The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-23 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GA.RDEIsT.—M.dame GRIST. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera feel the greatest gratifi cation in having it in their power to announce that that most distin guished artiste, Same. Giulia Grist, will again appear, for a shor. period, "on the stage of the Lyric Drama. The Directors that circumstances bad arisen to prevent Mme. Grist retiring to her residence at Florence, as contemplated a the rermina:lon f her late engagement in the United States of America, and, moreover, that she would most probably reside in England the greater portion of the present sear, naturally sought to induce her once mor , to jo'n the corp of the Royal Italian Opera, and were in tin hope of being able to have announced their success in the pro apectus the ir season arrangements. The Directors were, bow ever, unable to prevail on Mine. Grist to enter into the engagement and immediately made propositions to aliother distinguished artist) to undertake the repertoire which Madame Grist has so loin . and so honourably filled. The Directors not having succeeded In these negotiations, again applied to Mme. Grist to postpone fe. a short period her final retirement trom the stage. Unler then' circumstances, Mme. Grist, with her accustomed kindness, con seated to lend the Directors her invaluable assistance, and they ar, now, therefore, enabled to announce that she will sing, during at engagement of tin nights, the principal characters of her well-known repertoire. TO-MORROW, Thursday, May 24, will be performed (for the first time this season) Donizetti's opera LA FAVORITA. Leonora Inez Baldassare Signor Lablache. Don Gas aro Signor Sold!. Alfonso XI signor Graztani (His first appearance in that character in England ) ; and Fernaado , ignor Mario (His third appearance this season). Conductor ..... Mr. Costa. Commence at Eight.—Boses, Stalls, anti Pit Tickets to be had at the Boa-office of the theatre, and of the principal masicsellers and librarians. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. Les.ee, Mr. E. T. Smith. —The OBEAT Dnrtar DAY lIAL MAsotrz, May 23.—Mr. Smit h announces to the nobility, gentry, and public this Grand Fete, on a scale of magnitude and expense never hem. , attempted. A superb Salon de I%u:s3 of 401 feet in length, embellished and decorated with ihumin.ated bowers, variegated lamps. and novel devices. Enlarged orchestra, well-ap , ointe Alas• tors of the Ceremonies. all the new, dances. music, &c., forming a coup d'te.l of at t r action and spi•mdour without parallel. Ticket s , IN. 6d. each, to be obtained at the principal inusicsellers' and Libra ns ; and at the theatre. Mr. John Nathan, of Castle-street, Leicester-square, is appointed sole Costumer, of whom masks, dresses, and tickets may be ob tttineJ. TEIEA.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buctstene. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE SCIPA GOAT. Molly Maggs, Miss E. Ch To bs followed by THE ACTRESS OF P ADIIA. Characters by Mcssrs. flows, W. Farren, Rcgers, E. Villiers, ; Miss Reynolds. Miss Cashman, &c. After which, a new F.xtravaganz% called THE NEW HAY MARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE:, OXFORD-6 KELT. Under the Management of Mr. CUM= EZA.V. THIS EVENING. Will be performed LIVING TOO FAST. To be followed by FAUST AND MARGIIETaIII. Prindpa' characters by Messrs. C. Kean, D. Fisher, Raymond, Cathc{rt, an, Salter; Mrs. Winstan'ey, Misses C. Lee:erect, Daly, and K. Terry. To conclude with the popular Romance, In two acts, entitle( Tat; MULETEER OF TOt.EDO ; or, King, Queen, and Knave. THEATRE P.OYAL &DELPHI. Proprietcr, Mr. B. W e bster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, WIII be performed the comedy of P UIIE PRY. Principal cha racters by Messrs. C. Sel - y and Wright; Ml.l M. Keeley, Mrs. L lilarray, and Mi.s Woolgar. To be followed by TIIF. SCHOOL FOR TIGERS. To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. MYAL OLYNIPIC TFI N Ant& Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS I.IVIIIN,INO, Will be perf rmed STMT.. WA.TETtA RUNT DEEP. Characters by Nfe.srs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Maskell. and Mrs. Ni ebb rt To he followed by the Fairy Extravaganza. called VIE YELLOT. DAV NRF AA) VIE KING OF I GOLD MINES. 110YAL STRAND THEATRE. ander the direct on of Ms% Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, Will be pe-formed THE LITTLE DEMON% To be tot owed by a CONCERT. After which, KING QUEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THREE. To conclude with' SALLY SJIART. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. • THIS EVENING. THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE. • To conclude with the Ballet of KATE KE ARNEY. Mr. William Cooke announces for Whit Monday a Grand and Magnificent Chivalric Spectacle of intense interest, to be produced on a scale of unparalleled grandeur and effect. combining both stage and ring, united by the gigantic portable platform ; followed by a new and brilliant series of Scenic Acts In the Arena, invented and directed by Mr. William Cooke. Box-ofiles open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. li. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGE WATM AT LONDON BRIDGE. • Tam DAY —ltkrnin: 31. nifn.after 6 I Evening 57mia. art. 6 - IRRrow ilorning 27 intri.after 7 j Ev.-ning 0 min. att. 8 TEN WEATHER.--133711 011301, May. 23. TETE SzAmt. a—V-ghest since noon yesterasy. 47 —lowest this morning and during the night. .s—this day, *at. noon. 3mtomirrica ,29* B7—falling. WIND. S.W.—Lieit, with very fine, sunshiny weather the Derby Day. gtbg moo_ \ . (.7., 1 MF ,- §Un •• - 2 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1855. Ministers have not after all profited greatly by the ingenious device practised on Monday even ing. It has already produced very unexpected, and by no means satisfactory results. The aban donment of his position by Mr. MILNER GIBSON has brought a new and more doughty champion into the field. Yes ; Mr. DISRAELI, albeit, at the eleventh hour,' has at length shaken off his apparent apathy, and has flung down the gauntlet to Ministers. He has long played the waiting game—has given an ample supply of rope to his political opponents. The anticipated result has followed in due course. They have recklessly sacrificed their own reputations, and laid sacrile gious hands on their own characters as public men ! The only matter to be regretted is that the retribution should have been so long deferred —that they should have been permitted to play such " fantastic tricks before high Heaven" for so protracted a period with impunity. In fact, Mr. DISRAELI played too fine a game. Ho en• dangered his own position from too great forbearance. The Fabian policy is very well in its way, but it may be carried too far. It is dangerous when it occasions equal mischief to friends as to enemies, when calculated to produce a general disgust towards all parties, to create a universal feeling similar to that of fhe dying par tisan, when he emphatically prayed— " A plague on both your Houses." We shall, however, be quite willing to accord a complete amnesty if the Right Honourable Gen tleman at length display the vigour and energy so long laid aside, and if he bring the momentous question to a determinate issue even before the vacation. Everything now promises a decisive contest. There can be no doubt that the motion is equiva lent to a vote of censure on Ministers. It has been accepted as such, and on the division, which' in all human probability must take place during the present week, will depelid not merely the fate of the Cabinet, but the honour and wel fare of the United Kingdom ; aye more, the freedom of the world from Cossack domination. Under the elder Dromio, the ABERDEEN Govern mien% the vessel of the State " drifted into war?' Had the slightest degree of vigour or energy been exhibited when the first hints were thrown out as to the division of the earlier "the sick man's" assets — had aggressions been promptly and de cidedly repelled—h ad we not continued "waiting for Austria," + truckling to " Germanism," and still showing that we suffered the good ship to re main under the control and management of inefficient pilots, we should since altogether h a v e es caped, or longterminated the serious evils already sustained. The people now clearly understand the price paid for a Coalition Mi • nistry. perceive the more formidable They also pe r peril now 4- 11 , -t the State may " drift into an impending —, "—that a hollow and illusory ignominious peace truce may be patch ed up, fatal, in the first in stance, to our faithful All y ; i n the next, to the Prestige and influence, nay, more , the security, of l'lmkUnited Kingdom, for the temp o rary benefit of ermanism. A ; D IBItaFaa. cannot now avoid the conflict irhicl44le 'has gage Droyoked.....cazwt recall A . . 