The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-04 00:00:00

OUSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished an d unfurnished or SEL TOWN, ut)urban, and Country RESIDENCES to LET Particulars upon application forwarded for two stamps, upon stating requirements and rental. Ofhees, 2 f Conduit street, Regent-.treet, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. 0 UTII KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, 1.3 Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, Princes and Beaufort Sardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Boltons, Sze. Messrs TOPLIS and ROBERTS have REnI OEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, TUE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER Mr. H. Widdicomb. Atter which, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. E.-dater; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin, J. H. FitzpatrW, 1). Evans; Mesdames Ternan, E:sworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET , Sole Lessee and Mansvr, Mr. Buckstone. TEAS EVENING, A. ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT: 3lr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren ; Miss Ada Cavendish. After which, THE FAVOURITE OF' FOR rUNE : Mr. So. hero, Bnckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, ; Mesdames Chippendale, Saville, Moore, Fitzvvilliam, Viii, Lindley, Jut. Concluding with SHOCKING- EVENTS: Mr. Chippen dale, Mr. Compton, &c. Commence at Seven. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THROUGH FIRE AND WATER : Messrs. J. L. Toole, It Phillips, Bi ll ington ; 'Ales Woolgar and Miss H. Simms. After which, THE WRECK ASHORE : Messfs. J. L. Toole. P. Beal ord. Stuart, Billingtor, Ashley; Miss Woolgar ‘ind Miss H. Simms. To conclude with BEHIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss A. Seaman, Jo. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, A GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. After which, at a quarter to Eight, THE S I REETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining. T. Alead D. Murray. Shore, Villiers; Mrs. Marson, M 153 E. Bar nett, and Miss K. Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Hrs. wanb °rough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, PERFE TION. After which will be produced a graved Easter Burlesque, PARIS or, Vive Le mpiere : Mes-rs. Stoyle, 1 horne, Jame. : Mesdames A. Swanborougb, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, Rauoe. and Holt. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST : Mr. Belford. A STLEY' S.—GREAT ATTRACTIONS._ THIS EVENING (Wednesday), April 3, 1866, and during the week, will be produced C. M. von Weber's grand romantic Opera, entitled DER FREISCHUTZ ; or, The Seven Charmed Bullets. The Libretto re-written by John Olenford, Esq. The new and romantic Scenery of the Opera by Messrs. Charles and William Brew. The Band and Chorus under the direction of Mr. J. H. Tully. The Dances arranged by M. Milano. The characteristic Costumes by M. Laurey and Miss Yates. Machinery by Mr. Lanham. Properties by Mr. Adams. The Gas appointments by Mr. Pepper. The Stage ar rangements by Mr. T. H. F r i en d . All the remarkable effects and supernatural Illusions in the grand Inc Scene invented, arranged, and produce d by Professor Pepper, t ,f the Royal Polytechnic Institute.r Dramatis Personte_Prince Ottocar, M Kuno (the Ranger), Mr. Corri; Henry it Haigh, Mr. Aynsley dolp . h Ch a a n r d les Caspar LYall ; (Huntsmen of the Ranger), Cooke ; (a Villager), 1. 1 . 1 .r. G George Honey ; Zamiel Basil Potter •, Agnes (the lemon of the Forest), Mr. (Daughter of the Ranger, Ann and betrothed to Rudolph), (her Cousin), Miss Leffler Madame Haigh-Dyer ; dand Chorus of 100 Artistes. (Mrs. H. Harper). Conductor,Ban Mr. J. H. T ULLY. Aft e r the Opera, w ill be produced an entirely new and :riginal Burlesque Extravaganza, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., ,ounded upon the Moorish Legend of " The Two Sisters," retitled BOABDIL EL CHICO ; or, The Moor the Mer rier. Mr. J. H. Tully. Scenery by Messrs. Brew. Dramatis Personm.—Moors—Boabdil El Chico (i. e. Boabdil the Cheeky, the last Moorish King in Spain, after whom there wasn't any Moor; in love with everybody), Miss M. Willmott ; Al Kali (his physician, one Moor), Mr. E. Garden ; El Bobbi (a little Moor : chief of the Moorish police, and head of the private inquiry officers and court detectives), Miss Rachel Sanger; Captain of the Body Guard, Miss Maniata ; Ist Light of the Harem, Miss Annie Payne ; 2d Light of the Harem, Miss M. Stanley; 3d Light of the Harem, Miss Julia Brandon; several other little Lights of the Harem ; Zorah, the bighted Light of the Harem, being the Light of other Days somewhat faded ; considered by the other Lights as the Hea"y of the Harem, Mr. George Honey. No Moors, or Spanish. Don Ferdi nand the Fearless (who loves his love with an N because she's Nina), Miss Caroline Parkes ; Don Tito the Timorous (who loves his love with an I because she's Isabella, Miss Nelly Nesbitt; Don Pedro (the father of Nina and Isa bella), Mr. W. T em pl e t on; Nina the Nimble (betrothed to Don Ferdinand), Miss Marian ; Isabella the Indolent (her younger sister), Miss Louise Laidla,w • Kintinka (an Ex-moor, not a pony, but waiting-maid to the two sisters. She is in love with El Bobbi), Miss Minnie Sidney ; Juanita, Inez, and Perea (Young Spanish maidens, com panions of the two sisters, Juanita, secretly attached to an influential Moor, to whom ultimately she gives her hand), Miss Clifton, Miss Kate Blandford, and Miss Velasquez. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. FRIEND. Q, IDLER'S WELLS THEATRE.- Under the Foie Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation.— ItE-OPEN for the Summer Season. - - _ During the recess the Th..atre has been renovated and decorated; entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with a se; arate entrance added ; the Dress Circle and Pit S. ats recovered, and no exi,ense spared to render this Theatre one of the most elegant and comtor able in London. T lIIS EVENING `(WEDNESDAY), and during the week, will be presented the great Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, of BE L PIIEGOK : Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Barrett, G. Bet more; Misses Ada Dytva, Hudspeth, and Mrs. Poynter. Atter which (second time at this Theatre), the Ever-green Burlesque, by F. C. Burnand, Esq , of IX lON : Misses Lizzie Willmore, Fanny Gwynne, Ada Harland, Hetty Tracey; Messrs F. Banby and G. Belmore. To conclude with David Garrick's Farce of A MISS IN HER TEEN 3 : Mr. G. Belmore and Miss Fanny Gwynne. Box-office open daily from Eleven till Three. No charge for booking or programmes. Bonnets are not admitted in the Drees Circle or Stalls. Doors open at halt-past Six, commerce at Seven. Entirely new Orchestra Stalls, with spring stuffed seats and backs, and equal to those of the West-end Theatres, is. ; Dress Circle, 3s, ; Boxes, 25.; ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, £1 Is., £1 Its. 6d., and £2 23. —Second price at Nine. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed &GENi to deliver the LATE EDITION of " THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment alter leaving the press. He is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same orening, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. TR. "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. GLENIX delivers the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40 ; Kilbu,n, 8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 9.20 ; Watford, 8.45. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " lL supplied, as soon as published every Evening, by W. 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Additi ona l attraction was imparted to the proceedings from the circumstance that, more than 50 years ago, th e l earned gent l ema n was a student in the classrooms of th e un i vers ity. Seldom does a man thus return t o the scenes of his early days, and receive such high honour. In re turning thanks Mr. CARLYLE made avery interesting speech, which contained ample scope for reflection and consideration—it was, indeed, a discourse emi nently suited for those entering on the cares, duties, and pleasures of existence. lle took an elevated view of the destinies of men, and urged strongly upon his hearers the importance of energy and perseverance, but he proved himself the best adviser and the trusty friend of those around him by not disguising from them the difficulties of their task. lle im pressed upon them what was the real value of uni versity training was that it forms a taste for reading, and the next thing to do is to be wise and be as siduous in reading. " Learn to be discriminative in your reading also," observes Mr. CARLYLE, ad vice which at the present day is certainly very neces sary and desirable. History is, of course, put fore moat in ;,the rank of desirable study ; and the new Rector said, " You will find, if you read well, a pair of extremely re markable nations ithining in the records left by themselves, as a kind of pillar to light up life in the darkness of the past ages, and it will be well worth your while, if you can get into the under standing of what these people were and what they did." In allusion to reading iu general, Mr. CARLYLE made some impressive remarks in his usual grand style. He declared that itwaast if a a man nerro neous notion, which some pe o p le had, that were reading any work at all it was better thandonwon thin cr In short, he consi dered, as he wrote 0. somew h ere , that books were like men's souls, di v ided into sheep and goats. Some of them are calculated to be of very great advantage in t eac hing—in forwarding the teaching of all generations, but " others are going down, down, down, down, more and more wilder, and wilder mischief. Very truly did Mr. CARLYLE say to the students around him that beyond technical perfection and alone particular knowledge was a higher and better aim. " Blessed is he that getteth understanding." In these days more especially it is very important that those who are entering on life should know and feel that they must be on their guard as to what literature they make their study. It is quite refreshing to peruse Mr. CARLYLE'S remarks upon the daily events and matters to which such infinite importance is attached by many, but which, looked at philosophically, are really of no intrinsic value, and in themselves not worth the struggling and stirring upon them. 44 No man learns, or very few men know, what benefit to get out of their money. In fact, it too often secretly is a curse to him. Much better for him never to have had any, but I do not expect that generally to be believed." Mr. CARLYLE goes down (deep into the true meaning of things, he clears away the mists which are too apt to gather round our social ways, and shows us how false and fatal are the errors we are makingperfection, allthe w hil e that we think w e are approach ingifhcategory,Wise have and he touches upon not actually reached it. All come under the inconsistent w a y in which maid-servants are brought up. They are getting instructed in the ologies," and so on, and are apparently ignorant of brewing, toiling, and baking—" above all things, not taught what is necessary to be known, from the highest to the lowest, strict obedience, humility, and correct moral conduct." This is very true ; many have found to their sad experience, and what is a mistake in one rank of life will be so in another, if people are rushing into extremes and forgetting the primary claims of practical duties in their theoreti cal visions of excellence and grandeur. Mr. CARLYLE thinks a great deal of the value of silence. He thinks too much talk is the ruin of the present day, and as for the illustrations of old times, he thinks that PHOCION, who did not speak at all, was a great deal nearer hitting the mark than DEMOSTHENES. As for vocal education itself, he thinks that great care should be exercised in order to make the best of it, not to allow it to slip out of our fingers and remain worse than it was. " For if a good speaker, an eloquent speaker, is not speak ing the truth, is there a more horrid object in creation ?" Mr. CARLYLE recommended the study of one of GOETHE'S masterpieces of thought and reflection ; it is one of the pieces in WILHELM MEISTER'S Travels, and he considers it to be one of the most remarkable bits of writing that he has known to be executed in these late centuries. In this it is said that the function which transcends all others in importance to build up the young genera tion is "Reverence," honour to those who are grander and better than you without fear ; distinct from fear—the soul of all religion that ever has been among men, or ever will be." In conclusion, the eloquent speaker gave his hearers some very useful hints about themselves, as to what should be their inciting influence and their propelling power in their " I need not hide from you young gentle men that you have got into a very troublous epoch of the world," says this plain - spoken and decided teacher ; and then he goes on to dilate upon what they will re quire to enable them to succeed. The crooked things around them are manifold he declares. But why complain of this he asks, for that is the thing a man is born to in all its epochs. "He is born to expend every particle of strength that GOD ALMIGHTY has given him in doing the work he finds he is fit for, to stand it out to the last breath of life and do his best. We are called upon to do that, and the reward we all get, which we are per fectly sure of, if we have merited it, is that we have got the work done, or, at least, that we have tried to do the work; for that is a great blessing in itself, and should say there is not very much more reward going in this world." Surely this is true wisdom to teach to the ranks of those who are going forth to fight the battle of life ; it breathes the spirit of the philosopher, and speaks with the hope of the Christian ; it tells those who succeed in heaping up riches that they should be made good use of, and declares to those who