The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

THEATRE-11.0Ylt L, DRJRY-LANE. - Lessee, Air. E. T. Smith. THIS RITENING, will be performed CLOUD AND iSEXSIIINE. Ur. Ja mes Andet son a n d Miss Elsworthy. Followed by t he new grand is Intommie, LITTLE JACK CORNER. Commence at 7. _AL_ ________-__ TILEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. With THE HUNCHBACK. Julia, Miss Amy Sedgwiek ; Master Walter, Mr. Howe ; Modus, Mr. Buckstone. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD ; or, Harle quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ; Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq. Orchestra Stalls (which may lie retained the whole of the evening), es. each. (No charge for booking.) First price. s. d. Second price. s. d Brae Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Cpper Boxes 2 Pit Gallery ..................... I ------- ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. s THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakepere'e Tragedy of HA3ILET. Hamlet, Mr. Chas. Kean; Gertrude, Mri. C. Sun. After which, a new grand (male Christmas Pantomime entitles HARLEQUIN WRITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor mack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Min C. Adams. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPRI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed BORT 014CRE. Mr. Ramey Williams. After which, YANKEE COURTSHIP. M r : and Mrs. A. Williams. To conclude with LATEST FROM NEW YORE. Commence at Seven. R OYAL LYCEUM THEC TRE .—Bole Lessee an d Manager, Mr. . Dillon. THIS EVENING, Feb. 25, Shakespere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Lady M4pbeth, Miss Helen Faucit ; Macbeth, Mr. Charles Dillon. With Locke's celebrated Music. To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH 14.001 CH. and the PRINCESS, tke PERI, and the TROU BADOUR ; or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert. Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White, Elias Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ; Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L. Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites, Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm aid Lees. Gergeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton'a Grand Trans formation Scene. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. 3ox.office open trona 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL S'CRREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING,wiII be performed the play of LUCAIIII BORGIA. After which, MY WIFE'S OUT. To conelude with TWE SAILOR OF FIANCE. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- lag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dm, viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brnuell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghnaane, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. I3adgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchheld and E. Mackney. Piano. forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, dza., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS MURIA will appear every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 58 min. aft. 2—Even., 13 min. aft. 3 To..3fORBOW —Morn., 32 min. aft. 3 —Even., 49 min. aft. 3 fHE WEATHER—Sur OFFICE, FBI3IItIAIIT 28, lIIIERNOMETKII, Iv THE SEADZ. 12—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 39 —this day at noon. Bkßoxintit, Wisp, E. to • fresh, with chill, cold, cloudy weather, indicating a change. Two o'clock—Wind, N.E., ♦ery fresh, with dull, hazy weather. MARCH 1. 40—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night, 34—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.52. Wu m, North• Easterly; fresh, with snow. j „ : .- LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1858. Lord DUB?' cannot afford a second time to offer to the country merely the half-ready contents of the Whigs' measure-basket. He has taken office, and, if he would avoid political disgrace, must do something worthy of his position. None of his colleagues' addresses up to Saturday night were permitted to foreshadow, ever so faintly, the knowledge to be imparted, we may hope, to-night. The first appeals to the country merely said—Gen tlemen, you know us ; the names of Dlsa♦7LT, P.4.iniaTox, and lIINLAI are not strange to you ; elect us for what we have been ; what we are to be, take upon trust from the past. Even Sir FiTZROY DILLY, who does advert to some points of Representative Reform, is very conveniently ♦ague. Well, this may, so far, be politic and convenient, but it is only so far and no fur ther. Lard DEBIT' cannot afford once more to say, Let us hold on a little while by sufferance ; enable us to allege that we made a few good law reforms all ready to our hands, and passed the necessary financial bills ; then leave us to shoot and hunt for half-a-year ; and after that we will tell you what we have made up our minds to. We can appeal to his Lordship whether we have not on former occasions demanded fair play for his Administration, and we demand it now ; but we demand also a policy, a frankly-avowed policy wor thy of fair play. We can hardly ask for him exemp tion from factious oppositions, if by reticency, or by half-measures, or unpopular proposals, he himself invites that opposition. There is one journal, of not the humblest preten lions, which, perhaps not liking to turn too soon, is openly threatening Lord DERBY with the im possibility of evading a stiffish Reform Bill. This same journal was fain to allege a few weeks ago, that nobody wanted reform, but that somehow everybody was looking for it, and the Premier had promised it last year, he had even put that promise in the Qrsas Speech ; so, a Reform Bill, though suite needless, and though it could be attended to any year, in the course of the next ton or twenty years, yet must be brought for ward. Now, however, it is the one thing inevit able 1 Eves India may wait, and the Corporation of London surely may ; but Representative Re form—the Reform dema.nded only in political imagination—thi s has become Ulo one thing which cannot wait ! We have, of course, always taken the directly opposite view, and have demanded a substantive Reform Bill as the honest wish of the treat body of those who take any interest at all in politics. We have always hoped, we may say believed, that a sham f R orni Bill would have ruined Lord l'Alatalurrom, and we therefore can no t b e t h ought to press t h e sublect on L)rd DERBY merely to em barrass him. On the contrary' we believe th a t h e has quite as muc h goo d will to wards representative that h e may representativ e t Reform as Lard PALICEB.3IO:S . consistently allege th e same reason f or b forward a Reform measure Which woul r a in h g in g ave been the impelling motive with the ex.