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inOUSES.—Nlessrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furrushea .and unturnisheil 1 OWN, "),;rban, an d Country. li,kblDhls OES to LET or SELL. rarticulars upon. application forwarded for two stamps, -opon stativg requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit street, ilegent-street, and South Kensington, lacing the Museum. ,SO UTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Ru'stland Gates, 11, PI inces and Beaufort Queen s-gate and Pe, h a m Terraces, Terraces, Queengate, Cornwa gardens, Flivs.ston - place, Cromwell-ro , id, On slow and Thurloe Squares, Boltcns, &L . Messrs TOPLIi and ROBE itTS hav e E,E" . 4 DEN CB'S to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localities. Offices, 2,. Conduit-street, Regent-street, and uth Kensington, facing the Museum. --- TELEATRE ROYAL, lIAYAIARKET. 1 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucastone. THIS EVENING, k ROMAN iIC AI: uAk lIII.ENT : Mr. Comptvn, Mr. W. Farrell ; Miss Ada CavencLsh. 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And the demonstration is as follows, according to a few very simple and perfectly obvious arithmetical calculations. According to Ministers themselves the Question before the House, the Question upon which the House divided, was (the assertion, remember, was Mr. GLADs - rosE's own) a Question of Con fidence or No Confidence. The Noes upon the Division—those who were against the Second Reading and for the Amend ment—declared their want of confidence in Her MAJESTY'S Ministers. The Ayes, on the contrary —namely, those who were for the Second Reading and against the Amendment—declared their con fidence in her MAJESTY'S Ministers. But it is simply preposterous to regard the result of the actual division as a satisfactory settlement of such an alternative as that, when, in order to transform an actual minority into a factitious ma jority, SEVEN OF HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS declared confidence in themselves ! There were there, in fact, in the Nominal NT • rity—swelling the aggregate number of the Ayes told off into the lobby from 311 to 318—these— SEVEN CABINET MINISTERS. Mr. GLADSTONE Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir GEORGE GREY Home Secretary. Mr. CARDWELL Colonial Secretary. Lord HARTINGTON —.war Secretary. Mr• MILNE R Gißsos...Board of Trade. Mr. G oseuE ; ---'''--- Mr. \ Duchy of Lancaste r. - 7 11-LIE R , . So that only Poor-Law Board. of these Seven Cabinet the preposterous circumst ance thenet Ministers declaring confidence " in themselves, , Purely nominal, ostensible, supposititious agaregate of . seveuvo Tell ers ! to 318 by the Governmentt e Ayes , numbered up h Deducting those allowing the House, and not the Ministers, t o gie Questioin iisuc, namely, as that de the Question at put to the House by Ministers, as a Question involving ail' :Volving within it the alternative of Confidence or No Co nfi d ence the Division paper would (in that case) to in have be en banded at half-pastthree o'clock on Saturday jug by the Clerk of the Houseorn_ either Earl GROSVENOR or Lord STANLEY—the numbers upon it standing thus : N0e5.................................313 Aye 5................................. 311 Majority against Ministers 2 ! As Seven of the Cabinet Ministers, howeVer, had confidence in themselves, the Majority of Two against them was transformed into a Majority of Five in their own Favour. Seeing, however, that under no circum stances, according to the rules of Parliament, could the Cabinet Ministers have been precluded, from taking part, individually, in any division, no matter what the interpretation attached to that division vHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1866. by themselves, or by any one else—the obvious Prussia were sedulously ende avour i ng t o th war t a ll course the fairest, clearest, most straight-forward the wir 3hes and disappoint the expectations of Austria. course for them to have pursued would have been In ev erything it is the same, whether it be disar th. To have made a deduction from whatever mare ent or the settlement of the Duchy question— might, upon the taking of this division, have been they e is always something in reserve, some arriere told off on the side of the Government —To have pen; see, which spoils everything just as affairs seem in made a deduction (from the aggregate number) of train. It is said that hostilities willprobablybreak out the actual number of Cabinet Ministers in- , in Saxony in the first instance, and this suggestion is S u pposing, in other words, that carried out by the fact of a very unfavourable reply clearetihuedeciin it majority set down upon the paper , :having been sent by Baron Von BEUST to the when that paper was on Saturday morning Prussian Minister ;it was presented to the Count handed to the Government Teller, had turned out Ton BISMARCK yesterday. If this be the case it to be not Five (as it was) but Eight—then Her MA- will be a very proper retribution to Prussia for the JESTY'S Ministers, after deducting those seven of policy she has pursued towards the lesser States of their own body (above enumerated), those seven, members of the very Cabinet in which the Commons (according to the Cabinet's own view of the question) were asked to avow confidence or no confidence—then, we say, her MAJESTY'S Ministers ought to have deducted seven of them , selves, as officially disqualified from pronouncing upon such an alternative, in order to have ren dered the result at any rate so far satisfactory that it gave a • clear, distinct, and positive ma- Germany. Of course, they had no real right to any part of the spoils of war, but they had as much as the aggressive Powers, and at any rate they ought to have been treated with common respect and cour tesy. In vain now does the confused and perplexed BISMARCK seek to set himself right with these States. One day he upbraids them, and the next he tries flattery, but all to no purpose, because they have grown weary of so much deceit and treachery, and feel justly indignant at the ignominious treat ment they have received. The Opinione of Florence states that England and Bavaria have sent communications to the Austrian Government, urging upon them the " de sirability of abstaining from further armaments, since the Italian Government maintains a pacific attitude." The respective ambassadors at the Court of Vienna have taken diplo matic steps relative to such representa tion. We do not see, however, that much responsibility rests with Austria ; the chief manage ment of the affair is in the hands of Prussia and Italy. So long as they combine, directly or indi rectly, covertly or openly, it cannot be that a dis turbed state of policy must prevail. In fact, until all the armaments recently increased are put down, we can place