The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-29 00:00:00

---- ,ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented ShaksPeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Cho rus, Mrs. C. Kean. rrHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far rah, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Scc. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs. Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And A. DAI7GYITER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. NEw THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. - THIS EVENTN..G, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, Billing ton, Toole ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Sims. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, M. saes Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG . Mr. B. Webster, 13111ington, Eb:ene, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden. 'Acting Manager—Mr, Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. fees;x Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. Noto servants permitted. A registry kept of an articles found. ROYAL STRAND • THEATRE, Lessee and Directress, Mies Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comediet TWO supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANWHITHEA TRE, Westminster -road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. SPLENDID EASTER NOVELTIES. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with anew grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing- among the vast resources of this great Flippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats. Tilts, Victories, and Achievements in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst. After whieh, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John henry Cooke, the greatest equestrian in the world : together with Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, amount Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Franci sco, being the greatest of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the Farce of BATHING. ,Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. :Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips CANTE 'BR RY HAL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.O Westminster L -road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists. viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continetal Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at' NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 29. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. .56—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAnoNtETER-29.80--rising. WIND, S.W. ; light, with fine weather. As yet there has been no collision between the Austrian and Sardinian troops. Bloodshed has happily been avoided up to this time, or at least up to the period when the last accounts came to hand. This may probably be ascribed to the fact that Austria has not yet abandoned a faint hope of peace being restored. She has made her demon stration against Piedmont, but has not as yet ren dered the quarrel inexpiable, or one that can only be washed out by the blood of innocent parties. It is possible that although she has taken the first formal step, she still has sufficient respect for public feeling in Europe to avoid proceeding to extremities, or taking what might be considered as a very un fair advantage of an inferior power. Meanwhile her allies are beginning to feel the effects of the crisis. A military revolution had broken out in Tuscany. The Grand Duke had been offered the unpleasant alternative of abdication or alliance with Sardinia. It aNears, however, that considering " discretion the better part of valour," he declined being tossed on either horns of the dilemma, and preferred removing with his family to a safe distance from the scene of danger. The re sult is that VICTOR EMM.INt•EL has been proclaimed Dictator of Tuscany. The Duke is but the first of the victims. There arc other Italian poten tates far more unpopular than he was, whose people will be anxious to avail themselves of the first opportunity to set aside the maladministration and misgovernment to which they were subjected. The Austrian bayo nets have now ample occupation. None can be spared to interfere between the rulers and the ruled, and the cat being away, the mice will revel in the luxury of unalloyed freedom. The treatment of Italy is the terrible stain on Austria! If her German subjects tolerated the manner in which they were treated, the Hunga rians, the Gallicians, and more especially the Lom bardo-Venetians, have emphatically protested, not only against her rule, but the manner of her rule, she might feel herself to be at liberty to "do as she liked with her own ;" but surely she had no jurisdiction in Parma, Modena, Tuscany, or the States of the Church—had no authority to occupy them with her troops, or erect Austrian fortresses upon alien soil. But for this unwarrantable conduct, Austria would receive all our sympathies. She detected the nefarious conspiracy between the autocrats of the East and West, and boldly flung herself into the gap to arrest their progress. But for the sins accumulating for 44 years, she would command our admiration. - As it she can only get rid of active opposition in consequence of the gross ill-treatment she has received, and the firm conviction that the Italians would be better off, even in Austrian, than in French or Russian hands. "Physician, heal thyself," was a wise demand, and when we see perfect liberty in France or Russia, we may admit their power and intention of conferring freedom on others. The gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, and we believe of all the Bourses in Europe, have already suffered heavily by the crash. It is worthy of notice that it is those who have been seeking loans requiring a little discount that have occasioned all the mischief. Austria first came into the market with h er « little bit of stuff" for the ridiculously t rifli ng swa of eight millions sterling. The trans action did not, however, find favour in the sight of English capitalists. Menaces had gone forth from the Tuileries and the Chamber at Turin ; and the per tinent inquiry N i na made, How could Austria meet the liabilities in the event of war which she was unable to liquidate in time of Peace ? This knocked the project on the head ; and with the exception of a very few of the class who are pro verbially reported to part soon with their money, very little English gold or silver has found its way since the commencement of the present year to the Treasury at Vienna. Russia had higher notions. She asked not for eight, but twelve millions, and had an equally plausible excuse to offer for the urgent requirement ! The action of Aus tria,—the increase of discount, and the general depreciation of all classes of securities, public and private, "have, however, prevented the AnTocitAT from benefiting by the well-known gullibility of JOHN BULL, and enabling him to obtain from )k ,' • , 4 i k ' ' -. le . . . - - ---'--------\' .. A , o , ' ..,.i. - •! ' , 44 ge- . ,-----).: - -410 . .*•-r e z,-;,-, or ~, 1 1 0 „:,.\- - • o,4ibulifts THE SUN. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1859. .. English p o ck_ets the _means of assailing, Or, honour, dignity, and security of Great Britai n . France goes still higher in her demands. Five hundred millions of francs, or twenty millions of pounds sterling, is her little demand. We trust, however, that it will prove as unacceptable as those of Austria and Russia. There ought, indeed, to be immediate steps taken to prevent the exportation of gold at a fixed price, and the inevitable calamities that result therefrom. We have long urged this on every Ministry that has been in office. We believe that the ti me has at last arrived when it must be adopted, if we do not desire to see the United Kingdom enter on the contest that may be forced upon her with exhausted means, having supplied her adversaries with what may be truly termed " the sinews of war." Already there have been numerous failures on the Stock Exchange. The ursine fraternity would triumph, if the bull speculators had not been thoroughly deprived of the means of paying their demand. We must say that we cannot greatly sympathise with any hopes that may be sustained by those investing money so much wanted at home ; but from henceforward any man dabbling with new Austrian, French, or Russian loans, will be a criminal, meriting severe punish ment. The painful lesson that has been received may, however, prevent the mania that has hitherto influenced men possessed of money to fling it away to any plausible pretenders, while they disregard projects that would be very remunerative to them selves and highly advantageous to their country. Within nine days from this there will have been an end of the whore remaining 287 nominations. Those nominations, it must be acknowledged, have been distributed over exactly nine days rather unequally. They range from a maximum of 164 to a minimum of 2. Beginning on Thursday, the 28th of April, they will end on Friday, the 7th of May. The trumpet of electioneering excitement, it is true, was sounded betimes on Wednesday, the 27th instant, at the hustings of Marylebone. But the last echo of the political tantarra cannot die out until Saturday se'nnight, and it will then resound simultaneously over the West Riding of Yorkshire and over Radnorshire ; so that the signal given to the electors by one of the most important of the political constituencies of England will be taken up rapidly until the whole of the remaining Eng lish constituencies but one have responded—and that one the most important of all of them, numeri cally. Marylebone, with its 400,000 inhabitants and its 20,000 registered electors, has begun the movement, not inappropriately to be closed, as already intimated, by the West Riding of York shire, with nearly double the number of electors, viz., sonic 40,000, and with considerably more than three times the extent of population,namely, a grand total not far short of 1,400,000. The electors of Marylebone, to be precise, being 19,700—those of the West Riding 37,300. The inhabitants of the former, according to the last census, making an aggregate of 370,9,57—thc5e of the latter, according to the same authority, attaining a grand total of 1,315,896. Altogether we cannot but regard the fixtures for the different nominations as sufficiently prompt—even under existing circumstances. Even with all the urgency of the present extraordinary crisis pressing heavily upon us—we may surely estimate as something approaching to a nine day's wonder, this compression within the compass of merely nine days of as many as 287 distinct nomi nations. Twenty-two nominations on Thursday, the 28th-164 on Friday, the 29th—nine on Saturday, the 30th—thirty-three next Monday, twenty-seven next Tuesday, eighteen next Wed nesday. The number gradually becoming " small by degrees and beautifully less" from that time forth until the end, as before specified—nine next Thursday, three the following Friday, and two on the final Saturday. There is everything, at the present general election, to agitate the popular feel ing to the very uttermost. It is, beyond a doubt of it, this time to an intense degree a party struggle. It is a party struggle, moreover, in the midst of that last great movement for the reform of the representative system and the legislative organisa tion. There is obviously, moreover, so rapid an approach of the ballot as eventually one of our established institutions, that now possibly for the last time may be brought into play on all sides without distinction, upon all sides indiscriminately, the evil influences of bribery and corruption. We may take it for granted, indeed, that now, during this present election of 1859, if ever money has been scattered about with lavish prodigality, it will be during this brief gold-silver•and-copper age of electioneering excitement. There will be as small an attendance, of course, as possible, of gentlemen in green spectacles but the cash bags, however carefully concealed, we may rest assured will here and there give forth a melo- dious chinking. From whatever is easily accom plished thus during the elections, we may at any rate obtain our last and crowning argument for the Ballot as a security, on the one hand, against Bribery, and on the other against Intimidation. Throughout the whole of the turmoil, of course, there will be a wonderful amount of plain-speaking —apparently. An extraordinary degree of can dour will be affected among the candidates and among the electors themselves. Yet here, in mat ters political, not one jot less than in matters social, as the Great Observer of our Age has recently said at the commencement of his new fiction—" A won derful fact to reflect upon, that every human crea ture is con4-ituted to he that profound secret and mystery to every other." Adding, " A solemn con sideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly-clustered houses ineloses its own secret ; that every room in every one of them ineloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it !" What is said by Boz, in his " Tale of Two Cities," in reference to Paris and London a hundred years:ago, may be said as truly nowadays at this very moment, when there is ap parently so much vociferous plain speaking, in re ference to all our loud talking constituencies. One of seemingly the veryplainest speakers of all, the witty candidate for the suffrages of the electors of Dover, claimed for himself at the outset of the very best speech, delivered by him down there to his political supporters—claimed for himself distinctly and em phatically, the credit of having made Tong since a clean breast of it to them, and explained his views, avowed his opinions, and enunciated his principles, clearly and unmistakeably, to every one's comprehen sion. Another humorous oration down at Carlisle, the right hon. baronet the Master ofNetherby, in an equally grotesque harangue, and one in every way as charmingly candid and outspoken, arrogated to himself credit for being alike explicit as to the nature of kis views, opinions, and principles. Yet when all has been said thus delightfully—we do venture to assert that perhaps no two politicians stand before the country in a position more entirely and radically ambiguous than Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE. As