The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-23 00:00:00

2L1.13 NAVY. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain G. Sey mour, is appointed to be removed today (Monday) from Hamoaze into the basin at Keyham steam yard, and to be placed to-morrow in No. 1 dock. Messrs. Wakling, upholsterers, of London, have received instructions to fit her cabins for the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 20, Capt. F. H. H. Glasse, at Plymouth, is receiving stores and provisions for foreign service. The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tumour, has been placed in No 7 Dock, at Portsmouth, and a portion of her copper stripped off for the purpose of die covering and remedying the leak in her stern. Her crew have been berthed on board a hulk in the har bour while she is in dock. The Torch gunboat has been taken into No. 1 Dock at Chatham, just vacated by the Plover, 5, steam gun-vessel, which is being prepared for the China waters, to replace the other vessel of that name destroyed at the attack on the Peiho forts. The discharge of the supernumerary labourers at Chatham dockyard has ceased for the present, and no more are to be discharged from that establish ment until further orders. On Saturday 65 super numerary shipwrights, smiths, joiners, and other mechanics were discharged from the dockyard, but the shipwrights will be re-engaged to-day for the purpose of being employed in breaking up the Alba tross, 12, which has been taken into dock for that purpose. _ _ The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M. Bruce, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, at noon, from Guernsey, with the head-quarters of the 10th brigade of Royal Artillery, consisting of Col. Dun lop, in command, Capt. and Adjt. Kearnes, Capt. Robinson, Lieuts. Lemotte and Gilles, Surg. M'ln tosh, Quartermaster Haynes, and about 220 non commissioned officers and men, and 60 women and children. The Firebrand steamed direct into har bour on her arrival, and the troops disembarked at the south jetty of the dockyard. Headed by the Artillery band, they were marched into quarters at the Point Battery. _ _ On Friday a second trial of the machinery of the screw steam gunvessel Espoir, 5, took place outside Plymouth breakwater ; revolutions, 98 per minute ; pressure, 201 b.; speed, 10.05 knots. The screw steam surveying vessel Porcupine, 3, Capt. H. C. Atter, left Plymouth Sound on Friday for the coast of Scotland. The screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Douglas Currey, at Plymouth, has received orders to prepare for sea. The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Sotheby, C. 8., is appointed to be taken outside Ply mouth Sound to-morrow (Tuesday), to try her machinery ; and the gunboat Procris will be tested on Wednesday. The paddlewheel steamsloop Virago, 6, Comman der Dunn, steamed from the Sound into Hamonze on Saturday, to have some defects made good. She went alongside the coal depot. The sailing sloop Atalanta, 16, Commander S. Pas ley, was traniported from the Devonport dockyard on Saturday to the sheer-hulk Kent, and having had her masts and bowsprit taken out, returned to her berth. The hired freight ship Arethusa, Capt. Welsh, from Belize with mahogany, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening, where, through the neg ligence of the pilot, her heel caught on the rocks in Batten Bay. On Saturday morning she floated off, and went up Hamoaz 3 to discharge. The wind having veered round to the north, and the tide having approached the average height on Saturday afternoon, the hired transport Havering was at 24 minutes after four o'clock floated off the Batten Ridge, in Plymouth Sound, by Mr. Orchard, of the rigging department in the dockyard Devon port. The Board of Trade inquiry, which com menced at St. George's-hall, Stonehouse, on Thurs day, in reference to the stranding of this ship, con tinued on Friday and Saturday, and will proceed to-day, Monday. The ship Rainbow has just delivered a cargo of Italian oak at Portsmouth dockyard. It is said that this timber had been collected for the French naval yards, and that a large quantity of similar character had already been delivered. Whether this be true or not, the cargo which the Rainbow has discharged is one of the finest assortments of Italian oak which has ever becn delivered at Ports mouth dockyard. A court-martial is expected to assemble on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, this morning, for the trial of the men undermen tioned (part of the crew of her Majesty's ship Edgar, flagship of Rear-Admiral Erskine, second in command of the Channel fleet), on the charges annexed to their names : William Mathews, Thomas Doidge, Alfred Gunstan, Alfred Fry, William Harvey, William Parker, Charles Lucas, James Trickey, Daniel Mooney, and Charles Cannon, private marines; and Henry Dawson, gunner, Royal Marine Artillery ; on a charge of disobeying orders to fall in at two different times when the watch was piped to do so. James Haining, gunner, Royal ikkarine Artillery, and John Menzies, private, Royal Marines, for preventing John Clarke from being put in irons, and rescuing him from the sergeant and corporal who had him in charge. George W. Smith, A. 8., for inciting a seaman named Cook to disobey orders, and to make a disturbance and unship ladders, &c. John Clarke, private, Royal Marines, for having when the port watch was mustered, endeavoured to delay and discourage the service by falling in with that watch instead of the starboard, to which he belonged, and for mis conduct in th e b oat when being conveyed to the Victory a p r i soner. Geo. Jervis, ordinary seamen, for inciting Cook to disobedience of orders, and for wilfully disobeying orders by remaining below when his watch was piped to fall in. Rear-Admi ral the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., it is believed, will t.oe president of the Court. A court-martial was held at Plymouth on Friday, on board the flagship Impregnable, to try Mr. A. C. Yule, paymaster, for neglect of duty. Th e pr i soner pleaded guilty, and ascribed the inattention to ill health. The Court ordered him to be put on half pay and not to be again employed until he was sufficiently restored to be entitled to a suitable medical certificate. The same Court tried George Burns, sailmaker's crew of the Terrible, on a charge of theft, which having been proved, he was sentenced to hard labour in the county prison for six months, and then to be dismissed the service. Mr. Miller, late clerk of the works at Pembroke, took up his appointment at Woolwich on Saturday, vice Bernays, transferred to Pembroke. Seventy-six artisans and labourers were dis charged from Devonport dockyard on Saturday. THE ARMY. The new brigade to the Royal Artillery, to be styled the " 15th Brigade," to be formed at Ports mouth, according to a general regimental order, dated the 19th inst., issued by Col. Charles Bing ham, Deputy-Adjutant of the Royal Artillery, is to be officered as follows :--Cols. Taylor and Gostling ; Lieut.-Cols. Francklyn, Craydon, Dixon, and Travers ; Capts. Dickson, Richards, Hope, Bren don, De Havilland, Wilkinson, Davis, and Bredin ; Second-Capts. Johnstone, Humfrey,Wilson, Bolton, Walker, Cuthbert, H am ilt on, D e Wi nton; Li euts. Martin,Rook e , C um i ng, Bevan, Baaalgette, Smith- Neil, Hall, Goodenough, Cameron, Price, Webber, Sandys, Burgman, Scott, Montgomerie, and Mann ed'. