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.........._-_- ........_ T HEA TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Bole Lessee and Manager, 31r. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, A. ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT : Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farrell ; MiswAda Cavendish. After which, T HE FAVOtf KITE OF FOR T Sz UNE : Mesames srs. Bother'', Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers,Mesd *Chippendale, Saville, Moore, Fitzwilliam, Hill, Lindley, &c. Concluding with A AU4EITER E 0 MARRY: Mr. W. Farren and l!dis tielen D Howard. Commence at Seven. -ROYAL trader the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Messrs. Horsman, Fitzpatrick, Clifford ; Mrs. Horsman, dze. To conclude with Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLE I'. Mr. Pechter; Messrs. Emery, Addison, Widdicomo, Vezin, Jor dan, Fitzpatrick, Horsman, Moreland, Westland, Gwynette, Norton, Clifford ; Mesdames Elsworthy, Henrade, and C. Leclorcq. Box Office open daily from Eltven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THROUGH FIRE AND WATER: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R Phillips, Billington ; Miss Woolgar and Miss H. Simms. After which, Bth time. a new Opera Bouffe, 4 stifled CRYING JENNY AND LAUG ki ING J 0 N Y. Mcssrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, 311 , 4 Furtado, Mrs A. Mellon. To conclude with THE WRECK Asllo NE :Messrs J. L. Toole, P. Beoford. Stuatt, Billington, Ashley ; bliss Woolgar And MISS U. R OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and :lianager, Mr. Geo. Vining:. THIS N vENING, A GHOST IN SPITE OF lIIIISELF. Alter which • at a quarter to Eight, THE S fREETS OF LO:s DON. Messrs. Vining. T. Mead, D. Murray, Shore, Villiers ; Mrs. H. Manion. Miss E. Barnett. and Miss K. Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. :_,wanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, PER N'E TION. After which will be produced a grand Easter Burlesque, PARIS ; or, Vive Le mpiere : Messrs. Stoyle, thorne,Jameb : Mesdames A. Swanborong,b, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, Rance, and bolt . To conclude with DEAF AS A POST : Mr. Belford. 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THEpplied LATES T EDITION o f "THE SUN " su, t a i °°ll aa published every Imening, by 41:ALEXAND-- 04 te aktOolis), Newspaper Agent , 24 ' Old Cavendish-street, Oxiord-street. THE LATEST EDITION of ‘, THE HOLMES begs to intone his triends and the pubite the„.• he supplies tho LATEsT Eurrtyli ot g.. 11 era • ur,N as soou as published —No. 16, ilarupstead r.;act, QPORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS suppli es th e 1.7 LAT co r .ST }1 tg ri of "Tlll , l 61. TN" as „ Jon , as pub- B a th-strt et, C it y -road, E.C. THE COURT CIRCULAR OF TEHERAN.—The of_ ficial journal of Teheran gives the subjoined report of a shooting party in which the Shah had taken part : " The royal personage who casts on the earth the shadow of God has passed very agreeably his time at the chase at Djadjround ; with the aid of God he killed 32 head of large game, and deigned to bring down a number of ,par tridges,c moor-hens, and pheasants. The g rand Sypachsa ar (Minister of War), who accompanied the great So vereign of Iran, obtained a remarkable distinction, forhis spa la3e . sty, who dispenses his grace and generos it y so gly, deigned to present him with a partridge with " 14 tnna hand." Yam.' HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tius DAY.—Morning, 9h. 52m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. To-Monnow.-Ilerning, 11h. Bm.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m. 4" i ntt ot LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1866. .-----^.O- . The in s peech of the renewed discussion up T uuth o e p Reformeug Bill came last evening as an anti climax. It being perfectly well known that the adjournment on Friday night had been moved by no less illlustrious an orator than Mr. BRIGHT, the House of Commons was yesterday, if possible, more densely crowded than upon any one of the five preceding nights devoted to this memorable discus- *non. At ten minutes to five o'clock the hon. mem- ber for Birmingham rose, and it was not until ten minutes to seven o'clock that he resumed his seat. So that during exactly two hours he occupied the attention of his hearers. Yet, fixed though that attention was upon every word that fell from his lips—it would be utterly impossible to say that he carried even a portion of his audience with him for two minutes together. His speech, as a speech, was in plain terms a dead- failure. It fell flatly upon the House from beginning to end. It never, even for the length of one single sentence, rose to anything like eloquence. The Great Tribune yf the People might just as well, perhaps better, so far as his reputation was concerned, have been stricken dumb. It is only fair to add, however, that during the chief part of the sezond hour his voice nearly entirely failed him. It was as if his argument stuck in his throat. With a suppressed emphasis that was at times almost pain ful to listen to, he was endeavouring to clear it— his throat, that is, never once his argument (which remained stifled and confused to the very close) — throughout the whole of the concluding pa ssages of his harangue, passages which can hardly be dignified with the name of a peroration. Added to all these glaring deficencies for once apparent in the very manner of Mr. BRIGHT'S expressing himself, he was distressingly at fault again and again in the way of bad taste, in the way of blunder ing into more than one gaucherie. For in stance, what possibly could be in worse taste than his remarking?