The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THBATRE. SEASON 1858. The approach of another Season lays upon the Direction of Her Majesty's Theatre the welcome duty of acknowledging the continued kindness and confidence by which its friends have never failed to supply a sure guarantee of success, and a constant stimulus to new exertions. The past year was distinguished by events which call for especial recognition. The gracious selection of Her Majesty's Theatre as the scene of the Royal Festivities, on the auspicious occasion of the nuptials of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, has added new lustre to the historical distinction which the Opera House has so long enjoyed as the favourite resort of the Court and Aristocracy of Britain. The Director has again to record his grateful appreciation of the noble and munifeent encouragement which, after achieving the re-establishment of the Theatre, has continued, with discriminating taste, to guide and sustain the eff,rts made in each successive year to maintain for the Opera of London its fitting place among the Musical Institutions of Europe. That position is now amply recognised in every Continental capital, and the approving verdict of the audi ence of Her Majesty's Theatre is universally accepted as the highest testimonial which an artist can produce. The last year has contributed to extend, as well as to elevate the influences of the establishment, and to exhibit it in the largest sense as a National Institution. The Subscribers, by whose effective encouragement during the Season the experi ment of a supplementary series of popular performances was alone rendered possible, will have the gratification of know. ing that they have not only secured and improved for them. selves their accustomed recreation, but have been the means of conferring upon a wider circle the refined enjoyments of the highest musical art. The Operatic features of the last season must still be fresh in the memory of all. Besides other additions to the talent secured in former years, the resources of the Theatre were enriched by the acquisition of a tenor whose artistic genius and unsurpassed sweetness of voice were instantaneously re cognised by the judgment of musical connoissieurs, and by the instinctive appreciation of every lover of melody. The Direction have been fortunate enough to retain the invaluable aid of Mdlle. Piccolomini, Signor Giuglini, and all the vocalists who contributed to past successes ; is tens , ble to announce, in the approaching debut of Madlle. Ti, event which it is believed will distinguish the season of 1858 as the first appearance of Signor Giuglini marked that of 1857. It Is seldom that nature lavishes on one person all the varied gifts which are needed to form a great soprano. A voice whose register entitles it to cliim this rank is of the rarest order. The melodious quality and power, which are not less essential than an extended register, are scarcely more common. Musical knowledge, executive finish, and perfect-intonation are indispensable ; and to these the prima donna shoals add dramatic force and adaptability, and a large measure of per. sonal grace. Even these rare endowments will not suffice unless they are illumined by the fire of genius. How nearly the high ideal is approached. by Madlle. Titiene, and how much more nearly it may hereafter be reached under the same genial encouragement which has developed the powers of so many aspirants, the friends of the opera will have an early epportn .ity of judging. The Director has again the satisfaction of expressing his sincere gratitude to all his artistic friends within the theatre, for the unfailing zeal and devotion which have enabled him to record the completion of another season without a single deviation from the performances announced. The performances will commence immediately after Easter with the debut of Madlle. Titiens, and Signor Giuglini's first appearance hero in Meyerbeer's grand opera of Gli Ugo notti," on the preparation of which the utmost efforts have been bestowed to make it in every way worthy of the occasion. At an early period Verdi's Opera of " Luisa Miller" will be given for the first time in this country, when Madlle. Piccolomini will sustain the part of the heroine. The English School of Composition will be represented by "La Zingara "of Balfe. The repertoire will be selected from the works of Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, in which Madlles. Piecolomoni, Spezia, Ortolani, and Signori Giuglini, Belart, Belletti, Vialetti, and ethers have won the appreciation of the subscribers The Ballet will be supported by Madlle. Pocchini (for whom a New Ballet has been espressly composed, to be produced early in the season), by Madlle. Marie Taglioni, Madlle. Bos chetti, Madame Rosati, and other favourites, and by Madlle. Orsini, who will make her first appearance early in the Sea son. Each performance will be made as effective as possible, and the Director hopes, by unceasing exertions, to meet the con tinued confidence of the subscribers and the public. OPERA. Madlle. THERESA TITIENS (Principal soprano of the Im perial Opera, Vienna), Madlle. SPEZIA, Madlle. ORTOLANI, Madlle. LUCIONI (Of the Scala, Milan, and prin cipal Theatres of Italy, her first appearauce), Madame OHIONI (Of the principal Theatres of Italy, her first appearance), Ma dile. SON OI NA, Madlle, GRA MAGMA, Madame ALBONI, and Signor GIUGLINI, Signor BE TART, Signor MATTIOLI (Of La Scala, Milan ; Teatro Regio, Turin ; and Royal Theatre, Madrid, his first appearance). Signor BENEVENTANO, Signor ROSSI., Sign(); ALDIGHIERT, Signor MERCURIAL', Signor CASTELLI, Signor VIALETTI, and Madlle. PICCOLO3'IINI. Signor BELLETTI. DIRECTORS OF TIIE Music AND CONDUCTORS.—The ability shown by Signor ARDITI, engaged during the past successful Winter Performances, has induced the Direction to retain his valu able services ; and Signor BONETTI, whose talented exer tions have given general satisfaction, has been re-engaged, and will arrive immediate7y after the termination of the Italian Opera Season at Paris. BALLET. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.I Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented the new farce entitled THE STOCK EXCHANGE ; or, The Green Business. After which, will be revived FAUST AND MARGUE RITE. Mephistophiles, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (for the fourth time) a now farce,entitlea SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. THEATRE ROYAL, A D EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING will be presented the drama of THE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. B. Webster, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wriglst psrform. After which, a new operatic spectacle, THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. The characters by Mr. Rolfe, Paul Bedford, J. Bland, and Misses Roden, Seeley, and Arden. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. —This Evening will be produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyne, Esq., called NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. After which, a new burlesque, ERA DIAVOLO. And a Farce. Supported by Messrs. Bolton, Ray, Belfort, Kinloch, Seymour, C. Young ; Mesdames M. Oliver, Ternan, C. Melville, Selby, Victor, Portman, and Swanborough. