The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

Conductor—Mr. Costa. Prices of Admission : —Boxes—pit tier, 5/. 15s. 6d.; grand tier, 6/. 6s ; first tier, 5/. ss. ; second tier, 2/. 12s. 6d. ; orchestra stalls, 11. ls. ; pit, 10s. 6d. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10e, 6a., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. 6d. Application for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, under the portico iu Bow street, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN, NEW THEATRE. First Appearance of Signor RONCONI. First Appearance of Signor NERI BARALDI, First Ni;ht of LUCREZIA BORGIA. First Appearance of Madlle. ZINA. On THURSDAY NEXT, June 3, will be performed (for the first time this season), Donizetti's Opera, LUCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Grisi; 3faffie Orsini, Madlle. Didiee ; Don Alfonso, Sig Ronconi (his first appearanee this season); Gazelle, 3f, Zelger; Rnstighello, Sig. Soldi; Gubetta, Sig. Tagliafico ; Astolfe, Sig. Polonini; Vitellozzi, Sig. Rossi; and Gennaro, Signor Neri Baraldi (his first apperranco this season). Conductor—Mr. Costa. Aftt r which, the Ballet Divertissement entitled LA BRESILIENN E. Principal characters by Aladlle. Zina (her first appearance in England), Madlle. Delechauz, Madlle. Esper, Madlle. Zelia (her first appearance), Mr. Payne, and M. Desplaces. To commence at 8 o'clock. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN, NEW THEATRE. On SATURDAY NEXT, June 5, will be performed (for the first time this season) Rossini's Opera, IL 11ARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Principal characters by Madame Bosio, Sig, Ronconi (Ins second appearance this season), Signor Tagliafice, 111. Zelger, and Signor Mario. After which, LA BRESILIENNE. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN, NEW THEATRE. AMPHITHEATRE STALLS. Visitors to the Amphitheatre Stalls are respectfully informed that ou and ,fter THURSDAY NEXT, June 3, a separate and exclusive ENTRANCE and Staircase will be provided for them, the approaches to which will be in Hart-street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented the ne w f arce en titl e d THE STOCK EXCHANGE ; or, The Green Business. After which (for tho last time but three), FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Mephistophiles, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitled SAMUEL IN EARCH OF HIMSELF. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buekstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Characters by Messrs. Buckstoue, Chippendale, Compton, W. Farren, Rogerselark, and Miss A. Sedgwick, Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and. Mrs. J. Fitz. william. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Foliated by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole or thi evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. a. d. Second price. s. d. Dross Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Bores. Pl. . Gallery T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be presented the Drama of the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Followed by the new Broad Eccentric Drama, OUR FRENCH LADY'S MAID. Mr. B. Webster and Madame Celeste. To conclude with the comic drama of THE MIDDY ASHORE. Mr. P. Bedford. Commence at Seven. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.—This Evening will be presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs. Emery, Ray, Belford; Mesdames M. Oliver, Portman, Victor. and Selby. _ After which, a new Burlesque, entitled THE BRIDE OP ABYDOS. Messrs. Charles Young, Turner, &c.; Misses M. Oliver, Swanborough, To conclude with MT WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. The characters by Messrs. N. H. Swanborough, J. W. Ray, Chas Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Tcrnan, and C. Melville CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow fag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS , d g c . , viz . :— M i ss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Visa Bru 1011, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jorighmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. loner, J. Barker W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. lime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard Messrs. W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dre., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening in a Selection f orn "L A DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English words by Desmond Ryan, Esq. THE WEATHER—SUN Oinnoz, JUNE 1. THIER3IOSI2T&R, IN THE SHADE. 77—highest since noon yesterday. ti4--lowest this morning and during the night 77—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.09 WIND, W.N.W. ; light, with filio weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins D /Of— Morn , 28 min. aft. 4--Even., 47 min. aft. 4 To-M ousow—Xtorn., 6.min. aft. 5 Even., 26 mth aft, powl ‘.5 g.,. •.f.'•3.:.• Z ' y....,, Vyt ). c .27,---,,i . , , , -- . h ,-!..„ 4 e"-f, I I 0.1,_ 4 - 1 • r f•-:, - '", - - ,,, - .i .......,, I I ---:!.,,..--,. -'; c-,-,,. 4. 1 ,,, • , _____—_- , , k.,...i..55 LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1858. Mr. DISRAELI, in his brilliant address to till , electors of Slough, inflicted a severe castigation on' - the Palmerstonian "Cabal." The phrase wa , peculiarly felicitous. It hit hard, and the extra ordinary sensitiveness displayed by the pasty, allow that the wound is still rankling. But, in THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1858. THET_ GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY 'the language of th e P. R ., t h ey are very gluttons COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY for punishment—receivers-G e n era l, who do not GIVEN, That the Meeting convened . for TO-MORROW (WEDNESpAY), to consider certain now pending in seem to know when they are thoroughly and Parliament, will be ADJOURNED, in consequence of the Bills not having yet passed the House of Commons. soundly thrashed. Night after night, hour after By order. hour, they persevere in their factious and venomous HENRY OAKLEY, Secretary. Secretary's Office, King's Cross Station, proceedings. The shafts are dipped in the deadly London, Tuesday, Ist June, 1858. extract of the 17 pas tree, but none have reached the intended mark. They return, like the Aus tralian "Boomerangs," to those by whom they were dismissed, and only wound the hands that aimed the missiles. The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to his constituents was sufficiently damaging to the family party who seemed to think that they had a " right divine" to place and power, who could not rest contented in the " cold shade" to which they had been consigned by their own truckling and undignified policy ; but its force has been greatly increased by the wild tactics of the new confederates. It has again and again been brought forward, and every time with more de cided success to the Ministry. On _ Fri , day, Lord JOHN RUSSELL contrived once more to " upset the coach." The castigaH which he then received will not speedily or easily be forgotten. He writhed under the flagellation, so well merited, and so unsparingly administered. That did not suffice. The veteran Viscount —the convenient associate of a dozen ttdministrations, endeavoured to come to the rescue, or rather to follow up the .attack. It seems that the determination was to hunt in packs —so that what could not be achieved by individual prowess might be accom plished by wearying out the doomed victim. But the skilful and practised maitre d'armes mot one even more " cunning defence," fully able to protect himself, and to retort on his adversary— old the wild passes of his bottleholders were easily parried by the accomplished seconds, who