-Premier, name ly, that the oountry will have it, and that the Parliament had been elected to carry one. Lord Dun L the Minister of England, and if England demands a ortain measure it is his duty to pro- pose it. Last year Lord DERBY did us the honour to quote our Reform catechism in the Tr o uie o f Lards ; he did it then for Lord PAL3LJEASTOY., instruction ; he will, we trust, now give it his best attention for his own sake. If hostile journals taunt him with the promised Reform Bill, he must TAE SCN itself, we S. ma sympathise with those so 'severely tried, and re , joie, at their providential escape. The intelli tgence is all couleur (de rose so far as it goes. Sir C. Cawszmi, at the head of 250 (mani festly intent led for 2,500 or 25,000) men, and with about 70 'detain of ordnance was collecting sup plies and mr 3ans of conveyance at ruttyghur for the intended onslaught on Oude, where rebellion still rears it, t unnatural head. It was generally believed t hat it would be invaded on the 25th of February from different parts, so that the crisis will come on sooner than was anti cipated. Sir JAMES 017TRIat was holding his position at th e Alumbagh without any difficulty. The rebels, warned by three decisive defeats, had become cautious, and abstained from any further annoyance. Their former attacks had, without doing any serious mischief to the garrison, been visited Ivith severe retribution. They profited by the salutary lesson, and refrained from again " kicking ,against the pricks." Sir JAMES OUTEANI had been reinforced by her MAJESTY'S 34th Regiment, which had marched up from Cawnpore, conveying a quantity of valuable stores. A party of the Rifles had taken up a position on the Lucknow road, one day's march from Cawnpore, where they would remain for the purpose of maintaining the communications open. This is an important movement, which promises to be attended with the best results. The rebels were manifestly losing heart. They were anxious to negociate, but in the meantime were fortifying Lucknow, where it is probable the last serious struggle will take place. It was said that they numbered 100,000 fighting men, but formidable as that vast army may appear on paper, it cannot withstand an European Army commanded by a tried and experienced general, whose very name is a tower of strength. It is fortunate that they are so closely massed, that a single blow may prove decisive. Sir HCG3I Rosa had not only relieved Saugor but had captured the strong fort of Ratgnrh. Its garrison, however, escaped over the walls. The Rajpootana field force had also captured ATM, said to be the strongest town in that garrison. The gallant (!) defenders also flying in much admired confusion, during a frightful storm of thunder and yet remember that foal est ab hoste doceri, for they would not pitch just upon this difficulty, unless they felt that it was the difficulty for him. On the other hand if, as eld and honest Reformers, instead of lamenting, as w© have at times done, popular apathy on the subject, we now tell him, from onr knowledge of our own party, that we are strong enough to insist on Reform ; that we have often been baulked of it, but do not mean to be baulked again. Surely our opinion of the position of the question may reason ably pass for something. We ask of Lord DBRBY, then, to look the question fairly in the face, for . _ evade it he cannot. Lord Joint ItcssaLL, pos. _ _. -•-- sibly Lord PALIMISTON in opposition, the Radi cals certainly, will be awake to their advantage. He will not be suffered, if we divine rightly, to burke reform under temporising pretexts ; and to oppose it will snake a vote of no confidence perfectly easy. Individual proposals, and per haps a bill of considerable pretensions, will be offered, and on these he will be defeated by large majorities, till he will be unable to carry on the Government. In the very house which gave Mr. GINSON a majority against the Government, there would not have been a less majority than sixty, had the vote been taken on a Liberal ques- tion. It was fifty-three sgainst i Ckurch Rates the Wednesday ➢reviously ; for the Oaths Bill it would be overwhelming ; so it would undoubtedly be for any of the principal points in Representa tive Reform. We would then suggest to Lord DARBY and his colleagues whether their acceptance of office (unless, indeed, they avow an intention to dissolve on the Reform question)—their acceptance of offiee with the pruent Parliament should not be taken u an avowal of acceptance also of the ohief demand of the nation. The Parliament was, notwithstanding the Canton affair, elected for the great objects of Liberals. The constituencies could not be con- fined to the cry of PALMERSTON and YEK ; the Issociation everywhere was—of those seeming inoompatibilities—PA.Lmiutsrox and Reform I The general shout for Reform, notwithstanding the Chinese diversion and the Tory-headed Cabinet, must eonvince a less practised politician than Lord DARBY of the political want of the hour. It is for the new Premier to say how far he will go. His appeal to Lord GREY, now avowedly as ranch a Tory, in all but name, as Lord DIMBY aimself, is to be sure ominous enough ; but we regard it as certain that details arranged in ac cordance with the vague Tory generalities of Lord would insure immediate rejection by the nation, we believe by the House of Commons also. The Conservatives must look the fact in the face that Conservatism itself must now rely not on bearding the people, but on friendly co operation with them. Aristocracy must increasingly trust not to its mere titles, and to keeping power from the hands of the nation, but to cultivating its advantages, and acquiring and maintaining iluperiority in intelligence, education, and capacity for Government. Our nobility, and their offspring still store, will be obliged to face competitive laminations, and a far more exacting standard of qualification than hitherto. We are fair advisers of Lord DIRE; since we care not a straw for men, but for measures only. We belong to no party. We are indifferent whether Witigs or Tories giro us what we want, so that we do but gat it. Our political gratitude goes to those who give the people what tkey ought to have. Unless Lord DERBY COM.. mills himself by Ignoring or opposing Reform, or L by proposing some such treacherous measure as we expected from the teuen Dettnieter, we snail, so far as this all-important measure is concerned, give him our ungrudging support. We tell the Noble Lord, however, plainly, that if he resort to any Whiggish evasion, if he want to defer a Reform measure till next year, or to push it off till too late for discussion in both Houses, or if he bring forward a scheme to place the chief power of the country in the hands of landlords, and their tenants at will--none of these things will the country endure. He will be outvoted imme diately ; he could but appeal to the country ; and if he did that as the opponent or the perverter of Reform, he would be in a smaller minority than he now is. one. Some persons, naturally, will laugh at the idea of " Damn . and Reform." Yet we remem , • ber seeing him doing ♦igorous battle for the first Reform Bill ; he would but have to return. to his first love. The same might be said of his coadju tor in the Lower House. As to the Sir Roberts and Sir Harrys--they, of course, must eat their leek, and grumble about danger to our glorious oonstitution in Church and State, but follow their leaders they must, for they hare none of their own. We believe it is in the power of Lord DARBY to fix himself in power without dishonour. When it was a clear political fact that Catholic emancipation, and the repeal of the corn laws must be carried, it was not held dishonourable for the great leaders of the day, to avow that the time was come—that the thing must be done, that they could do it, and that they would do it. Surely reform is in the same positioa. No one can deny that the representation is now full of disoreditabls anomalies in re ' gard