The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, MAT 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.96, rising. WIND, Easterly; fresh, with dull weather. Both French and Austrians are clearly preparing themselves for a fierce encounter. The former will unquestionably be the assailants ; the latter being apparently contented with maintaining the position they have assumed, and levying the heaviest possi ble contributions on the surrounding country. Their posts have been very skilfully selected, and will not be abandoned until they are driven there. from after a sanguinary conflict. LOUIS NAPOLEON already is beginning to learn that the realities of and practical operations of war are different from the theories that the meditations in a French fortress, as a state prisoner, may have produced.. He cannot, however, afford to remain long in a . state of inaction: Reviewing. his own troops is very different from meeting a powerful opponent on a field of stricken fight, and very unfavouiable comparisons may be framed between the first and third of the name should he remain idle while an enemy was occupying the country he had undertaken to defend. The Austrians appear to have placed every ob- stacle and impediment in the way of the advance of the allies. They have mined bridges to be prepared to insure their retreat at any time, but they will still obstinately dispute every inch of ground, and not retire until the last moment. They make considerable demon strations, but they are only demonstrations, with out any purpose beyond that of plunder and ma rauding. In these respects they are, unquestion ably, adepts, and should they succeed in the field of battle, as in the obtainment of booty, the allies will not obtain quite so eas y a t r i um ph as th e y seem to anticipate, more especially if united Germany should join in the contest, and brillg her myriads of troops to protect Austria from the consequences of her own maladministration in Italy, Hungary, and. Gallicia, and preserve what they will be in clined to term the integrity of the " Fatherland." We have already alluded to the attitude of " armed mediation " assumed by Prussia, but the minor States are still more pugnacious. Every petty potentate, who has a fifer, a drummer, and fifty , or a hundred soldiers in - his pay, is burning to make them "food for gunpowder," and thus get rid of the burden at the cheapest rate. They may speedily have the opportunity of so doing, for Loris NAPOLEON will not be contented with the liberation of Italy (!) but will go further, and carry the war into Germany itself. Notwithstanding the denials that have been so strenuously offered, there can be but little doubt that there is a com plete understanding with the Czar, and that, whenever the fitting time arrives, Russia will be found coming forward as the ally of France, in order to carry out their mutual designs. Turkey will be one of the earliest victims. She will be unable to resist the Muscovite aggressions when deprived of English, French, or Sardinian auxiliaries. The former will now, we hope and believe, observe a strict neutrality, while the others will have abundant work in dislodging the Aus trians from the position which they have assumed, and transferring the conduct of the war into their own dominions. England must under any circumstances maintain her neutrality. This is the great fact which we have endeavoured to impress on the Government, the Parlian,Rut, and People, and although we have repeated it , " risque ad nauseam," it cannot be too often stated. Austria has no claim on our assist ance. It was the grievous mistake committed in in 1814, and the misgovernment of the important dominions of the kingdoms then delivered over to: her tender morellos that has produced I she present war. We certainly cannot aid her w ith men money, or what has been pro perly tel nned " the contraband of war." Any assistant 2,e rendered under existing circumstances would be a - a outrage against the cause of liberty in all parts of 'the world. Nor has France or Sardinia a stronger claim The former will certainly not do anything to improve the condition of the people. " Physician, heal thyself," is a timehonoured apopthegm, and when we see freedom of speech and of journalism in France, we may possibly believe that they would bestow similar blessings on the oppressed Italians. But so long as they support the Papal Government, with all its errors, can we hope that he peoples would benefit by a change ? Piedmont is hilt a tool in the hands of the greater -- .. To gratify its own feelings of ani mosity it, has joined in playing the French game. She has already had better cause to regret her mis takes, and very probably will have still more. The complete triumph of her " faithful ally" might be the most unfortunate result, so I f ar as she was concerned. She has obtained rench aid, to avert the possibility of Austrian aggression ; but those called in, seeing the conve niences and advantages of tbe territory, may not be disposed to abandon it when the necessity for their services has passed away, and Sardinia can hold its own ground without help from any quarter. Power. There are several rather curious revelations in the Farewell Address of the Right Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY expressive of his thanks to the Conser vative electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Conspicuous if not paramount among the miscalcu lations for which he frankly avows himself to be responsible was one, he writes, in the very midst of this address—" founded on his unwillingness to the last to believe that the great Whig party in the Riding, the traditional successors and political de scendants of the great men who made the Settlement of the Constitution in Church and State in 1688, would consent to be bound by the compact of a few leaders, and sacrifice their own principles to the interest of a party coalition." This sounds of course in its way sufficiently vague to mean nothing, or—anything. But the next paragraph is certainly as explicit as well could be. In this the Right Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY says, namely, " In this (unwillingness to believe, &c.) I was dis appointed for in the ranks of my opponents, I found ranged side by side not only the old Whigs and the modern Radicals and Chartists, but even the Socialists and, Cora munists, by whom, during the canvass, I was asked to consent, not only to the subversion of the Church as an establishment, but even to to the general division of land and pro perty." Certainly a very startling glimpse of the discord underlying all this apparent unanimity among the supporters of Sir J. RAMSDEN and Mr. F. CROSSLEY! Together with the old Whigs, Radicals, Chartists, Socialists, Communists ! Mis , fortune, they may well say, introduces us to strange bed-fellows—instance those brought together in that great political Bed of Ware in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Imagine the cordial sym pathy existing between those heterogeneous co operators—the old Whigs, the Radicals, the Char tists, the Socialists, the Communists of the West Riding ! The intimate understanding between the chiefs of the old Whig houses at Woburn an d Bowood —and the leaders of those amiable revolutionists in Yorkshire who would fain "go in" for a " general divi sion of land and 'property !" COBBETT'S wet sponge was nothing to this clean sweep of the rake in the hands of that grand political croupier, your true Communist ! And Communism, apparently, has its outspoken champions nowadays in the largest of our great county constituencies. There are dis ciples, it seems, of the philosophy of M. PB,OUDHON down yonder in those