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Chief Office in the United Kingdom-147, Chcapside, London. HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 7h. 30m.—Afternoon, Bb. 5m To-noßßow.-Morning, Bb. 45m.—AfternoDh, 9h. 30m, 1-7} 4 ‘115 e LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1867. It is expected that the division will take place to-night on Mr. GLADSTONE'S amendment, and it is to be hoped that it will, because it is high time that these vexatious discussions, which are quite outside the question of the Government measure, be brought to a close. The only chance which we have of seeing this Reform business settled this year de pends on the House setting vigorously to work after Easter, uninolei.ted by contrivances of party, and undiurbed I:6T the sudden springing of mines, which have, as Lir. WBORNE said, greatly per plexed it of late. We hope, then, that to-morrow all virtual difficulty concerning the passing of the Government measure will be over, and that the work after Easter will be to consolidate and improve its features, and no more of these vexatious stoppages occur. Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech, last night, was a complete failure, though he evidently meant to be very impressive. It was quite a need less piece of information on the part of the right hon. gentleman to tell the House that the para mount object was a good Reform Bill, and the secondary but still important objects were to pass that Reform Bill during the present year, and by the aid of the present Government. Ile was not, " however, prepared," he said, "to sacrifice the paramount object to those of secondary importance." We all know that by this time it is to be presumed, hut perhars few were prepared for the extreme length to which the right hon. gentleman went in the course of his excited speech, beginning by de claring that a " vital mistake" would be committed if they hastily pieced together the clauses of a Reform Bill, and sent forth to the country that which could lead only to fiercer agitation, and concluding by affirming that the present pro visions of the bill respecting the franchise were most odious, and would inflict a wrong on a portion of the community, "which wrong will inevitably be avenged on the community at large in the shape of trouble, strife, aLd controversy, and in the shape of renewed and continued agitation—agitation which will begin from the day which sees such a law placed in the Statute Book, and never cease until the last vestige of senseless legislation becomes a relic of the" past." It is really quite ridiculous for a man of Mr. GLADSTONE'S time, abilities, and high position to indulge in such a hyperbolical strain, and to use language which would be more suitable to a platform orator than a speaker in the House of Commons. We consider it a sure proof that the right hon. gentleman's arguments are bad, when he is obliged to have recourse to the force of epithets, and to ex change sarcasm for denunciations. There was really Po nothing new in his speech, and no new light thrown on the subject ; it was perfectly evident to all parties that his object was to substitute a bill of his own for that of his opponents, in the form of his insidious amendments. No particular encouragement was given by the House to the right hon. gentleman, and with the exception of Lord CRANBORNE, who announced his adhesion to the amendments, he made no convert worthy of com ment. Doubtless the noble lord's declaration took no one by surprise, as he bas been civilly abusive of the Ministry ever since he ceased to honour the Cabinet by his presence and add to it by his wis dom. Mr. ROEBUCK will resume the adjourned debate to-night, and we expect that he will make a brilliant speech that no doubt will represent the opinions of a number of the Opposition. It is time, indeed, that a real Liberal should speak his mind on this subject, and show the great im portance of aiming at a speedy settlement. With all the bombast and terrorism of which he was capable Mr. GLADSTONE laid down his law, but we confess that he appeared very much in the un enviable position of the man who " could call spirits from the vasty deep," but could not make them comply with his requests. All things taken into consideration, the Government have met the II ouse more than half way in this matter of settling the Reform Bill, and the manner in which Mr. GLADSTONE has treated them has been most unfair, as unfair indeed as his conduct on the question of reform itself has been false and tickle. For the sake of its own reputation let Par liament to-night put a decisive stop to these un warrantable interruptions to the progress of a de bate of great importance and interest, and teach Mr. GLADSTONE in a manner he must comprehend, that it is resolved to persevere until the Rork is satisfactorily accomplished. We had hoped, in com mon with many others, that the worst was over, but since a struggle is to be forced upon us, with brave spirits and true hearts we may go on to the worst before us, never doubting that . the patriotism of Parliament will separate with an unerring instinct and right discernment the prejudices of faction from the interests of a popular measure. Then the Reform Bill of 1867 will be put into fair working order, and we shall indeed have cause to congra tulate the Ministers upon having accomplished their task to the satisfaction of the country and the credit of their: own reputations. The discussions which last night followed upon Lord GROSVENOR'S motion for the adjournment of the House proved very clearly that there is not on either side any disposition to postpone the Reform Bill unnecessarily. The general anxiety to proceed with the measure was unmistakeably shown on both sides of the House, and it would not have been pos sible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have misapprehended the feeling. Lord GROSVENOR, indeed, said he understood there was a strong feeling in