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PORTUGUESE RAILWAYS ROYAL COM PANY.—Capital, 35,000,000 francs (X 1,100,000), in 70,000 Shares of 500 francs (£2O). The SUBSCRIPTION to the above is OPENED at Messrs. C. Devaux and Co.'s, 62, King William-street, where the prospectus may be had, with copy of the statutes as approved by Royal decree of the 22d December, 1859. ---- BEAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWA Y ICOMPANY.—Twenty -First Half-yearly General Meet ing.--Notice is Hereby Given, That the TWENT Y-FIRST HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors in this Company will be held at the London Tavern, .Bishopsgate-street, London, on FRIDAY, the 27th day of April inst., at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, for the general business of the Company, pursuant to the Act. The Books for the Registration of Shares will be Clo sed from Saturday, the 14th, - to Friday, the 27th inst. inclusive, and transfers will not be received during that period. By order. THOS. R. WATT, Secretary. Company's Offices, 3, New Broad-street, London, E.C., April 9,1860. S OUT H — W It N 1--- - EPSOM SPRING RACES. GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, on THURSDA.Y, 19th, and FRIDAY, 20th April, lil6o. Frequent Trains will run during these days from Wat erloo and Vauxhall Bridge Stations to Epsom. Ordinary fares will be charged down to Epsom fill 11.15 a.m. and up from Epsom after 7 p.m., viz.:— Single Journey 2B 3d .. la 9d .. is 2d Return Tickets 3s Od 28 6d .. 28 Od Passengers holding these Return Tickets cannot return from Epsom until after 7 p.m. on each of the race days. Additional Special Trains will run from Waterloo-bridge to Epsom from 11.30 a.m. till 1.20 p.m., returning from Epsom from 3.30 p.m. till 7.0 p.m., during which time the ordinary trains to and from Epsom will be suspended. Fares by these Additional Trains : To Epsom and Back 7s M To or from Epsom 7CY.- No particular class of carriage can be guaranteed. A Special Direct Train will leave Waterloo-bridge stallion for Epsom at 1 15 p.m. punctually on each of the race days. Steam boats call at Waterloo and ilungerford Bridges going up or down the river nearly every five minutes. Tickets may be procured on and after Tuesday, 17th April, at Messrs. Tattersalls' ; the Universal Office, Regent-circus ; Griffin's, Green Man and Still, Oxford-street ; Golden Cross, Charing-cross ; 53, King William-street, City ; the Swan with Two Necks, Gresham-street, City; and at the Waterloo bridge station. Waterloo-bridge Station, April, MO, By Order. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIXTH SALE CUSTOM HOUSE, London, April, 1860 . FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commis stoners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, 25, Thursday, 26, Friday, 27, Monday, April 30, and Tuesday, May 1,1860, at Twelve o'clock at noon, precisely, the fol lowing GOODS for home consumption, viz.:— Arms, Brussels lace, bags, boats, braces, bracelets, braid, brandy, brooches, brooch pieces, butts for piano action, cam bric handkerchiefs, embroidered; cartridges (blank), cap crowns, capsules, clocks, marble, ormolu, &c. ; coffee, cotton articles, &c. ' • combs, embroidery or needlework , collars , &C . ; furniture, Indian, carved wood, Florentine, mosaic, and mar queterie work, viz., cabinets, card tables, &c. ; Geneva, gilt slides, ink bottles (pocket), ivory ornaments, &c. ; jewellery of gold and silver, &c. , viz., Albert guards, hair pins, knives, &c., neck chains, rings, bracelets, &c. ; lace articles, life buoys, microscopes, mathematical instruments, mouldings, orna mented, &c., musical instruments, viz., clarionets, flutes, or gan harmoniums, violins, &c. ; needles, opera glasses, pistols, pipe stems and pipes, &c. ; perfume* spirits, porte-monnaies, rum, shawls, wove and chenille ; segars, sewing machines, soap stone ornaments, spirits plain and mixed ; silk manu factures, viz., broad stuffs, chenille, fringes, gloves, trim mings, &c., stay busks ; sugar, Swiss wood work, tea, timber, tissue cloth, toothbrushes, webbing, elastic ; waistcoating, watches,silver, &C. ; wine, and various other goods. For ex portation or for home consumption on payment of the duties —Sugar, spirits, tea, wine, and other goods. For exporta tion only—Plain and sweetened spirits. For the benefit of the Crown—Sugar, spirits, &e. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Ware house, Custom House, Thames-street ; at the London, St. Katharine, East and West India, and Victoria Docks ; and Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe, Monday, 23, and Tuesday, April 24, 1860, from ton o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of Sale, from ten o'clock in the morning: until twelve o'clock at noon—the tasting of spirits and wine being restricted to the day of sale as regards the Queen's warehouse. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be de livered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Re ceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver- General after eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, is. each. METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. CAPITAL £lOO,OOO. Assurances upon single and joint lives and survivorships. Immediate annuities, and annuities to commence at a fixed age. Endowments for children and for expected families. Credit given for half the premiums for the first five years. Three-fourths of the profits divided amongst the assured. Policies purchased after five years premiums have heels, paid. No charge for policy stamps, or other entrance fees. Loans on approved real and personal security in connection with life assurance. Service permitted within the United King dom, in any volunteer corps free of extra premium. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. Just published, SIXPENNYWORTH OF RIFLE-SHOT ON _ CHURCH MATTERS. By a POLITICAL VOLUNTIER. London : Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold! Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descr'p tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING. will be performed THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Bucketone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes. and Mrs. Wilkins. Atter which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the Farce, CRUEL TO BE KIND. Mr. A. Harris, Frank Matthews, and Miss Carlotta Leclercq. Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. ADELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole rroprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, the popular original Adelphi drama of THE DEAD HEART. Robert Landry, Mr. B. Webster; Messrs. P. Bedford, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Stuart, C. J. Smith, Billington, Eburne, Powell, Romer, Page ; MissWool gar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. After which the Grand Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIN ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedtord ; Viscount Verysoso, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Graceful. Miss Woolgar ; Queen Luctdora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly. Box•ofiice open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Engagement for a limited number of nights of 3IissJULIA DALY, the celebrated American Actress. Mr. LEIGH MURRAY is engaged, and will shortly appear in a favourite Drama. Actinz Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the management of Mr. Vim. Brough. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames E. Travers and K. Saxon. Alter which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss LytUa Thompson. Miss Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers, Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &c. ; and a nonporous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Ring-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directre ss , Mi ss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. p His fENINti the nertormannes will oommenew with A BORDER MARRIAGE. Kiss Wyndham, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. C. Young. After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT DOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Itanoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with No. 49." ASTLE 'PS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Proprietor, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN HUGHES. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the immensely successful Grand Military Spectacle, entitled "THE HISTORY ntme OF A FLAG." New and splendid scenery, costumes , and appoints, introdueing the stud of beautiful horses, ponies, camels, Am dic. To e b succeeded by the Scenes in the irele , supported by Mulles. Monet, Marie, and De Berg:, and Messrs. 11. Williams, De yereux,, Fernando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan Jack Stage Manager- -Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS.- CANT ERBUR Y HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (llonizeth). Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell. MBA° Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Alfonzo Signor TIT°U. Conductor —Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-Stm OFFICE, APRIL 20, 1860, THEIMOMETBIL, IN THE SHIM 44—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.90 ; fa lino. WIND, North-Westerly • fresh, and cold. It blew a hurricane yerterday in some' places, with gusty showers of hail, snow, and sleet. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS D AY. — Morning, lb. 26m.—Afternoon, lh. 42m. To - moßßow.-Morning, lh. 57m.—Afternoon, 2h. 13m. •• 7 , ,,,,, 'PL:Irle ;; ..."•,), 1 ..;,5. , t • : , '' ,i4j . ...., r.. , - .1,,,,, . e...., ,t z ' ....„ : 4 ‘ Z• , ,A,....... 'k" ;t.:• ' :„_ ' 'r,' , A 1 1 0 :. '. 4 et... , i ' ei ,....... 1 :::k.....__0 ....i.!44,15, ~.._, t • 11 0 • - 3 bto;irl " - , -_ !Ji t: t • ' ~ n0......,ir... ' •k -- ov , ' t-• — s"' .....,-- . v.....,..„ ~ ...__ THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1860, It is naturally very tempting to Conservatives when discontented Whigs offer to serve under them, or at least to serve them separately, much as GARIBAL DI with his Alpine volunteers aided the French, as •►ell as :the Sardinians, in the Italian campaign. Lord DERBY will, however, do wisely not to welcome such aid too heartily. The country does not, it is true, like the old Whigs, but neither do they like those of their nominal adherents, who, as it is imagined, on account of some actual or supposed grievance, harrass their old companions when the latter are doing their work, or any part of it, well. Lord DERBY may or may not have good reasons to condemn from his point of view the Government Reform Bill, but as the country disrelishos Puseyites because they ought, as it thinks, to go over to Rome, so it dislikes the dis contented Whigs, because it thinks that if honest they should join the Tories. What is Lord GREY'S case ? That the proposals of the Government are too democratic. He does not like the £lO franchise in counties, though it is one which both the great parties in the Commons have accepted. But the borough franchise quite terrifies him. On this he spends the strength of his argu- ments, and out and out Conservative arguments they are—the necessity of extreme caution, the danger of prompting to demands for further extension, the probability of the existing constituencies being swamped in the proposed additions, the certainty that the ball once set a going will roll down hill till it reaches the lowest depths of democracy—and, above all, the appalling results of democracy in America. Indeed, the degeneracy of America was, judging by the space allotted to it, his great argu ment. America is corrupt from "the crown of the head tothe sole of the foot." The President is corrupt —the Senate corrupt—the Administration corrupt —the courts of justice corrupt—the Federal Legisla tion corrupt—the State Legislation corrupt—the Municipalities corrupt—rottenness everywhere. America, in a word, is going to the bad—demo cracy is hurrying her thither—and Lord JOHN RUSSELL is doing his best to send us in the same direction. All this Lord GREY sees so clearly that he stands aghast, and begs the House o Lords to interpose some little hindrance—to erect a weir across the stream, which may stop the flood for a while—any how, anything, if extension of the borough franchise can but be delayed, or if the greater blessing of preventing it altogether can be secured. Heace this committee. Its only possible result, so far as the ascertainment of unknown facts is concerned, is that we may know with a trifle more accuracy the numbers which will be added to the constituencies by the £6 franchise. The Government still thinks the returns are as correct as such documents can be ; some private members have imagined that they have given the numbers considerably below what they will prove to be. But it will be of the smallest imaginable consequence whether Bodmin have 80 or 50 electors more. As to Ashton, it is incredible that the estimate of the returns, 800 or 900, should not be nearer the mark than 2,000. Be that particular ease as it may, the addition in the great majority of boroughs must be well known. The lists have been published, and the few cases which have been called in question plainly show that they cannot be numerous. With all the de ductions which have to be made in working, few persons conversant with such matters can doubt that the estimated total addition of 200,000 is rather over than under the mark. Mr. BRIGHT, who has no desire that we know of, to misrepresent the case, computes the number of working men which will be admitted at considerably fewer. But the truth seems to be that Lord GREY has gone wholly wrong on the subject of Reform. He gravely asks the question at this time of day, " I want to know what is the real advantage of having a vote on the election of members of Parliament ?" But if that question be answered in the negative, as he means it should be, there might very well be an end of the matter. "We have only an interest in good government," he goes on to say, " not in having a vote !" The very argument of every despot in Christendom, and out of it too. The favourite dogma we remember of NICHOLAS of Russia when he expressed, as he so often did, his undis guised contempt for free institutions. His subjects liked good government—he gave them it—they cared for nothing else. How strange to find the Lord HOWICK, of the Reform Bill era, saying— What is the advantage to a man of a vote; give him good government, and tell him to eat his pudding and be thankful ? We hardly need say that to us old Reformers,—not weary, either, of Reform yet, nor likely to be for our lifetime—the advantage of having but the thousandth, or the ten thousandth part in our representation is incalculable. Our having it implies that all in our position have it, and all in our position having it, implies that our representative can be called to account by us all if he neglects our