t® put the least favourable construc tion on the allusion, and to wrest from it the infe rence that he vms " personally brought in for no other purpose but; as illustrative of the general mean- one. ness of the House of Commons." No, Mr. HORS MAN, we must think, and we imagine all your fellow-members will think, that you " do protest too much." With regard to the relations of the Press and the House of Commons, we do not notice any real dif ference of opinion. All concur in demanding for us entire independence. No one would venture to suggest that the Press should be responsible to any judgment but that of the country and its own sense of honour. Mr. HORSMAN very clearly, we admit, contrasted the responsibility of Mr. BRIGHT for what he uttered publicly on the platform, and the responsibility of the anonymous individual who penned the article. Now we must think that a newspaper editor both enjoys the secrecy which tends so greatly to independence in writing, and yet is subjected to the responsibility which prevents the abuse of that independence. He fears not to speak out where ho ought to do so, because his statements bring no personally unpleasant con sequences, Yet he would fear to indulge private piques in public affairs, because some of his many contemporaries would be sure to expose his unfair ness, and because he must either publish ex postulatory letters sealing his own condemna -1 tion, or submit to see them appear in other journals with the intimation that he had not the English fairness to give them insertion. Nor is it true, if Mr. HORSMAN needs to be told this, that the manager of any respectable paper dictates the articles which appear in it. He, and his editors are, generally and naturally, persons, on most points, of the same views, and Mr. HORSMAN would find, if admitted to the " back parlour," that any respectable newspaper proprietor has not the slightest wish to influence his editors. He knows that they feel their responsibility for exercising a sound and creditable judgment for themselves, as much as he could for them. The idern de repnblica sentzre is the intellectual link between them, The charge, therefore, was substantially unjust of Mr. WALTER, himself being responsible for doing by another, what Mr. BRIGHT did for himself. We certainly believe, and are sure the country may be lieve Mr. WALTER'S disclaimor of privity to the article in question. At the same time we have always felt that the de fence of our contemporary goes a long way in favour of our view of anonymous voting, to which the Times is so strongly opposed. We feel the great advantage of not being individually recognised as the authors of many remarks which we yet think it desirable to make. We hope, in many important matters, that principle would induce us to write all we thought, whoever might be offended. Yet if we look back we must doubt whether we should in numerous cases have written as explicitly as we have done, if indeed we had written at all. No one knows what is suppressed, and we might often have declined to say what would have brought on us unpleasant social censequences. Surely the poor, or in any way dependent voter, is very much in the same position. He needs the independence of an anonymous vote, as much as we do of en anonymous pen. The voter, also, by ballot has Ms responsibility. Not, indeed, to those who have no right to command his vote, but, like the anonymous editor, to the judgment of society and to his own convictions. It is a mistake to think that any man even likes, though others know it not, to adopt the course which turns out to be erro neous, or to vote for the man who shows afterwards his unfitness. Conscience and consequences are adequate checks on anonymous voting. It could hardly have been deemed extraordinary by CHARLES LAMB had he— while travelling nowadays in a railway carriage instead of a quarter of a century back in a mailcoach—been accosted at last by his taciturn fellow-passenger with an unex pected inquiry as to the position of the market in regard to Indigo. It is one of the most vitally important considerations at this moment, because it is one intimately affecting the relative position of British authority and Asiatic obedience. Unless some wholly nnlooked for incident should arise to dissipate our anxieties instantaneously, we have a tolerably distinct prospect before us of being able to test in some measure the loyalty of a considerable portion of the Indian population by means of the fluctuations of the indigo market. For hard upon the heels of the Sepoy mutiny has come, oddly enough, a riot among the ryots of Bengal. The former calamitous rising in arms against our authority in Hindostan has scarcely been sup pressed when another rebellious movement sud denly becomes apparent in nearly the same quarter of the great Asiatic Peninsula. Only, rnirabile dicta, the outbreak here has been caused, not by a wanton out rage upon a fanatical prejudice—no excuse has been afforded to the ryots, who are the rioters, by constraining them them to oontaminate their lips with the pig's grease saturating the bitten cartridge. They have been actually— it is not exaggeration to say it—goaded into insurgents by the insensate insults directed against them by a bungling official of the Government. A circular recently issued by the Hon. Mr. EDEN has abso lutely induced the agricultural population of Lower Bengal to believe that the administrative authority at Calcutta disapproves of the further cultivation of indigo as burdensome or unremunerative ! The (,ffi cial representatives of the Government scattered through the provinces having derided them as poltroons, for inasmuch as they have never given any token whatever of vigorous resistance. The agricultural population have in consequence of this risen—as a matter of course they have risen and are rising. The disastrous movement threatens to spread—the ryots recognising in those reiterated taunts, coupled with this most rash circular of Mr. EDEN, a positive signal to them to declare openly against their employers, the indigo planters ! It has seemingly been forgotton at this juncture by the authorities what is precisely the character of the population with which they have to deal in these and other delicate administrative proceedings. The Correspondent of our chief morning contem porary has significantly declared but very recently of this identical class of the population now hurried and goaded into rebellion against their English em ployers the indigo planters : " A Bungalee ryot is the most trying of human beings :" adding, "He is always doing small