The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-18 00:00:00

CANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o 1 S,lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dtc. , viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle , Marietta, Miss Braun, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Harr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jonec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, G. Fords, and E. Hackney. Piano-forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dte., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. THE WEATHER—SuN Onnor, MARCH 18. THIIIMONETEII, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night, 55—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.27. WIND, Westerly, inclining to south ; with fine mild sunshiny weather. IN-1.0 ,§ tA„, nAIirELOCK MEMORIAL FUND.-H. R. H . THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE will take the Chair at a PUBLIC MEETING, to be held on FRIDAY next, March 19th, at Two o'clock, at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, wh;ch has been /kindly placed at the disposal of the committee, by E. T. Smith, Esq., the _Lessee. Th e pit, Galleries, and Upper Boxes of the Theatre will be open without tickets ; and reserved tickets, for the admission of Ladies, may be obtained at any time before noon on Friday from the Secre tary of the Havelock Memorial Fend, at 3, Pail-mall East, and Mr. Chatterton, at the Box-ofEce of the Theatre. AT a GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS , held at the Bank of England, on Thursday, the 16th March, IS3a, Resolved—" Thai the Thanks of this Court be given to the Governor. Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the Rank of England for their able management of the affairs of this Corpora tion during the last half-year." Ordered—That the said Resolution ip advertised fa all the Daily Morning and Evening tapers. JOHN BENTLET, Secretary. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. In consequence of the trumphant success of the closing representations, and in order to accommodate the numbers whe have been unable to obtain places, CONCLUDING PERFORMANCES will be given as follow : THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, March 18, IL TROVA TORE: Leonora, Spezia ; Azucena, Sannier ; Manrico, Ginglini. TO-MORROW, Friday, March 19, LA ZINGARI ("The Bohemian Girl"), for the last time, being for the Benefit of Signor Giuglini. Saturday, March 20, LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENrO : Marie, Piccolomini. Last Scene of I MARTIRI, ccmprising the celebrated duo by Madlle. Piccolomini and Signor Giug lini. 9 Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre. Prices :—Pit Stalls, 12s 6d; boxes (to hold four persons), pit and one pair, 21. 2s; grand tier, 31, 3s ; two pair, V. 55.; throe pair, 15s ; gallery boxes, 103; gallery stalls, 3s 6.31 ; pit, 3s 6d; gallery, 2s. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- SIGNOR GIUGLINI'S BENEFIT. LA ZINGARI (" The Bohemian Girl.") The very numerous demands for the repetition of this favourite Opera have induced the Direction to repeat it in the farewell week, and LA. ZINGARI will be presented for the last time TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, March 19, being for the Benefit of Signor Giuglini. Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Con stance, Miss A, Sedgwick Widow Green, Mrs. Wilkins. After which, JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Followed by PRESENTED AT COURT. Misses Swan• borough, Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Buckitone. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. e. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 6 Upper Boxes ....... ........ 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Zit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. ' THIS EVENING, the Play of A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. _ After which, a new grand comie Christmas Pantomime eatitleil HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor rnack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. THR4. T R E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING) Monday, March 15, the nsw and original Comedy THE LOVE KNOT. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Murray, dte. Followed by A LUCKY HIT. After which THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. And CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. Commesce at 7. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE, Mr. Barney Williams. After which, AN HOUR IN SEVILLE. To conclude with THE IRISH TUTOR. Commence at Seven. R OYAL LYCEUM THEA.TRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, March 18, will he produced the new faxes of DOUBLE DUMMY : The Priddles, Miss Wool gar and Mr. Toole. • After which, will be presented Sir E. L. Bulwer s play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline, Miss H. Faucit ; Claude, Mr. C. Dillon. To be followed by GOOD FOR NOTHING, Nan, Miss Woolgar ; Tom Dibbles, Mr. J. L. Toole. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. liox-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswiek. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Nir. Creswick. Lade Macbeth, Miss Goddard. Followed by THE TWO POLTS. Concluding with THE ORPHAN OF GLENCOE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TVS DA.T—Morn., 40 min. aft. 3—Even., 55 min. aft. 3 TO•MORROW —Morn., 15 min. aft. 4 —Even., 35 min aft. 4 me . unprepared—you shall see, Mr. OSBORNE ! Good knights and true, both of them—we must give each his due; it would not be easy for either to have fought better, and we hope some day to have another such interlude—yet, did the Chan cellor of the Exchequer carry his point, while the tx-Secretary to the Admiralty did not carry his ; and the impromptu reply was, of course, a more difficult task than the studied attack. It is not a little curious to compare the attacks and the retorts of these capital Champions—the Knight from Dover and the Knight from Bucks. Dovxa.—l demand your policy—all new Minis ters ought to avow one. It is nothing to us in this House, that a Noble Lord, in " another place," delivered a long oration, which left us as wise as we were before. BUCES.—Our policy you will not have. Your own side, twice lately, did not give one. Lord JOIN RUSSELL appealed, as I do, to his chief's (Lord ABERDEEN I S) statement, which told nothing, in the House of Lords, and Lord PALIIIISTON, in 1855, though Premier, and in this House, declared no policy. DovEß.—But I want to know what you will do with the Jews. There's their grand enemy on the woolsack, and you, and PAZINQTON, and STANLEY, their friends here. BUCKS.—And I want to know what you did with the Jews. There was SHAFTESBURY, and, to the last, HARROWBY, kicking the poor Jews as unkindly as the present Chancellor, and that while you made a Government measure of the Bill. DOYBR.—Church Rates then—l insist that you tell me how you will square the family matter between Lord STANLEY, abolitionist, and Lord STANLEY'S father, the compromiser, I sup pose, and Mr. HENLEY, who thinks them all right. Bucks.—And, again, I wish to know what your people did ? We were, many of us, here on Wed nesday, 17th February—on that day, memorable ' in Church Rate conflict, we saw an Under-Secre tary of State and a Noble Lord, holding a high office in the Household, voting against the Minis terial suggestion, while the Honourable Member far Dover, and most of the other members of Government, including the Premier, stayed away ! DOTER.