to the former, we have only to bear in mind any portion we please of the chequered career of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and then to contrast that with any other portion—to I find his political colours vary like the fluctuations in the hues of a chameleon. As to the comic ex- Secretary of the Admiralty, we need scarcely com pare for an instant the three years during which he sat, to the grief of the House and the country, entirely mumchance among the subordinate members of the Palmerstonian Administration— and the fourteen months which have elapsed since that " wild shriek of liberty" with which, accord ing to Mr. DISRAELI, the member for Dover cele brated his emancipation from the thraldom of office. What would either Sir JAMES GRAHAM or Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE be at if they were enabled to carry out their designs ? We believe they would each have yet to make their own selection —or yet, more probably, would require to have it made for them. To guide themselves, therefore, as they do Reform, their candour and plain speaking is really to all intents and purposes simply preposterous. And Mr. OSBORNE adds, with a sneer, that Her MAJESTY'S present Mi nistry make no promises—he thereby pronounces their eulogium rather than their condemnation. We have had quite enough for many years . to e,gme of idle and most illusory promises. We want now, instead of vague promises, substantial performances. What was not Lord JOHN to do . before he became Premier ? He remained in supreme power as the head of a Liberal and Reforming Government during upwards of five years, and yet those five years and 239 days—beginning with the 26th of June, 1846, and ending with the 22d of February, 1852—came to an end at last ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL during all that boasted and protracted Premiership and done just exactly Nothing—for the general advancement. Lord PALMERSTON came into office afterwards at the head of another Liberal and Reforming Administration. He remained in at its head during three whole years, and we all know perfectly well how much during that interval he accomplished in the way of im provement. No—we are sick of looking only to men ; we want measures. We are tired to death of Promises—we want Performances. Let Ministers beware of court influence. In Mr. D. 0. MADDYN's " Chiefs of Parties"—an interesting and valuable little work—be notices how " the court always had a daunting influence over Sir ROBERT PEEL, to an extent the reverse of praiseworthy in a British statesman." He shows that Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the corn laws were striking illustrations of this painful fact. In recent times we have had too many proofs that our court has exercised a very powerful Ger man and Austro- Ger man influence. Lords PALMER STON and JOHN RUSSELL, even were, there is every reason to believe, more or less victims to it, and we fear the indications are but too plain that our present Government is exposed to the same danger. It was impossible to mistake the Austrian leaning 3 of the Ministry in their explanations to Parlia ment on Monday week ; and, though a different tone was adopted at the Mansion-house, this must be attributed to the manifestation of public opinion and its being the eve of the elections. Not that we suspect the present Ministers, any more than those who preceded them, of natural or personal leanings to a Power detested by their countrymen more than any in Europe, Naples itself not ex cepted, but that neither they, nor any Ministry, can easily resist the strong influences which a court can bring to bear on them, unless the nation enables them to do it. No Ministry can afford to oppose a court if it has not the nation at its back. It cannot be doubted that, when both Prussia and Austria incurred, during the late war, the eons tempt and hatred of this country, said of all free countries, yet both Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, almost openly, as DE3IOSTHENES would have said, Austrianized. The latter so much so that he had to leave the Ministry, as a propitiation to the people ; though it was suspected then, and is still suspected, that Lord JOHN could, if his tongue had been liberated, have given a version of the affair which would have reduced his culpability almost to nothing. This, however, Would have been at the cost of one, over whom he is understood, magnanimously to this day, to hold his shield. We fear Lord DERBY and Mr. Dls- RAELI had nearly fallen into the same trap. But they must be firm. Nothing would be so fatal to their popularity as to be suspected, still more to be convicted, of Austrianizing. Not that we have any sympathy with the French attack on Austria, not that we expect any substantial benefit to Italy from it, especially when France hunts in couples with Russia ; but, it cannot concern us to uphold a Power which has exercised such a brutal sway over Hungary and Italy so long, and which is answerable for all the atrocities of FERDINAND and of the Roman Cardinals ; indeed, in all the mis government of Italy. England will never consent to befriend in her difficulties the odious gaoler of SiLvio PELLICO, the executioner of hundreds of the noblest Italian patriots, the flogger of patriotic wo men, the cool blooded murderer of Hungarian patriots at Arad, the con cocter of the concordat, the perse cutor of Protestantism, the savage repressor of con stitutionalism in Italy, and its ruthless destroyer whenever it was obtained by the people. _ _ It may be said we must sustain Austria to balance the power of Russia or of France. Let us balance things for - ourselves. It is infinitely cheaper for us to husband our :strength than to lean on despotic Governments like Austria, which hate and perse cute institutions such as our own. Let all Europe combine ; let .Russia and France build navies, while they have a merely conscript naval service, if they please. We can always ontbuild them, and always leave them something better to think of than med. dling with us. The Balance of Power is a balance we can never adjust. If France and Russsia divided all the continent between them, it is doubtful whether they would be the more powerful for that. They must gain the good-will of all the nations they had appropriated, before they would be really stroilger. Indeed, let these military oppressors ex tend their dominions as they may, they will find them, as Hungary and Lombardy now are to Austria, sources of weakness rather than strength ; if con quest multiplies the number of their fortresses, and swells their revenues, it multiplies also their vul nerable points, and swells their expenses beyond their revenues. They are just the countries which . . ask in vain for a loan on the Exchanges of Europe. Let it never be forgotten that, strongly as we may suspect, or even denounce the ambition and Cunning of Louis NAPOLEON, and though we may be far from commending Sardinia in everything she has done, yet that Austria is the real cause of the tear. She it is who has so doggedly and savagely refused to limit her Italian rule to the portion of the country to which she has a treaty right, though no moral right. But for her vile treaties