The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES.' " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold! Silver Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descep- Vire of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for 55. extra. 83 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, T.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVRNDTG, 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. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to oommence with MY 'WIFE'S OUT. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss L. Keeley. TO be followed by the comedy of THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps and Miss Atkinson. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Min Rose Leclercq. Mr. Shore, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. XXA DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, April 17, will be reproduced the popular original Adelphi drama of THE DEAD HEART. Robert Landry, Mr. B. Webster (who will make his Sth 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 (sth time at this theatre), the Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Es of THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. B ed fo r drymoso, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Graceful. Miss Woolgar ; Queen Luoidora, Miss Emily Thorne (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, 12 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Se. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, ed. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the management of Mr. Wm. Brongh. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames Z. Travers and K. Saxon. After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, Mi ss E.Traver s, Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ; and a Numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, I 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 toot passengers all hours of the night. THIS RYE/ONG the performances will commence with ♦ BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. C. Young. After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. _ To conclude with 4 No. 49." Reduced Prices —Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY. Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN HUGHES. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the immensely successful Grand Military Spectacle, entitled " THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." New and splendid scenery, costumes, and appointments, introducing the stud of beautiful horses, ponies, camels, &c. &c. To be succeeded' by the scenes in the C ircle, supported by Marilee. Monet, Marie, and De Berg, and Messrs. II Williams, De vereux, Fernando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan Jack. Doors open at half -past 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. . .. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizetti) Donna Lncrezia Miss Russell. Mello Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Allonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimics), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THR WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 17, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAnoltErmu.-30.27. WIND, North-Easterly ; fresh and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. Om To-moußow.-Morning, 12h. 16m.—Afternoon, 12h. 34m So Mr. MASSEY has given notice to refer the Reform Bill after the second reading to a select committee. What is his object—as Mr. DISRAELI once said, to " waste a year ?" No other effect could it possibly have. We cannot suppose that the bill can undergo such an ordeal and then that of discussion in the House of Commons in time to be presented to the Lords this year. A select com mittee is the approved method of getting rid of proposals which are too good to be openly rejected, yet too unpalatable to powerful interests to be swallowed willingly. It is a kind of painless ex- tinetion. No one better knows this than Mr, M Assn', and we must tell him plainly that it were English and straightforward to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. The - Whig Chairman of Committees ought not to have given his party so unkind a cut as this. Of coarse, the Opposition will take fresh courage, and if Mr. WHITESIDE'S phalanx of speakers cannot defer the second reading for ever, they can, after that, join Mr. MASSEY and the hostile Whigs, and get the select committee appointed. They will then he sure of their object. Reform will be burked for the session ; hon. members will be furnished with a plau sible excuse for for declining to seek re-election, and all will be " merry as a marriage bell." But where will the Whig leaders be Can even the head of the Cabinet, with all his well-known aver sion to Reform, occupy a decent position, while Lord JOHN RUSSELL could do nothing less than retire from office. Reform was, however, so dis tinctly avowed a part of the programme of the prEsent Ministry, the leading feature of the com pact at Willis's Rooms, the very thing indeed on which they rejected their predecessors—that to be baulked of it and to retain office, without at least appealing to the country, must disgrace them for ever. We are inclined to regard the proposition of a select committee, as emanating entirely from the discontented sections of the Whigs. Something not unlike it is proposed by Lord GREY in the Upper House. There is a large number of the Whigs, who in heart quite out-Tory the Tories, are far more opposed to trusting the people, and whose main object is to limit Cabinets and Ministries to a few family c li ques ; th ey are mere ly party Whigs, .just as many valuable men among the Tories are but party Tories. Well would it be if some poli tical conjuror Could bag all these individuals and shake them out again into their right p lanes—could transfer the accidental C onservat i ves to tho ranks of the Liberals, and the accidental Liberals to the ranks of Conservatism. We should then have atleast united parties and intelligible action. Mr. MASSEY has hitherto merely asked another member for Salford, his own borough, and a very reasonable request, if members were in the market. But if the Bill is not to be a readjustment Bill, but substantially only a Franchise Bill, it will of course be difficult for Salford, and for Scotland, to get their fair propor- tions. We have never concealed our contempt for the bill considered as a Reform Bill: Bat we cannot flay as much of it considered as a fraßehise bill. The franchises it offers have been declared by every meeting of Reformers which has assembled yet, as well worth their acceptance, even atiO• ~ 1,1,4 c , t • a As 'I,: ' 1' • 310 - . • THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL:I7, 1860. while, like ourselves, they have avowed that without the Ballot and furthe r readjustment I of seats it can never be satisfact or y to the people — we must adhere, therefore, to our demand— nothing less than the Bill. The very fact that the country regards the Bill as so small an instalment of its demands will create a very strong feel ing against members who refuse even so slight a concession. We certainly are half inclined, how ever, to suppose that we have under-estimated the concession. The determined hostility of the great Berkshire interest, the schemings and grumblings of uneasy Whigs, with the more natural opposition of the professed Conservatives indicate at least their belief that the really Liberal cause will be pro moted by the proposed extensions of the franchise. It is difficult to see it. In the counties we cannot believe