The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-24 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 ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA RDEN. Under the management of;hiss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), will be produced a grand Opera, entitled LURL INE, by W. Vincent Wallace. Messrs. W. Harrison, Santley, Corti, and G. Honey ; Misses Louisa Tyne, Pilling, and F. Cruise, Conductor, Alfred Melntlon. To conclude with the new 0- r and paomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne. F. Payne, Barnes, Tallien, infants Lauri, and Miss Cara Morgan. Doors open at half-past 6 l Commence at 7. MI-MAME-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lcasce, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. ..IL THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original Comedy, in three acts, entitled THE OVERLAND WHITE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomitnists the unrivalled Leclereqs. TIT EA TR E-R OYAL LYCEUM.- So7e Lessee and Dire3tress, Madame Celeste. Brilliant and increased Success of the new Drama—Colette Dubois and Therese Defarge, by Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, the new Drama of A TALE OF TWO CITIES, bv Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles :Dickens, ,?eq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vinirff, Walter Lacy, Villiers, itousP, Forrester. J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ' • Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced the (rand Christmas Ex t.'ava,:r.anza and Pantomime, KING THRUS lIBE Ala), the LITTLE PET and the GitEAT PASSION, in which is pre senU'd one of the most novel, costly, and brilliant effects ever witnessed d.:signed and painted by Mr. William Callcott. Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George. Commence at 7. TjOY A. L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- ..S..IU Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. _ - . Re-enzagement of the Wonderful Danc , r, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan; and the Delapicrre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, the Comedy of MONEY. Messrs. Geo. 7.',Telville, Ryder, Frank Mathews, Widdicomb, H. Bland, 11. ;7:alzer, Garden, Graham ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Clifford, and Mrs Charles Young - - After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11. J. Byron, called .lA..CK THE GIANT BILLER; or, Harle quin King Arr.-mr and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, bliss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta loon, 11r. l'aulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. -A- I Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster. Second Week of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. 'NITS EVENING, to commence with STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Messrs. Alfred Wig.an, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, C. J. Smith, and l'owefl; Mrs. A. Wigan and Mrs. After which, by desire, the drama of ONE TOUCH OF NATUIIE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss 11. Simms. FoLowed by DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. .1. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss K. y. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box nfllce open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith-. ROYAL 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. Tll IS EVENING the performances will commence with MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson. After which, FIRST AFFEcTIONS. Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham. Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza Arden, C. Ilanoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet. To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL. Messrs. H. T. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform anee commences at 7. CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizctti). Donna Lucrezia Malik. Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jong,lnso ans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critohfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SLIN OFFICE, FEB. 24, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.19. WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with very fine weather, but frostily cold. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 3h. 34m.—Afternoon, 3h. 47m, To-moßßow.-Morning ; :4h. lm.—Afternoon, 4h. 15m, ' r, _ L••••••1:1.1*-,421.1..2.4,111:11..N THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 24, 1860. " The insolence of office," about which hamlet speaks in a tone of mingled scorn and loathing, is precisely what the House of Commons has of late quite enough experienced. It led about two years ago to the sudden crash and ignominious downfall of an undoubtedly_ powerful and, at its outset, an eminently popular Government. It is an arro gance, one would think, that among all kinds of arrogance must certainly be the most intolerable. Yet it is as nothing—absolutely as nothing—when compared with the ex•official pride and disposition to domineer over every individual who has the con summate hardihood to differ from him in the smallest particular, displayed last night through- • out a speech, the one prevailing and all-pervading characteristic of which was that of impertinent self assertion, by the hon,, and gifted, and eloquent, but, above all, supremely bumptious, member for Birmingham. It was in its every syllable—the cracking of the thong that will drive that motley ' crowd yonder upon the right hand of Mr. Speaker into the Ministerial lobby, after the opponents of Mr. Du CANE'S motion and the supporters of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. BItIGUT speaks altogether as the conscious master of the situation. He presides, if we are to believe him, at this mo ment over the destinies of the nation, the fate of Ministers depending wholly upon his Olympian nod. As the last of the Barons was the King- Maker—so this last of the Tribunes is the Cabinet maker in our more commonplace generation. The coalition is under Mr. BRIGHT'S patronage. The Opposition is under his ban. The very Treaty about which we are battling is but an incidental emanation from his brain, as entirely and directly an emanation from his brain (and no one else's) as the Goddess of Wisdom was from the brain of JUPITER! That benignant PAL LAS who, although the genial patroness of the Arts and of Industry, appeared, from the first moment of her birth, armed cap-a-pie in all the panoply of War—just as this Pacific Treaty comes forth surrounded by all the formidable splen dours, all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of a glorious War Budget, with its £30,000,000 of mili tary and