with Italian Princes against Italian liberties—but for her illegal and overbearing occupation of countries south of the Po, solely for the purpose of forcing her own oppressive principles of Government on States with whom she has no more right to interfere than she had with Britain—but for her proud refusal to con form herself to the obligations of treaties, in virtue of which alone she had a footing in Italy at. all — but for all this there could have been no war. Sar• dinia and France could have found no pretext for movement had Austria kept within leer own doing:ls, aud esveciall7 had she adivinistered them THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1859. well, and left the people of Modena, Parma, Tus cany, the States of the Church, and the two Sicilies to their own rulers, and the rulers to the peoples. She is, in her present situation, paying the penalty of contemptuous violation of treaties for her own purposes, and of the darkest reign of cruelty which any professedly Christian Sovereign ever inflicted on an educated and noble people. If we cannot wish either for the reign of France in Italy, or for the Viceroyalty there of the King of SARDINIA beneath France, we could not but exult in the expulsion of German brutality from the southern side of the Alps. That the Italians wish it, at all hazards, is proved by their universal enthusiasm for the King of SARDINIA. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will return to St. James's Palace to-day, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Duchees de Malakhoff entertained at dinner, last evening, at Albert-gate House, his Excellency, the Spanish Minister, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marchioness of Ely, the Secretaries and the Attaches of the Embassy, &c. The Earl of Derby has taken Lady Dover's villa, at Roehampton, for three months. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Villiers arrived at their mansion in Grosvenor crescent, yesterday morning, from visiting the Countess Waldegrave, at Strawberry Hill, and have since left town for Kenilworth, Warwickshire. The Earl of Aberdeen is staying in town during the holidays. The noble earl is in the enjoyment of better health at the present time than for the last 12 months. The Earl and Countess of March have returned to their residence in Lowndes-square, from visiting Lady Charlotte Greville, at Uxbridge. Frances Countess Waldegraire and Mr. Harcourt are entertaining a select circle at their villa residence, at Strawberry-hill. Lord and Lady Portman are expected in town ie latter end of next week, from Bryanston Hall, Dorset- shire. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke have arrived at their residence, in Grosvenor-street, for the sea son, from Compton Verney, Warwickshire. Baron and Baroness Hochschild have left Onslow square, for Sweden, for a short period. Baron Malaret arrived at Albert-gate House, on Wednesday, from Paris. Colonel the Right Hon. William and Lady Louisa Tighe have arrived at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-nark-corner, from Woodstock, Ireland, for the season. It affords us much pleasure to state that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, who is now sojourning at Malvern, is already much improved in health. ENGLISH TRANSPORTS FOR THE FRENCH Go- VERNMENT.—It was stated on 'Change at Liverpool yester day (Thursday) that two large screw steamers, belonging to one of the most extensive steam-packet companies of the port, had been chartered by the French Government as transports for the conveyance of troops. A Milan letter says :—Everything assumes the aspect of war. Travellers are exposed to the greatest an • noyances, and are compelled to present themselves to the police every 24 hours. The hotels are empty, the theatres closed with the exception of two, to which scarcely anyone goes. The cafes and the public promenades are deserted, and every face betrays the greatest anxiety. THE MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND.—Rear-Admi ral of the Blue George Rodney Mundy, who has been ordered to hoist his flac , in her Majesty's ship Hannibal, 91 guns, and to be second in command in the Mediterranean, obtained his commission as lieutenant on the 4th of Febru ary, 1826, became commander in 1828, and Captain in 1837. Ho was captain of the Iris, and commanded the gunboats of the squadron at the capture of the forts in the river Borneo and city of Borneo, and commanded a land expedi tion against the Sultan, and was in several actions with the pirates. He made a treaty with the Sultan, and took possession of Labuan, in the Queen's name, in 1846. He was for some time captain of the Waterloo, 120 ; then of the London, 90, but after fitting and manning the latter ship was obliged to relinquish his post in consequence of severe illness. He was appointed to the command of the Nile, in which he served during the Russian war, and after wards on the American station. THE CLOCK AT WESTMINSTER PALACE.—From a return ordered by the llouse of Commons it appears that the probable cost of the clock at the New. Palace, Westminster, dials, illuminating bells, and expenses, connected with the clock and bells, will be £20,307 17s. 7d. There is also an esti mate to the extent 0f£1,750 for a further amount to be required In a report from Mr. E. B. Denison, dated April 11, that gentleman says the clock is ready to be fixed as soon as the place is cleared of bricklayers, which ho understands will be in a few days. If so the clock will be going and show ing the time on all the dials before the meeting of the new Parliament. Mr. Denison cannot say when the clock will be able to strike the hours and quarters, but it ought not to be long after the going part is at work. LETTERS FOR SARDINIA, LOMBARDY, AND VENICE.—The postal communications between Turin and Milan being interrupted, all letters, &c., addressed to Lom bardy or to Venice will, for the present, be forwarded in the mails for Prussia, via Belgium. The postage of letters, &c., so forwarded is as follows :—For a letter not exceeding half an ounce in 'weight, 10d. ; for a letter above half an ounce and not exceeding one ounce, Is. Bd. ; for a letter above and not exceeding two ounces, 35.. 4d. ; and so on, adding Is. Bd. for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. The prepayment of this postage is voluntary. For newspapers ld. each, which must be paid in advance. Printed papers other than newspapers are chargeable with postage as letters. " Letters, &c., for. Sardinia will be for warded only by the route of France.—By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. Gene ral April 29th, 1859. THE WARD OF BRlDGE.