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- Ilz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Se'ections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, D UETS:&c., viz. : —Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, and Miss Montagne ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Crithileld, John G. Fordo, and E. Mackuey. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, dts., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Charles Kean, Esq ) will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. ruler as the then President of France, for, like him, he was chosen by the people, and he is fully justified in warring against him with the only arms the conqueror has left him. Even the Times itself almost admits MAZZINI'S right to wield the pen as he has done ; and every reader will thank him for the masterly way in which he has shown that, instead, as the EMPEROR'S late pamphlet maintained, of England's being indebted to LOUTS NAPOLEON for " the Alliance," it is he who is indebted to us. The words put into an Englishman's mouth (page 11) will be adopted cordially by every Englishman. _ _ THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and daring the night, 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER, down to 29.48—n0w 29.56 WIND, E.S.E. to S.E. ; light, with fine sunshiny wea ther, inclining to change. It rained heavily all yesterday afternoon, and until late in the evening. Two o'clock—Wind, South-Easterly; fresh and squally with more i ain, and dirty weather. HIGH WATER AN LONDON BRIDGE. - - The anti-patriot journal, however, would like o debar MAzZINI the honour of a first-class Eng- lish publisher ; it professes to lament that a well known publisher should allow his name to appear on the title-page of a pamphlet threatening a re newal of the late attempt, and exhorting to ass assination. This is pure fiction. We have read every word of the pamphlet, and can affirm that it would never have led us to dream of such an interpretation. The letters of an Englishman published by the Times itself, shortly after the coup d'etat, were far stronger in language ; the truth is, to run down Mezzo . ' and to write up Conspiracy Bills is' just now the official vocation of our contemporary. Mr. EFFINGHAM WILSON would have been unworthy of his position as an English publisher, had he refused a noble-minded exile the means of pouring forth his wrath against one, who, though our ally, ,was yet the oppressor of the exile's country. The pamphlet, as a literary production of its class, has a claim to appear, and Mr. WILSON is right in not adding another to the staff of Louis NAPOLEON'S censors of the press. Enough that he has them in France. Mr. WILSON will certainly not become one of the familiars of a political Holy office to prevent the publication of heresy against despots. A remarkable evidence of the advantages already accruing to the community from the spread of the Reformatory movement, was adduced last week at 'lull by the Learned Recorder. It was excerpted from the recent reports addressed to the local ma gistracy by the Governor and Chaplain of the borough goal—reports demonstrative of this one encouraging fact, that the male juvenile offenders there in durance at the beginning of 1856, to the number of " twenty-nine," have already dwindled down, as an aggregate, to—six We "do not wait" now, as Mr. WARREN expressively observes, "till the reptile issues forth, but stamp: where we can on the unbroken egg." Here is proof of it —proof positive, and surely also proof eminently satisfactory. "Do consider the effect," says the Recorder, further on in his earnest address to the Grand Jury at the Borough Sessions, "do consi der the effect of the sapping and mining process —for such I may call it—on the citadel of crime ; adding, "Persevere, if you wish to see its walls begin to quiver and finally fall down." And remarking beyond this, emphatically and unan swerably—" An army that is not recruited must soon disappear : and you are really stopping re cruiting for the devil's army : here, for instance, are hopeful ones of his withdrawn, and likely to enlist in a better service." There is something, in truth, practically inspiriting to the promoters of the reformatory movement in facts like those thus conspicuously brought to light and strik ingly applied by the Recorder of Hull. It should be observed, however, that Mr. WARREN'S impressive address upon the inauguration of the local sessions, was not by any means restricted to this eminently successful endeavour on his part to illustrate the remarkable extent of the advance already male in the pregrteis of the reformatory movement. His juridical observations had far wider and yet more encouraging applica tion. As eloquently indicated, above all, by his LA, puvitu VFLULV. It Lilkaa LILA., IL, eyes now placed sternly and searchingly on three foul sources of crime and misery—lgnorance, Intemperance, and (word of sickening and deplor able omen I) Prostitution." Here, indeed, in one comprehensive sentence, is epitomised the labour of the great social reformation upon which we have at length earnestly adventured, and in the responsibility of prosecuting which at this mo ment are nuw participating, more or less conspi cuously, both the Legislature and the Govern ment. It is an old, old problem enough, no doubt, the solution of which we aro now striving to attain—struggling onward, please GOD, by the !iglu; of a more wise philanthropy. To hearten us amidst the toils of an arduous enterprise, there are, of course, many noble hopes and aspirations. But it may be well to realeolber now that we are in a manner in the thick of the struggle—that in proportion to the elevation of those aspiring iv pes are the magnitude and the in ultiplicity of the stubborn and deep-rooted difficulties requiring to be grappled with and extirpated— Madlle. POCCHINI, Madlle. MORLACCHI, Madlle. ANETTA ORSINI Madlle. BOSCHETTI, (of LaFenice, Venice, her first Madlle. TAGLIONI, appearance in England), and Mme. ROSATI. Madlle. ROLLA, M. DURAND, Madlle. ERNESTINA 810- M. ALFRED CARON LETTI (of the Academie Fnperiale, (her first .pleearanc9 . )., Paris. his first annearance). The Corps de Ballet will be composed of Papils of the School of Instruction and others selected with care. Director of the School of Instruction and Maitre de Ballet Regisseur de la Dense Leader of the Ballet M. NADAUD. An engagement has also been effected with the eminent Maitre de Ballet, Signor ROTA. Tne Repertoire e ill consist of a selection from the Works of Meyerbeer, Bellini, Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini, and Mozart. The first work t 3 be produced will be (first time at this theatre) Meyerbeer's Grand Opera of LES HUGUENOTS, which has been for a long time in active preparation, and will be produced on a scale and with an effect worthy of this great work. The minor, as well as the principal parts, will be effectively filled. The Scenery has been prepared with groat care. The First Act will comprise a scene, drawn from nature, on the picturesque banks of the Loire, the locality of the action. The other scenes will present features of great interest. The Dresses will be historically correct. Shortly afterwards will be produced (first time at this theatre) Verdi's Opera of LUISA MILLER, the Libretto founded on the celebrated Drama of Schiller, "Kabale