4eti ~~ ;let r o ., , ').4„,, toctatical. We cite, however, the short and miss.oners, and at a time when great firmness in t l ie assertion of principle was needed he quitted the post for one of no responsibility ; and it is complained that, on important occasions, he left the assertors cf principle in the lurch. His own paper, on the reconstruc tion of the Civil Service, is one of the most feeble of the whole set ; especially considering his large opportunities for observation. Another of the gentlemen chosen, Mr. EDWARD Roarinv, has indicated hostility to that alone which ought to be accepted as sincere and true—namely, appoint ments for merit from whatsoever class. Looking to his paper in the Blue-book, we find the follow ing very explicit declarations : " Side writing the above I have had an opportunity of considering the report of Sir Stafford Northcote and Sir Charles Trevelyan, suggesting, among other prin ciples of great value and importance, that first appoint ments to the civil service should be made by open com petition. Notwithstanding its ability, that report, toge ther with other papers advocating this principle, have not convinced me ; it still seems to me that the ultimate result of open competition will be a democratical civil service side by side with an aristocratical Legislature. Open competition must necessarily be in favour of the more numerous class." "The more the civil service is recruited from the lower classes, the less it will be sought after by the higher, until at last the aristocracy will be altogether dissociated from the permanent civil service of the country. " The encouragement given to education would no doubt be great if the system were once fairly established, and its continuance believed in ; but it will be all in favour of the lower classes of society, and not of the higher." "It may be true that at present mixed multitude is sent up, a large proportion of whom, owing to the operation of political and personal patronage, are of an inferior rank in society.' But it is also true that a still larger proportion of this multitude are at present in the higher social position, and tLat when under these pro portions the lower become associated with the higher, the lower gradually acquire more or less the habits, manners, and feelings of the higher. There is, however, some danger that the moment these proportions are re versed the contrary will take place. "It may also be true that the idle and useless are the sort of young men,' if not commonly,' olten pro videdrap for in a public otfice,' and this may perha;)s be re -0,-,thed by the proposed arrangement, and. young men s: v l vi,e bs ed :a u ir c t i7 class may be secured.' But the idle and useless can easily be exc'ufled by proper system of ex amination. e th st e abrished on ' rules w c hich willwork them oorfditnhaersyerun of mankind, without having The trutPl7 competition, recourse to o and to a new and expen sive the assumption statements is impugned, in cludingthat the the majority of the pyblic daces is really aris- complete reply of Mr. JOHN MILL :---- " Another objection is, thatif appointmenta are give to talent, the pubic offices will be filled with low peo ple, without the Lreeding or the feelings of 'gentlemen. If, as this objection supposes, the sons of gentlemen Cannot be expected t> have as much ability and instruc tion as the sons of low people, it would make a strong case for social changes of a more extensive character. If the sons of gentlemen would not, even under the stimulus of competition, maintain themselves on an equality of intellect and attainments with youths of a lower rank, how much more below the mark must they be pith their present monopoly ; and to how much greater an extent than the friends cf the measure allege must the efficiency of the public service be at present sacrificed to their incompetency. And more —if; with advantages arid opportunities so vastly supe rior, the youth of the higher classes have not honour enough, or energy enough, or public spirit enough, to make themselves as well qualified as others for the sta tion which they desire to maintain, they are not fit for that station, and cannot too soon step out of it and give place to better people. I have not this unfavourable opinion of them—l believe that they will fairly earn their full share of every kind of distinction, when they are no longer able to obtain it unearned." Mr. CHADWICK also contends that with a fair field the aristocracy would contribute a larger proportion to the service than their enemies may suppose, and that it is for the interest of the order itself that they should be put to the justifi cation of their positions. By them such an ap pointment should, indeed, be deemed an affront. With the country ringing with, perhaps, indis criminate censures of aristocratical appointments, an appointment upon such an explicit declaration of untenable principles, may be well deemed by the increasing associations for Administrative Re form, not merely an evasion, but an outrage. The Commission itself is framed ambiguously, so , as to retain the principle of close departmental nominations and probations, and it is to be in terpreted as to intent by the appointments and attendant circumstances. If it were intended to adopt the larger popular principles, why should not the changes be intrusted to Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, Sir STAFFORD NORTELCOTE, and others, who have been foremost in contending for them, and in whom the public might have confidence for their execution? A Return has just been laid before Parliament, on the motion of Mr. MONCKTON 51ILNES, which is of important significance on the subject of Ad ministrative Reform. It is " A return of the subjects of examination to which persons are sub jected who are nominated to clerkships in public offices." The purpose to which this return is subservient is to show that examinations as to competency are already in use at a number of the Government offices, and the public may be told that these examinations have been, or will be now, 1 revised, and that they shall be extended to all the departments, including the Home-office, the Foreign-office, the Colonial-office, and the Board of Trade, where the return is "Nil." Now, it is proper to lose no timo in apprising—not the . House of Commons, not the Government—but the General and Local Administrative Reform Associations that this motion does to the very he trt of their subject. The plan of dewing with the offices departmen tally, and adopting their arrangements is repu diated, and competitive examinations are con tended for by the Accountant-General of the Navy, and by Mr. JOHN WOOD, the Chair man of the Board of Inland Revenue, officers of the -widest and longest practical experience. The Accountant-General of the Navy, whose autho rity was highly extolled by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, thus adverts to departmental examinations:— "Unknown men of talent witness daily their inferiors advancing before them, who may have been put into the service through interest. and who probably passed what is termed an examination, but such as a charity boy would smile at. "If a clerk is rejected, the chances are he will be re turned to the examiner (who is usually another clerk in the office), having been crammed for a few weeks to pre pare him for another jump at the leaping-bar test, which on this occasion is ,not unlikely to be lowered, the ex aminer not