—" I think it is a painful, and more than that, that it is a perilous thing when 'the heirs of two of the most ancient, wealthy, and powerful of the houses of the English nobility op- pose themselves to this moderate and just bill" o 1 the Government ! Those words, if they meant any thing at all, meant a threat only worthy of Jack Cade—not the thoughtful reasoning of an intellec- tual debater in a great legislative assembly ! The argument in fact thus expressed was uttered in very truth in the language not of the Senate, but, on the contrary, as Mr. WHrrEsiDE put it afterwards, in the language far rather of the Platform. In reality—is was no argument at all. It was simply a menace—a brutum fulmen ! Again— bearing in mind the grossly vulgar im putation that was cast forth, by the hon. member for Birmingham, in a certain letter of his published during the Easter recess— an imputation cast by him, like a splash of mud directed from the shovel of a scavenger, against a cluster of gentlemen and noblemen quite as honourable, quite as much above the reach of all such scurrilous imputations as himself—remembering, in point of fact, the coarseness of the epithet with which Mr. BRIGHT referred, in that notorious letter of his, to Earl GROSVENOR and Mr. LOWE, to Lord STANLEY and Mr. 11ORS11 AN 7 and to others, as so many dirty conspirators—it really and truly amounted to nothing less than a piece of consummate effrontery on the part of Mr. BRIGHT his coolly affecting last night to repel that dis graceful epithet, as though it had been originally directed not (as it was) by himself against Lord STANLEY, and those associated with Lord STANLEY, but—by Lord STANLEY against him the member for Birmingham ! Referring to the second reading of the so-called Conspiracy Bill, Mr. BRIGHT thin actually contrived to make bad worse :—" Before the second reading [of that Bill, the Conspiracy Bill] came on [said he], my right hon. friend the President of the Board of Trade gave notice of a resolution, which on debate, was car ried by the house ; the noble lord [meaning Lord i STANLEY] —certainly his friends — departing al to - 1 gether from their course on the first reading, j turned completely round on their own policy, sup ported my right hon. friend, went into the same lobby with us, and made a majority against the Government of Lord PALMERSTON." And he then went on to say last evening, with what we have but just designated nothing less, as it appears to us, un der the circumstances, than consummate effrontery —" If there were any conspiracy, it came from the other side of the house ; and if it was a dirty con. spiracy, the dirt was imported into it by the noble lord and his friends." Why—really—to hoar Mr. BRIGHT talking thus last evening, one might abso lutely have been led to suppose that that elegant epithet of " a dirty conspiracy" had come originally from the lips of ',Lord STANLEY! Whereas--as all the world knows—it fell (with dishonour to himself when using it) from the pen of Mr. BRIGHT ! And now, as we have seen, it has even been enhanced by Mr. BRIGHT in the grossness of its application ! A dirty con spiracy not being foul enough as a phrase, Mr. BRIGHT goes so far as to say that " the dirt was im ported into it [that is, into the conspiracy he is re ferring to] by the noble lord [Lord STANLEY] and his friends ! Nice language, that, certainly, for the British House of Commons ! A House that we are accustomed to look upon—and from no vain infatua tion, we believe —as about as noble an assemblage of gentlemen as there is in the world. Instead of having the grace, however—nay, we must go so far as to say in yet plainer terms than that, the simple decency—to recall that shameful phrase of a dirty conspiracy, and to apologise to the House f Com mons for ever having in a moment o f pass i on ap plied it to any among its members--Mr. BRIGHT, as we have just now seen, as we had the pain of hearing only last evening when these later words of his were spoken in the presence of the Speaker, and in the hushed silence of the assembled Commons of England, Mr. BRIGHT flung once more his own shameful words in the face of Lord STANLEY and in the faces of Lord STANLEY'S friends, remarking that that yet earlier conspiracy, that he. was talking about in regard to the so called Conspiracy Bill, was not only a dirty conspi racy, but had—(these are Mr. BRIGHT'S own words, remcmbr, words uttered by him as recently as Iyesterday)—" had the dirt imported into it b y the noble lord and his friends !" All which we are led to suppose, of course, is simply an expression o f Mr. B RIGHT ' S notion of what is meant by argu ment ! N o wonder, with such a sense strong upon him of the responsibilities of a debater—no wonder, we say, that Under the temporary cloud of such an hallucination —Mr. BRIGHT, although one of the most gifted orators that ever adorned the annals of a Legislature with the glory of his elo quence, for once delivered one of the most com plete and unmitigated failures in the shape of a lengthened Parliamentary harangue that we ever THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY 141V.V.',NING, APRIL 24, 1866. remember to have listened to within the walls of the Legislature. The intelligence which Lord CLARENDON last night communicated to the House of Lords will give general satisfaction. The case of the Abys sinian captives has long excited considerable indig nation, and also given rise to great, anxiety. The noble earl read a despatch that he had received from Colonel MEREIVETHER that day. A was dated Aden, March 28, and informed him that he had the honour to report that day the Victoria had re turned from Massowah, and brought news from Mr. RASSAM to the 7th of February, -which was dated from Ajair Muder, in South Abysinuia, stating that the EMPEROR gave him a most magnificent recep- tion. Indeed he went so far as to say that a " regularly-constituted Embassy from England could not have been treated with greater honour and attention." This is certainly a great change from what took place before, and the intelligence that follows is also very satisfactory. A few hours after his MAJESTY had given his first interview to Mr. RASSAM, he ordered the release of all the European prisoners, including the missionaries and the French men, and directed they should all be made over to Mr. RASSAM, who could take them out from Abyssinia with him, which place he was going to leave about the end of March. The KING sent his Chamberlain to Magdala to " unfetter the pri soners," and to bring them to meet Mr. RAssAm at Debra Tabor, where he was to proceed, and where, it was thought, he would receive the released cap tives at the end of February. The EMPEROR has written a most polite letter to the QUEEN, which Mr., RASSAM feels sure will please Her MAJESTY and the British nation. His MAJESTY has