The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

C ANTER BURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING. •at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition fo the usual Entertainments. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS E VEXING will be presented Shakapeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus , Mrs. C. Kean. 'THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed THE the new and original Comedy, ,'titled THE WORLD A ND S. T characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far ren, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwiek, Sze. After whiet, a new C lassical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA 131 A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Lo uisa Lonlereq. And A DAIIGIITER TO MARRY. . Commence at 7. NE THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL NSole P r oprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Vebster. Reappearance of gr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the perfosmances will commence with II ABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, rhas- ICI ON FABLE FRANLATS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, has. elby, ON F Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, ;tad Mrs. Billing,ton. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billing,ton ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Hate Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box to Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta TYPO ? by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE Supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE mAGNE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Unparalleled and Continued Success of INANHOE. Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic T e mple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achlevemee ts in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent. To conclude with the Farce of KILL OR CURE. The preparations for Whitsuntide are on an extensive scale already. Stage Manager. Mr. B. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. To eommence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MfrY 28. THERMO3fETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 54—Lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29 . 50. WIND, S.E. ; light, with dull weather. Heavy rain in the morning. While the Austrians act strictly on the defensive LOUIS NAPOLEON will find it a task of no ordinary difficulty to dislodge them from the strong positions which they have occupied, and on which thug may speedily fall back.' GAILIBALDT, who appears to have obtained some success over the Austrians, and to have tiken two pieces of cannon, is a hard man to deal with. He seems thoroughly to understand the art of war, and the no less important one of exciting the discontented populations in any locality where he may for the time being be situated. In the vicinity of Varese he has peculiar advantages. The people are ready to wear the tricolour at any moment. They only desire to have sufficient support to warrant them in shaking off the Austrian yoke, and the victory that has been obtained, or has been said to have been obtained by the leader of the volunteers, may supply the requisite stimulant to produce the necessary excite ment and create the intended insurrection. The movement was decidedly a bold one. It was carrying the war into the enemy's country, and that without either cavalry or artillery. GARIBALDI was obliged to trust entirely to the musket and bayonet, and although he had a majority of troops, the other advantages on the part of the Austrians were quite sufficient to counterbalance the nume rical odds against them. He probably expected to have received additional volunteers from Switzer land, but the course adopted to ensure the perfect neutrality of the Cantons has prevented the rea lisation of his wishes. There would probably be several thousands willing to take up arms, if only enabled to do so by the permission of the authorities where they are located. This per mission has, however, been withheld, and the strong forces posted on the frontiers will effectually prevent the participation of the anticipated auxi liaries at the seat of war. It is true that the allies have possession of Tuscany ; that Florence and Leghorn are in their hands, and that the Grand Duke and his family have taken refuge in flight. But the operations of the war can scarcely be carried on either from Tus cany or Naples, supposing even that the latter fall into their hands. It is Parma and Modena that they require. With these Duchies in their posses sion they could greatly annoy the Austrians, and would unquestionably do so. It would, as we have already stated, enable them to turn the flank of the Germans, and to conduct their strategetical affairs with the greatest possible efficiency. Whether they will violate the neutrality of the coveted duchies, or produce a similar result by exciting insurrection, remains to be seen. That they will take the course most to their advantage seems certain. Louis NAPOLEON will not allow minor difficulties to stand in his way in enabling him to carry out the line of policy which he has willfully and deliberately resolved on pursuing. If he desires to emulate his uncle he will not stick at trifles or let any trifling impedi. ment remain. But by so doing he may bring down the whole force of the German Confederation in opposition to his designs ; and although in such case Russia may interfere on his behalf, it is not certain that she would do so, and the war would be prolonged for an indefinite period, which would exhaust the pecuniary resources of France as well 83 of 'Austria. The latter Power has, indeed, already ad o y Led the great panacea—the issue of an inconvertible paper currency ; but she has also Committed the grave mistake of disregard ing the important points which would ren der it universally acceptable throughout, the whole of the dominions subject to Aus trian taxes •and duties. It cannot be received in payment of either, and must therefore go to a heavy disco ant, in order that the taxpayers may provide for th eir responsibilities. Should the ,re not be the hoped-for revolutions, NAPOLEON • 111. will find it difficult to proceed in the face of the powerful entrenchments and for. tifications under the Austrian control. It must be remember( Al that they have troops nearly equal in point of ambers to the combined forces of the ~., .., . 7au1.4 ' '`t' ,e A4,e ' • , ~ ...4" / , i .t. t, i •- 7. ~,,- ' \ a 1 b ri: .77, .01T : .., THE SU,N. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1859. allies ; that these men are thoroughly trained and disciplined, and that the riflemen of the Tyrol exhibit a direful skill in the use of their formidable.weapon. Their engineers are perhaps unequalled, most cer ' tainly unsurpassed, by those of any nation in the world. And there is just as much reason why Louis NAPOLEON should abstain from a forward movement while Piacenza and Pavia remain in the enemy's bands, as that GYULAI should have refrained from marching on Turin while the. Allies held Alossandria. We know something of the time consumed in the capture of Sebastopol, and may therefore form som e estimate of the results of improved engineering skill in the defence of such strongholds. LOUIS NAPOLEON cannot afford any amount of procrastination. His triumph, to be in any degree satisfactory, must be rapid and decisive. A Fabian po i;ey would be his ruin. That, however, now r ,l , ems to be the Austrian game, which will le 3d to very invidious comparisons between tht."' first and third of the name, and induce the French f believe that they have accepted a Brummagem substitute for a brilliant original. If the commenCement of grouse shooting is again, according to ... An nual custom, to mark the close of the Parliamentary sessions there remains now merely an interval of about two months within which to compress the v ole of the future toil for 1859 of our hereditary anul representative legislators. Within those two monLl's) however, very mach will, of course, be deeidet.:.