maritime expenditure. All that Mr. BRIGHT could really say in regard to the anomaly resolved itself into one idle and vapid ejaculation. If it had not becu for that £30,000,000," he ex claimed, " what a scheme it might have been !" Precisely—it is what we would all say—" IF !" Eat it is not. There, on the contrary, are those £30,000,000 in proof of the utter insufficiency of this Treaty, which we are to accept meekly as a " material guarantee" that England and France, like the lovers at the close of the thi r d volume of a "Rosa-Matilda" novel, are to " live happily together for ever afterwards that 1860 is, in fact, t) be regarded and viewed as the year One of the Millenium. " If," to adopt Mr. BRIGHT'S pathetic and sentimental ejaculation —Tithis Treaty had been just exactly ghat it is not, then we might have found some inducements to receive its announcement with an enthusiasm that has certainly been wanting to it since in England there was the first whisper heard of its existence ! The anomaly of this Peace Treaty coming forth, as it has done, simultaneously with a War Budget of the most flagrant charac ter—a Budget with a war impost (through the tenpenny Income Tax) of £10,000,000, and a war expenditure of £30,000,000 —Mr. BRIGHT himself frankly and forcibly acknowledges. He could hardly, indeed, do otherwise. For he, of all men in England, has, perhaps, the most loudly denounced, hitherto, this most iniquitous and demoralising of all taxes, the Income Tax, and this openhanded squandering of millions upon millions annually upon our war establishments. Yet, in spite of it all, he swallows both. He swallows with a wry face, it is true, but still swallows this bolus of the thirty millions set apart for Army anii on 7avy and Artillery, this bolus of 10 millions upon the Income Tax—swallows this bitter bolus of the War Budget gilded over with that infinitesimally thin (even transparent) gold leaf of the Peace Trey- c t,y—[for which we are paying down at this momaruiVl hard cash, £1,000,000 in the shape of duties remitted] — encouraged to do so by a conviction that it will operate most beneficially hereafter ! That it will begin in about 18 month's from the present time to operate most beneficially upon our Constitution. It can hardly be wondered at, however, that Mr. 1 BRIGHT should have some faith in the efficacy of this marvellous nostrum. For he tells lus quite plainly, through his speech of last evening that in compounding it his friend Mr. COBDEN, and the French EMPEROR, and her MAJESTY'S Ministers have only been carry ing out ideas that were originally his own. In tes timony of the truth of which assertion the hon. member for Birmingham last night quoted one of his own Parliamentary orations. The plea was as naive as the famous one put forth long ago by the renowned DENNIS—" That's my thun der ! " But with the Thunder in this instance comes the searing and withering Lightning that is to fall from the storm-cloud of this ominous Budget upon the hearths of many millions of Englishmen. With the Reciprocity that is all-sided—with the extension of Free-trade to France, which is rather a series of conces sions to the French Protectionists—there comes the necessity kir the perpetuation of the In come Tax to the tune at the very least of L 10,000,000 annually— and with no prospect before us of any diminution of our immense warlike ex penditure. Before Mr. BRIGHT spoke, Sir FRANCIS BARING had in impressive accents, and with a frightful force of logic demonstrated, with the distinctness of a syllogism, that if according to the duplex scheme now submitted to Parliament a deficit of ten millions had to be met by a tenpenny Income Tax, a shilling Income Tax would be requisite next year to make up a deficiency of £12,000,000. Never was Mr. BRIGHT hit harder, however, since he has had a seat in the House of Commons, just one remove below the gangway, than he was throughout the whole of the very masterly ironical reply to his argument of incon sistencies—a reply given in perfect good humour, but with irresistible force both of sarcasm and of reasoning, by the right hon. and learned gentleman the member for Enniskillen. Mr. WHITESIDE, often as he has before now spoken brilliantly, has never spoken better within the range of our recollection. We have protested in vain against the perma nent and enormous tax which will now be levied on the inhabitants of the metropolis for construct ing their cloacce maximca. The thing is done. Between the Imperial and Metropolitan Parlia ments we are doomed to pay some six or seven millions of money, which we have always believed we might not only have saved, but have turned into a source of gain. To us it seems marvellous, how intelligent gentlemen, whom we can hardly suppose to be ignorant of Baron LIEBIG'S writings, could have committed the suicidal mis take of rushing recklessly into the enormous colt of the new system of the Metropolitan Drainage, when it is as certain that it must become useless as that Brown Bess will be wholly superseded by the rifle, and the ponderous artillery of the past by the lighter but far more effective guns of Sir Wm. ARMSTRONG ana WHITWORTH. LIEBIG has made it an axiom that the substances which are contained in the sewage of towns,we might say, of every village and house, sb ould be returned to the soil whence they origi nally came ; and if very carefully returned, the fertility of the soil of any country might be main- tained unimpaired, and even increase, with our com merce and population, for an indefinite period. On this subject we may regard the Baron as its ADAM SMITH or Colonel THOMPSON ; and we shall have equally to be grateful to our fellow citizen, Mr. MECIII, for becoming its COBDEN. By practice and by writing, and by speaking on his practice, he will succeed at last in gaining the ear of the public. We, at least, shall always be happy to aid his efforts to the extent of our power. We have now before us a small but telling pam phlet, by Mr. MEctii, " On the Sewage of Towns as it affects British Agriculture." It is a paper which was read before the Central Farmers' Club on the Gth of this month, but it is followed by a valuable appendix of details, longer than the more popular former half. Mr. MECHI is an enthusiast for his object, but it is the enthusiasm of a man of business and of a practical man. He is the expounder, by experiment, of Baron LIEBIG'S laboratory theories. But surely his enthusiasm is warranted. He sees that we are, demonstrably, all the kingdom over, carelessly wasting what, in another form, is the staff of life. We might quite as sensibly throw millions of quar ters of grain into the sea, as send down to it what would produce that grain. If it ;was worth while to repeal the Corn-laws, that there might be an Even and ample flow of food into