feeling disposed perhaps to run the risk of ftirther rebuke or of making as enemy of some person of consideration. " The most feeble sons in families which have been so fortunate as to obtain an appointment, yes, and. others too, either mentally or physically incapacitated, enter the service." The Return from the Colonial-office would make out that, although they have no examination, they have, and have had for a number of years, what they deem better—a year's probation. The Return from the Foreign-office says they have adopted a probation for six months. But in proof that departmental probations are as illusory as the the departmental examinations, Mr. CHADWICK holds up the admission of the Right Hon. Sir JAMES STEPHEN, the former Under Secretary for the Colonies, that " the majority': of persons in that department " possesssed only in a low degree, and some of them only in a degree incredibly low, either the talents or ;the habits of men of busi ness, or the industry, the zeal, or the knowledge required for the effective performance of their duties." The consequences of this was, " the not infrequent occurrence of mistakes and oversights so serious as to imperil interests of high national importance." Sir JAMES also declares—" In re liance on much uniform, concurrent, and credible evidence from others, and in reliance on what I myself knew and observed. at the Board of Trade, I believe that the state of the Colonial depart ment, as I have described it, is no unfair example and illustration of the state of the other great departments of the Government, as they existed during my personal connection with the public service." It is only a year ago that he scoffed at the scheme for reforming this state of things as an utopian notion —as, in truth, he might well do at the audacity of a scheme which appeared to contemplate reform from within the departments themselves, or from within the House of Commons, at that time. In a small work, called " The Statesman," written by Mr. HENRY TAYLOR, senior clerk at the Colonial-office, and dedicated to his then per manent chief, Sir JAMES STEPHEN, whom he ad dresses as a model statesman, the principle of com petitive examinations is well opened. Mr. TAYLOR says :—"Probation should not be relied upon to the omission of examination, nor examination to the omission of the most sedulous care in the choice of the candidate who shall be admitted to compete and be examined. To require that the candi dates shall - be three or more simultaneously for one vacancy is a good. device, because justice .to in dividuals being unhappily a much stronger motive tvith most men than justice to the State, a greater security is taken against un due indulgence on the part of the examining authority when the result of indulging one individual is an injury dOne to two other individuals than when the result should be only an injury done to the public service. It would be'well that not only the competitors on the exa mination should be three for one probationary appointment, but that the probationers should also be three competing for one established and confirmed appointment. In the case of the pro bationers, in truth, the need is still greater than in that of the original candidates to have the public claims backed up against private interests by other and conflicting private interests." With Sir JAMES'S own facts, ' this clear state ment of the principle by his colleague and fa vourite pupil may be presented to the chief official champion against Administrative Reform. The last number of the North British Review, however, contains an article on the reform of the Civil Service, which we earnestly commend to the attention of the general and local committees for the promotion of Administrative Reform, and to all who have the matter undor practical considera tion, as giving the most fair and able summary that has yet appeared pf much widely-spread evi dence and writing upon the subject. It thus opens to larger view the vitally-important question of competitive examinations : "Let it be remembered, that it is agreed that the fittest attainable man should in every instance be ap pointed to a vacant office, and that the question is now solely as to the means of finding out the fittest attain able man. Now, if we suppose . an omniscient, and a!so thoroughly just Prime Minister—a man, who, though sitting at the centre of affairs, knew thoroughly and inti mately, by personal familiarity, every individualof all the millions composing the empire; knew his faculties, his ac quirement, his failings ;and also was rosolvedaud able to act with strict impartiality—there would be no difficulty. The problem of the right inc,n in the right place would be solved at once ; it woul,i be a mere question of coach hire. Such a made of solution be in g p urel y ideal, how ever, we must be content with the be st p ossible approxi mation we can make to it. No w wh at is that Approxi. which he has cast down. His challenge has been accepted; the combat must take place a routrance. He would be for ever dishonoured and held "nidering"—it is a good old Saxon phrase—if lie now cries craven. We shall not, however, so far wrong him as to suppose that he will now Mold back or evade the obligations he has volun- wily assumed. _ To-morrower Friday, then, the vitally impor ant question will be decided. We cannot doubt the result. There must be a new Ministry. The Family Party must surrender to more competent hands the power they have so grossly abused. We must have a firm Government, whose " say ings and doings" will alike bear investigation, and who will not permit Great Britain to be any longer bamboozled. Our Imperial Ally only requires unflinching resolution on the part of the :3'nglish Cabinet to carry out his views in such a nanner as will speedily alter the feeling both of Russiaand Austria, and compel the former humbly to sue for far more onerous terms than those she has already so contumeliously rejected, and the latter to declare herself without hesitation. No true-hearted Etiglishman can remain neutral under such circumstances. The several consti tuencies will know whether their feelings and wishes are properly represented, and woe to those who run counter thereto, who at the time of trial are found wanting ! Mr. LAYARD has once more entitled himself to the thanks and gratitude of the community for io gracefully yielding priority to Mr. DISRAELI. Although the country feels the deepest interest in everything relating to Administrative Reform, the " War policy" is, par excellence, the question of the day. All others are comparatively of secon dary importance to that in which the national honour is involved. All distinctions of party tire now merged in the one grand point— tll other considerations are of minor weight. That there will be a hard fight is certain. Ministers viii have not only the assistance of the waiters on Providence, and of their late colleagues, the Peel ites, but also of the Peace party, of those who think with Mr. M. GIBSON and his associates - hat England should submit to any insult, should ')atiently witness any injustice, provided there be io interference with s " trade." Sir F. BARING las already given notice of an amendment almost Antamount to the dropped resolution of the Right Eton. Member for Manchester, although couched n less decisive terms. No one can, however, be .aken in by the phraseology. Vague languaze gill not now answer, and the amendment will, we 'hope and believe, be rejected by a decided najoriLy. The moment for action has arrived, Lnd England indeed expects that every ;true -warted citizen will' faithfully discharge his duty. The prophecy of that eminently popular his %orian, Sir A. ALIsoN, last evening, at the Anni versary of the Literary Fund, is likely to meet with but little scepticism throughout the country, and will go far ultimately to dissipate what there may be of that. Possessing a deep personal in erest in the mighty struggle now going on, the learned Baronet brought to bear on it the vast store of knowledge with which a long course of reading and much observation and reflection had enriched him ; and, ater a careful examination of historical parallels and facts, felt justified in don ning