fail in achieving great distinctions that they may still effect a high, and holy purpose if they strive to benefit the gene ration they live in. " Cut down the proud tower ing thoughts that they get into, and see that they be pure as well as high : there is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California would be, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now." Very wise also are the observa tions which are made on health in this discourse. Too many are apt to neglect this important thing in the pursuit of other objects, and too much stress cannot be laid upon its inestimable benefit. These mistaken individuals are here plainly told that there is no kind of achievement they can perform equal to perfect health. Mr. CARLYLE'S last words are full of meaning. He tells his hearers not to think that piety means people to be austere and morose. The eternal sky is over the world, and it must not be called a dismal prison -house. He exhorted them to stand up to their work and not to be discouraged, and, above all, not to think that every one is against them, because each is pushing on in his own direc tion. " Keep out of literature, as a general rule, I should say also," declared Mr. CARLYLE, to the ' amusement of his hearers. Altogether, we may affirm, that this inauguration speech was worthy of tke occasion ; and, if more solid than brilliant, was well calculated to be of service to those who, flushed with the pride of knowledge, perhaps needed in struction as to how and when this learning might avail them, and what they should regard with the most earnest attention and interest. careers. ing the examp l e o f Edinburg The West Riding of Yorkshirhe l h h a d s bseheenffifeoildloNsi-n -holding a Reform meeting. Lord HouGuToN took the chai r and delivered the opening a dd ress , which, as is us ua ll y the case with his speeches, was sen sible, moderate, and conciliatory. More violent speakers were of course not wanting, ani Mr. C. A. LEATIIA3I was the principal representative of the ultra party, but for the most part the gentlemen present supported the measure on reasonable grounds, regretting that it had not been found possible or desirable to introduce a larger and more liberal measure so as to deal with the question in a more comprehensive spirit, but accepting the bill as a step in the right direction, which was at least better than standing still. Lord HOUGHTON in his address dwelt especially THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1866. CORRESPO , upon Mr. GLADSTONE'S assertion, that the franchise was a good of itself, " not merely with respect to the change it would produce in the government of the country, and the changes it might bring about for the well-being of the people, and not merely that it would interest more and more people in the affairs of the country, but because it was a good thing for every individual man to have additional rights and responsibility, and to make him feel more the importance of his position as a citizen and his duties as a man." This is the view which Lord HOUGHTON thinks so just and so admirable, and in which he so heartily coincides. It would be a good thing in his opinion for every man of edu cation and independence, who can think and feel for himself, to have a vote, and he carries his theory further than most speakers dare to do. It does not matter, he says, whether their inclinations are good or bad; they may be Chartists, anti-socialists, or what they like, they will do less harm in Parliament than out of it. In fact, he ap pears to look upon the vote as a kind of safety-valve, and asks if their representatives would be dangerous in Parliament whether they would not be still more so out of it? "It would be better for all," he of capital withef s o t r i s ‘ that between al employer questions and employed, should be debated in the House of a n labour , considerable u q Commons than that they should remain like powder under society capable of exploding." Lord HOUGHTON himself evidently thinks there is reason able cause of complaint against the bill for notgoing far enough, but he exclaims with indignation against the professing Liberals, whose want of sincerity is the hidden rock which has shipwrecked so many Reform Bills. Lord HOUGHTON concluded his speech by a very sensible argument, which has already been several times brought forward in answer to the fears of anti-Reformers, declaring that it could not be supposed that the working men who were admitted to the franchise would think alike on every subject, for they would be very unlike Englishmen if they did. Mr. FORSTER, M.P., made a good speech, and one to the purpose. had he been asked a year ago, he said, who would have opposed this bill, he would have said the very people who were now supporting it, and he thought it spoke strongly for the good sense and generous feelings of the people that they should have come forward on behalf of this bill, which must have disappointed them by not going far enough. The bill was in fact, he declared, a Con servative measure, but those who had lost their faith in the old English principle of self-government could not fairly claim to belong to either of the great parties. " This want of trust was not old English Liberalism. It was not even old English Toryism. They would have to go out of England for the real champions of this new creed of Liberalism which believed in government for the the people, and not government by the people." Mr. FORSTER concluded by enforcing that old principle which lies at the root of the Liberalism professed by one side, while it is the fundamental principle of the Conservatism upheld by the other, which seems occasionally to be quite forgotten or disre garded by the politicians of both ways of thinking. " The Commons House of England should be chosen by the people of England," by the whole people ; that is, not by the working classes exclusively, not by the aristocracy, not by the middle class, not by any one rank, sect, or degree, but by that blending of all which mates up the great body politic of a united nation. We must have the representatives of the wants, the wishes, the opinions, and even the prejudices of each class, if we would get a real national House of Commons. The cobbler thinks there is nothing like leather, no doubt, but the landowner thinks there is nothing like landed pro perty, the merchant thinks no principle so important as the preservation of peace, the manufacturer holds to the - rights of the employer, the mill " hand" to the rights of labour. No one class can trust its interests to another class, and we do not learn this lesson from the aristocracy alone, but from every rank which has to decide between its own ad vantage and that of its neighbour. Dukes and earls do not certainly govern our poor houses, yet the interests of the poor man are nowhere less considered. Thn " rights of labour" are not always respected by the large employer, although the ma nufacturing class may furnish eloquent M.P.'s and fervent Reformers. The Reform which begins at home, like charity, is not always the most