swindles, and he regards the kottree, or factory, as an entiety it is his moral duty to cheat." But what in point of fact is the character given long since of this very population by a masterhand when that masterhand was writ ing his admitted masterpiece ? The late Lord MACAULAY in his essay on Warren Hustings has thus spoken of the Bengalee—" The physical organisation of the Bengalee is fLeble even to effe minacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his move ment's languid. During many ages- he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qua lities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a sin gular analogy to his body. It is weak even to help lessness for purposes of manly resistance; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with co► - tempt. All those arts which are the natural de- fence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the lonian of the time of JUVENAL, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, ac cording to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial false hood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive of the people of the Lower Gan g es." And yet it is this treacher ous and deceitful race—it is about the lowest and the most degraded and the most ignorant class of this treacherous and deceitful population that the Indian Government has been carefully driving into rebellion against their absurd and in every way (from their comparative insignificance in point of numbers, and from their peculiar isolation in their wide Zemindarships) defenceless employers, the English indigo planters. Besides which, it has been sagaciously and accurately observed that the Bengal farmer has hitherto all along regarded the necessity of cultivating the indigo-patch somewhat as our sturdy English yeoman looks askance upon that "reserve" in the lease setting apart the little bit of land for buckwheat. Yet these are the men now tempted to set at defiance the rights and the authority of those widely scattered indigo planters, each of whose households settled here and there, far and wide over Lower Bengal, is, so to speak, a veritable English Family ROBINSON. The folly, the crass and insensate folly, of any such proceed ings absolutely beggars description. More espe cially when it is remembered that the wanton sneers indulged in by the Government officials when taunting the ryots with cowardice, and the wholly uncalled for circular of Mr. EDEN, capping the climax of irritation to the Hindoo farmer thus antagonis tically placed in regard to the English indigo plan ter—have followed hard upon the heels, as we have said, of the bloody Sepoy Rebellion, An end to this folly there must be, or the sceptre of VICTORIA will be liable periodically, if not continuously, to be employed but as the handle for a death-dealing scourge, to be wielded in terror over the Hindoos, but more peculiarly over the Bengalese, to bring them back for a while by the mere brute influence of terror, to a purely fugitive state of subordina tion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has no alterna tive. He must sell his cheapened wines—to sell them he must have abundance of places where per sons can get them easily—therefore, he must make it the interest of ten times more persons than can do it under the present licensing system, to tempt the public to buy them. No demonstration in EUCLID can be more complete. Opposition is useless. Revenue must be had, and another penny in the pound to the income-tax would be the alternative of rejecting the bill which was read a second time last night. We advise all parties, therefore, teetotallers and publicans, brewers and magistrates, to acquiesce with a good grace, for it not they will have to do it with a bad one. But, as in many similar cases, we cannot think that any legitimate trade will suffer. The classes which use the present houses of refreshment of all kinds will continue to do so still. In a few cases the licensed houses may have made a hardly fair profit at the expense of some eating-house which was not allowed to sell intoxicating liquors ; but, generally speaking, we believe the result will be the creation of a new trade rather than a subtraction from the old. Then, again, we are Free-traders all of us now, and how can we reconcile with this, entrusting to magistrates the power to decide how many refreshment houses of any kind a neighbourhood needs. Surely in this, as in other matters, demand and supply is the good old rule. There can be no propriety in limit ing magisterially the number of publicans, any more than that of grocers, butchers, or or bakers. Of course, no one objects to a super vision of houses where intoxicating drinks are con sumed on the premises. That, however, is a part of the bill, and will be impartial in its bearing on all. It cannot be denied, we think, that the class of refreshment-houses contemplated by the bill are likely to arise, because they are wanted ; and, if wanted, free trade principles demand that they should be allowed. We believe, therefore, that in a short time all parties will approve the proposed plan and none be sufferers. COUR CIRCULAR. `-) Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, rode on horseback yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major General Sir H. Bentinck, and Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice and the Duke of Cambridge, his Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Col. Francis Seymour, C. 8., the Equerry in Waiting to the Dake of Cambridge, and Major Elphin stone, R.E. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards was in attendance and played during dinner. A deputation had an interview with Viscount Palmer ston yesterday on behalf of the Deans and Residencies of the Queen's Colleges, Ireland. The deputation consisted of Lord Dunkellin, M.P., Lord Fermoy, M.P., the Bishop of Tuam, the Bishop of Down, the Bishop of Derry, Sir Edward Grogan, M.P., Sir H. M'Calmont Cairns, M.P., Colonel Forde, m.r., Mr. Bearnish, M.P., Mr. Dawson, Crl. Vandeleur, M.P., Mr. Lefroy, M.P., Captain Stacpoole, and Mr. Bond, M.P. The Rev. Henry Murphy, A.M., Episcopal Dean of the Queen's College, Belfast, represented the Deans of the Queen's Colleges, Ireland. Senor Don Carlos Calvo, Charge d , Affaires du Paraguay, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane are expected at their mansion in Park-lane in a few days, from Scotland, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness Townshend arrived at their residence in Stratford-place a few days since from Raynham Hall, Norfolk, for the season. The Earl of Dartmouth comes to town to-day from Patshull Hall, near Wolverhampton. The Earl of Dundonald has recently undergone an operation for the stone, which has been successful; but his lordship is now suffering from an attack of gout, which causes great prostration. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Portman square, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Viscount Barrington, Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Misses Thesiger, Col. the Hon. W. P. Talbot, Lady Mary Craven, Mr. Joseph Yorke, Mi. Adeane, &c. Lady Rolle has arrived at her residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, for the season. The Baroness Windsor and the Hon. Misses Clive come to town to-morrow, from Oakley park, Salop, fer the season. The Ladies Charlotte and Dorothy 'Wentworth Fitz williarn have arrived at Edwards's Hotel for the seasou. Mr. and Mrs. Crawshay Bailey have arrived at :heir residence, New-street, Spring-gardens, for the season. The advices from Adelaide, South Australia, by the present mail are to March 17. In a circular of Messrs. P. Levi and Co. it is stated that " the'enormous stocks of nearly all kinds of goods both here and in Melbourne will necessarily exercise a most depressing influence on the markets for some time to come. The yield of wheat is not much below the average. It is expected that before long wins will form an important export, as greater care is Ling• exercised in its manufacture all over the colony." it, , pec t_ in g the mining interest of the colony, the South Australian _Advertiser of March 17 remarks : —",Fresh mineral disco veries are continually being made northward, and public confidence in the mineral wealth of the colony is stronger than ever." Burra Burra shares aro quoted at £162 buyers ; sellers at £l7O. Copper had advanced from £lOO to £lO5 per ton. 'Wool, choice flocks, is 4d to is 5d per lb. Tallow, 565. to 655. per cwt. Hides, salted, 7s. to 12s. Banks sell at 1 per cent. premium, and buy at 1 per cent, discount, 60 days. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY 14;VENING, MAY 8, 1860. LATE 6T NEW S. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, MAY 8. The 11Ioniteur of to-day announces that a decree modifying the project of law concerning sugars and coffee has been submitted to the Legislative body. PARIS, MAY 7. The Patrie of this evening says :—" We learn that General Garibaldi has left for Sicily with an expeditionary corps d'arniee." The Patrie adds :—" General Garibaldi by acting thus commits an act which falls under the applica tion of the law against piracy." The same journal further says,—" The Sardinian Cabinet has ordered the Saidinian vessels off Sicily to oppose with armed force any attempt which may be made by persons who have embarked iu vessels hoisting the Sardi nian flag." ROME, MAY 5 (VIA MARSEILLES). 1,000 Irishmen have left Trieste for Ancona, in order to be enrolled in the Pontifical army. Letters deny that M. de Corcelles has been ap pointed Minister, and state that he will soon return to France. MADRID, MAY 7. Count Mon temolin and his brother left Tortosa to-day; they will embark on board the steamer Colon, the destination of which is unknown. VIENNA, MAY 8. The report that Prince Metternich would shortly resign his post as ambassador to the Imperial Court at Paris is entirely unfounded. The inauguration of the newly-organised Coun cil of the Empire will take place in the course of this month. The protocols of its sittings will be regularly publisheclin the official Weiner Zeitung. TURIN, MAY 7. The Piedmontese Gazette contains the following despatch, dated Palermo, Thursday, the 3d inst.:— " The inhabitants are re-opening their shops. The agitation is diminishing. The Lieutenant- General has published a proclamation declaring the town to be no longer in a state of siege. " The result of the elections which are known up to the present time shows a considerable majority in favour of the Ministry. General Garibaldi has only obtained 30 votes at Turin, and Signor Lau renti only 14." NAPLES, MAY 4 (via Genoa). No news has been received from Sicily for a week. Neither Government nor merchant steamers have arrived. The telegraph lines are interrupted. It is believed that the insurrection still continues on the coast and in the interior of the island. Serious apprehensions are entertained as to the state of affairs in Sicily. It is not the Count of Syracuse, but his secretary, who has been exiled. MUNICH, MAY 7. King Ludwig will leave on the 15th inst. for Vienna. It is believed that this journey of the aged Prince is not entirely without a political motive. THE BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Massilia, Captain Black, with the heavy por tion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 146 passengers and a cargo of 1,000 bales of silk. A large Russian frigate had arrived at Alexan dria just as the Massilia was leaving. The Ceylon, with the outward Calcutta mail, had left Malta for Alexandria on the 29th ult. The Delta, with the outward Bombay !mil, left Gibral tar for Malta on the 2d inst. On the sth inst. the Massilia spuke the brig Eliza beth Maclean, steering south. The Massilia brings the master and nine men of the North Wales, of Carnarvon, which was run down and sunk in lat. 35 31 N., long. 8 26 W., by some ship belonging to Boston. A private letter from the camp before Ceuta states that, in consequence of everything being amicably settled in Tetuan, and the first instal ment of the indemnity having been already paid, General Echague's corps had received orders to proceed to Madrid, leaning a sufficient garrison to guard the Ceuta lines. Goneral Echague started on the 23d for Valencia. General Gassett remained in command of the forces around the Serrallo. A regiment of Cuirassiers of 450 sabres bad embarked at Ceuta for Cadiz. Some infantry corps had also departed in Spanish steamers to Valencia and Corunna. The French and other foreign steamers of war were being rapidly paid off. The troops in the Serrallo camp were daily diminishing in number. In Tetuan much misery prevailed among the poprer classes of the Hebrew community, owing to the want of employment. All trade with the interior was stopped by the Spanish occupation, and was not expected to be resumed till the town shall be restored to the Moors. Provisions for the Spanish army and for the consumption of the town population were brought from Spain. General Prim left for Madrid on the 28th, the day after Marshal O'Donnell. The remainder of the Catalan volunteers were daily expected to return to Barcelona, where a grand ovation was preparing for their reception. General Rios, the Governor of Tetuan, is now the commander-in-chief of what remains of the army of ♦frica. Great rejoicings had taken place at Mogadore on the news of peace. Trade, which had been in a very languid state, had become brisk. The British steamer warrior had touched at Mogadore, and after landing her cargo, proceeded to the Canary Islands. Gibraltar exchanges were—On London, 90 days, 501 ; on Paris, sf. 31e. ; Marseilles, of. 32c. ; Genoa, 532 ; and Madrid, eight day's sight, per cent. discount. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. A letter from Marseilles of the sth instant an nounces the departure for Constantinople of the Marquis de Lavulette and suite. The Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and France had produced an excellent effect in the south of France. Fine wines are rising daily in price. Large quan tities of hermitage had been purchased for the London market, and the wine growers in the valley of the Rhone are planting additional vineyards. Mulberry trees, which had ceased to produce food for, silk worms, have been taken up, and vines planted in their place. The Spanish Government he I sent hawk to Marseilles several of the steamers chartered for the conveyance of troops 9. n d stores to Morocco. Among the number is the magnifi cent Transatlantic steamer Torino of Genoa. In consequence of the large sums allocated by the French Government for the improvements of the seaports of France, the works being constructed at Marseilles are being pushed forward with the greatest despatch. The quay of the Joliette is being raised more than three feet. Bt , URSE, May 7.—The market has been heavy to-day, and sales for realiAttion were general. Threes, after having been done at 71f 25c, are now 71f sc. Mobilier varied from 712 f 50c to 697 f 50c; Austrian, 532 f 50c to 528 f 75 ; Lombard, 525 f to 522 f 50c; Lyons, 887 f 50c to 880 ; Orleans, 13501 to 1342 f 50c ; Northern, 997 f 50c to 992 f 50c ; Eastern, 602 f 5c to 597 f 50c; Southern, 525 f to 523 f 50c. The following arc the last quotations :- 11 per Cents. 96 60 , Credit Foncier 787 50 Do. end month .. I Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents 7l Piedmontese (5) .. 84 25 Do. end month 7l Roman B5 25 Bank Shares 2863 ' Austrian Credit Mabilier .. 703 Spanish Threes Do. Account .. 703 75 Home Dcbt 47 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .... a ..... 1341 25 .. 1340 Northern New ditto BB2 50 .. 880 Lyons and Moditerranean BB2 50 .. 882 50 Genova 412 50 .. 412 50 Southern Western 573 75 eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18c.; money 251. 17c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 871 c. ; money, 241 86c. ITALY. The following is the toxt of the proclamation addressed by INlazzini to tile Sicilians : " Sicilians—When I, almost 30 years ago, in scribed on the banner of Young Italy the word ' Unity,' when I said that a popular insurrection might expel Austria from Lombardy and over throw the thrones of the despots of Florence, Rome, and Naples, practical men laughed at me for think ing of impossible dreams, and declared as a Uto pian scheme that which is now the most ardent wish of every Italian in the political unity of that peninsula. " Faets have justified my assertions. The revo lutions of 1848 have proved that not a throne, even when supported by foreign bayonets, could stand against the will of the people. The events which have taken place in Italy during the last twelve months clearly show that unity will be no longer a dream, but a reality, when the people who still groan in chains give a strong and fresh impulse to events and resume a vigorous initiative. " Sicilians ! Be you the first ! Show that you have not degenerated since the days of our ances tors. Revolution is permanent in Sicily, says old Europe ; let it be once more right, and let this time be the last. Let insurrection spread from one end to another of your island. Fight like heroes, as you are in the habit of doing, and you will be vic torious. " The Government of the Bourbons having been broken down, we will proclaim that which Central Italy has already chosen—the only one that can be called Italian, that of the brave and gallant King. Let us therefore inscribe on our banners the word Annexation.' " Before being a republican I was in favour of unity, for it appeared to me that a republic alone could lead to it. I was mistaken. Victor Emmanuel made Italy progress towards that object ; he will lead her to it if the people will assist him. I thus sacrifice old ideas to old principle ; and with you, Sicilians, and with all the other people of the Italian peninsula, who will henceforth form only one na tion, with you I cry, Long live Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy.' " Sicilians, the hour has struck. In the name of Italy, To arms ! " JOSEPH MAZZINI." PRUSSIA. The discussion in the Prussian Chamber of Re presentatives on the question of Schleswig termi nated on the 4th inst. As already stated, the motion of M. Carlowitz, " That the Prussian Go vernment should exert all its efforts to pocure for the duchies of Schleswig•Holstein the full posses sion of their rights, which had been grossly infringed upon," was adopted by an almost unanimous majority of 305 votes, with M. de Blanken bourg's amendment " in concert with her German confederates." In the sitting of the 4th, M. de Schleinitz, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, made two important statements respecting M. de Vincke's speech during the debate on the Hesse question. He felt it his duty, in order to prevent any misunderstanding, to declare that the Government did not quite partici pate in the opinions expressed by.the hon. member respecting the German Diet in this sense, that the Government recognizes the Ger man Diet as existing not only de facto but de jur•e. " As regards the ten dency of our policy," continued M. de Schleinitz, " it is sufficiently indicated by the explanations I gave yesterday" (to support energetically the claims put forward by the Duchies). The second statement respects an alleged alliance between Prussia and Austria, M. de Schleinitz spoke as follows : " Two questions have been put to me respecting an existing or eventful alliance with Austria. Such an alliance does not exist. The Government, how ever, cannot undertake to assume the position which an attempt is made to thrust upon it—to explain itself here in an improvised manner on the most important questions, and even as regards eventual decisions." After notifying