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ON TUESDAY, MARCH 1, PRICE 68., No. I. OF B ENTLEY'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. CONTENTS: ENGLISH PARTIES AND ENGLISH POLITICS. THE RELIGIOUS FUTURE OF INDIA. GLADSTONE ON HOMER. PROSPECTS OF ART IN ENGLAND. RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION. SIR BULWER LYTTON'S NOVELS. HORACE WALPOLE. THE CURRENCY AND THE LAST Ousts. OXFORD EXAMINATIONS. AUSTRIAN ITALY. CANADIAN OVERLAND ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. TO THE ELECTORS OFDR THE BOROUGH OF HOUSE or COMMONS, Thursday, Feb. 24, 1859. GENTLEMEN, —It is with very great regret that I announce to you my being about immediately to cease representing you in the House of Commons. The circumstances under which I quit that great assembly I have felt it necessary to explain in my place there ; to the satisfac tion, I trust, of the House, and yourselves. I hope I have done nothing to make you regret my connexion with you, which has now lasted for three years. During that period I have been unremitting in my attendance in that house, have taken part in many important debates, and maintained, I trust, uniformly, the character of an honest independent member ; giving an uncompromising support to the poli tical principles I have maintained through life, and redeeming every pledge I gave you, on your placing me in the high position of your representative. Your un varying kindness and confidence are engraved on my heart. I shall ever be proud of my connexion with your ancient borough, which has returned members to Parliament for nearly six centuries, numbering among them many eminent persons, among whom were Charles James Fox, and my distinguished immediate predecessor and friend Mr. Walpole, the present Home Secretary. Gentlemen, I consider the existence of such a borough as yours to be of great constitutional importance in many ways, as I should have strenuously striven to show the House, had I continued a member of it during the momentous discussions which seem imp endin g . am totally in the dark as to everything connected with the announced Reform Bill ; but it would occasion me profound concern to find your existence, as a Parlia mentary borough in any way menaced. Your present form was imposed upon you in the great constitutional set. tlement of 1832, when you were deprived of one of the two mem bers whom you had returned since the earliest years of Edward 11., while the franchise was restricted to the Ten Pound occupiers, and greatly increased vitality infused by incorporating no fewer than nineteen extensive parishes. 1 cannot persuade myself that the political existence of a borough so constituted will be now extinguished. How ever this may be, suffer me to express my grateful sense of your personal kindness to me, especially during my canvass on the two occasions on which you haVe returned me to Parliament, my hope that you. are satisfied with my con duct, and my fervent wishes for your prosperity, collectively and individually.—Believe me, Gentlemen, with feelings of very deep regret at parting with you, ever your grateful an' faithful friend and servant, SAMUEL WARREN. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT I IL. GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING will be presented an entirely new and romantic Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATANELLA ; or. THE POWER OF LOVE. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's Clothing. Commence at Seven, THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, BARNEY THE BARON. Mr. au I Mrs. Bat ney Williams. Followed by THE LATEST FROM NEW YORK. l'o conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD ; or,. Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. _ THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new rand Christmas Pantomime, entitled TETE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince D;amond and Princess Brighteyes. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedzwick, Mr. Buckstone, After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer, Re-engagement of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, will be produced a New Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled THE LAST HOPE. To be followed by a Grand Ballet and Scene from THE SIEGE OF TROY. Miss Rosina Wright, Miss Harriet Dalton, Miss Jenny Lauri. Mr. John Lauri, and Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 6 to commence at 7 every evening. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Powerful Novelty.—Crovided Houses.—Last Six Nights of MASKS AND FACES ; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster. Trium phant reception of Mr. Wright. Glorious success of the INVISIBLE PRINCE. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with MASKS AND FACES ; Mr. B. Webster, C. Selby, Mr. Bil lington, P. Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Miss U. Sims, Mrs. Bil lington. After which, WELCOME LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright. To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L. Took. 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. Mr` and Mrs. Alfred Wigan are engaged. Due notice will e Oita!, of their appearance. fiI•AL STRAND THEATRE, ..1.1) w ,i Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh THIS. EVENING. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST. Atter which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Yc Qucene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the revived dra matic Romance from Sir Walter Scott, entitled KENIL WORTH, re-produced with original effects and additional splendour. To be followed by SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, intro ducing Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Bridges, Mr. A. Cooke, &c. Madame BlanchC Madame Bridges. Maddlle. Flenrette, and Emily Cooke, together with the Star Riders. and Astley's unrivalled Troupe of Equestrian Artistes. To conclude witb the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MITN CHAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB CRUISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; 'Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morley ;I Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest, the Grimaldi of the day; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston. Brilliant and unsurpassable Transformation Scene, with dazzling effects of Colour and Fire. Gorgeous Scenery, and every incident in bustling reality, from Regent-street to the "New Palace for the People, at Muswell Hill." Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor --C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, 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 tion 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 inn Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and tho 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 MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT CORIIIICRCes as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied Instrumental perfortnances 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 WEATHEII.-:—Strx OFFICE, FEE. 