that a single constituency will return a member of different politics from what it has gene rally done; and as to the boroughs, we should hardly expect that it will do more than strengthen a little the liberalism of members already liberal. We may be wrong, but, till we ob tain the Ballot, we look for no increase of electoral independence, and for no improvement in the popular character of the House. We can not think Mr. MASSEY and the Tories have much reason to be frightened, but, if . _ they have, we are quite sure they will do wisely to conceal it. A Select Committee would be an insult both to the country and to the Government. The former knows all it wants to know, so does the latter: What is wanted after such long dangling of reform before us is not dis cussion but—ACTION. The House of Commons reassembled yesterday after the Easter vacation, and proceeded directly to business on the Navy estimates, which, after some smart debates were eventually carried to the amount of about £530,000. Sir CHARLES NArint, as usual, enlarged upon the insufficiency of the Navy—both in ships and men ; then he repeated his charges against the constitution of the Board of Admiralty. That there is great truth in all the gallant Admiral has said there can be little doubt, but we must wait for a more re formed Parliament before an efficient remedy can be applied. That the blame chiefly rests upon the Board of Admiralty, being more of a political than that of a real naval business department, is unques tionable. Hence the corruption in the dockyards, and the gross expenditure of past times, for which no one was considered to be responsible. Promotion went by favouritism, and hence the overcrowded list of officers on the pension list ; for when once an officer, however incompetent, had got placed on the ladder of promotion his fortune was com paratively made for the rest of his life, so far as to be safe from the vicissitudes incident to his less favoured companions. Thus we have a roll of Admirals, Vice• Admirals, Rear-Admirals, and Captains on the reserved and re tired lists long enough to man a squadron of block-ships ! Lord CHARLES PAGET attempted to make the best of things for the present, and promised much for the future. No doubt it is all meant to be realised, and when it is, the country will be saved much money and be better defended. The sooner the better. A charming illustration of the extreme absurdity of the high science, art, profession, or whatever else you may please to call it, of Diplomacy, has just been afforded by a communication addressed to Count BERNSTORFF, Prussian Ambassador at Lou- don, by Baron SCHLENIT2, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Prussian Government. It is a re- markable document, which we published in its en tirety in our impression of Saturday. Its date, by the way, is—not inappropriately—the First of April. It really means scarcely anything what ever. All that it appears actually to express might in point of fact have been very well articulated in about two sentences. Nevertheless the epistle runs on garrulously to the extent of thirteen distinct paragraphs. Like most State papers of this character it seems to have been composed throughout, under the guidance or influence of that cynical axiom which declares that language was given to man to hide his thoughts—a saying popularly but erroneously attributed to Prince TALLEY RAND (and one, certainly, it must be al lowed, in perfect acordance with his atra- bilious philosophy), but originally enunciated in truth, among so many other whimsical observations in the humorous " Citizen of the World," of guile less OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Nothing, upon the first blush, could well appear more n aif than this curious despatch written from Berlin on the Ist of April by Baron SCHLEINITZ. Upon a careful scrutiny, how- ever, it will be found far more ingenious than in genuous. To render this apparent, it will really be worth while to submit the document in question, before it is forgotten, to some passing scrutiny. It is ostentatiously, quite ridiculously, precise in its explicitness, this verbose communication. It is about as ludicrous in its elaborate peculiarity as that comical gentleman Dr. DODGE in " Divorce a Vinculo," now periodically testing the risibility of the readers of Once a Week—that excessively matter-of-fact personage who, when he is reminded of a lady's hair having been cut off at Brussels, observes, " You allude, I presume, to its severance, or abscission or curtailment." The Dr. DODGE, in more than one respect, of the Berlin Cabinet is manifestly the Foreign Minister, Baron SCHLEINITZ. It is absolutely droll to recognise, at last, what is really and truly the source and the significance—perhaps we should more accurately express the fact by saying the insignifieance—of all the extraordinary " pother" indicated through the t i i thirteen carefully elaborated paragraphs of h in a mazing communicat ion. Observe, however, the first instance the obtrusive moderation and Dodge-like simplicity of its commencement. Says Monsieur le Baron, addressing himself to Monsieur le Comte,—" Among the documents relative to the affairs of Italy which the English Cabinet has commu nicated to Parliament is a report addressed by Lord BLOOMFIELD to Lord J. RUSSELL, giving him an account of a conversation which I had with the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE relative to the project of the French Government of incorporating Savoy and Nice with France." It is an asserted inaccuracy in this "account" of the conversation here alluded to, which has aroused the ire and elicited the denial of the Prussian Foreign Mini ster, as expressed in the despatch addressed to Count BERNSTORFF. Before entering at any length, however, into the explanations that seem to be de manded from him by this asserted inaccuracy, Baron SCITLEINITZ must in the first instance apparently give vent to his feelings somewhat ironically — namely, in the manner following :—" I have no need to tell you," he writes, " Monsieur le Comte"—[and, therefore, as a mutter of course, he immediately goes on to tell him, Monsieur le Comte !]—" that in commu nicating to Lord BLOOMFIELD, in a perfectly confidential manner, what had taken place between the Minister of France and myself, in an interview which had the character of a private conversation, I did not expect that those details could be destined to become the subject of a Parliamentary debate." Aud, be adds, in a manner evidently designed to THE SUN,YLONDON, TITESDAY.:EVENTNG, APRIL 17, 1860. LATEST NEW 8. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MARSEILLES, APRIL 17. The direct steamer from Naples arrived this even ing, and brings advices from that city to the 14th instant. It is asserted that on Thursday last a large bomb was thrown before the palace. The explosion shat tered all the windows. No person was injured. The revolutionary attempt of the Bth at Messina commenced by the killing of two sentinels. The movement was less serious than reported by the passengers of the Meandre, which remained a great distance off the spot where the combat took place. Flying columns were pursuing the bands of in surgents, who had taken refuge in the mountains. It is positive that no preparation had been made to pass the Roman frontier unless an attack were made against Rome by Piedmont. Intelligence from Rome adds that the Pope had resolved to take no initiative in a war in the Romagna, and that Gen. Lamoriciere would only concentrate a corps in Umbria, between Rome and Ancona. PARIS, APRIL 17. The Constitutionnel denies the existence of direct negotiations between France and Switzerland on the question of the neutralised district of Savoy, and adds that the negotiations are only between the Powers who signed the.treaties of Vienna. PARIS, APRIL 16; The Monitear of this morning gives the fol- Lowing as the definitive result of the voting in the city of Nice : Yes The Paine of this evening says :—The report that General Changarnier had accepted the com mand of the Neapolitan troops is completely false. The Patrie also states that the Neapolitan Go vernment has resolved to observe an absolute neu trality, and to confine itself to the defence of its own territory. NAPLES, APRIL 12 (via Genoa.) According to advices from Sicily the revolution ary movement is increasing in the country, which is full of armed men. The Royal Intendant Celeste has made common cause with the revolutionists. The 14th and 15th Regiments are being despatched from Naples to Sicily. Artillery and other troops have been sent to the citadel of Messina. A popu lar demonstration has taken place at Aversa in favour of Victor Emmanuel, in consequence of which the town has been declared in a state of siege. Arrests have been made at Naples. BERNE, APRIL la England and Prussia have replied to the Swiss note of the sth of April, relative to the assembling of a Conference, by consenting to the demand of the Federal Council. GENEVA, APRIL 16, M. Thouvenel having stated in a despatch, of the 13th March, to M. Tinos, that the Federal Council had proposed a secret treaty for a partition of Savoy, the Federal Council has given an official denial to the statement of M. Thouvenel. Russia has replied in a favourable manner to the note of the Federal Council of the 19th March. BERNE, APRIL 16, The address of the Society of Helvetia to the Federal Council, demanding the immediate occu pation of the neutralised provinces of Savoy, will have no result. TURIN, APRIL 16, The Perseveranza publishes the text of the letters of King Victor Emmanuel to the Pope, dated February 6 and March 20, and the reply of his Holiness thereto. The same paper also publishes the letter of Count Cavour to Cardinal Antonelli, and the reply of the cardinal, which is dated the 2d of April. The archives of the Legations of Russia and England have been transferred from Florence to Turin. VIENNA, APRIL 16, According to reliable information, the tote : amount subscribed to the new loan is abou 75,000,000 florins. The quotation on the Exchange is 93.50. Rumours of Ministerial changes are circulating. MADRID, APRIL 16. It is asserted that the sentence of death against General Ortega will be executed this evening. Universal tranquillity prevails. The Moorish Plenipotentiaries are expected ai Tetuan. The civil war in the interior of Morocco has pre vented them from setting out at an earlier period. The Emperor of Morocco has been obliged to pursue the pretender. MADRID, APRIL 15. An order has been given to all the provincial battalions to return to their homes. The factious partisans of Count Montemolin are everywhere disappearing. The eholera is increasing in Africa. be cuttingly sarcastic--!‘ I cannot disguise from you, Monsieur le Comte, the painful impression which the publication of that document has produced on my mind." We may here observe, en passant, that it is fast becoming in the science, or art, or profes sion of diplomacy a thing quite intolerable, the re , fined distinctions which are perpetually being drawn of late between what is held to be public or official, and what is, on the contrary (like Mr PECKSNIFF'S drunken repetition of his ad vertisement, in a whisper, to Mrs. TODGER), "strictly private and confidential." We hold this incessant reference to the privacy and confidence of diplomacy to be one among the meanest and paltriest of its devices. It is a refer ence which, if it continue much longer to be tole rated thus upon any and every occasion, must in volve diplomacy in its last possible entanglement, and reduce it to its lowest depth of degradation. To return, however, to the Ist of April despatch of Baron SCHLEINITZ and its real significance or in significance, we find that, in his despatch, the Minister immediately goes on to remark, " Never theless, I should willingly have abstained from referring to this incident, if it had not afforded to the German and foreign press the pretext for a host of false appreciations and of commentaries, more or less malevolent." The Minister adds, with a parade of individual magnanimity, "It what is said were only attacks against me per- sonally, I might easily dispense with any retro spective discussion ; but, as the attempt has been made to deduce from the expressions which I employed to the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE erroneous conclusions with regard to the policy o' lussia, I believe that I have not the right to allow by too long a silence Lord BLOOMFIELD'S despatch to acquire the value of a historical do cument." Hence, he writes, "It is with regret, but in order to accomplish a rigorous duty, that I address to you, Monsieur le Comte, the following observations with the double object of stating facts precisely, and of expressing a wish as regards the future." We are then called upon as pointedly as Queen GERTRUDE was by HAMLET, in the presence of the contrasted portraits of her two royal husbands —to " look upon this pic ture and on that !" The Foreign Minister of Prussia first cites the account to the accuracy of which he takes exception. He writes—" Lord BLOOMFIELD relates in these terms what I said to the Minister of France Baron SCHLEINITZ seems to have also observed to the French Minister that the present Government of Prussia had been the means of restraining the vio lent feeling which had been excited in Germany by the war in Italy, and to have made themselves un popular by so doing ; and that on the question of Savoy it mast be considered, because they have re mained silent up to the present moment, that this meant indifference ; for they should view this ab sorption with the greatest distrust." Appending the following words to the quotation by way of com mentary, " I believe that these terms do not ren der with all the precision desirable what I said to the Prince DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE.” Baron ScHLEINITZ then gives his own version of his own assurances : he writes—" I said to the Minister of France that the Cabinet of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in relying on the assurances of the French Cabinet that France would seek no aggrandisement, had exposed itself to the bitter reproaches of part of Germany ; that in con quence it must be painfully affected by the contra diction which the project in question appeared to give to its confidence ; and that though having up to that time maintained silence on the affair or Savoy, it could not the less feel regret at that pro ject, which, in its opinion, contained the germ of grave complications." The rest of the despatch — about half of the entire document—is made up of triumphant comments upon the extraordinary dis crepancy apparent between these two accounts of the same occurrences, or rather of the same assur ances. To the discernment of the English public however, we leave the discovery of this said dis crepancy. To our readers we leave the task of weighing in the balance this six and this HALF-A DOZEN, the problematic pastime of proiouncing accurately— " What all this difference can be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee 1" His Excellency the Sardinian Minister com es to town to-day, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Pal __ merston at Brocket Hall. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and family will return to Hamilton House to-morrow, from Paris. The Marquis of Salisbury came to town yester day from Liverpool, and left in the afternoon for Hatfield. Her ladyship will return to London on Thursday, from visiting the Earl and Countess Delawarr at Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith are expected in town on Thursday, from Boughton House, Northamp- tonshire. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have returned to Grillon's Clarendon Hotel, Albermarle-street. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Brocket Hall. Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn have left Gol. den Grove, South Wales, for Waresley, 'Huntingdonshire, on a visit to the Hon. Octavius and Lady Caroline Dun- combe. Lord Itavensworth and family have arrived al his lordship's residence, Percy •cross, Fulham, from Ravens• worth Castle. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Franeis Stonor arrived in Hertford-street, yesterday, for the season, from Stonor Park, Oxfordshire. Sir William and Lady Jolliffe arrived at their residence, in Stratton-street, yesterday, from Merstham House, Reigate, for the season. We learn from Harwich that at a meeting of some of the Liberal electors who were desirous of testing the comparative popularity of the three Liberal candidates, the following was the result of a ballot : —Thompson, 41; Brett, 36; Chambers, 11. INSTALLATION OF• LORD BROUGHAM AS CHAN CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—We are authorised to state that Lord Brougham will be installed as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday, the 16th of May.--Scotsman. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Wm. Goode, Rector of St. Margaret, Lothbury, to the Deanery of Ripon, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, now Dean of Lincoln. A French paper manufacturer has invented a new pack of playing cards ; each card represents some remark. able fact connected with the history of Napoleon I. or of Napoleon 111. All the figures are of the same'period, the costume is perfect, and remarkable for the execution and t eif i rner ib hufe r o il :re :il ia : tpaii h e na nagyibldot Empress-Mother idn:li t y)ib,grar e te.oh,sttsehhisi. colours. The pack of cards is called Cartes de 1' Ere Imperiale. In place of kings there are four Helena. Prince e e iirailsro:n otihfndeisNcir uo; Imperial; aefpainiteod" .rnrel o.i place Ec u oEe r lr bn e oaal empress es , use : sedsasys theresee o s st ~ FOREIGN EXCHANGES . —The appearance of the foreign exchanges,accordi . ngto the advicos from the Con tinent_yesterday, is more decidedly f avoura bl e th an atauy r p e e c ri ei e v d ed during the past two or three years. This is an inevitable result of the artificial scarcity of money only 3} l i) cr eated by the recent abortive proceedings of the di s c o unt houses.t at per 3 c e per n t . , andend h a At Paris plentiful thesupply Battle in ratecent. At e umarket At Amsterdam also the charge is but ere i s Hamburg and Frankfort it is as low asPe2r cent., while at per cent. Of c ourse, therefore, large quantities will be attracted Our joint stock ba nks are offerin g 4 p er cent, rad here. for deposits, and by the discount houses as much as 4 / has been given y e sterday for loans with notice of a week sr 10 days . c lear profit at the rate of 2 per cent. will there fore be r ealised A by all foreign houses who may transmit their floating capi tal to correspondents on this side. We shall soon, there fore, have more than enough for all our requirements, and the sole result of the locking •up process, beyond the dis grace involved in it, will be that its concoctors will lose a certain amount of interest, which will find its way to the pockets of more sagacious money-dealers in France, Ger • many, and Holland. A telegram from Charleston states that during . a legitimate trading voyage on the coast of Africa the brig Jehossee was overhauled and taken forcible possession of by a British vessel of war, and the officers and crew treated with gross indignity. LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The Canadian Royal Mail Steamship Company have chartered the Cunard Company's new screw steamship Palestine, an d intend to despatch her with the mails,&e., for Quebec on the 16th of May next. GOLD DISCOVERED AT NELSON, NEW ZEALAND. —The Neu, Zealand London Examiner states that gold has been discovered at the river Buller, on the west coast of the province, and is likely to prove Tory valuable. participation with Switzerland, has been positively solicited by the note of the sth inst. " In the presence of this fact, showing an open contempt of their rights, the Federal Council feel anxious to declare positively that they cannot look upon the result of the coming Tote as decisive, and that they must explicitly pro test against any inference to be drawn from this act for the purpose of interfering with the rights of Switzerland. "The Federal Council can all the less admit the validity of the voting as, while on the one hand the free expres sion of the will of the people of North Savoy, which has been constantly asked for, is not ensured, on the other the voting will be proceeded with without previous understand ing with Switzerland. Finally, the Federal Council have no means to control the voting, while it is notorious that French agents, having Senator Laity at their head, are working in Savoy in the interest of France. " The Federal Council find themselves thus in the neces sity of renewing, in the face of all Europe, their protesta tions to the Powers guaranteeing the European treaties. They earnestly recommend them to deliberate seriously and impartially upon the present request, and also to take into due consideration the rights of Switzerland, and to take prompt steps to maintain the status quo. "In the name of the Swiss Federal Council." Under date of the 11th inst. the Federal Council of Berne has issued a note to the great Powers re presented at the Vienna Congress, protesting against the voting which is being organised in Savoy for its annexation to France, and declaring that Switzer land cannot admit the validity of such a proceeding, as it is notorious that French agents, directed by Senator Laity, are canvassing the population in French interests. FRANCE. A despatch from Madrid says that among other advantages which the Count Montemolin meant to endow Spain with if he succeeded was universal suffrage. I think it is extremely probable. There could be found no surer means for restoring to Spain the despotism of Ferdinand VII. With uni versal suffrage Count Montemolin might easily efface every vestige of liberty, and, in fact, do any, - thing he pleased. A very expressive mot is now current in Madrid. " Quien siembra Dulces recoje °ragas." (He who sows sweets shall reap nettles.) Ortega, the name of the General who deserted his post to join the Carlists, is the Spanish word for nettle ; and Dulce is the name of the General who, while Inspector of Cavalry, carried over his men to join the insurrec tion of Vicalvaro, of which O'Donnell was the head. The expression is true, and as stinging as the herb whose name the unsuccessful rebel bears: BOURSE, April 16.—The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 70f 25c for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 96f 20c; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,385 f 75c ; Great Northern, 971 f 25c ; Strasburg, 642 f 50e ; Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean, 943 f 75c ; Western of France, 575 f ; Bordeaux and Cette, 518 f 75c ; Lyons and Geneva, 447 f 50c ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 792 f 50c ; Aus trian Railways, 528 f 75c; Roman Railways, 345 f; Russian Railways, 480 f. Exchange= London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18c.; money, 25f. 160. ; three months, paper, 24f. 87tc. ; money, 24f 85c. THE RIGHT Hay. SIR C. WOOD, BART., M.P. I'. THE RIGHT HON. JAMES WILSON, M.P. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six, —In the correspondence between these right hon. gentlemen on the Indian currency scheme proposed by Mr. Wilson, we find the advocate and the opponent of the act of 1844 fairly at issue on the principle of a sound system of currency—Sir Charles Wood contending for the application of the principles of restriction imposed ox paper money by the act of 1844, and Mr. Wilson throwing them overboard. Which of them is in the right, and which will have to give way to the other, are questions of great interest to the public, who, as a jury, will have to try and decide thorn. Mr. Wilson, in paragraph 13 of his minute, says : "By maintaining at all times a fixed proportion of silver to the amount of notes in circulation, and convertible pub lic securities for the remainder, not only is the immediate convertibility of any probable portion of notes likely to be presented, provided for, and the ultimate payment of the whole specially secured, but a natural and self-acting limit is placed upon the amount of the circulation—a limit which would expand and contract, according to the wants of the community, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as a purely silver currency would do." Sir C. Wood in his rejoinder denies that the immediate convertibility of notes into bullion will ensure a natural and salt acting limit ; he says— Par. 13. " The sound principle for regulating the issue of paper circulation is that which was enforced on the Bank of England by the Act of 1844, i.e., that the amount of notes issued on Government Securities should be maintained at a fixed sum, within the limit of the smallest amount which experience has proved to be necessary for the monetary transactions of the country ; and that any further amount of notes should be issued on coin or bullion, and should vary with the amount of the reserve of specie in the Bank, ac cording to the wants and demands of the public." If this principle be sound, then are the principles of Free Trade unsound, and should be suppressed by restriction on all other trades as well as on that of money. This sound principle ensures a constantly diminishing quantity of currency for the wants of an ever increasing commerce, inasmuch as the quantity of notes issued by the Bank of England against securities is a fixed quantity, and cannot be increased, and those issued by country banks are subject to diminution in quantity, for when their issue ceases from any cause whatever the vacuum can only be filled up to the extent of two-thirds of the amount by the Bank of England. Thus, were the present aggregate amount of about £17,000,000 to be in the course of time with drawn, only about £11,000,030 could be issued by the Bank of England as substitutes. This vaunted principle, there fore, makes the unlimitable increase of our commerce de pendent on the accidental and fluctuating amount of gold for the supply of the medium of exchange for carrying it on, it seeks to regulate the quantity of money, not " ac cording to the wants and demands of the public," but ac cording to the ebb and flow of gold in the coffers of the Bank. Hence naturally the monetary panics of 1847, 1857, and 1859, and the constant apprehension of their re currence. On Mr. Wilson's plan any person taking silver bullion to the Bank can obtain Government notes in exchange, or, taking notes, can have bullion in exchange ; but power is given to the commissioners to sell and invest two-thirds of the amount of the bullion in Government Securities, so that the only limit to the issue of notes is the maintaining the proportion of one-third of bullion to the whole issue. This plan takes care of the quality of the currency, but eaves the quantity to take care of itself; it sanctions free xade in a sound currency—a principle for which we have long contended. Is not the time arrived for acting upon the same principle here, by establishing a national bank of issue, whore all can have as many national notes, payable in gold on de mand, as they may want, on depositing one-third of the amount in gold and two-thirds in Government securities ; and which notes, when no longer wanted, could be returned and the deposit recovered ? Should not an end be put to the squabbling between the great money dealers, the discount houses, and the Bank of England (a dispute highly prejudicial to the comporcial community, from the artificial absorptien of money which it creates), by allowing the public, whose agents they are, to have an unrestricted and natural supply of a perfectly convertible medium of exchange ? The mischief is owing nut eo niuoh to tbn directors of the Bank of England as to the restrictive clauses of the Act of 1844, by which they are fettered. Is it consistent for this country, the commercial mistress of the world, to sanction opposite principles of currency at home and in her dependencies—to permit free trade in a sound currency in India, and to impose restrictions in the currency in Great Britain and Ireland ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant. HAMER STANSFELD, The Grange, Burley, S. Otley, April 14. Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce, Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth, with Major• General S. R. Wesley, Deputy-Adjutant-General of the :Marine Forces, yesterday concluded their inquiry relative to the late disturbance on board the Edgar, at Spithead. The report of the inquiry will be for warded to the Admiralty. We have to announce the death of Rear-Admiral the Hon. C. 0. Bridgeman, which took place on Saturday last, at his residence, near Oswestry. The deceased Admiral was second son of Orlando, first Earl of Bradford, by the Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Byng, eldest daughter of George, fourth Viscount Torrington, and was born on the 3d of February, 1791. He married, on the 2d of December, 1819, Eliza Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Chamberlain, by whom he leaves a family, being father of Lady Londesborough and Lady Corbet, wife of Sir V. R. Corbet. The late Rear-Admiral entered the navy at an early age, and obtained his commission of lieutenant on the 10th of September, 1810 ; that of commander on the 6th of May, 1814 ; captain, 2d of September, 1819 ; and rear-admiral on the 19th of January, 1852. Numerous families of rank are placed in mourning. Capt. Farrant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, with Lieuts. Haseltine, Fuller,•and Carlyon, and a detachment of Royal Marine Light Infantry and Artillery, are ordered to embark from the Ports mouth Division for service on board the Edgar, re lieving the detachment on board under the com mand of Capt. C. Louis. The Osborne, Royal paddle yacht, Master-Com mander G. H. K. Bower, got up steam in her new boilers yesterday in the steam basin at Portsmouth. The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell, K.C.8., is ordered into Portsmouth Harbour from Spithead for the purpose of being docked, having a leak in the vi cinity of her sternpost. This will delay her depar ture for the Cape of Good Hope for some days. The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 4, Com mander J. M. Bruce, from Portsmouth, arrived in the Sound yesterday morning, with two batteries of the third brigade • of Royal