wide manufacturing districts dotted over with capitals of industry like Leeds and Bradford and Sheffield—believers in the wis dom of the sublime axiom, " La propriete c'est le vole !" Dreamers of dreams of affected humanity, but of real rascality that actually amounts just simply to this--4 3 roperty has at length got to be so unequally distributed—you having everything, we having nothing—that it has at length, become desirable (to us) that all property should be once more massed together, and then redistributed in equal proportions ! Let us begin all over again— say these breakers of a very grand commandment against very mean and despicable sins—those of envy and covetousness. Yet these are the kind of men who have co-operated with the (hitherto) fas tidious Old Whigs and the bluff, honest Radicals of Yorkshire, to the end that the Right Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY should not be allowed to enter Parliament as the representative (for the West Riding) of the cause and of the interests of the Liberal Conservatives ! A change has cer• tainly come over " the spirit of the dream' s of .the West Riding during the eighteen years which have now elapsed since that general election of 1841, when the two Conservative candidates, the Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY (now Lord WHARN CLIFFE) and Mr. EDMUND BECKETT DENISON, triumphed over the two Liberal candidates, Viscounts MILTON and MORPETIE! Yet then, it musl be remembered that the triumphant candi date at the top of the poll actually polled less than his relative, the unsuccessful candidate down at the bottom of the poll at this last general election of 1859. The Hon. JOHN STUART WORTLEY polling in 1841-13,165; while the Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY polled in 1859-13,538. Justi fying to the full the Right Hen. Gentleman's de claration, now, at the close of the contest, that throughout it he has been in no way deceived by his supporters in the West Riding—his defeat being alone attributable to the circumstance of the extra ordinary and unprecedented number of electors who went to the poll upon the late occasion—deter mined, by means of this Unholy Alliance between Whigs and Radicals and Communists, to carry into the House, at all hazards, Sir J. RAMSDEN and Mr. F. CROSSLEY ! The compact entered into tacitly of late upon the side of the Opposition is certainly suggestive of a passing remembrance of that ano malous combination which, also in the name of Re form, brought together for a brief interval such an astounding variety of political characters. " The composition of the Cabinet of 1 831"—observes a political commentator of considerable ability (Mr. D. 0. MADDYN, in his " Chiefs of Parties," vol 1., p. 257)—" is a subject to which sufficient attention has never been given- It was in reality a sort of Coalition Ministry, and it is the nature of such Governments to break up with violence from their own internal elements of discord. The GREY Cabi net was more nominally than really Whig. It con tained old Whigs and new Whigs, High Church and High Price-of-Corn-Politician, Canningites like Lords GODERICH and PALMERSTON, an anti- Catholic like the Duke of RIDIDIOND, an extreme Radical like Lord DURHAM. In the dissimilarity and uncongenial disposition of its individual mem bers there were repugnant materials, and after the first crisis of Reform was passed there was constant discord, and unpleasant feelings at work amongst the Ministers, although they were carefully con cealed from the eyes and ears of the public." In_ all this there is something surely suggestive, in the way of timely warning, to this no less dis • tracted, conflicting, and heterogenous Opposition. The source of the Ticino, about which we now read so much, is in Switzerland, near Mount St. Gothard. The river is about 112 miles in length, but it is navigable for only 70 miles. It was on the borders of the Ticino hat Hannibal, descending from the Alps, defeated Publius L Cornelius Scipio.--Bulletin. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, MAY 21. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol- lowing : ALESSANDRIA, Friday evening, May 20.—The Emperor went this morning to Casale, where the King of Sardina was awaiting him. The two Sovereigns then inspected together the fortifications and the position of the vanguard. The Emperor then returned to Alessandria, and then went this afternoon to visit the battlefield of Marengo. His Majesty enjoys good health, and the sanitary con dition of the army is all that can be desired. LEGHORN, MAY 20. The Sasel has arrived here this morning with 350 men of the Brigade cofinieres and of the sth Corps d'armee on board. The General with his troops disembarked amid thousands of plaudits expressive of the sympathy of the populace. The whole town was hung with flags. Other vessels with troops are expected. The troops who have disembarked are quartered in the barracks of the fort Porta Murala (?) Prince Napoleon will arrive here on Sundaynext. DRESDEN, MAY 20. The Dresden Journal of to•day states the report of a separate treaty, concluded between Bavaria and Austria, to be incorrect. TURIN, MAY 20. The official bulletin published to-day says : " Twelve thousand Austrians advanced to-day from Stradella towards Castelreggio, where the streets had been barricaded since Wednesday, and three unimportant attacks had been repulsed. Two strong columns of our troops marched to-day to meet the Austrians. Austrian prisoners have been already brought to Voghera, but all details of a fight are as yet wanting. "It is asserted that the Emperor of Austria arrived yesterday at Milan, and that he departed directly for Pavia, accompanied by General Hess." DRESDEN, MAY 20. A fortnightly transport of Austrian troops to the Federal fortressess begins on Sunday next with the first despatch of 31,000 infantry, 4 regiments of cavalry, 3,900 horses, and 80 pieces of cannon. BERNE, MAY 20. The Federal Diet has resolved on prohibiting the exportation of arms to, and the collecting of arms by the inhabitants at, those places, in the immediate vicinity of the Italian frontier, and also the purchase of arms from deserters. Fugitives, old men, women, and sick excepted, and deserters able to bear arms, are to be forbidden to pass from the territories of one belligerent Power into the territories of another. The number of fugitives in the Canton Tessin is increasing. A letter from Turin of the 17th, in the Siecle, says :—" At Stradella, where the Austrians have concentrated a part of their force, they have not confined themselves to making overwhelming re quisitions, but they have taken possession of the houses of Count Araaboldi, M. Carlo, M. 4tioraschi, and M. Ghislanz oni, the richest landowners of that part of the country, have transformed them into barracks, and have pillaged all the provisions and money; they have besides exacted a large quan tity of wine daily, during the whole of their stay, and have sent to Pavia' an enormous quantity of wheat and flour. The Austrians have fortified the position which they occupy between Stradella and Broni, on the Po. They are there concentrating and massing troops to resist an attack. The route to Piacenza is free, and protected by the troops of San Giovanni. At Voghera, a short time back, an Austrian patrol ventured into the interior of the town to make a requisition. News of this having reached the Piedmontese camp, 200 Sardinian cavalry rode immediately to the place, and whilst some of them were stationed round the town, others entered. The Austrians being suddenly attacked endeavoured to fly, but the troops outside prevented them, and all were captured, except a few who in the midst