welcome, and unfortunately for our Parliamentary heroes it falls to their share. If we had a house made up of men " Like Cato firm, like Aristides just, Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly pure," we might find Reform taken up in earnest and carried out disinterestedly. But it is very hard in the 19th century to expect a man who has paid some thousands for his seat to vote for the disfranchisement of his borough some few months later. It is unpleasant for a member who knows the weak points of his constituents, and whose agents can get him safely through a contested elec tion, to anticipate a thorough reorganisation of the electoral body. An election, in the opinion of a good many politicians, comes only too often in the ordinary course. Who then shall vote for Triennial parliaments? And as to the manner of voting, if we could only invest St. Stephen's with the magie attributes of Madame de GENUS'S famous Palace of Truth, what little arguments we should hear against the Ballot ! However, because our statesmen are not more perfect than ordinary mortals that is no reason why we should not attempt some movement. In the rush and excitement of modern life inaction is impossible. If we do not go forward we shall retrograde; if we do not take our place in the van, as becomes our:history and position, we shall be left far behind on the great march of national progress. No time could be more suitable than the present for constitutional reform. It is the very absence of fever and excite ment which some deplore that renders it so favour able. As Mr. CHILDERS justly observed at the meeting last evening—" We are at peace with all the world; our finances never were in a more prosperous condi tion ; commerce never was more flourishing ; the country is not harassed by any great social and religious question, nor is there any political one dividing the people into factions ; and if we pass over this opportunity, who can tell what times may come ? Let us, then, all address ourselves seriously to the consideration of this great question, not seek ing the temporary gain of this or that party, the triumph of one particular principle, or the evasion of any personal sacrifice ; but the full and fair re presentation of the whole people, in accordance with the fundamental doctrines of that constitution which alone has secured the happy mean which pre serves individual liberty while maintaining social order." WHISKERS AND MusTAcirEs.—When Was the term whisker first applied to the Lair on the side of the cheeks. In Bailey's Dictionary (234 edition, 1773) we find " a whisker, a tuft of hair on the upper lip of a man ; " "mustaches, that part of the beard growingupon the upper lip, whiskers." Similar definitions are given in all the other dictionaries, Johnson's included, and even in Wor cester's as late as 1828. When the• beard was an entire ap pendage, no name was wanted for the parts at the side of the cheeks, but when it was cut in two, and the true whiskers disappeared as well, their same must have been transferred to the mutton-chop -parts of the beard left on the oheeks.—Reader. M PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The Paris papers have nothing particular about Germany to-day, but both the Austrian and the' Prussian journals revert to their bellicose tone. Some of them treat a war between these two Powers as a matter of certainty, and allude to the only point of doubt as being which of those two Powers is to take the initiative in war. Both parties profess to desire peace, and descant upon the terrible respon sibility of commencing war. The actual news from Germany being deficient, the papers have vague arguments and speculations upon the subject. M. de Girardin in La Liberte; his retreat from the Presse, is very bitter against Count Bismark, and says if war should take place between Austria and Prussia, it will be exclusively the Count's fault. Whenever the Emperor appears in public he is received most cordially and enthusiastically. On Sunday he drove to the Place du Trone and the Rue St. Antoine without any escort. Those localities now present a curious scene of bustle and gaiety, there being at one place the large horse fair, and at the other the great annual gingerbread and cake fair. There are shows, mountebanks, and all sorts of grotesque sights. The Emperor was received with acclamations throughout the whole of the route from the Tuileries. An enormous mass of people collected at one point, and escorted the carriage with cordial cheers to the Boulevard du Temple. On Easter Sunday the Pope officiated at the Basi lisk of the Vatican, and afterwards pronounced the solemn blessing urbi et orbi. The whole corps of the French division and the Pontifical militia were under arms in full uniform. After the blessing his Holiness was warmly and affectionately greeted by thousands. Some interesting archmological discoveries have been made in digging near the foundations of the new Hotel Dieu. An ancient pavement of the time of Philip Augustus has been brought to light. The surface is not so even as that of the pavements of the present day. It is formed chiefly of a close layer of small stones, and resembles the pavement of some of the towns in the south of France now in use. Some Roman remains and Merovingian wall have also been discovered in this part of the Cite, where some of the most ancient constructions of Paris exist. A Dutch workman, named Meier, claims to have discovered an infallible remedy for the cattle disease. Meier has been received at a private audience by the King of Holland, in whose hands he placed a bottle containing the alleged remedy. The King has intrusted some men of art with the task of examining the mixture and its effects. The following is the result of the races in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday :—La Bourse, 2,000 f., Castagnette, 1 ; Le Velasse, 2. Prix de la Grotte, 2,ooof.—Commandeur, belonging to Mr. Jennings, 1 ; Gaulois, 2. Prix de Guiche, 3,oooL—Equivoque, belonging to the lucky Count de Lagrange, 1 ; Tarpeia, 2 ; Macarou (Lagrange), 3. Prix de Lutece, 10,000f.