also made handsome preients to Mr. RAssA3r, and he is preparing more to give to the mission before leav ing the country. This was received at Massowah on the 18th March, and, therefore, with Colonel MEREWETHER, "We may expect to hear of Mr. RASSAM having at last met and received the released captives, on about the 10th or 12th pros., when the Victoria will again visit Massowah. Lord DERBY remarked that he regretted his noble and learned friend Lord CHELMSFORD was not there to hear the information, because he had taken so much interest in the subject. It will be a great relief to all who have studied the subject to hear of this satisfactory issue ; but at the same time, while we may rejoice that these unfortunate captives have been set at liberty before they sunk under their sufferings, we must declare that the evils that arose were mainly owing to the mismanagement of the Government at home. Of course it was unintentional on the part of her Majesty's Ministers, but they greatly aggra vated the misfortunes of these captives by their mis management. Indeed it is not going too far to say that they might never have been imprisoned at all had more discernment and discretion prevailed at the Foreign Office. Lord RUSSELL'S unhappy policy of meddling and muddling was carried out in Abyssinia as well as on the Continent of Europe, and with like unfavourable results. The noble lord ought to have made up his mind as to whether he would try force or reason, as to whether he would propitiate or intimidate, but as it was he did neither ; first of all treating the EMPEROR with great neglect and in civility, and then declaring that it was impossible to do anything, and that we could not go to war with the Abyssinians. He should have thought of that before he enraged and irritated the potentate to such a degree that he insulted the majesty of England by the injuries he inflicted on a representative of that country. The conduct of the Government respecting the EMPEROR'S letter was as unwise as it was ungracious, and their discourtesy brought great sufferings to the unhappy captives. We cannot in this instance say that all is men that ends well, because it can never be satisfactory to think that so great a disgrace has befallen this country as that its subjects should have languished in foreign dun geons, while the Government were either unable, or unwilling, to extricate them. At least let us hope that they may take warning from this un fortunate circumstance, and not again allow themselves to fall into such grievous errors. No doubt none regretted more deeply than the mem bers of the Administration themselves the sad state of things in Abyssinia, but that did not mend the matter when the harm was done. It is always a great mistake to offend the prejudices or to run counter to the wishes of those ignorant and infa tuated men who too often wield the destinies of foreign States and distant regions. The best rule to follow is to keep to the ordinary functions of diplomatic rules, and not to treat with indifference and contempt those who really require more ceremony than the rules of civilised countries. At any rate we are glad to think that a period has been put to the troubles of these captives, and we are sure that the public will rejoice to learn the satisfactory statement read last , night by the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. We have had much cause to fear a different issue to this affair many times lately, and therefore it is the more gratifying to receive such good news concerning the fate of those whose mis fortunes have given rise to so much regret through out the community. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FllO3l OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening. The great dispute between Austria and Prussia may now be considered as settled, or, at all events, such is the construction placed by the Journal des Debats upon the telegram announcing, after the Gazette de Bariene, that the proposal for disarma ment in the form presented by Austria has been accepted 'by the Cabinet of Berlin. For the mo ment I cannot confirm or contradict this report. The Moniteur is silent about it. A St. Petersburg journal states that the Russian Government is desirous to manifest as much indif ference as possible in reference to the attempted assassination of the Emperor. The would-be assas sin is to be tried by a secret • Military - commission, and on being found guilty, if the Emperor, con trary to the view he has exhibited of the attempt, should not pardon him, he will be executed privately in prison. In case the man's life should be spared, he will be condemned to perpetual imprisonment in a fortress. Upon his first examination he said his name was Alexis Petroi, that his age was 24, and that he is the son of a peasant of one of the Govern ments of the South. He was brought up at the public school shiandcenhoefifixneisdh o e f the rdeshi town idsenceo l r vhe h studies, e e fini r vpeioy e was yemare4s at b g : ob rn , ut ,and he has has travelled through various portions of the Russian empire. Prince Couza, the former Sovereign of Roumania, has arrived in Paris, and though wishing to pre served the incognito, he has been recognised by some of his countrymen while driving in the Bois de Boulogne and elsewhere. The races in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday were again very attractive. The Emperor and Empress and Prince oI Denmark were present. The betters were excited in consequence of its being known that several horses concerned in the Jockey Club prize would be in attendance. The following is the re sult : Prize d'Jena 2,000 for horses of 3 years old and upwards. Rabat Joie (L. Mennier) 1; Seducteur, belonging to Count Lagrange, 2. Amount of the prize, 2,400 f. The winner was claimed for 6,525 f. by M. A. Voisin. The owner is M. J. Moise. Prix de Bagatelle, 5,0001., for horses of 3-years old and upwards. 20 horses ran. Sultan was first, Quaker 2, Vagabonde (Count Lagrange) 3. Poule d'Essai, 5,000 f., added to a poule of I,ooof. each for ponies foaled in 1862. Puebla, 1; Mara vedis, 2 ; Rochefort, 3. Eighth Biennial Prize, 1865-1866, 5,000 f., for horses foaled in 1862.