• It is scarcely probable for that matter, indeed it is scarcely possible, that anything can be effected in the way of carrying out any scheme whatever, large or small, moderate or immoderate, for the revision of the popular representation. For this ses sion at least the question of Parliamentary Reform is shelved both for Whigs and Tories, for Libe rals no less than for Conservatives. It were simply waste of the little residue of the session yet left to us, to deliberate upon the problem of reform with a serious view, for an instant, of attempting anything in the shape of actual legislation upOn the matter. For this postponement of reform to 1860 at the earliest, the present Ministry is certainly not in any way directly or indirectly responsible. It is the first Cabinet that has for many years past laid upon the table a definite scheme of reform, good, bad, or indifferent. The DERBY Government, if it has not contrived to solve the difficulty, has at any rate had the good faith and the honesty and courage to ventilate this " vexed question" in debate —it has laid a specific . project of reform frankly upon the table of the House—it has carried the subject boldly and unhesitatingly to a division ; and having been denied the opportunity of sub mitting its plan to the ordeal of the Committee for the ultimatum of its legitimate acceptance or its legitimate rejection, it has resolutely appealed to the country through the constitutional medium of a dissolution. That appeal has been unmistake ably responded to by the 400 constituencies. The result of the dissolution, it is impossible to deny, has, in many respects, exceeded whatever may have been the :most sanguine hopes of the believers in, and supporters of, the present Government. The elec tioneering triumphs won by Ministerial candidates have not only been more numerous than any one could reasonably have anticipated, but they have many of them been most unexpected and some of them in their way quite extraordinary. It still remains remarkable, for example, among the "sur prises" resulting from the late general election, that both the Liberal members for Weymouth and Meleombe Regis have been replaced by staunch Derbyites. That exchange, moreover, is particu larly remarkable when it is remembered that one of those two Liberal ex - members for Weymouth was no other than Colonel WIL LIAM FREESTUN, who, as representative for the borough, has sat in the House of Com mons during the twelve years last past (ever since the general election of 1847), as virtually one of the two body-esquires of the knightly PALMERSTON. The rejection by Pontefract of Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, the other body-esquire of the noble lord the Member for Tiverton, and the preference, in lieu of that staunch Palmerstonian, of a thorough going Derbyite, by the hon. gentleman's hitherto faithful Yorkshire constituency—could hardly have surprised us more than the summary manner in which Lord GREY DE WILTON has superseded Colonel FREESTUN as the deliberate choice of the electors of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Another double triumph of a very surprising kind for the Derbyites is that gained by Messrs. POWYS and KINNAIRD at Newport, in the Isle of Wight,' in place of the late Liberal representatives. Another —the return of Sir E. LACON and Sir H. STRACY by Yarmouth, instead of Messrs. YOUNG and MELLOR, until then enrolled among the ranks of the Opposition. The twin successes achieved at Berwick-upon Tweed by Capt. JORDAN and Mr. RALPH EARLE will not very soon be forgotten or forgiven by their discomfited anta gonists, any more than the ignominious rejection by Dover of its quondam representatives, Sir WIL LIAM RUSSELL and Mr. RALPH OSBORNE, borne down by the superior influence of the veteran Admiralty Candidates. But incomparably the most astounding among all these double victories won to the side of the Ministry were those gained in the western division of Kent, and in the southern division of Lancashire ! Here, by Sir EDMUND FILMER, and the heir to the earldom of Amherst, Viscount HOLMESDALE—there, by Mr. W. LEGH and the Hon. H. A. EGERTON. Meanwhile, coupled with these brilliant triumphs for new Ministerial candidates, there have been no less than thirty•eight among the Liberal candidates whose names appeared in the majority upon the factious divi sion which lea to the late dissolution, who have now been summarily rejected by their former constituents, and who consequently no longer find any place whatever among the 654 national repre sentatives. After passing through these sudden alternations of good and evil fortune, the supporters of the Government and the supporters of the Oppo. sition are about to confront each other again in the new House of Commons —the Derbyites having won six-and-twenty seats, ani the Liberals lost six and-twenty scats during the late stormy struggle in as many constituencies a difference; cense- quently, of fifty-two upon a division—a clear advantage of more than half- a-h un dre 3—hearten in g the Ministerialists on to the Parliamentary strife which now, with redoubled energy, will be com menced. The result of that contest is dependent upon so exquisite a balance of . parties in the new house that it must infallibly belong to which soever throws most largely into the scale the triple weights of union, of patriotic m, and of principle. CO URT CIRCULAR. 0 Her Majesty the Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess Alice visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday morning at Clarence-house, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Royal Highness the Princess Fiederick William at Buckingham Palace. His Excellency the Ambassador of France has left Albert gate House, for Paris. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor of Canada. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly this evening at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. LATL -•S 3, NEWS. ►I'HE AN rAR IN ITALY. TURIN, MAY 28. OFFICIAL BULLY MN PUBLISHED TODAY. Garibaldi has occupied a position at St. Fermo, but many of his officers are killed and wounded. Our troops eontimue attacking the enemy, and have penetrated as far as Como. The town of Como was illuminated, and great joy prevails among the populace. The enemy is still at Camerlata. At Lanigiano, in Perm, the people have risen and pronounced for the King of Sardinia. General R ibotti, with Tuscan troops, military engineers, and Bens d'arnies entered Parma amidst the plaudits of the people, who declared for the King of Sardinia and Italian independence. The Parmesan troops have retired. TURIN, MAY 27. Austrian steamers sire cruising about the Lago Maggiore, threatening' the country on the banks of the lake. The inhabi!Ants, being in arms, offer resistance to the menaces of the enemy. The steamer Radetzki ap i rared before the town of Cannobio and fired a few' shots without effect, but the discharges from the 'small arms of the National Guard and of the Customs Guards soon compelled her to bear away again. A private message received here announces that General Garibaldi 'occupies a strong position near Varese. yesterday evening Count de Salmour departed for Nagles. PARIS, MAY 28. .to -day publishes the following The Moniteur 01' telegram : AZESSANDRIA, May 27.--The situation of affairs affords nothing new to note. MADRIV, MAY 27. According to advices received from I.L'bon, the Portuguese Government has declared to the Cortes its intention of remaining neutral during the pre sent war. BERNE, MAY 27. According to a message from Lugano of to-day, Garibaldi left Varese this morning for Como. 6,000 Austrians are concentrated at Camerlata. Railway communication between Camerlata and Milan is interrupted, and also the telegraphs from Collico to Jocco and through the Valleline. TELESTE, MAY 27. A Turkish steamer has arrived bringing the overland mail, but the news is unimpo:tant. Advices have also been received from aorfu) the 23d instant. Two Austrian steamers have arrived there out hindrance. BERNE, MAY 27. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : , Yesterday General Garibaldi overcame the Aus trians at Varese, took two pieces of cannon, and pursued the retreating enemy. On both sides the losses were great. The inhabitants of the sur rounding country have revolted and risen in arms. Garibaldi has issued a proclamation calling on the Lombards to rise. war unless Germany moves; shehas pledged her self to that policy, and has causd her intentions to be clearly known at Berlin an elsewhere. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg thetfore advises the German States not to employ ay of their diplo matists on a mission which weld end in their complete failure. The respons)ility of making the war European wilt' fall on tiose who wish to thwart France in freeing Italy fam Austrian rule. His Excellency M. de Persigy is expected in Paris. His visit is occasioned iy purely domestic necessities, and he will return b London within a week. THE STATE OF PIEDMONT. (From the Correspondent o' the Times.) 7URIN, MAY 25. Until the French have got ur all they want, and are in a perfect state of efficiency, there seems little chance of my having any important event to record. From one day to another, how?.ver, they may find themselves complete, and assune the offensive. A bulletin published yesterday afternoon announces that the French Emperor was starting for Voghera, there to establish his head-quarters. He was to be followed by the whole of the Imperial Guard, of which a good deal of the cavalry is now arrived. Voghera, as you will see by the map, is well on towards the present front of the Franco-Piedmon- tese, on the high road to Piacenza, and at little more than three Italian miles from Montebello. If this army remains inactive for many days longer, it will, I suspect, be less for want of men, horses, or guns, than from the necessity of getting up large stores of provisions before commencing a forward movement. The Austrians have cleared the frontier provinces, and should they have to retreat, will probably not leave a great deal behind them in those of Lombardy. I hoar that the French have already consumed a great part of the rations laid in for the, Sardinian army, and it is certain that at the Piedmontese head-quarters there is no superabun dance of forage for horses, and that some kinds of it were running rather short a day or two ago. It is no light matter to victual an army of upwards of 200,000 men ; the amount of transport required is prodigious, and in this the French are said to be deficient. _ . . TURIN, MAY 27. I know not how the Turinese will demonstrate their delight should great successes be achieved by the Franco-Piedmontese army,'for they seem to be expending all their enthusiasm and exultation upon trifles. They magnified the affair of Montebello into an important victory, and last night they could think and talk of nothing but of Garibaldi's capture of 47 men. A squadron of French Lancers arrived here yesterday, and were the object of intense in terest and curiosity. One of this afternoon's papers annouaces that the Bey of Tunis has sent his Prime :Minister, Chevalier Raffo, on a mission to the King, with a generous offer of soldiers for the war of in depenci:nce. The envoy arrived at Genoa on board a Tunisian man-of-war, and left immediately for head-quarters. Certainly the cause of liberty in Italy finds strange supporters. First steps foryvard the despotic Sovereign of France, and now the Bey of Tunis tenders his aid. Letters from Genoa speak of the crowded state of the port and of the con tinual arrival of French vessels, from which large quantities of provisions and military stores are landed. The presence of the Terrible does not seem pleas:pg to the Piedmontese, although why they should object to it is hard to say, except that' in their present temper they would object to any thing English, and if a member of the Royal cc ic ht Club chose to put into a Sardinian port in his ,'otter we should soon be told of some deep and ns on his part. dangorous deb2.s Captcin BlacklV:od arrived here yesterday, with despatchL-e; from the 'oreign-office for Sir James Hudson, ctn.(' proceeded at ,once to Rome. The weathef continues extrenwly unsettled. This week we have had daily thunderstorms, followed bjr heavy rains. - A private telegram received here from Naples announces that the King of Naples has, on his ac cession to the Ihrone, published a proclamation, in which he enumerated the good qualities of his pre decessor, but avoids making any engagements for the future, and abstains from pronouncing his opi nion on the events now going forward in the Italian peninsula. Garibaldi's corps have had their first serious affair with the Austrians. On the 26th, an Aus trian force, about 6,000 or 7,000 strong, attacked the Piedmontese at La Malmati, in the direction of Como. The fighting was highly creditable to the Italians, who charged with the bayonet as soon as they could get up to their enemies. After a three hours' contest, the Austrians retreated towards Como—Garibaldi's men following them up. The Italians were 4,000 strong, but had no artillery. A second despatch says :—" The Chasseurs des Alpes have fought bravely, charging with the bayonet. Varese and the surrounding country, in full insurrection, are under arms. Garibaldi is in pursuit of the retreating enemy. To day the Emperor has visited Vercelli in company with Marshal Vaillant. He was received by General La Marmora, the authorities, the clergy, and the people, who greeted him with enthusiastic cheers.'s Garibaldi's forces and those of the Prince Napo leon are rapidly closing on the Austrians, and by the end ofthe month an important engagement is expected to take place. Should the Austrians be defeated we shall hear of propositions for peace, England being used by the Cabinet of Vienna as the medium. The following proclamation was issued by Gen. Garibaldi to the inhabitants of Lombardy on his arrival on their territory : Lombards,—You are called to a new life, and you must answer the appeal as your fathers did at I'onsida and Legnano. The enemy is still the same—the:same atrocious, pitiless, plundering as sassin. Your brothers in other provinces have sworn to conquer or die with you. It is for you to revenge the insults, the outrages, the servitude of 20 past generations. It is for you to leave to your sons a patrimony freed from the stain of the domination of the stranger. Victor Emmanuel, whom the national voice has called to be your chief, sends me into the midst of you to organise you to fight for your country. I am deeply impressed by the holy mission which is confided to me, and proud of commanding you. To arms ! then let your slavery cease. Whoever has strength to hold an arm, and refrains, is a traitor ! Italy, with her children united and freed from foreign bondage, will suffice to reconquer the position which Provi dence has assigned her amongst nations." A -ISTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 25. Pavia is in a state of siege, and on the 19th inst. the inhabitants of . the city were ordered he military authori -4.011r hours." The to deliver up their arms t o t ties within " three tim es twent y Pavia correspondent of the OesterreicNshe Zeitung observes that it would have been better if the order had been given some time ago, as many persons have recently been assassinated in the streets. Among the victims are the correspondent of a German paper, who ventured to write against Sardinia, and a young Italian girl who had formed an intimate connexion with a German. The fortifi cations at Pavia are on such a grand scale that it is evident the Austrians are resolved to make a firm stand on the left bank of the Ticino, and to retain possession of Lombardy as long as they possibly can. Almost all the labourers employed in the construction of the fortifications at Pavia are Pied