to the assignment of members to constituencies, that it would give stability to the Constitution, as well as be right, to admit large numbers, now excluded, to the full privileges of citizens, and that the secrecy of the vote is essen• tial to the repression of election abuses and the freedom of suffrage. We hold that if Lord DEBBI intends to keep in office, be aught at once to avow these changes to be necessary, and promise his bill, at latest, immediately after Easter. Or, if he chose to dissolve at once, with the offer of the Ballot, he would have a majority of two to On the Indian question, and that of law-making to please bullying counts and colonels, or even to please our "distinguished ally," the House of Commons has spoken loudly enough. He cannot be mistaken there. Neither can he well misun derstand its opinion on Church-rates. If he could, his able and honest son could enlighten him. Let hint not mistake on Reform. No vote has been taken yet on that, but the vote of the coun try was given unmistakeably last spring, and Lord DERBY must choose between the alternative of respecting that vote or of dissolving Parliament and asking the country what it thinks of DERBY and REPRICS'ENTATITE REFORM. Another telegram has been received from India. It arrived at the Foreign Office, this morning, at 4.15, and indicates the nature of the into ligenee which had arrived from Bombay, per the Pottinger, at Alexandria, on the e vb v ey e r n y i Il Sirrgeßmo :alf Ross rtkoasbzi:2ad beyonduthlteim r escueot.h T ro h eil e vi r ue e hbf iocu i eh s tf tu n lseco o ya t o b ui: i ga ng avo_e men and child ren f rom the peribiby been environed for more than six months. Their sufferings during that awful period must have been of a very fearful character. Imprisonment e nough, but w alone I" ""4 : o he a n e t l O i nitaLltaet would iv,.. have .p.adeilan lien bad u e neea I n apprikens n of a fate iar worse than death rain. The most auspicious omen of any was the anxiety of the inhabitants to cultivate the soil, and the readiness with which the demands of the eollectors of revenue were met. It would almost seem as if nothing unusual had taken place. Perhaps the Income Tax collectors in London have been more stringentin their proceedings, and found greater difficulties than those who were snaking their demands in a district where rebellion was lately rampant. Nothing more favourable could have been an ticipated, and the habitual croakers are deprived of the power of exercising their vocation in the present instance. This evening the promised Ministerial ezpla►_ nations will be given by the new Premier in the House of Lords. The seats of the members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons having been secessarily vacated by their acceptance of office, we can only judge by the addresses to :their re spective constituents of their views. Of course, it could scarcely be anticipated that they would forestall the statement of the First Lord of the Treasury to any considerable extent. Generally speaking, therefore, they have contented them. selves with declaring their desire to meet the wishes of the nation anti to maintain its honour, and oontrreute to the we lfare and happiness of the community. Sir FZTZaOT 1011 LT—whom address to the electors of East Suffolk will be found in another part of this day's newspaper, and who, as Attor ney-General, is unquestionably the right man in the right place—is more explicit. His profes sional claims will be universally recognised. He has proved himself to be a etaunoh reformer of legal abuses—pruning the excrescences that have collected about the ♦enerable trunk, with firm, but gentle hand. While declaring that it would obviously be premature to enter into the views or intentions of Government, which has yet scarcely come into existence, he still expresses a hope that if supported by the constitnencies, they shall " bring to a satisfactory conclusion the groat questions affecting the fate of our dominions in the East, and advanoe the cause of Leto !Worm and of the civil administration of the affairs of the State, so as to satisfy the just expectations of the country !" But this is not all. He touches boldly on the great cause of Parliamentary Reform, and shows that, of loot, as much may be expected from Lord DIARY as from Lord PaLam- STOW. He says,—" Whenever the time shall arive for the consideration of this a/1-important question, I shall be found ready to support and assist in any measure for the exten sion of the elective franchise to every man iu Bri tain qualified by property or by education to exercise it with independence and intelligence. A redistribution of the boroughs and towns pos sessed and unpossessed of the franchise, so that au above the rank of villages may be represented in the Legislature, is, in Hay opinion called for upon every principle of justice and expediency." Emphatically adding, " For why should Yarmouth send two members to Parliament, while Lowe stoft is without any representative at all. I think also that the proportion between the numbers of the population and the representatives should be much more just and proximate through out the counties and towns of England, Scotland, and Ireland." This is as it should be. If he only touched on " the Wier it would leave nothing to be desired. It however shows that Lord. DRB.BY will attend to the Reform question. If he does so, what more can the nation require I It cares not for men it is useful and popular measures that are required ; and these are far more likely to come from Lord Danit than Lord PILMIIRSTON. By his acts we shall judge him, giving that fair play and reasonable allowance that is dear to every English heart. Already we can discover that Lord DIRBY has redid hie Ministry on a far wider basis than thab of his Whig predeoeasors. He does not rejeot men of talent and experience because they have Rot azure blood in their veins, or that they sprung from the people. Genius, ability, and judgment have at length a reasonable chanee, although the possessors do not belong to the fortunate families by birth or marriage. Why then should we join in the interested outcry of those who only desire a monopoly of " the loaves and fishes," scarcely consenting to the appropriation of "the crumbs that fall from the tab le '‘ b y the anprivi legod outsiders? The Attorney-General's address gives a reasonable hope that the new Ministry will bid fairly for popular favour, and if they do so, there is nothing to prevent their enjoying a long tenure of office. We understand that Mr. Michael William'. M.P. fur Weat Cornwall voted against Mr. Milner Gabion's amendment on Friday, the February, on the rhotiolk for the second reading of the Alin Bill. p N DON , MONDAY' E - VE'N/I N MARCH 1, 1858 kMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The Arabia has arrived with advices from New York to the 17th, and 598,390 dole. in specie. The Niagara had arrived out. The Senate had instructed its Committee on Fo reign Relations to inquire into the expediency of abrogating the Reciprocity Treaty with Great Bri tain. The alleged slaver Banchetta, captured and sent to New York for adjudication, had been released on the ground of insufficient proof. At Havannab, on the Btb, the stock of sugar was 64,000 boxes ; prices unaltered. Exchange on Lon don 13 to 141 prem. At New York money was exceedingly abundant. The Bank statement continued favourable. The rates for