—Fumee, 1 ; Solitaire, 2 ; Mirliflor, 3. Betting, 6to 4 agst Fum6e. Amount of the prize, 7,875 f. ; I,ooof. to the second horse. Handicap 5,000 f., for horses of 4-yrs old and up wards :—Tourmalet, 1; Matamore, 2 ; Meli Melo, 3. Amount of the prize, 6,000 f. ; 500 f. to the second horse. The Siecle, remarking upon the present crisis as regards Austria and Prussia, makes some alarming comments upon the intentions of Russia. " Russia believes the time has arrived when she ought to abandon the policy of inaction. Large bodies of troops have been marched towards Bessarabia. It is estimated that 82,000 infantry, 12,000 horses, and 238 cannon are stationed along the interior of the country towards the extreme point in question. For some time the Russian Government, even in Russia, has been accused of weakness and of being desirous, like Austria, to satisfy various German provinces. The Gazette de Moscow, however, speaks more openly, and says that Russia is determined to adopt every means for the prompt and complete unity of the empire. We may, therefore, expect to see the speedy resumption of the plans which all the Czars have pursued since the time of Peter the Great, and which consist in uniting under the same laws, no matter by what means, the number of soldiers requisite to give them the empire of the world." The Siecle, after these remarks, calls upon the Conference of Paris to place an inaccessible barrier in the way of Russian ambition. _ _ The chief attention of the fashionable world at present is directed to the grand fete, which is to be given on Saturday next at the Hotel de Ville, in honour of the Prince of Denmark. The Emperor and Empress will be present. Baron Doyen, Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, has just died from malignant fever, after a very short illness. The baron had apartments at the Bank. His salary was 30,000 f. per annum, a comparatively small sum for an official occupying such a responsible position. _ _ . There has been avery serious and destructive fire at the village of Lahotevill3, about five miles from Paris. It took place at a candle raanufactory, and the inflammable materials burnt with great fury. The damage is estimated at £6,000. The Princess Frederick d'Augustenbourg has just given birth to a daughter, a circumstance which might not, under ordinary circumstances, excite attention, but at the present period it is not without interest. The Prince is the claimant of the sove reignty of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and in spite of the treaty of Gastein he has not abandoned his pretensions. The Prince d'Augus tenbourg is related to the Queen of England. He married ten years ago the Princess de Hohenlohe Langenbourg, whose mother, who is still living, is one of the daughters of Prince Enrich Charles de Linange and of the Princess Victoria of Saxe Cobourg, who, becoming a widow in 1814, was afterwards married to the Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria. Her Majesty is, therefore, a sister, by marriage, to the Princess de Hohenlohe- Langenbourg, and the aunt of the Princess de Augustenbourg, for whom she entertains great affection. The residence of the Prince d'Augusten bourg at Kiel, as may be known, gave great offence to Austria when the Prince went there about two years ago. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) P RUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 24. Yesterday the King of Prussia received the Rus sian Colonel Weymaren, who delivered to his Majesty an autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia. The electors of the third electoral district of Berlin held a meeting yesterday, which was numer ously attended. Resolutions were passed similar to those adopted at the meeting recently held in the other electoral districts, excepting the third paragraph concerning the convocation of a German Parliament. This para graph was amended as follows :—" The convocation of a Parliament, composed of members elected by universal suffrage, and endowed with full powers, is the first step towards the realisation of the inalien able right of the nation, that Germany should be united in power and liberty. The Prussian people, notwithstanding their internal conflicts, have never forgotten their duty to be the first to enter the lists in defence of their rights." SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 24. The Minister of Finance has received notification that the deposit for the New National Bank of Spain has been paid into the Bank of England. The Chamber of Deputies have appointed a com mittee to examine the Press law. PORTUGAL. LISBON, APRIL 24. A change of Ministry is considered probable, in which case it is said that the Duke de Louie will be entrusted with the formation of a new Cabinet. The Cortes will be closed on the Bth proximo. Senhor Julio Gomez is dead. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF PARIS. (Via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, APRIL 14, Morning. It is semi-officially announced that the State Department, in view of the Fenian agitation, has long since issued orders for the preservation of neutrality on the Northern borders. The United States' gunboat Winoski has been despatched to East Port. The British gunboat Pleiades put to sea from East Port on the 12th inst. It is rumoured, apparently without any founda ion, that her crew had mutinied. The Canadian Government received information that a raid on the Niagara frontier is imminent. Roberts opposed O'Mahony's demonstration against New Brunswick. The President has signed the Loan Bill. President Johnson has sent a message to Con gress embodying a report from Mr. Seward, to the effect that preparatory measures had been taken seasonably to send an adequate naval force to the fishing grounds in order to protect the interests of American citizens against unlawful violence. The State Department has reason to believe that there are at present no good grounds to apprehend a collision or the necessity for the employment of force. The attention of the President and the British Government have been directed to the question whether negotiation and legislation could be advan tageously employed to adjust the fisheries question. These measures are not sufficiently matured to render it necessary to take Congressional action. Mr. Stewart has introduced a resolution into the Senate, which has been referred to the Reconstruc tion Committee, proposing a constitutional amend ment prohibiting discrimination in matters of civil right, or suffrage, among the people on account of either race, colour, or previous condition of servi tude, repudiating the rebel debt, and ignoring all claims for emancipated slaves. The insurrectionary States ratifying these conditions to be admitted to Congress, and the people to be amnestied. The efforts to remove Mr. Davis, on a writ o: Habeas Corpus, have been abandoned. The rumours of an amnesty proclamation are denied, as the President is said to have stated that as the peace proclamation was simply a delineation of his policy, it did not terminate martial law in the insurrectionary States. The municipal elections throughout the country show increasing Democratic strength. COMMERCIAL. Money abundant. Gold 1261. Exchange on London, 1354 ; on Paris, 4.181. Stocks steady.