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AVe should think that Mr. GLADSTONE was well satisfied with the result of last night's debate in the House of Commons on the Na'ional Debt Bill, the scond reading of which was carried by a majority of 124. The general feeling of the House was fairly proved by this decision, and a tribute was paid to the CHANCELLORS of the EXCHEQUER past and present, the one for organising the plans which the other has carried out. While the merit of de vising this scheme rests with Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. Disßaul may fairly lay claim to the merit of ap preciating the ability of his predecessor in office, and of haying shown that he allowed no jealousy or rivalry the right hon. gentleman his success in this his great project of finance ; and we hope that the result will put him into better spirits, and into a more equable frame of mind on the subject of reform. Mr. SHERIDAN'S amendment was a vexatious one in this way, that his idea was a good one, namely, that of reducing the insurance on fire, but a good thing may be done in a wrong manner, and it must not be supposed by those most interested in the matter that there is any notion on the part of the House that no necessity exists for the said reduction being carried out, but that the opportunity was not a suitable one for carrying out the principle it had before affirmed. To reduce the National Debt has always been a great object with the most eminent financiers, and there is no real reason to be found against employing the terminable annui ties for that purpose. Though much cannot be done this year, something is possible, and it is a step in advance. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made out a very good case last night in honour of the principle of " terminable annuities," which, he said, had greatly contributed to the carrying out of the French Treaty, and the House evidently concurred in all the right hon. gentleman said on the subject. The brief discussion which took place last evening respecting the system of recruiting adopted for our army was very suggestive, and will we hope lead to some practical and much-needed improvements. On the motion for going into a committee of supply on the army supplementary estimate, Mr. WHIT BREAD took occasion to lay some of the grievances of the recruit before the house, and there was very little difference of opinion respecting the pressing necessity for a thorough change in the sys tem. Mr. WHITBREAD objected very strongly to the systematic deceit practised on the recruits. The first thing to be done, he said, was to get over the idea on the part of the men, that they were engaged on false pretences. Sergeant GODDARD, who gave his evidence before the com mission, admitted that he had himself enlisted under the belief that there would be no deduction from the shilling a day, but as a recruiting sergeant he had himself deceived others in the same manner. Those who are acquainted with the working of the present system have given it as their opinion that the general unwillingness to enlist is mainly due to the feeling of the men that they are swindled out of their pay for necessaries. The soldiers who were ex amined before the Commission did not complain of insufficient pay, but they complained loudly of these stoppages, and said plainly that recruits had been so much humbugged that the recruiting ser geant was no longer believed. Mr. WHITBREAD condemned the system as prejudicial to recruiting, unjust to the soldier, and injurious to the service; and he asked what would be thought of a manu facturer who persuaded people to enter his service by gross misrepresentation, more especially if the parties deceived could be legally compelled to submit against their will ? " They must get rid," said the hon. gentleman " of the painful undercur rent of feeling that it was right or politic to trick men into the service, trusting to legal powers to hold them in the service against their will." Wh y should not the QUEEN'S service, he asked, be con ducted on the ordinary principles of honesty and fair play. The whole of this branch of the subject is very fully and ably discussed in Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN'S pamphlet on the purchase sys tem,* and he condemns our present mode of recruiting in toto. The evidence of men of all grades in the service is strongly opposed to the recruiting system as it stands, both on principle and practice. So bad is the system in its effects on the men that commanding officers are averse to sending their best men on recruiting parties that they may not be corrupted. " The recruiting sergeant," says Sir CHARLES, " being lodged in the lowest houses in a town, where they meet only with the worst characters, become de praved; and even good non-commissioned officers, after having been employed on the recruit ing service, frequently return to their regiments dissipated in habits and appearance and greatly in debt." "What, therefore," he asks, " must be the effect upon raw recruits who have just entered upon a new line of life, and 'come under the influence of more experienced associates?" In another place he declares that we are open to the reproach of tainting our soldiers at the outset of their career with that vice which is the cause of most of the crimes of the army. SIR CIIARLES is not alone in his strong opinions on the sub ject. Mr. GODLEY, the former Assistant Under Secretary of War, declared his belief that the system was essentially evil, based on falsehood and fraud, and tending directly to infinite immorality. No one, he said, could observe the scenes that take place at the taverns frequented by the recruiting-sergeant at the bead-quarters of a militia regiment, when the volunteers for the Line are called for, without shame and disgust that such proceedings should form part of the recognised ma chinery of the British military service. " I believe," said this gentleman in the memorandum he ap pended to the Report of the Commission, " that a fearful responsibility lies upon a Govern ment which deliberately scatters such tempta tions among the poorest and most helpless classes of its people, and which, for its own political ends, takes advantage of their weaknesses and feeds their vices." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE thought it would be impossible to improve the system without a thorough change, though his Royal Highness fully concurred in the opinion of its attendant evils. Mr. GODLEY, in his evidence before the Commission, attributed the necessity of using such discreditable means of recruiting to the unpopularity of the service, and said, very truly, that no other employers of labour bad to tie ribbons round their hats and go to public houses to look for labourers to put up with boys when they want men. " The men go after the employers, not the employers after the men." The same view was, in fact, taken by Colonel GRAHAM, Inspector of the London Recruiting District, who stated that in the police force the case was very different. No one thought of hunting through public-houses for men since they came forward and tried to get into the police. Many advantages are enjoyed by the soldier, but there is no question that the mis chievous system of stoppages, professing to give a shilling where really the men only get one-third of the sum in actual cash, has a very bad effect. It would be very much better to state fairly what the sum was, and to endeavour to get a better class of men to enlist. If a fair amount of wages were paid, flogging done away with, pensions of sufficient amount allowed for old age or invalidism, there is no reason why the army should not compete successfully with other spheres of labour. Every discharged soldier who goes back, old and broken down, to starve on sixpence or eight pence a day in his native village, is a standing warn- I "Tbe , parchase System ihthe British Army. By sir C. 4 TrOTOI,I4 Lagrgaill. ing against the army ; and so long as, in spite of our lavish expenditure, we allow the soldier just reason to complain of standing grievances, we need not be surprised that we are forced to entrap men instead of waiting for them to enlist in their sober senses. The feeling of the House last night was strongly in favour of Mr. WHITBREAD'S arguments, and the first part of his resolution, " that the terms of the service should be fully explained to all recruits before enlisting," was agreed to without a dissentient. His proposal for the establishMent of training schools as a means of securing recruits was postponed for subsequent consideration. Mr. WHITBREAD, like Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, would rather have seen a change in the system of stop pages than an actual addition to the pay of the soldier. However, as Sir C. RUSSELL observed, the extra 2d. per day had been promised, and faith should be kept with the soldier. At all events something was gained by the discussion, and the resolution will, we hope, do good. Congress has fortified the position of the English Ministry, and all parties are pleased to acknowledge the high intelligence displayed by Lord Stanley, who presided over the Congress, in a manner as enlightened as impartial. The attitude assumed by this statesman was as conformable to the dignity of England as to her material interests. A real, moral, and material union has exist3d between the subjects of the Emperor and those of Queen Vic toria since the treaty of commerce of 1860, and no nation profits more than England b: the guarantees which contribute to strengthen tie peace of the Continent. " Both Liberals and Conservatives, therefore, approved of the initiative taken by the Cabinet, and the part it played in foreign policy was not unconnected with the success it has just obtained in the discussion of Parliamentary Reform. " It is generally believed that this success is the presage of the definitive triumph oF, Reform, which now becomes a compromise betw , en the various opinions represented in Parliament. The Ministry understood that without a system of mutual con cession any result was impracticable, and that the Tory party could not maintain itself in power with out giving such satisfaction to prblic opinion as was considered indispensable. Thus, during the course of the discussion, it abstained as much as pos sible, in order to leave to Parliament the greater responsibility. The s p l a ip r p t o o s f ed t d he an i g n e i r tia fr t o iv m e a a n tt d em th p e ts r a e Bt p otai tation and ex ternal pressure, which for an instant caused alarm in consequence of the Reform demonstration of the 6th of May, was not realised. But the state of things of which these fears were the symptoms rendered a prompt solution of the difficulty still more desirable. The official and semi-official journals of the Con tinent are still very busy in commenting upon the Treaty signed in London. The Constitutionnel con tains an article, signed by PAULIN LIMAYRAC, which says that France has always protected the weaker States, especially small neighbouring ones, and en deavours to make out that the " determining motive of her policy bas been questions relating to their in terests." One of the consequences of the Treaty is to restore the Dutch Government and the King, Grand Duke, to their sovereign rights over Luxemburg and Limburg, which the effect of the Treaties of 1815 had been in some measure to alienate. It is so far fortunate, no doubt, if these gains may be counted as among the solid advantages of the recent Treaty, and it has certainly enjoyed more immunity from criticism and hostile comments than any other compact of late times. The very flattering reception which the French journals, as a whole, accorded to the Treaty, does not appear to have been shared by the Legislative Body, which did not approve of the policy which so nearly occasioned war. Notwithstanding this, there is more ground for rejoicing on the part of France than on that of Prussia. As a writer in the Presse forcibly puts it, the satis faction of the latter is negative, but that of the former is positive. France is not now compelled to reflect upon the consequences that may ensue from the near vicinity of