no reliance on the promises of any Power, nor confide in their declarations of peaceful intentions. They are there as sighs and tokens of imminent peril, and no subterfuge can con ceal their meaning, or casuistry pervert their intentions. The storm has been brewing for some time in Germany, and far-seeing observers and those politicians well versed in the affairs of the Continent have opined that sooner or later it would burst. Now that the catastrophe seems ap proaching many affect surprise, and some actu ally fgel it no doubt, but who that has studied the aspect of affairs for the last two years can wonder at the crisis now at hand in Germany? It was not possible that Prussia should be allowed to have it all her own way, and her arrogance and assumption have been indeed enough to provoke the tamest, while it was most dangerous to concede to all her demands. jority of ONE to the Government ! That is, we repeat, supposing the nominal majority had turned out to be not (as it was) FIVE but EIGHT• That clear (nominal) majority of Eight, deducting from it the Seven Ministers, would still have left them One ! As it is, the nominal majority of Five having only been arrived at by the 318 Ayes including among them, as we have shown, Seven of the Cabinet Ministers, the actual result as a settlement of the Question of Confidence or No Confidence leaves the Cabinet distinctly before the country in a minority of Two in the largest division ever known to have been taken in the House of Commons. A deduction of those Seven from the nominal ma jority—as affording a fairlt st to all parties as to the l owes t limits of any majority enabling the Govern ment to stay in with a due regard to their own self respect, is clearly obvious upon the very face of it ! Whatever the number of the Cabinet Ministers voting upon a division involving within it, accord ing to their own view of the Question then before the House, a Question of confidence or no confidence—whatever the number of the Cabinet Ministers voting upon such a division, that number ought manifestly to have been exceeded by at least one in any clear majority, so as to enable the Cabinet still to hold office without a loss of self respect, without a lose of dignity to themselves in the estimation both of the House and of the Country. Seeing that there were numbered in this particular division, no less than Seven Cabinet Ministers, the only clear majority that would have enabled them (one might have supposed), without derogating from their dignity, without a loss of their own self-respect, still to hold on, would have been a clear majority, as we have already put it, of, at the very least, Eight A clear majority that— after deducting their Seven Noble and Right Hon. Selves, would still even then have left another clear supplementary vote upon the side of the Government. More particularly, also, ought the Cabinet Ministers participating in any such division as that which took place on Saturday morning to have been " allowed for " in the Parliamentary calculations in the precise way we have described, seeing that the gross aggregate of the Ayes would still have left intact among the number of those swelling the vote of confidence in the Government, all the subordinate members of that Government having seats in the House of Commons ! The Under-Secretaries and all the rest of them ! Mr. FORSTER, Mr. LAYARD, Sir ROUN DELL IAL3IER, Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, Lord CLARENCE PAGET, in fact the whole mass of those holding offices of any kind under the administration. Not satisfied with counting votes like these, as it is only fair, of course, that they should count them, Ministers have counted also, as we have seen, seven of their own members, actually seven members of the Cabinet itself, as qualified to settle the alterna tive of Confidence or No-confidence in themselves ! In the House of Lords, yesterday, a bill of con siderable public importance was introduced by the Lord Chancellor. The question of Capital Punish ment has long been regarded as a difficult and re sponsible one. We have happily left far behind us those days when human life was taken almost with indifference for every few shillings' worth of pro perty stolen, still more for every forgery or serious fraud. Too often the convictions were based en tirely on circumstantial evidence or testimony of a doubtful character, and accordingly it happened, with painful frequency, when we consider the vital interests at stake, that the victim was proved, too late, to have been wholly or partially innocent of the crimes laid to his charge. There was one particular case of this kind in which a young woman suffered the extreme penalty of the law, and was afterwards found to have been unjustly condemned. Her youth, her terror of the scaffold, and her innocence deeply impressed the public mind, and no doubt assisted the movement which was afterwards set on foot for bringing about a more humane system. It has always been found that crimes and offences increase in number and in degree in proportion to the excessive severity of the penal code. Life is held so cheap that men get reckless, and knowing they may suffer death as a punishment for minor offences, they have no induce ment to refrain from committing the greater. Of late years we have gone perhaps a little to the other extreme, and many excellent and humane persons in their pity for the murderer, forget the sufferings of his victim and the necessity of preserving the majesty of justice, while not forgetting the preroga tive of mercy. No sooner has man or woman been condemned to death during the last few years than a party is immediately formed to endeavour to pro cure a mitigation of the sentence, and their efforts have so often been successful that a degree of un certainty now attends the capital sentence, which is unfair alike to the public and to the criminal. The only plea which can be urged on behalf of capital punishment is its deterrent effect, and this is undoubtedly a very powerful one, but to have this effect the punishment must be certain. Every criminal will hope that he may be fortunate enough to get off if there is a loophole left, and what with the plea of insanity and other excuses there are now only too many such chances. .No doubt the public generally would be glad if so terrible an alternative as punishment by death could be dispensed with, but we must consider the ques tion in all its aspects, and there is nothing to justify us in concluding that we could safely dispense with it as a protection to human life. Certainly murders have not decreased during the last few years, when the remissions of the capital sentence have been so frequent, and there is nothing to en courage us in venturing on so decided a change. A minority of the Commissioners appointed to in quire into the subject were, as the Lord Chancellor