The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-06 00:00:00

VAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.- The LONDON COMMITTEE for Promoting Mr. BERESFORD HOPE'S ELECTION SITS DAILY at the Trafalgar Hotel, Cockspur-street. W. STIRLING, Esq., M.P., M.A., Trinity College, Chairman. R T. FRERE, MA., F.R.CI Honorary W. F. KEMP, M.A., Secretaries. C. KNIGHT WATSON. M.A., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION. The CAMBRIDGE COMMITTEE for Promoting Mr. BERESFORD HOPE'S ELECTION SITS DAILY at 18, Trinity-street, Cambridge. Rey. W. G. CLARK, M.A., Yellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Public Orator, Chairman Rev. W. M. CAMPION, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Queens' College, Rev. N. F. FERRERS, M.A., Fellow and Lec turer of Caine College, Rev. W. C. MA.THISON, M.A., Senior Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Rev. J. E. B. MAYOR, M.A., Fellow and As sistant Tutor of St. John's Colleg - e, .Rev. E. H. PEROWNE, Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Rev. W. F. WITTS, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Bev. A. WOLFE, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Clare College, Honorary Secretaries. J) 0Y A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. l) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be produced Shakspeare's historica' lay 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 produced a new Comedy, en: titled EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. THE CRITIC. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, Mr. Compton To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING , A CABINET QUESTION. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Miss Arden. MASKS AND FACES ; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster ; Quin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Sir Charles, Mr. C Selby ; Ernest, Mr. Bil lington ; Peg Woffiington, Miss Woolgar ; Mab e l, Mi ss H . Simms. To be followed by THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and K. Kelly. To conclude with THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, Bin e. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss 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 presented MATRIMONIAL PRO -IPECTUSES. To be followed by VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, and Miss M. Ternan. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene, ye Earle, and ye Maydenne Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK; or, The Death of Black Bess, Dick Turpin, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the matchless and uurivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with a Screaming Farce, in which Miss M. Jackson will make her 3d appearance at this theatre. On Saturday, first time, a new grand Drama, entitled THE 31USKETEETtS. The splendid romance of IVANHOE; or, The Knights Templars, is in active preparation, and will be revived with extraordinary magnificence. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, fid. Private Boxes, ;£4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips OHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—St. James's Hall. —The celebrated CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will re sume their POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT on MONDAY EVENING next, April 11, at the St. James's-Hall, to be re peated EVERY EVENING at Eight, and Saturday Morn at Three o'clock.—Admission, Is., area 25., reserved seats 35., to be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- Proprietor Proprietor —C. MORTON. The üblic is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTSGALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec :ion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist in.' Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUXICAL ENTERTAINMENT collimeuces as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied Instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL O. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAnomETER-30.20. WLND, South-Westerly; light, with very fine summer weather. The contest will speedily be revived. The issue remains the same, but the scene has been changed. It is no longer within the walls of the Imperial Palace at Westminster that the important question is to be answered, but on every hustings and by every constituency throughout the united kingdom. England, Ireland, and Scotland will have to declare whether fair play was accorded to Her MAJESTY'S Government and to the cause of Reform. They will also have to decide which are the true Reformers, and whether they prefer words or deeds ? We have for nearly ten years had many promises of Reform, but nothing practical was effected. It was barely sufficient to curb the impatience of, and prevent a determined onslaught, by the 'Liberal party, of which JOHNNY and PAM alternately pretend to: be the leaders ; but it was " vox et preterea nail," mere empty declamation. It answered the purpose for the time being. Of course it created a certain amount of embarrassment to be encountered at a future day. But PAM, RUSSELL, and Co., could renew their bills on public credulity as long as they thought proper, and bequeath them to their successors as means by which they could at any time be assailed, relying on the old legal maxim, that every person who takes any hereditament takes it with all its incumbrances, which has been paraphrased into, " Property has its duties as well as its rights." Lord DERBY and his colleagues felt that they were bound to settle a question on which the public mind had been so greatly excited. Accord ingly they brought forward a measure which might have been made all that could be desired in com mittee ; unfortunately, however, it did not go far enough, as some supposed, while o th ers thought it went too far. An ingeniously contrived, although most unusual, if not wholly unprecedented, resolution was there fore brought forward to defeat the bill, and shelve the topic of Parliamentary Reform for, at least, the present year. It was hoped that it would either lead to the immediate resignation, or the deep humiliation, and degrad.ation of the Government that under the circumstances they would not ven ture on an appeal to the country, the ultimate tri bunal on such matters. But they reckoned without their host. Minis ters, true to their Queen, the people, and themselves, have challenged a decision on the merits. They have refused to be bound by a majority composed of such heterogeneous materials, which would be divided into sundry different cliques, and gi ve no decided support to any Government that could be formed by means of any unnatural coalition between parties in many respects strongly opposed to each other. Lord DERBY is, as we ex plained on Saturday, at the head of by far the strongest section. He has 273 followers, certainly a third more than the united cohorts of Lords PAL ; MERSTON and JOHN RUSSELL. It is only on such a question as that which has just been discussed, and which has united by "a rope of sand" men strongly opposed to each other on almost every point, that