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ASTLEYA ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. trnder the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, and their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Priaeess Royal. Grand routine of Holiday Entertainments, THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries. MRS, MABERLY'S " LEONTINE." In 3 vols post Bvo. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ILaILWAY SHAKES BY PUBLIC SALE. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public far their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TWESDAT and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post later the sale, ant the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HER ➢IAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 2, Will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, In Font :Parts, entitled, I LOMBARDI : ALLA PRIMA CROCIA CA. With new scenery, dresses, Re.; the scenery by Mr. Marshall. Grlselda, Madame Grisi; Sofia, Madame Bellini ; Viclinda, Mdlle. Corbarl; Oronte, Signor Mario; Arvin.), Signor ; Pirro, Sig. Botelli ; Acciano, Sig. Giubilei ; Pagano, Sig. Fornasari. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Deshayes, re-arranged in Three Tableaux, by M. Perrot, the Music by M. Cssta, entitled, ALMA ; ou, La Fille du Feu. Perephite, M. Perrot ; Balfegor, M. Gosselin ; Emszor, M. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully In formed that there will be an EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY NEXT, JUNE 4, When will be performed Mozart's chef d'ceuvre , IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grist ; Donna Elvira, Mdl e, Sanchioli ; Zerlina, Madame Caste ' lan Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari l ; Leo- Com porello, Signor Lablache ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; I mendatore, Signor Botelli ; Don Ottavio, Signor M ario. With various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. Comprising the talent of Mdlles. Cerito, Taglioni, Moncelet, DeDi - melisse, Cassan, and Lucile Gratin ; Perrot, Gosselin, /tattle, and St. Leon. Applications for boxes, stalls, an d tickets to be made at the b o x "Ice , Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. Triz.ATR E TR a t IA E L V , EN IT N II G RY-LANE. Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Romani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Strett,on, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROI7SE ; or, The Desolate Island. Principal characters by Madlle. Louise, Madame Giubilei, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. To conclude with the second Act of the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. Duke of Silesia, M. Mathis; Hilarion, Mr. W. ;11. Payne ; Prince of Courland, Mr. Howell ; Wilfrid, M. Adrien ; Giselle, Mdlle. Sall ; Mirtha, %Mlle. Louise ; Princess Bathilde, Mdlle. St. Louin ; Bertha, Mrs. Payne ; Principal Willis, Mesdames Adele and Ginbilel. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS Will be performed the Comedy of JOHN BULL Peregrine, Mr. Stuart ; Hon. Tom Shuffieton, Mr. Roll ; Job Thornbury, Mr. W. /inen ; Dennis Brulgruddery, Mr. Hudson; Dan, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Brulgruddery, Mrs. Glover; Lady Caroline Braymore, Miss Julia Bennett; Mary Thornbury, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the overtures, " Cenerentola," and " Due d'Olonne," the " St. James's Polka," " Philomel Walzer," and the " Chatsworth Quadrilles." After which (by desire), a Comic Drama, entitled USED UF. Messrs. Webster, Brindal, J. Bland, Howe ; Miss Bennett and Mrs. Bumby will sustain the principal characters. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstene, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Three New Pieces for Whitsnn Holidays. Another brilliant Triumph ! " Robin Hood and Richard Coeur de Lion" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comic Drama, is Two Acts, founded on a recent well-known event, called THE DUST MAN'S BELLE. Principal characters by M essrs. Keeley, Diddear, Meadows, F. Vining, Kinloch ; Miss Villars, and Mrs. Keeley. After which a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, Kinloch, and Bellingham ; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, and Miss Forster. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St , rtling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD C(EUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI THIS EVENING Will be performed a rieiVDraniaTeniiiied THE MEMOIRS OF AN UMBRELLA ; or, The Silent Observer. In which Messrs. Lambert, Howe, Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, R. Ryan, P. Bedford, Selby; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. F. Mathews, &c., will perform. After which, the interesting Drama, entitled THE CABIN BOY. In which Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, &c., will appear. To be followed by the Burlesque, entitled PETER WILKI),IS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. PRHCCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Last Week but One of Mr. MACREADY performing in London. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Historical Play, in five Acts, entitled THE KING OF THE COMMONS. James V. of Scotland, Mr. Macready; Sir Adam Weir, Mr. Ryder ; George Weir, Mr. Cooper ; Malcolm Young, Mr. Murray ; Laird Small, Mr. Compton ; Mungo Small, Mr. Oxberry ; Lord Kilmaurs, Mr. Roxby ; Madeline Weir, Mrs. Stirling ; Widow Barton, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with DON C)ESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Vfallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. THIS EVENING "Will be perfbrmed the New Military Spectacle, realising our recent Triumphs, called THE SIKHS' INVASION ; or, The NS , ar In India. New and popular SCENES of -the CIRCLE, by the numerous troupe of British and Foreign Artistes ; double stud, &c. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in stating, that in obedience to the wishes of several of his patrons and heads of families, he has made arrangements to give, during the ensuing holidays, four mid day performances, the first of which will take place on THURS DAY, June 4, and each succeeding Thursday until the number are complete ; on which occasion the Entertainments will be precisely the same as those so recently performed by royal command, and so highly eulogised by her most gracious Majesty. The representations will each day commence at two o'clock. Mr. Batty begs to announce, that he has entered into an en gagement with the celebrated GENERAL TOM THUMB, who will appear in the Drama of " Hop o' my Thumb," at this Theatre, on Monday, June 8, and during the Week. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Great attraaro;i7The - celicratedartists, Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews for a limited number of nights. A new Grand Spec tacle, with new scenery, dresses, and real water. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. C. Mathews. After which, THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. In which Madame Testes and Mr. C. Mathews will appear. To conclude with THE DARK FALCON; or, The Magic Goblet. Characters by Messrs. Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop ; Mesdames H. Vining, Martin, Hughes, Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Varied and attractive Novelties for the Whitsuntide Holidays. THIS EVENING, " Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, called THE FLIT TI2CG DAY ; or, The Trials of an English Farmer. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, Higgie, Fredericks, Tindell, Raymond, Searle, Burton , Howard ; Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c. After which, a new laughable Burletta, entitled LITTLE AN NOYANCES ; or, The Miseries of Human Life. Supported by Messrs. Howard, Fredericks, Miss Terry, and Miss Treble (her first appearance). To conclude with THE HUT OF THE RED MOUNTAINS ; or, Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life. Supported by the entire company. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EYERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place: produced under the direction of Mr. Denson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. In addition to the other attractions of the Gardens will be exhi. bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, approached by the Illumi nated Gothic Bridge, representing in the Isterior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Sonthby, are on the Most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the :Sun. Mons. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him, and ',ear him to his chrystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen dlilly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at five ; the Pelicans, &c., at half-past five ; Concert at six; ands he Eruption at dusk. Admission, Is. RAILWAY SUN THE IS NOW PUBLISHING. PRICE (TO SUBSCRIBERS) SIXPENCE. THE WEATHER„—Stas OFFICE, Mey 30, THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 70; Noon, 70, BAROMETZIt, 30.25.—W1ND S.W.; fine. MAY 31. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 54; Highest. 71; Noon, 70, B ARO METER, 30.25.—W1ND, S.W., fine. H1)11 WATER AT LODOS-BR F. IDG THIS DAY. Morning •• 16 minutes after 6. E 1 verting .. 