and Liebe' Other Novelties are in contemplation, and the engagement of Madlle. Talons will enable the eirection to resume several works that have not been given for years. To afford the subscribers the opportunity of hearing the work of the popular Engli.h composer, Balfe's Opera of LA ZING ARA will be presented some time during the season. Signor Ginglini will resume the part of Thaddeus, already sustained by him with such thcided success. He will also re appear in all the principal par s in which Le has been so favourably received by the subscribers and the public. T tiens has arrived, and will make her first ap pearance in this country at tt e opening of the Theatre, as Valentine, in Meyerbeer's Opera of THE HUGUENOTS. Sigr. Giuglini will also, for the first time at this Theatre, ap pear in the character of Raoul de Nangis ; Madlle. Ortolani will appear in the part of t ie Queen of Navarre ; Madlle. Lucioni as the Page ; Sigr. Vialetti as Marcel; Sigr. Aldighieri as Nevers ; and Sigr. Belletti as St. Bris. Madlle. Piccolornini will make her appearance in April in one of her favourite parts, and afterwards in a part in which shl had the greatest success in Italy, LUISA MILLER. Later in the season Madlle. Spezia will appear in one of her favourite dramatic parts. Madame Alboni will arrive early in May. Sigr. Belart will arrive on the 10th April, at the close of his successful engagement at the Italian Opera, Paris. A. new Ballet, by M. Massot, is in active preparation, in which Madlle. Pocchini, who has arrived in London, will ap pear, entit'ed FLEUR DES CHAMP. The general favourite, Madlle. Marie Taglioni, will arrive early in May, and will appear in a new Ballet Divertissement composed expressly for her. Mad le. Orsini will make her debut immediately on the opening of the Theatre, in a now Divertissement. A new Ballet Divertissement will also be produced for the first appearance of Madlle. Boschetti. The Subscription will consist of Thirty Nights, and the terms will be as follows : Pit Boxes l5O Guineas, Grand Tier One Pai r Two Pair lOO „ Pit Stalls 25 „ jEIIS DAY—Morn., 44 min. aft. 8 —Even., 30 min aft 9 fO-MOBBow—Morn., 30 min. aft. 9—Even., 10 min. aft.l . . . . Et quantum vertic3 al auras lEtheria3, tantutn ratline is Tartara tendit." The THEATRE will OPEN immediately AFTER EASTER, when will be produced, first time at this Theatre, Meyer. beer's Opera of LES HUGUENOTS (Gli Ugonotti). Valentine The Queen of Navarro The Page ............... Madlle. IX CI ON I. Raoul de Nangis ............... Signor GIUGLINI. Marcel Signer VIALETTI. Count of Nevers Count of St. Brie Conductor, Signor ADRITI. With scenery, entirely new and original, by Mr. Marshall ; 'tresses, entirely new and taken from the best authorities, by gadame Copere, and executed by M. Laureys and Mrs. Masterman ; princip a l mac hi n i s t, Mr. Simian ; head of the property department Mr. Bradwell ; the mise-en-Seene and incidental ballet, by M. Marmot. DESCRIPTION OF TRZ SCENERY.—Act I. Scene Ist.—Tou rain.—Saloon in the Castle of. the Count de Nevers. This Scene has been composed in the Renaissance style, age of Francis I. Scene 2d.—Park and Castle of Chenouceau, cum • posed from Sketches made in the vicinity of Auboise. Act 11. Paris—The pre.aux• Clercs and View of Paris in 1572, from the Etchings of S. Silvestre. Act 111. Paris—The Castle of de Nevers— Interior. Old French Gothic style, with Rena , s saince enrichments. Act IV. Paris—Chapel'of the Hugne r"ts Quartier of Paris, from the Etchings of S. Silvestre. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Lessee--ItEr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 6, will be performed AN iJ NEQUAL MATCH. Charaetecs by Messrs. Buckstone, Chipendale, Compton, W. Farrell, Rogers, Clark, and Miss A. Sodg•wiek, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and Mrs. J. Fitz william. After wbieh a Classical Extravaganza, et titled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Concluding with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. OrGUAM Stalls (which may be retained the wh o l e of th , evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. ~ d. Dress Boxes ................ 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 c Upper Boxes ........... .... 2 3 0P it 1 0 Upper Boxes 2 t P.t c Gallery - ... 0 e 0413,1111011Q 0 at Seven! A. Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official rosidalce of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down- in' street. The Ministers present were--the Earl uf Derby, tha 1.4-kr(' Chancell•,r, the Marquis of Silkhuly, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malwe.ibury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir J•'ihn Pakington, the Earl of Eilenborough, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. The Qaeen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice and Prince George of Saxony, paid a visit to St. George's Chapel yesterday afternoon. The royal party were conducted over the sacred edifice by the Rev. W. Canning, canon of Windsor. Dr. Elvey was present, and performed several pieces of sacred music while the royal party were present. BIRTHDAY OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.—WINDSOR, April 7. —The birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold was celebrated here to-day with the customary honours paid to the members of the royal family. Merry peals 'were rung from the Chapel Royal of St. George and St. John's Church, and royal salutes were fired in the Bachelors' Acre from the corporation ordnance, at Fart Belvidere, and frJm the Royal Adelaide frigate on Virginia Water. The Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Forester have arrived at the Qaeee'e Hotel, Upper Norwood. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. —The Lord Chancellor will receive, for the first time since his elevation, the judges and other dignitaries of the law, at his re-Hence, next Thursday, being the fir-t day of Easter Term. Oa Friday, his Lerdehip will sit at Lincoln's-inn, and the new Probate and Divorce Court will sit at Westminster, and not on the first day, as there is no convenient place of sitting until the Chancellor vacates his court. THE BANE OF ENGLAND.—Yesterday morning the election of directors for the ensuing year took place in the Bank Parlour. The proceedings were conducted by ballot, and the result was as follows :—Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Weguelin, M.P., Mr. G. Lyall, M.P., Mr. T. Hankey, M.P., Mr. J. G. Hubbard, Mr. C. F Huth, Mr. A. Latham, Mr. T. C. Smith, Mr. E. H. Palmer, Mr. G. W. Norman, Mr. J. Morris, Mr. A. Matheson, Mr. T. Masterman, Mr. J. Malcolmson, Mr. J. B. Heath, Mr. J. 0. Hanson, Mr. J. A. Guthrie, Mr. G. J. Goschen, Mr. EL Wolla'ton Blake, Mr. H. U. Berens, Mr. T. Bovon, Mr. A. E. Catnpbell,_Mr. W. Cotton, and Mr. J. Pa , tison Currie. DEATH OF MAJOR REED, LATE M.P. FOR ABINGDON. —We have to announce the decerve of this gentleman, who exeired at his residence, 25, Craven-street, Strand, yesterday, at 4 p.m., under very distressing circum etancee. It was on the 20th ult. that he was released from the Queen's Bench Prison by Mr. Commissioner Phillip until his final hearing at the Insolvent Court. The Commissioner, having taken irte consi leration tee danger of sending him back to prison, accepted bail f r his appearance. Major Reed was brought to the Queen's Bench after his unsuccessful attempt to repress, t the borough of Finsbury (the expense attere'ing which lee to hie incarceration) in August last. He was then im mediately taken so ill as to keep his bed, from whence re was carried to Portugal-street on the 20th ult. He had heel completely eurrouuded with care and a`aention 6 v the prison authorities, but no skill could aileviate ale sufferin g s, and Lie complaint—dropsy —has at 1-noth terminated fatally. Maj el. J. H. Reed was the of ly son ,f Mr. G. Reed, t. f Burnham, Somer'etshire, and was orn in 1828. Re was formerly in the I.7ie Lancers, wet apdointel Major in the City of London Artillery Corn , eleiy in July, 1854, which he resigned, and wits return, d VI.P. for Abingdon in December, 1854, and was attaches to the "advanced Liberal" party in the House of COM MODE. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APR' L 8, 1858 rbirlx I.Zatitton INDIA. EAST INDIA HOUSE DESPATCH. The following telegram has been received at he India House, from Malta J. D. DICKINSON, ESQ., INDIA HOUSE, L9ADON. L UCKNO W. On the Bth of March the arrangements on both sides of the Goomtee for the attack were com pleted. On March 9 Sir J. Outram turned the enemy's first great line of defences by an enfilading fire, and the Martiniere was stormed by the Second Division, under Sir E. Lugard. On the 10th Maich Sir Colin Campbell seized the Bank-house, and took up an advanced position in front of it. Sir J. ()dram pushed forward his advances on the left of the Goomtee, the resist ance of the enemy being obstinate. On the 11th of March her Majesty's 42d and 93d Highlanders stormed the Begum's Palace, and Sir J. Outram crossed the Goomtee and occu pied the buildings in front of th© Palace. In these operations our less was under 100 killed and wounded. Among the killed are Captain Macdonald, Her Majesty's 93d ; Captain Cooper, Rifle Brigade ; Captain Moorsom, Staff. On the 13th of March a sap was ran up to the Imambarra, which is close to the walled enclosure of the Kaiserbagh. • O❑ the 14th of March the Imanaliarra was stormed, and the troops following close on the re tiring enemy, entered the Kaisurbagh with them ; the contest lasted until 3 o'clock p.m., by which time Sir Colin Campbell was in full possession of the Kaiserbagh. LATEST FROM LUCKNOW. walls. On the 15th of Mircb, the enemy, after the fall of the Kaiserbagh, having commenced their flight from the city, Brigadier Campbell, with a brigade of cavalry and horse artillery, was de spatched in pursuit. Sir Hope Grant also ad vanced to Seetapoor, on the direct road to Rohil cund, with 1,000 sabres, to intercept the fugi- tives who might be forced in that direction by Brigadier Campbell. Up to the 15th of March the enemy still occu pied some parts of Lucknow, but intelligence of Sir C. Campbell's reduction and occupation of the whole city is hourly expected. guns, and after a skirmish with the Arabs sue r ` 1 r r EST EWS A The Arabs are said to have lost between 20 and 30 men, without a casually on our side. When the Candia left Men all was quiet, and the natives had again been received within the Her Majesty's ship Cyclops left Adeu for Suez on the 24th ult. Her Majesty's ship Pylades left Madras for Suez on the 18th ult. JOHN GREEN. Corfu, April 7, 11 a.m. THE EAST. MALTA, APRIL 7. Intelligence reached this yesterday of a conflict, near Ghadames, between the Ottomans and the Arabs, under Sheik Goulualt, who was betrayed and :lain by one of his followers; his head had been brought into Tripoli, whore great rejoicings had taken place. An Ottoman steam liner and frigate, having on board 3,000 troops from Constantinople, put into Corfu on the 19th, and left on the 22d o March for Albania, to put a stop to the depreda tions committed on the Turk , sh fron ier in the Adriatic, and to protect it against an invasitA4 from the Montenegrins. The Ripon arrived from Southampton last night and the Euxiue from Marseilles this morning with the India mails, with which they have left for Alexandria. c .~ . r , -; JT ,§AIII. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1858. We have reason to know that we are not un known to many parts of Europe, but we make no pretension to being the European journal. If we did so, however, we would not sacrifice our Eng lish character to please all the censors of the press and post-office in all the capitals or border towns of Continental nations. Our pride would still be to represent, wherever we went, the best, the most English qualities of the English. First amongst these we take to be an instinctive, and an intense hatred of despots, tyrants, dictators, slaveholders, and autocrats of every variety. Even when we have been ready enough to ac knowledge the good personal qualities of the man, we did not lose our aversion to the thing. In the good old days of negro slavery, the paternal planter was confessed to be a mild specimen of an inhuman class ; and we all felt that a slaveholder was not one of us, although he might be British born. Indian "Nabobs," of the same era, whatever their genius, were seldom thoroughly at home when they returned to the land of their birth. They had lost their genuine British character when they had dallied with absolute power, and had reigned over a host of cringing and fawning slaves. And to this day we regard an American slaveholder, although of Anglo-Saxon origin, as less kindred with us than a foreigner thoroughly imbued with the love of freedom. This is a notorious and undeniable fact—to say that we are Englishmen is equivalent to saying that we will surt,:r no restraint on our own freedom, and that we detest the class whose rule depends on fettering the freedom of our neighbours. It is, therefore, much to be deplored that a jour nal which, as foreigners imagine, represents the general feeling of Englishmen, should, so far as foreign despots are concerned, almost completely misrepresent them. Foreigners find the Time., commonly adopting the side of their oppressors, and lampooning or bitterly denouncing their noblest patriots. In 1848, for instance, and generally ever since, the despots of Austria, or of Italy, or of Germany, despots every where, were the class it patronised ; if almost compelled to rebuke them, the rebuke was as mild as old Era's ; while the KOSSUTHS, MAZZINIS, and LAMARTINES were hardly tolerated in the hour of success, and denounced with exulting satisfaction, as soon as foreign force had trampled them and their nation's liberties afresh under the hoofs of despotism. It was the same with the cause of Poland during the Crimean war. Poles were attacked in the persons of the most unfortu nate of the exiles resident in London, and the emancipation of their cpuntry, although the con dition of European safety against Russian aggres sion, and the easiest means by far of bringing Rus,ia to terms, was scouted as madness. Now, Englishmen almost universally were tho roughly opposed to all this. KOSSIITEI and Hun garian liberties, Mezzryt with his brother trium virs, and the emancipation of Rome from Papal rule ; the Pules, the Polish Legion, and Poland as Europe's bulwark against Russia, were topics of interest everywhere. All must remember, so recently as the Russian war, that while the Times was, almost cruelly, attacking Poland and the Pules, a meeting could be held nowhere which did not respond