the mantle of the prophet, and declaring that; " as long as England and France remained united, there was no danger but that Western Civilisation would conquer Eastern Despotism." So be it. It is too late in the day for us to insist that England and France are the leaders of civilisation ; nor is it necessary to adduce such of the facts and parallels referred to by Sir ARCHIBALD as may have occurred to our recollection. The higher intelligence and nobler ideas of the two Western Powers, aided by the superiority of their material resources, really tell their own tale. Everywhere, hitherto, barbarism has in the long run receded or succumbed before advancing civi lisation ; and by the operation of the same law we confidently look for the ultimate defeat of Russia. It is impossible for her to combat long with success against ideas as well as swords. Her armies cannot ultimately triumph over freemen and those entrusted with the standards of liberty. Sir ARCHIBALD is right. Russia must succumb, and it is more Lhan probable that nothing could happen more advantageous to her slave population than her defeat. That population cannot long remain as they are. Thus, as the gallant soldiers of England and France join shoulder to shoulder in the conflict, they should be encouraged with the idea that not only by the success of their arms do they stay the irruption of barbarism, but alsb aid in conferring on barbarians the blessings of civilisation. To-day there appears the copy of a Commission which May appear to be of great importance, as an instalment of concession to the principle of Ad ministrative Reform. It appoints a board to regulate the examination of young men who may from time to time be proposed to be appointed to the junior situations in any of her Majesty's civil establilhments. The appointments of the com missioners are decidedly exceptionable. The &at Commissional . , Mr. JoaN LEFEYRE, is a very estim able man, who has been described as a person who would not harm a fly, but would leave mischief to work itself out in a kingdom. He would be the last man to do an act of injustice himself, or to interfere, with any risk to himself, to exercise stern duties in preventing acts of injustice to others. He was one of the first Po , )r-law Com oration': The present plan of leaving ttie nominations universally in the hands of Government is certainly not Wete Government ever so willing to be just, it cannot select the best men, Lecinge l is not omniscient. If ever so itril , artiel, it could only select the best men within is range of vision ; and these might be fel' Crone being the best men attainable. Government might set fairly in nominating a young roan living in Duke-street, St. James's, to a vacant post ; and yet at that very mo ment these might be a superior young man who would have taken the office living in the High-street of 'sling ten, or in the wilds of Cumberland or Perthshire. Ob viously, is short, if we are really to act on the principle of selecting the m , st fit, an opportunity mud he given to all who think themiselves fit to come forward. In other worts, instead of leaving Government to select the fittest of those ceseaily presented to them, there ought to be a public notification to the whole country, that such aid such men are wanted, and that the fittest of those wile present themselves will be selected. The answer to sech a summons clears away one portion of the duty, for, w3eu the summons has been answered, there is no doubt as to who are the attainable men. They lie col lected, so to speak, into a mass ; and the only remaining task is that of selection of the fittest. This selection, however, is, l.n reality, a work of the examination oi evi dence. To, all intents and purpases the man of whose fitness the cutest evidence can be obtained is to be ac cepted as the fittest. Government may itself, if it chooses, conduct the work of examining the evidence ; or the working heads of departments may individually do so. Consilering the moral influence: , at work, how ever, to incapicitate Ministers, or even the heads of de partments for the impartial discharge of this duty, and ccnsiderina also that, in the proposed circum stances, the work of p examination would in itself be aibusiness of large dimensions requiring time and care, it is certainly better, if, indeed, it is not absolutely necessary, that, in the majority of casee, the work should be deputed to a board exriresely charged with this class of duties." "The plan ofappointmcnt by competitive examination to all initial posts in the service, that is to say, through out all that portion of the civil service on which it is deemed desirable that the offices should be filled by young men destined to be trained in the service—has, therefore, our full approtation. We think the proposal to this effect made in the report one of the greatest re forms ever offered to the country. We think it a great reform as regards the service itself, promising a vast in crease of efficiency, a great saving of the national wealth, and an enhancement of the national power and comfort. But its indirect effects seem to us its greatest recommen dation. The purification of political mo - als and cf the legislative which it would effect, by removing causes of corruption, seems to us worth any sacrifice. Then again its effects, as a stimulus to all the educational institutions of the country, and as an influence tending to bring them into unison, seem incalculable. Schools and colleges all over the country would have their powers tested in a new manner ; there would be a premium upon educational inapr i ovements ; the Scottish system would vie with the English system and take hints from it, and vice versa; and lagging localities, sterile in officials, would have to hang their heads in shame, , or justify their sterility in such products, by pointing to products of another kind. Finally, the present intensity of that miserable polarising influence which divides British society iito the two fac tions' of Whigs and Tories, and, penetrating into the thoughts and characters df individuals, obliges them un censciously to make the distinction between Whiegisre and Toryism an a priori la .v of their lives and firm of their entire mental activity, would be sensibly dimin ished ; Whiggism and Toryism would assume snore nearly their true limits as inductive expressions of facts ; aed in lien of the alter, ative of Whiggisin or Toryi-m as an ever-pre-ent, term of thought, these would be substi tute;], to some extent, the far more ennobling influence of unlimited emulation with others in general and on ward culture." A gleam of light was thrown on a dark corner of the present system in a short but important debate in the House of Commons on Friday night, when Mr. NAPIER called attention to the injury done to the public service, and to the great injus tice done to the Dublin University and to indivi dual members, by the rPjectioa at Woolwich of advanced mathematical students, whose merits for the Engineering department were proved upon competitive eiulm:nat'ons at the University, and to the appointment of others, not for merit, but for patronage. This ccmplaint was met by the bold avowal by Mr. MONSELL that merit was not recognised by the Board of Ordname. " The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman," Mr. NAPIER, said the Clerk, " had fairly stated that he did not accuse any of the authorities of acting unfairly, because it was admitted that those authorities made the nomination not on the ground of merit, but merely in accordance with a system long esta blished." Of those nominated, "It was not pre tended that they were selected because they were 'the fittest persons ;" but a promise was given that care should be taken to make them fit ; and so these abominable outrages on the public service in the provision of capacity for future direction of the War, and ou individual rights, passed in the patronage-fed House. But it is to be hoped that it will not now so pass with the public. One Irish member declared that there would be no justice for Ireland but in public examina tions, nor, it may be added, for Scotland, nor England either ! The Rev. CHARLES GRAVES, the Professor of Mathematics