The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

—......- equivalent to this in your four booksl—Such you took upon you that office 4—No ; I told you be- thing is not said in the four books." fore we are only expected to speak Taoli." Chinese _ Y " e l s s ., n , not benevolence spoken of in the four books ? " The* did your Excellency never study law f—Never." " What is benevolence I—lf you desire men to "Did you never read the Chinese Code 7—No." love you you must love them. If you do not wish " Did not your want of reading in Chinese law men to bate you, you must not hate them." make your judicial duties onerous / — N o ." " Would not the saying of Confucius before re " Perhaps you were assisted by good secretaries ? feared to forbid punishment to criminals I—The —Sometimes I was ; sometimes not." Taoli does not mean that." "Is there any class in China who know the code ? "Or revenging an injury I—That would depend —Those who fail in our higher examinations often on the man." apply themselves to study law and other matters. " Would it not be wrong I—Yes." They sometimes become our secretaries." "Does not this Taoli give an advantag e to bad "Is it a proper;question to ask your Excellency people who commit injuries?—The knowledge of how much you paid your secretaries ?—Usually 100 Taoli is nevertheless the better." . taels a month."—(33l.) " And what did they make by perquisite 1-300 a knowledge of Taoli." " Why I—The objectAmit wishes is to come to or 400 more." He afterwards withdrew this reply N ot directly, but it results and substituted 30 or, 40, but this was an after- " Are murder, rob in the four books ?---+, and adultery forbidden thought. The first was the t r u e es ti ma t e . from the Taoli." "If these are influential in China, how does it " Your Excellency will excuse my importunity beco me necessary to punish so man y ?—The g ood for we are talking upon matt ers f ore i gn to our are in the majority. It is impossible for all to be Westernideas. May I believe that a man who un- good." alerstands the four books a n d the fi v e classics is " You have spoken of benevolence as a part of thereby, and without any other study, fitted for Taoli ; is the benevolence you speak of merely a every public office in Chinal—From the very coin- condition of the mind, or is it a course of action meucernent of the Chinese Empire it has been the dictated from within f—Benevolence is Taoli— custom to depend entirely on the four books." Taoli is benevolence." "DO you never uponbecoming an officer readup He was evidently getting tired of a lecture which had interested him at its commencement. It was the duties of the office ?—The high officers oftentisa .secretaries to look up such matters." necessary to drop the subject. We had many sub- Can , your Excel- sequent talks with him on the same matters, but he I took up a Mantchou book,—" had evidently reconsidered the matter, and had lam? speak or read Mantchou ?—N o. made up his mind to give us no further information. , i gor the Cantonese dialect T o. On a day subsequent to our last conversation we referred to a previous conversation which had been (c You speak your own nativedial a e s c m t o y f a H ne u e p st e o h rs ? —No. I -was educated at Pekin, interrupted, and said— were, and I sp. . -eak only the language of Pekin." " Your Excellency said the other day that it was It would be impert in ent in me to point the moral not by your will that the English were excluded from Canton city.—lt was the will of the Emperor of this conversation. I t tells more of the inner work thanall that has hitherto ings of the Chinese sYst_eFd and the people. been wr itten on the subject. , " Who are the peopl e I—Th e 100 surnames. Th e q uestion remains, what is the " Taoli,' "Not only the gentry ?—The feeling was not which is the sole knowledge of thegoverning classes only that of the inhabitants of the city, but of the of China 1 Ido not ask what is the exact English villages all round about. word which will convey the meaning of the corn- " What was that feeling based upon ?—That you pound Chinese word. It is of small importance to must ask the people, you must not ask me. bumble practical inquirers whether we are to trans- " There is no demonstration of such a feeling late it " true doctrine," " truth," or " reason," or now 7—l know nothing ab o ut that. the " Ultimate principle," or " the way of the uni- " When Capt. Pym, the captain of the police, verse," or "the rule of right." All this has been goes about the city, the people come to him and sufficiently foughtout bydreamy sophists and scho- say, 4 We are glad to see you here, you preserve lastic pedants. My inquiry is whether this word our property V— No answer. "Taoli" is a term comprehending a cycle of know- " Does your Excellency understand the two sys ledge whichwill tend to make the student an,honest tems of collecting duties as in exercise at Canton man, an intelligent officer, and an efficient magis- and Shanghai, and would you think fit to give an trate. opinion upon them ?—I do not know." I look in vain to all the European books on He returned of his own accord to the Canton Chinese philosophy for an answer to this question. topic. " Absolute truth," or "the ultimate principle," "It is not my city ; how could I let you in ? conveys no tangible idea to the European mind. "But the treaty was express I—l do not re- If we attempt to read the four books by the light member." of mere common sense we utterly fail to deduce I only cite this conversation to note that, any system of philosophy or even of ethics from a lthough Yeh is willing, and indeed anxious, to them. I have toiled through the Latin translation have it reported that he adheres to the transparent of " Y King," and find it as unintelligible to me as fables he put forth in his State papers, yet he will a sheet of algebraic signs would be to a man who enter into no discussion upon them. has not learnt their meaning. I have no doubt He afterwards added of his own accord-- however, that it is quite capable of explanation, " I did make preparations. A man would have and I suspect that under the tuition of a learned no sense who did not. It was not that my pre- Chinese doctor these to me nonsensical apophthegms parations were insufficient, nor that my soldiers about "the dragon " would resolve themselves into were cowardly, nor my officers were inefficient, but some fine-spun speculative system of cosmogony, only because your guns are so tremendous (li-hai)." producing itself in some fanciful moral philosophy, One night Capt. Brooker beat to night quarters, some subtle web of objective truths, hung upon and we went down to forewarn Yeh, lest he should ridiculous atheistic conceits. I believe that, stolid, suffer by being startled from sleep by the sound of gainseeking, and matter-of-fact as they appear to heavy guns. He and his servant were already up us, there is an cticregenc in the mind of a Chinaman, and inquiring. They had heard the sudden bustle that it is more generally diffused than we imagine, upon deck. Having been told that the men