The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

THE ATRE -R YA L, DRURY-LANE, Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performance will Phelps,commnce with a new Play, entitled LOVE'S ORM:A; cr, The Old and New Regime : Messrs. Walter Lacy, E. N. Falconer, Mrs. Hermann Vt.tin, tc. After which, on a scale of great splendour, Milton's Mask of COMUS : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Wiibye C o oper, G enii Drayton, Miss Poole, Miss Augusta Thomson, a nd Mrs. H. Vezin. THEATRE -ROY AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. T HIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Mr. Chip pendale ; Miss N. Moore, Miss Snowdon, Miss F. Wright, &c. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Sothern, Buckatoze. Chippendale, Braid. Gorion, Rogers, Clark, White, Coe. 4tc. Mesdames L-nOWilOll, Stuart, Bill, Harris, Wright, &a And EASY .c.• HAVING. Miss Louise Keeley, Miss F WI ight ; Al esLrs. Clark, Gordon, Rogers, &c, To condole with MY H USBA ND'S GHOST. To commence at 7. N EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI._ Vrytai.tor .114nn•zwi, THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. Mess s. C. 11. Stephenson and Eburne; Miss K. Kelly. After which, at 8, FAZIO; OR, THE ITALIAN WIFE. B anca, Miss liatem ; supported by Messrs. Jordan, Stuart, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Ashley, and Mrs. Bllington. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the Figskin. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER. THE WEDDING. Messrs. C. Horsman, Collett, M'lntyre, ; Mesdames C. liorsman and G. Leigh. After which, at Eight, RUY BL AS : Huy Bias, Mr. Fechter; supported by Messrs. Ryder, E. Garden, Ray mond, Wintyre; Miss C. Leclercq, Mrs. C. Horsman, To conclude with THE LOST CHILD. Mr. Vfiddicomb. Doors open at Hali-past Six. The Box-office open daily from ElevLn till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING. a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEART-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. Atter which, AMUR NA POGUE : Messrs. Dion vault, J . J. Brougham, H. Vandenhoff, D. Fisher, D. Murray ; Mrs Boncicault and Miss A. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 11) Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Mesdames Johnston, Weston, and Hughes. After which, at 8. ONE TREE HILL. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James, Belford ; Miss A. Swanborough and Miss M • Pa.mer. To conclude with AL ADDIN. Messrs. Thorne, owes Mesdames Hughes, Weston, Thorne, snd Eliza Holt. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish- street, Oxford-street. rpHE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as Published. containing all the LA rEsT NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. HARRIS. Ne 4 spaper Agent, 4, Blackiriars-road, London, S. HE LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," T Containing the Latest 6YOUTINO 1 TII : LLIUiiI Ns it, San be had Every Evening of G. It. GLENEE, NEWB AGENT, Ito. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 55m.—Afternoon, 2h. 12m. To-Monnow.-Morning, 2h. 28m.—Afternoon, 2h. 44m. t r k • 0 , • * 4- it 4540 t PI; 4-0 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 18G5. It is satisfactory to notice that some prospect, of redress is held out to injured men. Last night Lord PROSY, Controller of her MAJESTY'S House hold, appeared at the Bar of the House of Com mons, bearing an answer from her MAJESTY to an address of the House. In this communication it is intimated that her MAJESTY has received the ad dress praying for the "redress of the grievances complained of by the officers of the late Indian army." These wrongs were sustained in conse quence of a departure taking place from the assur ance given by Parliament, and the Commission which was appointed to inquire into the memorials of Indian officers admitted this to be the fact. In the answer of her MAJESTY it is stated that due inquiry will take place into the effect of the measures already adopted, for the pur pose of remedying the evils complained of, and that should these not afford ample redress, further steps will be taken to insure the requisite attention. It is earnestly to be hoped that the Government will carry out to the full extent the intimations thus given, and that no more delay will take place in rendering an act of justice to those whose claims en title them to the support and the sympathy of the public. In no respect have the authorities been more to blame than in the wilful disregard which they have shown to those officers and men whose services deserve attention and call for remuneration. The same wretched and paltry system is carried on concerning prize money, and years after the uninitiated suppose these matters to be settled satisfactorily, it suddenly turns out that nothing has yet been done, and that the sums which are the rightful property of certain individuals are kept back for no earthly reason that can be given. It has been suggested, indeed, that one motive is that the original claimants may die off, and then advantage may be taken of the confusion that often arises to prove the next of kin to escape paying the money altogether. This is not the way to represent aright the gratitude the country should feel to its defenders. In the case of these Indian officers great wrong has been done to them for want of due promotion ; favouritism is shown in the conduct displayed to the Staff Corps, and the claims of those equally and often more de serving are passed over, to the detriment of the public service and the disgrace of all concerned in the matter. It is high time that these anomalies should cease, and that for the future a decisive stop should be put to such unworthy practices. It is a reproach to the military authorities that things should have come to such a pass, and no excuse whatever can be furnished for their faulty execution of their duty, and non-fulfilment of the trust com mitted to them. If justice be tardily rendered, these officers will have to thank those who inter fered to call attention to their claims, and not those whose bounden duty it was to find them out for themselves and respect them. The quarterly return of the Registrar-General will probably be looked at with unusual interest this season. The prolonged and exceptional severity of the weather, the unsatisfactory condition of the public health, and the vague but alarming rumours of the prevalence of various diseases of an epidemic nature in different parts of the Continent have com bined to excite some uneasiness. Thanks to the regularity and precision of our registration system. There is no room for that uncertainty and mystifi fication which in former days helped greatly the progress of any disorder by unnerving the public mind and spreading that contagion of fear which is more fatal in its effects than any actual disease. It may relieve the apprehensions of