entered the arena after the English M. HYENNE had been placed hors de combat. Never did the Financial Minister appear to greater advantage that last night, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, and he Attorney• General for Ireland, fully maintained their well established reputations ! Poor Sir GEORGE GREY, and still poorer Lord JOHN RUSSELL, were not merely castigated, but pickled. The lash was vigorously applied, and every strin gent cut struck home, and made the unwilling recipients wince. The operations of Friday and Monday were, as truly stated, " a combined movement," but they fell completely to the ground. The Right Hon. Gentleman against whom they wore aimed was " too cunning of fence," or rather was t completely armed with the panoply of truth and justice, to be pierced by such missiles. His oppo nents felt and quailed under the scourge. They howled under the well-merited laceration, and may even at the eleventh hour, discover that " discretion is the better part of valour." Lord PALMERSTON himself occupied too fragile :5 domicile to indulge in pastime so dangerous and so unusual. Had there been anything wrong in the address at Slough, it could not be compared to the reckless demonstration of the 9th Nov., when he cast down his gage before all the great Powers, or like the excited Hibernian at a provincial fair, or pattern trailed his "cotamore" along the ground, and defied any one to tread on he dust-besprinkled skirt. If everything said out of the House to constituencies or conviviial parties—if every postprandial oration was to be made the subject of repeated and protracted dis cussion, the business of the nation will suffer materially. The Opposition could not sneer at the alleged shortcoming of the Government, when they themselves were alone to blame for the gross waste of much valuable time. The debates have not, however, been useless ; the discussions have not been altogether thrown away, They have exhibited in the strongest light, the fallacies promulgated by the Whigs—the absurdity of supposing that either Lord PALMER STON or Lsrd JOHN RUSSELL were the recognised !eaders, or could command the support of the in dependent Liberals. On this point, Mr. DISRAELI made some unpleasing revelations. He said : " I want to know whether the Bucks speech is still to be the subject of the adjourned debate, and what the result is to be. I take it for granted that there is to be no division. Divisions are no longer the fashion. As far as I could collect from the noble lord opposite (the member for London) on Friday night, the object of the demonstration was to esshibit the great Liberal party in opposi tion to the Government. That is a legitimate and constitutional course for a party to take. If the noble lord is a Liberal ; if he sympathises with the great Liberal party he is perfectly justified in show ing to the country the opinions of the great Liberal party in opposition to the opinions of those who occupy the Treasury bench. But lam bound to say that I do not see how that clearly applies to the Noble Lord who addressed us to-night, because I cannot understand any feeling, sentiment, or interest that unites the Noble Lord and the mem bers of the late Government with the great Liberal party. I take the operations of Friday and Mon day together because they were a combined move ment, and I shall address myself to the united demonstration, though I confess I cannot clearly see the drift of the movement. I cannot see how the two Noble Lords and the great Liberal party opposite can act together. The great Liberal party are in favour of vote by ballot. Are the members of the late Government in favour of the ballot ? The great Liberal party are in favour of the abolition of church rates. Is the late Government in favour of the 'abolition of church rates ? The great Liberal party is in favour of the motion of the Hon. Member for Surrey for the extension of the county franchise. Is the late Government in favour of that proposal f All we knew is that they opposed it on principle when it was brought forward formerly. There is another subject in which the great Liberal party are interested. It is the subject of economy. Were the late Government in favour of economy ? It is my painful duty every day of my life to be a witness to the expenditure of the late government, and a more reckless, ex,ra vagant, profuse expenditure never existed. The groat Liberal party are in favour of publicity. They always look for publicity in transactions of the greatest importance. Now, there neve r was a government which exercised such a reTsehreveonilny affairs of state as the late government. charges which they were always urging against those who sit here were that they did produce public documents. The only charge against I li was that we published a dispatch ; but no on e can say that we ever intercepted a letter." if not impossibl©, t o It would be difficult, expose the falsity of the pretensions that have been urged, the absurdity of the claims put for ward in more decided and unequivocal term; At all events, we may say, that Lord PALMERSTON has taken nothing by his motion, and that neiViei himself nor his new friend have as yet succeeded in Extricating themselves from the " Slough cf Despond" into which they were cast, by,, the skilful hand of the Financial Minister. TO THE SPORTING WORLD. D EER STALKING AND GROUSE SHOOTING. The undersigned is at 24, BREWER-STREET, REGENT STREET (in a line with Glasshouse-street), until the 10th July, with all the necessary Clothing for Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, and Salmon Fi-hing ; and some new and beautiful Tweeds for town wear, &c Plaids, Tartans, Socks, Cloaks, Winceys, &e. A large stock of the famous Highland Cloaks, for town and country use, and for Deer Stalking. The favourite Flora Macdonald Cloaks for Ladies, in all the fashionable colours. Tho Highland Dress made up. Room open from two to six o'clock, until the 10th July, when Macdougall returns to Inverness. May, 1858. D. MACDOUGALL, of Inverness. ER A I ! AJE H VIZ E 'S NOT IHEATRE ES THIS EVENING, Tuesday, June 1, will be repeated Dieyerbeer's Graud Opera, LE3 HUGUENOTS. Il Conte di Sin Brie, Signor Belletti ; Meru, Signor C3.stelli Raoul di Ningis, Signor Giuglini; Ii Conte di Nevers, Sig. Aldighieri ' • Tavannes, Sig. Annoni De Come, Sig. Mercuriali ; De Retz, Sig. Borchardt • Head of Night Watch, Sig. Albelda ; Marcello , Sig. Vialetti Valentina, Maddle. Titiens ; Margarita di Valois, Madlle, Ortoiani; Urban; Mine. Lanai Daum d'Onore, Madame Ghioni, Conductor —Sig. Arditi. To conclude with an entirely New Ballet Divertissement, by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The principal characters by 3fadlle. Marie Taglioni (her first ap pearance this season), Meadlles. Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale, Morlacchi, and M. Durand. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public. Prize 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box Office, at the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— Titiens, Alboui, Giuglini. Piccolomini, Ortolani, Belletti, Beneventano, Aldighieri. TO-NIGHT, Tuesday, June 1— LES HUGUENOTS, and Ballot; with Madlle. Marie Taglioni. Thursday, June 3—LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, and Ballet, with Multi% Pocchini. Saturday, June S—IL TROVATORE and Ballet. Monday, June 7 —Grand Morning Performance, DON GIOVANNI, and other Entertainments. The Ballet will inc7ude Mesdlles. Pocchini and Marie Taglioni. Morning dress only will be necessary. To commence at half-past one. Tuesday, June 8, will be produced (for the first time) Verdi's opera, LUISA MILLER. Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. NEW THEATRE. The Operi to commence at half-past 8 o'clock. Third appearance of Madame BOSIO. Third appearance of Signor GRAZIANI. Third appearance of Signor GARDONI. Third Night of LA TRAVIATA. THIS EVENING, Tuesday, June 1, will be peeormed (for the third time this season) Verdi's opera, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Madame Bosio (her 3d appearance this season) ; Flora Bervoix, Madame Tagliafico ; Georgio Germont, Signor Graziani (his 3d appearance this season); Baron Duphol, Signor 'Tagliafico; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Po!onini ; OAstone, Signor Soldi; Dottore GrenTil, M Zelger ; Guiseppe, Signor Rosie ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his 3d appear ance this season). . . . Our electric communications with the Eist d with the West, with the United States by way i f the Azores and across the Atlantic, with India beyond the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, are at length in a fair way of being carried out in the rig/it direction and upon the right principle. Hitherto England has not been secur ing to herself what has nevertheless been all along entirely at her option —a perfect and absolute in dependence. AS Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY took occasion to remark while he was President of the Board ofTrade, this country has hitherto been in curring a terrible hazard in the event of war, the risk of having abruptly cut off at any moment the accustomed channels of intelligence. The obso lete semaphore was perpetually liable to the most tantalising interruptions by reason of a fog, of a mist, of any unexpected obscuration of the atmos phere. The electric wire is continually in yet greater jeopardy of being at any instant rendered altogether useless. Traversing as it does one after another of the continental nations, it may be a'iy where in its course snipped by the intervention of a popular insurrection, or by a rupture with the Government. If not destroyed it may be turned to our own serious and immediate disad vantage. Through it information of the most vital importance may be transmitted to the enemy most inopportunely. The necessity of obviating this liability to fatal consequences as speedily and effectually as possible has been rapidly becoming more and more obvious to the whole community, and has at length forced itself upon the recognition of the more enterprising and intelligent. An under taking of the most daringly comprehensive kind, well imaginable, has at last been set on fool - , and happily with every reasonable prospect before it of being carried before long to the most satisfactory conclusion. Reference is here made, of course, to the project for the laying down, by moans of an electric cable, of a grand European and American Telegraph—a submarine line, in fact, not simply either European or American, nut merely both together, but one literally bringing the ends of the earth into instantaneous commu nication, linking the eastern with the western hemisphere, knitting closely with one another the extremities of Asia and the extremities of Ame rica by a metallic cord running from one to the other between the African and the European con tinents, namely, along the bed of the Mediter ranean. A preliminary meeting in furtherance of this great object has been held in the City of London, and a lucid explanation of the whole scheme was then given by Mr. Moslem CLARKS, the eminent civil engineer, and previously by the distinguished chairman of the occasion, Mr. JAMES WYLD, M.P. for Bodmin, a man, whose opinion is undoubtedly of the very highest value and importance upon the subject—Mr. WYLD being, as every one knows, one of the most gifted and authoritative of all our living hydrographers. It is proposed by the adoption of this new route that England shall at last be rendered alto gether independent of the nations of the European continent in regard to its electric communications with Hindostan. It is in tended, for example, in the first instance, to carry a line right on front Plymouth to Alexandria by way of Gibraltar and Malta—our own military stations—or still by a submarine electric cable to our remote Asiatic possessions. Turning in the.opposite direction, it is suggested that from Lisbon the cable should branch west wards by way of Flores, one of the Azores, to some point on the coast of the United States—say to Boston or Charlestown. As to the engineer ing difficulties in the way of such an extraordinary double enterprise, what are the distinct and authoritative views most recently expressed ? Why, Mr. WYLD has directly asserted, that " so far as the line between Plymouth and Lisbon, and thence to Malta was concerned, which was the part he was anxious to see first undertaken, there was not the slightest room fur doubt respecting the laying of the cable, as the sound ings of every inch of the ground were already accurately known." The honourable gentleman having already remarked that " difficulties fully as great as those which might be anticipated be tween the Azores and Boston, or Charlestown, had been successfully overcome in the Mediter ranean lines, where the cable had been laid over chasms in the bed of the sea, as deep as any that would in all probability be encountered in the Atlantic." Upon this point, Mr. EDWIN CLARKS was afterwards, if possible, still more explecit: " From Flores to Boston," he said, " over the Atlantic, he could only judge by analogy and comparison. There might not be a plateau, or There might ; but that was of no consequence, and very little advantage. There might be chasms; but these had been found in the Mediterranean, and the lines had been successfully laid over them. Depths there were ; but these were not obstacles, nor difficulties, they were only special circum stances, requiring special treatment on the part of the engineer. Where he had found difficulties in laying down cables—and he had submerged four across one sea between Holland and England—h e had found no difficulty from depths, but rather from the want of depths. The shallows, not th© depths, were troublesome." Opinions like these, remember, are the satisfactory and reliable results of practical experience. Than the deliberate views thus expressed by an eminent geographer like Mr. WYLD, and subsequently by an eminent engineer like Mr. CLARKE, nothing, we con ceive, could well be more satisfactory. Every syllable is full of encouragement. As regarded that part from Lisbon, by the Azores to Boston, Mr. CLARKE said "he could answer for the space from Lisbon to Flores that there was no engineering difficulty in submerging the cable that came within his own knowledge." As to tLe practicability of trailing the cable along the bed of the Mediterranean—that has been already again and again conclusively demonstrated —even, as we have seen, to the crossing of chasms "as deep," according to the Member for Bodlnin, "as any that would in all probability be encountered in the Atlantic." From Flores on to Boston we shall see soon what the chances of success are likely to be from the result of the new enterprise now on the eve of being carried out in - mid-ocean for the laying down of the transatlantic telegraph. From Alexandria on to Hindost tn the route has yot to be selected. According to Captain POLLEN'S statement, ad dressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and dated "Suez, April 15, H.M.'s steamer Cyclops," THE NEW INFANTRY REGIMENT. --We learn from Que no better route could well be chosen than that b.-c that between seven and eight hundred men of the temptingly offered to us by the Red Sea. Caps. Majesty's teamer Vulcan May. It was said th a t h e r PULLEN'S words upon this subject are in every would take the 100 t h Regi'nent to Engla nd . 