his adhesion to the Carlowitz Blakenbourg motion, that motion as amended was read and voted unanimously by the 305 deputies present in the Chamber. The following is the exact text of the motion, ss voted : " The Chamber of Representatives, by laying before the Government the petition respecting Schleswig, declares that it expects that, in concert with its German confederates, the Government will not neglect anything to aid the Duchies of Schles wig and Holstein to obtain finally the full enjoy ment of their rights, which have been seriously in inged upon." TILREATENED WAR IN NEW ZEA L AND From New Zealand we learn that the meeting of the General Assembly has been proclaimed for the 3d of May at Wellington. The interest of the news from this colony centres mainly in the threatened disturbance with the natives atTaranaki. The development of the quarrel, as sketched in the local journals, will be regarded with great interest. It appears that the Government had at length de termined to proceed to a survey of the land at - Waitara, recently bought from Teira. The survey was boldly obstructed by Wiremu Kingi, and his people, who forced the Government party to retire. Subsequently a communication from the authori ties was made, giving the Waitara chief twenty four hours to apologise for the obstruction offered by his people, and to notify his relinquishment of his opposition to the survey. To this an anwser was received, to the purport that he, Wiremu Kingi, did not desire war ; that he loved the white people very much ; but that he would keep the land ; and that they, i.e., he and the Government, might be very good friends if the survey were relin quished. Hereupon the Government have at once proclaimed martial law, and all the forces at their disposal were being concentrated as rapidly as pos sible upon the scene of the expected disturbance. There is no doubt that they will be most heartily supported by the whole of the settlers, if need be. A local journal observes : " The step taken by the General Government seems to contemplate a question beyond the mere land purchase transaction upon which for the pre sent it appears to hinge. The obstruction of the sale of land by the natives is a direct violation of the treaty of Waitanga, and is a demonstration of resisting the sovereignty ceded to the Crown of Great Britain by virtue of that treaty. The pre sent is probably the first tangible case that has occurred for trying the broad question upon which the future quiet of this island may be presumed to rest."—A ustraliun The promoters of the Great Northern Palace Company have notified that, sufficient capital not having been subscribed, there will be no allotment of shares at pre scut, and that all applications are considered as cancelled ; but that "arrangements are in progress for ensuring the construction of the building on such terms as will leave no doubt of profitable results." A deputati.)ll respecting the Bleaching and Dye ing Works Bill, consisting of the Marquis of Hartington, 11171 3 ., Mr. W. Buchanan-, M P., Mr Sznollett, M.P., and Mr. Ewing and Mr. Reed (Turkey red dyers of Scotland), Mr. George Bannister (solicitor, Accrington), and th it Parliamentary agents, Mr. John Newell and Mr. Deans, bad an interview with the President of the Board of Trade yesterday on the subject of the above bill. A BOROUGH SOLICITING ITS OWN DISFRAN• CiusEMENT.—A petition praying br the total disfranchise wont of the borough of Harwich is now in course of signa ture in that town. The petitioners observe that, while at • taching great value to the elective franchise, they are con vinced that in Harwich it conduces neither to the morality, happiness, nor prosperity of the place, but, on the co n t rary , to very great demoralisation and ill-feeling. The peti tioners also state that they have good reason to believe that the corruption for which Harwich has long been notorious not only exists, but increases ; and that, consequently, elections are not decided by the honest votes of true men of either party, but by the votes of such men as are open to undue influence. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MAY 7. REFRESHMENT HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on amendment proposed to question, " That the bill be now read a second time," and which amendment was, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months." Question again proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." De bate resumed ; question put. The house divided—Ayes, 267 ; Noes, 193. AYES —267. Acton, Sir J. Fortescue, C. S. Napier, Sir C. Adam, W. P. Freeland, H. W. Norris, J. T. Adderley, C. B. French, Fitzstephen North, F. Adeane, H. J. Gaskell, J. 31. Northcote, Sir S. Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Gavin, Major O'Brien, P. Ag - new, Sir A. Gibson, T. M. O'Connell, D. Alcock, T. Gifford, Earl of O'Conoi Don, The Angerstein, W. Gladstone, W. E. Ogilvy, Sir J. Antrobus, E. Glyn, G. G. Onslow, Guildford Archdall, Capt.M.E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Osborne, Bernal Ashley, Lord Gordon, C. W. Padmore, R. Atherton, W. Gower, F. L. Paget, Lord A. Bagwell, J. Greaves, Edward Paget, Lord C. E. Baring, H. B. Greene, Capt. J. Paget, C. Baring, Thos. Geo. Greenwood, J. Palmer, R. W Baxter, W. E. Gregory, W. 11. Palmerston, Viset. Bazley, Thomas Gregson, S. Paxton, Sir J. Beale, Samuel Grey, lit. Hn. Sir G. Peacocke, G. M. Beamish, F. B. Griffith, C .D. Peel, Sir R. • Beresford, W. Grosvenor, Barb Peel, F. Berkeley, F. Gurdon, B. . Peto, Sir M. Bethell; Sir R. Gurney, Samuel I'ilkington, James Black, Adam Hanbury, R., jun. PollardUrquhartW Blake, J. A. II ankey, Thomson Ponsonby, A. Blencowe, J. G. Harcourt, G. G. V. Portman W. 11. B. Bonham-Carter, J. Hartington,Marquis Pryse, Capt. E. L. Booth, Sir R. G. Hayes, Sir E. S. Pritchard, John Bouverie, E. P. Hayter, Sir Wm. Proby, Lord. G. L. Bouverie, P. P. Headlarn, Thos. E. Pugh, D. (Carman) Bramston, T. W. Heatlicote, G. H. Puller, C. W. Brown, James Henley, Lord Ramsden, Sir J. W Browne, Lord J. T. Herbert, 11. A. Raynham, Viscount Buchanan, W. Herbert, S. Redmond, J. E. Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Herbert, Col. P. E. Repton, G. W. J. Buller, J. W. Hervey, Lord A Ricardo, J. L. Caird, James Hodgson, K. D. Ricardo, 0. Calcntt, F. Hood, Sir A. Robertson, D. Calthorpe, F. H. Howard, Hon. C. Roebuck, J. A. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hubbard, J. G. Rothschild Baron 31 Carnegie, Hon. C. Hunt, G. W. Rothschild,Baron L. Castlerosse, Vist. Ingham, R. Russell, Lord J. Caveneish, Hon. W. Ingram, 11. Russell, Hastings Caveneish, Lord G. Jermyn, Earl Russell, A. J. E. Cecil, Lord IL Jervoise, Sir J. St. Aubyn, J. Childers, 11. C. E. Johnstone, J. J. H. Salomons,Alelerman Churchill, Lord A. Johnstone, Sir J. Salt, Thomas Clifibrd, C. C. Kekewich, S. Salt, Titus Clifford, 11. M. Kershaw, J. Scholefie,d, W. Clive, George King, Hon. L. Sclater-Booth, G Close, 31. C. Ringlake, A. W. Scrope, G. P. ' Cobbett, J. 31. Kiuglake, Serj. J. Seymer, H. K Cochrane, A. D. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Shafto, li. D. Cogan, W. 11. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Shelley, Sir J. V. Coke, W. C. Laing, S. Sheridan, R. B. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Langston, J. H. Sibthorp, Major Coningham, Wm. Lee, W. Smith, J. B. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Legh, G. C. Smith, 31. T. Craufurd, E. 11. J Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Somerville, Sir W. Crossley, Frank Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Stacpoole, W. Dalglish, Robert Locke, Jos. Stafford, Marquis of Darner, L. S. W. D. Locke, John Staniland, 31. Davey, R. Lockhart, A. E. Stanley, Lord Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lowe, Rt. Hon. IL Stansfeld. J. Davie, Col. F. Lysley, W. Steel, John Dawson, R. P. M'Cann, J. Stuart, Col. Deasy, Rickard ' Mackinnon, W.A.jn. Sturt, Capt. C. N. Deedes, Wm. Mackinnon, W. A. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Dillwyn, Lewis L. McMahon, P. Thompson, H. S. Dodson, John G. Mainwaring, T. Tollemache, Hon.F. Douglas, Sir C. 31alins, IL, Torrens, R. Duff, 31. E. Marsh, 31. H. Trail], G. Duff, Major. Marshall, W. Turner, J. A. Dunkcllin, Lord Martin, P. W. Villiers, lit. Hon. e. Dunlop, A. Martin, J. Waldron, L. Dunne, M. Matheson, Sir J. Walter, John Dutton, Hon. R. 11. Mellor, John Warner, Edward Ellice, E., jun. Merry, James Warre, J. A. Emlvn, Viscount Mildmay, H. Wemyss, J. Ennis, John Miles, Sir W. Whalley, G. 11. Esmonde, John Miller, T. Whitbread, S. Evans, T. W. Miller, William Wickham, H. W. Ewart, William Mills, T. Willcox, B. 31. Ewart, J. C. Milnes, R. 31. Winning,ton, Sir T. Ferguson, R. Mitchell, T. A. Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Mitford, W. T. Woodd, B. T. Foley, J. H. Moncreiff, J. Worsley, Lord Foley, Hon. H. W. Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wyvill, 31. Foljambe, F. J. S. Monson, W. J. TELLERS. --- 1 Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Montgomery, Sir G. Brand;l4,-B: Fortescue, Hon. D. Mordaunt, Sir G. Dunbar, Sir Wm. NOES-193. Andover, Lord Forester, Col. G. C. O'Donoglfue, D. Astell, J. 11. Forster, Charles Packe, G. H. Arthn, A. S. Forster, Sir G. Pakenham, Col. Baines, E. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Pakington, Sir J. S Ball, E. Galway, Viscount Palk, L. Baring, A. 11. Gard, K. S. Papillon, P. 0. Baring, Sir F. Garnett, W. J. Parker, Major W. Barrow, W. H. George, John Patten, J. W. Bathurst, A. A. Gilpin, Colonel Paull, H. Beach, W. W. B. Gladstone, Capt. Pease, H. Bective, Earl of Goddard, A. L. Peel, Gen. Beecroft, G. S. Greenall, G. Pennant, Col. Bentinck, G.C. Gray, William Pevensey, Viscount Bentinck, G. W. P. Grogan, Sir Edward Powys, L. P. Benyon, R. Hadfield, Geo. Quinn, Peter Berkeley, 11. Hamilton, Lord C. Ridley, G. Biggs, John . Hamilton, Major Robartes, T. J. A. Blackburn, r. Hanbury, Captain Rolt, J. Bond, J. W. Hardy, Gathorne Roupell, W. Bovill, Wm., Hartopp, E. B. Sciollty, V. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hassard, M. D. Selwyn, C. J. Brocklehurst, John Henley, J. Sheridan, IL B. Brooks, It. Hennessy, J. P. Smith. Sir F. Bruen, Henry Heygate, Sir F. Smith, Abel Bulkeley, Sir R., Bt. Holniesdale, Lord Smyth, Col. Burghley, Lord Hopwood, J. T. Smollett, P. Burrell, Sir C., Bt. Hornby, IV. 11. Somerset, Col. E. Butler, C. S. Horsfall, T. B. Somes, Joseph Byng, Hon. G. H. C. Hotham, Geu. Lord Spooner, R. Cairns, Sir H., Howes, Edward Stanhope, J. B. Carnac, SirJ. IL, Bt. Humberstone, P. S. Steuart, A. Cartwright, Col. H. Hume, W. Stuart, Major W. Cayley, E. S. Ing,estre, Viscount Sturt, H. G. Clay, James James, Edwin Sykes, Col. W.I'H. Codrington, Sir W. Kelly, Sir F. Talbot, C. R. M. Cole, Hon. H. A. Kendall, N. Taylor, Colonel Collins, T., jun. Knatchbull, W Taylor, Hugh Corry, H. T. Knightley, R. Thynne, Lord E. Cross, R. A. Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Thynne, Lord 11. Cubitt, George Knox, Major W. S 'rite, Wm. Curvon, Viscount Lacon, Sir E. Tollemache, J. 11. Dalkeith, Earl of Langton, 11. G. Trefusis, Hon. C. 11. Dent, John Dent Lawson, W. Trollope, Sir John Dickson, Col. Leatham, E. Upton, General Disraeli, Benjamin Legh, W. Valetort, Lord Du Cane, Chas. Lennox, Lord 11. G. Vandeleur, Col. Duke, Sir James Lever, John 0. Vansittart, Wm. Duncombe, W. E. Liddell, Hon. 11. G. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Dunne, Col. Lindsay, W. S. Walker, James It Du Pre, C. G. Lindsay, Colonel Wallington, J. W. Edwards, Major H. Lopes, Sir M., Bt. Way, Arthur E. Egerton, Sir P. Lowther, Captain Westhead, B. Egerton, A. F. Lyall, G. Whiteside, Rt Hn J. Egerton, E. C. Lygon, Hon. F. Whitmore, H. Egerton, W. Manners, Lord J. Williams, T. P. Elmley, Viscount Montagu, Lord R. Williams, W. Elphinstone, Sir J Morgan, C. 0. S. Willoughby, Sir 11. Estcourt, S. Morgan, Major Wyld, James Ewing, H. E. C. Mowbray, Rt. 'ln. J. Wyndham, Sir li. Farquhar, Sir M. Mundy, NVilliam Wynn, Col. Farrer, James Naas, Rt. lin. Lord Yorke, Hon.E. Fellowes, Edward Newdegate, C. N. Fenwick, Henry Nicol, William TELLERS. Fergusson, Sir J. Noble, J. Fermoy, Lord Noel, .J. Crook, Joseph Filmer, Sir E. North, Col. Seymour, Digby WILLS' AND BEQUESTB. Lady Dover—The will of the late Right Hon. Georgiana, Baroness Dover, was administered to in the principal registry, on the 30th of April, by the Right Hon. Henry Agar Ellis, Viscount Clifden, Baron Mendip and Dover, her elest son. The per sonalty was sworn under £25,000. The Duke of Sutherland and the Earl of Carlisle, her brother, who are the surviving executors nominated in her ladyship's will, having first renounced the grant of probate. Her ladyship has left all the correspon dence, journals, and manuscripts of her late hus band—the Right Hon. George James Welbore Agar Ellis, first Lord Dover, who died in July, 1833—together with all the plate, pictures, books, furniture, and other effects, to her son, Viscount Ctifden, to whom she has also bequeathed a por tion of her diamonds and jewels; the rest of her diamonds and jewellery she directs to be divided amongst her daughters, and has bequeathed the residue of her property amongst her younger children, the Hon. Leopold George Frederick Agar Ellis, the lion. George Victor Agar Ellis, Lady Bagot, and the Hon. Mrs. Coke. The will bears date the 23d of May, 1837, being four years after the death of the late Lord Dover, and her ladyship has made no alteration, nor added any codicil thereto. She had attained her fifty-sixth year. Her ladyship was of distinguished rank; was the daughter of George, sixth Earl of Carlisle, and allied to some of the first families in the kingdom. Lieut.