The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

HEATR E-R O Y A L, DRITRY-LANE. T Lessee, M`-r. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING., will be performed CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. hlr. -I.ame4 Anderson and Mies Elsworthy. Followed by the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK NORNER. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROY.&L, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commutes at Seven o'clock. with THE HUNCHBACK. Julia, Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Master Walter, Mr. Howe ; Modus, Mr. Bnckstone. 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.l Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 o!Dress Boxes 3 n Upper Boxes ... 3 0! Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 01Pit 1 0 0 6 Gallery JR OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. E THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakspere's Play of A MIDSUMMER -NIGHTS D REAM. After which, a now grand comic Christmas Pantomime entitled. HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Bl a nche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor meek ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. P. ulo; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. T ifEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY 0 1 11CRE. Mr. Barney Williams. After which, YANKEE COURTSHIP. Mr: and Mrs. B, Williams. To conclude with LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Commence at Seven. ][I,OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. —Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Charles Dillon. After which, a domestic tale, by Westland Marston, en. titled A HARD STRUGGLE. Mr. C. Dillon, &c. 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. 3oz•offico open from II to 5 daily. T.) OYAL SURREY THEATRE. V Lessee.% Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING,wiII be performed the play of LUCAETIA BORGIA, After which, MT WIFE'S OCT. To conelnd• with THE SAILOR OF FRANCE. CANTERBI7RY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow lag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dre., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brnnell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchdeld and E. Mackney. Piano forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, (Ste., until twelve o'clock. - Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Everting, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. 3—Even., 49 min. aft. 3 To.monow—Morn., 5 min. aft. 4—Even., 22 min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARni 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SEADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 35 —this day at noon. BAROMETER. 29.62. WIN D, Easterly ; strong, fresh, and bitterly cold, with frost and hard snow. The fall of snow yesterday has been very heavy. raw-- rt—, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1858. In the House of Lords last night the new Premier delivered the promised explanations usual on the appointment of a new Administration Although not quite as explicit on some points as we could have desired, it was, on the whole, a straightforward and manly state;nent ; proving that the nation has every reason to anticipate measures at least as liberal and progressive as could be anticipated from the outgoing Ministry. He may possibly have been a little too chary of positive announcement of his intentions, but it is certainly better to go beyond rather than to fall short of any pledges or promisei , which may be given in either branch of the Legislature. The nation has had too many of these promises—sometimes by the leading members of the Cabinet in their places in Parlia ment, at others by recommendations contained in Speeches from the Throne, but not the faintest indication has as yet been given of what will be conceded to the popular wishes. It is, to say the least of it, inconvenient to have a subject of such vital importance shelved, and the people disap pointed, after being excited by the hopes held out of a speedy settlement of the interesting and important question. Lord DERBY, avoiding this mistake, declines to give any specific undertaking on this point ; but he declares that, "as soon as the pres- ware of Parliamentary business enables the Government deliberately and carefully to consider the question, they will direct their attention to the defects which exist in the laws regulating the representation of the people in Parliament, and to the amendments which may be made in those laws, and that they will give that attention with the sincere and earnest desire to trifle no longer with this great question ; but with the hope that they may be able in the next session of Parliament to lay before the Legislature and the country a measure which may, far a time, will settle a matter of such deep importance, and which, although it may not please everybody, may at least be accepted as a fair and reasonable raeasureby moderate, impartial, and well educated men." This, as we have stated, is scarcely as ex plicit a 8 the community would desire. No doub a reasonable time should be given to those who have so unexpectedly been elevated to office, to prepare a bill of their own ; but surely it can not require so long an adjournment. The ques tion has been ventilated for several successive years. Its leading features have been dis cussed in Parliament during the last half-dozen Years. Every member of the Cabinet must have long, Since made up his mind on its salient points ; have been p repare d t o cr iti c i se t h e long -promised b a Iv and to subject its provisions to a close and smirching examination. It could not, then, re quire *0 ra wly months to i n di ca t e the nature and extent brought of forheard . t propoaala that would finally bk. w bran c h On this subj ec t the popular of the Legislature will naturally be exacting.l The independent representatives of independ„t constituencies have a right to know what are th e final i n t e ntions of the Government, and what they really may anticipate if they consent to wail for another session. Mr. HENRY BERXELBY Wil bring the matter to a stringent test by his annual motion on the Ballot/ and the competitors for elfice, Lord PALM ERS TON an d Lord J. RUSSELL, may possibly now see the matter i n a very different light from that in which they regarde d it on p re vious occasions. As we recently stated, " the Ballot " will be the touchstone to teat the pre- tensions of the rivals, the instrument that will ensure success to its advocate. Why, then, should not Lord DERBY accept it 'I It is resorted to in the various clubs of which himself, and his; colleagues, and subordinates, are members. It is there found to act well. There is no person 1 that asserts that, so far as these important social institutions are concerned, the practice is repre hensible or un-English. Why, then, not give it a fair trial, and thereby afford full protection to the voter from intimidation, whether by landlord, employer, customer, or mob 7 Why not strike a blow against every corrupt influence, and impurity of election, by means far more effectual than any that have been hitherto suggested ? That point, at least, must be set at rest, and that at no distant day. Should Lord DERBY follow the example of his predecessor, and endeavour to shroud himself in a veil of mystery, on this point he may rest assured that a decisive answer will be imperatively demanded. The stability of his Government will mainly depend on the promptitude of the decision he may arrive at in reference thereto. The Attorney-General spoke on other points— the extension of the franchise and more suitable arrangement of electoral districts—in his address to the electors of East Sussex, /on which we yester day