our ports, is it less worth while to take measures which will ensure the annual growth on our own soil of an equal amount of food ? Or if it be worth while to spend millions on importing bones and guano from abroad, is it less worth while to make the arrange ments requisite to prevent the waste of a larger quantity of home guano P 's lecture was to show The object of Mr. MEcm . that, taking our sewage as it is—just as it flows now, into the Thames—it is capable of being applied with a handsome profit to the land around Lon don. The difficulty with most other schemes is, that they involve peculiar apparatus in our houses, and chemical and dessicating apparatus at the othe other end, to make the sewage a market able article. Mr. Malt' deals with our sewers as they are. We have no doubt they might be greatly improved for the purpose of preventing decomposition, effluvia, and permeation of the so ii. He asks, however, nothing but sewage as it is—the unpleasant and slightly turbid liquid which one may see at low water, running from huge subter ranean channels into our great navigable sewer. The dilution, of which all other manipulators of sewage complain, is to him a boon. He would never, if he could help it, waste oven the storm water. 'A system of steam•pumps, such as are now used in Cornwall in the mines, or by our water companies here, would raise the whole b e water r i t b o which fthe it sewage w utleieaadovreer the sery m oi f r a s r ,f s ro b m by would pipes, as easily as pure water, is to every house in London. Our readers will not wish us to attempt to prove the possibility of doing this. That is amply done in the pamphlet and its appendix, Indeed, a moment's reflection will show every one that the cost is easily ascertainable. It is well known how much water is supplied daily by the companies to the metropolis ; the average rain-fall is also well known, and even the storm-falls, which Mr. MEclli desires to save. The cost of elevating this quantity of fluid to any required height can be calculated to a nicety ; and little more difficult is it to calculate the cost of the requisite tubing, and reservoirs, and so forth. The whole of this affair is obviously a very simple problem for HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ATEST The negotiations with regard to this theatre having been completed, the house will be opened this season for Italian opera, under the management of Mr. T. Smith, of Drury-lane. an engineer. But as to the paying part of the business—would it be remunerative to a public company ? We have no manner of doubt that a company could finish all the requisite works, could pay the metropolis hand somely for leave to appropriate the sewage, and could then make a good profit out of the concern ! Credal Tudaus Apella, non ego, and sundry hints about " horse-marines," we shall probably hear from different quarters, according to the taste of the laughers. We beg to refer them all, however, to Mr. MECM'S pamphlet, to Mr. MECIIi'S farm, to Mr. MECIII himself, if they please, whose cour tesy never fails; or, if they like an aristocratic referee better, we beg to refer them to the Earl of ESSEX. They surely will not laugh at a lord. In the appendix we have a long, but interesting, because a matter of fact communication from his Lordship. lie has an estate near the little town of Watford; he brings its sewage on his land ; and what will the reader sup pose he is paid for taking it clear of the town ? Why, lie pays the town £5O a year for it, and proves too that he has made a capital bargain ! At the same rate the metropolis would receive nearer forty than thirty thousand pounds per annum for allowing a company to do that, perfectly, which we are now attempting to do imperfectly at the cost of millions ! The sewage we thus waste must be at least equal to the manure derived from 20 millions of sheep, and what would any farmer think of making arrangements by which the manure from that number of animals should be carefully washed away into our rivers ? Perhaps, too, it is forgotten that the washings by rain from the streets, the flowings from the stables, the contents of wash tubs and basons, the residue of numerous manufactures, all go into the sewage, and greatly enhance its value. Indeed, for thirty miles round what we are about to waste in such costly style, might, with profit instead of cost to us, fer tilise our most barren heaths and fields. Not less than 500,000 acres, on the rotation system, or on the system of forcing vast root and green crops, about 80,000 might be brought under the influence of London sewage. Mr. MECHI'S pamphlet ought to be in the hands of every farmer and every land holder within 30 miles of London, and we hope it will attract the attention of those able and willing to take active measures to give effect to his recommendations. Our Sanitary schemers have had their day ; they have forced us to sweeten our towns at the cost of poisoning our streams ; it is now the turn of our Agricultural Reformers to do their part ;—to deliver us from sanitary poisonings fertilising our fields. viz.:- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 160, NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, FRIDAY. The answer of the Austrian Cabinet to the Eng lish proposal, which has been remitted by Prince Metternich to M. Thouvenel, bears date the 17th February. The message - of Count de Rechberg commences by expressing the high estimation attached by the Government of his Apostolic Majesty to the communication from France. The Austrian Minister is happy to discover in these friendly steps an evident desire to maintain a cor dial understanding between the two courts. Passing to the examination'of the four points pro posed by England, Count de Rechberg points out, under the question of intervention, two essential things-Ist, the principle of the right of interven tion ; and, 2d, the opportunity for its application. Without prejudging the principle in any way, the Austrian Cabinet recognises that in the present circumstances there is no opportunity either for Austria or France to interfere in Cen tral Italy. The second point, as Count Rechberg observes, now applies to France alone, Austria having withdrawn her troops from all parts of Italy not under her domination. Re ferring to the 3d point, which regards the interior organisation of Venetia, Count Rechberg declares that although this question must remain quite extraneous to the negotiations between the Powers, the Emperor of Austria loyally maintains all the promises of Villafranca as regards Venetia. If these promises have not yet been realised the fault can only be attributed to the intrigues and con tinual provocations of the Italian revolutionary party, which no longer conceals its intention of turning these concessions against