—Etoile Filante, 1; Stilton, 2 ; Sultan, 3. Prix du Cadran, 10,000 f Fortune (Count Lagrange), 1; Fumee, 2 ; Gontran, 3. The yacht match on Sunday in the Argentine bason was won by Count Cavour ; Belle Helene, 2 ; Verveine, 3. _ _ _ There has been an attempted murder and suicide for love, in the Rue Corbineau, under the following circumstances :—A young girl named Leontine D-- has for some months been courted by a working man, Louis B—. The lover, however, of late was chary of his visits. The girl became suspicious, and the information she received inflamed her jealousy. ller suspicions being confirmed, she obtained a six-barrel revolver. As ill fate would have it, the young man was returning home with his new love just at the moment when the old love was watching for him. The jealous girl shot at her lover from no less than five of the barrels, but was so agitated that it was without effect. The sixth barrel she turned against herself, but this missed fire, so that both she and her lover are unharmed. She has been arrested by the police on the charge of attempted murder. The weather in Switzerland, it appears, has been very severe during the last few days. The snow which has fallen on Mount Gothard is stated to I have been more abundant than has been known within the memory of man, and the postal commu nications have been interrupted. At Paris the weather continues mild and agreeable, so much so that the summer campaign has been commenced by the opening of the open-air concerts in the Champs Elysees. _ . _ Some little excitement has been created in Paris by the discovery of the body of a woman near Cour berrie, about four miles from the capital, who is supposed to have been murdered. The information upon the subject, however, is so imperfect that for the moment I cannot furnish details. A letter from Rome states the number of visitors in that city is so considerable that they find it diffi cult to procure accommodation. Many are com pelled to go to Tivoli and Albans, several miles from Rome. Living at hotels in a moderate way costs 25c. a day, and hotel-keeping is such a good card that even the Prince Torlonia has transformed his palace into a hotel, where the English are de lighted to pay a pound a day for a furnished room. The Pope bestows his blessings daily upon foreigners of note, and Cardinal Antonelli gives at least 200 audiences a day to foreign visitors. The Marquis de Boissy, the firebrand of the French Chamber, who fulminates so much wrath and brimstone against the English, is at Rome. The English Ambassador in Paris is to give a grand ball to-morrow night. The Proposed Russo-American Telegraph Line. ST. PETERSBURG, March 30. The following summary of a report drawn up by Colonel Bulkley, chief of the expedition despatched to survey the route of the Russo-American tele graph line, has been published here : " The expedition placed in charge of Mr. Conway, which was sent to the Fraser River, conveyed the telegraph line over a distance of 450 miles, and only failed to finish the route marked out fox them through want of the necessary material. Mr. Conway states that up to the 57th degree of north latitude there was no obstacles to the placing of the line. Mr. Keninkott, chief of the second section, had to survey the country between the river Kirptchak and Norton Strait, and to reach thri south in order to connect his section with the first. The principal expedition learned from the natives at Fort St. Michael that the Kirptchak and the Youkone are one and the same river, flowing into the sea of Behring, and that vessels could easily enter the river. On the American side of Behring's Strait the only suitable point for landing the telegraph cable was Port Grantly. On the Asiatic shore Seniavine Strait offers all the conditions desirable. Between this strait and Port Grantly the bottom of Behring's Strait is covered with ooze and sand. The supposed distance between the two points of submersion of the cable is 178 miles. Further on the Bay of Anadyr, at the mouth of the river of that name, presents a favourable situation for the submersion of the cable. The principal expedition ascended the river to distance of about 300 miles from Tolstey Cape, but could not proceed further on account of the ice The seashore to the south of th• river Anadyr is mountainous, and offers no suitable spot for the submersion of the cable. The pro jected submarine telegraph in the Bay of Anadyr ex tends over a distance of 209 miles. This route can only be avoided by a land line to the north, crossing the Gulf of St. Croix. In order to obtain a survey of the localities iu Kamschatka, and of the coast of the Sea of Okotsk, an expedition was formed under M. Abaza, who discovered that a line might easily be laid between Okotsk and Yak outsk, going round the mountains, and reaching the Amoor at a point considerably above its mouth. The most distant regions to the north through which the telegraph lino will be carried offer no serious obstacle either to the construction or working of the line. The submersion of the cable can be effected very easily on account of the level and sandy sea bed, and the short length of the cable re moves any apprehension relative to the working of the line. With respect to the land portion of the lino, the posts will be as solid in the frozen earth as if they were fixed in stone, and as there is no woods to traverse there is no danger from falling trees. The examination of the line in winter will be a comparatively easy matter, from I the facility of travelling by sledges drawn by reindeer or dogs. To cross Behring's Strait, 178 marine miles of cable will be required; for the Gulf of Anadyr, 209 miles. The depth of the sea is so great that the cable can only be da maged by icebergs, which, however, never appear in Beh ring's Strait, nor to the south, on account of the northern current. Contrary to the opinion generally received, the native tribes inhabiting the sea coast are peaceable and honest, and hospitable in the highest degree. It is ex pected that in time they will be very useful to the under taking. The numbers of the specimens of natural history that have been collected surpess all expectation. Opera tions will be mimed in the spring. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. (Via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, MAncn 23 (Evening). The Fenians continue their organisation, and are mustering regiments into the service of the Irish Republic in various parts of the country. Sweeney has made a speech, in which he said that many thought he was about to strike Canada, but he did not himself know where the first blow would be struck. NEW YORK, MAP,CH 21, Morning The house of Representatives has passed the Loan Bill, with amendments restricting the reduc tion of the currency to ten million dollars during the first six months after the adoption of the bill, and four millions per month after that period. The bill now goes to the Senate. Advices received from Valparaiso state that two Spanish frigates have been repulsed by the allied batteries off the island of Chiloe, and have returned to Valparaiso considerably damaged. It is reported that the President will certainly veto the Civil Rights' Bill. The Herald says that the Government has issued orders to prepare a flying squadron for duty on the British North American coast. The various rea sons assigned for this are—•the assembling of the British West India fleet at llalifax, the Fenian movements, and the effect upon the American fisheries of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty. The President has forwarded to the House of Representatives the information asked regarding the internal condition of Mexico. The information includes a letter from Senor Romero to Mr. Seward, dated the 9th inst., stating that he had received intelligence from a highly reliable source in Paris, that Napoleon proposed to adopt a middle course on the Mexican question by abandoning Maximilian, and re-establishing the Mexican Republic, with Marshal Bazaine as President ad interim. In reply to an application from Senor Gonzales, a merchant of San Salvador, for payment by the United States for the loss of goods on a vessel destroyed by the Alabama, Mr. Seward stated that that, Gonzales being an alien, he could not interfere with the British Government on his behalf, nor assume responsibility for injuries he had suffered at the hands of British subjects and of rebels whom they had aided. MEXICO. Senor Romero, the Juarist representative at Washington, has received intelligence from El Paso to the 23d February, confirming the evacuation of Chihuahua by the French. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 13th inst. an nounce that Captain d'Huart, one of the member s of the Belgian Mission, who was murdered by gue rillas a few miles from Mexico on the 4th inst., was buried at the capital on the 7th inst. with great pomp, the Emperor Maximilian and the Empress Charlotte attending the ceremony. CHILI. Advices have been received here from Panama to the loth inst., bringing news from the Pacific coast. The Spanish frigate Villa de Madrid and Blanca, which were cruising in search of the allied fleet, discovered it in the harbour of Chiloe. The Spaniards opened fire upon the shore batteries, and at long range on the fleet inside the harbour. After two hours engagement 'the Spaniards withdrew, both their vessels being considerably damaged. They remained one day off the harbour in order to give the allied fleet an opportunity to come out. The latter is reported to have received severe damage from the Spanish fire. Admiral Dlendez Nunez bad despatched the ironclad frigate Numan cia to run the batteries and destroy the fleet inside the harbour at Chiloe, immediately after the return of the Villa de Madrid and Blanca. Bolivia had joined the Chilian alliance against Spain. The Columbian Congress had refused •to join the alliance. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, MARCH 24, Morning. Money abundant. Gold 126. Exchange on London 137 ; do. Paris, 4121. Stocks firm and active. New York Centrals, 92.1-. Illi nois, 116. Erie, 801. 5-20 80nd5,,1031. Cotton very firm. Middling upland, 41. Flour quiet. Wheat and corn steady. Provisions steady. Coffee very firm. Sugar quiet. Molasses steady. Pe troleum dull ; crude, 25 ; refined, 38. Week's receipts of cotton at New York, 15,000 bales. Export from Sept. Ist to March 21st, 320,000 bales. General dulness and depression of business con. tinues to prevail at New York. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 22. Cotton slightly firmer. Sales, 40,000 bales. Re ceipts falling off. CANADA. TORONTO, MARCH 23. The Fenian excitement in Canada is subsiding. The active defensive preparations continue. ARRIVAL OE THE DOURO. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Douro, from the Brazils, passed the Needles at 6.15 a.m. to-day. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Companies steam ship Douro, with the above mail, has arrived here. She brings 100 passengers, £7,724 in specie, eight packages of diamonds, value not stated, and 1,500 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton, coffee, and tobacco. The French ship Nouvelle Pauline, with 7,000 bags of coffee from Rio de Janeiro, was wrecked on Rio Real on the 23d. The crew were saved and landed at Bahia. It was expected the ship and cargo would be a total loss. Screw British ship of war, two United States ; three Italian, five Spanish, two Frenoh, one Russian, and one Portuguese were at Monte Video. Admiral Samandare, with iron-clad gunboats and Monitors, had arrived at Corrientes. The Allies had not yet attempted to cross the Parana for the invasion of Paraguay. The Paraguayans seemed determined to hold out, and their daring incursions, having twice crossed the river in canoes and attacked the vanguard of the Argentines, showed the resolute resistance the Allied army must expect to encounter. The inactivity of the Brazilian squadron during these engagements caused serious complaints. hitherto the movements of the Allies have been so slow, and those of the enemy so rash, that until the Allied army has crossed into Paraguay it is im possible to say how long the war will last. If the Paraguayans hold true to Lopez, it must be long tedious, and expensive. It is understood that the passage of the Parana will be undertaken immediately, and in all proba bility will only be effected with great loss to the In the interior provinces everything was quiet and the local Governments were busy with Indus. trial projects. At Buenos Ayres trade was good, Gold ruled firm, and paper money was scarce. Sheep farming was prosperous. Exchange ou London, 51./d. per silver dollar. Freights to the Channel, 455. Rio DE JANEIRO.--The Imperial Chambers opened on the sth. The Senate sat on the 7th, but no important business was taken up. A quasi Ministerial crisis had occurred, but the only change made was the retirement of Pedro Diaz de Carvalho from the post of Minister of Finance; the vacancy has been filled up by Joas da Silva Carsao. A concession for the formation of a branch rail way from Escada to the Rio Grande station has been granted to Baron de Maria. Since the attack by the Paraguayans no serious collision bad taken place. General Flores has returned to his detachment, and important movements of the allies were ex pected. The fleet at Corrientes numbers 32 ships. The commissioners appointed by the British North American Provinces with the view of de veloping trade, had arrived. The bark Hermit, from Liverpool, had been wrecked off Tocondina. The crew were saved. The Ministerial crisis at Monte Video had been resolved by the retirement of Senor Gomez, the Minister of Finance, and the appointment of An tonio Maria Marques. In Pernambuco and Bahia societies had been formed for the promotion of immigration. Various offences against the public peace had occurred in the province. Money in Rio was Bto 10 per cent. premium. Government stocks 6 pre mium. Bank of Brazil shares $lO discount. Ex change on London, 2s. to 2s. ld. ; on Paris, 382 to 388 reis ; on Hamburg, 722 to 735. SPAIN. MADRID; APRIL 3d (Evening.) The Governor of the Bank of Spain has published a letter explaining the reasons which induced him to tender his resignation. He maintains that the Government ought to procure means for the in crease of specie in the treasury of the Bank, and asserts that the general uneasiness is the reason of the difficult position of that establishment. The resignation of Senor Rios Rosas, as Presi dent of the Council of State, has been accepted. Rumours are current that endeavours will shortly be made to contract a fresh loan. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 3, Three o'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 41-per Cents 9B Bank Shares 3560 Do. end month — Italian Loan 57 90 3 per Cents. Do. end month 67 70 Mexican Loan 46 Credit Alobilier ... 642 50 Do. Bonds 283 75 Do. end month ... 640 Spanish Threes - - Unis — Home Debt Do. end month — Deferred RAILWAYe. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Acct. - - ... BGS - - - ... 1125 - - - ... 