were and that it contributes greatly to the marvellous going to exercise with the great guns, he quietly conceit of the national character. I believe there turned in again. He actually affected to be fast is in this people a habit of dreamy cogitation upon asleep while the 681 b. pivot gun was blazing away a self-generating system, and upon abstract truths, just over his head, and the broadsides were shaking deducible from what they assume to be the laws of the ship from stem to stern. He had the impu the universe, and that they consider this the highest dente to declare next niorning that he had slept occupation of the mind of man. They imagine that quite through the firing. they alone have this faculty, and that the barbarians One day, after he had been sitting fanning him who are without it are scarcely thinking creatures. self for seven hours without saying a word, or even We see this cropping out at every footstep in their smoking a pipe, I asked him whether it did not dig towns. G. into a shoemaker's shop and you find concert hi m to see every one else around him en his walls adorned with mysterious characters— gaged in some occupation. H said "It did not very large golden characters at top, and scrolls of surp rise him. He knew that the English were smaller writing pendent b e l ow . Y ou expec t that always busy ; but such was not the Chinese this large character means the man's name, or, at custom." any rate, the sign of his sh o p ; b u t the Chinese I asked him why he did not smoke ? scholar at your side informs you that it means, H e s a id, " The hot principle is in the ascend " May the pencil and the ink flow fragrantly." You ant." continue to imagine that the smaller characters There is in the day of these blue tropical seas one mean " Boots and shoes mended on the shortest hour of beauty, when the plain of waters is just notice." No„they mean "Ten thousand unities heaving to the light head breeze, and the only to all eternity." Thes e thi ngs are near ly un i versa l visible object is the red, roundsun, falling down the in China. The examples I have just cited I take western heavens so rapidly that it seems at last from 20 which I noted at Singapore. I believe that to drop, and quench in the reddened waters. Our every Chinaman above the condition of a Coolie captain chooses this cool healthy moment to put talks Taoli, or affects to talk Taoli, in his little way the men through their exercise, and Yell, full of —not. with that application of an affectation of dinner, waddles upon deck and sits in a big ham learning to his trade which would induce an Eng- b oo chair, with his two attendants behind him. fish shoemaker to register his podosokyan pumps, What a wild turmoil of well regulated confusion but from real reverence for " Taoli." immediately takes place on board the Inflexible ! This preface is not to introduce any theory of Mr. Beavan, the first lieutenant, is dictating an my own upon the subject of " Taoli," although, of interminah'e series of manceuvres, more rapidly, course, I have one, but only to explain the ire- I believe, than man ever before talked ; 300 men portance of getting Yeh to talk upon the subject. are in perpetual motion, moving in every different "What does your Excellency mean by Taoli ? direction, but with purpose in their heads and What you ought to do is Taoli; what you ought speed in their hands and feet. In a few seconds not to do is not Taoli." the naked ship is clad in canvass. Another order, " Has Taoli no more extended meaning ?—Taoli and before the expanded sails can feel the gently has the most comprehensive meaning --it compre- opposing zephyr she is again naked to her spars. bends everything." Then a whistle, and a hoarse boatswain's call, and " Does Taoli teach of a Creator ?—There are the bees swarm again. In a moment every gun is many Taoli. There is Heaven's Taoli, and earth's m an ne d . Every man in that straining crowd se em s Taoli, and man's Taoli." to have a special work to do, knows it, and does it. " Are these Taoli distinct ?—No ; they are all Handspikes are worked with a will, the blue parts of one Taoli." jackets beading to the labour as though a real _ _ " Can you explain to me what you mean by Heaven's Taoli t—lf the sun shines out it becomes hot." " It has relation only to the material heaven ?-• 4 ' Tien' means propz,rly only the material heaven, but it also means ' Shangti' (Upp er S p i r i t ) , for, as it is not lawful to use his name lightly, we name him by his residence, which is in Tien." " One of our Christian sect uses the word 'Tien chu,'—is that a Chinese word ?—lt is not a word known to the Chinese language." " Your Excellency used the word Shangti'— what does that word mean ? Our people dispute about it ?—Shangti is a Shun, but Shun is not ne cessarily Shangti, for the Shun are very many." " Have Shangti and Taoli any connexion 1— When you discourse about Shangti you discourse about Taoli. Shangti and Taoli are one and the same thing." " Is Taoli a corporeal being 7—ln things that are done by it it is a thing having body ; but when you discourse of it it is a thing having no body—it is a principle." " Has that body any visible form ?—No ; it has no form. Different people have notions that it has different forms." " And do those people worship those forms ? Yes." " Has Shangti any visible form 4—Shangti is produced by the Yin and Yang, the Tai-chi—the male and female principle. It has no visible form. It has never been represented under any form." " Were there men in existence before this pro. duction of the Shangti I—There were men. "Is there authority for this ?—That is what everybody says from ancient time ; it is said so in the books." " Is Shangti Confucian ?—lt is hinted at by Con fucius, but not explained. Shangti is a Taouist " Which is superior—Tai-chi or Shangti ?—Tai chi." enemy were at our yardarm. The broad - side guns are run in and out like children's gocarts, and the huge pivot-guns are spun round as though they were dummies of cork instead of mountain cast. iron. But the captain's sharp eye is not always satisfied, and ever and anon comes a voice from the paddlebox, awarding extra drill to No. 2 or No. 5 of some designated gun for not being smart enough or for being in his wrong place. What is Yeti doing all this time ? Is he mark ing this orderly energy, this discipline, this zeal of art, this . heartiness of work, this scene of a multitude . in motion, with one object, and is he pondering . over the lesson ? Not at all. Two middies, hidden by the awning from the eye of the captain, are skylarking together, and the bigger one has just . forced his smaller comrade breech-fore most into a tub of water. Yeh is slyly watch ing those scapegraces through the corner of his thin eyes, and when the young gentleman goes souse into the full tub he chuckles, but immediately turns away bis head, to hide the undignified enjoyment. Then in a moment it is night. Twenty minutes after the sun is down nothing can be seen but the tall windsails glancing to and fro like ghosts in the gloaming. Yeh has gone down to drink tea