The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

T HEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, will be performed CLOUD AND SUNSFIINE, Mr, James Anderson and Miss Elsworthy, Followed by the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK NORNER. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with THE HUNCHBACK. Julia, Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Master Walter, Mr. Howe ; Modus, Mr„Buckstone. _ _ After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD; or, Harle quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ; Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. (.1 Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 2 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes Pit Gallery R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Chas. Kean; Gertrude, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, a new grand , loinie Christmas Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor mack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MCRE. Mr. Barney Williams. After which, YANKEE COURTSHIP. Mr: and Mrs. B. Williams. To conclude with LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THE A.T RE. —Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, Sha,kespere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Lady Macbeth, Miss Helen Faucit ; Macbeth, Mr. Charles Dillon. With Locke's celebrated Music. To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH ROOKII, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU BADOUR ; or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert. Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White, Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ; Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L. Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites, Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm and, , Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans formation Scene. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Sox-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING,wiII be performed the play of LUCRETIA BORGIA. After which, MY WIFE'S OUT. To conclude with THE SAILOR OF PRINCE. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o' Silections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, die,, viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Heushaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Sonor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard; Messrs. T. Maclagau, W. T. Critchfield and E. Mackney. Piano forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &s., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 58 min. aft. 2—Even., 13 min aft. 3 To-Mom:tow —Morn., 32 min. aft. 3 —Even., 49 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 28. THER3fOHETER, IN THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.70—falling, WIND, E. to E.S.E. ; fresh, with doll, cold, cloudy weather, indicating a change. Two o'clock—Wind, N.E., very fresh, with dull, hazy weather. MARcII 1. 40—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night, 34—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.52. WIND, North• Easterly; fresh, with snow. flfl, ~~~:~. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1858. Lord DERBY cannot afford a second time to offer to the country merely the half-ready contents of the Whigs' measure-basket. He has taken office, and, if he would avoid political disgrace, must do something worthy of his position. None of his colleagues' addresses up to Saturday night were permitted to foreshadow, ever so faintly, the knowledge to be imparted, we may hope, to-night. The first appeals to the country merely said—Gen tlemen, you know us ; the names of DISRAELI, PAXINGTON, and HENLEY are not strange to you ; elect us for what we have been ; what we are to be, take upon trust from the past. Even Sit FITZROY KELLY, who does advert to some points of Representative Reform, is very conveniently vague. Well, this may, so far, be politic and convenient, but it is only so far and no fur ther. Lard DERBY cannot afford once more to say, Let us hold on a little while by sufferance ; enable us to allege that we made a few good law reforms all ready to our hands, and passed the necessary financial bills ; then leave us to shoot and hunt for half-a-year ; and after that we will tell you what we have made up our minds to. We can appeal to his Lordship whether we have not on former occasions demanded fair play for his Administration, and we demand it now ; but we demand also a policy, a frankly-avowed policy wor thy of fair play. We can hardly ask for him exemp tion from factious oppositions, if by reticency, or by half-measures, or unpopular proposals, he himself invites that opposition. There is one journal, of not the humblest preten sions, which, perhaps not liking to turn too 11001), is openly threatening Lord DERBY with the im possibility of evading a stiffish Reform Bill. This game journal was fain to allege a few weeks ago, that nobody wanted reform, but that somehow everybody was looking for it, and the Premier had promised it last year, he had even put that promise in the QUEEN'S Speech ; so, a Reform Bill, though quite needless, and though it could be attended to any year, in the course of the next ten or ~twenty years, yet must be brought for ward. Now, however, it is the one thing inevit able I Even India may wait, and the Corporation of London surely may ; but Representative Re form—the Reform demanded only in political imagination—this has become the one thing which cannot wait ! We have, of course, always taken the directly opposite view, and have demanded a substantive Reform Bill as the honest wish of the great body of those who take any interest at all in politics. We have always hoped, we may say believed, that a sham Reform Bill would have ruined Lord Pailtss.sTox, and we therefore cannot be thought to press the subject on Lard DERBY merely to em barrass him. On the contrary, we believe that he has quite as much good will towards representative Reform as Lord P ALZ: ., T ra ON e ; r and that he may which for bringing consistently alleg e weo:pldehave forward a Reform measure been the impelling motive with the namely, that the country will have it, and that the Parliament had been elected to carry one. Lo r d DIM is the Minister of England, and if England demands a certain measure it is his duty to pro- pose it. Last year Lord DEBIT did us the honour to quote our Reform catechism in the House of Lords ; he did it then for Lord PALmEßsroN's instruction ; he will, we trust, now gi►e it his best attention for his own sake. If hostile journals bAullt him with the promised Reform nil ; be must !yet remember that fas esi ab hosee doceri, for they ' would not pitch just upon this difficulty, unless they felt that it was the difficulty for him. On the other hand if, as old and honest Reformers, instead of lamenting, as we have at times done, popular apathy on the subject, we now tell him, from our knowledge of our own party, that we are strong enough to insist on Reform ; that we have often been baulked of it, but do not mean to be baulked again. Surely our opinion of the position of the question may reason ably pass for something. We ask of Lord DERBY, then, to look the question fairly in the face, for evade it he cannot. Lord JOELX RUSSELL, pos sibly