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'POST OFFICE PARLIAMENTARY and POSTAL DIRECTORIES, with SUPPLEMENT &L NAMES to London Directory, Now ready, price One Shilling. Kelly and Co., 19, 20, and 21, Old Boswell-court, Cleinent's.iun, Strand. DRITRY-LANE.—Lea , see, Mr. E. T. Smith. — Reduced Prices as usual. THIS EVENING, WIII be performed GUY MANNERING. Henry Bertram, Mr. Bowler ; Meg Merrilees, Mrs Selby. To conclude with THE ARTFTIL DODGE. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. . . . Will be presented TELE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters by Mr Buckstone and Miss E. Chaplin. Senora Perea New. and Senor Marcos Diaz will appear in a new Ballet, UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILLA. To be followed by THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. It To which will be added the new Ballet by the Spanish Dancer* called THE GALICIAN FETE. After which MAKE YOUR WILLS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KL AN. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the original adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's Rlatorlca►l Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean. To be followed by (7th time) a new Farce, entitled A GAME OF ROMPS. Principal characters by Messrs. Harley and Chester ; Mrs. Winstanley, Misses Heath, Murray, C. Leclercq, Daly, and Tertian. To conelude with AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Veatria. THIS EVENING, Will be ilerformed TAKE THAT GIRL AWAY. To be followed by A COZY COUPLE. . . To conclude with - the new Comic Drama, called TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Principal characters by Mr. Itomby and Mrs. F. Mathews. Box-office open from 10 until 6. Sole agent for Private Boxes. Mr. Allcroft, 15. New-Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPLU. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, preceded by a Pro logue, and called JANET PRIDE. After which, BETTY MARTIN. To conclude with THE FETE OF NATIONS. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager; Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the new Cornodietta, called TIT FOR TAT, in Which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Bliss Maskell will appear. Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY. Attar which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled T FIE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Characters by Mr. F. Robson, Miss Julia IR. George, MISS E. Ormonde, Miss Marston, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitsallan. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Complimentary Benefit of Mr. WILLIAM COOKE. The Grand Equestrian Spectacle called TIMOUR TILE TARTAR. Also, a novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE. The performance of Herr Endersohn, le Fjl-de-Fer, with PEntree du Clown a la Francalse. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Ac Cooke, jun. ting Manger, r. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian. Director, W. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVE NINO Will be performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Cha racters by Messrs J. Raiford, Rogerson, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re. becca Isaac+, Miss Beaumont, and Miss Somers. To be followed by THE PET OF THE PUBLIC. To conclude with CITY FRIENDS. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE, SHOREDITCH. Proprietor, Mr. John Douglass. This Magnificent Theatre, unrivalled in splendour, in elegance, anti harmony of effect, capable of containing 5,000 persons, is open every evening. Miss GLYN, the popular Shakspearlan Actress, will appear every evening (Wednesday excepted) in her unrivalled personation of CLEOPATRA. ANTONY by Mr. Henry Marston, of Sadlers Wells Theatre. The scenery, dresses, and appointments, from the best authorities, are gorgeous and appropriate. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAT —Morning4l minolter 2 I Evening 0 min-aft. 3 Ta-4ogiuriv -Morning22 axin.a.fter 3 Evening 39 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Sme Orrsca, March. 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night; 50—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, down to 29'53, now 29'80. WIND, S.W. to W.N.W. and W. by N.—Blowing fresh, with fins sunshiny weather, but cloudy, and occasional rain. Heavy rain in the night. MArtes 19. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night: 54 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.01. WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, with mild weather. Mt. (IA t LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1865. Although every other home question has been effectually set aside by the War, there is one which of necessity still commands the most earnest and vigilant observation. The vast and important question, that is, the paramount and dominant difficulty, the bewildering and apparently inextri cable problem—relating to a comprehensive modi fication of the Criminal Code, with a view to the repression of vice and the diminution of crime through the reorganisation of our whole system of secondary punishments. Whether we happen to be in arms or at peace, the laws of the land are liable, of course, to be perpetually violated, and equally as a matter of course in every such instance their outraged majesty .must re quire some immediate and adequate vindi cation. How this may be most readily and suc cessfully accomplished, has during many years past been the projected discovery of the more philanthropic among the heads of the people, whether in the Legislature or in the Administra tion —hitherto, unhappily, without their re searches arriving at any distinct or positive con