542 50 532 50 105 - 385 - 401 25 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman ... 160 - - - ... 205 - --- - ~. 87 50 THE OR IHUMBERL AND. It was not possible yesterday to make any fur ther attempts towards moving this ship. Had a high tide occurred everything was ready enough to push her off. The wind, however, was against the flood, and at four o'clock, when it was high water at Millwall, it was six inches lower than on the pre vious day, so nothing whatever was done. After high water a consultation was held, at which Sir John Hay, Mr. Langley, the general manager, and Mr. Reed, the Admiralty Constructor, were present, to decide upon the best measures to be next taken. It was then unanimously agreed that no further efforts should be made until Monday, the 16th of April, on which day, according to the nautical alma nacs, the tide will be the highest of the year, and give nearly 25ft. of water under the Northumber land's sternpost. In case of a favourable wind it may even rise as high as 26ft.—a depth that would place nearly eight feet of water under her bows. This in itself would be almost sufficient to float her off, but, but as, in spite of the assumed infallibility of winds and tides, neither can be totally depended on, it is intended to take every possible precaution against the contingency of low water by adding such powers of flotation to the ship as will enable her in a great measure to get off without an un usually high tide. To effect this it is intended to dispense with the use of the lighters, which have hitherto been chained under the Northumber land's stern, and have certainly not worked alto gether satisfactorily. Their efforts have been irre gular, and at the most critical times the best have broken adrift. In place of these," therefore, two small frigates will be lashed astern at the low water preceding the high tide. Each will be chained to the immense iron hull 'in such a way as to have, so to speak, an independent action, while every pre caution will be taken to enable them to slip their fastenings and get clear away the instant the vessel moves quickly. In addition to these eight more very large pontoons are to be built and placed close under the stern, four on each side. These eight new pontoons will have a greater floating power than that of the whole ten now under the vessel. Chained also, as they will be, at the extreme end of the stern, they will exercise their greatest power at the greatest advantage, and exactly where it is most needed. More important still than any of these changes is the decision which has been come to to remove the " bilge logs" under the midship portion of the ship, and thickly grease the ways afresh. To understand this it may be necessary to explain that the term " cradle," in which a ship is launched and slides over the ground ways, consists of one long massive timber framework, the ship being held up at the item and stern by the two tall, powerful, timber " cradles." These two cradles, however, are, in reality, one, and are firmly bound together under the ship's bottom by the framework called the bilge logs. It is beneath these latter that it is sup posed the Northumberland has jammed upon the ground or launching ways. It is, therefore, proposed to wedge her up slightly in order to re move the bilge logs, and coat the ground ways thickly with grease before replacing them. The foremost part of the cradle also, under the bows, is to be removed by short lengths at a time, to ascer tain if any accidental or maliciously placed impedi ment prevents her moving. Here also, as the tim bers are removed, all the surface of the ground ways will again be coated with grease. Two addi tional hydraulic rams of great power are also to be used on the 16th of April next to start her. We venture to think that instead of again using the timber battering-rams half a dozen 68-pounders fired simultaneously from her port broadside would contribute far more towards " starting" her from the ways, and do far less injury to the ship than the use of the beams must inevitably occasion. As is always the case when these unforeseen hitches arise, the usual mass of correspondence has been for warded to Mr. Chichester, the secretary for the Millwall works, containing hints, advises, sugges tions, offers of patents, &c. Why some of these letters were ever let pass by the keepers under whose care their writers must evidently be it is difficult to conjecture. One ingenious gentleman, for instance, devotes a long manuscript to showing how if a dock is built round the Northumberland, and carefully filled with bales of cotton, on which scalding water is to be poured, the expansion must infallibly make the vessel rise ! IMPORTATION OF EGGS.—On Saturday a return was published, showing that in January and February last as many as 12,180,120 eggs were imported into the truiteKingddom. :ate.-- ter s r VC), Int 19 , 1 A, E ttrititar HER MAJESTY• - _ ~-- WINDSOR CASTLE, Tuesday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, the Princess Leiningen, and Princess llohenlolie Langenbourg, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, and went out in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey, went to Weybridge yesterday, and was present at the funeral of the late Queen Marie Amelie. j Funeral of Queen Marie Amelie of France. Yesterday Marie Amelie, for seventeen years Queen of the French, was laid side by side with the King, whose throne and whose exile she shared, in the mortuary chapel situate in the grounds of a houso of humble pretensions belonging to Mr. J. M. Taylor, a London solicitor. Early in the morning there was a Requiem mass in the private chapel at Claremont, which was attended by the family, Bishop Grant being assisted in the celebration by his Vicar-General, Canon Danell, and a deputation of clergy from the French chapel. The body of the ex- Queen, which lay in a kind of state in the chapel, is en closed in four coffins, the outer one being of oak, covered with velvet cloth, the nails and handles being silver. Th• simple inscription is— MARIE AMELIE, Née Caserte (Deux Siciles) le 26 Avril 1782 ; Morte 4 Claremont (Comte de Surrey, Angleterre) le 24 Mars 1866. Esher was all alive long before ten o'clock as far as regards carriages and pedestrians, for the shops and pri vate houses were altogether or partially closed. The bell at the church tolled all the morning, and the sombre ap pearance of the place was strikingly different from the scene of three years ago, when the whole village kept high festival on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke de Chartres. The hearse was not an open one, with the coffin, &c. exposed to view, as is customary in some foreign countries. It was a plain hearse, of the English kind, drawn by eight black horses, and the only external ornament was the crown and royal arms of the deceased with her initials, M. A., emblazoned. In the carriages fol lowing the hearse were the princes of the house of Orleans —the Duke de Nemours (chief mourner), the Count de Paris, the Duke de Penthievre, the Duke de Guise, his Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Duke