enthusiastically to the mention of the rights of Poland. Whether it were a Radical gathering in St. Martin's•hall or a gathering of Lincolnshire farmers, in town or in country, Poland was always a welcome topic, and the speaker who introduced it needed no eloquence to secure pro longed cheers. The very name was eloquent to Englishmen. What Pole abroad could have imagined for a moment that the whole English nation—a few aristocrats and their supporters in the London press excepted—desired nothing so much as that the war should be carried on through Poland, and that its restoration to the map of Europe should have been the chief result of all our sacrifices. These remarks have been suggested to us by the recent attack of the Times on MAZZINI and the highly respectable publisher of his last pam phlet. M.izzlis - r has written a highly im pressive letter to Lours NAPOLEON. It is Strong; but often eloquent in denuncia tion, the sting of the fa eloquence be c ii s g . a very clever arrangement of undeniable LOUIS NAPOLEON IS pitted against LOUTS NAPO LEON, and his whole policy arraigned in no mea sured terms. Of course we should dissent from many of the opinions, and challenge many of tht statements, yet no one can deny that they are sub stantially true, and all would confess that MAZZINI had a right to attack, with the most legitimate of weapons, the ruler who had crushed the Ronnii republic in the blood of Romans, and driven MAZZINI and his fellow triumvirs from the pos' to which the people had elected them into exd . We never did, and never could excuse the murder R)man liberties by the arms of a foreign re public, nizzaza was, at least, as legitimate a THE DOAB. A body of rebels had threat3ned Etawab, bu have since recrossed the Ganges. REWAII. It is reported from Rewah that the rebels have taken Cheomar (?), and that the Rajah and the Deputy-Commissioner, Mr. CAViLI, are prisoners. CENTRAL INDIA. Sir 11. Rose occupied Bandapoor on March 10. The Rajah had fled to Chuuderee. RAJPOOTANA. No intelligence. SOUTHERN MA.HRATTA COUNTRY. The rebel Dessayees are still in the Carrara jungles, but large reinforcements have been de spatched to the magistrate by the Madras Govern• ment, and the Bombay frontieriscarefully guarded. The following telegraphic despatch dated Alla habad, March 17th, 7 p.m., has just been re ceived : " It is reported from Futtvqhnr, under date March 15, that the Nana is still at Jehanpoor, and chief rebels ate with him. The rebels have again entered the Futtyghur district, attacked the Thannahs, and driven off the police posted theie. uen. Penny must be el , )se at hand on the J umn a side. The rebels who had entered the Ghatuin pore Pergunnah have recrossed the river to Hu meerpore. Tae Commander-in-Chief sends the following inteligence to-day from Lucknow : " Yesterday the bridges were secured, and the troops advanced, and occupied the Muchee Bawan and Great Iwambarra. Large bodies of the enemy crossed the stone bridges an hour before the attack was commenced by Sir J. Outran]. The resistance was slight compared with the previous day. A Ghoorkah division seized the enemy's Position in front of Alumbagh last night. Numbers of armed and unarmed men are evacuating the city by the outlets ; they passed to the north. "Our advances to-day are gradual:y pushed on all sides of the line occupied by the troops, par ticularly towards Goolghat and Moosabah, in which direction the enemy are advancing. Tire point they intend to make for is not known. " thmbay Castle, March 18, 1858. " 'H. L. ANDERSON, " 'Secretary to Government.; "Malta, April 8, 1858. "From V. G. MONTANARO." DESTRUCTION OF TLI3 EARL OF MORAY'S RESIDENCE BY PIHE. (Prom the Caledonian Mercury, of April 7.) It is our melancholy duty to announce the total de struction by firs of Donibristle House, the charming ci I residence of the Earl of Moray, and the ancient seat of the Moray family, on the Firth of Forth. The fire broke out between seven and eight o'clock yesterday morning ; and by ten o'clock, such was the devouring nature of the flames, the whole building was a notes of ruins, Lofting remaining save smouldering wood and blackened walls. How the fire originated is not known. None of the family were resiing in the house at the time, and the servants who took charge of the mansion lived in a building apart. Fires, however, were put on in it, almost every day. and it is supposed that the conflagration originated in some of the chimnies. It was first discovered breaking through the roof, and assistance not being immediately to be had, it soon Rained such power as to defy all efforts to extit guish it. Fire-engines were obtained from Dun fermline, and one was shipped from Edinburgh. B-fore they arrived, however, the flames had such a hold of the building that they proved of no essential service. A great number of people from Inverkeithing, including the Magistrates, were present at the earliest moment to render assistance. When the fire was firet covered, Mr. Ted, farmer, Latham, with his servants, hastened to the Scene; and, with the assi , tauce of Mr. Smith, forester, and the gardeners and other servants on the estate, caved the whole library and a number of valeablo paintings (the Courts of Charles I. and IT., by L.ly) from one of the drawing-rooms. Most unfortu nately, however, the rare and pricele,s paintings in the dining-room, including the fate& p , r rai s, were lost, with the exception of an original portrait of the Regent Moray, and ono other saved by a slater named Young, from laverkeithing, and a roan named MAO el, at he risk of their lives, part of their clothes having been burnt if. Donibristle, from the Firth of Forth, formed a pro minent object, and although by no means a fine house, arc'nitec.urally speaking, was one of those the e Hos so associated with the ancient history of S co lan d, g as to make its destructi o n a matter of regret to all Nolo have ever seen it. To the Moray family it is, in a cert: twin terse, irreparable. The house was once burned vefore by th Eert of newly, at the ins , igation, it is suppose', of King Jame-, when the " Bonnie Earl of ' ray," of whom the King was je , leus, was a ttempting to escape. Frona Messrs. Fellarion ' slain in s "Im: serial Gaz-tteer of Scotland," we tske the followieg brief not of Donibristle : " The house of Donibristle, a seat of the Earl of lyl :rah, eas formerly the residence of tie Abbot of St. Combo, but it has since been grea'ly re'aiged and improved. D.:nibristle was, in 1592, the scene of the cruel murder of the Bonnie Earl,' whew, per sonal attractions and accomilishmente, it is alleged oV some historians, had impressed the heart of Anne of Denmark, and excited the jealousy of her royal spouse. f aim at least was the popular notion of the t me `He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the gluve ; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh ! he was the qu eeno'.:ov...' The 1 - ss rusiained, besides Invaluable family relics, roast ho very great. We understand that the property MU covered 24 insurance, FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The .211ortiteur pays the folio wing tnbut of praise to the Late M. earlier :—" His (I,•ath has productd a del:, and painful imprt In Ferlods of diffi culty, by his perspicac ty and ene; gy he ieudeLed services to the cause of order which The country will not foret, and which the Emperor is pleased to dwell on with a fer.liug of decide(' approbAidn " BOURSE, April 7. The following were the closing quotations : 4i per Cents 92 50 1 Do. end month— 3 per Cent. ..... 