— New York Centrals, 921 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 73i ; 5-20 United States' Bonds, 1031. Cotton held firmly.—Middling Upland, 38. Flour firmer, in moderate demand. Wheat very firm. Corn dull. Provisions heavy. Coffee and sugar dull. Mo lasses steady. Petroleum very dull.—Crude, 24 ; refined, 38. The week's receipts of cotton at New York amount to 11,000 bales. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 12. Cotton firm and active ; Low Middling, 34 to 36. MOBILE, APRIL 13. Cotton, 35. Week's sales, 7,000 ; week's receipts, 5,000. Exports, 16,000. Stock, 63,000 bales. MEXICO. Advices received here from Mexico, via New Orleans, announce that Coroza was besieging Mazatlan. He also held the mines at Sinalva, and was coining money on his own account. Intellegence from Vera Cruz, to the 27th ult., announces that a great fire had taken place in the City of Mexico, destroying $300,000 worth of pro perty. The Imperialists had been defeated by the Liberals in Coahiula, with the loss of 140 killed. One hundred Americans had invaded Sonora, osten sibly in pursuit of Indians. Their intentions were not positively known. The Imperial commander at Chilhuahua has shot three captured Liberal chiefs. CANADA. ST. JOHN'S, APRIL 13 The Governor of New Brunswick has uncondi• tionally accepted the resignation of the Anti. Federation Cabinet. No new Minitry is ye formed. VENETIA. BRESCIA, April 20 The Sentinella Bresciana publishes the following intelligence from Venetia, dated Ist inst. : " When the last levy was made the authorities only called upon the conscripts destined for the engineers and the artillery. Now, however, all the others are being summoned under arms. Yesterday orders were issued calling out the reserves, and requesting them to report themselves in the proper quarter on Saturday. It is not understood why the reserves should be called out before the other classes. The fact, however, is none the less certain, and has great importance. A pontoon train was despatched yesterday by rail to Padua. It is intended for Verona or Legnano. NAPLES, April 18. The Giornale di Napoli announces that fresh movements of troops towards Upper Italy are in preparation. At Brindisi 'and Tarente large quan tities of naval stores are being accumulated. Ac cording to the Gazzetta dille Romagne the ordinary goods service on all the lines of railway will be each usually reserved for the transport of Govern ment stores after the 20th inst. The military con tractors have received orders to hasten the comple tion of the Government work in hand as much as possible. ITALIAN MILITARY PREPARATIONS. MILAN, April 20. According to the Lombardia, orders have reached the military department of Milan to watch the line of the Po, and to make preparations for the expe ditious mobilisation, whenever necessary, of the regiments stationed in Lombardy. Particular in structions are also stated to have been given to General Durando, in the event of the Austrians re inforcing the line of the Po. The fortifications of Cremona have been commenced and are rapidly proceeded with. Orders have arrived at Paira to prepare all the artillery stores that will be necessary for the armament of Cremona. General Durand() is expected at Paira to make an inspection of the troops and fortification. The Generals on service in the military district of Milan have recently visited the garrisons and barracks of various towns in Lombardy. General Aribaldi Ghilini left this morning for Lodi and General Tranaini for Lecco. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 24. The 3foniteur of this morning publishes the laws regulating the navigation of the Danube. The Moniteur also announces that according to information from Portugal no French vessels arriving in Portuguese ports from Brest, Nants, or St. Nazaire since the 4th April, have been sub jected to quarantine on account of cholera. BOURSE, April 23, Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the following quotations :- 41 per Cents 97 50 Bank Shares 3520 Do. end month — Italian Loan 54 3 per Cents. 67 70 Do. end month 53 GO Do. end month 67 621 Mexican Loan 4o} Credit Mobilier 605 Do. Bonds 285 Do. end month ... 601 25 Spanish Threes Unis — Home Debt Do. end month — Deferred 11 A TtWAYS. Cash. Orleans THE REFORM BILL• A meeting of working men was held last evening on Clerkenwell-green to take into consideration the progress of the Reform Bill now before Parliament. By a placard they were invited to attend in thou sands to assist in carrying the bill, not only through the Commons, but through the Lords. At 8 o'clock, the hour appointed for their assembling, there were about 300 persons collected around a waggon which served for a hustings, and gradually the number increased till it reached to upwards of 1,500 per sons, boys and men included. A Mr. Lucraft hav ing been appointed chairman, said there would be two resolutions submitted to the meeting ; but as it was their intention to keep up these gatherings until the Reform Bill was passed they bad arranged to have the attendance of a Garibaldi band, in order that they might blend pleasure with business. Com munications had been received from different parts of the country to know whether the working classes of London could not assist them in their efforts to promote the carrying of the Reform Bill, and it was, therefore, the wish of the committee to