Austria herself in order to deprive her of Venetia. As regards the fourth point, Count Itcchberg considers it useless, at the present moment, to en gage in a discussion of the principle of the proposed combination for the settlement of the affairs of Italy. Austria confines herself to the expression of her own conviction that the re-establishment of the former dynasties, and the realisation of the project of an Italian confederacy would much better guarantee the future of the Peninsula. She will leave it to time and the course of events to confirm the justice of her judgment. VIENNA, THURSDAY. The Austrian Gazette announces that the reply of the Austrian Cabinet to the French note had left within the last few days for Paris. A conspiracy against Prince Daniel has been discovered in Montenegro, the principal partici pators in which have received sentence of death. MADRID, FEB. 22. The Correspondencia Autografa states, in a cor respondence from Tetuan dated the 16th inst., that Marshall O'Donnell has transmitted to the Moors the following bases for the conclusion of peace, " The possession of all the territory conquered, including Tetuan. " An indemnity of 200,000,000 reals. "An engagement to respect the Catholic religion and grant commercial stipulations favourable to Spain. A truce, terminating on the 23d, is granted for a reply, but it is doubted that the Moors will accept these terms. CONSTANTINOPLE (via TRIESTE) FEB. 18. The exchange on London has fallen from 160 to 113 piastres per £1 sterling. The typhus fever raging among the fugitive Cir cassians is carrying off about 100 persons daily. RIMINI, FEB. 23 After a stay of two days at Ravenna, the Gover nor Farini arrived here yesterday evening, and was received with immense enthusiasm by the in habitants. The following telegram has been received at Mr Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Orient& Steam Navigation Company : THE LATE DIVISION-ABSENTEES. We believe the accompanying is a correct list of the members absent on the late division on the 20th of February : Anson, Hon. A. Lichfield. Beresford, Rt. Hon. W. B. North Essex Bernard, Hon. W. S. Aylesbury. Booth, Sir R. G. Bruen, H. Buchanan, W. Bunbury, W. B Carnac, Sir J Cayley, E. S. Cecil, Lord It Stamford. Cobden, R Rochdale. Cogan, W. H County Kildare. Corbally, M. E County Meath. Cross, it. A .... Preston. Dalkeith, Earl of Dashwood, Sir G Wycome. Davie, J. H Dent, J. D Scarborough. Divett, E Dunne, M. East, Sir J Winchester, Ellice, Right Hon. E. Emlyn, Viscount Ennis, J Estcourt, T. S North Wiltshire. Evans, Sir De Lacy Ferguson, Sir It Fermoy, Lord Marylebone. Fox, W. J Oldham. Gallway, Sir W. P Gordon, Major L Banffshire. Haddo, Lord Hamilton, J. H Dublin County. Hanbury, Hon. S. B Leominster. Hayes, Sir E Heatheote, Sir W Oxford University. Bill, Lord A. Hopwood, J. T Howard, Lord E. Hubbard, J. G. Johnstone, J. J. H. . . Dumfriesshire. Jones, D Carmarthenshire. Ker, D. S. Laslett, W Lee, W. Legh, G. C Lever, J. 0. Long, W North Wiltshire. Lowther, Captain Lowther, Hon. Colonel Westmoreland. Macmahon, P Wexford County. Monscll, Right Hon. W Limerick County. Naas, Lord Cockermouth. O'Denoghue, D. O'Ferrall, Right Hon. M. County Kildare. Patten, Colonel W North Lancashire. Phillips, J. H Haverfordwest. Powell, IV . T Cardiganshire. Ramsden, Sir J Yorkshire, West Riding, Repton, G. W. Richardson, J Lisburn. Ridley, G. Sclater-Booth, G. Scully, V. Smith, Sir J. Somerset, Colonel Spooner, R North Warwickshire. Tempest, Lord A. V North Durham. Torrens, R. Carrickfergus. Vane, Lord H Hastings. Waldron, L County Tipperary. Walpole, Right Hon. S Welby, W. E Granth am . White, Colonel White, L Clare County. Wynn, Sir W. W. Denbighshire; The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived at Stafford House from Trentham. The Countess Frances Waldegrave's party will take place on Saturday, the 25th inst., instead of Wednes day, tho 29th. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for assemblies on Wednesday, the 29th inst., and Saturday, the 10th prox. Lord Edward St. Maur leaves the Admiralty in the course of next week for the British Embassy at Vienna. NEW ADELPHI THEATRE. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort and the Princess Alice honoured the above theatre with their presence last evening. Tho Royal party was accompanied by the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Miss Bulteel, Lord De Tabley, Lord C. Fitzroy, and Colonel D. De Ros, OUTWARD BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAIL. MALTA. The Pera arrived on the 20th, and sailed on the 21st inst. The Alhambra, from Marseilles, arrived here on the 23d at 3 a.m., and transferred her mails to the Valetta, the latter vessel leaving for Alexandria at 9 a.m. HOMEWARD BOMBAY MAILS. The Euxine left here at 4 a.m. on the 19th,•and may be expected at Southampton on the 29th inst. BELGIUM AND CHINA. The Belgian llioniteur publishes at the head of its official columns the following document, styled " Official Communication addressed by the Com missary for Foreign Affairs of China to the Belgian Agent sent to that country :" [Translation.] "Ho Kwie-Tsing, Commissary for Foreign Affairs and Governor-General of the Two Kiangs, &c., sends the following despatch in reply : On the 18th of October of the present year I received your despatch, which contained the copy of a despatch received from Key-ing, the former Com missary for Foreign Affairs, and I have read them carefully. '" I find, on investigation, that not long since I received a despatch from Laon, Governor-General of the Two Kiangs, and from Hang, Superinten dent of Customs at Canton, with copies of de spatches relative to the affairs of Belgium, which informed me that during the 25th year of Taou-kwang (1845), Key-ing and Kwanggan- Tang, Commissaries for Foreign Affairs, have, in a report, proposed to his Majesty to allow Belgian merchants to trade with the five ports, that his Majesty granted that permission, that thereupon the Commissaries provided the Bel gian Consul with copies of the British, French, and American treaties and tariffs, as a guide to Belgian commerce in the five ports, and that no commercial regulation was agreed upon during the 4th year of Hien-Fang (the present Emperor). " Belgian merchants, therefore, must conform for the present to the arrangement agreed upon 1845). And during the 25th year of Taou-kwang ( it is enregistered that I wrote to that intent to the superintendent of the districts of Soochen, Sung kean, and Tac-Toung, at Shanghai, charging him to notify the same to the Consul at Shanghai, for the guidance of Belgian merchants. " As regards the new ports, although the Ame rican Minister has exchanged the American treaty, nevertheless', neither that treaty nor the regulations nor the tariff have come into