The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-31 00:00:00

F RENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE EVERY EVENING. Mdlle. DUVERGER.— M. BRINDEAU. THIS EVENING, Thursday, May 31, Ordre du Spectacle:- 1. LES ETOILES DE PARIS. 2. LE POUR ET LE CONTRE. 3. LE PARATONERRE LES DEUX TIMIDES. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. Gallery, is. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor, Mr. Was. BATTY. Powerful Attraction for the Holidays. Two more Grand Mid-day Performances during the Whitsun Holidays, viz.— TO-MORROW, Thursday, the 31st May, and Saturday, June 2d. The Entertainments will consist of a Recherché Display of Equestrian Performances and a Light pleasing Drama tic Piece ; commencing each day at Two o'Clock. THIS EVENING, The Grand Hippo-Drama, " THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World. Concluding with a Laughable Farce. _ _ The magnificent Chandeliers manufactured by Messrs. De fries and Sons, Houndsditch. Dooz a open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Slobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls , Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchileld. The AFRICAN OPERA T itOUPE, their first appearance since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS, who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 31, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 62—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.79. WIND—S.S.E.; fresh breeze, with rain. t-'.:.`.1f.Z.1.3" HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 10h. 42m.—Afternoon, 11h. 13m To-yonnow.-Morning, 11h. 43m.—Afternoon, —h. —m (Yip: 0. ;,. .... ii b 41R, Ze - .0 -1. +.1,11, !• M, , ...... ~. • - ' 4. ..H- s ue ` a , :.,-,,,,, 04...., ' 'l' ' • ~•. 4-'' : - 4 .': -. . L.: -, 6 ' ''t. - 1) :4 "' --- - -. t t . - - ..._:; - f i -'-' "- -1i k4.4 - ' --,, THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1860. How about those wonderful " OFFICIAL" Tele grams from Naples ? Here comes to us to-day— decidedly ex-official—what tells against them rather as a bit of an anti-climax ! Palermo has been taken at the point of the sword by GARI• BALDI ! Not assaulted, but actually taken and entered by those " brigands" the Volunteers, who ought certainly to be regarded by this time as having each of them about as many lives as a cat hath—they have been so frequently of late (according to the " Official " Telegrams from Naples) routed, pursued, destroyed, utterly exter minated ! Somehow or other they have contrived to emerge, phoenix-like, from the deadly fire of these terrible Neapolitan fusillades ! Hydra-like, we suppose, as fast as their heads were lopped off they sprouted forth new ones. However their indestructibility may be ac• counted for, there they are at this moment unmistakeably—as conquerors—within the walls of Palermo—their victorious leader GARIBALDI having his head-quarters (the telegram just received in forms us distinctly) " in the the centre of the town." So that this time there is no mistake at all about it. The " conquered" are the conquerors. The" defeat" has turned out to be a victory. But already we hear that the daring exploit thus triumphantly carried to this bold issue, has not been accomplished without considerable bloodshed. The simple in timation that the number of killed is very great, tells the tale with sufficient distinctness. For the particulars of the struggle we shall have to wait awhile, of course, in expectation. But in the mean time the resolute deed has been accomplished. Within an interval of days so few that you might count them on your fingers GARIBALDI has landed his little phalanx on the shores of Sicily, has summoned the Sicilians to rise in arms and march under his standard—and so marching, GARIBALDI himself at their head sword in hand, they have advanced upon Palermo, and taken possession of it with much slaughter. What course will now be pursued by the Government at Turin ? Surely they will not leave GARIBALDI any longer in the lurch, he who is fighting (thus, as it were, single-handed) the battle of Sardinia in the name of VICTOR EU • BE NS O N'S W ATCHES.I " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold you 2 to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descr Live of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34. Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T H EATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING, TFIE FAMILY SECRET. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Villiers, Buckstone, Mrs. B. White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Followed by a new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. After which, THE • ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. I To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE. - Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Lectern &a Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with THE LOST LETTER. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. 1:e-appea•ance of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan—Third week of the populae American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS k:VENING to commence with ITS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD. Messrs. Alfred Wigan, J. L, Toole, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Ward, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Miss 11. Simms.. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billin,cr,ton, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with GOING TO TIIE DERBY. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, Is. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ' • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d . Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. MANUEL. Mr. BRIGHT has tried his hand unsuccessfully on the Peers, he will now see what he can do with the Government. Lord PALMERSTON'S Cabinet of 1859.60 must soon become matter of history ; even should it survive political convulsions, its head must, in the eourse of nature yield in no long time to what we all must bow to. All of us, indeed, whatever our view of his policy, wish that period to be yet remote ; as a great political antagonist said, " we are all proud of him," and when we look at the vigour of his Cabinet colleague, who presides over the House of Lords, we may well hope that Lord PALMERSTON may yet be able for o m e years to retain a leading place in the councils of his county. Still his good name and fame are soon to be the property of survivors, and to them the noble lord must feel, more than hitherto, respon sible. To history, therefore, Mr. BRIGHT points the head of the Cabinet and his colleagues, and asks whether they wish to be handed down as the Cabinet that held office under the reign of VIC TORIA, who resigned without a struggle into the hands of the House of Lords a right which their forefathers had contended for, even to the sacrifice Qf their lives, and which they believed to be, and truly believed to be, at the very foundation of the liberties of the people of England ? Dark and piteous, he tells them, will be the page of history for the year 1860 which should record that they placed themselves and the House of Commons in this position. Mr. BRIGHT can make out as strong a case as any man if he has but one side to consider. He is in this the orator not the judge, or the statesman. To weigh conflicting