—But that India Bill—you all voted against the abolition of the Company— you now are going Ito abolish it yourselves—you say you do so in deference to a large majority of this House. I hope, then, you will show your deference to ma jorities by carrying through a bill for Jewish Emancipation, which so many majorities have sanctioned. Bucxs.—l beg your pardon. We do not bow to majorities ; but your majority has ruined the Company's influence, and we must now do the beat we can to remedy the mischief. DOYER.—Ah, but Reform—there I have you. Lord DERBY thinks, for his own part, we need none ; you think the Reform Bill, which Lord DERBY helped to make, was a gross Whig job ; your Attorney-General has succeeded to the late FIA.ROUS O'CONNOR in this House, and Lord STANLEY is the rational Reformer. What sort of Reform are we to have ? BUCKS.—And pray what sort of Reform have we bad, or should we have had from you ? Take the last division on the Ballot—a point so interesting to all earnest Reformers—l find the Prime Minister, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Control, all voting against the Ballot ; but a Noble Lord high in office in the Household, the Attorney-General, the Vice-President of a Board, and the distinguished Secretary, for the Ballot. What kind of a Reform Bill, I beg to ask, were we to have from you ? As to " the gross Whig job," it is no expression of mine. But in the unreasoning haste and excitement of the time many jobs were perpetrated in support of a political party, and none will now deny it. And thus the battle was waged ; and many such thrusts and counter-thrusts were exchanged by tie knights of debate, and cheers from the spec tators attested the prowess of each, and encouraged their natural goodwill to the conflict of the com batants ; and we are confident that both deserved the thanks of the House for the valiant evening's entertainment, not less, though on different grounds, than the Indian combatants to whom thanks had just been voted. One lesson was cer tainly deeply impressed on us by the combat— one moral taught us—that no mortal could tell which would give us the best Reform Bill, a Conservative Liberal Ministry, or a Liberal Con servative Ministry. Time alone can tell that. The next session at the Central Criminal Court may prove which is the highest legal authority— the Lord Chief Justice of England or the Editor of the Times. Lord CAMPBELL has emphatically announced that the existing law is amply suffi cient to punish all such offences. The Times, desirous of justifying the truckling Conspiracy Bill, is anxious to show that such is not the case ; and having come into collision with the chief of the highest criminal court on a point of law, it now attempts to teach the Attorney-General his duty. So eager is it on this point, that it has committed an act which it admits to be objectionable, dis cussing both facts and law, while the great question is as yet sub judice, and the verdict of an impartial jury is to be taken as to the complicity of the prisoner in the offence for which ORSINI and PIERRE have forfeited their lives. It is satisfactory to know that Dr. BERNARD will have a fair and impartial trial, conducted by a judge beyond suspicion, and a jury of whom, at least, six must be British subjects,and all will be so unless he shall claim his unquestionable privilege of being tried by a jury, de utedietate iingum, or, in other words, half the number consisting of his countrymen. He will have the advantage of being defended by an accomplished advocate, whose prac tised ingenuity and profound learning, combined with thorough British pluck, and that unflinching devotion, which constitutes the pride and honour of the bar, ensures to his clients that nothing which can be done will be left undone. Under such circumstances, it seems to us far better that the subject should be permitted to rest with the Crown lawyers, and that they should take their own course without let or hindrance, from the fourth estate. We cannot suppose that either Sir FITZROY KELLY or Mr. BODKIN will be tempted capital felony. All these matters will be clearly and ably submitted to the jury. There can be no Tabbies resorted to on behalf of the prose cution. Public opinion would not tolerate the slightest straining either of law or of fact. He will receive a fair trial, If his guilt can be esta blished beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt, and in accordance with the salutary principle, which declares that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape with impunity, rather than one innocent person should be improperly punished, there will be neither sympathy . nor compassion for the criminal. But, on the other hand, should his guilt not be established, he will be entitled to go forth unscathed and unsuspected, without the slightest stain remaining on his character. The object of the Times is clearly a political one, the whitewashing of the late Government by showing that the measure, the introduction whereof cost them place and power, was just and necessary. But GOD forbid that the British law should be so grossly perverted, or that either any free-born Englishman, or still less the stranger within our gates, the claimant on our hospitality, should be exposed to the slightest annoyance or inconvenience to please any foreign Prince or Potentate. Dr. BERNARD will stand or fall, on the actual facts ; and it would be a very injudicious friend that would, until his guilt is established, attempt to ride off on a collateral issue, or attempt to raise doubtful points of law which may never be required. For the present we are contented to let the matter rest in the hands of the law officers of the Crown. When the trial has ter minated we may, should there be any necessity therefor, offer some observations on what may have taken place. Our new Colonial Secretary would do well to look betimes to one of the most imminent pro spects of that ill-starred pet of his predecessor— the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory. Mr. LABOUCHERE, it will be remembered, had a favour able eye to the perpetuation of the Company's rule over those vast dominions. This, moreover, incon gruously enough at the very time when he and his colleagues were preparing to snatch from a kindred authority the governance of another (not more vasb but more populous) dominion. While the ex-Ministers were collectively prepared, in de ference to one of the great requirements of the time, to wrest from the Eastern Joint COMPANY the wielding of the viceregal sceptre of Hindostan, the ex-Minister for the Colonies was confessedly prepared, individually, to continue to another, it may be called the Western JOHN COMPANY the possessions of a Pro-consulate over an enormous track of the North American continent, washed in one direction by the icy billows of the Arctic Ocean, and in another by the waters of the Pacific. Immediately after wards Ithe Government of our forty colonies—at the transference, passing momentarily through the grasp of Sir BULWEIt LYTTON—is handed over to Lord STANLEY by Mr. Secretary LABOUCHERE. And at that very crisis this important ONE out of the great numerical aggregate of our colonial pos sessions, the Hudson's Bay Company's territory is threatened with—ls JOHN BULL aware of what it really is with which this gigantic domain of his on the other side of the Atlantic, beyond Canada, beyond the great American lakes, is at this mo ment seriously threatened ? The Hudson's Bay Company's territory is threatened, British soil is threatened, just at this time, with nothing less than a wholesale incursion of the champions and practisers of Mormonism 1 There has been one Hegira of this notorious sect of polygamists already. There is the prospect of another, and a Hegira that this time would