The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-15 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DAY.—Morning, 4h. 47m.—Afternoon, sh. sm. To-Monnow.-Morning, sh. 28m.—Afternoon, sh. 48m. THE r D ER B Y.—CALLAGHAN'S NEW DERBY RACE GLASS, price Sts. with Slin er g complete. This new model, combining high pow and portability. is at once the cheapest and best glass ever offered to the public. Post-04,e orders have immediate attention.. Mr. Callaghan, optielin, 23A. New Bond-street, W. (corm'', of Conduit-street), sole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. -OPERA GLASSES, in every variety of form and _mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharp -street, ness of definition, at CALLAGHAN'S , No. 23. a, New Bond W. (corner of Conduit-street) , s ole agent for the celebrated Opera and Field Glasses, by Volgtlander, Vienna. THE AT R E-R 0 Y AL, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING th' performance will commence with a new Play, entitled LOVE'S 0 RDE E. XL ; cr, The Old and New Regime : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Phe'psE , . Falconer, Mrs. Heimann V, zin, After which. on a scale of greit splendour, Milton's Mask of COATIS : • Messrs. Wa l t er Lacy, iibye Cooper, Men . i Drayton, Miss Yoole, Miss Augusta Thomson, and Mrs. H. Vezia. T LI EA TRE-R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER. Toics,rs. Cooper, WhiffAz, Braid, Clark, drc. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, F. Wright, Sze After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Sothern, Buckbtone, Chippendale, Braid, Gor..on, Rogers, Clark. White. Coe, dtc. ; Mesdames znowdon, Stuart, Dill, Harris, Wright, &c. Concluding with FISH OUT OF WATER. Kr. Compton To commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPILL -0410 eroi , ll , tor and Mat:l2.2r. sir. E. euster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. Mess s. C. H. Stephenson and Eburne ; Miss K. Kelly. After which, at 8, FAZIO ; OR, THE ITALIAN WIFE. B anca, Miss Bateman; supported by Messrs. Jordan, Stuart, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Ashley, and Mrs. B.llington. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the Pigskin. Mestirs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bediord ; Miss K. Kelly Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, A DAY AF MIL THE WEDDING. Messrs. C. Horsman, Collett, M'lntyre, &c. ; Mesdames C. Horsman and G. Leigh. After which, at Eight, DON CZESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr. Fechter ; Messrs. Ryder. Fitzpatrick, Garden, Clifford, Collett; Miss Lavenu, Airs. Lee, and Miss Carlotta Leciercq. To conclude with THE LOST CHILD. Mr. Widdicomb. Doors open at Hall-past Six. The Boa-office open daily from Eleven till Five. On Monday, May 22, HAMLET. Mr. Fahter. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEAktT-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. After which, AR RAH NA POGUE ; Mesas. Dion Bone!. eault, J. Brougham. H. Vandenhoff, 1). Fisher, D. Murray; Mrs Bencicanit and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, UP STAIRS AND DOWN STAIRS. Mr. Stoyle ; Mho Simpson. After which, at 8, ONE TREE HILL. emirs. Craven, Stoyle, James, Belford ; Miss A. Swanborongh and kiss M.; Palmer. To conclude w:th ALADDIN. Messrs. Thorne, James; Mesdames Hughes, Weston, Thorne, and Eliza kiolt. 41HE LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan 5e had Every Evening of (4: R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavenaisn-street, Oxford-street. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as Published. containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. HARRIS, Netispaper Agent, 4, Blacktriars-road, London, S. :77, g 11?AlleVA -AVltil'a t 1 it 4 ' ..': ' , -0'3"4.*? e•N i jpatt LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1865. The working classes and their friends are appa rently determined to give active evidence of the in accuracy of the charge of indifference to reform which has been brought against them in several quarters. A public meeting was held in St. Martin's Ball on Saturday evening as a sort of metropolitan inauguration of the National Reform League. Mr. BEALES, the chairman of the League, presided, and took the opportunity of declaring the principles upon which the association was established, and the objects which it proposed to its members. A goodly company of professed reformers supported the meeting by their presence, and a considerable num ber of working men formed the audience, so that altogether the proceedings may be taken as a fair representation of the views and sentiments of the Manchester and Metropolitan League. The opinions of Manchester and London, however, are not gene rally identical. Manchester has done good service in the cause of free-trade, and has boldly advocated principles which London has cordially accepted and adopted as its own. But in other respects the Man chester school, like the New Englanders of America, is too often represented by men of strong character, inflexible determination, and firm convictions, but narrow and intolerant views. The same defects which marred the excellences of the Puritans of the Old World are repeated in their descendants in the New, and show themselves on a smaller scale in the advocates of similar principles among ourselves. Foremost among the defects is the impossibility of respecting the convictions of oppo nents. The absence of that mental mag nanimity which can believe in the sincerity of men totally opposed to itself, and though it can only see one side of the shield is willing to give credit to the assurance that there is another aspect of the question that is in other circumstances quite as natural and as reasonable. Perhaps something of this is inseparable from the strong wills and the earnest convictions which work reforms and over throw established abuses. But moderate men of all parties will do well to remember that there is a tyranny of the many as well as a tyranny of the few, and that those pilgrims who crossed the Atlan tic rather than submit to the thraldom, "When the Old World grew in dotage, and by priests and kings was bound," were the precursors of those legislators who forbade that a mother should kiss her child on Sunday. The evils of Demo cracy do not exist alone in the imagination of aristocrats, and it is this which forms the diffi culty and perplexity of genuine Reformers. But we shall not avoid the difficulty by leaving it alone, for it increases year by year, and the anomalies of our representation have become so glaring that it is impossible for politicians of any class to defend t hem. We have boroughs with a population of two or three hundred returning two members, while large towns and districts, whose electors might be num bered by the thousand, are actually unrepresented. The vast outlying districts of the metropolis itself, which contain householders enough to people some continental capitals, have no vote, and, consequently, though they contribute largely to every tax, have no voice in the regulation of the finances. Then as to the constituents of the electoral districts themselves, the anomalies of the present state of things are absurd and intolerable. An English Parliament is supposed to represent the people, and the constitution is especially framed to include the delegates or representatives of all. No one can pretend to say that we have attained this end, any more than they can maintain that our elections ar e always pure and honest. Yet, considering the vast importance of our House of Commons, and the in fluence which it exercises not only on this country, but on the