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief has appointed the , Second-a followi ng t o ffi cers to the Horse Brigade—viz. Z. Lyon, vice .. B A. De Cetto, Wilkinson, promoted ; Lieut. C. P L . s Burnett, vice vice Millman, promoted ; Lient.p . .. m .. Arbuthnot, promoted; Lieut. Hall, promoted ; Lieut. G. B. B. Hobart, Z n e 'R v • lce vice Watson,idc out, promoted; Lieut. R. Handcock, promoted; Lieut. S. P. Lynes, vice Walker, pro moted; Lieut. W. S. Curzon, vice Do Winto,p ro moted ; Lieut. A. A. Stewart, vice Hamilton, pro. meted. The undermentioned officers of the Royal Artil lery have been appointed Adjutants provisionally, under the regulations contained in the general order of the sth of February, 1826—viz., Second-Capt. Maurice Henry Fitzmaurice "to the 11th Brigade, vice Campbell, who resigns the Adjutancy only ; Second Capt. Edward Courtenay Vaughan to the 15th Brigade, by augmentation ; Second Captain Joseph Hanwell to the depot, vice Byrne ; Lieut . : Henry Brackenbury to the depot, by augmentation. The following officers of the Royal Artillery have been appointed to the Depot Brigade—viz., Capt. G. H. J. A. Forbes, to be Staff Captain ; Capt. E. J. Bruce, by augmentation ; Second Captain T. E. Byrne, to be Recruiting Officer, by augmentation ; Second Captain H. A. Boyne, by augmentation; Second Captain H. S. Arbuthnot, by augmentation ; Lieut. IL Bond, by augmentation ; Lieut. T. S. Seccombe, by augmentation ; Lieut. T. M.Hazle rigg, by augmentation ; Lieut. A. de M. Prior, by augmentation. The following transfers of officers in the Royal Artillery have been ordered :—Second Captain and Brevet Major J. M‘C. Campbell to No. 6 battery, 14th Brigade; Second Captain W. L. Yonge to No. 3 battery, 14th Brigade ; Second Capt. H. T. A. Law to No. 7 battery, 13th Brigade ; Second Capt. H. J. Alderson to No. battery, sth Brigade; Lieut. H. D. Evans to No. battery, 11th Brigade; Lieut. t. R. Salmon to No. 6 battery, 11th Brigade; Lieut. C. R. Franklen to No. 8 battery, 14th Bri gade ; Lieut. J. R. Oliver to H battery, Horse Bri gade, vice Franklin, who resigns his appointment therein. By telegram from Calcutta we learn that the East India troopship Matilda Wattenbach, Captain Denkin, left Saugur on the 26th of March with in valided troops belonging to various regiments, and a full complement of chief cabin passengers, bound to London. Captain Goold, 2 sergeants, and 48 rank and file of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday, paid off from the North American and West India flagship Indus, Vice-Ad miral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., Capt. Seymour, R.M., Lieut. Bottomley, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, and 24 privates, left head-quarters, Woolwich, for Portsmouth, to join the Bacchante, commissioned; and a recruiting party, consisting of Major Pym, R.M., 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, and 1 private, also left for Melton Mowbray, on recruiting service. The following "appointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. H. F. Campbell to the Hannibal ; Lieut. R. W. D. Abercromby to the Wrangler; Lieut. St. Vincent D. Lake to the Wasp; C. G. Harvey, mate, to the Marlborough ; H. J. Gawne, naval cadet, to the Aboukir; the Hon. A. C. L. Cadogan, midshipman to the Bac chante; H. D. Macaulay and R. B. Trollope, mid shipman to the Euryalas, as supernumeraries ; J. R. WarrLn, second master, to the Ranger ; Henry Campion, paymaster, additional, to the Fisgard ; and J. W. Torbett, clerk, to the Edinburgh.. The Ist division of the Tipperary Militia Artil lery will embark at Portsmouth today on board the Firebrand, 6, Commander J. M. Bruce, for con veyance to Sheerness. The Firebrand afterwards proceeds to Woolwich from Sheerness for the pur pose of embarking the City of Dublin Militia, and conveying them round to Portsmouth for service on the western side of the harbour. The head-quarters of the Tipperary Militia Ar tillery will leave Portsmouth by special train on the 26th inst. for Strood, and thence, by steamer, to Sheerness. The Malvina, hired screw steamer, belonging to the St. Petersburg Steam Navig'ttion Company, sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday, with the Waterford Militia Artillery on board, for Water ford. The officers and troops on board comprised —Capts. Gyers, Lymby, and Power; Lieuts. Pawer, Ussher, Greer, Blake, Mountford, Clarke, Sullivan, Harrison, and Swale; Capt. and Adju tant Glubb, Paymaster Elliott, Surgeon Gore, Quar termaster Hard, 24 sergeants, 7 drummers, 14 cor porals, 227 privates, 37 women, and 62 children ; two officers' wives and five dicers' children. The Malvina, in common with the whole of the fleet of this company, is fitted with Clifford's patent boat lowering gear. The same provision for the better security of life at sea has been made by the directors of the Irish Steam-packet Company, to which the late unfortunate Nimrod belonged, and at whose loss all hands on board perished. SWITZERLAND. A letter from Geneva, dated April 18, says :—lt is but four days to the time of the voting in Sevov, and yet all interest in the matter has ceased. No wonder ; the result of the vote in Nice foretells that in the upper valleys of the Alps. The month which has passed from the time the treaty of cession was signed has not been lost. From the beginning the question was nut to have a majority, that had been assured by the treaty itself, which left no choice, but the danger was lest the mass of the people should think it superfluous to come and vote in a matter which they knew to be decided already, and the month has been employed to avert this danger. You may take the success for granted in the north as well as in the south. The measures used were simple enough. First the conviction was brought home to every one that resistance was useless ; that Sardinia had given them up s that Switzerland was powerless to help, and that the Emperor was decided to have his own will. When this had been done thoroughly it was easy to show the people that it, was in their own interest to make themselves agree able to their new masters, and thus predispose them in their favour. Even people more energetic and independent than the Savoyards are would have yielded, and no one can blame them if they will show the same enthusiastic unanimity as the Nizzards. What rendered the task easier was, that nowhere, not even in Chablais and Faucigny, has there been an aversion to he united with Prance. Everywhere the great majority was for remaining with Sar dinia, and when this hall become impossible it was only in the neutralised districts that an union with Switzerland would have been preferred as more suited to the interests of North Savoy. The chief object of M. Laity's tour was to prove to Chab lais and Faueigny that, instead of losing, they will gain by the annexation to France. The zone which is promised will leave their relations with Switzerland undisturbed—nay, improve them, and give them at the same time all the advantages of a free importation of French articles. Besides this, they will belong to a country where the Government can and. will spend money f or wor k s of pu b lic util i ty. Indeed, in every town which M. Laity visited his chief care was to ascertain what they 'Would like in that way, and no sootier was the wish expressed than it was granted: O o e f e t .o h u e re, he took good care not to inform the people truism that the money for such boons comes ultimately out of the pockets of the people, besides a handsome.. bonds For those Who have the trouble of doing it . In the eyes of the Savoyards the thing country tr erefoy l e l the appearance , that a great and rich spend d a great deal of money to make the Y Sa lv v i o ar s ha.ppy—an idea which, under the circumstances , Y might take root even in a country more advanced its the science of political economy, If the voting en Sunday next excites little interest in these parts, so much gr ea t er i s the anxiety felt about things abroad. Prospects are not very Cheer ing in that direction either —very little more than vague assurances, ending with injunctions to held out. It is an appeal to faith, which certainly the ertainl a y nn n e e x ed a s . strengthening. Day after day passes, tion is at hand, and nothing positive has as yet ap peared to show that these assurances will lead to anything. The combinations of the Powers require time, and the Swiss feel that no time can be lost. Once the vote given, and the French rule estab lished, it is difficult to believe that anything short of war will induce the Emperor to give up the dis puted territory. However, for the last few days the accounts from Berne are more re-assuring, and have excited fresh hopes. The telegraphic news of yesterday an nounces even aspealy solution of the whole question favourably to the interests of Switzerland. The first idea suggested by this news would, of course, be that France was inclined to listen to the repre sentations of the Powers, and come to an arrange ment satisfactory to all parties. Unfortunately, there are some facts which militate strongly against the probability of such an assumption. The first it that both troops and material of war have been sent to the Fort des Rousses, on the French slope of the Jura, which commands the road into the Pays de GGX and the Pays de Vaud, and that Marshal Can robert, who has been lately at Berne, has gone there to look at the position. The other fact is that the Etat Major of the sth Swiss Division has been called out, which would seem to indicate a prepara tion to put on foot this division, having its canton ments at Bale and Soleure, in the direction of the French Jura. The troops of this division