and sleep ; remembering, as I believe, nothing of what he saw on deck, except only the whimsical face of the "small boy" who was forced backwards into the tub of water. On the ninth day of our voyage from Singapore we sighted the two pilot brigs which lie ou t o f sight of land, but give notice of our approach t o th e S - indheacls. Then, having taken a pilot on board and pursued our course fir some hours, a distant streak of red sandy coast line (such as we may see on some of our own eastern coasts, but still more like the first glimpse of Egypt from the Mediterra nean) vouched the land of Ind. Yeh was told this, and he went to bcd. Next morning we steamed up the muddy Hooghley, with its low green banks like Esse- Once an exclamation made him turn his eyes upon a bungalow that was visible through a little port hole opposite to him. Mr. Alabaster asked him what he thought of it. "He was not thinking about it at all." There he sat ; not now like a statue of Bhudda, but a flabby mass of greasy, dis coloured nightshirt. At last, he was left quite alone, and—Oh, Vic tory !—one of the shipboys comes up and tells us that " the governor". has Climbed up and is peer- - ing through the stern-ports. Let him peep in peace. If he were not a lump of mean artifice, he would come on deck like a man, and admire the glories of this great city. He might learn some thing by looking at Garden Reach, so crowded with great ships that such vessels of war as the Shannon, the Pearl, and the Roebuck have to be sought for. He would see a sight quite sew to Chinese eyes in that great park which comes down to the river quay, a park larger than our Hyde Park, and in tersected with rides and drives broad as Rotten row, with monuments to Ochterlonies and Prin seps and Bentincks, and other names honoured in the East, and with its three sides of forts and palaces. In Fort-William, which occupies the other side that strikes the river, so trim in its green embrasures, so white in its lines of barracks, so formidable with its heavy guns and zigzag ditches, be might note the difference between a barbarian and a Chinese fortification. The dis tant dome of Government-house only suggests the magnitude of the palace that occupies the opposite boundary of the park ; but somebody , would have told him that the far away and long- drawn line of great and lofty edifices, all columns and green verandahs, parallel to the river, are the private residences of merchants and civil servants, and that these last have earned for Calcutta the name of the City of Palaces. Yeb, however, thinks it more to his dignity to peep stealthily out of the stern-ports, hoping that he has cozened his captors into the be lief that he has no sentiment but that of sublime in difference both to them and to their creations. So soon as the Inflexible dropped her anchor Major Herbert, to whose care Yeh had been as signed, came on board with a retinue of red-vested Hindoos—a glare of scarlet which much impressed the vulgar Chinamen. The old Mandarin, how ever, was not to be caught. Ho received the Major in his greasy coat, went on with his dinner, replied to his many bows with a carefully modulated courtesy, and decided that it would take three days to make his preparations for disembarking. This morning at daybreak Yeh landed. He is located for the present in Fort William, but a con venient house is being furnished for him some little way out of the city. Before he went he presented Capt. Brooker with a written certificate of his pre sence and good treatment on board the Inflexible. This was done in a grave official manner, and Yeb, no doubt, thinks it a most valuable document. He is now in the best place in the whole world to teach a Mandarin a useful lesson. The Calcutta people seem to have a very general contempt for most things, but a special contempt for China. The in difference which Yeh laboriously feigns they honestly feel. Yeh would be a lion in London ; he will not attract more notice than a five-legged poodle in India. Perhaps you may allow me hereafter to say some thing in the way of generalising the facts here col lected, but here ends this episode to the Chinese expedition—an expedition which, whatever may be its direct claims to interest, has, by its inciden tal operations, relieved Lucknow and saved India. I/ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. DON GIOVANNI. TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), will be presented Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, . g ....... yanks like L.. .x, or "So that the Upper Spirit or Ruler is only a like the ihorea o f the mouth a of the lm interest y treeseh in among Rhine-L - if;i n p t a er a created being. emanating from the ultimate laws of lands would only grow few nature ?—Yes." their other f o li age . I tried to i " What produced Tai chi ?—lt came of itself." customs of the Hindoos, and he listened so far as (Tzu-jan-rhjan.) o to remark that th e drowning of aged parent s i n thi s I deduce from this that the Rom an Catholics river was a "strange Taoli." He had heard of the might be true that in i i g t ht have been brought the have chosen the best word for God. They have Ganges, and thoughtm s f to t r h y ° made a new word, whereas our Protestant mission - Ilan dynasty water of Chinese China Empe rors,heha from ari e a have adopted a word known to the Chinese as tllisribvuetr, f,o,rinthleeacronrio,nigatthioenhoi the name of a created being. I asked " Has Tai-chi any form ? — lts form is a not attended to such trivialprov erb matters ." that Iwhanatsewveorredia, circle divided into two parts—male and female. " We Westerns have a " Has any one seen Tai-chi l—No." worth doing is worth doing th oroug hl y. " He " How, then, do you know that it is of that thou g ht for a moment, and said , "That is not a form ?—Men have agreed to represent it by t h a t Chinese Taoli." Ho had never h ear d t h at the gy m ,, , Ganges was a sacred river. I talked to him about The Confucian philosophy, ther e f o re, recognises it with the hope of inducing him to go up on d ec k ezily nature self-produced, active, but willless and and look at it. He sat and fanned himself in the unintelligent. The disciples of Confucius tolerate cabin, immovable. the idea of the existence of zuling spirits born of Some of us were not sorry that he would not the operations of nature—the creatures, and no'. come on deck. The distant approach to the City of t he ereators of the univ erse . I n this way' they are Palaces is not prepossessin g. The liver contracts able to engraft Thames mianista. Taoui sm and Bhuddism upon Con- a hnost to the dimensions of our at Mort lake. Though the palms are still beautiful, the fiat When Yell turns i to the east and remains in con- landscape wants relief ; occasionally a great, square, templation he ritual creation: of °rin nature, and nut the Spi- brick-built, window-pierced factor own brother nature in her best as nature. He is contemplating to a dozen I could pick out in Derby—appears hor- I was anxious to as something rid in the sun glare. A factory is not a picturesque