montese, who are but too happy to receive two zwanzigers (16d.) a day for their work. More troops are aboot to leave this city, for notice has been given to the public that for some days after the 26th inst. no local trains will run on the Southern railroad. The two trains which take passengers and the mails to Trieste leave at 8.40 in the morning and at the same hour in the evening. The Sardinians are trying to destroy the bridge at Vacarrizza by sending trunks of trees down the Po, but their labour is in vain, as the Austrians did not make use of pontoons. Such strict discipline is maintained in the Austrian camp that he who " loots" is almost sure to make acquaintance with the "Haslinger" (the hazel stick used by- the cor porals in castigation is so called). Some men belong ing to the train thought fit to carry off several look ing-glasses, in handsome gilt frames, from the theatre at Mortara, and within two hours after the theft had been committed the culprits had received their dose of stick on the stage of the theatre, and in the presence of some of the municipal authorities. As you have doubtless heard from your correspondent at head-quarters, two soldiers who had " borrowed" some trinkets, from a figure of the Holy Virgin, which was in a chapel on the roadside, were tried by a court-martial, and shot. On the 21st inst., a brigantine managed to run into the port of Venice, and her crew related that a part of the French fleet had made ; an attack on the Island of Lissa, which is the Malta of the Adriatic. The island is strongly fortified, but it is not probable that it would be able to hold out very long against a powerful enemy. It need hardly be said that no official information of what is passing at Lissa has been received here. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. BOURSE, May 27.—The opening of the market was rather buoyant, owing to a telegram announc ing that Garibaldi had defeated the Austrians, but prices afterwards gave way, and business be came heavy. Threes, after having been done at 61f. 50c. and 61f. 55c., receded to 61f. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 590 f. to 585 f. ; Austrian, 562 f. 50c. to 560 f.; Orleans, 1,177 f. 50c. to 1,175 f. ; Lyons, 777 f. 50c. to 775 f. ; Southern 435 f. to 442 f. 50c. ; Northern, 880 f. to 877 f. 50c.; Eastern, 600 f. to 597 f. The following were the closing quotations : The Piedniontese Gazette publishes the 48th, 49th, and 50th bulletins. The latter has been an ticipated by telegraph : the others are as follow : " No. 48. 24th, 3.30 p.m.—The whole of the Im perial Guard is to follow the Emperor to his new head-quarters at Voghera. This movement, had been delayed because the cavalry of the guard was expected ; but it has now begun to arrive. " No. 49. 24th, evening.—Yesterday the Austrian steamer Ticino approached Intra, summoning that place to give up two persons arrested as spies. The alarm was beat, the bells rung, and the National Guard assembled in large numbers ; whereupon the Ticino sheered off, firing against the island of San Giovanni and against La Castagnola. None of our men were hurt. Parma is in great apprehension of the fury.of the soldiery, who are excited by the reactionary party to cast off all discipline. The Austrians that had arrived at Reggio are retiring with the Modenese troops to Brescello, where the Duke is preparing for defence by c•atting down trees and laying the country under water." Intra is on the Piedmontese side of the Lago Maggiore, north of Pallanza, andabout 10 kilometres from the Swiss frontier. A Vienna letter of the 22d says :—" An army of 120,000 men is about to be formed in Bohemia. It is said that the Archduke Albert is to be appointed to the command in chief of all the troops of the Em pire with the exception of those of Italy and Hun gary. The Archduke is not, as at first intended, to be placed at the head of any army which Austria might send if necessary to the Rhine." , Russia has pledged herself not to enter into the 41 per Cents. .... 89 25 t Credit Foncier 625 Do. end month.. 89 25 I Belgian 4 3 per Cents 6l 55 Piedmontese (5) .. 77 50 Do. end month GI GO Roman Bl 50 Bank Shares 2710 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. .587 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 587 50 Home Debt — F t lqE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY i,iVENING, MAY 28, 1859. INDIA AND CHINA. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The India and China journals brought by the Overland Calcutta Mail have arrived. The dates from Calcutta are to the 22d; four days behind the news which we last received from Bombay.. The Englishman says : The condition of the rebels still in arms becomes daily more desperate and more wretched, as they are hunted and their resources cut off from them ; but though beaten they are still numerous enough to be troublesome, and from the mis taken course pursued with them many of them are by no means hopeless of another chance. They fight only when compelled, but plunder at every opportunity, and oblige us at great cost to follow their movements, and when at last any number find themselves hemmed in, they give Ahem solves up, with arms in their hands yet hot from their last exploit, and are received under the terms of the still open amnesty. Literally such was the case with a party of about 75 men who loot pd a factory near Buxar, and when they found themselved cut off from escape, next ' day gave themselves up as we have said. Officers coming down assert that the Sepoys are often heard to say,—" Yes, we are beaten ; the Bengal army has lost its chance ' • but you have got the Madras and the Bombay armies, and the time will come." We should be glad to have ground for saying the struggle is at an end. The country is settled ; but a glance through our columns will show that, though ap proaching that consummation,' there is yet work to be done, and the worst season to do it in. From Hong Kong intelligence is to the 13th of April. The Overland China Mail of that date gives the following in its summary : Baron Gros, the French plenipotentiary, left this on the 7th instant in the Audacieuse for Singapore, from whence he returns to Europe. M. de Bourboullen, at present at Macao, is now the French Minister, and the Legation will be removed to Shanghai next month. The Bishop of Vic toria has also left, on a visit to Australia. From Cochin China there are more 'particulars of the taking of Saigon, which does not seem to have cost a single life to the allied French and Spanish force. The booty is said to have been immense, both of arms and of copper cash. From Shanghai there have come rumours which may possibly have some influence on the course to be pursued by the British Minister to China. It is said that the Rus sians have established their legation at Peking, and that their Minister has been attended there by a large retinue, but that he has already had a difference with the Chinese Government, from his refusing to communicate officially with wwy one but the Emperor himself. It is also reported that Tien-tsin (where the treaty was Couuluded) has been occupied by a large number of Chinese troops, and " diffi culties" are apprehended when our Minister advances to Peking with the ratified treaty. Business is almost entirely suspended at Canton, and the rumour that the city is about to be evacuated by the allies is one great cause of fear. No teas are making their ap pearance, and almost no purchases are made of our imports except of manufactures used in Canton itself and the imme diate neighbourhood. It is reported that the rebels who hold the possession of the passes to the tea districts, have intercepted the small remaining quantity of this season's tea which was on its way down, and are interfering with the cultivation in some districts. It is feared by the Chinese that immediately after our evacuation of the city it will be seized by the rebels, and so they are unwilling to engage in commercial operations which may only serve to enrich others. Both in the east and ox the north-west of the province of Kwang-tung, the rebels have been successful of late, and are pressing towards Canton. In 1846 they nearly took that city, and were driven back with some difficulty ; but now there is no determined Yeh to govern the province, or to intimidate the rebels by wholesale executions in the event of the foreign troops being withdrawn. At all the ports business has been dull during the last fortnight : but the resumption of the immigration of Chi nese to California has slightly increased the demand for shipping. The continued dryness of the spring has caused a considerable rise in the demand for rice at all the ports and at Macao. There have been lately many and gross instances of kid napping Chinamen in order to send them as contract coolies to the Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neigh. boluthood 'of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen thus kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in lorchas, to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off, chiefly in French vessels, for Cuba. RAILWAYS. . Cash. Account. Orleans Northern BB2 50 .. 