Artillery, to join head quarters in Plymouth Citadel. Two batteries be longing to the same brigade will leave the Citadel, and take passage in the Firebrand to the Channel Islands. It is reported in Plymouth that the screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, is to be put in commission about Thursday next, and that Captain Parker will have command. Mr. John Burnell, mayor of Plymouth, and Mr Tracey, magistrate, are appointed by the Board o Trade a Court to inquire into the circumstances attending the stranding of the Government trans port Havering, now on Batten reef. She will pro bably be lifted by Mr. Orchard on Wednesday next. The sailing sloop Atalanta, 16, Commander T. M. S. Pasley, from the West Indies, having been descried becalmed outside Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon, the tug Zephyr was sent off to assist her in, when she saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., which was duly ac knowledged by the Impregnable. The Atalanta left Antigua on the 15th March, and has experienced a very favourable passage, with the wind ranging from north-west to south-west. The Atalanta was commissioned by her present commander, May 26,. 1856, and has been constantly employed on the North America and West India station •, she is re ported to be in first-rate condition. During the commission she has lost three officers by death— viz., Mr. Norman, master, Oct. 26, 1856 ; Mr. Kerr, assist.-surg., Feb. 4, 1859 ; and Mr. Creak, master, in September, 1859. Mr. Nicholson, was appointed master of the Atalanta, but died before joining. The paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6, Commander Charles Vasey, was appointed to leave Antigua on the 17th March for Barbadoes. The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain Henry Lacon, discharged her powder and shell on Friday, and bn Saturday steamed from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze for the purpose of being taken into Keyham steam-yard to receive new boilers. Rear-Admiral George Elliott, Captain of the Fleet, hoisted his flag (blue at the mizen) the same day, as second in command, during the absence of Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.8., who is now on leave. The flag was saluted by the Impregnable, 104, in Hamoaze. A room has been appropriated in the dockyard for the use of Admiral Elliott. It is reported at Devonport that the screw steam ship Duke of Wellington will go there to take the duty of the Royal Albert, and that a portion of the Royal Albert's crew will assist in navigating the Duke of Wellington to Devonport. The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Edward K. Barnard, was expected to leave Plymouth Sound yesterday for Bermuda. The screw eteam frigate Melpomene, 51, Capt. Charles T. F. E wart, at Plymouth, is to be fitted for a flagship, and will convey to the Mediterranean Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, the newly ap pointed Commander-in-Chief on that station. The defects of the paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Frederick H. H. Glasse, C. 8., in Plymouth Sound, will be made good there. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Capt. George H. Seymour preparing at Plymouth for the convey ance of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to Canada, will be ready for sea about the 6th of May. The repairs of the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Captain Henry Broadhead, at Plymouth, are com pleted. The paddlewheel steam surveying vessel Bann, Master James S. Wells, under repair and refitment at . Plymouth, will be ready to resume her duties about the end of May. The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com mander Montague B. Dunn, in Plymouth Sound, received on Saturday the men lent from the Sans poreil, 70, to navigate the Howe, 121, from Pem broke to Plymouth, and on Sunday morning sailed for Queenstown. The crew of the screw steam sloop Surprise, 4, Commander Lord Edward Cecil, were inspeeted on Friday morning by Capt. Jerningham. In the afternoon she was towed from Plymouth, bound into Hamoaze, by the tugs Zephyr and Confiance. Her crew will probably be paid off on Tuesday, the 24th inst. The gunboat Hind, tender to the coastguard ship Russell, 60, having completed her tour of inspection, left Plymouth on Friday for Falmouth. The gunboats Steady and Penguin, built at Liver pool for the Government, are expected shortly at Devonport. The screw steam frigate Forte, 51, Capt. E. Tur nour, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Henry Keppel, is appointed to call at Plymouth on her way to the Cape of Good Hope. The screw steam sloop Curlew, 9, went outside the breakwater at Plymouth on Saturday, and after several hours' trial of her machinery returned to Hamoaze. The topmasts of the Indus, 78, Capt. W. K. Hall, at Plymouth, were struck on Saturday, and she is fast dismantling. Her crew will probably be paid off on Thursday next. A large number of naval officers assembled at the office of Admiral Superintendent Sir John Pasley in Devonport Dockyard on Friday, when, it is said, the subject of leave was discussed. Eighty-four artisans and labourers were dis charged from Devonport Dockyard on Saturday last, being the same number as on Saturday, the 7th. Eight shipwrights from the hired list were entered on the establishment of Devonport Dockyard on Friday. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Allan Brown, surgeon to the Bacchante ; Edward Faulkner, paymaster addi tional to the Asia ; J. M. Lowcay, paymaster to the Bacchante ; C. D. Lee, assist.-paymaster to the Bacchante ; G. B. Westcott, clerk to the Bacchante ; B. F. Meyer, assist.-clerk to the Bacchante ; Fre derick H. Herrmann, confirmed in the rank of second-class assist.-engineer in the Opossum; Ed ward T. Read, second-class assist.-engineer to the Wellington, for charge of the machinery of the Charon ; and Malcolm Baird, acting third•class assist.-engineer to the Fisgard, for service in the Shamrock. TOUTING TAILORS.—We are sorry to learn that a very disgraceful and very injurious system of touting pre vails in connexion with the examination of candidates for direct commissions in the army, which now takes place pe riodically at Chelsea Hospital. Emissaries of a certain portion of the tailoring interest manage to serape up an ac quaintance with the candidates, insinuate themselves into their confidence, press small loans of money on their ac ceptance, and get their promise to employ Messrs. or Messrs. --- to furnish their outfit, undertaking that the items will be so charged that the amount of the loan will bo slipped in in the shape of an addition to each item, so as to make things pleasant with " the governor." The outfit is thus made to assume proportions of a character sorely to try the patience of "the governor," and, in one instance that came to our knowledge, an ensign in a very unpre tending. marching regiment in India had uniforms and tur niture provided for his use during his brief stay at the depot amounting to £4OO. Some of these worthies even persuade the candidates that they can obtain copies of the examina tion papers for them beforehand, and this furnishes a ready means of introduction. The matter has been brought to the notice of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who is determined to take prompt steps to check a practice so disgraceful.—Army and Nary Gazette. THE COINAGE.