The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-21 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." ---Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL EN GT,ISH OPER A. ' COV ENT-GARDEN. Under the mans_uement of Miss L. Fyne and 11,11. W. garrison. THIS EVENING, Henry Leslie's Operetta Romance of DICK Tull PIN Messrs. St. Albyu and G. Honey ; Misses Thirlwall and Cruise. - • After whioli, will be repeated the gr and essr s.W Opera, - en titled ty W. - Vincent Wallace. M. Har rison, Santley, Corri, and G. Honey ; Mi sse s Louisa Pyne, Pilling, and F. Cruise, • Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THEA RE-ROYA HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. .11. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, will be pertormed FOUNDED ON FACTS. And the new and original Comedy, THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathe ws, Buckstone, Compton, p pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. With THE BOARDING SCHOOL. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. T, HE LYCEUM.— Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Eighth Week of the eminently suceesful Drama, "A Tale of Two Cities," and Last Week but One of the present season —Twelfth Night of Mrs. Keeley's Engagement. THIS EVENING will be performed a new drama, entitled E ABBE VAUDREUIL ; or, The Court of Louis XV. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste ; Louis XV., Mr. 11. Butler; Lieut. Henri Delcour, Mr. F. illiers. Followed by LUCKY STARS. Barbara Bristles (her origi nal character), Mrs. Keeley; John Bristles, Mr. J. Rouse. Concluding with the new Drama of A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vining, Walter Lacy, Villiers, Rouse, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the Comedy of MONEY. Messrs. (leo. Melville, Ryder. Frank Mathews, Widdicomb, H. Bland. 11. Saker, Garden. Graham ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Clifford, and Mrs. Charles Young. After the comedy the Princess's " Rifle Volunteers " in full • To conclude with THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. G. Melville, A. Harris, and Miss Clifford. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AI)ELPHI. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS, Mr. ,T. L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billinfzlon, Mrs. Chatterley, Mrs. Bil lington, Miss Kate Kelly, and Laidlaw. After which, PAPER WINGS, Mr Alfred Wi g an, ,T. L. Toole, D. Fisher, Billington, I'. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley. Followed by DINORAII UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six — Commenc e at seven. Box norp from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, ler bills of performance. All fees to servants o f this establishment are strictly prohibited. Among Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to Carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS B 'VENING the performances will commenee with "No. 49." After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson and Miss Clara St. Casse. Followed by FIRST AFFECTIONS. Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss ffyndham. After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, and Mr Charles Young. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, Is. The Box-ofttoe open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half - past six; perform ince commences at 7. Messrs. H. T CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizetti). Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell. Maffio Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and eautilled, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. CONCERTS.- THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MARCII 21, NO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. BA B* IdETEII-29,43. WIND, South-West ; fresh, and squally, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 36m.—Afternoon, lh. 52m, To-moßßow.-Morning, 2h. 7m.—Afternoon, 2h. 20m i , r.t:44 jr d CP, _1; r _ ,'. ''' - A '' ''' -' 7V 3;', , Ai 1,04 c ,• . , ' 7 -:, -4 ; --, "r, - - - -- " ' r - F .- -4_l , c.- - - _ ,.‘4, , .., ~... ...2.g. . , ~, L.: % :::: ,.. 4 ~• .1,,,._.„............,,,,...„,,.•i,i0„:„64;-.()_i.t:, "__..., 4.., ~„,1,1,1 : ,...._.1.,,,..r.,„;,----,..„_. .s.„ ._ - ___,„, _......„,,,...„.„.....„:„„ THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1860. Another shake of the Italian Kaleidoscope! And what changes there are perceptible again at a glance in the old green, red and white particles ! Look at a few of these in their new transposition. The annexation of the Romagnas is accepted by the King of SARDINIA in spite of the opposition of the French EMPEROR! The annexation of Tuscany — the same—in spite of the same ! The proposed transference of Savoy from Piedmont to France boldly and directly voted " against" by the Nice municipality ! Modena and Parma merged into the fast-growing kingdom of VICTOR EMMANUEL. Vivas for the same Sovereign as Lord Paramount of the Roman peninsula far south at Atri —a demonstration suppressed by the Neapo litan police, the act of suppression being sig nalised by the flight across the frontiers of eighty compromised individuals ! The, signal given from Turin for the levying (in the name of the King of SARDINIA) of 50,000 men in Tuscany, and of 25,000 men in the 2Bmilian Provinces — thereby increasing the already formidable Pied montese army to a grand total of 300,000 soldiers ! Flying " rumours " of a startling character in the midst of all these "facts"—rumours proved to be er roneous almost at the moment of their utterance. For example—that the French troops had actually entered Savoy—a statement now positively con tradicted. That the Papal Government had de manded the withdrawal of General GUYON'S division from the Eternal City in order that Rome might be garrisoned thenceforth by Neapolitan troops : an inconceivably fatuous statement also directly con tradicted. And, in the meanwhile, what say the chief organs of these continental States ? Simul taneously almost—the Moniteur contains a long catalogue of those who have been decorated with the Legion of Honour for ser vices rendered to the French Army in Lom bardy ! The Giornale di Rome gives its record of the popular demonstration which greeted the PONTIFF when proceeding to the Basilica of the Vatican. The Olinione of Turin contents itself with showing how the annexation has been voted for by upwards of 20 per cent. of the po pulation—thus No. ofinliab. Votes expressed. Tuscany 1,806,940 .. 