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. .4Q—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. • BAROMETER-30'35. W I ND, South-Westerly; light, and very fine weather. Lord PALMERSTON must surely be hard up, when he is forced to beconie his own coachman. What —cannot even a CARDWELL be found, to take the reins for him, and let him harangue, if harangue he must, from his comfortable open carriage. Ex- Premiers have not of late been openly in the van of an attack on a rival Government. A ROEBUCK or a MILNER GIBSON (in Lord PALMERSTON'S OWII case last spring, Mr. CAIIDWELL) has been commonly found to lead the charge. There is an obvious pro priety, a pleasant, almost a chivalrous courtesy about this arrangement. It is a kind of refinement which We are by no means prepared to despise, that some one unattached, some one not likely to be a place -holder in a new Ministry, should take the ini tiative in these really hostile movements. It may be said, perhaps, that as the ex-Premier would still be the principal speaker, he may well make his own !notion. Not exactly so. Lon g may the good breeding distinguish us from Yankees,whiek shrinks from direct canvassing for office. There is something in the way of doing a thing—a something, too, in the mere way, which distinguishes the gentleman from the bully, the clown, and even from the undrilled man ; and we do earnestly hope that in proportion as our House of Commons becomes more democratic, the thorough English gentlemen who belong to it will put forth the whole force of their e: ample and influence to preserve a high tone of - political as well as of social good breeding within its walls. We regret, therefore, to see a veteran Minister and ex-Premier depart from the course prescribed by modern practice. It is not for the man who has been at the head of a Cabinet, who would like to re-occupy such a post, and whose name is at least on the cards, to be first in his own cause—not for him to say so openly, "Do turn out and let me come in." It looks, even is a public servant of threescore' and fifteen, a little immodest. Besides it seems as if a leader were without a single friend of note among the independent members. Rarely is it the case that any cause, or any motion which would not find some vigorous supporter amongst the In dependents, can deserve general support. We have peace men and war men and crotcheteers of all sorts, amongst the small knot who will connect themselves with no Ministry, and it is strange when the particular point which an ex-leader wishes to press can find favour with none of the office-shunning band. Even could no coachman for the night be found ready among them to take a fare, one would have thought a subordinate, though avowed Pal merstonian, small as that clique now is, would have looked better on the box than the noble lord, who is so obviously driving for Downing -street. As to the pretence that he does not mean seriously to interfere with the work of the evening, every one knows what it is worth. If Lord PALMERSTON, indeed, should find that the feeling of members generally is , against his factious self-intrusion, we believe that then he will make short work of it— just, possibly, back out altogether. That, however, is not his drift. He wants to perplex the Ministry. He would like to rake up everything, little and great, in their foreign administration, and consign them to contempt. He would like to make a mess of the Reform Bill announcement for Monday night —an announcement of which the country thinks ten times more than it does of Lord PAL MERSTON and his foreign policy. Lord PALMER • ETON does not want a dissolution on a Reform Bill, or on any question of domestic policy. He had to quit office, at the instance of a peace-man too, for not sustaining the coun try's dignity on a question of foreign policy ! —and sweet, very sweet, would it be to him to eject Lord DERBY and Lord MALMESBURY on the same general grounds which turned out Lords PALMERSTON and CLARENDON. He cannot succeed. We rather expect that he will have found by this time that he is going against the wishes of all but his own little set, and that he will have toned himself down to something like propriety by this evening. What, indeed, can he expect ? The to quoque of his opponents of all classes must be fatal to him. The man who was first to caress the originator of the present warlike appearances, while his hands were yet red with the citizen blood of the coup detat ; the man who, on the part of England, made the shabby Peace of Paris ; the man who left office while coquetting with Austria, and while our innocent Clues Anglicani were still half mad in the dungeons of Naples; the man who bad to submit to dishonour from the great " nigger" Republic; the man who, while the EMPEROR was playing the slave-trader and grossly maltreating Portugal, was enacting the Adonis of seventy-five by his side in Compiegne—this is not, surely, the man to assail his successors in affairs of foreign policy. If he does, we only hope Mr. ROEBUCK, or some equally independent man, will make his ears tingle with his own servile misdeeds. Precisely at the moment when it was most wanted—in the very nick—appeared, as we ob served yesterday, the long-looked-for report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Manning of the Royal Navy of England. This important document has now been presented, by command of Her MAJESTY, to the Houses of Par liament. The information afforded by it, in a most succinct form, will be especially acceptable to the members of the lower house, now that the Commons await the revised scheme of the maritime estimates about to be submitted to their considera tion by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. A clearer appreciation of those increased estimates—of the advisability, nay, of the imperative necessity of their increase—will be conveyed to the minds of the most rigid economists in the Legislature from a scrutiny of this most authoritative report from the hands of the Royal Commissioners. After a perusal of its pages, the Commons will be better pre pared to take at once into account the propositions of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Nothing in any way affecting in an important manner this really vital question as to the Manning of the Navy has escaped the attention of the Commissioners. These noble and gallant, honourable and right honourable scrutineers of the service, will be found to have especially directed their regard, under separate headings, to the Continuous Service System, to the mode of Manning the Navy in time of Peace, and to the Reserve in the Home Ports really deemed to be requisite. The total expense of the additions recommended by the report is given at very little over £loo,ooo—in all, £104,671—f0r improvements in the peace establishment : namely —over £6,000 for pay and pensions for gunnery—over £6,000 for petty officers' badges—nearly £16,000 for instruc tion and training ships—more than £14,000 for mess utensils, clothes, and bedding almost £20,000 for pensions of warrant officers' widows and something more than £42,000 for increased allowances of provisions. Be yond this is a much more important total for additional Reserves in the Manning of the QUEEN'S Service and the Merchant Service. The distribution of these £598,821 being as follows : £200,000 for 25,000 royal naval volunteers-20,000 in home and 5,000 in distant voyages ; £45,625 for 5,000 short-service pensions (marines) ; £132,000 for 4,000 reliefs in home ports ; and £116,525 for 2,000 as lv additional Coastguardsmen ; ma ki ng alto gether,e have shown, a grand total of some thing over £700,000 —adding the increased expense necessitated by those additional reserves to that resulting from the proposed improvements in the Peace Establishments. The two combined making in fact, just—£7o3,492. The Commons, we rest assured, will not be niggardly in responding to the increased estimates about to be laid before them by Sir JOHN PAKlNGTON—estimates based, among other things, upon the well-considered suggestions of the Royal Commissioners. Let us take as a happy augury of the new energy about to be thrown into the war department generally, the knighthood conferred yesterday by the SOVEREIGN upon the distinguished inventor of the rifle cannon, now Sir GEORGE ARMSTRONG. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury entertained at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at the family mansion, Arlington-street, the Duke and Duchess d' Aumale. The following were invited to meet their Royal Highnesses : The Duchess of Inverness, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess de Bemstorff, the Earl and Countess of Hardwick° and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the E trl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Vil liers, the Earl of Ellenborough, Count B ran d en b urg , Vis count Canterbury, Lord St an l e y, L or d J o h n M anners , L a dy Cowley,... C o l one l th e H on. P . W . T a lb ot, and Mr. Hastings Russell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Russell. ti 4-4? 