clusion. Insomuch, indeed, have the endeavours thus made to arrive at some definitive result of a satisfactory character proved abortive, that actu ally at the present moment, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the whole scheme of cri. minal jurisprudence may be described without exaggeration as being in process of transforma tion, as undergoing the distracting and dis locating agony of a complete and radical metamorphosis. Literally, at this present juncture, the entire system of the Criminal Cade is in a state of transition. Nay, it so happens, by a singular coincidence, that the two foremost Powers now in existence, that the two chief mem bers in the great family of civilisation, that France and England are not only agitated simultaneously by the progress of this extraordinary movement, but that the transition state at which it has pre cisely at this instant arrived on either side of the Channel, presents to the world a spectacle in Which the issue, as far as it has gone, is dia metrically contrasted. Our neighbours have to a eertabs extent abolished the bagnes, in other Words, the galleys, and have almost entirely done away with the system of Oa rauxforces, otherwise con vict hard lab () • labour , the dockyards and otherpublic establishmen-ts----getting rid of the vicious masses of the population by deporting them beyond the seas to Cayenne a n d INT usa-hiva. We ourselves, on the contrary, have virtually broken up the entire system of our penal settlements— we no longer send the scum of Shorediteh, and the d regs of Whitechapel, to the Cape or Go o d Rope and Van Diemen's Land ; instead of this We retain the whole of our indigenous race of ruffians within the boundaries of the United Kingdom : at our owe expense—(the words have a twofold siguifi cane}—at our own expense, saving our remote colonies from the perils of wholesale demoralisa tion. Every one is, in consequence, completely dissatisfied—both among ourselves and among our neighbours. In France, the popular outcry hav ing been vociferously raised against the bagnes and the forests evades, or escaped convicts, and in favour of penal settlements, qfeel ing is now spreading, not perhaps favourable to the restoration of the galleys and the tray aux forces, but certainly to a considerable degree ini mical to the broader and ruder scheme of !trans portation. In England, on the other hand, where the national judgment had long since recognised the injustice of emptying the outscourings of our jails promiscuously on the shores of our fruitful and unoffending colonial possessions, the national instinct is beginning to revolt from the notion of avoiding one evil by the toleration of another this other, in many respects, perhaps worse than its predecessor, by reason of the home ticket-of-leave system substituted for that hitherto in vogue in our penal settlements. Frenchmen may have had qualms formerly about the forNts evades, the VAUTRINS and MACAIRES of the drama, born of the galleys, and fostered into celebrity by the genius of DE BALZAO and LE MAITRE—but Englishmen begin now to wince more shudderingly over the notion of select bands of skilled rascality, and half-educated in famy, and partially-reclaimed ruffianism—what the author of Firmilian designates, "The rag and tag and bobtail of mankind," being set loose upon society at intervals from the bagnes of Dartmoor and the galleys of Ports mouth. While our Allies are looking askanse, with a modified sense of remorse, in the direction of Cayenne and Nuka-hiva, we are beginning, some at least amongst us are beginning, with very different feelings, actually to revert to thoughts of Botany Bay, and even of that lovely and horrible Norfolk Island, which seemed during so many dreadful years at once a Paradise and a Pande- monium. accomplished,c jumblen e er t h of f a chaotic Already much has been less, in spite of an apparently theories, and experiments towards the amelioration of the social state, so far as that can be at all effected, through the better management of our oriminal population. Advantageous results have been arrived at, chiefly, however, it must be con fessed, through the medium of a rather costly experience. Scarcely a project has been passed over without its being subjected to trial by the way—the working of each new scheme being watched the while with a scrutiny as minute and vigilant as we believe it to have been throughout impartial and conscientious. It is thus that the public has been enabled to attain something like a correct estimate of the effects of the several methods of treatment brought successively under examination. Whatever benefits could possibly be extracted from each have been effectually searched out, whether those benefits were derivable from the plan of the convict association, upon public works, as at Portland, or from that of separate confinement, as at Pentonville. Insomuch have the authorities advanced steadily towards the solu tion of the problem thrust upon them by a for midable necessity for the chance at least of its ultimate elucidation, that (even when they may have appeared to the undiscerning to have become in some measure bewildered, if they have not seemed to have positively and enormously retro graded) they have so contrived matters that we are by this time enabled to estimate precisely at their true value the different means adopted for the improvement of criminals both under the separate system and under that of association. So that we can nowadays, so to speak, place our finger, at pleasure, upon any numeral in the tabular statistics recording the results of Training and Discipline, of Badges and Classification, of offering gratuities to the well-conducted and holding out incentives to the industrious. Under the influence of these