The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

THEATRE ROY Al', HAYMARKET. Lessee--Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Con stanoe, 3liss A. Sedgwick ; Widow Green, Mrs. Wilkins. After which, JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Followed by PRESENTED AT COURT. Misses Swan -IPorongh, Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Buckstone. To col:wind. with THE GALIC[AN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charg e for booking.) First Price. 0. d. Second price. s. d Press Boxes 5 0 Dress Bo xes 3 0 Upper Boxes . 3 ORTpper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 °IPA 1 0 G a ll er y ______ ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented the historical play of LOUIS XL Louis, Ring of France, Mr. Charles Kean. After which, the new grand eomie Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Manche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Col . - a.; Clown, Mr. Holine ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Celurnbine, Miss C. Adams. THEA.TRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee--Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE , Yr. Barney Williams. After which, AN HOUR IN SEVILLE. To conclude with IRISH TUTOR. Commence at even. CANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster -road.-- OPEN EVERY EVENING. --The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S)lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dic., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Macllle. Marietta, Kiss B r unell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. L Renshaw, S. ,lonen, J. B ar ker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. . Rime, Mr. 'lladgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchaeld, G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Piano-forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams , Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, ifte., until twelve o'clock. Vs. BRAHAM will appear every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ritS DAT—Morn., 53 min. aft. B—Even., 46 min. aft. 9 TO-11011BOW —Morn. 36 min. aft. 10—Even. 23 min. aft. 11 THE WEATHER—SUN OPTION, liAnua 24. THIZIONETER, IN THE SELIDE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and daring the night, 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.23. WIND, Westerly ; moderate, with very fine weather. c.-§IAIIII, tir # l 3 2 • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, 11A.RCII 24, 1858. Mr. MONOKTON MILNES last night clearly and ably exposed the thorough absurdity of the pass port system, and he was well supported. The unanimous opinion of the . House of Commons was clearly displayed in favour of the sound views formerly entertained by Louis NA.rotzoN before he became Emperor, or even President of France. Several cases were cited to show the annoyances sustained by even wealthy travellers. Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR was ,conveyed to a Belgian Prison when going to visit the Sovereign on his express invitation ; and even Lord PALMERSTON was himself a victim. It is not, however, diplo matists or Members of Parliament, or any of the select "upper crust" that are the sufferers. To them the expense is a mere bagatelle, and, to use a " Hibernicism," having nothing to do, they " can do it" just as well in England as in France. It is the men of business, whose interests may be seriously compromised by the delay of a single hour, or those who may be deprived of the opportunity of receiving the last wishes of a dying friend or relative, that are most to be pitied. A. family may bo reduced to penury—% father may be pre vented from soothing the anguish of his child—a wife of her husband—or a sister of her brother's, during the fleeting hours that precede— " The first dark day of nothingness ; The last of danger and distress." May be prevented from attending the loved one to the tomb, or once more beholding the well known features previously to their consignment to the last resting-place. These are the cases that merit sympathy, and which should ensure redress I Many will remember the profound sensation occasioned by the fact of a lady holding the highest rank in the peerage having been pre vented from seeing her father in consequence of the stringent regulations of a puritanical board of directors against Sunday travelling. Similar cases have occurred since the new passport regulations. Not, indeed, with reference to persons of exalted rank, but to those who perhaps felt as deeply, and whose afflictions were enhanced by the vexa tious impediment to their progress. Ministers are prepared to do all in their power to effect a salutary modification in these rules, and, we trust, eventually the abolition of the entire system. Officials are to be stationed at different ports, with authority to grant the requi site documents ; and from what fell from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, we may assume that the paltry tax on intending travellers will be repealed. They will do everything to meet the wishes of the community, not only by more effi cient regulations for the obtaining of passports, but also by such temperate and reasonable argu ments as may produce a change in France. The most efficient remonstrances will, however, be offered by French hotel and shop keepers, who, even within the brief period that has elapsed since the introduction of the new code, have suffered severely in pocket. Mr. Muszs pointed out that on the single line be- Aween Dover and Calais there were no fewer than 1,16/ less passengers within the last six weeks iliac during the corresponding period of last year. What, then, will be the saving of English money and consequent loss to French hotels ? That is a question that may enlighten the authorities, and induce them to regard the subject in a very diffe rent point of view. The annoyance to English travellers may be, and is, a matter of profound indifference to those who profess themselves our very affectionate friends and allies ; but when their own pockets are touched, then, indeed, c'est sutra chose, and it will be thought that the police perquisites and power of tormenting innocent travellers are purchased at too high a price. Magistrates and bankers are already tormented enough on the subject, and they may i n cur serious responsibility. It would be well if they unanimously repudiated the enormous addition to gratuitous labours. An unanimous resolu t" t `: "cfwie certificates as recommendations, save in eae t e of the utmost emergency, accom panied by an eeteal atria determination on the part of mere pleasure-zeeke,e to %pond. their holi days at home, woula speedily tirc , duec, a d equate ronaedies• If a ny proof was wanting of the total inefa c a., a of the quasi p rotection, it would he found in ti; fact that ansINT, when departing on his mission of death, went under cover That n eery old document given to a Brit ish subject. v _.might have occas ioned the exotraordinary blindness of the police ; but f or it, me stringent precau tions would have been taken, and the homicides in the Rue Lepelletier might have been averted. The recent regulations, usele ss as they are, can only be regarded as a mode of annoying the People of England, and putting on the screw in order to induce them to refuse the right of sane. tuary to political refugeesa favour of which