100:1: Regiment were co llected there on the 13th of way very remarkable, and are entitled to serious Summer weather has at la consideration. I beg to observe," he says, in the shade, at 81 deg. Fahrenheit. g " thermouiet, r stood, e t t h re e o'clock yesterday afternoon,th set in in Paris. The " that I th in k no p l ace can b e b et t er a d apted for The Putrie announces that M. d layi ng a t e l- graph cable than in the Red Sea ; horses e u were e ° o his n Saturday h ta ,uI t at e L S tam Point, artiti e' a s nd saddlethat of Monceau is shortly to be there c er t a i n l y is the choice of routes, and sell to satiqy one of his creditors. that 150 s certainly i n the throughout on either shore a soft bed may be got ; understands tendered their resigna o fhTheres Uai:ritveiti/o.SlenrnpldiGaazhetaleve G,C.11. the water is deep, though not more so, or even so as where other cables have been lalcl, tio i n t s - s t3: l• G ein o t e t z a a il i t , liott the bor..ugh of Greenwich that Mr. much, of mi d a d n l e a ' t natureturday) thr.) t e i x i actept yet perhaps fit C fin : t 101 causewe k know o uf . Townsend intends resigning next week. CC;l7remePnhv;ilC'h Free Press of Sa- HEAD- MASTERSHIP or TUE CLIARTER-HOUSE.—At jury." Than this nothi ng could very well be more curt tended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of straightforward or more satisfactory. A company Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earls of evon,Howe, Lords Panmere, Cranwo r th, is forthwith prepared with th e funds necessary J D o e h r by, n R. Du aanndd others the Rev. R. Elwyn, M.A., for the immediate carrying out of the whole of late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and galliccr this magnificent enterprise—if aided only by the master, vacant by the lamented death of Dr. Elder. sympathy and the guarantee of her MAJESTY'S THE WEXFORD MURDEa.—Thomas Cooper, charged Government. We cannot for an instant d al b t recent murder of Michael Ilwan n ear E nn i s with the worthy, has been fully committed to take his WA at that this encouragement will be at once accorded, the approaching assizes. The whole nation will rejoice at the accession to office of Sir E. BULNVER LYTTON. He is in deed a great man, capable of adding strength to any Government, and his absence from office was felt as a material drawback on the formation of the present Cabinet. He is now a Secretary of State, and we are convinced that the highly cultivated intellect, the mental power for which he is so remarkably distinguished, will be displayed to the best advantage in the administration of the affairs of our numerous and important colonies. We believe that the com munity at large will cordially concur in the opi nion that the new Ministerial arrangements are the best that could be formed under the peculiar circumstances. EPIGRAM. G)o,1 people oft display great contrariety ; So one wo know, religious to satiety, B.g:ns to show a liking for variety. London, May 31, 1853, The enormous, indeed, we may say without exagge ration, the absolutely incalculable advantages accruing from the completion of such an under taking, cannot by possibility be overlooked by the -Administration. Once let us realise this magni ficent projeel-, and we shall be independent of foreign nations, and whether in peace or in war our vast and scattered dominions will be perma nently consolidated by means of one comprehen sive system of electro-telegraphic intercourse. The Ministerial arrangements necessitated by the resignation of Lord ELLENBOROUGH have been completed. Lord STANLEY is to be the President of the India Board, and Sir E. BIILWER LYTTON the Secretary for the Ck.donies, We need scarcely repeat what we have so oftou declared, our deep regret at the loss of the inestimable services of th© Noble Earl, who, with the peculiar chivalry for which he has ever been conspicuous, offered himself up as a voluntary sacrifice to allay the acrimonious spite of the Opposition. Had he not done so, the Ministerial triumph would have been signal and complete. The " anti-con fiscation" policy, which he so ably and so nobly advocated, would have been sanc tioned by both Houses of Parliament as it has been by the voice of public opinion, speaking trumpet-tongued in his praise. At Cannon Row the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH was " the right man in the right place." He was peculiarly qualified for the position. His great experience, combined with the energy and decision indispensable, were all that could be desired or hoped for. By the death of the Duchess d'Orleans the French budget saves 300,000 f. a year, which neither the Republic nor the coup d'cgat attempted to withdraw, it being the national dowry settled by France, bnt there is no rever sionary interest in the Count de Paris. The Board of Trade have advertised the corditions of tender for the construction of a single line of railway and telegraph at the Cape from Capetown to Wellington, via Stellenbosch, under a guarantee from the colony, which will also fernish the requisite land. The parties tendering are to state the rate and duration they will require as regards guaranteed interest, and alio the period to be allowed them for completing and opening the undertaking. OPENING/ OF THE LEEDS NEW TOWN HALL BY HER MAJESTY.—LEEDS, Monday.—We have great pleasure in announcing that her Majesty the Queen has graciously signified her intention of being present in Leeds at the letter end of August, for the purpose of inaugurating the noble Teivn Hall of this borough. The Hainpdtire 9clrertiser contradicts the statement that Portsmouth is being etrongly fortified, and asserts that '` the old forts.are not worth the mud they consist of." It is not any disparagement to Lord STANLEY to say, that we regret the change, although there is no doubt'diat he will make an excellent Indian Minister, second only to the Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH. His talents have been duly appre ciated by friends and foes. Thera has been no Administration for several years that had not courted his aid. He was justly looked on as " the coming man," the incipient Statesman who might yet be called on to direct and control the destinies of the United Kingdom. He is well acquainted with Indian affairs, and he did not acquire his information by any royal road. He travelled and encountered all the inevitable difficulties and annoyances to which the Indian wayfarer is exposed. But he acquired knowledge in the only way it could be won, and perhaps, next to Lord ELLEmsorrouall, ho is the very best man for the situation. • It was intimated yesterday to the London bankers by the Board of Inland Revenue that, except in the mutual arrangements between bankers, clerks presenting cheques will not be recognised as representing their employers so as to exempt such cheques when drawn payable to "self " and riot to bearer from the penny stamp. This decision will be satisfactory to the public, since the other prac tice would have led to numerous inconvenient and petty evasions, which in the aggregate would seriously have interfered with the revenue expected to be derived from the new impost. The rate of interest on French Treasury Bonds has been fixed at 3 per cent, for those of from 3 to 6 menthe,, and 3 per cent. for those of from 6 to 12 months. This involves no alteration except a reduc tion of a half per cent. in those having more than 11 months to run, which, since the 18th of last March, have carried 4 per cent. The telegrams from Bombay describe an adverse tendency in the market for manufactured goods. There is eotne discrepancy in - the quotation of the rate of ex change, but it is believed to be 2s 1; d, which would show a further improvement of a half per cent, in our favour. In the prices of Government Stocks there was no altera tion, the 5 per Cents. being at 92, and the 4 per Cents. at 82/. There has been no later intelligence from China. The Momiteur announces that on and after the 31st of May the interest on Bons du Tresor will be 3 per cent. for those of from three to six months, and 3!l i per cent. for those from six to twelve months. THE LATE HUGH MILLER.