last night, in favour of an entire abolition of capital punishment, but the majority approved of its reten tion for murder. In this view the Commissioners were supported by the majority of the speakers last evening, who approved of the main features of the bill. It appears to be a moderate and sens ible measure, just and humane in its provi sions, and making due distinction between wilful and premeditated murders and those committed under less heinous circumstances, such as under extreme provocation and without premeditation, which are not to be placed under the same category.. For the former class alone the punishment of death is reserved. It is manifest that under such a law the cases of VICTOR TOWNLEY and WRIGIIT, which excited so much indignation, would have been exactly reversed. With regard to another Theor e executions, textwffehceoeuc ottibooj tne t uhsc h set e eae rg c dwee h atn a toseo n point in the bill, the alteration in the manner of forand conductingt haletho although better. g P h u bolineergttaehle stronglyii lsgseosaossdpdecidedly public, n b e i sense tcies: • n and i sh i n g g o othe feeling warning of favour. When we remember the character of the crowds that assemble on such occasions, the feverish excitement produced by their taking their places over n ight or very early in the morning, an d t h e drinking that inevitably ensues from idleness and restlessness, we shall certainly not be inclined to think the circumstances favourable to serious reflec tion. The con duct of such crowds is generall y de scribed as reckless and i ndecorous to a de g ree, and it would be a very great gain if more real solemnity could attend so terrible a scene. The list of murders has lately been so long that it Li quite time to make some change. Hence—to put the matter quite plainly—their seven noble and right honourable selves have decided that they shall, though nominally only in a majority of Five—though actually, as we have shown, in a minority of Two—their Seven Noble and Right Honourable Selves have decided that they shall still continue to hold office, that they shall still continue to be a Government! The last news concerning Prussia is not so reas suring. We learn from Berlin yesterday that the proposals of Austria concerning the Duchies are declared to be inadmissible by Prussia. It is said that no " immediate rupture" is apprehended, but Austria will submit her proposals to the Federal Diet, by whom they will be referred to the special committee on the affairs of the Duchies. This is not likely to lead to much ; but still it shows the determination of Austria on this point. Of course the present position of things is very critical, be cause the armaments of the two Powers are still maintained, and at any time some mischance may occur to fan the smouldering embers into a flame. So far, from the numerous despatches on the subject of demobilisation of troops having cone to any definite end, we are now told that the arma ments of Prussia will be increased in a short time. The last Note of Herr BISMARCK to Baron Von WERTHER at Vienna is by no means satisfactory, and indeed we may almost call it indicative of a collision between the two Powers. It states that Prussia cannot agree to the proposal of the Vienna Cabinet relative to the Duchies, and that there is a great community of interests between Prussia and Italy, which is quite a contradiction in terms ; but we suppose Herr BismAncx must try some new dodge. An evasive answer is now given to the Austrian proposals for disarmament, which seems very inconsistent 'after after the fuss made so lately by the Berlin Govern ment on the question. The fact is, that all the parade about disarmament was a contrivance to gain time on the part of Prussia, while she carried The Presse o f yesterday in on her game in Italy. Vienna states that the negotiations between the Prussian Cabinet and a " special agent" o f th e Italian Government are still being continued. A very dangerous game is being carried on by Italy, and we are alike surprised and disappointed at it. It must be most complete infatuation that leads the Italian Government to believe that any gain can accrue from relationship with the Cabinet of Berlin. They are only losing that sympathy and respect which theyhadwpitrhevaiopuoswlyergaliikneedthbayt allying themselves so c losely of Prussia. Of course the obis remarkable jectofthe thatlatter country is plain enough, but it the Italians should have been so taken in. From Berlin last night, at a late hour, we hear that it is probable the Prussian armaments will soon be increased, and that Prussia will no doubt submit the question of Schleswig-Holstein on ber own aberigcnounitt btoefotrhe theDeiept,ieht at Frankfort.aviog specially declined to In Paris it is said that war is almost inevitable, which looks very ominous. strange that th e arrangements madelt ly ce t r h ta e in other se d e a m y s , which were so nearly completed, sh ou ld h ave come to nothing. But we do not see how the most cre dulous can now believe that the continuance of peace rests on anything like certainty. it seems as if CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (FROII OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The Moniteur does not contain any political news of importance to-day, official or unofficial. It copies from the Invalide Russe some further par ticulars relative to the attempt to assassinate the Emperor of Russia. The Commission of Inquiry have ascertained that, in spite of the obstinate denials of the assassin, he was born in the Govern ment of Saratow, and that his real name is Dimitri Vladimirow Karakozow. (What's in a name ?) His father had a little property in the district of Serdobsk. The assassin, who followed a course of study at the University of Moscow, was always of a melancholy and hypochondriacal disposition, and had been under medical treatment. He wrote a letter to a fellow-student, asking him to procure some opium, as he wanted to put an end to his sufferings. Karakozow has made two visits to St. Petersburg this year, once in February and at Easter. He is an advanced Socialist. The Com mission are pursuing their inquiries with a view to ascertain if he has any accomplices among the Socialists, which is believed to be very probable. The Emperor and Empress are about to leave Paris for some time on a tour in the provinces, to their usual sojourn at Fontainebleau. Their Ma jesties will leave Paris on Sunday next, and are going in the first instance to Auxerre. I believe that the Imperial Prince will remain at home for the present, but this point is not yet decided, so at least says my Court informant. The Siecle, whose opinions carry great weight in Paris, has the following summary in regard to the political position :—" The French press is completely divided, whilst the greater portion of our journals accepts