force. ‘" The English and French Ministers not having regulated their treaties, it will be necessary for the Belgian Government to wait until the treaties of all the three Governments have been settled in a satisfactory manner, and the new ports thrown open; then I will address myself to his Majesty respecting your country, that. the same privileges 'h ay be granted to you as are granted to them. " Meantime, I have to request that your mer chants will trade at the live ports conformably to the regulations established during the 25th year of Taou-kwang (1845). When it shall have pleased his Majesty to grant additional privileges to your nation, your merchants will then have to conform thereunto. " ' For the present, however, it is not necessary to agree upon new articles of a treaty ; you must simply wait until the three Powers who have made treaties have settled their arrangements in a satis factory manner, and they will serve also for the guidance of your merchants. " This is the reply which I have now the honour to communicate to you, and I beg of you to examine it. I take this opportunity of offering my compli meats to you. " ' Communication necessary to M. Egremont, Minister of his Majesty the King of the Belgians.' (True translation made in English), " JOHN A. J. MEADOWS, Interpreter. "Oct. 19, 1839." FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 68f 15c, for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half per cents. 97f. 90c. ; Orleans, 1,377 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 917 f. 50c.; Strasburg, 637 f. 50c.; Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean, 892 f, 50c. ; Western of France, 585 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 502 f.; Lyons and Geneva, 500; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 753 f. 75c.; Austrian Railways, 5071. 50c. ; Roman Railways, 350 f. Exchange on London, at sight, parer, 25f. 11 Nc. ; money. !U. 10e.; thaw months, paper, 24f. fjOe. ; money, 241. 871 e. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : SOUTHAAIPTON, FRIDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer China, Capt. Jay, has arrived with the heavy por tion of the Calcutta and China mails. She also brings 76 passengers, 3 packages of general cargo. Her dates are Alexandria, 10th ; Malta, 13th ; and Gibraltar the 18th inst. The China was detained at Alexandria from the 6th until the 10th inst., in consequence of terrific gales and heavy sea on the bar, in whichthe English ships Isabella and Sir De Lacy Evans, and also five Greek vessels were stranded. Thirty-one lighters were blown ashore, and numerous small craft, were dashed to pieces by the violence of the gale. On the 11th the China spoke the brig of war Sentinelle, on the 14th the Indus, and on the 19th the brig Pauline. Gibraltar exchange on London for 90 days was quoted 501 to 501 ; on Paris and Marseilles, sfr. 35e. ; on Genoa, sfr. 37c. ; on Madrid, for eight days sight, discount. Freights unchanged. Morocco news is to the 17th inst. On the fall of Tetuan the keys of the city were delivered to the Spanish commander on a silver tray. The division of General Rios then took passession of the city and castle, and the Moorish army retired into the interior. The Jewish popu- lation remained quietly in the city, and the Moorish inhabitants remaining received Spanish protection. The Moorish loss is the action of the 4th was estimated at 1,000. _ _ _ The defeat of the Moors was the signal of an onslaught by the Arabs, who broke into the houses and shamefully treated women and children, and great excesses were committed. Muley Abbas en deavoured to arrest the pillage, but order and dis cipline were destroyed, and every effort to arrest the evil was futile, although 16 of the pillagers were put to death on the spot. Sidi Hamed has left tho camp, and:gone to Me-1 quinez. Muley Abbas, with his defeated force, was hal way between Tetuan and Tangier. The obstruction to business on the coast towns of Morocco entailed great sufferings on the Jewish population. A steamer, freighted with bayonets for the Moors, has been seized and taken to Algesiras. In the last battle fought the Spaniards took 800 tents, several cannon, and effects. The Moors are described as poor savages, with bad arms, no artillery, and inefficient generals. THE WHITWORTH RIFLE CANNON. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23. The experiments with Mr. Whitworth's guns were resumed on Tuesday upon the sands to the west of Southport. It was decided to fire to 12- pounder with the same weight of powder and ele vation of gun as had been tried by the Armstrong gun, and the result was as follows ROYAL _ENGLISH OPERA. We have to record the complete and deserved success of Mr. Vincent Wallace's now opera of " Lurline,' which was produced amidst the plaudits of a crowded audience at this theatre last night. The composer and principal artists were called for at the end of each act and twice at the conclusion of the opera. The band and chorus were in perfect order, and every one concerned, especially Miss Louisa Pyne, to whom some of the principal music is allotted, exerted themselves to the utmost. The scenery and general getting up of the opera are worthy of the beautiful and romantic work they serve to illustrate. So much genuine enthusiasm has not been excited by any English musical work for many years, as was demonstrated by the audience last night. BAY.2IIARKET THEATRE. A new play from the fanciful pen of Mr. Tom Taylor, entitled " The Overland Route," was pro, duced at this theatre last night, and achieved a success as brilliant and genuine as its merits. It is not remarkable for any elaborate complication of incidents, nor for any very intricate mechanism in the structure of the story ; but it has other and higher qualities which awaken and reward atten tion. The piece is full of life, spirit, and anima tion, and the interest of the audience is kept inces santly on the alert by a continuous succession of comic adventures, by the forcible contrast of dramatic characters, and by the delightful ease, elegance, and rapidity of the dialogue, which has all the raciness of humour, geniality of sentiment, and grace and felicity of expression by which Mr. Torn Taylor's writings are so charmingly distin guished. During the first and second acts the scene is laid on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamboats, bound homeward after the Indian mutiny, and the passengers are the dramatis personce whose strange sayings and doings constitute the business of the play. Not to enume rate with tedious particularity all the members of this motley assemblage, it will suffice to mention those only who contribute most conspicuously to the amusement of the spectators. In this number must be classed Mr. Colepepper (Mr. Chippendale), a