The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1860. It sounds very satisfactory when we are told that the Postmaster-General has appointed a Commission to inquire into the working of the Circulation De. partment. It "sounds" we say—but decidedly is not—satisfactory. It is nothing better than a round-about illustration once more of a very old make-believe. Ie Roi s'antuse ! The Post-office examines it se lf. It s suppose d censors or a t l eas t inquisit ors are i ts own nominees. It is a proceed ing to all intents and purposes just about as absurd when applied to the case complained of, as it would have been_ in the instance of the famous Crimean disasters if the Commissariat Department, let us say for example, had been allowed to nominate with out even naming the individuals of its own selection the Commissioners who were to examine into the deficiencies and slim tcomings of the said depart ment ! Here are the Post -office authorities them- selves actually appo in t in g their own u nnamed Commissioners ! We don't know in the least who these Commissioners may be. We are left just blindly to take for granted that they are compe _ tent persons to enter upon the task of this investi gation. All that we know about them is simply, as we have observed, that they are selected, that they are appointed by the Postmaster-General and his advisers, by the Earl of ELGIN or by Sir Row- LAND HILL, the Earl of ELGIN'S Chief Secretary. Now, a commission of inquiry so appointed cannot possibly be of any practical use whatever. Its proceedings cannot influence public opinion one jot. It can neither " command success" nor yet "deserve it." The whole thing is little better than a waste of time in the elaborate performance of ,a farce that no one outside the Great National Letter-Box in St. Martin's-le-Grand can ever be expected to care two straws about. As a contemporary has very admirably put it, in summing up the entire case anew, of the Public generally versus the Post-office, or, at any rate, the Circulation Department—lt should be borne in mind especially, that " The Post-office is not charged with corruption, malver sation, or waste. It is not even accused of mis management in the ordinary sense of the term, for it would perhaps be impossible to give the public better service on the same principles or out of the same means." No—the charge preferred is nothing whatever of this kind. All that is maintained as a distinct accusation against the Post-office, or at any rate against its Circulation Department, may be epitomised by saying " That the introduc tion of the penny postage system has rendered the accommodation at the command of the establish ment utterly inefficient, and that the desire of saving a large surplus for the national revenue has prevented such an employment of the resources of the department as would have put things straight again." As our contemporary very accurately insists :—" The natural result of such conditions is stamped' workmanship. The Post-office, instead of welcoming any new demands upon its services, as a national establishment ought to do, evades its duties and curtails its work. Some of its proper business it shifts on to the shoulders of its cus tomers; some it altogether refuses." The par ticular charge—to descend from generalities—is thus specified :—" Newsletters," says our chief morning contemporary, " or newspapers have suffered most of all. For some years past there has been a steady desire on the part of the Post-office authorities to shut us out of the letter-box. The question of the newspaper stamp was worked by gentlemen to the general disadvantage of newspapers altogether. Every fresh arrangement brought us some fresh disability, till at last comes the naked proposal to deny us any special recognition, and to treat our daily issues just like carriers' parcels or ordinary books." It is against this that we have been for a long while past strongly protesting—and against it we shall continue to pretest until the matter shall have been, as it surely must be, remedied. The Post-office is no longer up to its work. In order to pour a surplus into the Treasury it shirks its own bounden duties—it refrains from doing what it should have done long ago, what it should continue to do (more or less) perpetually. It does not—to be plain—keep pace with the expansion and multiplication of our national requirements. Its central structure needs considerable enlarge ment. Its aggregate number of "hands" requires increase: Let it use its own money, as it ought, in carrying out its own duties—before contributing one sixpence to the Exchequer ! Applying the duty of the Post-office system in its relation to the expansion of the Newspaper system, we say distinctly, absolutely, and advisedly of the for mer, as it affects the latter, that it ought to " grow with its growth and strengthen with its strength!" Which it notoriously does not—and has not done. To constrain it at last to the tardy performance of this among other neglected duties, we insist that the Commission of Inquiry into the working of the Circulation Department ought to be conducted outside and apart from all the Post office influences. It ought, in point of fact, to be, in one word, Parliamentary. One consideration alone, in regard to the necessity for this expansion i❑ the working of the Post-office system, opens up an immense field of conjecture to the imagination. It is a consideration suggested in the course of an admirable article (given elsewhere) in a recent number of the Mechanics' Magazine—an article about " Cheap Paper and Cheap Postage." It is this :—" The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom by railways, coaches, carts, foot-carriers, steam packets, and boats is about 140,000 miles per day !" Having mentioned which fact, the writer in the Mechanics' Magazine adds :—"Who shall say what it will become when the restrictive and heavy hand of prohibition shall be removed, and the Post Office be thus allowed its full development and legitimate mission ?" We are fain to believe that this sug gestion must surely, upon second thoughts, be too much for Sir ROWLAID HILL—For we cannot easily make up our minds to regard the author of the Penny Postage System—now that he is, really and truly, one of the very few Right Men in their Right Places—can by possibility persist, in any way, in being (what must surely be his very anti podes or antithesis), an Obstructive ! Our attention has lately been directed to a very painful case which has, we learn, created much excitement in the neighbourhood of Sher borne. It appears that a young girl named ELIZA BETH HODDER, a domestic servant, was attacked, while in service, by an infectious fever. The doctor recommended her immediate removal from the family, who had no accommodation for her, having already a sick servant in the house. He went to make inquiries at the Union, and found on personal inspec tion that there were only between 70 and 80 people in a house designed for 240, and consequently there that she was ample convenien ce , f or h er a d m i ss i on. It seems was admitted but was soon after removed. At whose door the cruelty lies is not stated ; but -1 this poor girl, suffering from a dangerous fever, " was taken," to use the words of the physician who attended her, " when cer t a i n l y not fit to be removed so far —a distance of about five miles, to a cottage which had not been inhabited, except