a majority against the Government could possibly have been obtained. We are now, howev er,to consider what the several constituencies will determine in reference to this all important subject. They generally take a more enlarged view of public affairs than their represen tatives. The Parliamentary medium too frequently disturbs the vision of the latter, and they think more of the vague whisperings of :the Tapers and Tadpoles of their respective clubs than of the honest, manly, and straightforward opinions of their independent supporters. Two years since they found to their cost how grievously they had erred in their calculations. They had omitted the most essential element. They had ignored public opinion, and many who were con signed to private life for the remainder of their days mourned in (political) sackcloth and ashes the error into which they been betrayed. We believe that there will be a still larger infu sion of new blood into the new House of Com mons even than in 1857. But for the " Palmer stonian dodge," which bamboozled many of our modern Solons, they would have hesitated before voting for the resolution which placed their seats in jeopardy, and rendered it a forlorn hope for a considerable number of the outsiders. They, however, suffered themselves to be deceived, and must submit with the best grace practicable to the consequences, however disagree able. The electors in every rural and municipal district will now have to solve the great problem. They are to decide between the sterling metal and its Brummagem imitation, to say whether they truly wish for reform, or to have it talked about in as " prove 'ords," as ancient PISTOL uttered at " the Pridge." If they want reform, they will give Lord DERBY a fair working imajority. If they desire to have it spoken of but nothing done, they will support the dis ciples of one or the other of the rival lords. There is one point however on which every true re former should be decided. He 'should refuse his vote to any man who would not support the ballot in all its integrity ! The battle of the ballot is now to be fought, and whoever votes for one of its opponents, or one who has not made up his mind is guilty of treason to the grand principle. No similar opportunity can occur for a con siderable period, and if the electors of the City of London, of Carlisle, Taunton, and Tiverton, would act in accordance with:their convictions, and discard Lords J. RUSSELL and PALMERSTON, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Mr. LABOUCHERE, together with a few score of their followers, full and complete protection would be afforded to every voter in exercising his suffrage, without which protection the extension of the franchise would be a curse rather than a blessing. All that is required is " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," and before the closing of the session of 1860 the Ballot will be part and parcel of the statute law of the land. " Where's RUSSELL ?—dished," as Lord BYRON would say—sent to his constituents as a private man, not as a Prime Minister ; and with nothing in his hands but his empty, heedless resolution. Perhaps, however, we may add his £6 borough franchise, and his thirty changes of seats instead of Mr. DISRAELI'S fifteen, and them we have the entire political capital which the Whig Lord pro fesses to have more than these whom he desires to supersede'. What a programme to go with to the country ! He cannot claim preserving the borough forty-shilling freeholders, since half the county members at least were favourable to that, and Mr. DISRAELI would certainly have conceded it. He cannot claim the £lO county franchise ; Mr. DISRAELI had not only offered it, but argued most unanswerably for it. We much question whether Lord JOHN can claim even his £6 borough fran_ chise, since the opinion is pretty general that had a large number of his own supporters joined the Liberals on that point, Mr. DISRAELI would have cheerfully conceded it. It would have been one thing to have eaten dirt at the bidding of Lord PALMERSTON, and quite another to yield to a majo rity of the party which he leads. But can we:say that Lord JOHN'S £6 bid, as the hammer was falling, is worth the country's accept ance ? We decidedly answer—No. We, as our readers know, desire a large enfranchisement of the working classes, but it is their enfranchisement, not the mere conferring a vote on them, which we ask. We believe the working men to be worthy, by hundreds, of the privilege of a vote, but we ask the vote for them, not for • their employers, nor for those who would seduce the worst amongst them through the agency of the gin shop, nor even for Trades' Unions, who could frequently exercise a despotic authority over their own class. Without protection for the £6 voters we would rather leave them as they are. The franchise would be to them a trap and a snare; nay, frequently an instrument of torture. We do not believe the non-electors will be deluded by the anti-Ballot Whig Lord for a moment. They well know that they are equal in intelligence and independent thought to thousands of the pre sent electors; but they want to be independent in action as well as in thought. We do not know whether our readers noticed the factious form in which Lord JOHN, on Monday night, repudiated the Ballot. He would vote against it "if the present Ministry should introduce any Reform Bill contain ing clauses introducing the Ballot." Bad, in his view, is the Ballot, but worse, far worse, the "present Ministry !" We beg to tell his lordship that, if the "present Ministry" had but the wis dom to introduce such clauses, he might vote as he pleased, the house would carry them, and his lord ship might bid a long, long adieu to the hope of office. We are pleased to learn that his lordship will be met in the City by a vigorous opposition. The numerous friends of the Ballot are already on the alert, and are seeking a trustworthy candidate. If Lord STANLEY comes forward, well known as his views are on this subject, Iv hope he will not hesi tate to avow them, and to promise his sup port in a Cabinet to be open on this topic, and in the House of Commons. Cue thing we can say advisedly—we would infinitely rather have, substantially, the bill for which Lord STANLEY certainly said the best, with protection for the voter, than Lord JOHN'S of Monday night without it. We are confident it would give us more independent constituencies, more peaceful elections, and members more ready to hearken to their supporters. We wish Lord PALMERSTON also joy of his situa- tion. What horrified him most of all, about ten days ago, was the idea of having "the British Con stitution scrambled for on the hustings ;" hence his threats of penal continuance in office, of refusing to vote the routine bills necessary to a dissolution, and. so forth ; alas, but a few days glide by, and the Dictator of 1857, is obliged by the terrors of Parliamentary desertion, to promise good behaviour that he would not oppose any obstacle whatever to carrying out the advice to dissolve !" He would not oppose—with very good reason assuredly—he would hardly have found a seconder. But for their