—Yesterday, at twelve o'clocf, a wardmote was held by Sir Chapman Marshall, Knt., at the vestry .room of St. Magnus Church. London bridge, for the election of a common-councilman in the room of Mr. John Hill, deceased. There were two candidates for the vacancy—namely, Mr. E. Hunt and Mr. C. Good. The show of hands having been declared in favour of the latter gentleman, Mr. Hunt retired, whereupon Mr. Good was declared to be duly elected. Mr. Hill had filled the office upwards of 28 years, having been appointed to the Court of Common Council as one of the representatives of the Ward of Bridge in 1831. An unanimously-passed vote of condo lence with the family upon their bereavement terminated the proceedings. At the last examination for entrance into the Calcutta University, a ludicrous incident occurred. The (culmination was held on the lower floor of the Town Hall, where between four and five hundred of the Calcutta can dinates were arranged at desks. On the upper floor the municipal commissioners were holding their court • for ap peals against the assessment. A Bengali, who had come to appeal to the latter, was, by mistake, included among the entrance students, and set down at a desk with all necessary appliances, and a copy of the questions. While his soul was filled with anxiety regarding the tax, ho was startled with the qtestion " What is Satiric PoetrY , ?" In vain did he attempt to answer it, and those that succeeded. At last in despair, he duly entered after every question the state ment " I cannot answer it," and in intolerable English wound up his paper by a statement of his right to a reduc tion of , the assessment. The astonished examiner was ap pealed to by the poor man in person to remit a part of the amount, and then the mistake was discovered. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN KILLED.—On Monday an accident occurred on the Monk lands Railway, between Airdrie and Coatbridge, whereby two men (Henry Rolland, fireman, and William Dinning, breaksman) were instantaneously deprived of life, and the engine -keeper, John Aitken, was very seriously injured. The following are the particulars, so far as we have been able to gather them :—lt appears that a train leaves the station in Hallcraig-street daily at half-past 1 o'clock with empty trucks, and, after proceeding up the incline to Raw yards, returns to the station with the goods coming from the eastward. To-day the train had left as usual, and after leaving the empty waggons at Rawyards, the engineman was proceeding down the incline with eleven loaded trucks, when, from some cause, the engine had got too much way, and when they came to Common head station—the flat portion at which is the foot of one in cline and the top of another—the engineman was unable to bring his engine to a stand, and the train went over the top of the second incline, down which it proceeded with fear • ful _ After passing the foot of the incline.several hundred yards, the engine went off the rails at a crossing, and engine and tender and several of 'the trucks were smashed to pieces.. The body of the breaksmanwas found lying under the tender in a dreadfully mangled state, and that of the fire • man a short distance out from the engine. He seems to have been thrown to the ground with great violence-when the engine went off the road, and instantly killed. The engine man, who was found lying, beside the fireman, was very severely injured. • All the parties have been for a consider able time in the company's employllient.—Glasgoic D a ily Mail. All warlike orders at present attract attention, and it is therefore noticed that as many as 27 gun boats of very light draught, together with some vessels of larger size, are at present building on the Thames for the Spanish Government. In the pre sent relations of Spain surmises naturally arise that she might possibly in such matters be acting merely as an agent for others.—Tines. The wilful blindness of the Derby Cabinet to the dangers which were threatening their country while they were reposing in the faith of " eonfiden tial" relations with the Emperor Napoleon receives new illustrations each day. It has transpired that about two or three months back one of the principal chart-sellers in London received an order simulta neously from the French and Russian Governments, to the extent of £5OO each, for a number of copies of each of the charts and surveys of the English coasts and fortified places, as well as those of our stations in the Mediterranean, &c. Struck by the magnitude of the order, - he considered' himself bound to mention it to the Admiralty, but no ob jection was made to its being executed. About three weeks back a similar order, to the amount of £3OO, came from the Spanish Government.; and to-day fresh orders of £5OO each have arrived from France and Russia. in this case the charts of the ports and coasts of our Indian possessions are in cluded. The Admiralty, of course, are not to be blamed for sanctioning the sale, becauseif a refusal were given the required co pi es cou ld eas ily be obtained by indirect means ; but the cir cumstance of such facts having been reported to the Government without exciting, when taken in conjunction with the various other signs around them, the, slightest suspicion such as might qualify their Parliamentary cry of peace, and their asser tion that Lord Malmesbury was indispensable to its maintenancP, must be classed among the marvels of political lii4ory,—Tinte•ct LATEST NEWS. REVOLUTION TUSCANY. VIENNA, APRIL 28, NooN. A revolution broke out at Florence yesterday. The Grand Ducal family fled. , No official news has as yet been received here hat the Austrian army has crossed the Ticino. 3 P.M. The revolutionary movement in Florence is a military one. An insurrection has taken place in Massa and Carrara. The Provisional Government intends to pro claim the union of those countries with Sardinia. A telegram, dated Turin, Wednesday evening, 27th inst., says— We learn from Florence that the superior officers of the Tuscan army went in a deputation to the Grand Duke to ask him to conclude an alliance with Piedmont, The tricolour flag was hoisted on the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio. The Grand Duke consulted Prince Corsini. He replied that the indisputable condition of the alliance was the abdication of the Sovereign. The Grand Duke, after explaining the state of affairs to the diplomatic body, declared that he could not accept the condition, and that he preferred leaving with his family. News received later in the evening, announces that Victor Emmanuel has been proclaimed Die. tator for the Duchy of Tuscany during the war. We (Morning _Herald) have received a telegraphic despatch from Turkey, to the effect that a Russian army of 60,000 men have crossed the Dneiper, thereby threatening the Galician frontier of Austria. PARIS, APRIL 29. The Moniteur of this day contains the following ,clegrams FLORENCE, April 27.—The Grand Duke of ' Tuscany called together the diplomatic corps to-day, and announced to them that, having charged the Marquis Lajatico with the formation of a new Cabinet, that nobleman and his friends had de manded the Duke's abdication, and that not wishing to abdicate, and being deserted by his troops, he had resolved upon quitting Tuscany with his family. During the whop day the soldiers and populace have been running about the town sing ing patriotic airs and shouting— Viva Italia ! Viva Tranvia ! but public order has not been dis turbed. This evening at 6 o'clock the Grand Duke left for Bologna, attended by an escort of honour. The provisional Government is temporarily com posekof MM. Permuzzi, Sanzani, and Malenchini. General Ulloa, who will take the command of the troops, is expected to-morrow. GENOA, April 27.