by night, I was told for several months ; standing in a swamp, surrounded on three sides by a stagnant ditch, one of the windows of the room to which onethe poor girl was taken , opening immediately over of these ditches , the exhalatio ns from which a re freely admissible through the casement that will To this miserable locality th e not nearly close." wretched sufferer, by the wise and humane decision of the Board of Guardians, was conveyed ; th e result being, as Dr. WILLIAMS says, that Neare v she "almost necessarily died in a few d ays." not surprised that warm and general indignation seald should be felt in the neighbourhood. We h recommend that the rate-payers of the district express their sentiments pretty plainly to the parochial authorities on this matter. Surely the Union should have a sick-ward, with pro per accommodation for the isolation of in fectious disorders. That a poor girl afflicted with a dangerous disease should be bandied about from one place to another because the accident of her being in service deprives her of a lodging, is a thing not to be tolerated in a heavily taxed coun try like ours. The parishioners have a right to demand that the case should be immediately and stringently inquired into, and we trust they will not neglect their duty in this matter. In addition to the inhuman treatment of the sick girl herself, how great is the risk incurred by keeping those having infectious disorders in crowded places of business. The doctor recommended her admission to the Union after having ascertained that none of her relatives could take her, excepting the inhabitants of this miserable cottage. Her other friends in Sherborne had no room in their houses, but an aunt said she would take her in if she had a bed to place her in. This aunt is the washer for the King's school, and a large quantity of the linen was then in the house,a fact which as Dr. WILLIAMS points out, might have had most dangerous consequences in spreading the contagion. The case adds another instance, if any were needed, to the urgent necessity that exists for some alteration in the management of our Unions. As at present constituted they are too often a disgrace to a people professing humanity. It would be well if a part of the time, exertion, and money so liberally bestowed on charitable institu tions were directed to the purpose of making our workhouse system a little more what it should be. The plan of refusing to admit anyone not born in the parish is simply absurd. If a man is born in the North of England, and in the course of years settles in Dorset or Devon where unforeseen circumstances reduce him to utter destitution, he is expected, forsooth, to make a journey of two or three hundred miles be fore he can obtain relief. And, in very many in stances, people may not be certain what parish is theirs. In a case of severe illness the obstacles and difficulties put in the way of claimants for admis sion, bad enough in health, become positively barbarous. We do not envy the feelings of those gentlemen who ordered the removal of the unfor tunate girl. To send aqufferer from fever to such a locality as the one described above was simply signing her death warrant, It is a disgraceful transaction, and if a poor girl, honestly working for her own support, is to be liable to such treat ment in case of sudden and severe illness, the less we say in future about our national justice and charity the better. A pleasant prospect has just been drawn in de licate perspective by a very few but sufficient touches ofan ingenious pen in the Lancet—a delight ful prospect for all of us unhappy Londoners, during this next midsummer ! It is worth looking into at once—if only to see whether there may not be yet time for staving off the threatened evil. Everybody who chanced to be in London during the dog-days of 1859, will only but too well remember the foul stench reeking from the surface of that great open sewer bisecting the capital of the British Empire—once upon a time a noble and beautiful river called the Thames ! Well—remembering that stench—we are now in formed by the Lancet (which gives its reasons for the statement) that that bouquet will be as nothing to what we may expect this summer ! The Lancet says :—" The Board of Works have committed many grave blunders ; they are about to extin guish these by one which shall be immeasurably greater. They are advertising for thousands of gallons of perchloride of iron, by which they mean something else." Perchloride of iron as a disinfectant has been proved to be a dead failure ! Yet the Board of Works—mistaking it for another fluid—are advertising for perchloride of iron, that they may pour it into the Thames, with a view to its disinfection and deodorisation ! How the blunder originated the Lancet very clearly explains as follows: *Warned by the unutterable stench of the Thames during the past seasons, and seeking means more efficacious than those hitherto employed, which converted the water into a peculiarly uninviting va riety of sanatory lime soup, the Board had called into council two eminent chemists, Dr. Hofmann and Dr. Frankland, whom they invited to select, from a shoal of schemes submitted to the Board, a deodorising process combining both efficiency and economy. Of those proposed the name was legion. After rejecting the proposition of Mr. Kottula for dosing the river with salt, and with others for gal vanising the astonished waters, and treating them to electrie shocks, these gentlemen reported that only one fluid possessed that combination of qualities which could warrant them in recommending it to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the deo dorisation of the London sewage.' " The Lancet goes on to observe—" The agent was that described as Dale's muriate of iron,' which far surpasses any other in its imme diate action and permanent effects.' Its supe riority in immediate action arises from the small quantity which is needed of the fluid, for five drops effectually deodorises a gallon of fcetid sewage; or half a gallon suffices for 7,500 gallons of sewage, as Drs. Hofmann and Frankland report. Next, in the facility and rapidity of its application, and in the agreeably pellucid condition in which the deodorised water is subsequently left. Finally, whereas sewage deodorised with lime or chloride of lime (the next best agents) becomes offensive and putrid four days after treatment, that treated with Dale's fluid re mains permanently deodorised. Probably it may also be said that it is disinfected, for the iron salts appear not only to deodorise but to precipitate the organic matter, which is likely to act as a ferment. Hence the completeness and permanence of the deo dorisation. The reporters confirm all that has been alleged in these respects concerning Dale's fluid ; but finding it to contain an excess of perchloride of iron, they fell into the grave chemical error of speak ing of it through the latter part of their report as per chloride of iron !" Here is the error. And now, lo and behold, " The chemical blunder of the reporters has been magnified by the Board into b. sanitary blunder of the greatest magnitude. The fact is, that the per chloride of iron did not come under the notice of the reporters at all ; they reported throughout on Dale's fluid. The perchloride of iron has compa ratively feeble powers of deodorisa tion. The Board are advertising for thousands of gallons of a fluid of the properties of which they know officially no thing ; they are asking, in fact, for what they do not mean, and will get what they do not want. The result will be, that thousands of pounds will be wasted, and the Thames will stink worse than ever." That is the pleasant prospect we have alluded to. It is enough to empty London of all who oan leave it, through the mere terror of the an ticipa tion. In order to testify their admiration of the spirited conduct of M. Du c isanloup, Bishop of Orleans, in his litiga tionbuwtiiotuhs_,thtpheanSindieiti/e and the heirs of his predecessor, Bishop Rousseau, e u have each received tr. his i tis of Orleans have, by voluntary con were lawex x pr oo se . s. Th lSnl s . e ße g r e r n ye ti r em an en d M. at minds. One of the anything in the shape of remune ration,essful prosecution is, subsequently induced to change their upon as the head of the jl t i first declined accepting results of that ill-advised and unsuc cessful in France. M. Dupanloup is now looked but c BEULAH SPA HYDR° PATSHIC ESTABLISIIMENT.