the French EILPEROR shared largely himself in the olden time, Measures, not men--1B no longer the cry of a minority ; it is now-a-days the actuating senti ment of a very considerable majority both within and without the walls of Parliament. Non q" sed quarnodo. We have co me all of us to recognise at last the reasonablene ss of the old impartial principle. It is no longer a matter of consi deration to us who gives it, but what it is we get—how much of reform, how large a modicum of amelioratio n, how considerable Th e re is obvi a share of improve ment. ously no dereliction of duty w hatever in this su b o rdination of men to me asures. It is only the more rational development of the old obsolete party spirit. Tories herded after Mr. PITT — Whigs herded after Mr. Fox—because of the views with which each was identified, because of the particular notions he advocated, because of the peculiar policy of which he was the representa tive. It is the same in a wider sense with the millions of the present generation. The only dif ference being that the lines of demarcation be tween party and party have long since been broken down--Whigs turning into Libe rals, Tories merging into Conservatives, Conservatives into Conservative-Liberals, Libe rals into Liberal-Conservatives. So that at length in the general confusion of parties we are really and truly, everyone of us—and this not secretly, but avowedly—advocates of rational and progressive reforms of every description, and in every department. It is idle to talk any longer of retrogrades—retrogression being, happily, by this time, simply impossible. -The advance move ment has received such a momentum of late years, that it can no longer be repelled, or even for any length of time retarded. We are all speeding onwards together with a force that, humanly speaking, is irresistible. Our political chiefs know this, they feel this, and they one and all of them act accordingly. Here is the hope of the community. The leaders of Party (such as it is now-a-days) are perfectly well aware that it is idle to dream of impeding the course of modern civilisation. Where, we should like to know, either in Lords or Commons, is there anywhere an avowed anti- Reformer ? We might as well go in search of a dodo or an unicorn. The race is simply midis coverable. It is as absolutely extinct as that of the pterodactyl, or as that of the megatherium. The sole diversity left among the politicians of to-day, is as to the amount of proposed reforms, as to the extent of the required changes, as to the scope of the projected improvements. The abstract necessity is of itself universally admitted. There fore it is that almost every one has long since come to look not to men but to measures. EAST An unfortunate girl, EMMA GROOM, is now languishing under sentence of death at Bury St. Edmunds. She had, in an evil hour, yielded to some scoundrel, and the result was a child, " fatherless" in the eye of the law. The poor mother, however, appeared devotedly attached to her boy, and applied a large portion—two shil lings per week—of her scanty earnings to his support. It was described as a remarkably fine child, that "attracted love on all sides ;" was petted by EMMA GILOOIeg mistress, who sent a bowl of milk daily from her farm for his use ; while Mrs. LAY, who had care of him, conceived so warm an affection for her nurseling, that she was induced to continue the arrangement to her own loss and inconvenience rather than part with him. --- - There was no concealment of the circumstances. The error of the unhappy young woman was notorious : she had been betrayed, and was enduring the penalty. She had eves stipulated on entering service, that she should be allowed to visit it every Sunday, and had regularly devoted all her leisure hours to it, manifesting the utmost fondness and maternal love for the baby boy. There was, therefore, no urgent motive for its destruction. Her character did not depend on its removal, nor was it for a moment alleged that she was " keeping company" with or courting any person who might be deterred by the respon sibility. "Under such circumstances, every pre sumption was in favour of the prisoner, and the in culpatory evidence should have been of the clearest and most convincing character to warrant a con- viction. But what were the facts; 7 She took the child from its nurse avowedly with the intention of visiting her family, who were well aware of its existence, and declaring that she would bring it back on the following Monday. It was therefore manifest that she would have to render a strin gent account to the nurse, who was so much attached to it, as well as to her mistress and many others, of the cause of its disappearance. At eight o'clock in the evening she left the station, taking the child with her, without the slightest attempt at concealment. When she arrived at her mother's house at ten o'clock the child was gone, and she appeared "faint and, sadly." She said nothing about him, but he was found in a pond which his mother must have passed on her way from the railway station. 1U E. A_TE MEETING THIS DAY. The quarterly general court of proprietors of East India Stock was held this day at the India House, Leadenhall , str eet. B. D. Mangles, Elq., occupied the chair. TEANKS TO SIR J. MELTILL. Mr. HELPS, in a highly eulogistic speech, moved a vote of thanks to the late Secretary of the Company, Sir J. Melva', who had occupied that situation with honour for upwards of half a century. Mr. LEWIN had very great pleasure in seconding the motion. The vote was agreed to unanimously. THE EAST INDIA GOMPANY BILL. Captain SHEA asked the Chairman whether he could give the proprietors any information relative to the bill about to be brought into Parliament for placing India directly under the government of the Crown ? The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative. THE ALLEGED MUTILATIONS. An Hon. PROPRIETOR drew the attention of the directors to the report which had appeared in the public papers with respect to several cases of mutilation having taken place in India, and asked the directors whether they had received any information on the snbjce? The CHAIRMAN said the subject had not escaped attention, but, on the contrary, a very searching in quiry had been instituted, the result of which was that in all the instances, with one exeeption, nothing of the sort bad, it was believed, taken place. With respect to the exceptional case, a most rigid inves ti ga tion would be instituted. (Hear, hear.) THE RESTITUTION OF OUDE. 3lr. JONES then rose to move the resolution of which he had given notice, viz. :—" That it is our duty to restore the kingdom of Oude to the Sing, or some re presentative of his family." The hon. proprietor was proceeding with his speech, when Major G. LEWIS moved that the court be counted. The CHAIRMAN then directed all proprietors holding less than 1,0001. stuck to withdraw. The members present were then counted, and there being only 16—not a sufficient number to legally con stitute a court—the proceedings were brought to a son elusion. INDIA, The following telegram was received at the India House this morning, at one o'clock. It will be observed that it is dated at Calcutta prior to the last received from Bombay. The intelligence is not, therefore, fresh, but it contains a few parti culars which have not hitherto been published. It was probably sent from Calcutta