69 35 Do. end mouth 69 40 13 ink Shl.res Credit Mobilier 737 50 Do. Account 733 75 Credit Fancier Belgian 43 Piedinontese (5) Roman B9 Austrian . Spanish Threes Home Debt - FOR CASH. RAILWAY S. - Orleans Northern Now Ditto 7724 Lyon and Mediteran. 8074 New Dittu .. 775 Geneva . 655 Midi Western 6lO Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian TURKEY. We have received ac:;vunts from Constantinople up to the 27th ult. The Pcrte has acldtessed to all its ag n's, accreditol at the different European Court-a, a circulir on the subject of the Suez Canal, in which it explains its conduct iii t ,at affair. A letter gives the fJllowitig summary of the docu ment : _ _ . "It is stated therein, in support of the rt-fval given by the Porte to that undertaking, that the Turkish Go vernment is the natural and only competent judge for deciding on the objections against the proj.:ct ; and that before all thirs it rati,t protect itself against any foreign pressure, and prevent any one from meddling with the internal affairs of the c , untry. It con cludes by saying that it was creciely a sinii!ar question which furnished to England a pretext for occupying the island of ; and that Turkey will not listen to any arrangement, but demands the unconditional resWntiou of that island, which has become a question of Europ , an right, Europe having guaranteed the integrity of the Turkish territory." The Constantinople journals contain very little intelligence of interest. The Presse d'Orient gives the following :—" The Naib Emin Pacba, who hal succeeded iu escaping f.oin D t waseus, which had been msigned him as his residence, has been abl:3 to reach tile Caucasus, pasing through the Kur distan, Georgia, and Mingrelta. He has brought about a rezonciliation between himself and Sefer Paella." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. Oi the previous day, Good Friday, the Qui-en and the King, in accordance with the ancient custom of the Spanish sovereigns, visited with great poinp save' at churches. The Espana says that the allege:l fusion of the two branches cf the royal family is a mys'ili catton, and it turns its contemporaries into r,dicult for trewing it seriQusly. Accord rig to the Iberia, S F ain and England are to act as arbitrators in the difnrenco which has ari-en bet Neun Franc and Portugal retrtivo to the pos-tession of th Oubgo river on the western coast of Afr.ca. Desparch.:s received by the Government from he Pnillipino Islands to the 10th Feb., Porto Rico to the 2d ult, and from Cuba to the 12th ult., state that pet feet tranquillity prevailed in those colonies. A letter from Belgrade of the 30th ult. in the Cologne Gazette says :—" The news has b3en re ceived of the death in prison of Ettlja Daganovit,ch, one of the senators condemn, dby the prince. Yet later declared ye,terday to the Turkish cona mis3ioner that all the prisoners were in good healt4, DIPLOMATIC MISAIANAGEHENT. (Prom. th,c Times.) It is a general belief that the working of the Circumlocution Office is entirely or mainly obstruc tive, and that the ingenuity of its functionaries is simply employed in finding out how things are not to be done, and how the moat urgent necessities and the most fervid impulses may be brought to a standstill. That, however, is only a partial view of the system. There is at least one departmentof this famous institution in which the numerous offi cers employed are not content with the vulgar am bition of doing nothing at all, and presenting simply a cold shoulder, or a neat form of denial, to the unfortunate man who wants something to be done. The Foreign Office hasalways teen celebrated for a nobler and more active ambition, or at least for "not doing what is to be dune" in a. more showy.and original style. It not only will not .do what is to be done, but does the very opposite. It industriously turns the ploughshare into the Sword, and makes a dagger out of a pruunieg hook. Lord Melbourne used to say that there would be peace for ever if we could only shut up the Foreign Office ; and we have certainly lived to see Ambassadors and Ministers descend ing in right diplomatic succession from the sacred heralds of antiquity, getting up wars, de claring them, and carrying them on upon their own acc,unt. - It is not to be supposed that tilt se gentle men ever really consider it their mission to involve nations in quarrels and plunge them into wars. There is a speciAl service for that department, ad mirably conducted by spirited captains, high poli tical writers, philosophical assassins, self-consti tuted peacemakers and regenerators of the human species. But where a host of able and excellent officials is dispersed over the world, stationed in large cities, and brought into immediate con tact with the leaiing spirits of the civilised world, of course it must be for something. It cinnot be for letting things alone. Such an in stitution must operate energetically and demonstra tively, so as to astonish, if not always to please, the natives. If peace is its wish, then peace must be maintained in a striking and effective manner, so that people shall all admit the diplomatist to be indeed a man of peace, to be able to preserve peace or not as he pleases, to have peace in his grasp, ; and to be the legitim=ate object, or at least channel, of supplication when the prayer of the peoples is for peace It is not very long since we had an instance of a Minister whose duty it was at the pi iucipal State of the New World—always on the most jealous and fidg ty terms with us, their progenitors and cousins—to avert collision, to smooth over differences, and at least to take care there should be no misunderstanding in the official comcoun ca tions of the two countries. Mr. Crampton, at the Court of Washington, was a very clever, and, they say, a very amusing man, a very good talker, an: all that is wanted at a London dinner party. This admirable gentleman, however, having received a despatch which Lord Clarendon had taken the pains to draw up and seud him, and being pressed for time, under what circumstances we are not informed, did not read the said document to tin end, and accordingly misunders ood, or rather never made himself acquainted with, his instruc tions. So, drawing ors his own imagination for w hat he conceived Lord Clarendon wou ld pro b a bl y say at the end of 'the despatch, h o t oo k an or i g i na l course of his own, end so re n d ere d a giv stiun already complicated absolutely in oluble. We are • now presented, however, with a much bolder speci men of the same sort of treatment, and one calcu lated to invest the whole diplomatic service wit!' a almost awful character'. From the nobleman who presides in Downing-street to the y tungest Secretary of Legation, or moat modest attache, let 113 all pray for the perfect sanity, com f or t, and especially the undisturbed loisure of these men. We shall not indeed e thertheir own tistes or theneeessit es of the service by ins ailing them in quiet shady groves, where tto may pursue their own free meditations. It is thAr business to go into the world to talk, to write, and to act. So let us at least pray that they may all have a good night's re,t, that they way rise refreshed , and in time to . read their letters More they go out for the day. Let u 4, then, pray ghat they may gener,lly—at le ,st, when a crisis is expected, and a little cloud is on the horizon—return home in time to do a little business, to give an order, to read a draught note, and even the document itself to which they have to append their important signatures. If this be not always possible, ally they at least be able to make up be fore they go to bed for the omissions of the day ! Never did we adequately feel till now how ouch we all depend upon persons of whom few of us ever heard, and the world hangs on their humour, or such notions of duty as a long period of service may chance to have left them. Sir Jam ,s Hud.