years, what a truly amusing spectacle would the two Whig Lords present ? Quarrelling, like two schoolboys, of late, whether in or out of office— and now, just when all looked as if they had shaken hands, it turns but that it was, after all, but a friendship on the part of both to queer the Tories, and on the part of one of them, at least, to make a laughing-stock of the other. It may be hoped the country will now do its own work. It is appealed to to say what sort of a bill it will have. It is asked to elect a Par liament for a special object ; a Parliament which is to fulfil its mission and immediately surrender its trust to those who chose it. Petty, local views ought now to be laid aside. The future Parlia ments of this country are to be moulded for years to come by this particular election ; it is pre eminently a time when measures, not men, should be the cry. Neither DERBY nor PALMERSTON', but Reform, is the cry of this election ; and it behoves the constituencies to send back representatives with definite instructions. Whatever Ministry be in power, it. will be justified in giving effect to the solemn verdict of the nation. It has asked the country's advice, not the advice of a committee of Commons chosen to the cry of PALMERSTON and— no one knows what. Under these circumstances, the free constituencies will lose an opportunity which will never be surpassed, if they do not de mand, with a unanimity to which all statesmen must bow, that VOTING BE FREE. It is an old saying, and a very sad one, that one half of the world knows not what the other half is doing. A melancholy illustration of this has cer tainly just been issued in the form of a small par liamentary paper full of the most deplorable reve lations. We allude to the brief but fearfully im pressive report in regard to the Common Lodging houses of the metropolis, moved for by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. The report was ordered to be printed on the 15th of March, 1859. It is that furnished by the Assistant-Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, specially charged with the control of Common Lodging-houses and the condition of single rooms occupied by families in the metropolis. It is addressed to the Right Hon. THOMAS SOTHERON ESTCOURT, Her MAJES TY'S Secretary of State for the Home Department. Although the story here told anew in very simple words is one with which, for years and years back, we have been fearfully familiarised, it reads ever to us with the horror of a perfectly new revelation. We shuddered as we ran our eye down the details, " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ?" And all these miseries, all this hideous squalor, all this unutterable wretchedness—festering not only here and there, but all over this the richest city upon the globe ! Cheek by jowl with all the luxuries and refinements of the wealthier classes ! Close under th© shadow of the gold cross shining among the clouds upon the summit of St. Paul's Cathe dral—and stretching far and wide:in all directions within a radius of many miles ! Abominations breeding, and spreading, and intensifying in all the byeways, and alleys, and courts, and slums, and rookeries of a capital covering an area of no less than fourteen square miles with its houses, and having a population of as many as 2,500,000 in all ! Turning over the pitiful records crowded into this truly lamentable Report, what are the details reiterated again and again with frightful monotony ? It is the same loathsome story everywhere repeated—in Limehouse and in Whitechapel—in the parishes of St .Andrew's and St. Sepulchre's—at Bethnal-green and at St. George's• in the-East—at Holborn and at Greenwich. Everywhere the same—in Bluegate-Fields and Gregory's Rents, in Sheen's-court and Pratt's alley, in Field lane and Harding's-buildings. Everywhere we come upon the same horrid picture of closely-packed filth and wretchedness. Tene ments that ought to hold (according to the provi sions of the Act of Parliament), let us say, but nine, crammed with twenty—and these twenty huddled together with no sense of the commonest decencies of life, old and young, and of both sexes, being crowded together indiscriminately. Walls and ceilings blackened with smoke and dirt, for years together, receiving not the faintest sprinkle of whitewash. Floors filthy beyond description— windows broken and patched. Bedding (supposing there is any) swarming with vermin. No dust-bin for the sweeping away of the rubbish. Closets without a vestige of any screen to those using them—a single closet being common to a whole row of these densely-populated dwellings—foul to the utmost degree of foulness. Sometimes no water supply at all—sometimes a supply at once 1 insufficient and intermittent—here one pipe for a whole court without cistern or tub of any kind whatever—here a water-butt without lid or cover, and much too small to contain a supply sufficient even for a single tenement. Such are the details repeated in thismiserable Report, literally usque ad nauseam. The Assistant Commissioner takes us with him, among other places, into one familiar to all the i readers of Little Dorrit. He takes us into a room in No. 2, Bleeding Heart-yard, St. Andrew's, Hol- born—where, in a space hardly fit for six people, we find a man and his wife, two boys and two girls above the age of fourteen, and two children—" The water supply is by pump, in common with the other houses ; the closet is trapped, but generally dirty ; there is no dust bin, and the whole house is in a most dilapidated and filthy condition." Remem bering all this misery, and squalor, and degrada tion, and remembering that it is perpetually mul tiplying with the growth of the population—it is surely no wonder that in France, for instance, there have been risings before now of these lowest ranks of the people--" in the grandeur of despair !" Summoned from their haunts by the cry of the Jacobin— " Ho, St. Antoine! Ho, St. Antoine,—thou quarter of the poor, Arise from all thy households and pour them from thy door; Rouse thy attics and thy garrets—rouse cellar, cell, and cave— Rouse over-worked and over-taxed,—the starving and the slave." If the legislators of this land of ours would but bear this hidden anguish of the humbler classes above all things in their remembrance !—if they would but conscientiously direct their energies to the holy labour of its diminution, we should have much more practical good then as the result of all their annual hubbub yonder down at Westminster. We should hear less then, at last, thank GOD, of those narrow manoeuvres of faction and machina tions of party warfare, so eloquently reprobated on Friday morning by her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of he Exchequer. POST -OFFICE PECULATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I should not have deemed it necessary to address you, had not I seen in your impression of. last evening a notice headed " £2O Reward." I am one of the subscribers so frequently robbed of their newspapers in transit through the Post-office.. Yesterday I eagerly looked out for The Ste;l, but no Sttia came; and this is frequently the case. I am willing to add my testimony to the careful and punctual delivery of letters by the Post-office, and their careful administration of the law which makes it so heinous an offence in the eyes of the law to break the seal of a letter; but they do not exercise a proper supervision in the case of newspapers. Certainly, it is high time an alteration in this state of things took place. Perhaps this, if inserted in your valuable journal, may catch the eye of some Post-office official, who may take a step in the right direction towards correcting this abominable evil.