re tired civil commissioner of the Badgeripore dis trict, whose accounts are somewhat in arrear ; Sir Soloman Fraser (Mr. Compton), a ci decant jeune homnze, who, having spent his life chiefly at native Courts, is now returning to England with a fine head of false hair, and a set of teeth which he takes out at night and puts in in the morning, like his shirt studs ; Captain Clavering (Mr. E. Villiers), a thilitary young " swell" of the fastest of all fast schools, who unfortunately has been known to do a few things at whist which would not pass muster either with Hoyle or Crawley; Major Mac Turk (Mr. Rogers), a fire-eater with the voice of a lion and the heart of a chicken ; Mr. Lovibond (Mr. Buckstone), a Singapore merchant, who is, moreover, a victim of society—a martyr to unfortu nate coincidences, but whose sorrows keep the house in a roar ; his too obsequious satellite, Moles kin (Mr. Clark), a rascally detective, who follows him like his shadow; and Tom Dexter (Mr. C. Mathews), an adventurer, who, having been knocked about rather unceremoniously by Fortune, and having passed through a series of strange vicissi tudes, has at last the good luck to obtain the ap pointment of surgeon to the ship, in which capacity he does a variety of noble acts, and under trying circumstances proves himself not the physician only, but the " guide, philosopher, and friend" of all on board. Among the ladies the most note worthy are Mrs. Lovibond ( Vlrs. Wilkins), who, un conscious of the existence of her lord, much less of his presence in the same vessel with her, fancies herself a widow, and under this soft delusion en courages the savage suit of Major Mac Turk; Mrs Sebright (Mrs. C. Mathews), a young married woman, who is an object of the fiercest contention and the most ludicrous rivalry between Colepepper and Feascr, both of whose addresses she is vain enough to receive, though well aware she has no legitimate right to either ; and Miss Colepepper (Miss M. Tertian), on whose hand Clavering has designs, which, however, ire not crowned with success—his idol prefering to make Dexter the happiest of men. The scandals and jealousies, the plots and counter-plots, the conflicts of interest, and the ridiculous revelations of eccentricity and selfishness which are continually going on in this little floating community, make up the staple of the play ; and they are represented upon the stage with a spiritedness and accuracy of portraiture to which language can do but inade quate justice, and which, to be appreciated, must be witnessed. In the course of the voyage the ship runs aground on the Mazzaffa Reef, in the Red Sea, and is totally wrecked. This sudden calamity "checks the tide of laughter with a sigh," gives a dash of serious sentiment to the exuberant fun of the piece, and is also of service in bringing out the better qualities of many of the passengers which otherwise might not have been disclosed; for it is adversity that tries men's souls and shows them in their true light. All the characters in this little comedy are drawn with a skill which intimates in the artist surprising knowledge of human nature ; but the personage who contributes most abundantly and most unremittingly to the enjoyment of the audi ence is, beyond question, Mr. Lovibond. This ill fated gentleman, who had been compelled by the tyrannical temper of his wife to fly his native land ten years before, and who is now timidly returning, in the hope that she may in the meantime have passed into another if not a better world, gets on board at Aden, and, being mistaken for a runaway felon, is incontinently pounced upon by Mr. Mole skin, the detective, who puts him in irons and treats him with every indignity. Troubles thicken around him, and the cup of his bitterness overflows when at length he finds himself in the awful pre sence of his spouse, whose lover, the Major, threatens to blow his brains out for robbing him of the lady with whom he had hoped to spend his life in matrimonial bliss. The play receives all possible justice at the hands of the actors. Mr. C. Mathews, as Dexter, acts with his usual grace and spirit; Mr. Compton and Mr. Chippendale, the jealous Indian veterans, in pursuit of the same fair quarry, are both exceed ingly amusing ; Mr. Villiers, who has improved very much of late, makes a capital military " exqui site ;" and Mr. Buckstone's Lovibond is one of the grandest efforts of his comic genius. It is a master piece of broad fantastic comedy, and little less than sublime in the incredible extravagance of its fun. Mrs. Charles Mathews, as the married coquette, plays with liveliness and naivete, and Mrs. Wilkins also contribute 3 to the success of the occasion by her excellent performance of a difficult part—that of the jealous, passionate, and susceptible Mrs. Lovibond. Mr. Buckstone announced it for constant repeti- tition amidst universal applause. On a loud call arising for the author, the talented lessee again came forward, and with a countenance beaming with good-humour, said—" Mr. Tom Taylor, ladies and gentleman, is very much obliged to you— (laughter)—but he has desired me to say he is not here." Shouts of laughter followed this announce ment, amidst which Mr. Buckstone retired. " A report" upon the manufacture of the Regu lation Leggings at Spill's Government Contract 'Works, Stepney, contains much that is of interest. It would ap pear that after the production of the vegetable leather, these leggings go through no less than thirty distinct pro cesses—a division of labour which gives employment in its earliest stages to persons almost deveid of reasoning facul ties, and who gradually rise, according to their abilities, into skilled hands capable, in turn, of teaching others, until "The School," so to eall it, ever increasing in num bers an efficiency (as at the date of the report) is enabled to turn out, with the regularity and precision of the most perfect ma c hi nery, some 10,000 pairs a day I This system, it is stated, is the beet possible guarantee for superior finih and workmanship, as each person employed is in turn a check upon the preceding process, and "thus a combined power of production in this, and similar cases, is scoured equal to the most pressing emergency of the service."-- United ,serv ice Once te, TWEYLE-POUNDER. No. Powder. Elevation. Range. Deflection ih yards, 1 121 b . 2 do. do. 3,011 to the right. 3 do. do. 3,084 .... On the line. 4 .... do. do. With a different quality of powder. 