-4on and Mr. Erskine were sent to Turin for the express purpose of communicating to the Sa cl4ran Court the views and wishes of the British Foreign Secretary, and supplying him with their views and wishes in return. It has some times been suggested that the whole thin , might ho done more expeditiously and with less chance of mistake by a direct transmission of let ters to and fro between the two Courts. That, however, is a very undiplomatic opinion, and on he present occasion we leave it to its fate. Yet, t us see how the actual system has worked in this instance. On the 291; of December Lord Clar n on sent a de,pa.ch to Sir James Hudson, instruc;iog him to ask Count Cavour whether the Sardinian Goverment meant to object to the pro oedings taken by the Neap( Irian Government in the case of the Cagliari, on the ground that the Neapolitan vessels (f war had no right to pursue the Cagliari, and to capture her b3yond. the Neapo litan territorial jurisdiction. This was a plain, and very natural request on the part of the'British Gov:rnment, kt;ow whether tile Sar diniAn Government mean to act on a particular ground, which Lord Clarendon proceeded to ex pl do he considered a proper one, if it was justi fied by the facts of the else. This, however, 11 ,, ugh stated with Lord t larendon's usual clear ress awl vigour •as ether above the intgligence of the minor olticials of Turin, or seemed too mild for their taste. Sir James Huds at, it is true, did his duty at first. He ordered and approved a di aught of a note to be sent to Count Cavour, f:,ithtully repeating the words of the despatch, and Asking Counc Cavour whether tie Sardinian Govern ment meant to object to the proceedings of the Neapolitan Government on the ground particu larized. Mr. Erskine, however, having simply to write out aid despatch afair copy from this draught, wholly ignorel and omitted the question which was its principal object, and substituted for it . no ques'Aon at all, but an alleged piece of informa tion which he was so good as to volunteer for the benefit of the Sardinian Government. " I have been instructed," he wrote, "to an _ quaint your Excellency that her Majesty's Government are disposed to object to these pro ceedings, on the ground," asc. The change was from a question to a statement, from a question as to the views of the Sardinian Government to a statement ccyiiproinising the views of our own. It supposed the Sardinian Government to take the initiative from us, instead of deferring a final ex pression of our own views till we had learnt 011 what views the Sardinian (I ,, verrinaent was actually pro ceeding. Mr. Erskine brought his despatch withthis important and Blab, rate alteration—it was nobody else's—to J. Hudson, who never read aline—the alteration was in the very first sent ence,—bu t simply put hisname to the document, whichremained with out challenge, doing all the mischief it could from January sth to March 15th, nearly two months and a-half. Early last month, M. Cavour showed Mr. Eiskine's despatch to Lord Malmesbury, who immediately wrote to ask on whose authority the supposititious statement had been made, and elicited an explanation of the facts. Mr. Erskine now expresses his deep regret that he had made "a very material alteration in the wording of the first para,zraph ; " admits what he ought to have said ; explains how he might possibly have fallen into the " unfortunate blunder ; " suggests what he might possibly have meant to say, most dutifully exonerates his chief, and pleads on his own part the difficulty of literally transcribing a paper of his own composition. Lord Malmes bury very properly informs Sir James Hudson that the explauation is unsatisfactory, and desires that Mr. KrAliine may be told that his conduct is quite in xcus,,blc. Is it possible to suppose that such a thing could be done at all without bring a matter of frequent occurrence ? Mr. Ext.:l6lle had licence enough, it is evident, to do as lie pleased. When a Minister never looks at what lie signs, a clever, industrious, and ambitious secretary, desirous to act with proper energy, and ready to persuade himself that the de spatch was "his own compesiiion," is under con- Ailerable temptation to improve, to simplify and invrgorate the message which lie is charged to transmit. We can almost pardon a subaltern who is ready to take responsibility, and see that the work does not flag in his hands. Indeed, wheiber Mr. Erskine desires it or not, this is almost the only account possible in his case, as the alteration is rather too material both in matter and words to be a mere slip of the pen or of the memory in the act of transcription. We can readily suppose that Mr. Erskine thought it odd Lord Clarendon should first ask whether the Sardinian goversment were objectingon this ground and then defended it, if the facts bore it out. It was natural he should wish to simplify matters by assuming the objection at once, and leaving Sar dinia, to agree, if it liked. But this was not what Lord Clarendon said, and it certainly did not accord with the re , pective positions of the two Governments in the affair. In fact, Mr. Erskine was for leading Sardinia, instead of suggesting that simple co-operation and common understand ing which Lord Clarendon most properly desired. But are we safe when secretaries are encouraged to follow their own devices, and when, for aught we know, scores of irri•ating and injudicious de spatches may be rambling in foreign chanceries that Downing-s reet never heard of ? Sir James Hudson is the responsible man. If the subaltern b -visited with the punishment of a subaltern, the Chief ought to have his due. We cannot think it safe to low° either of them at Turin, especially with no Minister at all with Naples, and only Mr. Howard in Tuscany. RETREAT AND PURSUIT OF THE REBELS. MALTA, APRIL 7, 2 P.M. By the Candia, which arrived at Suez on the 29th ult., we have advices from Bombay of March 18 ; Calcutta, 8 ; Hong Kong, 2'7. The latest news from Lucknow is to the morning of the 15th of March. Nearly all the city was then in our possession, but few rebels remaining in it. General Outram having turned the enemy's line of works on the canal, the Mmrtiniere was stormed by Sir Edward Lugard, and the line of works seized on the 9th. The Bank-house was also oc cupied. On the 11th Jung Bahadoor moved into line, and the 93d Regiment, supported by the 423, stormed the Begum's Palace. Our loss was less than 100 killed and wounded, the loss of the enemy being 500. At the same time, Outram, on the north of the Goomtee, seized on the stone bridge, and cut up 500 of the enemy. On the same day our guns moved up, and the buildings in advance of the Begum's Palace were occupied. On the 14th the Imaumbarrah was stormed, the Ghoorkas assisting. The Kaiser- bagh was then entered, and after a fight all day, solidly occupied. 