--I am, &c. A SUBSCRIBER. LATEST NEWS. „, • ,•::,:v.... -.-,,, .....-. •- __ _ . c,t , ‘,41;1;.•;:-. ' all O. 0 4 g . -1 I ,'A....1 , 4 7.. , • ; . ~.....--._ - „41111i:' ~,,,' ,F. 4 ,2ft,.. --414 . ;- ";„ .- 4...,,„rwig. • -•, . - J .!: ”' • , •7' " 4 I , .1li••i:W ;'• ' - 4-410 1 11 :le •- • •• -,_ •—• • , l' ''''''''' W ' .2.'" '" ' ''''• . ' 2, :k . ~ c,„:. ..._ ,- ' '1i,,,,„:.1 THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1859. AUSTRALIA. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY. The ship - Royal Charter, from Melbourne, passed eastwards at two o'clock this morning. All well. 64 days' passage. By the arrival of the Salsette, the pioneer of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's line under the new contract, vc'e have received files of papers from Melbourne to the 14th February, and from Sydney to the 11th February. VICTORIA. (From the Melbourne Herald, Feb. 15.) POLITICAL. Since our previous summary was sent to Europe not - quite a fortnight has elapsed; but within that brief period there have arisen some political events worthy of special record. Of these the chief is the promulgation of their intended land policy by the present cabinet. On Tuesday last, the Chief Secretary laid the brief outlines of his scheme before the Assembly. No discussion has yet been taken on it in the house; but, as may be supposed, it has formed almost the sole topic of comment in the press, and of conver sation in places of public resort. The following is the statement : 1. That large areas of agricultural land shall be pro claimed near the chid centres of population, within which areas ordinary farm lots, in no case exceeding 320 acres, will be open to selection by bona fide settlers, without auc tion, at a fixed price of £1 per acre. 2. That within these areas the unsold land shall consti tute a free commonage for the settlers, subject to regula tions to be made in an agricultural municipality. 3. That an enlarged municipal system be constructed, embracing agricultural districts as well as towns, under which system, the inhabitants will possess a direct control over the local expenditure for public purposes, at present defrayed out of the general revenue, such municipalities to obtain a certain proportion of endowment out of the public estate, and the power of levying an equitable taxation on fixed property, in lieu of the grants in aid now provided for out of the estimates. 4. That common pasturage be secured by law to the inhabitants of all towns and gold-fields where Crown lands exist. 5. That water frontages throughout the interior be re• served in perpetuity for public use. 6. That, all auriferous land be reserved from sale. 7. That - all towns and suburban lands, and such other lands as may be rendered peculiarly valuable by their posi tion, shall continue to be sold at public auction ; and that provision be made for bona fide settlers who may require larger allotments than are provided for in the agricultural areas. 8. That at a . period to be fixed by law all preferable oc cupancy of the public domain by the pastoral tenants now in possession shall absolutely cease and determine. 9. That in the meantime the pastoral tenants shall con tinue to receive an annual licence, revocable on such notice, and held at such rent as the legislature may de termine. SPECIAL STATEMENTS. 1. One member of the Cabinet would wish to make the experiment of deferred payments in one area. 2. In reference to the principle of selection within spe cified areas, another member of the Cabinet would prefer the application of the principle to the whole country. But both, rather than risk the success of a bill based on the principles already stated, would support the pro posed measure. The first reception given to this new policy was by no means a favourable one. It elicited no de cided expressions of approval from any section of the house, and for a day or two the Press was dubious. From only one party, however, did there come an immediate and emphatic condemnation of it. This was the Convention party, as they call themselves, who hold ultra-liberal views on the land question, and go the length of advocating in discriminate free selections, and a universal com monage of the unsold lands. This party, within two hours after the Chief Secretary had made his statement in the Assembly, held a meeting to de nounce the Ministerial propositions as being utterly unsuited to the requirements of the colony. But Conventionist doctrines are held by only a very small section of the community. The really popu lar views of the land.question are of a more mode rate kind. As the Ministerial scheme came to be more fully considered it rose in favour both with the Press and the general public; and several of our contemporaries are already warmly supporting it. Our own conviction is, that though the scheme is undoubtedly a liberal one, and a great improve ment on any other hitherto proposed, yet it is in its present shape too indefinite to be accurately ap praised. On Friday next, at latest, the house will rise for the dissolution. The Assembly has passed the last item of the estimates for the current year ; and the Appropriation Bill will be introduced to-morrow, and passed, as a matter of course, without opposi tion. Many minor measures of considerable local importance have been passed through their last stages—including one for temporarily settling the long-pending disputes arising out of gold-mining on private property—one to modify the taxation levied on the Chinese within the territory—one to promote union amongst the various bodies of Pres byterians in the colony—and one to make more equitable the levying of the assessment on the squatters. A motion to introduce the system of paying members of the Assembly with the inaugu ration of the next Parliament, ivas rejected a few nights ago by a large majority. The Upper House is engaged in critically revising the Bill to amend the Registration Act. There remain only a few odds and ends of business on the Parliamentary daily lists, and therefore the adjournment for the dissolution cannot be extended beyond the time we have specified. OUR GOLD. Our miners have begun the year well, a greater yield of gold having been produced by their exer tions in January than was obtained during the cor responding period of 1858. The quantities brought down by escort were respetively 168,609 oz., and 157,603 oz, The advantage over last year has been maintained up to the present time, the escort re turns for the two weeks of the current month, and for the first fortnight of February, 1858, being 260,716 oz., and 227,350 oz. The shipments have also increased ; for while we find that for the six weeks ending the 11 th inst., the gold exported amounted to 289,273 oz., the aggregate quantity shipped during the parallel 'period of 1858 was 230,273 oz. The following statement indicates the quantities of geld sent down to Melbourne froin the principal gold-fields,since the commencment of the year : Total from each Week ending gold-field Feb. 12. since Jan. 8. Name of Gold Field. Castlemaine........ Sandhurst,: .4 Heathcote Rushworth Maryborough Indigo Dunolly Ballarat Creswick Creek Beechworth.:... Buckland River Yachandandah Blackwood . INlaldon Avoca . Amherst oz. oz. 4,550 33,675 8,851 46,727 (3,035 1,031 670 9,485 8,844 _ 14,857 7,254 48,454 ~.... 12,967 27,426 1,806 3,052 315 1,197 3,306 9,068 886 2,028 1,059 2,291 . 4 • Fiery Creek Ararat Pleasant Creek 753 3,237 1,211 2,611 11,412 ;5,62G Mr. E. Khull's annual Circular, contains the fol lowing valuable statistical information pertinent to he Victorian gold-fields SUMMARY OF PRODUCE FOR THE YE 1R 1858. The ascertained produce of the gold-fields for 1858 is under that of 1857 by 31 per cent., while it is rather over 7 per cent., under the total produce of that year, including the estimated or unrecorded quantity. By Table I.:— No. 1. 2 216,501 2,728,113 Less on hand 31st Dec , 1557 2,421,461 ounces. Or 100 tons 17 cwt. 3 qrs. 131bs. 5 oz. at 80s. £9,695,844. The attractions of ;new gold fields at the Indigo Creek, a small tributary of the Murray, in the Ovens district, are rapidly waning. The population has decreased, and the yield of gold has sensibly dimi nished. This state of things is to be attributed to the scant diffiAsion of the auriferous deposits, a single lead only having been discovered. There has been a rush lately to Crowlands, a locality in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees ranges, but those who joined it have had reason to repent their ad venture; the deposits being thin and altogether out of proportion to the interest which had been excited.• The latest discovery, however, of auriferous land has taken place south of Melbourne. Since the opening of the year intelligence reached the city that profitable gold workings were being prose cuted in the Dandenong ranges. The news, how ever, did not excite much interest, as, from the experience hitherto had of the value of the gold deposits in the same district, the general belief was, that the last discoveries were of no extraor dinary nature. More recent information, how ever, has, established quite a different creed, and although even now it may be premature to state that the Dandenong gold-field is likely to prove a very rich one, the disclosures of auriferous treasure which have already appeared justify at any rate a prediction more mo derate in its terms. Several samples of the gold found at - the locality in question have been exhibited in town, and'so late as Saturday last a specimen parcel was brought to the office of this paper by Mr.Haysom, a well-known resident of Cheltenham. This particular sample, which was taken from the bed of the Little Yarra Creek, is coarse in grain, and mixed with small particles of quartz. The colour is bright, and altogether the sample indicates an excellent quality of gold. The specimens shown to us were 'obtained by a Mr. Peters and party, per sons well known at Cheltenham, and conse quently there is no question of the genuineness of the transaction. Mr. Haysom further informed us that claims had been marked out along three miles of the Creek, and that there were about 200 people on the ground.. The distance of the diggings from Dandenong is about 18 miles, and from Mel bourne 43. The importance of the new goldfield, considering the proofs already afforded of the rich ness of the auriferous deposits, exceeds that of Port Curtis in the height of attractiveness ; but the Government has done nothing yet to protect the well disposed of the miners and storekeepers from the effects of the disorder which invariably accom panies -what may be termed the inauguration of a new goldfield. The report of the select committee of the Legis lative Assembly on the subject of harbour accom modation for the port of Melbourne was laid, on the table of the house, on Thursday last, 13y Mr. Service. This document sets out by stating that the discharging of ships in the < bay' by means of lighters is inconvenient, expensive, and unsatisfac tory. It recognises the facilities afforded by the railway, and -the pablie pier at Sandridge, but shows that those points of discharge are too far distant from the warehouses of the consignees ; and, in support of this view, cites the evidence of Mr. Lord, Mr. Franklyn, and Mr. Shilling law. The fourth resolution embodied in the report is to the effect that the evidence taken before the committee exhibited the desirability of constructing docks for the discharge of ships of the largest tonnage in the " immediate vicinity of the city." The substance of the remain ing resolutions is, that there is no serious engineer ing difficulty in the way of, constructing doCks on the south side of the Yarra; that farther engineering investigations are required, and should be con duCted under the superintendenee of some board, a corporate body ; that such a body would be found either in a private company, incorporated by act of Parliament, 'or in a river and harbour trust ; that,• in the meantime, all the land lying in the bend of the Yarra, between the Falls and the Bay, to the northward of the Hobson's Bay Railway, should be reserved in the Crown, with a view to a liberal grant of the same, or portion thereof, being made to such body as may hereafter undertake these important works ; that, with a view to a practical development of this scheme of harbour accommodation, and in the absence of any: immediate propOiul to establish or 'Originate a 'private company, it is desirable that a commission be forthwith appointed' to continue the investiga tion entered upon by your committee, with a view of their report being laid on the table of the Assem bly at an early period of the ensuing session. That these resolutions be reported to the house. COMMERCIAL. During the few days which have elapsed since the sailing of the Oneida, there has not been any material change ex perienced in the stock and share market. Colonial Bank shares are very saleable at £6 2s. 6d. Victorian Govern ment Six per Cent. Debentures command extreme prices. The English quotations for these securities of 17th Decem ber, received by last mail, viz.:—£ll2 to £ll4, include in terest due Ist January last. Our sales include Colonial Bank, at £6 2s. ; Victoria In suraiceCompany, £57 10s. • Victorian Government Six p er Cent. Debentures, due 1860, at £110; due 1862, at £lO3. Money continues abundant, and rates of interest remain without alteration. THE MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET. Mr. James Warman reports the market in the same state as the previous week ; a large number of agricultural and horticultural men out of employ, and wages ranging about the same. With respect to skilled labour, on account of tho difference between the employers