working of philosophy, of the practical object even in the glens of Glossop ; it always sug " If a man who has learnt to talk to does not s g e e f s :r t arise to him ? e s h h i a n r g d I w n d o irak that id cl e o: ra b as r e t a b t h e i n a g b , h a o iri atehere einn do Taoli, does any punishm ent Such a man would be very bad, arse to the Chinese unities. The bungalows come in 6 Would Shangti punish him 7—The thin sieht higher up, but th e s t a i ns o f mildew upon their Heaven how can we tell ?" gs of white plaister pillars hint of disrepair. That dead c` Does your Excellency recollect a saying of Con- Hi ode° floating past with four carrion birds perched, upon him, driving their heavy beaks into fucius, ' That which you would not that another river go en le ci corruption, does not suggest absolute security should do to you that do not to him r —it is e on _ l lt od orde . r. Yeh would think of the Canton fucian Taoli. I forget the exact expression in the i heavy with dead bodies after one of his great four books." battues u "In our Western Taoli we have a more extended Yeb, he p we above. Taoli, which commands a duty as well as forbids an bo dy, even t 1 :re:, sees none of the se Clings •; every offence. It runs, 'Do unto other s ever y thin g that that a he sl o l , ou s i teward, seems to thi n k it a shame yon would wish others to do to you.' Is there any- and little etratageot ai riss the first sight of India, are tried to make him look. DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madlle. Titiens • Donna Elvira, Madlle. Ortolani ; Zerlina, Piccolomini ; Don Giovanni, Sig. nor Beneventano (his first appearance this season); Leporello, Signor Belletti ; Masetto, Signor Aldighieri ; Il Commenda tore, Signor Vialetti ; and Don Ottavio, Signor Giuglini. To increase the effect of the majestic final] of the lst act, including the chorus, " Viva la liberta," all the principal artistes of the estab ishment have consented to lend their assistance. In addition to the music re3tored last year, Madill). Titiens will sing the grand aria, " Crude Is. Ah no mio bone," hitherto omitted. Conductor, Signor Bonetti. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, by 31 Massot, entitled FLEUR DES CHAMPS. The principal parts by MadUN,. Pocchini, Annetta, - and M. Durand. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. • On Thursday, May 13, (Extra Night), will be repeated IL TROVATO RE. Leonora, Madlle. Titiens; Azucena, Madame Alboni (her 2d appearance this season) ; Manrico, Signor Giugliei ; Fer rando, Signor Vialetti; and Ii Conte di Luna, Signor Aldi ghieri. Friday, May 14 (Extra Night), DON GIOVANNI will be repeated. _ A limited number of boxes have been reserved to the pub ic, price 21s. and 31s. 6d. each, which may be had at the Box-office at the Theatre, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstene. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with Shakespere's comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Mr. Buckstone ; Viola, Mrs. Chinks Young. After which a C'assical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. To conclude with MIKE YOUR WILLS. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Cress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes.., 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 P t Gallery at OY A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH CHARMS. After which ICING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be presented (for the fifth time at this theatre), the romantic musical drama of GUY MANNERING. Meg Merrilees, Madame Celeste ; Dandie Dinmont, Mr. B. W e b s t er . To conclude with THAT BLESSED BABY, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.—This Evening will be presented the COUNTRY SQUIRE, supported by Messrs. Emery, Belford, Charles, F. Seymour, Me igreson, Misses M. Oliver, M. Ternan, Portman, and Messrs Melby. After which, the new burlesque of ERA DIAVOLO ; or, The Beauty and the Brig an d s. Fra Davolo, Miss Swan borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young. Followed by a new Farce, YOUR LIKENESS, ONE SHILLING. Mes srs. Charles Young, Ray, and Miss M. Ternan. rIANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-Toad.— * k_l OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, Ise. viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Miss Braun, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson !feu F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Macknoy. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dro., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Ch lrles Kean, Esq.) will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. THE WE A THER —SUN OFFICE, MAY 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night, 57—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.12—falling. WIND, South-Easterly; light, with fine weather. MAT 10. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 63 —this day at noon. BAROMETER. 30.08. WIND, S.E. ; light, with fine warm weather. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EN E.NING, MAY lO, 1858. dictator. They may perhaps find that in this in stance they are " reckoning without their host," and that however willingly the TAPERS and TADPOLES may join in the interested outcry, the Members of the House of Commons will refuse to march through Coventry with such a troop. - There is no act of Lord DERBY'S Government that will receive more commendation than the refusal to assent to the wholesale confiscation, the indiscriminate spoliation, indicated by Lord CANNING'S despatch. There was a wide distinc tion between the cases of the discontented inhabi tants of Oude, who had seen their lawful Sovereign dethroned and tbat which bad been an independent kingdom coolly annexed, and that of the mutinous Sepoys, who had been unfaithful to their salt, and the cold-blooded as. sassins and miscreants, who were not contented even with the wilful and deliberate murder of our unfortunate countrywomen who fell into their hands. The latter should be treated with the most stringent severity, while the former should receive every consideration, and more especially when there ware any redeeming circumstances in their favour, treated with the utmost leniency. Lord CANNING did not sufficiently discriminate be tween these cases. Ells policy was calculated to drive men to desperation; depriving them of their property, unless theycould prove to the satisfaction of Ms Commissioners that they were Completely inno cent, or bad done something to merit not merely pardon, but reward. Such a course was calcu lated to drive men, who might otherwise submit, into desperation, and to indefinitely protract the contest, adding enormously to the expense and loss of life during its progress. Had the Government sanctioned these proceed ings they would have become accomplices, consti tuting Lord CANNING a despot as absolute as any that ever swayed with iron hand the destinies of the Eastern Hemisphere. It was an impe rative duty to arrest his reckless path, and that they have done so firmly, but at the