by the wrecked steamer Ava (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) From H. Beadon, Esq., Secretary to the Govern. ment of India, to the Hon. the Secret Committee, CALCUTTA, FEB. 22. The Governor-General assumed the governmen of the North-Western Provinces on the 9th inst., and Mr. Grant has returned to the Presidency and resumed his seat in Council. The Commander-in -Chief is still at Cawnpore with his force, consisting of 15 regiments European Infantry, three regiments Native Infantry, three regiments European Cavalry, three regiments and detachments of two other regiments of Native Cavalry, with 80 heavy guns and mortars, and 63 field-pieces, has crossed the river, and is in pro gress to Lucknow. It is expected that the attack will commence about the 27th inst., when Maharajah Jung Baha door's and General Franks' forces, consisting of 12,000 men, will also have arrived. General Franks expected to attack the rebels at Chanda on the 20th, and to be at Sultanpore on the 22d. The Maharajah was to cross the Gogra at Phool poreon the greatest 18th. cordiality exists between Jung Ba• grest The hadoor and the officer with his camp. The road from Mirzapore to Bombay, by Jub bulpore and Saghore, and the road from Agra to Bombay, via ludore, are opened. Brigadier Walpole commands a force for the de fence of the Doab from Futtyghur downwards. The rebels are strong and active on the Oude side of the Ganges from opposite b'uttyghur to Cawn- pore. A regular chain of communication is kept up be tween Bareilly and Lucknow. The rebels in the Etawah district have been de feated by the police and zemindaree levies with the loss of 125 men and all their guns. On the 10th instant, Colonel I\l‘Causland, com manding the Ghoorkas Regiment at Nynee-Tall, defeated the rebels, about 4,000 strong, at Buheree, iu the Bareilly district, with a loss of 250 men and four guns. Lieutenant Osborne has taken the forts of Kun warsa and Tyeragoogurh, capturing 17 guns. The forts have been dismantled. All well in the Punjaub, Saugor, Hyderabad, and Southern India. The fort of Rotas has been occupied by Colonel Mitchell. EWSRohilcund mutineers, 4 , 000 s t ron g , near Morada • bad, on the 10th of February. The enemy fled across the river. Ten Europeans were killed. " General Inglis defeated the Gwalior muti neers near Calpee on the 4th of February. " Jung Bahadoor, waiting for boats, had not crossed the Gogra on the 19th of February. " Hope Grant's column in Oude had cleared the left bank of the Ganges and destroyed the strong hold of the enemy, who fled northward. " The Agra convoy of women ate close to our camp—all well. " Fresh attack on the Alumbagh on the 21st, supported by Outram." The Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says : " A report was circulated to-day in Paris, and particularly at the Bourse, that the French navy was showing an amount of activity which created some anxiety. I believe there is no reason for alarm. It certainly is true that, an additional sum of money having been voted for turning more sailing vessels into screw steamers, one or two of the ports are looking animated. It is the season too when relief squadrons are preparing to put to sea, and when under any circumstances ships are manned. In conjunction with this report a telegraphic despatch (says the Presse) has been transmitted to the maritime ar rondissements and sub-arrondissements, ordering a levy of men from 20 to 40 years of age, who have not served four years. But there is nothing extraordinary, I learn, in these orders, and cer tainly nothing that can be construed into " war die preparations." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, is appointed Ambassador to London, in the place of Count Per signy, whose resignation is accept ed. The .MoniteUr publishes an Imperial decree re organising the Council of Admiralty. The! official journal reports that his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon is now con valescent. A telegraphic despatch has been sent to the maritime arrondissements and sub-arrondissements ordering all sailors from twenty to forty years of age, who have not completed their four years of service to join their ships immediately. The opening of the section of the Paris and Lyons railway destined to connect Seyssel with Geneva, is detailed at great length by the Paris papers. The principal speakers were General Dufour, for France, and M. J. Fazy and M. Bartholoney, for Switzerland. The transportation of "suspects" and " expect ants," wrested under the powers of the Public Safety Bill, is beginning. Two transport vessels left Marseilles for Africa last week—one with 39, and the other 14 proscribe) individuals on board. In the first batch was a professor named Goude, neche, for whom George Sand and the Emperor's old nurse solicited pardon in vain. The following telegraphic despatches have been received here : " HAMBURG, March 22.—Baron Manderstrom, ex-minister of Sweden at the court of France, has been nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs at Stockholm. Until he arrives, M. Gyldenstolpe, Minister of War, will act ad interim for the baron." " BERNE, March 23.—1 t is announced that in the last audience accorded b . * the Emperor of the French to M. Kern, his Majesty seemed disposed, to examine anew the question relative to passports. The Government has made an objection to the establishment of the new consulates, but has not yet adopted a definitive resolution respecting them." BOURSE, March 23.—The following were the closing quotations 4 per Cents 9l Credit Foncier ......... 59 Do. end month — Belgian 4,-1 3 per Cent. ..... 69 15 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month 69 80 Roman Bank Shares ...... 3125 Austrian Credit Mobilier 800 Spanish Threes ...... Do. Account 797 50 Home Debt RAILS' Orleans Northern New Ditto 795 Lyon and Mediteran 835 New Ditto 795 Geneva 'AYS. Midi Western Strasburg 552:2 662 690 640 460 737; OPENING OF ST. JAMES'S BALL AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 19th in the Cologne Gazette says : " Two days back Sir Hamilton Seymour deli vered to Count de ' Buol a note from the English Cabinet, in which Lord Malmesbury officially notified to the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs its entrance into office, and requested in the most cordial manner for himself and his colleagues the continuation of the same fiiendly relations between Austia and England as had existed under the pre vious administration. It is said that this note also state 3 that under existing circumstances a complete accord between England, Austria, and Prussia on all questions would be most desirable, and that the new Cabinet was desirous of establishing such an agreement. This news caused great satisfaction to Count de Buol, who on the following day commu nicated the note to the Emperor, who also received it with peat pleasure." Another letter from Vienna, in the Zeit of Berlin, says :—" The Emperor leas addressed an autographic letter to the Minister of Finance, iu which he requests a report to be immediately pre sented of the new sources of taxation which may exist ; he, at the same time, desires that no fresh taxes may be levied of a nature to irritate the people, and that the amount on each taxpayer may not be increased in any sensible degree." The noble Music-hall which is to be opened to morrow evening for the first time, is to