have re ceived as yet no orders, but the Etat Major re ceived them yesterday. It is rather difficult to maize these facts agree with the news of a speedy and satisfactory solution, unless one assumes that this hope of a speedy solu tion is merely based on the announcement of an understanding upon a common course of action be tween the Powers, and that the calling out of the THE `SUN, LONDON, MONDAY; : EVENING APRIL X 2 3, :1860. • Staff of the sth Division is only a counter measure against the preparations at the Fort des Rousses. Councils are always more adapted for discussing and clearing up disputed questions than for taking resolutions, above all in critical times. liowever united about the aim, it is almost impossible not to find differences about the means to obtain this common aim. These differences may be merely slight shades, yet they will always influence, more or less, the resolutions taken. The Federal Council makes no exception in this respect. Out of the seven members which compose it, three have been from the beginning for energetic action, three others rather wavering, and ene for concilia tion. In the first moment of indignation the more energetic members exercised a natural supre macy, and carried along with them those who were wavering. This was the time when Switzerland seemed inclined to consult, in the first instance, the necessity of her own position, and act according to it, relying on the Powers to support her in this action. The assurances of the Powers that they were ready to secure the interests of Switzerland, coupled with the advice not to spoil their combina tions by precipitate action, turned the scale, and from that moment the less energetic half of the Council has been in the ascendant, the time for ac- tion passed away, and the only chance remained in an understanding of the Powers. It is probably the success of the negotiations in this respect which caused the news of a speedy solution. How far this be true you may know better than we here, for since Switzerland has placed her fate in the hands of the great Powers she has been living on faith and on hope. She has given up her initia tive in the matter, and, instead of leading in a ques tion which concerns her most nearly, has been rather following others. multitude contrives to multiply itself under the pressure of eager excitement. There are three Florences on the pave, as many again at the thousand windows, and on the stands and stages everywhere raised up on either side of the way ; as many again in the squares built up into as many amphitheatres. Houses tapestried all over, banners everywhere hanging on the balconies, every where waving in the crowd; and arches and great gateways, with quaint devices and mottoes, inscrip tions, and coats of arms, and trophies; and garlands and rows of garlands everywhere stretching along and across the streets, masses of flowers, showers of flowers, too many flowers even for the city of Flora to have produced, one would think, without the aid of her neighbours; music also everywhere, military bands, civic bands, rustic bands ; everywhere glit tering things, rustling things, fragrant things, sights and sounds ; an attack upon all the senses, gratify ing at first, delighting and exhilarating, but pre sently overpowering and bewildering, till the strongest sensation is that of confusion and head- ache. On we drive, down the endless narrow Via Ognis santi, then, left, to the Piazza Santa Maria Novella, then we come to a standstill at the Duomo. The King alights at the door of the cathedral. We have some dim sight of him as he advances at the head of his sparkling retinue up the lofty aisle, under the broad Gothic arches which Arnulfo spanned. The vast gloomy pile is brilliant with myriads and myriads of tapers. The Arch bishop of Florence intones the Te Delon. Thanks to Heaven that brings to him the excommunicated new ruler ! The blatant mass of people outside is awed into temporary, comparative silence; The pealing anthem is heard echoed by the vast dome, audible even to us outside. But now the King issues forth ; once more the King looks round upon the crowd, whose shouts gain rend the air. The King's glance is for one moment fixed on a parti cular spot. In the midst of so many thousands of banners he spies three banners. These banners are of the largest, but they are veiled all over with crape. The names of Venice, Rome, Naples, hang at the staff's point. A sudden emotion is percep tible in the King's countenance. He has hitherto only bowed. He now takes off his hat. He reads his people's thoughts, and shares them. So on to the Piazza Grande, no longer Piazza del Gran Duca, down by Mercato Novo to the Piazza and bridge of the Trinita, sip Via Maggio, up the Sirucciolo de Pitti—here we are in Piazza Pitti, the King rides into.the proud Palace so long the home of the Medici. It is now 330 years ago that a Burgundian Prince, hardly an Italian, though residing south of the Alps, appeared in the crowd of Italian crowned heads assembled to do homage to the fortunate Austrian, Charles V., the wearer of the Imperial diadem at Bologna. Together with that Burgun dian or Savoyard Duke, Charles 111., were Medici, Duke of Florence, Este of Ferrara, Gonzaga of Mantua ; Sforza of Milan, and ever so many others. Among those feudal lords the greatest ambition aimed no higher than the Grand-Ducal Coronet, which, artfully held out by the crafty Monarch, now to one, now to the other, was for some years tantalisingly withheld from all of them. All those Italian tyrants would almost have resented as pre sumption any hope for the glittering bauble which they all coveted. The Medici had it in due time, and Tuscany was made the highest of North Ita lian vassals. Where are now the Medici, where the Este and Gonzaga, the Sforza, Farnese, and the whole set ? Behold! tne poor Savoyard has outlived and swallowed them all ; and all their deeds of usurpation have gone only to build up his Italian throne—a throne grounded on legi timate rights from the beginning, and which, in olden no less than in recent times, owed its increase to popular spontaneous sur render to voluntary annexation. Read the history of Piedmont, and you will see how Ivrea, Cuneo, Fossano, and even unhappy Nice, came under the allegiance of Savoy by the same process which now brings Florence, Bologna, Parma, and Modena under her sway. The King is housed at the Pitti Palace ; the great dignitaries of State are alighting from their carriages, walking up those handsome stairs, treading those marble halls, to pay him obeisance ; but underneath is the real Sovereign, to whom the King must, in his turn, make his bow. Underneath, the vast square and the sweeping rise to the palace gates are thronged with a dense multitude, which the serried ranks of national guards cannot, without great efforts, keep under control. They must have one more peep at the King. The Windows of the opposite houses, far as eye can reach, are tenanted by deep-browed, bright-eyed Florentines. A galaxy of beauty of the same description, but with still greater pretension to rank, occupies the vast galleries projecting from the palace on either side and encompassing the Equare, Those gaily-attired beauties have been perched up there, closely packed, ever since their tickets obtained them admittance at 10 o'clock in the morning, and it is now 3in the afternoon. They, too, must enjoy the privilege claimed by the eat-- they mint look at the King. Hark ! the clapping . of their tiny white-gloved hands echoes the roar of the clamouring multitude beneath—" Viva it Re ! fuori it Re ! The balcony is thrown open ; out issues the serene face of Victor Emmanuel, by his side the Prince of Carignan°, a little behind Baron Ricasoli and the Gonfaloniere ' Marquis Bartolommeo. The King bows his heati. The people are suddenly hushed. A fancy took them that the King was about to address them. Silly people ! That is a king for deeds not words, or if for words not to waste any but to keep the word he has given. APRIL 17. I am still dazed with yesterday's long-endured turmoil; hardly inclined to attempt to describe last evening's illumination and fireworks. Were I even less tired, I should be no great hand at pictures of that nature, both because I have seen too many of them of late not to be blase, and because my grumb ling disposition is somewhat offended by this per petual holiday, which is so oddly ushering in the new era of Italian active freedom. I have often, besides, tried to set off the respective merits of Turin and Florence in this kind of ftstive