of the confusion managed to I get away in safety. Venice is said to be not without disquietude. The inhabitants, as Italians, are even afraid tnat the Sardinian army is in danger. This is owing to the Austrians having spread absurd rumours in Venetia to influence public opinion and prevent a national rising. Fin. example, they have told the people not only that the Austrian army has invaded Piedmont, but that it has gone to Turin ; that the Piedmontese army is in such a dreadful position that the King has had to abdicate and retire to Sardinia; that the Ans. trians are at Susa, where they stop the French communications by Mont Cenis ; and, lastly, that at Novi :they command Genoa, so as to prevent relief from reaching the Piedmontese. Such mis representations will, however, be soon disproved. At Novara a thousand carts brought from Lom bardy have been collected to carry away the booty which the Austrians hope to obtain, and other carts taken in Piedmont have been employed in conveying booty into the Lomellina, beyond the Mincio." _ A letter from Turin of the 16th in the Indepen dance of Brussels says :—" The Austrian generals act as if the provinces which they occupy were con quered ones. At Vercelli they deliver passports for the interior and for abroad ; persons who are going into Lombardy are obliged to have passports of the first class, and thepe who come to Turin, second class ones. At the head of these documents is Empire of Austria ) province of La Sesia.' During the short stay which the Austrians made at Tor tone, they effaced the arms of the Cross of Savoy, which in the Sardinian States is placed outside every shop where tobacco is sold. Prince Napoleon has established the head-quarters of the fifth corps d'arinee at San Martino, near Genoa. On the 14th several regiments of this corps began an offensive movement. Last night they were at Ottone, three marches from Bobbio. The Prince is daily expect ing the arrival of several other regiments to com plete the effective of his corps." The 211ilan Gazette publishes a letter from Mor tara of the 14th with a view to give its readers a correct insight into the strategical operations going on in Piedmont. It says that the plan of the Pied montese is to induce the Austrians to attack them, while the latter on the contrary refuse to sacrifice the time and men it would require to force the Genoa and Alessandria line. "But," says the so writer, " th e Pi e d mon t ese c annot long maintain a a this expe c t an t a tti tu d e ; th e num b er o f French that haverie s arrivedf causesand d renders ris e thein t h w e a p r rmi more r s e o f f a t all a n l toectehse acountry. 'We might easily take the line of the Dora Baltea abandoned by the Piedmontese, but it would be of no use ; it is much better for us to keep the enemy in respect on both sides of the Po, in those plains which have so often been fatal to France." The. Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort says :- 4' According to all that has transpired relative to the mission of General \Villiscn, he was charged to make known to the Cabinet of Vienna, but with much precaution, that it must not rely on the support of Prussia. For the moment, Austria has only been requested not to urge the Germanic Diet to adopt any resolution as to the attitude to be assumed with regard to the war, and to endeavour to prevent Bavaria and Hanover from insisting on the formation of a corps d'armee on the Rhi ne . Prussia also declares that it must be left to her own • .1. i — : - ••• 2 '.. 7,', .-, ..,,, R " ,i3c. l . , a --, ~ f ~,: .. _ • ; .r x ~., .o ' fr ~ i• ~,,,. 1:o Ft ...1) ..,,, it t, 4 10Ib ow THE SUN. SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1859. HOUSEHOLD WORDS.----Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANS beg to state that their connection with HOUSEHOLD WORDS will cease from and after the 28th inst., and that on Saturday, the 2d July they will commence anew Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called "ONCE A WEEK." All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No. 11, Bouverie-street, London, E.C. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. tinder the Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's tlst orical play of KING HENRY V. King henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The diaracters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far ten, Rogers ; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Alter which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messrs Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And 'TWAS Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, • AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. 1 THIS EVENING the perfoumances will commence with ICI ON I'ARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas. Selby. Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. Followed by (sixth time), by Tom Taylor, Esq v TIL E ROUSE? or, THE HOME? bin Alfred Wigan. Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Li law. C, Seld aby, After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six— Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta b J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH Or THE T w o ? supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND VIE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at Nee lock. -- EYASTL 'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Continued Success of INANHOE.—Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new 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 Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievements in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe.. Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. jag. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Misa Bathurst ; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES . IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world ; Mr. A. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun., and Miss Emily Cooke, supported by the unequalled male and female artistes of the establishment. To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND. Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips Dregs Circle, 40. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at ll. CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS %.1 GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING daring the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, lensisting 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 Continental 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 SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY'EVENING, MAY 21, 1859. judgment to determine he moment when she ought to assume the initiative in whatever course may be definitively decided on General Willisen was received with great disfinction, and dined with the Emperor Francis Josepi. The Commercial Ga:ette of Berlin says :- "We know upon good authority that the Prince- Regent has ordered ci•culars to be addressed to the local authorities to secure horses for the army in case it:should be molilised. The horses are to be selected and markal at once, but returned to their owners, who wil keep them until they are wanted, but may not sell them under penalty of 100 thalers. All persois having horses are obliged to bring them to the committee appointed to make the choice." The Suabian M'crcmy states that the Austrian port of Pola is ecmpletely deserted. It is considered the best mlitary port in Austria, and the general opinion vas that the Austrian navy and Lloyd's steamers would be placed in safety there. It appears that Pola was aban doned because the fortifications were con structed by a French engineer, and