Lord PALMEr-STON in opposition, the Radi cals certainly, will be awake to their advantage. He will not be suffered, if we divine rightly, to burke reform under temporising pretexts ; and to oppose it will make a ♦ote of no eonfidence perfectly easy. Individual proposals, and per haps a bill of considerable pretensions, will be offered, and on these he will be defeated by large majorities, till he will be unable to carry on the Government. In the ♦ery house which gave Mr. GissoN a majority against the Government, :here would not have been a less majority than sixty, had the vote been taken on a Liberal ques tion. It was fifty-three against Church Rates the Wednesday previously ; for the Oaths Bill it would be overwhelming ; so it would undoubtedly be for any of the principal points in Representa tive Reform. We would then suggest to Lord D➢RBY and his colleagues whether their acceptance of office (unless, indeed, they avow an intention to dissolve on the Reform question)—their acceptance of office with the present Parliament should not be taken as an avowal of acceptance also of the chief demand of the nation. The Parliament was, notwithstanding the Canton affair, elected for the great objects of Liberals. The constituencies could not be con fined to the cry of PALMERSTON' and YEE ; the association everywhere was—of those seeming ecompatibilities—PA.LMEßSTON and Reform 1 The general shout for Reform, notwithstanding he Chinese diversion and the Tory-headed Cabinet, must convince a less practised politician than Lord DZEUIT of the political want of the hour. itself, we can sympathise with those so severely tried, and rejoice at their providential escape. The intelligence is all couleur de rose so far as it goes. Sir C. CAMPBELL, at the head of 250 (mani festly intended for 2,500 or 25,000) men, and with about 70 pieces of ordnance was collecting sup plies and means of conveyance at Futtyghur for the intended onslaught on Oude, whore rebellion still rears its unnatural head. It was generally believed that it would be invaded on the 25th of February from different parts, so that the crisis will come on sooner than was anti cipated. Sir JAIIES OITTRA.M was holding his position at the Alumbagh without any difficulty. The rebels, warned by three decisive defeats, had become cautious, and abstained from any further annoyance. Their former attacks had, without doing any serious mischief to the garrison, been visited with severe retribution. They profited by the salutary lesson, and refrained from again " kicking against the pricks." Sir JAMES OUTRA.II had been reinforced by her MAJESTY'S 34th Regiment, which had marched up from Cawnpore, conveying a quantity of valuable stores. A party of the Rifles had taken up a position on the Lucknow road, one day's march from Cawnpore, where they would remain for the purpose of maintaining the communications open. This is an important movement, which promises to be attended with the best results. The rebels were manifestly losing heart. They were anxious to negotiate, but in the meantime were fortifying Lucknow, where it is probable the last serious struggle will take place. It was said that they numbered 100,000 fighting men, but formidable as that vast army may appear on paper, it cannot withstand an European Army commanded by a triad and experienced general, whose very name is a tower of strength. It is fortunate that they are so closely massed, that a single blow may prove decisive. Sir Iluou ROSE had not only relieved Saugor but had captured the strong fort of Ratgnrh. Its garrison, however, escaped over the walls. The Rajpootana field force had also captured AVM, said to be the strongest town in that garrison. The gallant (!) defenders also flying in much admired confusion, during a frightful storm of thunder and It is for the new Premier to say how far he will go. His appeal to Lord GREY, now avowedly Ls much a Tory, in all but name, as Lord DERBY himself, is to be sure ominous enough ; but we regard it as certain that details arranged in ac cordance with the vague Tory generalities of Lord GREY would insure immediate rejection by he nation, we believe by the House of Commons ►lso. The Conservatives must look the fact in the face that Conservatism itself must now rely not on bearding the people, but on friendly co- Teration with them. Aristocracy must increasingly trust not to its mere titles, and to keeping power from the hands of the nation, but to cultivating its advantages, and acquiring and maintaining superiority in intelligence, education, and capacity for Government. Our nobility, and their offspring still more, will be obliged to face competitive examinations, and a far more exacting standard of qualification than hitherto. rain. The most auspicious omen of any was the anxiety of the inhabitants to cultivate the soil, and the readiness with which the demands of the collectors of revenue were met. It would almost seem as if nothing unusual had taken place. Perhaps the Income Tax collectors in London have been more stringentin their proceedings, and found greater difficulties than those who were making their demands in a district where rebellion was lately rampant. Nothing more favourable could have boon an ticipated, and the habitual croakers are deprived of the power of exercising their vocation in the present instance. This evening the promised Ministerial expla. nations will be given by the new Premier in the House of Lords. The seats of the members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons having been iecessarily vacated by their acceptance of office, we can only judge by the addresses to their re spective constituents of their views. Of course, it could scarcely be anticipated that they would forestall the statement of the First Lord of the Treasury to any considerable extent. Generally speaking, therefore, they have contented them • selves with declaring their desire to meet the wishes of the nation and to maintain its honour, and contrraute to the welfare and happiness of the community. We are fair advisers of Lord DERBY, since we care not a straw for men, but for measures only. We belong to no party. We are indifferent whether Whigs or Tories give us what we want, so that we do but get it. Our political gratitude goes to those who give the people what they ought to have. Unless Lord DERBY com mits himself by ignoring or opposing Reform, or by proposing some such treacherous measure as we expected from the fallen Minister, we shall, so far as this all-important measure is cc neerned, give him our ungrudging support. We tell the Noble Lord, however, plainly, that if he resort to any Whiggish evasion, if he want to defer a Reform measure till next year, or to push it off till too late for discussion in both Houses, or if he bring forward a scheme to place the chief power of the country in the hands of landlords, and their tenants at will—none of these things will the country endure. He will be outvoted imme diately ; he could but appeal to the country ; and if he did that as the opponent or the perverter of Reform, he would be in a smaller minority than he now is. Sir FITZROY KELLY-whose address to the electors of East Suffolk will be found in another part of this day's newspaper, and who, as Attor ney-General, is unquestionably the right man in the right place—is more explicit. His profes• sional claims will be