be inaugu rated with a concert in aid of the funds of the Middlesex Hospital. Probably few persons are aware of the necessity which has urged the com mittee of that important charity to resort to this exceptional mode of recruiting their pecuniary resources. The Middlesex Hospital was instituted in 1745, and enlarged iu 1848, to meet the pressing wants of the sick poor. Situated in one of the poorest districts of the metropolis, those who seek relief are the most deserving objects of charity, and their number is constantly increasing. The annual expenditure exceeds 11,0001., whilst the income is now under 7,000/. In consequence of the gradual migra.tion'of the richer inhabitants of the neigh bourhood to new parts of the town, the number of annual subscribers has lamentably diminished of late years. To meet this serious deficiency the governors, within the last three years, have sold out large portions of the capi , al stock, and no longer ago than the 28th of May of last year, they were obliged to effect the sale of a further sum of 4,806/. The hospital contains 310 beds for in-patients; but, unless the funds can be permanently increased, a third part of this old institution must be shut up. The cancer wards, one of the distinguishing features of the hospital, and containing 33 beds, are always full. It is hoped that the concert of to morrow wi' not only bring an immediate and temporary acces sion to the fonds of the hospital, but that the attention of the kind-hearted, once drawn to the claims of this ancient and beneficent institution, the number of its permanent subscribers may be considerably increased. loaded as it gers the dev native servants o Company. (BY ONE OF THE PASSENGERS.) The steamer Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the morning of the 10th of February. On board of her were Lady Inglis, the wife of the General late commanding at Lucknow, and her three children ; General Michell, bound for Bombay ; Colonel Greathed, the hero of the Delhi flying column ; Captain James, the saviour of the Lucknow gar rison ; and many other ladies and gentlemen lately besieged there ; altogether the passengers num bered upwards of 60. After the Ave left Calcutta it transpired that she was engaged on the part of Government to take up treasure at Madras and convey it to Trincomalee, thus making a deviation from her course. She arrived at Madras at 4 p.m. of the 14th J anuary, took in some more passen gers—chiefly ladies and children—and the treasure, and left for Trincomalee at the same hour on the 15th. At 10 a.m. on the 16th the ship was running about 11 knots and a half in the hour, and the captain calculated that he was about 79 miles from his destination. At about 4 p.m. the rocky coast of Ceylon was discerned ou the starboard bow. Without changing her course the vessel gradually approached nearer, as the coast bulged out consi derably at this point. A little after 5 o'clock the captain iinagined he must be nearing the port, and accordingly altered the course a point towards the I shore. A light was there viql.l. e and it appeared as if there were a settlement of some kind on the coast. Half an hour had not elapsed after this had been done before a large rock was visible, immediately in the course of the ship. The ladies at this time were sitting on deck, perfectly unconscious of dan ger ; the gentlemen walking up and down, or smoking on the forecastle. They were suddenly roused from their occupations by cries, immediately following one another, of "Hard starboard," " Stop her." The words were scarcely out of the Captain's mouth before the ship struck hard and fast on a rock. The passengers were all aware that something serious had happened—they did not know what ; they, however, acted, for the most part, in the most exemplary manner under the excumstances—they remained perfectly quiet. One or two gentlemen; who happened to be forward at the time, noticed the water rushing in furiously in that part of the vessel, and at the same time the crew were observed quietly lowering the beats. All this was ominous enough, and it was, almost at the same time, rendered more so by the Captain quietly passing an order for all the ladies to con gregate on the deck. These arrangements were completed without the slightest disorder or confu sion, and the six boats belonging to the steamer were lowered without a single accident. Into these, the ladies first, the gentlemen afterwards, many of tkem scarcely conscious of their danger, were hurried, and in fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck, all the passengers had been safely placed in the boats. The orders issued to the several boats' commanders were to keep near the ship all night. Fortunately, the night was not dark, the breeze was moderate, and there was no sea on. Between the ship which they had just left and the shore was about a mile of water, studded with breakers, and it was absolutely ne cessary to obey the captain's orders most strictly, and to keep near the ship. Our situation can be imagined. Upwards of 70 passengers (some having been taken in at Madras), besides stewards, ship's officers, Chinamen, and children, were crowded into six boats at 7 o'clock in the evening to cruise in a space about one hundred yards square for nearly 11 hours ; to be careful to approach neither too near to the ship on one side, nor to the breakers on the other. The sea was sufficiently rough to cause the most unpleasant sensations amongst many the passengers, and sea-sickness raged in all its horrors. All this time signals were being made from the ship ; guns were fired, rockets discharged, and blue-lights burned, all without the slightest effect ; for, although a light was visible on the nearest coast, it proceeded only from fishermen, and these made not the slightest effort to come to our assistance. The Captain (Kirton), assisted by some of his officers and the Lascars, remained on board ; their presence there was attested about 11. p.m. by the fall with a tre mendous crash, of the fore and main masts with out, however, injuring any one. All this time the fore part of the vessel appeared sinking, whilst the stern was high above the water. This was visible to the passengers from the boats, as they sat waiting for the dawn which was to disclose to them more fully their own position. At last the day broke, and the wind gradually increasing made the waves rise higher. The prospect was by no means cheering. Between the boats and the coast were breakers in abundance — many visible, others just showing their heads above 1 the horizon. Trincomalee itself was about twelve miles distant. It was therefore resolved that the boats With. Miles in Inem bhuuld make tor Trinco malee, making a large offiing to avoid the rocks, whilst the others should attempt the coast. This course was adopted ; three boats with ladies and their husbands put out to sea. One of these, the cutter, arrived at Trincomalee about noon, and gave the first intelligence of the disaster; the other two, being slower sailers, heavy boats, and with a tired crew, were picked up by a native cutter bound for Trincomalee, where they arrived about 3 p.m. The, ether boats managed, after one or two at tempts, to reach the land. The residents sent on cortueyances to meet them on the first intimation of the disaster, and all arrived safely before the evening. It would be impossible to convey an adequate sense