'Va s ' ' • , 1, • r - c • m 0 ' t` THE SUN. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1859. LATEST NEWS. THE BOMBAY MAILS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The steamship Ripon, Captain Munro, bringing these mails, has arrived. She left Alexandria on the 11th inst. ; Malta, 15th; and Gibraltar, 20th. The Ripou brings 69 passengers, £1,210 in specie, 1,648 bales of silk, and 12 cases of shawls, &c. She spoke the Sulttn, steamer, on the 21st, off Mafra, and Ceylon, on the 22d, off Cape Finisterre. The Spanish schooner Francoli put into Gibraltar on the lath, with damages from collision with an unknown bark, off Marabella, on the previous day. One man hurt by the collision. , Her Majesty's troopship Perseverance, from Portsmouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the night of the 12th, and proceeded to Malta on the evening of the 14th. The Sardinian brig Alfieri, at Gibraltar, from Buenos Ayres, passed the British transport Col grain, with troops, from London for Madras, Dec. 29, in lat. 20 S., long 28 E. Gibraltar exchanges on London 501 ; Paris, 526 ; Marseilles, 528; Genoa, 529. • The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : HANOVER, FEB. 24. The Second Chamber has unanimously resolved upon requesting Government to" Obtain from the Federal Diet resolutions, calculated by their una nimity and energetic execution to avert the threatening danger of war ; but if necessary to repel with united Federal power attacks on Austria or Germany. CORFU, FEB. 19. The lonian Parliament has. rejected the projects of reform proposed by Mr. Mr Gladstone has taken his departure from Corfu. BARI, FEB. 18. The improvement in the health of the King continues. The Count of Syracuse is here. TRIESTE, FEB. 24. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 19th. Ismail Haki has been appointed commander of the corps d'armee which is to be reunited at Widdin and Nissa. Troops will be despatched the day after to-morrow to Silistria. A concentration of troops will also take place on the Greek frontiers. Numerous arrests of Christians have taken place in Thessaly. ATHENS, FEB. 19. Government has asked for a credit of two millions. MALTA, FEB. 24. The barque Johanna, of Belfast, Bennett, master, struck, on the 3d January, on Baraguay shoal, in 15 N. lat., 95 E. lon. The crew were saved. The Grand Duke and four Russian vessels had arrived at Malta. FRANCE. PARIS, TIMINDAY. Lord Cowley left Paris this morning for Cologne, to meet there the English Ambassador to Paris, who ,on his side proceeds from London to Vienna. The Patrie says—" The departure of Lord Cowley for Vienna has been, yesterday and to-day, the subject of much commentary. Public opinion has given to this mission a great importance, and we believe that it is right. Without wishing to exaggerate tho importance or to prejudge the results of the mission, we cannot but consider this movement of English diplomacy as showing a renewed tendency on the part of the British Cabinet towards the policy of that of the Tuileries. For our own part, we have never doubted such a tendency, which responds to all the principles as well as to all the interests on which the English alliance is founded. Assuredly the most fortunate, as the most logical, character of this alliance would be that it should protect in Italy the civilisation and the independ ence of nations and the security of Europe, as it already has in the East and throughout the world." A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. Prince Jerome was present. BOURSE, Feb. 24.—The market was again very buoyant at the opening, but prices afterwards gave way in consequnce of sales for realisation. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 70c., re ceded to 68f. 40c. Mobilier varied from 7901. to 782 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 545 f. to 540 f.; Orleans, 1,327 f. 50c. to 1,322 f. 50e. ; Lyons, 8401. to 837 f. 50c. ; Southern, 520 f. to 517 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. _ .... 98 10 t Do. end month. .. 98 10 Credit Fonder 645 Belgian 4% Piedmontese (5) Roman BB 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 4O 2.5 3 per Cents - 68 651 Do. end month 68 651 Bank Shares 2890 I Credit Mobilier .. 790 Do. Account ..... 792 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 930 .. 932 50 New ditto — .. 800 Lyons and Mediterranean 837 50 .. 838 75 New ditto — -- • • Geneva 535 .. 540 Midi Southern Western 595 .. , 593 75 Eastern Grand Central Sardinian 402 50 .. 405 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25t. ; money, 24f. 95c. she will scrupulously abstain from interfering with those of other Powers." I hear to-day that the question of occupation is in a fair way to be settled, the Papal Government having ex pressed to the Paris and Vienna Cabinets its wish that the French and Austrian troops should be withdrawn within a given period. For some time past councils of war, at which the Emperor presided, have been held here, and yeiler day matters of the highest importance were defini tively settled. If the Emperor Napoleon should think fit to join Sardinia in an attack on Austria— which Heaven forefend ! he will find her prepared for defence, and her troops full of confidence. It is now related, that, if there should be a war in Italy, the Archduke Albrecht, the son and heir of the Archduke Charles, will be Commander-in-Chief of the forces, with Baron Hess as his Adlatus. For the moment Austria will hold her peace, but ariy decidedly hostile movement on the part of France would hardly fail to lead to an Imperial manifesto. In a previous letter I alluded to the almost impregnable " triangular" stronghold formed by Peschiera, Verona, and Mantua ; a military friend has called my attention to the fact that the stronghold iu question is quadrangular, inas much as Legnago, on the Adige, is strongly for tified. For the information of readers who have not a map at hand, it may be stated that the north west corner of the quadrangle is formed by Pes chiera, the south-west by Mantua, the north-east by Verona, and the south-east by Legnago. Peschiera is at the southern extremity of the Guarda Lake, Mantua on the Mincio, and Verona and Legnago on the Adige. As no force which Louis Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel can bring into the field will be able to dislodge the Austrians from their position between the Mincio and Adige, it is probable that they will fall back on it at once if France should declare war against them. Troops posted within such a small quadrangle would have an immense advantage, over their adversaries, who, being spread over a far greater extent of country, would be in danger of being cut up in detail, The Austrians only take advantage of their right to keep a garrison in Commachio when it is abso lutely necessary to do so, the place being so un healthy that the troops must be relieved every five or six weeks. From Bologna we learn that the Government palace is being pre pared for the reception "of a very high personage with a large suite." Naturally the Pope is the personage meant, but it is not very likely that he will quit the capital while there is a French gar rison in it. The speech made by the Emperor Napoleon on the 7th of February gave such offence to the Papal Government that it was not published in the official Giornale di Roma. A letter from Vienna of the 20th, in the Augs burg Gazette, says :—" The Austrian Government has obtained from the Holy See a promise that Cardinal Brunelli shall proceed to Pazis to request the French Government to state in clear and pre cise terms the reforms which it wishes to see intro duced into the States of the Church. As regards the occupation of those States, the Austrian Govern ment, as already stated, is ready to withdraw its troops from Bologna and Ancona as soon as the French troops shall evacuate Rome and Civita Vecchia. But it will not in any case abandon its right to occupy Ferrara, Commachio, and Placentia —in conformity with treaties. Such is the spirit of a communication which the Imperial Government has sent to different courts, and it is the basis of an arrangement which it is desired to bring about between France and Austria." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY. The Lincoln Meeting being in course of celebration, very few subscribers were present. The only bet that came wi der our notice was 800 to 50 about Electric for the Derby. LINCOLN MEETING-THURSDAY. The Scurry Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added. Straight run in about half a mile. 8 subs. Mr. Blanton's Polly Johnson, 4 yrs, Bst 91b.... (French) 1 Mr. T. Cliff's Joan of Arc, 4 yrs, 7st 71b .... (Pritchard) 2 Capt. Christie's Queen of Scots, 3 yrs, 7st .... (Bullock) 3 The following also ran :—Macbeth, Miss-fit, Ochiltree, Weasel, and Miss Dean. Betting-11 to Bon Polly Johnson, 7to 1 agst any other. Won easily by two lengths ; a length between the second and third; tad fourth. The Lincolnshire Handicap Stakes of Evsovs each, 3 ft, with 100 added, Winners extra. The second to save his stake. One mile. 70 subs. - Mr. J. La Mert's Bel Egperanza, syrs, Est 121 b (Clements) 1 Mr. Higgins' s Tiara, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Cresswell) 2 Mr. Jackson's Broadlands, 4 yrs, 7st .. (Bullock) 3 The following also ran :—Captain Wedderburn, Apollo, Abron, Grillade, English Rose, Lord Berkeley, Meg Mer rilies, Gargrave, Lass of Richmond Hill, Layton, Clemanthe, Yorkshire Miss, Orleans, Minster, The Greek, Skipjack, Maid of the Tweed, and Surprise. Betting-6 to 4 agst Orleans, ' 7 to 1 agst Broadlands, 10 to 1 agst English Rose, 12 to 1 agst Meg Merrilies, 100 to 8 agst Abron, 100 to 6 agst Tiara, 20 to 1 agst Surprise, 20 to 1 agst Layton. Won by half a length ; a length between the second and third ; Captain Wedderburn and Grillade were well up. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; 3 7 yr-olds, 6st 91b; four, 9st 21b ; five, 9st 111 b ; six and aged, lOst 21b. Two '7 o6cu, Miles. Mr. Ramsden's Shafto, 3 yrs • (Challoner) 1 Mr. Shelley's Lifeboat, 4 yrs (Withington) 2 Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes, aged . (Bates) 3 The following also ran :—Nosegay, Gargrave, Specula tion; and Minster. Betting-6 to 4 agst Shafto, 7to 2 agst Mr. Sykes. Won easily by a length ; three lengths between the second and third; a length between the third and fourth; the others beaten off. On returning to scale Shafto was pronounced short of weight, and the race was claimed for Lifeboat ; but as the latter did not come into the enclosure the trainer of Mr. Sykes also claimed the race, and thus the matter remains for the present. • The Belling Steeplechase of 5 sous each, with 30 added, for four-yr-olds and upwards. About:three miles. Mr. B. Land, jun.'s, The Sportsman, 6 yrs (£4O), lOst 111 b (Owner) 1 Mr. Smith's Chieftain, 6 yrs (V 0), lOst 111 b (Rugg 2 Mr. C. Pearse's The Farmer, (V 0), lOst 61b (Meany 3 The following also ran :—The Premier, and Whiteface. Betting-7 to 4 agst Sportsman, 3to 1-each agst Chief tain and The Fanner. Won by half a length; three lengths between the second and third ; bad fourth. The winner was. bought in for 42 guineas. An objection was made to Sports Man, on the ground of a cross, but it was made to late. Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, 3 ft., with 25 added ; hurdle race winners, extra. Two miles, over six flights of hurdles. 25 subs. Mr. Barnard's Tease (late Little Tom), by Scamander, aged, lOst 121 h (Mr. Edwards) 1 Mr. J. Turner's Harry Bluff, 4 yrs, lOst ....(C. Boyce) 2 Mr. S. Jacob's Übique, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (H. M'Lean) 3 The following also ran :—Physician, and Kilsby. Betting— 5 to 4 agst Tease, 3 to 1 agst Physician, 4 to 1 agst any other. Won by ten lengths. The others were stopped at the distance and walked in. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly to-morrow evening, at Cambridge House. Mr. Jones, of Pantglas, M.P., and , Mrs. Jones entertained at dinner on Wednesday evening his Excel lency the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister and Countess von Platen, the D ulce of Leeds, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Lanesborough, the Countess of Belmore and Lady Louisa Corry, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord Abinger, Lord and Lady Elibank, Hon. Mr. Justice Crowder, Mr. Hughan. and Miss Hughan, Sir Richard Levinge, &c. Mrs. Jones had an assembly later in the evening, which was most fashionably attended. Among the approaching marriages announced in the fashionable world is that of the Princess Poniatowski, grandniece of the famous Marshal who perished in the Elster, near Leipsic, with Viscount de Mintarnal, of a Lan guedoc family, and whose mother was niece of Marshal Ney. In the list of those who had the honour to attend her Majesty's levee on the 23d instant, the name of Mr. Cowper, Ueng,al Civil Service, was omitted. Her Majesty's Body-guard of Gentlemen-at Arms had a' mess dinner at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, which was attended by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, C.B , the captain of the corps. REPEAL OF THE RECENT REGULATION FOR THE PREPAYMENT OF LETTERS.—The following notice Was issued yesterday from' the Post-office :—" General Post office, Feb. 24, 1859.—Inland l e etters Posted .I.Tupaid. The reWation recently promulgated that, after the 10th inst., all inland letters should be prepaid, is repealed ; an d the les previously . in force as regards inland letters, either wholly unpaid or insufficiently paid, will henceforth be reverted to.—By command of the Postmaster-General.-- ROWLAND HILL, Secretary." REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—We have reason to believe that Sir John Pakington, the First Lord of the Admiralty, purposes standing for the borough of Greenwich on the retirement of Sir W. Codrington. This step is to be taken in consequence of the proposed dis franchisement of Droitwich, which Sir John at present represents. If nothing particularly unfavourable to the present Government happens before April, the return of Sir John will be certain.—Mechanics' Magazine. THE STIRLING BURGHS.—On Tuesday evening about 30 members of Sir James Anderson's election com mittee met in the Poor-house of Dunfermline, for the purpose of deliberating as to what shciuld be done with regard to the burghs in the event of a vacancy. They had positive assurances that Sir James AndersOn would not again stand for the burghs, and after some diScussion they agreed to call themselves "a committee to look after the Liberal interests," instead of " Sir James Anderson's com mittee," as at present, and to look out for a candidate who would stand for and support their interests. " The Ave Maria" composed by Mendelssohn for the opera of " Loreley," will be produced for the first time in public on Wednesday evening ; March 2, at the perform ance of the Vocal Association, to which society E. Buxton, Esq., has kindly conceded the exclusive right of performing " The Ave Maria ;" and to add a greater interest to the work, it has been decided to produce the whole of the finale to the first act of the opera of " Loreley." Madame Cathe rine Hayes will sing the soprano music. Another feature of the evening's performance will be Dr. Bennett's " May Queen." The band and choir, under the direction of M. Benedict, will number 400 performers. THE EARL OF STAMFORD AND HIS TENANTRY. —Upwards of 200 of the tenants of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington have recently presented an address to his lordship, expressive of their confidence in and their attach ment towards him, and thanking him for the kind manner in which he received their complaints during the long and patient inquiry he had lately instituted into the manage ment of his estate and affairs at Enville. The address, beautifully illuminated and bound in morocco, was pre sented to his lordship at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, on Wednesday last, by a deputation from the tenantry, and called forth a warm acknowledgment from the earl, and an assurance that he was ever ready to consult the interests and listen personally to the complaints or grievances of those who reside upon his estates.