it was feared that the French Goverment might possess accurate information as to all tie defences of the port. MARSEILLES, MAY 19, 8.30 p.m. The Descartes, which has just returned from Genoa, is loading rEpidly with gun-limbers and ammunition waggons, to sail to-night or early to• morrow morning. The horses are also shipped at the same time, with their drivers ; the gunners appear to have gone in a separate vessel. The Ville de Paris started recently; and several large steamers, as well as sailing vessels, which were towed out to sea by steamtugs, left to-day, heavily laden with artillery stores, limbers, waggons, and drivers, train wag gons and their conductots, besides supplies of all de scriptions. The horses nearly always accompany the limbers and waggons. The grain, forage, flour, wine, and brandy, which are now being shipped, are what have been collected from the Black Sea, Egypt, Algiers, Spain, and France, during the last four months. They have been stored in warehouses in different parts of the town, and give curious evi dence as to the veracity of the official declarations, made only a few weeks back, that France was not arming, nor preparing for war. The limbers that have passed through to-day are without their pieces, which would lead one to suppose that they were spare ones, intended to replace those that might be damaged during the campaign, were it not for the following circumstance : Along the quays may be seen here and there stout deal cases, carefully nailed up and branded " Fragile ;" one part • is painted with the word " Haut," and another " Bas," which is equivalent to the recommendation. " This side upwards." People naturally enough imagined that - they con tained dinner services, or china, or glass ornaments of a frail nature, intended for the decoration of the quarters to be occupied by the Emperor and his Generals. The idea was strengthened by seeing a few chairs and sofas, with the legs and backs carefully swathed in packing, scattered about. But in hauling up one of these cases the sling broke, and it came down with a run bursting the woodwork open, and revealing the " fragile" contents to be a very formidable-looking gun. This is only one of the many attempts made by the authorities to mystify the public. The siege fleet is fitting out with hot haste at Toulon. Independently of screw liners and frigates it is to consist of 10 screw gunboats, drawing very little water, and intended to operate in the shal lows of the Adriatic. Each is to be armed with a heavy gun, working on a pivot, on the fore part of the deck, and behind a semicircular shield of rolled iron plates, stout enough to resist the heaviest shots, and so to protect the men work ing the gun. The vessels themselves are said to be constructed of iron plates, possessing the same force of resistance, so that they are, in fact, shot-proof floating steam-batteries. It is diffi cult to ascertain the exact ealibre of the pivot guns, but they are believed to be 50-pounders, similar to, what have been of late years introduced into the French navy. It-is also said, with what-truth I' know not, that they are rifled ; if so, they will be very formidable instruments of war, rendering the land batteries and forts of Venice and the coast open to attack with comparative impunity; for it will be almost impossible to hit them from the shore, as they will fight the gun steam on, and present a small surface, which will be kept constantly in motion. It appears pretty certain that both the French army and navy are provided with rifled guns of much larger calibre than the 4-pounders mentioned in my letter of yesterday week. Five of the gunboats are made so as to admit of their being taken to pieces and conveyed overland, with a view, it is asserted, of their being ultimately em ployed on the Lac de Garda, which forms a portion of the Austrians' great line of defence, extending from the famous rectangle of Mantua and Verona to the Tyrol. Should the French be able to launch the gunboats on the lake they would doubtless do good service, but to get them there will be the great difficulty, for they will have to pass through the whole of the Austrian army, which occupies the country between the lake and the shores of the Adriatic. The equipment of the fleet is proceeding with such rapidity that merchant vessels are left without crews, except the superior officers, or so short handed as to be unable to put to sea. The captains are entering seamen of all nations, and in some cases Englishmen. How far British seamen, who enter French vessels employed in the conveyance of munitions of war, will offend the Queen's declara tion of neutrality it will be for the authorities to determine. But the men do not enter willingly. Jack does not relish sailing on a French bottom, nor obeying orders in a " foreign lingo ;" with many of them, poor fellows, it is little better than Hobson's choice. Marseilles is the chief receptacle for English seamen who have left their ships from illness or any other cause. They gradually work their way down here, and rarely find means of entering a homeward-bound. Under these circumstances, if orders were sent out here from the Admiralty to post notices of the Queen's bounty at the different Consulates, accom panied by the despatch of a few small craft to cruise from one port to another, I think it pro bable many able-bodied seamen and usealands might be picked up, that a few weeks on board a troinin,g ship at Malta would make into smart smart menrof-w . ar's men. A letter has been received in the town from a sergeant of the 78th Regiment of Infantry, sta tionedat Gari, in which it is stated that the rains ceased on the 12th, and that the French advanced troops are within four or five hour; march of the Austrians. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. A Council of Ministers, at which the Empress Regent presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries, Prince Jerome was present. The Moniteur publishes a decree establishing a Prize Court in Paris composed of the following members :—M. Duvergier, Councillor of State, President ; M. Bouree, Minister Plenipotentiary, unemployed ; M. Quern, Commissary General of the Navy ; M. de Largan, ex-Minister Plenipotentiary ; Captain de Selva, of the navy ; and MM. Ernest Baroche, and de l'Hopital, Masters of Requests at the Council of State. M. de Clercq is to act as Government Commissioner. The duties of this court will be to decide on the validity of all prizes taken by ships of war, and to decide all disputes relative to the quality of neutral or enemy's ve3sels wrecked or stranded on the French coast, and on prizes carried into the ports of the French colonies. The sittings are to be private, and a decision can only be come to by the vote of five members. The awards of the court c innot be carried into execu tion until one week after they have been officially communicated to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Marine. The decisions of the court may be referred to the Council of State either by the Go vernment Commissioner or by the parties interested, within a delay of three months from the date of notification. Foreign consular agents have the power of making observations to the court in any matters wherein the interests of their countrymen are involved. The Toulonnais states that the authorities of that port have received orders to prepare the hospital of St. Mandrier, Opposite the roadstead. This extensive building will be arranged so as to accommodate 5,000 patients. The Algesiras screw liner, which is now in that port, is to shortly leave to join the squadron of Admiral Jurien Lagraviero in the Adriatic. BOURSE, May 20.