386,445 .2Emilian provinces (Parma Modena, Legations) Total The Salta Public, at Lyons, stating that the 2d and 3d Dragoons hare received orders to be in readiness to leave by the 25th in stant or by the sth proximo—their destination being left in conjecture, but being pretty generally believed to be—Savoy ! In the midst of all which intimations and movements what are the probabilities' How, will the PorE " take" the anne xation of the Itomagnas by the Piedmontese ,Sovereign and Government ? Row will the EMPE TOR himself regard it ? how will CAVOUR act in .respect to the relinquishment of Savoy and the Zavoyards ? How will Venetia stand in the pre sence of that army of 300,000 Italians marshalled -under the banner of VICTOR EMMANUEL ? How tinuch longer will quietude be maintained at Naples rand throughout the Kingdom of the Two Whither has GARIBALDI gone, and what is ha —meditating ? Are there not glimmerings already' - through the g athering storm clouds of ',another conflict yonder in Italy—that even yet it be in tote for the Italians—that even yet it may be free from the Alps to the Adriatic I' If evidence were wanted of the need of a Reform of the _Representation of the country,the debate and division of last night would be all that is required. By an accident, which could not be anticipated, Mr. BERKELEY'S motion ran clean into the debate on the Government Reform Bill, and cut it in two. That was no fault of Mr. BERKELEY'S. The even- ing need not have been lost; the insignificant ques tion might have been disposed of, and the debate on the Reform Bill have been resumed, for there was plenty of time after the division on Mr. BERKE LEY'S motion was taken. The second reading is also a settled thing, and the debate as purely formal as the late one on the treaty. What, however, _ proves that the House does not represent the people is this—that it is read a second time, without a division, a bill which the country hardly cares for, while, by a majority of 254 to 147, it refuses to read a first time the bill which it desires more than any other. On Monday Mr. BERKELEY declined to postpone his motion in favour of the Government Bill, be cause " his was the better bill of the two." We are confident that short sentence expressed the general opinion out of doors. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S is a franchise bill. Its object is extension of franchise. On this very point Mr. BERKELEY'S Bill would be more than a match for it. It would extend the franchise in two ways. First, it would induce thousands to vote who at present refrain from doing so through fear of displeasing others. Secondly, it would enfranchise still greater numbers who now vote, indeed, but do not vote as they wish. Between the two classes we are confident that more real voters would be created by Mr. BERKELEY'S Bill than by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S. The dependent classes, who constitute in one way and another per haps a third of the electors, have now a vote, but not a franchise; Mr. BERKELEY would give them a franchise also. The difference is, Lord JOHN'S Bill increases the number of manageable and brib able electors ; Mr. BERKELEY'S Bill would convert electors of such kinds into independent voters; hence a bill to extend subserviency will be easily read a second time, while one to substitute independence for subserviency, will not even be allowed an intro. duction. Mr. BERKELEY, and his opponent this time, Lord PALMERSTON, labour each under two great difficul ties ; the former has to prove an unwelcome but self-evident truth, the latter to commend to the house a profitable lie. VOLTAIRE it was, if we rightly remember, who said, that if handsome State endowments were appropriated to preach* ing and proving that all the angles of a triangle were not equal to two right angles, he would engage to find a large body of educated men to do the work. Now, Lord PALMERSTON has got the task of showing that corruptors and intimida tors can act on you as easily when they cannot in sure the success of their operations as when they can. But Lord PALMERSTON preaches to a house to whom corruption and intimidation are im mensely gainful, and to whom secret voting would be a loss of all their gains ; willingly enough, therefore, they believe, or affect to believe, the gainful creed, and vote Lord PALMERSTON'S reason ing perfect. They vote that the Ballot will not re press the evils of intimidation and corruption, because almost all the county members sit in the house in virtue of the former, and half the borough members in virtue of the latter. Mr. BERKELEY'S difficulty is just the other way. How find any intermediate links of proof to make a speech from ? It would tax the ingenuity of most of us to prove that two and two make four. Even if we separated the units and counted them one by one, our youngest children would not thank us for our trouble. What, then, shall a man do who has to prove to two or three hundred gentlemen a proposition quite as plain as that we have referred to ? Take mechanical secu rity that no one shall know, by personal knowledge, how any one of several thousands of electors voted, and then, we say, paying men to vote for a parti cular candidate, or frightening them into voting for him, will receive a heavy discouragement. These practices will become difficult, almost to impracti cability. Does any man need argument to prove this ? Does he not instantly feel, " I would not spend my money if I could get no receipt for it, and I would not incur the odium of coercion when, per haps, my attempt to practise it would induce the man to cheat me." And there the matter ends. And all the ingenious inventions of Sir G. C. LEWIS, Lord J. RUSSELL, Lord PALMERSTON, and our aristociacy are but the consciously deceptive argu ments of men who want to retain unrighteous power at the cost of fearful evils. We do not give them credit for sincerity. They hash up ludicrous arguments against the ballot, not because they doubt its efficiency, but because they are too sure of it. Well, the matter is not ended yet. As Mr. BERKELEY told Lord PALMERSTON, the division list next morning would be no pleasant subject of contemplation for his lordship ; he would then find himself skulking away from all the popular and independent members under the gaberdine of the Tories, and subsisting by Tory support. Mr. DUNCOMBE also will not, we trust, let the subject rest in committee on the Reform Bill. Amen& ments may be advantageously moved there which will compel the corruptionists and intimidators to hang out their true colours. And possibly - Mr. BEToirr may not be mistaken. It may be found that the dependent condition of the new voters will be so manifest that ve r y shame will compel the concession of protected voting. The letter of " A Housekeeper," on the Budget, deserves some consideration as representing the opinions of a class who are pretty good judges of the practical effect of alterations in the tariff on the social comfort of the middle classes. The "Housekeeper" in question expresses her extreme dissatisfaction with the changes introduced by the financial statement, and though it is as yet hardly time to judge of the fair working of proposed inno vations, her opinions are not without some founda tion. The grand sounding reductions, which amount to a large sum on warehouses stored with hogsheads and hundredweights, when viewed in 'their retail lspect present a very different figure. We suspect it is the large merchants and manu facturers who are really the ones to benefit by tho proposed alterations, while a good share of the trifling sums that they may take off the price of retail commodities, will find its way into the pocket of the retail vendor instead of that of the customer. Thus, in the case of the removal of the paper duty, the public will have to wait some time before they derive much advantage. The journals which are Dow issued at a penny will not reduce their price, and the managers of newspapers, cheap magazines, and serials of every description will justly say that where they save the fraction of a farthing es each sheet of paper they cannot be expected to re duce their p r i ce by two or four farthings, thus incurring a positive loss. Paper houses, carriages, and ships may, as promised, be made some day, but we confess