— The reputation which Beulahenjoyed in the last cen tury, on account of the medicinal properties properties of its mineral waters, appears destined tob n e rs n only perp e t ua t e d , b ut greatly y sfu in l by being the loc a lity o f a cted hydropathi c establishm en t cr a e n a d se w d e i l n l-n fu nn tu d r u e ye In no place is such an institution than in the neighbourhood s of 0 more needed vast population is so deeply absorbed i n n, thewhere its conflict of various interests, and where every nerve is strained to the utmost in the eager competition in which it is necessary to bear a part. To those engaged lt d b in profes sionalhe or mercantile d uties in London, M alvern, and other hydropathic establish ments, are too far re moved, and to them it will b 3 a grateful announcement that within a few minutes' ride by railway, or other conveyance, there exists an elegant and commodious building, in the midst of spa cious grounds, and in one of the most commanding s p o t s in the neighbourhood of London, to which, after the close of the labours of the day, they may retire, and enjoy the full benefit of medical supervision and advice, and of those various descriptions of baths which experienced practi tioners may recommend for their use. Except in very extreme cases, the hydropathic treatment does not preclude the patient following his ordinary pursuits and avocations, and it is one of the greatest recommendations of the Beulah Spa that it enables a man to attend to his professional or other duties, while at the same time undergoing a curative pro cess. The site of the building and grounds is in Upper Norwood. Its proximity to the Crystal Palace, and its easy accessibility from London, are also advantages which ought not to be overlooked in estimating the value of Dr. Ritterbandt's saniterium. HAY TOR GRANITE COMPANY.—Notice 1 is Hereby Given, That the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will beholden at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on TUESDAY, the Ist of May next, at Two for Three o'clock preoisely, to receive a Statement of Accounts for the year ending March 25th last ; to elect Three Directors in the room of J. L. Seager, Esq., S. B. Pyman, Esq., and Alderman T. Farncomb ; to elect Two Auditors, in the room of Henry Arthur Hunt, Esq., and John Henry Taylor, who all go out of office by rotation, in pursuance of the direction of the Charter, and are severally eligible for re-election for their several offices ; also, to elect One Director in the room of John Sivewright, Esq., deceased. WILLIAM HENRY PALMER, Secretary. 4, Millbank-row, Westminster. April 9, 1860. BENSON'S W ATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watohe THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.- The Public and Subscribers are respectfully informed that the Management have entered into arrangements for the production of ENGLISH OPERA with molt eminent Ar tistes. The season will commence THIS EVENING, Mon day April pril 9. operas to be performed during the week are MARI TA.NA and IL TROVATORE. Halevy's admired opera, THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS, is in active preparation. The Band and Chorus will be numerous and efficient. Mu sical Director and Conductor, Dr. JAMES PECH. Reduced Prices - Stalls, 45 ; dress circle, 3s; first circle, 2s 6d ; pit, 2s ; upper boxes, is 6d ; gallery, is ; upper gallery, 6d ; private boxes from lOs 6d upwards. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. Nugent, open daily. THEATRE -ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. RO YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps and Miss Atkinson (their first ap pearance at this theatre). To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Most powerful attraction for the Holidays. Adelphi Drama and Grand Extravaganza. THIS EVENING, April 9, will be reproduced the popular original Adelphi drama of THE DEAD HEART. Robert Landry Mr. B. Webster (who will make his first appearance since his return from his greatly successful provincial tour) ; Messrs. P. Bedford, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Stuart, C. J. Smith, Billington, Eburne, Powell, Romer, Page; MissWool gar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. After which (first time at this theatre), the Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., of THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Graceful, Miss Woolgar ; Queen Lucidora, Miss Emily Thorne (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mollmopsa,, Miss K. Kelly. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 38. ; Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with A BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. H. T. Craven, and Mr. C. Young. After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC ftEZIA BORGIA AT THOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with " No. 49." Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six ; perform once commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY. Manager, Mr. Enwfx HUGHES. Will OPEN on EASTE lt MONDAY, April 9, 1860, with a Grand Military Spectacle (in Four Acts and Eleven Ta bleaux), fbunded upon the French Drama, " L'Histoire d'un Drapeau" now performing at Paris with great success, and entitled—" THE HISTORY OF A FLAG," To give every due effect to the Spectacle it will be supported by a new and effi cient Dramatio Company, and will introduce real Camels, Buffaloes, &c.. bought expressly for the occasion. The Amusements in the Cirque will be supported by a Company of Continental Equestrian Stars, comprising Maddle. Monet, Marie, Fernando, and De Berg ; also, Messrs. H. Williams, Devereux, Wattson, Fer nando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan Jack. Clowns—Messrs. Charles Watson and Thorne. The Entertainment concluding each evening with a Laugh able FARCE. Doors open at half -past 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERT S. THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Dontzetti). Donna Lucretia Miss Russell. Mali° Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautilicd, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.64. WIND, Westerly—fresh, with a heavy hail storm in the forenoon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 55m.—Afternoon, 4h. 15m. To-monnow.