—A return relating to the opera tions of the Mint was issued yesterday. The number of sovereigns coined in 1859 were 1,547,603; of half-sove reigns, 2,203 813, a greater numb er than tho se for the former year , when 803,234 sovereigns and 855,578 half-sovereigns were coined. The total value of all the gold coinage manu factured at the Mint during the last ten years was £54,490,265. The number of florins coined in 1859 was 2,568,060 ; of shillings, 4,561,920; of sixpences, 4,688,640; of fourpenees, 4,158; of threepences, 3,584,32 8 ; of silver twopences, 4,752 ; and of silver pence, 7,920. In copper the coinage was as follows :- 1,075,200 pence, 1,290,240 halfpence, aiyll,29o,24ol ar thi ngs . Half-farthings have not been mind Dino 1856. THE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. SIR,—On the 10th October last the agents for the Tur kish loan deducted from the interest, due that day on the bonds, income tax at the rate of thirteenpence in the pound, and it was naturally inferred that the deduction for the half year falling due yesterday would be at the rate of five pence, thus making the tax ninepence for the year. In stead of which the agents deduct on this second half-year tenpenee in the pound, in obedience, we are told, to orders from Somerset-house, while the deduction from other secu rities, of which the interest fell duo on the sth instant, is only at the rate of fivepence. Is this just? I doubt if it is legal. But I have no doubt that it furnishes a strong argument for the evasion of payment in those cases which the fiscal power cannot reach except through the conscience of A TAX PAYER. April 11. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer, on his taking office, vacated his house in Carlton gardens, to occupy the official i residence n Downing-street. Our brilliant Finance Minister is now, without going out of office, about to return with bis family to his own private Louse. Of course, th is p roceeding has given rise to all sorts of conjectures. They have,; however, no other foundation than the fancy of those who indulge in them—the truth being, that Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone have this year a daughter to introduce to the beau monde, and that a series of brilliant parties in, the paternal mansion will usher Miss Agnes Gladstone into the gay world of L on d on , h er pre sentation to the Queen having taken place at the last Dra wing-room. The term for which Earl de Grey had taken Mr. Gladstone's house having expired, the right hon. gen tleman took the opportunity of resuming possession.— Court I Journal. SWITZERLAND. The Swiss Government have seut the following memorandum to the powers that have guaranteed the Treaty of Vienna : "NN•TE CIRCITLAIRE. " Borne, April "From trustworthy and agreeing reports, the vote upon the annexation of Savoy to France has been fixed for the 22d of April next. The question is to be put as follows : Annexation to France, Yes or No ; the voting will take place in each commune. " The Swiss Federal Council cannot accept in silence the new phase into which the pending question is entering. They have already had the honour to set forth in the Note Circulaire of the 19th of March from what point of view they think it right to estimate in a general way the results of such a vote. They then already expressed the opinion that the existing rights on the neutralised provinces of Savoy—rights so solemnly guaranteed by Europe—cannot bo cancelled by a simple cession nor by a popular vote. As to the voting itself, the Federal Council have thought it well to express their views quite frankly and repeatedly, and have reserved their rights on the subject. " Immediately after the well-known proclamations of the Governors of Annecy and of Chambery, of the Bth and 10th of March, the Federal Council instructed their representa tives at Paris and at Turin to protest against any voting until an understanding had been come to with Switzerland. They formally declared that they could not consider as binding a vote taken without a previous understanding— a vote in which Switzerland and her legitimate pretensions would be forgotten. " The Federal Council have absolutely maintained this point of view in their fresh protestation of the 27th March, when they asked that Switzerland should be consulted upon the mode of voting in the neutralised provinces, and that nothing in this respect should be done without her consent. The Federal Council have had the honour to give informa tion about this to the Powers guaranteeing tie European treaties in a note dated the same day, in which they added that they must insist upon the absolute maintenance of the status quo until the proposed understanding with the Powers and with Switzerland herself should be come to. " By the above-mentioned projected voting all these re quests, all those just and equitable demands of Switzerland, are entirely passed over. A most important political and moral act is to be proceeded with without the concurrence of one of the principal parties interested, and without any previous understanding with the Powers whose concert, in LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly). JUDGMENT-lIOLDERNESS V. RANKINE. His Honour said the questions which arise on the facts and evidence in this cause may be stated to be two—lst, Whether an assignment of certain unfinished or un built ships made to the plaintiff by his brother, who afterwards became bankrupt, was a valid assignment ; or, 2d, Whether it ought to be regarded in the light of a fraudulent pre ference. _ John Holderness became largely indebted to his brother, the plaintiff, and, on hie pressing him for payment, on 16th November. 1857, he executed a deed of assignment in the plaintiff's favour of three unfinished ships, of the aggregate value of £26,420. His Honour came to the conclusion that the assignation to the plaintiff was a good and valid assignment, and de creed accordingly, with costs. JUDGMENT-JOHNSON V. JOHNSON. His Honour allowed the defendant his costs from the date of his lodging a letter of disclaimer in this suit. THE NEW JUDGE. Mr. Baron Wilde was sworn this morning, and took his seat on the bench, in place of the late Baron Watson, one of the judges of the Court of Exchequer. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. ,Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Wightman.) ARBON AND ANOTHER V. HULL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for the recovery of the value of a horse which had bean killed by the negligence of the servant of the defen dant. Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., was for the plaintiffs, and Mr• Hawkins, Q.C., for the defendants. . The learned counsel for the plaintiff having stated his case, called a 'great number of witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared that on the evening of the 25th of November last a carriage and pair of horses, the property of the plaintiff but let on hire to a lady named Fussell, was proceeding slowly along Westown grove for some distance behind an omnibus. The coach man, intending to pass the omnibus, drew towards the middle of the road, when a large van, driven by the ser vant of the defendant, came rapidly up and recklessly, as was alleged, drove the shafts of the van into the breast of one of the horses, valued at £lOO, which very shortly after the accident died. The case for the plaintiff having closed, Mr. Hawkins called witnesses for the defendant, who gave it as their opinion that the van driver was not in fault. The case had not concluded when we went to press. COURT OF EXCHEQUHR. (Before Chief Baron Pollock and Barons Martin, Bram well, and Wilde.) WARD V. LUMLEY. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., this morning moved for a rule for a new trial in the cause which was tried a short time ago at Guildhall, when a verdict was given in favour of the plaintiff. The question at issue was in effect whether the defendant had forfeited his right to the lease of her Majesty's Theatre. The learned counsel contended that a certain document had been admitted as evidence at the trial which should have been rejected. The Court refused the application. THE RELIGIOUS DISTURBANCES INST. GEORGE'S-IN. THE-EAST. CONSISTORY COURT.—•-(THIS DAY.) (Before Dr. Travers Twiss, Judge.) TIER REV. BRYAN XINQ V. ROSIER. This morning having been appointed by the learned judge to deliver his judgment in this painfully notorious case, Mr. Rosier, accompanied by several friends, appeared in court to receive such judgment. _ It will be recollected that the case was heard before Dr. Twiss on Tuesday, the 3d instant, when a great many wit nesses, including Capt. S. Hall, were examined. Mr. Rowley, the schoolmaster, and Mr. Blatchford, positively swore to the fact that on the 14th August, during the celebration of the afternoon service, the Rev. W. P. Burn, the officiat ing curate, fell down in a fit, when Mr. Rosier exclaimed, "Itis a judgment of God upon him 1 God has struck hit' down I Down with Bryan King 1" On the part of Mr. Rosier, he himself, as also a large number of parishioners, were examined, who denied that it was Mr. Rosier who uttered the words. The second charge preferred against Mr• Rosier by the Rev. Bryan King was, that when the church was re-opened on the 6th of November, he approached Capt. Savage Hall, a member of the congregation but not a parishioner, and exclaimed, " This thing calls himself & captain. He is a disgrace to the army." It was also alleged that he approached Mr. Blatchford, another member of the congregation, saying, " This man means to swear I spat upon him in Wellclose-square." Out of these transactions proceedings took place at the Thames Police Court, which were fully reported at the time. Dr. Travers Twiss, in delivering his judgment, com menced by saying that the suit was instituted by the Rev. Bryan King, the rector of St. George's-in-the-East, against Mr. Rosier, a parishioner. Tho decree, which was served on the 28th of January, cited Mr. Rosier to appear in that Court to answer certain articles charging him with brawl- ing, chiding, and quarrelling during and after the perform - ance of Divine service, on Sunday, August the 14th, and Sunday, November 6th. The proceedings were instituted under the General Ecclesiastical Law, but the charges were laid in the terms of the sth of Edward the 6th, cap. 4, which enacted that in the case of any person who by words or otherwise chided, brawled, or quarrelled, it should be lawful for the ordinary of the place to suspend him from entering the church, and of a clerk to suspend him from the ministrations of his office. The same statute went on to enact severe penalties upon those who smote or laid their hands upon one anotherin any church or church' yard. The immediate object of the act was to repress the disturbances, which in the early period after the Refer' mation were apt to break out amongst the most ardent supporters of the Reformation, and the equally zealous supporters of the Latin ritual. Since that time it been made of wider application. At th e same time he must say that the jurisdiction exercised by the ecclesiastical courts in this country did not depend upon that statut e , nor did th e s t a t u t e crea t e the crime of brawling charged in this case, inasmuch as the statute was passed to aid in the punishment of, and by no means to create the offence. Any disturbances (vide Hawkins in his Ple a of the Crown) in a church were visited with severity ration* loci, which in other cases would probably pass altogether unnoticed ; the object clearly was to protect the worship 4 the sanctuary from desecration, and to preserve the repos e of the dead. The evidence which had been adduced before the Court imputed to Mr. Rosier that he brawled 11 , words ; and he was, moreover, charged of being guilty 0 ' that offence on two occasions. When appli ca ti on wa s mea t to the Court by the Rev. Bryan Kin g , th e promo t e r of th ° suit, to permit the office of the judge to be promote& (Dr. Twiss) required an affidavit to be put in by au el e ,, witness of the transactions. This was done, and a p r imafaw case having been ma d e , he allowed the office of the judg e i 4 ), be promoted. H e wou ld now procee d t o cons id e r wit were the specific c h arges aga i ns t M r. R os i er . They wer e of a twofold character, and Mr. Rosier had given in a n o r issue to b o th. I n th e fi rs t pl ace , it was choir - against him th a t on th e 14th A ugus t, a t th e 4 o 'clock set vice, when the Rev. W. P. Burn, the officiating 0116 0 1 fell down in a fit, he exclaimed—" It is a judgment of ur . „ upon him—Down with Bryan King" or words to that v u °ll a , effect, and that he thus caused great disturbance in w church, whereby the service was interrupted. TJ P art 00 these points three witnesses had been called, e a a parishioner, and two non-parishioners. (The lea d' judge then went through their evidence, which has ale%, been reported.) This evidence (ho said) if it stood aiusert would go to show that two of the witnesses had note .41 Mr. Rosier until that date, and that neither of theal:uey heard him say "Down with Bryan King," although 'tar heard him use the other words. In his defence Mr. R Ol4 o f called thirteen witnesses, the accuracy of one or o'7_ o f whom could not be relied upon, but the general Recurs to the witnesses called by Mr. Rosier he was fully preparr admit. Into the details of that evidence ho would 1 i f,„, 0 0 but he would state his general impressions foun ded 7 .to l . an examination of the general testimony—the resu lt 01. was that the Court did not think the charges ag ainst '; 1 Rosier had been established. Di With regard to the second charge, that of the _cites_ November, in which it is alleged Mr. Rosier aPPr7 If Capt. Savage Hall, saying "This thing calls Wi n e es of captain ; be is a disgrace to the army ; he is a g r ea ged swell ;" and other words, two witnesses had been 00 by the prosecutor, while Mr. Rosier had onlY one (Mr. Tzone) who evidently did not speak to thu d transaction as that charged. Those words wer e w 07100 great aggravation, and calculated to produce itenlatthe disturbance. The prayer of the prosecutor w as th A so Court should admonish Mr. Rosier. The Court 11 , e r. difficulty in complying with that portion of the Ptr*7ooo The Court was further prayed to condemn Mr• art of in the costs of the proceedings ; and in th is 1 ) the prayer it would be necessary for him °. It a few words before pronouncing his decisions cat had always been laid down in the Eccl°'-`,,,,cre' Courts, that the cost of causes were in the tiot t tion of the Court. By that it was not in e 7, thel costs could be granted or withheld at discretion,t t t it' were always within the discussion of the corm: . • the same time costs might be mitigated, and dr_ a • practice of the Consistory and the Arches Court, t b a promoter had not proved all his case, to directthat..lloo person be condemned to a certain sum, which he $0 fix at £lO. ity of c° be gn' admonished and condemned, and would e Court. tempt if he did not obey the order of th Court to the nai l ; Dr. Phillimore asked the judge to tell Mr. Ros.der be 1( 11 , Mr. Rosier said—l appeal from this m __ e us prow as an innocent man, and declare it is a all . l° tion, and as a British subject Istate of great *I. Mr. Rosier and all the parties left s in a IA citeraent. justice. demnd No quiet Cent 41 gerii Cent Ti Prep toria Ver, to 1 San Gra tern Cont It an ] 3 a 1 , e , lea ' m Ann I ith 7