the facts as they are so lucidly illustrated by General de la Marmora, all the habitual supporters of the right divine, of Legitimacy, and of Ultra montane ideas make, in imitation of the Gazette de Vienne, a formal accusation against Italy. From ber, they argue, comes all the evil ; she it is who, by her intemperate armaments, has compelled un fortunate Austria to fortify herself in the Quadrila teral and to concentrate 200,000 men in Venetia. There is no longer question of Schleswig nor of Hol stein, nor of the opposite pretensions of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin. If Austria should take up arms, it would be because she is urged to extremi ties by the provocation of King Victor Emmanuel find M. de la Marmora, his accomplice." An illustrious foreigner has just arrived at the hulks of Toulon, a real Chinese, born at Canton, who has been condemned to hard labour for a seri ous offence committed in one of the French posses sions in Cochin China. As this is the first instance of a Chinese coming to take up his residence at the hulks, his arrival (so says the quaint account) has produced a certain sensation among his companions in chains. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) -~-- --- AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, MAY 1 (Evening). The Archduke Heinrich will, it is announced, shortly proceed to Verona to take command of the Division of the Army in Venetia. Prince Alexander of Hesse will also receive a command. The jour nals of this city continue to publish intelligence of Italian armaments. The I resse asserts that in the Prussian despatch summoning Saxony to disarm, Count Bismarck demands explanations respecting the Saxon arma ments, and threatens to take measures against Saxony in case she should return an unsatisfactory reply or refuse to disarm. The inhabitants of the fortified towns in Bohemia have recieved notice some time back to lay in pro visions for a considerable period in consequence of the imminence of war. It is stated that the Prussian reply delivered here yesterday to the Austrian note of the 26th ult. de clares the Austrian proposals for disarmament to be completely nullified by the military measures she has taken against Italy. The Vorsdadt Zeitung says that Austria addressed a second note to Prussia on the 26th ult., in which she repeated her proposal that the Duke of Augus tenburg, having the best title to the Schleswig-Hol stein throne, should be installed Duke of those Duchies. It is rumoured that a courier has arrived with an autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the Emperor of Austria. According to the Fremdenblatt, the intention of holding an universal exhibition in this city has been relinquished, on account of the threatening appear ance of public affairs. The Vienna Chamber of Commerce proposes sending a deputation to the Emperor to beg him shortly to convoke the Reichsrath. The Prussian papers state that on Sunday last while the troops were defiling before the King at the Palais Royal, Berlin, a madman threw his stick at his Majesty, which was weighted with lead like a life preserver. The miscreant is a man named Slaw. Happily, his Majesty was not touched by this dangerous weapon. The Paris papers seem pleased at the idea of tell ing their readers almost daily that there is an unusual abundance of clever English pickpockets in the capital at the present time, and that they were very active at the races on Sunday, a great deal of property having illegitimately changed hands. One instance is mentioned as the unkindest cut of all, an unfeeling English pickpockerhaving robbed a police officer (sergeant de ville) of his watch and purse. The stormy weather continues at Paris. It has been rather cold and very rainy to-day, and the accounts from the ports mention heavy weather at sea. It was so boisterous in the Channel yesterday that the usual morning mail did not arrive in Paris last night. The Paris papers are singularly indifferent about the fate of the Reform Bill. They published the result of the division on Sunday morning, and with the exception of one remark, that the majority of five was " rather a small one," I have not met with any comment worth mentioning. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 2. On the 27th ult. the Prussian Government ad dressed a circular note to the German Governments declaring that the essence of the Prussian proposal for reform, made on the 9th April, was that a period should be fixed for the assembling of a German Parliament before the different Governments en tered upon a discussion of the reform propositions. Prussia will consider the rejection of this point by the different Governments of Germany as a virtual refusal seriously to entertain the question of reforming the Federal Constitution. The Saxon despatch, in reply to.,the Prussian note requesting the disarmament of Saxony, which was delivered here yesterday, explains that the armaments in question were made in preparation for the event of Saxony being called upon by the Federal Diet to furnish her contingant. The de spatch further states that the Saxon Minister of the Interior is preparing the division of the electoral districts for the return of deputies to the German Parliament. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 1 (Evening). A man who attained rather a bad eminence in 1830, M. Guernon 1e Ranville, has just died at his chateau of Ranville, in the department of Calvados, at the age of 80. He was then one of the Ministers of Charles the Tenth, and his signature was attached to those fatal ordonnances against the Press which led to the Revolution, and drove that monarch ignominiously from the throne. In a few days the election will take place of a member to fill the seat at the Academy of the Fine Arts, vacant by the death of the musician Cla pisson, of whom I sent you a short memoir at the time. It was in 1795, the time of the forma tion of the five classes of the Academy of the Fine Arts, thatthe seat of Clapisson was for the first time occupied by Mehul, the author of " Joseph." From 1817, the period of the death of that great composer, till 1834, the chair was occupied by Boieldieu, the com poser of the beautiful opera of the " Dame Blanche.' From thence until 1854 llalevy occupied it. The section of music is formed of 14 members--Auber, admitted in 1829; Cavafa, 1837; Ambroise Thomas, 1851; H. Reber, 1853 ; 11. Berlioz, 1856. Although the section of classics is composed of but six mem bers, that of painting includes 14, and those of sculpture and architecture, 8 each. The exhibition of paintings of living artists was opened to-day, and, considering the unfavourable weather, was well attended. I shall take an early opportunity of giving a notice of it. The Emperor went to the private view yesterday and made a choice of several articles. His Majesty expressed to Count Nieurweske, the superintendent of the fine arts, his extreme satisfaction at the exhibition. The Patria of this evening says :—" It is in vain that the Bank of Spain claims the maintenance of its monopoly. We begin to understand that the principles of free trade in banking can alone save the embarassed finances and the trade of the country." PRINCE ALFRED. BRUSSELS, MAY 2. Prince Alfred arrived here yesterday from Coburg. A court carriage, in waiting at the station, con veyed his Royal Highness to the Palace. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Mx 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida has arrived here this morning with the above mail, 138 passengers, £52,651 in specie, four packages of diamondsvalue not stated—and 3,217 packages of cargo, chiefly coffee and cotton. OU the 16th ult. she spoke the English barque Governor ; on the 21st, the steamers Kepler and Thales, and the ship Montrose ; and on the 25th, the ships Robert Pul ford and Wallace, and the barque Birch Grove. The English squadron was at Montevideo. DREADFUL STORM AT BUENOS AYRES. BUENOS AYRES, MARCH 27. This city was visited by an awful storm on the 19th inst., which has not been equalled in violence since that of 1805. A hurricane of dust was suc ceeded by total darkness, and the city seemed threatened with total destruction. A complete panic reigned among the population. Mothers sought their children in vain, and the scenes in the coffee-houses and clubs baffled description. The hotels were crowded, but no lights could be ob tained, and the confusion and alarm were thus increased.. Several houses were blown down and every building in the town shaken to its founda tion. The loss in the river was very severe and many persons were drowned. The railway stations were destroyed and great damage was done to private property. The money crisis in Buenos Ayres has subsided, and gold has fallen considerably. Discount is also lower on the Bolsa. The Saladarislas are working slowly. Much attention is being paid to the curing of beef for the English market. Business is brisk. Exchange on London, 51,1 to 52. LIGHT IV INES.--In 1865 the quantity of wine entered for home consumption was 12,061,000 gallons, of which about 9,310,000 were strong wines, and only 2,750,000 light; and if the customs duties upon the latter were reduced to 6d. the gallon (one penny the bottle) instead of Is.—decided upon by the Govern ment—the loss to the revenue would be only £68,750 per annum, and this inappreciable amount would every month become less until the revenue had not only re covered itself but showed an increase. The wine is frequently obliged to be imported in bottle ; it is either too weak or the flavour too delicate to bear the journey in cask ; and one penny is the highest amount the light cheap wines can pay, in consequence of the expense of transport, which from the wine districts in the interior of France to domicile in London cannot be considered less than 6d. the bottle, the original cost of the wine, which is thus necessarily, withoUt the duty, doubled in value. From Paris alone to the Regent's-park the author paid for the transport of a case of 12 dozen of wine sd. per bottle ; for another case of eight dozen, aid. ; and for a third case of four dozen, 4d. the bottle. In the reign of James I. one farthing per dozen bottles was considered a sufficient duty, and wheat then averaged 325. the quarter.—Mr. IV. Ray Smee on French Wines. Fourth Edition. RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION OF £loo—Yesterday being the Ist of May, the parish of St. George's-in the-East, Wapping, was in a state of great liveliness—the cause being the marriage of one of the "Hundred pound girls," as the successful candidates are called, who was brought up, educated, an d trained in the asylum founded by Mr. Henry Raine, an eminent brewer i n that localit y , in the year 1719, and th e celebration of other ceremon i es in connection therewith, i n a ccordance with the will o f th e donor. The fortunate young woman was Elizabeth Ann Beddington, and the happy man Charles Daniels. The ceremony was performed in an impressive manner by the rector in the great room of the asylum, Charles-street, Old Gravel-lane. RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 9. The holiday season has interfered with business. In the Assembly nothing important had been done. A decree had been signed opening the coasting trade of Brazil to foreign vessels. There is no news of importance from the seat of war. The fleet entered the Upper Parana on the 21st ult. The Paraguyans have fortified a narrow position, and planted there 90 cannon for the pur pose of depriving the Allies of the use of their fleet. It is reported from the Rio Grande that a force of Paraguayans had crossed the Parana at Cande laria, and driven back the Allied vanguard, and were advancing to give battle to the-Brazilian army under Baron Alegre. Coffee had advanced 100 reis. Money abundant at 7 to 9 per cent. The American ship Young Mechanic was burnt at sea on the 10th of April and was totally lost. the crew and passengers were saved by the French barque Eugenie, and landed at Pernambuco. The Bahia sugar market was dull. The new coffee was arriving at market. Freight to Channel, 475. to 51s. A YOUNG WOMAN BURNED TO DEATll.—Yester day an inquest was held on the body of Maria Alston, aged 19 years. On Friday last the family were alarmed by loud shrieks, and the deceased was found with the bedding burning around her, and the bed clothes on fire. The flames were promptly extinguished, but the injuries sus tained by the deceased were most extensive, terminating fatally on Sunday. The jury returned a verdict of acci dental death. THE CINQUE PORTS.—At a meeting of the Cor poration of Dover yesterday a communication was read from Earl Granville, intimating that in consequence of the death of his brother-in-law and sister, Lord and Lady Rivers, it would be exceedingly painful for him to receive at present so grea t an h o nour as the ceremony of his installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and suggesting the postponement of the inauguration, which r was to take pl ace on t h e 22d inst. It wa s resolved that the Town Council sympathises with his Lordship under the painful circumstances which called for the postponement, in which they willingly acquiesced, but desired that the Lord Warden should fix a convenient opportunity for the event, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (Via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, APRIL 21. General Meade has arrived at Eastport. He has announced that he will preserve neutrality, and has taken precautionary measures for that purpose. The steamer Virginia has arrived out. Several fatal cases of cholera had occurred on board. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW Yoßs, April 21 (Morning.)