first-class commercial paper were 5 to 7 per cent. for 60 to 90 days. Stocks had been very active ; the latest quotations were as follows : Virginia Fives, 92 ; Missouri Sixes, 84, New York Central shares, 86 ; New York and Erie shares, 29a ; Reading Railroad shares, 58i ; Michigan Central shares, 70 ; Michigan Southern shares, 24i; Cleveland and Toledo shares, ; Panama Rail road shares, 1038 ; 1111..0is Central shares, 97i ; ditto bonds, 95 ; Chicago and Rock Island shares, 81. Exchange on London, 109} to 1101. Ashes firm. Cotton had declined ke. Flour and wheat were dull, but with little change in price. Iron, molasses, sugar, and tobacco quiet, and unchanged in value. Freights unaltered. L A.TEST NEWS. The following telegram, from Mr. Acting-Consul. General Green, was recoived at the Foreign-office, via Malta, March Ist, 6.15 a.m.:-- ALEXANDRIA, 24Th FEB. 1858. The " Pottinger" arrived from Bombay, at Suez, yesterday evening, and the following intelligence has been telegraphed to me. The Commander-in-Chief, at the head of the force of 250 (?) men, with about 70 pieces of ord nance continues collecting supplies and means of conveyance at Futtyghur. He is expected to more on. Oude will be invaded by masses of troops ad vancing on all sides about the 25th. The enemy are fortifying Lucknow by this time in great strength. There are about 100,000 of them in arms. They are said to be losing heart, and anxious to negotiate. Sir James Outram has bea n l e f t undistur b e d since the 16th. He was reinforced on the 22nd by H.M.'s 34th from Oawnpore, a convoy of stores. A party of Rifles have taken up a post on the Lucknow road, one march from Cawnpore, where they will remain to keep open communi cation. Sir H. Rose, with Central India Field Force, captured tie strong fort Ratgurh o n th e 29th, the enemy hiving escaped over the walls. He re lieved Sangor on the 3d, and released about 100 Christian women and children. The garrison had been shut up for six months. The Rajpootana Field Force captured kras on the 23d ; it was the strongest town in Rajpootana. The garrison escaped over night in a frightful storm of thunder and rain. The cultivators busily employed everywhere cultivating their winter crops, and the revenue being collected in the districts around Delhi as if nothing had happened. The 72d Regiment ar rived at Bombay on the 7th, and the 18th Regiment reached on the same day, via the Cape. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the French steamer, 28th Feb., at 6.50 p.m. LYONS, Admiral. We (Times) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent, dated Malta, Feb. 28, 7.30 p.m. " The French steamer from Alexandria has just arrived, bringin g accounts of the arrival at Suez on the night of the 231 of the Bombay mails. " Nothing new at Malta, save the arrival on the 24th of the Vuleal from Portsmouth, with the 2d battalion of the 2d Regiment for garrison duty. The following is the substance of the Indian news : " The Commander-in-Chief was at Futtyghur preparing for the invasion of Oude, which would probably be from several points about the 25th, His own column is nearly 15,000 strong, with about 100 pieces of ordnance, while at least 10,000 men from other points will be ready to co-operate with him. " General Outram has remained at Alumbagh undisturbed since the l6th of January. " 100,000 insurgents are said to be in arms in and around Lucknow, which is being strengthened in every possible way, " Sir Hugh Rose, at the bead of the Central In. dia Field Force, captured Ratgurh on the 29th, de feated the enemy at Banda, and finally relieved the garrison at Saugor from a six months' siege on the 3d of February. " The Rajpootana field force captured the strong fortress of Awah on the 24th of January, and was Cotab, where disunion reigns. " Delhi hal been plac©d under the authority of the Punjaub Commissioners. The authority of the civil power has been restored, and the army de. dared broken up. "The Punjaub and Feroze, with the 72d High• lenders, had reached Bombay, but large reinforce. ments of European troops are still required. " Trade is improving ; freights on the advance ; all public securities rising. -The Governor-General is on his way to the northern provinces." FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. A letter from Marseilles, dated yesterday, in fm u that for two days previously a violent or hurricane, s blowing from the north-east had raged in the bay, and caused serious uneasiness for the s hi ps expec ted in that port. The wind had blown the previous night with unexampled violence. All business in the port was suspended during 24 hours, and scarce l y a steamer dared enter or leave the harbour. The wind finally shifted to the east, and an improvement in the weather was expected. A letter from Ly ons, d ated yesterday, informs us that on Sunday left nday last several E ng li s h f am ili es o f dis tinction there for Ma rse ill es, t o em b ar k on board a vessel frei g hted specially for themselves for Canton. Th eir ob j ec t is to witness the opera tions of the com bined armies in China. Two physicians and a cler gyman of the English Esta bl i BOURSE,sheudo at Church oFnesb accompanyj27. The following w ere th e c log ins quotat i ons them. , 4. per Cents ......... 95 10 Do. end month .••••• 69 40 3 per Cent. ..... Do. end m0nth...... 69 40 Bank Shares... ...... SO4O Credit Mobilier •.. 8 8 0 Do. Account ......... Credit Foncier Belgian 44 Piedmontese (5) Roman B9 A.nstrian Spanish Th ree s Illome Debt 3 RAIL' Orleans .................. 13871 Northern .... ........... 965 New Ditto ............... 7981 Lyon and Mediteran. 840 New Ditto .............. 810 . Geneva .................. 687 i ♦Y3. Midi Western 6BO Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian Tummy. VIENNA, Fliß. 25. The subjoined telegram has just been received front Trieste : " Achmet Fethi Pasha, the Grand Master of the Artillery, is dead, and Mehmed Reeshdi Pasha has appointed tosuccead him. Mehmed Dschemil B e y bean iB arrived from P a ri s ." 1a THE NAVIGATION OF ITHE DANUBE• Under date of the Ifith January, 1858, the Sub lime Porte has addressed a circular to its represen tatives at the Courts of those Powers that signed of Paris, re specting the convention for the navigation of th e D anu be. theTTreahecit rycialar states that the Ottoman Govern ment ratified the convention under the conviction that it deserved and would receive universal approbation. It expresses surprise that the Ambassadors of France and of England, backed by those of Russia, Prussia , and Sar dinia, should have eagerly solicited it to adjou r n the exchange of ratifications until the conven t i on had been exami n d and approved by the Con g ress of Paris. The Sublime Poste, nevertheless, ex changed the ratifications, because it felt persuaded that it might comprom i se it s di g nity by doing so, and that it would not prevent the other oontrasting Powers from carry i ng t h e i r po i n t. The despatch concludes with an examination of the convention in question, which the Porte con siders conformable in all points to the principles established by the Congress of Paris. The Sublime Porte, nevertheless, is willing to give heed (a faire droit) to the observations of the future Conference if it can 1 )3 satisfactorily proved that the Riverain States of th e D anu b e h ave exceeded their rights in regulating, as they have done, the navigation of that river. TIIE OVERLAND AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—The Australian January ma'l, due in London, via Marseilles, on Wed nesday next, is anx i ous ly looked for. The mercantile community are more than usually interested in its arrival, inasmuch as it will most probably bring details of the effect produced on receipt of the intelligence of the late monetary crisis here, and the failure of so man y l a r ge houses connect e d with the Australian tra de. The g ener a l idea in commercial circles is that a severe panic in the colony of Victoria is inevitable, consequent on the dis astrous advices forwarded by the London mails of Ooto• bar and November last, and both of which, being despatched concurrently from Suez, would therefore, in duo course, be delivered in Nee various colonies in the early part of January.