whole world, it is not too much to expect that it should move a little with the times, and en .deavour to approach a little nearer the Utopia of Reformers if it cannot obtain absolute perfection. Between the wholesale Radicals, who would carry all before them, and the obstinate opponents of every c h a nge that would weaken their own power, the moderate party has a difficult task to perform, and it has as yet shown little inclination or ability to accomplish it. Even now when we find politicians taking an active part in these demonstrations it is impossible to forget that the approaching election may have something to do with their sudden enthusiasm for the rights of the working classes. Undoubtedly it is the right time to agitate if the new Parliament is to be composed of better men than the old, and is to represent a little more faithfully the convictions and the wishes of the country. Still our elections had better take care that they return genuine reformers, not mere seekers after the popularity of the hour. There is no doubt of the sincerity of the National Reform League, but if they want to carry their purpose in these days when political excitement has almost died out, and the agitated aspect of America has increased the dislike to change and innovations, they must be moderate and consistent in their views. It is easy to declaim on the rights of labour and the tyranny of property ; but that is not the tone to adopt if they wish to carry conviction to the minds of sober, practical men of the middle class, by whom after all the reform must be carried. It is a mistake to adopt manhood suffrage as a leading principle of the League, for it is one which is by no means popular in this country, nor, in spite of Mr. BEALES'S dis claimer, is it in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution. Our whole system consists of a series of checks and balances, whose object is to prevent any one portion of the social machine from over powering another. The king is checked by the Parliament, the Lords by the Commons, and the Commons by the Lords, while the Parliament itself is kept within strict limits so as to make it re sponsible to the people. The method of voting the military year by year, the fixed duration of a Parliament, and, on the other hand, the brief period allowed even for its prolonga tion, all show the same watchful care that no one class should override the other. Now that the diffusion of intelligence and education and the wonderful increase of population has brought forward another class anxious for their share in political power, it should be granted to them with the same safeguards that our forefathers appended to the power of the Crown, the aristocracy, and the Parliament. When their representatives talk about our existing Parliament as an " aggregate despot ism," and denounce the rich as being the enemies of the poor, they do not satisfy us that no such safeguards are needed. But what they have a fair right to complain of is that, after men of all parties have admitted the necessity of Reform, have openly acknowledged the insufficiency and inconsistency of our representative system, and the injustice of ex cluding so large a proportion of the peaceable and respectable subjects of the QUEEN from any voice in the elections, nothing whatever is done. It is quite true that some steps should be taken, and as the Ministers profess to be waiting for outside agitation, the Manchester Reform League has done Wisely to inaugurate the association in London. If they wish to carry the convictions of the country with them, and to do real public service, they will put aside the question of manhood suffrage, on which they will have few supporters, and will devote all their energies to the Ballot. Without the Ballot the extension of the franchise will be only the extension of bribery and intimidation, more dif ficult and more costly, of course, to the candidate, and, therefore, very unwelcome, but by no means an efficacious or certain remedy for the evils of our present system. Even now a very large propor tion of electors do not go to the poll at all, either disgusted with the uproar and dishonesty, or unable to give an independent vote and unwilling to give a false one. We shall have the same thing on a larger scale if the franchise is extended without any pro tection to the elector, and the results will be that the possession of wealth will be more and more in dispensable to the candidate, so that virtually the possession of seats will be left, after all, in the hands of a few. At the present season there are always many an niversary festivals taking place, and numerous meetings to advocate the cause of those whose claims to public support and sympathy are great, and who also possess particular claims on their own more fortunate brethren. Last Saturday, Lord GRAN VILLE presided at the thirteenth anniversary festival of the Royal Medical Benevolent College. This excellent college was founded by the medical pro fession for the benefit of those of their brethren who have fallen into poverty from any unfortunate circumstances, and also for the service of their widows. In connection with this college there is a school for the gratuitous education of orphans of medical men. The late Prince Consort opened the institution, and thus the name of his Royal Highness is associated with this charity as well as with many others. The late Prince was distin guished for his readiness in coming forward to aid these estimable undertakings, and, doubtless, his works will live after him in the good effects which his influence produced in the fur therance of the cause at heart. Lord GRAN VILLE made an excellent speech, and displayed his usual skill in presiding on such occasions. The noble lord said that he considered the success of the institution as " a great triumph of strong will and power," because those who had created it were men whose arduous avocations occupied them day and night. It is satisfactory to learn that a considerable ad dition will be made to the school, of the lodge, because the trustees of the late Dr. GILBERT will send a portion of that large legacy for their benefit. Lord GRANVILLE truly said that the success of this undertaking was creditable to the members of the medical profession. As for the schools there is every reason to expect that they will prosper ; and those who are well qualified to judge of such mat ters had confidence in them. As the noble lord remarked, the teachers in these places would find their work rendered easier from the fact that they had to deal with the children of intellectual parents for the most part, and therefore would not encounter great obstacles in their path. The noble lord paid a compliment to the medical profession generally, saying that its members were generally well-informed men, and their conversa tion often most amusing and instructive ; that there was no excuse for those who shunned the society of doctors unless they were compelled to see them profes sionally. A humorous anecdote in connection with this subject was told by the noble chairman of a cynical individual who one day sent down a message to a medical friend who called upon him that he must really excuse him, because he was not well that morning. The subscriptions amounted to nearly a thousand pounds, and those who study the arrange ments of the institution will be glad to find that it has been so cordially supported. There are twenty four pensioners inthe college, each of whom has three rooms, a pension of £2O a year and coals. There are 200 boys, forty of whom are, at the expense of the Institution, being boarded, clothed, and edu cated, and the rest are only charged £4O