same time so temperately, gives additional cause for rejoicing in the substitution of Lord DERBY for Lord RALAIERSTON, and of Lord ELLENBOROUGH for Mr. VERNON SMITH. We can easily conceive the vexation of the ex- Ministers at the exposure of the grave mistake into which their pet protegtfe permitted himself to be betrayed. When Lord CANNING was perhaps the most unpopular administrator, when every journal w as casting the most unequivocal censure on his pr ocee di ngs, and the Timis was launchin g almost daily thunder s at his devoted h ea d, he was Sustained and supported by Lord PALMUSTON and his coadjutors. But the Leviathan has,- according to its usual custom, performed another daring act of "grand and lofty tumbling," showing the unblushing tergiver sation of which it is capable. Can any reader of the Times forget its energetic denunciation of Lord CANNING, or conceive how it can justify is s present servil e a d u l a ti on. Th e pos iti on of " THE CERBERUS CLUB" m i g ht give some inkling as to the reasons, but it is still difficult to understand how any public journal can be so totally indif ferent to the voice of public opinion on which it must depend. Men may for a time blow hot and cold with impunity, but retributive justice must eventually fall on those guilty of such reckless conduct. the country, that will unquestionably take place in the event of any factious movement or factious vote. To-night a grave question indeed will come before the House of Commons. The Oaths nal itself is trivial in comparison with it. 11 , 7 hether our constituencies shall be h e ld qualifi e d t o j udge who is fit to represent th em , 9: n d whether the great principle of religious equality shall b e ex tended to Jews, are we ; :glity questions ; but th e y are insignificant comparison with that whi c h the House of Lords has wilfully ra i se d upon t h em —What is the ultimate authority in the realm ? If the House of Commons shirks meeting this question now, then surely every constituency in the Kingdom ought to memorialise her MAJESTY to dissolve at once a Parliament ignominiously below the demands of the crisis—for a crisis it is. We will not, however, believe, till after the debate of to-night, that the representatives of England can fail to assert the rights of the nation, as distin guished from those of the small hereditary body which now assumes the Dictatorship, and which contemptuously refuses to acknowledge the sove reignty of the nation. The three or four last Governments have all promised or talked of a Reform Bill ; but of what impor tance is it to reform the representation, or of what avail would it be, if when reformed, the Lords are to be allowed to put an absolute vEro on the oft-repeated, and more and more loudly repeated demands of the nation. It will become a question of the most urgent im portance, how to reform the Upper House. At the present day it can never be tolerated that a body of men, having no qualification whatever, but that of being " their father's sons," "the tenth transmitters—it may be—of a foolish face" —that these men shall overrule for ever the deci sions of men possessing qualifications for which a million or more of their contemporaries have held them worthy to be their representatives and legis lators. The Lords themselves, we repeat, have raised a great constitutional question, and the Commons owe it to the country to take the decisio❑ into their own hands. Every consideration demands this at their hands. There is, first, their own too long and too courteous forbearance. From the beginning we have been indignant at the crotcheti ness, or must we say the meanness, of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in allowing the oaths in regard to the Jews to be made the subject of a Bill. It was one of his bits of petty personal conceit ; he thought he could manage the peers, and they have only showed how glad they were to have an opportunity of snubbieg him, and religious liberty, and the Lower House together. However, the concession to the vanity of the Peers was the same ; thus far the Com mons have humbly bowed to them—if they yield again, it will not be bowing but cringing. There is, next, the perseverance in insult on the part of the Upper House. In one form or another for twenty-five years the Commons of England have pronounced Jews qualified to sit with them, and the majority of Lords against their admission, is, if we rightly remember, greater than ever. In every form it has been sought to smooth the matter to their Lordships ; bills directly for the object, bills including it in more general objects, a wholly new oath with the objectionable clause omitted, an oath retaining it, with a special exemption for the Jews—all modes have been tried, but nothing will do. Perversity, bigotry, pride, dull obstinacy— we sincerely wish we could think more respectfully of the majority of England's Peers—have still continued to defy the intelligence of the nation as expressed in the House of Commons. A hundred names the ignoti, the vitlytts of the Peerage—for assuredly there is a numerous vulgar amongst the Peers as amongst other classes —rush to every division against the Jews, just to reveal to the public once a year the ignobility of our peerage. And these utterly insignificant, men, merely because many of their fathers were men of mark, are able to emnpel the House of Commons to perform political penance to them once a year ! Is it to be tolerated that a few, a very few, peers of ability should year after year entrench themselves for party purposes behind embankments formed of the very mud of the peerage, and thus successfully fortify themselves against the country by mate rials which reason, argument, and genius can never breaoh. The meeting of hungry expectants at Carp bridge House, yesterday (Sunday, of all days in the week !), shows the lengths to which the Palmerstonians are inclined to go. Provided they ctn achieve office they care not by what means it may be attained, or through what dirt they may be dragged in their progress. They think that " the end justifies the means," and their organs of the fourth estate have shown them selves to be equally reckless. The really important and influential meeting of 120 sincere and consistent Liberals, last week, may be fairly set off against the Sabbath-day demonstration of the Palmerstonians. That meeting indicated the true feeling of those who, after all, arc the real arbiters between the Govern ment and the Pahrkerstonian opposition. They are not disposed to sacrifice their political cha racter for the sake of reinstating the veteran Viscount, or bringing in the Ministry, who, not withstanding their prepared promises, had not even prepared the Reform Bill, so long and so anxiously looked for by the people of the United Kingdom. What course will be taken by the independent Liberal members respecting the factious opposition which it appears is to be founded on the recent despatch of Lord CANNING ? That is a truly inte resting question, for on it will rest the last hope of the ex-Ministers during the present session. Judging