—News from Spezzia state that disorders have broken out in the Duchies. At Massa the political prisoners have been set free. Tele graphic communication is interrupted between Carrara and Modena. The Moniteur also says : A Council was held yesterday under the presidency of the Emperor, at which the Empress, the Princes Jerome and Na• poleon, the Ministers, and the Presidents of the Senate, the Corps Legislatif, and the Council of State were present. The Constitutionnel publishes a note, signed by its principal editor, A. Renee, which speaks of the proposed mediation of England, and says :—We know not whether the assertion of the Times, that France has refused this mediation, be correct. It will be observed, continues the note, that the me diation concerns a great number of Powers, that it would be somewhat irregular, and that being made by England alone, it would be a species of affront to Prussia and Russia. The question of the day is of too stormy a nature to be treated effectually by a semi-official Plenipotentiary and an Austrian Minister. TURIN, THURSDAY EVENING, April 28. The Austrians have made no attack up to the present. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office, April 28 :-- VIENNA, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 9 a.m. The official Oesterreichische:Correspondenz of this day publishes an article detailing all the facts by - which the machinations of the Piedmontese Govern ment, supported by France, have been unveiled. The Correspondent then goes on to communicate the fact of the departure of the Grand Duke of Tuscany for Bologna, his army having fraternised with the revolutionists. The article also states that the population of Massa and Carrara has re volted and established a provisional Government. In conclusion, the article says that Austria must, therefore, draw the sword, in order to maintain European order. TRIESTE, APRIL 28. An announcement of the managers of the Southern Railway states that the stoppage of goods traffic still continues, an►d especially that the carriage of goods from the north southwards will not for a considerable time be undertaken. A prohibition against the exportation of corn is imminent. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 28. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day the Minister for Foreign Affairs made a statement on the subject of the present political crisis. The following is a summary : " Recent occurrences are very threatening. The differences between Austria on the one side, and Sardinia and France on the other, have reached a point at which the outbreak of war may. be momentarily expected. England has made a last endeavour at mediation, but the hope of her success is extremely small. In this position of uncer tainty no communication of any measures which either of the opposing parties may have taken has come to the knowledge of Government. The placing of three corps d'armee of the Prussian army on a war-footing and in readiness for war has also been resolved upon by the Federal Diet. Besides our own safety, we must keep in view the safety of Germany, the more so because another great German Power is on the brink of war. But the present condition of warlike preparation which the Federal Diet has sanctioned is purely of the same nature as the Confederation itself, that is to say, essentially defensive, and With this object Prussia, in concert with her German federal associates, is armed on all sides. Above all things she adheres to the principle that the interest of Germany is also the interest of Prussia." FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 28. The Patrie of this eveningi publishes the fo _ lowing short artiele " We learn a fact of great importance. If the Austrian army has not continued the offensive move ment which it had begun, it is because the Austrian Cabinet has accepted the mediation proposed by England. At the same time we are assured that the French Government has taken the offer of Eng land into consideration. If this last news be cor rect, France may be convinced that this fresh evi dence of moderation will not be given unless all guarantees be reserved which the present state of affairs demands." PIEDMONT. The following is a translation of the speech ad dressed to the Sardinian Senate by Count Cavour, in introducing the bill already voted by the other Chamber relative to the extraordinaay powers con ferred on King Victor Emmanuel : After the exact and frank explanation in the other Chamber of the facts that preceded and the reasons that determined this resolution, I trust I have shown that his Majesty's Government has given, in these late negotiations, all the conciliatory proofs compatible with its dignity. I am consoled by knowing that the great Powers and the public opinion of Europe have been unanimous in their severe censure of Austria's refusal. To what I stated in the other house I have to add that which has since occurred. On Saturday evening there arrived at Turin the Austrian messenger bringing the de spatch of Count Buol, which had been announced to us. This despatch invites Sardinia to disarm and immediately disband the Italian volunteers, It requires a precise and categorical reply within three days ; and our non-acceptance will be made a cants belli. This fact, while confirming the necessity of the project of law, renders it thereby the more urgent, and I am sure the Senate will think so in every point of view. Gentlemen, to re-unite all the powers of the govern ment in one hand, during this supreme crisis of our country, to renounce for a brief period the exercise of certain rights and privileges, is not so much the fruit of an instantaneous ardour, as it is the council of mature prudenc. The nations most celebrated in history for their political acumen shall furnish our example. Therefore, I doubt not, the decision which the representatives of the people have not hesitated to adopt will be sanctioned by the Senate, where so much wis dom and experience are concentrated. If, on the one hand, the gravity of the times requires this act of confidence which leaves the constitutional institutions intact, on the other hand there never was a monarch who more deserved # than Victor Emmanuel. A telegram informs us that the Senate gave a unanimous sanction to the bill. The King of Piedmont left on Wednesday for Alessandria, after having attended a military mass. The Opinione of Turin states that the garrison of that city left on Monday for the army, and were loudly cheered by the population. The Piedmontese Gazette announces that the public sittings of the Chamber of Deputies are suspended until further orders. King Victor Emmanuel, in taking the command of the Piedmontese army, will be accompanied by Prince Humbert, his eldest son, who has just completed his 15th year. The Sardinian army are at present in the receipt of the allowance and pay given in time of war. THE STATE OF ITALY. A letter from Turin, dated April 26, says :—"We are not quite so certain as you appear to be in Eng• land that the Austrians will get to Turin this time. The three days allowed by the summons will termi nate only this evening, and we are in hopes that the French have been making good use of them to bring up their forces. If