40 minutes after 6. sure to themselves the attention of the public. In that speech the last scintillations of rationality upon the 1 question of perpetuating the corn-laws will be recog nised ; and, although those scintillations be both fitful and futile, they will continue for some considerable period to attract the observation of posterity, as exemplars of the real ground upon which the Noble Lord's party maintained the advisability of continuing the commercial imposts levied by our ancestors. Clever, however, as the man- . ner and arrangement of Lord STANLEY'S harangue' unquestionably is, there is such a flimsiness about the proposition which he therein endeavours to uphold, such a barley-sugar instability about the fabric which he advances as the only one suitable for the com merce of Great Britain, that the predominant sentiment excited during a perusal of the harangue is that of wonder at such sagacity of defini tion being linked with such obtuseness in the scheme defined. Had the allusions been restricted to the corn regulations of ancient Rome, the Noble Lord's oration would, beyond a doubt, have entitled him to the medal for rhetoric at Harrow ; but, as treating of the Mer cantile affairs of England, and that, moreover, in the middle of the nineteenth century, it must be regarded as rather derogatory to his character as a statesman. The ingenuity of the logician was his; but the sound and mellow wisdom of the politician was wanting. What the speech acqaired in lingual embellishment it lost in sagacity of perception and in solidity of reasoning. These characteristics are applicable, moreover, in a variable degree to the other speakers in the Upper House in favour of restrictions upon importation. But what we are inclined the more particularly to com mend in the discussion of the Peers is the sobriety of tone, for which it was throughout remarkable. They displayed in the very generalities of their manner an appreciation of the momentous nature of the proposed changes ; they expressly notified it as no party measure, but rather as ono involving the welfare, more or less, of every individual of the com munity ; and hence they have treated it with propor tionate respect. The superficial indications of this fact I are numerous ; the brevity of the debate, the avoidance of unnecessary personalities, and the subjugation of many exciting considerations being among the number. There is, however, one other peculiarity in the discussion which will not fail to elicit general remark, and it is a peculiarity which tends very consi derably to place the upholders and the opposers of the question in strong contrast. It cannot have been alto gether overlooked that throughout the four months of earnest discussion upon the policy of remodelling our commercial code, the free-trade Members to a single man, from the Premier and the representative for Stockport downwards to the least noticeable among their supporters, have avoided—most scrupulously avoided—anything like an appeal to the passions of Parliament or the people, through the medium of elo quence in diction or brilliancy in illustration. They have confined themselves to the mere utterance of facts, to the mere quotation of figures ; they have placed the matter before their hearers in the simplest light conceivable, stripped it of all adventitious attractions, and looked upon it themselves in its naked actuality. What, on the opposite side, has been the behaviour of the protectionist speakers ? Simplicity— brevity—quietude ? Nothing of the kind. One and all have striven to cover the real meagreness and poverty of their principle in a splendour of rhetoric and an actual gaudiness of talent. Every mere tricious ornament of scholarship has been called in to the enforcement and embellishment of their theory. Lord GEORGE BENTINCIE, by an ostentation of unex pected ability ; Mr. DISRAELI, by the increased liveliness of his sarcasms and a greater effer vescence in his fancy ; even Mr. SEYMER, by a kind of spasmodic struggle for Parliamentary renown ; but, above all, incomparably above all, Lord STANLEY, by a forced display of all his most showy and seductive powers as an orator and a debater. The difference alto gether between the protectionists and free-traders is most striking, and the deduction to be drawn from it most conclusive. The former have dealt in fictions, the latter in facts. It has been a most disproportioned battle, the belligerents on one side employing merely flowers and weeds as their weapons of assault ; those on the other giant blocks of granite. The flowers will fade away and decay, the granite will remain, immutable. Viewing the matter simply in this light, the whereabouts of right and wrong are manifest ; and the consequences of the discussion are threefold— the nominal advocates of agricultural prosperity have escaped a very great responsibility, the well-wishers of the messure have performed their duty nobly, and the wishes of the people have been so far complied with, in the legislative approval of free trade. The great, the vitally important question of the day, the discussion of which consumed so much time in the House of Commons, has had its principle affirmed and the fiat of the hereditary branch of the Legislature re corded in its favour, after a debate„of three nights' con tinuance ; and, in justice to that august assembly, we must say, that hacknied and threadbare as the subject most undoubtedly had become, there was more of novelty, more brilliant eloquence, more sterling know ledge, and sound reasoning exhibited, than we could have supposed possible in the short period occupied. We may well be proud of the House of Lords ; they have evinced liberality and wisdom in the decision at which they have arrived—they have testified that no selfish consideration could induce them to reject that which the country at large had so loudly demanded ; they yielded gracefully to the popular voice. No doubt many of their Lordships have reasoned with such cogency as to satisfy themselves that the interests of manufactures and agriculture are not so antagonistic in their nature as the monopolists have, for party purposes, attempted to establish, but that with the prosperity of the former the latter will also thrive and fructify ; but many must have been misled by the specious arguments used on the protectionist side, and fancied that, as landowners, the) would be heavy pecuniary sufferers by the adoption of these measures, and yet they had sufficient patriotism and honesty to disregard such a consideration, and re gister their votes on the side of their country, of truth, and of justice. Their Lordships also knew that the question was one properly appertaining to the other House. The people can only be taxed by the voice of their representatives is one of the soundest maxims of constitutional law. And where a ques tion involving the taxation of millions of every single inhabitant of the British nation, which falls with as great severity on the poorest artizan or labourer as the wealthiest man in the kingdom —comes to their Lordships sanctioned by a vast majority of tae representatives of the people, they world have shown themselves strangely forgetful of their proper position had they sought to maintain that of which the people had temperately but firmly demanded the abolition. It would be invidious to select any single speech as deserving peculiar praise where all on the Ministerial side were brilliant and effective, and reflected in. creased lustre on the distinguished Noblemen by whom they were delivered. We cannot, how ever, pass by that of the Earl of CLARENDON, without tendering to his Lordship the tribute of our warmest admiration, of our profound respect. His Lord ship took just credit to himself for the undeviating con sistency with which he had ever warned their Lordships rte Ministry otc w th ll e e d o t h e t at he had c on s ci e ntiously believed to be the evils ocin st m, b u a from t the the unjust same andti time u z n e w al o o r u t s h l; defend imputations with whi c h t h ey had been assailed ; and in a manner, honourable alik e to h i mself and to those who had formerly been his political rivals, removed thesi grn t sought to be affixed to their public charact ers . fli s Lordship a said, " Whatever had influenced the Gover nment i n pro• posing it, he rejoiced in the introduction of the measure, and almost as much in the wisdom and justice of the avowals and arguments by which those who had been hitherto opposed to such a measure had supported it in the long ordeal it had undergone elsewhere." He then ably proved that this was not a party measure, that it was o ne with respect to which opinion had undergone more modifications than any other within the last thirty years. Coul d t h e protectionist party say that they wou ld take on themselves the responsibilities of o ffi ce, an d maintain the present law, or were the prepared to y make any cha n g e • Would the y not now gladly accept t he duty of Bs., which they had scornfully likely to lead to revolution rejected five yea rs a g o as h d been raised against and ruin ? All the opposition a the Minister more tha n ag ainst the me asure. And the in vectives poured upon Sir R. PEEL proved that lie was of party, and influenced by higher views th an those of his that if he forfeited the good -will and supportfriends, he did it for that whi ch was of higher import ance to his country's good. This was, indeed, the truth, and well worthy of the cheers which its enuncia tion elicited from their Lordships. We have repeatedly borne our testimony to the strength of the conviction, the sincerity and purity of the motives, wbich must have actuated the Prime Minister when adopting a course by which he separated and disunited a great party, of which he was the acknowledged leader; by which he dissolved ties which had grown up during a series of years, and ex posed himself to reproaches and imputations which would be intolerable to any but a man of the highest mental capacity, aided and supported by a conscience at peace with itself, and thoroughly convinced of the vast bene fit he was about to confer upon his country by the ex trhordiary sacrifice 9; which he had rewind and it must be highly gratifying to that able and honest Mi nister to find such true appreciation of his conduct so the worthy representati ve o f a g ti r m ac e e - honoured avowed by ouredname, who permitted no feelings of former hostility or differences to withhold the honest acknowledgment of his sense of the honour and integrity of the course pursued. His Lord ship clearly showed the absolute necessity of some course being adopted to stay the progress of starvation, and