de Chartres, the Count de Flandres, the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, the Prince of Wurtemburg,:and the Prince de Joinville. These princes alone wore mourning cloaks. Those who fol lowed the princes were the ambassadors of Austria and Prussia, and the ministers of Belgium, Bavaria, Italy, Portugal, Saxony, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico ; there were also four officers who took it by turns to wait, three months each in the year, on the Royal family at Claremont--General Count de Montesquiou, General Count Dumas, General Count do Houdetot, and General Count de Chabannes ; Ministers of the ex-King Louis Philippe, MM. Guizot, Thiel's, Counts R6musat, Joubert, &c.; M. Eloin, Count de Jarnac, Lieutenant- General Sir Edward Cust, Captain Morhain, General Changarnier, Count de Gronsfeid, M. Fertunate, M. Phrognon, Dr. do Mussy,' M. Octave Borel de Bretizel, M. Busson, M. Asseline, M. Lange], Count de Pontois, Baron de Bussiere, Marquis de Richijecourt, Marquis Gouvion de St. Cyr, M. Paravey, Baron de l'Espee, M. Dumont, M. Hebert, Duke Pasquier, Prince Albert de Brogli, Duke do Casas, Count Paul de Segur, M. Casimir Perier, M Vitet, Count d'Haussonville, General Louis do Segur, Baron de Berthois, M. do Moerkerque, M. St. Marc- Girardin, M. Antoine Passy, M. Lisboa, General Jullien, Marquis d'Harcourt, MM. Regnier (pere et fils), M. Fleury, M. Gauthier, M Mesnard, M. Faurel, &c. Most of the ladies went to Weybridge Chapel by a shorter route, through Oatlands Park. Among those present at the ceremony may bo named the Countess de Paris, the Duchess de Chartres, the Princess Marguerite, the Princess de Joinville, the Ditchess d'Aumale, the Duchess of Wurtemberg, the Princess Salerno, the Mar chioness de Lastigne, the Baroness Finguerlin, the Countess de Chabannes, the Baroness de Beauvoir, Mdlle. Muser, Mdlle. Boerio,Madame do Parquet,Mdlle.Bernard,Countess Barnels, Baroness Wangonheim, Mdlle. St. Aubin, the Marchioness d'Harcourt, the Duchess do Galliora, and Madame de Lisboa. Notices were issued by order of the Princes that their Royal Highnesses would be happy to see at Claremont, on Monday afternoon last all friends, of the house who did them the honour of attending the funeral, and this day at Claremont, at Orleans House, and at York House, Twickenham, in the afternoon and evening. The Princess expressed themselves as glad to notice the honour paid to the ex-Queen by their friends, but in compliance with her Majesty's expressed desire the ceremony was to be conducted with the greatest simplicity (la plus grande siniplicite'), and, except for the family, at tendants, and special friends, no carriages could be pro vided. No fewer than 85 carriages followed the funeral procession, and it need hardly be said that there was not room for half of their occupants in the grounds of the mansion itself. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Miss Taylor's residence at a quarter to one, and were received by Miss Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. James Molyneux Taylor. The chapel is one of very small dimensions, with no pretensions to beauty, external or internal ; it can scarcely accommo- _ . date 30 persons anyhow. It is a mortuary chapel, built by the late Mr. James Taylor, who died in 1846, and who lies in the vault on the right of the entrance, on the left being the Duchess of Orleans and a Princess of Saxe-Coburg. At the end of the vault is the resting place of King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie Amelie ; the King's coffin, ex posed after nearly 16 years, appearing as fresh as when it was first placed there. The body was received just before two o'clock at the gates of the mansion by the Right Rev. Bishop Grant, of Southwark (who wore a white silk mitre and embroi dered cope), the Vicar-General, Canon Danell, the Rev. Dr. M. P. Clifford (of Great Ormond-street), the Rev. J. Ainsworth (of Kingston), the Abb6 Vasseur, the Rev. Joseph Berchili, and the Rev. Mr. Toursel (from the French Chapel, Portman-square), with the Domini can monk who has been preaching the Lenten course in King-street. Headed by the cross-bearer, Mr. Keily, they marched into the chapel at the head of the procession, chanting the "De Profundis " and " Miserere." In the chapel Bishop Grant gave the absolution over the hody, and then went with his clergy into the vault and blessed the piece of sepulchre. The Royal Family, the illustrious visitors of our own Royal Family, and the friends of the house of Orleans, passed slowly down to the vault, and each was offerad by General Dumas (who stood by the coffin) an aspergillum, or brush dipped in holy water, to sprinkle the coffin with in passing. This last tribute took a •ery long time. At the close General Count Dumas superintended the closing of the vault in which King Louis Philippe and his saintly Queen sleep sido by side. Naval and Military Intelhgence. Lieut. Murray, of the 84th Regiment, has been directed to proceed from Colchester to Landguard Fort, Harwich, to relieve Lieut. Nugent, of the 2d battalion Gth Regiment, required for daty with his corps. A dismounted party of the 11th Hussars was expected to arrive at Colchester from York and Newcastle yesterday, and mounted parties will fol. low on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 27th inst. The headquarters will arrive with a mounted party on the 17th inst. The depot of the 70th Regiment, consisting of 7 officers, 6 sergeants, 3 drummers, GO rank and file, 11 women, and 21 children, have left the camp at Colchester for Shorncliffe, to await the arrival of the headquarters of the regiment in Eng land from New Zealand. Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir Augustus Spencer, K.C.8., assumed the command of the Western Dis trict at Mount Wise, Devonport, on Monday, in succession to Lieut.-Gen. Viscount Templetown, C.B. No. 2 Company of the Military Store Staff Corps, to be composed of non-commissioned officers and men from various regiments of the army, will be organised atWoolwich in a few days, under the com mand of Military Store Staff Officer W. 11. Parkyn. The Portuguese screw steam corvette Duque de Palmella, Capt. Domingor do Souza Rodinguer, from London for Portugal, arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning. The American steamer of war Canandaigua, from Swansea for Southampton, on a cruise, arrived at Falmouth on Monday. The hired transports Caroline and Mystery, at Woolwich, have completed shipping 1,400 tons of hutting materials for Bermuda, and will sail during the week. In consequence of the termination of the financial year of 1865-6, the whole of the naval and military departments at IVoolwich were yesterday paid wages and accounts up to the 31st of March, the last day of the old year. By a new regulation, ordered to take place with the commencement of the new year now entered, Mr. Harry, the Assistant-Superinten dent of Stores, and formerly cashier, has been ap pointed Paymaster, and has accordingly relieved the Superintendent of the responsibility hitherto attached to his office.