interest; and the same reason applies to men of every position in society —in a word, it is the advantage of representation. Hitherto five-sixths of the population at least have been wholly unrepresented ; the bill before Parliament proposes to lessen the fraction some what—perhaps three-fourths of the male adults only, will now be left outside, and one-fourth, alto gether, admitted ; and, if Lord GREY'S committee proves all it wishes in regard to numbers it will not materially alter the proportions. But as for the rest of the subjects to be inquired into by the committee, no committee can tell the public more than it knows in each locality. The member for Leeds gave us a very minute account of the character of the additions in his own borough, and one which gave every assurance that no injury, but petty ob vious benefit could arise from it. And as to the working of things in large and small constituencies respectively, who could enlighten any of us who have A s l to i v ed the e i n g t r h e e daylight a of n t a h r u w m od e r t it may as suredly be said that it is irrelevant enough in regard to the " poor little Bill." Universal Suffrage an d the Ballot cnn furnish no argument against a suffrage of at most one-fourth of the people without the ballot. It would have been more to the point, could the relevancy of comparison be admitted, to show that all the evils of America flow from democracy—this Lord GREY did not attempt to do; It may be with rea son affirmed that they flow from aris tocracy. A select 300,000 in the South —the " Old Chivalry"—are the direct and immediate cause of the depraved moral tone of American poli tics. From them has proceeded the corruption of presidential elections and of the bench of justice, the two worst of all the evils ; indeed there are hardly any enumerated by Lord GREY which may not be traced directly or indirectly to the demoralising influence of the slaveholding aristocracy, struggling per fas mit nefas to acquire and maintain their political supremacy. It is sufficient, however, to answer that the Government does not propose uni versal suffrage; and, we regret to add, it does not propose what would be, we are confident, the most conservative of additions to the present bill —the Ballot. America is out of court as as an argument, taking her at the very worst, and taking the proposed extension of suf frage at the largest. Let us keep to England and the English ; and, we have not a shadow of a doubt that the electors to be added, if thousands of them be of the poorer—will yet be of the most sensible and honest classes. Would that they could enter on their duties under the protection of 0n................am......., . secret Toting, to shield them from temptation. In what they may become some danger may lurk. In what they are, as a whole, and what the Ballot would keep them, we hare entire confidence. No matter what the subject, no matter what the circumstances, it is always just possible to have too much of a good thing. If the right hon. gen tleman the member for Stroud has not yet quite realised the force of this truth—a truth, as we have intimated, of nearly universal application—beyond any manner of doubt, the House of Commons has, by this time, most unquestionably. So long as there was any chance whatever that good might really come of it—we have accorded to Mr. Hone- MAN that hearty applause which we certainly con ceive to have been his due throughout the earlier period of this session for his unflinching deter mination to speak the plain truth right out upon every available occasion coute qui coute, and, by so doing, to vindicate in a very brilliant manner the perfect freedom of speech and opinion which is foremost among the most cherished and inalienable rights of the Commons House of Parliament. Notwithstanding the precipitate re solution passed by Mr. HORSAIAN'S constituents down in Gloucestershire—a resolution condemna- tory of those very proceedings which we, certainly among thousands and hundreds of thousands of others, regard as on the contrary in the highest de gree commendable—we believe that by the distin guished ability with which Mr. HORSMAN carried out the very line of conduct for which that right hon. gentleman was thus formally reproved by his own constituency he materially advanced and ele vated his Parliamentary reputation. For the very sake of that advanced and elevated reputation, it will be well, however, if Mr. HORSMAN resolves to restrain at length the ardour of his invective, and to curb somewhat of the impetuosity of his now fully recognised powers of vituperation. Otherwise —we are seriously beginiing to fear, lest the very man who has latterly given such rare promise of taking high rank among the shining lights of debate should, in this respect, most lamentably disappoint the expectations of us all, by degenerating, on the contrary, into—(o types of horror and words of terror in the ears of the House of COIIIIIIOIB ) the veriest dinner-bell and the most unconscionable bore ! Glancing through the latest of these erratic and impassioned speeches of Mr. HoRsMAN that harangue of " sound and fury signifying nothing" with which he indulged the House only last even ,ing—it might seem to a superficial observer, from the frequent applause scattered through it, more particularly towards the close of its highly rhetori cal peroration, to have been yet another success to be added to the long list already num bered up in the volume of Hansard for 1860 by the right honourable gentleman the member for Stroud. Upon a little closer exa mination, however, both of this speech itself and of the applause by which it was interrupted, we shall be constrained to arrive at a very different con clusion. There is, in the first place, what we must at once frankly designate a sinister significance in the fact, that the plaudits invariably greeting the close of each of those telling sentences ring ever and ever monotonously (to say the least of it) from the side of the Opposition. Mr. HORSMAN is cheered again and again to the very echo — but it is always the Conservatives who cheer him. We can hardly wonder, therefore, that, under these peculiar circumstances, the right hon. gentleman's supporters down at Stroud have looked somewhat dubiously and with an eye askance at his recent performances in the discussions of Parliament. But beyond, far beyond the mere significance of his remarks being upon every possible occasion so pe culiarly palateable to the Conservatives—there are now fast becoming more and more apparent upon each successive occasion two peculiarities about Mr. HORSMAN'S speeches, which two peculiari ties are to them in the most deadly and fatal degree damnatory. One has reference to their source, and that source may be expressed in a single word—i.e., 'Spleen. The other relates to their result, and that result is—to record the fact with equal terseness—the most valueless and vacuous Futility. Before listening to or reading a single syllable of Mr. HORSMAN'S utterance, when he rises in his place to hurl one of these crackling oratorical bombs at the Ministry, we may safely mutter to ourselves—spite. And when the right hon. gen tlemen is resuming his seat, in the midst of the ringing cheers of the Opposition, we sigh forth, under our breath, with equal appositeness, the lamentable query —C ai bono? Answering our weary ejaculation—" Certainly not Ministers—not the House of Commons—not England —nay, not even Mr. HoRsMAN himself !" For while the bril liant and outspoken member for Stroud is yet talking in season and