offered some remarks—" Let Lord DERBY fairly carry out the views of his efficient law ad viser and also concede the Ballot, and we venture to assert that he will be sustained by the great body of the people." And why should he not ? There are no great questions at issue to divide and disturb the country—nothing to induce them to prefer one set of men to another, provided they obtain equally good measures. The great reproach hurled against the new Ministry is that they will accept and carry out the proposals of their predecessors. The Times declares that "he (Lord DERBY) had neither to stigmatise the measures of his foes nor to announce any of his own invention. On the contrary, he was entering into vineyards which he had not planted, and wells that he had not digged, in the shape of bills which he was prepared sub stantially to adopt, either because his friends had already ♦oted for theca, or, because once in troduced, it was necessary to go on with them. Lord DERBY could not hold out any hope to the parties most jealous of political originality of either doing anything the late Government was not doing, or leaving undone any thing it had in hand !" Why, then, the virulent and almost factious opposition to the new Cabinet ? If the assertion be correct, it is manifest that the nation loses nothing by the change of men, while those who lately held office will be stimulated to something more acceptable to the nation in the desire of recovering their lost positions. The people will certainly not condemn them until they have a full opportunity of being heard in their own defence. We have chiefly referred to the statements re specting Reform, as they will be most eagerly perused by the community. Lord DERBY will, of course, answer the French despatch, and on the proceedings that then take place his future course will be marked out. He has witnessed the manner in which his predecessor alienated the popular feeling, and with such a lesson he should carefully abstain from anything that would exhibit his Ministry in a truckling position. He emphatically declared that under all circumstances, and without distinction, the right of asylum would be maintained inviolable." We shall, however, await further information, before decid ing on the mode in which Lord DERBY may deal with the question that ejected Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues from office: 6 al. Dm ;a Lu Lc) irArodtined this Session, which, it may be assumed, will transfer the Government of that important Empire to QUEEN VICTORIA. The Premier declares that it will secure most of the objects of the Bill of the late Ministry, and at the same time be free from some of the objections to which that Bill was liable. On this subject, too, we must await further infor mation, which fortunately will not long be with held us. On the whole, we believe that more may be expected from the new Ministry than from their predecessors, and therefore we shall treat them fairly, and. refrain from condemning until they have done something really worthy of condem- THE SCN, L'ONDON' TUESDAY EVENING,' his atrocities. NANA Sir is simply notorious among the leaders of fighting men just as HERRIOT was notorious at the head of the troopers of the French Republic during the Reign of Terror--HENItIOT, whose habitual battlefield was the Place de Greve, and whose rallying standard was the blood-red colour of the guillo tine 1 No—again we say not one single soldier of any mark whatever has, from first to last, made his appearance among these Sepoy mutineers. Nut one of them has shown any generalship—any strategic skill—nay, for that matter, any com mon brute courage. They have fought simply like a set of wild hounds—encouraged in each instance to resist for a while simply by the obvious fact of their enormous numerical preponderance. How may this be accounted for?—among a race certainly not deficient hitherto in the ability of the soldier's craft—a race that has long since numbered up in history as famous warriors as Guniars KHAN and AVM:1(0210U. What may be the source of this unexampled lack of anything at all like their former valour or their pristine generalship ? What ? Is it not Remorse—born from the memory of all their fiendish atrocities ? Is it not remorse—acting upon all their physical and intellectual energies like a sudden palsy ? Might not thousands of S3poys among that popu- .ous host each mutter to himself, literally, iu the famous words of MASSINGEB.--. ' Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of 't ; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wrong'd orphan's tears, Will not be drawn." The execrable crimes by which at Delhi, at Cawn pore, at Bithoor, and elsewhere, this deadly revolt was first of all inaugurated, would really appear to have evidenced themselves in the extraordinary fact we have here particularised—the fact of this Sepoy hest of nearly 100,000 Asiatics, disciplined by Europeans, not having once throughout the whole conflict given to the world a single soldier of any eminence whatsoever. Ttie result of those diabolical deeds of inhumanity being the paralysis of the warlike genius and power hitherto dis played by the warrior population of Hindostan. ushered in by a report of the Minister of State, upon the high importance of the work ; the decree which constituted the commission charged with the collection and publication of the " Correspondence of Napoleon 1.," and, finally, the rep or t a dd resse d by the commission to the Emperor upon the re searches and labours to which they had devoted themselves in the performance of their duty. A Paris letter in the . Nord of Brussels says : " Orsini, Pierri, de Ruche, and Gomez, on return ing to their prison after the trial, appeared to retain all their usual calmness, but at the moment when the strait jacket was being put on them, Pierri gave way to the most violent rage, venting his passion particularly against Orsini. I wish,' he said, that Orsini had a dozen heads, and th a t th e y . were all to be cut off, order that h e m i g ht su ff er the longer.' Da Rudio is very much cast down ; he fancies he sees the scaffold standing b e f ore hi m , and he declares that in his sleep he fe e l s a s if th e iron were touching his neck. Orsini preserves a composed a ttitude, and mostly remains silent. Pierri, it is said, expected to come out of the affair safe and sound ; and so deeply had that hope taken possession of his mind that for several days before all his thoughts had been concentrated on what had becom e o f hi s um brella. He had even written several letters on the subject, requesting that it might be sought for Ind be ready for him when he should be released from prison." The Times Paris correspondent says :—" Ru mours have circulated for the last tw o d a y s th a t, after all, the life of is likely to be spar e d. Ors d ini To what degree they are entitled to cre dit I canno t s ti a t y l to I c His letter to the Emperor, as published in the Moni alemme ec n i c u y al i l s y base ignorant on w h a t groun d s his morethan his companions. Moni teio with the rest of the proceedings, has produced an unpleasant impression on the representatives of some of the German States, and it certainly will not promote goodwill bat ween the Court of Vienna and that of the Tuileries. It is still the topic of severe remark in diplomatic circles. Though Orsini is a mid to display much calmness since his condemna tion, yet, to prevent any attempt by his own hand, it was thought prudent to use the camisole-de force, or straight waistcoat. The others, with the exception of Gomez, who is not condemned to death, are similarly treated. The chaplain of the pri son has been with them, but it is not said whether his exhortations have had much effect. They attended Divine service yesterday in the chapel of the prison. The minutes of