bear more the semblance of an Exodus, The Saints of Utah, in other words, meditate seriously a whole sale migration from the neighbeurbood of the Salt Lake across the frontiers of the United States 1 into the British North American possessions. To say the very least of it, it is a prospect decidedly unpleasant. Are we prepared to tolerate a sys tem so flagrantly and outrageously violating all our ideas as to the sanctity of Home and Family —and to do this at the very moment when having not se very long ago put down the infernal Suttee we are preparing to deal in sone measure with other frightful Hindoo superstitions. How it has come to pass that there is this agree able chance of an invasion of one of our colonies by the race of Mormons may soon enough be related. Every one knows that the Utah settle ment has for some time past been in open rebel lion to the authority of the Federal Government. The United States' army, under the command of Col. JOIINSTONE, has taken up a formal position at Camp Scott. That army is in a winter encampment far removed from its supplies. Its situation is one of considerable difficulty. It has , a fanatical and infuriated mob bsfore it, an arid wilderness behind it—deficient numbers in itself and a resolute denial of any increase to those numbers from the Republican Legislature. Pre sident BUCHANAN, without the capacity of sending reinforcements to the troops under Colonel JOHNSTaNE, finds it only possible for him i to bide his time and wait for the chap ter of accidents. Meanwhile, threatened with an onslaught from the forces (such as they are, sent against them by the Government of Washington, the saints are doing what a swashing Admiral, not a thousand years ago, signalled to his fleet, once upon a time, in the Baltic—they are sharpening their cutlasses ! They are getting ready for the next spring campaign, under the guidance of the redoubtable BRIGIAM YOUNG, their great Prophet-Generalissimo. Whether they will really then " show fight," remains to be seen. But at any rate they have proved thsmselves adepts in the art of—what SAMUEL SLICK of Sliokvill somewhere calls absquatulating. They are, in other words, simultaneously with the shar pening process already mentioned—getting ready for a grand "move on" elsewhere. Bat "else where" it is suspected, it is reported, it is tolerably certain will be across the United States frontiers into the Hudson's Bay territory. Let Lord STAN LEY look. well to it ! England will not have any such squatters in her dominions ! Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary honoured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with their company at dinner last evening at Stafford House. Tne following were invited to meet the royal guests : —The Duke of Argyll, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Marchioness of Breadalbane, the Mar chioness (Maria) of Ailesbury, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Blantyre, Lord Robert Clinton, &c. The duchess, at a late hour in the evening, received a select circle of the aristocracy. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and about 150 members of the haut ton attended the reunion. During the evening the Christy's Minstrels had the honour of ap pearing and performing several of their mo-t successful raorceame, to the . delight of her grace's distinguished company. DEATII OP A DISTINGIIISITID VETERAN OIITIORR. me_ _ g .1 :::t leg Major George Simmons, who died recently at his resi dence in Jersey, in the 73d year of his age, commeaced and ended his. career in the old 95. h Rifle corps (now t i he a ßi . a. Brigade), with which he served from IEO9 to La' i n cluding i a ni llZ d a i t s t t a in ek a s ui a s n h d ed en it g s a e g lf em fro e m nts th in e w c h o i al d . i r p . ao to t he _end of the Penmsalar war and the forth, Prof pY .4tajl.-0. •. He . bore on his breast the retedall ""44‘11 wall int3t.nlagr) and Waterloo. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1858. We are a very busy folk, and our House of Commons with all the business of the country resting on its shoulders ought to be busy indeed ; but, the busier we are the more we need a little pastime by the way—" All work and no play" makes old boys as well as young ones rather dull. All of us, therefore, and our senators as much as any of us, will have our sport in some shape. Boxing and cock-fighting have long lost the coun tenance of men of legislatorial rank, but both these and horse-racing which survives in all its glory, cannot be enjoyed on the floor of the House. Nor could the performance of tournaments, if Lord EsurNroN could revive them, find accommodation in the House itself. Our senators, therefore, wisely contrive to have every now and then a regular senatorial fight, or race, or boxing match, or tournament, according as fancy may please to regard it. A contest purely for the contest's aake. Nothing in the way of business is expected from it. It is made to look like business, as the mailed knights with their spears looked like real com batants, but no harm is meant. The prize is not to carry any practical motion, but to see who can lay about him best with the weapons of political satire and sarcasm, raillery and repartee. Such a tournament of modern Civilisation came ' into unreasonable subtlety or astuteness. As off in glorious style on Monday night. It was a Mrs. GLA.ssE authoritatively announce; the first capital fight. The hon. member for Dover, after thing to be done is to " catch your hare." Now a long, hybernation in office, name forth almost as that has not yet been done. In the eye of the fresh for his work as when he was the mbar for Middl e sex ; his rou h popular English law, Dr. BERNARD must s t ill be considered tae g— and ready !as innocent. He may have been on terms of in t°,2zle, silent so long, seemed quite at command ; i timacy with ORSINI, may have relieved the pecu - atrzotnoiatthehtedarzs it must have seemed as if his an- niary wants of Rrnio and his wife, but it does not confbssed that the h.n ce at all ; but it must be therefore follow that he was c3gnisant of did better in the same hen. member for Bucks never their cri,ninal designs. It will not bo suf- BERNAL OSBORNE was no.Yticleuhiti_m:, and if Mr. \ ficient to show that he know of the completely foiled, and for ever? horsed, he was order for the " infernal machines," unless thrust received thoroughly aware of the sanguinary purpose for another. the hold deraand. which they were intended. He might have sup- Mr, OSI:ORNE rode into they were to be used in Italy. If so, thg posed t hat Of \ I Itasiznrnoulidu etztainly net be held amenable for their from Mr. Drsiltimr, a declaration of the polled ./ itia.lo an it a lei Lepe ll etier. the new Government, and to work he Went to show that the House had a right to know the I , policy of a new administration, and by a well con- first must be raga:deaf. wzahaoysiebielaitinfeoo,ext::::iilniacetedt,e.rw.hTohaes \ trasted exhibition of the diverse views of the new evidence, unless eot , firu l a, i i . le! entitled to bat little , w 4 _ev . ery respect, can Ministers, showed that no policy could be deduced is the wife of the approver, was trembling frona their known sentiments. Mr. DIS3AJLI in the balance at the very moment when she received all his adversary's well aimed thrusts, and as coolly said to himself — g et our , ca me forward with the fresh evidence, which c ,_ d t h e cLuirgsfropa one:of misdemeanour to it. policy °At of me if you can—you thought to catch Torte THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY Es/EN' NG, MARCH 18, 1858 I.ATE6T NEWS. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Who, in case M. de Persigny's resignation is I accepted, will be the new Ambassador to London ? is the question now asked by every one. The Duke of Grammont is supposed to have the best chance. M. de Lavalette is also spoken of, though very doubtingly. M. de Lavalette was the French diplomatist at Constantinople, whose zeal with respect to the "Holly Places" was one of the dispos ing causes of the war with Russia. The Commission now so long sitting at Bucharest on the Danubian Provinces' question will probably be soon dissolved. M. Walewski has had enough, and more than enough, to worry him besides that Commission. It appears to be determined, then, to bring the deliberations of the Commission to a speedy end. The French fraction of the Commis sion has been informed that, Report or no Report, it will not be considered as existing longer than the end of the present month. The illoniteur publishes the following :—" M. Pietri, Prefect of Police, had some months since tendered his resignation to the Emperor, in conse quence of the state of his health. His Majesty requested him to retain his functions until the de finitive conclusion of everything connected with the late attempt. M. Pietri having now again re newed his application, the Emperor has accepted his resignation with regret, expressing to him in a letter how highly he appreciated his zeal and his devotedness." An Imperial decree norainatesiM. Boittelle, Prefect of the Yonne, to be Prefect of Police in the room of M. Pietri. The Minister of Marine has sent a circular to the maritime prefects advising the French navy to be put on a war footing by May 1. Rear-Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, commander in-chief of the French squadron in China, has ad dressed the following order of the day on the taking of Canton : " Sailors and soldiers—At the moment when military operations are drawing to a close, I have to congratulate you on your gallant conduct before the enemy on the 28th and 29th December. For tunate rivals of our brave allies, you arrived the first in Fort Lyn and on the breaches of Canton ; the honour of the French flag and of the arms cf the Emperor has been nobly maintained, and your commander-in-chief thanks you in the name of the country and of his august sovereign. Although every one has done his duty, there are never theless some who merit special mention. I there fore place on the order of the day, for their conduct on the 28th, Sergeant-Major Martin des Pallieres, who was the first to enter Fort Lyn, and Lieut. de Vaisseau Ribourt, who gallantly carried a Chinese entrenchment which harassed our left. For the 29th, I place on the order of the day Capitaine de Vaisseau Collier, who led a column of attack ; Lieutenant de Vaisseau Veriot, who posted his battery beneath the ramparts, in order to demolish the parapets ; and three sailors, Trian, Pelissier, and Laurier. Soldiers and sailors— Your task is not yet finished, a 3 we must now, in common with our allies, preserve order in a city having a million of inhabitants. That difficult mission cannot be accomplished without the obser vance of the strictest discipline, the most scrupulous respect for the rights of the inhabitants, and the most rigid surveillance. Do not forget that your successes, brilliant as they are, mustremain without a stain ; it is at that price that you will merit the good opinion of our illustrious Emperor. Five l'Empereur. " RIGUULT DE GENOUILLY. " Bth Jan. 1858." The session of the Legislative Body will be closed, it is believed, on the 17th April. The naval code will be voted, as well, most probably, as the bill now under examination by the Council of State relative to the illegal assumption of titles of nobility ; but the new enactments which it is in tended to introduce in the forest laws will not be brought forward until next year. Prince Jerome continues to be very ill, although the Moniteur announces every day that he is bet ter. This morning the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris was sent for to see him. The following telegraphic despatches have been received here : " STOCKHOLM, March IG.—The Prince-Regent has closed the legislative session. He delivered a long address on the occasion, but made no allusion to the relations of the country with foreign powers. He expressed a hope that, in consequence of the financial measures which had been adopted, the deplorable crisis still existing might before long be brought to a close." " HAMBURG, March 17.—1 n consequence of some pressing despatches received from, Frankfort, an extraordinary council of ministers was held at Copenhagen yesterday. All the diplomatic docu ments have been laid before the Supreme Council." BOURSE, March 17.—The following were the closing quotations 41 per Cents 93 25 lio: end month Credit Foncier ' Belgian 41 Piednaontese (5) Roman y BB Austrian I Spanish Threes Home Debt 37i .WAYS. 3 per Cent. ..... ... 69 50 D. end month Bank Shares 3150 Credit Mobilior 782 CO Do. Account 785 RAIL' 1370 Orleans Northern Midi Western 660 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian New Ditto 785 Lyon and Alediteran. 8271 New Ditto 790 Geneva NAPLES. NAPLES, March 1 . 3. —Mr. Lyons arrived in Naples on Thursday evening . last : On this day he is to have an interview with Signor Carafa previous to his visiting Salerno, where his great purpose will be to see Park rather than to w a t c h over t h e t r i a l. Indeed, Mr. Lyons is so fully pe rsua d e d o f the satisfactory manner in which Mr. Acting Consul Barbar has watched over British interests as to feel it unnecessary to interfere. In a recent letter it was stated that, by order of the Sardinian Government, three captains of vessels, one of them being a naval officer, had visited Naples for the purpose o f establishi ng th e prec i se spo t where the Cagliari was taken. It wou ld h ave b een more correct to have . said that R uva tti n i an d C o . sent down the captain of the m erc h an t vesse l , an d requested the Sardinian Gov ernmen t t o a ll ow a captain in the service of las Maje s ty t o accompany them. This gentleman is Cavaliere P rovana , cap tain of a frigate, and heis still in Naples. The ques tion between the two Governments is precisely where it was, neither party receding ; the Neapo litanGovernmentpertevering w i th the tr i al, an d Government biding it s ti me t o ma k e th the Sardinian doubly sure its case and assert its claim s . During the last few days we have had more stormy weather than we have had for all the previous winter. The Centaur, Captain Clifford, C. 8., was compelled last Saturday to run over to Baize for shelter, where she is still lying, and the postal steamers have as a consequence been very irregular. At the same time that the sea has been so much agitated, the earth has not been less so. The official journal, however, has the following no ti ce On the irght of the 9th instant three shocks of ea.rtliptake were felt at Lagonegro, of some considerable duration, but harmless. On the fol lowing day, at 3p.m., two other very violent shocks were felt, of the duration of nine or ten seconds ; another more violent shock was felt at 8 p.m. ; and on the morning of the 17th another still more vio lent, w hich lasted five or six seconds. Though the houses have suffered considerable injury, no other incident is to be deplored except that of the con sternation of the people." DENMARK. " The bill on the fortifications of Copenhagen, admitted to a second reading by the Supreme Council of Denmark," says a letter from the Danish capital, "app ears likely to be adjourned. As the ex-minister, M . Bl um h e , remar k e d, itsadop tiou would have th e character of a po li t i ca l demon stration which would be very inopportune