from the feeling displayed at the meeting on Wednesday last these gentlemen are by no means anxious to displace Lord DERBY for the purpose of putting in Lord PALMERSTON, who, under such circumstances, would be more likely than ever to display petulant contumely towards ever► malcontent. They gave him not merely a fair trial, but generous support so long as he was maintaining au English policy. But the despot-loving Lord CLARENDON, by his truckling subserviency, inflicted irreparable damage on the Cabinet, to which neither Mr. V. SMITH, Sir C. WOOD, nor Sir G. C. LEWIS brought much favour. The extraordinary greediness of the im mediate followers, which grasped at everything that fell vacant, did not strengthen the Ministers conniving at such a system, and perhaps there was nothing that occasioned greater disgust than the appointment of the brother-in-law of the Hon. WILLIAM COWPER to the situation vacated by the death of the late Mr. COPPOCK. The Liberals were justly discontented at the entire system pursued towards them. Although as numerous as either the Palmerstonians or the Russellites, they were grossly neglected. By a sort of Parliamentary fiction Lord PALMER STON assumed that they were bound to regard him as their recognised leader, whose dictates they were bound to obey, although he neither pro muted the measures on which they had set their h earts, given them their fa i r s h are of influe nce or promotion, or even t rea t e d them with common civility, whenever they deemed it right to exhibit an inconvenient interroga tory. How th en could ho suppose t h a t th ey would still o b ey hi s orders or act in obedi ence to his s li g h test hint ? L or d D ERBY has displayed f ar more l ib era li ty th an the soi disant libe ral PALMERSTON. H e has dropped the " Conspiracy " bill, has rescued and demanded compensation for the injured engineers from Naples has saved Mr. HODGE from judicial murder has averted the wholesale confiscation of the soil of Oede —given an unexceptionable budget, which even the Times has been compelled to applaud, and surrendered the property qualification as a first instalment of the reform which he intends to introduce at the commencement of next session. Disinterested and unprejudiced men will weigh these matters, and compare them with the " sayings and doings" of the former Cabinet ; and should the representatives of the people not understand the true state of the popular feeling, they will receive a lesson on the appeal to Again, there is the aggravation of the case, that the question is a House of Commons one. It is not merely for a great principle that the Commons contend with the Lords, but for Unit own right, moral right to say the least, to decide on the qualifications of the people's representa tives. The Commons, fresh from the hustings, have sent to the Lords their last de mand for Jewish emancipation by a l arg er majority than ever. It must, th ere f ore, be the demand of the country ; indeed, at all times, the elected representatives of the people mus t be presumed to have the best knowledge of what is a faithful representation of the people ; yet the Lords have presumed, notwithstauding repeated protests, to take the keys of the •House of Commons into their own hands, as well as those of their own House. What, then, ought to be done? The Lords have had already every opportunity for repent ance, and they refuse to repent. Arguments are now completely exhausted ; considerate treat ment of a Conservative Ministry by an immense Liberal majority has had no weight ; considera tions of Statesmanship so forcibly, yet kindly, pressed by Lord GREY, were all thrown away; the clause which embodied the demand of twenty five years was stolidly, wilfully, proudly erased from the Bill. We thitdc it undignified for the Commons, under these circumstances, even to de mand a conference with the Lords. The result must be foreknown. It would be inviting one more insult. The only procedure worthy of the Commons would be to treat the emasculated bill, as they would a money-bill altered by the Lords, by ordering Mr. SPEAKER to kick it out of the House. Such a course would raise the house incalculably in the eyes of the nation, and of all Europe and the world. It would proclaim that we were not the slaves of a titled aristocracy, but a self governed cation of freemen. Shou!d the House, however, unable to free itself from red-tapism, humble themselves to a con ference, we trust that., on itiown part, it will appoint some sturdy JOHN BRIGIITS, as well as (to Lards) pliant JOUN llussELLs. An unwonted tone must be taken by the managers for the Commons. They must inform the Lords that the Lower House feels itself, and the peoplo it represents, insulted; that no compromise can now be thought of; that they are d e t erm i ne d to assert the, principle that to the national will, steadily expressed for a long succession of years, both Lords and Commons must give way ; and that the Commons intend to seat Baron ROTHSCHILD-with the Lords if they prefer it, if not, without them. The Lords ought also to be informed that if common-sense and reason are not sufficient to make the two Houses work harmoniously, other Weans must be devised. We have always thought that the harmonising device, peculiar, so far as we HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TITS DAT—Morn., 32 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 min. aft. 0 To-Nloßnow —Morn., 5 min. aft. 12 —Even., 18 min aft. 12 14) fri,V f !!... (1 , 01 , • _ LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1858. The CANNING Dapatch, it appears, is to le made the pretext fer a vigoroul onslaught on the Government. We use the term pretext advisedly, for it is but too painfully notorious that the Pal inerstonians are greedily aiming at the "l oaves and fishes," which they have fancied should be devoted to their peculiar use, vainly supposing that the Independent Liberal members and the various constituencies will suppoit. them in the monstrous assumption, and thus render the modern " Vicar of Bray " the Minister of a dozen Cabinets of different politics, a permanent know, to the Norwegian Constitution is a really admirable one. The Norwegians have an Upper styled--how appropriate would be the 1 -:,translated name to our own—the Lagthing ; if the Lagthing declines for three years to pass a measure sent up to it annually by the Lower House, the measure becomes law, the Lagthing and the Crown notwithstanding. There is surely reason in this under a representative Constitution. We commend the plan to the consideration of our Reform Bill makers. The House of Lords plainly needs reform, even more than the House of Commons. It threatens to be come a simple obstruction. If not vanquished on the Jew Bill, it will most certainly take courage from the precedent, and we shall have the revolt ing spectacle of a few partiz tin Lords, with a long tail of hereditary dunces, year after year, thwarting all liberal legislation, and especially every Eccle siastical reform, on which the hearts of the people are set. We warn the Lords