—It is perhaps not generally knoWn that a fund is at present being raised to secure the permanent maintenance in this country of the valu able museum collected by this distinguished geologist. Government had destined 5001. for this purpose, but the sum of 1,000 guineas having been off,...red by an Ame rican college, it has become necessary, in order to secure the deposition of the collection in one of our national institutions, that the sum offered by Government should be supplemented by public or private contributions, and a subscription has accordingly bean commenced in Edinburgh, under the aupices of the Lord Provost. About 3001. are still needed to complete tbo purchase money and cover the expenses of removal and arrange ment. DEATH OF STEPHEN COPPINGER, ESQ.—This gentle man, who had been an active member of the Roman Catholic Association, died rather suddenly yesterday. He attended the funeral of Mr. John O'Connell, on Friday, when he appeared in good health. Mr. Cop piner way a barrister, in the enjoyment of emolunoen tary practice. TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday being Trinity Mon day, a special general court was held at the Trinity House, on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort was unanimously re-elected master, and Captain John Shepherd deputy master, of that ancient corporation, for the ensuing year. The Court then proceeded to the parish church of S'. Olave, in Hart-street, where Divine service was performed, and an exctl ent and appropriate sermon preached by the Rev. William Cureton, M.A., canon of Westminster, and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen. MORE MURDERS IN TIPPERARY. —Another murder is reported from Tipperary. On Sunday night an inoffen sive man, named Larkin, was stabbed with a knife, in the town of 13orrisakane. His death was instantaneous. This deed was perpetrated whilst the police were still engaged dragging the river in which the body of Greene was found, in search of the instrument used in his mut , der. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—Three motions on this subject are on the eve of coming under discussion in the House cf Commons. The bill for the abolition of the property qualification will go into committee on Wed nesday, the 2d inst. ; Mr. Berkeley's ballot motion stands for Tuesday, the Bth ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has granted Thursday, the 10th, to Mr. Locke King, for his bill for the extension of the county franchise. BRUTAL MURDER.—A most brutal murder was com mitted at St. Anthony's, near Newcastle-on. Tyne, on Sunday morning, and from such particulars as have transpired it appears to have originated in those unhappy differences that have existed in Tyneside between the Irish Roman Catholics and Pro testants recently. On Saturday afternoon a newly married couple named Mearne, residing at Bill Point, about four miles below Newcastle, visited that town, where they purchased a quantity of furniture, and late in the evening they set out for home, carrying their purchases with them. They called at a beershop at St. Paters on their way home, where they fell in with a man named Kane, Mrs. Mearn's brother in-law, who proceeded towards their home with them, along with two other persons. Nothing cf any particu lar moment occurred until they were passing a public house where an Orange lodge is held. A group of men were standing near this house, and from all that can be gathered some one in the group must have fired a pistol at Kane, for his sister and brother-in-law, who were in advance, were startled by its report, and on turning back saw Kane lying on the, ground, and the men who had been standing in a group attack ng him. One of them was striking him with a knife. After killing him they flat.. The unfortunate man must have died instantaneously, for in addition to the pistol around he had received two or three stabs in the back and a frightful gash on the right side of the throat. The Nor thumberland County Constabulary have apprehended Michael Marn, John Jarvey, Patrick Brown, and Jo seph Johnstone, on suspicion of being concerned in the affray, and they have been lodged in the Moot-hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne. BODY OF A MURDERED CHILD FOUND IN THE REGENT'S-CANAL.—On Sunday forenoon, as police-con stables 218 and 364 N, were on duty by the Haggerstone Gas Works, Shoreditcb, their attention was called to a basket in the Regent's-canal. Upon its being taken out of the water, the body of a child was discovered in it much mutilated. There was a flatiron in the basket fas tened round the neck of the child, which was no doubt put there to prevent the body when in a state of decompo sition rising, and there were also several rounds of wire about the body with an iron hoop attached to the handle of the flet;ron. There was also in the basket a black watered silk apron with lilac-coloured rows at the bottom of it. An inquest was held yesterday at the Black Horse, Kingsland-road. Mr. Jas. Clark, sur geon, Acton-place, Kingsland-road, said that he exa mined the body of the deceased, which he found very much mutilated. He believed that the deceased was about six years af age (Some of the jury said they thought she was older.) The body was that of a female ; and had been dead about 10days. The bones of the head, from having been so long in the water, had become separated. There was a fracture of the temporal bones, which in his opinion t .ck place before death. The frontal and occipital bones, as also that of the nose, were fractured. The body presented the appearance of having been subject to burning after death to prevent identification. It looked as if it had been semi-roasted. From the appearance of the body he was of opinion that the child had been killed before it was put into the water. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some pereon or persons unknown." AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. —Farming prospects in the north-midland counties are generally of the most satisfactory character, A more favourable spring than the present, both for seedling operations and cleaning the land, has never been known, and, as there have been frequent showers of rain within the last month or two, all the grain crops have come up remarkably even and well, while the root crops give promise of unusual weight and promise. There is no deficiency of wheat plant anywhere ; on the contrary, it stands much too thickly on the ground ie many places, notwithstanding the efforts that have been made to reduce the superabun dance. The prevalence of cool, dull, and rather humid weather has had the effect of turning some of the crops yellow in places, and instances are reported of the plant being already laid by the rains; but re 3 the temperature has now taken a higher range it may be hoped that the crops thus deteriorated will soon recover. If the weather snould prove bright and warm for the greater part of the next two or three months there will be an abundant wheat harvest. Barley has generally come up even and fine, and promises to be of excellent qually gentalls• Beans and peas look very healthy. Potatoes also have a vigorous appearance. Turnips and mongold wurt zol are now generally above ground, and have come up very satisfactorily. Orchards arid fruit gardens give pro mise of unusal abundance. Generally speaking there has been a large fall of lambs?, but in sonic districts con siderable losses of ewes have been en ,tained. Sheep shearing has been rather later than usual thisyear owing to the coldness of the weather, but on all hands a goqd crop c f wool is spoken cf. The hay harvi st will not now to so late as was at one rime anticipated. Both mea dows and old pastures bare a luxuriant appearance. LORD BROUGHAM AND GOVERNOR HINCKS.