let their friends know that they could render them material assistance. It was evident that the pending bill would never become law unless there was great pres sure from without ; therefore' it was necessary for the working classes to show that they were not to be trifled with any longer. They were ready to assist the Government in carrying their bill, believ ing it to be good as far as it went, although it was by no means up to the mark. Their opponents had accused them of seeking to gain their object by inti midation ; but, on the contrary, thanks were due to the committee of the Working Men's Reform Association for preventing 100,000 men from going , down to the House of Commons and making a de monstration that might have resulted in serious consequences. It was earnestly to be hoped that there would be no necessity for resorting to any such step as that. They were quite willing to conduct the question by argument, whether with Mr. Lowe, Mr. Horsman, or any other renegade Liberal. Mr. Horsman objected to class inte rests being predominant in the House of Com mons, whether aristocratic, railway, capitalist, or any other class ; but what the working class con- tended was that all those interests were combined to keep their interest out altOgether. That was their great grievance. But they had many friends in the House of Commons, and, believing that the Minis- ;ers were honest in their intentions towards them they came willingly forward to the rescue. Mr. Davis then moved the following resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting our thanks are due to those members who have supported the Reform Bill and vindicated the character and conduct of the working classes." He observed that some mem bers of the House of Commons were apprehensive that if the bill were passed the working classes would override the other interests of the community, but it was quite obvious that the bill would give the working classes a very small fraction of Parlia mentary power. It was not the ignorance, but the intelligence of the working classes of which their enemies stood so much in fear. The question, how ever, was not whether the working classes should be paramount, but whether they should have a por tion of political power equal to the degree of inte rest they possessed in the general wellbeing of the country. Was it not a fact that if a state of anarchy were to prevail the working classes would be the very first to suffer ? All other classes would have their property to fall back upon, and be able to wait for the return of happier times, while the work ing classes, if deprived of their wages, would be impoverished at once. In 1832 a contract was made between the middle classes and the working classes, by which it was understood that if the latter assisted the former in obtaining their elective franchise the middle classes would, on a subsequent occasion, assist the working classes to obtain their elective rights ; but, while the working classes had fulfilled their part of the contract, the middle classes had neglected to perform theirs. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Blighty, and supported by Mr. Joyner, and unanimously adopted by the meeting. A second reeolution was then moved by Mr. Smith, and seconded by Mr. Finian, and carried with ac clamation, to the effect that the meeting, feeling convinced . that the Reform Bill would be a great benefit to the country, pledged itself to use every available and legitimate means in its power, and never to cease agitating until it became law. After some other speeches, in the course of which the law of bribery and corrupti on , the game laws, the ad ministration of the p oor l a w, the management of public charities, especially as regarded education , • the law of master and servan t an d other topics pe culiarly affecting the i n t eres t s Of the working classes, were dwelt upon, the meeti n g quietly dispersed. Acct. 830 - 1115 - 857 50 - 555 540 - Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern ... 537 50 Sardinian. 97 50 Austrian — 362 50 Lombard 386 25 North of Spain — ... 100 • Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona ••• - 82 50 Roman — •.• Dreadful Fire and Loss of Life.—This Day. This (Tuesday) morning, shortly after one o'clock, a dreadful fire happened in the premises belonging to Mr. Hooke, a boot and shoe maker, carrying on business at No. 3, King-street, Ken sington. The discovery was made by a man named May, who was in the employ of Mr. Tucker, the tallow-chandler, of the High-street. After giving the necessary alarm he succeeded in waking the occupier and his wife. At that time there was a boy, aged seven years, in the first floor, and the father made several attempts to get to him, but in so doing got badly burnt about the head and face. The mother saved her life by jumping out of the window. Conductor Mason quickly attended with the Royal Society's escape, and also Conductor Green with his ladders from Notting-hill. Mason having been informed that the child was still in the house, he made several attempts to enter it, but the flames broke through the roof and out of the different windows, so as to render it impossible for him to reach the poor child. As soon as the ruins were sufficiently cooled, Conductor Mason entered the place and found the body of the child with the top of his head burnt off, as well as his hands. The body was removed to the workhouse to await an inquest. Attempt to Murder. Yesterday, a private of the 44th Regiment, named John Connor, was taken before the magistrates at Dover, he having attempted to take the life of Colour-Sergeant William Whittaker, of the same regiment, by stabbing him several times with a bayonet. The facts disclosed a very determined attempt to murder, although the charge was simply for unlawfully wounding. Whittaker appears to have been sergeant of the guard at the Citadel, Dover, on the night of the 20th inst. About 9 o'clock in the evening the prisoner was paraded for night-guard, when Corporal Braney, thinking he was intoxicated, took him to Sergeant Whittaker, who pronounced him in an unfit state for duty, and ordered Corporal Williams to see his things taken off and the man taken from the guardroom to the " dryroom." Ser geant Whittaker then sat down at a table to make out his