statements with the impar tiality of the former, or to select the practicable from conflicting claims, is not his gift. To no man should we more readily confide the setting forth of any case in sach a way as to elicit cheers even from opponents, and to produce the momentary im pression that he is right. His own force of convic tion, partly due to his incapacity for anticipating objections, and his ready flow of telling language and illustration, will always render him an attractive speaker. He is never likely to want an audience in a house bored with commonplace, or in the town halls of vast populations to whose comprehension and taste he can adopt himself with such wonder ful facility. It is sail of him that while he " roars like a lion at Birmingham, in the house, he coos like a sucking dove." To be sure he does. It is a part of the oratorical temperament of the man, that he sympathises without effort with the tastes of his diverse audiences. It is hardly designed with him ; the presence of different assemblies gene rates spontaneously in minds like his, the style appropriate to each. Mr. BRIGHT is a member of the Committee of I Precedent-hunters. He will certainly enter on his task with a foregone conclusion. The Lords must be in the wrong. They have unquestion ably furnished him with just the very text to suit him, and he has already preached from it two sermons sufficiently long in all conscience— not, however, to drowsy or weary audiences. He told the Reformers of Lancashire—" That at this moment we are not asked that the frontiers of the ancient realm of English freedom shall be pushed forward in advance, but we are driven to a most unusual proceeding—that is, to make a fight for liberties which our fathers gained, and:which we, in our simplicity, had thought to be so firmly established that nobody in this country could, for a single moment, threaten to assail them." He affirmed that the Lords had no more constitutional right to exercise their technical right of a veto on a bill of supply than the Crown has on all bills—that to be at the mercy of 400 hereditary representatives of as many families was far worse than to be at the mercy of the Crown, inasmuch as an individual would often shrink from acts which a corporation would readily perpetrate. He pointed to America, as an instance in which the attempt to tax without representation had lost us an immense empire, and that all now agreed that the colonists were right in their main principle. The QUEEN never either asks the Lords for sup plies nor thanks them for those which have been voted by Parliament ; never directs the estimates to be laid before them ; and the House of Com mons has never consented to let the Lords have copies of the estimates; they have, therefore, no official knowledge of the wants of her MAJESTY'S Governments. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is always in the House of Commons, and, in fact, the- most important Minister there ; and he sums up this part of his argument thus :—" The principle, I believe, upon which the most able lawyers—the mode in which they would state the osse, is this : that the House of Commons has the sole right of granting to the Crown what the Crown requires. If there was an inexhaustible chest under the floor of the house, from which money could be drawn and handed to the Crown, without the necessity of an Act of Parliament taking it from the people, the vote of the House of Com mons could apply that money and could hand it over to the Crown." But, if so, why send the bills relating to supply to the House of Lords at all ? Mr. BRIGHT answers—" The reason why a bill goes up to the House of Lords is this, that you went what is called statutory machinery to esta blish a mode by which the sums granted by the Commons can be raised from the people. But the soul of the matter is in the grant of the House of Commons. No other power can grant than the Commons; no other power can accept a suply than the Crown ; and the Lords being one of the three estates of the realm, give their assent to the ma chinery which is enacted in the various clauses of the Acts which pass, for the purpose of establishing the mode in which the grant which the Commons have given shall be raised from the people who are to pay it." To us it certainly appears that the Lords have violated no form or letter of the constitution. They are technically right. We do not see how the mere form of assent required of them should not be, in itself, a standing memorial of their right to dissent. The mere form of amendment, in regard to taxa sion, they have altogether renounced—their not having renounced the form of saying " content," must imply that they retain the right as well as the power to say " non-content." At the same time the Commons can never consent to the recent act of the Lords becoming a prece dent and a. usage. The business of finance cannot be carried on by two boards ; the people would soon grow restive indeed, if they found that the repeal of taxes was prevented by the Lords. The Precedent Committee will, we believe, find no case exactly like the present one during the last 2GO years, and the House of Commons, if it should prove to be, in point of form, a new case, yet one in which an old principle is violated, will soon take care that their business shall be so transacted as to neutralise any attempt of the Lords to interfere with taxation—with either the imposition or repeal of taxes. How wonderfully to be sure M. ACHILLE FOULD'S assurances as to the pacific and chival rous character of his Imperial master's Government have been corroborated! Never was there, any thing, certainly, more oddly or ridiculously mal aprolos than the manner in which before the echo of those words of M. FOULD have well died away there came flashing to us yesterday, through Mr. REUTER'S office, in the City of London, that no table telegram (dated Tunis, Tuesday Evening, May 19th) which announced that the Chamber of Deputies had approved, by a clear majority of ID6 out of a house of 262 members, the formal cession by treaty of Savoy and Nice to the French EMPE ROR, the absorption of those fair provinces into hii Imperial Majesty's dominions, the formal transfer ence of the allegiance of from 600,000 to 1,000,000 Nizzards and Savoyards, from a constitutional to a despotic Sovereign ! Beholding this deliberate cession, absorption, and transference, we cannot but understand at once how perfectly reassuri the Belgians, and the Prussians inhabiting the Rhenish provinces, must feel that (as M. FOULD generously avows to them) they have no cause whatever to regard the future policy of France, in their regard, with solicitude and discomposure. AVhy—far beyond any good-natured remarks of a mere Minister of State like M. FOULD—had not Europe the solemn pledge of the French EMPEROR himself at the commencement of the late war in Northern Italy, that in entering upon that war he disinterestedly aspired to be simply and solely the emancipator of some 30,000,000 Italians, the Liberator of the entire length and breadth of the Roman Peninsula ? Nay, when that war was already (so far as it went) more than half accomplished, did not this magnanimous champion of "Italy for the Italians," of "Italy Free from the Alps to the Adriatic "—did he not voluntarily reiterate, in the most solemn manner, through the medium of his renowned proclamation at Milan, his declaration that he had drawn the sword of