—Lord Brougham, in his speech at the meeting of the Anti- Slivery Society, a dd uce d a fact, upon un l ev i a bl e authority which completely explodes the statements put forth by the opponents of West Indian enaenci pation, that sugar caereit be cul•ivated at a re munerative profit without tdave lab •ur. The authority was a let er from the Hon. F. Hincks, formerly Prime Minister of Canada, anti now Gas erner-Gere - rid of the Wind we/el I lands and the fact ref_rred to was, that an estate in the is land of Berbadeee, which was sold in 1833, under the impression that sugar gro wing could no longer be s uccese f u ll y prosecute d , i s now pro d uc i n g, by free l , labour, thr ee ti mes as muc h sugar as it th e n did, ar d , lately b een se ll at an enormous l y en h ance d p r ice. Such facets as these are held by hie lordship to prove that the re sults of free labour are as beneficial to the proprietor of the soil as to the labourer, the greatly increased value of the estate sufficiently showing that the augmented productiveness of the estate had not been brought about by an expenditure which left no profit.—Liverpool Albion. L &TEST NEW VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING. On the 29th of May the two French liners left Gravosa, but they have received orders to remain in the Adriatic until they receive further iustruc- tions. FRANCE. - PARIS, MONDAY. The first aeries of guests invited by the Emperor and Empress to Fontainbleau have taken their de parture, and the personages whose names are in cluded in the second list have left Paris to join their Majesties. Among them are Count de Kisseleff and Baron de Hubner, the Russian and Austrian Ministers. A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says : " The first two sittings of the Conference were taken up with the reading of the report of the 13arou de Talleyrand-Perigord on the state of the Danubian provinces. This report is maiked by a considerable knowledge of the interests, the wants, and the wishes of Moldavia and Wallachia, and by a clear statement of the necessity of a political union. Baron de Talleyrand, has, however, recom mended, in a spirit of conciliation, the postpone ment for the present of the realisation of the union, and confined himself to such internal reforms as• may prepare the way for the eventual union of .the provinces. What now remains to be done ? To draw up regulations for the reorganiSation of each of the two provinces, the preparatory draft of which will serve as the basis of the next deliberations of the Conference. Such is the principal motive which has caused the third sitting to be postponed to the sth June. . M. de Pene still lies at St. Germain, without hopes of recovery. The ill-feeling engendered by this affair is increasing? A struggle between the military and the bourgeoisie took place last evening at a cafe in the Rue de Bondy ; the military ex pelled a carpenter from the cafe ; but he returned with some of his fellow-workmen, and the troops were in their turn expelled. The Youvelliste, of Marseilles, of the 28th IMay, states that at 5 in the morning of the preceding day two non-commissionad officers of the 58th In fantry fought a duel on the high ground near where the Imperial Palace is being built. The weapon used was the sword. One of the combat ants was killed on the spot, and the other slightly wounded in the abdomen. After the survivor's wound was dressed he was committed to the mili tary prison at Marseilles. 801 - RsE, May 31.—The reduction of the rate of interest on the Bons du Treior has had no influ once on the prices of the Rente, which has been offered, owing to sales for the impending settle ment. The railway shares have been - steady, holders anticipating some measures in favour of the companies. The following were the last quota tions : 4i per Cents 93 50 Do. end month Credit Foncier Belgian 4 Piedmontese (5) Roman 9l Austrian Spanish Threes 3 per Cent. .... 69 50 Do. end month 69 45 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier 610 Do. Account 63f 50 Home Debt . -FOR CASH. RAILWAYS. Orleans Northern New Ditto 732,1, Lyon and Moditeran 740 New Ditto Midi Western 567; Strasburg te Grand Central Sardinian Austrian 'SSIA. Geneva RU A St. Petersburg► letter says :—" M. Titoff, formerly Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, and to whom was confided the direction of the studies of the young hereditary Grand Duke, has just resigned those functions to return into the ranks of diplomacy. This resignation has caused considerable sensation. M. Grimm, formerly tutor of the Grand Duke Constantine, and who has since retired to Dresden, has been sent for to replace M. Titoff," PRUSSIA. Lord Wodehouse, lately representative of Eng land in Russia, arrived on the 29th ult. at Berlin from St Petersburg, and intended remaining for some few clays in the Pruskan capital before pro ceeding to London. Sir Arthur Magennis, the English Minister at Stockholm, is also at present in Berlin. A letter from Berlin of the 28th ult. says :—"Some journals assert that Prussia has addressed to Aus tria a note, threatening to withdraw from the Ger manic confederation. • and others my she has on ly expressed the intention of retiring from the Z•.)11- vtrein. We can, however, affirm that both ass-r -tions are erroneous. The note referred to is rola tive to the tendency which Austria has lately manifested of causing the deliberations of the Diet to prevail by a simple majority. It opposes that tendency, and says that if persisted in it may have the result of causing the separation of some States which feel themselves aggrieved by that course. But that is far from being a threat to leave the Confederation. Prussia only seeks the maintenance and development of federal institutions as they exist, but Austria wants to obtain a preponderating influence in Germany. Austrian journals are wrong in complaining of Prussia as the cause why the y two Powers are not always in accord ; for it is Austria which prevents a good understanding by her continual encroach ments." AIN. The Madrid journals SP of the 27th ult. contain long accounts of the Queen's visit to Alicante, from which it appears that in tl:at city her Majesty was received with great enthusiasm. Mr. Buchanan, the new English Minister, was there presented to her Majesty, but not officially. The papers contain political news. They state that the heat had become very great in Madrid. PASSENGERS FR 013 INDIA. The followingis a list of the passengers on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Pera, Captain Jamieson, which left Malta at 6 p.m. on the 23d ult., with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails, and is expected at Southampton this day (Tuesday) :—From Calcutta —Mr. Hawkins, three children, and servan t ; M rs. Catania, Mrs. Barlas, Paymaster Williams, Mr. Crosse, Mrs. Henderson, two children, and servant; Rev. Dr. Legge, Mr. and Mrs. Macrae, three chil dren, and servant; Captain and Mrs. Onslow, five children, and servant; Mrs. Heywood, Lieutenant Parkinson, Mrs. Abb o tt three children, and t wo servants ; Captain and Mrs. Jackson, and three children, Mr. and Miss Simpson, Mrs. Lovejoy and infant, Mr. Parker, Mr. Reitzman, Mr. Ball (late chief steward of the Aya) 10 firemen from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ne mesis, Mr. and Mrs. Raikes, three children, and servant ; Captain Janey, Mr. Driver, three chil dren, and servant ; Mr. Temple, Lady Jackson, two children, and two servants; Mrs. Stace, Mr. and Mrs. Court, three children, and servant ; Mrs. Gilbert, two children, and servant ; Mrs. Hallett, two children, and servant ; Capt. and Mrs. Thomp son, Capt. and Mrs. Huxham (child died in Malta Bay), Mrs. Bridge, Miss Watson, Capt. and Mrs. Peile and child ; Mrs. Barbon, M r s. H arr i s , c hild and servant ; Ms. Johnston, four children, and. servant. From Madras—Mr. Jacub, Lieut. Tul loch, two children, and two servants. From Hong Kong—Cap-. Elgee, Mr. Edmonds (late chief offi cer Chusan), Mr. Butler (late chief engineer, unat tached), Mr. Alexander, Master Smithers. From Singapore—Mr. Boyd. From Galle—Mr. Power, Capt. Gossett, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Wood, Mr. Roach ' (late steward Granada). From Aden—Lieutenant Hedger. From Malta—Mr. Long, Mr. Green, Mr. Hope, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rouse, three Miss es Honeycomb, Miss Read, Miss Palmer, Miss Lay cock, Miss Jones, Miss Daniels, and 34 of the crew of the company's steamer Euxine. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. We notice with satisfaction the intimation, of the governors of the Royal Free Hospital to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of this excellent charity at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the presidency of Earl Powis, on Wednesday, the 9th. in noticin g this event it is scarcely necessary for us to direct the attention of our readers to the great merits of an institution already E 0 well known ; still vie only fe 1 it to be a duty incumbent on us to stare that before the founding of this noble charity on the principle of free and ins'ant relief, without the de lay and trouble of seeking a governor ' s letter by th e destitute po or i n t i mes of illness, by Dr. Marsden, hospital relief in Lou d , in was an abuse, and be stowed in most cases on those whose position and eircuinstancs in life would enable them to pay for medicine. When we state that over 45,00 u de serving poor and industrious persons are annually relieved at the Royal Free Hospital, a number far exceeding that applying to St. Bartholomew's Hospital with an income of over 40,0001. a-year, it is almost needless to say how strong are its claims on public favour. We hope that on the occasion of the anniversary dinner a subsdautial appreciation of the merits of the Royal Free Hospital will be recorded. RASHLEY. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The "Ol l house" is making its distinguished audiences feel quite " at home ;" and now offers another item of entertainment not to be easily resisted, in the form of Mozart's " Nozz.3 di Figaro." The cast is unusually strong, combining Mdlle. Titiens as The Countess, Madame Ortolani as Cherubino, and Piccolomini as Susannah ; with Beneveutano, Be!art, Costelli, Rossi, and Belletti a 3 the male rept esentative ., . Such a list of names needs no recommendation, and the whole per formance is of a❑ order t') bravely maintain the prestige of Mr. Lumley's name. On Thursday next this charming work will be again given ; on Saturday "I 1 Trovatore" will vary the. repertoire, and on Monday, June 7th, a grand morning per formance of " Don Giovanni" will afford an op portunity for those to revel in the glories of Mozart who may object to the late hours of usual operatic productions. The Ballet has received a sparkling additional supporter in Madlle. Marie Tsglioni, who appears in a new divertissment entitled "La Reine des Stanges." Her spirited and elegant style of dancin g enhances the tone of the ballet at this house, and forms an alluring feature to those who adore the " light fantastic toe," in its genuine and magical excellence. ROY AL ITALIAN OPERA. The same spirit and determination which carried Mr. Gye t rough the Herculean task of raising a mighty and massive theatre in an incomparably short period, enable him to give Opera and Ballet within that theatre with equally well-sustained power and correct detail ; exhibiting an earnestness of purpose in the manager which cannot fail to secure popular support on the most liberal scale. It would be inconsiderate and exacting to expect a great varie'y of role in the productions at so early a period of the season ; for, in an entirely new theatre, a vast and almost incredible amount of expenditure is required to put numerous operas on the stage with all befitting accessaries ; and a de gree of familiar satneness in the "bill of fare" may be cordially tolerated, when the dishes have been so punctually served to the moment mentioned, and are so well compounded when served. " Les Huguenots" has drawn crowded homes since the opening, and "La Traviata," which is now taking its place, appears likely to be still more 'attractive —whether on ao.:ount of any super-excellent quality in Verdi's music, or the questionable notoriety of the subject, we will not venture to discuss. Cer tain it is, that with such a cast as Mr. Gye affords the opera, it is calculated to have a run and prove remunerative—two important'points in managerial diplomacy. Madlte. B:)sio is an invaluable addition to the company, and undertakes the character cf Violetta with brilliant success. Her singular sweetness of voice, ease of execution, and gracefulness of de meanour, render her thoroughly adapted to make the part as perfect as it can be ; and we doubt if the airs, "Libiamo" and " Sempre libera," were ever sang with more florid and beautiful effect than by this accompli,hed artiste. Gardoni replaces Mario as Alfr e d o , an d, though not quite equal to the great ten or , d oes amp l e j us tice to the music, and interpr e t s th e par t i n a g e n tl e manlike manner. Tagliafico, Graziaui, Pulooiui, ?Azar sustain the other chief characters. COsta's orchestra does him infinite credit, the instrumental performance being in the most perfect and finished style, while the scenery, dresses, decora ions, and general appoint ments are in every way worthy of their conjunc tion with "grand opera." LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) HOUSE OF LORD-APPEAL. BCIRROWIIB AND ANOTHER V. GORE AND ANOTHER."' IMPART]; A$ TO CERTAIN RESPONDENTS. This case was appointed to be re-heard by one cooFel of a side this morning, at half-past ten o'clock, but the great Shrewsbury Peerage case was taken first. Their lordships are now delivering judgment in t hw peerage claim. It is expected that it will cccuPY the whole of the day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell, Mr. Juß tic° Coleridge, Mr, Justice Erie, and Mr. Justice Civil' ton.) Lord Stanley, the newly appointed President of tb Board of Control, attended the Court this morning, a ll ' was sworn in before Mr. Justice Coleridge as a Councillor. THOMAS V. YOXITELL. This was an action for the infringement of a Pate nt for the construction o f sew i ng mach i nes. Th i s, an d other cases of a similar character, have occupied the time of the Court for a considerable period. Lord Campbell this morning delivered the judgin g ! f of the Court. Their lordships were of opinion that the rule in this case ought to be made absolute for entering, a non-suit on the ground that combination in the soot* clause in the plaintiff's specification was not new at the date of his patent, and that it was included in Fish er and Gibbon's prior right of 1844. Should the Court, on demurrer, set aside their judgment for a non-eui 4 the rule would bo for a new trial, the costs in the fire / action to abide the result of the second trial. SCRIVBNOR V. REED—LILPORTANT TO PUBLICANS. This was a demurrer. An action had been brae" by the plaintiff against the defendant, a publican, fo r forcing him out of his house. The defendant bad pleaded in justification, and it was averred that 00 plaintiff would not go down stairs when requested, and that, as his presence in the room was an annoyance the guests therein, ha was forced out. Mr. Metcalfe was heard in support of the demurrer. The Court were unanimously of opinion that jecit ment should be for the defendant. A. guest in a public' house or an hotel had no right to demand the use of particular rooms in an inn to the annoyance of other guests. Ile was not to wander over the premises an d locate himself where he pleased, but confine himself that part of the house where the landlord had provided accommodation for him. In this case the plea 17 , 68 good and the jud gmen t o f t h e C ourt was for the °el fendant. Judgment accordingly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fat:lb.) IN BE /JARROW AND HAMMOND-1114 iiRCENT PIAUP3 IN THE CITY, To-day was appoint e d f or a meeting for proof of de bt and choice of assignees, under the estate of these bolo' rupts, who had carried on business as merchant° Basiaghall-street, and were convicted at the last sittiit of the Central Criminal Court of forgery, and sentence'. to 15 years' transportation. The prisoners were brought up from Newgatei • lstody, that they might surrender under the Bankrq Law. From the preliminary statement, by Messrs. Paul sva Turner, it appears that the debts on the joint est amount to 2,2961. 