exhibition. Imagine, now, that you have both Florence and Turin together in one and the same town. There is in the Piedmontese capital a self-taught genius, accustomed to get up such shows at a moment's notice, and his name is Giacinto Ottino. He is a tinman by trade, but if you see his elaborate deco rations in Via di Po and Dora Grossa, you will say he must be at least a first rate artist, a botanist, an historian, a king at-arms, and ever so many things besides. The Florentines, on the other hand, are very proud of a professor of architecture of their own, a man whose name I forget just now, who ministers to their taste and fancy by similar con trivances. But now Giaciuto Ottini has been sent for from Turin, the two worthies have been putting their wise heads together, and the tinman's flights of imagination, without being cramped, have been kept to the rules of the architect's art. The result is such as we might expect had all the Turin Flo rence shows of old and modern times been crowded into one monster show. Fancy Carnival without masks, the Corpus Domini and San Giovanni with the priests left out, and then add all the national gaudy gewgaws which were displayed in honour of Magenta and Solferino, which were pressed into service to welcome Plon-Plon, Buoncompagni, and Carignaho, of to celebrate the first, second, and third annexations—stan up, in short, all that you herb o .'"eil for the last twelvemonth, and imagine you see it all at °nal in a dream, enhanced by that supernatural vagueness and digitises which the un rbal giaies to the semblance of the real. The fireworks Were played off from the Carraia liridge, enjoyed bt the Icing, Who sat in the gal lery over the Petite Vecchio. He then drove out in a carriage to see the illumination, cheered every where—the most genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm. The streets of the town this morning are still crowded to suffocation. People's only business is to see by daylight the pictures and devices they be held last night as transparencies. They are moving up and down, listless, happy, gaping, wondering, like big, overgrown children. The weather favoured them throughout; the sea was smooth as oil for the King's voyage on Sunday night; the day was bright and warm for his reception yesterday ; it continues everything that pampered idleness might wish for. The dust alone is a drawback, as, in order to do away with slipperiness of the broad flagstones, the pavement has everywhere been strewn with sand, which, trodden to the finest dust by so many feet, fills the whole atmosphere. But the people do not mind it in the least. It is astonishing to what extent an effeminate race will endure real hardship, if only enjoyment of pleasure or avoidance of toil esay result from it. The man to whom washing is lan irksome process soon learns to luxuriate in dirt. The King of Sardinia does not, strictly speaking, see Florence fur the first time, nor is this his first visit to the place. He was here, quite an infant, at the time that the Prince of Carignano, a fugitive from Turin after the rev o l u ti onar y attempt of 1821, found here a shelter at the Court of his Grand Ducal cousins of Tuscany. The Carignano family were then lodged at the Poggio Itnperiale. The infant Prince Victor Emmanuel was in his cradle, the cur tains of which were set on fire by a candle which came in contact with them. The child was rescued from the flames, not, however, without severe burn ing on his right hand and left side, in wllieti latter spot the King bears the marks of the fire to the present day. Most unfortunately, the Signora Teresa Zanotti, the nurse to the little Prince, who, to the risk of her own life,took him from the cradle, was so severely injured by the flames that she died after a few days' suffering. All this domestic episode we learn from the letters of the Prince of Carignano, the King's father, who Om simply signed himself " Alberto di Savoia" but viho took his full name of " Charles Albert" on his ac cession to the throne in 1831. These letters, which &ince a great deal of pious feeling on Charles Albert's part, were lately given to the public by the Cavaliere Zanotti, the son of the deceased Royal nurse. The incident occurred in the middle of September, 1822. VICTOR EMMANUEL AND THE POPE. y- The Continental press is occupied at this moment with a correspondence which derives its principal interest from the station and position of the parties between whom it has passed. The present genera tion seems determined to leave no State secrets to be dug up by posterity. Every great event is made clear, and finished off for history directly it has taktn place. -No sooner has Victor Emmanuel been, by implication, cut off from Papal communion, than we are treated to the correspondence which preceded this decisive ecclesiastical stroke. The Royal and the Holy letter-writers submit their lucubrations to the world, like two stockbrokers who may have had a personal difference upon Epsom Downs ; and they tacitly call upon the European public to judge be tween them which was in fault in the original dispute, and which has borne himself best in the subsequent discussion. General Lamoriciere may be creating Papal Zouaves for some unexplained purpose, and Victor Emmanuel may be looking to the efficiency of his army with a view to possible contingencies. If it should be thought expedient ultimately to appeal to trial by battle, the right is reserved ; but meanwhile we are invited to examine on which side the reason of the matter lies. Therefore it is that we find circulated all over the Continent those two long letters from the King of Sardinia to the Pope, and those two short letters from the Pope to the King of Sardinia. Bat no ie fleeting person who remembers who the writers are will be surprised at discovering that on neither side are the real considerations which influenced the opinion of Europe mentioned or even hinted at. The misgovernment of the Roman States and the misery . of the people are, and always have been, non-existent to the vision both of the King and the Sovereign Ecclesiastic. It is a very curious specimen of Royal and Pon tifical correspondence. The King writes most like a priest, and the Priest most like a dragoon. On the one side we have a Monerch with a relatively powerful army using the most gentle and deferential and peaceful language, striving in the most oily phrase to convince the Priest that it is his Majesty's dat.y to take from the Priest something which the Priest earnestly desires to retain. On the other side we have the testy old Priest, in short, stringent, and decisive sentences, rejecting these blandish ments, abusing their author very heartily, and telling him in good set terms what he may expect hero, and especially hereafter, if he should dare to interfere with his property. It seems that so early as the 3d of last December the Pope had written an autograph letter to the King of, Sardinia, de siring him to maintain before the then projected Congress the rights of the Holy See. The King, on the 6th of February following, replies to this apostolic letter, and, instead of promising compli ance with this request, sets forth to the Holy Father what the Sardinian view of the then existing cri sis is. Victor Emmanuel is the devoted son of the Church, his race is a pious race, and all his own acts have been of the most pious character. The Pope, he flatters hie.self, cannot but feel how sincere his veneration has been, and what zeal he has shown in defence of " the right and authority which the Holy See exercises on earth by virt'se of the Divine mandate of Heaven." He has given a hundred proofs. When the Legations rose against the Papal authority it was entirely without any prompting from Sardinia. When they offered themselves for annexation Victor Emmanuel repulsed them. When " the presence of an audacious General" —meaning, of course, Garibaldi—" put in peril the tranquility of provinces occupied by the troops of the Holy See," who but Victor Emmanuel interposed to re move him from the neighbourhood? But all these good offices of the Sardinian King were in vain. The people expelled the officers of his Holiness, and continued to attend their churches and to conduct their religious ceremonials just as if they had been acting under express orders from Rome. This was a very distressing state of matters • but what was to be done ? It so happened that Victor Emmanuel had a particular mission to perform. It was the mission which was proclaimed by Pope Julius IL, and which was taken up by the Sovereigns of the House of Savoy ; and