favour of the postponement of the debate until after the Easter holidays, but no signs of such a sentiment were perceptible. Lord ELCHO supported the motion on the ground that a compromise was absolutely necessary to the settlement of the question, and that compro mise could be better effected if the debate were adjourned. But, as Mr. BRIGHT pertinently asked, when they were all scattered homewards who was to effect the compromise ? No doubt the noble lord is substantially correct in saying that the settle ment of this question must be a matter of give and take, imposed with more liberal public spirit and less of party spirit ; but the hon. mem ber for Birmingham said more truly that whatever compromise was effected must be done above-board in the full eye of the country. Mr. GLADSTONE, who is most generally very favourable to the progress of the Ministerial measure, had the good sense to see that anything which bore the opinion of needless delay and hesita tion would have a bad effect upon the public mind. ." The question is," said the right hon. gentleman, " whether an impression shall be conveyed to the public of the country that this house is in earnest as to Reform. If we were to rise and postpone this discussion for three weeks or so, I am sure that it would create :an unfavourable impression in the country." Mr. MILL and Mr. AYRTON took the same view, Mr. AYRTON declaring that the unnecessary postponement of the debate would raise a feeling throughout the country that the House had only entered on the question for the purpose of burkiug it. The most noticeable speeches on this matter of adjournment were those of Mr. , BoitNr. and Mr. WHITBREAD, the one as violent and ineffective as the other was temperate an d weighty. Mr. OSBORNE, who deserved the satire of Mr. DISRAELI, for his ardent but inconsistent advo cacy of Reform, spared neither friend nor foe. He declared the ground below the gangway to be mined in all directions and bandied accusations in all directions. Lord GROSVENOR was in collusion with the Government, and endeavouring to effect a secret compromise to make the bill as mild as pos sible. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had de clared that he would accept nu compromise, no amendments, and so on, attacking with as much virulence as vigour every one who came in his way. Mr. WHITBREAD, in a few terse and temperate senti ments, expressed more accurately the sentiments of genuine reformers, within and without the House. He declared himself to be one of theso who had clung to the hope that the present Government might settle the question for two reasons : one being that having themselves failed in dealing with the question, he felt that his own party were bound to give the opposite side the fullest trial ; to be ready, in short, to sacrifice everything but great points of principle. The second reason which Mr. WHIT BREAD declared made him anxious for the imme diate settlement of the question was the existence of differences in the Liberal party, which made it more probable that a really liberal measure could be obtained from the Conservatives. Mr. WHIT BREAD also strongly opposed the adjournment of the debate, and, • like the member for Bir mingham, he urged the advisability of putting the whole case fairly before the country prior to the recess, in order that public feeling might express itself clearly upon the most important points. Mr. DISRAELI, after an animated discussion, decided, t.s he could hardly have avoided doing, in favour of immediate progress, and wo hope that the experience of last evening will have convinced all malcontents how deep and general is the conviction of the necessity of earnest progress, how strongly men of all opinions and parties are opposed to further trifling with a question daily growing in public importance. There was one point of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech in reference to this motion which deserves attention. He distinctly repudiated the charge brought against him by Mr. Os- BORNE of having refused to listen to any amend ment. Such a charge is indeed contradicted, not only by the words of the Leader of the House, but by the whole conduct of the Government from the beginning of the Session. They have shown no obstinacy as to points of detail, no determina tion to retard legislation and provoke op position by a rigid adherence to crotchets. The amendments of Mr. GLADSTONE, as Mr. DISRAELI observed last night, and as every one knew beforehand, are directed less to the improve ment of the Bill than to its overthrow, not to the change of a clause or two, but the substitution of another measure. No Government could agree to this, but on minor points, which affect no principle, such as the term of residence, the lodger franchise, the compound householder, the Government has pledged itself to listen to reason, and to show that spirit of conciliation and compromise, without which no really great _and serviceable measuro can be carried into effect. It is with great satisfaction that the public will learn that the Canada Railway Loan Bill has passed without any difficulty through the Upper House, notwithstanding the opposition which has been made to it in certain quarters. The news will be received with gratification by the colonists, who have given ample evidence of their loyalty to the mother country, and of their national spirit and energy. They have been subjected to a severe and somewhat unexpected trial by the mischief-working Fenians, but so far from not having proved equal to the emergency, the spirit and readiness of the Canadian Volunteers was everywhere more than sufficient to meet the sudden and comprehensive demands of the authorities. Volunteers came from all parts of the colony, and even from the States, coming sometimes at great cost and inconvenience. The bill in question, however, has nothing to do with mili tary objects, excepting so far as the pro posed railway will be au iintw.nse advantage for the conveyance of troops in case of war. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE spoke strongly in favour of the measure, which indeed met with little opposi tion, except from Lord LYVEDEN. We are heartily glad that it has passed so promptly through its concluding stages, for we are sure neither England nor Canada will have reason to regret it. The public will learn with satisfaction that the Grand Jury have thrown out the bills against Colonel NELSON and Mr. BRAND. This result is what we anticipated yesterday, and is one satisfac tory to all but the infatuated members of the faction. We really hope that by this time they have been taught a lesson which they will not forget, and that others who came after them will abstain from intruding their vexatious notions upon the public in so offensive a manner. The course pursued by the Jamaica Committee has been most unaccountable since the outset, and are entirely opposed to the common sense of the people of this country, as much as it was in opposition to their feeling in the matter. The plaudits which were awakened in Exeter Hall were, indeed, the only marks of approval which they met with, and the universal delight which attended the deci sion of the Shropshire Magistrates in the case of Mr. EYRE, and the satisfaction which prevailed in the Court yesterday when the opinion of the grand jury was made known, suffi ciently attested the true feeling of the country in the matter. We regret that some leading politicians should have mixed themselves up in this matter, but the best thing that could have happened for them has been to fail as they have done. Now that the fuss and excitement of this affair is over, people may have more time to appreciate the manner in which Mr. EYRE and his friends have been treated by those who constituted themselves as judges of the law and vindicators of the authority of the English Bar. A more gallant service was never rendered to the English nation than that which those performed who put down the rebellion in Jamaica, and it is high time that their traducers should be shown how little attention is paid to their exagge rated statements and unwarrantable accusations, which have never been acceptable to the majority of the community. The Baptism of Bells. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, —I see in a speech of the Duke of Marlborough delivered in the House of Lords yesterday a state ment that on the occasion of inaugurating a bell in Bampton Church, the Bishop of Oxford explained i❑ his sermon what he called " the impiety and superstition of the Church of Rome in baptising bells, and the piety of asking God's blessing, a s they were going to do, on this addition to God's house." Now, it seems to me that the Bishop of Oxford might very well perform his own functions without going out of his way to attack and abuse as im pious and superstitious the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. But 1 must add that there is no such thing in the Roman Catholic Church as the baptism of bells. 1 have before me the service used by that Church on occasions similar to that referred to by the Duke of Marlborough. It is entitled, not baptism, but Benedictio Signi vel eninpane. It is contained in the second part of the Pontificate Rwnuaum. The words used are not "1 baptize thee," &c., but these, " May this bell be sanctified and consecrated iu the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, in honour of Saint —." In fact, the whole service is simply a consecration service analo gous to the consecration of a church. No doubt many ancient bells have names, but the giving the names is no part of the service, and the bell is dedi cated to some saint just as a church is. Where is the " impiety and superstition" of this ? I hope you will be so good as to publish this letter.—Your obedient servant, GEORGE Bo wYER. House of Commons, April 10. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. There was a Cabinet Council yesterdey at the Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided, and the Empress was present. The Moniteur, in its weekly review of foreign affairs, says :—" The settlement of the Hungarian question has sensibly ameliorated the situation of the Austrian Monarchy. The Constitutional orga nisation of the Emperor still presents numerous dif ficulties, but the principal problem is solved, and the Government, reconciled definitively with the Magyars, is in a position to face the exigencies now existing. The relations between Hun gary and Croatia will soon be arranged, and the Government, instead of maintaining the elements of rivalry between the various countries connected with the Crown of St. Stephen, seeks to remove all causes of misunderstanding.. Austria sincerely accepts the city of Pesth as the centre of political action of the races who occupy the territory beyond the Leitha. It believes that the simultaneous work ing of liberal institutions in Hungary and in the western provinces of the empire will reconstitute the Monarchy upon the bases indicated by history and State reason. The propositions relative to Croatia will first be submitted to the approbation of the Hungarian Diet, and then sent to the Croatia Diet, which will meet very shortly. To grant to Croatia an independent position as regards the ad ministration of justice, public worship, and educa tion ; to give limits to affairs common between the St. Stephen ; to p l atg w a ithin the jurisdiction of q c o u u e n s t t i r o i n e s s o o f f a the ut n c r o o m w y n the Croatian Chancellory of Agram, and to remit other questions to the Hungarian Ministry ;—such will be the general plan of political economy which will no doubt be adopted. The Emperor of Austria returned to Nienna on Saturday last, and on the same day the Diets of Bohemia, Moravia, and Carniola assembled." According to the latest accounts from Florence there was another hitch in the formation of the new Italian Ministry, and although