5 .... do. .... do. 6 .... do. do. 7 do. do. 8 do. .... do. The shots from the 12-pounder Armstrong gun fell, within a range of 2,465 yards and 2,495—a difference of 30 yards ; with the Whitworth gun in the last four shots (with the same kind of powder), the difference was only 29 yards, while the total range of the Whitworth gun had exceeded that of Sir Wm. Armstrong by 612 yards, the figures being 3,107 yards as against 2,495 yards. This of course was an important success. Yesterday a large number of gentlemen, in cluding General Pennefather, Admiral Grenfell, Captain Mends, and several other naval and military gentlemen, were present. The firing commenced with the 3-pounder. Ten shots were fired with the 3-pounder at an elevation of 3 deg., with seven ounces of powder and a 211 b. shot, sighted at a post 1,000 yards distant. The 12- pounder was then fired five times, with 111 b. of powder, at an elevation of only 2 deg., at the same line. At Mr. Whitworth's suggestion, the company then walked up the sands to the westward about 2,300 yards, in order to see the ricochetting of the shot, five of which were fired at 10 deg. At that distance the missile was clearly seen to graze the ground, and then to rebound several times Wore it came to rest. The 80-pounder was next brought to an elevation of 10 deg., and fired four times. This was the highest angle at which it was pitched, consequently its extreme range was not tested. The practice concluded with the 3-pounder, raised to an elevation of 20 deg. The wind wts from the westward, but there were different currents at dif ferent elevations, which rendered it difficult to ma ke accurate allowan ce for its effect. So far as intelligence was re ceived from the recorder of the firing, the practice w as very satisfactory, especially with the 12-pounder. Mr. Whitworth, before leaving, stated that it was not his intention to test the 80-pounder fur ther, as he intended to make a trial for the Govern ment of the effect of one of his shot on a 4-inch iron plate. The greatest distance yet attained from which such a plate could be pierced was 250 yards. He felt confident by his gun it could be done at 600 yards. It ought to be stated that his 80-pounder is upwards of 1,5001 b. less weight than the ordinary 68- pounder in use by th e Government. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LoNnow, Feb. 24.—Wind this day at noon, South; light airs and fine clear weather. NEWPORT, Feb. 23 . —Arrived—Iris, from Cardiff, for Wilmington. Sailed—Louisa, for Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 23.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Royal Adelaide, from Savannah. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 23.—Wind E.—Arrived—Elizabeth Romberg, from Rio Janeiro—Louis Napoleon, from New York for Hamburg. PILL, Feb. 23.—Wind S.—Sailed—Robert Brue3, for Wilmington. SWANSEA, Feb. 23.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Glamorgan, for Coquimbo—Capricorn, for ditto—Aurora, for Deme rara. Feb. 23.—Sailed—CEolit§, for Greolaiad—Swan, for ditto. - - - CLYDE, Feb. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—James Hall, from Paraiba—Balmoral, from Newhaven, U.S. Sailed— Haddington, for Bombay. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TBLEGRAPM.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind S.W., tide low water, weather fine. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind S., moderato. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff entertained at dinner last evening, at their mansion or Carlton House-terrace, his Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess Appenyi, 1.1;, E xce l_ leney the Bavatian I , lini. , 4ter and. the .P:c..47iess (l e c e tt, , Excellency the Saxon Minister, the Marchioness of Ely, Baron and Baroness Rothschild, Mr. and Mrs. W. Lowther, M. Sabouroff, Later in the evening the Countess Bernstorff I:tad a small assembly, ELECTION C 031311 27.E.ES,—(This Day.) WEYMOUTH. The committee appointed to try the petition presented against the return of Lord Grey de Wilton and Mr. Brookes re-assembled this morning—Mr. E. C. Egerton in the chair. Mr. Sergeant Piggott appeared for the petitioners, and Mr. F. Slade and Mr. Pickering for the sitting members. James Fizzen, examined by Sergeant Piggott, said he had been sent for to the George Tnn, where he saw a Mr. Ibbs, who took him into a room half lighted, and laid down twelve sovereigns, which he took up and put into his pocket. Mr. Ibbs was a member of Lord Grey de Wilton's com mittee. He understood the money was for his vote. In er , ss-examination, by Mr. Pickering, witness said he did not see Mr. Ibbs put down the money on the table in the room where he found it. Mr. Ibbs came out and said, "Go in, there's something for you." He (witness) went in and saw the money lying on the table, and supposing the money was intended for him, he picked it up and put it in his pocket. (Laughter.) He had never received any money before for his vote. In 1858 he voted one and one. Would swear he never received money for voting. By the Chairman—He showed Mrs. Carter the money. How he came to do so was, that, as he had been sent for she noticed the fact, and said she supposed they wanted him for something. He then said—holding out the twelve sovereigns in his hand—" That's what I've got." He had not got the mon:y now, but Mrs. Carter had got 9 of the sovereigns. He was positive he showed her 12, but she's now got 9 ; wo afterwards changed them. He meant by that that the sovereigns were changed for other money, because he thought that would destroy the evidence about the money. The 12 sovreigns he got in the first instance were then changed, and he gut a£s note and 4 sovereigns. lie now thougth it was 9 sovereigns. He was now positive it was only 9 F overeigns he showed Mrs. Carter. The Chairman—You are giving your evidence in a very unsatisfactory way. What do I understand you to say ? Did you show Mrs. Carter 12 or 9 sovereigns. Witness—l got twelve sovereigns, but there is some sovereigns now that can be produced. Chairman—Did you show Mrs. Carter 90r12 ? I must caution you. You have sworn once or twice you showed her 12. Witness—l got 12, and I showed her 9. That's the truth. I owed 3 sovereigns to a person, and I paid it. Re-examined by Sergeant Piggott—l can't recollect the name of the person to whom I paid the money. I paid Capt. Grey 18s. I know I owed the money, and it was paid. I can't recollect anything further about the money. Chairman—Let me caution you; you have given your evidence in a very unsatisfactory manner, and if you don't alter your mode I shall commit you. Witness—l don't wish to say anything but the truth; only I can't recollect things clearly now. Chairman—What reason did Mrs. Carter give you for taking the sovereigns ? Witness—l had no motive for giving her the sovereigns, and she none for taking them. Mr. Dodson--Were you sorry or glad she took the money? Witness—l can't recollect. (Laughter.) Mr. Dodson—Who did you vote for in 1857 ? Witness—l think for Mr. Butler. Sergeant Piggott—We've got the poll books. Mr. Pickering—Well, he did not vote