a foreign camp and a foreign fortress ; and, on the other hand, Prussia has sustained a decided loss, since she has:maintained a garrison in Luxemburg for the last fifty years. Count BISMARCK has certainly made a mistake in this matter, however ingeniously he and his friends and followers may seek to make the best of it. The conclusion we are authorised to draw from this Treaty is that it has been effected by the agency of various means, and chiefly brought to a successful conclusion by the dexterous management of Lord STANLEY, but we cannot believe that a better understanding has been come to between Berlin and Paris. On the contrary, they are more cool than before, and all their cordiality is on the surface. It is easy to imagine that the Berlin Go vernment must feel mortified at the turn things have taken, and it must have been wormwood to them to hear the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Paris talking about sparing the " just suscepti bilities" of Prussia, and so on. Prussia has lost ground i❑ the opinion of those who had an intimate opportunity of witnessing her policy at the Con ference ; and, on the other hand, France appears to have gone up in the scale, for she displayed a moderation that was surprising under the circumstances of the case, and considering the demeanour of her rival. I❑ nothing may the London Conference be said to have effected more than in having shown Prussia that she was acting in direct opposition to the feeling of Europe by her perversity and grasping efforts. To have done this is something very material for the promo tion of European peace and the cause of justice to smaller States, which was so much imperilled by the encroachments of that ruthless Power which ruined Denmark, sacrificed the Elbe Duchies, and monopolised the North German States. The semi officialProvincialCorrespondenz may talk glibly about Germany being relieved from the most pressing cause for anxiety, and add the comforting assurance that the policy of peace will be " confirmed and consecrated anew by the visit of the King of PRUSSIA to the Emperor of theFßENcit," but there is no depth in this assertion, and if peace is estab lished it certainly does not rest upon the basis of a good understanding between France and Prussia, for there is no real unity between them, and the entente cordiale has been maintained by other means than the sympathy which springs from mutual con fidence or a similarity of policy in important matters. "Italy, admitted to the Conference of London, has to congratulate herself at seeing Europe recog nise the importance of the new destinies of the Pen insula, in which she is called upon to take a part, with a view to the general balance of power. The financial question, the solution of which is expected with legitimate impatience is the point with which public opinion in Italy is chiefly occupied. Victor Emmanuel has been received with great enthusiasm at Venice. Venice will soon again become a port of the first class, in a commercial as well as a mili tary point of view, and the Government will acquire the glory of restoring the splendour of its ancient days to the Queen city of the Adriatic." A private telegram from Pesth announces that the Emperor of Austria has sanctioned the law of immunity in favour of the members of the Diet of Croatia. If, in spite of this consent, the Diet of Croatia should persist in its attitude of resistance, the Coronation of the King of Hungary will take place, even if the Diet of Croatia should not be re presented at it. The Paris pap ers are aga i n fill e d w i t h ar ti c l es expressive of satisfaction at the Treaty, and with the course adopted by the Conference. There are, however, some insignificant exceptions which hardly deserve notice. The Etendard, for example, affects to see disagreeable complications in the substance which may yet disturb the maintenance of peace. "In the situation brought about by the London Treaty," says the Journal des Debats, " the friends of each of the two Governments may easily feel congratulated at its success, and its adversaries reproach it for a check." The Gazette de l'Allemagne du Nord seems to doubt whether the Conference has brought about a durable peace. It depends upon whether the stip ulations will be strictly carried out. The most certain sign of peace is that France has suspended her armaments. In the French park of the Exhibition there is now installed an object which is rather attractive, the fat ox which figured during the Carnival procession this year. The animal, la Lune, has been very skil fully stuffed by M. Deyrollejan, the naturalist, and looks like life. It is a gigantic specimen. The horns are gilt, as on the day of sacrifice, and the head is ornamented with garlands. In another part of the Exhibition are some splendid stuffed horses, which you must almost touch before you find out that they are not alive. In a sort of shed are some machines which will, no doubt, have their value if we should by chance have any continuance of hot weather this summer. The hope of this has vanished for the present, as to day it has been wet and cold like winter. The machines in question, with the aid of chemical pro cess, furnish ice almost instantaneously, and there is a vast store of decanters filled with ice, some em bedded in a mass of ice. A well known publisher and editor, M. Gustave Barba, has just died in his 63d year. BANS OF FRANCE. PARIS, May 16. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) together with the cor goft°t-hdeapY;evious account : The following Ls the return of the B an k o f F rance for re s p t o h n e di n w e g e w k figure u r n d i e ns 7 0 7 0 6 0 0 - 2 182,500,000 DE8T0R. i87205404: May 16. May 9. fr. c , fr. C. rro routi Capital pntisot a .19 o i ,n f ( Al t a h Bid. t e s (17. )i ß Bt:i a . o n . i i . :I . t . 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank _ and its branches ....•• 22,100,750 14 22,105,750 14 8 2 5 5 :2 3 6 5 0 5 :2 0_2 , 6 0 30 2 7 4, 5, 0 6 3 0 3 4, ,3 6 4 7 1 4 4 20 9 4,000,000 Notes receipts payable a t sight n s 765,532 75 C B D I IT U rrn r see . ce r '‘kn b lt e r r tn n vu l i roe t ier ) n it a r. circulationli'ecih accoun h t . a . n : n .u t .r k n. s .l 3 ,. tde. . I . .r .. a a . cur-.r r .n . :0. i . : i s . 