France with no eye to any territorial aggrandisement ? And now this Treaty, authorising the cession of Savoy and Nice to France, to the French EMPEROR, is formally, and no less solemnly, approved by a clear majority of nearly two hun dred deputies in the popular branch of the Sar dinian Parliament ! As many as 229 voting in favour of the Treaty of cession, and as few as 33 voting against its acceptance ! A supplementary intimation of the telegram notifies, however, that no more than twenty-three members abstained from voting on this memorable division. The date of the division, it is worthy of noting again, was the 29th of May—our English Oak Apple Day. Pity there was no bowering oak in some Boscobel near Turin, in which King VICTOR EMMANUEL could, like our own King CHARLES the SECOND, have hid for awhile during the crisis of this trial of degradation ! But even Count CAVOUR, the great Ministerial advocate of Italian independence, had no better words to offer in extenuation of this lamentable concession on the part of his Government, than those with which, in the course of his elaborate ad dress in favour of the Treaty, he cajoled the Cham ber of Deputies into a momentary burst of acclama tion,—" Had Nice been Italian I would never have appended my signatxre to the treaty. Hon. gen tlemen know how tenderly I feel for Venetia. Well, were I called upon to give up only one square inch of Italian ground even for the sake of delivering Venetia, I would most stubbornly re ject the proposal !" As FLUELLEN saith, " prave 'orts"—but alas ! may we not add yet another Shak sperian phrase from the lips of the cynical lAGO, " 0 most lame and impotent conclusion !" Nice not Italian, Count CAVOUR ! Savoy not Italian ! As well might an English Statesman pronounce any part of the Welsh principality not to be Bri tish. The ceded territory not Italian, forsooth ! With that daring Savoyard GUISEPPE GARIBALDI maintaining the cause of Italian independence at the edge of the sword, and at the point of the bayonet, and at the mouth of the cannon in Sicily, at the very time that the Chamber at Turin is voting the transfer of his native land to the Imperial Go vernment of France ! While GARIBALDI is fight ing before the walls of Palermo in the name of VICTOR EMMANUEL—the Minister of VICTOR EMMANUEL is justifying the cession of Savoy and Nice, by maintaining that the soil there is not Italian—that the population is not Italian—one of the units of that population being GARIBALDI ! But Count CAVOUR was yet more explicit than has been yet indicated in declaring frankly the motives which had influenced France in demanding this cession of Savoy and Nice, which had actuated Sardinia in yielding to that lamentable and infamous requisition. Having explained, first of all, what, according to his view, has been the guiding prin ciple of late years directing the policy of the Sar dinian Government, namely, that of strengthening herself by alliances, the Minister goes on to specify two occurrences within the last decade upon which this principle had very signally operated in so directing the policy of the Piedmontese Govern ment. "By her share in the Crimean war," for example, he said, " Sardinia secured the alliance of England and France. England, however, only sympathised with the growth of our internal liber ties ; she was less favourable to our aspirations to the independence and union of Italy, because she was too partial to the treaties of 1815. She, thereby, compelled us to draw closer to France, whose pre sent ruler considered himself as much aggrieved by those treaties as the Italian nation could be. The alliance of France was for us a necessity, and in France we could rely on the stanch friendship of the Emperor alone ; among men of all parties in that country we might have friends, but we had cer tainly many enemies." Then follows this astound ing acknowledgment—" The mass of the people [there, in France] was, however, with us, and it was with a view still more to propitiate that mass to us that the EMPEROR proposed to throw to their greedy ambition and lust of conquest that bone of Savoy and Nice, the cession of which to some extent undid the work of 1815." So that absolutely in addition to the igno miny of this flagrant cession, Savoy and Nice have the gratification of being reminded that they are flung like a bone to a dog to appease the greedy ambition and lust of conquest of the French popu lation ! We wonder what will be the emotions of GARIBALDI when he reads this complimentary re ference to his native land and his fellow-country• men. A very interesting meeting took place last night at the rooms of the Youths' Club and institute, Adelaide-street, Strand. A number of the inhabi tants of the precinct of the Savoy assembled to celebrate the completion of the first year of the ministry of the Rev. H. WHITE, rector of the pre cinct. The cordial good feeling expressed by all classes must have been highly gratifying to Mr. WHITE, and was a sure proof of the success of his efforts to benefit and assist his parishioners. After the company had partaken of some refresh ments they amused themselves in various ways during the evening. Before separating, Mr. WHITE expressed his warm thanks to those assembled, for the evidence of their good wishes, and his re marks elicited a reply from Mr. LETHABY, long a resident parishioner, who said that, although himself a Dissenter, he could bear testi• mony to the zeal and efficiency of Mr. WHITE'S labours. He said that warm approval must be generally felt of the exertions which Mr. WHITE had been making on behalf of the younger members of the parish, to whose interests he had devoted much of his time and strength. The vote of thanks was seconded by Mr. LEDGE, one of the chapel-wardens, and being supported by all present, the company dispersed at an early hour. The Countess of Darby will have receptions on the 6th and 16th proximo, at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The Earl and Countess Delawaxr entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their mansion in Upper Grosvenor-street : _ .. Lord and Lady John Russell and family return to town to day from passing the holidays at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. _ _ Lord and Lady Foley arrived in Grosvenor square, from Worksop Manor, Notts. _ _ _ The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have returned to Grosvenor-gate from Hugheidon Manor, Bucks. Our exports to India during the quarter ending the 31st March amounted to £3,751,146 against £4,557,007 in the corresponding quarter of last year, showing a reduc tion of about 21 per cent. Compared with the same period of 1858, however, there is an increase of 7 per cent. To China the total has been £1,466,881, showing an excess over the first quarter of 1859 of 490,755, or more than (~0 per cent, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1860. .