that in waiting for the develop ment of these inventions, we should prefer to see the establishment of a paper currency, to enable our middle classes to meet the pressure of the increased Income-tax. As the " Housekeeper' observes, compensation for reducing 203. to 19s. 2d. is the object to be attained, and it will take .a good many half-farthings, or even pence and halfpence off superfluities to effect it, The startling fact, put forward by Mr. WALPOLE, that the great increase of the revenue drawn from the Income-tax was mainly owing to that branch of it which was levied on in comes of £3OO a-year and under, ought to have in duced our legislators to pause and consider. Are men, possessing an income of £2OO or £3OO a-year, dependent on their own health and strength, with the prospect of provision for their children, likely to be affected by a reduction in the price of wine, silk, and similar articles ? Supposing these luxuries to be reduced to the cheapest possible rate, are they items which men with incomes varying from £l5O to £3OO per annum can ever include in the list of their daily expenses ? A reduction in the price of such commodities can never compensate for the high price of tea and sugar, and, above all, for the grinding, oppressive, Income-tax. It is no light thing for a man past middle age, perhaps with fail ing health, and a young family looking to him for support and settlement in life, to feel that one twenty fourth part of his annual income is inevitably forfeited, independent of rent and all other taxes, direct and indirect. It seems a marvellous thing that our statesmen refuse to recognise the vast difference between fixed and precarious incomes, or, in other words, between income and property. We have again and again urged this point, but it still remains unsettled. Our legislators being lifted high above the pressure of want themselves, are unsympathetic and indifferent. What matter if some thousands of families are straightened and disheartened by the increased and unmodified pres sure. The calculations fit in with so much readi ness and exactitude that it would be a pity to disturb them Truly, as was forcibly observed during the late discussion, the class on whom this unjust tax presses most heavily, suffer more than the absolute poor. They are the class who are striving to " keep up appearances," to maintain their position, and with advancing years, increas ing family, and health subject to the thousand chances and accidents of life, it is often a long and painful struggle. We are not surprised that the "Housekeeper" looks in vain to the introduction of French wine at 2s. a bottle, and the proposed manufacture of paper carriages for co►npensation. Surely the large class whose incomes range under £3OO per annum deserve some little consideration at the hands of our legislators as well as our master manufacturers and mill-owners, whom, some un prejudiced persons might hint, could better bear a little extra taxation. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MARCIT 20. VOTE BY BALLOT. Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to bring in a Bill to cause the Votes of the Electors of Great Britain and Ireland to be taken by way of Ballot." The House divided—Ayes, 147 ; Noes, 254. AYES —147. Adair, 11. E. Fermoy, Lord Pease, H. Adam, W. I'. Forster, Charles Pechell, Sir G. Alcock, T. Freeland, H. W. Peto, Sir M. Atherton, W. Gavin, Major Pilkington, James Ayrton, A. S. G ibsou, T. M. Pollard UrquhartW Baines, E. Gifford, Earl of Potts, George Bass, M. T. Gilpin, C. Pryse, Ca.pt. E. L. Baxter, W. E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Redmond, J. E. Bazley, Thomas Greene, Capt. J. Ricardo, J. L. Beale, Samuel Greville, Col. F. Ricardo, 0. Bellew, R. M. Hadfield, Geo. Ridley, G. Berkeley, P. Ilardcastle, .Jos. A. Robartes, T. J. A. Bethell, Sir R. Ileadlam, Thos. E. Roebuck, J. A. Biddulph, - ,Col. R.M. Hennessy, J. P. Rothschild,Barca L. Black, Adam Hodgkinson, G. Rothschild Baron M Blake, J. A. Hutt, W. . Ttoupell, W. Bonham-Carter, J. Ingham, R. Russell, A. J. E. Bouverie, I'. P. Ingram, 11. Salomons,Alderman Bowyer, W. Jackson, W. Salt, Titus Brady, John James, Edwin Scholefie,d, W. Bright, J. Kershaw, J. Seymour, Sir M. Bristow, A. King, Hon. L. Seymour, Digby Brocklehurst, John Kinglake, A. W. Shelley, Sir J. V. Buller, Sir A. Kinnaird, lion. A. Sheridan, R. B. Butler, C. S. Langston, J. 11. Sheridan, 11. B. Caird, James Langton, H. G. Smith, Augustus Campbell, W. F. Lanigan, J. Somerville, Sir W. Childers, H. C. E. Lawson, W. Stacpoole, W. Clay, ,Tames Leatham, E. Stanley, 0. Clifford, C. C. Lee, W. Stansfeld. J. Clifford, If. M. Levi fige, Sir R.G.A. Stuart, Col. Clive, George Lindsay, W. S. Sullivan, M. Cobbett, J. M. Locke, John Sykes, Col. W;II. Coning - ham, Wm. McEvoy, E. Tite, Wm. W. Craufurd, E. H. J Maguire, J. F. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Crook, Joseph Massey, W. N. Tynte, Col. C. J. K. Dalglish, Robert Merry, James Vivian, If. If. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Mills, T. Waldron, L. Davie, Col. F. Mitchell, T. A. Wemyss, J. Deasy, Rickard Monsell, Rt. Tin. W. Westhead, B. Dent, John Dent Monson, W. J. Whalley, G. H. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Morris, D. Whitbread, S. Douglas, Sir C. Napier, Sir C. White, Col. IL Duke, Sir James O'Donoghue, D. Willcox, B. M. Duncombe, T. S. Onslow, Guildford Williams, W. Ennis, J.hn Osborne, Bernal Woods, Henry Evans, Sir De L. Padmore, R. Wyld, James Ewart, William Paget, C. TELLERS. Ewing - , H. E. C. Paget, Lord C. E. Berkeley, H. Fenwick, Henry Paxton, Sir J. Henley, Lord . - NOES-254. Adderley, C. B. Gray, William Mure David Agnew, Sir A. Grey, Itt. lin. SirG. Naas, lit. lin. Lord Arbuthnott, Gen.li. Griffith, C. D. Newdegate, C. N. Archdall, Capt.M.lii. Grosvenor, Earl Nicol, William Astell, J. 11. Gordon, B. Nor*, Col. Ball, E. Haliburton, Justice Owen, Sir J. Baring, 11. B. Hamilton, Major Packe, C. W. Baring, Sir F. Millbury, Captain Packe, G. H. Barrow, W. H. Hartington,Marquis Pakeuham, Col. Bathurst, A. A. Hartopp, E. B. Pakington, Sir J. S. Beach, W. W. B. 'Lessard ' M. D. Palk, L. Beaumont, W. B. lleathcote, G. H. Palmer, R. W. Beecroft, G. S. Heneage, G. Palmerston, Visct. Bentinck, G.C. Henniker, Lord Papillon, P. 0. Beresford, W. Herbert, H. A. Parker, Major W. Bernard, W. S. Herbert, S. Patten, J. W. Bond, J. W. Herbert, Col. F. E. Paull, IL Bottleld, Beriah Hervey, Lord A Peacocke, G. M. Bovill, Wm., Heygate, Sir F. Peel, Sir R. Bramston, T. W. Hill, Lord E. Peel, F. Brooks, It. Mil, Hon. R. Pevensey, Viscount Browne, Lord J. T. ITolmesdale, Lord Philips, J. H. Bruce, C. L. C. Hood, Sir A. Powys, L. P. Buller, J. W. Hope, G. W. Pritchard, John Burghley, Lord Hopwood, J. T. Pugh, D. (Carman) Cairns, Sir 11., liorsfall, T. B. . Pugh, D. (Mont.) Cartwright, Col. li. Hotham, Gen. Lord Puller, C. W. Cave, S. Howes, Edward 'lepton. G. W. J. Cayley, E. S. Ilumberstone, P. S. ltichardsos, J. Cecil, Lord Ti. Hunt, G. W. Ridley, Sir H. W. Churchill, Lord A. Ingestre, Viscount Rolt, J. Clinton, Lord It. Jermyn, Earl . St. Aubyn, J. Close, M. C. Jervis, Captain Solater-Booth, G Cobbold, John C. Jervoise, Sir J. Scott, Sir W. Coke, W. C. Jthustone, lion. 11. Selwyn, C. J. Cole, Hon. 11. A. Johnstone, Sir J. Shirley, E. P. Cole, J. L. J °Mire, Sir W. Sibthorp, Major Collins, T., jun. jolliffe, Capt. IL Slaney, R. A. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Jones, D. Smith, S. G. Cross, It. A. Kekewich, S. Smollett, P. Cubitt, A ld. Kendall, N. Somerset, Col. E: Cubitt, George Kennard, C. Somes, Joseph Curzon, Viscount Kerrison, Sir E. Spooner, R. Darner, L. S. W. D. King, J. K. Stafford, Marquis of Davey, K. Rnatchbull, W Stanhope, J. 19. Dawson, R. P. Knatchbull-lingeas Stanley, Lord Decries, Win. Knight, F. Stirling, Wm. Dickson, Col. linightley, R. Steuart, A. Disraeli, Benjamin Lacon, Sir E. Stewart, Sir M. K. Du Cane, Chas. Laing, S. - Sturt, H. 0. buncombe, A. Lecke, Sir H. Sturt, Capt. C. N. Dmicolabe, W. E. Lelroy, A. Talbot, Zion. W. C. Dundas, Frederick legli, G. C. Taylor, Colonel Dunlop, A. Legh, W. Taylor, Ilugh Dunn, John Lennox - , Lord li. G. Thompson, H. S. Dunne, Col. Lever , John 0. Thynne, Lord E. Du Pre, C. G. Liddell, lion. IL G. Thymic, Lord H. Egerton, A. F. Lindsay, Colonel Toilemache, J. IL 14:gorton, W. , Lockhart, A. E. Torrens, It. Elmley, Viscount Long , it. P. Upton, Genet al Estcourt, S. Lone•field Robert Vance, John ~ i Euston, Earl of Lopes, Sir IL, lit. Vandeleur, (701. Farquhar, Sir M. Lovable, Lord Vane, Lord H. G. Ferrer, James Lowe, lit. lion. 11. Vansittart, Win. Fellowes, Edward Lyall, G. Verner, Sir Wm. Fergusson, Sir J. Ly,gon, Hon. P. Vernon, L. V. Milner, Sir E. Lysley, W. Walcott, Adm. J. 4, Finlay, A. S. Lytton, Sir E. B. Walker, James It Fords, Lt.-Col. W. Mackie, J. Walwile, S. 11. Forester, Col. G. C. Mackinnon, W. A. Walsh, Sir .I. B. Foster, W. 0. Mainwaring, T. Walter, John Fortescue, C. S. Malins, 11., Watling•ton, .T. W. (3 allwey, Sir W. P. Manners, Ld J. Whiteside, Itt Lin J. Gard, IL S. 3larch, Earl of Wise, J. A. Garnett, W. .T. Martin, J. Wood, Itt Iln. SirC. Gaskell, J. M. 31ildmity, 11. Wowld, 11. T. Geor;;;e, John Miles, Sir W. Wyndham, Sir IL Gilpin, Colonel Miller, T. Wyndham, Hon. 11. Gladstone,Capt. Miller, William Wynn, Col. Gladstone, W. E. Mills, A. , Wynne, C. G. Gordon, C. W. - an, Major Mitlord, W. T. Wyvill, M. • Gore, J. I:. o .Yorke, lion. E. • Gore, W. lt. 0. Moody, C. A. Graham, Lord Wm. TELLERS, I Greaves, Edward Mowbray, Iti. Hu. J. Denman, G. Gregory, W. IL Mundy, William Marsh, M. 11. 2%1\ ri°olll.r.,,creiii., J. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort and the youthful members , of the Royal Godly leave Omborne this forenoon for Buckingham Palace to pass a fortnight in town before Easter. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent will leave Fr6gmore Lodge, near Windsor, to-day, for Clarence llouse, St. James'B. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary intend to leave St. James's Palace at the close of the ensuing Neck for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the Easter recess: It is understood that the Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney-General will contain a provision to de :eat the practice of English debtors escaping from their creditors by 'a resort to the Scotch courts. It will also provide that in cases of private liquidation the assent must be obtained of three-fourths of the creditors, not merely in value but also in number. The bill is expected to be in the hands of the public in a few days., LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been reoeived at Mr. Reuter's office : ROME, MARCH 20. Yesterday evening certain disturbers of the pub lic peace attempted a manifestation against the police, which was immediately repressed. Order and tranquillity have been preserved without any incident to record. PARIS, MARCH 20. The Treaty relative to the cession of Savoy and Nice was signed at Turin before M. Thouvenel ad dressed his circular note of the 14th to the foreign Powers who signed the Final Act of Vienna. The object of this note is to disengage from the question of the cession of Savoy (spontaneously agreed to by the King of Sardinia) not only the question of the guaranteed neutrality of Switzerland, but also the principle of natural boundaries. M. Thouvenel ex plains the reasons which render the cession a sim ple rectification of frontiers. He expresses, there fore, in the name of the French Government a hope that the Powers who signed the Final Act of Vienna will appreciate the considerations set forth in his note with the same friendly feelings with which the communication of the new territorial arrangements concerted between France and Sar dinia has been made to them. It is clear that the object of M. Thouvenel's note is not to consult Eu rope, and still less to admit the protests which may be made by the foreign Powers, but simply to com municate to them that the annexation has been re- solved upon. The Paris papers publish the following, dated Antibes, the 20th : The Nice Contingent of the Italian army of re servo has left by steamer for Genoa, in spite of the cession of Nice to France. The soldiers were shout ing, " Vire la France !" " Vire l'Empereur !" The population anxiously and impatiently awaits the annexation. The Patrie of this evening says :- 50,000 men are about to be levied in Tuscany and 25,000 in the /Ernilian provinces, which will increase the Sardinian army to nearly 300,000 men. It is asserted that Piedmont will contract a loan of 150,000,000 f. The Emperor presided to-day at a Council of Ministers, at which the question of exempting sugars from duty was considered. A report was current to-day that the French :roops had entered Savoy, but it proved to be un rounded. LYONS, MARCH 20. The Saha Public states that the 2d and 3d Dra goons have received orders to be in readiness to leave here between the 25th of March and the sth of April. Their destination is unknown, but pre sumed to be Savoy. TURIN, MARCH 20. The Government has received a deputation from Nice. The report that the French troops had already entered Savoy is completely false. FLORENCE, MARCH 20, A message of the Government to the Assembly explains the political situation of the country, the past dangers, and the motives for the popular vote, gives a historical outline of the acts of the Govern ment, and concludes by saying the Government has to convey the public vote to the King and the Assembly to declare its work accomplished. This message was received with applause. The President proposed the dissolution of the Assembly, and a vote of thanks to the Government for having supported Italian unity. Signori Mantanelli and Mangini spoke against the proposal of the President. The former accepted the result of the universal suffrage, but said that the Assembly must already be looked upon as dead. The latter refused to vote the thanks of the As sembly to the Government, which, he said, had not done all it could have done to accomplish the union. Signor Panatoni energetically defended the Govern ment, and the Assembly almost unanimously, and amid shouts of Viva el Re, voted the proposal of the President. NAPLES, MARCH 19. Government is preparing a general mobilisation of the rural guards. General Filangieri and Signor Cumbo have resigned. Prince Casaro has been appointed Pre sident of the Council. Signor Comitini enters the Cabinet without a portfolio. ROME, MARCH 17 (via MARSEILLES Government has permitted the importation o' corn and flour into the Pontifical ports in the Medi ;erranean. The official Giornale di Roma, speaking of the demonstration which took place yesterday morning, says that the Pope, in proceeding to the Basilica of the Vatican, was met by an immense multitude of citizens of all classes, united to pray with the com mon Father of the