a year for an excellent education, and all other usual charges. Much is yet necessary for the carrying out of the necessary arrangements to accommodate many deserving applicants, and the recommendations of TUE sUr, LOADO - Y, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1F65 the council are entitled to consideration when they state in their report that " they have a right to claim aid and support, not from the medical man only, but from that public in whose service the medical man spends his days, for whom his time and energy, and too often his life, are sacrificed." It is always to be regretted if by bad manage ment the public money is wasted or misapplied, and too much care cannot be taken to prevent such a mischance occurring. The proposal to present a gratuity of £lO,OOO to Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engi neer, and his assistants, has met with disapprobation in various quarters, and it is no wonder that it should have done so, for it appears inconsistent in the extreme. Communications have been received from several places protesting against the plan. One from the vestry of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, raised the question as to whether it was legal to apply the rates, which were raised for the main drainage works, to such a purpose. A more unwise thing could hardly have been done than thus to pro voke a discussion of an angry nature and to create dis content among the public. There is already suffi cient hesitation displayed in paying rates without adding to it by introducing fresh claims on the re sources, and thereby necessitating increased de mand, thus rendering the burden intolerable. The irritation thus produced throughout the metropolis has been very considerable, and fully exemplifies the feeling created by the proposal. The St. Pancras Representative Council and the Marylebone Repre sentative Council both passed resolutions to the effect that the plan was an erroneous one, and these were carried unanimously. It was truly observed at the Marylebone meeting that the proposal was as yet premature, and that it would be better to wait until the entire main drainage works were completed in an effectual manner, and then_the Government should take the matter up, and there should be a national grant " to the men who had designed and carried out the magnificent and stupendous works of the Metropolitan Main Drainage." This is a very wise suggestion, and it is to be hoped that the Metropolitan Board will take heed to the warnings it has received, and abandon the scheme which re flects so little credit on their sagacity, and has created so much ill-will and confusion among those who are to be called upon to contribute to the sums extravagantly disposed of. A more unpopular pro position has seldom emanated from a Board which at no time contrives to win the confidence or secure the favour of the numerous bodies who are concerned in the furtherance of its projects. WHIGGERY! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. As we are on the eve of a general election it may not be amiss just to review what has been the policy and actions of the Whigs during the last 70 years ; and I think, sir, I can prove it has always been that of imposture, pretence, and delusion. I will go as far back as the session 1798-99, the latter end of the last century, when they opposed strenuously Mr. Pitt's Income-tax, which was then imposed for the first time. In 1806, when in office, they increased the tax from £6} per cent. to £lO per cent. It would be worse than idle to enumerate their blunders during the old French War. I will therefore go to the period of the first Administration of the late Sir R. Peel, in 1835, when Lord John Russell turned him out on the Irish Tithe Question, yet three years afterwards, in 1838, passed himself the very iden tical measure he had turned . Sir R. Peel out upon. In 1839 and 1840 both the late Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell declared that a man would be mad, and worse than mad, who talked of a repeal of the corn laws, yet in 1841 they both avowed themselves openly convinced in favour of free trade. In 1842 they opposed Sir R. Peel's income tax, yet in 1848 (following the example of their predeces sors, the Whigs—commonly called the broad-bot tomed Government of 1806), they proposed an increase of the income tax to 5 per cent., which, as most of us can remember, was indignantly rejected by an overwhelming ma jority. After about a century's affiance with the Catholic body, they, acting on the principle of that rule so very cleverly described by Fielding, that it is a common practice of the devil in one of his many visits upon earth, when once your friend gets up to kick his stool away from him, or, in other words, when you have made your fortune by your friend, to throw him overboard. And so it was with the Whigs towards the Catholics ; they made all the use they could of them towards getting into power by advocating their rights and exposing their wrongs, afterwards turning round against them at the first profitable opportunity, as witness Lord Russell's memorable letter to the late Bishop of Durham, wherein, assuredly, the whole Catholic body was most grossly insulted. Again, their conduct during the Crimean war was any thing rather than what any honest man could ap prove; while the disgraceful peace made by them in 1856 with Russia, whereby we were humiliated and lowered amongst European nations, cannot better be illustrated than by the old phrase that a " glorious war is better than a disgraceful peace." Later still, not six short years have elapsed since they turned out Lord Derby's Govern ment on a very sensible Reform Bill, because, ac cording to the Whig argument, it did not go far enough ; yet since then they have opposed and resisted Reform in every possible way, until it has been as completely laid on the shelf as it was in 1827, towards the close of the so-called Georgian era, when it was de scribed by the late Earl Grey as being in an utterly worn out and even hopeless condition. It is not to be denied by even the most strenuous advo cate of Reform amongst us that all our best, wisest, and greatest reforms have been passed by Tory Governments, and it certainly behoves the people of England, now that we are on the eve of a general election, to beware how they entrust their interests to such an apology for a Liberal Government as we have been for nearly six years ruled by.—l remain, Sir, Your Warm Admirer and Constant Reader of many years, a Lover of Consistency, and a Hater of Humbug, but One who is Favourable to real Liberal Principles. YANKEE PASSION FOR PIE !