—Large purchases have been made in Rente and Mobilier, but prices continued heavy and the market dull. Threes, after having been done at 61f. 10c., declined to 60f. 85c.; the Mobilier from 597 f. 50c. to 585 f.; Orleans varied from 1,167 f. 50c. to 1,160 f. ; Lyons, 775 f. to 770 f.; Northern, 875 f. to 870 f. ; Eastern, 587 f. 50c. to 582 f. 50c. ; Southern, 427 f. 50c. to 422 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 357 f. 50g. to 353 f. 75c.; Lombardy, 425 f. to 422 f. 50c. The following were the closing quotations :- 4. per Cents. .... 89 Credit Foncier 645 Do. end month Belgian 4/ — 3 per Cent 5....... 61 10 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 61 50 Ronian BO Bank Shares. ..... Austrian Credit Mobilier 590 Spanish Threes 391 Do. Account 5BB 75 Home Debt 351 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans '1162 50 .. 1165 Northern " 875 .. 880 New ditto. 740 .. 750 Lyons and Mediterranean 772 50 .. 772 50 Geneva 442 50 .. Southern Western 490 .. Eastern 590 .. 590 Sardiniau 340 .. 340 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 2.5 f. 71c. ; money, 2.5 f. 21c.; three months, paper, 24f. 90e. ; money, 24f. 87ic. RUSSIA. A Paris letter, in the Independence of Brussels, says:—" I have just seen an English officer who is returning home, after having, by order of his Go vernment, visited all the ports in the Black Sea. The Russian Government has done nothing to raise Sebastopol from its ruins. Poor people stroll about the neighbourhood collecting the bones of horses to make animal black, and also to pick up the remains of weapons of all kinds which are still to be met with, in quaritities on the plain. The Russians will not rebuild the town until the port shall have been completely cleared of all obstructions." GERMANY. The Nuremberg Correspondent says :—" The general conviction in well-informed circles is that the dissidence which has arisen in the German Diet respecting the proposal made by Hanover will not be carried to extremes, but that matters will be arranged. Bavaria at present is sparing no pains to effect a compromise ; she shares the opinion that so important a measure cannot be adopted without the consent of Prussia. It must also be remembered that the representative of Austria was not present at the sitting when the proposition was brought forward ; and, as he has since been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs at Vienna, his efforts may greatly contribute to the success of the conciliatory steps taken by Bavaria." BELGIUM. The Belgian Senate yesterday adopted the bill sent up by the Chamber of. Deputies for prohibit: ing the exportation of horses. It has also adopted, by a majority of 29 to 20, the amendment of M. Spitaels, for giving an additional senator to Char leroi, and one less to Mons. M. Verhaegen, President of the Chamber of Re presentatives of Belgium, and one of the chiefs of the Liberal party, has issued an address to the electors of Brussels, of which city he is one of the representatives, announcing that at the end of the present session he will not again solicit a renewal of their confidence, twenty-two years' labour for the liberal cause having given him a right to repose. A letter from Vienna of the 16th says :—" We have received news from Constantinople that the Government has given orders to the Turkish fleet to prepare for active service, and to be ready to put to sea in a fortnight." The Princess Frederick William of Prussia is expected at Antwerp at seven this evening, whence her Royal Highness will proceed to England in the Queen's yacht, an a visit to Osborne. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna contradicts the statements made by the Courrier du Dimanche that a secret treaty existed, between Austria and Turkey. OUR DANGERS AND DUTIES. (Prom the National Standard of this day.) Never perhaps did a new Parliament *meet to find public affairs so complicated both at home and abroad as they are just now ; never was there greater need for earnest and united prayer that " God would be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of His Glory, the good of His Church, and the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions ;" for, while we know that He will overrule the foolishness of men to the furtherance of His Glory, we cannot but feel that the other objects desired are in mani fest jeopardy, being sacrificed to faction and folly. Zn manifest jeopardy !—for a mere inadvertence, a rash expression, or a hasty and inconsiderate act may involve us, in war. No party, in or out of Parliament, desires to entangle us in the quarrel between France and Austria ; but so varied are the interests affected by their hostility, and so unscrupulous are the counsels of contending par ties, that we must be prepared for the possibi lity of England's peace and honour being made the sport of Parliamentary faction. The zeal for peace which was proclaimed on all sides at the hustings will be found but a weak oppo nent to roused passion when party victory is in question. Outside the house a clamour for interference may spring up ; we do not ex pect it; still no one can predict that it will or that it will not ; but should it arise, however senselessly or headlessly, it will require higher wisdom than usually belongs to members of Parliament to resist the temptation, to re-echo a popular cry. For that higher wisdom we must continue to ask, not merely in a formal petition but in earnest and hearty prayer. War may, indeed, be forced on us from without ; the fear which haunts so many minds of an attempt at invasion by France may be realised, though not at present; but that is another matter. Should it be so, we rely on that power which has helped us hitherto, which has made our fleets vic torious and kept our homes in peace. We do not fear any . foe ; but we must be prepared for every contingency. MADAME SALA'S CONCERT. Yesterday morning Madame Sala, the well-known vocalist, gave her annual concert, vocal and instrumental, under the patronage of a long list of the female nobility, at Willis's Rooms. The vocalists comprised Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Clari Fraser, Madame Weiss, Miss Ransford, Mdlle. Finoli ; Messrs. George Perren, Wilbye Cooper, Allan Irving, and Weiss. The selection was of the kind called "Miscellaneous," the only classical names being those of Mozart, whO contributed two pieces—" Vedrai Carino," from "Don Giovanni," sung by Miss Clari Fraser, and the duet from the " Nozze di Figaro," "Crude! perche finora," by M. and Madame Weiss—and Spohr, whose aria, " 0 quanto vaga," was given by Madame Weiss. The concert passed off well, and it is to be hoped that the receipts will realise no inconsiderable sum for the talented and worthy beneficiare. Inquiries are made regarding the probable effect of the Italian war on the coming silk crop of Lom bardy and Piedmont. As this branch of industry, unlike the generality of agricultural pursuits, is not exposed to much actual damage from the movements of conflicting armies, any disturbance it may experience must be looked for chiefly from the disinclination of capitalists to make ad vances to the usual extent for its prosecution. Cocoons, therefore, are expected to be cheap, because the reelers will limit their inveaments, and such losses as are sustained will thus fall upon the country growers. The amount of production is not likely for the present to be interfered with. In relation to the natural prospects of the crop it is as yet too early to form an opinion, but the general indications do not seem to be favourable. From tho middle to the end of Juno is the critical period. It is quite certain that the old disease has already re-appeared in many places both in Italy and France , and the accounts from L yons state that in particularly ear l y localities where the fourth stage has been attained great mortality has been experienced. In less advanced districts the complaints are not numerous, but it is in the last stage that the malady usually developes it se lf From Spain and Naples thereo r h t owever, that all e s are of a si m il ar c h ar acter. It must be borne in mind , who write upon the subject are interest in creating high prices. Still there appears little doubt that in Italy this year less seed has been laid than usual, owing to its cost and the general distrust of its quality upon recent expe rience, • LIT:E'_RATU.RE. The Broad Arrow, being Passages from the history of " 2Waida Gwynnham :" a " Lifer." By Oline Kreese. 