Faithful. Letters add that everything passed off quietly The number of persons present was estimated at' 5,000, and included many persons of note. No cry of opposition was heard. To-day-, however, bills are scattered iu the streets headed " Viva Vittore Em manuele !" A project has been started of a counter-mani festation on the 19th—the fete of Garibaldi. General Guyon has read a despatch to the troops, commending their attitude in the maintenance of public order. The Director of the Public Debt has left for Brussels to contract a loan of 10,000,000 f. SARDINIA. Chevalier Buoncompagni has published the fol lowing reply, dated 'furin, March 16, to the asser tions regarding himself contained in Cardinal An. tonelli's last note :—" In a note of the 29th of February last, communicated to the French Go vernment, his Eminence Cardinal Antonelli uses the following words:—' What the diplomatic agents of SardiniA did to the detriment of the other Italian States, in order to second the ambitious views of their Government, is perhaps without a parallel in history. The behaviour of Commander Buoncompagni in Tuscany either has no name, or one which I must avoid using.' Conscious as lam of my not hav ing failed in any of the duties imposed upon me by the IftW of nations towards the Princes to whom I was accredited, I invite Cardinal Antonelli to retract the accusation levelled against me, and to publish the documents which may have led him into error, and induced him to cast upon me, in a docun ent of the highest importance, destined to be perused throughout the civilised world, a stain which no man of honour can endure. Should he not reply to this invitation of mine, which I pub licly address to him, I from this moment declare that I shall consider his Eminence Cardinal Anto nelli convicted of having knowingly distortcd the truth to the prejudice of my honour." A Turin letter of the 17th, published in the onstitationnel, says :—" Some rumours have been afloat about serious difficulties having arisen be tween Austria and Piedmont respecting the settle ment of the financial questions, now in course of arrangement by acommission sitting at Milan. I am able to assure you that nothing of the kind has taken place, unless we give the name of differences to trifling conflicts of reciprocal susceptibilities : caused by certain appellations of establishments and territories diversely applied by the two parties. Unfortunately, there exist between Austria and Piedmont so many real germs of discord, that it is quite unnecessary to imagine others. Active mea sures are being taken to organise a household to accompany Prince de Carignan to Florence. I have been reliably informed that the Piedmontese Government intends to address a note, if it has not already done so, to the Government of the Two Sicilies to complain of the absence of the Neapo litan envoy from the diplomatic dinner, given by Count Cavour on occasion of the King's fete." Another Turin letter says :—" In the public reception given by the King of Sardinia to the members of the Government of Emilia, who came to present to his Majesty the result of the vote in that province, the Ministers, the grand dignitaries of State, and the municipa lity of Turin stood round the throne. From a generous sentiment of justice, Victor Emmanuel wished that the members of the preceding Cabinet, who had so greatly contributed to that great re sult, should be present during the ceremony ; and in consequence MM. Rattazz, Monticell, La Mar mera, Dabormida, and Oytana, invited by special command of the King, took their places by his side along with the present ministers. This signal mark of distinction, being quite unexpected, produced a great sensation at Turin. It was regarded not only as a proof of personal sympathy, but also as a ,oken of satisfaction well calculated to compensate For the unjust attack of parties." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Archbishop of Ren nes lately addressed the following letter to the Emperor on the subject of the election of a deputy in the department of the Ille-et-Vilaine " Sire—Some kind friends have thought right to make known to me that attempts are being made in high quarters to represent me as making opposition to the candidate recommended by the Government to the electors of the Ille•et-Vilaine. Will your Majesty allow me to protest, with all the warmth of my Breton loyalty, against such an imputation ? M. de Dalmas can prove, if neces sary, that on the first day of his arrival at Rennes, I, in a confidential conversation, guaranteed him in advance his election as deputy. A thousand pardons, Sire, for occupying you with such petty things, which concern me personally, when you have to deal with so many grave affairs. But I am too anxious to possess your entire confidence, not to fear even the shadow of a suspicion as to the devotedness, respect, and fidelity, which the most tenderly attached of your servants will always consider it an honour and a duty to display to your Majesty.", BOURSE, March 19.—The market has been quiet but firm, and with even a slight advance. Threes improved from 67f 75c to 07f 90c ; Mobilier, 740 f to 745 f ; Lombard, 535 f to 537 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,390 f to 1,396 f 25c ; Lyons, 891 f 25c to 895 f:; Northern, 922 f 50c to 926 f 25c ; Southern, 495 f to 500 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 96 Credit Fonder.... 747 50 Do. end month I Belgian 4I ... 3 per Cents 67 95 I Piedmontese (5) .. 81 Do. end month 67 90 I Roman Bl Bank Shares 2780 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 743 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 743 75 Home Debt 43a - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 927 50 .. 927 50 New ditto. 835 .. 835 Lyons and Mediterranean 896 25 .. 895 Geneva 472 60 .. Southern Western 583 75 .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian . . 5OO .. 500 Lombard ..... . 535 .. 636 25 ' Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c.; money, 25f. 71c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 871 c. ; money, 24f 85c. free the cash balances of the treasuries. But there is this important consideration to be borne in mind, that situated as India is—a country into which the residuary flow of the precious metals constantly pours—there is no reasonable hope that an issue of paper money, unless it be carried to a very large amount indeed, would lead to the exporta tion of a single ounce of bullion. Its addition, ,herefore, to the currency will simply raise prices by increasing the supply of money, while the country is already suffering severely from this cause. The 'importations of bullion in the last 10 years have had more share than is generally sup posed in the rise of prices during that period ; and While the west is forcing a stream of bullion upon us, the establishment of a bank of issue in Calcutta will be to place our currency between two force pumps, with disaster to very numerous classes. It may be urged in reply, that prices must rise in India from the flow of bullion into it, any arrest of which seems hopeless. The rise, then, being in evitable, will it not be wise voluntarily to lower our currency by the introduction of paper, in the hope that we may thereby stop the importation of silver ? Issue notes to the flooding of the bullion market, and whilst you arrest the stream that is now pouring into the country, you will be introducing the cheapest and most convenient medium of exchange for the costliest and most cumbrous one. The answer, however, is not satisfactory, and consider• ing the inevitable effect upon prices of an issue of paper in this country, we look upon the proposal with considerable jealousy, if not alarm. The matter, however, is in very safe hands with Mr. Wilson. About an hour before the closing of the last mail the following important notification was put forth by the local Government : " :NOTIFICATION.-FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT. "The following telegram, dated Calcutta, 10th February from the financial secretary to the Government of India, is published for general information : " Referring to the result of an account of subscriptions to the Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Loan, published in a Calcutta Gazetts Extraordinary of this date, and to the desire of the Government not to exceed the stipulated limit of five crores of rupees, the Honourable the President in Council has de cided to close the 51 per Cent. Loan immediately at all dis trict treasuries, and to limit the subscriptions at AI adras and Bombay, respectively, to a total of 80 (twice 40) lacks of rupees in cash, leaving the balance to be subscribed at Calcutta. These proportions have been decided upon ac cording to the rate at which the loan has been taken up at the three Presidency towns up to this date, as far as has been ascertained. You will please to publish the above in your Official Gazette, and to report to this department, by telegraph, as soon as the amount allotted to your Presidency has been subscribed.' "Bombay Castle, 11th Feb., 1860." We were unable to do more than enclose the extra issued by us upon receipt of this document to a few of the leading home journals, but the modifica tion was doubtless forwarded to the Secretary of State for official publication in England. The notification appeared on Saturday about two o'clock, and before four the whole amount allotted to Bom bay was taken up. The event was officially notified to Calcutta on Monday, by the folloWing telegram from Mr. Secretary Ellis to Mr. Secretary Lushington s— " MONDAY, 13Tg.—Your telegram of the 10th received, and notification issued on Saturday morning. The full amount of 80 (twice 40) lacs allowed for Bombay was sub scribed the same afternoon, and the subscription is closed at this Presidency." The principle which ruled the allotment seems to have been a just ono. The respective subscriptions in the three presidencies up to the issue of the notification, and the amounts consequently available for each, were as follows : Madras. Bombay. Bengal. Rs. Rs. Rs. Amount already sub scribed 63,64,000 62,64,100 2,95,56,000 Remaining valuable 16,36,000 17,35,900 44,44,000 80,00,000 80,00,000 3,40,00,000 The rush made by speculators in Bombay was not more eager than that in Calcutta and Madras, the loan being closed in all three presidencies the day the notification appeared. The stock is quoted in Bombay to-day at 21 to 21 per cent. pm. On Sunday, the 12th instant, we received the gratifying intelligence that the cable had been suc cessfully laid between Kurrachee and Aden, and but for some interruption of the line between Alexandria and the latter port, we should now be receiving English news within five to seven days of the dispatch. The nature and locality of the interruption on the Red Sea have not yet trans pired, the Ottawa with the English mail of the 3d instant, already due in Bombay, not having reached Aden on the 22d instant, when the telegram which informs us of the interruption was transmitted. Our last issue announced the surrender of Cap tain Mecham's murderer by the Wuzerees of the Kabyl Khail. He was taken to the spot where the murder was committed, and there hanged. INDIA. 'We have received our overland letters and papers to the 24th ult. The following is from the Bombay zinea of that date : India has been on the tiptoe of expectation for months for Mr. Wilson's budget, and we have at last received by electric telegraph from Calcutta a summary account of the measures proposed by that gentleman in the Legislative Council on the 17th inst. The budget is, as was to be expected, a com promise. The Licence Bill is not wholly aban doned, but sinks to a measure of the smallest possible importance, while a bona fide income tax is announced in its room, from which neither zernindar nor landholder, soldier nor civilian, is to be exempted. The duties on imports, spasmodically raised to nearly treble their former rates some 12 months ago, are as suddenly lowered from 20 to 10 per cent. Several staple articles of export are placed upon the free list, while a duty of two rupees per Indian maund (821 b.) is henceforward to be levied upon saltpetre. Where India possesses a virtual monopoly of the supply of any article, we doubt if any sound eco nomic reason can be adduced against the levy of an export duty thereon, the chief, if not the whole weight of which will undoubtedly fall upon the consuming country. Where again, the ryot has to compete with the cultivator of other lands, it is undoubtedly wise to abandon all imposts upon export, which pro tanto place him at a disadvantage. This principle seems to have guided Mr. Wilson in the new tariff; a single exception, however, being made in the case of oil seeds, and, as we are persuaded, a very unwise one. 'F he license tax is retained rather from delicacy we suspect to its original framers, than from any con viction of its propriety. The rates are now as follow : 1. Petty artisans 2. Retail dealers . 4 Rs. " 3. Wholesale traders lO Rs. " The objections against the levy of a capitation tax upon the artisan class in a country where the only machinery for its collection is so corrupt, are manifest. It would, we are persuaded, be wiser to strike the first class out of the schedule altcgether, and to raise the tax upon the third from 10 Its, to 50 ltg ,or 100 Rs. Some uncertainty prevails in Bombay as to the proposed rates of the income tax, from a diversity in the messages that have been re ceived. We believe, however, it will be found that our own telegram represents the true nature of the proposed levy— 2 per cent, upon incomes of from £2O to £5O per annum. per cent. upon incomes above £5O. We are wholly in the dark as to the machinery by, and the mode in, which this tax is to be levied. We learn by telegraph that Mr. Wilson has not opened :his plans in either respect to the Council, and it is impossible therefore to say how the mea sure will be received by the country. To the prin ciple of the tax, now that the exemptions so invi diously insisted upon before are abandoned, there will be no opposition anywhere, and the fact should cause, we think, some shame to the English press, for its unwarrantable attacks upon the Indian com munity for resistance to a bill now confessed to have been conceived in injustice. The home public will have some difficulty, we imagine, in conceiving of Mr. 