882 50 _... . New ditto 755 ' .. Lyons and llc,iliterrau: , •an 7BO .. 782 50 Oeneva. 462 50 .. 465 Southern Western 5OO .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian 342 50 ~ - 362 50 .. . 362 50 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. sc. ; money, 251. ; three mouths, paper, 241. 85e. ; money, M. 87tc. i WITH ItussiA.—On Tuesday last M essrs. 'TRADE Gee and Co's steamer Emperor arrived at Hull from Cron stadt, after a five days' voyage, exclusive of a delay of 30 hours on her passage by foggy weather and ice in the Gulf and a nine hours' detention at Copenhagen. She brings full cargo, consisting of wool, hemp, flax, tow, bristles, iza., £111,700 bullion, and 63 passengers. The steamer Moscow, which arrived at Hull on Friday last, also brought bullion from Cronstadt to the amount of £104,000. EXCHANGE AND BULLION. HONG KONG, April 13. ORIENTAL BANK C ORPORATI 0 N.—On London, 6 months' sight, 4s. Rd. ; on Calcutta, 15 days' sight' 219 Rs. per 100 this. ; on Bombay, 15 days' sight, 219 Rs. per 100 dols. Gold leaves, 23,80 dols. per tael; gold bar, 23,00 per tael; Sycee silver, Ts. 81 per cent. premium. OTHER BILLS.—On London, 6 months' sight, 4s. 9d. to 4s. 91d. ; on Calcutta, 3 days' sight, 219 per 100 dols. ; on Bombay, 3 days' sight, 219 per 100 dols. SHANGHAI, April s.—On London, six months' sight, 6s. 4d. per tael ; on Calcutta, 3 days' sight, Rs. 297 per 100 tack; on Bombay, 3 days' sight, Rs. 295 per 100 taels. Drafts on Hong Kong, 27 per discount. AMERICA. The Bremen arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the United States mail. She left New York on the 14th inst. The news, which is one day later, is unimportant. The packet ship William Tapscott, Captain Bell, arrived at New York on the 13th, from Liverpool, bringing 726 Mormon emigrants, including women and children. One half of them were from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and the other half from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. They are a better class than the average of European emi grants. With the exception of some seventy-five, the whole party left for Florence in Nebraska territory the same evening, via the Suspension Bridge route. A Washington telegram of the 13th inst. says : —" Letters received here, from sources entitled to credit, mention that rumours were prevalent in various portions of Italy that the Pope might be compelled to take refuge in the United States. Our ministers at Rome and Naples speak of it as highly probable, owing to the unsettled and pre carious condition of things." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. _ NEW YORK, MAY 13. There was to-day a reaction from the late panic, and prices at the Stock Exchange advanced considerably. The market closed firm, the following being the last prices : Tenessees, 911 to a ; Mi souris, 83/ to 84 ; Virginians, 941 to Id; Canton, 18/ to 19; Cumberland Preferred, 17; New York Central, 711 to / ; Erie, 7/ to! ; Harlem, 101 to 11, ditto Preferred, 361 to 1 • Hudson River. 311 to 32 . ; Reading, 461 to 1; Michigan Central, 44 to Michigan Southern, 9 to ; ditto Preferred, 31/ to /; Panamas, to 119; Illinois Central, 57 to 1; Galena and Chicago, 62/ to 63 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 261 to I ; Chicago and Rock Island, 611 to 1; Illinois Central Bonds, 811 to 82 ; Pacific Mail, 83 to 1. We learn bY telegraph from NI ashington that the Treasury receipts last week were 920,000 dole. The amount subject to draft is nearly 7,000,000 dole. The exchanges at the Bank Clearing-house to-day were 22,467,602 dols., and the balances 1,447,377 dole. Money continues as easy as could be desired by borrowers. A few of the private lenders have put the rate up to the Bank standard, 5 per cent. ; but there is no difficulty in borrowing any amount on good securities at 4. Mercantile paper is so scarce that the competition for it among leaders efectually prevents an advance in rates. Foreign exchange is not quite so strong. We quote sterling 60-day bills (bankers) at 110 to 1101, the leading drawer asking 1101 ; and francs at 5.10 to 11/. The Bremen, to morrow, will take out about 500,000 dole. ; and, as there is no Cunard steamer from this port next week, it looks as though the specie shipments, so much dreaded, were not going to ruin the banks as yet. COTTON.---The sales embraced about 700 to 800 bales, closing on the basis of about 111 c. for middling uplands, while some persons quote them at a fraction more. Dealers were again anxiously waiting the receipt of another steamer's news, which they expect will settle the question whether war has been actually commenced. BREADSTUFFS.—FIour.—The market for all the better grades' continued firm, and generally closed at higher rates, k while low and common grades were unchanged. There was some abatement in the fever of speculation. The sales footed up about 22,000 brls. Canadian flour was firm but nominal. Southern flour was again firm and active, The sales embraced about 7,000 bbls., with the above ad vanced range of quotations. Corn meal was steady and prices unchanged. Wheat was again firm, with sales of about 20,000 bushels, including white Kentucky at 2 dols. to 2 dole. Bc. ; poor Wilwaukie club at 2 dols. 25c. ; fair white Southern at 1 dol. 90c. ; red Western at 1 dol. 80c. to 1 dol. 85e,, and inferior mixed at 1 dol. 65c. to 1 dol. 70c. Corn was less buoyant, while the sales were about 31,000 bushels, including round yellow at 98c., prime Jersey yellow at 1 dol., and Southern white at 941 c. to 95c. Rye was quiet, but firmly held. Barley was steady, and about 3,000 bushels California were reported at p. t. Oats were in fair .demand at 60c. to 61e. for State, and at 62c. to 63c. for Canadian. _ _ . _ _ _ ----- FREIGIITS.—To Liverpool, 100 tierces beef were engaged at 25., 200 brim. pork at Is. 6d., and 50 tons dead weight at 10s., 170 tierces lard at 20s. to 225. 6d., 400 brls. pork at p. t., 50 to 100 bales hogs' hair at 355. To Glasgow, 10 tons taiiPw at 205., 10 do. grease at 255. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AGAIN.—The onslaught of Si James Graham on the Derby Government is destined to be repulsed on every side. It will be remembered that, in support of his charge of obtaining Roman Catholic support on the ground of the Austrian loaning.of the Government, he read a confidential letter from a Liverpool letter, pur porting to be written by the Secretary of the Roman Catho lic Bishop of Liverpool. The Weekly :Register is authorised by the supposed writer himself, the Very Rev. Canon Walker, to declare that letter a forgery. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND ... 13 ROMOTIO oanNOS IN THE CIVIL, SER V ICE.