—Money:abtui dant. Gold, 127. Exchange on London, 136 f ; do. Paris, 4 134. Stocks steady. New York Cen trals, 92fr ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 73 ; 5 20 Bonds, 104/. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 37. Flour quiet. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee dull. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum slightly firmer; crude, 251 ; refined, 39. Week's receipts of cotton at New York, 11,000 bales. NEW ORLEANS, April 20.—Cotton slightly firmer. Low middling, 36 to 37. Week's sales, 11,00 Q bales. Week's receipts, 18,000 bales. INDIA. (By direct Overland Telegraph.) BOMBAY, APRIL 24,.4.20 P.M. 71b. shirtings, 7r. Ba. Cotton very dull. Ex change on London, 2s. 14d. The latest London date is the 21st April. CALCUTTA, APRIL 23. 71b. shirtings, 7r. 12a. Exchange on London, 2s. 2d. Government securities : 4 per eents., 864 ; 5 per cents., 1014 ; 5f per cents., 107 k. MALTA, MAY 1. Sir Wm. Denison, the late Governor of Madras, arrived here this morning by the Pera. He intends staying a week at Malta and Gibraltar. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, MAY 1. The Pera.left at 10 a.m. and the Geelong at 2 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles about the evening of the 3rd, and the latter at South ampton about the 10th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Poonah from Southampton, on the 20th April, arrived on the 30th at 6 a.m., and left at noon for Alexandria. The Ripon from Marseilles on the 25th April ar rived to-day at 11 a.m., and leaves at 4 p.m. for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 1, Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the following quotations : If per Cents 95 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. • 65 60 Do. end month 65 45 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 560 Bank Shares 3520 Italian Loan 44 75 Do. end month 44 10 Mexican Loan 4O Do. Bonds 266 25 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - AlO3. Cash. Unis Do. end month — Acct. ... ... 815 - - 1083 75 - 845 - - ... 540 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian _ Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman ... 525 - - -- ••• 320 - - - ... 347 50 - - ... 137 50 - - ... 182 50 lIIE MAGAZINES. -.0.- BLACKWOOD. —" Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence " are continued at some length, and are written in the usual interesting manner. They have now reached to the battle of Chancellorsville. " Gipsies" is a readable sketch, that is well calculated to attract notice. It is truly stated, that though we live in an age of investigation and discovery there are still puzzles in the midst of us and problems we cannot solve. Who are the gipsies ? is a question easier to ask than to answer. This article notices a work lately published, "A History of the Gipsies," by W. Simson, edited by James Simson. Among other matters mentioned by the editor as conducing to a more favourable Intercourse with this race, one is mentioned of great im portance, that wo shall always in writing or printing begin the word gipsy with a capital G. " most people having hitherto written of► them as if they were describing rats and mice." " The Negro and the Negrophilists" is an article very appropriate at this junc ture. It is truly said that the "now foremost nations in the world are suffering at this moment from a moral malady, which the Americans, with more force than elegance, call nigger on the brain." Very forcible are the remarks made upon the absurdity of the course pursued by the pseudo-philanthropists at home, who are now making themselves so conspicuous in the wrong direction, living in a country where it is truly said a full-blooded Ethiopian is as rare as a black man, and where a mulatto is seldom seen. These men have "for the last three months been beside themselves with an excess of what they- may themselves call Christian charity, but which, to other eyes, look marvellously like unchristian malevolence and theological rancour." A good deal of truth may be found in this comprehensive article on the negro race, and while it is admitted that slavery has re ceived its death-blow, it is observed that the sudden aboli tion of slavery is no advantage to the slave; but causes a state of things that is fraught with evil consequences to all concerned, particularly the unhappy negro. " Sir Brook Fossbrooke" is getting more interesting as it pro ceeds, and this month we are taken to Italy, which is a relief after all we have heard of Colonel Sowell and his be longings. The story of "Miss Marjoribanks" is concluded, and it will be with a kind of regret that the reader takes leave of her. This tale has been carried on through ten years of Lucilla's life, which is rather a dangerous ex periment, but in this instance it has been successful. As Lucilla marries her cousin she still keeps her name un changed, and "as she was in the first freshness of her youthful daring when she rose like the sun upon the chaos of society in Carlingford, so she is now as she goes forth into the country to carry light and progress there." This series of " Chronicles of Carlingford" has been a very en tertaining one. The Reform Bill is discussed in a long article, which enters fully into the speeches delivered in the last debate, with the exception of the last ones. That of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton is especially praised, and it is truly said that the right hon. baronet greatly distinguished him self. The writer of this article condemns the course of those who persist in supporting the policy of a Minister whose measures they are opposed to, and even desire to see defeated. FRASER'S.—The opening paper in Fraser treats of the efficacy or propriety of public prayer in con nection with public calamities. The writer discusses the subject with suitable reverence and moderation, although the conclusion at which he arrives may not be the general one. We have two military articles, a somewhat unusual feature in Fraser, the one being on " The English Troops in the East," the other in answer to the question, " How are European Armies Officered ?" The first paper especially deserves very serious attention, for it shows how terribly the lives of our soldiers are wasted through needless exposure in unhealthy situations, or by neglect of sanitary laws. This is denounced by the writer as the "customary neglect of advantages offered by nature for the preservation of European constitutions in the East." Even in Ceylon the mountains, healthy and shel tered from the monsoon, and abundantly supplied with water, are almost entirely neglected as military stations, and tho troops are located in the low countries, where fever and dysentery abound. '• No nation," exclaims the writer, in just indignation, "worthy