that, as the Com mons have overthrown the titled dictator in their own house, so they will overthrow the titled and hereditary dictatorship of " another place." Upon the occasion of the recent anniversary dinner in aid of the Royal Literary Fund, the Noble Viscount who occupied the chair, Lord PALMERSTON, incidentally referred to what must certainly be regarded as a rather notable circum stance in the history of Literature. It was in giving the customary loyal toast—The Queen — that the ex-Premier reminded the assembled men of-letters and their convivial sympathisers that her present most gracious MAJESTY was the first English Sovereign who had, by investing en Author with the dignity of the Peerage, admitted to participation in the highest rewards within the gift of the Crown the cultivators of the fields of literature. Hitherto the bauble of a coronet has never been dreamt of as a recompense to a great writer in this country. Baron MacautaY is the first, and, up to this account, the only literary noble admitted to "the other place," the Upper House of Parliament. Upon the opposite shwas of the Channel they had in this, too, managed things much better, and very differently. M. VICTOR Hugo, a poet-novelist, was long ago made Viscomte by King Louts PHILIPPE. It is re corded, moreover, of the first Emperor—NAPO LEON the Great—that he had said of CORNEILLE, " If be had lived in my time I would have made him a Prince." There is, of course, very little in the distribution of these honours. They are mere symbols—symbols, too, that have often and often been abused and misapplied. [Everybody remem bers the Roman horse who was made a senatur and fed out of a golden manger.] Yet, as one poet has said— " Men are but children of a larger growth," and as another has written— " The child's the father of the man ;" so at every time of life there is real need, appa rently, of Toys—if only in reward and recompense. And certainly the toys of adults, if we come to examine into them are, all things considered, as various and fantastic as those manufactured for the younger occupants of the nursery. They range from diadems and sceptres down through many a nice gradation to clasps and medals, to a bit of ribbon in a button-hole, and even for that matter, actually to two or three letters of the alphabet. How many are there who have striven hard for years and years simply to the end that they might be dubbed M.P., or Q.C., or LL.D., or what-not : precisely in the same ambitious mood in which Mr. NATHANIEL WINKLE or Mr. AUGUSTUS SNODGRASS may have first aspired to have the magic M.P.C. upon the brass buttons of their blue dress coats, or Mr. SAMUEL PICKWICK himself the still granderinitial-title of G.C. M.P.C. It must be particularly borne in mind, moreover, that the covetted prizes of the social system are merely the fruits of old-world institutions. Some of them are of very recent organisation. There is the Legion of Honour, founded by the First Consul at the beginning of the present cen tury. There is the Victoria Cross, originated only the other day by the reigning Sovereign. 'Ne may laugh at these things as intrinsically very frivolous. But they mean a vast deal more than a morsel of bronze or of silver, a coin or a -tar. For them, death is braved under its most terrible aspects. The insignia have a priceless significance. Nevertheless, reverting from these comparatively minor and generally more attain able rewards to the original subject of our remarks —the admission of men of letters into the ranks of the Peerage—it may be cursorily observed that hitherto literature has done very well without this very magnificent and overwhelming recognition of it by the aristocracy. And Ito wonder—for what grander dignity, what more majestic title, what more august glory could possibly belong to the name and the fame of the chiefs in the grand bead-roll of literature ? What order of knight hood, what grade of nobility, what heraldic emblazonment could by any imaginable contri vance enhance the greatness of the memory of men like HOMER, like DANTE, like SHAKSPEREI. Never theless one delights all the while to remember that the Emperor CHARLES picked up the brush of TITIAN--one does not very willingly forego an apocryphal a belief in the pleasant dream that FRANQIS the FIRST supported in his arms the dying form of LEONARDO. Not that in either instance the dignity of the great artist was in any way enhanced—simply only that it was very signally recognised. And so it is now with re ference to the encircling of the forehead of a bookinan like THOMAS Lord MACAULAY wi th a baron's coronet. The historian might say as a famous lawyer did once (meaning Lord TauttLow) when taunted with his plebeian origin, "My Lords, I must say the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage." The honour appertains more to the House of Peers than to a scholar who is ad mitted within it. Still the inauguration in this instance of our distinguished national annalist, a perfectly new system in the distribution of the titles of nobility, is au event so far noteworthy that it constitutes the most signal evidence tha could well be afforded of the distinct recognition by the State of the intrinsic and inalienable dignity of the most elevated, because the most purely intellectual of all the professions—that of literature. "The Narrative of the Defence of Lucknow, by a Staff Officer, published by Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, is from the pen of Captain T. F. Wilson, 13th 8.N.1., who was Assistant-Adjutant- General during the whole of the memorable defence of Lucknow to its final relief. We are informed that a meeting Ras held at C,lm bridge House yesterday, at which it was resolved ta ill° Ve a Resolution in the House of Commons ou Thurs day next upon the subject of the Despat c h f rom L ord Ellenborough censuring the issue of Lord Canning's Proclainwion to the people of Oude, and that this Rego ,n will have the concurrence of Lord John Russell arid the principal members of the so-called Peelits p arty. Times. The Bisnop of Ex , :ter completed his eightieth year on Thursday, May 6, and be is reported to be in good health and spirits. Eighty is not an uncommon age in Devonshire. Miss Burdett Coutts has signified her ittention through Mr. John Cheetbaro, M.P., to contribute a donation of 2001, and to give an annual subscrii tion of 1001. to the Lancashire Cotton Supple- Association. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.