'Wilson in the cha racter of a Protectionist, and yet this new tariff, in one very important item, is protective in a very high degree. The duty upon cotton yarn, thread, and twist is raised from five to ten per cent., and it is hard to divine what can have suggested this sin against principle, but a desire to foster the manu facture of yarn in India. We are not sure, how ever, that the measure is an unwise one. The spin ning mills of 'Western India are already competing with those of Lancashire, and in the infancy of their existence it may not be unwise to give them this slight encouragement. It should not be for gotten that our mills have destroyed the indigenous manufactures of India, and it would be an immense gain to the country were a new manufacturing eia inaugurated therein, under the guidance of Euro pean skill and capital. We have too long wrung the co untry dry to look with much jealousy upon thi s experiment of our new Finance Minister. We learn, lastly, that Mr. Wilson has some plan or other for introducing a state paper currency. Now there can be no doubt that such a currency would be u great convenience to the mercantile classes, as little less than a million sterling of divi dends might be annually saved thereby, by setting THE CHINA FORCE. We are at last enable!! to give the detail of the China force with some degree of certainty. It will consist, we find, of the following troops : Artillery.—Two batteries of Royal Artillery from the Ben gal Army, and two batteries from England with Armstrong guns. No 7 Battery 14th Brigade Royal Artillery ; A. Com pany sth Battalion Native Artillery, and Ist Supplemental Company (Bullock Battery) from Madras; and No. 3 Bat tery 13th Brigade Royal Artillery from Bombay. Engineers.-23d Company Royal Engineers from Ma • dram, two Companies from England, and A. and K. Compa nies of Madras Sappers and Miners. European Infantry:-3d Buffs, 31st, 44th, 56th, 66th, 99th, 87th, 99th Foot, and 2d Battalion 60th Rifles. Cavalry.—Two squadrons Ist Dragoon Guards, Fane's Horse, Ist Sikh Cavalry. Native Infantry.-Bth, 11th, 15th, 19th Punjaub Infan try. The regiments of Loodianah and Lucknow, 3d and sth Bombay Native Infantry, and 21st Madras. Classifying the force according to the troops fur nished respectively by each Presidency, it is as follows : BOMBAY. No. 3 Battery 13th Brigade Royal Artillery. Her Majesty's 31st and 56th Regiment Foot. Her Majesty's 3d and sth Regiment Native Infantry (each 1,000). _ _ MADRAS. No. 7 Battery 14th Brigade Royal Artillery. A. Company sth Battalion Native Artillery. 23d Company Rdyal Engineers. Ist Supplemental Company (Bullock Battery)• A. and K. Companies Sappers and Miners. Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards (detachment). Her Majesty's 44th and 66th Regiment Foot. Her Majesty's 21st Regiment Native Infantry. _ _ BENGAL. Two Batteries Royal Artillery. Fane's Horse and Ist Sikh Cavalry. Her Majesty's 3d Buffs, 69th, 87th, 99th Foot, and 2d Battalion 60th Rifles. Her Majesty's Bth, 11th, 1 5 th, .and 19th Punjaub In fantry, and the Regiments of Loodianah and Lueknow. ENGLAND (Overland). Two Companies Royal Engineers. Two Batteries Roy al Artillery (with Armstrong guns). CALCUTTA COMMERCIAL NEWS. (nit TELEGRAPH) (From Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta, to Chamber of Com• merce, Bombay.) Friday, Feb. 24. Government Securities.—Fours, Its. 18 to Its. 19 dis count ; Fives, Rs. 4 to Its. 4:i dis. ; Five-and-a-Halfs, par to 11 amass pm. Exchange.—On London, for first-class credits, at six months' sight, 2s. 11d. ; on Bombay 99. Freight.--On London, dead weight, 60s. to 655. ; jute, 70e. to 755. 6d. ; seeds, 758. AN0.7111,T NEW GANNON. Experiments are just now going on at the prac tice ground of Gavre, near Lorient, with a new de scription of cannon, which is said to throw the famous canon rage completely into the shade. It is not rifled, but throws cylindro-conical shot at immense ranges, and. with a degree of accuracy which the rifled ordnance seems incapable of at taining. The French Government do not allow any particulars to be given. The results, however, ap pear to be as surprising, as those obtained by the Whitworth gun, a ix-pounder throwing a shot 7,500 metres, at a very small angle of elevation, and withoat any deviation to the right or left. A FRENCH FATHER.—A peasant named Bley was three days ago tried by the Cuurt of Assizes of the Aveyron for the murder of one of his children, a boy five years of age. It was proved that he had deliberately strangled the child, and - that he had even declared to some of his neighbours "that a father had a right to wring the necks of his children when be had too many, provided, however, he took the precaution of first having them bap tised, so as to secure them the joys of Heaven." The jury, though bringing in a verdict of guilty, said there were ex • tenuating circumstances, and the Court condemned him to kard labour for life. GREAT SOCIAL EVIL. Another of these extraordinary meetings in con nection with the important question of the great social evil, a movement which it will be remembered was originated in the early part of last month by the committees of numerous refuges, reformatory homes, and other societies, was held yesterday morning at the Lecture Hall, opposite the Sessions House, in Newington-causeway, Southwark, and the circumstances attending the proceedings were even of a more peculiar character than those which have taken place at St. James's Restaurant, Regent street, for the reclaiming of the fallen sisterhood of the more fashionable neighbourhood of the West end. We may say, however, that the meeting held in the Borough was convened under the auspices of the gentlemen by whom the movement was set on foot in February. The meetings which have been held at St. James's Hall have been convened for 12 o'clock, that being a time at which the dancing saloons, cafes, &c., in the neighbourhood draw the larger number of the " unfortunates," but it was thought desirable to call this meeting for an earlier hour. Ten o'clock was fixed upon, and a large number of signed tickets of invitation, stating " We shall be glad to see you at Dunn's Lecture-hall, Newington-causeway (opposite the Sessions-house), to-night, March 19, 1860, tea and coffee will be pro vided free at 10 o'clock," were distributed in the surrounding locality, in addition to which a large number of gentlemen were scouring the neigh bourhood and bringing in every girl or woman of the class that could be induced to accompany them. However there were very few present up to eleven o'clock, when the attendance began to become very satisfactory. Two long rows of tables were ranged down the hall, and these were boun tifully supplied with different sorts of cake, bread and butter, &c., while there was an abundance of good tea and coffee ready to be served. On the plat form at the end of the hall were assembled the numerous gentlemen and clergymen who were to take part in the proceedings. The Rev. Hugh Allen, M.A. (the newly-appointed rector of the parish of St. George-the-Martyr), presided ; and amongst those present were the Rev. Mr. Robinson, the Rev. J. D. Carey, the Rev. J. B. Courteny, the Rev. J. E. Singauki (late a missionary in Palestine and Syria), J. F. Fortescue, Esq., Ernest Hart, Esq., I .