—Mining Journal of Fob. 2T. THE NEW MINISTRY. Up to going to press the following were the appoint ments definitively made : IN THE CABINET. FIRST LORD OF TEN TIAELSUIT Lord Derby. Sir F. Thesiger. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL The Marquis of Salisbury. LORD PRIVY SEAL ". Lord Hardwieka. FORElIIN DEPARTMENT HOME DEPARTMENT Mr. Walpole. FOR THE COLONIES Lord Stanley. LORD CHANCILLOR.. Fox WA& General Peel. CifiNCELLOIS Or T2ll EXCITRWRIt Mr. Disraeli. ADMIRALTY . Sir J. Pakingtou. PRESIDEXT OF THE BOARD OF CoxritoL Lord Elleiborough. PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRIDE Mr. Henley. BOARD OF WORKS Lord John Manners. CEANCELLOR. OF THE DUCHY OF } Duke of Mont:ose. 11. LANCASTK NOT IN THE CABINET. POSTMASTER-GENERAL Lord Colcheeter, PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD MY. Sotheron Bateotat. C o l o nel Taylor. LORDS OF . THE TREABVRY Mr. Whitmore. Mr. G. A. Hamilton. SECRBTAIIES OF TYE TLEASURY..., Si; W. Jollitre, SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY l Right Hon. Henry Corry ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sir F. Kelly. S.LICITOR-GENERAL Mr. Cairns. JUDGE-ADVOCATF.-GENEAAL Mr. E. Egerton. LORD-ADSOCATI Mr. Inglis. UNDER SIICRETART ♦T Till FORUM- 1 air. Sayrnour Fitzierie.ld , Orricz UNDER. SECRETARY VOL THE HOME }Hr. Hardy. DEPARTILEXT UNDER-SECRETARY FOR WAR ViNCortnt Harding.. UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES Earl of Otinlarioll. VICE-PSESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL OF 'BOCCI [10N......... }Mr . Adderley. Via PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF }The Earl of Donoughtaors TRANI LORD-LIEUTENANT OF Ixnaso Th• Earl of Eglintou. SECRETARY FOP. IRELAND LORD CH/NCRLLOR OP IRELAND Mr. Napier. ATTORNRT.GENBRAL FOR laRLAxn „,Mr. Whitesldo. MISTRESS OF THE ROBES Duchess of Manchester. LORD CHAMBERLAIN Lord Delawarr. _Lord Exeter. 11ASTRE OF THE HOME The Duke of Beaufort. MISTER OF THE BUCKHOUNDE The Earl of Sandwich. VICE-CHINSSELAIN Lord Newport. ONIFTEOLLER OP THE HOUSEHOLD COI. Forester. TBEASIIII,B2. OP THE HOUSEHOLD Lord C. Hamilton. CAPTAIN OF GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS Earl Talbot. LORD STEWARD Lord LoVAINZ will be a Lord of the Admiralty. The Solicitor-General for Ireland has not yet been appointed We believe tho. 4 .ris"intments have been made : Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal—Lord CoL VILLL - - Lords in Waiting—Earl of VERTILIM, Earl of SHEFFIELD, ViSCOII ti t STRITHALLIN, Lords BATE MAN, BYRON, CROFTON, POLWARTH, and RAGLAN. Lord in Waiting to the Prince Consort—Lord BIGOT, MINISTERIAL ADDRESSES. STANFORD. On Saturday Sir Frederic Thesiger (who was first returned for Stamford at the general election of 1852) took leave of this constituency in the following address : " To THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF STAMFORD. " Gentlemen, —Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to commit the Great Seal to my keeping, the tie which so closely connected me with your borough is neces sarily dissolved. " I cannot, however, separate myself from you without expressing my gratitude for the confidence which you ma nifested towards cue in choosing me to be your represents five, and for the kindness with which yon hare invariably re cognised my earnest endeavours faithfully to fulfil the duties of the important trust which,you confided to me. I assure yon I shall always have a most grateful reoollection of this period of my life, and can never cease to feel the deepest interest in your prosperity and welfare, I beg respectfully to bid you farewell. " I have the honour to be, gentlemen, " Your faithful and obedient servant, " FREDERIC THESIGER. " Eaton-square, Feb. 26." On the same . day the new candidate, Mr. John Inglis, Dean of Faculty, of Edinburgh, issued an address to the electors of the borough of Stamford. The writ had not been received on Saturday night, but it was expected yes terday (Sunday), and in all probability the election will take place on Saturday next. EAST SUFFOLK. Sir V. Kelly, the new Attorney-General, has issued his address soliciting re•eleotion to the electors of this con stituency. The learned gentleman observes iu the °aurae of his address is— " The Ministry has been dissolved by a vote of the House of Commons implying a direct censure of their policy upon a question which, though connected with our foreign rela tions, more immediately affected the independence of the Parliament of Great Britain. While all were prompt to admit the importanle of our alliance with France and with the Sovreign who now rules that great country, I, in com mon with the chiefs of the Conservative party, in the House of Commons, supported the amendment to the Bill, on the ground that tha provisions of the Bill afforded no e f fective remedy to the evils proposed to be redressed, and that the bill itself was an evasion of the principle of independent action which has hitherto been held sacred alike by the Parliament and the people. It would obviously be pre mature to enter at this early period into the views and in tentions of a Government which has yet scarcely come into existence; but I may venture to assure you that if we ere fortunate enough to enjoy the confidence and receive the support of the constituencies of the empire we shall bring to a satisfactory conclusion the great question affecting the fate of our dominions in the East, and that we shall advance the cause of law reform and of the civil administration of the affairs of the State so as to satisfy the just expectations of the country. My senti ments upon Parliamentary Reform are well known to you all. Whenever the time shall have arrived for the further consideration of this all-important question, I shall be found ready to support and assist in any measure for the extension of the elective franchise to every man in Britain qualified by property or by education to exercise it with independence sad intelligence. A. redistribution of the boroughs and towns possessed and unpossessed of the fran chise, so that all above the rank of villages may be repre sented in. the Legislature is, in my opinion, called for upon every principle of justice and expediency. For why should Yarmouth return two members to Parliament while Lowes toft is without any representation at all ? I think also that the proportion between the numbers of the population and the representatives should be much more just and proxi mate throughout the counties and towns of England, Scot land, and Ireland." It was reported In influential quarters on Saturday afternoon that Col. Adair, late M.P. for Cambridge, w ould appear as a can did a t e i n th e Libe r al interest, in opposition to Sir Fitzroy. No address had, however, appeared from the gallant colonel. PANIC/112'E LEGACY TO GENERAL PEEL.