in Trinity College, Dublin, in a letter to Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, thus adverts to the morality and Imperial policy involved in this seemingly subordinate question of open competitive examinations : "It is in Ireland that we may hope to see the bes fruits produced by an improved system of appointment in the public offices, as there that patronage has caused some of the worst social evils. The practice o governing with a regard to existing parties and religions has been carried to a far greater •excess in Ireland than in England ; so that the Irishman of the present day is in a great measure the product of a system that has been operating for centuries. Something also must be as cribed to the ,native character of the Celt, which, though it may have more genius and versatility, is not as rich in the elements of industry and resolution as that of the Saxon. To these causes it is owing that our country men are exposed to the cbarge of wanting self-reliance. I am convinced that the occasion fcr this reproach would cease if patient labour and steadiness of conduct were better encouraged, as they would be if the plan of throw ingopen to competition were ear ri ed into p If the the Irishman saw that the path übli execution. e a c P u P t2 t. me to fortune was open to merit only ; that, on the one hand, no hindrances arose from political or religious dis qualifications ; and, on the other, that no help was to be obtained by jobbing or favouritism ; instead of writing memorials to the Castle,' and importuning members of Parliament to do something for him, he would try to do something for himself by a course of self-denying "The Irishman sometimes suspects that, owing to his rc.rnoteness from the head-quarters of Government, or to the existence of a prejudice against him, he has not a fair chance of employment in the public service. He alleges that English and Sco'.eh men, as such, and with out regard to their qualifications, are generally preferred to him. Whether his apprehensions be well or ill founded, it would be desirable to remove all grounds for them. But when appointments can be obtained as the rewards of merit evinced at examinations where all are free to compete, we shall hear no more complaints about the unequal distribution of patronage amongst the natives of different parts of the empire. English, Scotch, and Irish wiil respectively obtain as many appointments as they deserve ; neither more nor fewer. Those who are most successful may have some reason to exult, but none will have any just cause to complain ; and the consequence of this would be a more real union of the three kingdoms. " I must notice another point in connection wiCl - 4 the working of this scheme in Ireland, which you will agree with me in saying is an important one. We find that the animosities which arise from religious differences are greatly embittered by the patronage system. Every appointment of a Roman Catholic, obtained in the usual way by the exercise of Parliamentary influence, is doubly vexatious to disappointed Protestants, and vice versa. These feelings are strongest among the loWer classes, whose bigotry is commonly proportional to their igno rance but they pervade Irish society at large, and do considerable mischief—as the friction of the parts of a machine interfere with its easy and effective working." It might be supposed that the great principle in question had been concocted and established by throwing open the first-class civil offices, the writerships of India, and the Indian medical ap pointments, to open competitive examinations. Not so, however. People in high authority see distinctions in the case—numerous members of the House see distinctions ; and the Administra tive Reform Associations will now see, and enable the public to see, this great distinction wider — that, in the case of the Indian service, the House was, for the most part, abolishing the patronage of others ; and now it will be called upon (and, in truth, it must be called upon through the local constituencies) to pass a self-denying" ord nance, and abolish patronage, in reality, of its own. The first year's competitive examinations for the appointment of medical officers for India have concluded, and concluded to the entire satisfac tion of the eminent persons engaged in them as to the complete efficiency of the method of exa mination as a test for merit. It was attended with the example—which brilliantly illustrates the soundness of the viows enunciated by the writer in the North BritiSib Review, and by Dr. r o u n force ym GRAVES—of a native Indian, Clutterbuchy, coming to the competition, laboriously prepared, and ob taining the second place out of more than twenty competitors. Such an event was calculated t o iv confidenc ouros o justicehis el and fl w m - o c al t ren to . g our e rule with millions It were to be hoped that the example mioll b G e repeated in the tests for merit by the coming competitive examinations for vaitersb; -Ps, Justice for Great Britain in our own Home Government must : now be sought by Administrative Reform Associations. 'We are glad to see that the reso -lutiinis and petitions adopted at the Gloucester m e e ting indicate increasing definiteness of views in the direction ,of their labours: . LATEST NEWS• THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, MAY 22. General Bentinck has left for the Crimea. The Euphrate, which left Constantinople on the 14th, has arrived. Despatches left at 9 a.m. Advices from the Crimea of the 12th state that torrents of rain have fallen since the 10th. The division of Aurell-Herbillon embarked on the 12th and 13th. A division of cavalry was to start on the fol- lowing day, and the Gaard on the 16th. Fresh troops were to occupy the camp. There was a magnificent review previously to the departure of the troops. The Sultan was present, and expressed his high admiration. The Constantinople journals say that the palace intended for the Emperor bore a perfectly fairy appearance. General Mouravieff was concentrating the Rus- sian troops at liltaiah. were still incomplete. Forty-five battalions Mustapha had called in reinforcements from Min„ relic and extended the fortifications. Rescbid Pacha deferred his departure from Vienna. Prince Adelbert of Prussia and the Tunisian Princes were expected. BERLIN, TUESDAY, MAY 22. The French fleet, under Admiral Penaud, were in Kiel harbour on Monday evening. The steam-frigate Pylades and two gun-boats left that morning. A telegraphic despatch, dated Ilan:burg, 22d of May, in. the Indep endance Beige,. says : Admiral Penaud left Kiel to-day with the whole of the French squadron, to join the Eng lish fleet in the Baltic, under Admiral Dundas. TURIN, TEE DAY, MAY 22. The Convents Suppression Bill has been finally voted in the Senate by secret ballot. The votes were-53 for, 42 against. The result was received with great applause in ,he galleries. FRANCE. The following officers have been proinoted to the rank of generals of brigade :—Colonels Ardant, Director of Fortifications at 'Paris ; Creuly, hold ing a similar post at Oran ; and de Beville, Aide (le-Camp to the Emperor, and now on a mission at Constantinople. BOURSE, MAY 21—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 75 93f. 700. 