—The sallow faces, the shrunken forms, the sunken eyes, the morose looks, the tetchy temperament of the Northerners are at tributable not half so much to iced-water, candles, tough beefsteaks, tight-lacing, and tobacco chewing, as to =- bridled indulgence in Pie. Pie worship is prevalent all over the North; you have Pie morning, noon, and night, every day, and all the year round. There is nothing open and above board in Pie. It can be eaten stealthily and in secret. A slice of a cut pie is never missed. I have heard of young ladies who took Pie to bed with them. The " Confessions of a Pie-Eater" have just been published. They are heartrending. Through an unconquerable hunger for Pie, the wretched man who is their subject often in curred in infancy the penal visitation of hickory, and brought the hairs of an aged grandmother with sorrow to tlie: grave. He wasted in gourmandizing Pie those pre cious hours which sho u ld h ave b een d evo t e d t o stu d y ; and in the end, not only failed to graduate at West Point but even to marry a niece of the late Daniel Webster. Pie darkened his mind, stupified his faculties, paralysed his energy. Pie forced him to abandon a lucrative and hon ourable career for an unsuccessful whaling voyage from Cape Cod. Pie drove him into exile. Deadened to all the finer moral feelings by this ungovernable lust for Pie, he obtained, under false and fraudulent pretences, a through ticket for California by the Vanderbilt line ; but, detected in " smouching a tom-cod" from the of the Chinese temple in San Francisco, he was disgracefully expelled the Golden State. It was for purloining Pie—a digger's noontide lunch—that he was subsequently expelled the territory of Arizona. Beggared, broken in health, he de serted his wife and family, draw cheques upon wild-cat banks, and voted on the Bell and Everett ticket—all in consequence of Pie. At length, after a course of " shin ning round the free lunches" in quest of eleemosynary Pie, and wolfing the hideous meal with Dead Rabbits, Plug-Uglies, and other unscrupulous politicians, he was arrested in Philadelphia for passing bogus notes on the Hide and Leather Bank, and was sent to States Prison for ten years. All owing to Pie.—Sala's Diary in America. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 9. The third sitting of the Anglo-Austrian Com mercial Inquiry took place at the hotel of the Ministers of Commerce yesterday. It was deter mined to allow no further reports as to the pro gress of the inquiry to be published. Count Eugene Kinsky is said to have been the mover of the re solution. PLYMOUTH, May 15. A Russian war vessel, in advance of the squadron in charge of the remains of the Czarewitch, arrived in Plymouth Sound this morning, and exchanged salutes with the citadel and flagship. She will coal and proceed again immediately. The squadron is expected during the day. FRANCE, BOURSE, May 13.—The same indisposition to effect transactions which has characterised the mar ket during the past few days still continues, and the principal Securities scarcely maintain their already reduced rates. Threes, for the Account, have been done at 67fr. 60c. ; Mobiliers have again slightly receded, and are now quoted at 795 fr. ; Italian Fives are 65fr. 85c. Securities closed as follows : 4i per Cents 95 50 Do. end month — 8 per Cents. 1 67 60 Do. end month 67 65 Credit llobilier Do. end month 792 50 Bank Shares 3700 Credit Fonder 1280 Roman — Italian Loan 65 90 Do. end month 65 85 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - MAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern 1065 ... 1070 Lyons and Mediterranean 9OO ... 901 25 Southern 598 75 ... 602 50 Western 522 50 ... 525 Eastern 512 50 ... 512 50 Sardinian 305 ... 305 Austrian Lombard 545 ... 547 50 North of Spain 255 ... 257 50 Saragossa 350 ... Ditto to Barcelona 145 ... WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, May 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tasmanian, Captain Sawyer, with the West India and Pacific mails, arrived this evening at 5 p.m. She brings 300 passengers, specie value $879,265, also 235 serons cochineal, 41 serous indigo, 446 bags coffee, 31 bales sarsaparilla, 91 casks ginger, 7 cases cigars, 114 bags cocoa, 537 bales bark, 138 bales indiarubber, 382 bags cotton, and 161 packages sundries. The Tasmanian left St. Thomas on the 29th, and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. On the sth she passed the schooner Sultana, of Jersey, and on the 12th the barque Panther. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Solent left St. Thomas on the 27th ult. for Englaid, calling at Madeira for passengers. Her Majesty's ship Sutlej left Panama on the 14th for Honolulu. The Liffey, from Gibraltar, with reinforcements for the British squadron in the Pacific, arrived at Colon on the 14th. The Devastation was to leave Acapulco for Panama on the 12th. The Columbine was to sail from Panama for Callao. From Central America the news is becoming ex citing. Canera, the President for life of Guatemala, was not expected to live. Barrios, the ex-President' of San Salvdor, was stirring up a revolution. The death of Canera would be a great loss throughout Central America. • In Nicaragua all is tranquil after the storm raised by the Liberal party against the amended concession to Capt. Pim, R.N. That gentlemen's contract, how ever, was ratified by a late majority in both Cham bers, and he now has exclusive privilege for 99 years, with upwards of 2,000,000 acres of land, and other very important grants. A new track, with an easier grade than the former one, had been cut by Capt. Pim, through the forest between the Lake of Nicaragua and the Atlantic, and the Government had decided to widen it into a cart road, in conse quence of the state of the river and harbour of Grey Town, which is now entirely closed up, so that people can walk across the bar. Grey Town is the only Atlantic port possessed by Nicaragua. The new route therefore becomes an important one, and of great advantage to the mercantile interests of the country. The news from the Republic of Bolivia is inter esting. We give the following extract from a letter of an English merchant, written on 7th April. He says : " General Belzu arrived in La Paz on 22d March, was proclaimed President of the Republic, and com menced to organise forces. President Melgarejo re ceived the news at Oruro on the 23d, and imme diately marched on to La Paz, and after a despe rate struggle stormed the town. On the 27th Belzu took refuge in the palace, which was shortly after wards taken. He was coming down the stairs as President Melgarejo was going up, and before they could enter into explanations, a soldier from behind Melgarejo shot Belzu through the head, ending his presidential pretensions for ever. The death of General Belzu has given general satisfaction ; had he lived, and could he have been successful, all foreigners would have been expelled from the coun try, and our commerce would have been at an end. Melgarejo seems inclined to carry out a liberal policy, and I hope to see a renewal of trade." At Grenada sugar making proceeded favourably, and the ships in harbour were fast loading. The whaling season appeared to have closed, no captures being reported. At Demerara the import market assumed a firmer tone, owing to small arrivals. Exports of produce continued steady, but quotations remained un changed. The weather was wet. Exchange on London 90 days ruled at $476 Trinidad has been flooded with rains, and sugar making stopped almost entirely. The crop was not half in, and the prospect to the planters discourag ing. Exports proceeded steadily. NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND.—The stewards for the dinner to be held at Freemasons' Hall on Saturday, the 20th, have received, gratifying communications from Madam Clara Schumann (the distinguished German pianists, known as Clara Vinck), and from Herr Joachim (the famed violinist), that they will afford their valuable services on that occasion. Mr. Sims. Reeves has kindly consented, by special desire, to sing "The Death of Nelson." The celebrated Swedish vocalist, Mdlle. Ennequist, Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. W. Harrison, &c., will also afford their aid, Mr. Benedict again officiating as conductor. LORD DERBY HAS PARDONED THE LORD CHAN CELLOR through a speech in the House, expressing the Tory belief that the Lord Chancellor had no bad motive in his leniency to Mr. Edmunds. He did not appear to think that this charming leniency, when the public has been robbed, itself implies an estimate of the nature of that crime quite inconsistent with high places of official trust, and we may gather from various obiter dicta of Lord Derby's that had he been in Lord Westbury's place he might have taken the same lenient view of embezzlement. On Tuesday night Lord Granville proposed to revoke Mr. Edmunds's pension —the least that could be done in such a case— and Mr. Edmunds applied to be heard by counsel in his own defence. The request, however, was not granted in spite of various relentings from noble lords, who seemed to wish for an excuse to be as lenient as Lord Westbury on the ground that the same request had been granted and withdrawn by Mr. Edmunds in relation to the inquii7 of the Committee. In the end the pension was revoked with - out a division, but not without a regret. It is curious to see how station and the mere incidents of an affair of this kind destroy the estimate of its criminality. We heard of a man getting eight years, the other day, for stealing—not embezzling—a few potatoes. Bat the higher the station and education the less—apparently—the guilt.