some persons to find that there is as yet no sign of any new or peculiar disease amongst us, but there has been undoubtedly a very high rate of mortality all over the country, and the records—as the Registrar-General reminds us very forcibly—state that there is still much in our houses and towns that needs setting in order. The marriages of the season, which are usually accepted as a test of the prosperity of a people, have been remarkably nume rous. The number of weddings in the quarter end ing December 31st, 1864, was on an average 577 daily, being greater than in any previous quarter. The birth-rate of the first quarter of the year was also very high, higher indeed than that of any quar ter of the previous ten years. It will be noticed that the marriage register refers to the last quarter of last year, and the birth and death registers to the first quarter of the current year. The Regis trar tells us plainly that the catalogue of deaths has been very heavy, and that under less favourable sanitary conditions we might even have had a pes tilential epidemic. As it is, the prevalence of zymotic diseases has been very great in some parts, almost always however with coincident reason for its presence. The weather has been very severe, and the winter remarkably protracted, but we have not yet the full evidence of the effects of the in clement spring, which will show themselves more distinctly in the next quarter. Small-pox, scarlatina, measles, and fever have been much about, and their presence points emphatically to the necessity of stringently enforcing our sanitary regulations, which it is to be feared are too often dis regarded or purposely evaded. The revelations of the condition of the interiors of many of our agri cultural cottages have eclipsed the houses of the London rookeries, and, bearing these in mind, we need not wonder at fever or small-pox passing through a whole family when once they obtain an entrance. Thus, in a sub-district of Shrewsbury, 8 deaths from small-pox occurred in one building, 4 of which were in one family. This building is let out in rooms, and is said to be greatly in want of sanitary improvement. In another district of Shrewsbury epidemics of several kinds are very pre valent, and it is remarked that the importance of s ewage for Shrewsbury was urged some years back in a memorial drawn up by the medical men of the town, but nothing whatever has been done. Surely this is an instance of the fatal indifference or neglect which is so common a cause of sickness and mortality. People complain of the weather, and lament the progress of disease, when all the while they will not take the simple precautions which are known to be the best means of preserving health and warding off infection. Thus, in a dis trict of the East Riding, the mortality has greatly exceeded the average, and scarlatina has carried off several children. In one part of it the fever was especially fatal, and it appears that the drainage is very imperfect, but, notwithstanding that the atten tion of the local authorities was called to Sit, no steps whatever haTe been taken. In another village in the North Riding, named West llesterton, fever of several kinds has been very general, an d the medical officer attributes it to the management of the drainage. The village, which used to be healthy, was drained last year, and the drain ter minates in a walled receptacle closed at the top which " throws poisonous gases into every back door.' The medical officer protested against this arrange ment, but in vain, and fever has regularly taken up its abode there since. This is the more to be regretted, as the registrar of the district affirms that at a slight expense the work might be carried into a field about 300 yards off, and the scourge of fever removed. When we meet such culpable ignorance or indifference among the local authorities we Sir IV. GALLWEY last night called attention to an important subject, and one which materially affects the interests of the community, namely, the Com munications between the Guards and Passengers on Railways. The hon. member truly observed that the subject was not unknown to the house, for very often of late years complaints had justly been made respecting this great want of railway travelling. It seems strange indeed to think that nothing should have been done in the matter, but the inattention and indifference that are manifested in such cases is almost proverbial. The object of Sir W. GALLWEY'S speech was to move that "it is the opinion of the house that the safety of the public requires that, pending the report of the Royal Commission, some immediate provision should be made for compelling railway com panies to make arrangements for establishing a proper communication between guards and passen gers." The hon. member anticipated some of the objections that might be made to his proposal, and met one with a very good argument. Supposing that the representatives of the railway interest declared that this motion interfered with their rights, he would state that the law had interfered to regu late the number of passengers who was taken in stage-coaches, it had imposed regulations with re spect to carriers' carts, and the like. As yet there is no attempt to make a communication between the passengers and the guard, except on the Great Western line, where there are some more sentry boxes, but these are of no use, because the extra money is begrudged which would be required for those who should occupy them as look-out men. Mr. MILNER GIB SON spoke very decidedly on the topic, and, per haps, his remarks were all the more energetic on account of some member having intimated that the Government were indifferent on the matter. He said that the Government had already taken steps with a view to remedy the deficiency, and it was the opinion of the Board of Trade that the Railway Companies had undertaken to carry out some plan which would allow railway passengers to make com munications to the guards. The right hon. gentle man spoke very plausibly on the subject, and added that the " question was not in a state to require immediate penal and compul sory legislation." This is all very well in theory, but in practice the results are not so beneficial. The end of all this palaver of difficulties and neces sity for delays generally resolves itself into this— that the safety of the public is endangered, and the lives of passengers jeopardised by neglect and care lessness. It is impossible to over-estimate the horrors of the position in which some unfortunate persons have found themselves on various occasions need not wonder at the perversity or obtuseness when shut up in the same carriage with maniacs. of the poorer cla-sees in refusing vaccination. The Because it does not often happen that this occurs unusual number of cases of smallpox during the last some impatient individuals are apt to declare that few months has called attention to the subject, and there is no hurry