11 ° 2 3 3 334 8 4 6 : :, 00 2 : 50 5 9 5 20 85 2 : , : 0 7 8 1 20 57 1 - 50 9 90 : 2_ o 5 2 1 ' 2 0 9 2 8 0 8 5 : 2 3 570 5 , : , 5 7 25 2 6 ( 5 7) 2 1 5 Dividends payable 811,229 75 830,903 47 Discountsßediscounted interests a . n . . d . t. h. .sundrye.. .last six months 1,574,256 34 1,574,256 34 Surplus of receipts not distributed — Sundries PARIS, Thursday Evening. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Tuileries. The Emperor presided, and •the Empress was present. The following appreciation of the state of affairs by the evening Moniteur is worth attention : "In five days, and in three sittings, the Pleni potentiaries assembled at the Foreign -office have found the means of solving amicably one of the most grave and important questions which could be submitted to diplomacy. It is long since Europe has known a Conference which, instead of following out war and sanctioning its results, has succeeded in preventing it and preserving the benefits of peace for the Continent. Total May 9. Cash in hand and in C. fr. c 790,984,467 04 Branch banks :I E , D :f8:1 1 23 1 : 59,4 ° i:0 ; 007 . 9071 6 380. 761 Commercial bills °Ter due 10,88,),182. 2 2: 7 7 : 5 6 5 4 6 1 : 2 3 0 4 3 7 _ 6O A D d e. : uabnnrct Commerc ialea e nd ; c o h n n billsbo d at e ny i k ) e o st s deposit dis counted, . .. bullion Do. branch banks 7,927,600 70,52,400 Do. on French Public Securities 13,263,930 13,210,600 Do. by branch banks 8,093,900 8,044,900 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 26,72 3 ,730 26,814,430 Do. on Credit Fancier " France has to congratulate herself upon seeing the same Powers who iu 1815 were actuated by feelings of hostility against her, overthrowing the monuments of defiance of another age. Luxem bourg is about to cease to be a fortified city. The Grand Duke, whose independence was restricted under the regime of the ancient Germanic Confede ration, will hereafter resume the exercise of his rights of entire Sovereignty. The Powers who signed the treaty, with the exception of Belgium, which is itself a neutral country, have placed under their collective guarantee the principle of the neu trality of the Grand Duchy. The essential point of the discussion was to prevent Prussia, under the new conditions in which she was placed by Euro pean changes, from preserving beyond her limits a military establishment which was for us an offensive position. This great object has been attained by France without employing any other means than moderation and justice. " All the Governments who took part in the de liberations afforded valuable proofs of their equitable sentiments and their impartiality. France has the consciousness of having facilitated their task by the political disinterestedness which formed the rule of her resolutions. Everything now permits us to hope that nothing will trouble the developmuut of the universal Ex hibition, the result of which increases each day and attracts to Paris an extraordinary number of princes and crowned heads. (The Moniteur then enumerates those Royal personages whom I have already mentioned, including the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince Alfred.) The personal re lations established between the Sovereigns form a security for peace, and cannot fail to exercise useful influence upon the interests of general civilisation, to promote the progress of which has always been the predominant occupation of the Emperor and his Government. B y . e o b n u ra t d i n o s n, che , a . June 10, 833,600 855,000 Do Do. to the State ( * don- 727,650 713,950 1857) _ 60,000,000 60,000,000 -- 014 12,980,750 14 "Tho happy issue of tho doliborationo of the LATEST , INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 17. An Imperial decree has been published this morn ing appointing Prince Auersperg president of the Upper House, and Dr. Giskras to the same post in the Lower House of the Reichsrath. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 17. In yesterday's sitting of the Italian Parliament Signor Massari having asked the Government to lay the papers relative to the London Conference before the House, the Minister for Foreign Affairs said that the papers would be communicated to the House after the ratifications of the treaty had been exchanged. He also stated that the report that the admission of Italy to the Conference had been made dependent on the fulfilment of certain conditions was untrue. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 16, 6 p.m. Mr. Jefferson Davis has arrived at New York on his way to Canada. The French Government have purchased the ram Dunderburg. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 137. Sterling Exchange on London, 1091 ; 50-20 United States Bonds, 109 k ; Illinois, 1141 ; Erie, 631. Cotton—Midland upland, 29. Petro leum refined, 26. ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA. NEW YORK, May 7. At Chicago the troubles arising out of the eight hour movement were subsiding, and work had been resumed in a large number of establishments, in some of which the employes are working on the old ten-hour system,, with no change in the wages, while in others they are working eight hours with twenty per cent. reduction. The strike at St. Louis and other places con- tinued. The greater part of the plantations south of Memphis are overflooded, and the planters are in a starving condition. General Ord has directed the Governor of Ar kansas to notify to the Legislature of that State not to reassemble. Mr. Browning, the Secretary of the Interior, has recovered. Advices from San Francisco to the 7th May state that the Victoria Colonist, under date of April 30, editorially says that nine out of every ten men in the colony, under their present state of wretched ness and poverty, would welcome annexation to the United States. These remarks were called forth by the rumour that England was about to sell her North-Western possessions to America. QUEENSTOWN, May 17. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Cuba, from Halifax and Boston, arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day, with 192 cabin passengers and $61,639 in specie. She landed all the mails, consisting of 128 sacks and 109 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.20 a.m. All well. BETROTHAL OF THE -KING OF THE GREEKS. ST. PETERSBURG, May 17. Salvoes of artillery were fired this morning in honour of the betrothal of the King of the Greeks to the Princess Olga, daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine. CIIINA. SHANGHAI, April 23. The rebels are reported to be near Hankow. Ad% ices from Japan state that the Tycoon has declared his intention of extending to all nations the treaties already concluded with some Foreign Powers. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, May 17. The Federal Council has resolved to invite tenders for the second series of the loan to meet the expense of supplying breech-loaders to the Swiss army. The amount required is six millions francs, and will bear 41 per cent. interest. FRANCE. PARIS, May 17. Some cases of contagious typhus having appeared amongst horned cattle in several districts of Ger many, especially at Frankfort, a Ministerial ordi • nance, dated 15th May, has been issued prohibiting the importation and transit of ruminating animals, fresh hides, or carcasses along the whole length of the French frontier, from Lauterburg to the de partment of Savoy inclusive. BOURSE, May 16, Two o'clock.—Dealings in the markets for public securities continue on a very re stricted scale, and the fluctuations in prices are altogether insignificant. Three per Cents. are un varied at 69f. 35c., and Italian Fives have declined 15c., viz., to 51f. 75c. Miscellaneous securities are also quoted at slightly lower rates, Mobilier having receded 2f. 59c., 262 f. 50c. ; Foncier 5f., to 1,465 f. ; Immobiliere 2f. 50c., to 200 f. ; and Paris Gas 5f., to 1,540 f. The railway department is likewise inactive, with little variation in yesterday's closing quotations. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol- lows :--- 41 per Cents 9B 40 Do. and month — 3 per Cents. 69 40 Do. end month 69 30 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier Do. end month 1461 25 RAIL Bank Shares 3495 Italian Loan 5l 60 Do. end month 5l 65 Mexican Loan 2l 50 Do. Bonds l4B 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - For Account. °Means BB2 50 Northern ll9l 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 Southern 567 50 Western 560 Eastern 535 Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 391 25 North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman. 80 - A COLOURED SAILOR SHOT IN LIVERPOOL. — Last evening several coloured seamen wore in a public house in Maguire-street, kept by a person named Thompson, when a woman went in for the purpose of ceiling combs. One of the sailors, named Monroe, took a comb from the woman without paying far it. Another of the men named Spurgeon told Munroe to behave like a man and pay for the comb. Some words ensued between the men, ending iu a quarrel, in which the friends of each took part. The parti zans of Munroe were more in number than Spurgeon's, and the latter man being afraid left the house. He was followed by the other men, and it was suggested that the matter should be settled by a fight. Spurgeon agreed to this, pro vided he could have fair play. Probably being afraid that fair play would not be accorded him, ho went into William Tyson's boarding house, also in Maguire-street, followed by the other seamen. In the backyard of the house Munroe drew a small revolver, and fired one of the barrels at Spur- - goon, inflicting a wound on the righttide of the breast. The injured man was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he was attended to by the house surgeon. The latter stated that the wound was not a dangerous one, but ho was unable to extract ,the bullet, as he could not trace the direction it had taken. Munroe was afterwards taken into custody and lodged in Bridwell. At a late hour in the evening Spurgeon appeared to be progressing favourably. It is said that Munroe belongs to the ship Webster and Spur geon to the Tonwaanda, lying in the Bramley-Moore Dock.—Liverpool Courzer.. ANNUITANTS LIVE LONG.—MIS. Green, the last revolutionary pensioner in the United States, has just died at the age of 100 years. She was the widow of a soldier of the War of American Independence. Six children, 46 grand - children, 141. great-grandchildren, and 13 great-zpat gralitUhadrtaher.~Padl-Made Gactlo. Goveriiment Stock re- serve . _ 5... 12,980,75,, Do. disposable ........ 36,011,737 91 36 , 011 , 737 91 Renter Immobalisiss (Law, June 2, 1857 ) 100,000 000 100,000,000 Hotel and furnitu re o f ' the Bunk and landed propez ty branches.,. 8,403,131 87356,505 Expenses of manage msnt 2 3 1 1,527,466 60 Sundries ........................ 24 1 ,670 541 ,70 9 1 3 .. 0 3'o 21,148,523 01 T0ta1..........., 1,700 401 184 90 1,691,407046 80 Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) IZOVLAND. MADLLE. CHRISTINE NILSSON.—We hear , in re lation to this ar ti ste, that vigorous efforts are being made to detain h er i n P ar i s, and that, so reluctan t are the Pari sians to pa r t w ith her, that a sum o f ex traordinary magni tude has bee n o ff ered to Mr. Mapleson to re mit his en and his deter m i nat i on to distinguish his seas on by his pre sentation to the p u bli c of this lady, w h o is stated to be public spirit, a successor to Jenny Lind, there can be but little doubt of har debut, when the time arrives for it, at her Majesty's Theatre. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We observed, when at the Paris Exhibiti on, and which is attrac ting no small attention, a m os t e l egant new silk mater i a l, in every way suited for l a di es ' trains, dec., designed by t h a t eminent silk manufacturer, M. Bla c h e , o f Ly o ns, and who has been awarded the go ld medal for the same, an d is, we under stand, about re ce i v i ng lik ew i se t h e or d er of the Legion of Honour. Ever anxious to please their patrons, the spirited proprietors of Madame Tussaud's Exhibition in Baker -street have procured, at considerable outlay, a suffi cient quantity of the silk in question, and which forms the dress on the life-size portrait model of her Royal Hishhess tin Mae= Alice. . . SAILORS' HOME. The annual meeting of this society was held yes terday at the Sailors' Home, Well-street, London Docks; Admiral Sir William Bowles presiding. There were present Admiral E. Saurin, Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., Admiral Goldsmith, Admiral C. 11. M. Buckle, Capt. Alfred Chapman, Capt. H. H. Beamish, the Rev. Thos. Dunn, the Rev. J. Richardson, &c. The report stated that notwithstanding the mischievous combinations ar rayed in more than usual hostility against it, the directors of the Sailors' Home had the agreeable task of announcing that few years had dawned upon the institution under more favourable auspices than those of 1866 and 1867. They especially called attention to the balance sheet, which showed that the debt of £299 19s. 10d., on account of the building fund, had been discharged, and that by the payment of £945 the equitable mortgage account had been reduced to £2,575, leaving a working balance of £264. The average daily number of boarders for the year had been 254. The receipts arising from the 92,474 rations which that average exhibited hell out the promise that the " Home" would become permanently self supporting. During the past year £89,473 of the seamen's private money had passed through the cashier's hands, £33,243 of which has been remitted home to friends, &c., and £3,926 invested in the Board of Trade Savings-banks, making, since the year 1835, when the Sailors' Home was instituted, the total sum so lodged £1,448,177 ; the amount remitted being for the same period, £529,544, and the sum invested in the savings-banks £53,988. In the postal department, 18,420 letters have been received, and 15,572 delivered. When the cholera prevailed the institution enjoyed a providential immunity, the most serious cases of illness being those of scurvy. In the navigation school, 70 seamen had passed for second mates, 75 second mates for first mate, and 39 first mates for master's certificate; 10,100 had attended public worship. Iu the Board of tirade department 10,600 officers and men had been engaged, 11,674 dis charged, and 170 enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve. The directors conclude their report by observing that—" If the seamen's return to port be considered an escape from danger which produces an intoxication of animal delight, and if the accu mulated sums in which they receive their wages be deemed a temptation by giving them the power to run into a lavish expenditure, then it may be truly said that a sailor's home offers the means of direct ing aright that pleasurable excitement on the one hand, and puts forth a powerful agency to cheek this predisposition to waste on the other." The directors caution the seamen not i to disparage the efforts made in their behalf, or think to forestall any additional boons which might be conceded to them by resorting to " strikes" and other methods equally questionable, for such efforts to improve their position must inevitably tend to prejudice the claims they possessed to sympathy and help, and to delay the foreshadowed era of a good under standing between them and their employers. The report of the asylum stated that 1,135 destitute sailors had been relieved during the past year ; and observed that, although it was a common belief that crimpage at the large ports was extinguished, it was far from being the case, for before the ships arrived in the docks they were, in direct contra vention of the Merchant Shipping Act, surrounded by a horde of crimps or runners (chiefly in the pay of the low lodging -house keepers or dishonest slop sellers), who gained access on board, and by over tures of money advanced, and a ready supply of spirits, plied their illicit calling almost with out let or hindrance, much to the moral and pecuniary injury of the sailors, and in defiance of the beneficial law specially levied against these nefarious practices. The Rev. Thomas Dunn then moved that the report be printed and circulated, and that the meeting express its humble thanks to Almighty God for the blessing He had vouchsafed to the operations of these benevolent institutions, and more especially acknowledged His merciful in terposition in behalf of their inmates during the prevalence of cholera. The resolution was seconded by Captain Chapman, who particularly pointed out to the notice of the meeting that the Sailors' Home was a self-supporting institution. The meeting was then addressed by Admiral E. Saurim, Captain the Hon. F.Maude, Mr. Russell_Bates, Mr. J. Barrett, Admiral Buckle, and Captain Beamish, and a vote of thanks was given to Admiral Sir W. Bowles for his kindness in taking the chair. COLLISION Wl7ll AN ICEBERG. The Eastward lio, from New York, which ar rived on Saturday, met with a most serious mis fortune on her passage, of such a nature that it seems almost incredible that the vessel with her en tire crew were not lost, leaving no record of their fate. The ship left New York on the 17th of October, with a cargo of general merchandise, for this port. The usual gales incidental to the sea son were met with in the high latitudes, but nothing of serious moment occurred until when off the Cape of Good Hope, on the 4th of January, in latitude 46 deg. 30 S. The vessel was under single reefed topsails, whole courses set, and span ker, and bowling along before a strong gale at 11 knots per hour. At half-past nine p.m. suddenly an island of ice, 200 ft. high, was discovered right ahead, close aboard ; the helm was promptly put down and her headway partially deadened, but there was no room to clear the danger, and with a terrific crash her bows struck against the floating mass, completely driving in the fore part of the vessel. The sheer-rail was carried away as far as the foremast on both sides ; knight-heads, timber-heads, and bitts, together with the stem and forefoot