at a moniont at which it is permitted to hope for a pacific volution of the confli , it with Germany. The President of the Council, M. Hall, consented not to call for the definitive vote of the bill, declaring that the Danish cabinet has made,and is ready to make all concessions compatible with the interest of the country ; b e , however, remarked that he could not yet s a y w h at the nature o f th e concei sions would be. T h i s language, t h oug h vagu e, causes it to be believed that Denmark understands her position, and that in her quarrel with the Ger manic Confederation she will not expose hal self to an objectionable isolation." vent a war, which must, if commenced, not only prove injurious to Spaniards, but endanger the re lations between Europe and America. He then formally announced that General Zuloaga, the new Mexican President, had promised to give Spain every satisfaction, and he confirmed the fact of M. Lafragua, the Mexican envoy, having been dismissed, adding that a new envoy was likely to be appointed. He concluded by saying that he must refuse to produce papers on the matter, and that any discussion of it would be inopportune. M. Mazo, who made the interpellation, expressed himself satis fied with the explanation given. The only piece of news in the journals of the 12th is, that in orde r t o effect a saving of 13,000,000 f. in the budget of the War Department, the Government had resolved on allowing the soldiers of the class of 1853 to retire to their homes. A letter from Marseilles states that the mistral still continues to blow with great violence, and that fears were entertained of fresh disasters on the coast. The underwriters had receive I intelligence of three wrecks in the Gulf of Lyons. Almost all the bodies of the crew of the Saint Andre, which was lost some time ago near Agde, have been found. That of M. D'Entrechaux, a passenger, was discovered in the sand, one of the feet alone being at fir:t visible. nobody of the captain was taken up 10 leagues from the spot where the wreck took place. What makes the loss of the Saint Andre more melancholy is that she had actually reached the roadstead of Marseilles from Madras, when a heavy squall compelled her to again seek an offing. She had on board, in addition to her own crew, seven men belonging to that of another vessel whom she was bringing to France, Laving saved them from a wreck at sea. RAILWAYS IN TURKEY. Four or five months ago concession was given to an English company for the construction of a rail way from Samsoun, the old Amisus, on the touth ern shores of the Black Sea, to Sivas, the old Se vasstia. As the Smyrna and Aidin Railway is destined to open out the southern half of Asia Minor, the ob ject of the Samsoun Railway is to tring the pro duce of the northern half to the sea, The mountain chain which surrounds the coast of Asia Minor on all sides is most difficult of acces on its northern part facing the Black Sea. Almost all along, from the mouth of the Bosphorus to the frontiers of Georgia, it rises precipitously from the seashore, so that at a few miles from it it attains already a height of several thousand feet. Only just about the middle of the whole length of the coast, where the rivers of Kizil Irmak and Yeshil Irmak (Hayls and Iris) discharge their waters to the Black Sea, the rise is more gradual, indicating this portion as the natural debouche from the inte rior. It is in the bay formed by the deltas of these two rivers that Samsoun lies. Situated so favourably for the Black Sea com merce Samsoun has at all times played a prominent part in it ; indeed up to the time that the Persian trade took the Trebizonde route instead of the long overland journey Samsoun had the lion's share of the whole commerce. What Amisus of old must have been cau still be seen from the traces of the large works which were made to convert its open bay into a capacious harbour. Under the Turks it became the cradle of their naval rower. From the woods in its neighbourhood came the timber which served for the construction of the fleets which ruled the Black Sea, the Archipelago, and the Mediterranean in the 16th and 17th centuries, and its numerous seafaring population furnished the sailors for these fleets. .Now Samsoun is the great entrepot of European, chiefly English, goods for the northern part of Asia Minor, as Trebizond is that for the Persian trade. According to official returns the value of English goods alone which came to Samsoun to be trans ported to the interior amounted to more than 760,0001. They go up to the great fair of Zilch, which is visited by people from all parts of Asia Minor, and from which they are spread over the country. In return the district of Arghana and Tokat send their ores, Amasia its silk, and the borders of the rivers Iris, Halys, and Lycus their grain, madder roots, dyes, and timber. As soon as the railway subject began to be mooted, the Turks cast their eyes on this point, and actually went out of their way to encourage a railway from Samsoun to Sivas. There were several reasons which made such an undertaking highly desirable in their eyes. Owing to the diffi culties of communication as they now exist in this part of the interior is almost as much sealed up to the Turkish Government as to Europeans. The war has not a little contributed to convince them of the inconveniences of such a seclusion from the pro vince most exposed to foreign invasion, and they f 641- that if kis.. 1:2 Ilacti.rha 1,8,4 Erzeroum they might have walked up leisurely through the whole length of Asia Minor without encountering the slightest resistance anywhere. They expect to bring the rail way through this part of their possessions within the grasp of the Central Government, and to provide at the same time for the defence of their frontiers towards Russia and Persia. There is a clause in the concession which points to this by obliging the company to continue the railway from Sivas to Erzerown, as soon as the profits on the first section to Sivas amount to 7 per cent. on the capital laid out. There seems to be a kind of fatality about the Trebizond Erzeroum road. In spite of the orders often and often repeated, and in spite of the grants of money made tor the pur pose, the road is growing worse from day to day, so that in some caw_ s, even in the best season, it is dangerous to pass. But the worst of this road is, and will always be, whatever is spent on it, that for several months in the year it is altogether impassable on account of the snow on the Kolat Dagh. An extension from Sivas to Erzeroum would avoid these difficulties, as it would run on the traces of the old Caravan-road over the plateaux of Asia Minor, which are several thousand feet lower than the pass of Baybout on the Trebi zonde road. 69 GO Besides these political reasons there are other financial ones which prompted the Turks to look with a favourable eye on this line. The most im portant mines in Turkey lie in the district which will be traversed by the Samsoun-Sivas line. Indeed, the whole country around and beyond this latter place is teeming with all kinds of ore. These mines yield now scarcely anything • in most cases the madot-mudiri, or superintendent of the mines, squares his accounts, so that the profits pay the working expenses. The explanation of thisunsatis factory result lies in the circumstance that no con trol can be kept over the working of the mines, and that the superintendents are changed almost every year, and therefore must make their fortunes as quickly as possible. The railway will bring the mines quite close to the central Government, and the profits will accrue to the capital instead of to the pockets of the subordinate agents of the Go