its attendant evils of disease and turbulence, in Ireland; and the admission of one of the leading protectionists —of the man who bad been selected as one of the leaders of the party in the other House—that the mere appre hension of such a scarcity would have justi fied the opening of the Irish ports. And if they had been opened what must have been the effect while the trade was free be tween the two countries ; and what guarantee could have been given to have restored or maintained the law against the force of public opinion after such an opening? He then showed the fallacy of the statement that the party were taken by surprise, by showing the tendency and direction of the measures introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet for the last four years, and that during that period he had spoken a language which could not be mistaken by any save those wiling to deceive themselves, a language perfectly intelligible to all. There was no instance in which protection had been withdrawn which had produced a disadvantage to the producer or consumer. The watchword of the party had been changed from protection to agriculture to protection to native industry, but that protec tion was repudiated by those on whose behalf it was demanded. The labourers could not be benefited, for their condition unfortunately could not be worse under any system than it was at the present moment. It was impossible, then, the labourer could sink lower in the social scale ; and he therefore could have no interest in protection. The tenants who, without skill, money, or edu cation, took a quantity of land, might want protection to save them from their own incapacity. That argument was to make progress wait upon ignorance, and was as valid for the spade against the plough as the distaff against the spinning jenny ; but with the good farmer, the man of skill and intelligence, it would only promote a healthy stimulus. His Lordship clearly showed that we should meet hostile tariffs with free trade—that all negotiation with foreign rowers on the subject must fail. Whenever there was a treaty, one side or the other would think they were over-reached, and seek to dissolve the arrange ment. Let England do what was wise and pru dent, and other countries would speedily follow the example. He pointed out the vast increase in our exports to Germany and France, illustrating and confirming his arguments, and the futility of pro hibitions to keep out articles required by the people, the only effect of which was a vast increase in smug gling. Restrictions upon trade were rapidly crumbling away, and would soon be forgotten amongst other anti quated systems. To promote free trade was to carry into effect the law of GOD. Freedom of commercial in— tercourse was a policy which gave and received the best guarantees for the preservation of that inestimable blessing, peace. We heartily commend his Lordship's admirable speech to the attentive perusal of persons of every class in society, and we are thoroughly convinced that there is no one, who will calmly weigh and con sider the principles stated therein, who will not be benefited thereby, and become better acquainted with the great question in all its bearings. Intelligence from Cracow has been received at Berlin, which states that a tribunal, composed of Russian, Prussian, and Austrian jurisconsults, had been formed for the trial of the prisoners implicated in the late in surrection. They are to be tried according to the Austrian criminal code. The incorporation of Cracow with Austria is by many considered as a probable event. A letter from Lisbon, dated May Bth, says that the CABRAL Ministry is at an end in Portugal. The Minis ters on the 17th tendered their resignation to the QUEEN, which was accepted. Her MAJESTY has charged Count VILLA REAL, whose son is chief of the revo lutionary junta of Tras-os-Montez, with the formation of a new Cabinet. It was, however, the general opinion that the efforts of Count VILLA REAL would prove un successful, in which case the Duke of PALMELLA would probably be called on by the QUEEN to form a Ministry. JosE CABRAL had returned to Lisbon from Oporto, where several conflicts had taken place between the troops and the people, which ended in the greater part of the army fraternizing with the revolutionists. Madrid papers of the 23d have arrived. It was ru moured that a Spanish army was to advance to the frontiers of Portugal. MADRID BoLsA, MAY 23.—The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse, on the 23d, at 331 for cash. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. They all comment on the speech of M. TRIERS in the Chamber of Deputies on the preceding day, which may be considered as the manifesto of the Opposition for the approaching elections. The speech, which professed to give a history of France from 1830 up to the present moment, was in the latter portion of it a voluble and showy attack on the policy of the French Ministry. The following are the observations of the Journal des Dibcas on the inconsistencies exhibited by M.THrEas "M. Thiers is so ranch a stranger to principles, that he did not even appear to suspect that the policy which he at tacks at present is precisely that which he defended in the first and most glorious years of his ministerial life! For him the whole history of these 15 years is divided into two phases. All was well in the first—M. Thiers was then Minister; the Opposition was wrong; it attacked M. Thiers. All is bad in the second; M. Thiers is no longer Minister; the Opposition is right ; it attacks M. Guizot." The republican National thus comments on the speech of M. THLERS:—" There is nothing changed in the policy, which is the same to-day as when M. TRIERS directed it. This general review of the acts of the system, therefore, the more it overwhelms M. GIIIZOT, the more it accuses M. TRIERS. As regards his criti cisms on Marshal (the President of the Council), we do not think it very generous of him to wage war against a veteran retained in the country on account of his health." On Thursday, M. GrazoT, in a long and eloquent speech, defended the policy of the Government, and had not concluded when the post left. The journals publish at length the report of M. FRANK CARRE in the case Of LECO3ITE. IBRAHIM PAcRA is to leave Paris on the sth of June for London. The National says that the Cabinet (I( oi led on Tues day that the elections should take place on the Ist of August. The T a h t ree n p 9 e f r . C Goc en . t ; s. c o lo rl s e e a d ns at ß B a 4 i f fro s ad c. ; sh t a h r e es, F l iv ,2 6, 3s p f er ; C ts e . , Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c. ; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 736 f. 25c. • Avignon, 870 f. ; Vierzon, 622 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 608 f. 75 c . ; Boulogne, 487 f. 50c. ; Basle, 213 f. 75c.; Fampoux, 419 f.; Paris and Strasburgh, 503 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes. 519 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 540 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%. The following are the quotations in the new lines : Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 515 f. LYONS, MAY 26.—Marseilles and Avignon, 898 E 75c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,235 E ; Rouen, 1,022 E 50c.; Lyons, 536 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 632 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 745 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Dutch Rhenish, 7%—Louvain and Jemappe, I %—Luxembourg, 1" 1 / 8 —Namur and Liege, 3j, —Orleans and Vierzen, 14'4—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6—Sambre and Meuse, s—Tours and Nantes Constituted, SN. On Saturday, important intelligence was received from the Cape of Good Hope. The latest date we have seen is April, brought by the ship Gloriana. War had . been declared by Governor Maitland against Sandilli, Tola Botman, and the Gaika tribes generally, or such as were in strict alliance with them, and the Governor himself had proceeded to the frontier to take the com mand of the troops in person. The citizens of Graham's town and other places had been enrolled and armed, and nothing short of the signal punishment of the Kafirs was expected, so excited were the colonists by their constant and increasing depredations. Governor Maitland had published a lengthy manifesto, setting forth the immediate cause of the war, and the general necessity for it. As regards the former, it was the rescue from a small British escort of two or three Kafir prisoners, by an armed body of twenty or thirty of their countrymen, some lives being lost on both sides. The outrage was committed between Beaufort and Graham's Town, and is said to have been actually planned by Tola and Botman on the market place of Beaufort. The next ad vices from the colony will be most anxiously looked for here. Sir Robert Peel, left town on Saturday to join Th Lady l Peel ion . andßaronet family, returns Drayton Manor, Staffordshire i t s o the metropolis on Wednesday Viscount and I V . redountess Palmerston left Carltoni next. ay for Broadlands, the Noble • House-terrace on Sat; Via count's seat near Romsey, Hants. Rome announce the death in that The Right theßel V gi t a s ia - The last letters fronaßo city of the Baron Vanden m Steen de Jehak, R th i r N ee k dlr.— Saturday, and EpreviousNT Minister Plenipotentiary. - On Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, has been the neighbourhood of excitement, in consequence of te violenteen the scene of great dur E in j g Ec tfi l e ! exertions made to eject the tenants of a house in Gate.street 'f he parties in p ossession have l ived there' near forthe chapel. se and, it is said , rent free. A shor t time since, however, years, claim was set up by other parties, and the matter went a be fore the magistra tes, but no settlement was come to. It is understood the h ouse was represented to be dangerous. An attempt has been made to compel the occupiers to give up possession, by taking off the o pulli out the windows, and the flooring ; androfinstead ng of removing the rub breaking up bish it is left in the interior in a heap, with scarcely any.. thing but the bare walls standing. The tenant and hi s family have taken possession of the only place of shelter left, which is the passage, and declare they will stay, tho ug h the Place tarablg about their ears. rt. " , s . h l i, t t '6` 10 . -'..., • 4 ~, 50,12.2;:.:41' , . ,-- t , 1-,,.. -, ... „Al% . 