-Colonel Harris, K H.—The will of Sir Thomas Noel Harris, Lieut.-Colonel in her Ma jesty's Army, Knight Commander of the Hano verian Guelphic Order, who died at his residence, Updown House, near Eastry, Kent, on the 23d of March, 1860, at the age of seventy-five, was proved in the principal registry, on the 25th of April, by Lady Harris, his relict, the sole executrix, to whom he has left the whole of his property, raal and per sonal. It was attested by John Soden, surgeon, Bath, and William Ford, butler to Sir Thomas. There is one very remarkable circumstance connected with his brilliant career which will descend as an heir-loom in the family ; he was the officer intrusted with the important news to this country of hostili ties having ceased between France and England in the great Continental war of 1814. Joseph Miller, C.E.—The will of Joseph Miller, Esq., late of Alpha-road, Regent's Park, but who died at Charlestown, South Carolina, on the 23d of February, 1860, in his sixty-third year, was proved in London on the 13th of April liy Thomas Lloyd, Chief Engineer to the Board of Admiralty, the sur 'riving executor. The personalty :in this country was estimated for probate duty at £50,000. He has bequeathed all his papers and drawings of a scientific description to the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George-street, Westminster; and also an immediate legacy of £3,000, and a further sum of £2,000 on the death of a Mr. John Miller, of Hope Bay, in the Island of Jamaica, the interest to be applied to premiums and prizes to the students of the institution, to be called " The Miller Gift." He leaves to his sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Harper, formerly of Virginia, in the United States, but lately residing with him in London, a legacy of £20,000, and all his furniture, plate, linen, carriage, &c., and has appointed her residuary legatee. There arc many liberal legacies to his relatives and friends. To his executor he has left a legacy of £2,000, and has bequeathed to each of his servants £lOO, nod to the Cumberland Infir mary £l,OOO. The will is dated August 26, 185 C., —lllustrated London ezb s. The accounts from Aberdeen to-day state that the defalcations of John Blaikie, the advocate who has lately absconded, will be about £200,000. At first it was feared they might be double that amount. He is stated to have obtained advances from the Union Bank of Scotland to the extent of £30,000 or £30,000; but they have numerous se curities, and are not likely to lose more than £lO,OOO or £15,000. Blaikie is understood to be in Sweden. PROGRESS OF PARAGUAY AND TUE RIVER PLATE. The news by last mail from the River Plate, under dates March 20 from Asuncion, March 29 from Buenos Ayres, and April 1 from Monte Video, may, on the whole, be considered satisfactory. Commerce was very active at Buenos Ayres, and large transactions had taken place, both in imports and exports. The annual elections for the renewal of one-half of the Chambers were over, giving as the result the triumph of the Liberal party. It wls believed that the present legislature would secure to General Mitre his election as Governor of Buenos Ayres, which was to take place on the Ist May. In the Confederation, Derqui's Ministry had been organised as follows :—lnterior, Pujol ; Exterior, Alvear ; Fi nance , Alb er di ; Worship and Instruction, Amos ; War, Victorica. All the States were progressing, and it was expected that the re conciliation of Buenos Ayres with the Confederation would, by restoring peace, give a stimulus to indus try and enterprise. Paraguay continued its on ward progress. Railways through the most pro ductive districts were vigorously carried on. Two new steamers, the machinery of which is being made in London, were in course of construction. Trade was prosperous, and the general entries were 50 per cent. more in February than in the corres ponding period of last year. The Government had issued a decree against the introduction of false notes, and had succeeded in discovering the offenders, three of whom were in custody. Benito Hortelano, another of the offenders, had been ar rested at Buenos Ayres, at the request of the Para guayan Government. The result of the mission of Senor Calvo to England was awaited with interest throughout the Platine region. The clemency extended to Canstatt created hopes that the outrage committed on the national flag by H.B.M. s steamers Buzzard and Grappler would be reproved. Mr. Henderson's demands on behalf of Canstatt had caused serious disquietude, and to them are attributed the exertions that are being made for a South American Alliance, with which project the journals of Ascuncion, Buenos Ayres, and. Monte Video were warmly occupied. The agita tion of this question had extended to Brazil, and a Rio journal thus comments upon it : " The alliance question has given rise to explana tions from the Asuncion journal, which, in our opinion, expresses the exact views of the Para guayan Government on that important topic. Its observations thereon having produced some alarm, from the supposition that Paraguay favoured the alliance with hostile views towards Brazil, the Senzanarie denies that its article had such tendency, and adds that ' Brazil ought not ignore that Paraguay may have enemies and aggressors every where. Perhaps those whom the Alliance has alarmed found their apprehensions on the fact that Brazil has not been invited; but this may be easily understood when it is borne in mind that the three republics have mutual interests, and that their alliance might eradicate the dissensions wherewith they so frequently mortify each other. Brazil is too strong to need our feeble co-opera tion, and may believ e , moreover, that Paraguay looks at such alliances with sufficient caution. At a period not remote, an invitation was tendered to Paraguay to form a quadruple alliance with Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Confedera tion. The Brazilian Government may remember the reply made by Paraguay to that invitation, and. the consequences that would have resulted