out of season, upon any and every occasion, about the folly of the Alliance, and the immorality of the French Government—[stamping upon our corns quite unnecessarily, while that Italian boot is pinching them painfully enough of itself without Mr. Hons- MAN'S interposition to add thus to the poignancy of our wounded feelings I)—we cannot but reflect all the time that it is really and truly just a trifle too late ! That Savoy and Nice are annexed to France ! That they have been formally ceded to NAPOLEON by VICTOR EMMANUEL ! That the whole affair is long since un fait accompli That we have protested against it through the resolute despatch of our Foreign Secretary ! And that there is consequently an end of the matter altogether. Or, if not altogether, that, at any rate, all we have now to do in relation to the close of these occurrences is to see that no violence, at least, is done to the neutrality of Switzerland. Such, in effect, was the wholesome moral of that temperate and statesmanlike reply with which Lord J. RUSSELL last evening scattered to the winds the powerless sar casms discharged against the foreign policy of the Cabinet from the over-bent bow of Mr. HORS MAN'S tediously reiterated vituperations. We publish in another part of our impression an appeal to the women of England by one of them selves. The writer, in a few vivid and impressive phrases, beseeches her countrywomen to do all that lies in their power to put a stop to the cruel usage of children at the bleaching and dyeing works, and directs their attention to the evidence given in j a e e r t e . e n T t h p e a e m h p i e h f l et features addressed ef t hi o them onthis e e vide nee w e s havesub ject.' before given in these columns. We have again and again reiterated the mournful details of the days and nights of consecutive labour, of boys and girls going home to die " from the long hours,' , as the witnesses pathetically express it. We have spoken of the exhausting heat, the impure atmos phere which they suffer from, the scorched feet and bleeding hands of little ones of eight or ten years old, the taskmaster's office of " shouting at them and frightening the children to keep them awake." We have dwelt upon the feebleness of the arguments opposed to their claims, argu ments which melt away entirely before the light of common sense and common humanity. We have little fear that the appeal to the women of * An Appeal to the Women of the Units(' Kingdom on a subject demanding immediate attention. Houlaton and Wright, Paternoster•row. Price threepence. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1860., England will remain unanswered. Political econo mists and manufacturers may discuss the relative merits of labour and capital, the self-regulating power of trade and the evils of legislative inter ference; they may disguise the truth from them selves by ingenious logic and cogent arguments, but such reasoning would have small force to the mother of smiling little ones, who had once realised the idea of the feeble and fainting children drop ping asleep as they stand, growing up sickly and stunted, or creeping home to die before their mother's eyes, that the owners of the bleaching works may gather in a little more gold. The love of children is intuitive in almost every woman's heart ; they will scarcely then fail to be moved by this stirring appeal to enlist their energies and in fluences in the good cause. For ourselves, we con fidently anticipate an immediate alteration in the system, and have little doubt that Mr. CROOK'S bill will pass triumphantly through the approach ing committee, and through the third reading. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The debut of Madame Csillag in the character of Fidelio, is certainly one of the events of the operatic season. Tho opera itself, reproduced after a lapse of five years, has always maintained a lofty position in the estimation of the critical few and musical judge. The only opera of one of the great masters of his divine art, composed, as it were, in a thorough impatience and contempt of the trifling and frivolous school, it addressed itself to such an audience rather than to the indifferent many, who regard a work of art merely as a pastime, and whose oars are more gratified by a few bars of commonplace melody than by the stately inspirations of sablime genius. The ill success which attended "Fidelio" during the lifetime of the composer is not surprising. Its length is unrelieved by action, its characters are few in number, and much depends on their vivid impersonation. Though highly dramatic in parts, there are none of those grand and striking tableaux which relieve the tedium of other operas of a grave and solid style--such as the ana thema of the monks in. "Les Huguenots," or the finale in "Le Prophete." The brilliant scenery and effective cho ruses of Donizetti's,operas, too, are absent, the pathetic chant of the prisoners being mournful and impressive. Still, though less popular than works of a lower artistic value, " Fidelio" will always retain its high rank among the chef d' ceuvres of pure and lofty art, and exhibits in. another form the vast resources of that genius which gave us " The Mount of Olives" and the marvellous symphonies which bear his name. The music of " Fidelio" is well adapted to singers from the Fatherland. The more brilliant but more superficial Italians would rarely appreciate a work o f such depth and grandeur. It was a German lady, Madame Schroeder-Devrient, who first took the onerous role of the heroine before an English audience. The fair dsbutante of last night, whose first appearance was a most decided success, is a worthy successor of that eminent vocalist, if not altogether her rival. Less familiar with the Italian language than Mdlle. Sophie Cruvelli, she brought to the task far greater dra matic power and sympathetic feeling for the delicate touches and poetic significance of the music. The impassioned de clamation of the recitative and air, " A qual furor ti con durra," after Leonora has overheard Pizarro's murderous projects, was enthusiastically received by the audience ; and in the famous dungeon scene, her acting, as well as her singing, was throughout most effective. Her voice is a fine and rich soprano, of extended compass, though not dulcet in quality. At first her singing was somewhat hard and cold, but her powers soon revealed themselves, and her audience testified their recognition of them by a unanimous encore of the trio with Rocco and Marcellina in the first act ; from that time the applause was loud and frequent. Mdlle. Corbari's sweet voice was heard to excellent advantage in the part of Marcellina, and Signori Zelger, Tagiafiaco, and Neri-Baraldi, acquitted themselves creditably in the respective characters of Rocco, Pizarro, and Florestan, though without - any great success. The remarkable feature of the evening was, of course, the appearance of the new prima donna, whom we may safely pronounce to be one of the best Leonoras of late years. She was twice summoned before the curtain at the concluston, and showers of bou quets testified the admiration of the audience. The orchestral department, under the management of M. Costa, was, as usual, perfect. The third of the numerous over tures (that in C) written by Beethoven for this opera, was played between the acts, and so much justice was done to the magnificent composition, that a unanimous encore seoured its repetition. The house was crowded, and the Ballet of " Azelia," brought the evening to a conclusion. THE PRIVATE