14- tv .c.!s -- „A. . 1 ,- .,,L6, 0 *Az1f ~. .1: .1 A. ..i, • ‘ 111,:> 1 •,. 7 .- ,* \ . , tlt,=::. -- ••,, ,„ ' ' . r • ' f " ' - .. I, ''' ' ' , •K l iiV44 - 4,-,_ ____ aormin LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE i, 1846. After a generation or so has passed away, and when the struggle of free trade has been fully consummated in the perfect development of its operation, the people will undoubtedly recur to the late discussions in Parlia ment with a more solemn and thoughtful interest than that with which they are regarded at present. In the full flush of so glorious an achievement, it is indeed almost beyond possibility to divest ourselves sufficiently of a par tiality fur speculations on the future, to scan, with an attentive eye to detail, the multifarious sentiments which have been advanced by our legislators. Of the arguments employed by the discomfited section in the Commons little more will be thought then inasmuch a s they indicate the excitement then paramount among the self-elected champions of a pro tected agriculture ; for, with reference to the statistics introduced in favour of the now -exploded sys tem, they were so fantastically specious, so miserably mai. a-droit, and so built up upon rotten premises, as to deserve nothing better than a passport to oblivion. It is in the temperate, ardent, and singularly able address of Lord SUNIZT that bits very old-Legi9uod party v 41114- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY _MORNING, JUNE 1, 1846 , PORTUGAL. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDOX, MAY 30.—. Wind at noon, S.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. RAMSGATE, MAY 29.—Wind S.E., Valhalla, Griffith, New York. DEAL, MAY 29.—Wind N.E. to E.N.E. and S.E.,mode rate.—Arrd. Colon, Rasadillo, Havannah ; her ajesty's ship, Nautilus, on a cruize. Arrd. from the river and sailed, Pandora, Cothey, Sydney, New South Wales; Teazer, Medhurst. Trinidad; Elizabeth, Midwinter, Grenada; Per severance, Bennett, St. John's, New Brunswick. COWES, MAT 29.—Wind light and variable.—Warwick, Weeks, Havannah and Matanzas. OFF PLYMOUTH, MAY 28.—Maidstone, Nash, Madras Dart, Newton, Madeira. OFF THE LIZARD, MAY 25.—Creole, Colford, Dominica. NEWPORT, MAY 29.—Sid. Abagun Finney, Boston. LIVERPOOL, MAY 29.—Wind N.N. W.—SId. Louisa Jane, Christian, Monte Video • Ellen Jenkinson , H enderson, Africa; Albert, Bryan, Belize ; Ocean, Willard, New York; John and Thomas, Moore, Newfoundland. DUNBAR, MAY 28.—S1d. Sterling, G or don, St. John's, New Brunswick. CLYDE, MAY 28 .—Sid. Clansman, peck, New York; Akbar, Giles, Mauritius ; James Dunlop, Howie, Honduras; lanthe, Hunter, Montreal. DUBLIN, MAY 28.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Sarah, Fletcher, St. John's, New Brunswick. M A Y 28 _Wind N.W.—Sld. Sarah, Quebec. LIMERICK, RY MAY 18.—Merchant, Clark, Philadelphia LONDONDER ; Fanny, Quinn, Philadelphia ; 19th, Levant, Faulk, Phila delphia ; 26th, Mary Campbell, Berger, St John's, N. B. English travellers visiting Paris at this season will be glad to know that strangers are admitted to see Marsh-al Soult's famous collection of Spanish pictures, during the Marshal's absence from the capital. An order of admission is obtained by addressing a letter to M. de Tinan or M. Col son, at the Hotel de Dalmatie, or t o th e off i ce of the Mirligte ofWar. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester called yesterday at Buckingham Palace, to inquire after the health of the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain Gordon. The inquiries after her Majesty's health, by the No bility and Gentry, were very numerous both yesterday and Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, took an airing in the pleasure grounds of Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice rode out in an open carriage on Satur day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Royal Family took their usual airings yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town on Saturday morning, for her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Her Royal Highness proceeded in the afternoon to Bushy House, Bushy-park, and visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager. The Royal Duchess returned to Clarence House, St. James's, in the evening. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Mr. Edmond Mildmay was in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. B. Mildmay, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Cunynghame had an interview with Mr. Secretary Gladstone, on Saturday, at the Co lonial-office. The Portuguese Minister transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commissioners had a meeting on Saturday, at the office in Whitehall place. There were present—Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor, and Sir Frederick Smith. The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. Sir H. M•Leod had an interview on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Gladstone. Dispatches from the Governors of New South Wales and Gibraltar were received on Saturday at the Colo nial-office. The Duke of Wellington has left town for Strath fieldsaye. _ _ _ Sir R. Peel left town on Saturday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison had a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in Great Stanhope-street. The Duke of Rutland and Lords Ingestre and G. Paulet attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helnaore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jeff. Among the nobility present were the Duke and Duchess of Beaucort; Ladies Wilton, St. Germans. So- merset, and Ernest Bruce; Lords Bessborough, Gosford, St. Germans, Ebrington, Cantalupe, Canterbury, and Ernest Bruce. The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach the sermon on Sunday next in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL. _ _ _ Since the Mayor's announcement in the Council, on Tuesday, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert had signified his intention to visit Liverpool, some progress has been made with the preliminary arrangements. The committee appointed for this purpose corsist of the aldermen, with power to add to their number such other members of the Council as may be most likely to aid in the deliberations with their experience and advice. The days named as having been fixed for the Prince's visit have been the 30th and the 31st of July; but the probability is that it will be postponed for a week longer, and for this very essential reason, that about mid-day on the 30th we shall not have high water at this port. His Royal Highness will, of course, be anxious to sail about the harbour and to enjoy the magnificent sights ob servable on both sides of the Mersey, and for him to do so at low water would not merely render embarkation inconvenient, but it would also materially detract from the beauty of the surrounding scene. It has, therefore, been deemed advisable to suggest to the Prince, that a postponement of the visit until the following week, the first in August, would confer an additional favour, and, at the same time, to explain to him the causes which have induced the committee to make the suggestion. We have very little doubt that his Royal Highness will immediately recognise the propriety of it, and that, if the one week will suit his convenience as well as the other, the first week in August will be fixed upon for the royal visit. The committee have hitherto been principally endeavouring to make a selection as to the apartments which the Prince and his suite will occupy. Four esta blishments seem to be the only ones in and around Liver pool which would be likely to answer. The first is the Town-hall, the second the Judges' lodgings, the third the Adelphi Hotel, and the fourth Knowsley-hall, the seat of the Earl of Derby. Mr. Radley offered, in the handsomest manner, to place a wing of his splen did hotel, the Adelphi, entirely at the disposal of the committee for the occasion, and, in order that the Prince and his suite might enjoy perfect tranquillity, he suggested the placing of barricades round the adjacent streets, six of which lead to the hotel, in order to pre vent the passing and repassing of carriages in those directions during the nigbt. We believe, however, that the committee will not accept the offer, and that they have abandoned all idea of the Judges' lodgings, as those lodgings are not merely inconvenient, but the locality at that end of St. Anne-street is by no means very attractive. State apartments in the Town-hall could, and we understand would, be fitted up by London upholsterers in the very best style, but for some intimation which has been given that the Prince will honour Knowsley-hall with his presence during his brief stay. Until the return of the Mayor from London, where he is making arrangements with Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, and Colonel Anson relative to the visit, it will be impossible to learn whether the Earl of Derby will have this honour conferred upon him ; but, from what we learned on Saturday, we think it highly pro bable that he will. We may observe, in passing, that Croxteth Hall, the neighbouring seat to Knowsley, is being newly fitted up at present, and that, should the Prince decide upon going to Knowsley, he will most likely visit the Earl and Countess of Sefton, at Crox teth. Several suggestions, we perceive, are being made by our contemporaries as to what ought to be done during the Prince's stay ; such, for instance, as the holi days that should be given, and the banquets and balls which should take place ; but we have so much confi dence in the taste and judgment of the committee that we prefer leaving all the details in their hands, under standing, as we do, that no expense will be spared to render the occasion worthy of the town, and of the dis tinguished guest who is coming amongst us.