15 0 . 4d . Cr.: Good debts, 7061; doubtful, 671. ; stock, 3001. ; excess of property Ole debts secured, about 2001. The separate accounts aro trifling, Barrow owing 01 : and Hammond 301., and the fur n it ure , & c., i n each °ll ia stated at about 1001. Mr. Hunt, of the firm of Fourdrinier and Hunt, Sh e :' borne-lane (the petiti on i ng cre di tor), was chosen ass i g o; The bankrupts then received "protection"from O rel in the usual form, and were taken back to Newgate• (Before Mr. Canmissioner Evans.) IN RI 000 K AND warm. These bankrupts were described as of ecicheit s : auctioneers, and to-day was appointed for the certifie s meeting. • • Mr. Doria opposed on behalf of a creditor who - not had an opportunity of proving, through no 3 0005 0 having been g i ven , b y w hi c h h e had been precluded fr° giving notice. His Honour adj ourne d t h e case to give the crir.la I ° ,he right to oppose. IN RE INCOETEIRAITE. • Oti This bankrupt w as a b a k er at Barking, and obta in ed a certificate of the 2d class, without opposition. POLICE INTRT.T.TGENCE.—(This Dal') MARLBOROUGH -STREET. AN OPEN-AIR "POLITICAL DIIIICUBSION."—TWO n : 11 who gave the names Macarty and Ri mmer , were charg_ i before Mr. Bingham with causing an o b s t r uction assaulting the police, under the following c i rcum stance ; From the evid ence o f t h e constable, it appeared tb s ; on Sunday eveni ng , see i ng a l arge number of Perstlej assembled in Pult e n e y- s t reet , h e went up and requ: eat , 0 them to go a wa y, an d h e was told they were hav'itits "political di scuss i on. " F inding the pavement was qh-be ' impassable he told th em t o move away ; upon whic" Ye was told that if he did not go himself they would 1 0 f him. The mob th en surrounded him, and the pris on Macarty thre w hi m . H e got up, and then Mat a " d threw him agai n , f a lli ng h imself, and Meearty's ";;ad coming agai ns t th e k er b . The other prisoner se e him by the stock, and tried to pull him away. et 11 Mr. Bingh am , p erce i v i ng that Macarty had terrible bruise over his eye, asked how he had, go t and what he had to say. Macarty said th e bl ow on his eye was by his fillsf against the kerb. He was drunk at the time, and P -e nothing about it. Rim ner denied he bad touched the constable. d og Another constable said that, though there was 8 .•,. deal of "talkin g ," h e t h ought they had been drinlospo Mr. Bingham said he thought the serious woeto cd Macarty's eye was sufficient puaisbment, and 013 Riamer 10s. THAMES. GUILTY AND NOT G lIILTY.—CRUEL R 083161/". Mary Ann Donovan, a young Irishwoman, well 10°11 6 to the police as a thief, and lately dwelling at . Hampshire-court, Whit eo h ape l , was brought before •-; Yardley, charged w i t h stea li ng a ports zoonnej a °° , o 4 taming 6e. 6d., the mon i es of a poor woman 121141 ' Catherine Dyer, the wife of a mechanic, and residive No. 16, Toteon-street, Stepney. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Dyer tba„,,t was standing at a croc k eryware shop, in T hre e tif e r street, Limehouie, and the prisoner stood close to r m r , side, and s a id "d on ' t you th i nk the jugs are d el ' 0 0 Mrs. Dyer bought some plates and jugs, took ta r , money to pay for them out of her ports zuonnaiet and d turned it to her pocket. It then contained 6.1. 6d., The Mrs. Dyer had twopence loose in her pocket. A o f prisoner continued walking close to Mrs. Dyer, 0 0 1,.0 the side where her pocket was, until the proseellio went to another shop, when Mrs. Dyer m issed d , portemonnaie from her pocket, and sa id I am vol?beir The prisoner immediately beg an t o run, and M rs . ~, followed her, and called out stop thief. Mr. ifer y . ., l6 ;ll, a gentleman living at N o. 3 , Claude -street, laiby'e,--ce• stopped the prisoner, an d h eld her fast until a po man, named Burgess, No. 258 K, arrived. The P r ,,T O L. , cutrix said, you h ave ta k en my purse, you are a ioff The prisoner s a id, I h ave not got it, and know n°t,''ibe of it. The money was part of the hard eara i ngs 0' the husband of the pros ecntr i x , an d a l l they posse ssed in Fr, world. The p or t emonna i e was not found. The 5. Boner had time and oppor t un i ty to g i ve it to a c° dante before the policeman arrived. 14 4 Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner if she would p or preferred being sent for trial. The prisoner said she was not guilty ; she neVer the purse or the money. Mr. Yardley—Then I commit you for trial. The prisoner--Oh, settle it here ; settle it here, ° it ' I am quite innocent. Mr. Yard ley —I e c a a n' r t ig se h t t tl t e o it b h e e t r r e i . ed Yo b u y have pie not guilty, a jury D e The prisoner—Ob, then, I am guilty ; do senten° - here. ij ak Mr. Yardl e y —N o, I will not indeed. I won't., t Ea your plea on th ose terms at all. You are comm itte d trial. STRAND THEATRE. Last night a new burlesque from tke 1 3811 .; Mr. J. Byron, en titl e d t h e " Bride of Abycloiri" produced here, and met with most complet e cess. The burlesque is a continued series - I mirable puns and witticisms, nearly the w hole which told w ith th e au di ence and ex° l.od de " ' B roost enthusial tic a ppl ause. Th e s t ory o f th e :a., of Abydos is t oo we ll k nown to nee d descriPtL— pelf suffice it therefore t o sa y th a t th e or i g i na l was - ; ° h0 ' 11 f,llowed an d very c l ever l y adapted to the auT - b r y purpose. The part of Salim was suppor.e" Miss Swan an borough, the fair ma er " as great spirit. Miss M. Oliver, and Mis a s M. 'e° as Zuleika and Z)beide appeared to great advs e l a c o; and gave th e c l ever musical parodies with such arc h o r ' and espieglerie th a t near l y a ll were h onou red with eetl i a l mous encores. Mr. C. Y oung as Mirza deserves sP .tio " a CJIII mendation. This gentleman is fast gaining a V el a 6 kti on the London a t age vthich in short time will lo t est one of the m os t ? formidable rivals to our g rey Op burlesque actor. It is true he has been looked 14 10 as a good low comedian ; but we see in hit° : v o genuine gi.tirist. In his performance last night be g- o f some of the most spirited and truthful imitations J. transpontine heroes we ever witne,sed, and it i 9 as e e. less to say his acting elicited the loudest app le r• .. 3 : r . didother parts were capitally sustained, and the leFque, which has been placed on the stage in sP lel3 4l, style, was given out fur repetition every evening, further notice, with the unanimous assent of a crow and fashionable audience. Joi flat. Land hives Bank 3 1 . er 3 per I New Now 2 Long , India 1 India India Conan; 11 :oho ?Ric Iltasti 'Dal linen° Diti liezie Diti ?ortu, ItUsi; Ditl kWh 'Dan,! tarkto DIM V•euor 80 1gi I)itt Peru* AT' worki ing in was exi froi A ft ow i the luei of crez exie 13001 xorn char BRI!