The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the storms of the past year 1864 the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution have saved 432 persons from tlifferent wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd. In the same peri,,d on lifeboat et tablishments, in addition to granting £1,569 as rewards for say.ng 693 shipwrecked per sons by its lifeboats, an I other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meat the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 110 lifeboat establishments. --------------- Contributions are received by Messrs Willis and Co.. 'Terries and Co., Coutts and Co., and by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) TIiTS EVENINt, the Opera of THE MOCK DOCTOR. (the English wor aby har.es Kenny'. Principal characters by 31e,darnes Poolc,Thirlwall, and auny Huddart ; Messrs. :He , ry Haigh, A. Cook, C. Lya,), DaBS-k, Lingliam, and H. Con j. Concluz,tor,3lr. A. MELLON% Attcr which. the Grand and 113„ , :hly successful Panto mime, CIN DERE LLA. Alauificent a wl gorgious acces sories. Commence at 3,.ven. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a New Farce, GOING TO THE DOGS. A t,r which, THE scaooL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Phelps, Jai es Anderson, Walter Lacy, Sin.lair, Rayner ; Miss Rose Leclereq and Mrs. Hermann Vezin. Concluding with the Opening of the Pantomime, HOP 0' MY T tIUMB AND HIS EL s.VEN BROTHERS; or, the Ogre of the Seven-Leagne Boots ; terminating with t he Grand Transformation Scene ; Bliss Lydia Thompson, Jo, Tip HEA TR E-R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EV ENING, THREE WEEKS AFTER MAR RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren ; Miss Nelly Moore, &c. To be followe 1 by DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. 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The subject to which Mr. FITZGERALD called the attention of the House last night is one of great importance, and the right hon. gentleman was fully justified in making it the theme of his discourse. In some respects this debate was the most interesting of the session, from the number of influential speakers who took part in it, and from the significant nature of the question itself. Mr. FITZGERALD alluded to the report of Colonel JERVOIS respecting the defences of Canada, and requested the Government to impart in formation concerning it. There was great truth in his remark that the wisest policy was to have matters laid before the House in a straightforward fashion, for such a course is not near so likely to induce suspicion and engender angry feelings as the reserved style which it is thought convenient and deemed advisable to adopt in so many in s t ances where important questions are involved. H er M A JESTY'S Government also fully merit th e c h arge imputed to them of having invested the subject with the most unfavourable aspect in consequence of the paper laid by them before Parliament, which docu ment gives the most unsatisfactory impression re specting the chances we should have in a war with the United States. Mr. FITZGERALD performed his awkward task with great discretion, and adopted a conciliatory tone, which was wise and patriotic, when we remember how apf the partizans of the Federal Government are to pervert all that is said in a discussion of this sort, and to declare that an angry tone has crept into the debate which will prejudice our interests abroad and offend a friendly power. The very unsatisfactory result which has ensued respect ing the relations between Canada and the United States confirms the soundness of Mr. FITZGERALD'S strictures upon the subject, for the inconsistency of our Government has been most marked, and it ha 3 met with the usual fate attending such matters, for the Federals have done all in their power to show their sense of our vacillation and uncertain action. Mr. FITZGERALD concl4ed his eloquent speech by earnestly pressing upon the Government the neces sity of looking to the defences of Canada, and so arranging affairs that, if war broke out, that colony might not suffer, as it was now to be apprehended it would. There are several points in the right hon. gentleman's speech which are worthy of attention, and which may be dwelt upon with advantage by those in authority : for instance, in one passage he compared the zeal and efficiency displayed by the Americans in the question of fortifications with the supineness of our Government, who were content to take the chance of the chapter of accidents. Mr. CAVE'S remarks were almost as absurd as they well could be, for the right hon. gentleman seemed to go out of his way to abuse the Canadians,.and he was at great pains to show that too much fuss was made about the affair. In the course of his speech he showed a great deal of that irritation of feeling which he so strongly deprecated in others, and altogether his discourse must have been very satisfactory to Mr. BRIGHT. His at tempts to make game of Mr. FITZGERALD'S speech proved a signal failure, and his concluding proposal met with universal dissatisfaction. He said that the best thing we could do "in the interests of peace, and for the purpose of carrying on a successful war, if war there must be, would be at once to withdraw our troops from Canada." Certainly when these topics do come on it is extraordinary to notice what incon gruous and unsuitable propositions are made. It would be madness to throw away our resources and waste our opportunities after this fashion, and it would be playing directly into the hands of the Yankees and carrying out the principles of the Mumto doctrine. Lord PALMERSTON, with his usual discrimination, discerned the dangerous drift of Mr. CAVE'S views, and at once utterly dis claimed all participation in them. The noble lord emphatically declared that he dissented from the notion that Canada could not be de fended, and added with becoming spirit that the honour of England required that the attempt at any rate should be made if occasion called for it. " I am anxious," said the noble lord, " that there should be no mistake on the subject, and that it may be fully understood that it is not the in tention of the Government to follow the advice of my right hon. friend and withdraw our troops from Canada." This assurance will be a welcome one, and it is just as well that Lord PALMERSTON should have so clearly and specifically stated his 1 intentions. Mr. DISRAELI also strongly urged the adoption of some vigorous policy with regard to this important matter, and he did so from no immediate anticipation of a war with the United States, but for the purpose of being in a proper state of preparation, ready for emergency, and prepared for casualties. The right hon. gen tleman wisely pointed out the mistakes made by those who confine their notions of the" balance