the trial were to be submitted this day to the Parquet of the Court of Caseation by the Attcrney-General. They will be ' distributed, and the Court will appoint one of the Conseillers to draw up the report, on which the con firming or invalidation of the sentence of the Lower Court will be founded. I may add that there is little or no chance th a t th e sen t ence w ill b e dis turbed, andit is rrOable that the whole affair will be decided in the coarse of the week." It is stated that Lord Malraesbury has already answered the despatch of M. Walewski, and, it is said, in a tone aacl spirit becoming a British Minister. It, of cause, expresses a desire to cul tivate the best relations with this country, and to remain in alliance with her, but it declares that the right of asylum shad be maintained intact. It is not baid whether the suspended bill will be taken op by the new Government. BOURSE, Marchl.s—The settlement of the account has gone on readily in the Rente with easy terms of interest, but the market has been flat, and prices declined owing to a fall of on on Consols. The market continued h eavy t o the close, when the following were the quotations : per Cents ........ 95 10 Credit Foncier Do. end m0nth...... Belgian 43 3 per Cent. ..... 69 30 Piedmont-ese (5) Do. end month ...... 69 40 Roman B9 Bank Shares ...... 1015 Austrian Credit Mobilier 875 -- Spanish Threes Do. Account ........ 870 Home Debt 3 nation. Not the least remarkable circumstance con nected with the Revolt in India is the rather ex traordinary fact that not ono single soldier, of any note whatever, has made his appearance among all these &pop Mutineers. No—not one ! While the troops of the QUEEN and of the Com pany have each, in turn, supplied history with new names of glory, within the compass of a few months, and that, too, abundantly ! The contrast is something, certainly, very startling. Here, out of a comparative handful of British infantry, fighting their way valiantly through an all but overwhelming inundation of rebellion, rose and• denly to view, hero after hero, not unworthy of being ranked with the warriors of old, men whose deeds will be long cherished with admiration in the world's remembrance. There was the "Fiery NEILL," the avenger of the atrocities of Cawnpore. There was NICHOLSON, his gallant brother-in-arms who fell, too, like NEILL, "in harness," his sword blade yet red with the blood of victory. There likewise appeared GREAT HED, with the dash of MURAT and the enterprise of ANGLZSEY. There, again, was the bold OtTRAM-of all that dauntless host the preux Chevalier. There, moreover, for a few radiant moments—moments never after to be forgotten by a race whose heroism they served to illustrate so resplendently—there, in the deadly breach, stood Lieutenant SALIBLD! There reeled— blinded and wounded, among the smoke and ashes of the flaming volcano of the magazine lit by his order—the self-sacrificing, the self-immolating Lieutenant WILLOUGHBY ! There, above all resolutely pressing onward in the direction of beleaguered Lucknow was the chief among the chiefs of that perillous epoch, the most glorious soldier among them all—that embodiment of the " Christian Hero" of Sir RICHARD STEELR—the noble-hearted, keen-sighted, unflinching, unhesi tating, HAVELOCK ! Such, in brief, were the fore most among our little warrior band—the leaders of our numerically insignificant forces in the san guinary struggle between life and death in 1857 in Ilindoatan. wej3illot—okforin on v e ain ein a g ra le on s z old a i l e t r of an horde of - very nearly 100,000 mutineers. Disciplined accor di ng to our own system ; thatswy note, arming armed with our own arms ; clothed in our uniforms —an army cat but flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone— rose agai nst the Sep oy army vk ) us in rebellion upon a miserable pretext about some greased cartridges, ha s not i n [ one solit ary instance given to vie w i n all this terrible twelv emonth of strife, arm C aptain. Not o ne ! There has been one ruffian certainly dis tinguished above them all by his preternatural pre-eminence" won to hi m b y and unparalleled infamy —but his p re - em i nence is siraply the t c bad L &TEST NEWS. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received from Malta at the India-house : " To SIR JAMES MELTILL, K.C.8., INDIA-HOUSE, LONDON. "The Commander-in-Chief was at Futtyghur on January 24. "Brigadier Walpole's column was near the Ram gumma, preparing to cross into Rohilcund. A rebel force was on tho opposite bank of the river. " By intelligence to January 22, Sir J. Outram had been again assailed, and an attack by the whole rebel force in Lucknow was daily expected. " Reinforcements had been sent to Sir James Outram. " &augur was relieved by Sir Hugh Rose's force on February 3. "On the march to &Luger, Rakjhur was attacked on January 26th, but the garrison evacuated the place. " The chief rebel leader in Central India, Ma hommed Faril, was, however, taken and hanged. " On January 31st Sir Hugh Rose defeated the insurgents at Banda. ,Our loss was slight, but Captain Devill, of the Royal Engineers, was killed. " The fort and town of A.vah were occupied on January 24th, the greater part of the garrison 1 havin g caudpea in the night during a violent storu). " Punjaub and Scinde all quiet. " All quiet with the exception of Candish, in which, however, no new excesses are reported. "Proof has been obtained that Shorapoor Rajah has been collecting troops for a rebellion. "A Bombay force from Belgaum, and a Madras force from Kurtool, are advancing to Koolea with the Nizana's troops, for the reduction of the Rajah. "D. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. " Bombay Castle, Feb. 9, 1858. "Per steamer Euxine. "from V. G. MONTNARO, "Malta, March 1, 1858." We (Times) have received the aubjoined telegram from our Malta correspondent, dated March 1, 11p.m. :- ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 26 " The Bombay mail leaves to-day with intelli gence from the Commander-in-Chief to the 28th of January. He was still at Futtyghur, vaiting for the siege train from Agra, which left that station on the 22d. "An attack from Calpee was expected at Fut tehpore. Troops from Allahabad and Cawnporo were concentrated to oppose it. " Sir James Outram had been reinforced at Alum bagh, and held his own. "The Gheorkas have marched from Goruckpore on Fyzabad, in Oude. " The Fort of Ratghur was evacuated by the enemy on the 26th. " The Nawab Maboratned Favil Khan has been banged ; and at Delhi the Dewah of Furruck nugger likewise. " Awah was abandoned to the Rajpootana field force during a storm on th• 24th. " The trial of the King of Delhi was to commence on the 2d of February. " The Rajah of Shorapoor in the southern Mali ratta country, is about to be attmked from three quarters. " The rest of the 18th Royal Irish, besides the 71st Highlanders, have arrived at Bombay. " The Habeas Yoripts case is at an end by the arrival of an act from Calcutta justifying the prisoners' detention. " The Bombay money-market was much easier "The Bank had reduced its rate of discount 3 per. cent. " The import market was active. c: E xc h a nge, 2s. Old. for credit. " The above news has just been received by the Euxine from Alexandria, for which port the Colombo left this afternoon. The Euxine leaves for Marseilles at 4 to-morrow morning. Neither the outward nor the homeward Australian mails had reached Alexandria up to the afternoon of the 26th. " The Vectis, from Marseilles, has just arrived." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Moniteur publishes the following in its official columns : " General Changarnier and General Bedeau have permission to return to France." In its unofficial columns the Moniteur announces 2thia: Republic, siege the publication of the first volume of the " Corres- Pondence of Napoleon 1.," which it states to be " fr n: of the most beautiful works that has ever issued the defeat ~e i m e a.b rt embraces ,_ I)? the press of the Imperial printing-office. It iia Italy, and eof Toulon, in the year two our, after t , finishes on the last day of the year ura part of tTillisev campa i gn s ol e Orleans .............. 13971 Northern:.... ....... 9631 New Ditto .......... 797 A Lyon and Meditenn. 830 New Ditt0......., 797 Geneva .................. 700 - - Midi Western 682 Strasburg Grand Central ,Sardinian Austrian AUSTRIA. According to a letter from Vienna, M. de Pro keschhas received instructions from his government relative to the disturbances in Bosnia, and in which he has been charged to urge on the Porte the im perative necessity of pacifying that country, by granting all the reforms which had been promised. A letter from Vienna, in the Nuremberg Corre• spondent, says :—" The approaching winding-up of the eminent banking firm of Simon G. Sina may be looked on as certain. The head of the firm, Baron Sina, has recently been appointed representative of Greece at the court of Austria. As his with drawal from business was made a condition of his ap pointment, the baron has consented to add this to the many sacrifices which he leas already made to that country." Another letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, says • "'NIP anvernmplif. (11,1tani,nr4r na.l a Ti•oposition to the Germanic Viet to pay the arrears of pensions of the old officers of the arinyof Schleswick-Holstein. Austria opposed the adoption of that proposition on the ground that the Diet had decided, in the sitting or the 6th April, 1854, that it would merely grant assistance to these officers, and that the present proposition went much further. The Assembly has now decided in accordance with the views of the Austrian repre sentative. " RAILWAYS. PRUSSIA. The Second Prussian Chamber has adopted, by a large majority, a proposition of M. d'Auerswald, calling for the execution of the article of the con stitution relative to the suppression of all exemp tions from the land tax. The Government has present( d to the Chamber a bill for increasing the tax o❑ home-made sugar. The Princess Frederick Charles has given birth to a daughter. Accounts from the Hague state that the ab sence of M. Vrolik, Minister of Finance, from the secret debate . held by th e S econ d Ch am b e r on the commercial treaty between Holland and Belgium, which hvl at first been attributed by the public to political motives, proceeded from the d,-ath of his mother-in-law, who expired shortly before the opening of the sitting. 23d iu the milit ary college o f T ur i n, In consequence of th e disturbances which took that establishment has been di sso l ve d , an d i t i s t o place on the be reorganised on a new basis. The Official Journal of the Two Sicilles of the 18th ult. publishes a complete list of all the vic tims of ttr.) memorable earthquake of December 16th, 1857. The total number of dead amounts to 9,350 and the wounded to 1,359. It appears throughout the list that, contrary to what is t•:e case in. battles and other circumstances in which human life is at stake, the number of dead has greatly exceeded that of the persons more or less seriously injured. Thus, at Montemurro, a place of 7,000 inhabitants, 5,000 were crushed to death by the falling houses, and 500 severely injured. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE TICK, TICK, TICK, OF A TAP-ILOOIi CLOCK.-- William Jones, aged 26, was charged bef,re Mr. Bing ham with the following impudent rubbery at a public house. , It appeared from .tilo evidence of Mrs. Catharine Gain, the wife , of a respectable li cense d v i c t ua ll er i n Bruton street,a Load-street, th a t on go i ng i nto h er tap - room h e r s attract e d te the clock, of which she suddenly missedi°itn w soid famili ar t i c k . She had hear d it t wo minutes atter, Bon t before, and at once divining that some trick bad been played with it, she directly said to the prisoner, who wa s in the room, "What h ave you been doing to the clock !" he replied, "Nothin g ;" but she, not satisfied, laid hold of him. Ttio prisoner, on her doing so, crouched down, and as he did so she detected him quietly, and as he h .ped unobserved, slide on to the floor, behind his feet, the large brass weight of th e t o ro om clock, which he had d e t a ched, and whi c h of course exp l a i n ed the mystery of , its silence, whilst th e c l oc k-hand indicated the exact p- minute it was Stolen 20 past 11. Finding he was dis covered, he brake from her grasp and endeavoured to escape, but she, barricading him in with the tables, called for assistance. Her husband came in and prisoner was secured and handed over to policeman C 161. Prisoner told the magietrato he had nothing to say. Policeman 160 C, attended to make known the prisoner's character, or some part of it, which was that l e had him in custo ly at this court about five months ago on a charge of c o p per an d l ea d s tealing, but from some deficiencies in th e evidence necessar y t o cinviction, he was di,cbarged. He had, however, known him to have been previously convieted and sentenced to one month M for felony. Bingham told the prisoner he mig ht take his choice whether o f th e two h e wou ld have the case settled, by him or by a settled jur by you, by all mea ns. . Prisoner —Oh, Bingha m—Then Mr. al—Then I have no difficul t y whatever — it is a clear case. I s h a ll a t least prevent your stealing clock weights fro m pu bli c houses and tap-rooms for three months to n,me. You are committed to the House of Correction for three months and hard labour. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COAL PlT.—Four men were killed on Thursday in a pit galled the Lodge Colliery, near West Bromwich. The men were at work about eighty yards from the bottom, when a large piece of the work gave way, fell upon them, and buried them. The quantity of earth which fell weighed •bout fifty tons. From the evidence given at the inquest the " work" appears to have been indifferently propped, if it was not absolutely in a dangerous state. The Yerdict returned was "Accidental death." MARCH 2, 18'58 THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood. —The opening paper in Blackwood is the continuation of " What will He do with It 1" The instalment is brief, and does not chronicle any , event of particular importance. Some years are supposed to elapse between this part and the one which will follow it. The second part of the travels in Zanzibar and East Africa is somewhat interest ing, as showing us a picture of races and scenes quite removed from ordinary experience. The article which immediately collows it, is on a topic of considerable importance—one that has engaged the attention of legislators and reformers, and is likely, from the complication of the subject, and the difficulties which surround it, to demand some years of examination and experience before it can be satisfactorily dealt with. " Our Convicts—Past and Present"—i4 the title of the article, and it deals with the subject in a comprehensive and rational manner, though the author, like many wiser men, is unable to give a decided solution of some of the attendant problems. The separation of first offenders from hardened criminals, but without that solitude and silence which defy the powers °of human en durance—the difficulty of holding out encourage ment for good behaviour and obedience to disci pline without offering a premium to hypocrisy— the obligation to provide them with the neces saries of life, good of their kind, and some degree of comfort, without provoking comparisons with the friendless poor who are struggling with starva tion and temptation ; and when all these questions are suitably treated, there yet remains another of no