2 vols. Bentley. ~ These two remarkable volumes can hardly fail to arrest attention. They do not belong to the class of novel readers, but they contain scenes and chronicle characters that affect the vital interests of the community, and appeal to the sympathies of the world at large. All who are capable of feeling at all deeply must sympathise with that sad race of the children of mortality, who are doomed to bear the penalty of their sins throughout the long life that seems to many a protracted death. If some of these hapless out casts could speak at the close of their existence, they would doubtless - inform us that theirs has been an earthly purgatory, and that the miseries of their position, the burden of their, sins, and the monotony of their lives, have anticipated in this world the terrors and anguish that belong to that state where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. It is not possible, nor even desirable, that this should be altogether altered, far the safety of society requires a solemn retribution to be awarded to the offender against the welfare of nations, and the violator of the commands of God and the statutes of supreme justice. It is to be considered, however, that many are condemned who have been more sinned against than sinning, whose abettors may be now walking the highways of the world as free as ourselves, while their victims groan in the anguish of their inflicted sentence, and, in the sleepless watches of the night on some far-off shore, beyond earth's central line, breathe curses on the name of their destroyer, or implore for death to accord that mighty release, which causes the chains of the dungeons to fall off, and the gates of the prison to fly open. Of such was Maida Gwynnham, whose career was early blighted, and whose passage through the valley of the shadow of convict We is here powerfully narrated. In the preface the authoress remarks that `lie will deem herself happy in having written, " if but one sister now trembling ' on the brink of ruin, read it, and enter into her belief—that loss of virtue is in most cases the first and fatal impulse towards those depths of sin whose end it has been her painful lot to witness in Tas mania." She also observes that this work was planned and partly written years ago, which pre cludes the possibility of its being suggested by the numerous works that have recently appeared on the subject of convict life. Some might suppose at first sight that there was a similarity between the "Broad Arrow" and " Never too Late to Mend," but, after perusal, the reader must acknowledge that a vast difference exists, for while the latter reveals the secrets of the prison house at home, the former relates to the convict system abroad, and especially in the female department. It would be well if in actual life such startling warnings could be afforded to the deceiver as that which befell Capt. Normell when he entered the dead-house of the hospital, and found Maida, whose bright youth he had overshadowed, and whose hopes for this world he had irretrievably blighted, stretched before him. Being dead, she yet spoke to his guilty conscience, and seemed to whisper of that after meeting at another tribunal, where the sins of the strong would not be visited on the weak. At the thought of the disclosure of the secrets of the heart, well might the arch-deceiver and subtle plotter tremble, and none can pity even his awful fate, when the terrible calamities he had inflicted on innocent trust such as Mary Doveton's, and self-sacrificing devotion like Maida's are remembered. There is much written about the mode of dealing with the convicts, and great dissatisfaction is expressed in many instances. In some cases, perhaps, this idea may be exaggerated, as it is difficult to argue on this subject without taking a one-sided view of the question, either the prisoners are regarded as objects of unqualified animadversion, or considered too much in the light of martyrs. Between these extremes few look upon them as men like themselves whom it' is a duty to hold under restraint, and to punish if ne cessary, but whom it is no less a duty to protect from needless suffering. It would be well s if those Who regarded with self-complacency the felon array ever dwelt on the fact, that if tempted as these had been, they might have not come out immaculate, and asked themselves the question whether if all was known, their conduct under the pressure of business in the grinding of the poor for money, the needless ruin of struggling brethren, to add a mite to their hoarded thousands was not as really sinful as the starving man who stole for the means of sustenance, or the uneducated apd misguided wretch who joined the gang of housebreakers. In their pride of place and power, they should reflect, that the day, will come when the Judge .of the thief will be theirs' also, and that many of the actions of their respectable lives will be ranked with the sins of the outcasts they scoff at. Another point here mentioned is the treatment of convicts by the various grades in authority over them. This is a difficult question to decide upon, as those not con nected with a place cannot be accurate in forming a partial opinion. As a general rule it is certain that calmness and kind treatment are the wisest and the best. It may be difficult to follow out the plan under cases of provocation and in moments of ex citement, but it is an awful responsibility for any to take upon themselves to avenge private wrongs or personal dislike by wielding the power delegated to them in an unfair manner. The spirit of this work is well described in the words of Portia— " Though justice be your plea, consider this, that in the course of justice we none of us should see salvation," and those who do not agree with much that is said on the subject in these pages cannot in their hearts deny that the principle is right, which urges the maker, and the enforcer of the law, to remember, that earthly power the most resembles heaven's when mercy tempers justice. " The Broad Arrow" is therefore no mean endeavour to serve the most afflicted of the human race, the sinner, and if by its perusal, one mind becomes more impressed with the im portance of the matter, one heart more deeply feels, not misplaced sympathy, but holy pity for those who have strayed, the design of the authoress will be in some measure fulfilled, since it is evidently her lofty emprise to spread, as far as may be, the reign of that blessed charity , which hopeth all things, and whose missionaries we know can never fail, for mighty in humility, and spotless in ex cellence, her ways in this world are pleasantness and she has also the promise of the and peace, world that is to come. Letters of Lieut.- Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. Written during the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. Edited by Major-General E. Sabine. Longman. This interesting collection of letters renders a worthy tribute to the moral excellence as well as the military abilities of one who was a just and kind-hearted man, as well as an eminent com• mander in campaigns of extraordinary importance. Sir Augustus Frazer filled the honourable and responsible position of commander of the Royal. Horse Artillery of the army under the Duke of Wellington. His high 'reputation and firmness of character induced the Duke to permit him to make an important alteration in the department of the service under his command. He substituted 9-pounders for 6-pounders in the Horse A'rtillery serving with the armyrand to this change much of the success of the day of Waterloo was subsequently attributed. The editor remarks, that at the pre sent time the advantage of such a change will not be doubted, as the importance of the employment of heavy field artillery is universally recognised, but at that time Lieutenant-Colonel Frazer had t e n r o e n s t t i e n n g d s k w e i t t c h h i o n f his ma king eventful the amlt-eanryatdioiffin.cultAiens life is given in the editor's preface, from which it 'will be seen that his military career had not been without distinction before joining the Peninsular army : In August, 1790, he was admitted as a Gentleman Cadet into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich ; from whence he obtained the commission of Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, on the 18th of Septem ber, 1793, and in December of that year joined the army in Flanders, commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of g wtt n h d York. In January, 1 7 94 , he was promoted t o First in w hom m h n e y served 1795 J untilh aving the Lieu tenant, and was attached with two fi e ld- guns to the 3d return f t o t f he F a o rm ot Guards, ytoE la n during that period been present a t th e affair April 14th, 1794, the b a ttl e o f Cat of Mpuvaux, eau Cambresis, April an 26th, the affairs of th e 10th , 17 th, and 18th,cl22d of May, near Tommy, the affai r o f B ox t e l , in September, and the recapture of Fort St. Andre, in the November of the same year. In M a y, 1795 , Lieutenat Frazer was appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, and in September. 1799, re ceived the commission of Captain-Lieutenant, being still continued in the Horse Artillery, with a troop of which he embarked the same month for North Holland ; and was present at the affairs of September 19th, near Bergen, and of the 2d and 6th of October, near Egmont and Alkinaer. In November, 1799, he returned to England with the troops employed in the service in North Holland. In September, 1803, Captain Frazer received the com mission of Captain of Artillery, and was appointed to the command of a troop of Horse Artillery, with which in March, 1807, he embarked for South America, where he commanded the Artillery of the expedition against Buenos Ayres, and was present at the assault of that city in July, 1807. In June, 1811, Captain Frazer received the brevet rank of Major; and in November, 1812, joined, in the Peninsula, the army under his Grace the Duke of Wellington, having made a temporary exchange of troops with Major Bull, who was under the necessity of returning . to England from severe illness. The letters in this volume commence from this date. In April, 1813, Major Frazer was appointed to command the Horse Artillery of the Duke of 'Wellington's army, and was present at the affairs of Salamanca and Osma in May and June; at the battle of Vittoria (on which occasion he received the brevet rank of Lieut-Colonel) ; at both opefa, tions of the siege of St. Sebastian ; where he eowalan,,, the batteries of the right attack; at the passage of the Bidassoa, on the 7th of October ' • of the Nivelle, on the 10th of November; at the affairs on the Nive, on the 9th,.loth, 11th, 12th, and 13th of December, 1813 ; at the crossing of the Adour, on the 23d February, 1814; at the investment of Bayonne, on the 27th February (where he received a Severe wound) ; and at the battle of Toulouse on the 10th of April, 1814. Hostilities then ceasing, Lieutenant-Colonel Frazer returned to England, receiving .for his services with the Peninsular army a medal and two clasps, and the distinction of a Knight Commander of the Bath. Soon after his ar rival in England, Lieutenant -Colonel Sir Augustus Frazer, K.C.B. ' was appointed to command the Artillery in the eastern district of England ; and on the 20th of Deceraber, 1814, was promoted to a Regimental Lieutenant-Coloneky in the Royal Artillery. On the return of the Emperor from Elba Sir Augustus Frazer joined the allied army in Flan ders, and resumed his command of the Horse Artillery. We have before alluded to the important change he effected in his department. His letters all through this campaign are full of interest. We extract the following, written on the very day of the victory : How shall I describe the scenes through which I have passed since morning ? lam now so tired that I can hardly hold my pen. We have guined a glorious victory, and against Napoleon himself. I know not yet the amount of killed, wounded, or prisoners, but all must be great. Never was there a more bloody affair, never so hot a fire. Bona parte put in practice every device of war. He tried us with artillery, with cavalry, and last of all with infantry. The efforts of each were gigantic, but the admirable talents of our Duke, seconded by such troops as he commands, baffled every attempt. For some hours the action was chiefly of artillery. We had 114 British, and some 16 Belgian guns, 6 and 9 pounders : never were guns better served en both sides. After seven hours' cannonading, the French cavalry made some of the boldest charges I ever saw : they sounded the whole extent of our line, which was throwu into squares. Never did cavalry behave so nobly, or was received by infantry so firmly. Our guns were taken and retaken repeatedly. They were in masses, especially the horse artillery, which I pl ace d and manoeuvred as I c hose. Poor fellows ! many of them—alas, how many ! lie on the bed of honour. Failing in his repeated attacks of can nonading and movements of cavalry, Napoleon at length pierced the left of our centre with the infantry of the Im perial Guard ; the contest was severe beyond what I have ' seen, or could have fancied. I cannot describe the scene of carnage. The struggle lasted even by moonlight. I know not the losses of other corps, nor hardly of our own ; but Bean, Cairnes, and Ramsay, are among the horse artillery dead. Whinyates, Bull, Macdonald (junior), Webber, Strangways, Parker, Day, and, I am sorry to say, many others, including Robe, are among our wounded. Many of my troops are almost without officers, and almost all the guns were repeatedly in the enemy's hands ; but we retired from them only to shelter ourselves under our squares of infantry, and instantly resumed our posts, the moment the cavalry were repulsed. I have escaped very well. Max well's horse, on which I rode at first, received a ball in the neck, and I was afterwards rolled over by a round of case shot, which wounded my mare in several places, a ball grazing my right arm, just above the elbow, but without the slightest pain ; and I now write without any incon venience. In a momentary lull of the fire I buried 32 2 Y friend Ramsay, from whose body I took the portrait of hie wife, which he always carried next his heart. Not a num . assisted at the funeral who did not s h e d te a rs. Hardly 112144 I cut from his head the hair which I enclose, and laid his yet warm body in the grave, when our covulsive sobs were stifled by the necessity of returning to renew the struggle. Pray get me two mourning rings made ; but I w ill de scribe them when I