3 per Cents 6B 90 68 85 Credit Mobilier 792 50 Roman Credit Fonder 530 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes -- Piedmontese B5 50 Home Debt 32 approached Balaklava ; troops were embarked, and horses put on board two of the vessels. At six in the evening all the steamers, got up their steam, and about seven the vessels with the troops embarked stood out to sea in a west northwesterly direction. ' "Inithe night between the 21st and 22d of April (3d and 4th of May) the enemy made no further at erupts against Bastions 4 and 5. On our side, we constructed four new batteries on that space ; the ramp trts of the old works were strengthened, and on some points heightened ; the mining works were actively continued ; nowhere could we hear the enemy at work in the nunez. • "On the 23d of April (sth of May), at 1 p.m., some wed-directed shells blew up two powder magazines in the French 8-gun battery, established opposite Bastion 5 ; the fire of the battery was si , encl.. "In the night between the 231 and 21th of April (sth and 6th of May) we made two snocesstui little sorties in front, of Bastion 3. We took an English officer and three men prisoners. " On the 24th of April (6%11,0 May) r at 8.30 a.m., the fire of a battery pear bastion 4 caused a violent explo sion in the enemy's battery, the commotion It created was very great ; some of the men were hurled out of the battery and beams and stones thrown up into the air." "Altogether during the period from the 18th to the 24th of April (30th of April to the Gth of May) our los was much less than duriog the first days of the bum bardreent, but we have to deplore the less of some Very distinguished officers ; among others, the gallant .Ensign Pissareff, of the Tobolsk infantry ; Major 13•:rSchoff,.of, the Onglitch Chasseurs ; Captain Pilenko, of the Volhynian regiment, killed ; and among the wounded, Captain Prince Schirinsky,Schikhrna• toff, of the navy ; Lieutenant Lissitsyne, of the navy ; Capaln Sarytcheff, pf the navy ; Captain Vornitaky, of the navy ; Ensigns Tournanovitch and Axenoff, of the Kolyvan Chasseurs ; Lieut. Sto panoff, of the Wladimir regiment ; Captain Levitsky, of the Podolian Chasseurs ; and Captain . Count Bloudoff, of the Hesse-Cassel Hussars, temporarily acting as Aide de-Camp to Prince Gortschakoff. "Nothing ofimportance has occurred on other points of the peninsula." RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. sY. C. ft. Orleans - Western 067 50 Rouen (MA* G4O -- Strasburg Mediterranean 1090 r) Havro 560 Northern - RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 10th, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says : " The instructions of the central authority relative to the recruitment of this year of 12 men out of 1,000 have just been forwarded to the governors of the western por tion of the empire. The commissions of recruitment, the number of which has been tripled, in virtue of decrees issued at the commencement of the year, have received orders to carry on their operations with the greatest possible activity .• Neither of the last ,four levies made under the Emperor Nicholas was so • considerable as this, although the Jews are exempted from it, in con sequence of their having furnished to the preceding army 3 men over and above the 10 demanded out of el/try 1,000. The Public Treasury is using the most strenuous efforts to collect the sums necevary for these armaments, and even subscriptions have been opened in different places for this object. The governor, of Kursk has addressed a circular on the sub ject to the bourgeoise of that place, and a M. Tschumis chew, a contractor for supplying the army, has headed the subscription list by putting down his name for 25,000 silver roubles." We have received the St. Petersburg journals of the 15th of May. The Invalide Busse publishes the following report from Prince Gortschalioff, dated 24th of April (6th of May) "The enemy, making extraordinary efforts, and suf fering (according to the accounts received) considerable' losses, pushes forward his approaches with obstivaey. Having taken by assault the lodgment in front of Bats tion No. 5, he has approached his works' up to the for tifications of the place ; however, the new batteries erect ed by us, and which strengthen in an important manner the def.mce of the point - attacked—the immediate repair during the night of the damage done by the et.erny in the day—the precision of the fire of our artillery, which on the 23d and 24th of April (sth awl 6zh of May) blew up three powder magazines,—and finally the complete success of our mining operations, all united, ,give the hope of delaying the advance of the works of the be " siegers, which are executed under a most heavy fire within a very short range of the fortifications, and must occasion them great loss. Already,, to evade loss, the enemy has only occu pied the trench abandoned by us on the' 10th of April (Ist of May) by a small number of riflemen, and has not erected any works there. As regards his fire it is di rected chiefly ngainst,Eastions 4 and 5, and against the Schwartz redoubt, situate between the two latter, as also against the Selinghinsk and Volhynia redoubts, but does not do us much harm." To the above general summary Prince Gortscha koff adds the following details of the march of mili tary operations : "On the 18th (30th April), at 2.30 p.m., we twice at- tempted to smoke out the enemy in the entonnoir to the left of Bastion 4. The effect of the explosion was so great that from the fortress men were seen blown up into,the air. " In the night between the 18th and 19th (30th April to Ist May), baying driven back a detachment of the enemy, which had left the trenches to storm pur ap proaches, we made a small sortie in the direction of the entonnoirs of the enemy, situate in front of Bastion 4, to attract considerable forces to that point, where five mines were ready for firing ; the operation was attended with complete success. The works of the besiegers were destroyed, and after the second explosion the cries of the wounded were heard in the second e n t onno i r . _ _ " On the 19th of April (Ist of May), at 10.30 p.m the enemy, having assembled nearly 10,600 men, left the trenches, preceded by about 600 volunteers, and with hurrahs thre w themselves upon thelodgments in advance of Bastion 5. Despite a heavy fire of musketry, and kcharge with the bayonet by two battalions of the Ouglitch Chas seurs, the enemy occupied the lodgments, and then ad vanced aeainst the Schwartz redoubt, but were stopped by a heavy fire of grape. Atdaybreak the enemy returned to the trenches, leaving only a few volunteers and riflemen in the lodgments they bad taken possession of. "The loss of the assailants must have been very con siderable, for, according to the statements of prisoners, their reserves came up within range of the grape of our cannon ; the trenches were full of corpses of the enemy. "On the 20th of April (2d of May), at 11 a.m., we fired two mines, the explosion of which destroyed the works of the besiegers meant to crown the entonnoirs in front of Bastion 4. "To make certain of the number of men the enemy bad placed in the trenches evacuated by us on the 19th of April (Ist of May), we made a strong reconnaissance at 3 p.m. ; 180 volunteers, supported by a battalion of the Kolyvan Chasseurs, and by a battalion of the \Vladimir regiinent, occupied the trench nearest to us, an I com pelled the French to leave it. This reconnaissance made us aware, that the advanced trench was occupied by a considerable force of the enemy, and consequently the volunteers were recalled. "Our losses in the combat on the night between the 19th and 20th of April (ht and 2d of May) consisted in one superior officer, nine subaltern officers, and 283 men killed ; two superior officers, 13 subalterns, and 540 men woundei. "On the 21st of April (34 of May) a movement was visible in the enemy's feet. At 6 Paul. different vessels ODE -SA. A letter from Odessa 'of the 7th, in the Danube of Vienna, says t---' The Governor-General ad interim has received orders to make arrangements for sending into the government of Charriow the persons confined in the prisons of Bessarabia.. In .like manner, the Prisoners in the government of Kherson are to be removed into that of Woronesch. General Wagner, in command of the corps of Theo dosia, writes word that the hospital of that town, containing 300 beds, is altogether too small to re ceive all the wounded soldiers that have been of late stit there. In consequence, lie , has been obliged to take measures for providing accommo dation for 3,000 patients." THE BALTIC FLEET. OFF NARGEN ISLAND, .MAY 15. The , Itnperiew.4e sails to-day for England with. invalids from the fleet and to repair damages. She is ordered to. Sheerness, where I presume there will be an inquiry into the cause of the late colli sion. She has supplied nearly the whole of her stores and provisions to the ships . of the fleet.. The ships here at present consist of the Doke of Wel lington, the Royal George, the Cißsar, the Nile, the James Watt, the Exmouth, the Majestic, the Cressy, the Hogue, the Colossus,.the Ituperieuse, the