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 57m. THE POST-OFFICE AND NEWSPAPERS. Scarcely a day elapses that we do not receive complaints of newspapers missing, being too late, or arriving several posts be hind time. This is an intolerable nuisance to our subscribers, and is, besides, highly prejudicial to ourselves. Where rests the evil ? It is idle to complain, for polite answers and promises avail nothing. gurely Sir Rowland Rill will have some merciful consideration, and endeavour to redress the grievance. It is a double griev ance,. for we are made to pay for not send mg the paper, which is often kept back till next morning, which loses a day to our subscribers, who truly say that old news is no news, causing anger rather than benefit. If the General Post-office be not large enough, then extend it, or build another capacious enough for every purpose, be the cost what it may. It will serve for all time. e make this suggestion in a spirit of good will, and hope that good may come of it. Sun Office, April 4, 1860. Q v 9 t . ~4- -, 7) 7:i. r -- \4"-- - t 7.7 _,i, : , , '7O i• : • - i -', .':: \ ' ')47...1Pg.;--\\: ,- :, 0 `-. 1 ',.. 3; 7-- ~/ 011.....„ - f r • ',"15 - • THE SUN LONDON, MONDAY E#ENING, APRIL 9, 1860. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received a. Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, APRIL 9. The Government has sent the following official communication to the Pays and Patrie :—On the occasion of the attempts at insurrection in Sicily and Spain, the Pays and Patrie contained lament able imputations against a neighbouring Power. These papers ought, so much the less, to have ac cepted these imputations, knowing that they are devoid of authenticity. PARIS, APRIL 7. The Patrie of this evening says : " Despatches from Sicily of a later date than those received by way of Piedmont do not men tion the insurrection reported to have broken out in Messina." TURIN, APRIL 8. According to news from Naples of yesterday's date the insurrection in Sicily continued. The Neapolitan Government had sent reinforce ments. TURIN, APRIL 7. The official journal of the Two Sicilies contains 'news from Sicily up to the sth inst., to the effect that the insurrection at Palermo had been repressed after an obstinate combat in the streets and houses. The insurrection at Messina had not been entirely subdued, and had spread to Casane. No news had been received since the sth on account of an inter ruption in the telegraphic communication. NAPLES, APRIL 7. The official Giornale di Napoli announces that the rebels at Palermo attacked the Royal troops on the 4th. The troops took the convent Gancia, oc cupied by the rebels. The armed bands have been dispersed. NAPLES, APRIL 7. The following is official : The most perfect tranquillity reigns at Palermo and throughout Sicily, as well as at Naples. The Government is prepared for emergencies. ROME, APRIL 7. The Giornale di Roma contains the appointmeir of General Lamoricire as commander in chief of the Papal troops. ROME, APRIL 3 (via MARSEILLES). General Lamoriciere was received yesterday at the Vatican. It is asserted that the King of Sar dinia has claimed the political prisoners belonging to the Legations. The secretary of Duke Cesarini has been exiled. FLORENCE, APRIL 4. The legations of England and France have taken down their escutcheons. MADRID, APRIL 8. The official Gazelle promulgates the Concordat concluded with Rome. The Emperor of Morocco has ratified the bases of peace. There is no other news. MADRID, APRIL 7. It appears certain that Count Montemolin and his brother were arrested at the moment of their disembarking. It is said that both prisoners are confined in Fort Morella. All attempts at insur rection have failad. Ortega will be tried at Tor tosa. The Moors, it is believed, will immediately pay the indemnity stipulated in the conditions of peace. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 6.—The first prices of the Rente were steady, but as the English Consols arrived with a fall of 1 the Rente declined, and all other Securities were offered. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 95c. and 70f. 5c., receded to 69f. 75c. ; Mobilier varied from 795 f. to 785 f. ; Austrian, 535 f. to 530 f. ; Orleans, 1,3621. 50c. to 1,357 f. 50c.; Lyons, 926 f. to 25c. to 922 f. 50c.; Eastern, 637 f. 25c. to 632 f 50c. ; Geneva, 432 f. 50c. to 425 f. The following are the last quotations 41 per Cents. .... 96 Credit Fonder 785 Do. end month .. I Belgian 41 99 3 per Cents 69 80 Piedmontese (5) .. 82 Do. end month 69 65 Roman — Bank Shares 2815 Austrian Credit Msbilier .. 782 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 783 75 Home Debt 44f RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orlelins Northern 956 25 .. 957 50 New ditto 863 75 .. 867 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 .. 922 50 Genova 425 .. 427 50 Southern Western 568 75 .. 570 Eastern Sardinian 412 50 .. 412 50 Austrian Lombard .. .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 14c.; money, 25f. 13c.; three months, paper, 24f. 85c.; money, 24f 82jc. NICE. Yesterday's Moniteur publishes the following proclamation, addressed on the sth of April to the inhabitants of the town and county of Nice : " Fellow-citizens,—The uncertainty of our desti nies has just ceased. By the treaty signed on March 24, the valiant King Victor Emmanuel has ceded to France Savoy and the district of Nice. The most powerful motives of political convenience, the exigencies of the future of Italy, the sentiment of gratitude to his powerful ally, lastly the altogether special circumstances of our country, have induced, although with regret, that well-beloved sovereign to part with provinces closely bound during many centuries to his dynasty. But the lot of peoples ought not to depend conclusively upon the will of princes. Accordingly, the magnanimous Emperor Napoleon 111. and the loyal Victor Emmanuel have desired that the treaty of cession should be fortified by the popular adhesion. " For this purpose you will shortly be convoked in electoral comitia, and his Majesty the King has unexpectedly confided to me the provisional government of this district in my capacity of your fellow-citizen. " Fellow-citizens, at the august voice of the King, all uncertainty as to our future has dis• appeared. In the same way, at his august words, all dissensions and rivalries ought henceforth to disappear. All the citizens ought to be animated by the same spirit of conciliation. All oppositions ought to break powerless against the interests of our country and the sentiment of duty. More over, they would find an insurmountable obstacle in the wishes of Victor Emmanuel himself. " Public demonstrations at this moment have no longer any justification. Their end would be to compromise the public order, which will be hence forth energetically protected. Confidence, tran quillity, and collectedness ought to preside over the solemn act to which you will be called. " Fellow-citizens, the mission which the King has just confided to me is transitory but important. To fulfil my task in these extraordinary moments, I rely on your concurrence, on your respect for the laws, and on the high degree of civilisation to which you have raised yourselves. " Let us hasten, then, to confirm by our votes the reunion of our country to France. In render ing ourselves th e echo of the King's intentions, let us link ourselves around the flag of that