—lrolverhampton Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.-PORTMADOC, FEB. 22.—Ae 11.15 a.m., as one of the ferrymen of this place, named Morris Jones, an old seaman, of about 68 years of age, was coming across in his sailing boat, wind and tide right ahead, being a wet cold morning, he landed his pas sengers (two females) on the embankment, so that they might warm themselves in walking to this place, saying that he would tack about to wait the ebb tide, when, in a sudden squall, the boat filled and went•down, and the poor man was seen floating for a short time. Boats from the different vessels were immediately manned, but before they reached the spot he had disappeared. 'Up 'to. 4 p.m. the body had not been recovered. • FATAL ACCIDENT AT SUNDERLAND,—On Mon day a most distressing accident occurred at the saw-mills of Messrs. Robson and Croudace, at the east side of Sunder land Dock. A little girl, of 11 years of age,. went with the dinner for her father, who is a labourer at the works, and, as usual, placed the dishes on the boiler side to keep warm till he came at 12 o'clock. The steam-engine was in motion, and a portion of her dress appears to have been caught by the crank of the fly-wheel as• she tdrned to leave the engine house. She was pulled in below the crank to a groove in the earth, made to allow the wheel to revolve, and was' dreadfully lacerated. The poor child gave.. one* loud cry, and the men stopped the engine ; but she was dead before she was disentangled. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday even ing, as the tido receded from the strand opposite the Wil liamstown Station, on the Kingstown Railway, a private phaeton, to which a fine horse was attached, was found in the water. The animal had evidently been dead some time. It was apprehended that some person bad alio hist his life. It now appears that as Mr. Thomas Bowen, of Great Bruns wiek-street, was driving on the strand, on Saturday even ing, he accidentally got into deep water, lie was obliged to cast off his coat, leave the vehicle, and swim a consider able distance. lie did not report the circumstance to the police or the railway dficials until yesterday, evening. The scene of the accident is known as the White Bank, where a carriage was lost, and all its occupants, as well as the horses, were drowned, about 30 years ago. -THE SALE OF POISONS BlLL.—Thero is at least one part of this bill which certainly requires material mo dification before the measure passes into a law. It de piives all the existing druggists of the liberty to sell poisons, . unless they undergo an examination, or unless they be what are called " Pharmaceutical chemists " members of the Pharmaceutical Society. The privilege in favour of the latter body is both -un j ast and absurd. There are about 10,000 druggists in England, and about 2,000 Pharmaceutical chemists. Of the latter only about '250 have passed an examination, that pro cess not being required of members of the Pharmaceutical Society prior t 6-1853. All the rest are upon a footing with the I,eody of druggiStS as to the examination; and yet it is pfoposed, brthe bill to g i ve t o thi s small num ber of Tersons l7 about one-eighth of the whole body of druggists—the privilege of selling laudanum and other drugs, from which the trade generally, by whom they are at pres,p4f 'dispensed, would be prohibited from longer dealing in. We understand there will be a meeting of the drug trade of this town at the Crown and Thistle to-night, :to consider the .anomalous provisions referred to; and it seems only necessary to have general attention directed to 'them in order to get them corrected,--Northern .Daily _Express. THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY. FIRST ANNUAL MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) The first annual meeting of the shareholders in this com pany was held this morning at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street—R. R. Campbell, chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The CHAIRMAN rose and read the report : It stated that " the purchase had been completed on the basis of the arrangements arrived at between the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and the promoters of this company, at a cost of £165,332, of which sum £161,482 has been paid in shares and money; and it is expected that the liquidation of the Eastern Steam Navigation Com pany will yield such a result as will render the payment of the balance, £3,850 (due Ist Feb., 1860) unnecessary; as thisi company will rank as shareholders in respect of all Eastern Steam shares exchanged for shares in this com pany, but without incurring any liability." He said, in moving the adoption of the report, he should not trouble the meeting with any detail, as an unanimity almost unprecedented prevailed among the old and new shareholders. (Hear, hear.) The old shareholders had exhibited the greatest confidence in the undertaking, as many of them had increased their investments tenfold. The object of the directors of the new company, appreciating the difficulties encountered by the old, had been to arrive at the most advantageous manner in which the new shares could be allotted, and he had the pleasure of stating that the plan ultimately adopted had given the greatest satisfaction. All the shareholders from John o'Groat's House to the Land's End had been treated alike. (Cheers.) The meeting would perhaps like to know who were the shareholders. They had members of Parliament, bankers, merchants, en gineers, ladies and gentlemen, butlers. (Cheers.) Two hundred and sixty of the shareholders held from 1 to 9 shares ; 795, 10 to 19 ; 410, 20 to 29 ; 92, 30 to 49; 207, 60 to 59 ; 36, 60 to 99 ; 190, 100 to 149 ; 92, 150 to 260 ; 40, 251 to 500 ; 28, 501 to 1,000 ; 32, 1,001 and upwards, and 79 the odd numbers. (Cheers.) The directors confidently expected that by August next they would have the pleasure of seeing the proprietors on board the ship, as the persons who had taken the tenders for the different portions of the work remaining to be done had assured the directors that by that time she would to a certainty be completed—(cheers)—and they had taken care • to fix such penalties on the contractors as would se cure tho punctual performance of the work. He believed when the ship was completed she would• be extensively patronised by the Government ; and in an interview he had had with Lord Stanley his lordship had expressed the greatest interest in the great ship, and had stated that, in the event of her proving a success, she would render this country and India indepen dent of Egypt. (Cheers.) The meeting would perhaps like to know the intention of the directors with respect to the destination of the Great Eastern. (Hear.) Without a more profitable opportunity offered, the directors intended the first trial trip of the ship should be to Portland—(hear, hear) — where every preparation had been made to receive her. (Cheers.) With respect to the station on which the ship would ultimately be placed, he had no doubt that India would be her destination. (Cheers.) He would not further trespass upon the meeting, but would conclude by moving the reception and adoption of the report. (Cheers.) The motion having been seconded, was put to the meet ing and carried unanimously. The election of directors being put to the meeting, Mr. WEEnEn took objection to the Name of Mr. Herbert Ingram. He then referred to the trial of Scully v. Ingram, amidst the greatest confusion and cries of " Shame, shame ;" he, however, persisted in moving a resolution, that Mr. Ingram be not elected. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Berkeley, and a great number of other proprietors characterised the conduct of Mr. Webber as un- English in bringing forward such a discussion while the question was still under- the coasideration of the Court of Queen's Bench. The CHAIRMAN, after a very stormy discussion, put the resolution of Mr. Webber, but it was almost unanimously rejected, and Mr. Herbert Ingram was accordingly re elected to his seat on the direction of the company's affairs. The other directors having been re-elected, Mr. BEAL nest moved that Mr. Campbell and Mr. Jackson be appointed managing directors of the company, with a remuneration of 2i per cent, on the profits, and 1 per cent. on the gross receipts of the company. A SHAREHOLDER -thought_ such a motion premature. He suggested that the subject be referred to a committee. Mr. HAWES protested against the appointment of a com mittee. He thought the directors should not be fettered in the slightest manner, and he also objected to the proposal of remuneration from gross receipts. (Hear, hear.) He contended that it ought to be takenlrona the profits, and he therefore proposed that the remuneration should be 5 per cent. on the net profits, and moved a resolution to that effect. After a short discussion Mr. Boal withdrew his reso. lution. The amendment for the appointment of a committee was negatived, and Mr. Ha wes' resolution, appointing Mr. Campbell and Mr. Jackson managing directors, with 5 per cent, on the profits of the company as remuneration, was carried. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THIS DAY'S SIIIPPLYG. LONDON, Feb: 25.—Wind this day at noon S.W. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 24.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Psyche, for Mauritius, after repairing; H.M.S. Himalaya, for Cape of Good Hope. FALMOUTH, Feb. 24.—Wind calm.—Sailed—Union (s.), for Mauritius. SWANSEA, Feb. 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed—Lady Manuel, for Cape de Verd. CLYDE, Feb. 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Boadicia3, for Trinidad; Francis, for Porto Rico ; Cuba, for New York. Wind W. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived.—Ondine, steamer , from London • Thomas Powell, steamer, from Cardiff; Danube and Alarm, from Newport. Sailed.—Aurifera, for Cape of Good Hope, with 235 Government emigrants ; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin ; Woodlands, for Sunderland LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind W.N.W. . Arrived, Feb. 24.—Lark, from Villa Vicosa. Arrived, Feb. 25.--Belle and Mary, from Lucon. Sailed, Feb. 23.—Cassiopea, for Mauritius; Christian Syenson, for Santos ; Sarah . Ann, for Cadiz. Sailed, Feb. 24.—Stork, for Terceira. Sailed, Feb. 25.—J. IL Boardman, for Aden. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind N.W., tide second hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, Feb. 24—Insularnaren, from Laguna. Arrived, Feb. 25—Symmetry, from St. Michael's; Geina, from Thisted ; Baron Martin, from Dieppe. Sailed—Devonshire, for Mauritius ; Planet, steamer, for Hamburg ; Fleches, steamer, for Ghent ; East Anglian, steamer, for Copenhagen. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind W. by N., moderate. Passed.—Johan Herman, from London, for Kurrachee, and not from the north; Gibraltar, screw steamer, from Cadiz, for London ; her Majesty's ship Rhadamantas, from westward, for Woolwich ; Eleanor, from Gottenburg, for Cape of Good Hope ; Ludomiller, from Newcastle, for Rio Janeiro ; Emile, from Gottenburg, for Rio Janeiro ; Eugene, from . Nantes, for Leith. Sailed—Ei.a, for Swansea; Minna and Reaper, for Cadiz. A somewhat singular attempt at escape from prison was made three nights ago by a girl about 20, named Eleanore, who has been for the last two months in confinement for vagrancy at Beaugency (Loiret). She had concealed iu her cell a knife and a pair of scissors, and by the aid of these instruments she managed to remove the plaster from the wall and take out first one brick and then others until she had made an opening large enough to force her way throUgh. Her first visit was to the work-room, which she entered by breaking a pane of glass, and then unfastening a window. Haying thus obtained ad mission, she regaled herself with some provisions she found there. She then went into the courtyard in order to com plete her escape by passing through the chapel, the win dows of which looked into the yard, and were but a short distance from the ground. By means of her knife and scissors she removed a pane of glass and got into the interior of the building. Here, however, her courage appears to have failed her, for having found o n one o f the chairs a velvet cap lallongin6 to the beadle, she feared that he was somewhere in the building, and she determined to renounce the attempt. She accord ingly returned to her own 'cell by the - way she had left it. On the other inmates of the establishment going into the work-room in the morning they were astonished at the havoc which had been committed on their eatables; and an alarm was given. On the inmates being mustered it was found that Eleanore was missing, and the gendarmes were about to be sent in pursuit of her, when on some one going to her cell they found her wrapped up in a blanket fast asleep, making up for her want of rest during the night. She was well laughed at by her companions for her attempt, which she will have to pay for by additional confinement. Several children having left schoo:, three even ings ago, in the commune of Saulehoy (Somme) began playing to g ether, when one of th en , name d B ou d o i s, nine years old, called another, aged 12, named Bih e t, by th e meaningless nickname of Pomard, which all the others re peated. This enraged Bihet so much that he went home, and, without being noticed by any one, took his father's gun, which he knew to be loaded, and returned to the place where the children remained at play. Ho then discharged the gun at Boudois, exclaiming at the same time that he had long owed him a grudge, and that he would cure all his playmates of calling names. The other received the whole of the charge in his right arm, all the flesh of which was torn from the bone. Some persons who came to the spot on hearing the detonation, conveyed him home, where lie lies in a dangerous state. 13ihet was arrested and has been lodged in the prison at Amiens. MUSCULAR EXERCISE IN MECHANICAL TREAT MENT.—A very important theory with reference to bodily deformities has recently been carried into practice by Mr. H. 11. Bigg, the successful anatomical mechanician to her Majesty, which consists in strengthening by muscular exercise that which is gained during the progress of me chanical treatment. With this object Mr. Bigg has visited the Orthopedic Institutions of Vienna, Berlin, &c., and is mplicitly following out the valuable information gained by this tour of inspection, the facts of which he likewise gives to the profession, in a brochure just published by Churchill, of New Burlington-street. AN ALARMING SACRIFICE--UNPRECEDEN TED SALE—In Parisian circles it is whispered —among those who profess to be well informed on every topic of the day—that a Sardinian Prii o)ss has lately been sold and imported into France, and that the purchase was effected for one Napoleon. If this be true, our stupid contributor persists in saying that the royal lady has been bought for somewhat less than a sovereign as a Napoleon, in English currency, is not worth more than 16s Bcl.