universally recognised. He has proved himself to-be a staunch reformer of legal abuses—pruning the excrescences that have collected about the venerable trunk, with firm, but gentle hand. While declaring that it would obviously be premature to enter into the views or intentions of Government, which has yet scarcely come into existence, he still expresses a hope that if supported by the constituencies, they shall " bring to a satisfactory conclusion the great questions affecting the fate of our dominions in the East, and advance the cause of Law Reform and of the civil administration of the affairs of the StAte, so as to satisfy the just expectations of the country !" Some persons, naturally, will laugh at the idea of " DERBY and Reform." Yet we remem ber seeing him doing vigorous battle for the first Reform Bill ; he would but have to return to his ant love. The same might be said of his coadju tor in the Lower House. its to the Sir Roberts and Sir Harrys—they, of course, must eat their leek, and grumble about danger to our glorious constitution in Church and State, but follow their leaders they must, for they have none of their own. We believe it is in the power of Lord DBREY to fix himself in power without dishonour. When it was a clear political fact that Catholic emancipation, and the repeal of the corn laws , must be carried, it was not held dishonourable for the great leaders of the day, to avow that the time was come—that the thing must be done, that they could do it, and that they would do it. Surely reform is in the same position. No one can deny that the representation is now full of discreditable anomalies in re gard to the assignment of members to constituencies, that it would give stability to the Constitution, as well as be right, to admit large numbers, now excluded, to the full privileges of citizens, and that the secrecy of the vote is essen tial to the repression of election abuses and the freedom of suffrage. We hold that if Lord DERBY intends to keep in office, he ought at once to avow these changes to be necessary, and promise his bill, at latest, immediately after Easter. Or, if he chose to dissolve at once, with the offer of the Ballot, he would have a majority of two to one. On the Indian question, and that of law-making to please bullying counts and colonels, or even to please our "distinguished ally," the House of Commons has spoken loudly enough. He cannot be mistaken there. Neither can he well misun derstand its opinion on Church-rates. If he could, his able and honest son could enlighten him. Let him not mistake on Reform. No voed has been taken yet on that, but the vote of the coun try was given unmistakeably last spring, and Lord DERBY must choose between the alternative of respecting that vote or of dissolving Parliament and asking the country what it thinks of DERBY and REPRESENTATIVE REFORM. But this is not all. He touches baldly on the great cause of Parliamentary Reform, and shows that, at least, as much may be expected from Lord DERBY as from Lord PALMER STOY. He says,—" Whenever the time shall arive for the consideration of this all-important question, I shall be found ready to support and assist in any measure for the exten sion of the elective franchise to every man in Bri bin qualified by property or by education to exercise it with independence and intelligence. A redistribution of the boroughs and towns pos sessed and unpossessed of the franchise, so that all above the rank of villages may be represented in the Legislature, is, in my opinion called for upon every principle of justice and expediency." Emphatically adding, "For why should Yarmouth send two members to Parliament, while Lowe stoft is without any representative at all. I think also that the proportion between the numbers of the population and the representatives should be much more just and proximate through out the counties and towns of England, Scitland, and Ireland." This is as it should he. If he only touched on " the ballot" it would leave nothing to be desired. It however shows that Lord DERBY will at tend to th© Reform question. If he dues so, what more can the nation require ? It cares not for men ; it is useful and popular measures that are required ; and these are far more likely to come from Lord DERBY than Lord PALMERSTON. By his acts we shall judge him, giving that fair play and reasonable allowance that is dear to every English heart. Already we can discover that Lord DERBY has rested his Ministry on a far wider basis than that of his Whig predecessors. He does not reject men of talent and experience because they have not azure blood in their veins, or that they sprung from the people. Genius, ability, and judgment have at length a reasonable chance, although the possessors do not belong to the fortunate famili.:s by birth or marriage. Nlihy then should we join in the interested outcry of those who only desire a monopoly of " the loaves and fishes," scarcely consenting to the appropriation of "the crumbs that fall from the table" by the unprivi leged outsiders? The Attorney-General's address gives a reasonable hope that the new Ministry will bid fairly for popular favour, and if they do so, there is nothing to prevent their enjoying a long tenure of office. Another t e l egram h as b een received from India. It arrived at the Foreign Office, this morning, at 6.15, and indicates the nature of the intel ligence which had arrived from Bombay, per the Pottinger, at Alexandria, on the evening of the 23d. ultimo. very remarkable be There is no thi ng yond the r e li e f of Saugor by Sir H. Rost, and men and childrenthe re scue of about 100 wo fro for m the p er il s b y which they have been environed more tha n s i x months. Their sufferings during that awful period must have been of a very fearful character. Imprisonment alone in such a climate would wwoausldadhdaevdeanloeuennebeaaad. • f 4 fat © far worse than death p b, roli bu en t s 7 o h:n o l e:: no; We understand that Mr. Michael Williams, MT • for dement et r nwall, to t e d against Mr. Milner Gibsor, ' s ani on riday, t h e 19th February, on the motion for the second reading of the A,jea Bill. TitE Seri, LiCINDON MONDAS ITVENI NG,' IVIARCH 1; 18,5._ AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The Arabia has arrived with advices from New York to the 17th, and 598,390 doll. in specie. The Niagara had arrived out. The Senate had instructed its.; Committee on Fo reign Relations to inquire into the expediency of abrogating the Reciprocity Treaty with Great Bri tain. The alleged slaver Banchetta, captured and sent to New York for adjudication, had been released on the ground of insufficient proof. At Ilavannah, on the Bth, the stock of sugar was 64,000 boxes ; prices unaltered. Exchange on Lon don 13 to 14i prem. At New York money was exceedingly abundant. The Bank statement continued favourable. The rates for first-class commercial paper were 5 to 7 per cent. for 60 to 90 days. Stocks had been very active ; the latest quotations were as follows : Virginia Five=, 92 ; Missouri Sixes, 84. New York Central shares, 86 ; New York and Erie shares, 29t ; Reading Railroad shares, 584 ; Michigan Central shares, 70 ; Michigan Southern shares, 24k; Cleveland and Toledo shares, 46i ; Panama Rail road shares, 103/ ; Illinois Central shares, 97i ; ditto bonds, 95 ; Chicago and Rock Island shares, 81. Exchange on London, 109 k to 110 k. _Ashes firm. Cotton had declined ie. Flour and wheat were dull, but with little change in price. _ Iron, molasses, sugar, and tobacco quiet, and unchanged in value. Freights unaltered. THE NEW MINISTRY. Up to going to press the following were the appoint meats definitively made : IN THE CABINET. FIRST LORD OF TME TREASURY.. Lord Derby. LORD CHANCELLOR... Sir F. Thesigor. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL The Marquis of Salisbury, LORD PRIVY SEAL I ord Hardwicko. FOREION DEPARTMENT EIOME DEPARTMENT FOR THE COLONIES Lord Stanley. Fon WAR General Peel. CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Mr. Disraeli. ADMIRALTY Sir J. Pakington. PRESIDENT OP THE BOARD OF CONTROL Lord Ellenborough. PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE„Mr. Henley. BOARD OF WORKS Lord John Manners. CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF I Duke of Mout, ose. LANCASTER J NOT IN THE CABINET. POSTMASTER-GENERAL Lord Colchester. PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD MT. SalleTotl Estcoult. LORDS OF THE TREA SURY Colonel Taylor. 'fr. Whitmore. . SECRETARIES OF TUE TREASURY.... Mr GA . Hamilton. Sir W. Jolliffo. SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY Right Hon. bury Corry XTTORNEY-GENERAL Sir F. Kelly. SOLICITOR-GENIsRAL Mr. Cairns. JUDGE-ADVOCATE.GENERAL. .. Mr. E. Egerton. Mr. Inglis. LORD-ADVOCATE UND OFFER SE E CRETARY AT THE F OREIGN - } Mr. Seymour Fitzgarald IC UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE HOME } Hr. Hardy. DEPARTMENT UNDER-SECRETARY FOR Wary Viscount Harding°. UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES Earl of Caruaryon. VICE-Ps ESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE } Mr Athlerley. OF COUNCIL OF EDUCATION... VICE PRESIDENT OF TIIE BOARD OF } The Earl of Donoughmore TRADE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND The Earl of Eglinton. SECRETARY FOR. IRELAND Lord Naas. LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND 'Ur. Napier. ATTORNRY•GENERAL FOR IRELAND .. • Mr. Whiteslde. MISTRESS OF TIIH ROBES Duchess of Manchester.' LORD CHAMBERLAIN Lord De'alum LORD STEWARD Lord Exeter. MASTER OF THE HORSE.., The Duke of Beaufort. MASTER OF THE BUCKHOT.7NDS The EArl of Sandwich. VICE•CHAMBERLAIN Lord Newport. COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD COI, Forester. TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD Lord C. Hamilton. CAPTAIN OF GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS Earl Talbot. ELord LOVAINE will be a Lord of the Admiralty, The Solicitor-General for Ireland has not ye' been appointed. We believe that the following appointments have been made : Chief Equerry and Clerk Marahal—Lord CoL VILLE. Lords in Waiting—Earl of VERULA3I ' SHEFFIELD, ViSCotzut STRA.THALLAN, Lords BATE MAN, BYRON, CROFTON, POLWARTH, and RAGLAN. Lord in Waiting to the Prince Consort—Lord BAaoT. MINISTERIAL ADDRESSES. STAMFORD. On Saturday Sir Frederic Thesiger (who was first returmed for Stamford at the general election of 1832) took leave of this constituency in the following address : " To THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF STAMFORD. " Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to commit the Great Seal to my keeping, the tie which so closely connected me with your borough is neces sarily dissolved. " I cannot, however, separate myself from you without expressing my gratitude for the confidence which you ma nifested towards me in choosing me to be your ropresenta tive, and for the kindness with which you have invariably recognised my earnest endeavours faithfully to fulfil thi duties of the important trust which you confided to me. I assure you I shall always have a most grateful recollection of this period of my life, and can never cease to feel the deepest interest in your prosperity and welfare, I bog respectfully to bid you farewell. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, " Your faithful and obedient servant, " FREDERIC THESIGER. " Eaton-square, Feb. 26." On the same day the now candidate, Mr. John Inglis, Dean of Faculty, of Edinburgh, issued an address to the electors of the borough of Stamford. The writ had not been received on Saturday night, but it was expected yes terday (Sunday), and in all probability the election will take plus. on Saturday next. LA_TEST NEWS. The following telegram, from Mr. Acting-Consul- General Green, wa►s received at the Foreign-office, via Malta, March Ist, 6.15 a.m. ALEXANDRIA, 24TH FEB,, 1858. The " Pottinger" arrived from Bombay, at Suez, yesterday evening, and the following intelligence has been telegraphed to me. The Commander-in-Chief, at the head of the force of 250 (1) men, with about 70 pieces of ord nance continues collecting supplies and means of conveyance at Futtyghur. He is expected to move on. Oude will be invaded by was3e3 of troops ad vancing on all sides about the 25th. The enemy are fortifying Lucknow by this time in great strength. Thera are about 100,000 of them in arms. They are said to be lasing heart, and anxious to negotiate. Sir James Outram has been left undisturbed since the IGth. He was reinforced on the 22nd by H. M.'s 34th from eawnpore, a convoy of stores. A party of Rifles have taken up a post on the Lucknow road, one march from Cawnpore, where they will remain to keep open communi cation. Sir H. Rose, with Central India Field Force, captured the strong fort Ratgurh on the 29th, the enemy hiving escaped over the walls. He re lieved Sangor on the 3d, and released about 100 Christian women and children. The garrison had been shut up for six months. The Rajpootana Field Force captured Avas on the 23d ; it was the strongest town in Rajpootana. The garrison escaped over night in a frightful storm of thunder and rain.. The cultivators busily employed everywhere cultivating their winter crops, and the revenue being collected in the districts around Delhi as if nothing had happened. The 72d Regiment ar rived at Bombay on the 7th, and the 18th Regiment reached on the same day, via the Cape. 'fhb; telegram arrivod at Malta from Alexandria by the French steamer, 28th Feb., at 6.50 P.m. LYONS, Admiral. We (Times) have received the following telegrana from our Malta correspondent, dated Malta, Fob. 28, 7.30 p.m. : " The French steamer from Alexandria liar just arrived, bringing accounts of the arrival at Suez on the night of the 23d of the Bombay mails. " Nothing new at Malta, save the arrival on the 24th of the Vulcan from Portsmouth, with the 2d battalion of tho 2d Regiment for garrison duty. The following is the substance of the Indian news : " The C ommander-in-Chief was at Futtyghur preparing for the invasion of Oude, which would probably be from several points about the 25th. His own column is nearly 15,000 strong, about 100 pi eces of ordnance, while at least 10,000 men from oth er po i nts will be ready to co-operate with him. with " General Outram has remained at Alumbagh undisturbed since the 16th of January. " 100,000 insurgents are said to be in arms in and around Lucknow, which is being strengthened in every possible way. '• Sir Hugh Rose, at the head of the Central In dia Field Force, captured Ratgurh on the 29th, de feated the enemy at Banda, and finally relieved the garrison at Saugor from a six months' siege on the 3d of February. " The Rajpootana field force captured the strong fortress of