guard report, and the prisoner was being divested of his accoutrements, when all of a sudden he seized hold of a rifle with fixed bayonet, and clearing his front made a full charge at Sergeant Whittaker. The sergeant, hearing a noise from the rifles, looked round, and was in the act of jumping up, when the bayonet passed between his fingers, penetrating his coat sleeve, and tore the flesh at the muscle of his arm. Prisoner then made a second charge and stabbed the sergeant in the side, the bayonet grazing against the ribs, which prevented its penatrating his body. At the time the prisoner made the second charge he ejaculated " There, you ! you shan't report another man drunk." The wounds the sergeant had sustained prevented his defending himself, and the prisoner quickly followed up I s l e i a c o m n s d w a i d t u t s h t i rd have v t e h r g u o s n t e , twhich,through as s oug h the bCorpo ralod y of Whittaker had he not rushed upon him and twisted the musket and bayonet from his grasp. Sergeant Whittaker was removed to the military hospital, where he was treated for the wounds, but, though suffering much from his injuries, he was able to give evidence yesterday. The prisoner pleaded drunkenness, and said the guard might have pre vented what he did had they been disposed to do so; but it was proved that the prisoner was not so drunk as not to know what he was doing, as on the following morning he told a comrade that he stabbed Sergeant Whittaker the night before, and inquired whether he was much hurt. It was also shown that the guard could not have warded off the bayonet from the sergeant without great risk to themselves, as the man lowered the weapon to charge, and cleared his front to get at the sergeant. It is said the prisoner bears a very bad character in the regi ment, and his appearance would lead to the belief that he was quite capable of the act imputed to him. The magistrates having heard the evidence com mitted the man to take his trial. MESSRS. BARKER AND SONS' "Joint-Stock Com panies' Directory" for 1866, in addition to the particulars of public- companies, gives an admirably comprehensive list of the principal financial transactions concluded during the last five years. A FEMALE STAKEHOLDER AND LIABILITY OF THE HUSBAND.—At the last sitting of the Sheriffs' Court, before Mr. Lefroy, the case of Wilson v. Newton, raised an important question in the law of betting. The plaintiff was a butcher and the defendant a publican, and it appeared that upon a certain day plaintiff went into defendant's house with a leg of mutton. Mrs. Newton was in the bar, and the conversation turned upon the price of meat generally, and the leg of mutton brought in by the plaintiff particularly. Plaintiff said it was a leg of prime wether mutton, and cost 84d. per lb., to which a bystander remarked that he could go and get a leg of wether mutton for sid. per lb., quite as good meat as the leg produced by the plaintiff. Plaintiff denied that this could be done, and the matter resolved itself into a betting transaction, plaintiff staking £1 to 6d. that a leg of wether mutton equal to his could not be purchased at the price quoted by his opponent. Mrs. Newton agreed to hold the stakes, and the money was handed to her, but, as plaintiff was leaving the house, it was intimated to him that he was going to be " done." He at once went back to the bar and demanded his £1 back. Mrs. Newton declined to hand over the stakes until the bet was decided, and plaintiff was compelled to bring this action. His Honour remarked that plaintiff had sued a person named Newton, bearing a Christian name in blank. Plaintiff said he had sued the husband, as Mrs. Newton was a married woman. His Honour said that no one appeared for the defendant, and plaintiff would have a verdict. Pllaintiff, in asking for his costs, said that while he was arguing with the land lady about the stakes some personstole his leg of mutton. His Honour said that plaintiff was entitled to his costs, but could not recover anything for the lost leg of mutton, as he had 119 t paid for it. - VIPNo\t-r4is:i' \‘ , 4 .' 4E"'J 012 . 0 007 4 _ d'113.04, - HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, Monday. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster per formed the service yesterday morning at Osborne before her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were also present. Earl and Countess Granville left Osborne for London this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have graciously signified their intention of beil present at the anniversary festival of the Merchant Seamen," Orphan Asylum, to be held at the institution, Snaresbroel:. on Thursday, the 28th of Juno. his Royal Highness w ill on the occasion lay the first stone of an a ddition to the present building, the erection of which, it will be reniell' bared, was inaugurated by the late Prince Consort on th e same day in the year 1861. r ile Marchioness of Downshire's evening p arty is fixed to take place on Friday next at the family mansion in Belgrave-square. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul and family are expected in town the first week in May from Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, for the season. The Earl and CounteSs of Mayo have arrived in Dover-street from Pahnerston House, Kildare, for the season. LITERATURE. Garibaldi at Home; Notes of a Visit to Caprera• By Sir Charles M'Grigor, Bart. One vol., p 2 313. Hurst and Blackett. When in 1864 certain of General Garibaldi's ad mirers were desirous of presenting him with sonic mark of esteem they very judiciously selected, as 3 useful and appropriate gift to the dweller of all island home, " a well-built and fast-sailing yac ht fifty tons." "On me," says Sir Charles Al`Grigi " devolved the pleasing and easy duty of going e n d to Caprera with two addresses." On the Lor Mayor's-day of 1864 Sir Charles left Londent' h " Snow," he writes, " was rarely out of my Sig iv after quitting England. I have seen far mor e sn° in Italy than in England this winter." After brief and interesting account of the voyage, a nd a ir that attracted the traveller's attention, for Q Charles is a man of observation, and describes / e rp " t naturally what he remarks, the envoy arrive d a t Caprera. The addresses were received with evideni satisfaction, and suitably answered, and the Ge11 er ,., 3 invited his guest to acco m pa n y him in a cruisedvs' Sardinia. The remainder of the volume is d with very interesting descriptions of Sardinia a ll e Caprera, and conversations with Garibaldi. 