—Quiz. ELE CTION INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL THIS DAY. The official declaration of the numbers polled yesterday by the candidates for the vacant seat in Parliament for the borough of Marylebone was officially announced this morning by the returning officer, Mr. Tamplin. There was a very large attendance of electors, but the numbers fell very far short of those pre sent on Wednesday. At eleven o'clock Mr. Tamplin, accompanied by Mr. Edwin James, Col. Romilly, Sir J. Duke, Mr. Wyld, M.P., and a large body of influential per sons connected with the borough, arrived at the hustings. The RETURNING OFFICER then came forward and announced the numbers as follows : Edwin James, Esq. Colonel Romilly . 6,803 . 3,449 Majority for Mr. James. 3,354 The announcement was received with loud cheers. Mr. TAMPLIN then declared that the choice of the electors of Marylebone had fallen upon Edwin James, Esq., and he accordingly declared that gen tleman duly elected. (Immense cheers.) Mr. JAMES then came forward amidst the loudest applause, and in the course of a very eloquent speech, thanked the electors for the honour they had conferred upon him. He said, if any animosi ties had arisen during the contest, he trusted it would be allowed to subside. His utmost exertions would henceforth be made for the local rights and interests of the borough. (Loud cheers). COL ROMILLY thanked the electors who had given him their support. A vote of thanks to the returning officer closed the proceedings. GREENWICH. Last evening, at eight o'clock, a crowded meeting of electors was held at the Literary Institution, Royal-hill, Greenwich, to adopt measures to secure the return of Mr. W. Angerstein, to succeed Gene ral Sir W. Codrington, on his retirement from the representation of the borough. The chair was occupied by Mr. Cook, of Blackheath, and on the , platform were several leading supporters of Alder man Salomons at the recent election. The CHAIRMAN observed that as a new writ would shortly be issued for Greenwich, the meeting had been convened to adopt measures to secure the return of Mr. Angerstein, and he was happy to say that a large number of electors, who on the last occasion had felt it their duty to vote for Alderman Salomons, were now determined to support Mr. Angerstein against any other candidate who might appear. (Cheers.) Mr. ANGERSTEIN, who was received with re peated cheers, observed he was placed in a some what peculiar position, as he saw himself sur rounded by friends who had opposed him at the late election, but had now kindly promised him their hearty support. He was perfectly aware that at the late election he had to contend with an opponent of high character and extended public experience, and that, in addition, a large number of electors were pledged to support that gentleman before he (Mr. Angerstein) entered the field. That contest was over, and it was best to let bygones be bygones. (Cheers.) He was grateful to those who returned Alderman Salomons for the support they had volunteered him, and with that additional support he believed that he should enter the House of Commons as the worthy Alderman's colleague. (Cheers.) Mr. Angerstein then re ferred to various political questions, and expressed his opinion that c h urc h- ra t es should. be entirely abolished, although he was anxious that some pro vision should. be made to keep up the mere fabric, as the churches were the property of the nation, and not of a sect. The provisions of the Govern ment Church-rate Bill were so peculiar, that he (with many others) was scarcely in a position at present to express an opinion upon it. An opinion appeared to prevail that a war was imminent ; but he trusted. tha t the united wisdom of the Govern ment and the Legislature would be enabled to stave off the evil, consistent with the national honour. Parliamentary Reform was one of the great ques tions of the day, and as he had so often expressed his views on that subject, he would merely state that he was prepared to support a large measure of reform, no matter by whom introduced. (Cheers.) Mr. Angerstein concluded his address by referring to various local questions, and resumed his seat amidst cheers. On the motion of Mr. HARDING, seconded by Mr. CABBAN, a resolution pledging the meeting to support Mr. Angerstein, was unanimously adopted. Dr. PURVIS (who nominated Alderman Salomons at the hustings) then addressed the meeting in favour of Mr. Angerstein, and observed that he and numerous friends of the Alderman had heartily co-operated to ensure the return of Mr. Angerstein at the ensuing election, when he hoped and believed that no contest would take place. A numerous and influential committee was then appointed, and after addresses from Mr. D. Bass, Mr. G. Bennett, and other electors, the meeting separated. WORCESTERSHIRE (EAST). THE DECLARATION. Yesterday (Thursday) the High Sheriff (Mr. W. C. Hemming) attended at Droitwich to make the " declaration" of the successful candidate, and to announce the result of the poll. The court had been adjourned to 11 o'clock, but nearly an hour was occupied in casting up the poll books, the in terval being occupied by a rather disorderly mob in practical joking, and shouting, groaning, and cheer ing the leaders of the two parties. At length The ITIGELSIIERIFF came forward and announced that the result of the poll had been as follows : For the Hon. Mr. Calthorpe 2,304 For Mr. Pakington 1,965 Majority for Mr. Calthorpe The announcement was received with the most uproarious cheering by the victorious party, with counter groans from the other side. The district returns, as made by the Sheriff, are as follows : Polling Places. Calthorpe. Pakington. Bromsgrove 250 .... 226 Droitwich 164 .. .. 219 Dudley 360 .. 182 Evesham Halesowen Kingsnorton Pershore Shepston-on-Stour 67 .. 115 Stourbridge Total 2,304 .... 1,965 Majority.for Mr. Calthorpe, 339. The HIGH SHERIFF congratulated the county on the termination of the election without any breach of the peace, and expressed a hope that now that the contest was over all irritation and animosity would subside. (Cheers.) Mr. CALTHORPE then addressed the assembly amid much interruption. He said he found it more difficult to express his feelings now that he had been returned their member than when he was soli citing their suffrages. He attributed his success rather to the combined and unremitting exertions of those who had always been firm supporters of . liberty and progress than to his own merits ; and they bad shown by the result of the poll that inde pendent electors of the division did not consider themselves represented fairly unless they were re presented by two Liberal members. The most strenuous efforts had been made by their opponents, but the success of his party had been most entire and complete. (Loud chee rs .) Mr. Calthorpe then 'alluded to the charges which he said had been made against him by the agents—(Name, name)—of Mr. Pakington, that he was a Roman Catholic, that he . would open theatres on a Sunday, &c., and said that those statements had been made freely by Mr. Pakington's canvassers—he would not say his paid agents, the object being, of course, to weaken his cause. He denied that he had ever advocated the opening of theatres or such like places of amuse ment on Sundays, and produced a letter written by the person who had put the question to him at the Lye Waste meeting to disprove the allegation that he had ever made such a reply to the question as had been put into his mouth. After some further remarks Mr. Calthorpe thanked the electors for the honour done him, and sat down loudly cheered. The Hon. F. LYGON also addressed the meeting, and th t e h e H P ig r h oce S e h d e i ri n gffs.. terminated in a vote of thanks MURDER IN LANARKSHIRE.—On Saturday night at a late hour, a hannerman, residing in Larkhall, near Hamilton, named Robert Stew ar t, quarre ll e d w ith hi s w ife a while in state of intoxication, and knocked her down and beat her so that she expired almost immediately. Tho outrage was committed in the street, shortly after Stewart had left a public-house, where he had been carousing. Ho was at once apprehended and lodged in Hamilton gaol. An investigation into the circumstances is going on in the meantime. Deceased was about forty, while the prisoner is only twenty-eight. A YANKEE ARMAMENT.