inconsiderable magnitude—that of providing the convict on his felease, with employment—to give him the means of decent livelihood without giving him an advantage over the honest labourer. Tbere is much sensible reasoning in the article before us, especially in the part relating to the testimony of the police officers in a law court as affecting the sentence passed on the culprit. Of course this is not alluding to the testi mony as to the commission of a crime but as to previous character and habits. It is justly observed that it is not in human nature to help abusing, such a power, and that a policeman is no more fitted for the possession of irresponsible power than the captain of a merchant vessel or the Emperor of Russia. Indeed, social philosophers might question if he were as much so, as from his perpetual contact with vice and crime, his sphere of observation is neces.arily narrowed, and he loses the power of sympathy and comparison, which others of more extended opportunities might be capable of exercising. The eisay will well repay perusal by all who take an inter est in a question so nearly affecting the social well-being of the community. "Storiesfrom Airlient Sind" give us some curious glimpses of ancient Mohommedan conquests. The second paper ow "Food and Drink" continues this interesting subject, and will afford much gratifioation to the lovers of chemical and physiological science. Among the remaining contents are a pleasant paper on Mr. Sullivan's work on " Cumberland and its People, and a favourable notice of Mr. Buckland's " Curiosities of Natural History." Fraser's.—Fraser presents us with a variety of refreshing and vigorous articles this month—those relating to politics being sound in argument and liberal in principle ; and those gracing the fields of light literature and intellectual matter, exhibiting an attractive degree of amusing originality and lucid discussion. The opening paper, "An Anglo- Indian View of the Indian Crisis," displays ira portant and accurate judgment in the treatment of the question—maintaining opinions not much to the credit of " head-quarters" of Indian Govern ment. Dr. Whewell's book , " The History of Science and some of Lessons," is dilated on in a very able and enlightening tone, but as this mas terly work will receive our special notice before long, wo shall merely advert to it, as constituting a first-class production of its kind—calculated to equally advance the philosophical student's pro gress and general human intelligence. The paper "Concerning Coui.try Houses and Country Life" is a charming dissertation on the pursuit., build ings, and literature connected with rural existence, It is a compound bouquet combining the poetic odours of new-mown hay, wild thyme, and fresh turned furrows, with a strong infusion of common sense and sufficient essence of classical taste. It says— I believe that in the mind of moat men of cultivation, there is some vague, undefined sense that the country is the scene where human life attains its happiest develop ment. I believe that the great proportion of such men cherish the hope, perhaps a distant and faint one, that at some time they shall possess a country home, where they may pass the last years tranquilly, far from the tumult of cities. Many of those who cherish such a hope will never realise it ; and many more aro quite unsuited for enjoying a country life were it within their reach. But all this is founded upon the instinctive desire there is in human nature to possess some portion of the earth's surface. Speaking of Gothic architecture, th© writer gives the following opinion, with which we cordially concur : LIV 11VU 1..11111.0. AV L,VUiII 61".7 Uel ti UL 021-1 . 7 than that it bears wit' advantage to be set side by side with the noblest work of God. Yet, though a worthy Gothic building looks beautiful anywhere, it has a special charm in a sweet country landscape. It seems just what was wanted to render the scene perfect. It is in harmony with the trees and flowers and hills around, and with the • blue sky overhea,l. It is a perpetual pleasure to look at it. I do not believe that any mortal can find real enjoyment in standing and gazing at a huge square house, with a great wagon roof, and with square holes cut in a great level blank wall for windows. It may draw a certain , grandeur from vast size, and it may possess fine accesso ries,— be shadowed by noble trees, backed by wild or wooded hills, and shaded of into the fields and lawns by courtly ter races; but the big square box is in itself ugly, and never can be anything but ugly. But how long and,delightedly one can contempl Lte the worthy Gothic house of similar pre tension—with its lights and shadows, its irregular sky-line, its great mullioned bay- windows and its graceful oriels -perched aloft, its many gables, its wreathed chimneys, its towers and pinnacles, its hall and chapel boldly shown on the external outline—for the charaeteriitie of Gothic is, that it frankly exhibits construction, and makes a beauty of the exhibition ; while the square-box architecture aims at concealing construction,— producing the four walls, pierced with the regular rows of windows, quite irrespec tive of internal requirements, and then considering how to fit in the requisite apartments, like the pieces of a child's dissected puzzle, into the square case made for them. There is an unusually interesting story, in six chapters, entitled. "Lone-Rouse D ilo," which will amply repay perusal. The concluding artie!e, on " The Decline acid Fall of Lord Palmerston's Ministry," deals with the said Ministry in forciblo and plain terms ; advocating the measures which are equally consistent with, and necessary for, the preservation of foreign relations and English hon our. The unvarnished meaning of these remarks recommend the passage so warmly that we cannot resist quoting it, as being the condensed opinion of all right-minded Britons : Every man in England is desirous to preserve a firm alliance between two nations, which allied can do so much good to the world, and at enmity could go near towards ruining each oth:r. But as b3tween individuals so it is with nations ; real friendship can bo maintained only by self-respect on both sides. Whilst France is governed as it is now, by repression, it is but a mockery for England to seem to sympathize with the spirit of its rulers ; and the adulation which since the success of the couyd'etat has been poured on the head of the Emperor, has done a good deal, unfortunately, to unhinge our alliance with the nation and make it personal to the ruling dynasty. The consequence of the extreme deference to the Emperor is that we are expected to do that for him which we would have done for none of his predecessors. Lord Palmerston in a very violent manner rebuked the House of Commons for making allusions to points which ho could hardly have expected to be passed over. We think, however, that Lord Palmerston, or whoever may succeed him, would do better, instead of bullying indepen dent members of the Legislature, to maiothiu a firm and respectful tone towards the French Government, avoiding all cause of reasonable offence, and making every conces sion consistent wish the honour and dignity of England, and at the same time not to shut his oyos to the possible course into which a Government relying solely on its error- MOll3 army may sooner or later be driven, and to keep a good look-out on our coasts, and an efficient fleet iu the Channel. Bentley.