ground into splinters ; the spar deck started from under the plank sheer 18 inches for 20 feet around each bow, and the port bow stove in the waterline. The bowsprit and foremast, with everything attached, went over the side, together with the maintopgallant-mast and head of the maintopmast, which in its descent passed through the maintopsail and main course, there being nothing in the helpless ship but the spanker and mizen-topsail ; it was blowing a violent squall at the time, the barometer indicating a change. The shock is described as resembling a heavy clap of thunder, and the terror that must have possessed every mind may be more easily conceived than described. Such means as were at hand were promptly brought into requisition, and, as all worked with a will, spare sails were quickly got over the bows to stop the water from getting below. Fortunately, the gale abated after a few hours ; the repairs were more nicely carried out, jurymasts got up, and the ship kept 1 deg. 20 min. further north, and kept on her course for Sydney. On the 18th of February, in lat. 43 30 S., long. 122 E., at two a.m., she yeas found, by the aid of a bright moonlight, to be among the ice islands again, through which she ran all day, clearing them at dusk, the last one seen being about 22 miles to the south-west; the vessel was then hauled to the northward for eight hours, and again kept on her course. That the temperature of the sea does not note the proxi mity of ice has, on this passage, been successfully demonstrated, as the thermometer stood at 52 deg. both close to the bergs and at a distance from them. Viewing the ship as she now lies in Darling har bour, it appears truly wonderful how she escaped total destruction.—Sydney Morning Herald (March 11). A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.-- A remarkable act of courage was performed a few days back at Marseilles by a young married woman named Costa. She was walking on the quay of La Joliette with her child in her arms, when she perceived a man in the water struggling for his life. Being able to swim, she placed the infant on the ground, and plunging resolutely into the sea succeeded in reaching the man. For a moment both were in danger from the desperate manner in which he clung to her, but a customs' officer who had witnessed the incident came to the woman's assistance, and enabled her to bring the man safely to land. PIGEON SIIOOTING.—The first great handicap of this season will be shot for at Hendon to-morrow, com mencing at a quarter before two precisely ; byes from twelve to two. The Paris Cups are now definitively fixed as fol low :—Daily Telegraph Cup, May 30 ; Emperor's Cup, May 31; and the Club Cup, June 3. The Emperor's Cup is stated to be valued at 10,000 f., and is in all respects an OffiViDg. 0; ; ;Th final tirtribr. HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, May 16. The Queen drove out yesterday aftornoon, ac companied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold. Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance on horse back. Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice walked and rode on ponies in the grounds this morning attended by the lion. Emily Cathcart. Prince Leopold also went out. TIIE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTL A.ND. On Wednesday evening, at a quarter to seven o'clock, her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince a nd Prin ce an d P r incess Chris tian, Princess Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leo pold, will leave Windsor Castle for Balmoral. The royal suite will include the Duchess of Athole, Lady Susan Melville, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Gen. Grey, .Mr. Legge, Mr. Sala!, Dr. Jenner, the Hon. Mrs. Gordon, and the Minister of State. Th e royal special train will be provided by the direc tors of the London and North Western Railway. It will consist of an engine and 14 caraiages, her Majesty and Princess Louise travelling in the royal saloon, which will be placed in the middle of the train ; the other members of the Queen's fami l y will travel in the double and single saloons zt t he front and rear of that occupied by the Quee n ' As the journey will be made during the night due preparations have been made for the comfort of the royal travellers. Her Majesty will quit the Windsor Station of the Great Western line at 6.50 p.m. The special will arrive at Leamington, about nine o'clock, and remain at the station a quarter of an hour in order that the royal passen gers may take refreshments. The Bushbury Junc tion of the London and North Western Railway, 12i miles, will be reached at 10.40. Here the train will be transferred to the custody of the officials of the London and North Western line, and the route will then be resumed as 10.45, the train at Ballater, the end of the railway trip, at 1.25 on the afternoon of Thursday. The remainder of the route to Balmoral will be performed by road. TIIE PRINCESS OF WALES. Notwithstanding the prevalence of easterly winds , which are frequently so trying to patients, and especially to those affected with rheumatic ailments , the favourable progress of her Royal Highness has not been interrupted during the past week. Great caution has of course been exercised to avoid all accidental chill in making the occasional change of apartment which the patient has found refreshing . There has been needed also, and will still be long required, an amount of personal attention an d care on the part of the surgeons, the necessity of which can be thoroughly appreciated by those alone who are practically experienced in affee" tions of joints. It is only by constant watchfulnes s and dexterous management of mechanical sup" port that the tendency to displacement of the constituents of a chronically inflamed joint can be controlled. Our readers are well aware how the affected limb, in such a case as this, is apt to assume a posture in which there is a constant liability for the bones to lose, little by little, their proper mutual relation, and in time to fall into a position incom patible with the future natural