noble and great nation which has always excited our liveliest sympathies. Let us rally around the throne of the glorious Emperor Napoleon 111. Let us surround bim with that fidelity, altogether special to our country, which We have preserved up to this time to Victor Emmanuel. Of that august prince let us cherish amongst us the remembrance, and let our ardent wishes ascend for his new and brilliant des tinies. For the great Napoleon 111., whose power ful will is to open a new era of prosperity for our country, will command our unshakeable fidelity and our unbounded devotion. " Vive la France ! " Vive l'Empereur Napoleon 111. ! " The Governor Regent LUBONIS." AMERICA. The following telegram has been received at Mr, Reuter's office : LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steam ship Asia, Capt. Lott, has arrived here. She left New York on the 28th ult. The Asia brings no specie. She passed the Arabia on the 29th ult. The following steamers had arrived out :—The John Bell, on the 27th ult., and the City of Wash ington on the 28th ; the New York and Bohemian arrived at Portland on the 27th ult. The New York Herald says the offer of the British Government for an arrangement of the San Juan difficulty has been respectfully declined. The proceedings in Congress were unimportant. Advices from Vera Cruz are to the 15th ult. The endeavours to bring about an armistice had failed. The siege had been renewed with consider able effect. The reported flight of Miramon and the dispersion of his forces is unfounded. Advices from California are to the sth ult. Nearly 900,000 dollars have been forwarded thence and have reached New York. Another destructive fire had broken out in San Francisco. Advices from Havannah are to the 23d ult. Con siderable excitement prevailed there on receipt of the news of the capture of two Mexican steamers. Sugars brisk. Freights improved. Exchange on London, 14 premium. NEW YORK, March 28.—Money market abun dantly supplied at easy rates. Loans on call, sto 6+ per cent. ; prime bills, 60 days', 6 to 7 per cent. A fair business doing in stocks, but prices are a shlde easier. Exchange flat. Bills on London, 108,E to 109 ; on France, sf. 161 c. to sf. 181 c. LITERATURE. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. A new edition One vol. Pp. 452. Smith, Elder, and Co. Very welcome will this new edition of a delight ful work, by an incomparably delightful writer, be to many hundreds of thousands. Its interest is enhanced in a melancholy manner by the recent decease of the amiable and rarely accomplished autobiographer. Immediately prior to his calm demise, however, Leigh Hunt—holding his pen lovingly to the last, and only dropping it as it were half unconsciously, to sink back into the tranquil exhaustion of dissolution—had just finished the final touches of revision, in preparing for the public the proof-sheets of this new edition of his auto biography. At the period of its first publication in three volumes, more than ten years back, we subjected the work (we well remember) in those columns to a careful critical examination. It will be sufficient if we here observe of the revised reprint (in which the three volumes are con densed into one) that it possesses several additional attractions. It contains two addi tional chapters written by Leigh Hunt him self —as we have intimated —just before he breathed his last peacefully in the arms of those he loved best upon earth. Chapter X XV. is en titled " Play-writing conclusion. " Chapter XXVI., " Life drawing towards its close." To the end of this concluding fragment of the auto biography, the eldest son of the poet-essayist appends a little over a page of " Postscript." Be- sides which, the same editor prefixes to the work a charming prefatory paper by way of introduction to the autobiography. As a frontispiece to the volume we have a deeply interesting portrait of the charming author—like Goldsmith—one of the most beloved writers in our English literature. Examples of Modern A lphabets. By F. Delamotte. One vol. E. and F. N. Spon. An excellent sequel, this is, to Mr. F. Delamotte's " Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient AND Modern"—to which we have already in these columns awarded our commendation. Within the compass of forty-eight royal Bvo. oblong pages, the artist has collected and delineated, with a faithful pencil, examples of "Modern Alphabets," both Plain and Ornamental, including among them Ger man, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, Engrossing, Per spective, and Arabesque. The work will be found particularly useful to Masons, Carvers, Painters, Engravers, Surveyors, Decorators, Draughtsmen, and Lithographers. The Embroiderer's Book of Design. By F. Della motte. One vol. E. and F. N. Spon. Here, too, the same artist and collector has in dustriously brought together within the small com pass of nineteen oblong royal octavo pages—initials, emblems, cyphers, and monograms, ecclesiastical devices, and ornamental borders; among other em blems, those of a peculiarly national character; and besides all these a variety of modern and media3val alphabets. The book will be found a delightful and most useful auxiliary to the graceful labours of the embroiderer. Cunseroux's Bust of Brunel. In the vestibule or outer apartment of the suite of rooms—constituting the well-known Suffolk - street Gallery there is noticeable among other meritorious products of the Sculptor's Art, an admirable and (although a colossal) a most life-like effigy (No. 866) of the late distinguished engineer, Isambard Brunel, to whose genius as an engineer England is indebted (among many other gigantic productions) for the Great Western Railway and the Great Eastern Steam- ship. The young sculptor, Mr. S. G. Cameroux, whose hand has contributed this noble Bust of Brunel to the newly-opened exhibition of the Society of British Artists, has done far more than merely delineate accurately the form of the head and features—he has caught with true artist-skill that soul of the " human face divine "—the expres sion ! TlllB DAY'S SHIPPING. t.oxvox, April 9.—Wind this day at noon. West to South West ; strong breeze and cloudy, with cold weather. PLYMOUTH, April B.—Wind, W.S.W.—Arrived— Inconstant, from London for Adelaide, to stop a leak; Sir Richard Jackson, from Shields for Moulmein ; her Ma jesty's ship Terrible, for Malta; her Majesty's ship Indus, for the West Indies. FALmounr, April S.—Wind W.S.W., strong breeze.— Arrived—Sophie, from Moulmein • Ceres, from Para ha ; sdale, from Mauritius • Sarah Ellen, from Rio Gande; Star of Hope, from Paraiba. WHITEHAVEN, April 7.—Wind W.—Sailed—Thomas Lee, and Transit, for Quebec. OFF FALMOUTH, April S.—Arrived—Nemesis, from Bahia ; Claudia, from Rio Janeiro. SCILLY, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—llenrich, and France et Chills, from Rio Grande. NEWPORT, April B . — Arrived—Atlantic, from Appledore for New York ; Captain Cook, from Liverpool for Galle. Sailed—Youak, for Rio Janeiro; Edward Hyman, for New Orleans. FOWEY, April 7.—Wind W.—Arrived—Anna Iresk, From Demerara. PENZANCE, April 7.—Arrived—Nelson, from Monte Video, assisted in with loss of mainmast; Hobo, from Rot terdam for Batavia. CARDIFF, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Sailed.—Rivere, for Shanghai ; Van Berg, for Singapore ; Katherine, for Que bec ; Petrel, for Cape de Verds. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind, N.W. Arrived, April 7.