of power" to Europe, because there are other States not among European Powers whose influence prevailed greatly in public affairs. The consequences which 1 Mr. DISRAELI considers to follow upon all discus sion are certainly very important ones—that " we are conscious now of what our duty to the colonies • is, and that we are prepared to fulfil that duty in a manner which I doubt not will conduce to the strength and independence of the British empire: , If such sentiments prevail, there can be little fear of the result of our policy. Mr. BRIGHT'S speech was what might be expected of him upon such a topic, but he did not meet with a very favourable recep tion. On the whole we may consider that this de bate has been satisfactory, and the loud cheers which greeted the conclusion of Lord PALMERSTON'S speech sufficiently proved that the House appre ciated the spirited tone of the noble lord's speech, and which was worthy of the Prime Minister of this great country in speaking of her colonial possessions. We are glad to find that the question of our har bours of refuge is going to be brought under the notice of Parliament. Their importance to a mari time nation like ourselves is very great, but with the singular dilatoriness which seems to be insepar able from all our official proceedings, our supply is still very far short of our requirements. On the north and north-east coasts, more especially, har bours of refuge are much wanted ; and, again, on the south coast, by Newhaven, half way between Portsmouth and the Downs. Our commerce is so large, that the expense of such an outlay hardly de serves to be considered in comparison to the immense value of the property at stake. Part of the expense might be cheerfully borne by the town or county benefited by the harbour of refuge, which would naturally draw large profits from the continual presence of ships. What further remained to be done should be done without hesitation by the Imperial Government, which should surely be as anxious to provide for the safety of our sailors and ships against the destruc tive agency of the tempest, as to guard our shores against the enemy by the construction of costly forts. The one danger is possible, and should therefore be guarded against; the other is not only possible, but inevitable, and should, most certainly, be guarded against. Nature, if she has given us rugged and dangerous coasts, has herself pro vided, in some measure, the remedy, for there are many localities where the natural con struction of the ground forms the framework of a harbour of refuge. Pembroke Harbour, which som e gentlemen the other evening advised should be abandoned by the Govern men t, i s such a gift of Nature, and it would be the height of folly for the Imperial Government to resign such a positi on. Sir F. SMITH last evening gave notice that after Easter he would move a resolution to the effect that it is the duty of the Government to adopt at onc e those measures for the construction of harbours of refuge which have been recommended by a Parlia mentary Committee in 1857 and a Royal Commis sion in 1859. We hope the House will come tothe a c n o d ns l i i d b e e r r a a - 1 tion of this subject with a candid spirit. The protection of our v u l r e m lfa a r ri e ti n m f maritime interests country, terestsis so very interesting to the that the question of a few thousands, more or less, does not deserve to be weighed in the balance, so long as the amount is fairly laid out in really suitable positions. The sums lavished at the Admiralty for alterations and experiments, for ships that will not sail, and armour-plates that cannot resist shot, would soon serve to put our coasts in a Proper state of protection against the storms and tempests of our winter seasons. Indeed, the whole question of our harbours and docks requires a full examination, and we h ope that in future a little more care will be taken by the authorities before the public money is laid out, professedly with a good object in view, but in reality in the very place or manner to defeat the object intended. The Malta dock is a striking instance of an Admi ralty blunder. After all the debate and discussion, the indignant remonstrances of those who know the island, and the angry opposition of Ministers, the Admiralty is forced to own itself in the wrong, and to concede all that it had so strenuously maintained. Acting in direct defiance of the reiterated opinions of Admiral FANSHAWE MARTIN, Commander-in- Chief of the station, and of Admiral CODRINGTON, Superintendent of Malta Dockyard, the Admiralty persisted in the construction of a dock and basin at the Marsa, when every argument was in favour of the selection of a different site. The French Creek has every advantage over its neighbour, and it is no wonder that when the Admiralty pro ceedings became known in this country an active opposition was raised to the scheme. We did not fail ourselves to point out very strongly the absur dity of constructing costly works at the Marsa while so excellent a site as the French Creek, so contiguous to the dockyard and so advantageous in every way to the public service was left unemployed on the ground of some old treaty with the Maltese Government, which could be easily arranged with out any breach of faith. The Admiralty officials, however, would hear no reason ; but thanks to the persistence of the House and the press, the public have been saved so unprofitable and foolish an outlay as was intended. The Duke of SOMERSET deserves high praise for his determina tion to judge for himself, and to see with his own eyes the actual condition of the case. Accordingly, during the recess, the First Lord of the Admiralty visited Malta, and arrived at the conclusion which no intelligent and unprejudiced man actually on the spot could fail to arrive at. The superiority of the French Creek over the site of the Marsa was at once apparent, and it was not long before the Duke made an amicable arrangement with the Maltese authorities, and a dock is to be commenced at once in that locality. There is little hope, we fear, that this transaction will serve as a warning to our Admiralty, but it bears its moral for the pub lic. The opinions and advice of disinterested parties actually on the spot, whose experience and Whose responsible position entitled them to reflect, was entirely set at nought, and the opposition of independent members of Parliament was met by denials, evasions, and assertions of the impossibility of a change. Yet, where there is a will there is a way; and no sooner does the Duke of SOMERSET be come convinced of the true state of the case than all difficulties melt away like snow, a fresh site is chosen, and the work we are told is to begin at once. Yet we have here a fair sample of the man ner in which the public money is too often wasted, through the