‘ll- D. Cooper (of the Rescue Society), Mr. Horni brook (Trinity-house), Mr. Thomas (London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution), &c., &c. The class of females who attended the meeting were certainly not of the same fashionable appear ance as those who attended the West-end meetings, but still the general character of the assembly was of a more respectable description than might have been expected in the district. At nearly twelve o'clock, when there were about 150 persons present (including the promoters of the meeting), The Rev. HUGH ALLEN rose and delivered a most forcible yet touching address to the unhappy creatures by whom he was surrounded. The rev. gentleman, who spoke most impassionately, was frequently interrupted in the course of his address by the sobbings and wailings of the unfortunate women. Addresses and prayers were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, Rev. Mr. Carey, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Lowe, and others, and the proceedings ter minated shortly before two o'clock. The conduct of those present was certainly most exemplary ; and although several at first ridiculed the idea of being reclaimed, yet they lingered after the refreshments to hear the addresses, and the result was, that nearly 20 were conveyed to the Home in Dover-place, and in the course of the day were sent to various institutions. MR. WILSON'S FINANCIAL PROPOSAL The telegram from Bombay is dated the 25th February, or a week subsequent to the introduc tion of the financial proposals of Mr. Wilson at Calcutta. It leaves some points still in obscurity. It confirms the fact that a graduated income-tax is to be introduced ; but while it seems to show that all incomes below £2O are to be spared, since the scale is to be 2 per cent. on incomes of £2O to £5O, and 4 per cent. on those beyond, there is a subse quent intimation that " no class will be exempt." This, however, probably means that the Govern ment officials will be included. The statement that the " 20 per cent. duties are to be lowered to 10 per cent." cannot be understood, as it is believed there are no 20 per cent. duties at present in force. The announcement of the intention to levy an im port duty of 10 per cent. on twist and yarn was altogether unexpected. There are manufactories at Calcutta and Bombay, and this duty can operate in no other way than as a direct advantage to those establishments against their European competitors. It would seem, therefore, as if the old system of protection is to be revived in the East at the vary moment it is receiving its final blow in England ; but the unlikelihood of such a movement is so great that it is thought the full advices by the mail will show there has been some inaccuracy in the para graph. The large increase in the export duty 0° i saltpetre (from about 9s. per ton to £6 per ton) s acknowledged t' be perfectly legitimate, since the production is almost limited to Bengal, and the high rate cannot, therefore, drive the buyers to other markets. On the other hand, it is satisfac tory that the export of hemp, jute,hides, wool, flax, tea, and coffee is to be free, since the whole of these articles have to sustain competition with similar prodcctions from Russia, the River Plate, China, &c. The intelligence on this occasion of the out break of the Kokees at Tipperah—about 200 or 300 miles north-west of Calcutta—is not alarming in $ political sense, although 1,000 persons are alleged to have been murdered. The Kokees are regarded as an aboriginal race, and the affair is analogous to that of the Santal insurrection, and from its locality' can probably be dealt with more easily. The re part of conspiracies against Holkar at Indore is likewise without much significance, as there are always fanatics at that capital from whom treachery is to be anticipated.—Times' (Sty Artic4. THE POST OFFICE AND THE la' ft - SPARER STAMP. Mr. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, has received the following commu nication from idr.F. Hill, regard ing the olition of the impressed stamp on news papers, and the arrangements for their transmis sion afford fa c ilit a t es to ne ws' paper dear Sir,—you may fully rel y byon our r st :— de; paper proprietors on the abolition of the im pressed stamp. That stamp is so great a trouble t o u s, and so fertile a source of error, abuse, and co mplaint, that we shall use our best exertions to reconcile all parties to its discontinuance, and to prevent any desire for its re-establishment. We are fully alive to the importance of time to newspaper proprietors, and we shall take such measures with respect to the obliteration of the postage stamps as to prevent any necessity for abridging, to the slightest extent, the time now allowed, whether to the public or to newspaper proprietors, for posting newspapers; an object it which we shall be much assisted by the machinery which we have lately introduced for stamping and obliterating. News. papers will, like letters, be always forwarded by the first post. Indeed they always have been ; the power we have of detaining printed matter gene rally having been applied to newspapers, from $ consideration of the special nature of newspaper literature." PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Pair is about at par, and the short exchange on London ie 25.10 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standari gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4221 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.3; per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Miut price is therefore at about the same price in Hamburg as in London. The course of eY change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight] about 1081 9 per cent., which, when compared with the Min' proportions between the two countries, shows that the 1 3 5 : change is slightly against England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of irkte rest, the present rate leaves no profit on the importatio n of gold from the United States. PRINCE ALFRED.—The United Service Gazel o says that Prince Alfred is being brought up in the servic e precisely the same as if he were the son of a private g entle' man :—" He messes with the midshipmen , keeps his r e d gular watch, dines occasionally in the ward room, IT , takes his turn to dine with the captain. He is treated v), his messmates as, in all r e s p ects, one of themselves--I called to order by the caterer, and runs the same risk e r being mad,e the subject of a practical joke as any othf young gentlenytn—hinerlf, however, being general pretty forward in the business of playful mischief, 15 1: 1 7, one question, that of smoking, the young prince is sternal denied the privilege indulged in by many other eflif e ls That growing weakness of the age, most mischievous 17110., consequ ences, particularly when carried to excess, is P r o hibited as far as Prince Alfred is concerned, and upon o no occasion, we believe, his Royal Highness had his Po or stopped for a fortnight for being detected in the ac t " blowing a cloud.'" - e n,Og MADLLE. PICCOLOMINI'S RETIREMEVT -- fortnightly engagement STAGE —This popular vocalist brought a engagement in Dublin to a close on Saturday eve I‘ n: n j os . , ' appearing for her own benefit in the ope ra Of se ver She had for some days prior been labouring under said cold, and when the curtain rose she came forward_ and —" Kind friends :—This may be the last tile! "I I ever appear before you. lam very ill, indeed,' i! hav e] tried to come here to see you again. I can °DIY_ ire. o badly. You have been always very good t best . " t pardon my faults to-night ? I shall do e evident that needless to say that this appeal was r best feeling, and with loud applause. It was t was surPr?" Madlle. Piccolomini did " do her best," for it was oe' ing with how much spirit the character lwtal degroyedbel spite the obvious suffering, which . cerap e Y f e skill and Well'. ordinary powers. 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