—Foyle, steamer, from Dublin ; Alli ance steamer, from Havre; L'Etoile, from Carentan; Georges and La Poulo, from Cherbourg; Courier, steamer, from Jersey; Ally, from Sunderland. Sailed. April 7.—Behar steamer, for Lisbon ; Foyle, steamer, for London; Georges, for Cherbourg. Arrived, April 7.—Hammonia, steanier, from Hamburg; Clara, Black-eyed Susan, Moslem. Lucille, Alarm, Willi:tin, British Lady, Leila Pilot, and Portland, all from Newport ' • Martha, from Cardiff; Matilda , from Youghall ; Aurelio, from Carentan; Le Coq, from Cherbourg; Agenoria, front Sunderland; ; James and Elizabeth, from Shields ; Gipsy, from Llanelly ; Cheshire Lass, from Belfast. Sailed, April 6—Prussian frigate Arcona, for Ports.. mouth ; Isabella, for Sunderland ; Supply, for Seaham. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb ; weather fine. Arrived, April B.—Lois, from New York. Sailed, April 1 4 .—Aurora, for Bordeaux; Anglo-Saxon for Shanghae. Sailed, April 9.—Affiance, for Colombia. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind W., fresh and fine. Passed—Chanticleer, from Jamaica; Orient, f rom Ade laide; Skimmer of the Seas, from Algoa Bay; Northum berland, from Columbia; Naomi, steamer, from Shanghae —all for London. Anchored—Forest Fairy, from St. Michael's for orders ; Windsor Castle, for Bombay. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Fort, for the westward. 2HE NAVY. The Rodney, 91, line-of-battle screw steamer, is now entirely completed at Chatham Dockyard, and is waiting to be undocked, when she will proceed to join the second division of the steam reserve in the Medway, under the command of Capt. Schomberg, superintendent of the reserve. According to pre sent arrangements, the sailing frigate Arethusa, 50, will go into the dock vacated by the Rodney, the Admiralty having ordered her to be lengthened and converted into a 51-gun steam frigate. The Phcebe, 50, under conversion to a screw frigate, is complete in the shipwrights' depart ment, and will be undocked early next week. The Constance, 50, is about:to be lengthened and converted into a screw steam frigate. The Wrangler, 4, screw gun vessel, of 160- horse power, at Sheerness, is to be commissioned immediately with a complement of 65 officers and men. Commander Anthony Riley Hoskins, who has been appointed to her command, obtained his commission as lieutenant in March, 1849, and after serving three years in the Castor, 36, at the Cape of Good Hope, was appointed to the Philomel, 8, on the west coast of Africa station in September, 1853 ; and was re-appointed in March, 1855, to the Britomart, 8, on the sarnd -station. He was ap pointed to the command of the Slaney, steam gun boat, in April, 1857, and 'served in China until pro moted to commander, Feb. 26, 1858. The Prussian screw-frigate Arcona, Commodore Sundswall, anchored at Spithead, from Southamp ton, yesterday morning. The iron screw troopship Megwra, Corn. Hender son, fitting at Portsmouth for foreign service, has crossed her topsail yards fitted with the Cunning ham patent, and is otherwise fast progressing in her outfit. The Vulture, 6, paddle, recently paid off at Ports mouth, has been removed from alongside the dock yard to a berth up the harbour. On Thursday last the crew of the new screw steam-frigate Forte, 51, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., were paid their advance at Sheerness. On Saturday, at 1.10 p.m., she saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, and left for Portsmouth. The Admiral's salute was returned by the Formidable guardship of ordinary, Capt.-Superintendent R. B. Watson. The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. F. H. C. Glasse, C. 8., from Malta March 25, and Gibraltar March 31, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening. She brings 130 invalids from the hospital at Malta and from the fleet in the Medi terranean ; they are in charge of Dr. G. Willes, R.N., Lieut. Thompson, Dr. Wilson, Mr. Wilson, naval cadet ; Mr, Elliot, assist.-engineer ; and Mr. Robert, assist.-engineer, are among the number of the sick. The Terrible left at Malta the Marlbo rough, Cressy, St. Jean d'Acre, Neptune, Victor Emmanuel, Cresar, Alacrity, and Medina; and at Gibraltar the Hannibal, Renown, Agamemnon, James Watt, Doris, Scylla, Lapwing, and Quail. The Ansphion left for Malta on the Ist April. From Malta to Gibraltar the Terrible experienced strong westerly winds, since which the weather has been variable. The paddlewheel steam vessel Pigmy, 3, William Johnson master, from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply mouth on Friday, with men paid off from the pad dlewheel steam frigate Vulture, 6, just returned from the Mediterranean. On Saturday the Pigmy embarked supernumeraries, and returned to Ports mouth. The training ship Implacable, at Plymouth, is to be commissioned, with a commander, a lieutenant, and 40 men. The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard, got up steam on Saturday, and proceeded from Ply mouth Sound round the Eddystone, to try her en gines after repair ; she made about 81 knots, which is an improvement on her previous rate. Commander Mackenzie rejoined on Saturday, the 31st ult. She will probably sail for the West Indies on Thursday. A letter received at Plymouth from the screw steamship Caesar, 90, Capt. Thos. H. Mason, dated Malta, March 30 , states that she was on the point of departure for Naples, where she would probably stay a month or six weeks. The screw steamship Howe, 121, just completed at Pembroke, arrived in Plymouth sound on Fri day night, in charge of Commander Paul, Second Master-Attendant of Devonport Dockyard, and in tow of the paddlewheel steamsloop Virago, 6, Com mander M. B. Dunn. The steam tender Confiance was sent out from Devonport in the afternoon to render assistance, if necessary. On Saturday morn ing the Howe was towed into Hamoaze by the Con fiance and Zephyr, and placed alongside the dock yard to be dismantled ; sails were unbent the same day. The Howe is 15 feet longer and one foot broader than the Duke of Wellington. Yesterday (Sunday) morning the ship Indus, 78, Capt. W. K. Hall, bearing the flag of Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B. late in command of the No r th American and West India station, arrived in Ply mouth Sound. She left Bermuda March the 21st, and brings a few naval and military invalids, in cluding Mr. Yule, paymaster, and Mr. Kent, chief engineer, of the Hydra. Lady Stewart, whose health is much improved, has returned in the Indus with the Admiral, and his secretary, Paymaster Arthur Jones, is also on board. Dr. Beith, R.N., late staff surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital, Ireland Island, Bermuda, has come home passenger, having exchanged with Dr. Domville, late of the Indus. The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A. Cumming, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir A. Milne, K.C.B. (successor to Admi ral Stewart), which left Plymouth Feb. 16, arrived at Bermuda on Tuesday, March 6, one of the quick est passages on record. She used canvass only until within 500 miles of the island; the exact time occu pied was 19 days and 6 hours. The Admiral left Bermuda on March 19 for Barbadoes. The paddle wheel screw steamer Hydra, 6, Commander R. V. Hamilton, from St. Thomas's, arrived at Bermuda on March 19, and left on the 21st for Antigua. The