ignorance, prejudice, or the obstinacy of officials. If the heads of a department cannot always inspect for themselves they can at least accept the opinion of men whom they knew to be capable of forming a correct and unbiassed judgment. Surely, in a case like that of the Malta dock, the views of two Admirals, who were familiar not only with the requirements of the fleet, but the peculiarities of the island, deserved a respect which was not shown to them. • The selection of Bermuda as a site for a dock is a very excellent measure; and Lord C. PAGET spoke truly when he said the advantages of that island far outweighed those of Halifax ; but we regret that the vote for it should have been postponed until a further examination of the place. The Secretary for the Navy himself said he knew it well, for the locality is no newly discovered one, and its peculiarities and difficulties are familiar to many. It would be de sirable for many reasons to begin the construction of the Bermuda dock at once, and there is no doubt that some of our able scientific men can suggest a way of obviating the local difficulties without any further examination. Lyceum Theatre, Last evening, owing to the sudden indisposition of Mr. Fechter, Mdlle. Beatrice made her first appearance at this theatre in the character of Mrs. Haller in the play of the " Stranger." The per formance was marked with all that womanly ten derness which so distinguished the lady when she sustained the character at the Haymarket Theatre some short time ago. The applause of the audience was hearty and spontaneous, and the addition of Aidlle. Beatrice to the company now engaged at the Lyceum cannot but be productive of the best results. Of course there were the usual number of calls, all of which Mdlle. Beatrice most gracefully acknow ledged. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—AduIt baptism in the river is being revived at Mallon, and on Sunday the immersion of four upgrown persons was the cause of one of the most remarkable scenes ever witnessed in the town That part of the river Derwent between the county bridge and the old Roman ford is known as "Jordan," and tradi tion has held it that the Saxon King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised here,with many of his subjects, by Archbishop Paulinus, in the 7th century. About 35 or 40 years ago, on the establishment of the Baptist mission in the town, there was a resumption of baptism by immersion at this part of the river, and some 12 or 14 persons were then immersed. The practice was discontinued on the formation of a well in the chapel, and has not been revived till about two years ago, when the now sect calling themselves Christian Brethren, re stored it, by the public baptism of a young man in the river, but the sect do not hold this immersion as a sine qua non. About two months since a lady was baptized in the same manner, and on Sunday one young lady, Miss Birss, and three of the male sex, Mr. Graham, Mr. Vasey, and another young lad, were immersed in the river by Mr. W. Wright, the leader of the "brethren." Two baptisms of other young ladies were deferred until warmer weather, the ladies being 'in delicate health. The novelty of the ceremony attracted crowds of persons of all classes, the bridge, the railway viaduct, the island, and every available point where a view could be had, being crowded. The candidates for the rite met in the bridge-house, from which the three men soon emerged, lightly clad, followed by the lady in a robe of white. Mr. Wright found his task no easy one, owing to the considerable amount of flood water in the river, in which a bath was anything but inviting. Some time was consumed by Mr. Wright in getting into the river at various points, to try to find out a place sufficiently shallow for the immersion to take place, each failure being hailed with derisive laughter from certain of the crowd, many of whom treated the affair as a capital joke. At length a suitable place was found, and Mr. Wright was pre paring to undertake the baptism of the young lady, when a young lad named Blackburn, who had perched on a ledge of the gasworks, was observed to fall headlong into the most dangerous part of the river, close by the main arch, through which a very powerful current was running. An alarm was raised, and the whole 1,200 or 1,500 persons at once left the baptismal party to see the result of the lad's struggles in the river at the opposite side of the island. At first it seemed as if the lad must be drowned in the presence of every ono ; but shortly a young man named Killen, son of Mr. Killen, shoemaker, threw off his coat and leapt into the current, and succeded in reaching the drowning lad just in time. Amid the plaudits of the crowd he brought Black burn to la n d, th ough himself thoroughly exhausted by the strong current. Several gentlemen on the spot resolved that a testimonial should bo raised to reward the gallant fellow. When this drowning business was settled, the crowd hurried back to " Jordan," where the baptismal proceedings had been arrested by the alarm. Betting on any subject whatever is sure, to characterise a crowd in the sporting atmosphere:of Molte n , an d offers to back Killen against Wright were num erous, and again roused the hilarity which the accident had suppressed. Mr. Wright Wivraigsht possiblyliira se lfseem renderede d ff muddyee to have somewhat lost nerv e , n worse by the taunts and gibes o f th e roughs. At length all was ready, and Mr. Wright, having wa lk e d a f ew yards into the river, was followed by the young l a dy, w h om he baptised in the name of the Trinity, the imme rs i on b e i ng the signal for a grand cheer from a considerable part o f th e assemblage. The same form was gone through with eac h of the men, one of whom looked particularly nervous, and was laughed at immensely. After the proceedings were completed the newly baptised persons were taken to the bridge-house Tthoermesournmeintghewirasorvdeinryaryeolddr,eassndantdhepawrtnatkore in a half of hot state. There were very few sympathisers with methodthe " bre o t f h e p r putting nwgh them ose into particular pra b o a t i p o t e i s m oa a u l e n e d o t i amusementthe to almost all present, and were a source of fun to a majority of the beholders, who saw nothing sacred in the proceedings. IHE SUN: .IAONDON . , TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH. U, 18f LITU.ATURE, A Famous Forgery. By Percy Fitzgerald. One Vol., pp. 246. Chapman and Hall. The eccentricity of this book is something to us quite inexplicable. How a conspicuously clever writer like Percy Fitzgerald could have selected such a theme as this to comment upon, simply passes our comprehension. The author of " Never Forgotten" —the inimitable serial story now, during many weeks and months past, adorning the pages of Mr. Charles