Euryalus, the Amphion, the EAk, the Merlin, the Driver, the Firefly, the Lightning, and the Magicienne, which arrived yesterday from Elsi nore ; also a contract steamer, with bullocks, from Messrs. Reynolds and Deacon. • H.M.S. —, Revel Roads, May 13. We have been following the ice all the way up and anchored here eight days after the roads were cleared. Our flying squadron have some time ago effected a blockade, and I am happy to say 10 to 15 prizes have already been made, chiefly by the . Archer and the Geyser, off Riga. Tile state of health on board, I am sorry to say, is very had. We have all sorts of tillness in the ship, and amongst others small-pox—f )iir officers and 12 men infected by it ; besides 6.) to 70 yu the list for other things. At Revel the people are all on the alert. Thirty thousand men are quartered in the town. The ladies and children have taken to the country, and every house owner has been compelled to lay in provisions for six months. There are no men (S war here. The fleet or at least the greaterportion of the divis;on last year stationedatSveaborg haseffectedajunction with the one at Cronstadt, evidently after our departure last Nov., as the ice still covers the upper part of the Gulf. . The Commander in Chief has already been beyond Sveaborg, and though we left England a month later than last year we are in these waters ten days earlier than Sir Charles Napier's squad ron. We like our new admiral much. We land daily at Nargen Island, and have games at cricket. We had a match yesterday amongst " Dukes, Exmouths, and Royal Georges." One side made 151, the other 110, in two innings. , We proceed to Faro Sound in a day or two. Imperieuse and Tartar have been in contact with each other, and the former carried away the Tartar's mainmast And mizeutopmast, and her own bow sprit and cutwater—each so much damaged as to be compelled to go home. ' Tho St; Petersburg Gazette announces that an order from the Military Governor of S. Peters burg declares Cronstadt in a state of siege, and no person is allowed to enter the town unless on duty, or provided with a permit from the Military Go vernor of Cronstadt. A letter from Frankfort, of the 17th, in the Rhine Gazette, says :—" A new Austrian note has just been despatched to the German States, declar inc., that Austria remains faithful to the alliance of the Western Powers, but that the Cabinet of Vienna has not given up the hope of seeing peace re-established. It is said that the question of mo bilisation is again brought forward in this de spatch." AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, MAY 22. The Maid of Judah, Captain Merchant, which sailed from Sydney on 'the 25th of February for London, with wool, coppor ore, and from 16,000/. to 20,0001. in gold -dust, was off Plymouth this morning, and landed newspapers for the Admiralty, 12 bags• of newspapers, and 4,243 letters. Cape Horn was free from ice when she rounded it on the 27th of garch. In consequence of strong northerly winds she did not cross the Line till the 4th of May. She spoke off the River Plate on the 25th of February the N'Vooloomoolco, from Sydney, from which place sbesailed on the 25th of February with a cargo of wool, ore, and transsli• Ted brandy; also the Great Britain, from Liverpool ior thy. East Indies. South of the Line she spoke the Hindlstan, with guano, from 'Callao for Cork ; north of the Line the schooner Orwell, last from Rio Grande for Falmouth. _ The Star of the East, Captain Robinson, 93 d tys from Shanghai, for Loudon, was off Plymouth this morning. NOTICES . OF MOTION. THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.-MR. DISRAELI. The following are the precise terms of the notice placed on the books of the House of Commons last even ing, by the Right Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, and for the discussion of which Mr. Layard has con sented to give way by postponing his own resolution : "That this house caiinot adjourn for the recess without expressing its dissatisfaction with the ambiguous language and uncertain conduct of her Majesty's Government in, ro ference to the great question of peace or war; and that, under these circumstances, this house feels it a duty to de clare that it will continue to give every support to her Ma jesty in the prosecution of the war, until her Majesty ghall, iu conjunction with her allies, obtain for this country a safe and honourable peace." AMENDMENT.-SIR FRANCIS BARING. a That this house havira seen with regret that the Con ferences of Vienna have not led to a termination of hostili ties, feels it to be a duty to declare that it will continue to give every support to her Majesty in the prosecution of the war, until her Majesty shall, in conjunction with her allies, btain for this country a safe and honourable peace." GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA• On Friday last we referred at some length to the re ports of the principal officers of this company. Ye now publish in extenso the highly important and valuable ono of Mr. S. P. Bidder, the general manager of this the greatest railway in the world. Mr. Bidder was specially selected for his present appointment in conse quence of his arfect knowledge, not only of a railway from the very commencement of its construction, but also for his equally complete acquaintance with the most minute details of traffic and of railway accounts, Mr. Bidder is a man who adds t.) his other eminent qualities unwearied Industry and application. Under his ma nagement the receipt , of what has been looked upon as the least profitable portion of the Grand Trunk system have nearly doubled in two years, and they bid fair, eventually, to equal those of the more favoured portiems of the line. A Nw p a per says :—The new gun‘ invented by our ratownsi t i .t . G. Armstrong, Esq., has been tried sv lately, and the experiments' have been ee e in a e s a s t t l i , (3 em i nen tly sucoessfui. We understand that at Whitley, on Saturday, a target five feet in diameter was hit re peatedly at a distance of 2,200 yards." THE LATE "0. SMITH'S LIBRAItY.—The library of this well-known comedian was sold by auction last week. The collection was not one of rarities, but con sisted mainly of useful books. After the books some curiosities, and personal relics of the late owner, but presenting nothing remarkable, were sold. LA W INTEL. IGENCE (T. ------ COURT OF CHANCERY. The L en ) Chancellor sat in the Old flail, Lincoln's. Inn, to day for the purpose of hearing apPeals) case calling for a special report came before his lordship during the whole morning. (Bef,tra the Lords Justice of Appeal.) THE raNcIsEEIRE INSIIIIANCE COMPANY v. BEDDISII AND but Do • THE BRITISH ASSURANCE COMPANY• ihis morning, and occlpied their lordships the.wh°l6 The a rg um e nts in this part-heard appeal were resutne.d the teiol ern ppala,ynbc judgment affl,l,e of db f i l It t h : iee without V i i r e c h . C i t clelsritsc,s,e.llo In n W o o l e ° d day. The case came before the court upon aPP ealfr°lll Civil En,gineers', llio Builders', and General Fire and Life lusurano Company was formed, and in the flowing year the, defendant it.3ddish was appointed, with a salary years, a ye_ar, manager of the company for 86°3 y, that afterwards the name of that couipanY disinissi.nr:i year 1817 ~ altered to that of the British Insurance ComPallY• 11l July, 1852 , another company w as formed, which was an r itisk d the called the Lancashire Insurance Compaq, latter company purchased the b usiness of the D Assuranc e Company, upon the unders tanding 'aDY tha t tbeY should be liable for the co ntracts of that conll. Differences arising between the plaintiffs and Eeddisb' t h e late r gave up all connection with th e company at be er end of 1852, the company paying him hiss a'ary for t current quarter only.. lieddilli afterwards was:sr pointed manager of another company, .0d c°llsltia' ing that, instead of be in g entitled only t 3 the current quarter's salary, he b ad, under the origi nal agreement, in 1848, a clear c laim upon the orig.' for the whole, he brought an act ion to recover it. Tbo company . then filed the present bill, and applied for.: injunction to restrain the proceedings in tea actio a Upon the hearing the Vice-Chancellor Wood di missed the bill without costs, and from that decision the resell appeal was brought. LeINTOSH V ( . l3 T ef u T G V RE ic A ef whEasnrc2enllsor ESAtiuLairvti.)v co— further arguments in this important ca'°;vierrA:el sumed this morning and occupied the Court the bolet day. The arguments have already occupied th e C°I . 