hired schooner Excelsior, Capt. Talbot, with 80 convicts in medical charge of Dr. Foggo, was ap pointed to leave Bermuda on March 22 for Cork and Portsmouth. The mail steamer Delta, with the English mail of the 25th Feb. did not reach Ber muda until Mar c h 17. She left Halifax on March 12, having been detained there by the prolonged passage cf the America from Liverpool to Halifax. The Indus spoke, April 4, in lat 48.48 N, long 8.49 W, the ship Windsor Castle, from Bombay for Lon don ; April 6, in l a t 49.16 N, long 9.9 W, a ship showing thitd divinguishing pennant No. 5,718 ; April 7, in lat 49.21 N, long 5.59 W, the ship Alice and the steamer Prince Albert, from London for Mogador. From the 21st to the 30th of March strong gales were experienced from N.W. to S.W.; and on the 30th, in lat 46.48 N, long 28.46 W, it amounted to almost a hurricane, the force of wind being from 9to 11. Soundings were struck on the 3d inst., since which strong easterly winds prevailed until Saturday last. The Indus was commissioned in Nov., 1856, and will probably go to Hamoaze to be stripped. Her crew are to be paid off at Plymouth. The nsaster attendant, Mr. Tonkin, and assistant master attendant, both of Portsmouth dockyard, and as Queen's harbour masters, have recei red their commissions appointing them as permanent commanders to any one of her Majesty's ships of war. This is a step in which we can offer our hearty congratulotions, and we could but wish that the masters afloat had a " life worthy their long, arduous, and faithful services. They are, without exception, the hardest worked and most neglected class of officers in her Majesty's service. Notwithstanding the large reduction ordered to be made at Chatham Dockyard by the discharge of upwards of 600 of the shipwrights, mechanics, and labourers who were taken on at that es tablishment during last year, it is intended that about 1,000 of the hands then hired shall still be retained, and notice has been given to that effect. In the meantime a certain number of hands will be discharged every Saturday afternoon, until the en tire number ordered by the Admiralty shall have left the establishment. On Saturday afternoon 75 of the hired mechanics, shipwrights, and labourers received their discharge at the dockyard gates. Eighty-four artisans and others were discharged from the dockyard at Devonport on Saturday. An attempt will be made to-morrow (Tuesday) evening 17 Mr. W. Orchard, of the rigging de partment in her Majesty's dockyard, Devonport, to raise and float off from Batten Reef, in Plymouth Sound, the stranded transport Havering. She went ashore on Saturday, March 31, ever since which time her cargo has been discharging. It consists of shot, shell, gunpowder, provisions, preserved meats, ale, porter, bread, medical stores, clothing, bedding, tents, &c., and about 150 tons British merchandise on private freight. A very large portion has been removed, and there are not more than 150 tons deadweight left, exclusive of 30 tons of gunpowder, the rest being what is termed " floatable. ' ;The Havering registers 912 tons and draws, when laden, nearly 20 feet ; site lies stern on to the Batten, her bow being nearly due west. Early last week, the tide being quarter ebb, the depth of water alongside at midships was 22 feet, and astern 21 feet. The Admiralty will lend four brig hulks from Devon port of about 400 tons each, which will be provided with powerful purchases in the shape of three-fold blacks. The lifting power is calculated at 600 tons Altogether 200 fathoms of 2 1. inch cable chain will be used, and eight jewel rings of 41 inches for slinging. The appliances are furnished with the understanding that all damages are to be repaired. Should Mr. Orchard be successful in floating her off, two merchant tugs will be in att en d ance to convey her to some pace convenient for repair, possibly near the commercial wharf. The steam floating battery Trusty, 14, which has been towed into Chatham Harbour, is intended to be taken into the first dock, recently vacated by the screw frigate Galatea, 26, in order to be carefully overhauled and put into a thorough state of repair , preparatory to a further series of experiments being tried upon her at Shoeburyness with the Whit worth and Armstrong long range guns, under the direction of Colonel J. W. Mitchell, R.A., and the Ordnance Select Committee, consisting of Csl. J. St. George, C. 8., R.A., president; Capt. Sir W. S. Wiseman, R.N. ; Colonel E. H. Greathed, C. 8., D.C.L., R.A. ; Colonel W. J. Smythe, R.A. ; and Colonel W. Robinson, RE. Since the Trusty has arrived at Chatham she has been carefully surveyed by the principal officers of the dockyard, in order to ascertain the extent of the injuries she sustained on the occasion of the former experiments made on her with the Armstrong gun at Shoeburyness. The result ascertained is that her hull is very much in jured in several places, the elongated shots fire." from the Armstrong gun being so terrific in thelr effects as to shatter in pieces several of the massive wrought-iron plates with which the battery 16 coated, and in some instances passing completely through the 'vessel. The whole of the i ro n plates in the slightest degree injured are to be removed, and replaced by new ones of equal thickness ; the timbers are also to be repaired, and the recent daol ages made good with the least possible delay, when the battery will be again towed down to Shoebury ness, and placed some miles out at sea, the Govern ment being desirous of having a complete trial mail° of the rival Armstrong and Whitworth guns, when the latter especially will be thoroughly tested. A court-martial, comprising Rear-Admiral J. D. Erskine, commanding the Port Division of the Channel Fleet at Spithead (President), Capts. G. T. Gordon, G. D. O'Callaghan, R. Harris, R. S. Het' lett, C. 8., C. F. Hillyar, W. Tarleten, C. 8., Wilson, H. Caldwell, C. 8., J. H. Strange, R. Coote, I. Katon, and J. E. Vansittart, with Mr. W. F. Hellyer, Deputy Judge-Advocate, assembled on board her Majesty's ship Victory, on Saturday, I ,a Portsmouth harbour, for the trial of Lieut. G. S. Graves, late senior lieut. of her Majesty's brig Siren, on the following charges, preferred by Coln. G. M. Balfour, commanding the Siren : ‘, 1. That on or about the 18th of June, 1859, he, Lieut. Graves, did behave with contempt on the quarter-deck of the Siren, and use reproachful lan guage to Corn. Balfour, his superior officer. 2. That he did on various occasi ons exc it e certa i n o ffi cer s of the ship to act in opposition and behave with con tempt to Com. Balfour, parti cu l ar l y i n two i ns t an ces —saying to Mr. F. E. Ever s fi e ld, paymas t er , would not stand it, Eversfield, if I was you ; would write to the Commander-in -Chief,' &c. ; also saying to Lieut. Lewis, who had made a very pro' per explanation to Coro. Balfour, ' You have eaten dirt,' or words to that effect. 3. That he did induce several seamen to desert from the Siren by saying , ' Why don't you run away ?' and that he did on one occasion say to a seaman of the Siren, Why th e d— don't you run away ?' and that the said inen did run away on the following day or thereabout' 4. That he did behave in a cruel and oppressiya manner, and directly violate the Admiralty Or cular, No. 131, by causing two petty officers to he lashed to spars or gratings on board the Siren during the absence of Cora. Balfour. 