Dickens's weekly periodical of All the Year Round—the author of that singularly original fiction—the creator of Captain Fermor, of Mr. Romaine, of Miss Manuel, of Major Carter, of Young Brett, of John Hanbury, of the cast-iron father-in-law of the hero of the tale, and of crowds of other all but living and breathing entities, there massed togetherin those vastly entertaining chapters of " Never Forgotten "—Percy Fitzgerald, a name henceforth (in remembrance, that is, of " Never Forgotten") always right welcome to us on any title-page, has certainly obeyed the oddest freak of his eccentric fancy in setting himself down to the task of writing the history of so disreputable a rascal as Dr. William Dodd, of notorious memory. The Life of Sterne, we could very well understand his writing. But—The Life of Dodd ! For—the " Famous Forgery" of which the particulars are here given at very considerable length, and with all kinds of minute detail and circumstantiality, is no other than—as the sub-title of the book at once ex plains—" The Story of the Unfortunate' Doctor Dodd." In place of " unfortunate" read disrepu table, and you will be far nearer the mark, to our thinking. In testimony of which, only read the story as it is here set down for our especial edification by this celebrant of the Maca roni Parson ! Mr. Fitzgerald has penned other odd and whimsical books before now—instance this, " The Rev. Arthur Hoblush," and the fiction en titled " Bella Donna"—but of all his odd and whimsical books, this is, beyond a doubt of it, the very oddest and whimsicallest. The person whose career and character he has herein undertaken to describe, is—when we come to examine him, whether carefully or cursorily, it matters not which— so utterly contemptible and odious at every turn of his career, in every phase of his character ! His very uxoriousness is something re volting. His very piety is nothing less than nauseat ing. He is so unctuous alike in his devotions and in his affections. And, all the while, the man is such an ineffable combination of the bore and the twaddler ! That he was an unmittigated scoundrel in the way of dishonesty, the most notorious act of his life demonstrates quite conclusively and beyond the reach of any possibility of con tradiction. But what good purpose can pos sibly be; served by the relation of his sayings, and doings, and (worst ogall) his scribblings—just passes the reach of our conjecture. Beholding Doctor Dodd, as we are now enabled to do very distinctly indeed, through the lens of Mr. Fitzgerald's biographic narrative, we can only marvel how it could ever have come to pass that a sturdy, sterling, sagacious moralist like old Samuel Johnson, could have, found even in the depths of his profound philanthropy the smallest incentive to interpose in behalf of a sleek and sanctimonious vagabond like Dodd. The wretched man's nature had about it nothing, seem ingly, in any way akin to the nature of Dr. John son. One would have said that between the two there was not discoverable anywhere the faintest reason or plea for the mere pretence of a sympathy. And really and truly, and quite frankly to put it, now that we have turned the pages of this extraordinarily painstaking record of the canting mediocrity of the notorious Forger, Dr. Dodd, sprinkled as this record is only too abundantly with fragments of the blank verse, the very blank verse of " The Unfortunate"—we regard it as an inex plicable mystery that such a man as William Dodd should have found during his life a champion like Dr. Samuel Johnson, and so many years after his death a biographer like Mr. Percy Fitzgerald. That crowning honour, however, the Macaroni Par son has here received. The narrative, as originally penned, appeared, as the readers of the Dublin University Magazine will very well re member, some time since, from month to month, in the pages of that able periodical. It has now been issued from the press separately, in the form of this goodly volume alluringly entitled "A Famous For gery." Admirably although the materials have been put together by the cunning hand of the author of " Never Forgotten," those materials themselves are, for the most part, al most entirely worthless. Recognising which fact very vividly—and it is impossible to read two chapters of the book under notice without recog nising it—we cannot but regret that a writer as gifted and accomplished as the creator of Captain Fermor should have condescended to assume to him self the office of being Dr. Dodd's biographer. Can You Forgive Her By Anthony Trollop. No. XV. Chapman and Hall. This March instalment of Anthony Trollope's serial story about the Vavasours is chiefly remarkable for its record of the fact that Mr. Palliser demonstrates hnt in her i n t erests, t h e ambition the depth of his forgiving affection forhis w if e , L a dy o G f le h n i c s or li a f , e_ bytshaceric fici a n ellorship o f th e E xchequer ! The Duke of St. Bungay, coming to him with the offer of that vacant post, finds Mr. Plantagenet Palliser in the midst of a profound domestic cala mity. Lady Glencora and her husband haye arrived at a sort of an explanation imme diately before the arrival of the Duke—who comes simply as an emissary from the Prime Minister to place within reach of Mr. Palliser's acceptance the dream of his life, the Chancellorship of the Exche quer ! Conscious that the only safety for Lady Glencora lies in immediate absence froth England, so as to put her out of the way of the wiles of that dissipated Adonis-cousin of her's, I3argo Fitzgerald —Mr. Palliser declines the proffered seat in the Cabinet ! The ruffianly George Vavasor gets deeper and deeper into the mire of his dirty diffi culties. How these are to end it is impossible to conjecture. Now and then we almost look for the sensational effect of some diabolical murder to be perpetrated by the hand of the hon. (very hon.) member for Chelsea. The Headless Horseman. Part I. By Captain Mayne Reid. Chapman and Hall. A Strange Tale of Texas, the author of " The Scalp Hunters" calls this newly-commenced sixpenny monthly serial story of " The Headless Horseman." And it certainly promises to prove a stranger story even than The Strange Story of Sir Bulwer Lytton ! Looking at the mere co ver o f th e tale, as it has been been touched into startling terror by the pencil of the draughtsman and the steel cutter of the wood engraver—one seems to recognise that wild moonlit waste of the Texan prairie-what? Well, Somebody's Nightmare ! Literally, Some Body's Nightmare ! The Headless Horseman awfully mounted upon his destrier—sitting bolt up right in the saddle—headless ! The meaning of the spectral vision is as yet, of course, incomprehensible. One:can only repeat that it is surely—Some -body's Nightmare ! On that wild waste of the prairie it is that—the Headless Horseman