—Spectator. [AnvEnnsEmEinHolloway's Pills.—Protectors of Health.—ln the hand-to-hand struggle for existence in the present day good health is everything. Holloway's puri fying, digestive, a n d gen tl y l axa ti ve Pills are admirably adapted for restoring soundness to invalids whose func tions are so feebly performed that life itself seems most precarious. The stomach has its many maladies removed by a judicious use of these Pills, the torpid liver is roused by them to active secretion, and every other organ sub serving digestion is placed at its natural standard and better fitted for its duties. It is impossible to have a doctor at our elbow at all seasons and places, but these Pills will supplant that -loss, for they universally act beneficially in every ailment. LITERATURE. Hunting Sketches. By Anthony Trollope. One Vol., pp. 115. Chapman and Hall. The readiest writer of the day is surely Mr. Anthony Trollope. No one living writes more dis tinctly, we should say currente calamo. Reading him is, for all the world, like listening to the con versation—at times the small-talk, even at moments the very small talk—of an exceedingly pleasant companion. Glib as glib as can be are the periods here run from the pen-point with all the idiomatic fluency of a purely conversational style. With a fluency so remarkable as to impart to the general effect of the writing an air of absolute carelessness. The present sketches, " Hunting Sketches" as they are called—eight little harum-scarum papers in all —indicate in a very vivid manner the peculiarities of this almost slovenly mannerism of Mr. Trollope's. They illustrate it in fact so vividly as by their illustrations even to exaggerate it. Insomuch is this the case from the outset that the very first sentence is Ungrammatical ! "It seems to be odd," says Mr. Trollope, " at first sight that there should be any such men ; but their name and number is legion"—the italics, of course, being our own. Dashed off helter skelter for our gal lant young contemporary, the Pall Mall Gazette, these Hunting Sketches depict to the life—The Man who Hunts and Doesn't Like it—The Man who Hunts and Does Like it—The Lady who rides to hounds—The Hunting Farmer•—The Man who hunts and never jumps The Hunting Parson—the Master of Hounds—and How to Ride to Hounds. He depicts them with a few seemingly quite casual touches—and yet through those few touches, jotted down by a true artist's hand, hits them off to a nicety, as through the lens of a pho tographer. As Sketches they have some sort of a resemblance—in their combination pretty equally of vividness and carelessness—to several of those wonderful pencil drawings of Hunting Scenes, recently on view at Messrs. Christie and Manson's—before being scattered to the four winds by the dispersing hammers of those auctioneers. Pencillings of men and horses and dogs, careering over hedge and over ditch by the master hand of that dear lamented friend of us all, John Leech. What Leech had done there in those Hunting Sketches with a pencil—Anthony Trollope has done here in these with a pen. They are full of life, humour, verisimilitude. A random touch, now here, now there, upon the page, and the hunting scene and the hunting people are brought out vividly to view. It is next to impos sible to feel dull while turning over these Sketches You look and smile, you read andlaugh. The morn ing air blows about you. The, dew-wet branches of the copse, splash your face as you make your way onwards among the leaves. You are in thepigskin the stirrup-leather taut under the pressure of the ball of your foot in the gaunty apricot-tops. The sweat-stained skirts of your " pink" flutter across the flanks of your hunter as you ride well to hounds, " through brake, through briar," over fence, over rasper, cheek-by-jowl, almost at a dead heat with the pleasant comrade, who leads you onwards close after the pack so long as the scent lasts, or until the varmint is driven to earth ! Pencillings by the way though these are—more strictly than any of those jotted down by N. P. Willis—they are well worthy of having been col lected together thus for preservation upon our bookshelves. They are fragrant of country life, and with all their carelessness—a carlessness on the part of the writer, oddly over emulated by the printer, instance at p. 28, " the run of the reason," mis printed for the " run of the season"—with all their flagrant carelessness, these are manly, honest, and true as Hunting Sketches. Church and Queen : Five Speeches delivered by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Pp. 79. G. J. Palmer, 32, Little Queen-street. The speeches here collected together in this little sixpenny pamphlet, edited by a member of the University of Oxford, have certainly been issued from the press most opportunely. Oppor tunely, that is, with the prospect of a general elec tion before August, and with the certainty of a pretty sharp contest upon the 'very questions dis cussed in these remarkable speeches of Mr. Disraeli's —one of them about the most remarkable speech he has ever delivered—a pretty sharp contest in a good many constituencies besides that of the University of Oxford. The fifth speech in this pamphlet, the last of the five speeches re ported in it, is of course the one we have but just now alluded to—the one on Church policy de livered at Oxford on the 25th of last November by the Right Hon. the leader of her Majesty's Oppo sition. By constituencies of both parties, or of neither, by members of both sides of the House of Commons as it now is, by aspirants to seats in its im mediate successor, alike Whigs and Tories, Libe rals and Conservatives, Radicals and Retrogrades, that fifth speech, the whole of these five speeches ought to be reperused, and that, moreover, very attentively. The pamphlet is valuable, if for no other consideration, for inasmuch as it is a most timely and acceptable refresher ! Men of Letters in Modern Greece. First of all the French formula "homme de lettres" has no exact equivalent in Greek ; av-yypcutifi;r and Ady tor mean something different ; they do not ex press that a man lives by his pen (dvopairov tiliXaB7) vra cirO roi; KaXcliwv rov). So Mr.Vretos is driven apparently to invent the phrase livOponros raw ypappcircov, though, by his account, the pure "homme de lettres" is rare in Greece, most public writers having some other office or business as well. Before the War of Independence there were no publishers; some rich patron, some merchant, prelate, or high official, had a book printed at his own cost, and either gave away the copies himself or left them for the author to sell. Now there are publishers, and publishers get rich in Greece as well as elsewhere. They are the great fishes and the authors the little ones (Orcor KaL aXXRXOi; of &Ural aye of peycutot, Kai of avyypaPeis of 1.14Kp0l IXeil . 