a list of the new Ministers was published, which was supposed to be authentic, it is again said that M. Rattazzi has abandoned the task of selecting a Ministry, which he began at the request of the King. In the Senate yesterday the President, M. Schneider, announced that the request for interpel lations relative to Luzemburg, which had been de posited with the Chamber by Messrs. St. Paul, Eugene Pelletan, Ju:es Simon, Jules Favre, and other members, had been withdrawn. As to the two demands for permission to interpellate made by other members, the tine bureaux were of opinion that such interpellations could not be made. The number of Deputies who voted in favour of the refusal of the interpellations was 172. The number in favour of them was 61. It is stated that the Powers who signed the Treaty of 1839 will be invited by France to give their opinion upon the question of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, but in the form of direct communications in the shape of diplomatic notes. Two questions will be proposed. 1. Has the King of Holland the right to give up the Duchy of Luxembourg ? 2. Has Prussia, after the ag grandisement she has obtained by the last war, the right to continue to occupy the place of Luxem bourg ? The Illemoricl Diplonzatique, which always claims an official character, says the difficulty would not be solved by the vacuation on the part of the Prussians, even if the French Government should renounce the idea of possessing it. Nothing of the kind will be discussed by the parties to the Treaty of 1839, and the proof that no immediate compli cation of the sort is to be feared is to be found in the reiterated invitation to King William for the Ist of April by the French Ambassador to visit the Exhibition of 1867. Consulted as a party to the treaty of 24 Articles, the Cabinet of Vienna made a reply, of which the following is the substance : " Austria thinks that when Prussia, without p.tyinc, any attention to the Powers who guaranteed the final act of Vienna, has arbitrarily broken the Federal German pact in spite of the protestations of the legitimate princes and resistance of the respective populations, none can deny to the King of the Netherlands the right of freely disposi ng of the Grand Duchy of -Luxembo urg , which is his personal property. The dissolution of the Germain Confederation has emanc i pated the King of th e he in his quality of G rand Duke. Netherlands from all the federal engagements w hi c h jy h His tersatctedas, therefore, recover e d t h e plenitude of his sovereignty, in virtue of which the Powers who signed the treaties of 1t539 should allow him full latitude to act upon his own responsibility. A man named Victor Felix Pivost, aged 35, has been tried at the ass izes for S eine - et-Oise for the murder of his father , Eloi Pi vost, aged 65. The accomplice prisoner's w beforeifethe fact. Indeed it was proved that she incited her hu sband to co mmit the murder. The prisoner's antece dents are ver y bad. He had been imprisoned for em bezzlin g mon ey, and he had wife, Mario Pivost, was cha rge d as an often stolen money from his father. While he was in prison the wife led a very disorderly life. When he was liberatel t h e y were very poor, and the woman often complained of the avarice of her father in-law, because he would not give her any money. On one occasion she said that her husband ought to threaten him, and, if necessary, strangle him if he would not provide for them. On the night of Dec. 13 last they were without money, although the hus band had stolen some from his father a few days previously. g, G o t o your father," said the woman, ge t more money, and s hould he r efuse , strangle him with a cord which I will g ive y ou." On the night of Dec. 29 , soo n after the father return ed and the body of the deceased floor, the head covered w ith homew heard as f of found no afterdm hissuppingylying g o n the room, w ith a neighbour cries w ere wounds from a hammer. He still held in his hand the key with which be had opened the door. The prisoner was seen to escape across the garden ; and the evidence left no doubt t hat h e was the murderer. but with y te woman. extenuating The j Eloi was condemned to die the death of a parricide. ury ounf c d ireu b m ot s h tan p e r e is s ot r te e r g s ard g i u n i g lt h The woman was sentenced to hard labour for life. The clerk of the court read the sentence upon the man from the code Penal as follows :—" The guilty condemned to death for parricide will be conducted to the place of execution in his shirt, barefoot, and his head covered with a veil. lie will be exhibited on the scaffold, while the officer of the court will read to the people the sentence of condemnation, and he will then be immediately put to death." In the English jewellery department to-day in the Exhibition a very beautiful article has attracted much attention. It is a swan in silver very beautifully chased. The bird is in a silver tray, and the water is very well represented by a layer of silver. By means of ingenious mechanism the swan moves and turns its neck as gracefully and as naturally as if it were a living bird on its accustomed element. In Mr. Brogden's stall there is a magnificent ob ject, which I mention because it must have excited notice, it being marked " Sold to the Emperor." It is a Rhyton in gold with a bas-relief, which re presents a griffin and au amazon. The work is de scribed as a faithful copy of the Rhyton, which was found at Rubi, in Apulia (an ancient province of Southern Italy), and which is now in the Bri tish Museum. In the French jewellery and silversmith depart ment are magnificent articles from one of the first manufactories in the world—that of Christofle and Co., jewellers to the Emperor. This portion of the Exhibition would command attention, if it were only for the fact that upwards of 1,200 work men are employed at the manufactory, but it has also striking attractions. The table services, and