PANIC DODGE. By the conversation in the House of Commons last night it seems that little further has been elicited than was already known with respect to the action last week upon the reserve of the Bank; The Chan cellor of the Exchequer has without doubt availed himself of his customary facilities to secure all the requisite information, and while he supports the mode of proceeding pursued by the directors, he does not attempt to fix any serious responsibility upon the particular firm (Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co.) who acknowledge to have availed them• selves of their own individual resources for their protection. The question has therefore become very much narrowed, and if, as now avouched, no com bination existed to disturb the operation of the cur rency, the case has probably excited greater atten tion than it deserved. The new policy of the Bank, and the necessity which it enjoined for the discount brokers to be prepared against every contingency, has, from the date of the alteration, rendered it compulsory for these establishments to be supplied with a reserve adequate to the demands that may be made upon them. And in this especial instance, it may, on full investigation, turn out that the house was only prompted by the natural desire either to keep the money in their till for their own conveni ence, or to loan it out at the Stock Exchange. If, as is alleged, the firm who are charged with being the great culprits are in the habit of supporting a re serve of a million and a half, their depositors will perceive that no want of prudence is exercised, and the surmise will be removed of heavy and almost illimitable transactions being supported on an in sufficient basis. It is stated that if a strong desire had existed to have interfered to a greater extent with the Bank's reserve, Messrs. Overend and Co. could have at least reduced it by an additional £600,000. Perhaps part of the misfortune was that the inability to sell Exchequer Bills some short time ago induced the firm to avoid such an investment in future, anl that the determination to withdraw their balances from the Bank occurred when the re serve had already been previously diminished by antecedent influences. The amount to their credit was, if the version current be correct, not swelled for a special purpose, it being a rule, as now estab lished, to increase their reserve previous to the pay ment of the dividends. The real sufferers in the case are the public, who, placed between the dis count establishments and the Bank, have to pay enhanced ternis for the accommodation, through the stringency of the regulation and the attempt to battle for au alteration. A combination, if one had in reality existed, would have been a very serious affair, and it indicates in a most striking manner the results that might be accomplished if personal feeling aroused the discount brokers and their friends. That no such catastrophe, simply through pique, will now ever intervene is more than fully assured ; but both the Bank and the brokers are perfectly aware of the comparative danger of the situation, which if prejudicial to the permanent safety of the one has been for the last year and more sorely inconveniencing to the others.—Morn ing _Herald's City Article. THE ARMSTRONG GUNS FOR CIIIN-4 I letter in the Times says—l have a letter from an officer at Suez, en route with this expedition, dated on the 30th of March, and consequently subsequent to the extract which appeared in the Ti me s a"day or two since, and he makes no mention of any mishap to his powder, leathern straps, or other stores, which I think he would have done if any such ex isted. Ile says, however, that he had only just got a ship to take on his men, and that they had been working day and night for the last five days to get her ready for sea, and that it would take them to the 2d of April to make matters square. The Iniperatrix had been laying down the Red Sea telegraph, and been pulled to pieces to make room for the cable and paying. out gear ; all her decks were cut up, and huge iron cylind ers b u ilt f rom the bottom of the ship to her upper deck, all of which had to be cleared away, and her decks rebuilt. All the mess appurtenances, &c., had to be made, and very many other heavy operations got over be fore they could go on board. He says there was no one in such a place as that to do anything, and that many a regi ment would have been unable to do the work necessary for embarkation. He adds that he had set all his artisans and men to work, and they were getting over it in fine style, to the astonishment of the owner and his engineers, and that he expected to be in Chi na i n good time after all. He had previously mentioned the retention of the Himalaya at Alexandria, at great cost, for week after week, merely as a barrack for his men, and the utter want of preparation for the expedition . B u t as yet I h ave not h ear d t h a t th e ex pedition has become useless for want of ammunition. London, April 19. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex pected to return to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next, from Germany, and at the close of the week, according to present arrangements, his Royal Highness will take his departure for Canada. THE WEATHER.—AII yesterday it ble* a hard breeze at Portsmouth from N.N.E., with occasional slight falls of hail, snow, and sleet. The air was intensely cold throughout the day. Barometer at 9 a.m., 30 . 18 at 6.30 p.tn., 30.15. During the whole of yesterday Chatham was visited with a violent gale from the E.N.E., with occasional storms of hail and sleet. At times during the dty the wind blew with the force of a hurricane, LATEST NEWS. INDIA. INDIA OFFICE, APRIL 20, 1860. The following telegrams have been this day re ceived from Brigadier Coghlan at Aden : FEROZEPORE, MARCH 25. Quiet prevails in India. A serious fire broke out in Dacca, which de stroyed half the town. 6,000 families have been reduced to destitution. Subscriptions have been commenced to relieve the sufferers. There have been some agrarian riots among the indigo cultivators at Vererhuago (?) and the neigh bourhood. The Governor-General was at Holy (!). He will join his camp at Hoshiapoor, via Sjopwepor (?) and Moduon (?). Funds.—Government Five per Cent. Loan at 5 to 51 per cent. discount. Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Loan at par to 1 per cent. premium. BEADON. In two districts of Lower Bengal much excite ment has arisen, connected with the cultivation of indigo ; we apprehend no disturbance which will not be promptly suppressed by military police. The magistrates' powers have been enlarged by a temporary law, and a special commission of inquiry will be issued. The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal reports that he has every reason to believe that the excitement in the indigo districts is passing off, and that he has no apprehension of serious disturbances any where. PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL. Calcutta, April 1. The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Reuter's 'office : PASS, FRIDAY. The Constitutionnel, in an article signed by M. Boniface, relative to the reforms introduced in Hungary by Austria, says " France views with satisfaction those acts which bring peoples nearer to their Governments, and which, by assuring the internal tranquillity of States are a token for peace ror Europe." Abbe Sisson has been pardoned. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Paris papers contain the following message from Nice:— " Nearly all the communes of the mountains have voted unanimously for annexation to France. The number of voters will exceed 20,000. The voting of 70 communes is known. Up to the pre sent time only 100 negatives have been registered." ~ 3.25 P.M. " A better tendency has prevailed to-day on the Bourse, and prices have improved. The final quo tation of Rentes was 70f. 20c., being a recovery of I per cent. since yesterday." PALERMO, APRIL 11, via MARSEILLES. The insurrection was suppressed ' through treachery in the Con-tent Gaucia. The city is tranquil. Nevertheless the principal roads are daily patrolled by a column of 3,000 men, consisting of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. The members of a revolutionary committee, amongst whom are several eminent persons, have been con demned to death. The King has ordered their execution to be delayed. MESSINA (via MARSEILLES), APRIL 16, Tranquillity is restored, and commerce resumed. Several 3 oung men compromised in the late events have fled the country. The emigration of the inhabitants is consider able. During the insurrection the citadel was obliged to cannonade four large Calabrian barques, which attempted to pillage. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, APRIL 19. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Electoral Hesse declared her readiness to conform to the re solutions taken by the Federal Diet on the 24th oi March. The protest of the Grand Duke of Tuscany against the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont has been laid before the Federal Diet. VIENNA, ArtlL 20, The Donau Zeitung says :—" We learn that the Government has prohibited the circulation of the Straesburger Correspondenten in Austria." VIENNA, APRIL 19, Archduke Albert retires provisionally from his functions as Civil and Military Governor of Hungary, and is replaced by General Benedek, who is com missioned to regulate the municipal laws, to reor ganize the comitats on the basis of the old institu tions, to submit his propositions for a central re pre entation (Diet) in Hungary, and to unite the five administrative sections into one single adminis tration (Statthalterie) at Buda. The Emperor has resolved to abolish the five great subdivisions of Hungary, which have existed since 1848, and to ro-establish the comitats, which will be called upon to make propositions destined to bring about the assembling of a Diet, composed according to ancient custom. Orders have been given to settle immediately the question of the communes. The appointment of General Benedek will be very popular in Hungary, and the Imperial decrees will, it is hoped, be well received by the Hunga- rians. The rumours of Ministerial modifications are un- founded. ROME, APRIL 19. The Pope has appointed Monsignor Count Merode, of Belgium, as Minister of War, which Ministry was provisionally directed by Cardinal Antonelli. ROME, APRIL 18. Cardinal Antoe2lli has addressed a note to all the foreign representatives accredited to the Papal Government, protesting against the incorporation of the Legations with Piedmont. England having no official representative at Rome. Cardinal An tonelli has sent a copy of the protest to Mr. Odo Russell. The Papal protest expresses a hops that the Powers of Europe will not only refuse to recognise the annexation of the Legations to Piedmont, but that they will also co-operate to put an end to this iniquitous spoliation. CONSTANTINOPLE (via MARSEILLES), APRIL 11. The deputation from Servia has not been well received. The Porte has resolved on resisting its demands, and is about to concentrate 30,000 men at Schumla. Baron Prokesch will shortly leave for Vienna, to receive instr uctions upon this grave affair. The calling out of the Rediffs is difficult, the population, excited by foreigners, resisting their departure. Disturbances had taken place in the Greek and Catholic Churches, caused by an in vasion •f Gendarmes. The Christians have pro tested against this breach of their privileges. Austria has interfered as protrectress of the Church. The Duke de Brabant has been bril liantly feted. SARDINIA. A letter from Turin, dated April 16, says,— General Garibaldi, seeing that the Italians of Nice have resolved to adopt the policy of absten tion, has given up his design of revisiting his na tive town, and gone to Genoa, where he yesterday took part in the meeting of the political society La Nazione, and accepted the chairmanship of the com mittee for giving assistance to the insurgents of Sicily. This Sicilian movement excites here the most intense interest, and it is believed that though the great towns on the northern coast are undoubt edly in the hands of the Neapolitan government, the interior of the island and southern maritime towns have been occupiedby the insurgents who have established a government at Corteone. At Palermo the number of arrests is incredible, even the Prince of Niscami could not escape prison, though his political opinions were not suspected, for having spoken some bold words against the indiscriminate persecutions of Signor Maniscalchi, the director of police. The fight of the 4th instant was begun by the soldiery, who surprised the conspirators when they had assembled in the monastery della Gancia —a friend, Fra Michele di Sant Antonio, having betrayed their meeting. Whilst the struggle con tinued round the monastery, the Neapolitan frigates and steamers bombarded and destroyed the village of Ficarizai, in the neighbourhood of the capital, to keep the inhabitants, known for their revolutionary tendency, off from Palermo. After the defeat of the insurgents, the venerable abbess of the nunnery della Sante Croci was arrested for having granted an asylum to two flying insurgents in the cloisters of the building. It seems now to be certain that that illustrious condottiere, General de Lamoriciere, in turn legiti mist, Orleanist, republican, and pontifical, has received permission from the Imperial Government to serve a foreign prince, and to command the papal bands of Croats, Austrians, Bavarians, Swiss, and Irish, a motley crowd of hirelings such as has not been seen in Europe for the last three hundred years. Napoleon sees that a revolution is nearly inevitable in the Neapolitan States, and wishes to prevent the annexation of Southern Italy to the northern kingdom, and Lamoriciere has to keep separate the two movements which agitate the peninsula. The inheritance of the Bourbons is not to devolve upon Victor Emmanuel, but upon Murat. Still, if such is the wish of the Tuileries, Poerio, Scialoja, and all the other Neapolitan re fugees at Turin, take a different view, and agitate in favour of Italian unity under Victor Emmanuel, in the hope that " the logic of events" will, as in Central Italy, prove stronger than the wishes of the Tuileries. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. A letter from Naples, dated April 14, says : A steamer has come in from Palermo just in time to allow of my giving the reports of two consuls. They say that the city was quiet ; the shops not open ; and they write, on the 12th, the insurgents were in occupation of all the neighbouring places except Monreale. Engagements occurred daily, in which losses were incurred on either side. The troops were expecting reinforcements, when they could advance, but not till then. At the last moment the intelligence arrived that Miselmeri, the headquarters of the insurgents, had been re taken by the troops, who occupied it. The insur gents, on the approach of the troops, fired and then retired. Castelcicala had sent up to urge that the coast be watched. It is reported that bodies of volunteers have landed, some say at Cape Passaro, others in some part of the island. THE BOMBAY MAIL. By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received our letters and papers from Bombay down to the 27th ult. The following is from the Bombay Gazette of that date : _ _ Mr. Wilson's exhaustive speech on the introduction of a paper currency has been received in all parts of India with the same marked favour which was shown to his financial statement. Of course, the cancelling their privilege of issuing notes has had a depressing effeelp on ;the Presidency ;Banks; but the gene,* confidence in the wisdom of the proposed change is so great that the shares in the Bombay Bank, which at first fell 10, have since recovered .5 per cent. The numerous friends of Sir James Outram will be happy to learn that a letter has been received from him dated the 17th March, in which he announces his recovery from the severe illness under which he recently laboured, and his resump tion of official duties. His own words are "I am perfectly well now, and have returned to work." The sentence of death on Khan Buhadoor Khan has been confirmed, and he will be hanged in front of the Kotwali at Bareilly, on the very spot where he sat and watched the murder of his European victims. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, K.C.8., quits the shores of India to-day, after having held for upwards of five years the Command-in-Chief of the Bombay army. With his retirement ends the General's active military career. The case of James Hunt, formerly sergeant-major in the 14th Dragoons, who shot Cornet Browne of the same regiment at Kirkee, near Poona, for seducing his wife, has been tried in the Supreme Court of Bombay. According to the evidence given by Browne and two of his fellow officers, on the 27th of January last Hunt rode up to the cornet's house, and, asking for a private interview, was taken by Browne into his bedroom. Of all that followed we have two versions, neither of which is it possible to corroborate, for the prisoner and the prosecutor alone knew what happened. Browne's statement is, in brief, that Hunt told him he knew his guilt by finding one of his letters and by his wife's confession, and called upon him to give up any letters from Mrs. Hunt he had in his possession. There was some more conversation, in the course of which Hunt drew out a pistol, and said he had come over for the purpose of shooting his betrayer, and he did not know whether he should not do so yet. At last, on Browne owning that Lieut. Beamish pro bably was aware of what had been going on, Hunt raised the pistol and shot him. Hunt's story varies from this, in asserting that Browne used taunting and insolent expressions, laughing at Hunt when he asked for the " satisfaction of a gentleman," and saying he " gloried" in having seduced:Mrs. Hunt. Browne swore distinctly on the trial that he had not said a word during the interview to provoke the prisoner. The counsel for Mr. Hunt made rather a weak defence, arguing that it was possible the pistol went off by accident: The jury found the prisoner guilty of intent to do grievous bodily harm, and strongly recommended him to mercy on account of the extreme provocation he had received. The Chief Justice, Sir Mathew Sause, premising that the lightness of the punishment he was about to award was due to his belief that the act of the prisoner in firing off the pistol had not been premeditated, sentenced him on Monday morning, the 26th inst., to be imprisoned for a year in the county gaol, one week's confinement in each quarter to be solitary. There is great popular sympathy for Mr. Hunt, and a memorial has already been drawn up, praying for a remission of his sentence." LATEST, BY TELEGRAPH. MADRAS, MARCH 21. Money in full demand ; interest, 10 per cent. Government Securities—Four per Cents., 16 to 17 dis. ; Fives, 21 to 3 dis. ; Five-and-a-Hall's, 3 pm. Exchange--On London, 2s. lid. Freight—To London 455. CALCUTTA, MARCH 23. Government Securities.—Fours, 181 to 184 discount Fives, 5f to 51 discount ; Five-and-a-Halfs, par to premium. Exchange.—On London, for First Class Credits, 7 months' sight, 2s. lid. ; on Bombay, 99. Freights. —To London, dead weight, £3 ss. to £3 15s. ; jute, £3 15s. to £4 ss. ; seeds, £3 12s. 6d. to £4. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Peninsular and Orient II Company's steamer China, Captain Jay, has arrived here. The barque Chance, which left Cadiz on the 27th ult., with Salt for Newfoundland, put back on the Bth inst., in a leaky state. Gibraltar Exchanges on London, 90 days' 501 ; Paris, sf. 35c.; Marseilles, sf. 31c.; Madrid eight days' sight, ;I to 7 discoynt. Freights unaltered. THE EARL OF ELGIN.—We understand that the Earl of Elgin will leave London on Monday next for Paris, en route to China, on his second mission to that distant empire. TO TVO2IIEN. A FEW WORDS BY ONE OF THEMSELVES, THE AUTHORSO OF " A LIFE-LONG STORY." A pamphlet, entitled An Appeal to the Women of the United Kingdom, on a Subject demanding Immediate Attention, has just been published by Messrs. Houlston and Wright, Paternoster - row , price threepence. Every woman in England should get a copy. It is a compilation of facts which thrill humanity to its very centre. These have been collated from minutes of evidence given by . the Queen's Commissioners appointed to examine into the system of overworking in dyeing, bleaching , and finishing establishments, and are disseminated by a few noble, loving-hearted women, who, like the prophet of old, " weep and sigh" over the sine and sorrows of the land. Earnestly and solemnly do they exhort their countrywomen, in city, town and hamlet, to be at once " up and doing," and by pouring in petitions to the Legislature, praying that its power-arm may be extended in its legiti mate office of protecting the weak against the strong ; and, as it did in the case of the factory children, put a stop to this English LegreeiSl There is not a woman in this favoured land who may not become the active, radiating centre in this her pre-eminent mission, and who may not practi cally second the thrilling " appeal." Only let her realise her responsibilities, and resolve to give neither " sleep to her oyes, nor slumber to her eye' lids," till she has thrown herself "between the dead and the living ; and this plague may be stayed." • Fearing the further loss of time—inexpressibly precious in this case,—by waiting for abler and better hands to be put to the noble work, the writer has ventured to beseech attention to the full and clearly-stated directions in the " pamphlet" alluded to ; fearing, moreover, to trespass on the ever ready' courtesy of our editors in opening their columns to any advocacy of the claims of down-trodden hu manity, only one extract from the minutes of evi dence will bo given :—" Their ages vary from 7 to 20. They work in the stoves; some with blood raw feet, others with feet scorched and blistered by standing eighteen consecutive hours on the burning hot floors ;—sometimes too exhausted to move, they throw their worn-out bodies on piles of unfinished goods, and snatch a few moments' sleep ere the re curring eighteen hours of toil comes round. They frighten the children to keep them awake." Can anything be added, by way of comment, ea this sickening expose ? This, in the land that spent millions on millions to rescue the swarthy African* — " Heir of the selfsame heritage Child of the selfsame God"— from the Satan-forged chain of slavery ! This, in the land of bibles, and pulpits, and " the eye of Christianity ! And for what ? For w hat are souls and bodies seethed in the blood-stained crucibles of England's labour market ? Why does the cry, "How long, oh ! Lord, how long !" go up to the bright throne of heaven from wailing women and white-lipped childhood ? Why ? That their quivering thews and sinews may be transmuted into gold !