—A. most affecting incileut took place at the War Office a day Cr two ago, which proves that ministers atter all are but human. Lord Paornure met General Peel to hand over the records and explain to him all that bad been done — which took a very short time—and all that bad not been done, which was rather a tedious detail. General Peel listened with polite attention to all that the departing Secretary of State had to say for himself, and seemed deeply to synipath.ee in the sorrow which reddened his face and agitated his waistcoat. When the business of the interview was over, General Peel, with a degree of kindness that will never be forgotten, grasped the haul of the sobbing "Out," and in a tone worthy of the ordi nary of Newgate when addressing a malefactor on the scaffold, or of a second in a duel, who sees it is all up with his principal, said, "Tell me, tell me, my good lord, is there anything I can do to mitigate the affliction which bears you down V The generosity of the appeal quite overcame the ex-captain of the 79th. Bursting into a torrent of grief, he exclaimed, "Oh, general, this is true humanity—my heart must speak. Take—take—oh, do take—clux OY Doillir—unoea Serein 191477101, LITERATURE. BULWER LYTTON'S NEW ROMANCE. Trial 'trill he do with it! By Pisistratus Caxton. Parts I. to X. Blackwood. Although weencourage ourselves in the belief that we are still happily far removed from the conclusion of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton'e new serial story, now publishing from month to month in the pogo of Blackwood's liagaziee, we conceive ourselves to be in some degree empowered already to pronounce an opinion upon its merits, now that ton con siderable instalments of the work have actually made their appearance. Several new characters whose names have nut yet been mentioned, even incidentally, in the course of the narrative—yet remain probably to be introduced to our acquain tance. Nevertheless the chief personages of the tale, we are disposed to believe, are already num bered among those intimate imaginary friends with whose forms and faces we have lung sinus, been perfectly familiarised, and in the fluctuation of whose fortunes we are becoming more and more profoundly interested. The plot of the story, pro misee or threatens—accordingly as the reader loves or dreads the threading of a maze—to be more in tricately labyrinthine than that of "My Novel." The canvass is seemingly larger. The crowd of per- I sonages revealed to us there grouped together in artistic contrast, yet more numerous ; the " vanishing point" far more remote. Pisistratus has allowed his imagination to soar to a greater alti tude—his survey is wider in consequence. And for the skilful play of this master-pencil in the delinea tion of all the radiant and populous panorama of human life , have we not the art won to it by that most potent talisman of Romancist, the taus fre quens qui (minium magistrorurn proecepta auperaret It is the adroitness attained by a refined and ex quisite practice of his high art that has at length, indeed, become our author's most attractive, if it be nor, at the same time, his most conspicuous characteristic. His perfect mastery of his art, more over, appears to us hardly less strikingly evidenced in the facile graces of his style, in the adroit turn of a sentence, in the choice of an epithet, in the variable flow of the dialogue, or in the marvellous probability of what the French would call the situations"—than in the dexterous interweaving of the threads of so many chequered destinies in the weft and woof of this pictured tapestry of romance : or than even, be it said, in the profound analysis of human character, discernible upon a closer scrutiny of the more remarkable natures (whether of man or woman) here pourtrayed. As to the mere rhetorical charms of the style, these, with the author of the " Cantons," have in a man ner become inevitable. They create no new sur prise for the reader ; they are taken for granted ; they are looked for, and are not found wanting ; they are rather, it should be said, scattered through out the narrative abundantly. The same might be said, likewise, in regard to the inimitable " play," whether of incident or of conversation. Excellencies such as these have been maturing and ripening ap preciably throughout the whole of this notable career. They were excellencies which were very far indeed from being crudely manifested in the sparkling, and, at intervals, the absolutely enthral ling, pages of "Pelham." But while they gave the rarest promise even then of the more mellowed perfection perceptible at a glance upon almost any page of " What will he do with it t" they have been continuously, and, we repeat, appreciably ripening throughout the whole range of the splen did series of fictions permed between that first and this last of his imaginative productions, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. Those who list may trace the gi a dations of this advancement no less in the sylvan tragedy of " Eugene Aram," or in the social and political satire of " Paul Clifford," or in the dra matic and historical splendour of the " Last of the Barons"—than in the weird " Zanoni," or the ye more weird " Lucretia," in the classic " Last of the Tribunes," or the yet more classic "Last Days of Pompeii." The same progression though less superficially discernible is not less distinctly to be discovered on a closer scrutiny, in the homelier pages of the " Disowned," in the romantic vicissi tudes of "Deeereux," in the exquisite prose poem of "Harold," and in all thefascisating chapters of the ever fresh and ever delightful "Night and Morning." Throughout the composition of which famous works of the imagination, vigilantly watch ful during all this score of years has been this keen observer of Nature and of Humankind. Uncon sciously it may be, yet rigidly and persistently he appears to have acted in obedience to that arch precept of Cicero it enim ex reruan cognittiong efflorescat et redundet oportet @ratio : and so in creasingly with the amplitude of his owl know ledge have come forth utterances at once more copious and more ornate. A remark moreover not in any way restricted here to his labours as a n o - velirt, but applying equally to his other written. 