about it, but it is a scandal to the details in almost every case confirm the asser- society and a disgrace to the authorities that such tions of medical experience. In parts of Carlisle accidents should ever take place. All the hindrances and Cockermouth, where smallpox has been pre- that circumlocution can possibly interpose are sure vailing, none of the fatal cases had been vaccinated. to impede the progress of the railway managers, In Lansdowne and Bath smallpox has been very and it is the duty of the Government to make every frequent, and " nearly half the deaths from it have exertion to urge on the good work, and to put a been in adults who neglected vaccination." The stop to the present disastrous and most discreditable prejudice of poor and ignorant persons against vac- state of things. It is dreadful to think of the fearful cination is said to be as great as ever, but it is surely risks to which passengers are constantly exposed by well worth the while of local authorities to be at the non-existence of a means of communication, some pains in disseminating a little knowledge of and at this time when so many important alterations the facts. Another instructive point is the great are being made by the construction of numerous mortality which has occurred in several workhouses railways it is doubly important that steps should from epidemic diseases, endorsing most strongly the be immediately taken to rectify the error which remarks of Mr. FARNALL in reference to the impro- has too long existed. priety of keeping fever cases in a union. Thus, in , the sub-district of Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, out of 318 deaths from typhus, nearly 300 occurred in the workhouse ; while in the workhouse at Crump- Ball 119 deaths occurred, out of which 63 were from measles. The danger and impropriety of keeping contagious cases in the crowded wards of a union, are thus clearly shown, and we hope these two in stances will not be without effect. The meteorological information contained in the Register is valuable and interesting. In seems that only in three years of the present century has March been so cold. Since the new quarter the heat has been as remarkable, but we must wait for another record to ascertain its effect on the public health. Meanwhile we may profit by what we know, and see about setting our house in order before the sultry summer weather. FINE ARTS. The Season of 1865, Before the flowers are well out, before many of them are even in bud, the walls of our West-end Picture Galleries are, year after year, radiant with all the colours of the painters' palette—not one among the Pictorial Exhibitions of the spring season here in London but being already fully opened be fore the may, and the laburnum, and the lilac, and the horsechesnut are seen blooming in all their glory over our suburban garden-walls. It is so this year again as it has been, precisely in the same way, with so many of its predecessors. THE NATIONAL GALLERY, it is true, is simply opened just as usual—on the appointed days in each successive week—as it is for that matter all the year round, saving only with occasional intermissions for the mere purposes of cleaning. Several additions to that magnificent nucleus of a National Collection— for it is really after all but little more than a nucleus even now—have recently tended to enhance the at tractions already familiar to the public at large in the noblest among our gratuitous Fine Arts' Ex hibitions. THE COLLECTION OF PICTURES AT SOUTH KEN SINGTON again has but very recently indeed received an immense accession both to its value and its at tractiveness, by reason of the removal thither to its walls from those of Hampton Court Palace, by per mission of her Majesty, of that marvellous series of Cartoons by Raphael, which are famous the world over as among the art treasures of England. SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM, in Lincoln's-inn fields, is once more for a brief interval accessible to those who know how to get at the gratis-cards for admission to it—cards of admission really worth hunting after, if only for the fact of their affording the visitor a glimpse of some of the choicest speci mens of our great national painter and humourist, William Hogarth. THE DULWICH GALLERY, situated as it is at an agreeable distance from the central dust and hubbub of London, yields far more than a mere excuse for a pleasant country ramble to any lover of art who has a genuine enthusiasm either for the Old Mas ters—such as Teniers or Poussin—or for native artists like Reynolds or Gainsborough. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, established for the time being almost under the shadow of old Westminster Abbey, deserves more and more recog nisably, week after week, an examination of its fast increasing stores of original portraits of famous men and women of the United Kingdom, a store con tinually, though of course at very uncertain inter vals, multiplying in interest and importance, now by bequest, now by purchase. THE PICTURE GALLERY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE at Sydenham has already come to form one of the permanent attractions to that most comprehensive gathering together in the whole world of all the more curious and remarkable products of nature, and art, and science, and industry, and manufac tures. PRIVATE GALLERIES, such as the Ellesmere Col lection, and others of varying celebrity, are gene rously thrown open, every now and then, by the liberal-minded noblemen who are their unselfish possessors. And in this casual way access has been freely obtained during the last few years, more and more readily, season after season, to such picture gal leries in the palaces of the nobility as those adorning Stafford ?louse, Northumberland House, Apsley House, and Bridgewater House, the homes respec tively of the Earl of Ellesemere, and of the princely Dukes of Sutherland, Northumberland, and Wel lington. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, for the year, we have already noticed in these columns of The Sun, immediately upon our examination of its con tents upon the occasion of the Private View, prior to the throwing open of the doors of the Academy to the general public on May-day morning. Our general estimate of it, as then announced, we do not feel impelled to alter or modify in any way materially. As a Collection of Art as it is now amongst us, it stands forth now as conspicuously as ever—as the first and foremost among all cur annual pictorial exhibitions. Elsewhere, scattered confusedly about the metro polis, there are now (more than ever numerously) on view, various other Pictorial Exhibitions—Gal leries some of them—Single Pictures in other in stancesbeing displayed alone—now and then a cluster of two or three or half-a-dozen. Several among these exhibitions, both collective and individual, we have already commented upon in these columns— in several cases even at some considerable length. MADOX BROWN'S COLLECTION, for example, at 191, Piccadilly, of Fifty, more or less, remarkable Paintings of his own, one among them, one of the latest, and certainly among them all the greatest, of his productions--a typical picture of the age-we live-in, significantly entitled " Work"—we have spoken of in this journal as it is, to our thinking, fully entitled to be spoken of, as among the most striking and suggestive evidences of the growth of a true artist's genius that we could anywhere point to, or that we could anywhere enjoy the opportu nity of contemplating under a single roof at our leisure. SIMPSON'S INDIA, TIIIBET, AND CASHMERE, being a collection of now fully 200 drawings of scenes and peoples, drawn from Nature and from Life, in those far off countries, we in like manner took occasion to descant upon at considerable length at the time when those drawings (then less numerous) were first on view at 118, New Bond-street, other wise known as the German Gallery. THE GENERAL EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS again we noted in detail and with eager satisfaction when, early this season, it assumed its place, for the very first time, among our regular Spring Fine Arts Exhibitions. The scene of its suc cessful inauguration as such being the Dudley Gal lery, in the Egyptian Hall—not in the Mansion House, of course, but in Piccadilly. A DRAWING Room AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE in the Reign of Queen Victoria, as painted with a radiant brush by Jerry Barrett, stands forth conspicuously among the single pictures we have also very minutely had to take into consideration, as now on view, A painting that, we have here to add, has (since our lengthened notice of it), been removed from Mr. M'Leans, at No. 7, to Mr. Hogarth's, at No. 5, in the Haymarket. THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD, as painted by Robert Dowling, a picture now on view at the Messrs. Colnaghi's, will be found, on examination, to be a work of art eminently worthy of being popularised by the aid of a skilled engraver, as it is designed to be, under the hand of Mr. James Stephenson. The figure of our Lord, about life size, stands nearly knee deep in the waters of the Jordan—the divine countenance fully confronting the awed spectator ! The isola tion of the Redeemer as the one solitary figure dis played to view upon the canvass, enhances in a wonderful degree the profound solemnity of the picture. The gleaming current of the river around him the stretch of landscape beyond melting away into the far horizon—the luxuriant reeds and rushes in the foreground—the enlarging circles spreading from either limb over the rimpled surface of the Jordan—the very dripping, sparkling, plashing of the waters raining from the holy hands that have been immersed—such are the perfectly natural and unobtrusive accessories to a Sacred Picture, the interest of which concentrates (as it should do) upon the form, or rather, it should even be said, upon the countenance of the world's Redeemer. There alone it is, upon the visage of Our Lord, that the failing of the artist's hand is in any way conspicuously visible. But there it is visible and conspicuously. Who can marvel, however, that it should be so—remember ing the theme selected for illustration, remembering, among the countless evidences there are indicative of . its being beyond the reach of all human art, how one of the very greatest artists that ever wielded the painter's brush, Leonardo to wit, contented himself with lightly sketching in the countenance of the Redeemer in the centre of his great masterpiece, his Picture of the "Last Supper"—lightly sketching the holy features upon the wall of the Refectory, rather than reveal by any more elaborate performance the absolute powerlessness of his genius to poutray its own reverent imaginings ! Apart from this one particular, however—apart, that is, from this one greatest and most obvious insufficiency on the part of the artist—Mr. Dowling's painting of the " Bap tism of Our Lord" is in many ways, as we have said, highly meritorious, and in the general effect of it, is wonderfully, even, we might say, devotion ally impressive. ROSA BONHEUR'S NEW PICTURE, but just now opened to view, a little further along Pall-mall than Messrs. Colnaghi's--namely at 121, the gallery of the Messrs. G. Gambart and Co. will be found when visited, to be, if not (as it certainly is not) among the greatest, at least among the most charming of that gifted lady's realistic productions. The paint ing, here, is one of considerable size—that is, it is a picture with its length extending horizontally. It represents a Family of Deer crossing the Summit of the Long Rocks in or near the Forest of Fontaiubleau. The laUdscape is sterile, gray, flat, and uninteresting. But the fact that it is so, is comparatively of no consideration whatever, seeing that the interest of the picture rests entirely in the portraiture of the various members of this (we are almost tempted to have the word misprinted) Deer Family. The delineation of character, and of such a truly wonderful variety of character, as Madlle. Bonheur has here depicted it, commands at once the expression of our profoundest admira tion. Viewing the picture in regard to this one quality alone, we should have been disposed to say of it, that it is worthy of Sir Edwin Landseer, but that we can otherwise say quite as much in the way of unmeasured panegyric when we have simply remarked that it is worthy of the artist's own hand, that it is worthy of Madlle. Rosa Bonheur herself ! Standing before the paint ing—what though we hear the rattle of the carriage, traffic of the West-end audible enough the while under those Pall-Mall Windows—we are, as it were, hundreds of miles away from " London town," in one of the lonely waste lands intermingled with the old Forest of Fontainbleau. The paterfamilias Stag—suddenly arrested in a rush at the head of his family over those waste lands— has stopped to listen eagerly, with erected ears and distended nostrils, to some sound that has startled him (and for that matter the whole party of them more or less)—his fore feet planted straight before him at an angle, his noble head (in every nerve of it, one might fancy) upon the alert, his eye full, bright, searching into the distance ! While, behind this father of the family, stand in a straggling group, or processional line one might almost say—the materfamilias emulating her lord by habit in the forward protrusion of her ears—and her offspring revealing each a quite separate character, an easily distinguishable and idiocyncrasy or individuality. The frightened, the thoughtless, the half alarmed, the wholly indifferent are there —the last and youngest of the whole family , —a lovely fawn, so little alarmed, so wholly inex perienced, as to be quietly slaking its thirst in the shallow pool of water into which it has stepped so daintily and