its purport was " to deliver ItalLfrom foreign domination." It was unhappily evidrat—thus Victor Emmanuel went on to argue —that the re conquest of the Romagna could only be effected by fore;gn assistance. This the honour of a Prince of the House of Savoy could not allow, and the " generous heart and the evangelical charity" of the Pope could not possibly permit him to wish. Religion itself would suffer; and, although physically the dominion of the Pope might be thus restored, morally the pro vinces would be still more entirely lost. It was very difficult to know what a devoted son of the Church, and the scion of a pious race, and the inheritor of the task of expelling foreigners from Italy, ought to do ie so complex a contingency. But Victor Emmanuel had his idea. That idea he submitted with confidence to the Pope, It wes this—that Romagna and the Marches and Umbria should all be allowed to parti cipate in the blessings which annexation to a strong Italian kingdom had already . secured to a large por tion of Central Italy. This is, lightly paraphrased, the pith of this humble and oily epistle. The Pope, when he got to the end of it, seems to have bounded from the chair of St. Peter. He had called upon Vic tor Emmanuel to restore him the Romagna, and Victor Emmanuel had disclosed to him his " idea" of taking from him not only the Romagna, but also the Marches and Umbria. The Pope throws back the Royal " idea" with fierce indignation, denounc ing it as utterly unworty of a Catholic King and of aPi ince of the House of Savoy. He says nothing about Julius 11., but uses strong language as to the miserable state of that man's soul who could differ so diametrically from the Pope, and could have such bad designs upon the Papal States. It must be confessed that the King of Sardinia's "idea" was somewhat of that character which we conventionally call " cool." To appeoach a man with expressions of veneration and devotedness, and then to tell him that the only plan you can suggest fog, recovering his lost property is that he should sitrender all the rest, does seem calculated to put a venerable old gentleman into a passion, even if he should be a Pope. There was a grand opportunity here for a grave and dignified rebuke which must have told on the opinion of the world. Pio Nono, however, misses the occasion, falls to scolding, and abuses his adversary's soul ; giving occasion to irreverend bystanders to laugh ratleer than sympa thize. The King waited a month after this, and thea renewed the correspondence in the same vague deferential tone, but allowing, as before, a very de cided meaning to peep through his silken phrases. He talked of a necessity which the force of events had induced, and to which even the Holy See must submit, and he spoke of contributing to the charges of the Popedom. In indistinct but unmistakable words he offers the Pope a title and a pension. The Pope's response to thisletter has more of the gravity of a State document than that which was drawn from him by the sudden development of the King of Sardinia's first idea. He protests strongly, and fie launches at the King some sharp epigrams, in insinuating many charges of which he had no actual proof, but could have no moral doabt. He doea not, however, scold. As nothing arose out of this correspondence, which, when the King and the Pope had exhausted themselves was continued with an equal inconse quence by Cardinal Antonelli and Count Cavour, we confess we cannot see any very special reason why it should now be printed. In it both parties maintain the position which all the world knows that they have long held. The King of Sardinia is bent upon reuniting? all Italy under his own sceptre—a very patriotic and highly praiseworthy enterprise, which is not without its collateral and personal allurements. The Pope is doggedly deter mined to maintain in its integrity the most stupid despotism that Christendom has ever seen, or to scream and threaten as each shred is torn from him. There is no new information in this. Both parties in this correspondence act thorough l y up to the part which they have undertaken to play. Perhaps we may , learn a little more distinctly from the King's letter that it is within his present plan to help himself to the rest of the Roman States. We knew already, however, that ho had offered the Pope a titular sovereignty and a pension, and we knew also that the Pope had obstinately refuse all negotiation and all compromise.—Times. THE STANDARD HEIGHT OF THVRENCH ARMY. —Marshal Randon, in his report to the French Emperor, dated 13th of April, recommends that, in consequence of the great difficulty of obtaining co nscripts of the height laid down by the Regulations of 1857, the standard be reduced one centimetre throughout the service. The Emperor has confirmed this suggestion, and desired it to be carried out in future. Tho present standard requires Carabineers to be 1 metre 76 centimetres in height; Dragoons, 1.69; Chassenrs d'Afrique, 1.66 ; and soldiers of the line, 1.56. Thus, the tallest recruit must be 5 feet 9 inches, the smallest about 5 feet 2 inches. [AnvnuristmENT.]--llolloway's Pills and Ointment.— Diseases of the Chest. The daily increase of deaths from these causes is positively appalling,. During the last three weeks respectively 5 90, and 102 persons have died of bron chitis alone, and no less than 73 per week have perished from inftarnmation of the lungs. Let no one afflicted in the chest hesitate for a moment to use Holloway's potent remedies; properly used they will mitigate each symptom, and avert those disastrous consequences so grievously noted by the Re gistrar-General. Rub the ointment thoroughlfover the chest at least .hree times a day, and take the pills exactly according to the printed directions affixed to each box and pot. Im- Taadiata relict and perwaileut cur 9 Will result. CENTRAL ITALY. A letter from Florence, dated April 16, says : King Victor Emmanuel, late of Sardinia, presently of Italy, bound for his new provinces of Tuscany and the 2Emilia, left Turin yesterday (Sunday), at six o'clock. About 100 members of Parliament, mostly deputies, preceded him by a special train, which started for Genoa at half-past four. I tra velled with them, and we reached Genoa at about half-past seven. Three large steam-frigates and a small steamer were destined to convey the royal party to Leghorn. The Maria Adelaide, on board which Count Persano had hoisted the admiral's flag, was handsomely fitted out for the King himself and his immediate household and suite. The deputies were accommodated in the Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emmanuele, The Maria Adelaide, a fast screw steamer, reckons the distance from port to port (80 miles) at about six and a half to seven hours' voy age. The two other vessels, especially the Carlo Alberto, in which your correspondent embarked, are comparatively slow coaches, and employ from nine to ten hours in the passage. The King was to weigh anchor at 12, midnight. •We set out at half-past 10, and it was understood that we sh euld wait for each other at early morning off Lcghorn, so as to come into port as near as possible at the same time. The Maria Adelaide, however, easily outstripped us, in spite of our two hours' start, and we saw her far ahead of us when we awoke at break of day this morning off the Isle of Gorgona, Our fast-steaming sister then took us in tow, this being the first time, as far as I know, in which a King, instead of being urged on by his Parliament, had fairly to drag his national representatives along with him. We got on thus creditably enoagh, but as we neared harbour we had to wait for the Vit torio Emmanuele, who, maddened with the sense of his disgrace, put on more steam, and went tear ing on with so little discretion that, as the :Nlaria Adelaide had rid herself of our encumbrance, we again lagged miserably behind. Not a little time was thus lost; we heard the cannon hailing the King on his landing, and when, at last, we also set foot on shore it WttS very near 12 o'clock at noon, and the King, who, somewhat loath to stand the brunt of the reception of two cities in one day, had resolved upon cutting Leghorn for this time, had already set out by his own Royal train for Florence. Notwithstanding this little bit of mismanage ment, I believe that high prices are due to the Sar dinian marine ; and the Sardinian navy, small as it is even in proportion to the minor kingdom to which it hitherto belonged, deserves the utmost at tention that the rulers of the now increased State may be likely to bestow upon it. With