—" Lord Palmerston ; a Piece of Poli tical Patchwork," by Polo Mole, is the striking piece of alliteration that greets us cu opening Bentley. It treats of the various characters which have been ascribed to the veteran statesman, and the different sketches of him which eminent writers have given. It is followed by the opening chapter of a story called " Heiresses," which will probably improve as it proceeds. A sDirite 1 bal entitled "1 1 11,1 Lord Protectles Ghost," tells -us how a gay cavalier, returning from a revel, is stAitled, iu passing Tyburn, by the ghastly appari tion of " Him who, though uncrowned hie forehead, Reigned the Ruler of the land." " French Financial Operatic ns" is rather an alarmsing title for an article in a serial supposed to be devoted to mirth and entertainment. It is founded on M. Cassefigue's recent work, and will probably convey some useful information to those who may not have met the original work. Monkshood's writings always repay perusal. His present subject is " Ferrari's Guelfs, a nd Ghi bellines," and treats of the factions which distracted Italy for so many c-nturies. Mr. Dudley Coitello continues his story of " Faint heart never won Fair Lady," in his ac ;ustorned manner. A paper on " The Salons of Paris," has some curious and agreeable reading. The singular p a p ers entitled " Thanatos Athanatos," proceed in their moralis ing and sometimes melancholy strain, giving ex tracts from ancient and modern, grave and gay, early fathers or pagan philosophers, as the case way be. The curious story of " Queen Stork" eor ees to a curious and not very intelligible c. , ncl union. Mary Morick cow ributcs some graceful vc rses, supposed to be addressed by a Greek bride to her lover slain in battle. "A Night of Tumults," ty the author of " Too much to Wear," briulle t o a satisfactory conclusion the history 'of the Dal 'lmples, and the present number of Bentley. United Service. —The usual amount of sensible matter, connected with the important topics of our land and sea forces, is given in this number. "The Reminiscences of China and the Chinese " are continued, in which the opium subject is treated with dispassionate reasoning, together with a plea sant page or two of general information respecting the customs and state of the people. " Our Schemes of Military Education and Reform " con tains some just and apposite observations on the practical training of soldiers, but we must dissent from one opinion expressed in it, and honestly aver that we shall ever believe the victory of Inker man to have been essentially a " soldiers' battle," and that incompetency of judgment, or some defal cations in the administration of our military rulerA, equally questionable, were too obvious in the whole of the Crimean camplign, for any prejudiced par tisan to successfully defend, or effectually disgui-e. An excellent paper on " The Army Sanitary Com mission" deserves careful attention. After the author has given an impartial description of the average state of our barracks and the condition of the men, he says— If we look into the long rolls of our best regiments we shall find that they are not composed of the same materials as during the Peninsular war, Our national Highland and Irish regiments are no longer of pure descent, and though the majority may be so, still a large proporti n of heterogenous elements enters into their composition. Our Highland glens no loner abound in brave Lids and bonny lasses ; the garb of old Gaul is seldom seen on the heath-covered mountains, un less on the " hurdies" of Sassenach menials , the sound of the bagpipe is no longer heard on the gale, the chatter of the grouse and the black sock, the scream of the curlew, and the whistle of the gamekeeper, are the only liltings now heard on the hill ; even the ancient eagle is banished from his heredi tary eyrie, and dares not descend from the clouds without risk of life from an Ely's cartridge or a riflebullet ; thousands of hearths round which happy families once gathered, are now as cold as the grave ' • the bat and the owl, the thistle and the nettle, are their only tenants now, the more favoured red deer crop the currant bushes in their " kaii-yard," and many a " stratli" that once sent forth a thousand mon at the summons of the Fiery Cross would not now muster a ser ge int's party. Most noble despotism has depopulat d the ancient nurseries of our best soldiers to provide for themselves a month's shooting in autumn ! " The flowers of the forest that• fought aye the foremost, The flowers of the forest aro a' weede away I" And Britannia in hor utmost need now mourns their loss when ne longer foitheoming. Nor is the state of Ireland more favourable for recruiting. The bigotry of priests, the exaction of tithes, the oppression of landlords and the difficulty of procuring bread, have driven tens of thousands of its stalwart sons out of the noun try to seek their more happy fortune in foreign lands. The consequence is that the army is now chiefly racruited from the workshops, the factories, the stable, and he counter ; from the do-nothings and the do-no-goods, and the devilma cares ; from the runaways, the spendthrifts, and the drunk ards; from half made ministers, doctors, and lawy rs, im practicable younger sons of old families, improvident charac ters in dread of the parish beadle or the constable, whilst the best mon of their class re main at their avoc ,tions at home, and find more profitable employment as navvies, railway at tendants, or policemen. But there must be some causes for all the sickness and mortali y of soldiers, not apparent to the ordinary observer ; and if we enter into the orderly-room, the dry-room, the hospital, and peruse the defaulters' book, ani the sick re ports, we shill probably find sufficient explanation. In them we shall find that about one-half of the cases under investiga tion, under punishment, %r under treatment, are the conse quences of their own intemperance or indiscretion ; all of them undermining the constitution, and settling on the weakest organ of the body—the lungs, ending in consump tion and premature death, and as the deaths are accounted for under the head of consumption, the original causes that in- duced consumption do not appear in the sick reports. The concluding remarks in this admirable paper contain an amount of truth which we should re joico to see acted on by those in authority : Having established the fact that intemperance and indis cretion are the soldiers' greatest enemies, we must look for some explanation even of their prevalence, and this we shall find in the idle, indolent, objectless, in -door, half-employed dog sort of life that they generally lead,—a y to ennui, and the blue devils,—aui the blue bottle and the brothel are their auccedanea. Now that we have arrived at what seems to be the real cause of all the soldiers' failings and ailings, and of their in crease 1 rate of mortality, the great objet to ba k pt in view is to divert their attention into more salutary channels. Mon even the most illiterate and the least intellectual, cannot with impunity be treated as animals by drilling, feeding, clothing, housing, and locking up like cattle, so that their sleeping rooms when let out in the morning are found to be " in a very thick and nasty state." The circulation of the mental facult;es is as necessary as the circulation of the blood throng i our veins, or the electric current through our nerves ; much has been done for the soldiers on this head, but all that has been done is insufficient, and much more must be done if we would improve their health and reduce their mortality to the level of their free brethren at the spade, the plough, or the shattle, the ham mer, the towel, or the batton More exercise is essential both for body and mind, more hope of bettering their position by promotion to commissions, more prospect of being able to exist after discharge on the bounty of the State, without having recourse to begging or b..llad-singing, or being a bur den to their surviving relatives. A discharged soldier is generally the most helpless individual possible ; most of them never excelled in any profession before enlisting, and after discharge feel themselves cast upon the world unfitted to resume their juvenile emp oyme t. But there are very numerous berths in public departments to fill which n., better and uo more deserving men could be found than our pen sioned soldiers ; and when we have seen the doors of public galleries and museums, the gates of public parks and gardens, and the ranges of royal palaces filled by stolid masses of fat irdini t itt i lair e e e LI N % iit e Wat i lilizit y' irumi li o t tre. dl WlJU hare been to our discharged deserving soldiers. The 11Ie,chanie's.