delicately—forming to our eye the gem of the whole picture. Upon the picture in its en tirety, the gifted artist has—according to her wont, we believe—lavished an extraordinary amount of • care and observation, both preliminary and correc tive. JOHN PARRY'S SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS, now on view at Mr. M'Lean's New Gallery in the Hay market, will to many of his admirers reveal that first of all our buffo-singers in a wholely new character. It did not so reveal him, of course to our selves—familiar as we were with his fund of drollery as a wonderfully whimsical caricaturist. But to a considerable portion of the public to whom John Parry's mere name is as a pleasant greeting--recalling to remembrance as it does his many delightful and unrivalled impersona tions, his inimitable freaks and oddities as a singer, as a pianist, as an actor, as (in one word, intensely his) a droll—to a considerable proportion of the public, we would here say, the powers of John Parry as a draughtsman, as a wielder of the paint-brush, the crayon, and the pencil, are almost, if not entirely unknown. Whosoever is until now unacquainted with them, with those itmay be wholly unconjectured qualities, gifts, or capacities of John Parry as an artist off the stage, as an artist in the studio, as an artist at the easle—let him (this hitherto uninitiated admirer of John Parry's as a singer) hie with all speed to that New Gallery of Mr. M'Lean's, at No. 7, in the Haymarket, and there " sun themselves with laughter" by a careful exami nation of all the countless whims and oddities of this fantastic collection I Dramatic Authors' Petition in Support of Theatres, So., Bill. To the Honourable the Speaker and the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled: the humble petition of the undersigned dramatic authors sheweth LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN. (Via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Evening). Grant reports from Raleigh on the 26th as *ollows Johnston has surrendered the forces under his command to Sherman, embracing all from here to the Chattahoochie, on-the basis agreed on between myself and Lee for the army of Northern Virginia. Previous to Sherman's truce, Stoneman's command was very successfully operating against the Confe derates in Western North Carolina and South Western Virginia. It is reported that Dick Taylor is ready to sur render his army to Canby, if favourable terms are granted. General Hanwell Potter is successfully operating in the interior of South Carolina against the orga nised bodies of Confederates still existing there. Booth has been buried privately by order of the War Department. Lewis Paine has been arrested at Mrs. Surratt's house, and is now in confinement. He is alleged to be the person who attempted the life of Mr. Seward. Surratt is still at large. The New York Herald asserts that the Govern ment expenses have been reduced $1,000,000 per day since Lee's surrender. Advices from Newbern state that General John ston endeavoured to obtain an amnesty and permis sion for Mr. Davis and other Confederate leaders to leave the country. This was refused by Grant, according to the Herald. The forces surrendered by Johnston include the armies of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the Georgia militia, together with 3 generals, 5 lieut.-generals, 20 major-generals, and 38 brigadier-generals. The only Confederate forces now in the field are Kirby Smith's and Dick Taylor's. It is announced from St. Louis that the remnants of Thomason's and Shelby's commands, from 6,000 to 12,000 strong, are at Pacahontas, Arkansas, preparing to invade Missouri. The Secretary of War has ordered an immediate extensive curtailment in the Government military expenses. The convalescent soldiers in hospitals, officers and soldiers who have been prisoners of war now in furlough or on parole, and volunteer recruits in the rendezvous corps, will be immediately and honour ably discharged. Prisoners willing to take the oath of allegiance, and become loyal citizens, and who are proper objects of clemency, will be released upon terms which the President shall see fit and consistent with public safety. Information has been received at Washington that Jefferson Davis and his companions have reached South Carolina. It was believed they would be intercepted before reaching the Mississippi river. The New York Herald asserts that numerous persons are implicated in Booth's plot, and that it was aided and authorised by the Confederate leaders. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 3 p.m. Money abundant. ". Gold, 1461. Exchange on London, 1611 ; Paris, 3.50. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Central, 99 ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 80i ; Five-twenty Bonds, 1081. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 50c. Flour heavy. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Provisions heavy. Coffee very firm. Sugar quiet. Provisions, good inquiry. Petroleum quiet ; crude, 39c. ; refined, 53c. GREECE. ATIIENS, MAY 9. The King returned here yesterday evening from his tour through the provinces. His Majesty everywhere met with a satisfactory reception during his journey, THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND, MELBOURNE, MARCH 25. The military situation in New Zealand is un changed, except that the Waikato settlements are threatened. General Cameron is at Patea. Horiz Kingi and the east coast chiefs have sur rendered. eneral Waddy has been thrown from his horse and sustained a fracture of the collar-bone. The Shenandoah is cruising off the coast. No captures have been announced. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, MAY 4. The Golconda anchored at 6.20 p.m. to-day (correct date). - - - That your petitioners have found that the existing legis lation concerning theatres operates as a restriction upon their industry, while it has not in any manner supported or elevated dramatic literature. That the lower middle class and working class have, of late years, developed a large appetite for intellectual amusement, which the num ber of theatres and the present construction of theatres (which give no comfortable or proper accommodation for these classes) have failed to satisfy. Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable house to pass the second reading of the Theatres, &c., Bill, which measure, in your petitioners' belief, is sufficient to remedy the evil of which they complain. And your petitioners will ever pray. CHARLES READS. HENRY T. CRAVEN. BAYLE BERNARD ARTHUR SHETCHLEY. ROBERT BELL. JOHN BROUGHAM. GEORGE W. LOVELL. F. C. BURNAND. R. B. KNOWLES. ANDREW HALLIDAY. DION BOUCICAULT. W. SAWYER. JOHN OXENPORD. EDMUND YATES, PALGRAVE SIMPSON. HOWARD PAUL. J. A. HERAUD. N. H. HARRINGTON. F. G. TOMLINS. (TORN HOLLINGSREAP• E. L. BLANCHARD. JONAS WEBB'S MEMORIAL FUND.