its dock yards at Spezia, a long extent of Mediterranean coasts, and a pied a terre in the Adriatic, the in heritor of old Ligurian renown, this navy cannot fail to play an important part in these inland seas. The officers look brave and intelli g ent, and burn with seal to be put to kome use . They complain that their own department was too long neglected under La Marmora, who, wholly a soldier, never troubled his head about men who go down to the sea in ships. The Marine Ministry is now set apart from the War-office, and as the new portfolio has been taken in hand by Count Cavour, who, like anothrr distinguished leading statesman, is "up to anything, even to taking the command of a three-decker," good hopes are entertained that his hundred-handed activity will soon be felt in this part of the now disunited service. A prodigious amount of gunpowder was burnt ; we had to salute the King and the harbour of Leg horn ; we had to answer the salute of her Britan nic Majesty's good frigate the Racoon ; we were pavoises fore and aft, every one of our masts, and the masts of all vessels off and in Leghorn, as gaudy with banners, pennons, and streamers as any pea cock-tails. But our broad Italian tricolour was cur boast--that tricolour which only 12 years ego would have been shot down in these very waters, and by none more heartily than by these very Sardinian men-of-war, as if it had been no better than a Riff pirate's red flag or a buccaneer's death's bead and cross bones. We landed at Leghorn. The King had left the gay pavilion which had been prepared for his re ception. An odd notion seemed to have got hold of the good people of Leghorn, that the pavilion was meant for the King alone, and that it would be desecration if the members of the Legislative body had trodden the same ground which had been hal lowed by the foot of the King. We were not to land where the King had landed; it seemed for a moment doubtful where we were to land, and whether we should land at all ; at last the small stcamtug which conveyed the live freight from the Cabo Alberto neared a wharf, the edge of which was protected by a low railing by way of a parapet. There we jumped down, and it is a perfectly au thentic fact that all the representatives of the nation, with not a few of the Tuscan deputies among them, and some of the most distinguished names in Italy foremost among them, such as Alinghetti, I'epoli, Gualterio, &c., encumbered as they were with great coats, railway wrappers, and hand-bags, travel stained, also, unwashed and unshaven, and some= what odd with wideawakes or skull-caps—in the oddest and poorest plight imaginable, in short — had to stoop and twist themselves under those rail ings, effecting thus their triumphal entry into Tus cany by passing under the Caudine Forks. No wonder the mob did not shout. Their breath was spent in hurraing for the King; they had no dis tinct notion of the, condition of those travellers, and saw them performing an evolution which did not certainly set off their dignity. Your correspondent was the only , one of the company who avoided the ignominy of that obeisance by vaulting over the railings. Well, a Odd walk through some of the most miserable and /host offensi 4 7e streets dl' Loghlird tobk u to the Marine Railway station, where, apparently, no man, and certainly no train was awaiting us. The Xing hart ie. ~ Of bourse, biit, ldc ily, his higgige was yet to follow. We rushed into the luggage train ; one of the Tuscan deputies; Toseanelli, of Pisa, known and ArbEtiJed at the station as a tall 'aymrpgaonoctdge d nvt ai i egon r r e nd c I t ah o n r e d, without imperiousbh speed;eu s n p d o re k v e odeai i rnek n eds; o oaoi u meffn r k e slackening nbreeiehensdag obedience started noh i uc n i aer s h t a aosp i a tpab t eraic a ts de e r ,d c al 0 ; 1 ud mvui rapid from Florence in about five quarters of an hour. Down we .jumped from the carriages at a little past Staff,lo'c lock, just a t th e moment i n w hi ch the King had va u lt e d i nto t h e saddle with a large bril liant and was prancing out of the station's gate, in the midst of the shouting multitude. The carriages for his non-riding retinue now drove up; and up into them the most pushing of us, and our I dusty coat s , wideawakes and carpet-b ags, jumped also pell-mell with bewi ' gged magistrates, ermined patricians, and gold-laced diplomatists, who, I know not whether more w on d er i ng at our intrusion, or skrinking from oar contact, made room for us on their soft cushions, while a great many of our fellow-travellers, either because more bashful and irresolute or because less lucky, were left standing in the crowd, with their great coats in their hands, and their vexation and disap pointment hardly concealed by the shadow of their: broad-brimmed wide-awakes ; I was, I believe, in , the fortieth carriage, and cannot tell how many hundreds followed after me. On we drove at a. slow pace, just from time to time catching a glimpse of the brilliant cavalcade; deafened by the shouts elicited by the graceful curvet of the Royal steed, ' and the firm, erect, easy seat, bold, manly glance, stout, massive frame of its heroic rider, engulfed at every step by the vast, heaving, roaring mass, which, as far as the eye could reach, filled every inch of space of the railway-yards, the vast , entrance to the Cascine, and every avenue of the p m r a a n t y roads Prato. Whatwh a i c h world or e l r d e o convergeupon l there t h w e e l r ' e o r o t a r e a e l: Florences in the field! More than 60,000 strangers had this day entered the city gates, and it is• astonishing by how many shifts and devices the TILE DIVORCE C l O ti.RT. The Lord Chancellor has succeeded in getting his Bill for improving the Divorce Court through the House of Lords without incurring the ordeal of a select committee. A bill in the hands of a hostile committee is often severely mutilated, and even when small damage is likely to be done the inevi table delay is to be avoided ; but in the present case it would have been intolerable. The state of things in Sir Cresswell Cresswell's court is such that it amounts to a positive denial of justice. The Divorce Coart has now been established two years, and, during that time 639 cases of divorce have been entered ; of these only 177 have been disposed of, so that 362 still remain for consideration. Without dwelling on the certain prospect that many new cases must be entered, it wiirtalce not less than four years and a half to clear off the present arrears, supposing the Court to proceed with the same activity as hitherto. As the venerable Lord Lynd hurst reminded his brother peers, it is a principle of the British constitution that justice shall neither be delayed nor refused ; and, considering the amount of arrears, there was truth in the remark that to delay any longer a remedy would practically amount to a refusal of justice. Indeed, to this appeal scarcely any resistance was made. Lord St. Leonards cer tainly moved that the bill should be referred to a select committee, and gave a feeble support to his proposition. Even Lord Redesdale, who made himself conspicuous at the time when the new sys tem was established by his opposition, contented himself by furbishing up some of his old weapons. Like a most zealous - prophet he sees the fulfilment of all his predictions. His lordship calls to mind how he foresaw that the number of divorce cases would enormously increase, and he points to the list of cases still undisposed of to prove the accuracy of his anticipations. Instead, however, of seeing in this fact a proof that the old system—which re quired the possession of some £2,000 to purchase, justice—was a practical denial of justice, he loudly deplores this increase of applications for divorce as a proof that " the sanctity of the marriage tie" is much impaired throughout the country. Lord Redesdale indeed never proposed to refuse the rich the power of getting rid of their wives on the plea of assisting the morality of the working classes, though he seems to think that by extending the practical right of divorce by cheapening the tribunal, the morality of the lower classes has suffered irreparable injury. The enormous expense of carrying a bill through Parliament for a divorce stopped men ftom assert ing their rights, but most assuredly it, neither checked immorality nor promoted conjugal felicity. One curious result has certainly followed. Some few years ago it was commonly supposed that domestic scandal was much' more common in the higher ranks than in other classes. But experience has shown the