generous en deavours to extract good from evil, the Prisons of England have risen to the dignity of being nothing less than grand reformatary establish ments, instead of remaining, as they had done previously, mere grim abodes of impenitent ex piation. They are somewhat of a contrast, indeed, it will doubtless be admitted, to the foul and pestilential dens of punishment in which the guilty wretches of the last century were huddled together in filth and darkness, when HOWARD first directed his herculean benevolence to the cleansing of those Augean pits of infamy, diseale, despair, and all imaginable and unimaginable kinds of suffering. Under any circumstances, the graphic and luminous records penned by the truthful hand of Mr. FIELD, or of Mr. DrxoN—descriptions comprised in the met morials drawn up by those intelligent biographers of the Life and Labours of our Master-Philanthropist—read to us less like the account of a reality than like the dreamings of some distempered imagination. It must especially appear so to those who may chance to have examined for themselves the organisation of the Hulk Establishments at Woolwich, or to those, again, who may happen to have observantly traversed the galleries and examined the whole of the beautifully-systematised arrangement of the Millbank Penitentiary. We have all been repeating the observation that Aristocracy is on its last trial, Lord PALMERSTON being leading counsel for the culprit. If so, it stands very jauntily in the dock, and gives no sign of fearing an unfavourable verdict. It has shown none in the construction of its Cabinet, and no fear whatever of relying on its old pleas of reserve and secrecy. It claims the right to con duct the business of the nation with as much pri vacy as if its past secret delinquencies wore veiled rather than exposed by Mr. ROEBUCK'S Commit tee. With like nonchalance it gives the coup de grace to each measure of honestly liberal charac ter which comes before the House of Commons. It will maintain the reign of privilege to the last. It will boldly assert that the Aristocracy, which is answerable for Crimean manslaughter on the wholesale scale, and for spending seven millions of our money on work which might have been better done for two, is the most pre cious gem in our constitution ; that it is beyond all comparison the most costly one we admit. Two illustrations of this truly aristocratic de meanour were furnished by the debates on Thurs day night. Mr. LOCKE KING brought forward again his bill for the better settling of the real estates of intestates. He proposes that when the deceased has not by will indicated his wish that the eldest son should absorb the portions of all the other children, that the law should divide the estate in the same manner which has long been considered fair in the case of personal property. The Chiefs of the Cabinet, as Mr. L. KING complained, disdained to do battle with such a reasonable proposition ; they put forward their Solicitor-Generill as of quite adequate rank to fight the battle for them against vulgar notions of justice, and it must be owned he fulfilled the duties of his lieutenantey in orthodox, aristocratic style. Primogeniture was an established institu tion of the country ; to measures for destroying, not amending the law, he could never consent ; t " House bad re f use d th e measure l ast sess i on by a maj or i ty of we should three t o one ( a ra th er hope f u l omen, Lave thought, for Mr. KING, consider ing the treatment most popular measures have always received f or some few y ears i n t h e Honour able House); natural justice, i n matters of real propert3vspecially, was all a fallacy ; and th e whole d e political up with institution s o f the country were b g i v ing th e e ld est son all the real property, and sending the other children forth to get their living by their wits ! We have given an honest resume, not a m e . _ cature, of the Honourable Member's arguments. Indeed with the latter ono he was—and even in these days of Crimean delinquency—quite ena moured. He expatiated °lithe blessing to the coun try of flocks of aristocratic eaglets, whom the law of primogeniture treats as the old eagle is said to treat her young ones—first bringing them up in the eyrie, far above the vulgar species, then drop ping them in mid-air to sustain themselves as they best may above the world below them. The consequence is, he tells us, " that there is not a profession or occupation which does not swarm with industrious, intelligent, and earnest younger sons, whose industry was stimulated, and whose intellect was excited, by the knowledge that they must depend on their own exertions." Capital, this, to be sure! Had the Hon. Member forgotten the Committee which sits in the morning ? Or was he quite oblivious of the little fact that the coun try is universally cursing the system which hasfilled the civil service and the army appointments with younger sons," and demands as the first of reme dies that the idleness and incompetency of these young outcasts of primogeniture shall not take precedence of the industry and intellect of the classes who take no account of their great grand fathers ? The Solicitor-General must really un learn the lessons of Lord ELDON, if he wishes to convince the country now. The other notable illustration of aristocratic assurance was the rejection of Mr. WILLIAMS' proposition, certain to take the form of an Act of Parliament some day, for subjecting real pro perty to Probate Duty, equally with personal property. Here the new Chancellor of the Ex chequer was the selected champion of aristocratic exemptions—the aristocracy having first attempted in vain the dodge of a count out. The constitu tion of the ecclesiastical courts, which can only deal with the