24 guns were taken. General Outram then crossed the iron bridge and opened fire on the flying enemy. Our loss was not known at Bombay, but is supposed to be small. The enemy rushed by the artillery on the 15th, flying from the city in great numbers. Two columns of cavalry and artillery, under Briga diers Campbell and Hope Grant, were sent out after them. Maun Singh had come into Jung Bahadoor's camp. He had previously sent in Miss Orr. Sir Hugh Rose, with the Second Brigade of the Central India Field Force, was moving on Jhansi. The rebellious district of Shafgard had been an nexed to the British territory by Sir R. Hamilton. The First Brigade is besieging Thanderee. Gen. Whitlock reached Saugor on March 7th in advance of his column, which had halted at Duhmo. There was a panic in Calcutta on March 3. The President in Council called out the Volunteers, and pl Aced cannon on the bridges. Information had been received that the Barrackpore Sepoys, who were to relieve the Fort Garrison that night, were to have arms and attack the city. All, how- ever, passed off quietly. Exchange at Bombay, 2s. ltd. for credits. I❑ the Calcutta import-market purchases con• tinned on a limited scale. Bank rate of interest unaltered. Exchange, 2.3. lid. CHINA. Braves were mustering in large numbers round Canton, determined on an attempt to retake the city. repnsentatives of the allied Powers were preparing for their departure Northwards, but it is said that all thought of visiting Pekin this year is given up. 00 1wac,11,1,, Yeli as a prisoner, arrived at Singapore on March 1. Exchange at Hongkong, 4s. 9/-(1. SHANGHAI, FEB. 20. Very few transactions in imports. Prices o. silk nominal at last quotations. Exchange, Gs. ADEN. The Arabs in the vicinity of Aden had stopped the roads and intercepted supplies on their way to the fort. The Commander of the Garrison attacked them on the 18th of March. His force consisted of 600 men and two guns ; 20 or 30 0 he enemy are said to have been killed, without a casualty to the British. The roads, however, were again interrupted, and the Arabs assembled in larger numbers than before. The Candia reports that another successful sortie had been made, that the Arabs had submitted, and that they were again admitted into the fort on a friendly footing. Before the Candia left Aden the Oriental had H. 111.'8 arrived from Bombay with passengers. steamer Cyclops had left for Suez, to be engaged in surveying service iu the Red Sea. The Pylades is likewise on her way up to receive the Siamese Mission. The Oriental's mail has been brought forward by the Candia. The following telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General in Egypt was received at the Foreign-office, via Corfu, April 7, 5.30 p.m. ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 3. The steamer Candia arrived at Suez yesterday from Calcutta ; the steamer Oriental, from Bom bay, has arrived at Aden, and the Caudia brings the following news obtained from that vessel LUCICNOW. General Outram crossed the Coomtee on the 6th of March. Sir E. Lugard pushed on from the Dilkoosba, and captured the Martiuiere and Bank-house on the 10th. Oa the 13th the Kaiserbagh and Iwaumbarra, a mass of palaces adjoining the Residency, were stormed and taken. On the 14th the enemy began to pour in tor• rents from the city iu the direction of Rohil• cund. They were pursued from one side by Brigadier Campbell, and from the other by Brigadier Sir Hope Grant, with strong detachments of Cavalry and Horse Artillery. Sir H. Rose's force is advancing through Bun• delcund. The country being cleared up to Jhansi, VVhi lock's force\ is moving on Saugor. The General and Staff arrived on the 10th, and remain in that neighbouthood. General Robert's force has passed Nusseerabad on its way to Kotab, where the roh(ls are said to be in strength. ADEN. The Sultan of Adhiee, a town 20 miles from Aden, having stopped and prevented supplies from entering the fort, the Brigadier commanding the Aden garrison went out on the morning of the 18th of March with a force of 600 men and two LITERATURE. Mervyn Clitheroe. No. IX. By W. Harrisonl Ainsworth. Thecuriosity of the reader is by this time piqued almost beyond endurance, as to the possible t esult of the intricate plot of Mervyn Clitheroe. Accord ing to a scarcely credible intimation of Malpas Sale's, at the close of the new number before us, the true will of old I7ncle Moberly—miking Mervyn his / heir, and depriving Malpas of his otherwise secure inheritance—is destroyed. The confusion, indeed, in the story is by this time worse confounded. Mrs. Mervyn is said to be dying. Apphia is apparently denied to the hero by a rash promise extorted from her by her mother, Mrs. Brideoake. It seems uncertain whether John will live to espouse Ora —and dubious even yet, to some extent, as to the match really coming off after all between the ami able elderly spinster (sister of old Hazy), and Cuthbert Spring, the merry gentleman. Three more .• instalments of the serial will clear up all uncertainties and will doubtless bring the tale to a happy conclusion. In which event poetical justice demands for Malpas the most igno minious exposure, for Puwnall something worse than a sousing in the horse-pond, and for Phaleg, Olud, and Penninah a collective puni,hment little short of transportation. As for Mrs. Bride oake, it is to be hoped that her pride, if not her neck may be broken somehow opportunely. Everybody, of course, reco2,nises the father of the hero in the officer who makes his appearance with the old Batchelor friend at Mervyn's rural fete—. Colonel Clitheroe, fur some unimaginable reason, masquerading for a whilo under the psuedonym f Major Atherton. We look forward to the acknowledgmen.;:of his identity with pleasant anti cipations. , ST. JAMES'S HALL.—The Vocal Association com menced a t eries of six subscrvion concerts last night in this new and splendid hall. The programme, sel-cted entirely from the works of Mendelssohn, w as one of the highest excellence—such, indeed, as might have been expected • from the classical taste of Mr. Benedict. There was a numerous and efficient orchestra, led by Mr. Blagrove ; and amon - g the solo performers, vocal and ineite urnental, were MOlllB of the most eminent that, n a A of sso a very inferior f the day. C,,ncerts of this refined description are' calculated to egtatlitsob be ee hoped repute c h f a the t may be encou rage d i n S t. J ames ' Flail, of wbicb, w h en c,rtain itmispensable .modifica tions are effect ed, the metropolis will have just reason pr oud. elation Lblibsre to b 3 GAZA.T WESTEDN OP CANADA. RAILWAY COMPANY.-- roe halt -yearly general ink eting of shareholders in this com pany was held at the London Tavern, Bishop-gate re ter ; Mr. Robert Gill, c h a irma n of the I B t oa c r t ,i 5 e of Directors, in the chair. The report stated hat the traffic for the pat half-year, as compared with f,t,e corresponding period of 1857. showed a decrcaQc of 32,248/. 3s. Bd., which is only 12,6241. 6s. SJ. lees than he wevi,ll4 six mouthy. After some discussion, the report was unanimously adopted. 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