write next. All now with me is con fused recollection of scenes yet passing before me in idea: the noise, the groans of the dying, and all the horrid reali ties of the field are yet before me. In this very house are poor Lloyd (leg shot off but not yet amputated), Dumaresclng (General Byng's aide-de-camp) shot through the lungs en" dying ; Macdonald, Robe, Whinyates, Strangways, Baynst wounded. Sir T. Picton and Sir W. P onson by are killed. , many wounded, that I dare not enumerate their names. Bolton of ours is killed, so is young Spearman. Wha t a strange letter is this, what a strange day has occasioned it. To-day is Sunday, how often have I observed that action e are fought on Sundays. Alas ! what three days have I passed, what days of glory, fasely so called ; and what days of misery to thousands. The field of battle today 18 strewed with dead ! never did I see so many. But let me turn from all that is distressing, even in description, and lay me down, which I shall do with a grateful sense n' mercies vouchsafed. I might have got a decoration for you, but the officer of the Imperial Guard who wore it, and Who offered it as a prisoner, looked so wistfully at the reward ° T many a gallant day, that I could no t thi n k o f t a king it. made an acquaintance in the field with a French lieutenant; colonel of the 7th Dragoons, poor fellow, sadly wounded and prisoner. How misery m a k es friends of all. My frien d Lord SaltOun is well. I hear he alone escaped of two com panies of the Guards under his command. Lord Fitzroy Somerset has lost an arm. Lord Uxbridge has a ball mend knee. Delancey severely wo un d e d.—Adi eu : I will s you a more connected account of the battle when I am able. Even in the , moment of triumph he cannot forget the misery caused by the final Vic tory. Writing two days after the battle to his constant correspondent, he says—" Are you not tired of battles ? Are you not sick of the saneil l. ary description ? Judge then what must nav e been the reality. The Duke himself said in the evening he had never seen such a battle, and hoped he never should again. To this hope we will saY Amen." He describes the whole proceedings of the day of battle tersely, yet comprehensively. Speak ing of the concluding struggle, he says—" The horror of the scene strikes me now ; at the moment its magnificence alone filled my mind. Several times were critical ; but confidence in the Duke, I have no doubt, animated every breast. Twice have I saved this day by perseverance: said hie 'Grace before the last , great struggle, and said so most justly." The chief features of that memorable conflict, the magnificent charges of the French cavalry, and the unflinching steadiness of the Eng lish squares, are familiar to most of us; but the simple narrative of an eye-witness and actor in those great events is full of fresh and vivid interest. As our good friends the Prussians are inclined to claim a large share of the honour, it may not , be uninteresting to ha ve th e o pi n i on of one who was certainly not ignorant of the movements of the day, as 'to their share in the struggle : I may seem to have forgotten the Prussians in this battle. I saw none ; but I believe that on our left they did advance, and the knowledge of their position might certainly induce Napoleon to withdraw, 'when his efforts against us were unavailing. We expected their co-operation early in the day, and eablestly looked for it ; but it was not visible from any point where the Duke was till dusk, when we had swept the enemy from the plain in our front. I was then separated from his Grace, whom I have not seen since. His account of his subsequent visit to Paris, and the movements of the allies, is full of interest ; and the simplicity and absence of ostentation with which he speaks of his own share in any remark able transaction evidence the true soldier. It is a u... m e an fo y r no p b r l i e de in highly attractive record of days whose vivid lute" rest has not yet died out of the national melne l l: and En g England which has proved v less ed ca us e hig h principle bthalg: principle and ready humanity of her soldiers than in the victories of the Peninsula or the final charg e at Waterloo. His _Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert. J. Mitchell, Bookseller and Publisher to the Queen. A fine lithograph of our sailor prince, taken as he is standing in his midshipman's costume at the foot of a rock, with the waves breaking on the beach beside him. He looks quite at home in his sailor's dress and stands in a position well befitting one of England's Royal sons. The picture' will prove a very suitable companion to those published last year of 'the Princess Royal and the Prince Frederick William. It is dedicated by permission to her' Majesty, to whom such a spirited represen tation of her second son'would prove, we should imagine, a very acceptable offering. - , MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT. (Front the _London Gazette.) CROWN -OFFICE, MAY 17. County of Waterford—C apta i n John Esmond°, ofe—rr,; Walter brokestown, cou n ty o f W aterford ; the Honourable Cecil Talbot; of Ingestrie, Staffordshire. • Borough of Dunga rvon —F rancis M‘Guire, of 61. e" —l-111 place, Cork, E sq . As.% County of Sligo—Si r R o b ert Gore Booth, of LW — o f county of Sligo, Bart. ; Charles William Cooper, Esq. ' Coopershill, county of Sligo. A r th Borough of Sli go —T he Right Honourable John Ur A-- Wynne, of Hazlewood, county of Sligo. County of Armagh —Sir William Verner, of Chur c f county of Armagh, B ar t . ; M axwell Charles Clos e, ° Drumbanagher, county of Armagh, Esq. Borough of Armagh—Joshua Walter M'Geough Bond , the Argory, county of Armagh, Esq. County verie; ojfehn Walters, Berks—The Esq.; Leicester Honourab Vi ley PhilipPleyllertill: Esq. MAY 18. Borough of Wallingford—Richard Manna, of Lovri ldet. square, Middlesex, Esq. County of Limerick—The Right Honourable Wa l l Monsell, of Tervoe, county of Limerick ; Lientena l l, Colonel Samuel Auchmuty Dickson, of Croom county of Limerick. of County of Roscommon—Colon e l Fitzstephen Lough grill, county of Roscommon ; Thomas Wu" ---- Goff, of Oakport, county of Roscommon. County of Galway—Sir Thomas John Burke, of 1491 1 Hill, Galway, Bart. ; Willi am H enry G reg ory ) Coole Park, Galway. MAY 4 Red County of Louth—Chichester S amue l F or tescue, - both House ; Richard Montesquieu Bellow, of Barmeat h, iu the said county. iu Borough of Dundalk—George Bowyer, of Radley Par -, the county of Berks, Esq, THE WESTMEATH MURDER.--A meetinff of the magistrates of Westmeath h as b een h e ld , a t whic the Vt." rious circumstances connect e d w ith th e murder of ,theme Jessop were fully discussed, and a resolution unanimousli passed and forwarded to Government. A resolution wa s° also nc eadthopetceodhddeuceltar(i) of declaring that the three Who havi s s a e d e n u t r it e te t d he b a ei s n sa g s p si r n e , se a n ss t is a t t the m w u mm rde d r ed , ne m ith an e , r aetrtegletedantit; the mmeehetin, fagrmers, vi e e rs we , d with abhor ' alarm whereby the murderer might have been capture. raward of £SOQ ha s b een offered for the detection of the ass Issin. Among the pa ssenger% b y the Indian and Any. tralian packet Pera, which arrived at Southampton Yesr, day, was Captain Burton, the famous Arabian and Afrie ll _ traveller, who has made some wonderful discoveries in " v s!! interior of Africa, and who is the only European who e ;' t visited Mecca, the sacred city of the Mahomedans, with disguising his religious faith, and escaped with his lif • -u-Z other European travellers have lost their lives for their pru Mateo sumption; or have saved themselves by professing medanism.