and employed, no quotations can be made, but those who are seeking country service readily hire at reduced rates rather than remain idle. Fe males plentiful, and in good demand for country service ; their wages keep up. NEW SOUTH WALES. The following is from the Sydney Morning Herald of Feb. 11 : The principal questions which have occupied the Legislative Council have been the Bigamy Bill, which the mover (Mr. Johnson) withdrew for six. months, in preference to submitting to an amend ment requiring corroborative testimony of the wife's evidence to be given in such cases. This bill, there fore, containing as it did a most important change in the law, stands over for the session. The Steam Postal question has lengthily oc cupied the attention of both houses. The result appears to be that both houses are dissatisfied with the arrangements which have been made binding at home, in respect to the route per Suez, without any reference to the line via Panama. Of course there has been some reference to the offer of the colony in regard to the Panama route, but great suspicions prevail that, if the con tracts as to the Suez route are as we understand them, this colony is involved in an arrangement of expenditure which is far beyond any benefit re ceived, and which will probably prove injurious if not fatal to the establishment of a line of postal communication which could alone be beneficial to us. Resolutions, without repudiating the previous offers of the Government, or any engagement made under the sanction of Parliament, but strongly conservative of the right of the house to enforce its opinion in favour of two lines, have passed both houses. The main political topic, however, which has engaged attention has been supply. Day by day the estimates, which were to have been brought down to the house in such a way that they could not be disputed, but were to be passed in the lump, have been discussed ;. and, though comparatively few reductions have been made, they have been made by the former warmest friends of the govern ment, and it is quite plain that all confidence in their economical ability or honesty is gone. It is beyond doubt that, extend ed as the debates on the estimates have been, were it not for the depar ture of some or, the, leading men of the opposition party, the Cowper Government could not be con tinued foe one. fortnight. . At a special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, the subject of steam postal communication was very fully discussed.. It w as moved by Mr. Drury, "That it is the opinion of this Chamber that the colony of New South Wales ought not to subsidise any contract for steam postal commUnicationwhich does not provide for the service via Panama." After a lengthened discussion,however, the following amendment, proposed by Mr. A. Camp bell, was agreed to, "That this Chamber considers that in the contract for a postal service recently made with the Peninsular and Oriental Company the claims and interests of New South Wales have been overlooked t.Q an extent which releases thii colony from any obli g ation to contribute towards its sup port, and that the widieu of this Chamber will best be snot by the establishin g of a line of steam postal m comualeation between Sydney and was also agreed to that the foregoi Panama." It ng resoluqons should. be. embodied in an address to be presented tO the chief secretary, requesting their considera tion by the execOirY • gov ernment. This is p r ptt y fair illustration of the feeling which prevail s i n commercial oirele , in reference to the mode in which the home government has dealt with the interests and claims of New South Wales in th e making of the last contract. ; The onl y t hing which, as it ap- Wceli to give sati s f act i on pears, wiUwill be the establishment of both lines ; taking the gua rantee of New South Wales for the subsidy of the Panama route, and that of Victoria for the subsidy for the Suez route, leaving each colony to make the best bargain it can with its neighbours. COMMERCIAL. Since our last summary, dated January 25th, the share market has been very active, and a large amount of business has been transacted in the shares of several of the companies at improved prices. Money ,is pretty plentiful for invest ment, and as the half-yearly reports of the Commercial Bank, Newcastle Coal and Copper Company, Australasian :Steam Navigation Company have been very •satisfactory, it has caused some demand for these shares. The fluctua tions are as follow :—Bank of New South Wales are firm at £46, but holders are asking £47 per share ; Commercial Bank have advanced .30s. to .40s.' per share ; Australian Joint-Stock, Bank have . improved 55.. per share ; Union Bank have been sold at £52 per share, which is an ad vance 'of £1 per- share.; Australian Steam Naviga tion Company have been in request, and have been sold at £l4 10s. per share, ex-dividend, which is an advance of £1 per share; Sydney Insurance Company are 21 per cent higher. _ _ ; Uovernment Debentures are firm, and. are worth nearly 1 per cent. more thainaSt'month. Interminables have also improved, and are quoted at 98. The, amount of gold coin issued by the. Sydney branch of the Royal Mint from the Ist of January to the 4th of February has been 105,000 sovereigns. The quantity of gold-dust imported into the same establishment during the month for the purpose of coinage has been 28,519 oz. The amount of ChStoms' revenue collected during the month of January has been £53,102 6s. sd. During the corresponding month of 1858 the receipts amounted to £43,195 6s. 6d. There is, therefore, an increase of £9,806 18s. 11d. This increase is very satisfactory, and augurs well for the future ; and we think, without being too sanguine, that we may anticipate Customs revenue for the year 1859 as being not far short of £600,000. The quantity of gold dust received by escort from the several gold fields and from Fairfield and Port Curtis during the past month amounted to 19,908 oz. For thersame month of 1858, the amount was 14,701 oz. The increase in the month is, therefore, 5,207 oz., or 35 per cent. There is a small decrease of 125 oz., or 11- per cent., on the yield from the western goldfields, and an increase of 3,960 oz., ornearly 140 per cent. on the southern gold fields, and an increase of 1,372 ounces, or 48 per cent. on the northern gold fields. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SANDHURST, The Bendigo Mercury gives the following parti culars of the disastrous fire which occurred at Sandhurst on the 11th of February. Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter to five, the warning note of the fire-bell rang out, and the whole town was on foot in a moment. A heavy squall of wind was blowing at the time, and an immense cloud of smoke was seen drifting to the south-east. On arriving at the spot we found that a block of stores was on fire within a short distance of Eng land's public-house. The stores in this neighbour hood are chiefly built of the most fragile materials, and the flames raged so fearfully under the influence of the tremendous gale of wind which was blowing, that at one time there seemed to be every probability that the fire would extend along the road to England's ; destroying all before it. Before the progress of the flames could be stopped, twelve houses were totally destroyed, beginning from the town. THE JEWELLER'S SHOP, , SPECIMEN HILL, TIN POT GULLY.