gilt and plated articles are splendid. Among the table ornaments is a portion of that belonging to the Emperor, executed to complete the table service of 100 silver gilt covers exhibited in London in 1862. There are 22 gilt candelabra and various allegorical figures. One group represents Agricul ture and Industry. There is also a grand orna mentation and table service executed for the fetes at the Hotel de Wile, after the designs of baron Ilaussrnau, Prefect of the Seine. One object of art will no doubt be sought for by your sporting readers. The victory, the prize cup given by the Jockey Club in 1866, and won by Gladiateur. Victory, executed by M. Maillet, is represented by a young girl, who stops, still breathing with diffi culty after the distance she has run, and raises over her head the palm she has gained. Messrs. Christofle and Co. hold pre-eminent rank in France for these electro-plated covers and table services. Last night the tempest returned, and to-day the wind has been violent. At 11 o'clock this morning there was a heavy shower of snow, sleet, and rain, but the sun has shone during the afternoon. LA TEST INTEL LIGENCF. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, April 12. In yesterday's sitting of the Senate Court, the public prosecutor deliverel a long address demand ing the dismissal of Admiral Persauo from his command. Count Cibrario has arrived from Vienna. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 11, Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-- 4 per Cents 96 10 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 66 45 Do. end month 66 20 Credit Alobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier Do. end month 1305 - /WI; Bank Shares 3400 Italian Loan 4B Do. end month 4B Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - LT 8. For Account. Orleans Northern lllO Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 Southern s4€ Western Eastern 520 Sardinian . 4B Austrian Lombard 372 50 North of Spain BO Saragosra Ditto to Barcelona Roman. 65 - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1867. LI rERATURE. Raymond's Heroine. o- Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. Very seldom does a novel open more auspiciously than does this new tale of " Raymond's Heroine." The first few chapters, which give a key to the after history, are inimitable, and would do credit to the efforts of the most practised novel writer. No name is given on the title-page, and yet we can hardly regard the work as that of an unpractised hand. In any case, it reflects high credit upon its author, and augurs well for his or her future repu tation. It falls to our lot to turn over the pages of so many uninteresting and indifferent compositions that it is to us a positive pleasure when we can, as in the present instance, award to a new novel our very cordial and unqualified commendation. The character of the heroine Raymond's Heroine—is quite an original conception, and her distinctive peculiarities are most skilfully preserved throughout the entire history, notwithstanding the wonderful transformation that befalls her in every outward circumstance. The first book is entitled " Minnie," and in it we find her a charming little, blue-eyed girl of six years old, the daughter of John Haroldson of Black Moor farm, the spoiled dar ling of a rough, impetuous father—a frank, self-willed, high-spirited, but withal tender hearted child. In the second book, signifi cantly entitled " Minnie," the adopted daughter of the rich and worldly-minded Mrs. Fanshawe, fond of pleasure and riches and admiration, still remains, notwithstanding the evil influences of edu cation and association, the same both in her good and evil characteristics, still frank and impetuous, still capricious and self-willed. One of the chief merits of the delineation is its apparent truthfulness. Minnie is neither an angel nor the reverse, but is full of good impulses and intentions, and full also of faults and caprices, like (will our fair readers forgive us ?) many others of her fair sisterhood. The character of John Haroldson, the rough farmer of the Black Moor, is very vigo rously portrayed. His tender affection for his darling little daughter changed into bitterness, when he believes her to be estranged from him, is depicted with life-like fidelity. The very natural outburst of passion against the man who has wronged him is, like too many such fits of temporary moral mad ness, productive of evil consequences that over shadow all his after-life. One of the best characters in the book is perhaps that of old Captain Pullyn, the merchant captain, the humble, hearty friend of the Haroldsons, suffering like them in a common calamity, but undismayed by dan ger or difficulty whether on sea or laud, genial and jovial, and gentle-hearted from first to last. The despicable Walter Lee and his worthy partner in iniquity, the noble-minded Raymond and the worldly Mrs. Fanshawe, the gambling, dis sipated Lord Fitz-John, and his scheming disap pointed mother, all these and many of the minor characters are portrayed in true and distinctive colours. They are each and all individual portraits. Mr. Fanshawe we cannot but reg,►rd as too much of a nonentity. His silence, his stupidity, and his subserviency are certainly carried a little too far. We are disposed to give some ex tracts from the very admirable opening of the story, in which, as in a dissolving view, a sweet picture of domestic life becomes transformed imperceptibly into the background of a tragedy, but we fear by so-doing to mar the interest of a very interesting story. We will content ourselves, therefore, with a recommendation to our readers to seek for them selves the pleasant acquaintance of " Raymond's Heroine," fully assured that they will be grateful to us for an introduction to a very clever and delight ful book. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Apr 11. The following is th e re t urn of the Bank of il France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. April 11. tr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182 ,500,000 Profits in addition to April 4. 182,500,000 - capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7011776 02 7044776 02 Reserve of the Ba n k , , , , and its branches 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 226,280,289 60 230,595,049 56 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 1,040,524 75 1,096,630 75 Discounts and sundry interests ......... Rediscounted the .. lasi six mouths . Surplus of receipts. not distributed .. S undries• .......... 17,113,866 79 15,450,333 51 6,524,029 77 6,158,846 50 1,574,256 34 1,574,256 34 10,908,214 79 11,640,440 62 Total ............... 1,618,470,531 61 1,668,716,385 50 CILEDITOR. April 4. April 11. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch b an k s Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 238,089,679 27 2_45,793 . ,627 31 Do. bran c h b anks 268,901, 910 2e:3,406,86J Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. ou railway shares and debentures D. branch banks on Credit Fancier 894,813 07 152,198 28 35,622,700 - 8,509,100 - 33,244,100 - 0,794,200 - 12,815,900 - 7,411,200 - 12,856,600 - 7,132,80 U - 36,790,800 - 2G,789,150 - 37,122,000 - 26,911 ; 930 - Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 796,300 - 719,330 771,900 - 711,250 - 60,000,000 -- 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 86,011,737 91 36,011,737 91 serve Do. disposable It en tes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bbuk and landed propez ty branches Lx.peuses of manage ment Sundries . 8,345,458 -- 8,341,205 - 1,112,097 48 1,097,052 40 20,374,696. 47 21,162,362 08 Total 1,648,470,5 31 61 1,668,716,385 50 Certified by the Senator GoTeruor of +he Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND. MALTA. MALTA, April 12. Telegraphic communication with Alexandria is interrupted, the cable having parted on 'Wednesday between Bengazi and Tripoli. The Hawk is now engaged in the necessary re- pairs. Tier Majesty's ships Royal Oak and Prince Con sort left on Monday. Their destination is supposed to be Gibraltar. The drought in Malta continues. The Iron Trade. BIRMINGHAM, April 11. The second quarterly meeting of the ironmasters of this district was held in the Town-hall this after noon. There was a very large attendance, the trade in each of the other iron-producing districts being well represented. It was not expected that the amount of business done would be large ; the ap prehensions entertained that there may arise un pleasant complications between France and Prussia, together with the doubtful aspect of political concerns at home, alike help to depress trade in its present peculiarly sensitive condition. These circumstances taken into account, matters to-day looked more cheerful than was anticipated. The quantity of finished iron sold was under the average certainly, but there was a certain steady kind of trade doing, and producers seemed less anxious to press for orders than they did last quarter day. The " specifica tions" now about are comparatively small, but when given out they will be quite sufficient to keep the works going as fully as they have been of late. A change has also come over the circumstances of the trade in one respect ; consumers have got into the habit of buying for a month instead of entering into engagements for the quarter's consumption as was formerly the case ; this, of course, lessens materially the amount of business done at quarter-day. A demand for a large quantity of finished iron on account of the East Indies and Australia is said to be certain, and also contributed to the cheerful feeling prevailing at this meeting. The market for pig-iron is decidedly firmer ; a considerable quantity of that class of iron was sold to-day at £3 10s. per ton for all mine, hot bias, ; cinder-pig was sold at £2 12s. 6d. per ton. We quote pig iron at ls. 3d. per ton above the price of last quarter day. In reference to the Shropshire iron trade, it was re ported that the whole of the Lilleshall make had been sold. The attention of the trade was attracted to specimens of the dockyard pigs, better known as " Seeley's pigs," which were exhibited in the hall to-day. There were many samples ; when they were first discovered they were " mixed," that is, in a state known to the trade as " Kentledge," and is only useful as ballast. Those shown to-day have been carefully sorted—in broken and manufactured forms. It was represented that the iron is all cold blast, and that although the qualities differ they are all good, th e i ron b e i ng fi t f or use i n ma ki ng tele graph wire, armour plates, nuts, bolts, and other articles of that class. Messrs. George Ryland and Co. have priced it at £4 to £4 10s. per ton. In re ference to the mixed quality of the iron much has been said ; as is well known, iron, as it runs from the furnace, comes, even from the same ore, in dif ferent qualities, which are called technically " num bers." On the proper admixture of these depends the speciality of the manufactured iron. To assort this iron, therefore, into its proper " numbers" from its present mixed condition, in order to render its value appreciable to the trade, is what Messrs. Ryland are now doing. ,Amongst the specimens shown was a puddled billet made from the grey iron by Mr. Joseph Mathews, at Messrs. Field and Sturgis's works, Oldbury ; the excellence of its quality was admitted. The opinion as to it was that it would make a tool for turning rolls, after harden ing, from the puddled billet itself. The opinion of the trade seemed to be favourable as to the quality of the iron ; but a doubt was expressed as to whe ther the price now asked would be obtained. Strike on the North-Eastern Railway. Yesterday morning the men employed as engine drivers and stokers on the Mahon section of the North-Eastern struck work, in support of the Dar lington section drivers, who struck work on Wed