of the kindness and hospitality of the resi dents of Trincomalee, and of the measures taken by them to make the disaster light to the sufferers. It is a little place with from 20 to 30 European residents. On these were suddenly thrown the task of entertainieg some 70 unfortunates, possessing only the clothes on their backs. And yet they did it —in such a manner, too, as to impart a reai pleasure to those who availed themselves of a hospitality evidently so genuine. Mr. Morris, the Government agent, Col. Weir and the officers of the 50th, and Mr. Cooper, -took the lead in this, as well as in those other measures necessary for affording shelter to the officers compelled to remain near the ship, and protection to the baggage which might be washed on shore. Everything that could be thought of was done, and in the welcome which they received the passengers forgot alike their misfor tunes and their losses. These losses were of no ordinary nature. Many of the passengers belonged to the Lucknow garri son. They had arrived in Calcutta unpossessed of anything in the world. They had been fitted out by the Relief Fund in Calcutta, and the resource thus obtained was gone. But there was perhaps even a greater loss. Many of them have kept journals of the siege : most of these had gone the way of the rest of t he baggage ; only one, so far as I have heard, wa s disco iere. A few boxes were subsequently washed on shore, but their contents were entirely spoiled by the salt water, and for the week that the passengers semamed at Trincomalee they were dependent for a change of linen entirely on their kind hosts. The account of the accident was despatched with the utmost promptitude by the Government Agent, Mr. Morris, to Galls. It fortunately happened that the Granada had arrived at that pot t two days pre viously, en route for the Isle of France. The Lee s reached her at 5 p.m. on the evening of the 19th. ,She was then partially laden ,with coffee. How ever, at 7 p.m. her cargo was unladen, and she was steaming for Tiincomalee. She arrived there on the morning of the 21st; left the same evening, and then started on her return to Gallo. Gaffe was reached on the morning of the 23d. The shipwrecked passengers were there able to procure clothes of some sort, and the ladies again expe rienced the kindness which seems to have taken root and to be indigenous i n the island, having shown itself not only at T r i nc omalee and Gallo, but at Colombo also , by the despatch thence of necessaries for ladies' use. These acts can never be forgotten by those ones hose behalf, strangers as they were, they were ppetrated. The Ava we visited on the 21st ; she was then just below wate r ; her back had broken on the evening of the 17th, and since then she had gradu ally sunk down. Whatever might have been the conduct of the Captain in running the ship on the rocks, it must be admitted that subsequently to the accident no man ceuld have exerted himself with greater energy or daring. The Captain and the Admiralty Agent remained on Mud to the very last moment ; the latter in the hope, perhaps, of saving his mails, but they were submerged almost immediately after the first strike. Conspicuous also was the conduct of Lieut. James, of Lucknow renown, who was on board when the vessel made her firs, tremendous crack in the centre ; and for a minute or two he was actually alone on board—the others having pushed off without him. By Capt. Haswell, R.N., and by the various officers in charge of the boats, the greatest coolness and self-posses sion were shown. It is to the display of these qualities, indeed, that it was owin g that not a single life was lost, although nearly half the passen gers consisted of women and children. It is unfortunately necessary to add one testi mony of an opposite nature. The vessel had no sooner struck than the Lascars and others of the native crew rushed down to the cabins and com menced rifling them. On the following morning, when some gentlemen returned to the ship, they found the boxes in the still-accessible cabins broken open and their contents scattered. Every valuable had been abstracted. These had been necessarily left on board, the boats having been sufficiently 'eninsu. Af the passen- Aitted'by the ar and Oriental PROSECUTION FOR A LIBEL ON THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. Yesterday afternoon a Polish refugee, named Stanislas Tchorzewski, keeping a bookseller's shop at 39, Rupert - street, Haymarket, was brought be fore Mr. Jardine at the Bow-street Police-court, upon a warrant executed by Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, charging him with having, on the Ist of March inst., unlawfully printed and pub lished a certain false, scandalous, malicious, sedi tious, and defamatory libel, concerning his Ma jesty the Emperor of the French, with intent to incite divers persons to assassinate his said Ma jesty. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown, and Mr. Leverson, an attorney, attended for the defendant. The alleged libel is a small pamphlet in French, bearing the signatures of " Le Comae de la Com mune Revolutionnaire, Felix Pyat, Beeson, and A. Tallandier," and to which the attention of the Home Secretary was called in the Sun of the Ist inst. Mr. Bodkin said—These proceedings are taken by the direction of her Majesty's Attorney-General against the prisoner at the bar, who has been ap prehended on the charge of publishing and selling the pamphlet which I hold in my hand. It is written in the French language, and like another which has been also the subject of a late prosecu tion, it teaches, enforces, and justifies the crime of assassination. The prisoner, although a foreigner, resides in England, and enjoys the protection of our English laws ; and it is not to be tolerated that a person in such a situation should break and defy those laws with impunity. I shall prove that the publication in question was purchased at the prisoner's house, with five or six other copies, the same having been advertised as on sale at his place of business. I shall have several passages of the book translated, and when your worship has seen e what the character of the publication really is, I doubt not you will feel it your duty to hold the priaoner to bail on the present charge. jonathanWhicher deposed thathe was an inspector of the Loudon detective police. On the Ist of the present month he went to a small book-shop in Rupert-street, called the " Librairie Polonaise." There was a boy there, and the prisoner came in afterwards. Witness asked prisoner if he was the proprietor of the shop, and he replied " Yes." flaw several copies of the work now produced lying about on the counter, and asked the price of them. The prisoner said the large ones were 3d., and the others 2d. each. Witness then purchased three of each size, and paid him ls. 3d. for them. He re quested a memorandum, as they were not for him self, upon which prisoner wrote as follows on a strip of papers—" 39, Rupert-street. Lettre an Parlement et b, la Presse ; six copies." The memorandum and pamphlet were both pro duced, and Sergeant Rogers, an officer of the C division of police, translated the passages upon which the prosecution was founded. They were to the following effect : " Has Bonaparte attempted at the Court, as at the Assembly, as at the law, as at the people! forced every resistance andevery right, assassinated citizens and representatives, arrested, exiled, trans ported, executed the defenders of the Constitution, and compelled the remainder to vote with the bayonet at their ribs ? Is all this a fable, a story, or a dream ? Have we dreamt it, invented it, ima gined it for the requirements of our opinions, or of our passions, as mentioned in the Walewski note I , Is it a real, recent, patent, public, historical, and judicial fact ?