—The Admiralty A v . n. ' has been created in the department of the Medical Director- General of the Navy, Somerset-house, b the death of Mr. Homy Moseley M'Cay, third class cl i eck ; commencing y_Banri;tish Museum : There is a vacancy for au assistant salary £l5O per annum. The Do r olsY _ y r a b rd ri s : There is a clerk the resignation ship vacant' at Devonport-ya tt b . There ar e several vacan of Mr. Alleyne ties in the different dockyardsb efnor appointed of Mr. Breaks has e .ac ehiPwrightB' e pt . ford -Yard ; 4 1‘ , 1r. BMA' has been countant at D appointed storekeeper at Deptfor. , Mr. i. Jamieson has been appointed storekeeper _of - the Victua mg-yard, Deptford. of Mari. Mr. Weamroon has beau appointed clerk Customs : Mr. G. A.. rcher at the Port of Douglas. No and searcher h" b ee n appointed a eleilc at Mr. J. B. Hopkins has been appointed principal coast officer at Ferryside, Llanelly. Mr. John Shelley, collector at has b een promoted to be collector at Belfast. Mr. Stockton , H enr y neclil, collector at Dover, has been prom o t e d t o b e co llector at Sto c kt on. Mr. Charles S. Saunders, collector at Shoreham, has been promoted to be collector at Dover, Mr, Thomas L. Stapledon, oollOotor at Carnarvon, has been promoted to be c ollector at S h ore ham , Cronin, comptroller John co mptroller at Drogheda , has been Promoted to b e co ll ector , at Cezwav on, Mt. Robert James, coll ec t or a t Arundel, has been promnled to be comptroller at Dundee. Mr. F r ancis L. Shaw, caraptvellor at R e, has b een prOmoted . to be collector at. Arundel. Inland 49Vtallie ThiPartment, Stamps and Taxes Breech : There is a vacancy for a su peranineMy AIgYPYPP of taxes; commencing salary, £9O. Mr. James Staplet4n Olorp Ilaa been appointed a supernu merary surveyor of ta4o§,-017 SicrviceOaqttp, 7IIE BOMBAY MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Orissa, Capt. J. K. Joy, bringing the heavy portion of these mails in charge of Mr. Casson, of the General Post-office, arrived at Southampton yesterday morning. She left Alexandria on the 12th inst. ; Malta, the 16th ; Gibraltar, the 21st; and has had fine weather throughout, but strong head winds from Malta. The Orissa brought 133 passengers, among whom were—From B ombay—Lieu t.- Colonel Kane, Maj or Welman, Captains Newnham, Taylor, Baldwin, Cordner, Pulman, and Pye ; Lieutenants Higman, De Vitre, and Burd ; Ensign Middlecourt ; Com mander Worsley, Indian navy; Drs. Barnet, White, Pirie, Sommerville, and Harrison, wife, and two children ; Mr. Glasson, Mr. Airey, Mr. T. Marshall, Mr. Ardasseer, Mr. Crowe, Mr. Anderson, Mrs. Cooper and child, Mrs. Mackinnon and three children, and Mrs. Holloway and two children, Mrs. Smallpage and two children. From Aden— Lieut. Walker, Indian navy ; Lieut. Phillips. From Alexandria—General and Mrs. Lawrence and two children ; Earl Gifford, Mr. Leadam, Dr. and Mrs. Bennett and child, Capt. Robertson, Capt. Miles-, Mr. Short, Mrs. Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. Woodman and child. From Malta—Capt. and Mr. Twynham, two Misses Twynham, Capt. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Maude and child, Mrs. Callaway and son, Miss Pennefather. From Gibraltar—Col. Staunton, Captains Caulfield and Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins and child. On freight the Orissa had one package of specie, value not stated, 48 bales of flax, 25 bales of senna, 97 cases of shawls, and 106 packages of general merchandise. The usual Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Victor Emmanuel, Orion, Medina, Racoon, Ariel, Argus, Boxer, Lapwing, Terrible, Vigilant, and Hearty. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ships Osborne and Quail. Our correspondent at pibraltar writes as follows on the 21st inst.:— " Her Majesty's steam-sloop Gannet left yesterday after noon for the West, 'out eventually proceeds to Malta. ".His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, wlto has gone to the Ronda fair, will, it is expected, visit Malaga and Granada before proceeding to England. " The merchants of this city, having invited the Prince to a ball, the same will come off on, the return of his Royal Highness from Spain. Great preparations are in the mean time going on to give it on a scale of unusual splendour. "The Second Battalion of the King's Regiment is to have the colours presented on the 25th. " Captain Freeling, Royal Artillery, now acting Colonial Secretary, will, it is said, be definitely appointed. " Captain Pitcairn, 25th Regiment, proceeds to England on six months' leave. " There are now six Austrian vessels in port, which will be dismantled or disposed of, if possible, as circumstances offer, in consequence of the war. One of them has been sold to a British subject. • " Her Majesty's ship Vulture, Captain Campbell, has not yet returned from Lisbon, whither she conveyed our late Governor, Sir James Fergusson." The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the Bombay and Australian mails of the 12th from Southampton, arrived at Gibraltar at 10.15 p.m. on the 16th, and resumed her voyage at 1 a.m. on the 17th. The Janet Pitblado, arrived at Gibraltar, reports that on the 25th of April, off the island of Sardinia, she boarded the brig Marchioness of Breadalbane (of Dundee), Captain Dunn, from Girgenti, in Sicily, bound to the United Kingdom ; she was in a very leaky state, with ensign down. Remained on board her for 36 hours. The following British merchant steamers had arrived at Gibraltar; May 15th, the Dom Pedro, Captain Taylor, from Glasgow and Lisbon, with general cargo for Gibraltar ; 16th, the Oscar, Capt. Trapp, from London, with Government stores and general cargo for Gibraltar and Cadiz ; 18th, the Marco Bozzaris, Captain Staves, from London, with general cargo for Malta and Constantinople; 19th, the Demetrius, Captain Young, from Liverpool, with general cargo for Malta; 20th, the Melita, Captain Langlands, from Liverpool, with general cargo for Malta and Constantinople. On May 13 the Orissa exchanged colours with the English barque Speedwell, in lat. 32.18, long. 26.40 E. ; same day, with the English barque Washington ; 15th, with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, lat. 35.25, long. 17.19 E. ; same day, with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Nepaul, lat. 35.32, long. 16.14 E. ; 16th, with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Jeddo, lat. 3633, long. 13.8 E.; 18th, with an English paddle steamer of war, lat. 37.42, long. 4.59 E., steering eastward ; same day, a large French steamer, steering same course ; 19th, two French steamers off Cape Palos, steering eastwards ; 20th, passed the French ship Madras, off Malaga; 21st, off Cape Trafalgar, a screw steamer with a gunboat in tow, and at the same time a large French screw line-of-battle ship ; 23d, exchanged colours with the troopship Mel bourne, off the Burlings, steering southward ; same day, the English brig Catherine Anna, lat. 40.11, long. 9.45 W. ; same day, at 7.35 p.m., with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, lat. 40.51, long. 9.46 W. THE J'AR-A USTRIAN VESSELS. The following communication, from her Majesty's Government, has been received at Sydney:— (COPY.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, May 27, 1859. Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 19th instant communicating to you the answer which had be received from the French Government respecting the extent to which Austrian vessels are liable to capture by the French and Sardinian Cruizers, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to state to you, for the information of the committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's, that in answer to the inquiries which, in obedience to his instructions, have been addressed to her Majesty's Minister at Turin to the Sardinian Government — First, as to whether Austrian vessels arriving at ports of call would be allowed to leave such ports for their destination without being liable to capture, and, secondly, as to whether Austrian vessels which have sailed for Austrian or for neutral ports prior to the declaration of war, will be liable to capture, the Sardinian Government state that they consider all Austrian vessels met with by the ships of his Sardinian Majesty under the circumstances above-mentioned to be subject to capture. T. l H am x , mm sir o z . our most obedient humble servant, Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's. THE RED SEA TELEGRAPH. The Red Sea telegraph cable has been success. fully laid down as far as Suakin. , MAY 16, EVENING. Forty miles from Suakin.