— The British and North Anrericau Mail steamship Niagara sailed from the Mersey this afternoon for Halifax and Boston with the weekly mails, 108 passengers, and a full cargo of manufactured goods. A EST NEWS. INDIA AND CHINA. CORFU, MAY 9, 10 A.M. The Calcutta and China mails have arrived, with date.; from Calcutta to April 9 ; Madras, 16 ; Ceylon, 19 ; Hongkong, March 30. On the Bth of April a strong force marched for Bareilly. A hot weather campaign in Rohilcund is con sidered inevitable. The 13th Regiment, sent to relieve Azimghur, had a severe fight, in which 25 casualties occurred. Seaton had encountered and beaten the rebels on the 7th, taking three guns. Lucknow is perfectly tranquil ; not a single armed man to be seen. The 4th Bengal Light Cavalry, 160 strong, has been brought to a court-martial at timballab, 60 sentenced to be hanged, th© remainder transported for life. At Calcutta imports met a better demand, at advancing prices. The supplies of produce were small, and transactions checked by high prism Tne money market continued in a healthy posi tion. Exchange, 2s. 14d. to 2s. lid. for credits, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. for documents. At Madras imports continued in fair inquiry. Exchange, 2s. Ofd. for credits. CHINA. All continued quiet in China. Lord Eldon had reached Ningpo. Admiral Seymour left Hong Kong on the 21st of March, it is believed for Shanghai. General Straubenzeo had returned to Canton. Erchange at Hong Kong, 4s. 9d. SHANGHAI, MARCH 7. The import market had been brisk ; silks firmer : prices of tea also fully maintained. EGYPT. The East India's Company's frigate Punjab, with with the Persia transport in tow, arrived at Suez on the 4th inst. to convey cavalryhorses purchased in Egypt. The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul- General Green was received at the Foreign-office May 9, 5 p.m. : ALEXANDRIA, MAY 6. The steamer Bengal arrived at Suez on the 4th instant from Calcutta ; she brings no later news from India than that received last mail from Bom bay. There is nothing of importance from China. The Hon. Company's steamer Punjab and tram p ')rt Persian have arrived:at Suez from Sorsa [query, for horses ?j. From Aoting-Consul General Green. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. Already a delay has taken place in the meeting of the Conferences. The 20th of May is now spoken of as the period for convening the plenipotentiaries. Fuad Paella, The Turkish Envoy, has reached Ber lin. Ills Excellency will be in Paris on the 11th. The labours of the Legislative Chambers closed yesterday, af ter vo ti ng the bill for public improve ments of Paris. It is remarkable that 42 members voted against this measure—a very large minority...-. and niany spoke against the bill. It is stated that M. Thiers is about to follow the example of M. Guizot, and publish his memoirs. It will be a single volume, of 400 pages, entitled, " Simple Notes, par Adolphe Thiers, ex-Ministre." BOURSE, May S.—The following were the closing quotations 41 per Cents 93 40 Do. end month — 3 per Cent. ..... 69 85 Do. end month 69 90 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier 755 Do. Account 750 Credit Foncier Belgian 4,1 ........... Piedmontese (5) Roman 9l Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern New Ditto 7676 Lyon and Mediteran. 777 New Ditto Geneva -Fos Casa. Midi Western 605 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian SPAIN. MADRID, Saturday. —The Government has dis. missed two-and-twenty corregidors. An early convocation of the Cortes is spoken of. AMERICA. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 11 A.M. We have received the following despatch per the Aftica from New York, conveying intelligence to tho afternoon of the 28th ult. : " The stockmarket was inactive, but prices were steady and firm. Illinois Central Bonds, 87i ; New York Centrals, 881 ; Erie Railroad, 24i. Flour unchanged. Wheat and corn dull. Mess pork lower. " Washington advices of the 28th report that tho expedition for the survey of the Atrato river been successful. " A telegram from New Orleans to the evening of the 27th states that cotton was firmer, at 11i0. to 11 c. for middling ; stock in port, 335,000 bales receipts at southern ports, 64,000 bales in excess. Freights to Liverpool 9-16 ths of a penny. Sterling exchange, 107 to 1081. " QUEBEC, APRIL 28. " The ship Pride, of Canada, is on shore on Red Island. Steamers have proceeded to her assistance. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY NIGHT. The Royal mail steamship Africa, Captain N. Shannon, arrived in the Mersey at 10 p. m . , w i t h the usual mail from the United States and the British North American provinces. Her New York advices are to the 28th ultimo. She has brought, besides the mails, 135 passen gers, and $4,000 in specie. She passed the Kangaroo, April 29th, from Glasgow ; Mary and Ariel, from Southampton, May '7th. The Canada arrived at Boston on the 24th of April. It is announced from Washington that the Government will call upon Congress for authority to borrow 30 millions of dollars, a por tion of which is to be applied to the redemption of outstanding Treasury n o tes. B o th H ouses of ° Con gress were engaged in discussing Kansas affairs, but uo important decision had taken place. Caledonian advices to the sth ult., received per Moses Taylor, which brought nearly a million and dollars. Markets quiet, and prices without much change. Money easy. From Central America we learn that a conven tion had been agreed upon between Costa Rica sad Nicaragua, that all steamers or property ca ptured by either power during the Walker war should be disposed of for their mutual benefit. Important news has been received from Peru, announcing the termination of the revolutionary struggle under General Vivancn. The money market at New York was easier, and well supplied, and on all commanded 3 to 5 per cent. Stocks were firm, with an upward tendency, ex change dull. London, 1381 to 109. Paris, 5.15 to 5.171. Cotton was quiet, but held firmly at previous quotations. The recent cold weather reported to have injured the crop. Breadstuffs in moderate demand, at rather easier rates. Provisions very active, chiefly by specula tors. Ashes steady, with a good export demand. Freights firm, with an advancing tendency. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY Monimia. The steamer Colombo, Capt. Field, has arrived with the Calcutta and China mails. She left Alex andria April 20, Malta April 28, Gibraltar May 3. The Colombo spoke April 28, lat. 36.38 N., long. 13 E., brig Nelson ; off Cape Bon, steamer Indus and brig Allatid4le ; May 4, screw steamer B off C ipe St. Vincent ; Btb, screw s t eam er Alhambra, off Usbant. The Colombo brings 119 passengers, including Major Roper and Lieutenant limes, from Delhi; Maj ir and Mrs. Marriott, Lieutenant and Mrs. S )ppi 't, Dr. and Mrs. Fayrer and child, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair, Miss Birch, Mrs. Gall, Mrs. Grahani and child, Dr. Campbell, Lieutenant Barclay, and Mr. Geoffroi, from Lucknow. She has also 12,1471. in specie, 508 bales and 68 cases of silk, and general cargo. The Sultan, steamer, with Bombay mails of the 26th ult., from Southampton, arrived at Gibraltar at 9 a.m., on the Ist inst. The Brechin Castle, of Glasgow, had put into Gibraltar to repair damages, having been in colli sion with the Elizabeth, of Sou , h Shields 00 miles Shields, N. W. of Tarifa. • _ Exchanges at Gibraltar were , 491 on Londoni "'wiz 29, Genoa 533, Marseilles 630. tra br z ve/ Bap; co in ; Tt Col o th e j Avoi 114 1 , b P Di Dc Ui peril Di t ort ti Li ns, q:trd Tthi .1 4 c , t re , th, db; the Il k ritti ht, Va t, kg