—Liverpool Albion.. THE REV. DR. WOLFF AND GENE- RAL JOCHMUS. Constantinople, March 16, 1846. Sir,—Amongst other absurdities and fabrications in the book on your fool's errand to Bukhara (for such must be called your expedition, after you had full means of ascertaining both in Constantinople or in Teheren that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly were, unfortu nately both dead), I am told that you have stated, that I am a Jew by descent or religion. If I were in Christian Europe I should certainly good humouredly smile at your opinion, or accept, without personal inconvenience, your pretended extension of Mr. D'lsraeli's theory in "Coningsby," on the Hebrew origin of such great and distinguished men as Count d'Arnim, Count Cancrin, Marshals Soult and Messena, M. Mendi zabel, and others; but in the East the question is dif ferent, for there the condition of the Hebrew implies still an inferiority of race and caste. _ I am no religious fanatic; on the contrary, I duly pay an equal outward respect to all creeds; but I merely will not be represented as belonging to a nation which in some countries is still kept in an unjust state of civil and social inferiority. I have therefore been obliged to stop the circulation of foolish and false reports, by taking here publicly a measure of a very serious nature; and I now most positively demand that you shall publicly retract your above assertion. It is superflous to reason with you on another fabrica tion, that I (a Ferick Pasha of the Ottoman armies) should have seriously offered you to march, with the as sistance of the British Government, against the holy city of Bokhara, in order, probably, that you might play a Peter the Hermit., tooYwouelrl character e d o f as h f a b t u t ff h o i s o a n t a a t e n ni d e o half sh o h o y l p d o r e o r i ci t u e e s any grave contradiction. Dr. (S JOCIIMUS, Lieu t.- General. To. West Port, Al neT2d VEan ai4ort, 1846 Somersetshiro, L My, . irdays which,ag oaletter purpo r ti ng to ha I confess, I suspect to be a holdsforgery, for the high rank of Lieutenant- General a S vo h—eL receivedwrittev bya few d it is impossible that a gentl eman, a nd ono who you, h d of Ferick Pasha, should ever dream of offering an insult n to a clergyman who isincapacitated by his pro fession from resenting it. You must be aware that such an act would be con sidered derogatory not only in a British officer, but even (in the present advance towards civilisation) in a Turkish officer ; more especially as I have spoken in my work with the greatest respect of your person on ac count of your bravery in Syria, Spain, and Greece. Should, however, the letter be yours, I am quite wil ling to publish it, with my answer, in the newspapers, as well as in my fourth edition, and I will also acknow ledge that I was perfectly misled by yonr outward appearance and accent in considering you one of the chosen people of God, one of the blessed sons of Abra ham, one of the sons of Gideon and Samson, whose politeness and gentleness are proverbial. Until I have the honour of receiving an answer to this letter, I sign myself, your Excellency's humble servant, JOS. WOLFF. To Lieutenant-General Jochmus, Pasha of the Ottoman empire, &c., &c, COURT CIRCULAR. BURFOAD'S PANORAMA OF THE No bulletin of the Queen's health was issued either BATTLE OF SOBRAON. yesterday or on Saturday, owing to the very favourable Time was— state of her Majesty. 1 "In our young days, when George the Third was King," Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her that Panoramas of Battles were all the rage, and the Majesty yesterday. Battles of Vittoria and Waterloo and Algiers were all His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal High- exhibiting at one and the same time. In 1817, however, ness the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of (Panorama loquitur) the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine , "A change came o'er the spirit of my dream," service yesterday morning in the private chapel, Buck. , and fields (not tented) and cities (not beseiged) have ingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay ; formed the staple commodity of public pictorial exhibi officiated. 1 tions. Diorama, from the beginning a F.A S., intruded with its peaceful modern antiques in that year on the domain of Panorama, and even Panorama from that period eschewed all blood-colours, such as scarlet, and consuming its own smoke, like a civilised de nizen of a civilised community, became to all out • ward appearance a member of the Peace Socie The spirit of glory in Panorama was scotchea: not killed, and the dispatches of Sir Hugh Gough and Sir Henry Hardinge, detailing the glorious vie tory of Sohraon, awakened Panorama, from its peaceful dreams, and behold we have a glorious Panorama of the old school—the Panorama of the Battle of Sobrson. When we say a Panorama of the old school—the phrase must be taken cum granis, for this is in reality a Tes t improvement upon tho Battle Panoramas of the ohi school. They were mere representations of ti melee of men in splendid uniforms, arranged in all sorts of impossible positions, and falling about in all manner of inconceivable attitudes. As to scenery and background, the artist troubled hin: - self little about such matters, for he kept up such s furious cannonade, and enveloped the whole affair in such clouds of smoke that there was actually " no need for such vanities." Mr. Burford, however, has not acted on this plan. He has taken his view of the battle just at one point of time, namely, when the British, having silenced the Seikh batteries, had forced their way into the entrench ments, were driving the flying enemy into the river, con sequently there is very little smoke to cloud the prospect, and as the view is supposed to be taken from an eminence within the Seikh entrenchment, we have the background beautifully painted by Mr. Burford, on the one side the distant Country from which the British art: advary cing, and on the other the river Sutlej, with the towns and villages of the Punjaub in the distance. The British army is represent e d as a d vanc i ng i n t o the entret .. ments, and driving the Seikhs in a hand-to-hand com bat across the river. In one part we have vividly repre . - sented the fall of the lamented Sir Robert Dick, wbo is in the act of cheering on his men as he is struck by a• grape-shot, and in the opposite portion the flight of the Seikhs across the bridge and the ford, exposed to the de structive fire of the British artillery. The picturesque costumes of the Siekh troops have afforded Mr. Selons an admirable opportunity for showing his powers of colouring, of which he has most judiciously availed . . himself. - The whole picture is instinct with life, and altogether it is the most stirring and interesting pano _ ram that has been exhibited of late years. DUTCH MAIL. AMSTERDAM, MAY 7. His Majesty arrived here from the Hague, by a special train, and soon afterwards pro- . ceeded by the henish Raiwa on his journe to Wei" mar. His Maje ß sty will go l from y, Arnheim to Dusseldorf. by the Lion steamer. APPELDOOM, MAY 27.—His Royal Highness th e Prince of Orange returned to the Loo yestert3sl afternoon. SNEEK, MAY 26.—With respect to the extremely earir maturity of the produtions of the earth this year, W 6 may mention that in this district the farmers have begat' to cut down the hay ; but in the neighbouring Wollde end all the hay is already got in. TIIE HAGUE, MAY 29.—1 n a number of the 27th e' this month, we published a decree of the Governor-. General of the Dutch Indian possessions of the 26th o February last, relative to the organisation of the Govern; ment of Borneo, as well as the preamble stating t h grounds for that decree. The same decree gives at Br ea length the territorial division of the island. The west coast of Borneo comprises the two rest dencies of Sambas and Pontianak. Sambas comprises the territory on the coast from Tanjong Datoc to Or . mouth of the Soengie Doerie, and the following islands depending on it. (The names of thirteen island are hers given.) Under the denomination of Sambas only th e empire of that name is comprehended, The Residenal Pontianak comprises the coast from th e mouth of the. - Soengie Doerie to Mount Periampoeng a l (on the east coast), whi c h f orms t h e f ront i er betwe en Mattam and Kottawaringin, and thence direct tO the sell' About 100 islands belong to it. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. NEW YORK, MAY 15.—During the last five er sib days the whole country has been in a state of high e "., ; citement in relation to the Mexican war, which has tually commenced. The Mexican army crossed the o io . s. del Norte, near General Taylor's post, opposite Nl s moros. Their force is variously represented, but t l 2:_; . , ciently strong, if nothing more, to render General T. lor's position not only precarious, but, in his opiel?'