we were to credit the reports cur rent to-day, some considerable bodies are already within the Sardinian confines, and others close upon their heels, but we have no positive intel ligence on this point, and, if the Government has, it keeps it to itself as yet. It is not impossible that such reports may be encouraged, in oreer to keep up the heart of the population, which seems in high spirits and confident enough. Meanwhile, nothing has been neglected to impede the progress of the enemy after he shall have crossed the frontier. The country, as I have already told you, has been laid under water, in a conside- rable district, by means of the irrigation canal. In the Somellina are extensive rice grounds, which it is customary to flood at certain seasons, and for that purpose the landis intersected by many small watercourses. It will be hardly possible for an army to make its way across the country, and measures have been taken to render the roads at least temporarily impracticable. Cuttings have been made in them, bridges have been broken down, trees have been felled, and placed as im pediments across the highways. It is hoped that it will take the Austrians a good two days to reach the most advanced line on which the Piedmontese will await them. This line, there seems very little doubt, commences on our left with the river Dora Baltea, along whose banks fortifications have been thrown up by Col. (now General) Mena brea. Passing in front of Chivassa, whose defences, since demolished, offered some resistance to the French in '9B, and following the course of the Po, into which the Dora flows at a little distance from Chivasso, the Sardinian line of defence takes in Verrua, a strong fortress formerly, and still a very strong position. It is thither that has been sent Garibaldi's legion, which passed close to Turin yes terday evening, but did not enter the town, having been sent round from one station to the other by the connecting rail, much to the disappointment of a crowd of persons who waited a full hour to receive them. From Verrua we come to Casale, between which place and Alessandria there is a defensible line of hills, among which the Austrians will probably not thing it desirable to seek a passage. In short, hopes seem to be entertained of delaying the enemy until French reinforcements arrive. The left appears to be the weakest part of the position. The Dora is a small stream, and is not likely to have a great deal of water in it, considering how much is drawn off by the irrigating canals, and how very little rain we have had this year. If a passage were forced there, as it appears likely that it would be, Turin, an open city on the left bank of the Po, could be de fended only by a battle in the plain, and would, therefore, , loubtless, be abandoned. On the other flank, the Austrians, by marching up a strong force from the Duchy of Parma, might pass on the left of A lessandria,but such a movement, ifpushed far,would expose them to be cut off by the French coming up from Genoa, while Alessandria would menace their right flank. Without, however, entering into detail as to the probable course of the campaign at its opening, concerning which I could offer but con jectures, I may say that the events of the next 10 days must depend in great measure on the rapidity with which the French can reach the scene of action insufficient strength to prove an important support to their allies. There are, doubtless, plenty of spies both here and in France, and. the Austrians may be supposed well informed of the positions of the French troops, and of the time they will require to a r rive. This is all the question ;itis a race between French and Austrians. If the latter consider that they have time sufficient, and do not find their progress too seriously retarded by the impedi ments I have mentioned, they are likely enough to make a dash forward with the view of crushing the Piedmeittese before the French can get to their assistance, and perhaps of reaching Turin. Common prudence, however, would seem to forbid their attempting this unless they saw their retreat secured. With the French pouring in, as they soon will be, over the Alps and by way of Genoa, the operation would be a nice one, and might prove highly critical. Should they not think fit to attempt it, they would perhaps retire from the Ticino, on which they have now collected a very large force, in the direction of their fortresses. On the other hand, it has been repeatedly said that the Emperor Francis Joseph was determined to leave no part of his territory open to the invader without a previous contest ; and it is the belief of many that ho has long had an ardent desire to make a Pointe into Piedmont, and give a sharp lesson to his diminutive but plucky neighbour before the arrival of a large French army should compel him to restrict himself to a more cautious system of warfare. A very few days are likely to clear up so many doubts that I will not trouble you with further speculations." RIFLE CORPS IOR BIRKENHEAD.—Yesterday (Thursday). an address to the inhabitants of Birkenhead was issued, calling upon them to join a volunteer corps now in process of enrolment, to be called " The Birkenhead and Cheshire Rifle Club." The address, which was drawn up in very energetic and patriotic language, was signed by several of the principal residents in Birkenhead in the course of the day, THE BOMBAY MAILS. (MY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The steamship Behar, Capt. Hicks, has arrived. She left Alexandria April 13 ; Malta, 17 ; Gibral tar 25 ; and has had very severe weather. She exchanged signals with the Ripon steamer on the 29th ; the Pera steamer on the 24th. Passed a French steamer on the 25th, standing to the southward. Spoke the French ship Ann de Bre tagne on the 27th. The Behar brings 74 passengers, 610 bales of silk, 89 cases of shawls, and general cargo : has no specie. Her Majesty's ships Victor Emmanuel, Orion, Vulture, Gannet, and gunboat Quail were at Gibraltar. The Leopard left on the 21st for South America. The Russian line-of-battle ship Sinope had cleared for Cronstadt, having repaired her rudder. The British merchant steamers Peninsula, Chris tiana, Araxes, Taurus, Gothenburg, Sardinia, and Milo had arrived at Gibraltar from England. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, hence with Australian and Bombay mails, arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th, and proceeded. The British steamship Pactolus, from Mogador and Tangier, with 1,093 Moorish pilgrims, was at Gibraltar on the 18th, and proceeded to Malta and Alexandria. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TNLEGRAPII.