at all, as I have been informed. (Laughter.) George Symes a pork-butcher and voter, was next exa mined, and said—lbbs asked me how I was going to vote. I said I didn't know. He asked me if I would take a little money. He offered £2O. I said that wouldn't do. He He then gave a jump up to £3O. (Laughter.) I said that wouldn't do. Ho theia made another jump to £lO. (Renewed laughter.) I said if I voted for his party, I should want two or three such lots as that. (Increased laughter.) I thought the offer was seriously meant. On tho polling day I was at: the White Horse Inn. It was hard on 3 o'clock. I afterwards polled for Freestun and Campbell. I had no money for my vote. I was never promised anything by any party connected with the Great Eastern to vote for Mr. Campbell. I never said I would vote for the other side for £2O or £3O. I never said so to Lee. Lee offered me something on the polling day. He asked what I would take. I told him I should not take anything less than £5O. (Laughter.) This was between two or three. Conservatives were then a-head on the poll. He said he would go and see if ho could get it. I went home. I did not wait for him, but polled between three and four. ROSCOMMON. This committee assembledthis morning—Mr. Dunlop in the chair. Mr. O'Malley, Mr. Phinn, and Mr. O'Dowd were coun sel for the petitioners ; and Sir F. Slade, and the Hon. Mr. Bourko appeared for the sitting members. Mr. O'Malley, in his opening statement, said the peti tion alleged bribery and treating. Col. French polled 1,890 votes, Capt. Goff 1,541, and Mr. Tenison 1,280. Against Capt. Goff, it was alleged that his agents had engaged every attorney, every house of entertainment, and not only every car, but a great number of " car owners" were created for the purposes of bribery; inasmuch as numerous payments for " car hire" were made to persons who had no votes, and no cars. The sum thus expended amounted to £1,150 for the conveyance to the poll of 1,540 voters, many of whom resided close to the polling booths. The witnesses for the petitioners are very numeroue, and the inquiry will, it is expected, extend over a considerable period. GREAT YARMOUTH. The committee assembled this morning—Mr. Phillips in :he chair. Charles Botright, a cabinetmaker, residing at Yarmouth, said, shortly after Sir E. Lacon's address was out, a person named Borroughs called upon him, and after talking about the election, said he waited upon him to vete for Sir E. Lacon and Stacey. Borroughs had formerly had always been on the opposite interest, and he (witness) called him a turn-coat. He was one of Stacey's committee. Smith, another surporter of Lacon and Stacey, also solicited him, and told him to vote for Lacon and Stacey, as there was " sugar" in tho way. CARLISLE. This committee re-assembled this morning, and pro ceeded with the hearing of witnesses to prove the allega tions in the petition, which alleged bribery and intimida tion on the part of the sitting members. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Commissioner Fane was the Commissioner of the day, but the cases during the morning were uninteresting. In re Ayres, a surgeon at Ramsgate, a choice of assignees took place. It was a second bankruptcy within a short period. Mr. Buchanan appeared for the petition and was appointed solicitor to the assignees. In re Cahn.—This bankrupt was described as of Liverpool-street, merchant, s t were os af Fi c t o r u ee n t : and a meeting w as held for the cho ice of assignees. Messrs. t l a l n e t s s to Co., estate, l ° r ate-street, Mr. Wells, appointedi‘lorat e t t solicitor. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) LIABILITY OF ADVERTISERS-BROCK Y. THORLEY. This was an action brought to recover a 17s. for ad vertisements inserted in a periodical conducted by plaintiff. The case had been adjourned in order that a person named Hodson might be called as a witness. Mr. Beard, for the plaintiff, produced the subpoena, and Hodson was duly called. Upon his not appearing, His Honour asked Mr. Beard if he was going for the penalty, but that gentleman hardly thought it worth while. Mr. Buchanan then said that had Hodson attended the case would not have occupied the Court ten minutes. Hodson had received the money for all the advertisements advertised by defendant. his Honour found for the defendant, with costs. ALLEGED PUFFING AT A SALL-IMPORTANT DECISION. In the case of Samuels v. Myers, tried yesterday before a jury, it appeared that this was a new trial, and the case arose out of some green snail shells imported by the plain tiff from Penang, and sold at a public sale in Mincing-lane. Mr. Atkinson, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Lewis, for the defendant, agreed upon the admitted facts; and Mr. Lewis added, " and it is admitted that plaintiff's son attended and bid at the sale." His honour—That would come under the term "puffing.'' Mr. Atkinson said this was quite new; but Mr. Lewis said he made a feature of it on the last occasion. Mr. Atkinson then proceeded with the case, and called two witnesses, the last of whom, in cross-examination, ad mitted that plaintiff's son bid at the sale. Mr. Lewis then submitted the sale was void. Mr. Harrison then mentioned a case argued in the Ex' chequer Chamber, where it was decided that " if a sale is advertised as without reserve, and the seller or any person on his behalf bids at the sale, the same is illegal." His honour was very sorry, but upon the evidence, th° term " puffing" . would apply, and he must nonsult plaintiff. No costs. POLICE INT_ELLIGENOE-(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. " 0111 JOHN BROWN."—Eliza Smith, a not very car tivating specimen of the frail sisterhood, was charged before Mr. Bingham with stealing four sovereigns, the money of John Brown, a smart-looking young man, who describe(' himself as a footman, and gave his address at 4, Charles" street, Grosvenor-square. John Brown said that having been to a bowling all,q near the Haymarket on the previous night, he called in at public-house, and there met the prisoner. He treated ber, to refreshment, and then took her home with him , and thet morning he missed from his trousers pocket four sovereigeo• He immediately taxed the prisoner with taking the moneY• All she said was, • Oh, my dear, I've not done so." w his Mr. Bingham asked the prosecutor when he last se. money safe, and whether there were any otners present. The pro:•Gellter sa;•1 he saw it safe just befois , I ..uf pubiio-11,,u!, , , that !.1 , 2 had a fiend with hiLi -Ala; a lso ba ,. o . young lady with Min, and that there were others pi men Mr. Bingham said all he could do for the prosecutor 7,11 to advise him not to take a female to his lodgings a che until he had known her for six mon ths at the least, female must be discharged,