having just flitted momentarily across the scene in the Prologue and then vanished there it is in the midst of that vast solitude of the desolate prairie .of Texas that the principal characters of the story here commenced, are introduced to the reader. And, backed as they are, simply, as one may say, by the sky, they are brought out to view• all the more vividly by reason of there being no background whatever. We look forward pleasurably to a little better acquaintance with Maurice Gerald, the Mustanger, the hero of the tale, and with the heroine of it, Louise Poindexter. Her Majesty forwarded yesterday, through Sir Charles Phipps, an annual subscription of £5O to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. _ The three ships forming the Turkish squadron under command of Admiral Edhem Paella left Ply mouth Sound on Sunday morning for Constanti nople. TheY will call in the Tagus for fuel, of which the flagship, the Kossova, consumes large quantities. While in Plymouth this ship was sup plied with an Armstrong gun from the Royal Arse nal at Devonport, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 13. The Finance Committee of the Congress have decided that 25 per cent, of the proceeds of the sale of the Crown domains shall be remitted to the Queen immediately after the passing of the bill. FRANCE. PARIS, MAncii 11. The Illoniteur of this morning publishes the speeches delivered by M. Schneider and M. Rouher at the grave of the Duke de Morny yesterday. M. Rouher reverted in his speech to the words of the deceased, that liberty could only be established peacefully by a sincere harmony between the Sovereign and a moderate Assembly. Bo URSE, March 13.—The market is rather active, with an upward tendency in quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67fr. 75c. Mobilier were very firm at 872 fr. 50c. In Railway Shares there is a moderate business doing, without change in prices. The market was somewhat heavy towards the close. The following are the last prices :- 42 per Cents 94 60 Italian Loan 64 75 Do. end month — Do. end month 64 75 3 per Cents. 67 75 Ditto Threes — Do. end month 67 75 New Mexican Credit Mobilier ... 871 25 Russian — Do. end month ... 868 75 Austrian Bank Shares 3502 50 Spanish Threes ... 45 Cr3dit Foncicr 1285 Home Debt — Roman - RAILWAYS. Cash. - Acct. Orleans Northern lOl7 50 1016 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 950 ... 950 Southern 5BO 580 Western 542 50 ... Eastern Sardinian 305 ... 303 75 Austrian Lombard 545 ... 547 50 North of Spain 298 75 ... 298 75 Saragossa 370 Ditto to Barcelona 165 PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 11. " We are in possession," says the Presse, "of interesting details as to the contents of the Austrian answer to the Prussian conditions despatch.' The Prussian demands have received not a merely tem porary reply, as most of the communications assume, but, as we are informed, a definitive answer in the note that left here on the sth inst. This note, how ever, consists of two separate despatches, both bear ing the same date and forwarded to Berlin the same day. The first and shorter despatch declares in a perfectly friendly ' yet measured tone, that Austria is compelled to characterise the Prussian demands as quite unacceptable, because, in their present shape, they cannot but appear in compatible with the indispensable pastulate of the establishment of a really sovereign new Federal State as well as with a series of other arrangements based on Federal right. The despatch expresses the conviction that King William himself, who has given so many brilliant proofs of undeviating Fede ral fidelity, will be the more disposed to appreciate the reasons which have rendered it the duty of Aus tria to decline compliance, because that Power is now, as previously, ready to recognise the interests of Prussia to the fullest extent inside the strict limits of Federal right, and to extend the most compre hensive and willing consideration to further proposals upon that basis. The second despatch contains the detailed explanation of the motives for refusal, and, till puttin g forward Federal right, adduces reasons for the impossibility of complying with each sepa rate demand. " We doubt considerably," is the comment of the Presse, " whether this retort, cleverly drawn up as it must be admitted to be, will be received with dis favour in Berlin. It will be said in that capital that if nothing is to come of the demands made in the Prussian despatch of Feb. 23, then beyond all means let nothing come. No choice would then remain save annexation, as in the interests of Germany' Prussia must take up a firm position in the Duchies. All the world knows that the Crown lawyers are seeing to the removal of legal obstacles to annexation," THE CIVIL WAIL IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Feb. 28. While the Northern journals of all shades of po litical opinion, with one exception, are rejoicing at the surrender of Charleston and Wilmington, and expatiating triumphantly on what they describe as the " strong Union sentiment" displayed by the few poor white people and infirm negroes left behind in the desolate streets to receive the conquerors, a veil has been suddenly drawn over movements of far more vital importance. General Sherman is plung ing through the Carolinas at the head of 50,000 men, cut off from all communication with his Go vernment, except such as he hopes to establish by force of victory ; and the Southern press has been officially requested by General Lee to convey to the public no whisper or hint of his movements, lest the enemy should derive advantage, and be enabled in case of his weakness, to send him reinforcements, or provide the means for his escape. The command has been implicitly obeyed, and thick darkness shrouds all the latest movements of the adventurous invader. All that is known of Sherman in the North is that, after taking possession of Columbia, Beau regard retreating before him, he had advanced on the road to Charlotte, and that a greater soldier than Beauregard had been appointed by Gen. Lee to oppose his future progress. It was held in the South, and is admitted in the North, that the long series of reverses which have culminated in the loss of the Atlantic cities originated in the unfortunate supercession of General Joseph E. Johnstone by General Hood. The restoration of General John ston, who is thus brought face to face with his old opponent, is consequently confessed in the North as tending to equalise the conditions of the struggle, and to render the task before General Sherman much more arduous and protracted than it would have been if he had to deal with an engineer Gene ral such as Beauregard, or a mere fighter such as Hood. The probability is that these well matched antagonists will meet in decisive battle, and that the