—The Emperor of the French has sent a subscription of £5 to the Hon. E. T. Yorke, chairman of the committee of the Jonas Webb Memorial Fund, through Lord Royston. It will be remembered that the subscriptions were limited to that amount. His Imperial Majesty, therefore, with great good taste and delicacy, found himself bound by the condition of the circular of the committee, and declined to place the other contributions to the memorial in a false position by giving more than was required by that document.—Cam bridge Independent. MR. HERAUD'S SIIAKSPERIAN PHILOSOPHY 18 spoken of facetiously by a Spectator critic as Platonic with a vengeance—only that it is often so difficult to dis tinguish it from " fine writing." Hero is a specimen : " Out of the bosom of the Infinite a soul having transferred its allegiance from the Eternal to the Temporal manifested itself in a mortal body on the 23d April, 1564." Would it not have been easier to say Shakspere was born than all that ? Mr. Heraud goes on to say that this immortal soul brought with it powers and attributes from the Eternal and the Infinite, but their operation was limited by the " condition of the organism with which it had associated." We hope so poor a word as "body" will drop out of the language now. But let Mr. Heraud continue, " The soul, moreover, was not only immortal, but cosmical, and there fore (we give up the 'therefore') enjoyed not only a will, but strong will." "Doubtless," the author goes on, "this Shaksperian soul was ch a f e d like others, when, in an in fant body, it found that it was incapable of sustaining and fully expressing the action of a will, yet free, but in bonds. It was fain to expend itself in inarticulate cries, until it had learned to exercise the organs of speech." Good gracious ! here's a pother, and all to tell us that the baby Shakspere could not talk before he could speak, and so cried like other babies. If he had not cried there would have been more in it. However, when Mr. Heraud condescends to come off the Platonic high horse, ho has really a good deal to say which lovers of Shakspere will do well to ponder. MALTA, MAY 10. The Pera left Malta at 11 p.m. yesterday, and the PoOnah leaves at 8 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 12th, and the latter at Southampton about the 19th inst. ME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 186 k. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Massilia, from Southampton, April 27, reached Malta on the sth inst., at 2 p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. The Euxine, from Marseilles, sth inst., arrived on the Bth, at 2 a.m., ana left at 8 a.m., for Alexandria. THE OUTWARD MAIL OF 20-26TH JANUARY. The Bombay arrived at Sydney on the 18th March. GIBRALTAR, MAY 9. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS (HEAVY‘ MAILS. The Ceylon left for Southampton at 7 a.m. on the 7th inst. THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA The Nyanza, from Southampton the 4th instant reached Gibraltar on the 9th at 6 p.m., and left al 9 p.m. for Alexandria. All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 9.—The market has continued to improve to the close. Mobiliers have again gone up 22fr. 50c., and left off at 833 fr. 75c. Threes, for r. 800., and Italian Fives the Account, closed at 67. 651 r. 95c. 4. per Cents 95 50 Do. end month — 8 per Cents. 67 75 Do. end month 67 85 Credit Mobilier 822 50 Italian Loan 65 90 Do. end month 65 95 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian — Do. end month ... 833 75 Austrian Bank Shares 3770 Spanish Threes ... 44 Credit Foneier 1292 Home Debt Roman - RAILWAYS. ________._ Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lO7l 25 ... 1075 Lyons and Mediterranean. 905 -- ... 905 Southern 612 50 ... 615 Western 530 ... 532 50 Eastern 512 50 ... 512 50 Sardinian 307 50 ... 303 k Austrian Lombard 541 25 ... 543 75 North of Spain 282 50 ... 277 50 Saragossa 370 ... 367 50 Ditto to Barcelona l4O ~. 142 00 POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day WESTMINSTER. PITIABLE CoNDrriox or CRILDREN.—Tivo miserable looking children, clothed in rags, which must have required the exercise of considerable ingenuity to put on, who gave the names of Rosa and Fanny Wood, were charged as follows : Peter Smith, a detective officer, said that, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he was in Sloane-street, Knights bridge, and saw the two defendants mingling with ladies upon the pavement, and heard them beg. The lesser one, who did not look more than six years of age, repeatedly asked for halfpence. Mr. Arnold—ls there anybody here belonging to those poor children ? The Father, a warmly clad, hearty-looking man, stepped forward, and said ho was an umbrella-maker. Mr. Arnold—How is it your children go out begging ? Tho Father—They don't that I know of. Mr. Arnold—Have they any mother ? The Father—l buried her last Christmas. Mr. Arnold—Are these children known ? Sergeant Sellephant —They were brought into the Brompton station only a few nights ago for begging, and I then desired them to tell their father that if found again begging they would bo taken up. They then told me they gave their father the money they got. The Father—l am sure it's very seldom they give me anything. Mr. Arnold—Now attend to me, and after this caution if your children are found bogging I shall consider you send them out, and I will surely commit you to prison for that offence. They are now discharged. MARKETS---This Day. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were very moderate. For all qualities there was a steady demand, and Monday's currency was well sup ported. The condition of the samples was good. With foreign wheat the market was very moderately supplied. There was continued firmness in the trade for all qualities. No advance, however, took place in the quo tations, the full prices of Monday being realised in all transactions. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, and prices ruled firm. The market was scantily supplied with barley, and the trade ruled steady, at full currencies. Malt was in fair average request, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. On the whole the trade ruled steady at full quotations. Beans and peas—with which the market was scantily supplied—changed hands at fully late rates. The flour trade was steady, and prices ruled firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat.Barley.Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch.. 250 120 1,010 1,030 1,130 Irish — Foreign 1,990 1,774 26,880 200 sks. brls Comparative Quantities and Prices of Grain.—For the Week ending May, 6, 1865.—Wheat, 84,806 quarters, average, 395. 10d. ; barley, 11,968, 295. 9d. ; oats, 4,078, 235. sd. For the corresponding week last year.—Wheat, 65,134, 395. 