0., .poken—as a poet, as an orator, or as a dramatist. Eminently beau tiful, for example, though his brief memo rial poem upon "Milton" indubitably is—it ill surely not to be compared in excellence either to the tersely epigrammatic satire of the "New Timon" or to the stately national epic of "King Arthur." Again—the admirable speeches upon the copyright question, delivered in the House of Commons, when Mr. Bulwer sat there as M.P. for the city of Lincoln, though vieing in their various merit with the speeches delivered in the same house upon the same question by the late Judge Talfourd, are assuredly in no way comparable as effusions of oratory—as let us say, for instance, the oration de livered by Sir Edward Lytton a very few years back in the city of Edinburgh. Precisely in the same way would it be idle to institute any comparison between the graceful drama of the "Duchess ds la Talliere," charmingly written though it is in very many passages, with that most brilliane dramatic success of modern times " rhe Lady of Lyons," any more than with the comic genius dis played in "Money," or the tragic genies revealed through the pathetic eloquence of " Richelieu." The plane of this great literary career—as was said of the military career of Wellington— hag been one continuous ascent. The fact of its being more conspicuously so manifested by Sir E. Bulwor Lytton in his character as a ro tnancist, arises simply from the circumstance of his labours in that capacity having been more repeated and more lengthened. Although " The Cantons" still to the last remains with us our own especial favourite, we frankly admit and cordially recoguis' the artistic pre-eminence of place which ought t' be accorded without doubt to " My Novel ; or the Varieties of English Lite," facile princeps among all the prose fictions from the same waster-hand. A. companion niche in the Walhalla of romance will be accorded, er we are much mistaken in our anticipations, to " What will he do with it ?" A companion niche, if indeed one be not required yet more elevated in position and yet ampler in its Ilineeneions. In the opening scene we are plunged at once into the very midst of Vanity Fair—" a summer fair in one of the prettiest villages in Surrey"—as bewildered at first by the distracting sights and sounds, the hubbub, racket, and confu sion as ever was our dear friend Christiaa, the hero of the great allegorical pilgrimage. From that in trodurtory spectacle to the latest instalment in the current number of Blacktoood's Magazine, the ani mation, the vivacity, the life, the nerve, the sparkle of the narrative know scarcely one momentary abatement. A humourous vein runs through the whole, glittering out here and there as (to use an old simile) a gold thread might do in a parti-col oured embroidery—a humour sometimes as subtle as that of La Bruyere, sometimes as broad, and hilari ous, and unconstrained as that of Rabelleis. The first comical "wink aside "—putting author and reader at once into good humour with each other—startles us into laughter in the very first 4 of these quaint and most original headings to the chapters—some of them little chapters of wit and wisdom in themselves. It is where our novelist, with an air of fantastic, but irresistible extravagance, foreshadows the earliest conversation in his new story as "an arthets dialogue, after the manner of Elerodotus, Father of History (Mother unknown)." From that most bizirre ot parentheses we pass on together, In among the flut tering leaves of this green pleasauuce of fiction, de lightedly. dud from that moment the same sly drollery peeps out upon us continually. Now, it perches upon yonder thicket, .in the form of thr e e magpies, with their heads askew, " pricking their ears" as they listen amazed to the spluttering voice of poor George Morley, as he mumbles the pebbles after the fashion of Demosthenes. Now, it emerges from among the legs c.r. a crowd, in the grotesque disguise of Sir Isaac, no longer radiant with sno wy curls and shaven loins, as best befits a poodle of gentlemanly birth and education, but metamorphosed into a sort of canine monstrosity, its pronged ears and lugubrious visage of a goblin ' gray, the rest of its form a rusty reddish blrAck—a dog "hideous enough to have been exhibited as a lusua naturce"—" it might have come from Ache ron, sire by Cerberus, so portentous, so infernal Was its aspect, with that grey face, those antlered ears, and that ineffably weird demeanour." These ludicrous touches from our author's pen are not, however, applied exclusively to such humbler members of the animated race of creatures about us, as mere poodles and magpies. They are la vished, moreover, with an affluent hand in the delineation of the human beings, peopling the bye ways hardly less curiously than the broader avenues of the earrativo. Instance this, that preposterous lamentation of poor bilious Dolly Poole, about his calves having gone to increase his liver. Delightfully exhilarating, however, though the humour of the tale, its conspicuous merit, to our think ing, is diAcofrAlM in its profound axe riunination of unman chAractor. Wight subtle dial diversity there is in the chief of those already in troduced l Gentleman Waifs, the strolling player, about whom the whole interest of the:sfori re- volves. Waife, with the histrionic genius Of an Edmund Kean, with more than Kean'e resources, and almost as much apparently of his imputed im providence. Guy Darrell, the great Statesman— under a clouti—secludett from the world either is his ancestral house at F%wiey Minor Rouse, or wandering at random pour so destroirs over the fairer regions of the Continent. Mysterious, shambling, crab-fashioned Richard Fairthorn, with that dulcet Zauberflote of his, with the war bling notes of which he chases away for a while the woeful memories of the Saul of Politics. Francis Vance, the bright-eyed artist, certainly in time to become a Royal Academician. Lionel Haughton, the young hero of the book, f ran k, man ly, unso phisticated, a kind of a more able Young Squire Hszledean, with an eye, like Young Hazledeau, for the army as hiv profesaion. Cobbler Merle, of Willow Lane—the honest humbug ! with his magic crystal and his astrological predictions. Manager Rugg*, with an ever lively ambition to compass the taking at last of the York Theatre. Excdlient, child-like Josiah Hat topp, the mayor of G test oro', with his Fidus Achates the form of watchful Mr, Williams. Samuel Adolphus Poole, beforemen tioned—" a would-be hawk with a pigeon's liver ; a would-be sportsman with a cockney's nurture." Aristocratic Colonel Morley, "the real fine gentle mau," and that broad contrast to him, " the mock fine gentleman," the villain of the tale, Jasper Lonely —in heart a rascal ; in apparel resplendent, in person handsome, in bearing self-possessed—yet after all what Lionel bluntly calls " a snob," though our author confesses of hiss that he was withal " a magnificent man— one of royal nature's life-guardsmen." As for the female characters simultaneously pourtrayed, while they are fewer in number they are, if possible, yet more strikingly contrasted than the male charac ters just enumerated. With the Countess of Montfort, at the present moment, we have only the moat distant bowing acquaintance. Yet we cannot but feel that her ladyship is destined to appear in some of the subsequent chapters of the romance rather conspicuously. With the pretty widow, Mistress Jessica Naughton, mother of Lionel, we are more intimately acquainted, and we very much fear that familiarity here also has brought about its usual consequence—contempt. Several minor dunces flit across the scene at intervals ; such for example as the stately and haughty, yet joyous and sprightly, Lady Selina Vipont, who has such a charming glance of commendation to bestow on those pretty sprigs on that horrid coloured print down at Richmond. Or, thrifty Mrs. Sauuders, the cottager, whose humble lodgers take away with them the glor from her grate and the sun beam from the pane of her lattice. Or, again, simple, red-elbowed, horny-handed Bridgett Greggs, the London housemaid. Above all. there are the two chief female characters in " What will he do with it I" whose names have not yet been mentioned. One as yet but a child, pretty, graceful, intelligent, more than intelligent, gifted, little Sophy ; designated