—Cable has been laid so far most successfully. We hope to land the end to-morrow at noon. All well. MAY 17, 11.15 A.M. Arrived at Suakin. All well. M. KOSSUTH AT GLASGOW. GLASGOW, FRIDAY NIGHT. M. Kossuth addressed a densely crowded and Most en thusiastic meeting in the City Hall this evening, Professor Nichol in the chair. M. Kossuth stated that he should shortly leave England, to aid, if he could, the emancipation of his countrymen. Resolutions in favour of non-intervention in the present war were unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks to the illustrious exile, responded to with intense enthusiasin, was pro - Posed by Mr. Dalgleish, M.P. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The late Venerable Walker King, M.A. A rc hd ea con of Rochester, executed his will on the 3d of April, 1853, to which are added two codicils, dated respectively the 17th of August, 1854, and the 21st of February, 180 ; and ho died at Stone, near Dartford, on the 13th of March, 1859. The will wasproved in the London Court of Probate by his sons, the Rev. Walker King -and the Rev. Edward King, and Charles av leaves s Heberden, Esq. , h is brother-in-law, the joint executors, and sworn unde r £45,000 personalty. He has bequeathedlviildkeedr to his children sp ecific and pecuniary bequests. He e his German , F rench, and Ita l ian books to his daughters ; his Greek, H ebrew and Latin hooks to his sons an d Edward ; and h is En g lis h books to be d amongst his sons generally. He leaves £lOO to the rector o f Stone, to be lai d out in bread for th e p oor at Christ mas, and directs that his annual subscyriepatrionbseytooneahatrhie ecaniages a n d h orses ptarhelseenitn. sti H tu o ti b o zeo b t e hs c t o o n h ti i n s uweidfe hi i n s and the furniture, for her absolute use, and the freehold house at Woodside for her life, with the farm and lands, which at her decease are to be divided amongst his children. He also leaves to hisvi £7,ooofe an i annuity of £l,OOO ; sonto each w edaughterlkeran annuity n a o l u e i g t legacy o y f of x annuity , oaf legacy£3o ; of f o three x th 3o e o t a 4 ; to his son Edward an £250 each; an annuity of £17t . 0 a nurse to some mill his s time sons.—The ons . s service; i o c f e h i s i E s s c g o . a ( c c hm ock an a, ,• property, real and personal, will of Thomas Somers Cocks, — in T hi he s Cocks, bankers) was by Thomas Somers lroved in the London Court of Probate Cocks and Reginald Thistlewayte Cocks, Esqrs., the sons and has made many .executors. The personalty, £30,000. He specific bequests to his sons and daughters, and has divided his real estate and the residue of his personal estate equally amongst them, except the eldest son, who is amply provided for.—The will of Alderman Farebrother was only proved on the sth of this present month of May. It B iadnddu i t p h h e , resi due a nd contains many specific bequests to his children. He leaves to his eldest son his freehold estate at Hackney ; and amongst other things has bequeathed to him the silver cup which was presented to him by the Vintners' Company ; also the dessert service used by him when Lord Mayor of London, which has his crest engraved thereon, Ile leaves to be shared amongst his children the spoons that were given to him by the Vintners'Coropany, and to his daugh ters a portion of his aldermanic chain. The residue of his real and personal estate to be divided amongst his children. There is a most remarkable reqlte§t in his will—that in his coffin there shonlcl he deposited some letters which would be found in a cover with his will ; that they should be pliwed upon his heart, with e. prayer-book and hyrantook i also a ,1 O ring, which one o f his daughters 44yc.-ii. vo, ,-- . in; should *- finer. PP will 1 , 74* AA 011 the April, T" • Od — l ih sbfl . • q tll 4 185 , and 'ft c ~ e 1 °l. l ~,,0 A 0 All.atlrl'i 141. The executors were his 80118, the neY• piqie* varburother, the Rey. H en ry Wr, Faralpoer, anti \ nA. D. P. Farebroth r lt 1 , 1 p l . , r9rso4:l4trb -, .; 000 I . e'l L. ~.vMlHyr.. MEDICAL OFFICERS OF TILE ROYAL NAVE It is with sincere gratification that we publish in this day's impression the new " Warrant," by which the rank, pay, and general position of the medical officers of the Royal Navy are henceforth to be regulated. Although somewhat tardy of appearance, this document, which, when we except the clause relating to the award of prize money, is as nearly as possible a daguerrotype of the Army Medical Warrant of the Ist October last, fulfils in spirit and in substance all that was held out by the First Lord of the Admiralty, and must be regarded as conferring the greatest boon ever granted to the naval medical service since the early part of the present century, when the department was rescued from absolute destruction by the first Lord Melville, certainly - one of the ablest men that ever occupied the presidential chair at the Adniiralty. Since that period, it is true, various points have from time to time been yielded in favour of naval medical officers. But the present assimilation of the naval with the other public medical services is a stride in the march of improvement which leaves all partial concessions far behind, and which, irre spectively of the justice it renders to an important and mosVmeritorious class of officers, possesses the still higher advantage of maintaining the medical department of the navy in a state of desirable efficiency, and of thus securing for our sailors, equally with our soldiers, the most approved skill and attention in sickness and in battle. Opposed as we are on political grounds to Sir J. Pakington, we have uniformly admitted his zeal and honesty of purpose. On the present occasion the medical officers, and indeed the whole naval service, owe him much for having, under a strong sense of duty, carried out a resolution to raise the naval medical department to a position adequate to the r intelligence and the claims of that profession upon which the health, and consequently the efficiency, of our right arm, the navy, so largely depends. Of a truth, the snail-like progress of reform in the naval medical service for the last half century and upwards, during which in civil life old customs were constantly being superseded by those changes and improvements demanded by the advance of knowledge and intelligence, as well as by the dis coveries of science, expresses but too forcibly the apathy with which the department has been so long regarded at Whitehall. In 54 years the only im provements effected in the medical department worthy of enumeration are the institution of the inspectoral grades and some increase of pay to the various classes of medical officers, resulting from the Royal Commission of 1839-40 ; the conditional admission of the assistant-surgeons to the ward room in 1850, while Sir Francis Baring was at the head of the Admiralty—a concession which, how ever, was wrung from the Admiralty, not until after a division on the question in the House of Commons hostile to the Ministry of the day; and the abso lute right of the assistant-surgeons to the ward room on their entering the service, ceded in 1855 1, while Sir C. Wood was First Admiralty Lord. 1 ; to these we add a more recent increase of pay and a better plan of retirement to the inspectorial ranks, and some addition of pay to the assistant-surgeon s, with a more advantageous scale of widows' pensions (which by the present warrant must again undergo reconstruction), we shall have mentioned all that has been done for the naval medical officers, from 1805 up to the date of the new warrant. But for the disasters in the Crimea