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steam-ship Hammonia, Capt. Sehwes sen, has arrived, with New York advices of the 15th inst. She has 39 passengers for this, and 98 for Ham burg. No specie. She spoke the English barque Arabia in lat. 49.10 N., long. 9.22 W., on the 27th, bound east. The California dates are to the 21st of March. News unimportant. Trade not in a satisfactory' state. It was reported that the Cass Yrisarri Treaty had been ratified after two important modifications, but nothing was known officially. Senor Math was to be officially recognized as the Minister from Mexico on his arrival from Washing ton. Cotton at New Orleans was firm at latest dates•" Moro buyers than sellers. Middling, 1.21 e. Sugar dull at 61e. New York stock-market dull on the 14th, but prices well supported, and advance in some places• No variation in State bonds. Bank stocks steady, Closing prices were :—Tennessee Sixes, 93 to 931; Missouri Sixes, 881 to 88t; Virginia Sixes, 98 to 99; New York Central Railroad, 771 to 771 ; Erie, 91 to 91; Harlem, 13 to 131 ; Hudson River, 331 to 33 , 2; Reading 50 to 50/ ; Michigan Central, 531 to 531 ; Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 13 to 131 ; ditto Preferred, 394 to 40 ; Panama Railroad, 120 ft to 1201; Illinois Central, 681 to 69 ; Galena and Chicago, 681- to 681; Cleve land and Toledo, 251 to 26 ; Chicago and Rock Island, 57ft to 571; Illinois Central, 7 S, 75, 88 to 881; Pacific Mail Steam ship Company, 881 to 881. No movement in foreign bills, and the supply" appears to be rather better. Sterling, nominally. 1091- to 110 ; France, 5.15 to 5.131. Business in flour moderately active. Prices firm. and advancing in some instances for choice State. Rico dull, but firm. Ashes in moderate request. Prices of sugar unchanged. Stormy weather re stricted transactions. Sales of Cuba at 6c. to 61c. ;,• New Orleans, 61e. to 71e. Cotton rather in favour of the buyer ; sales, footed up, about 2,000 bale, at 121 c. for middling uplands. Coffee market low active, but firm ; Java at 14c. to 15c. The Sickles trial was still slowly progressing• MANNING THE NAVE - A Gunner says :—Now that war has actually commenced, and that there is not a shadow of 0. shade of a doubt that we shall be in it in a f ew months, probably weeks, will the Government still be so blind as to the only means of manning th e navy properly—viz., by" increase of pay ?" Sailors and soldiers will not come without good pa y, but with it, I will stake my existence, our present nura hers may be increased to 100,000 in a month. No' what would 100,000 cost at ls. per diem extra r why, £1,825,000 per annum. What is this extra expense to the country where its safety and that of its CDnamerce is at stake. Whatever is done should be done quickly. There is no lack of cannon, am'. munition, or ships ; the latter can be managed to a great extent by their engineers and stokers ; what we want is " gunners," and a gunner cannot be made in a day. In the former naval war, with car ronades throwing a few hundred yards, the smallest amount of skill was sufficient, as the great thing was get to close quarters ; now it will be different , and the fortune of the day will depend not entirely upon who can bring their ships into action best, but upon the " skill of their gunners." It is of no use' increasing the ration of biscuit, cocoa, or rum, or giving increased advantages in clothing—" pay" the thing, and the only thing, and if the extra shil ling is offered, the market will be glutted with sea men, and those of a superior class. MAZZINI ON SLAVERY. The following letter from Mazzini, says the Ye° YFlcTribun e , was rece i ve d a f ew d ays ago by th e principal of a private school in the vicinity of 00, city : " London, March 21, 1859. " Dear Sir,—l beg to apologise for being so lute in a r c: knowledging the receipt of 112 dols. 9 c., subscribed by 3; 3 2: and others at the end of the lectures delivered at your I n . . my friend I‘ldine. Jessie Whit e M ar i o, tovrara° our sti t Italiannti e by s chool, &c. ,6 I am ver y much pleased at m y h onoured friend's fire success and response to her efforts i n th e U n it e d Stateat co ming from Young America, to wh om Y oung I ta l y 100 h . l for sympathy and support in her app roac hi ng s t rug gle, an m y thanks are the thanks of all the members, b o th teacher° , and pupils, of our Italian sch oo l . "We are fighting the sam e sacre d b attle for freedom an d the emancipation of the oppressed —you, sir, against a nog? we against white slav er y. Th e cause is truly identical ;' c ' r f depend upon it, the d a y i n w hi ch we shall succeed in bind ing to one freely accepted pact 2 6,000,000 of Italians, ' 97 : shall give, what w e can n ot now, an active support to rh o cause you pursue. W e are both servants of the God ° lll says, before Me the re i s no master no slave, no mall' 110 woman, but only h uman nature, which must be everyivne— ,, responsible, therefore free. " May God bless your efforts and ours 1 May the dt Th r soon arise in which the word bondage' will disappear I our living langu ages , an d on l y point out a historical ree,er",, And, meanwhile, l e t th e k nowledge that we, all combatan t under the same flag, through time and space, commune... A love and faith, stren g th en one another against the unavoo able suffering which we must meet on the way. " Believe me, my dear sir; very gratefully yours, - " JOSEPH MAZZINI." THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, April 29.—Wind this day at noon, W' ;, light, pleasant breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. OFF DUNGENESS, April 28.—Arrived—Mentor, troy', Amsterdam for Batavia. DAILTMOUTH, April 28.—Wind E.—Excelsior, fr °lll London for Hobart Town. PLYMOUTH, April 28.—Wind E.—Arrived—Reci.it from Buenos Ayres for Havre; AVilmelm, from Tartar° for Bremen; Pensylvania, from Philadelphia. Sailed"' Summer Cloud, for Aden. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning'. Wind E.S.E. Arrived, April 29—R00, from Nantes. SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning• Wind W. Arrived—Courier, steamer, steamer, from Havre. from Jersey; Wonder' - (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND ; Friday Morning' Wind_lV. ; tide, four hours' flood ; weather light au fine. DEAL, Friday Morning• Wind W., moderate, Mn. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR.—Last night Il ea eighth concert of the season was given by this celebra emir at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. Among the bee u 2 .. ful subjects s e l ec t e d , an d w hi c h were t h e gems of the o r l „ e r ing, though every thi ng was goo d , we may specially' o to Purcell's madrigal, " Take heed, ye shepherd swainA. which was admi ra bly g i ven . The composition is 011 , e to quiring a marvellous n i ce ty i n s i ng i ng to give true en ,t by the rich harmonies with which it abounds. A madrl i g':" te a Edwardes, A.D. WO, '"lngoingto my lonely bed," elicits a most rapturous encore. Bishop's glee, " Fishern ie good night," was charmingly given, and was encore!. part song by J. L. Hatton, sung by Messrs. Lester Tay lor ' Harries, and Stroud, and choir, enraptured the t ul i d,i4; l ; the performance wasexquisitelydelicate; Bishop's doe s. Chorus" of cou rse pl ease d every one, as it a lways bu t There were many other subjects beautifully rendern s li o 's we have no space to allude to them. Mr. Henry T ante, arrangement of of " Rule Britannia" concluded the pe, e, and was sung in a manner worthy of the 'I l choi r ; ratter of the ladies and gentlemen composing the ioauer and the pianoforte and violin performances of Herr e : ,. A and Mr. Wm. Watson were highly creditable to th i m m o a r e e in p e. leasing musical evening's entertainment we ca... `~