--4._-____ FRANCE. ""ss,, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office PARIS, MAY 31. The 3.loniteur of this morning announces that the session of the Corps Legislatif has been ad journed until the 30th June. The Muniteur also says that the slight improve ment manifested yesterday in the health of Prince Jerome has not been maintained. The Senate has discussed the petitions relative to the legal position of religious congregations and associations. M. Dupin, in making the request in the name of the committee, proposed to refer the petitions to the Ministers of the Interior, of Justice, and of Public Worship. In the discussion which followed several senators proposed the order of the day, which was rejected by 69 against 28. The petitions have been sent to the Ministers of the Interior and Public Worship, but will not be referred to the Minister of Justice. NAPLES, MAY 30, 9.30 a.m. The bombardment of Palermo lasted several hours, Garibaldi entered the town on the 27th. The besieging forces were not numerous, but being commanded by the heroic leader in person, the victory was obtained. The head-quarters of Garibaldi are in ,the centre of the town. The number of killed is large. PARIS, MAY 30. The Pays publishes a despatch dated Naples, May 29, confirming the entry of Garibaldi into Palermo, and the continuation of the bombardment by the citadel and the fleet. Bulletins have been issued, announcing that Prince Jerome had yesterday a severe attack of con gestion of the brain. This morning the health of his Imperial Highness had slightly improved. The Bourse has been dull. Rentes closed at 6W 50c., or sc. higher than yesterday. MARSEILLES, MAY 30. Six vessels of war having revictualled at Toulon have returned. Three of these vessels will be stationed off the Isles of Hyeres ; the other three will proceed to Genoa and bring back troops. Letters from Constantinople confirm the illness of the Sultan. The brother of the Sultan was confined in the Seraglio, a reactionary plot in his favour having been discovered. .The Dowager Empress of Russia is expected to arrive here on Friday morning, and will be re ceived by Count Kisseleff and the authorities. Her Imperial Highness will immediately after her arrival set out for Lyons, where she will be met by the Emperor Napoleon, and the following day will proceed to Geneva. PARIS, MAY 30. BOURSE, May 30.—The market was heavy at the opening, but has since rallied. Threes, after hav ing been done at 69f 40c, improved to 69f 65c, and are now at 69f 55c. Mobilier varied from 660 f to 667 f 50c; Lyons, 867 f 50c to 870 f; Orleans, 1.325 f to 1,327 f 50c ; Northern, 973 f 75c to 975 f; Southern, 517 f 50c to 518 f 75c; Eastern, 597 f 50c to 600 f. Last quotations : 4} per Cents. .... 96 15 redit Fonder 898 26 Do. end month .. Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents. 69 50 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 69 50 Roman B2 Bank Shares. 2830 Austrian — Credit Mebilies .. 665 Spanish Threes Do. Account 670 Home Debt 46 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 9BO .. 976 25 New ditto .. 865 .. 865 Lyons and Mediterranean B7O .. 868 75 Geneva 405 .. 402 50 Southern Western 570 .. 567 50 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 411 25 Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, papef, 25f. 14c. • money, 25f. 13c. ; three mo n th s , p a p er , 24f. 871 c. ; money, 2:41 85c. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 31. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Washington, Captain Petrie, which left New York on the 19th inst., and the Montreal Ocean Com pany's steamer Bohemian, Captain M'Master, which left Quebec on the 19th inst., have arrived. The Anglo-Saxon had arrived out. The Chicago Republicans had nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency. The Illinois Convention had nomi nated Mr. Hamlin for President, and Mr. Maine for Vice- President. Great enthusiasm prevailed, Mr. Seward had determined ,upon closing his senatorial career. MONTREAL, MAY 19. The Canadian Parliament has passed resolutions for abo lishing canal tolls. The Houso has been prorogued. The country has been suffering from want of rain, but last night and to. day heavy showers have fallen. Extensive preparations are being made throughout the province for the reception of the Prince of Wales. NEW YORK, MAY 18, EVENING. Stocks are In moderate demand, at irregular prices. New York Centrals, 81i to 81a; Erie, 211 to 22; Illinois, 614 to 62 ; Pacific Mail, 25 to 87. The money market is well supplied, but the demand is dull. Exchange on London quiet-109a to 1091. Cotton firm. Sales, 1,500 ; middling upland, 111 c. Prices of flour in favour of buyers. Sales, 14,000 barrels, at 5 dols. 10c. to to 5 dols. 15c. for superior State ; Canadian heavy, and drooping. Wheat, corn, and oats dull and heavy. Pork steady. Tallow and lard firm. Sugars active, and lc. better. MOBILE, MAY 17: Cotton steady. Sales, 5,000 bales. CHARLESTOWN, MAY 17. Sales of cotton to-day, 1,700 bales; sales of the week, 6,000. Prices have advanced to I during the week. MONTREAL, MAY 19, EVENING. Flour, sc. to 10c. lower. Market inactive. Superfine is freely offered at 5 dols. 35c. to 5 dols. 45c. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, via FATHER POINT. NEW YORK, MAY 19, Nom. The Adriatic has arrived out. Money rather easier. The stock market is excited and unsettled. All shares have slightly declined, owing to a rumour of extensive frauds in the Pacific Steamship Company. Cotton firm. Breadstuffs show a declining tendency. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 18. The cotton market is unchanged, but prices are steady. Sales of the week, 35,000 bales; receipts of the week, 7,500 bales. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN FOR NEW YORK.—The works remaining to be completed before the Great Ship is ready for seA have now been brought within such compass as to leave no doubt of her being prepared to start on Saturday week, 9th June. A large body of engi • neers and smiths from Swindon went on board on Monday to assist in carrying out the alterations in the machinery department, and will be finished by Wednesday. Mr. Yates, the secretary to the Great Ship Company, will sail for• New York on Saturday next, in order to make arrangements for the reception of the ship on the other aide of the Atlantic, and the last steamer brought over a pilot from Now York for the Great Eastern. There is a very fair demand for the berths, but as the number will be limited to 303 pas sengers only, there is no doubt of the ship having her full complement. The crew signed articles on Saturday last, and almost the whole of the hands are now on board. Mr. Bold, the manager, still remains in the ship, and will ac company it to New York, and remain with her during her stay in America. THE EX-DUKE OF MODENA.