—to slake the fever-thirst of mammon to enable England's traders in human flesh to pia/ " fantastic tricks" in the sunshine of prosperity, or, most likely, when " dust to dust" shall requiem all their grandeur to evoke " Hell's loudest laugh, The pride of dying rich 1" Let us for a moment contemplate young fresh life, subjected to this Egyptian bondage. Infants of 7 years old offered up on the shrine of this Imo' dern Moloch ? Let us fancy it, we who love to COs rosy childhood, bathing its untroubled brow in the flooding beams of midday sun, or sleeping sweetly when midnight unfurls the sable banner. We. who if death invades the domestic fold, and bears away the pet lamb, evermore put out of sight the toys of the little hands mouldering in the Vie! grave. Can we—dare we know " such things are► and remain at ease ? Nay ! the echo of ten thou' sand phantom voices around us thunders Nay! Let us then be "up and doing !" Let us, with all our energies, act in accordance with the spirit of this heart-stirring " Appeal to the Women of the United Kingdom." How else shall any one of ni stand before him, at whose glance earth and heave n shall pass away, and hear the withering sentence' " Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least 0' these, ye did it not unto me. Cast ye the unproo able servant into outer darkness, there shall b weeping and gnashing of teeth." THE NAVY. • The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the Trincomalee, 24, to be brought up from the reserv e in ordinary at Chatham, and taken into dock, il l , order to be fitted as a training ship for the.Nay s ' Coast Volunteers at Newcastle and Sunderland. M soon as the Trincomalee is completed she will be sent round to the Tyne, where she will be station ed ' The Arethusa, 50, was yesterday brought up fronl, Chatham Harbour to be taken into the dock vacat ed on the previous day by the line-of-battle sere steamer Rodney, 91. The Arethusa is to be con' siderably lengthened, in order to be converted intoo 51-gun screw frigate. The Albatross, 12, one of the old class of sailid sloops, will go into the dock vacated by the Plover gunboat, where she will be broken up. The Rhadamanthus, paddle, Master Command er Sturdee, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday mornill from Woolwich, on her experimental trip, und°. the superintendence of Mr. John Dinnen, ralty inspector of machinery afloat. She broug b a round supernumeraries, &c., who were sent on boa s ' the Victory flagship. The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, and fief of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell, is ordered to ho c , o the leading corners of her screw removed, prior 4 her leaving Portsmouth, with a view to lessen tt vibratory motion at her stern, which is stated to , very . great when under fall steam. Her stets o i framing is also said to have exhibited great sign° weakness. ht, The Victoria and Albert, Royal paddle-Pe - 4 Capt. Hon. Joseph Denman, arrived at Portsraoll'... yesterday morning from her cruise to Gibralt s She sailed from the Rock on her return on the 9t'il inst., at which time the Hannibal, 91, screw, be ad l i e ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Mundy, with Agamemnon, 91, screw ; the James Watt, 91, scr!r o ; the Doris, 32, screw ' • the Scylla, 21, screw ; the x ot hawk, 4, screw ; and the Lapwing, 4, screw, 10°, 0 , that anchorage, but were about to sail for Ala' 0 She called at Cadiz and Lisbon on her cl retur i' voyage, leaving the latter place shortly after 113 0 , night on the 14th inst. There were then at tl io chor in the Tagus the Trafalgar, 91, screw ; t d , Centurion, 81, screw ; and the Diadem, 32, scr e : t i which were expected to sail thence for England- ue, the 16th instant. Vigo and Ferrol were sub ° „ o , quently visited by the Royal Yacht, but in er'' l 4 sing the Bay she unfortunately broke her P,l lO paddle-shaft. The wheel was secured, and ' re , remainder of the voyage was made with the ha / maining wheel. The superh ea ti ng gear whichL r been recently fitted to the yacht required consint able modifications prior to being possible to use h t on board. It is stated to have choked the dra u gl, of the fires, prevented the generation of steam, worse than all, covered the quarter-deck with, t bo halations from the funnel. The behaviour 0 (1 yacht at sea, during the passage out andhome, r g with heavy weather, is spoken of by all ou that with the greatest possible praise. It is stated_' with a strong head wind she made 13 knots A s o. scarcely any motion, and nothing beyond an & r t , sional slight shower of spray over her bows. , eo r Matthew Connolly, late Flag-Captain to tbs Admiral Mundy, came home passenger bi lbe rt yacht from Gibraltar. The Victoria and ' l , o fif will go into the steam basin to receive a new 5 and burnish up for summer service. The successor of George Lambe, gunner fi n ed missed by Court-martial from the service) , .1 10 the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. K. BarneyAr She Plymouth Sound on Wednesday morning, 1113° aria got up steam immediately, tripped her ancha r ! t h proceeded for her destination, Bermuda , S° t he fair wind from the eastward. On arrival el i or West India station she will hoist the flag of '- Admiral Sir Alexander Milne K.C.B. DO' The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 51, a oo C. F. Ewart, got up steam in Plymouth fitted for Tuesday, and went into Hamoaze to be , re' the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin , tt iec li' cently appointed Commander-in-Chief in the terranean. ana e The screw steam sloop Surprise, 4, Corcal l - 0 0 Lord Edward Cecil, was removed from the Sheetbasi the Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday to the oje hulk Kent, where her masts were taken ou t ' was then replaced in her former berth. v esse l The new contract-built screw steam g un-c t th e Penguin, 6, was taken into the North dock ti ere d, Devonport Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday, to be c o p e Therail° The attempt at Plymouth on Wednesday t° br igl the stranded transport Havering with four old, al ly was unsuccessful. Two Government " lune r d probably assist at the next attempt. The B l it ti° Trade have dete rm i ne d t o h o ld the inquiry r e j es' to the loss of the Havering before the CO gistrates at Stonehouse, and not before the Pl e a, and magistrat es a t Pl ymou th, as first annona c o ter The following a ppointments were made I day at the Ad m i ra lty : —W. J. Olive an d , pel f Bateman, masters additional, to the Fisg ara Cowrie, assistant-surgeon, to the Impregte. Nl‘Bride, a ss i s t an t- surge on, to the Bacchant i % vac" O'D. Parks, acting assistant-surgeon , to ti' t , th e chante ; John E. Gage, master's-assistant, th Russell; Ashby N. Irnes, assistant-clerk ~5, to Virago; and Robert Din widdie, assistant-nfve' the Victory, for service in the secretary shipoetj In the naval appoi n tments yesterday Alids,wiete Spicer and Burnell w ere represented as eqt. to the Bacchante, instead of the Roya l Alb th ch no cei he it en ail pe di: Ai tho Ai in C 4