—Tbia valuAble sori'd is replete with intelligence on various objects connected with inventi , )ns and improvent2Nts. An "Apparatus for &ono ansing Fu " A New Hydraulic Engine," and "Improved Furnaces," ate awong a long list of fresh appliances of science. The papers elucidating the working and intentions of the rela tive patents ate clearly aul concisely written ; ren d,ring the magazine exceedingly useful to those interested in its subjects. The editing and arrange ment of this work are carefully carried out. LITERATURE. Mitla ; a Narrative of Incidents on a Journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador. By G. F. Von Tempsky. Longman. Many entertaining works of travel have already been published respecting the troubled States of Central America. Their gorgeous tropical scenery, the very lawlessneFs of the marauders that infest them, their rapid decadence and insignificant posi tion beside the bustling energy of the United States and the prosperous activity of the Canadian domi nions, combine to tinge them witty au air of romance ; while the nature of the adventures met with by the traveller, and the comparative novelty of the incidents and scenery, generally render works of this kind agreeable reading. Tire present is no exception. It is written by a German, and he has acquitted himself of his laborious task most honour ably. He has had the advantage of an t , nglish edi tor in Mr.J. S. Bell, the author of a "Journal of a Residence in Circassia ;" but it is probable that little supervision was needed. The usual tales of bandits and murderers abound in his pages, an I those who seek the marvellous or terrible will not be disap pointed. For instance, on quitting Mexico for Durango, a party of thirty Mexicans, armed and mounted, proposed to hies and his friend that they should join them. From various reai , nis they declined, and what was their harror, on pursuing their journey a day or two la-er, to come upon the corpses of the whole party on the high road. They had been surprised and murdered by a band of the Indiana who infest this locality, and whom the government, such as it is, is totally unable to sub due. The following extract gives a picture of a ball at Durango, iu honour of the anniversary of Ind-pendeace-7- 11-xicaris, in general, are ab-temious ; but, on par ticular occasions, they will look a little longer into the glass than is comps' ib•e with eravity of demeanour afterwards, which is the more difficult for them to pre. serve, as they are unaccustomed to resist the influence of drink. Such was the case here. Amongst the gal lants most conspicuone in elegance of manner was one of the e ffi cere o f th e Zacatecesis band of heroes, inblaz ng uniform. He was the admired of ilia.) , a fair one, ..o whom his noble bearing contradiet!id clearlythe calumnies of of doubt as to the courage of him and his favourable opinion He seemed to be anxious confirtu i their r thie ban . h ro y o a m om ir e ot a: act onein a s c ? c d o rtdostttc another,e w applied I H i e‘ e i sur occasion.vyed w T er u e e tw re , a f :;o m is ; ally some stimulants to h. buddingvao,an u d p s t e o em m e y d it list to have selected his man. He sidled •Tc ' c t friend, who, at some dietetic- , from me was engaged in i a nt l an probably in . ydfr sieene friend a w in u a i l d a b l a l y t l t a l n e a a n al , a n besides gst l crowd,being a never va 4 conver'sation with thin e c c' h c c eci acquaintance, enthusiastic in favour of any European. To make the story short, he cast derogatory refkc tio„ on f,reignere in general, and on the one before hi m in particular. the scene became interesting and hopeful. I came up in time to bear him asi.ert ' with l ou d em phasis, that by hi s han d s had died Englielituen Germans, French, Americans, and others. Iu a mo ment my friend sidled close up to him, whispered some thing in his ear, and ga ve hi m a peep at the handle of a pistol, in an inner breast pocket of his coat. The talisman acted with wondrous suddenness. A slight palcuess replaced, for a moment, his flushed colour ; but immediately he was himself again, he cast a lock of anutierable fierceness on the smiling pair of us, and— retreated. At that moment, a gulden cry in the street, a souffle, and then a tumult, near the door, were heard. For a moment, everybody seemed paralysed ; the next, some rushed thro ug h th e d oor way, some through the win dows, to see what w on in the street. A. minute after, the bleedingbaosdgoing a young man was c arr i e d body of in, under the wail of women, and laid on a sofa. The canse and incidents of this catastrophe were the fol lowing :—This young man had excited the jealousy of another, by dancing t oo often with his sweethear . The incensed lover eagles two of his f rien d s i. his interest, and the three go into the Stre e t. Th e unconscious O onscioas rival is called out to the street, under some pretext or AhAer• As ho passes the doorway he receives a thrust from the blade of a sword cane, a pistol is snapped at him, and a stone, dashed in his teeth, bears him to the ground. He bad time to recognise ocie of his assailants—the one who gave the thrust, the instigator of the plot ; and he saw all the three run down the street, and disappear in the darkness. Suffice it to say, that the victim survived ; his three assailants were sentenced t , ) severe punishment ; but whether it ever was executed, with all the rigour of the law, I know not, and much doubt ; for, in Mexico, a sentence and the execution of it have not the came certainty of con nection as cause and effect. The knife and lasso are not the only drawbacks to the delightful climate of Central America. Hole is a description of the plague of mosquitoes. The river Guasacualco is broad and deep, with a heavy current, and surrounded by the dense vegetation of a most luxuriant tropical country. It is now navigable, for nearly ten leagues from the mouth, for veesels of goodly draught, and the/harbour, on the Atlantic side, is much better than that on the Pacific. The region all around, as far as the eye can wander, is an unbroken expanse of foliage,—a virgin forest of the mast luxuriant tropical growth,—rich, blooming, overflowing with stre ngth acid vitality,—a picture of untrammeled nature revelling in production and reproduction from an inex haustible soil. So tar, everything is worth seeing ; but there are thorns on this rose ; for the bushes of endless varieties are powdered over by countless millions of coe , quitoes, that, on being disturbed, buzz in clouds around your head, and seem, as a Yankee might say, " to crowd out" the very atmosphere around you. Reader, do you know what mosquitoes are l Have the weary minutes of the night been ever counted on you by a hundred stiege in each of them I Have you felt the fever that rages in the blood when the fatigue of the day draws your bead to the pillow, and sleep is flagellated out of you by stings that burn like nettles E If not, you will thiuk this chapter on mos quitoes a light matter, to be slipped over in the book of tropical characteristics ; but e xperience would teaeh you to think differently, as it taught me after this lesson. We had been forewarned of what was to be expected. and had brought our mosquito-netting 4 with us, other wise we might have been obliged to