0. The classics sell well ; so do practical books—dictionaries, medical books, law-books, and so forth. Of the means to procure a sale for philological books of wider aim (r &roc roi ra'AcXov TOUTOV LA oyuc ci) we have a curious account. It must be done by subscription, and, of all the people in the world, the King's Ministers for the time being, especially the Minister for Foreign Affairs, are expected to collect sub scriptions. The Minister dees not refuse ; the pros pectus is printed by the King's printer, and is sent to all the Greek consuls and agents everywhere. The author makes his thankful bow to the Minister, and awaits the result. But no result comes ; the consuls writes back, or the Minister says that they write back, that the times are bad (of aupoi eivi Xiav SimrKoXot), that none of the people who have been applied to have chosen to subscribe. The author is much disappointed, but he still keeps all his thankful feelings towards the Minister. He cloth not know the secrets of the Foreign-office. But let us suppose that all difficulties are got over and that the book is atlast printed. Then begin other difficul ties on which Mr. Vretos does not hesitate to bestow a stronger name--tore Oitan apvCovv laXa tiapri)pia. Some of the subscribers won't pay; and there is another class of tormentors. Friends who have shammed dead (rOv vevav Irpoo-rotigEvres) while the warfare—Mr. Vretos' word is crrpartia—for subscriptions are going on, now come to life again, and ask for a copy for friendship's sake. The re quest is a compliment ; if you send them away, they come again ; you must either sacrifice a copy of your book or turn a friend into an enemy. Mr. Vretos tells us of am author who answered in such a case that he had no. copy left. " But you must have kept one for your own use. Lend it me." " I can't ; it is gone to the binder." " Very well, I will wait till it is bound ." And so, a fortnight after, he writes again for the loan, which Mr. Vretos hints would be a loan not likely to be repaid—ZypaikE vd TOV daveuni (w. xaplcni) TO At XOre PLlPtiov. It must certainly be hard at this rate for a man to be a pure " hommes de lettres," living by his pen.— Saturday Review. MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE.—The annual examina tion for open scholarships will commence on the 80th inst. The value of Nenior scholarships is £5O annually ; of the Junior, 420. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. THE CITY OF LONDON. Sir James Duke, after a service of no less than 16 years, will, it is understood, not offer himself for re-election. Mr. Alderman Lawrence will be proposed to supply the vacancy thus created, and the three other sitting members—Baron Rothschild, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Goschen—will, it is be lieved, be returned without opposition. BLACKBURN. For some time past the affairs in this town have por tended a warm contest at the next general election, and though it was at one time thought that no ono would come forward to disturb the present representation, each political party returning their representative, a second Liberal can didate, in the person of Mr. John Gerald Potter, of Little Mytton-hall, near Whalley, and nine miles from Blackburn, yesterday issued an address to the electors. He has been spoken of as " the coming man" for some two months. It is generally believed that the Conservatives will bring out a second candidate—whom it is not hinted. The sitting members are Messrs. James Pilkington, Liberal, and William Henry Hornby, Conservative. BURY ST. EDMUNDS. It was stated in The Sun a week since that a movement had been made by some of the Conservative electors of this borough in opposition to Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P., one of the sitting members. Lord Alfred has since issued an ad dress, in which he says that while he has opposed changes which he considered both ill-timed and dangerous in their extent, he has honestly endeavoured to support a policy of safe and moderate progress. Lord Alfred adds ! " I regret to find, from speeches delivered at a recent meeting, that the course which I have pursued has been censured by some of those from whom I received a gener ous support at the last election. . . I must, in my. own vindication, assert that I have acted strictly in accordance with the principles by which my political conduct has always been guided. . . The unparalleled prosperity of the country is a proof that the policy to which I have given my humble support has been eminently wise and successful, and I shall appeal without hesitation to the electors at large, in full confidence that by their verdict they will de clare their approbation of my conduct." On Saturday an address appeared from Mr. E. Greene, Mr. B B. Greene, who had been named as a Conservative candidate, in opposition to Lord Alfred Hervey, having de clined to come forward. Mr. E. Greene, who states that the condition of his health will not allow him to incur the fatigue and excitement of a personal canvass, says in his address that he advocates a progressive and not a stationary Conservatism, and would give Lord Derby an independent support. He further states that he is in favour of open com petition for the public service, the extension of education among the poor, the improvement of their dwellings, and the free circulation and employment of labour. Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, M.P., the other sitting member, has also issued an address. CHATHAM. Up to the present time no official announcement has been made by Gen. Sir J. F. M. Smith of his intention to again seek the suffrages of the electors of this borough, but from the circumstance of the Conservative party having as yet refrained from any active proceedings, coupled with the general dissatisfaction expressed by the great body of the electors at Gen. Sir F. Smith's recent conduct in Parlia ment, it is pretty generally believed that the gallant mem ber does not again intend offering himself for re-election. In the meantime the Liberal party have again brought for ward Mr. Arthur J. Otway, who was defeated at the last general election by a very narrow majority, and his friends are now prosecuting an active canvass in his behalf, with, it is stated, the most satisfactory results. Since the last general election several hundred additional voters have been added to the Parliamentary roll, and as fully two-thirds of these are known to be supporters of the Liberal party the friends of Mr. Otway speak confidently of that gentleman being returned should the present member decide on again contesting Chatham. EAST KENT. On Saturday an adjourned meeting of the leading mem bers of the Conservative party and of the representatives of various district committees was held at the Royal Foun tain Hotel, Canterbury, to receive the reply of the Hon. Butler-Johnstone to the requisition inviting him to become a candidate, in conjunction with Sir B. W. Bridges. The Hon. G. W. Mulles presided, and there was a numerous at tendance. It was reported that the requisition was presented on Thursday, but that the Hon. Butler-Johnstone hesitated to come forward unless assured of the support of a number of gentlemen; professed Conservatives, who had not signed the requisition. It was also reported that several of the gentlemen alluded to had since given in their adhesion to the movement, and there was reason to believe the others would do so also. Thero was therfore, the Chairman re marked, very little doubt but