313 ,1, of these conversations Sir Charles very belles;:t refrains from relating, but he feels at Pe', e , - 6 liberty to record the authentic account a General's romantic adventures in Brazil. C ° r _ spicuous among these is the account of his Ma io riage and the dangers and daring of his ile r° rst and devoted wife Anita, and the birth of his child Menotti, who almost resembled the infant Harold the Dauntless, who, we are told— " Was nursed in a buckler And fed from a blade." it s When her child was only twelve days old An ar was compelled to fly from the enemy and endealn to join her husband. She rode on horseback, gr asP n ; ing her infant, who lay across the saddle font of her, with her right hand, while with the left s ra held the bridle. After enduring the perils of a s t° : in the forest, the heroic mother had the joy a e in days later of placing her child for the first time ai the arms of his fathQr. This chapter, as Ic e T r° , suppose, is as enthralling as a romance. to wards the close of the volume, the author deyn o d two chapters to the history of the Waldenses 8 3 , , their doctrines. The chief interest of the 10 _ 4 however, consists in its descriptions of Caprera an Garibaldi. Royal Dramatic College. 11 of In conformity with the provisions of the the late Mr. T. P. Cooke au anniversary dinner was given yesterday to the inmates of the 11 17 / 3 ; Dramatic College, in festive commemoration e: Shakspere's birthday, which was that of the te1:0- tator also. Among the guests assembled in t he Central Hall of the college at Maybury, where dinner took place, there were besides the residen'r: in the institution a number of actors, including Al i, B. Webster (the master), Mr. J. L. Toole, 13 Paul Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Ad clis° ra l and many others. There were also present sa e e• gentlemen connected with dramatic lite rat . il d r e cl After the dinner, at which M r . Webster Pr esi rr o in his character of master, the toast of '3O Memory of Shakspere" was p r oposed, and ryas received with all the honour due t° august a sentiment. Mr. Webster then re v . in detail the will of the late Mr. l g. t he Cooke, by which it was provided that irt ho course of the evening the name of the authorhad gained the p r i ze he left for the best nan tie drama should be announced to the company. Wileo the perusal of the will was concluded, and the ni e , f - 1 mory of the generous testator had been proposed / t appropriate language, the chairman announced l o the winner of the T. P. Cooke prize was Mr. SW % The title of the successful drama was " Tru e t° t ; Core," and the story on which it was based 1 15c1r , i ; ference to the Spanish Armada. It appears that red of 24 plays sent in to the comm itt ee s i x w ere sel ee ' re , by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, and these were agaill in ferred to the committee, who had no dal: 1 ° 1111 0o deciding in favour of the drama by Mr. Slots' 6) 0 health was dru n k w ith a ll customary manifest, - as t of favour, and he returned thanks. The ne%t " - g r . was " The health of the family of the late..;Bv, Cooke," which was:acknowledged by his son -in jo y Mr. Cummings. Of the other toasts the rnO St lto bt. portant was " The Drama," proposed by Mr . w ho Bell, and also spoken to by Mr. C. Halliday'f the took occasion to remark upon the smallness rea remuneration awarded to dramatists as n° l l a o 3- with that enjoyed by novelists and writers e nd gazine articles. " The health of the Master' subsequently drunk, and was acknowledge d i , 11 ‘ ,313 quent terms by Mr. Webster, who was received " jo g enthusiastic applause. In the course of these ve% Mr. Paul Bedford sang " Tom Bowling i e s f li oj eti selection of Shaksperian music, capitally pa l °, f• by a band of vocalists under the direction of I\3 ; . t ile Kingsbury, pleasantly enhanced the festivity °' occasion. _ INSTALLATION OF LORD WARDEN OF THE C II4CIUP PORTS.-Whit Tuesday has b een d ec id e d upon as WO tue for the of ICinstallation of Earl Granville, G as 1-j°lll the Cinque Ports a n d Co n stable of 'D o ver Ca At den A t VISCOUNT lq —ANELAGH AND MR. NORTOS•": t or special d meeting of the Brighton Club, last 1/ ' l sr. ay, a resolution was moved and duly seconded thaa Norton by n should be expelled. This motion was supP° r s te , th e members and opposed by 24—a majority of '`),- 'th e expulsion; but inasmuch as, according to the rul es d -f • t a club, two-thirds of the votes must be recorded ha or : l th ° expel a member, the resolution was lost bY threat the votes being 63, and 42 required. It was stated ths'iot, minority of 24 objected to the expulsion on the gre llii , cl /, inasmuch as Mr. Norton was no longer in the Lord was not bound by the military code to take n otice Nor' Ranelagh's proceedings, and that, as a civilian, J" .. r. O f t1: 16 ton was justified in protecting himself from a brea ch - peace by legal proceedings before a magistrate. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF MR. W. COTTON, P',l7,`l'illl The late Governor of the Bank of England, 31 1 '. " Cotton, the "lay bishop" of the Church (as field called him), and one of its most liberal belle fae ,f n tl lying dangerously ill at his seat at Loytonstone,P4,s; Oity s 80 years of age, and is universally honoured 02 " t he and by all classes. . n f THE IRISH JUDGES.—Judge Hargreave, a ill y Landel Estates Court, died yesterdayAafter a pr otracte Slr ness. It is reported that if a successor is apPeitit,tlagill Colman O'Loghlen will be the person. Judge is suffering much from a fall from his horse yester°,7o;lo An application was made yesterday ill t he e °C of Queen's Bench for a rule for a new trial in t he ,, Gs6 ber Strauss v. Francis. The plaintiff, it will b e reale.'" f ' brought an action for libel against the publisher of Athenae u m—the libel consisting of an attack ea 5 -ria which the plaintiff had written. In the course efdryo the plaintiff's counsel withdrew the case. terday refused to grant 0 , pow trial. .r. ✓'