11 „ 14 days, and appear likely not to CAD° to a coucluFio for at least a week more. The su m in dispute between ono of ob °se the plaintiff and tie railway comp an Y , of contractors he wa=, exceeds a qua rter of a Willi° money- Nothing of the least interest cam e before eisther /ice' Chancellor Kindersle:i, or Wood, or the Roll Cot°. . .--- COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH' be ll ' (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief-Justice CarOP;i d r. ' Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr.Justiceel Erh ' a n Justice Crompton.) IN RE ,AN ATTORNEY. ¢ 610 Sir F. Kelly applied to their lordships for -he against an attorney of this court, to show cause wil should itil not be struck off the rolls of the c ourt, °r _ A ft)r o • e calling On him to answer the matters 'contain"' 4..1 an affidavit made by the Rev. Edward Thoruleh 1)7, pptual curate (f liag et in Kent, who, becides bl f Church m preferment, ,was only possessed of a ° lb o o was s ne d y amounting to between SOO/. and 9001., id e a the esirous of investing. H e was recomme°d-, sti theattorney in question, who advised him not to in e , - i 1 money in the funds on accourft o f tb° s % 0 (theamount cf interest they yielded, but that or attorney) could place it out on a satisfaet°ll?°ll 0. g eo a t g d e i that would yield 5 per cent interest, P;° ° '" iv eci p a , make the amount up to 1,0001. The 'c ceri- r e E p hwe e : s l rd e et : ici l li a, b ln y w, doi ot t oh h of l e . .t:w a h a t oe t o o vod r ta n hal e une y er i n: w iift e a err s e, ssb a tooowr f lg r i: e i freehold o I t d h :I h w o e r i I r ' o e w g ; rec house, r stating to the attorney his iouora ce of the w -ci n e li 1 which these matters were' managed,n informed brio dild was read to advance the money me his receivi:s4,o ' se rities, which he wished to keep in 11:s Pess-greeP fi at) beri who The money it : r : e u was the a accordingl yt)lt.o a p n a . i tt d ciolfTevaehhsreiesotiofPBl:l ill' Y r o 'lit t i:: : have the deede, becauseP' necesorY t•iii;; should be further looked at. Repeated LlPPli:tslioe and d re made for the deeds, which were wby ultimately oil' subterfuge, but the rev. gentleman 13300 tamed one deed. It now turned out that tb e ci 0 0 0 was placed in the hands of a persoo a eeilst r e bni °4 wo ad 0.700/,, debtor to the attorney, and the house, a freehold, was a leasehold, not worth m ore ti l t ',d i and with the land had been some time Previ°ll9."'peri' ls rea d l t 00 at the time of the advance of them oney, gaged, and the deed handed over to tbe aPPlicreiti;Al one made up for the purpose of satisfying theis3-d IOW; of the rev. gentleman for his security. it W t° ,:b oP , r o w f h t e h t e he a r ,t the money was not now actuallY i n -leattir ed from whom no satisfactory eI ~ could be obtained. Lord Campbell said enoug h had bee° f itt,tedblbi'i, learned o counsel to entitle him to a NU. 14 : 1 111 4°11 .1.6 w tho uld be sufficient, in the first inStSOCO, t° . 4 r...i'" affidavtitto:naefytertowhainchswetrhQthe m atters c °l3tai n n ti h 64114 C our t would Idly ' - ' ' deal with him. )30$ Rule granted accordingly. D w O iTl NV ih E bi L es L V. THE GENERAL STEM" NAVIGATI° recollectedlong-litigated that case th came . forori 1 ; 13 5 b i r 4 ' : ; . b ,v! by the plaintiff, ow near the Manse • Li n g e h r t ° , ing io r t id o e t n h t e et N ea o m rt e h r, S e ea e , .inetahcetavvou:stass .cua:l,:cll. p th er e ty of defendants, owin hferronlv s oye i ;l:: their o d %'" )04 arewo the T alleged by PlLY'", t t severalneg"ge"e of the defendants • At tile fir''" bb d A special - questions the Pr. otv, were left to M ete d A answered cert •am of them in favour of the plo" otere tcoa:tbathcakese others that of the defendants, and a ver die tr d : s it4 for the of the case , arguments e a e n t o s t h h e a r d t e ri e a t l . There had since then be ell -viociot ",5 and the present application to the ..ocl tP° :verdict for the plaintiff aside, aa d 5 rit,olpin t el o jn c l t o or ll : i i s : :ol e: v oc iff p , 'ro t l ; concluded when WO Vielit't° LLOYD 7 S SHIPPING---(01 ptrio°' ---__-:_-__------------------.."""________---------- z jviY'.) . t h A is v. d i al o : o „,t v tf ; , s..\\,L.7Dloi light t ir b a r May e 2 z 3 ,32 _., — a - n —e ' — W d ifindlesun_edaw:e:rtb: •voil'''l4 ° ' Powrsmouni, may . 22.—Win d, N. ' , il l° t•I' d ol l and Emma; from La Guayra, for Hamburr,ootar4o,ov/ City of Norwich (F. transport), free3,lte of 41 Pizz,ro. Cadiz, for Copenhagen, leaky; -' - ' tt P l° lia u 0° (a.), from Dublin, and left f, r Lonticr• ~ r ,f la( , b ee PLYMOUTH, May 22.—Arrived—.)'";,0 Co i v 0 . Sydney, N.S.W. ; Cape Horn was fret) fr i _ . ,Co fof rounded it on the 27th of M,.rch. Arrigleo. f, cort:lA:atflrOolJnlT lI F , i M g u a e y ra 2 2 : — 0 n 't , ( V i i i n n e d 22.—Wind, ) 11,:i L ab o l v ei hlu ., 1, , L a y l f..A , l „ T go ro l,e, :, Dublin ; Fifth of May, Alexandria, “,s,otta i o f ' from Melhourne ; Prince of Wale, L' eh JO Barbadoes. osilea" L. POOLE, May 22.—Wind, F.N.B. " ~,„1.4 " ; Labradore. , v ,, sauv" ! = SWANSEA, May 22.—Wind, B•N''' . ,_.doei • Moore,. for Coquimbo. 1 /3311 P. „Icel..' LEITH, Niay, 22.---Sailed—Chesbire, for Bares COB K, May .21.—Sailcd—Glanniure, for ~ ,eIPIP ' A Pg.) OP- (FEB ELECTRIC TELEar.'-- „do LiviuroOL, W ediw co ld , , . Wind, S.W. b. gavAoll* be_ Arrived —Young Mechanic, from Sava 8 'O, ~ Sailed —Elizabeth, tor St. Toonv.e ; O al . Malta ; Prima Donna, Balcklava. ii.olo , virATIO . Os Wind, .r.I.S.E. 3fel ... , Arrived.—Dart, from Sayre. ~roW i, QUEN' -- ffiPeoft Wind, S. • ,-, b lion , . ti e ' Arrived —Enna, from Ifondtiraa; ,e'o,arie, Grande ;Request, Havre; Bmbla, A' St. John's, N.B. ' 9.1 ti p _...—.. altA r 51 ° ' r 4 9. A 00' (BY SUBMARINE AND BRII I,oolBiLer P : *, GRAVESEND. T ye.._ vi eetu _ l ' o tlh Wind, S.W. ; tide, three hour's elf.;l, Vi%a Arrived—Orion, from Dantzic ; •= 1 ""' 4 °*"' ton; Investigator, Tutocorin. 10= 0, Sailed —Bertha, for Memel. -...• doesdol' trio DEAL, - We foro,lio: Wind, W.S.W. ; fresh. ing t°th lc; Y Vo I Anchored —Fanny 0. Field, fr0n3W,i2191,4-00- Ir ° f g r ,r IA Passed—Johann, from Brecnen., 1°..,,b001,. Hatnburgh, for Cadiz; Holyvveco. _."-L°oodoo wickC a r th ; a gLeenrad, forf i TiV IS jj o' NBeenwtei________________ansetkie,.Ca,....,lo, I°l rhi If.) M 4..RKET 1 V lii 14 "'''''' —.- 4s o 1 , ---4"----ii,, A O. kat o ° ,l CORN ES in .A,..,,0 11 3 ' 1. tpo il t al ° The show of English wheat in . Y_!,',45., ;rood' , derate, and chiefly the refuse ot ff iii l 7,,d for ,a l: :`„ f ico,!,o 3o , - ,,d ance of buyers was limited the tle.o f otict , i ~t t b olP,o o o,P , ' inactive, yet We have no changes t .ic m h wa s 0 ' 10 fiat Foreign wheat, the sqpply Of i ' r , l 3 ' currentsl;io Pi o t , 0 0 :y sold slowly, at barely last sve,„i;•,. bat ! s f,al r w ore A 1 0 o k cargoes very little was doing. ..,.' su ppil€ 9 _,,i to ° 0 "/ 17 0$ and malt at full quotations. 1 -° I ' , . ,r 00 ,ta, 'pia aerate. There was a Flow sale 1c..... 00 v of' f. were offering on lower term. a. ,- . ,T e. , f 1 „0 peas, and flour, no char.ge ttetAnTl)..irlisu;lo%. ost_4o. 1 ter-,. ,, Ai"invaikriev. (;a 14:(6800 I 1 06 0 r ,510 t _.... 39,710 0 a a' f 26,460 i •• 1................,..... _ go3 te 13 BOT:0711/4;141 lira, a °f hop 09. P i ll 9 3 ; 0 WHITECII 39 t ia to aa vaWlueeolifaSvaPsasegxeeqdri(alleitV(l2___l afsra___,naltynup:ojr.a 0 to A,,01#7 s2dto 6s the veal, ~ Thr"'" , o o per Sibs. by cal'"______----___---- i.o. o n ,jo g 041 Beef, 3s 2,1 to 4s :t ils;lnituoiriv,..m' ; por% 311 A o ,„per W I L : i ; c rs re ° , Po " A PRIZE.—If the crossing v _ en jog ...--.oceis ..di, last, gave a lady a Pc!..„ 11) ! f,nrgs;,'Foior..l;e,-";1114P her dress will call at .Ne. ''',,, drotltu' be bandoomely rewarded for PA. 0 . press. Fmcdish .. Irish •• •• Foreign .. Wh eat. 1,590 C