nesday, owing to a misunderstanding between them and the superintendent, Mr. Bell, as to the allowance of " shed day." The legality of the strike on this section of the North-Eastern system is much ques tioned, inasmuch as the men were under one month's notice, and the notices lately given were with drawn, and had they not been so did not expire till April the 29th. It is probable that legal proceed ings will result against those men who have struck, only giving notice the night before. Up to the time of writing the inconvenience to the public has not been much in this district. The early goods and mineral trains duly arrive, but since morning nothing has been heard of either, and the doors of the goods department are shut. The strike, how ever, is by no means general. The East Coast line is virtually closed, and the Yorkshire seaport towns h av e no trains, Scarborough and Whitby excepted. At Whitby there were some spare drivers who had not joined the union, and these were dranghted off. At Scarborough not a man would work, and the superintendent started with the first train himself, picking up the first platelayer he saw as fireman. A 4 , satisfied" driver was also found at York who worked the down trains, and so far the line has been kept open for p a ssengers, the trains being pretty punctual. The Malton and Whitby line is also worked for passenger trains. On the Mahon and Thirsk, and also on the Mahon and Driffield, the men totally refused. On the former the trains were driven by Mr. Summerson, the locomotive superintendent at Mahon, with a cleaner as stoker. On the Driffield Mr. Baines, of the permanent way department, drove the engine. The passengers had no reason to complain of the service, which was kept up wonderfully, considering the suddenness of the strike. The officials have gone to work with a hearty goodwill, and the loss of the turn-outs will evidently be overcome in a few days. The Darling ton goods to Mahon arrived with Mr. Bell, son of the superintendent, with whom the present quarrel has occurred, as driver. The Mallon Board of Health and some of the mills have engiuemen who have been railway drivers, and these are offered freely. It is also stated that a party of gentlemen have resolved to subscribe for presentation of medals or some other form of commendation to those drivers who have not struck at the bdding of the union. The men have hitherto had the public with them, but this sudden rupture has done them much harm. Thursday, 3 30 p.m. The North-Eastern directors have determined to close the Malton and Driffield Railway, and the trains have ceased running. The same decision has been come to with respect to the Malton and Thirsk ; but the noon train from Malton will be kept till night to bring hack the p issengers from Thirsk races. To-morrow the line will be quits closed. On the Alalton and Whitby line Sunday trains (there and back night and morning) are to be run, and the I - lull and Scarborough and Cleveland lines the same. The main line trains will run if possible, but the company guarantee nothing, but will meet the emergency in the best way possible. Mail trains will all go. The North-Eastern Board has resolved to sum mon the instigators of the strike before the New castle magistrates. If the proceedings are success ful, they will do the same at other-places. Notices have been issued that the time bills must be consi dered in abeyance. Trains are to run as may be found practicable. Goods received conditionally ou trains being run. TENNYSONIANA !—Mr. Basil M. Pickering, son of the late publisher, announces a volume of " Notes Critical and Biographical on the Works of Alfred Tennyson," con taining an account of his early and suppressed poems, and of the alterations made in his different editions ; a compa rison of "In Memoriam" and the Sonnets of Shakspeare ; an account of the early criticisms on Tennyson by A. H. Hallam, Sterling, Professor Wilson, Professor Maurice, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Stuart. Mill; with a bibliographical list of his works from 1827 downwards. cr.a- ChuTat HER MAJESTY, &c. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 11., The Queen drove yesterday afternoon, accom panied by her Royal Highness Princess Christian. His Royal Highness Prince Christian, attended by Lieut.-Colonel G. Gordon, went out riding. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, and attended by LadY Churchill, drove out this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian took a drive. Tier Royal Highness Princess Loui,,e walked in ,he grounds of the Castle. The Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by Captain Ellis. The King of Denmark left Marlborough House in the evening for Dover, en route for Copenhagen• His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales accom' panied his Majesty to the terminus of the South - Eastern Railway at Charing-cross. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Imperial Illustrated Catalogue of its Contents. The Art Journal—always an elegant and attrae" tive periodical—is this month very considerably enhanced in value by its numbering among its co' tents for April (among its contents both literal and artistic) the First Portion of a magnificen t Catalogue of the newly inaugurated Paris Exhibi tion. Like the Art Journal itself this Catalogue i s under the able editorship of Mr. S. C. Hall, en art-critic pre-eminently qualified to preside over any such responsible undertaking. It is, as if in simple recognition of these pre-eminent qualifies' tions appertaining expressly and almost exceptionally to Mr. Hall, among art-critics and men of letters , as an editor worthy of being entrusted with a task of this particular character, a task requiring at the hands, of any such editorial supervisor a singular aptitude for the most delicate discrimination, that the imperial illustrated Catalogue, as we have called it, of the Universal Exhibition now opening is Paris —this