Awah on the 24th of January, and was marching on Cotab, where disunion reigns. " Delhi has been placed under the authority of the Punjaub Commissioners. The authority of the civil power has been restored, and the army de• dared broken up. " The Punjaub and Feroze, with the 72d High landers, had reached Bombay, but large reinforce ments of European troops are still required. " Trade is improving ; freights on the advance ; all public securities rising. kThe Governor-General is on his way to the northern provinces.", FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. A letter from Afarseilles, dated yesterday, in forms us that for two days previously a violent hurricane, blowing from the north-east had raged in the hay, and caused serious uneasiness for the ships expected in that port. The wind had blown the previous night with unexampled violence. All business in the port was suspended during 24 hours., and scarcely a steamer dared enter or leave the harbour. The wind finally shifted to the eas t, an d an improvement in the weather WAS expect e d. A letter from Lyons, dated y es t er d ay, informs us that on Sunday last several Engli , h families of dis tinction had left there for Marseilles, to em b ar k on board objectted specially w iaili for thems e lv es fir cness the opera tions of the combin ed armies in China. T wo an a tot a l i vessel freighted ige r li physicians and a clergyman of the English Esta blished Church accompany them. BOURSE, Feb. 27.—The following were the clos ing quotations : 4 95 10 per Cents FonderCr i ed na it onteae (5) Belgi an 41 ped 90 Roman B9 Austrian Spanish Threes Uome Debt 3'.-, VA.Y S. .150 - . end month 3 per Cent. .... 69 40 69 40 Do. end month Bank Shares 3040 Credit Mobilier 880 Do. Account RAIL Orleans Northern New Ditto 79S Lyon and Mediteran. 840 New Ditto 81 0637i Geneva Midi Western 6BO Strasburz Grand Central Sardinian Austrian TURKEY. VIENNA, FEB. 25. Tho subjoined telegram bas just been received from Trieste : " Achnlet Fethi Pasha, the Grand Master of the Artillery, is dead, and NlAtined Iteeshdi Pasha has ben' appointed to succeed hire, Mehtned Dschernil Boy has arrived from Paris." THE NAVIGATION OF ITHE DANUBE. Under date of the 16th January, 18.55, the Sub lime Porte has addressed a circular to its represen tatives at the Courts of those Powers that signed th 3 Treaty of Paris, respecting the convention for th „ n avigation of the Danube. The circular states that the Ottoman Govern ment ratified the convention under the conviction that it deserved and would receive universal approbation. It expresses surprise that the Ambassadors of France and of England, backed by those of Russia, Prussia, and Sar dinia, should hav e eager l y so li c it e d it t o adjoui n th E) exchange of ratifications until the convention had been examined and approved by the Congress of Paris. The Sublime changed the ratific a ti ons, b ecause it f e lt p ersu ad e d Porte, nevertheless, ex that it might comp rom i se i ts di gn it y by d oing so , and. that it would li n t prevent the other contracting Powers from carryin g their point. The despatch co nc l udes wit h an exam i na ti on o f the: convention in question, which the Porte con sidrs conformabl e i n all points to the pr i nc i p l es ( stabl idled by the Congress of Paris. The Sublime Powte, nevertheless, is willing to give heed (a faire drivit) to the observations of the future Conference it it can b 3 satisfactorily proved that the Riveraiu States of the Danube have exceeded their rights in regulating, as they have done, the navigation of th t river. II'HE OVERLAND AUSTRALIAN MAIL. —The Australian Jae nary ma 1, due in London, via stlarseilles, on Wed nesi day next, is anxiously looked for. The mercantile con annuity are more than usually interested in its arrival, inai much as it will most probably bring details of the effo 3t produced on receipt of the intelligence of the late monetary crisis here, and the failure of so many large ho iises connected with the Australian trade. The general ides in commercial circles is that a severe panic in the colony of Victoria is inevitable, consequent on the dis ast;rous ad vices forwarded by the London mails of Octo bee and November last, and both of which, being des patched concurrently from Suez, would therefore, in due course, be delivered in the various colonies in the ear! iy part of January,—fining Journal of Feb, 27. EAST SUFFOLK. Sir F. Kelly, the new Attorney-General, has issued his address soliciting re-election to the electors of this con stituency. The learned gentleman observes iu the course of his address : " The Ministry has been dissolved by a vote of the House of Commons implying a direct censurp of their policy upon a question which, though connected with our foreign rela tions, more immediately affected the independence of the Parliament of Great Britain. While all were prompt to admit the importance of our alliance with France and with the Sovreign who now rules that great country, I, in cora -1 mon with the chiefs of the Conservative party, in the House of Commons, supporCod the amendment to the Bill, on the ground that the provisions of the Bill afforded no ejjective remedy to the evils proposed to be redressed, and that the bill itself was au evasion of the principle of independent action which has hitherto been held sacred alike by the Parliament and the people. It would obviously be pre mature to enter at this early period into the views and in• tentions of a Government which has yet scarcely come into existence; but I may venture to assure you that if we are fortunate enough to enjoy the confidence and receive the support of the constituencies of the empire we shall bring to a satisfactory conclusion the great question affecting the fate of cur dominions in the East, and, that we shall advance the cause of law reform and of the civil administration of the affairs of the State so as to satisfy the just expectations of the country. My senti ments upon Parliamentary Reform are well Known to you all. Whenever the time shall have arrived for the further consider thou of this all-important question, 1: shall be found ready to support and assist in any measure for the extension of the elective franchise to every man in Britain qualified by property or by education to exercise it with independence and intelligence. A redistribution of the boroughs and towns possessed and unpossessed of the fran chise, so that all above the rank of villages may be repro seated in the Legislature is, in my opinion, called for upon every principle of justice and expediency. For why should Yarmouth return two members to Parliament while Lowe toft is without any representation at all ? I think also that the proportion between the numbers of the population and the representatives should be much more just and proxi mate throughout the counties and towns of England, Scot land, and Ireland." It was reported in influential quarters on Saturday afternoon that Col. Adair, late M.P. for Cambridge, would appear as a candidate in the Liberal interest, in opposition to Sir Fitzroy. No address had, however, appeared from the gallant colonel. PANMUEE'R LEGACY TO GENERAL PEEL—A most affdcting inci lent took place at the War Office a day or two ago, which proves that ministers after all are but human. Lord Panniure met General Peel to hand over the records and expl