vernment. _ _ _ The company formed in England for the con struction of this line sent out last summer Messrs. Austin, Graham, and Drew, civil. engineers, to make the necessary surveys ; with them came out likewise Mr. Elward Price, the well known contractor. Based on these surveys, the concession was asked from the Turkish Government, and readily ob tained. The line will be 250 miles in length, and the outlay is estimated at 16,5001. per mile, so that the whole capital required will be about 4,500,0001. The capital is to bi raised by 201. shares. The Turkish Government prOm'ses to take one-third of the shares and place them in the country. An interest of 7 per cent. is guaranteed on the capital laid out, and all the ground required for the line, stations, &c., whether Government or private property, is to be given to the company Gratis. You can judge the interest taken by the Turkish Government in the Sauasoun line by the favourable concessions granted to the company. The line will not follow the shorter but more pre sipitous road now commonly used into the interior, but make a detour to ascend more gradually. It will go round the biy of Sainsoun through the fer tile grain district of Charsutnbeh until it touches the town of that name on the Yoshi' Irwak (Iris) Then it will ascend by the valley on the lett banks of this river as far as the town of Amasia. At this last named place it will cross the river and proceed on its right bank as high m Tokat, the great smelt ing place for the ore of the mining district. There it will cross again over the left bank, and strike across towards the range of Tshamlu Bel, through which tunnelling will be necessary. Having passed this range the railway descends into the valley of the s nalys to Sivas. The difficulty o: the line will consist in the cross ing of the mountain rAnge of Tehamul Bel ; but it has been found that by making a detour a hitherto little known valley can be taken advantage of, which will considerably facilitate the work. SPAIN. Tho Madi id journals of the 12th publish the text sa t om. among g e of the speech delivered by M. Isturitz in the Con gress the preceding day in reply to an interpella tion --- _ — on the Mexican affair. He said that the THE HAVELOCK Miamian FUND. —A meeting is to Government would not echo the cry of war take place to-morrow, i ; Drury Lane Theatre, with the agiinst Mexico which had been raised, and though view of raising sub.cripti. tie for the erection of a statue differences existed between Spain and that country, they could be settled by ncgocia. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will tphret had acted with prudence and both pre tion as wel as by amp. After express- t in he e m m i o i r it y ary of m th en e :illustrious General Havelock. side on the occasion, and we have r.easonhtno believe Thereen will be General Peel, thewill be rae ing the opinion distinction Ministerw at N ' ar an p d re p ce a d it i . n io g tism Ca il b l in t e h t e s i n can regard be no to n doubt um t h h e a r t 4 the an affair, he said that the differences between the two countries were only two—first, that of theindemnit duo to Spaniards, on which the Mexican Govern- d nineeet rank, ie g and will that a great,t th Y amount suscribed towards the object for which the meeting is to ' be held will ba alike worthy of the ilia— anent had acted with little reason ; secondly, the tams man, to peepetuate whose m emor y it is to be events at Cuernava ca . He next said that England raised, and of the country in whose service he lived, and France had offered their intervention to pre- , fought, an d di e d.....m Qr „i lig Advertiser. WESTLAND MARSTON'S READINGS. " ANNE BLAKE." On Saturday evening we had the gratification of attending a "Private Reading" by this accom plished gentleman—the reading of one of the most popular among his dramatic productions—Anne Blake, a name familiar to us as that of a very charming favourite. Although the occasion was, strictly speaking, rather a test than a prelimi nary entertainment—it was so entirely and emi nently successful as a trial of the Playwright's capa city as an Elocutionist, that we cannot reasonably hesitate to refer to it thus publicly, as the precursor, in all probability, of many a repetition before audi tors both more numerous and more miscellaneous. The audience of Saturday evening was restricted, in a great measure, to the literary friends of the author, yet it was an audience in every way sufficiently critical to render the applause accorded to Mr. Marston at the close of his enter tainment, valuable es a discriminative testimony of merit rather than as a merely genial tribute of friendship. Apart, however, from the intrinsic cha racter of that assemblage itself, an assemblage com posed for the most part of professional critics, critics both of the closet and the theatre, fastidious book men and keen witted playgoers—it could hardly have failed tobe otherwise as to the impartial nature of the judgment pronounced upon this initial " Reading" after the very manly and sensible re marks by which the reading itself was briefly but earnestly introduced. Remarks in which Mr. Marston, deprecating anything at all bearing the semblance of partiality from his hearers, sought merely the simplest and truest verdict as to his own peculiar qualifications. The decision, we repeat, was in every respect signally favourable : a re sult none the less satisfactory we should pre sume to Mr. Westland Marston himself from the fact of his audience comprising among others Charles Dickens, John Forster, W. .T. Fox, M.P. for Oldham, Hepworth Dixon, and ether eminent literary contemporaries. The design is to break down the barrier of an old prejudice hitherto sepa rating the theatrical world from a very considerable section of the general community. The result of this obdurate prejudice (arising, for the most part, from pure misapprehension) being, of course, singularly detrimental to the dramatic interest— while it, at the same time, unintermittingly de bars the particular section of society referred to from the enjoyment of what is, in reality, not simply a harmless, but an eminently instructive, and humanising, and elevating species of intellec tual entertainment. It is an old story enough, of course, that of attempting to deal with this preju dice with a view to its ulterior dissipation. But Mr. Marston's method of dealing with it appears to us to be, in every respect, so novel, so simple, so undeniably reasonable, from first to last, that we cannot but think it gives considerable promise of success—and we certainly do not hesitate for a single instant to award to its originator our heartiest good wishes in his endea vours. Mr. Marston conceives, as it appears to us, not in any way extravagantly, that if some of our living dramatic writers were to read to any one who cared to come and hear them, those of their dramas which have nightly drawn to the theatres many hundreds of the playgoing population—the non-playgoers might thus be made acquainted with the real nature of the productions heretofore re garded by them through such a mist of distorting misapprehensions. It is not in the smallest degree to our thinking an idle dream, this notion of appealing to the common sense of the public by this sheer argumentam ad ignorantiam. We look hopefully to its realisation. And at any rate it has now the augury of a very auspicious commencement. For a more appropriate play than " Anne Blake" could hardly have been selected for the beginning. Our meaning, in so speaking, will be understood ' upon the instant by those who bear the drama in their remembrance, as it was originally acted five or six seasons back at the