movements of the joint. To avoid the risk of this too common de formity, to preserve the limb from accidental shocks, and yet to so arrange appliances that irk some constraint shall be avoided—such duties re present some of the greatest niceties of surgical practice, involving as they do the exercise of patience and extreme gentleness, combined with an accurate estimation of the dangers to be averted, and the firmness requisite to insist upon the adoption of measures necessary for safety. The Lancet. A marriage is arranged between Mr." . :Aracra e Rumbohl, her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Berne, and Miss Harrington, daughter of the United States Min ister at the same place, and late Under Secretary of Treasury ; and b e t ween M rs. M ontgomery Ritchie' daughter of the late Gener a l W a d swor th, of the Unite d States Volunteer Army, an d M r . J o h n Adair, of Belgrov e, county Kildare, Ireland.— The Owl. the PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. Last evening this theatre was honoured by the presence of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prin ce , Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Marchioness o f Ely. ADELPHI THEATRE.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess :of Cambridge, the Princess 'neck, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and suite honoured the performances at this theatre on Wednesday evening. THE CORONATION OF THE KING OF HUNGARY.-- Amongst the preparations for the coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary, the ascent of the coronation-hill on horseback, already alluded, occasions much anxiety. From an apprehension that at the critical moment the animal should exhibit an opposition which the superstitious might consider of bad augury, measures are being taken beforehand to familiarise him with this part of the solemnity. For that purpose are collected at a stated hour every day in the courtyard of the imperial stables of Vienna a number of people, firing, waving handkerchiefs, and shouting, and the courser is promenaded up and down in the midst of this crowd and noise. Matters seem to have progressed so well that at the last rehearsal some Hun' garian shouts were introduced amongst the exclusively Austrian cheers previously employed ; a slight lashing out by which, however, no one was hurt, showed (say 0° witnesses) the painful impression produced by this innova tion on the horse's Austrian sentiments;. but there is rep.' son to believe that after a few more repetitions of the WO kind the steed will support without hesitation the 10 64 deafening " Eljen" that can be uttered, and will climb the famous mound with all the calm and resignation that Oi l the circumstances. THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER OF SCOTLAND.'" The Earl of Haddington has been selected to represent ber Majesty as Lord High Commissioner to the ensuing gene ral , assembly of the Church of Scotland. The. Countess 49 ; Haddington will also, we understand, reside at Holyro oa during the sittings of the assembly.—Edinburgh Eyelid Courant. THE SUFFRAGE.—Mr. Tomline, M.P. for Shrewg bury, has addressed a letter on public affairs to a gentle' man in Suffolk. Referring to the Reform question, Mr' To . mline says:—"Household suffrage is offered with eer : tam checks. They are disappearing. The dual vote 19 gone ; the two years' residence is gone ; personal payrno" of rates is gone, for if lodgers get the franchise that pri x ' ciple vanishes. Even if lodgers be excluded, the check , personal payment of rates must disappear, for this reason —householders who are excused payment can obtain votes. The power is theirs, and they know it. They will say t ° me and to every other borough member, Vote for rep eal ; mg the necessity of personal payment of rates, or we go go upon the register and vote against you.' Willingly (I', unwillingly, wo must all comply. Therefore, perso etu payment of rates is gone. It has lived longer than the dual vote, longer than the two years' residence ; but the first breath will destroy it, and then we shall have h°llse hold suffrage pure and simple, as in Scotland. All the loeg debates about th 3 compound householder aro not worth their weight in wind. He, whenever he pleases, can rea lc° us all do his bidding." AUDACIOUS ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—A Yo u l man, of gentlemanly appearance, who refused to give name and description of himself, or to say where lie chi, - from, was arraigned before the magistrate, at Richrnoe"/ yesterday, on the following charge. Mr. John Cockb urri y: jeweller, of George-street, Richmond, was in his shop °- Saturday last, about noon, when the person in clue st , i° ,, ti r ' who seems to be about 3.) years of age, rods up to the "°- on horseback. He alighted, and giving his rein to came into the shop. Ho asked the jeweller to show b in ; some handsome rings, because he desired to purchase 0° as a present for a friend. Mr. Cockburn produced a tr&S; on which were twenty-tour diamond rings, worth togo i t l e about £7OO. After inspecting the jewellery for a little sYlild the seeming purchaser suddenly snatched the tray rushed with it from tho shop. He sprimg upon his h°' a and would have made off, but the jeweller pursued e.°,o caught the bridle, whereupon the thief sprang froal saddle and fled. He dropped some of the jewellery o rs _ °: ran toward the railway station, but the maj or p ortion ed, the plunder he put into his hat. He was pursued , stoppe,u; and in due time was handed to the police. Yesterda b a d remarked that the case against him was so clear he nothing to say whatever. He was committed for trial. ed A new RACE GLASS, very appropriately narnin_ " The New Derby Race Glass," has this season hee°_ ll troduced to the Sporting World. It i s a binocular 0f 1716, power, good field and definition, and is equally se rvic2 :—* or all out-door uses. The maker is CiALLAGILVS, 23,12 Bond-street ; and the price, including sling case, is __d Our country friends should remit a post-office order a. bOcomo poaaoacorf4 of 00 excaont all inatrunient.