fallacy of this idea. The discovery is no subject of congratulation ; but if the right to get rid of an unfaithful partner is a right not less sacred than that of recovering an estate, it is surely satisfactory to find that this right is no longer a monopoly of the wealthy. The chief difficulty for the Chancellor has been how to provide the means of clearing off the arrears. At first it was enacted that no divorce a vinculo should be granted without the presence of three judges—two of whom might be selected from the three chiefs of the Common Law Courts and the, senior puisnes. This arrangement proving ineffec tual, any of the Common Law Judges were allowed to form part of the Divorce Court. Even this, however, has proved insufficient. During the first year no sitting of the Divorce Court took place, and since its institution it has only sat sixty-five days. The cause of the arrears is at once apparent : it is the want of judicial power. And the bill which has just been read a second time is for the purpose of remedying this defect. Our plan, no doubt, would be to appoint a new judge ; but against this proposal opinions seem to be unanimous. The only other mode is to increase the power of the Judge Ordinary, to enable him to decide by himself cases which at present he is not permitted to decide with out assistance. It certainly is remarkable that among the various objections made to the bill, not one was founded upon the incompetency of th, Judge Ordinary to exercise alone the duties which are DOW' exercised by him in conjunction with others. But assuming a judge to be reasonably com petent, it is difficult to understand why he should not decide questions. A single Judge in Equity decides questions involving millions of money, and at Common Law a single Judge presides at trials involving not only such issues, but even those of life and death. In such cases it is the general opinion that, the responsibility being undivided, the danger of miscarriage is considerably dimi nished. And there seems no good reason why the same principle should not hold good in divorce. Accordingly, the bill provides that the Judge Ordi nary may exercise all the powers of the full court. Bet whilst it clothes the Judge Ordinary with new powers, neither does it deprive him of calling in assistance, nor does it deprive the suitor of ob• taining the opinion of three minds instead of one. The Judge _Ordinary is authorised to sit with one other Judge, or, if he think the matter extremely difficult, he may refer the case to the full Court. The result of this arrangement of course will be that the Judge Ordinary will dispose of all ordi nary cases, but the extraordinary cases he will refer to the Court. On the other hand, the suitor will be entitled to appeal to the full Court in case he is dissatisfied with the decision- of the Judge Ordinary ; and besides this, the suitor has his right of appeal to the House of Lords secured. With such extended powers there seems little doubt that the Judge Ordinary will be able within a very short time to put an end to the accumulated - arrears; and this will be effected without depriv ing the suitor of any of the securities which he now possesses that justice will be fairly exercised. The only point which remains to be noticed is that which concerns the Queen's Proctor. In many suits for divorce only one of the parties appears, and grave suspicions of collusion arise. Men, and women who have solemnly agreed to live together during life must not be allowed from mere caprice to quit each other, and to obtain the sanction of a tribunal for the dissolu tion of the bond of union. If any suspicion of this sort arises, and in other cases also, the bill authorises the Court to call upon the Queen's Trac tor to instruct counsel to argue any matter of diffi culty. No doubt cases will arise in which collusion will be successfully practised, but it would be diffi cult to suggest any better means of detecting it than the present bill provides.—Daily News, ROBBERY OF A CASH-BOX AND NEARLY TWO HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS. A very adroit and extensive robbery was coin• mitted last Friday evening at the well-known horse repository, in Barbican, known as "Dixon's Repository," but which has for several years belonged to Mr. Gower. It appears that Friday is the sale day, and upwards of one hun dred horses were put up for auction, the clerk re • ceiving the deposits as the several lots were knocked down. The sale was brought to a close shortly after four o'clock. Mr. Gower, the proprietor, left shortly afterwards, and the clerk, who had been attending to the sale, took the cash-box, which contained £lBO in gold, and some cheques and me moranda, to the up-stairs office, where he locked it up in a desk to which there was a Bramah lock. He then, it appears, went to get his dinner, leaving the office in charge of another clerk, who would in ordinary course have remained until his fellow-clerk returned. It appears that there were some horses to be sent to Ireland by the railway, by a particu lar train, and that the clothing which had been or dered for them had not arrived, and the clerk who had been left in the office ran down stairs to make some inquiries upon the subject. He was only gone a very short time, and upon his return he found that the desk had been forced open, and the cash-box and its contents abstracted. There is no doubt that the robbery had been "put up," as it is termed, for a considerable time, and there is every reason to believe that it was committed by some of the horse chaunting fraternity who.infest places of this description, in spite of the efforts made by the proprietors to keep them away, and that being aware of the usual course of the business, they had been on the watch for a great many sale days for the opportunity of committing a robbery, which was at length afforded them by the almost momen tary absence of the clerk, under the circumstances above stated. Information of the robbery was speedily given to the police, but as yet no clue has been obtained likely to lead to the appre hension of the offenders, although a very strong suspicion attaches to certain parties. On the same evening the robbery was committed, a small parcel was picked up on the area of the Spital-square police-station, which upon being opened was found to contain the memoranda that had been in the stolen cash-box, and a piece of paper, on which was written in pencil the following :—" Give these to your betters, Mr. Gower, and thank them for me. In addition to the gold, the cash-box contained an Irish Bank bill at ten days' sight for £l2O, but as this was not endorsed, the thieves are not likely to make it available, but the fact may as well be stated, in order that the public and bankers may be on their guard in case t-ucli an instrument should be presented or offered for discount. The late report of the French Minister of Justice -shows an extraordinary increase to have taken place of late years in judicial separation of married couples. While i n 1841 and for a few years later the returns exhibited a little more than 1,000 annual c ases, there were in 1858 no less than 1,977. In the great majority of instances the com plaining party was the wife. The male applicants for se paration w•re ouly a couple 9f 13.uuxirsd, TERRIFIC FIRE IN THE CI7 Y. Yesterday morning shortly after 2 o'clock one of he most disastrous fires, although happily unat :elided by loss of lif e , w ith w hi c h the city has for many years past been visited, and which was ac- companied by a destruction of property to a large amount, broke out on the premises in the occupa tion of Alessrs. Johnson and Co., boot and shoe warehousemen, 2, Red Cross- street, Barbican, and spread with extraordinary rapidity to the adjoin ing houses, ending in the total destruction of the premises in question, of the four build;ngs adjoining and in damage to a less extent to property ad jacent. The entire range of buildings are of a very ancient date, and to the fact of a large proportion of woodwork having been used in their construc tion may be attributed the disastrous nature of the calamity. Shortly before four o'clock the roof of No. 2 ',Messrs. Johnson's) fell in, and about four the house iu which Mr. Hoare had carried on business (No. 1), suddenly and almost without the slightest warning, fell to the ground, or rather did not so much fall as entirely collapse with a tremendous crash, the entire fabric crumbling instantaneously to pieces, a chaos of burnii.g ruins alone marking the spot where it stood. The manner in which