first news of the result will be received from the victor. The situation is critical both for the North and South. Neither of them can suffer a severe reverse without perilous consequences. The defeat of Sher man would retrieve all the recent ill fortune of the Confederacy and inspire the people with renewed hope and energy; while it would cool Northern en thusiasm, or replace it by despondency, such as that of August last, when the Democratic Convention at Chicago pronounced the war to be a failure, and looked for no greater virtue in a Presidential candi date than an earnest desire of peace and a strong de termination to concede it. On the other hand, the defeat of Johnstone would enable Sherman to effect a junction with Grant on the Appotomax, and compel the surrender of Petersburg and Richmond, thus re ducing the force of the Confederacy to the sole army of Gen. Lee, and dealing on the South the heaviest blow and sorest discouragement, next to absolute ruin and subjugation, that it would be possible to inflict. Mr. Hugh M'Culloch has accepted the Secretary ship of the Treasury. In the case of any other man the appointment would have excited but little curio sity. As Mr. Fessenden was a dilution of Mr. Chase, the new Secretary would have been looked upon as a dilution of Mr. Fessendon. But Mr. M'Culloch enters upon the scene under different auspices. He is, what few Americans are, a sound political econo mist. He has studied the philosophy and theory as well as the practice of finance. To read his letters and treatises any one who did not know that he was an American might imagine be was an Englishman or a Scot c h man w h o h a d never embraced the delusion so prevalent on this side the Atlantic, that as the re sources of America are not half developed it is com petent to American statesmen to run riot in wild ex periment, and set at defiance the dearly bought expe rience of older communities. Mr. M'Culloch is, as far as his published opinions testify, a worthy sue- cessor of Adam Smith, Mill, Ricardo, and his quasi namesake, the late J. R. M'Culloch, and might, from the doctrines he has enforced, be assumed to have imbibed financial wisdom from the lips of the late Sir Robert Peel, and to have learnt the prin ciples of Free Trade at the feet of Richard Cobden. He thus-expresses himself on the subject of paper money :—" What is needed in a paper circulating medium is that it should be convertible into coin ; that it should be sufficient in amouut to answer the purposes of legitimate business , that it should not, on the one hand, by being over-issued, encour age extravagance and speculation, and give an arti ficial and unreliable value to property ; nor, on the other hand, by being reduced below the proper standard, interrupt business and unsettle values. It should be supplied to just the extent of the demands of a healthy trade. It should be increased as the regular business of the country may require its in crease, and be diminished as the proper demand for it is diminished." The following are his reasons why a Government should not issue its own paper and call it money, and why a Government should not act as the banker of the nation :—" Govern ments should not be bankers. None has existed which could be safely trusted with the privilege of permanently issuing its own notes as money. Under popular institutions like ours no m ore dangerous, no more corrupting power could be lodged in the hands of the party in possession of the Government, none more perilous to official probity and free elec tions. Give to a party dominant in the Legislative and Executive branches of the Government the au thority of issuing paper money for the purpose of furnishing the country with its currency, subject as it would be to no restraint but its own pleasure, and what guarantee would there be that this authority would be honestly and judiciously used? If there were no risk in the preparation of the notes, and checks were provided to make fraudulent issues an impossibility, the power of issuing Government pro mises as a circulating medium is too dangerous a one to be conferred upon any party, except under extraordinary circumstances." And while he lays down with such force the principles upon which he would act, and on which it must be supposed he will act to the extent. of, his power, :he thus in equally emphatic terms describes the mischief already done by his predecessors : •' The expenditures of the Government have created a great expansion of currency and of prices. There would have undoubtedly been an expansion, in a less degree it is true, but still an expansion, if the war had been carried on upon a specie basis. Prices of all the necessaries of life as well as luxuries, and of everything which the Government must purchase in the prosecution of the war, are enormously high, and the penalty is yet to be paid for the inflation, in increased taxation and the ruin which must over whelm the thousands who believe, and act upon the belief, that the apparent prosperity of the country is real, and is not to be -interrupted. Fortunate will the country be if the war can be closed and prices reduced to former standards - without a collapse, which will as greatly excel in the extent of its disas ter that which occurred at the close of the last war with England as the present war excels that in costliness and magnitude." In his letter of instructions to the promoters and founders of the new National Banks, established by Mr. Chase with the avowed object of driving all the old State Banks out of existence, he recurs to this theme in the following words :—" Bear constantly in mind, although the loyal States appear superfi cially to be in a prosperous condition, that such is not the fact ; that while the Government is engaged in the suppression of a rebellion of unexampled fierceness and magnitude, and is constantly draining the country of its labouring and producing popula tion, and diverting its mechanical industry from works of permanent value to the construction of im plements of warfare—while cities are crowded and the country is to the same extent depleted, and waste and extravagance prevail as they never before prevailed in the United States, the nation, whatever may be the external indications, is not prospering. The war in which we are involved is a stern ne cessity, and must be prosecuted for the preserva tion of the Government, no matter what may be its cost ; but the country will unquestionably be the poorer every day it is continued. The seeming prosperity of the loyal States is owing mainly to the large expenditure of the Govern ment, and the redundant currency which these expenditures seem to render necessary. Keep these facts constantly in mind, and manage the affairs of your respective banks with a perfect consciousness that the apparent prosperity of the country