2d. ; barley, 17,098, 30s. 6d. ; oats, 6,101, 195.4 d. BORUGH HOP. Our market is steady, and all descriptions of hops sup port previous rates. WHITECHAPEL. Moderate supplies of meat are on sale, the trade for which is slow, as follows: - - Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 4d ; mutton, 48 Od to 5s 8d ; lamb, Gs 4d to 7s 8d ; veal, 3s 101 to 4s 10d; and pork, 3s Gd to 5s Od per Sibs, by the carcase. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, May 9.—The excitement in the Liverpool cotton market to-day, said t o be chiefly consequent on the American advices, which include mention of an extensive destruction of cotton at Montgomery, has led to some reaction in this mar ket, and sellersjaothof yarns and cloths, have gone back to fully last Tuesday's rates—an advance which buyers of yarn have shown more disposition to follow than buyers of cloth. In shipping yarns of all kinds we have had an excitement somewhat re sembling that to-day in cotton at Liverpool, where 20,000 bales are reported to have changed hands. The sales of these yarnshave been considerable, and have been made at an advance of id. to ld. per lb. on Friday's rates. The market for these goods is buoyant to the close, with a decided upward ten dency. Almost every description of yarns adapted for shipping meets with ready sale at extreme prices. The market for home-trade yarns has hardly been so buoyant, but it is strong, and sellers are asking id. per lb. advance on last Friday. In fact, there is very little difference between the rates asking to day and those of last Tuesday, the decline towards the end of last week being fully recovered. At this improvement a fair business has been done to-day, manufacturers having bought with moderate free dom. The cloth market, though extremely inactive towards the close of last week, did not give way so much in price as yarns, owing to the absence of stocks in the hands of manufacturers, but they were weakened a little, and the excitement and heavy business in cotton at Liverpool to-day has caused manufacturers to hold with more firmness, but has failed to stimulate the buyers of cloth into increased activity. There has been a little more doing in cloth to-day than duringthe last few days (for during that period business was almost suspended) ; but it is, per haps, more owing to rather favourable advices from India than anything else. What little business has been done in cloths to-day has been a slight advance on the prices of last Tuesday, but manufacturers complain that the market does not respond freely to the impulse at Liverpool, for there has been by no means a considerable business, nor even a general ,demand. Where sellers have made any favourable way it has been chiefly at the prices of last Tues day. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report as follows of this day's cloth market :—" Since last Tuesday there has been but little action in our market, and operations have been on a very limited scale. To day there is a general advance in quotations, and some business has been done at a slight advance on last Tuesday's rates ; the demand, however, is by no means general." CARDIFF, 9th.—Since our last report the trade has considerably improved as regards the number of vessels which have arrived. The orders for coal, however, show little improvement, and the conse quence has been that some of the collieries are on short time. Coastwise the coal trade is also slack, but not so much as the export trade. The iron trade continues good, and rails readily fetch £7 to £7 55., and bars £6lss. The ironmasters are, however, be ginning to feel the late extensive emigration of their men, and skilled workmen are becoming very scarce. The demand for patent fuel and tin is also good. LEEDS, 10th.—The markets in the cloth halls this morning were quiet, and the weather being wet busi ness was below that of last Tuesday. The purchases of autumn goods are made cautiously, but some fair orders are in the hands of manufacturers for expor tation. There is no positive improvement in the de mand for either Canada or the United States, but there is a general impression that a better Transat lantic trade will ensue before long. The trade to the Australian colonies and the East is tolerably good, and manufacturers of cloths suitable for the latter are well employed. Prices both of wools and cloths keep firm. There is some improvement noticeable in the flax trade, and prices are better for the raw material, as well as for yarns and threads. NOTTINGHAM, 10th.—There was a tolerable at tendance of merchants and manufacturers at this Exchange-hall to-day. The demand for lace yarns was firm, and the extreme rates of last week were maintained ; an advance on coarse and middle numbers was asked, but only partially obtained. The demand for hosiery yarns was steady, and prices were quite as high as last week. Spun silks were dearer. Brown nets a rather better sale, and recent rates3were well supported. ROCHDALE, Bth.—During the past week business has been little, if any, better than it was during the week preceding, for though merchants have been making inquiries from manufacturers, the result has been nothing more than a few trifling purchases. The next great wool sales being immediately at hand, it was but probable that goods might have been met with at a reduction, but such has not turned out to be the case. The market to-day has been thinly attended, and very little business doing, which may , be partially accounted for by the fact that some parties are preparing for their midsummer stock taking. The trade in Yorkshire goods is still most meagre, but manufacturers refuse to abate their prices. The sales of wool are entirely of a retail character, and though the new clip will shortly be introduced, prices are as firm as they have ever been. (tort Cirtniat HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, May 9. Tier Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess Louise walked and drove out yeste,day, attended by Lady Waterpark. The Princess of Wales accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark . and Prince Albert Vic tor, drove to Kew yesterday and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and remained to lunch. - - ~- RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—Her Majesty, accompanied by the younger members of the royal family, and attended by the suite, is expected to arrive at Windsor Castle from Osborne on Friday' or Saturday next. The usual preparations for the Queen's reception are being made at the Palace. Her Majesty will most probably remain for about a week at the Castle, and the royal departure for Balmoral at present is expected to take place on Friday week, the 19th inst. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, and their respective suites, will return froth Dublin at an early hour on Saturday morning. Newsvenders' Benevolent and Provident Institution, The anniversary dinner in aid of the funds of this institution took place last evening at the Free masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn fields—Mr. Charles Dickens presiding, supported by Mr. Edmund Yates, Mr. W. H. Wills, Mr. T. Jerwood, Mr. James Grant, Dr. F. C. Jones, Mr. John Bennett, Mr. W. 11. Smith, Mr. P. Terry (the treasurer to the institution), &c. There were in all about 200 guests, and amongst them were a large proportion of ladies, whose presence, it need hardly be said, added greatly to the cheerfulness of the scene, and showed that the practice of introducing the gentler sex on these occasions may be considered a successful innovation—a fact in reference to which an approving remark was humorously made by the chairman in proposing the health of her Majesty. In proposing the toast of the evening, " Prospe rity to the Newsvenders' Benevolent and Provident Institution," the CHAIR3IAN addressed the company in one of those peculiar speeches, combining elo quence with humour, for which he has always been distinguished. He observed that Dr. Johnson's experience of that club, the members of which had travelled over one another's minds in every direc tion, was not to be compared with the experience of the perpetual president of a society like the present, who, having on previous occasions said everything •about the subject that he could pos sibly find to say, was again produced, with the same awful formality, to say everything about it that he could not possibly find to say-. The case was somewhat like that of the ill-starred stag at the Epping Hunt on Easter Monday. That un fortunate animal (he meant the stag, not the presi dent) when he was uncarted generally made away at a cool trot towards the yard where he lived, and there subsided into a quiet inoffensive existence until he was again brought out to be followed over the same field under exactly the same circumstances next Easter Monday. (Hear, and laughter.) The difficulties of the situation (and here he spoke of the president, not the stag) were greatly increased by the peculiar nature of the institution, by its un pretending solidity, its reality, and its usefulness, by its perfect freedom from all material of an ora torical nature. The hon. chairman then proceeded to show that the difficulty of the position arose from the fact that the difficulty of the position arose from he was called upon to overcome. If, for example, success had never attended the efforts of the society —if the managers could say that the institution was insolvent—in a hopeless condition—that its accounts had been kept by Mr. Edmunds or by " (cheers and laughter)—if the treasurer had taken it into his head to run away with the money-box--- - if any such event had occurred, he might be en abled to make a pathetic appeal to their sympa thies. But he had no such chance. Just as a nation was happy whose records were barren, so a benevolent society that had no history was fortu nate, and its president unfortunate. (Laughter.) He could• only assure the company that this society continued its plain unobtrusive career—tha t it did a great deal of good at a very small cost, and that the objects of its care and the bulk of its mem bers were faithful, hard-working servants of the public, who ministered to their wants at untimely hours, in all seasons and in all weathers—at their own homes—at the street corners—at every railwaY train—at every steam-boat—through the agency of immense establishments and the tiniest shops, and who, whether as regardedthe master or as regarded the man, received very small profits, were veil modest" while their risks were numerous, and their trouble and responsibility were very great. (Hear.) The newsvender and the newsman, beyond all question, were very subordinate parts of that won derful engine the newspaper press. Still he thought they all knew pretty well that they were to the fountain-head what good service pipes were to a good water supply. They were all of them accus tomed to say in their everyday life that they never knew the worth of a thing till they lost it. Let them try the worth of this calling by the test. Ai"' years ago it was discovered one morning that a strike had taken place among the cab-drivers of Lon don. Imagine such a state of things to occur amongst the newsvenders. People anxiously waiting in all directions, and under every variety of circum stances, for news which did not reach them as usual —imagine the circulation of the blood of the coun try standing still—the clock of the world stopped' Why, even Mr. Reuter, whom he was always happy to suppose slumbering by night by the side of Mrs- Reuter—(laughter)—with a galvanic battery under the bolster, with an electric wire at each side of the bed, and with the bells at each ear—how he would click and flash those wonderful despatches of 1 115 7 and how they would become-mere nothings, without that intelligence, that activity, and honesty which up the threads and stitches of the electr ic needle which scattered them all over the land. Although the newsvender might be allowed to be a very unpicturesque rendering of Mercury or Fame, or other conventional messengers from the clouds! and although they must all admit that he is of thi . s earth, and has often, poor fellow, a great deal of .16„. on his boots, still he had had very remarka ble characteristics to which none of his ce lestial predecessors could lay the slightest claim`: one was that he was always a messenger of civilisation, the other was that he was equal l y so not only in what he brought but in what 11 . ! ceased to bring. Mr. Dickens then went on tuo draw a graphic picture of the description of Ow . which the newsvenders were called upon to d- 15 _, 4 geminate in days gone by, when society iv: in a state of gross sensuality and intemP e _ ranee was the rule, and when the most devilish duel!. w ere fought for the most disgraceful of cause _' r That state of things was happily discontinued _ ever, and when they remembered the undoub7a truth that this change could never have been effet°, without the aid of the load the newsvender ca rriC o surely it was not too romantic to express the 11°_130 in his behalf that the public would show to him s. little token of that sympathetic remembrancelllll',,ro they were aways glad to bestow upon the bea r of happy tidings. In reference to the finances. aD the society, it was sufficient for him to say tha' heir the annuities were granted out of the income of funded capital, and that they were attaina ble by T :id exercise of such a slight amount of prudence :0a forethought that a sum of 255. diffused ov er a 12', of five years entitled a male subscriber to year and a female to £lO a year. The he b n• ati li c Y; man concluded, amid loud cheers, by erap ra pr e o n p e o e s m in e g a t . he toast which he mentioned at the c° --- 0 w as f The oll toast d NbVya "Theell th enthusiastically Bennett, and responded to b lip y yro M rpeo r ssp . : J dn a ba m ye e dMrs .7 C L 'jr va t:l l; Other toasts, including the health of the c_l l ::_ k io (proposed by Mr. Edmund Yates), were d v : rea a due succession, and a list of subscriptions amounting to about £3OO.