—On a recent occasion Mr. Jefferson Davies cou nse ll e d th e St a t e o f Mi ss i ss i pp i , to prepare for war. The Vicksburg Whig gives the following inventory of the arms belonging to the State :—"Four flint lock muskets, all rusty, and no breeches to at least two; one cannon ; seven bayonets, r us ty, w ith no po i n t s ; a pile of belts and scabbards, but no swords; fifty cartridge boxes- We have now 5 major- generals, 10 brigadier-generals, and 60 colonels, 60 lieutenant-colonels, 60 majors, and will soot! have 600 captains, 1,200 lieutenants, 4,800 sergeants, and 4,800 corporals. We are happy to inform them, however; that we have no privates, the l eg i s l a t ure h av i ng di s pense(' with that useless portion of the army." AUSTRIA. . - VIENNA, Feb. 22.—The Agraa. Ze . itung, an official paper, thus confirms informatiOn which was contained in my letter of the 13th inst. : " The Austrian Government has expressed its readiness to recommend administrative reforms to the Papal Government, but it will never, and if a war should result from its refusal, co-operate in an attempt to enforce the execution of such reforms. In regard to the occupation of the Papal dominions, the Imperial Government has declared that it will withdraw its troops from Bologna and Ancona at the same moment that the French quit Rome and Civita Vecchia. The right of garrison in Commachio, Ferrara, and Piacenza, which is se cured to Austria by treaty, will be maintained." The French Government, or rather the Emperor Napoleon, considers the foregoing conditions unac ceptable ; but this Cabinent is by no means likely to make any other. During the last few days the policy of Austria has undergone a change. Count Buol was so strongly urged by the representatives of England and Prussia to avoid giving the Emperor Napoleon a pretext for going to war, that he vas much more submissive than was agreeable to 'the Emperor Francis Joseph, who is resolved not to bear any part of the yoke which Louis Napoleon is trying t o i mpose on hi s b ro th er S overe i gns . "Hi s Maje s ty' s v i ews, " says a per f ect l y we ll - i n f orme d person, "may be expressed in a few words. For the sake of peace, he is ready and willing to make any cone ossions which are consistent with his honour and dignity, b ut h e will not recognise the cla i m of the Emperor of the French to be considered sole arbiter in all European questions of import ance.to His M a j es t y i s of opinion that one Power ill s d t r e a c i l n i n t e s o nt to t h Papal Government to m a k e th ose reforms which f e o r w c h o e f are considered necessary. Austria will not per mit any one to meddle iu her internal affairs, and RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg letter of the 15th says : " Baron de Werther, the Prussian Minister, was received yesterday by the Emperor to take leave. The diplomatist has resided for several years in Russia, and now definitively returns to his own country." Accounts from St. Petersburg of the 14th state that the Grand Duke Nicholas has been in Moscow for some time past, engaged in advancing the "ser£•emancipation question," which still encounters much resistance from the old Russian party, which has its head-quarters in Moscow. The committee formed in that city has, however, of late displayed great er Teadiness to meet the views of the Etnperer. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 20th contain no political news of interest. The opening of the exhibition of the natural and manufactured pro ductions of Spain, Portugal, and the Spanish colonies in America had been definitively fixed by Royal decree for the Ist April, 1862. The decree enacts that the commission for superintending the exhibition shall be presided over by the King. An Austrian corvette, the Archduke Frederick, 22 guns, had arrived at Malaga. The Piedinontese Gazette of the 22d contains a Royal decree authorising the Sardinian Minister of Finance to contract the loan of 50 millions of francs voted by the two Chambers. M. Vassili Alessandri, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldavia, has arrived in Paris. It now appears that the intelligence communicated by the Trieste telegraph to the effect that Prince Couza, on arriving in Bucharest, had decreed the union ofthe Principalities was decidedly incorrect, and that the fact of the Moldavian assembly having demanded the union of the two assemblies at Fochsani is equally false. The Moldavian assembly only expressed a desire to transport its seat to Fochsani in order to facilitate its labours, but the Prince has not replied to their request. Likewise, he never thought of decreeing the union of the two Princi palities. THE 111ARYLEBONE ELECTION. The triumph of Mr. James has been more signal than the most sanguine of his friends anticipated. Considering all the circumstances under which the contest took place, it is one of the most brilliant electioneering victories on record. Though Mr. James had only been in reality about five days in the field, he has beaten his Whig opponent by a majority of 3,202, or nearly two to one. We con gratulate Mr. James on his brilliant triumph, and we no less congratulate the constituency of Mary lebone on having chosen such a representative. Now that the - contest is at an end, we trust that whatever unkindly feeling may have existed be tween the friends of the rival candidates will at once pass away. Much of that feeling has been caused by misconceptions as to - has. It was stated, for example, in the course of the election, that Sir Benjamin Hall had been in possession of the fact that a vacancy had occurred in the re presentation of the borough some time before it became generally known, and that the right honourable baronet purposely kept it back, with the view of insuring the return of Colonel Ramilly. We happen to know that such was not the case. As soon as Sir Benjamin became aware of the fact that the vacancy had actually occurred—for it had been spoken of as a contingency about to take place as far back as the beginning of last session—the right hon. gentleman made an announcement to that effect, at a meeting held in St. Pancras on the 14th inst. It was said by one of the public journals that Sir Benjamin had called on Mr. James's com mittee for the purpose of urging the learned gen tleman to withdraw from the contest. The state ment, we are assured, has not the slightest foundation, Sir Benjamin never having called at the committee-rooms of either of the candidates. We believe that Mr. James is satisfied that the statements in question are groundless, and we should therefore hope—indeed, we cannot doubt— that as a matter of justice he will to-day, on the declaration of the result of the poll, remove the mistaken impression on these points, which prevails among some portions of the Marylebone consti tuency. But to revert to the glorious triumph which Mr. James has achieved. We would hold up the example of the men of Marylebone to the imita tion of all other constituencies in the kingdom. We are evidently on the eve of a general election, and if the constituencies of the country generally will go and do as the people of Marylebone have done, namely, single out right candidates, and then triumphantly return them, we shall, before six months have passed away, witness the commence ment of a new era in the representation of Great Britain.—Morning Advertiser. AMERICAN NEWSPAPF,ILS.—In 1850 the asgre gated number of copies of newspapers circulated in the United States was nearly 427 millions. limitc Show Th 4 for pi recori rates. DL more Marl for h fully sugai has lities valu c been colon. noon, fro m Were aiiim, the C price. as th, Unite 11 ..0. 6 ikenti tfa/ 7 blaB,„ b?, 1 2 1 0, ( New Tf( l& 1) 0 . New N W 3d CO: New .UO. Pan, D o . Ril ad , de( "Ali ar(