will be proved to be unreal when the war is closed, if not before ; and be prepared, by careful management of the trust committed to you, to help to save the nation from a financial collapse, instead of lending your influence to make it more certain and more severe." These examples will show the British and Euro pean public what :manner of man he is to whom Mr. Lincoln has intrusted the management of the finances at this time of peril. That he will restrict, as far as practicable, the issues of incontrovertible paper money, and that he will urge upon Congress the necessity of a far better and more productive system of taxation than has yet been dreamt of by the assembled wisdom of that body, is, with the views he entertains, as nearly certain as any thing human can be. But the old question will recur, if the war continue for twelve months more— how are the Army and Navy to be paid, unless by fresh loans, or by fresh greenbacks ? Mr. M'Culloch knows, if Mr. Lincoln and the American people do not, that the North cannot afford the expenses of the war either in men or in money ; that the sooner it stops the better ; and that, stop when it will, there will come the day of reckoning. No states manship can avert the crash, though it is possible, if Mr. C'Culloch be as bold and successful in en forcing his views as he is correct in expressing theat, that the inevitable shock may under his manage ment be leas calamitous than it might have been under the blind guidance of Mr. Chase or of Mr. Fesseaiden. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. ---,;-- GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending Feb. 18, amounted, for local passengers, to £4,188, for foreign passengers to £535, for mails, &c., to £642, for local freight and live stock to £11,251, and for foreign freight and live stock to £l,96s—toi?i, on 1,377 miles of railway, £18,581, and for the corresponding week of last year to £16,483 on 1,335 miles of railway, showing an in crease of £2,098. The above traffic, both in 1864 and 1865, was partially interrupted by severe weather. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in the railway committees, the bill for the Dover and Deal Railway was passed, and that for the Dover Deal, and Sandwich Railway rejected. Mr. Burke, Q.C., then opened the case for the London, Chatham, and• Dover Railway Company, to enable the company to construct a railway of one mile and 27 chains at Beckenham to connect their main line with their Farnborough extension, and to abandon the construction of cettain junction railways at or near Bickley, and to erect a Custom-house at Dover, and to extend the period for the compulsory purchase of land and for execution of works ; powers to appoint a joint committee by the South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover for the combined working and conduct of the railway and steamboat service between London and the continent by way of Folkestone, Dover and Margate, and the Crystal Palace. The bills of the Bristol and Exeter Railway and of the Bris tol Stations Railwao, being unopposed, were referred to the Chairman of Ways and Means. The clauses of the Devon and Somerset and Ilfracombe Railway were settled. Mr. Rod well, Q.C., opened the case of Lynn and Sutton-bridge railway for local railways in that district, and for working and other arrangements with neighbouring railways, and to raise £36,000 and £12,000 by loan ; Mr. Burke and Mr. Wilkinson opposing for the Norwich and Spalding Com pany, and Mr. Round for the Great Eastern. Mr. Brydon, C.C., was the prineipalwitness examined. Mr. Price opened the case of the Furness Railway for local lines in that dis trict, and to raise £300,000 by shares and £lOO,OOO by loan; Mr. Millwood, Q.C., and others appearing for the opposition. The referees were engaged in considering various Bills to be reported to the Select Committee for decision. THE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY IN LIVERPOOL.—At the Liverpool Police-court yesterday, a man named David Hopkins Thomas Jones, and beating the aliases of James, Selby, and Parsons, was charged with being concerned in the late extensive jewellery robbery from the shop of Mr. Critchley, London-road. It appeared from the statement of Carlisle, a detective of • the Liverpool police force, that the prisoner was apprehended in Southampton, after being traced from that town to London, Gosport, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, &c. In his possession there was found a lot of jewellery, portions of the articles stolen from the shop of Mr. Critchley, and ho admitted that they were given to him by a man named Gray, one of the men now committed fiir trial at the assizes for participating in the Critchley robbery. (fffurt tralbr. 0,, HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 13. Her Majesty the Queen left Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace to-day, at 12 o'clock, accom panied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice. In attend ance were the Duchess of Roxburghe, LadY Augusta Stanley, Lord Alfred Paget, and Col. /Dn . A. Hardinge. The Royal party proceeded to the station of the Great Western Railway, where a special train was waiting to convey her Majesty to London. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, went to London by an early train. The Rev. C. Kingsley had the honour of dini n g with her Majesty yesterday. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Monday'. The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Pal ace to-day. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Ilelenf! and Princess Louise, drove out in the afternoon an d visited the studio of Mr. Theed. The Queen went to Stafford House, and visit ed the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, and afterwards visited the Prince and Princess of Wales, at 1% 101 " borough House. In attendance upon her Majesty were the Duelies! of Roxburghe, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. A. Hardinge. an d Colonel The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Col. Keppel. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, at tended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen. The Queen's Courti The Queen held a second Court at Buckingh am Palace yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Wel nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Frill cess Beatrice, and attended by the Duchess of B 0 burghe, Lady Augusta Stanley, Lord Alfred Pag el l and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, arrived at the Palace from Windsor Castle at one o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prill?7o of Wales, escorted by a squadron of the Guards, and attended by the Marchioness of Car marthen, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Earl Spencer, 1 1 °11; Harris, Lieut.