the status quo of the army medical department would in all pro bability have remained undisturbed ; and but for the stern and independent sense of right Resses sed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, . vve mig ht not have seen the conditions of the army med ical war a i rant extended to the medical service of the Bey Navy. Most earnestly, then, do we thank Sir John Pakington for having had th e cou rage to depa rt from the "use and wont" so l ong dominant at th e Admiralty—for having sho wn an entire free dom from sympathy with those wh o i n the just elevation of the Medical Officer can s ee n o thing but peril to the service, in the varied forms of subdivision of discipline, unfairness to other c lasses, and a host of other imaginary evils, which Admiral Berkeley, in former days, was wont to declare in Parliament would certainly follow the introduction of 'the As sistant-Surgeons into the ward-room. Fortunately for the Navy, the Fates have been singularly.un propitious to the prophecies of the gallant Admiral. Discipline continues to exist unimpaired in the Navy, notwithstanding that the Assistant-Surgeons have been ward-room officers for nine years ; and. we have too great confidence in its stability to sup pose that it can in any wise be endangered by the operation of the present warrant. The whole ob jections, in fact, to this excellent measure are so opposed to all experience, so utterly untenable and absurd, that they may be said to partake more of the bigotry of the second James's time than of the intelligence of our own. The warrant for the Medical Officers of the Navy will, as a matter of course, be received with great satisfaction at the Universities and other Me dical Schools throughout the kingdom. The fore most students will now enrol themselves as candi dates for the' Naval Medical Service. Sir John Pakington, long after he has passed from amongst. us, will be remembered by the Medical Officers et the Navy as one of the greatest benefactors of their class. Nor can Sir John Liddell desire a higher reward for his well-known devotion to the depart ment over which he so worthily presides than to see it recruited by young men of approved talent and attainments, and to feel that the Naval Medical Service, from being most unpopular, has become one of the most, popular branches of public medical employment.—Daily News. THE LATE BANK FORGERIES.—We are authorised to contradict some of the reports which have recently ap peared, stating that Wagner was undefended, his cause having been sustained, on the contrary, by Mr. Dickie, Of Elm-court, Temple. The town of Grosseto, in Tuscany, has sent the Piedmontese army a present of twelve horses. It is the intention of the authorities, we under' stand, to form an encampment on Teg Down, near Win chester. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION. COMPANY. —The usual dividend of three-and-a.half Per cent., with an additional payment of one-half per cent., will, we understand, be rscommended to the proprietors at the half-yearly meeting on the 2d proximo. mo M re i a N c E ti e v . i 7- y T t h hi e ft m we in ek in , a g na sh lu a r r g e e marketbusiness has shown transactions several etwhellasaaslsino hdividendav have ta k taken place dpro g ressive i n stockspeculative s ; an d t m he in m es a , r a k s experienced great and sudden changes. A short time back a recommendation was pub lished signed by an almost unprecedented number of the leading firms in London, in favour of the proposal for the termination Bank of Englandationofbankingbuwseinreessunola understood to at be de two o'clock. The acceding to the arrangement, but left it to be initiated by tae Committee of Bankers. No steps, however, appear to have been taken, although the season has arrived when the benefits of the measure would be most felt., The mercan tile body have expressed their wishes in the only possible manner, and it remains for the bank ers t o comp l y with those wishes, or to state what further demonstration they require upon the point. htbheereea vestrygt d o r io v o nn e f ek government PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAINS IN THE PARKS.--' tAphaterrt vestry kehs etmemorialisinghweree wn meeting ao of prla ee could t su l h w e d held yesterday, a resolution was adopted in favour of the mt.enMtarttoine fountains in all the parks in London. It was ,urged that r in en - t tbe drinkin -Field; required than in the parks, and in St. James's and the Green n u g btai fo n u ed ntak which pass along from Orange-street, the artesian well in fr iri n s m w th er e e p 11 1 .7 the water being the purest in London. The motion w as unanimously agreed to. SUNDAY PHOTOGRAPHING.—At the meeting the vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mr. Chunhwardell Potter in the chair, complaints were a • • gam received a s to the Sunday ph t hi • *th refer o ograp ng nuisance especially wl • a ence to New-street, Covent-garden. , A letter on the subje from the Commissioners of Police was also received, stating that immediate inquiries had been made as to whether the circumstances were such as to give the police legal Pe vre q„ to interfere. Should there be no existing legal means , h ; abating th e nu i sance, th ere ex i s t s a strong feeling in parish in favour of applying to government on the subject' DIVORCE IN CANADA.—The following is a c°PY of the despatch addressed to the Governor-General by the Imperial authorities, recommending the Caiiadian Govern: ment to take action on the law of divorce :—" Downing-gine" to April 12. Sir,--In transmitting to you a copy of the Act amend the law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Cause! in England,' I wish to call your attention to the great import ance ance cf the subject. Her Majesty's Government regarded this subject as within the general class of internal att the duty and right of regulating which belong to the a , Colo nial Legislatures under free institutions. 'But they are the same time fully sensible of the great importance of an.i formity of legislation on this head, so far as it can ,bt. attained, without injury to those principles of colo n ial Government, and the danger as well to public morality. to family interests which might arise from the am of the colonies on the subject of marriage and divorce dif fering materially from that of the mother country, all;',1 1 . : each other. It is therefore the wish of her Majesty's VOT nment that you should consult your Council as to t . ll e expediency of at once introducing a measure which shall 1?„ corporate, as nearly as the circumstances of the colony will admit, the provisions of the Act recently p ass ed in Engla ne., Some of the minor provisions of the Act may probably pr.ov.e incompatible with the requirements of the colony, nor is !L my wish to prescribe uniformity in suc h unessential partl... culers. But the serious questions which might arise from difference difference of legislation on th a t por ti on o f t h e su bject will 7 relates to dissolution of marriage, or divorce a —questions possibly affecting the validity of marriages contracted in one part of the empire after divorce 1 r another, and consequently legitimacy of offspring—render it advisable that if the Legislature should pass any varying in en important degree from the present law 0 . Englend in this particular you should reserve it for the :con sideration of her Majeaty. The clause in most Gover nors' instructiorp relating to divorce Acts has been usually WA 10 appy only to special bills for the relief . of named persons, and you need not consider yourself in o ant_ .. way fettered by its provisions. Ifind, front communicatotir received travel parts of her Majesty's colonial sessi diet tie impression existed that the late Government _ de signed to propose to Parliament measures forextending law to the dominicmo of the Crown in general. I can am aware aware on what ground this has been supposed , and _hoarm); 140€1. that no such measure is iu contemplation. --I b. ; ST4NI4XIC." r 1