tin to him all that had been done— which took a very short time—and all that bad not been done, which was rather a tedious detail. General Peel listened with polite attention to all that the departing Secretary of Sta•e had to say for himself, and seemed deeply to symp..thise in the sorrow which reddened his face aed agitated hie waistcoat. When the business of the interview was cvdr, G neral Peel, with a degree of kindness that will never be forgotten, grasped the hand of the sobbing " Out," and in a tone worthy of the ordi nary of Newgate when addressing a malefactor on the scaffold, or of a second in a dual, who sees it is all up with his principal, said, "'Tell me, tell me, my good lord, is there anything I can do to mitigate the affliction which bears you down I" The generosity of the appeal quite overcame the ex-captain of the 79th. Bursting into s torrent of grief, he exclaimed, " Oh, general, this is true humanity —my heart must speak. Take—take—oh, do hake—canz or Dow p !" United Sem'it'e Journal, '; fit, - BULWF LYTTON'S NEW ROMANCE. What wilj des do with it By P'sistratus CAxton. Parts I. to X. Blackwood. Althoughwe,Oncourage ourselves in the belief that we are still happily far removed from the conclusion of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's new serial Beery, now publishing from month to month in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine, we conceive. ourselves to be in some degree empowered already to pronounce an opinion upon its merits, now that ten con siderable instalments of the work have actually made their appearance. Several new characters whose names have t yet been mentioned, even incidentally, in the course of the narrative—yet remain probably to be introduced to our acquain tance. Nevertheless the chief personages of the tale, we are disposed to believe, are already num bered among those intimat3 imaginary friends with whose forms and faces we have long since been perfectly familiarised, and in the fluctuation of whose fortunes we are becoming more and more profoundly interested. The plot of the story, pro mises or threatens —accordingly as the reader loves or dreads the threading of a maze—to he more in tricately labyrinthine than that of "My Novel." The canvass is seemingly larger. The crowd of per sonages revealed to us there grouped together in artistic contrast, yet more numerous ; the "vanishing point" far more remote. Pisistratus had allowed his imagination to soar to a greater alti tude—hie survey is wider in consequence. And for the skilful play of this master-pencil in the delinea tion of all the radiant and populous parlor sma of human life, have we not the art wo n t o it b y th a t most potent talisman of Romancist, the uses fre- Tacna qui omnium magistrorum prcecepta :uperaret it is the adroitness attained by a refined and ex quisite practice of his high art that has at length, indeed, become our author's most attractive, if it be not, at the same time, his most conspicuous characteristic. His perfect mastery of his art, more over, appears to us hardly leas strikingly evidenced in the facile graces of his style, in the adroit turn of a sentence, in the choice of an epithet, in the variable flow of the dialogue, or in the marvellous probability of whz:.t the French would call the "situations"—than in the dexterous interweaving of the threads of so many chequered destinies in the weft and woof of this pictured tapestry of romance : or than even, be it said, in the profound analysis of human character, discernible upon a closer scrutiny of the more remarkable natures (whether of man or woman) here pourtrayed. As to the mere rhetorical charms of the style, these, ' with the author of the " Cartons," have in a man ner become inevitable. They create no new sur prise for the reader ; they are taken for granted ; they are looked for, and are not found wanting ; they aro rather, it should be said, scattered through out the narrative abundantly. The same might be said, likewise, in regard to the inimitable " play," whether of incident or of conversation. Excellencies such as these have been maturing and ripening ap preciably throughout the whole of this notable career. They were excellencies which were very far indeed from being crudely manifested in the sparkling, and, at intervals, the absolutely enthral ling, pages of "Pelham." But while they gave the rarest promise even then of the more mellowed perfection perceptible at a glance upon almost any page of " What will he do with it 'I" they have been continuously, and, we repeat, appreciably ripening throughout the whole range of the splen did series of fictions penned between that first and this last of his imaginative productions, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. Those who list may trace the gra dations of this advancement no less in the sylvin tragedy of " Eugene Aram," or in the social and political satire of " Paul Clifford," or in the dra matic and historical splendour of the " Last of the Barons"—than in the weird " Zanoni," or the ye more weird " Lucretia," in the classic " Last of the Tribunes," or the yet more classic) "Last Days of Pompeii." The same progression though less superficially discernible is not leas distinctly to be discovered on a closer scrutiny, in the homelier page■ of the " Disowned," in the romantic vicissi tudes of "Devereux," in the exquisite prose poem of " Harold," and in all thefascinating chapters of the ever fresh and ever delightful "Night and Morning." Throughout the composition of which famous works of the imagination, vigilantly watch ful during all this score of years has been this keen observer of Nature and of Humankind. Uncon sciously it may be, yet rigidly and persistently he appears to have acted in obedience to that arch precept of Cicero et enint ex rerum cognitione effioreseat et redundet oportet oratio : and so in creasingly with the amplitude of his own know ledge have come forth utterances at once more copious and more ornate. A remark moreover not in any way restricted here to his labours as a novelist, but applying equally to his other effusions written or spoken—as a poet, as au orator, or as a dramatist. Eminently beau tiful, for example, though his brief memo rial poem upon "Milton" indubitably is—it is surely not to be compared in excellence either to the tersely epigrammatic satire of the "New Ti111.01J" or to the stately national epic of "Kill Arthur." Again—the admirable speeches upon the copyright question, delivered in the House of Commons, when Mr. Bulwer sat there as M.P. for the city of Lincoln, though ♦ieing in their various merit with the speeches delivered in the same house upon the same question by the late Judge Talfourd, are 'assuredly in no way comparable as effusions of oratory—as, let us say, for instance, the oration de- livered by Sir Edward Lytton a very few years back in the city of Edinburgh. Precisely in the same way would it be idle to institute any comparison between the graceful drama of the "Ducheis dr la. Tanjore," charmingly written though it is in very many passages, with that most brilliani. lramatic success of modern times " l'he Lady of Lyons,"-any more than with the comic genius dis played in "Money," or the tragic genius revealed through the pathetic eloquonce of " Richelieu." rh• plane of this great literary career—as %vas said of the military career of