.; and the opinion of his officers, such that it became 11 , i _ duty to remain inactive within the temporary had thrown up until he should receive reinforcetzle nts. Previous to the Mexicans crossing the Rio del .N° I. TA Colonel Cross, an American o ffi cer, had been murder`T„ within three or four miles of his camp. After two three days' search his body was found. A scouting; party, under the command of a cavalry of fi cer, was sea s out to reconnoitre. The party consisted of about seventy men. They fell in with a Mexican corps, whose force works De they did not know until an action was commenced, when it appeared that the Mexican force numbered 200 or 300. Fifteen or sixteen of the Americans were killed or wounded, and the residue of the command captured , ' with the exception of the commanding officer, Captain Thornton, and two or three privates. As soon as Cap" tail Thornton discovered his hopeless situation, h e dashed upon the enemy, and cut his way through the n: /; returning the next day in safety to the camp, with 01 privates. These details reached Washington on Saturday etvell.: ing, the 9th inst. On Sunday a Cabinet Council 1 ,, 1 7 held, and the House Military Committee also convetli They prepared, and on Monday morning reported, a to accept and call into service for 12 months 150,00 0 lunteers, and a Bill appropriating 10,000,000 dollars; meet the expenses. The se Bill s p asse d the House Monday, the 11th, and the Senate on Tuesday, the lt„, inst. Everything was immediately p u t in a state of 7; :i tire preparation. General Taylor had previously ea l ce , upon Louisiana and other adj acen t stat e s for reinfot ments, which were pressing forward with great alacri.q: As you will find in the journals of the day the de" bates m both Houses of Congress on the war mer it sage, it is deemed unnecessary to refer to them P: detail. You will perceive, however, th a t th e VirbT n, party, to a man, denied the existence of war betwoe' Mexico and the United States, and made a strenu exertion to strike out the p ream bl e , w hi c h avai l , the fact ; but all such eff or t s were unava ili ng. the Whigs were opposed to an assumption that th: two countries were actually in a state of war, t he ; i f were perfectly willin g t o vo t e any num b er o f m en, a, e l amount of money, that the P res id en t m i g h t d ee m sary and ask of Congress. A word as to the prese n t p os iti on o f affairs. T h e t 1 party, by the movements of th e M ex i cans , h a ve obtalm,,,,ie a triumph. Whether that triumph is, or is not, t e o . temporary, is very questionable. Certain it is, h er y ever, that the friends of peace were defeated on ° l t trial. Not to admit the fact would be to e vince a w tbe of candour. For the two days (the 11th and 12th), it ir Locofoco party, even in the Senate, rallied nearly whole force; and so formidable did they consider the- selves, that they became almost frantic with exultatie:is On reviewing this state of things, the question pre 10 itself—will the democratic party, after their fiery ze e c eo cooled down, continue, as they now ar e on the Me—a ri of war question, united, or nearly so, or will a portiel i th ie th,na resume the position they occupied the Ist of • 0 , month, as the friends of peace ? I hope they will ;,, 0 tinue as the friends of peace, but I have great misgic l on this point. And here let me remark, that alth e„„ls 7, i t the Oregon question is in no way avowedly coon e , ,cor. with the Mexican war, yet indirectly it will have e or ing upon it, especially if the Mexicans should be co ", a pletely and promptly overwhelmed, of which there 1 to great probability. I consider this war inauspiciellaveo an amicable adjustment of pending difficulties betty Great Britain and the United StateF. • ais' From the remarks which were made during thi s bt, cussion, in both Houses of Congress, I have no dot t_ . , and t gi e v i e nur as soon as General Taylor recei e ve ed s tihnet t ;o he be nec in es c s a ar a Y: et i b i :e . forcements, he will cross the Rio del Norte m- The xico, Mexican army battle, if they remain in ester a If they do not, be will pursue volunteers will insist upon proc they are defeated and so n te u n p n o o c w o e n r d to i unconditional r s c u e b i m t. i submission , suspension of hostinti rallying, They will li . s es t ewil e e t u r t, uesspesassthatto. short of absolute and almost: t G h e in n g er i a n l d T ic a a y te lo s r t p h OSs b California will . I s ure be forgotten in A Nor am a :bo t th lien and money, t ea a ce between Mexico and the i d if negotiationhaP for The rageemigration to California is rep_„,' States. • g in the Western States. spreading It is, therefore , c; Bible that for the purpose of settling all claims of be United States and her citizens, this Government may' r .cs 0 disposed to purchase from Mexico There ehaver n abundance is one fo r other topic I will briefly notice A n „ theire r that district country, may have observed in some 0' the .4% gt can journals hints that the British Government : 1 , - s 1 he bottom of the movement of the Mexican .d . po assure you that great efforts are making to /MI re o' *pot the public mind of this country that the British ar e o ta' nishing the Mexicans with money to carry on the to cl paign which has just openel. I do not believe itv o3o o! I have so stated on different occasions. But the r il „ t tbla has a deleterious influence, being well calculated, power,Me Inew_le's.e: crisis, to create prejudices and unkind feelings. o r,t We have no further intelligence from the preeem_ A hot of war, or of the situation of General Taylor eur„,ief army, than was received at Washington re e e n ec; V i s 6 t ,.. l l o og evening, the 9th, and referred to in the p , he of this letter, which I will not seal until near 1 , of the departure of the mail for Boston. ,_ in g tha t The President has issued a proclamation d eems _lio el war exists between the United States and the rep Mexico. ere ° :Nothing O thin ,?r hoe' g re i g n on the qu le e a s s t t io d n e , degree t o h f e in p te en re d s i t ng in , i ta i e e e b ti l between Great Britain and the Uni ted les to _, occurred since the date of my last letter.thi: t t o n ei l , a and expected by the friends of peace' lt be teild ceiving the notice a pacific proposition wi by the British Government. A GENEVESE TRAVELLED —Times. THE lIAY - h i"/ARvEsi, NEAR LoNDON.___TUe hay bare vest near the metropolis has been commenced during,eo past week, and several fields in the vicinity of d and Highgate have been cut, the grasz being g" -- CQ Idm aid Dowt arbuuda►ats DOWNFAL OF THE COSTA CABRAL MINISTRY. GENERAL INSURRECTION. We have received most important intelligence from Portugal, announcing :the downfal of the Cabral Mi nistry, and a general insurrection throughout the country. Public excitement was at its greatest height, and all classes were in consternation and alarm. Count Villa de Real was sent for by the Queen to form a Mi nistry, but in which he failed. The Duke de Palmella was thin commissioned to undertake the arduous and responsible duty, but had not succeeded when these ac counts came away : however, he had not abandoned the hope of accomplishing the important object. LISBON, MAY 19.—Every coming moment is so fraught with interest, that I think it is as well to begin at once noting down the occurrences which have taken place hitherto, in order to have more time for the narration of whatever may turn up between this and the closing of the mail at eight, A.M., to-morrow. The tenor of my letter of the 10th inst. must in some degree have prepared your readers for the announcement I have now to make, which is nothing less than the downfal of the Costa Cabral Ministry t the shadow of this approach ing event had been perceptible for some days before ; for al though the official journals daily announced the defeat and disperson of the insurgents, facts had come to light which plainly showed that the insurrection, on the contrary, must have been gaining ground. It was known that young Villa Real, a son of Count Villa Real, had put himself at the head of a large body of armed peasants, and taken possession of the town of Villa Real, in the province of Tras os Montez, whence his father's title is derived ; that•another body of malcontents had surprised and disarmed a strong detachment of troops at Amarante, and, by making themselves masters of the bridge over the Douro, at that town, had opened a communication with the Minho insurgents ; and that the movement had extended through other parts of Tras os Montez. Besides which, the progress of the insurrection, and the alarm with which it was viewed by the Government, were indirectly acknowledged in a royal order which ap peared in the course of the week_ in the Dimrio, stating; that as it was necessary to recruit the ranks of the army immediately, a bounty of one moidore (about 235.) would be given to every discharged soldier who volunteered to rejoin hi s reg i men t an d serve for six months longer, and an allowance of one vinten a day extra pay, to every soldier who having a right to his dis chaige should forego it for the same period. Notwithstand ing all this, the Lisbon public was completely taken by sur prise, when, on Sunday morning the Oporto steamer came over the bar, having on board, evidently as a runaway, the Minister of Justice, M. Jose Cabral, the very individual who so shortly before has been sent to that city armed with the most ample and unrestricted dictatorial authority. As the Government has been in sole possession of all the channels of information, and few, if any, private letters containing poli tical intelligence have been allowed to reach their address, it is very difficult to come at the exact truth of what has been going forward in the provinces. As far, however, as 1 have been able to learn, it appears that the flame of in surrection spread rapidly from the Minho all over Tras os Montez, in which latter province alone about eight thousand men were in arms, under the direction of a junta composed of the most influential of its proprietors, in cluding young Villa R ea l, a nd that the commander f the military division, Viscount Vinhaes, seeing the formidable array, and observing an evident disinclination on the part of his soldiers to act against the people, entered into negotia tions with the junta, the result of which was an agreement to a suspension of hostilities for six days, to await the Queen's answer to the demands of the insurgents, which were—the dismissal of the Costa Cabral Ministry, and the repeal of all taxes upon labour. On receipt of this unwelcome intelli gence, and perceiving unequivocal symptoms of a revulsion of popular feeling against him is the city of Oporto, M. Jose Cabral thought it prudent to make a precipitate retreat ; and the "Duque do Porto" having been kept in readiness with her steam up, he stole quidly on board during the night, and when daylight came the redoubtable Dictator was non inventus. This step, on his part, it is said, was acce lerated by the receipt of communications from the other military commanders under his orders, all of which con curred in showing that the soldiers, sympathising with the people in the sufferings which had driven them into insur rection, were not disposed to act against them, especially as the detachment of troops which had been surprised and dis armed at different places, had been kindly treated, and dis missed without personal injury or even the slightest re proach. In a few hours after the arrival of J. Cabral in this city, a council of Ministers was held, at which it was resolved that they should tender their resignations, not only on account of what I have stated above, but like wise because intelligence equally alarming had meanwhile been received from other quarters, the people having risen at Figueira, Guarda, and other places in Beira, overpower ing and disarming the troops there stationed, and a general outbreak throughout Alemtejo and Algarve being every moment expected. On the following day (yesterday) Costa Cabral went to the Chamber of Deputies, where he announced that he and his colleagues had given up their portefeuilles, and that Count Villa Real had been charged by the Queen with the task of forming a new Cabinet; having said which he withdrew, without having given any explanation as to the motives of his retirement from office. At the Chamber of Peers a similar announcement was made by Count Villa Real, who stated that it was his wish to form a mixed administration composed of men of different parties, but that he saw much difficulty in the way of its accomplishment. Thus matters stand at present. The general opinion is, that Villa Real will not succeed in his undertaking ; or, should he be successful, such a Cabinet as he will be disposed to form van not satisfy the demands of the people, nor tend in the least to quell insurrection. The great evil from which the population of Portugal are striving to free themselves, is the burden of taxation which has been imposed upon them for the purpose of paying the interest on the enormous debt contracted in settling the pre sent dynasty on the throne ; and as under any Ministry de termined to keep faith with the public creditors, the necessity for this burden must continue to exist, there will probably be no peace in the country, now that the people have begun to know their own strength, until the load is lightened by throwing the foreign portion of the debt overboard. The posts expected yesterday from Alemtejo and Algarve did not come; whence it is to be inferred that outbreaks have taken place there too. Here everything wears an ap pearance of agitation. All the guards are strengthened, and the soldiers are furnished with 60 rounds of ball cartridge. Reports are afloat of pronunciamientos in several places in this province; amongst others at Santarem, and even Villa Franca, which latter is only twenty miles from this city. The reigning Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg arrived here on Friday, and were received with all due honours. MAY 20.—8 y an order from Lord Howard de Walden, the packet, which was to have started at eight A.m., has been detained till four o'clock this evening. Count Villa Real having failed in his attempt to form a new Administration, the Queen sent yesterday for the Duke of Palmella, who being at his country residence on the south of the Tagus, did not arrive in town till late in the afternoon. He has undertaken the task, but as yet nothing positive is known as to the result of his endeavours. M. A. de Car valho is spoken of as the person most likely to take the Finance Department, and Fonseca Magalhaes that of Fo reign Affairs. The Duke, it is said, wishes to form a coalition Cabinet of Chartists and Septembrists, and has made over tures to two of the latter party, Viscount Sada Bandeira and Silva Sanches. This, however, is only one out of a multitude of reports afloat ; but I hope before the mail closes to be able to ascertain the real fact. One thing which seems very pro bable, however, is that whatever Ministry Palmello may contrive to form will be of very short duration. The present movement is not the mere striving of one faction against another : it is a great nation uprising against oppression ; and the multitudes now in arms, will not allow themselves to be cajoled into submission by the substitution of one set of men for another. Depend upon it, a thorough revolution is at hand, and the charter which Costa Cabral restored by a military coup de main four years ago, will soon have to give way once more to the popular constitution of 1838, or to some other constitution yet to be made. The National Guard will again be set up, and the foreign debt will be got rid of—not by any formal act of repudiation, but by the quieter and equally effectual plan of non-payment of divi dends. _ _ The Oporto post is in, as well as those from other parts of the country. The whole population of the province of Beira has risen. A body of insurgents, computed at from 4,000 to 5,000 strong, have entered Coimbra, driving out the troops there stationed, who at first offered some resistance, but gave up the contest and retreated towards Oporto, on finding that the inhabitants of the town were against them. Coimbra is the seat of the University, and is about 70 miles south of Oporto, and 130 north of this city. Reports are in circulation of fresh outb rea k s i n a ll dire c tions, and by thi s time, no doubt, nearly th e w h o l e co untry is in a st a t e o f in surrection. In this city the ferment is constantly increasing. Placards exhorting the people not to rest satisfied with any thing short of a complete revolution, are openly stuck up at the corners of the streets, under the very noses of the guards and patriots, who dare not attempt to interfere; and yester day evening, at the Cafe Grec, on the Sodre Square, with in thirty yards of a guard-house, a number of young men were openly displaying pistols, poignards, and sword cases, with which they were prepared to begin the grand row intended, should anything but a purely Septembrist Ministry be chosen by the Queen. The object of these well whiskered youths, however, is very different from that of the provincial insurgents; the latter are striving to free them selves from tyranny—the former, merely to have a fresh scramble for the loaves and fishes. So strong is the feeling against the Cabral brothers in this city, that it is generally thought they will be off for England by the packet going to day. That they are in great " bodily fear" is evident from the fact of th e i r h av i ng s l e pt last night and the night before at the barracks of the municipal guard. I omitted to explain, in its proper place, that Count Villa Real and hi s son are o f o pposite parties, the father being a great friend to the Cabrals, and the son quite the reverse. P.S. Two P.31.—1t is said that the following are the per sons who have been invited by the Duke of Palmella to take office. It is much doubted that they will accept. Count Lavradio Foreign Affairs. M. A. Carvalho (Baron Chancellerios) Finance. Lousa Azevedo (a Miguelite) Justice. VisccaintSa da Bandeira ( a Septembrist) War. Publicc excitement becomes greater every moment ; no thing b u t a downright ultra m i n i stry, w i t h no t i t l e d men in it, will satisfy the people ; and a popular tumult is appre hended as soon as the expected transition Cabinet is an nounced. LISBON, lIIAT 20, TIIREE P.M. —I have just been informed that Count Tojal is to be offered the Finace Department, in stead of M. A. de Carvalho. Unfortunately there is no time to learn whether he will accept it or not. WINDSOR, FRlDAY.—lnstructions have been received at the Castle, from Buckingham Palace, for the Royal Stand at Ascot t o b e prepare d f or th e reception of the Prince Consort, it being his Royal Highness's intention to honour the ensuing races, accompanied by several royal and distin guished visitors, with his presence. Mr. O'Connell and Mr. William Smith O'Brien, having received an assurance from Sir Robert Peel that the second reading of the Irish Coercion Bill would not be pro posed before Monday evening, the Bth of June, left London •a Filthy morning to attend the weekly meeting o( the Repeal Association on Monday, and stimulate the Irish people to renewed exertions against the above measure. Some public demonstration of approval of the course pur sued by Mr. W. S. O'Brien in connexion with his recent iin prisonment, is contemplated by the Irish repeslers, and the committee of the Repeal Association have determined on reimbursing the Hon. Gentleman the amount of fees paid to the Sergeant-at-Arms. RAILWAIr young ma n , em ployed on the Croy dond and E psom line, had one of his legs completely crushe under the w h ee l s of a ballast waggon . H e was takeuto Guy's H osp i tal without delay, and atten d e d by Mr. E. Cock, nam A e c d c l l v nE ill N ia T m .— T T el li fr u e r y s , day morning a fin e who found it necessary to amputate the limb 141;09Y0 the kuee 'BO9ll Oiler tllO l' tic ac tou. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) In the Cot? on Market a fair business was done at Liver pool yesterday. Sales 5,000 to 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 to 1,500 were on speculation and for export. Shaies were much the same. The sale of Railway Shares by auction, by Messrs. La mond and Co., went off flatly, and buyers did not come for ward briskly, owing to its being Account-day. Great Indian Peninsula, 65.-Calcutta and St. George's Point, 6s. 6d.- Gloucester, Abervstwith, and Central Wales, 53. 6d.-South and Midland, 11. 45.-Bridgewater and Minehead, 10s.- Warwickshire and London, 11. 195.-Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, 11. ls.-Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries, 135.