the name of a first class Power, can be content to see a great army perish from causes over most of which it has perfect control." A very entertaining paper is on the famous old French Salons, whose ease and sociality did not prevent their possessing an important influence in their time. They offered in their social aspects a strange contrast to those stiff and ceremo nious entertainments which are alike a burden and a tax to giver and receiver. The article is founded partly on two French works, and gives copious anecdotes of some of the brilliant coteries. We are glad to find the important question of "Our Commons and Open Spaces" discussed at some length, for if it is suffered to remain unnoticed much longer it will settle itself. The writer, however, considers that any effort made for their preservation should include the open spaces round all our large towns, not only iu the vicinity of the metropolis. There is a simple story of troubled true love, entiiled "Forest Life," as well as the usual instalment of " The Beaudercs." COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.:—The expected or apprehended return of the cholera seems to have seized on the contributors to this magazine, for we have no less than three articles on the health of the navy and army. But though they do not treat of that dreaded scourge, which like its unscrupulous attendant spares neither sex nor circumstance be it lord, lady, or " lower order," as the Parliamentary discussions delight in calling those who work for their bread, yet it dwells in a very sanitary spirit on the general diseases to which flesh is heir. Certain it is that the remedial mea sures introduced of late have manifestly contri buted to preserve the health and invigorate the tone of our gallant defenders both on sea and land, not only on our home stations but in those far and diversified climates where sickness seems too much "at home" with European constitutions. Cleanliness and sobriety form the very bases of health, and the periodical returns fully bear witness to that better condition in th morale of both army and navy. Let us hope that ea() Go vernment will persevere in following up their present soli citude for the welfare of both services, for the may de pend on it that eve r y man w h ose life "ley preserve i n the army is worth that of two raw recruits, while in the navy it is an old maxim t l ;,at one volunteer than two " presssed" m' Besides, when people feel that their condition . is well cared for they work with a will and become ',nom attached to the service. There is a sensible artt 4 - 1 0 on "The Advantages of Naval Retire' meat," a. plan which ought to have been instituted IlasuY,, yea. - ..s before. The " United States Artillery and our own discusses therecen t im provements an d still making made in those terrible engines of war ; but the Yankees seem to go faster ahead, as usual, than our more practical, but les s , adventurous, inventors. Jonathan must have "a s ruashel ; to settle the business. " A few Notes on the History o. 15 better British Army Costumes" deals with a very general but varied subject. It commencea with the Highland dress, which was worn at the beginning of the present century ea twelve regiments. The tartan adopted by each &Pe nd ' on the clan of the officer who raised the regiment, or the locality to which the men belonged. The number of the regiments who wore the mountain garb has been 'Due l ' re duced, but several retain the Highland regimentals martial. o a dress, of all oth ers , th e mos t pi c t uresq ue and the eye. Certainly no si g ht l oo k s g rander or m ore in ; spiriting than army in full parade, with their varied dres.s and glittering steel dazzling the eye, while the ea r . 1 charmed and the re nt c h eere d by th e strains of raail.3,l music. Much as the red line d e li g hts the looker on, 6tl' his eye turns and rests with renewed delight on the High land soldier— " In the garb of old Gaul, with the fire of old Rome , From the heath-cov ere d moun t a i ns o f Scotia they e° ' - ' ,-;, and gallantly they carry th e b anner o f v ictory aloft, w""'" their bonnets and their tarta n s fl u tt er p r oudly in the breer .:, " Mr. C. F. Reed on Negative Ship" is a philosophic al t d i l ho quisition on the incongruity betwee n the real spee d °' g ship and her computed performance, which he attribute to the elasticity of the water. We think he is right. 11 use, of balloons in war is a subject of great interest, will be found still more so, if the warlike spirit now v e " r a lo tte e ripe on the Continent really bursts into reality, very likely to happen from all appearances. The ,1 of balloons has be e n t r i e d b e f ore now in Europe, a u „, - ,: cently by our desperate cousins over the Atlantic. is no question that it affords great advantages to the c° j; mending general to know the movements going on Wh ic is he cannot see, and so enable him to guard certain el' P irl threatened, and to form combinations to thwart an eTrZ, and take up a position in his turn which may de cide fate of the day before his antagonist dreams of the change, CORNHILL.—" The Claverings" is continued, au," the various adventures are continued. Poor does Oregar has the " Prince in her hand," but she not find it very pleasant or profitable. Her takillfi possession of her estate was a very sorry affairl l/11 she is a striking instance of the folly of driv ing ot bargains of this kind. As for Harry, his engagement is u very promising; in his affairs too many had the man V ment, as we shall doubtless see before long. n The Sle,s ing Beauty in the Wood" is a very amusing sketch, + 0 forms a variety in the contents. " Armadale" is afT rene g s ing its completion, and is becoming intensely ex citing, ll, it nears the culminati ng p o i n t. Mi ss G w ilt's ls ,rog nearly over, and she will doubtless soon be in safe keli ev , somewhere. " Thought and Language" is a well -wri "; paper, and is worthy of notice. " Old Houses " is a C 11 , 1; ing sketch that it is quite delightful to meet with ill days of new-fangled notions and spick and span new ereel; tions. It is here said:—" The houses I love to lookouta on, and the houses I want to describe, have had too , past to hope for a future." The description given of 011 4 such old place as this is very interesting,•and the gloriBes i s its "beech avenue" are ably pictured. "In Captiv it Y ' : the title of some verses that are sure to attract attends as they have been sent by Captain Cameron, so I° , l3 l , g at prisoner in Abyssinia, and some n o t es a pp e nded to w-,A afford varied information touching the slave trade. a Strange Story" is certainly a verification of its nam e ' is especially adapted to th e t as t e o f th e sen sational rea'- r "The Old Poets on the Deadly Sins" is a curious P ar t e b; that nevertheless will repay perusal, and may refres ll ,., - a i memory of the reader concerning the nature of the carul;to sins of humanity. The third part of " The Study o f Ce' "cf Literature," by Matthew Arnold, is here met wit h ''n 0. furnishes us with a good deal of interesting infer tuati ,:ir The writer observes, in conclusion, that "it is in poetry that the Celtic part in us has left its trace cleafes" and in all poetry I must follow it before I have done. e , LONDON SOCIETY.