—We read in the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of May 24:—" We know positively, says the Sentinella Bresciana of the 23d, that the Austrian garrison of Verona has evacuated that city, and is echeloned upon the Po. It has been replaced at Verona by troops of the ex-Duke of Modena." A Vienna letter of May 20, in the Swabian Mercury, says It ap pears to be certain that the Legitimist party is preparing coup in Italy to restore the exiled princes. But it is equally certain that the Piedmontese Government knows of their intrigues, and is prepared to defeat thee." The New Zurich Gazette affirms that 1,500 Austrian soldiers were landed on May 13 at Molfetta to reinforce the King of Naples's army. THE BATTLE OF THE BELT. TREATY OF ALHAMBRA. Last evening the closing scene of this eventful contest took place at the Alhambra Palace, Leices ter-square. The battle at Farnborough having been decided to be drawn by the referee, who could not or would not remain in the ring to see the fight out, the stakes were returned, the combatants hav ing been persuaded (how wisely is questionabls) not to resume the fight, and as an earnest of the general appreciation of their courage and endur ance, a fac simile of the original belt, i.e., the true champion's belt, was presented to both Tom Sayers and John Heenan. Thus this international con test, which has excited such extraordinary interest for the last two months in all classes of society, from the peers of the realm, aye, and the ladies too, down to the roughs of St. Giles, has been settled, and, in our opinion, most unsatisfactorily. We do not in the least consider either Sayers or Heenan to blame for the absurdity of the arrangement. In spite of the cant which is the fashion now-a-days, we do not hesitate to affirm that the majority of the people of England, both peer, prelate, and et roXXoL, desired, like the belligerents themselves, to have the contest brought to a final issue. But, allowing that, for the sake of humanity and civilisation, it was better that the men should not meet again, why, in the name of common sense, give to an American, who did not win the fight, a belt in all respects similar to the real champion's belt, with the arms of England, and words " Champions of England," engraved upon it, to carry back across the Atlantic, and to enable him, with some colour of truth, to declare to the delighted Yankees, " I guess I've whipped the Britisher." We respect. fully beg to submit to the Great Authority of the ring, and to those gentlemen who have been active in this affair, that Tom Sayers won the belt in a fair fight, and is entitled to hold it until he is beaten, which has not yet been done. When Ben digo retired from the ring, he kept possession of the belt until it was fought for by Perry and Pad dock, and, on the same principle, Sayers had a right to hold it on the same terms. We do not object to the presentation of a testimonial to either of the men ; but that testimonial should have been something different.from the renowned champion's belt, or it should have bore an inscription, to the effect that it was a copy of the champion's belt, and a tribute to gallantry and endurance. The men were, of course, in the hands of their friends, and are not accountable for their bad taste and stupidity. The doors of the Alhambra opened at eight o'clock, and before nine the reserved seats, notwithstand ing the rather high price (a guinea), were well filled by gentlemen of the turf and the fashionable patrons of the ring. There was likewise a sprink ling of the fair sex, who could not resist the allure ment of a glimpse of the renowned bruisers, and but from motives of delicacy we fancy the attendance would have been far greater. The entertainment commenced with the per formances of the " African Opera Troupe," which was followed by some very good music and the acrobatic performances of the Roman Brothers, who went through some clever feats of agility, and then the great event, of the evening took place by the presentation of the imitation belts to Sayers and Heenan. A Mr. Caldwell, connected with the New York Spirit of the Tinzes,made a few introductory remarks, and with true transatlantic eloquence characterised the two heroes of the evening as the bravest men in the world since the time of Wellington and Napo leon. (Were Wellington and Napoleon so remark able for personal courage above the rest of man kind P) The two pugilists having shaken hands, Mr. F. Dowling (the referee) presented one of the belts to Heenan, and read the following address : " ENGLAND " TO JOHN C. HEENAN, ' THE BENICIA BOY.' " Sir,—This belt is presented to you by the editor of Bell's Life in London, as the representa tive of the sporting press of Great Britain, in token of that country's high appreciation of your ?Spirit and pluck in coming across the Atlantic to combat for the English champion's belt, and to commemorate the great valour, endurance, and fair spirit displayed by you in the battle of the 17th of April last. It is not necessary here to entbr into auy particulars of that great struggle. Its renown may be said to be world-wide; its history is already familiar to every inhabitant of the Old and the New World. It is a history which will be read by future generations with admiration, and cannot fail, whenever and wherever it is told, to raise a desire of emulation among the rising aspi rants to pugilistic honours. There may exist, per haps, a regret on your part that you are unable to bear away with you the original trophy for which you undertook so long a journey. Let that regret at once vanish. In this counterpart you have a tes timonial as honourable as the object of your fondest hopes, and forget not that the chance is still open to you of bearing off that object itself at some future time. It still lies open for competition. Your brave opponent, having already done enough to render his name famous, has announced his retirement from the active practice of his profession, and will now rest upon his laurels, content to witness among others struggles for that which he, like yourself, has been, as it were, compelled to forego. Mean while take this token—cherish it as a well-earned, well-deserved memento of the admiration of the people of this country; and rest assured that while pugilism continues one of the sports of Great Britain (and long may that period be) so long will the name of John C. Heenan be remembered with respect as that of one of the bravest men that ever entered a four-and-twenty foot roped ring. The belt, which is an exact fac-simile of the Champion's Belt of England, and of precisely similar value, has been purchased by a subscription among the noblemen and gentlemen of this country, headed by a sum of £25 from your brave opponent, Tam Sayers. The auspicious ceremony of this evening will cement for ever the bond of friendship already entered into between yourself and Tom Sayers, and will tend strongly to increase the international good feeling already subsisting between America and England, which must ever be the anxious desire of every true lover of his country. " Presented at the Alhambra, Leicester-square, May 30, 1860. " FRANK DOWLING." John C. Heenan, having received his belt, pro ceeded, amid loud cheers, to gird himself with it. Mr. Wilkes then presented a belt to Thomas Sayers, and accompanied the presentation with the subjoined address : " AMERICA " TO THOMAS SAYERS, OF ENGLAND. " London, May 30. " Sir,—On the part of many noblemen and gen men, and, I may venture to say, on the part of hun • dreds of thousands of people on each side of the Atlantic, I take pleasure in presenting you this glittering testimonial. It is an exact copy, in pure shining silver, of that brave old belt into whose re splendent metal you have mixed the merits and valour of sixteen well-fought battles, all of which have brought you fame, but none of which have been more honourable than the last. Those battles, though all fought on English soil, are well known to the people of the United States, and through them you have there earned, as well as here, a name not to be forgotten. There, as here, you have troops on troops of friends, and should you ever choose to visit our shores you will test in a way most pleasant to yourself the fact that great nations have no pre judices, and that manly rivalry, among a generous people, is only a stronger bond to the friendship of the brave. " It was my good fortune to witness the contest by which you earned this brilliant trophy, and which you