from such an alliance of the republics with a more powerful empire having strong territorial preten sions with each of them.' It would be deplorable that England should enter into new complications with those warlike peoples who gave us so much trouble in the time of Rosas, without other result to us than the loss of our influence, and the ruin of British commerce, which is the most important in those regions. It behoves the Government, there fore, to take care of British interests, and not to sacrifice the general good to a mistaken self-love by persevering in protecting a foreigner, and per haps an adventurer, for such have generally been those who have promoted these difficulties." A LET TER FROM THE POPE. In exchange for the hard cash sent to the Roman exchequer, the Pope occasionally transmits to the faithful in Ireland an epistle full of blessings for their charity. Here is one of these valuable com munications, addressed to the " bishop, clergy, and people of Meath :" "Venerable Brother and beloved Sons, health and apostolic benediction—Long since have we well ascertained and witnessed the eminent piety, faith, devotion, and reverence towards us and this supreme chair of Peter which belong to you, venerable brother, and to all your clergy and laity. These, indeed, handed down from your forefathers, neither persecutions nor calamities have ever been able to lessen ; nay, the more these have been heaped upon you, the more brilliantly have those virtues shone, and words fail us in honouring the eminent services of the Irish to our most holy religion. The letters which we have received from you, venerable brother, dated on the 2d day of this month, and written in your own name and that of your clergy and people, have brought us the deepest consolation in the midst of our grief for the greatest calamities. For it could not but happen but that this vast disturbance of Italy should affect with the heaviest grief you who are so greatly bound and devoted to us. For not only has it now expelled the legitimate princes of Italy, but it has despoiled us and this holy see of the greatest part of our civil principality, which clearly, by the dispensation of Divine Providence, the Roman Pontiffs have now for many ages possessed, to the end that they might be able, freely and.without im pediment, to exercise their apostolic ministry all over the world. Hence we, who are bound for the common good of the Catholic Church, and the benefit of all the faithful, to defend and protect this liberty and independence, have protested openly and publicly against such impudence and iniquity of the enemies of this Roman See. And fearing no danger or difficulty, and respecting no human great ness, mindful of our office, we have visited with ecclesiastical censures and penalties all those who have not hesitated first to sever from us, and next to•join to the Piedmontese kingdom, provinces of our Pontifical State, which had previously been seduced into rebellion. May Almighty God, whose cause we defend, break up this league of powerful enemies which has been entered into for the rooting out from our midst of all legitimate authority, for the ruin of Italy, and for the injury of the Church and this Holy See. " Given at ROll3O, at St. Peter's, April 25, 1860, in the 14th 3 ear of our Pontificate. " Pius THE NINTH, POPE." 'HE FLOODS IN N.ZTV SOUTH WALES. Most disastrous accounts have been received at Sydney of the destruction of life and property by flood. At Shoalhaven in paiticular the waters have made fearful havoc. The river there passes through a flat country, and when once its banks are over flowed escape is next to impossible. Homesteads and stock have been swept away, and in many cases even their unfortunate proprietors. From Braid wood, Araluen, and other places, the accounts re ceived were scarcely less terrible. The Govern ment sent off immediate supplies of provisions for the relief of the sufferers, and spirited public sub scriptions were at once started; £3,000 was voted for the same object by the Assembly. Even before the departure of the mail, however, the recollection of these disasters had been almost effaced by the excitement caused by the glow ing accounts from the new Snowy River Diggings. After remaining for a time sceptical, the public mind had become quite feverish upon the subject. The latest escort had brought down 3,400 ounces, as tangible evidence of success. A great rush had accordingly taken place, notwithstanding the stories of the rigour of the climate ; and it will be seen that the excitement, instead of subsid ing, had gone on increasing up to the last moment, and extended to nearly every other colony. The Sydney Morning Herald deliberately records its convictions as follows: " A review of all the letters and correspondence upon the subject of these new diggings compel us to the conclusion that gold has been found in large quantities at Snowy River, that the extent of pay able ground is consider a bl e , an d t h at the la b our is much lighter thmt is usual upon a gold-field. There is good ground for believing that next spring an immense rush will be made to this region, if the news continue favourable. • There will then cer tainly be new discoveries, and, as the Rev. 'W. B. Clarke, the eminent geologist, has stated that the country all round about the Alps is auriferous, it is not idle to suppose that before the end of the year an immense addition may be made to our stock of gold."—Australian --- DEATH OF SIR JOHN MELVILLE.—This esteemed gentleman, who had been Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1851 to 1859, and who last autumn received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty in Holyrood, expired at his residence in Edinburgh on Saturday morning. He died, after a week's illness, of fever, which had arisen from cold caught in a recent journey to Oxford, whither he had gone to place his only son for education. The deceased, while filling the civic chair, held the balance with great modera tion and fairness between contending parties in the muni cipality, and by his amiable manners and integrity of con duct gained the goodwill and respect of all sections of the community. He was instrumental in promoting many pub lie works and improvements in the city, and was au emi nently useful magistrate. Shortly before leaving civic office 113 received the appointment of Crown Agent in Scotland, or agent for the Lord-Advocate as public prosecutor,— a political office in so . - ar as it depends on the Ministry of the day. For a number of years Sir John Melville was chairman of the Whig committee.