5. That he did. in a letter dated on board the Siren at Sea, c ll the 16th of July, 1859, and addressed to Rear-Ad" miral Sir S. Lushington, K.C.8., the Commander in -Chief, bring false and frivolous charges again" Commander Balfour." At the commencement of the proceedings Cour mander Balfour, the prosecutor, handed in a let ter to the Court, which was rea d, an d i n w hi c h h e w ith' drew the sth charge, in consequence of the princl: pal witnesses being absent from England. The prl" soner then objected to the 2d, 3d, and 4th charge° on account of their being contrary to the Queen 0 Regulations, which required the charges to be sub; stantialy set forth. The charges gave no dates, s ll .° he had in consequence b een una bl e t o prepare hi° defence to meet them. The Court then cleared to consider the prisoner's objecti ons , an d on it s be ing re-opened announced that they had decided that the evidence on all the charges preferred by the prose; cutor, with the exception of the sth, which he ho' withdrawn, should be received. The whole of the witnesses for the prosecution w er e exam i ne d during the day. A condition was imposed on the reporter! , present, by the president of the Court, that no 45. 11 dente should be published until aft er th e conclusil of the case, one seriously affeeti ng th e di sc ipline her Majesty's ships. At the conclusion of the cot i deuce for the prosecution the Court was adjourne d until 9 a.m. this day to enable the prisoner to pre' pare his defence. The following appointments wen made on Satur" day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. G. Stanley to th° Trafalgar; Lieut. P. J. Parry, to the Cambridge i ; James W. Husbands, chief engineer, to th e Wei; lington, for charge of the machinery of the Roy' William ; Richard Harris, promoted to the rant of first-class assistant engineer, and appointed to the Adventure ; Ge orge B arnes, paymas ter additional, to the Wellesley ; Charles W. Sturgesor paymaster additional to the Cornwallis; F. M i. ; Wright, assistant p a y mas t er i n c h arge t o t h e Wrangler ; and W. E. Ch own, ass i stant payma st.' , to the Implacable. THE ARMY. • The following circular memorandum was issUg i on Saturday last, addressed to the recruiting ai r tricts and army at home and abroad : " Horse Guards, March 3 1 . " His Royal Highness the General Command/0i in Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary ° State for War, directs th a t th e b ounty for recruit* both of the Royal Artillery and the Line, be rr duced to £2 and a free kit, which is to be apPr cr priated in the follo w i ng manner, until further 11°' tice—viz., to the recruit, on being attested, in cat 2s. 6d. ; on fin a l approva l b y the inspecting fi eld officer, in cash, 7s. 6d.; on joining his corpse 1j cash, without dedu c ti ons , £1 10 s.; amoun t bounty and a free kit of necessaries, £2. "By command, , "W. F. FO RSTER , Deputy Adjutant-general. Major-Gen. D. A. Cameron, C. 8., arrived 11 Edinburgk on Tuesday la s t, an d h as succe eded Major-General Viscount Melville in the comma . of the forces in Scotland. Major-Gen. Sir James Yorke Searle% K.C. 13 ;; arrived in town yesterday from Portsmouth, t i enter upon the duties of his office as Adjt.-Gen. ° the Forces. Brevet-Lieut.-Col. James Connolly, Adjt.-Gen. of the Forces in Canada, will embark for that coloN on the 18th inst. Ti? IDE IN FRANCE. There ha s been no improvement in trade, eitlievf in Paris or is the depaitments, during the last wee' nor even a favo tra bl e symptom. The manufactu re, pursue the sam e p ru d ent system of wait i ng the course of events. The stock of goods on their hell was never so li g ht, an d were b uyers to pre se t themselves th e y s h ou ld h ave to pay an i ncre sol price, but purchasers are few, everybody feeling to be his interest not to hurry himself, b u t to to see the effect produced by the treaty of comme n d with England. A joint - stock compa n y p ropose d to r a re 40,000,000 f., t o b e l o d ge d i n t h e B ank o f Friso e, itfor the use of such m anu f ac t urers as may mit quire assistance to imp rove th e i r mac hi ner y, to the Minister of Commerce refused his assent the proposal, reserving to himself the right ro , io acting as the medium f or suc h l oans. The ge tectionists are now armin g th emse l ves to 1 13 % 0 battle against the proposed Treaty of Navigat o , between Great Britain and France. Their org the Moniteur Industriel, says : o Should Mr. Lindsay's motion produce a reciprocal.,, c n; vention with France, it would, in our opinion, strY‘,. mortal blow against ou r mar iti me power—it cannot tleC ts t fore fail to find us among those who Will oppose it. l',„ v Mr. Lindsay demand s , an d w h a t th e L on d on C a bi ne t pler ev. o to negotiate, is a p ro f oun d revo l u ti on i n t h e en ti re ellsi ce r e of our comm ercia l navy . L e t i t b e remar k e d , m ere° that it would be a flagrant derogation from the treaty Sig of last January, which expres s ly reserves th e ma intensu 10 the differential rights in favour of France. This, thefiter another immense conces s i on p re tend e d t o b e o btained ; or e those we have already con f err ed, and for which WO repaid with such strange gratitude." The Paris flour-market was still heavy last w e o ° o l4 . ' bakers buying merely enough for their daily C. sumption. Flour of the four marks likewise" o: clined, and the following are the latest quotatieTo —For the present month, 55f. the sack of kilogrammes ; June and July, 57f. 75 e . to a u „r, August, 59f. to 591. 25c. Th ese pr i ces , hew are merely nominal, as no sales have been effe e d o The immense stock of flour i n s t ore a t this ee tot , of the year has an injurious effect upon the insri . The demand for be e f or mutton was not V ° et. the market of Poissy on Thursday. There 8 4 0 , 2,258 oxen exhibited, which sold from lf. to If4 c , the kilogramm e ; 342 cows sold from 90c . to ;1 11,371 she e p f rom lf. 30c. to If. 60c . ; 65f a1l 'x sin calves sold from lf. 60c. to lf. 90g. Tia e . but; prices is attributed to the fact of tile Par l , s _. o , che . rs having supplied themselves at the sa: vo re market a pt prize cattle. The cows for sale at the of bad quality ; the sheep were good, but vi : e _ r - e much sought. Th e vea l ca l ves we re sold at 4 " travagant price. tore ° of B A e l r a o r y ge last w quantity oek, o b f o w th in b e y ar r r a iv il e wa d a t the t a h e e d w b i l l e i t , ou ter , i but there were few buyers. 20 hogsh . eads 0%„ cask were sold at 160 f. the cask of 220 litres. e u", 18 90, of Tavel found buyers, at 501. the hectollt_r_ • th ' e c.st s/: wines of the last vintage was sold at 1 2 ° 1 : A of 300 bottles. 'Wines of the Cher, of go od • are worth from 1301. to 135 f. the cask of f ur s g ot; Beetroot brandy, first quality, 90 degre e t se iler, iNlontY in Paris at 108 f. the hectolitre; degrees, 135 f. lim disc Wa At on 1 Stei toge the 1 prim TI quot dera Engl fluen inere indu tion The 3 prel In haire rather Brigh (Berm and L Easte: The rates; In t of i m] steady 121 1 Great Join tinue i BRITT 3 per C( 3 per C New 3 India E Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto B Dittl to Consols Excheq Ditto X FORE] Ditto Ditto Blexieal bitto v'enrriF Ditto (1 DittO Portngt Ditto Russia]] Ditto Ditto Spanish Ditto Spanish I urkiEb Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto patch I Ditto