the firemen and others who were within a few feet of where the front of the house had been escaped in jury appeared perfectly miraculous, but fortunately no one was injured. The exertions of the firemen to save the distil lery were renewed, and the hose having been pre viously carried through the premises and so up to the roof, a plentiful supply of water was poured on the upper part of the dwelling house, which was more immediately in danger. These efforts, to which the falling of the next house contrilanted, were happily successful in saving the waroliouse, the upper part of the dwelling having susrtained some damage from water. In the meantime the remainder of the house on fire continued to burn furiously, the flames attacking the dry materials with resistless energy, and roof and ceiling, beam and rafter fell in rapid succession, the sparks fall ing in showers around. At the time of the sudden disappearance of Mr. Hoare's premises, a portion of the wall appertain ing to No. 2, and surmounted by a tall stack of chimneys, had remained standing alone without any support, and for some time it was momentarily ex pected to fall. Finally, about five o'clock, it top pled over, carrying with it what little remained of the next house. These accumulations of fragments tended in a great measure to choke the flames, and from this time they gradually decreased in intensity, succumbing to the increasing power of the antago nistic element ; and about seven o'clock all further danger was over, the engines, however, continuing to play upon the smoking ruins for a considerable time. The houses numbered respectively 1,2, 3,4, and 5 are completely destroyed, in addition to a por tion of the back part of No. 6. Mr. Hoare, the tobac conist, states that he was roused from sleep about three o'clock by the cry of "Fire!" and, in company with his servant, at once made his escape, without, however, having time to save any of his books or papers, and, in fact, losing everything. It is under stood that Mr. Hoare's stock was insured. Great excitement was manifested in the immediate neigh bourhood in consequence of the imminent peril in which Messrs. Harmer's distillery was for some time placed, and of the danger to the other adjaceit warehouses arising therefrom. Had the efforts of the firemen been unsuccessful in saving the distillery, the warehouse of Messrs. Sale, Pollard, and Co., situated immediately oppo site, containing an enormous stock of materials and valuable machinery, would have been in a very dangerous position. It is difficult at present to form an accurate esti mate of the value of the property destroyed, but the loss will no doubt be very serious ; the greater portion, however, is covered by insurande. GO UlY2'l4.l' MARKETS NORTHAMPTON-APRIL 21. _ At this corn-market wheat was is fair supply, and with a tolerable sale, at fully over the rates of this day se'a night, prices ranging from 50s to 54s for white, and 48s to 62s for red. There was a good business passing in barley, malting 38s to 445, grinding 36s to 40s per qr. Oats in fair sale, the turn in seller's favour, quoted at 30s to 35s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 42s te 62s ; peas, 38s to 40. Rye, 36s to 40s; malt, 68s to 7 2 s ; flour, 338 to 37s per sack. • NORWICH—Aritm 21. At our market to-day there was a limited supply of wheat, and the demand being brisk, prices were well mintained. There was only a small supply of barley, and little doing, but late rates were obtained. White wheat 46s to 49s I Red wheat 4os to 45N Malting barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier barley...34s to 40s pistilling d0......25s to 273 4 Oats. .24s to 28s Flour, 29s Gd to 32s per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE-APRIL 21. There was a moderate supply of wheat, and, with A fair demand in the trade, white moved off at 47s to 57e red, 44s to 48s per 36 stone. There was a small show of barley to-day; malting, 38s to 445; grinding, 29s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats at 23a to 28s for new ; old oath, —s to —s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—new, 388 to 43s ; old, —s to —s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s ; red, 46a to 60s per quarter. - YORK—APIUL 21. To-day's market was fairly supplied with wheat, and the advance of is to 2s demanded was not conceded. Wheat, red .50s to 52s Oats.... lBs to 2 85 White do .62s to 56a Beans ..44s to 48 9 Barley .34s to 44a Peas ......—., to .--0 Malt, 68a to 709 per qr. ; rye, 36s per qr ; flour, 363 to 38s per sack. STAMFORD—Arum 21. A limited supply of all kinds of grain, and the market ruled fah for wheat, at an improvement of 18 to 2s. Beans were higher. Wheat 50s to 58s 1 Oats.. 26s to 3 24 White do 54s to 56s I Beans 42s to 48 • Barley ..... ..408 to 453 r Ditto, old ........46s to 40 DUBLIN—Arun , 20. The market to-day was rather thinly supplied with wkeo which sold steadily at fully last week prices. s. d. e. d. Wheat, white.. 33 0 to 35 0 Do., red .. 31 0 to 33 0 Do., new „. -- 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black 15,0 to 15 6 s. d. s• Do., new 0 to -- u Bere .... .13 to 14 0 Rapeseed .... 20 0 to 23 0 Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 Bakers' flour Indian corn FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E signifies that letters are despatche by eveniig mails from London, and M by morning mails. DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of of Mails. Despatch. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton May 12, M i Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles May 18, B' Bahamas and Havana via New York May 12, E Liverpool.. Canada, &c. (by Canada. pckt ) April2s, E Liverpool.. Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena May 5, E Devon port China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton May 4, MiSonthamp. Ditto, via Marseilles ,April26, E Gibraltar, via Southampton.. April 27 ,M Southamp. Honduras and Blewfields .... April—, M Southamp. India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton April—, 31 , Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton April 27, M Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Drasils,Thienos Ayres, and F. Islands May 9,31 Southamp. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Apr 1127,31 Southamp. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Apri127,31 Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles April26 , B .... .. ...... Mexico and Havana Newfoundland April2l, E Liverpool.• United States and British N America (by British packet) April 21, E Liverpool- • Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe April 23 B Liverpool.. West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey- ' town, New Granada, &c. ,May 2, IT Sontkamp. !May 2, MI ------• - kieg' bilu. i due. .........---' MO 1 2 MAY " Mail ° April ° MAY 3 May % Alfit ;,5 Apr. Apr i l April? gal Mai i , s Aprib° 01 Ipr.-;I 0 g Aril April 26 go " I it • BIRTHS. d DARTMOUTH.—On the 13th inst., at ratshull, the C°ll3l' teas of Dartmouth, of a son, stillborm mr• e, GRANT.—On the 18th inst., at Moy House, Morays of N. 8., the wife of John Grant, Esq., of menraoristo, a son. tile MILDMAY.—On the 19th inst., at Lapworth Rector)", wife of the Rev. Arundell St. John Mildnray, of a Sell. MARRIAGE B. LOWNDES—MASSY.—On the 19th inst., at G a lbally, l' A i r t j; t enan t-Col. John Henry Lowndes, late 6th all„ d r , s ° Itegts., to Eliza Mary, eldest daughter of Hugh 1"'"" Esq., of Rirersdale, co. Limerick. MCRA.E—CULVISRWELL.—On the 18th inst.. at the Ch utell be of St. James, Piccadilly. by the Rev. T. Beameet / 491 ce Holmes Mcßae, Esq., Civil Engineer, H.M.E.I. Sei the ne (late of the Lucknow garrison), and dest Son of James Mcßae, Esq., Surgeon ofth e e Bengal ...AO' to ment, and Princip a l o f th e M e di ca l C o llege, Calcuttett Anne Eliza, eld es t d aug ht er o f D r . Culverwell, G r- Marlborough-street, London. DEATHS. H Eumwr.—On the 19th inst., at 'B, Upper Grosverl v o„r: street, Percy Windsor, infant son of the non. Robert Herbert. KERRISON.—On the 20th inst., at 30, Norfolk-street,itair Kerrison, widow of Lieut.. General Sir Edward:Kab ° ' Bart., aged 75. - nev. MAYOR. — On the 19th inst at the Rectory, the ed Mayor, M.A., 47 years rector of South Collinghauly eg 72, ,c; LONDON : Printed and Published by IqU11,1)0 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11‘)' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tke coup . / °I MiddlotoN, Monday, April 23, 1860. It ~. 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