do to ourselves as we did to our horse., that is, tied them with double rope , , to prevent them running into the river from the sheer madnesi of pain. Poor animals, they were covered walk bloat in the morning, my white horse had quite a crimson hue, and ali three of them looked exhausted and a eery. An American settler, who lived near the banks of this river, with his wife and family, retired, every day at three o'clock in the afteruoon, into the fastnesses of his mosquito-bare, taking with him provisions for supper, a book, pipe, and tobacco. Two or three times the Mdricao G , verriroent sent a little garrison of soldiers to an old tort at the mouth of the river ; but, each time, they died oat rapidly, from fever, caused mainly from the incessant irritation of mosquito• bites. We did sot protract our stay in that neighbourhood, bat returned, in double-quick time, to. Tehuantepec, where, at least, the plague of mosquitoes was comport'. tively unknown. The work is written in a lively and pleasant style, full' of anecdotes and adventures. If it does not present any striking originality, it is, at least, in teresting, showing Mexican society from a German point of view, and affording a pleasant insight into the manners of the people. We must not omit to mention the engravings, which are numerous, and the coloured plates, which are very elegant, and are a valuable addition to this handsome -volume. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort left Bucking - ham Palace yester day morning for Osborne, Isle of Wight. Her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice ; and were attended by the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, - Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, 14 , rd Colville, Capt. the Hon. D. de Roe, and the Master of the Household. The Queen and the Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Marquis of Exeter, Earl Dela• warr, the Duke of Beaufort, and Col. F. H. Sey mour. The Royal party left Buckingham Palace at half past 10 o'clock, in six curiages, and escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons, for the private station at Vauxhall of the London and South- Western Railway. Her Majesty left by a special train for Gosport. The Prince of Wales, attended by Mr. Gibbs, left Buckingham Palace at half-past 2 o'clock is the afternoon, for Osborne. Lord Colville (Clerk Marshal) has relieved Major-General Buokley in his duties as th e Equerry-in-Waiting to the Queen ; Captain the Hon. Dudley De Ros has relieved Colonel F. IL Seymour in his duties as Equerry-in -Waiting to the Prince Confort. The Foreign kilbassalors and Ministersat: ten.led ye.4terday at the Foreign-office) Downing street, and were severally introduced to the Ear l of Malmesbury, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colo• nial-office to the Governors of the West India Cr ,lonioa. A bRIVAL OF TTIE COURT AT paRTS -111()( TH, EN ROUTE TO OSBuRNE• PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY. Her Majesty was expected to have arrived her• by half-past eleven, it was one o'clock when the Royal party entered the Royal Clarence-yard. Owing to the indisposition of the Commander. in -Chief, Admiral Sir George Seymour, and in the absence of the R. ,, ar-Admiral Superintendent, the Hon. George Grey, the honours of reception de volved on the senior officer, Captain Harry Eyre", of the St. Vincent, supported by his officers, The Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, and staff was in attendance, the Captain Superintendent Dacres, C. 8., of Haslar Hospital, John Davies, Esq., master attendant, are. The Queen embarked on board the Fairy, tender, Captain the Hon. Joseph Deliman, aJ id pelting snow-storm, which had prevailed all the morning. The instant her Majesty arrived the Excellent (being the only saluting ship at I?orts mouth) fired the royal salute. Tho whole of the ships of war hoisted masthead flags, and a.s her Majesty passed out of th e harbour's mouldi the crews manned rigging and yards and heartily cheered. The Garrison Battery took up the salute ing, and fired 21 guns as the Fairy emerged from the harbour's entrance, although the weather 1 0 , 1 so exceedingly thick that the Fairy was nitre/el discernible. The ships of war at Spithead, consisting o f de; nown, Curacoa, and Racoon, were prepared Bo r honours,' but the Fairy having taken the :inn e r passage, keeping the Haslar shore aboard, she, Ica: not visible from Spithead, and the ship s dig ne" salute. Her Majesty and Court will return to tool °l3 Saturday next. AUSTRALIA.— _ The Donald Mackay, one of M alay. James Bain es an C o. ' s Bl ac k Bail clippers, arriveol li t / Liverpool y es t er d ay , w i t h go ld an d sove reigns to tb. amount of 100,0001. She passed Port Phillip Hea d 0 the6tn Deceiebe,, and came round by the north 01 Ireland. Her news ha , been anticip ated. The Oliver Lm g, which has now been at sea 10 5 days, from Melbourne, with 189,7601 . in g old, and t Sea Breeze, ow. 100 days, with 95 , 6 3 61 ., were sp oli with on the 2d and 22d of January respectively, by tb. Wo-1rn001 ,, 0, arrived from Sydney. The .Blacksva with 272,3001., has been 93 days at sea. chanVe of wind to the westward would probably bring in the supplies. DEATH OF MR. T. TOOICE.—We have to record thO death of Mr. Thomas Tooke, the eminent static's, one, of the frun.lers cf the Society for the Diffusion a Useful Knowledge, and a Fellow of the Royal SocietYr to whose records be bas made many valuable contrt" butions. Mr. Tooke was also a member, and sometime chairman, of the Statistical Society, whose meetings he atterAed. STAMFORD ELECTION.—STAMFORD, March 1.---Th 4i uv ruing a inswing was held at he Ge , rge Hotel for the purpose of receiving Mr. Inglis, the candidate for the seit vaca ed by Sir F. Thesiger. Mr. Joseph Phillips presided. After a tew words from the obairman, who stated that the writ did not arrive until a lute hour on Saturday night , Mr. Inglis proceeded to address the electors, chiefly in laudation of the retreat Govern ments The hon. candidate said that, a s he should hav e an opportunity of a.ddressing his hearers more at length _ upuri . the day of election, and of conferring with theTr personally in the interv..l, he ,horild not ocoUPY the s l a atteuti m further at present. The lear n ed geonti era rr - ha and his friends then proceeded on the canvaee• election is fixed kir Wednesday next ; tie oppos ition 1" anticipated. ETON COLLEGE—MONDA.T.—The boating season Otillb; inenced as usual to-day (St. David's-day), wh : gu y s " loeg-boati" took the water for the first time th a !,' s i a oa tinder the direction of sir. Lawless. The p rof two' consisted of a ten-oar and six eight-oars, Its thirds of the craw being new men since lest sea o u - i. sa st consequence of the continuation of the bleak port wind, the first vent ure was more cool than COral° r % hot The annual foot-race came off, according to custoro week, and was w o n by Mr. Johnstone, 'Meath:filo competitors, after a splendid race, by a bout I tartia yards only. The course was about three miles, _ate from the D a tcbet gravel-pits, an d after a circnitous,7,he terminating in a field next " Fifteen - a rch Bridgekoll'l, last leap being a formidable ditch of about 1S fb:fore width, into which eaoh of the youthful aspirastr!l, h igh, he could reach the goal, bad to plunge n early Ir_ ° t h a n * which in the month of March is a " cooler rat io ' refresher." an d foreig n MuRDEL—GENOA, Feb. 24 — All Bri tish kear captains who have of late years been in Gen t he English with regret of the barbarous agsags ma tion 0„, s,igno a and A,CriCarl ship-chandler, Mr Alex . rio st. which took place on the evening of Saturday__,, bad was a man who, by his hon est and u p right de lit ,,, bad w s. acquired the confiden c e of all forei g n cap tains ta here,