euphoniously on the playbills Julia Aramints. A. child still, yet one so charmingly precocious that already she has awakened in the susceptible heart of Lionel the first tender thrills of the master passion. Seeing her, he floats in a world of deli cious dreams, over the moonlit waters of the Thames. It is the old, old story, told again to us bewitchingly. It is the echo of the sweet words of the refrain of Metaatasio— " 0 bells Vonore, Madre d'Amore g 0 bells Yeller°, Cho sole lei Placer E degli Doi." Wondrously different from pretty Sophy is the other hinted personage in petticoats, that grins " horse godmother" (as the phrase is, whatever the phrase may mean)—Mother Oran*, Arabella Crane, seemingly upon many occasions the evil genius, but in reality the good genius of that ar rant vagabond Jasper Losely, for whom her poet woman's heart has a strange, gentle, humanisiof weakness. Such, in brief, are the dramatispersore l moving to and fro here upon the stage, having shelf fitful exits and entrances, their dialogues sad their soliloquies, thee, au' prises and o°,l equivoques, in part after part of " What iirl" oe do with it 1" We are watching the Pr° tress of the Donative with eager interest and curiosity, wondering often in regard to each of the fortunes here recounted by the novelist—WWl will be do with it Marvelling most of all may have been the imputed ()rime, in r eality _BIP, agonising misfortune of poor old ' Gran . Waite What may be the significance of that costly pocket-book of Losely's I—a pocket - book " Sae. danapalus would not have given to himself." Whet the meaning of those tender wordy - worked in gold thread upon the silken lining I " Souviens-toi do it Gabrielle 1" Who this Gabrielle may be 1 What may be the secret family grief of Guy Darrell 1.•—• driving him into seclusion from his " pride of pl4ce" as orator and statesman. What m ay be the source of the evident interest taken in the name 03 Lady Montfort by Arabella Crane and Jell" Losely 1 Above all, in regard to pretty little Soplll. we aro disposed to wonder as Hood did over the " One More Unfortunate"— " Who was her father, Who was her mother, Has she a sister, Has she a brother r Wor the solution of all which bewildering double and difficultieethe readers of "What will be do with ii 1" now wait with delighted solicitude. SPORTING NOTES. THE GRIND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. The prospect is not cheering. A piercingly cold wind and a freezing atmosphere are not exactly suited to out. door pastimes. Still the great attraction which centres in the "Grand National" will render genuine sportsmen at least indifferent to the nipping frost and the eager air, and cause them to congregate at Aintree in large numbers. Nor, despite the iiclement weather, will the attendance of general company be small, for the jumpers have a strange fascination for all classes of people. Nothing which can be commanded by energy and untiring activity for the pro. motion of snort will be neglected by Mr. Topham, and whether the meeting bo celebrated under wind or snow the. ardour with which turfites will enter into the pursuit o f sport will be scarcely cooled. The " telegram' announces that the ground is in tolerably good order, and this state. went will remove any uneasiness which a probable Poll' ponement of - the sport excited. Until within th e last three weeks the betting on the St ee plechbel had been conducted with little briskness, bookmaker s as ° backers, like the ghost of murdered Banquo, having 130 speculation in their eyes. Lately operations, however; have been resumed in earnest, and, if their range has la % been very extensive, they have at least been effective, 11u. to a certain extent profitable. The unvarying "PP " which has been conceded to Little TOM is a plain indica. tiou that he has satisfied his party of his ability toil across country. He commenced his jumping the hunting field; his style of topping his fences was * of general admiration amongst the followers a Sir _ Bert's hounds. His many achievements on the fiat h** . _ placed his racing ability beyond a question, and if he ger safely landed on the brook it will be a c..se of catch who can. Although Little Tom has 'peen for some under the tuition of Ben. Land, at Ascot, ho must still R. considered ai belonging to the Epsom lot, and h. is Or* tainly the pet of the division. Still the Epsoinites bJ" not lost all faith in Hughes's h, , rses, and they exP e .., °l one of them will prove the most dangerous of Litil educati? ow. Tom's opponents. The Brewer has of late encounter*" such determined hostility that the partiality whic h I Sf: entertained for him must now be bestowed this even t last companion, Treachery, who ran third for this year. She is a slapping, fine mare, and 12 0 j u g s Ph Zdelit lities will enable her to take care of herself. A.". ,;"b e of the Shire will find his impost e. s t oppe r, for he will unable to concede weight to those animals handicaPPl tinier 13st. Morgan Rattler will not greatly dieapPVL hi s party, or betray the trust rep osed in him. WI winning at Reading showed that he can " jnuip a bit," and only his tumble—which was almost inevitable, owing i° the pace he was going over such a break.neek course—Pr i : vented his .a n ,b e entbeatingl ni n knockededh ab t vi h is e positionnoa uo n m e t a x a n plase expectations, o ta p sac p ttai o hop s ene e s d ,kl li t bna o uoic h tkk i e m hot ni L E ohoonulbit t ß ß h a a e: n n black h m a hays unhesitatingly selected him as en° ; l i e f ggC s champions. Harry Lorrequer, who i s tra i a hi S aa Aintree, may ran well, but I do not • thin ionitsve good enough to win. The French him faith in Jean du Queens, but I do not expect t"" obtain a more forward position than he did last year. , Huntsman will be unable to renew the triumphs °Jas. Ireland over this course. So many horses, hows"r9 d will- put in an appearance, of such slender chances, Ando well are their " antecedents" known, that I shal l " tr Sir to the part they are likely to play in the " G r t n t d o t ee tional." Should ,no accident occur, I shall expect the first places filled by To AND TRIACREIY. Should the y ybe placed h ors de combat, I wadi fall ', tne— el upon" MORGAN RATTLER and KNIC3RT o 8 VIZ To depend upon animals which we have 500 .4 ° Pf th. figure respectably i 4 always advisable at this pe.,.. °-- o °. fog year. I shall, therefore, select Gammon mad ita,!' -- wia the Spring Cup. Either Joyease or Tomboy ought tontro the Tyro Stakes, and Loukothea or Woonmite the A i _ of Plate. For the Handicap Plate of 301. Old Tom is t130 . , 1 0 noteworthy, and he may not only win that event, bat " Plate" on the following day. According to his reo P i . r . at Lincoln and Nottingham, the only difficulty -treanA mulin ought to experience in the Sefton Handiesf i rr . FRESH bo the difficulty of losing. LATEST CITY BETTING. —SATURDAY. LIVRII2OOL sTERPLECHARR. 11 to 1 agst Kni g ht of the Shire (taker)) 15 to 2 aget L ittle Tom (taken) 13 to 1 agst Harry Lorrequer (taker)) 15 to 1 ag et Treachery 6 a g.,,t Morgan Rattler 1 agst The Brewer (taken) 1 Agit Abd-el-KaderkeP) 1 20:0 t 0 00 0 10 to 1 aget Escape and Lo uu(ghßeelot 00 upiel (I) ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL . Little Charley, Joe Graham, Black Bess, ft 4 ttl ro rgan. 40 Lorrequor, Odd Trick , Ga mmon, Mo„,. Treachery, Moire Antique, Leukothia, atuQur, Term ally, and ioyottio.