-Great Eastern and Western, 175.-Hull and Barnsley, 11. 65.-Oxford and Cambridge, 15s. 6d.-Reading, Guild ford, and Reigate, 165.-Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich Extension), V. 10s.-Ipswich and Bury St. Ed munds (Extension to Cambridge and Ely), 11. 10s.-North ampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 11. 4s. 6d.-Louvain a la Sambre, 11. 10s.-Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, 21.- Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth, 4/. ss. 6d.-North Kent, 1/. 7s. 6d.-Goole and Donc2ster, 11. 7s. 6d.-North Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries, 5/. 11s. 6d.-Madrid and Valencia, 1/. 25.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. 25.-Lon don and Manchester (Remington's), 155.-Leicester, Tam worth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent Valley, 11.65. 6d. The features in the Bank of ? England return for the week, to the 23d inst., are briefly these:- Notes issud Increase Rest increase ... 7,764 Public deposits increase 725,066 Other deposits decrease Seven day and other bills increase 7,333 Bull ion Increase The whole circulation of Great Britain to April 25. and for four weeks, was 39,024,1511., whereas in March it had. been 37,586,824/. The increase in England, therefore, was 1,232,3281., and in Scotland and Ireland 204,9991. The Bank of England returns we have given from week to week, but the private bank averages made up from the Gazsitte for the Bankers' Magazine, and included of coarse in the above estimate, give a total of 8,044,3631., or an increase of 352,3541. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to the beginning of April state that the affairs on the frontier are very threatening. The Governor had declared war against the Gaika tribes, on account of the as sassination of part of the escort, which was conveying a few Kafir and Hottentot prisoners to Graham's Town for trial. The troops and armed burghers were steadily advancing to the ceded territory, but Sandilli and his confederates were said to have retreated further into the interior. A serious conflict was expected, the Kafirs haying so long bearded the colony. The English Funds have been very quiet to-day, and are flat at yesterday's decline. Consols realise 96 1 % to % for present transfer, and 96% to 3 / 4 . Bank Stock is quoted 206%. The New Three- and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97 to %, and the Three per Cents. 95 to I A. A sale of Exche quer. bills has just reduced the premium to Bs. and 10s. The Foreign Stocks are heavy. Portuguese have fallen to 53 and 52 1 %, owing to the unfavourable news from Lisbon. Mexican Bonds have been 29 1 4 to %. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 37 to %. Shares have been flat again. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. . • .. .. • • 206% 206% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95% 95 95 9514 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96% % 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 97% 97 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 10% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9 15-16 10 10 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 27 p 27 p Consols for Account .. • • .. .. 96% % 96% Exchequer Bills. 1%11. 1 % d. 1,0001. - .. 8,10 - - pm. 10 Ditto. Small - 19 11 - - pm. 11 Ditto, Advertised - •• • • - - - - pm. 10 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .• 38% 38% Mexican Bonds, 13Z7, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 2914% 29% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. 154% 15% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 39 39 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 80 1 ,0 80 1 / 4 Ditto, 4 Der Cent .. • • .• •• 53% 53 Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 55 54 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent •• .. Ditto, for the Account .• .. .. 24 1 4 24 1 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 37 1 / 4 37 37 Ditto; for the Account .. .. 36% 36% Dividends on the above payable in London. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Aberdeen .. BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. Ditto New (issed at 7 1 %s dis.) .. 17% .. Buckinghamshire .. • • .. 425. .... % p...... .. Caledonian .. .. • . .. 10 .... ..... Ditto, Extension • • .. 2 1 4 ........., Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% % . Derby and Ci ewe .. . • .. 2% —.. • ..... 6% Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • ........ 3% Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 23 1 .. •• .. 23 1 Ditto New .. .. 8/. 165..... .. • 7p x d Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. — Ditto, ditto, .. ;No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. .. • • % p Ditto, York Extension 105..... 1 I , E Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 214 1% 1 % Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. .......... % dis. Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% ......... Great North of England . ..100 Ditto, New .. . Great Western .. 85 .. Ditto, Quarter Shares; 5 .... ....... Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .... Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 40 .... • Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. ...... •• .. dis Leicester and Bedford.. 225..... p.. • ..... 14 p Leicester, Tamworth, &c. • 425...., dis .. % Liverp., Manch., & Ncwc. Junct. 2% ..... 2 1 4 London an t Birmingham . • • 100 —227 228........228........228 Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 28% • ...... 28% Ditto Fifths .. 2 25 1 % 25% London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. ..... 7% London and Brighton .. -50 .. 65 % .. 65 % London and Croydon • • ..131. 15s 9d... 22 London and South-Western • . 411. 6s. 10d... Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 .... .......... 52 London and York .. 2 1 % • • 2% % • • • • • • .. 214 Manchester and Leeds .. .• 82 .• . Ditto, Fifths .. 3 ••• • . • 12% Ditto Extension 425. .. •• .... •• • • 2 3 4:p Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • ••. • • 1 p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... .•• • • • Midland .. • • .. ..100 ....150 .......... 148 1 ,E Ditto, New ~ • • .. 18 .• .. 31% 32 • • .... 31 1 ,4 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... •••• • • • _ • Ditto, New . .. 1 .... 9 1 % 9• . 9 Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 .... 44 .. • • ...... 44 25 Ditto, Half Shares .• .. 5 . ...... • North British .. .. • • 22 1 % • • 29% •• .. • 29% Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 8 1 % . 11 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11.4 .... 11% Ditto, Dalkeith 25 ••• • _ Ditto. ditto . • . 5 .... 6 .......... 6 North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% . ••••• 1% North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. • 3% p.... •• • • p Scottish Central .. . • . .. 10 .... .. •••- • . • • 16 Scottish Midland .. .. 10 .... ..... 7 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .......... Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1 1 ,E dis 1% dis. South Midland . • • • .. 425. .. % dis Warwickshire and London • . .. 425. .......... dig West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. •• .. 2 1 % , • 2 54 p Worcestr., Herefd., Ross, iti Glou. 425..... York and North Midland .. 50 98 1 % Do. E. and W. Biding Eaten.. • 1 ...• lIM . ll% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens . • • • •• 12 .... 11% .• .. ••• Dutch Rhenish • • • • .. 6 _ East Indian . 55. Great Indian Peninsular • • .. Ss. % Jersey .. • • • • .. 1 Namur and Liege • • .. .. 6 _ • Northern of France Constituted.. 5 •• .. 13% ... •_ . • Orleans and Vierzon .. 10 .• .. 14 •• • • Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. 6 .•..10 9% • ..• Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 5% 6.. Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... .. Sambre and Meuse .. • • • • 8 •• • • 5 % ••••• • • • • • West Flanders 125 31 1 4, P 11% 1% ........ 102% ••.•• • • q, MINES. 11% •••••••••• 7% British Iron .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... ••••• • • • . • Cobre Copper • • • . •. .. 40 .• .. 28 .... .•• • • • Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 3% ........ • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... ...... •• • • COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. MAY 26. Kestrel brigantine, Commodore the Earl of Yar borough, from a cruise off the island; Maud schooner, Tho mas Legh, Esq., from Lymington. SAILINGS. MAY 22. Frisk cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., for Cherbourg. 23. Caprice cutter, William Potts, Esq., for Kingstown, Ireland. 26. Kestrel brigantine, Commodore the Earl of Yarbo borough, for Plymouth. 28. Talisman cutter, Robert Meiklam, Esq., for Greenock. AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooner—Maud. Cutters—Turquoise, Witch, Gauntlet, Noran, Eudora, Whim, St. Margaret, Iris, Ganymede, Nymph. FITTING OUT IN COWES HARBOUR. Sparrowhawk cutter, Thomas Hallifax, Esq. ; Camilla schooner, Thomas Hallifax, jun., Esq. ; Will-o'-the-Wisp cutter, Captain C. H. Williams, R.N. ; Albatross cutter, Sir W. Gallwey, Bart. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lady Webster, at the Globe Hotel ; Sir Edmund and Lady Lacon, at the 7th cottage; Charles Deacon, Esq., and family, at the Bth cottage; Mrs. Blanchard, at the 9th cottage; Miss Minto, at Rosemount; Mr. Forbes, at Belmore House. The fine weather has caused an increased inquirrAfor fashionable residences, and there is every prospect of a full season. The Commodore, on returning from his cruise, was saluted from the Royal Yacht Squadron battery. His Lordship re turned the compliment. On his landing we noticed a marked improvement in his health since he embarked in the Kestrel. The Emperor of Russia's yacht, building here by Mr. Jo• seph White, is to be named the Queen Victoria, in compli ment to her Majesty.