-General Knollys, Lieut. - 0 0lone . 1 Keppel, and the Hon. R. Meade, left Marlb orou gh House and arrived at the garden entrance at Bile ingham Palace shortly before three o'clock. I te of Field Marshal his Royal Highness the Pt l . - by Cambridge also arrived at the palace, atten ded his Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Tyrwhitt. Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Hon our t he Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty at , Court, under the command of Lieut.-Colo nel William Topham, the Lieutenant. The folio Wi : t officers were also present with the corps —Lie/1 0 Colonel W. M' Call, the Clerk of the Cheq ue ; 3 Adjutant and Capt. Philips, the Sub-officer. the The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of, e Guard were on duty in the interior of th e Pal the under the command of Colonel O. P. Bourke , t Exon in Waiting. A Guard of Honour of the Grenadier Guar ds /vas mounted in the court of the palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by their royal bigpls. nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princ,,t: Helena, and Princess Louise, entered the lim" drawing room at three o'clock. Her Majesty the Queen wore a black silk drat; with train, trimmed with crape and jet, and a 'M s , Queen of Scots cap, with long veil, the caP er il to mented with large pearls. Her Majesty wore ° ast rows of large pearls round the neck, and Pea brooches, the riband and the star of the Order be the Garter, the Victoria and Albert Order, an d the Order of Louise of Prussia. Her royal highness the Princess of Wales 01;et11 3 . train and petticoat of rich black silk, trimmed 1,8.;1;, tulle, bows of ribbon and jet. Head-dress of 13 ' 3 , - , velvet and diamonds, with white feathers and vc ' . diamond ornaments, Orders, Victoria and Alb ert and Isabella of Portugal. Her royal highness the Princess Helena, wore dress of black figured net over rich glace .elt trimmed with jet, lace looped up with large a beads, train of rich black moire antique ; dress, wreaths of - white wild violets and gre en leaves, white feathers and veil ; ornaments, of monds, Victoria and Albert Order, and Order St. Isabella. wore i 1 Her royal highness the Princess Lo uise similar dress and similar ornaments. ;o .l a eSSe'? ADELPHI THEATRE.—Their Royal 1 -I 'Bo - , 11 10 0 the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Louise, v ° ; - t he Bruce, Lady Caroline Barrington and suite, honoureurday performances at this theatre with their presence yeste evening. n. 00 4 Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and D fr o d'Aumale have returned to Wood Norton, Eves arji ,' o dgcl v i s itin g the Earl and Countess of Wilton at E g erton '- Melton Mowbray. A i n O r THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.—The Russian b dor and Baroness Brunnow entertained 5 4 t bo sham-house yesterday evening the Saxon finis 11 fl u` ] United States' Minister, the Earl and Countess 1 1 - I T e il SD . Lady Georgiana Russell, Lord Lyons, the Bight:l),,,i;ric Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the lion. Sir "'rib, )titßruce, Baron and Baroness biome, Lady M o leswQ r fre cle - A. Lumley, Prince Alexandre Ouroussow, Baron ricksy, and M. A. de Berg. Ct The Earl of Rosslyn and the Lady b-- r1 „ 1 q uilr Clair have left Claridge's Hotel for Broughton, tonshire. + the The Earl of Winchilsea has arrived a. i ii George's Hotel. ryt ro t a L o :d and Lady Bloomfield, owing te t fl ip weather wil;::th prevailed in the Channel, were der for til ° Dover until Friday evening, when they em barl° Continent on their way to Vienna. ur b a" The Lady Eleanor Balfour and Mr. 133--° arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Scotland. 00 1 The Hon. and Rev. Richard Godolphin a 1 3° Hastings, rector of Hertingfordbury, esP l o e • geli t s rectory on Friday last in his 46th year. Tile bc : id 1 4 ,1 man was son of the late Earl of Huntingdo n ' and D" married a daughter of Mr. Henry Fynes Clinton. held the rectory of Hertingfordbury since 1 847 ' re olit a f ; Sir Rutherford Alcock, her Majest3r'S r e P p iie l e tive in Japan, Lady Alcock, and Miss Alocit e Claridge's Hotel. r a A marriage is arranged and will 69 ° , d, sarr place between Mr. Edward Birkbeck, of and Mary Augusta, the youngest daughter of bi tll6 Hon. Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, Balt h +l,O HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Mr. FOW:::uues9 honour, on Saturday, to submit to his Royal PI D isr ° ' Prince of Wales his bronze statuette represellt..,il3'oolo9 highness in the uniform of the Hone ArtejY,,,, e . the prize presented to by tia e Ve , 11 0 pifl REPRESENTATION OF FINSBURY. --Last Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens met a large b ° t st. electors of Finsbury in the Bloomsbury distri ct . ° ' cip ieS tin's Hall, Long-acre, to explain his political prla pr. Ifo , b ie , candidate for the representation of the borougli• caul occupied the chair, and briefly introduced the 1 013 .. . e . 5re d. t lyo Mr. Torrens, on rising, was very w armly' re' commenced his address by entering at some ie i/ g ro ost D la leading social questions of-the day, amongst "viv a o t a tit oo portant of which, he thought, was the provichr,g_.o„scl accommodation for that numerous body of indut'...` eat - o n o , now daily being displaced consequent upon theogo'letroVio tions and improvements going on all over th for its ° .oc i He thought that where a company destroy it Dau foi : purposes, the homes of the worksng classes, I ,b_ ..ei iirga t llo at the same time to provide other suitable u` s y tion of I v them. He then proceeded to notice the ri..nded t° franchise, which, he thought , ought to be he e;a:onge.T'elf widest possible limit, although at present o household suffrage as the only practicable syntorven; to be carried. He was in favour of the lie u g i onD o o policy pursued by the present Governmenal..!.....„. be returned as the representative for Firiar e ' ip i o s would always be in favour of the great Pr'' , 50 d g e , OA' and religious liberty, retrenchment, reforam.o, ota progress. The hon. candidate concluded. riesoll,tionooo,r, borate address amidst great applause. lo ta proving of the hon. candidate as a fit and 1 ,1 5 , 0 1 a tative for Finsbury was unanimously ader,,eoie, of thanks to the chairman concluded the 1311, lid UNION SETTLEMENT AND CIIAR GEATI"' nne a ittee printed; removed to bisS io 4 Mr. Villiers's bill has bee n clauses provides that a pauper maY be r en i ° i f theer of settlement without an order of ronevavo consent under their common seal to recei.Dg'''..`,.aio.tidei pauper retnniing to a u nion, and becomi ; r b c o o t 1, 7 5 ito able to it within 12 m onths of his removal _OOO an order of removal, is to be liable to 0. idle and disorderly person.