—Messrs. Schlemm, Horsley, and Co., crushed yesterday, at Messrs. Latham and Wat son's mill, Ironbark, a small parcel of mixed quartz and sandstone from this now celebrated claim, which weighed 15 cwt., and yielded the magnificent result of 93 oz. 16 dwt., or at the rate of 125 ounces to the ton.—Bendigo Mercury. GREAT YIELD OF GOLD 1 ROM LITTLE DEVON- SHIRE REEF.—Messrs. Janson and Co. crushed on Thursday, eight tons of quartz from their claim, which gave the splendid return of 282 ounces. This magnificent cake was purchased by Mr. Andrew Bannerman. The golden days of Bendigo seem to be about returning.—Bendigo Mercury. INDIA. By extraordinary express, in antieipation of the overland mail, we have received letters and papers from Bombay to the 12th ult. The following is from the Bombay A'tanclard of that date : THF LAST REBEL CHIEFS. . . The rebellion, as represented by Tantia Topee, Feroze Shah, and their adherents, in various parts of India, is now at the lowest ebb. We no longer hear of large bodies of insurgents marching through the disaffected districts. The pursuit to which these men have been subjected, the hardships they have endured, appear to have completely disheartened them. The large bands have separated. The chiefs are in concealment, and, like the lowest criminals, are hiding their identity under assumed names. Since Tantia Topee arrived at Kerowlee, where he is said to have assumed the name of Ram Singh, nothing certain has been heard of him. Letters from Jhansi, however, speak of one Jeet Jung having appeared on the 26th of Feb., with 200 followers, before Garrota, ohe of the forts captured by Sir Hugh Rose in the last campaign in Central India. It is not impossible that Jeet Jung and Tan tia Topee, alias Rain Sing, are one and the same person. Since Feroze Shah reached the frontier of Bhopal with the Rao and Adil Mahomed, he has also gone into concealment, while the Rao and Adil Mahomed proceeded towards 13hilsa with a band reduced to 1500 men, put to flight a body of newly raised Sebundies belonging to the Maha rajah of Gwalior's army, and took from them four unserviceable guns. From Bhilsa we learn by a telegram, dated Indore, March the 6th, that they turned north-eastward through Seronj, and took refuge on the 4th in the jungles of that place. Frightened by the approach of a detachment under Colonel Rich, they fled again, across the Grand Trunk Road towards Beora, leaving behind them the four guns taken near Bhilsa. Colonel Somerset lay with his brigade at that time near Beora, and Colonel De Sails, who has succeeded Brigadier Smith, was at no great distance on the Parbuttee, 26hnear Bursud. In the Banda and jaloun districts the rebel chiefs who for months have held out there remain as yet unmolested, themandoneofthe Hus munt Sing, Sirdar of Rewah, succeededon of February in surprising and murdering Mr. Evans, Chief Engineer, and Mr. Limnell, district engineer of the Jubbulpore and Allahabad Railway. A detachment of her Majesty's 97th Went out from Kirwee to the scene of the murder, which is 24 miles from the latter place. In Berar, the rebels , 1 having. been completely rooted out, there remains nothing further to be done. Sir Hugh Rose has accordingly returned to Ahmednuggur. The troops are all go i ng i nto summer quarters. Colonel Call, with the head-quarters of the Royal Irish, branched off for Sholapoor from Hingolee, and the remainder of the troops were pouring into Jaulnah , as fast as they could, en route toPoona and (as far as regards the officers) to the Hills. Six companies of the Royal Irish are to garrison Jaulnah until Ma dras troops can come, but as the latter are at Hin golee and dispersed all over the country, it may remain a Bombay station for some time to come. Barracks are about to be built in the cantonment for a large number of Europeans. OUDE. The state of the frontier of Oude remains un altered. Nothing more has been heard of the fugi tive rebels in Nepaul, but Brigadier liorsford has fallen back from his advanced position on the Raptee to Baraitch. It seems the policy of the Government now merely to watch the frontier, and to trust to time and the Goorkahs of Jung Bahadoor to disperse the insurgents under the Begum, the Nana, and Beni Mando. Lord Clyde, whose health is still bad, left Lucknow on the Ist of March for Simla. PU.NJAUB. The only intelligence from this province is that of the departure of Sir John Lawrence, a n d t h e arrival of Mr. Montgomery on the same day, the 25th of February. SCINDE. We regret to amiounce that a serious accident befel Brigadier Blood at Kurrachee on the 28th of February. He was thrown from his carriage, and fractured one of his a rms. Brigadier has suffered much Since the accident the pain, but is doing as well as could be expected. THE CHEIF OF JUMKTIUNDE E . This chief, w h o had long been conf i ne d f or par ticipating i n t h e insurrectionary movemen t s o f t h e Southern Mahratta country, has been released, and is now at Belgaum. Although the Government of Lord Elphinstone have no doubt whatever of his guilt, they have thought it better to bring the case of the Rajah of Junikhundee under the clause of the amnesty. The result has been, however, an t of the chief's f r i en d s, who affect outcry on the 1.3 P. to be highly indignant that he should not have been tried, and who are loud in their declaration of his innocence. The statements which appeared to that effect in some of th e j ournals of this presi dency induced Mr. Lockett, the Assistant to the Political Agent in the Southern Mahratta Country without consultiug the Government here, to make a public statement of the causes which led to te chief's incarceration. Mr. Lockett took the chief to this meeting in his own carriage, and addressing the multitude from his seat, read a long address in English, which was afterwards translated to the people in Mahratta. It is impossible that so vast a concourse can have heard Mr. Lockett's declara tion, and there is reason to believe that the majority of those present, seeing the chief by Mr. Lockett's side, conceived that the day's proceedings were in honour, not in condemnation of that person. LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS. Sir John Lawrenec, who left Lahore on the 25th of February, arrived here in the Feroze on the evening of the 9th, and is now a guest of Lord Elphinstone, at Malabar Point. The Governor of Goa, Viscount Torres Novas, had been previously a visitor to the- Governor at Parell. His Excellency, who is Governor of Goa, arrived at Bombay on the 6th inst., and left on the Bth for Damaun, to visit the small settlement of Diu, respecting which cer tain long pending claims, in debate for some years, 'have at last been settled, much to the advantage of Portugal, by Colonel Pope, deputed by the Govern ment to settle- the diipute. We are glad to be able 'to state that the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer Mazagan, which had been out for seven months, has at last arrived at Bombay, having been towed hither from the neighbourhood of Cochin by the Peninsular and Oriental. China steamer Pekin. The Mazagan suffered severely from want of water and provisions before it reached Cochin. Symptoms are already visible of the usual break up of our winter season. The Commander-in-Chief goes to Mahableshwur on the 18th inst. Where Lord Elphinstone will go for the heats is not yet stated. Orders for the return home of her ,Ma jesty's 80th Regiment have, been issued by Lord. Clyde. POSTSCRIPT. • We learn from Indore, under date the Bth inst., that her Majesty's 86th arrived on that day. The rebels are scattered in five or six separate parties, some wanting to surrender and all disheartened * They are now making towards Seronj, and if they can only be brought or driven to collect together, they will speedily be dealt with. We have a letter from camp Seronj of the 3d instant, saying that Colonel Rich's column left Goonah on the Ist and arrived at Seronj on the 2d. The rebels were within 20 miles, and immediate efforts were about to be made to surround them. COMMERCIAL. BOMBAY, 12. - Since our last r e p or t un d er date of the 4th MARCH inst., there has been no change in the Bank's rate of interest. The fluctuations in their securities have been very slight, and we do not anticipate any mat er i a l decline from present quotations of 8 7a for Fives and 76 for Fours, but rather the reverse as money becomes more abundant. Cotton Piece Goods.---We are glad to advise a slight re vival in the demand, which, however small, •• is some relief from the previous stagnation. The sales have not been large of any description of ,goods, and quotations of some are still to a certain extent nominal; but we trust shortly to see more business doing for all fabrics. Wool is out of inquiry, and prices are Rs. 5 to Rs. 10 per candy lower. Freights tn English ports have slightly improved, and a further rise seems probable, as produce comes in more freely. Exchange on London continued as last quoted until two days ago, when a fall commenced in consequence of an in creased demand for remittance and small supplies by the China steamer. Considerable transactions were effected at 2s. ltd. for first-class, and 2d. 2d. for document paper, and the latest sales ars at id. per rupee below those rates. The following t3legrams hay e been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ST, PETERSBURG, APRIL 6, 9.47 A.M. According to private advices received this day from Kiachta, in the Governmental district Irkutsk on the Chinese frontier, famine is prevailing in the southern part of China. ST. PETERSBURGH, TUESDAY. This day's Gazette of tlie •Senate publishes an Imperial decree for the issue= of bonds for renter (obligations de rente), bearing interest at 4 per cent., which bonds are allowed to be purchased both by Russian and foreign subjects. The bonds issued are to be for the following values—namely; 250, 500, 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, and-100,000 roubles. The new Ambassador of. Prussia has been received by the Emperor. AUSTRIA-RUSSIA. The Memorial Diplonzatique publishes an analysis of Count Buol's reply to Russia's proposal of iv Congress. It is as follow, s:— " In this note Count Buol declares that his Majesty the Emperor of Austria fully appreciates' the value of the proposal of the Court of St. Peters. burg, and that the Vienna Cabinet is quite willing heartily to join a work intended to confirm treaties and the privileges conferred by them. Count Buol declares that the whole difficulty is to be found in the policy of Piedmont. The object of the Congress would doubtless be put an end to the danger with which she • threatens Europe, and to prevent a recurrence of them. " Count Buol regards such task the principal ono to have social order. Should other questions be mooted, they ought to be precisely stated before hand, and treated conformably to the rule 3 esta blished in the protocol of Aix-la-Chapelle of 16th November, 1818, insomuch as they should concern internal reforms in other States of Italy. Bount Buol adds that the clash of arms and warlike pre parations are detrimental to negotiations, exposing the Powers interested to great pecuniary sacrifices, and prolonging the general anxiety. Count Buol draws the conclusion.that it is indispensable Sar dinia should disarm, and declares that her consent in that respect should regulate the conduct of the other Powers. Finally, he declares that if Pied mont is willing to arm Austria will do likewise. Until the preliminaries indicated in Count Buol's note have been settled Austria may relax her pre; partitions, but not suspend them altogether. Her troops will continue to march towards Italy." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. , The Emperor and Empress Were present last night at the first performance of M. Meyerbeer's new opera, "Le Pardon de Ploermel," at the Opera Comique. According to competent judges, the great expectations entertained of this latest pro duction of the great composer have been by no means disappointed. It is pronounced to be a " great success" as to the music, the execution, the actors, and the mise en scene ; and the repeated rounds of applause testified to the admiration of the audience. Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expected this week in Paris. The conferences on the affairs of the Danubian Principalities will open on Thursday next. There will be two sittings only, both of which will be occupied with the conside ration of P r i nce C ouza ' s election, who will, it is said, b e ac k nowledged by all the powers. The discussion of the Danube navigation question is to be deferred to some future period. Th e immense preparations and the movements of 1 troops are so great as to destroy all confidence in the efforts of diplomacy to settle the quarrel between France and Austria. The concentration of troops in the south is taking place on an immense scale. It is said that the Prefect of Marseilles has received orders to hold a council of revision ; in other:words a medical examination on the men levied in that province within a fortnight. Usually this opera tion takes place a few months later; and it is asserted the whole of this year's levies (100,000 men) are under orders to report themselves at hea quarters before the 15th of May. The Gazette de Lyon states that 10 of the new rifled guns have been sent from Paris to Lyons. At Vincennes the manufacture of fusees, and the filling of shrapnell shells with powder and bullets, is going on with great activity, and cases of these shells are despatched southward by every train on the Lyons Railway. It is also stated that a great number of men have been drafted from the ImperialGuarclinto other corps. a great movement of troops is apparent in Paris, and a young friend of mine, an officer in a line reginlent, tells me that in his corps the men on re Ayri quiz (lout prlso mer lie' of flop in Si from conti 6c Th on /%, Treas Sir Esq., F.S., Mem Esq., of tho Th on th the sf Th ment Sep Henr Se` Liter Th delivi Dr. Maxi