--undeniable by the author himself, who boasts of it—crying aloud and bleeding in the memory of all, demanding vengeance from God and man, deserving chastisement from below as from above—from every body and every arm, unpunished because triumphant ? . . . At the ordinary assizes the garter would rise to his neck (serve to hang him). This Emperor is an assassin. Then the question is, if an assassin, who is also an Em peror, may be killed ? A great question we know, ever ridiculous, pregnant. with `yes' and ' no' ac cording to place and time, an old question, having all its beard and teeth (arrived at maturity) like the Supreme being—an especially idle question, which arose with the first tyrant, and can only be solved with the last. Constitutional kings are reported inviolable, they having responsible minister* : yet they sometimes pay with their persons ; but are tyrants also inviolable ? There are some of the worst species in the oldest and most odious accep tation of the word—such an one, for example, who would have fallen under the guillotine had he not by the force of murder risen above it—had he been less criminal, less assassin. Let us suppose that a King of England—this has been seen—weary of his , council, of his Parliament, of his press—of all the rights acquired without contest in our time—took it into his head on a flue December night also to make a coup d'etat, to outrage all public liberties, to stifle them all in the blood of the people, to be what is called a perfeet Emperor. What would the English people do if they could ? What they have already done. We will no longer discuss the right of regicide. In the country of Charles I. it is superfluous. . . . . Are not ten thousand muskets and a hundred cannons worth four bombs I They are of the same value with him. It is he, always he, who presides at the executions from which Rome never ceases to bleed. It is he, and he alone, the chief and author of invasion and occupa tion, of civil and religious despotism ; the enemy, we say, the confirmed enemy, forewarned by his own act—the principal and mortal enemy—the enemy armed and encameed in the bosom of the country. Has not every citizen the right and the duty to serve his country—to strike the enemy wherever he may be—say ? And yet the Italian patriots did not attack him in London, where he tame as if to insult by his presence all the pro scr;beGi. They respected the neutral and free coun try. They would not stain the hospitable soil with such blood. They made the attempt on Bonaparte in his own country, on his own ground, in his camp, amongst and in spite of his soldiers and his police, as if better to prove to him this mathema tical truth, this word of Gospel spoke by the very Lamb of resignation, ' Who lives by the swordshall perish by the sword.' The Ital;.ans, then, are not assassins, they are combatants. They have rendered tooth for tooth, grenade for grenade. They are pri soners whose throats the savages are to cut. They are vanquished—they will not be punished. The enemy may kill but cannot judge them. All the poison of Chaix d'Est Ange can never tarnish them. They may die, but cannot be disgraced. Punish ment for them, disgrace for others. They die for their country. As for us, unfortunately, we have no pretension to the merit of their work. We have not the honour to participate in their enterprise. Utit the cock would crow thrice if a French voice did not salute them before the judgment-seat. Friends, unknown, but , not misunderstood, we salute you I You shall be avenged. If our means differ, our cause is the same." Mr. Bodkin, observing that the passages just quoted sufficed for the present, now asked that the prisoner might be committed for trial. A full tran slation of the pamphlet would be produced at the trial. Mr. Leverson applied for a remand to Saturday, to enable him to prepare his client's defence. He should oppose the committal on legal grounds, apart from which he regarded the proceeding as an atrocious encroachment upon the liberty of the press. And. why was his client arrested on a warrant ? He suspected and dreaded the facility with which warrants were now granted in these cases, while every obstacle was raised when they were sought to bring ordinary criminals to justice. Mr. Bodkin—The warrant is a mere form. It remained in the officer's hands until the prisoner was wanted here, and then he was sent for. Mr. Jardine—Besides, it is notorious that in half the assault cases heard in every police-court in London the defendants bitarebrought up by war rants. It is the common prac. If the client's attorney tells me he is not ready with his defence, that is ground for a remand, and his application shall be granted. It is a case in which I can take bail. Mr. Leversoh said he had one of the bail present. A singular looking individual, with long hair over his shoulders, and braided coat (evidently a foreigner), then stepped into the witness-box. Mr. Bodkin—Are you the printer of the pamph let which forms the subject of this prosecution ? Witness—Yes, I am. Mr. Bodkin—Then I object to this persont'os bail.send Mr. Leverson—Then you will drive J r; for the greatest philosopher of the age, send to the Mill. He will be bail, and I will ill live when p. Stuart India House for him. His nameo.w.en. Derby's and Palinerston's are fo e rg ua tt e with the pri- Mr. Bodkin—Will you 1 g vate address of the her of the age s i to l k l bPn w h: i i wi : i i °l l 24 hours. He Mr. Leverson did t but he would undertake to fetch Agirr_er.-a'iMi.te awe—with drt ad for itself. (Mr. Leversou) lookettepioibnetihvesoe fthe proceedings subject, withslid the purity of even justice te understand why roan übllshing, and promulgating every right-minded Christian enlist gu M ilt r y . oßfopdikinind Nl37llPnable. detes , _ loathedoctrinand w hich t should be treated in the tender ted by the prisoner., drawing-roure et) le suggee He did not oppose the remand, althougis t of it was apparent enough. default of actorthe T nh n be ej p risoner was then committed in bail, and left in the prison van. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Niagara, steam-frigate (14 days from New York),. arrived here this morning. H er machinery is slighted damaged, having encounter ed a succes sion of southerly gales. This vessel is to take part in the laying down of the Atlantic telegraphic cable ; an event which is expected to take place as early in June as the necessary preparations will admit of. Her Majesty's ship Agamemnon is already in her position in the Keyham steam-basin at Devonport ; and the coiling of 50 miles of the cable on her upper deck has thus far been accom plished. The Niagara will he laid in dock nearly alongside of the abandoned powder magazine at Keyham, the use of the magazine having beer n T granted to the 2 , l o antic Telegraph Company evE s nce last August, when the accident to the cable occurred. The new is: ue of capital authorised at the meeting of shareholders on the 18th ult., has been taken up to a considerable extent by the ex isting holdeis ; and we under stand that sufficient funds have been provided to pay for the additional length of 300 miles of cable which the directors in their report considered it desirable to take to sea this year. This addition al 300 miles will make the total length to be taken out for this year's opera tions 2,865 miles. It is hoped, however, that if the weather be favourable, a large proportion of the provision for " slack" will be saved. COURT CIRCULAR. These were suspicious circumstances, and fully warranted her apprehension, and, if the child had been drowned, her conviction. But the very first link in the chain of evidence was defective. Two medical gentlemen had exa mined the body, but one alone was produced on the trial—a matter that should have caused serious doubts in the mind of the jury, for it is the bounden duty of the prosecution not to spare any expense in producing every witness that could throw any light on the subject, and the absence of such a person leads to the reasonable presump tion that his presence would not seriously affect the prisoner, even if it were not favourable. The other medical witness admitted that, although he adhered to the opinion that death was caused by immersion in the water, "it was diffi cult to speak positively, and it might be that the child having been accidentally sqocated or smothered had afterwards been thrown into the water." This was the defence set up—and by no means an im probable one ; but yet the jury convicted, and the judge sentenced the wretched girl, who heard the fearful sentence pronounced with heart-rending cries and sobs. We can not believe that the learned and humane Chief Justice will per mit that sentence to be carried into execution, when the very first requisite was wanting, and it was not established, that the unfortunate child wasmurdereaat.,:i r that exite it:s ti ti c l e. his lmore unfortunate mother 7,ia ll ora ad an y criminal intention against the \ very ha had fondly cherished up to the mane, Tae is C sxpec ed 4-4" 4"" : s.o(m n . lptc ? ra about the , the China end of the week. She at SL " tla d a. " of and 6,300 sovereigns from go . ew York yesterday describe in silo®r dollars, n About 27,000/. in Australlau l tZ,L„ gold was tti„a the stock market, nederte"a„-. ttaoiTotehbidee advisesß an a i n m li a y ti e oi s rn t o e m r i d n a ft uence of an increasing abundance of money and tr ee • present from r inm any Europe 0 P uncertainties in foreign politics such as at e excite caution. Her Majesty the Queen went yesterday to the Camp at Aldershot. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace at 10 minutes pa-.t 10 o'clock, attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Sestrice Byng, Lord Colville, Captain the Hon. D. de Roe, and the Master of the Household. A. detachment of the 11th Hussars formed the escort to the private station of the South-Western Railway at Vauxhall, where a special train was in readiness for the 1 conveyance of Her Majesty. The Queen and Prince went over the new barracks, and subsequently her Majesty reviewed the division at Aldershot, under the command of Lieutenant-General Knoll's. The Queer and Prince returned to Buckingham Palace at 20 minutes before 6 o'clock. - Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her presence in the evening. The Queen was at tended by the Countess of Caledon, the Hon. Beatrice Byng. Lord Raglan, and Lord Colville. The Prince Consort, attended by Lord Bagot, Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., and Captain the Hon. D. de Roe, honoured with his presence the performance of Bach's music at St. Martin's-hall. It is positively stated in Paris that M. Alexandre Dumas, jun., is about to marry a Rus-ian princess. BAPTISM Olt THE EARL OF WlLTSHlRE.—Yesterday afternoon the baptism of the Earl of Wilt-hire, son of bbe Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester, was per formed at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, in the presence of a most brilliant circle of the nobility. At the conclusion of the ceremony a grand deijeuner was given by his:lordship to a distinguished circle. News of the arrival of the Australian mail steamer at Suez is expected to reach London at the end of the month. The dates by this vessel will probably extend to the 11th Feb. from Sydney, and to the 13th ident from Melbourne. She is expected to bring a large amount of geld, and news of considerable shipments by sailing vessels. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—Manchester, March 23.—There were indications of an improvement in this market in the earlier part of the day, but the telegraphic report from Liverpool, of " a quieter market again," had a depressing influence, and destroyed the confidence of buyers. Little business has been done to-lay. Spinners and manufacturers generally maintain their quotations of last week. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. —Great preparations are in progress here for the approaching Easter holidays. Among the figures likely to prove interesting we un derstand are those of Orsini and Pierri. The musical department will also undergo considerable improvement and addition to enhance the general effect, and to render all the departments worthy of the public patronage. MR. ALLSO? TIN REGICIDE.—It is stated that Mr. Alleop has for several days been concealed in this city, somewhere in Anthony-street. Both English and French detectives are now in pursuit of him, and it is not at all improbable that he may be arrested within a day or t NO. Though the contemplated assassination, of which he is alleged to be one of the conspirators, was not successful, he will be returnable under the extradition treaty, if in dicted for the murder of the innocent persons who were killed by the explosions in the Rue Lepelletier.—Were York Herald, March 8. THE WEST-END OF LONDON RAILWAY.—This railway is now complete, bud was yesterday examined by the Government inspector. It is hoped that it may be open for public traffic on Monday next. The inhabitants of Belgravia, Westminster, Kensington, and the adjacent localities will thereby be enabled, from the " Riverside Terminus," at the foot of Chelsea new Suspension bridge, to reach Brighton in one hour and a quarter, and Dover and Portsmouth in two hours and a half. The railway was laid out by Messrs. Bidder and Fulton, the engineers, in 1853, and the works have been carried out under their direction by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Bette. The line will also give increased facility of access to the Crystal Palace, and the localities of Balham hill, Streatham, Norwood, and Sydenham, through which it passes. DEATH FROM A BLOW ON THE KNEE.—The following case was reported to the Liverpool Borough Coroner yesterday (Tuesday) :—Oa Saturday week James Buerowee, a boy 16 years of age, the son of a professor of music at Liverpool, while staying at a farmhouse of Ford was engaged in sharpening a scythe, when the hone he was using slipped and struck him on the knee cap. The knee immediately began to swell, and the pain became so intense that the boy was taken home to Liverpool. He was attended by several doctors con• nected with the Rose-hill Dispensary, but, in spite of the E ir m e E ffor A t N s, u he L d n ie s d s y o e y ste L rd ip ay E morning. FIRE little after two o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Bedford, 37, Broadway-terrace, Camden-town. The fire was first observed in one of the npper rooms, in which a child was sleeping, and on the servant and some neighbours going up, the flames hal become so powerful that they were unable to rescue the child. It was more than half an hour before the St. Pancras engine arrived, and it was of very little service when it did come. On the arrival of more po'.eerful engines the fire was quickly eubdaed, but it had by this time completely gutted the house. The origin of the fire is not known. No fire had been lighted for some days in the room in which it appeared to commence. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT APOTHE CARIEs'-HALL.—Yeeterday morning the watchman at Apothecaries'-hall, named Edwin Thrift, aged 29 years, was robbed and nearly murdered while on duty. The unfortunate sufferer, Edwin Thrifr, was on duty at Apothecaries'-hall, when some burglars broke in, and he endeavoured to raise an alarm, but they knock-A him down, and swore they would murder him. He still, however, struggled with his assailante, when they put their hat ds on his mouth and beat him till he was nearly dead. They then robbed him of his silver watch and chain and what money he had in his possokson, and 1- ft him for dead, when they fancied they heard footsteps and hastily retreated. Ile was taken to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, where every assistance was rendered to the unfortunate sufferer. The burglars in the course of a short time will be in the 'lends of justice. THE LATE MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH —The inquest on the late Mr. Harte, otherwise Howard, whose assassi nation we have before reported, was resumed, after a week's interval, by the borough cononer on Monday evening at the Dolphin Inn, whence it was adjourned to the Session.ohouse owing to the great influx of lis teners. Tue only witness examined was the landlady of the house where the deceased lived, Mre. Vicks, whose testimony occupied upwards of three hours. N . , thing, however, appeared in it to fix the crime upon any known p a e r r s e o x n a , m a i n n d a t y i n e n e t . e r d ll a y e her wa sous giving v w i n a g s hisubmitted testimonyt o a whens im i lthis report left. The inquiry seems likely to be a pro tracted one. THE ISLINGTON TRAGEDY.—LATEST PARTICULARS. Contrary to general expectation at a late hour last E ven ing Mrs. Osborne still lived, but, to use the language of Dr. Richardson, her life "bun', upon a thread." Dr. Richardson throughout the whole of yesterday was con stantly in attendance, and did all that his great skill could suggest to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunate woman. Her condition yesterday was much the sawn a' that of the previous day. She was occasienal'y sensible, but only for a very short period, almost immediately relapsing into her unconscious state. About two o'clock in the afternoon the lodger, said to f e her paramour, went into the room, and, approaching the bedside, asked her if she knew him. She replied— " Yes, it's Fred." He then slid „a Doh you lve o me'?" She answered, " Yes , I do. The pcemart charge remonstrated with him u p on putting such ques tions to a woman iu such a precarious state, and ordered him out of the room, as he had no business there. He shortly afterwards withdrew, and the woman almost im mediately afterwards again lost her c onsciousneee. The wounds on the hsad have received the greatest attention had it not beau for never have committed 1 11: 13 b t l a r :r i, s , It r, i b e u h t ar e d ti s l o l n t ' hey as ar o e f i n course frightful dangers,. Those on the hands are in no wo; se condition are state. a the s h most ca Con e ut it is e ,. „, .. e lpattiy has been expressed for Osborne, who, th e conduct of his wife. On Cammor (?) the mutinous companies of ill. 34th Native Infantry have been almost entirely annihilated. Some progress has been made in suppressing th• insurrection in J umbulpore. Her Majesty's Gth Regiment has arrived from the Cape, and will garrison Fort William. Her Majesty's 64th Regiment marches t• Ber.ares. Commodore Watson, with the Chesapeake, is still at Calcutta. The Pylacles is also here, and the Shannon and ' the Pearl, whose crews constitutes the Naval Bri gades on sec Tic(' Oude and GarllapOTO. The Polorus and the gunboats of the squadron are at Rangoon. Captain Seymour, with a party of 300 seamen and marines, have gone up the Irrawaddy to the Meaday frontier. Malta, March 23. V. MO-NTAN.A.RO The following telegram, from Acting-Consek- General Green to the Earl of Malmesbury, was received at the Foreign-office on the 23d of March, at 10.30 p.m. _ _ ALEXANDRIA, Mincii, 19, 1858. The steamer Nubia arrived at Suez, from Cal cutta, on the 17th instant at 10.30 p.m. eßnombay by last mail. from India, more recent Slle tbhraiungrseconioveidntferolimigce Her Majesty's ships Shannon, Chesapeake, Pearl, and Pylades, at Calcutta. Yeh, a prisoner on board the Inflexible, was at Hong Kong on the 15th February, on his way to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton was rased on the 10t. The Russians and Americans have joined the Eng lish and French in their demand on the Chinese gover nment. The letters of the four Plenipoten tiaries have go ne up to Shangh a i, an d by the middle of March it will be known what line China takes. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the contract steam packet Euxine, at 7.35 p.m. on the 23d March• LYONS, Admiral MALTA., MARcii 23, HALF-PAST 8, NIGHT, The Euxiae arrived an hour ago from Alexan dria, bringing the Calcutta and China mails, and leaves to-night for Marseille; whence the Vectis arrived with the outward mai!s on the night of the 21st, and left for Alexandria early next morning. The Malabar arrived from Southampton and left for Alexandria on the 21st. The Australian mails, per Wye, arrived on the 20th from Marseilles, and on the 21st, per Tamar, from Southampton, which carried same on to Alex andria, on the same morning. The Caradoc, with the Siamese Ambassadors, left for Alexandria on the 20th. It is reported that the squadron under Lord Lyons will leave for a cruise on the 10th of April. The Euxine has brought the following, which ought to have reached via Corfu this morning, the Austrian Eteanier having arrived there at midnight yeAerday " ALEXANDRIA, MAROn 19, "Calcutta and China mails leave to-day with intelligence from Calcutta, February 23 ; Madras, February 28 ; Ceylon, March ; Hong Kong, February 15 ; Canton, February 15. " Canton was quiet. "America and Russia had joined the alliance, and a course of common action has been agreed upon. " Th 3 fur representatives were about to pro ceed to a rendezvous at Shanghai. " Trade had reopened at Canton, and the site of the new factories had been marked out. "The Chinese authorities receive the duties. " The 70th Sepoy Regiment had arrived, and was quartered within the walls of Canton. " No other reinforcements had arrived. " The army had crossed the Ganges at Cawnpore to besiege Lucknow on the 11th. " Cannonade expected to open on the 22d of February. " Sir Colin Campbell had 160 first-class guns. " Col. 111`Causland, with 1,004 men, defeated THE SUN,_ LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN I NG, rMARCH 24, 1858 THE W. E AVA. van, and in the absence o ,station had been coin