Princess's,—when Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean won the tears and plaudits of London by their exquisite impersonations of Anne and Thorold—when Walter Lacy (as only Walter Lacy could be) was the gay vivacious Llaniston—where our sympathies were extorted by Mrs. Daly's Lloyd, and our ridicule by Mrs. Win stanley's Lady Poppington, our scorn by Mr. Ad dison's Sir Joshua, and our laughter by Mr. Ches tee's lillott. Among those half-dozen motley per sonages the interest, the animation, the humour, the pathos, the passion, the whimsicality of the piece were distributed. Upon the hero and hero ine of the drama the charm and fascination of it were throughout continuously concentrated. It was recognised, it was admired, It was appreciated as a five-act play that not only amused the spectator, but stirred to the depths all his finer sympathies. It was so felt on Saturday evening when read to his with a voice alternately at his own perfect will and pleasure—now brusque and vulgar like that of the upstart parvenu, now genial and honeyed like that of the warm-hearted housekeeper, now pert with the pertness of the coxcombical butler, now sprightly, now lackadaisical, tremulously tearful, or earnestly impassioned. The first applause was elicited by his delivery of those rallying words addressed by Thorold to Llaniston " Women who are but pursued For the pleasure of the chase —are, like its victims, Cast off when captured, and the huntsman lover , Tarns to new game. A wife, my friend, should be A sweet bird won to one's breast by cherishing : Not a wild quarry to be hawked down." There was a thrill of sympathetic feeling, more over, in the utterance of tho panegyric on— " The men who think ! Whose weapon is the pen, whose realm the mind. I mean not laurelled bards ; but daily workers, Who, like the electric force, unseen. pervade The sphere they quicken : nameless till they die, And leaving no memorial but a world Made better by their lives." It was, however, in the reading of the two concluding acts of Jane Blake that the au thor of Anne Blake achieved his success on Saturday night as au Elocutionist. It was a success, moreover, distinct and unmistake able. The entertainment took place at the Beet hoven Rooms, near Cavendish-square, the probable scene of its public repetition at a date of which we may now anticipate an early announcement. THE LATE MISCONCEPTION. (Opinions of the French Press.) The diplomatic correspondence exchanged on the subject of Count Walewski's despatch by the English and French Governments is reproduced by the French journals, and pronounced by them highly satisfactory. The Pays and the Courrier de Paris, however, alone publish leading articles on the subject. The Pays says ;-- "Lord Malmesbury was aware of the real meaning of Count Walewrki's despatch of the 20th January ; and if lie desired an explanation, it was only in order to fulfil the conditions which placed the new Cabinet in power. This species of com promise between the necessities of policy and the conscience of statesmen is really understood in Eng land ; but in France it has ever been severely judged, and these compromises from the principal motive of the disrepute into which parliamentary government has fallen in Vrance. We cannot be suspected of being the adversaries of the alliance, which we consider one of the greatest political facts of the nineteenth century. But the great at tachment we profess for it will not lead us to con ceal our thoughts, and we are greatly mistaken if the impression produced on us by the despatch of , Lord Malmesbury has not been shared by the public. On the other hand, we do not hesitate to affirm that the reply of Count Walewski is precisely that which becomes the minister who has the honour to speak abroad in the name of the Emperor of the French. It is clear and noble ; it explains . everything and retracts nothing. . . Every thing has now been satisfactorily arranged. The leaders of the English Cabinet have declared to Parliament that alt cause of misunderstanding be tween France and England had been removed ; this declaration offered them no great difficulty, since they never entertained a doubt of the excellent in tentions of the French Government. Parliament received this intelligence with cheers, which were, we believe, sincere ; for public opinion had not concealed from itself that au internation question has been imprudently complicated by party tricks. We likewise rejoice heartily at this friendly result ; and our satisfaction is the more lively since the alliance is preserved on the condition mentioned by the Emperor : that the honour of one of the two nations should never be sacrificed to the honour of the other. The reply of Count Walewski is the faithful expression of this idea; it represents the language of honour itself, and will find au echo in the heart of all Frechinen." The following is from the Courrier de Paris : "The crisis, which at one moment menacei the Anglo French alliance is completely at an end. The despatches placed before the House of Com mons contain explanations which will suffice to remove all causes of misconception, and to calm the passions on both sides of the Channel. We may observe how superior France has shown herself to England on this occasion, both by her good sense and moderation. This moderation has been so eminent that we may one day place it amongst the greatest recollections of our annals. It possesses all the qualities which constitute the beautiful and the great. Whatever may bo our future rattious with England, let them be fiiendly or hostile, we shall derive from this recollection a strength for our arms or for our diplomacy," LITERATURE. Agatha's Husband. Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly. The reprint of really good novels, at a cheap rate, is a g rea t b oon t o th e pu bli c ; an d the works issued by Messrs. Chapman are among the best modern productions of this class. Those who are acquainted with " The Head of the Family," " The Ogilvies," and " John Halifax, Gentleman," a l rea d y pro d uce d at mere nom i na l prices, will cordially welcome "Agatha's Husband," by the same talented author, forming another volume of the " Select Library of Fiction." The characters and construction of this story are natu rally drawn and healthily exciting. We have pe rused it for the second time with unabated interest, and, while holding ourselves indebted to Miss Muloch as the writer of numerous superior novels, we must compliment Messrs. Chapman and Hall on their judgment and taste in repudiating the dan gerous laxity and unwholesome trash too often met with in " cheap publications." Bigg on Deformities. A very remarkable work has appeared lately on the cure of deformities, which appears likely to be of the most signal service to suffering humanity. It is most cleverly written and illustrated by Mr. Henry Heather Bigg, anatomical mechanist to her Majesty the Queen, and although the subject E eems only suited to engage the attention of the medical professor, there is so much intellectual matter con densed in a small compass, and the work so new, interesting, and original, that it may be read by all with pleasure, particularly the fair sex, as amongst other themes it treats on the cure of bunions, that painful and terrible enemy to a pretty foot : in fact, if the knowledge it contains be appreciated in the way it deserves, and acted upon accordingly, Mr. Bigg may congratulate himself on having con ferred an everlasting benefit on mankind, as the congenital deformity of the infant can now be safely cured without detriment to its health. Her Ma jesty seems firmly convinced of the excellence of Mr. Bigg's mechanical powers, as she benevolently caused him to supply to some of the sufferers at the Crimea a substitute for those limbs which they had lost in the defence of their country. Con trivances which have enabled them to lift weights, write, and even wield the sword, so that many a handless hero may now re turn if necessary to the army. This is merely the first part of the author's very scientific work, and includes only the lower limbs. The next publica tion will treat of toe upper part of tho body, and the cure of curvature of the spine, for which Mr. Bigg is well known, as he has effected many won derful cures. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND SIR COLIN CAMPBELL. The Duke of Cambridge, in proposing the toast of "The Army and Navy," at the tenth anniversary festival of the City of London Hospital, held yes terday at the London Tavern, said that not having recently had any public opportuaity of addressing any large number of his fellow -countrymen, he wished to avail himself of the present occasion to allude to some events of great importance which had lately taken place—he referred to those sta. pendous operations in the East—in which his moat intimate and gallant friend Sir Colin Campbell had proved himself worthy of the illustrious name which he had previously earned in many a bard-fought campaign. He had read with the greatest astonish ment and concern statements to the effect that he (the Duke of Cambridge) was not ready and willing to assist that gallant, officer in anything that he might please to propose. (Hear, hear.) Now, if there was one man in the British arm,' for whom he entertained the warmest and sincerest friendship, attachment, and respect, that man was his gallant friend Sir Colin Campbell. (Cheers.) All he could say was, that never a post went from th's country to India or came to it from India that did not convey a letter from himself or from Sir Colin Campbell which any gentleman in that room might not write on any subject to another. That was the mode in which he considered officers ought to be treated by their Commander-in-Chief. That was the manner iu which he had treated Sir Colin Campbell, and in which he would treat everyofficer who deserved the respect of the Government and the country. (Hear.) It was a subject of astonish ment to him that there could be any suspicion or any idea even, that anything but feelings of the greatest cordiality and attachment existed between Sir Colin Campbell and himself. (Cheers.) After these observations he need scarcely say that he placed the most implicit confidence in the gallantry, energy, and discretion of the Commander-in-Chief in India, and that he would carry out safely and satisfactorily the great military operations in which he was now engaged. TEXAS AND ITS FUTURE'. There is no state in the New World likely to occupy a greater or prouder position than that of Texas. The beauty of its climate, vast richness of its soil, and the great streams by which it is hater sected, as a cotton growing settlement will one day leave it without a rival. But the feature which is likely to create the greatest moral, social, and political revolution in this infant state is the} Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railway, both on account of th e t ra ffi c resources of the l i ne, g be ra ra n i t i s , of thela n d Government w which, s well in spirit irito as the immense fwisdomaudli ty, a of Texas have bestow e d upon the company. This grant is at the rate of 10,249 acres of land for every mile of railway completed—the land to be selected by the company. The obligations are issued in a form which has rendered them accept able on the principal Continental markets, and a portion are now offered for subscription in Eng land. Each obligation is of the value of 20(., " To ' bearer." Interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum is payable half-yearly, on Ist January and. Ist July, on presentation of the coupons at the company's bankers iu London, Paris, Frankfort, or Hamburg. The obligations will be paid off with • premium of 21. each, by annual drawings ;spread over a period of nine years. The first drawing is to take place on Ist March, 1860. Subscribers to the obligations receive one free share of the nominal value of 81. with each obligation. The ultimate real value of these shares will depend on the amount realised by the sales of surplus land after full repayment of the obligations. The rapid advance which the state of Texas is making in wealth and prosperity is well known ; but the prospects of the Galveston Railroad will be best understood from a perusual of the able report presented by Mr. Vasbenter to his employers, the Earopean Committee of Management. It appease from Mr. Vasbettter's statement that the that section of twenty-five miles is opened, and that the company have entered into possession of 256,000 acres of land on the banks of the Red River, in the best watered and most fertile part of Texas. A further section of 15 miles will be opened for traffic in the month of May next. This will form junction with the Buffalo and Colerado Railroad, and bring the line into the vicinity of the town of Houston and of the Houston and Central Texas Railroad. Nearly 100 miles of existing railway traffic will at once be brought upon the Galveston line, which is ti.e outlet to the port of Galveston of the whole traffic of the interior. The communica tion between Galveston and Houston is kept up by th 3 river San Jacinto, which is not navigable at all times, and yet the steampacket companies between these two towns realise profits of from 4U to 60 per cent. per annum. The distance by river is 85 miles, by the railroad it will be 50 miles. In 1856 Galveston exported 90,000 bales of cotton; and, according to the Customs registers, the total amount of exports rose to $4,949,222, the imports amount to about $15,000,000. The principal production of cotton occurs in the country to be traversed by the Galveston Railroad. Towns are built at every ten miles, some of which contain several thousand inhabitants, coal, iron, and timber being abundant. The great Pacific Railway, which is,intended to unite New York with San Francisco, will intersect the Galverstoa line. Within the last ten years the population of Texas, according to the report of the Comptroller- General, has increased 400 per cent. ; according to the same authority, the annual average increase of the value of land is 21 per cent. The soil of Texas is the most fertile, and its climate the most salu brious of all the States of the Union. The cotton of Texas is the most esteemed, and the land yields from one and a half to two bales of cotton per acre. With a tillage of six inches deep, one acre yields from fifty to sixty bushels of wheat, of an average weight of seventy pounds per bushel. 60,000 head of csttle leave the interior for the market of Nett/Orleans every year, and the proximity of the port of Galveston to the markets of the West Incites ensures a high price for all the produce of Texas. Thus, whilst the capitalist, upon the above data, . has to deal with property which that great econo 00L mist, Mr. Vasbenter, calculates at 6,000 ,0 a the philanthropist who wishes to deal a It WU en moral blow against slavery ha s an ample fi e ld open to him. We k no w of no design which exhibi ts many tempting characteristics as the Galveston. Houston, an d H e nderson Railway. KING GEORGE'S SOUND.—Letters from King George's Sound, received by the last Australian mail, state tbatss gold field is understood to have been found at that set tlement. The discovery was made by a convict and ano th er man, by whom several specimens had been brought in, and a party had been formed to proceed to the spot.