have chosen should be the termination of your long and honourable public life ; and I refer to that contest now only that I may bear my testi mony to its worthy character. it was not an ordi nary battle of the ring. It was no common contest actuated by mere grovelling motives. It was chi valry revived, and it was not only courteous, but knightly. Not a low word, not a coarse look, not a mean action, shaded the conduct of either yourself or your antagonist, but with that graceful bearing which belongs to courage you and he, like two cava liers of old, did battle worthy of the audience by which you were s urrounded and of the great nations in whose names you stood engaged. Though not rewarded by the natural termination sought by battle, upon neither of you rests the blame of the incomplete result ; and here let me remark that a contest in which credit paused so frequently in doubt—a battle where you delivered and endured so much, and through the whole of which you shone so nobly—is well chosen to be the fitting finish of a great career. I n this view, and in view also of your hi d g e h ep d l e y serts, I will now state what I have never felt a t liberty to state before, which is, that so was John Heenan, in common with hi s country men, impressed with your merits as a man, it was his fixed intention, had the old belt been awarded to him for what took place at Farnborough, to have con the occasion of its pre handed it to you again , CONCERT AT THE FLORAL HALL, The first grand concert which has taken place in this elegant building was given yesterday afternoon with great success. EThe acoustic properties of, the hall aro in every way satisfactory, those who ;were at the remote; end! of the building hearing every note with distinctness ; and the objections which had been raised with regard to the noise of the traffic in Bow-street, were disposed of by loads of straw, which, being properly distributed along the road, completely deadened the noise. The only drawback to the pleasure of the visitors was the heat and glare, which were oppressive. The beams of the sun interfered so much with the comfort of the audience, that many, towards the close especially, removed their seats to shady corners. We should recommend the adoption of a better system of ventilation, and the introduction of coloured blinds or curtains across the roof of the hall, if it is in tended for a pleasant place of summer resort. The decora tions were most tasteful, and the general appearance of the hall when filled with a gaily dressed assemblage was very brilliant. The whole of the performers belonged to Mr. Gye's operatic corps ; and, the programme being princi pally composed of selections from the operas, there is little need for criticism. The two fine overtures of " Der Frieschutz" and " Zampa" were chosen for opening the parts, and their rendering by Mr. Costa's admirable band left little to be desired. Madame Grisi was of course prominent among he vocalists, and was warmly greeted• The duet from " Semiramide," which she sang with Madame Didrie, was honoured by an encore. Madame Csillag, the new prima donna, sang in the " Vepres Sici liennes," and took part in a trio from " Fidelio," in which opera it may be remembered she made her debut. Madame Miolan :Carvallho rendered some extremely difficult variations upon the famous " Carnival de Venice" with such wonderful brilliancy and skill that the applause of the audience was enthusiastic. Signor Mario was heard to advantage in the charming, though hackneyed, serenade from " Don Pasquale," and Signori Gardoni, Ronconi, and Faure took prominent parts. Alto gether the concert was a decided success, and this brilliant inauguration has fully proved the capacity and suitability of the new Floral Hall as a place of musical entertainment. IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPBUILDING. A lecture was delivered at the United Service Institution yesterday afternoon by Mr. G. R. Tovell, on an improved system of shipbuilding, by which superior strength, capacity, and speed are attained. Captain Fishbourne, RN., occupied the chair. The Lecturer, in introducing the subject to the audience, said that he had been intimately con nected with ships for the last 40 years, as shipmas ter, shipowner, and ship insurer. He had paid much attention to the behaviour of ships both under sail and at anchor. Being convinced that there was great room for improvement in the form of ships, he had turned his attention to the subject, and had aimed at obtaining a strong well conditioned seaworthy ship, with capacity enough for carrying cargo to remunerate the owner, and with speed to enable them to compete success fully with the ships of other nations. After much reflection and observations on the forms of fish and of waterfowl, he had adopted the salmon's head and shoulders for the forepart of his model, and the back part of the swan for the after body. The advantages of these models had been retained by the adoption of the principle of making every section of the vessel a segment of a true circle, both longitudinally and transversely. In this way they had in combination the principle both of the arch and the suspension-bridge, which rendered them perfectly secure, whether raised by the waves either at the centre or the ends. In this mode of building, by breaking the line of separation of the heads and heels of the frame timbers, greatly increased strength was given, so much indeed that the frame of a vessel built in this way was stronger than another vessel when all the planking was finished. If a vessel built on this plan should be cast ashore the consequences were not likely to be ruinous, certainly not so sudden, from the strength imparted by her peculiar form. A 491 ton ship of this kind had grounded on a sandbank, the tide had scoured a hole on one side of her from eight to nine feet deep, into which she had rolled without injury. Another of like form, 100 feet long and 10 feet deep, had been balanced prior to launching on a single block amid ships without harm. The hull being a segment of a circle longitudinally, presents, as it were, the crown of an arch to resist all outward pressure, and, if hung by the ends, the principles of the suspension -bridge come into play, and the midship is carried by them. The advantages claimed for this system were —unequalled strength, capacity of speed, saving of material and labour, great simplicityof construe tion, sailing powers not lost by loading, but little ballast required—stands well without any, very little dunnage needed, and the easiest known form to propel at high rates of speed in a sea way. As an example of what speed could be obtained from such vessels, he would instance the schooner Margaret, of 108 tons register, actual tonnage 150, as indicated by old measure 250 tons, or nearly double her tonnage. Her ordinary speed with the wind free was 15 miles, close hauled 10 to 11 miles, per hour. This same vessel had sailed from Frith to the Nore light ship and back in four hours and twenty minutes. The fastest time on record of a yacht race over the same ground was five hours and 39 minutes. Another vessel constructed on this principle, the Laughing Water, of 491 tons register, took out to Hobart Town the following cargo :-104 tons weight, 16 tons liquid, 857 tons measurement ; total, 977 tons. This vessel with the above cargo on board, exceeded the rate of 20 miles per hour, and had now just arrived with full cargo from China, while other ships, which started from the same port a month before, were still at sea. The CHAIRMAN, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, expressed his belief of the value of this principle of construction for merchant vessels, but doubted whether there would be sufficient buoyancy forward to enable a man-of•war to carry her guns forward. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert returned to town yesterday from passing the holi days at Wilton House, near Salisbury. The daily increase of political distrust in Ger many, and on the Continent generally, keeps the rate of money extremely low in all the principal cities, and tends to promote remittanres to London. In Paris the supply is large, at 3 per cent., although the Bank rate is 31. At Amsterdam and Brucsels, also, 3 per cent. is the highest charge. At Hamburg the rate is only 1:-1, and at Frank fort it is scarcely possible to find employment for any amount even at 1 per cent. A Parliamentary return, issued yesterday morn ing shows the total amount of the public debt of India to be £66,082,031. Of this £384,936 bears interest ranging from 6 1 o 10 per cent., £24,738,199 bears 5 per cent., £373,030 41 per cent., £32,908,923 4 per sent., and £86,820 31 per cent. The remaining £7,590,123 consists of miscelloneous floating liabilities. The proportion registerel in England stood on the Ist inst. at £6,382,342. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS; REGENT'S-PARK.— The first general fete of tho season took place in these gar dens yesterday. Now that London, like a big boy, is daily growing out of bounds, and streets and houses cover the ground where a years ago children hunted rabbits or plucked primroses, it =is-very-pleasant and cheering to find some few spots like our parks and public gardens preserved to the honour of Flora, and where Londoners can see a live tree or blade of grass. The Botanic Gardens are remark able for their happy situation, for, being ix the centre of the park, they are preserved from the near approach of buildings, and appear as if in the midst of fields miles away from any town, and when once through the gates it is scarcely possible to believe oneself within five minutes of busy London. This proximity to town is highly appre ciated by the public, for we hear that above 2,000 subscribers are now on the hooks, and this number is daily increasing. On every-day mornings groups of lady subscribers may be seen with book or work in hand lolling under the trees as if in their private gardens; but yesterday was a day net for book nor work but for show. To see and be seen was the order of the day, and no doubt that half the attraction was the gay crowd of fashionables that thronged the lawns. The orchids attracted, as usual, the first attention, not only from the size of the plants, but their general healthy ap pearance. One named arpophyllum gigantum was said to be very rare and well flowered. The larger masses of colour were made up of pelargoniums and azaleas, and the corner banks in the marquee filled with choicer, though smaller plants and ferns. The bands of the two regiments of Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards enlivened the scene by their excellent• performance, and altogether tho crowd of fashionables seemed highly delighted. About 12,000 visitors were in the gardens at one time. LOANS TO IRELAND.—The annual account ofthe Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, which has been issued, shows that since the commencement of the last re!gn there has been advanced for arterial drainage, relief wo r k s , and other public works in Ireland the sum o £3,408,889 out of the public funds. Of this amount the sum of £907,467 has been remitted by authority of Act of Parliament, there has been repaid into the Exchequer X 1,173,691, and there remains due the sum of £1,325,741, with £202,597 for in terest. The full amount authorised has not yet been issued, and in the last year advances to the extent of £96,625 were made. The repayments in that year amounted to £160,506. The Memorial (1 1 Aix gives an account of a dread ful tragedy which has just occurred at a farmhouse near that town, inhabited by a farmer, named Decome, and hi s son. The latter, a man of sullen temper, was married about three months since, and very soon - after became extremely jealous of his wife, whom he unjustly accused of too great intimacy with his father's shepherd, a man named Roche. Three days since he happened to see his wife and i:oche talking together near a wall, and the man drew a pail of water for her. On entering the house at supper•time Decome told his father, in his wife's presence, that he was convinced of her infidelity. The woman burst into tears, protested her innocence, and retired to her room, whither she was followed by her husband, who seized a double-bar relled gun, and attempted to shoot her. The wife, however, 'struggled so vigorously that she got out of.the room. De come then went down stairs:with the gun, and seeirg Roche at supper, shot him through the heart with ono barrel, and immediately blew out his own :brains with the other. sentation, with something like these words : Take it back, Tom Sayers. You have earned it in many a hard fought-up battle, and lam not the man to deprive you of what belongs to you more than it does to me. Lend it to me, however, for a few weeks, in order that I may show it to my friends and countrymen at home, and I will then send it back to you to keep as yours for ever.' This deter mination he confided to me long before he left New York; and I am quite sure, from what I know of him, that he would have kept his word. " But this belt, which I now hand to you, is as bright and honourable as the one of which it is an imitation, and it is more befitting the peculiar close of your career, for while it perpetuates for ever the battles which have gone before, it has at the same time the graceful function of recognising the equal merits of an honourable adversary. "Receive it, therefore, buckle it about your loins, treasure it and be proud of it, for it is a sound ex pression of the admiration of two nations, such as a man of your humble standing never had the proud fortune to receive before. Regard it, also, as a proof that courage and good conduct will, if per severed in, always reap the richest rewards of life ; and be sure of this, that so long as the qualities of bravery, fortitude, integrity, and manly bearing, are regarded as virtues by mankind, this shining girdle will be a compliment to you and yours, of which even the loftiest person might be proud. " GEORGE WILKES." Thomas Sayers then received his belt, and, amid loud cheering, fastened it around him. The cham pions immediately joined arms, and, amid incessant plaudits, traversed the ring. John C, Heenan then stood forward and said—" Gentlemen, I can assure you that this is one of the happiest moments of my life ;" and was succeeded by Thomas Sayers, who added—" I follow in the same track, and beg to return thanks to you all." The champions (ac companied by their friends) then withdrew, bear ing with them respectively cases in which the belts had been enclosed, amid renewed and vociferous cheering. Beth Sayers and Heenan were attired in evening costume, which we consider rather out of place. They do not aspire to be swell., and had they been dressed in a garb more in keeping with their sta tion they would have looked more in character: To complete the maladministration of affairs which has been so systematically carried out, the presen tation is to be repeated twice daily to the end of the week. Let the managers of the arrangements be wise in time; instead of prosy speeches, let the men come into the ring in fighting costume and have a bout with the gloves ; this will attract crowded houses, benefit the two men, and interest the public ; and we think we express Tom Sayers' sentiments when we say that he would rather sport a white hat and shooting coat than an opera costume. LITE.RATURE. The Curates of .Riversdale. Revelations in the Life of a Clergyman. Written by himself. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. The motto prefixed to this work is as follows ; " I should like to tell the truth, but if I did I should be torn to pieces here or abroad." It will be evi dent to the reader that no fear of the above inflic tion has deterred the writer of these pages from expressing himself at all times freely, forcibly, and fully on all points. This cannot be called a desir able sort of publication, and although it certainly does not deserve the severe strictures that have been passed upon it in some quarters, it is not suit able to introduce the themes here descanted upon in such a style as the one here adopted. If much of what is said and inferred in these accounts is true, it is not by bringing the ministers of the church into contempt that the evils will be rectified, and by making all things se condary to the purposes of raising a laugh - or passing a censure, nothing will be rightly judged or calmly considered. The best wishers of the author should have persuaded him not to throw away the chance of making an impression which his talents could readily have done by being at times so inflated in his style, and at others so ludicrous in his descriptions. But few can read with a grave countenance the account given of the farewell visit paid to a great professor abroad. The scene is intended for pathos, but it more closely resembles burlesque. The forced attempt to produce the sublime out of nothing has led to the creation of what has been called the next step to the ridiculous. It is not to be supposed however, that there are no redeeming features in these volumes ; on the contrary, they display many points of merit, and the description of some of the characters arc admirable. Mr. Fitznil is a mas terly sketch of a ranter—grandiloquent at one moment and nearly choking with passion at the next. The only clear impression he conveys to the mind is that he considered himself of the churoh militant in the widest acceptation of the term, for he started improbable theories, gave absurd eluci dations of Scripture, and then resented all inter ference, and stormed at all who differed from him in a manner more suitable to the political dema gogue than to a minister of the Gospel of peace. With more care and much skilful pruning this might have made a good work of its class, but as it is it represents in a forci ble manner many things that it is of conse quence to think upon. We meet with some cha racters of interest in these pages, and espoially must be mentioned Monteleone, who was a splendid genius, and who further evinced those better quali ties which, ever attractive, are peculiarly welcome in a teacher ot divinity. In his short life he effected more than did many twice his age, and his early death seemed, in his case, a summons of mercy to the kingdom for which he had laboured so strenu ously to prepare his brethren. " The Curates of Riversdale" has many faults and some mistakes, but it has also merits to counterbalance, in a great measure, the drawbacks, and the author gives every assurance of being animated by a sincere wish to do good service to the cause of which he treats, though he has encountered so many lets and hin drances in his path that he has stumbled more than once. On a future occasion it is to be hoped that he may display more care and caution in dwelling on sacred topics, while he can, at the same time, call into exercise his voluminous knowledge and great fluency of expression which are apparent in these volumes in an eminent degree. The First-born ; or a Mother's Trials. By the Author of Lady." Three vols. Smith and Elder. This author is very clever, but it is to be regretted that he cannot select happier subjects for the plots of his novels. There is something unnatural in Amy leaving her infant in the manner described. Allowing she had been persuaded in the first instance to depart under the promise of the child being sent for, it is against all probability that she should have so tamely acquiesced in the cruel decision of her husband, afterwards so plainly declared to her. It is more likely that the brutal opposition to her desire would have roused the gentle young creature to a state of fury, rather than that it should have stupified. her. Maternal anxiety is the one thing above all others that makes the weak strong, the timid bold, the simple wise, and the gentle fierce. The author has exhibited considerable skill in depicting the life-long yearning for the lost treasure that haunted the mother all the long years ; while other children thronged the home, none re placed the lost Aprile, the first-born baby, the daughter of her youth, whom she had fondly imagined would live to be her delight in infancy, her hope in childhood, and in her maturer years that solace and stay that the eldest daughter so often proves to a careworn mother, and which no son, though the cherished heir of a long line, and the pride of his parent's heart, can ever be so effectually. Some of the members of the Crawford family are most ably delineated, in particular Gertrude. She is the best pourtrayed personage in the story ; life-like and animated, she seems to stand before us in her proud beauty, her daring spirit, and her high endowments. Uncle Moly neux is another natural character. There is some thing very genuine in this quaint disciple of the old school ; and it must be confessed that Charles Crawford was more lucky than he deserved in pos sessing so kind a relation and so munificent a bene factor. The concluding passages are very exciting, and the tortures that the guilty Crawford under went in some measure expiated his crime. Alto gether this story is a superior one, and the reader will find in perusing it that it is one of those works that, if not pleasing, attract by their powerful style, and whi c h are a l ways d es i ra bl e su bj ects f or study. "The First-born" can therefore be fearlessly recommended, in the conviction that the praise be stowed on it cannot be other than what is due to the combination of taste and skill that produced it. The Stock Exchange Committee yesterday again adjourned the Pullinger investigation till Friday. An ear report will be desirable in order to extinguish a multitud of rumours that are in circulation, most of which are totall without foundation. It is believed that the new case now under consideration will show a grievous want of strictness and discretion on the part of the persons concerned, and will also strengthen the opinion that in the management of the bank the supervision over the clerks must have been lax, but that in other respects it will develope no new fea ture. Meanwhile, it is certain that the course of the Stock Exchange Committee will be one of inexorable imparti ality,