Mr. Butler-Johnstone would offer himself. It was accordingly decided that the chair man should proceed to London to report the result of the meeting to the hon. gentleman, and that, in the event of his deeming it satisfactory, Sir B. Bridges and the Hon. Butle r would be requested to issue a ; jcint address to the electors. It was further decided that the district commit tees should commence an active canvass. As yet the Libe rals have not had any public meeting, but a movement has commenced to support the re-election of the present mem bers, Sir B. W. Bridges and Sir E. C. Dering, in further ance of which object signatures are being obtained to the following declaration :—" We, the undersigned electors, who did not vote for Sir Edward Dering in 1863, under standing that it is proposed to bring forward the Hon. Butler-Johnstone as a Conservative candidate at the ap proaching general election, hereby declare our intention of supporting our sitting members, and request the co-opera tion of our brother electors in this course." Among the signatures already appended to this are those of several influential Conservatives. EAST SURREY. Owing to failing health, Mr. T. Alcock, who has long represented East Surrey, will retire from Parliament at the dissolution. In his place. Mr. Chas. Buxton, of Foxhills, Surrey (partner in the well-known firm of Truman, Han bury, and Co.), at present member for Maidstone, will come forward, in conjunction with Mr. Locke Xing, to solicit the suffrages of the electors of East Surrey. ESSEX. The activity of the Essex politicians has sustained no check. Sir Thomas Western, the Liberal candidate for North Essex, has been addressing meetings of the electors in every part of the division ; and his opponents, Major Beresford, M.P., and Mr. C. Du Cane, M.P., the present sitting members, are equally active. At Harwich, Mr. Kelk has been formally accepted as a Conservative candidate in conjunction with Captain Jervis, M.P. ; Mr. M. Wills is a Liberal candidate. Mr. Kelk says in his address that as a Liberal-Conservative he intends to adopt the principles of Lord Derby, believing them to be those most conducive to the interests of the country. He is opposed to interven tion in foreign affairs, but at the same time strenuously ad vocates the maintenance of an efficient army, navy,„ and volunteer force. Mr. Kelk, after adding that he is disposed to adjust as far as possible all inequalities of taxation, pro fesses himself a "true Churchman," at the same time ad vocating freedom of worship for all creeds. Mr. 0. E. Coope has declined to contest South Essex in the Conser vative interest. Mr. Coops says : " After giving the subject my fullest consideration, and consulting those on whose judgment I have every reason to rely—it appearing that some of my farming friends and others, possibly under a misconception that their interests and mine are not identical, seemed disposed to withhold the support I had naturally expected, I am brought to the conviction that in withdrawing my name without delay I am best consulting the interests of the Conservative cause." Mr. H. J. Selwin, who was to have contested the divi sion with Mr. Coope, is ready to do so, but some other gen tleman will have to be found to stand with him in the Con servative interest. Mr. R. B. Baker, the Liberal candidate, has not yet issued his address. HEREFORDSHIRE. It has already been stated that Mr. Biddulpb, of Leo bury, offers himself as a candidate for Herefordshire, in the place of Mr. Mildmay, who retires; Sir Joseph Bailey offer ing himself as the Conservative candidate, in the room of Lord W. Graham who, also, does not seek re-election. Mr. Biddulph's address to the electors is out. After referring to his family connexion with the county he avows himself "a Liberal and a Reformer." As a Reformer, he says : "I think it must be conceded on all sides that improve ments in cur representative system are called for, and that a new Reform Bill must before long be framed by the Legislature. If any measure of Reform should be proposed by either of the two great political parties of the State I should endeavour to support it, if it were in accordance with the principles of the Reform Act of 1832, in the wis dom of which all parties now concur." Mr. Biddulph, after declaring himself "an attached mem ber of the Established Church," says as to Church-rates : "I do not on principle think it reasonable to compel Dissenters to contribute to the cost of an ecclesiastical es tablishment to which they do not belong. In any final settlement, however, of the Church-rate question I consi der that seine provision ought to be made for the mainten ance of the fabric of our national church." HULL A meeting has been held here for the purpose of consider ing the propriety of inviting a second Liberal to contest the borough, in conjunction with Mr. Clay. A resolution was adopted that the meeting should support Mr. Clay, and a committee was formed to prepare for the ensuing election. The question of the proposed second Liberal candidate was discusse 1, but without result. NORTH RIDING. There is the prospect of a severe struggle for the repre sentation of this division of Yorkshire. Last week Mr. Milbank, whom Mr. Morritt defeated on the death of Mr. Cayley, issued his address to the Liberals, and this week Mr. Morritt and Col. Duncombe, the sitting members, have done the same to the Conservatives. The Liberal section is sanguine of obtaining one seat, and the Conservatives are equally sure of retaining the entire representation for their party. Mr. Morritt appeals for the support of the "independent" electors, as a tried man for four sessions, and a proved hard working and trustworthy member of the Commons. Mr• Morritt says he is perfectly free and unfettered, serving no private interests, and able to devote his whole time to the constituency. - - Col. Duncombe speaks with less submission, and takes a lofty tone, as if confident of success. He will support the Established Church, oppose centralisation of government, and repeal the malt tax. He is not in favour of " violent changes" in the constitution, and regards the proposition to lower the borough franchise to £6 as rash and impolitic. Such a change would disfranchise the present constituen cies and transfer political power to those who bear the least share of the national burdens, and would fail to give a vot e to education and intelligence. To such innovations Col. Duncombe is entirely opposed, but in the true spirit of Con servatism would support measures for the improvement of our institutions, amendment of laws, and promotion of the education and general welfare of the people. _ Both members promise as far as possible a personal ooA vass. NORTH WILTS. Mr. R. Penruddocke Long, the present Conservative member for Chippenham, has issued an address to the elec tors of North Wilts, offering himself as a candidate for the seat which his father (Mr. W. Long) will shortly vacate. He expresses himself opposed to any changes of such an just balance character as would be likely to disturb the balance of our constitution. He hails with satisfaction the long-promised reduction of the income tax as beneficial alike to the agricultural and commercial classes. Though disclaiming the wish to favour any particular class he hold - that the agriculturists are entitled to special c onsideratien , as ;having been subjected to the strain of a world-wi de competition, and therefore he supported Si F. Kelly's mo tion for the'reduction of the malt tax. He thinks the county, rather than the Union, should be the basis of local rates. Sir G. S. Jenkinson is also in the field as a Conserva. tive