Catalogue, the serial issue of which 113 5 bat just now been commenced in the April number of the Art Journal, has been inscribed or dedicated " by Gracious Permission" to the Emperor of the French. And already we can now recognise for our selves that there are good reasons enow why the exceptional honour thus accorded to the Art Journal Catalogue should have been vouchsafed to it by 1 10 Imperial Majesty. So far as it has yet gone it 1 5 worthy of it—it is worthy of assuming its place among the Exhibition Catalogues as the Illustrated Cata logue, or, according to our own definition of it, as the Imperial Illustrated Catalogue. The embellish ments squandered among the letterpress are profuse and elegant—besides being sagaciously selected and admirably well executed. Fans and caskets, toilet bottles and paper knives, tazzas and boabounieres, _ screens and brackets, mirrors and clocks, fruit baskets and candelabra, bracelets and brooches , drinking horns and flower stands, vases and chim ney pieces—all of which more or less elaborately ornate designs, render the pages, as we turn theca, delightful to look at. We long for more—we look forward to the next instalment—we begin to think seriously of getting ready our valise, or at any rate our sac-de-nuit, and taking a run across to Paris, to look in ourselves and compare notes with the Art Journal Editor and his staff of contributors, in regard to the contents of the Great Paris Exhibi tion. Although having nothing whatever to do with the Catalogue itself, upon which more especially we have been here desirous of corn mentiug, three other contributions to the cur rent April number of the Art Journal must in jug" tie° be particularised as especially worthy of note before passing on from the particular subject matter of our remarks—an excellent engraving o f Webster's delightful " Village Choir" full o f Ow racter—Cousen's graceful rendering with the graver, of G. Smith's pretty meadow glimpse of the Sisters"—and another cf Mr. S. C. Hall's anec dotal recollections—this time a witheringly sar castic one of " Samuel Rogers, P oe t a n d Banker." BALLAD CONCERTS AT ST. JAMES'S BALL. The first of a series of Ballad Concerts, under the management of Mr. John Boosey, was given hot evening at St. James's Hall. The programme vra B highly attractive, and included such popular old English, Irish, and Scottish songs and ballads as " The Curly Headed Ploughboy," " Should he upbraid," " The Meeting of the Waters," " Drag the Sword, Scotland," " Rich and Rare were the Gems she Wore," " My mother bids me bind ritY hair," " Flow thou regal purple stream," " Home/ sweet Home," "Auld Robin Gray," and a (lova others equally well known to all lovers of our national music. When it is added that the vocalists who endeavoured to do justice to these de' served favourites, and fully suceeeded in the attempt , were such Queens of Song as Miss Louisa Pyne , Madame Sainton-Dolby, and Madame Lemmene' Sherrington, and such promising aspirants to the laurel crown of music as Miss Edi th Wynne and Madlle. Liebhart, with a mascu line choir, including such names as those o f Nlr. Weiss, Mr. Montem Smith, and Mr' W. 11. Cummings, enough is said to prove that the entertainment of the evening was of a character to deserve the patronage o f the public. And that patronage was no t scantily bestowed. The hall "was crowded in every part with a fashionable assemblage, who justified, by the heartiness of their applause, the belief that has of late been gradually extending, that Italian and German music have not yet driven out of the hearts of the British people the love of their old and characteristic melodies , and of the simple songs and ballads, many a one of which contains as much true music as a whole opera by Verdi and other composers, who need not be more particularly specified. Miss Louise' Pyno was in excellent voioc, and her beautiful ren dering of the beautiful Irish melody, to whie ll , Thomas Moore wrote the " Meeting of the Waters, would alone have made the concert a sae' cess. The same lady was equally charming 13 " Home, sweet Home," and Madame Sainton-Dolby was beyond all praise, for the exquisite feeling with which she warbled the perennial and tin" dying favourite "Auld Robin Gray." If we have any objection to make to the programme it 15 sulely that it was somewhat too long ; and that . ts length was unnecessarily increased by the eon" stant demand for encores ; encores which NO cannot but think are dishonest on the part of the public to insist upon, and unfair towards the artistes, who are both flattered and punished by them. The second concert of the series is fixed for the 23d of April—Shakspere's birthday—when selection of Shaksperian glees will be performe d, as an appropriate memorial of the occasion. The armoured iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. V• Tatham, on Wednesday and yesterday weighed her anchor from Spithead and steamed out into th e Channel, east of the Isle of Wight, for gunnel practice, to test the iron carriages and slides for he r l2i-ton gulls. On Wednesday there was a fresh south-west gale in the Channel, and yesterday th e wind was stiff from the W.N.W., both days giviog unusually favourable conditions for fully testing th e gun carriages and slides. The general results of th e two days' trials have been highly favourable for t he 12k -ton gun broadside system of armament. The re is but little doubt, at the same time, that the broad' side system has reached its limit in the 121 -ton glo i . Rear-Admiral F. Warden, C. 8., her Majesty's OP Minotaur, second in command of the Channel fle e l for the present year, with the members of the NO . ', Gun Carriage Committee, were present at th e trig on both days. LEIGH HUNT'S BOOK ON THE SONNETS eulogise° it as the very microcosm of poetry. " You can," he 511 " make lovo in a sonnf:t ; you can laugh in a sonnet ; P 9 O can lament in it, can narrate or describe, can robulit-' , ca admire, c;an pray."