Wellington— has been one continuous ascent. The fact of its being more conspicuously so manifested I. _ i:iy , Sir EThulwer Lyttou in his character as a ro inancist, arises simply from the circumstance of his labours in that capacity e having been more repeated and more lengthened. Although " The Cextons" still to the last remains with us our own, especial favourite, we frankly admit and cordially recognie: the artistic pre-eminence of place which ought to be accorded without doubt to " My Novel ; or the Varieties of English Life," facile princeps among dl the prose fictions from toe same master-hand. A. companion niche in the Walhalla of romance will be accorded, or we are much mistaken in our anticipations, to " What will he do with it ?" A companion niche, if indeed one be not required yet more elevated in position and yet ampler in it, dimensions. In the opening scene we are plunged ;it once into the very midst of Vanity Fair—" a summer fair in one of the prettiest villages in Surrey"—as bewildered at first by the distracting sights and sounds, the hubbub, racket, and confu sion as ever was our dear friend Christian:, the hero of the great allegorical pilgrimage. From that in rroductory spectacle to the latest instalment in the current number of Blackwood's Magazine, the ani mation, the vivacity, the life, the not ve, the sparkle )f the narrative know scarcely one momentary abatement. A hutnourous vein runs through the whole, glittering out here and there as (to use an old simile) a gold thread might do in a parti-col oured embroider Y—a humour some7iinesas subtlea that of La Bruyere, sometimes as broad, and hilari ous, and unconstrained as that of Rebelleis. The drat comical " wink aside "—putting author and reader at once into good humour with each other—etartles us into laughter in the very tirstjof these quaint and most original headings to the chapters—some of them little chapters of wit and wisdom in themselves. It i , where our novelist, with an e : b4d iro o f wa far t i h ra e st e i a c r , l b ie u s t t irresistible extravagance, fur conversation in his new story as "an artless dial ogue, after the manner of Ilerodotus Father of Hi s t ory (Mother unknown)." Front that moat bizlrre of parentheses we pass on together, in among the flut tering leaves of this green pleasaunce of fiction, de lightedly. And from that moment the same sly drollery peeps out upon us continually. N ow , i t perches upon yonder thicket, in the form of thrse magpies, with their heads askew, ‘. pricking their Hard" as they lister) amazed to the aplutteririg voice of poor George Morley, as he mumbles the pebbles after the fashion of Demosthenes. Now, ' it emerges from among the legs of a r row d, i n t h e grotesque disguise of Sir Isaac, no longer radiant with an( wy curls and shaven loins, as best befits a poodle of gentlemanly birth and (ducation, but metamorphosed into a sort of canine monstrosity, irs pronged ears and lugubrious visage of a goblin grey, the rest of its form a rusty reddish black—a dog "hideous enough to have been exhibited as a lusas natarce"—" it might have come fro n Ache ron, sire by Cerberus, so portentous, so infernal was its aspect, with that grey face, those antlered ears, and that ineffably weird demeanour." These ludicrous touches from our author's pen aro not, however, applied exclusively to such hutuelee members of the animated race of creatures about us, as mere poodles and magpies. They are la vished, moreover, with an affluent hand in the delineation of the human beings, peopling the bye ways hardly less curiously than the broader avenues of the narrative. Instance this, that preposterous lamentation of poor bilious Dolly Poole, about his calves having gone to iecreaer his liver. Delightfully exhilarating, however, though the humour of the tale, its conspicuous merit, to our think- ; ing, is discoverable in its Ixofound. and subtle discrimination of liunian character. What diversity there is in the chief of those already in troduced ! Gentleman Waite, the strolling player, about whom the whole interest of the story re volves. Waife, with the histrionic genius of an Edmund Kean, with more than Kean's resources, and almost as much apparently of his imputed im providence. Guy Dwell, tee great Statesman— under a cloud—seciudol from the world either ix his ancestral house at Fawley Manor House, or wandering at rsndoin pour se destraire over the fairer regions of the Continent. Mysterious, shambling, crab-fashioned Richard Fairthorn, with that dulcet Zauberflote of his, with the war bling notes of which lie chases away for a while the woeful memories of the Saul of Politics. Francis Vance, the bright-eyed artist, certainly in time to become a Royal Academician. Lionel Haughton, the young hero of the book, frank, manly, unso phisticated, a kind of a more able Young Squire Hazledean, with an eye, like Young Hazledean, for the army as his profession. 'Cobbler Merle, of Willow Lane—the honest humbug ! with his magic crystal and his astrological predictions. Manager Rugee, with an ever lively ambition to compass the taking at last of the York Theatre. Excelient, child-like Jusis h Ha. topp, the mayor of G ttesi ioro', with his Fidus Achatrs in he form of watchful Mr. Williams. Samuel Adolphus Poole, be:orernen tioned—" a would-be hawk with a pigeon's liver ; a would-be sportsman with a cockney's nurture." Aristocratic Colonel Morley, " the real fine gentle man," and that broad contrast to him, " the mock fine gentleman," the villain of the tale, Jasper Leisely —in heart a rascal ; in apparel resplendent, in person handsome, iu bearing self-possessed—yet atter all what Lionel bluntly calls " a snob," though our author confesses of him that he was withal " a magnificent man— one of royal nature's life-guardsmen." As fur the female characters simultaneously pourtrayed, while they are fewer in number they aro, if possible, yet inure strikingly contrasted ti tan t h e ma l e charac ters just enumerated. With the Countess of Montfort, at the present moment, we have only the most distant bowing acquaintance. Yet we cannot but feel ihat her ladyship is destined to appear in some of the subsequent chapters of the romance rather conspicuously. With the pretty widow, Mistress Jessica Haughton, mother of Lionel, we are more intimately acquainted, and we very much fear that familiarity here also has brought about its usual consequence —contempt. Several minor dames flit across the scene at intervals; snob for example as the stately and haughty, yet joyous and sprightly, Lady Selina Vipont, who has such a charming glance of commendation to bestow on those pretty sprigs on that horrid coloured print down at Richmond. Or, thrifty Mrs. Saunders, the cottager, whose humble lodgers take away vrith them the glow from her grate and the sun beam from the pane of her lattice. Or, again, simple, red-elbowed, horny-handed Bridgett Greggs, the London housemaid. Above all, there are the two chief female characters in "What will he do with it 1" whose names have not yet been mentioned. One as yet but a child, pretty, graceful, intelligent, more than intelligent, gifted, little Sophy ; designated euphoniously on the playbills Julia Araminta. A child still, yet one so charmingly precocious that already she has awakened in the susceptible heart of Lionel the first tender thrills of the master