candidate. PRESTON. Since Captain Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby, till' nounced his willingness to stand at the next election for the borough of Preston in the Conservative interest, and ISfr• G. Melly, of Liverpool, on the Liberal side, withdrew, it la thought that nothing can prevent the return of two Con servatives. An effort is, however, being made, and there is movement among the Liberal party to restore the balance of political power. It is now considered probable that the Liberals will bring out Mr. Gladstone, eldest son of tha Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a candidate in their inte rest. Preliminary steps have, it is publicly announced, been already taken for this purpose. But under the most favour able circumstances, the Liberals will have to fight with very' considerable desperation if they mean to succeed at the next election ; for Sir T. G. Hesketh, the present ConserYo tive member, has a good hold in the borough, and Capt ain , Stanley has received the promises of nearly three fourths ° I the electors. The difficulty of the Liberals is to a great e 8" tent caused by the Roman Catholics, who, as electors, ar° very strong in Preston, and can turn an election any wag they think proper if united, and they appear at present to be strongly in favour of the Conservatives. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. Three or four months ago there was a good deal of excite ment and stirin several of the boroughs in Northumberl an . 9 and Durham, in view of a general election. A truce, het' ever, appears to have been declared until the near approach of that important event, and all is quiet at present. Ther ° are likely, however, to be several warm contests. 1111. Alderman Cowen, an advanced Liberal, hasbeen invited by a requisition, signed by above 2,000 electors, to stand f ° ,. r. Newcastle, and has declared his intention to do so. Bo t h the sitting members, Mr. Headlam and Mr. Somerset Beall mont, have announced their intention of standing aga iTh and it is stated that a Conservative candidate will lx 3 brought out, so that there is every appearance of a 'y el l warm contest. A very close contest will also be fought in Tynemouth between Mr. Richard Hodgson, the chairman of the North British Railway, the sitting member, and l'f r * G. 0. Trevelyan, a Liberal, who opposes him. Parties, are evenly balanced in that borough, and the election likely to be very exciting. Mr. Henry Fenwick, one of di° sitting members for Sunderland, has declared his intenti on ..i to stand again ; and M r . Li n d sa y' s f r i en d s sa y that 3°' Lindsay will be put up by them again ; but, under any circumstances, Mr. Alderman Candlish, a local Liberal, h.. 3 ' 5 announced that he will be a candidate. It is stated that 3° Alderman Hartley, one of the directors of the Nort h Eastern Railway, and a large manufacturer, will be broug ht out by the Conservatives. It was rumoured in the ear l / part of the week that Mr. Ingham, the Liberal member South Shields, would retire at the general election, b u that statement has been contradicted, and there is WI probability that he will be re-elected without oppositioa• There is to be a contest in Berwick, as usual. V i° southern division of the county of Durham will be con,, tested, Captain Beaumont having been accepted as t' - `; second Liberal candidate; and it is probable that the 50 00 ' Liberal seat of the northern division of that county will 1 0 contested by the Conservatives. ,CM DIEN c rtu to ,(sourit HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 13 ' ,„ The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Prinel Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, al l Prince Leopold, left Osborne at 10 minutes bef°, re four o'clock to-day, and arrived at Windsor Cas tle at 25 minutes past seven o'clock, p.m., attended 1)1 the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Hon. M r !' Bruce, the Hon. Emma Lascelles, Li e utenan t General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. Si r , B. Phipps, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Mr. Sahl, and 311 ' = Buff, Her Majesty crossed over to Gosport in the roya l yacht Alberta. The Hon. Harriet Phipps has arrived at the Cast le as maid of honour. Lord De Tabley and Captain the Hon. Mortiln el. Sackville West are the lord and groom in waiting. MAY 14. Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess; Helena and Princess Louise attended Divine vice this afternoon in the private chapel. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, chaplai n ill ordinary, officiated. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold 0 0 Princess Beatrice attended the service in the morning' L -- Her Majesty will hold a Council at Vi r w — Castle on Thursday next. THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO BALMORAL—Th e f 0 1; lowing are the particulars of her Majesty's pa% between Windsor and Balmoral on the 19th and 2 001 $. now arranged :—Her Majesty will leave Windsor on day evening, the 19th, at 6 50, travel by the Great We st , i e- t0 and London and North-Western, by way of Oxford, a nd Stafford, where a short stay will be made for refresholeill thence by Carlisle to Perth, where, at 8 45 on Satur'6l morning, there will be an hour's stoppage for rest and.hed' freshments ; then Ferryhill, in Aberdeen, will be at 12 26, and Aboyne, the terminus of the railway joil o . f at 1 37. After Aboyne there will be a two hours' jeluile" by posting.—Seotsman. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT - GARDr e g Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess a 1 ,3 34 honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera' their presence on Saturday evening. Their royal hi led nesses, who occupied the Queen's box, were accurno r y. by his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den‘f.l)'-; r The royal suite consisted of the Hon. Mrs. Coke, •'°.'c' Teesdale, V.C., and Captain Lund. A tb ° The Earl and Countess of Effingham, r egi , Ladies Howard have left Farrance's Hotel for their ' dence in Eaton Place. : The Earl of Warwick is doing duty Nv"--4.11 ,„0 regiment at Warwick. The countess and family leave early in the week for Warwick Castle. 4?./1 Lord and Lady Churston have arrived av Upper Brook-street. Her ladyship is suffering C r° severe attack of bronchitis. A gr. Lord Henry Scott, Sir W. Scott, MY., ouv' Walter Armstrong had an interview with the Righ t , r e- Edward Cardwell on Saturday at the Colonial -office t ° o f sent a memorial from the South of Scotland Chtuttbe Commerce. on The Dean of Melbourne had an i n tervie w + t I t o Saturday with the Right Hon. Edward Cardw ell Colonial-office. of Mr. William Walker, Colonial Seeretarloo. British Guiana, had an interview with the n i g ht Edward Cardwell at the Colonial-office on SaturdaPvieo The Hon. George Edwardes had an i liter att the with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell on Sa turday Colonial-office. Mr. James Walker, C.B , Governor-in -6' with the Windward Islands, had an interview on Saturdff s 9 the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell at the Colon ial-oce ; A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday scor private residence of the First Lord of the T r easurh te ac i e d• bridge-house, Piccadilly. The Council was fully made MEYERBEER'S GRAND OPERAS.--Devilry i 0 interesting in Robert po li t i ca l controfer;eoo striking at the heart of love, fascinating in —the conflict of a mother's piety w ith a sons I ° o l ol (A' impressive in Le Prophete—but geograph ical disc. very in L'Africaine) is not a good mgfjce for dra ulatl° Chorle in the Athenteum.