—This periodical as usual 1 31. ► sents its readers with a variety of amusing le o; and they nearly all of them are completed in one telling, so that there is no great stretch of pa t been required. " Patty's Revenge," which has beri divided into three parts, is now concluded in a Iren, P 3 satisfactory manner. Patty improves as the story ri-, coeds, and shows great sense and spirit in the last tr Y i scenes. " second Thoughts" is a pe cu li ar s t o ry that d°,3 not preach the merit of constancy. "Mrs. Beauch s lit Little Plans" are ingeniously describ e d, an d her fail ure - 5. last is quite a relief after her absurdities and affectatr i g " Waiting for the Waggon" is a-clever sketch of some scenes in life's page, and is told in an impressive ula ° , t l e n " How Kate Discovered America" is a n of geographical wonders. "Up and Down pu the Leude ,..rse, Streets" carries us back to old days of sport and Pa s " l 6 s t and presents us with many varied scenes and r l 'i- for sketches. "The Merchant Princes of England" ha s ' this time, an ac coun t o f th e commerce o f the Pres4.ead "Sulkeries" is a sk e t c h o f some a dditi on that ralg h ',, l l visedly be made to d omes ti c arc hit ec t ure , and thus The duce to the comfort and order of the establishment . k.ng London Opera Dir ec t ors " con t a i ns som e interes`l-of sketches, and we meet with an allusion to the cers i°s bo the "Swedish Ni g hti nga l e, " o f w h om it i s t r uly ss i : A ',,gll did come and cr ea t e d suc h an exc it emen t that, al t°9 o4 nearly twenty years have elapsed since the APri l :,,:rer when her first notes were heard, the scene is vividly membered by those who had share in it, and thoser::ol simply know by hearing of the terrors of a "Jen n y o l ge• crush." Speaking of the Jenny Lind excitement 3 ; - " I V ther, it is said that " it will not be forgotten while memory of Her Majesty's Theatre endures." 64 0 14 . 111 ACMILLAN'S.—Mrs. Norton's story of „ ni t Sir Douglas" proceeds with interest certainly, t'er. interest of a somewhat unsatisfactory ebar 3c ii • c h The young bride is installed in her new abode, l " na l c g at first appears a Paradise, but presently ass tl ; e o a more earthly and ordinary aspect. The chart °. o f introduced are by no means favourable speeinle° ad humanity, with the ex ce pti on o f th e immediate h er °,„ lt ' i oe heroine, and as it is easy t o f oresee a w h o l e con l P lw- v tl S of misunderstandin gs an d di saappo i n t men t s the st ur fi l ipg by no means a cheerful one. The other tale now ru n w 0 on from month t o mon th, " Cradock Nowell, " 111-,, 00 c1 several important strides in this number. There is Moll deal of exaggeration and affectation in the style, mo des t interferes with the effect, but it is not deficient in iu cl the or animation. We are not only told the secret e' d, 0 ,4 murderer, but of the murder ; the motive for the cls e A l e well as the actual culprit. Meanwhile, poor Cradock, 13 " ig has been packed off to the southern seas for his co al ; at left behind on a desert island, apparently to get b% g o ~of the way until the real truth is made clear. We /°.s sir account of the "Education of Englishwomen in t he f teenth Century," which gives a very impressive lis t c) , e sS atatinments of our early English maidens. The s l o ra which attended Sir Thomas More's experiment s a l ° strong encouragement to the advocates of a no r° "a O O education for our girls. A letter from Lady Duff-Geries' o will be welcome to those who are familiar with h er 019 sant volume, even though it is tinged with the melsu'vees which generally accompanies ill-health. The gri e/a d so of the poor people round her are as great as ever, unjust. " The Camp in Canada" is an article wh ich ...l3o be read with some interest at the present tim e, colonial affairs are exciting so much attention. M.P.'S AND VOLUNTEERING.—At the 31113 1 ; meeting of the Edinburgh and Midlothian Rifle Asso c t i j itt' held on Tuesday, the hon. secretary, Mr. Gow, l trtlr ing the donations and prizes he had received for the `" coming meeting in June, read letters from the eit° bers (the Lord-Advocate and Mr. M'L aren ), in reP 11 1 ; 0 request that they should contribute to a city n' elll A iftig prize. From th e L or d-Ad voca t e th e ans wer receiv e ",,Cie" that he would be happy to meet the wishes of the i' ss t ' de' tion on being informed in what shape it was though" op sirable the prizes should be given. From Mr. M'Laren the following was the reply received ha leave to state, in answer to your request, that whe n er, the honour to be elected there was no other prounSt,'" pressed or implied, exacted from me than that s'nerel attend to my duties in Parliament to promote th e Vi 3 o 3 interests of the community to the best of my ability this promise I have endeavoured to perform, never 11110eto been absent, except one day, since Parliament ftrs'd, , and that absence was to attend the funeral of a f rie f, Tl De l ! entirely disapprove of constituents asking, or a'," OP giving, subscriptions for local objects in the town s e they represent, in their cha rac t er o f members, an cll) pr it has had a most prejudicial effect in many towns - land, as evinced by recen t i n vesti g ations in Par l 'f s eV With these feelings, my present intention is never ' c ' f c itl scribe one shilling for any purpose in my character ° t og member, but to do my duty as a private citizen re s P ec ol all subscriptions, as I have hitherto done, in en eU and manner as I may voluntarily think right. -1 your very obedient servant, D. M'lJAiort." rrc' e dt o Christison, captain of the University Company, ri' ° ' .or f the tLe letters be published as part of the transactions conedmeeting. The chairman (Sir J. Gardiner Baird)°°l3,oling in the proposal. He said he should be sorry to do 3°) ,„ ti l)li tl to infringe on the strict integrity of Mr. 3/PLaren'e f op 11° character, and make him fancy that any contribatioperS made to this association should act as a bribe to 01° yep to support him at the next election, which otherwiseto fs ll might not be inclined to do; awl, as they had n° W ,,,, ero ° back on his benevolence as a private individual, m-ipfio: sorry to say that hitherto they had seen no sill er wes from that source. (A laugh.) He did not think,iiiii,oo° very unconstitutional thing to ask members of 1 -' 4 to help a public institution of this kind. (Hear.)