passion. Seeing her, he floats in a world of deli cious dreams, over the moonlit waters of the Thames. It is the old, old story, told again to us bewitchingly. It is the echo of the sweet words of the refrain of Metastasio— " 0 belle Venere, Madre d'Amore : 0 bells Venere, Che sole eel Placer chgli uomini, E degli Dei." Wondrously different from pretty Sophy is the other hinted personage in petticoats, that , grim " horse godmother" (as the phrase is, whatever the phrase may mean)—Mother Crane, Arabella Crane, seemingly upon many occasions the evil genius, but in reality the good genius of that ar rant Tags bond Jasper Losely, for whom her poor woman's heart has a strange, gentle, humanising weakness. Such, in brief, are the dramatis persons moving to and fro here upon the stage, having their fitful exits and entrances, their dialogues and their soliloquies, their surprises and their equivoques, in part after part of " What will he do with it 1" We are watching the pro' grass of the narrative with eager interest and curiosity, wondering often in regard to each of toe fortunes here recounted by the novelist—What will be do with it I Marvelling most of all what may have been the imputed crime, in reality the agonising misfortune of poor old "Grandy Wade What may be the sign i fi cance o f that costly pocket-book of Losely' d ?—a pocket-book " Sar danapalus would not have given to himself." What the meaning of those tender words worked in gold thread upon the silken lining t " Souviens-tor de to Gabrielle 1" Who this Gabrielle may he 1 What may be the secret family grief of Guy Darrell ? driving him into seclusion from his " pride of plsce" as orator and staiesman. What may be the s lime of the evident interest taken in the name of Lady Montfort by Arabella Crane and Jasper Losely ? Above all, in regard to pretty little Soplif, we are disposed to wonder as Hood did over the " One More Unfortunate"— " Who was her father, Who was her mother, Has she a sister, Has she a brother?" For the s o l u ti on of all which bewildering doubts and difficulties the readers of " What will he do with it 1" now wait with delighted solicitude. SPORTING NOTES. THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. The prospect is not cheering. A piercingly cold wind and a freezing atmosphere are not exactly suited to out. door pastimes. Still the groat attraction which centres in the "Grand National" will render genuine sportsmen at least indifferent to the nipping frost and the eager air , and cause them to con g r ega t e a t Ai n t ree i n l arge numbers. Nor, despite the inclement weather, will the attendance of general company be small, for the jumpers have a strange fascination for all classes of people. Nothing which can no commanded by energy and untiring activity for the pro. motion of sp or t w ill b e neglected by Mr. Topham, and whether the meeting be celebrated under wind or snow the ardour with which turfites will enter into the pursuit of sport will be scarcely cooled. The " telegram" announces that the ground is in tolerably good order, and this state. went will remove any uneasiness which a probable post ponement of the sport excited. Until within the last three weeks the betting on the Steeplechase had been conducted with little briskness, bookmakers sad backers, like the ghost of murdered Banque, having no speculation in their eyes. Lately operations, however. have been resumed in earnest, and, if their range has not been very extensive, they have at least been effective, and to a certain extent profitable. The unvarying support which has been conceded to Little Toni is a plain indics• don that he has satisfied his party of his ability to g° across country. He commenced his jumping education is the hunting field; his style of topping his fences was a th!gl • of general a dmir a ti on amongst t h e followers of Sir, ‘7l " ; „i„, .. berVe hounds. Hi s many ac hi evements on the Ile' placed his racing ability beyond a question, and if he gets safely.landed on the brook it will be a case of catch me who can. Although Little Tom has been for some time under the tuition of Ben. Land, at Ascot, he must still be considered as belonging to the Epsom lot, and he is car• tainly the pet of the division. Still the Epsou,ites have not lust all faith in naglies's h rses, and they expect one of them will prove the most dangerous of Little Tom's opponents. The Brewer has of late encountered such determined hostility that the partiality which I once entertained for him must now be bestowed upon his stable companion, Treachery, Rho ran third for this event last year. She is a slapping, fine mare, and her jumping n a t . 'ides will enable h er t o t a k e care of herself. Thu K °4-- of the Shire will find his impost a. stopper, for he will be unable io concede weight to these animals handicapped under 10A. Morgan Rattler will not greatly disappoint his party, or betray the trust reposed in him. His .sinning at Reading showed that he can " jump a bit," and only his tunable—which was almost inevitable, owing to the pace he was going over such a break-neck course—pre. vented his beating the animals opposed to him. Lough l3awn has been knocked out and Escape knocked in. Of the black 'un I have no expectations, but had Lough Baron maintained his position in the market I should have unhesitatingly selected him as one c , f champions. Hurry Lorrequer, who is trained . st Aintree, may run well, but I do not think . 11 9 1 _0 2 . good enough to wi n . Th e F renc h di v i s ion n i. , v ni faith in Jean du Que s ne, but I d o no t ex p ec t to see ',ll O obtain a more forward position than he did last yee• Huntsman will be' unable to renew the triumphs ° f old willlreland t i n over an thiscourse.appearance, o S f o s m uc a h ny slender horses, ahowever,nces, a n t d 11 ; ; well are their " antecedents" known, that I sh a ll not ref er to the part they are likely to play in the " Grand NA' tional." Should no accident occur, I shall expect to see the first places filled by LITTLE TOII AND TREACHERY. Should they be placed hors de combat, I must " fall back upon" MORGAN RATTLER and KNIGHT Or THE SHIRE. To depend upon animals which we have seen out an figure respectably is always advisable at this period „„f the pier. I shall, therefore, select Gammon and Martha f? 1. the Spring Cup. Either Joyeuse or Tomboy ought to wl: the Tyro Stakes, and Louk o th ea or Woodrnite the Alai" Plate. For the Handi cap Pl ate of 301. Old T om i s the ruc. l. 7 noteworthy, and he wa y no t on l y w i n t h a t e vent, but tll. "Plate" on the following day. According to his Tllll at Lincoln and Nottingham, the only ditlicultY mulin oi:ht to exp ol i ence i n th e S e fton FRESH MN. F be the difficulty o f l os i ng. A Handicap s Ahouro. LATEST CITY BETTING.—SATuaDAT. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 2 agst Little Tom (taker) 11 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire (taken) 13 to 1 agst Harry Lorrequer (taken) 15 to 1 apt Treachery 100 to G ag , t Morgan Rattler 20 to 1 apt The Brewer (taken) 25 to 1 agst Abd-el-Fader (taken) 10 to 1 agst Escape and Lough Bawn, coupled (t) ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL. Little Charity , Joe G ia Black Bess, gam Lorrequer, Odd Trick, Gammon, Morgan Rattiner, T reac h e ry, Moire Antique , Leukothia , Pizarro, W amour, Teruo ally, and Joyeuee. .~ ~