probate of personal property, was his first objection, as if there were no serious wish to abolish those nuisances altogether, and to sub stitute a court competent to deal with real pro perty. His next argument was, Mr. GLADSTONE ; —he had proved that landed property was more heavily taxed than real property—an argument which has merely the unfortunate defect that Mr. GLADSTONE can prove anything. He could prove, for instance, that there were 30,000 bayonets after the Battle of Inkerman, when the Duke of CAM BRIDGE, on the spot, could make out, with every one besides, not more than 12,000 or 13,000. Of course his arguments appeared perfectly con clusive to a House so largely composed of sons and other connexions of peers, who were what they were in virtue of aristocratic ex emptions. Neither the inherent injustice and inequality of the present law, nor the addition of 2,500,0001. per annum to the revenue by the simple expedient of one law for all, could gain a majority for Mr. WILLIAMS. The late editor of the Edinburgh Review re-edited most successfully the works of Mr. GLADSTONE. THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VIENN_ VIENNA, March 15.—At about half-past one this afternoon the Vienna Congress was opened. Shortly after one o'clock Arif Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, and his adlatla, Riza Bey, made their appearance at the Austrian Foreign-office, where they found Count Buol and Baron Prokesch-Osten ready to receive them. Then came the Russian plenipotentiaries, Prince Gortschakoff and M. de Tito Next arrived her Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiaries, the Earl of Westmoreland and Lord John Russell ; and lastly, Baron de Bourqueney. the French ambassador and plenipotentiary at t' u t e Court, made his appearance. The members bf the Congress thus assembled were then conducted to one of the principal drawing-rooms in Count BP:ol's residence, which had been arranged for the purr;:ose. There were eleven chairs placed around the green board." His Excellency Count Buol-Schaue:iistein occupied the pre sident's chair, and opened the solemn proceedings of the Congress with a brief but very impressive speech. Baron von Meysenbug officiated as secretary. From . the above recital you will observe that Turkey, England, Russia, and Austria are each re presented by , two plenipotentiaries, and France only by one ; consequently there were present in all nine plenipotentiaries and one secretary. For whom the eleventh chair was intended at the "green board" I have yet to learn. Peradventure it is kept vacant either for Ali Pacha, who is still expected from Constantinople, or for a representative frem Prussia, although the latter's entry into the assembly appears to be postponed sine die. In competent quarters it is stated that the respective members of the Congress have pledged themselves to each other to keep the proceedings of the Congress strictly secret, and the semi-official Aueriam Correspon dence has also been condemned to an absolute silence upon this subject. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, MARcrr 18. TilE FLAG OF TRUCE' AT TILE MALA KOFF TOWER. A letter from Sebastopol of the Ist gives the , following details concerning a short truce which followed the affair of the Malakoff Tower : " On the 26th ult, it was arranged that a detachment of each army should proceed to bury the dead. Both parties met accordingly, and on the French side it we.s the Zouaves who were detached for that service. They advanced under a flag of truce towards the batteries of the tower, and the Russians did the same, While the men were at work, a long conversation took place be tween the Russian officer who commanded the detach. ment, and the major of the trenches of the 3d division. We learnt that, of the five officers of Zouaves who had disappeared, on:y one, Capt. Pierre, was still alive. Capt. Lesage, w'ao had been taken prisoner, had had his leg amputated at Sebastopol, bat had not survived the operation. The Russian officer behaved in a very gen t'eman-like manner, anal used the most honourable terms in speaking of our unfortunate companions. He also mentioned that an officer of marines was amongst the prisoners. He gave some interesting particulars re specting the funeral ceremony which had taken place at Sebastopol on the burial of our officers. They were taken to their last home with all the honours due to their rank, and a large body of troops were called out for the occasion. Ca,pt. Pierre had been entrusted with the melancholy duty of directing the funeral ceremony. The same Russian officer took leave very politely as soon as the work for which the short truce had been granted was concluded." The Parliamentary soiree closed by a well-sus tained aristocratic charge on the Men of Cotton. A new Ten Hours Bill was the occasion selected. Some Radicals, indeed, seemed to take the lead. The large majority, however, 101 to 109, con sisted chiefly of good and. tried Tories. Corn can beat cotton yet if it likes. Altogether aris tocracy was in high feather on Thursday ; it gave Radical honesty and common sense two right down drubbings, and also let the cotton lords see what it could do if it only choose to put forth its power. Some of the stronger sighted, however, must have perceived Crimean ghosts hovering over these Parliamentary triumphs of aristocracy. Poor unfortunate Poland, under whatever task master, NICHOLAS or ALEXANDER., seems doomed to suffer the most revolting injuries. It was not enough that she had lost a position among nations —that she was absorbed in a semi-barbarous em pire —that her noblest and best were exiles—that her rising population were trained to forget her history, and that the aspirations of their fathers were held in abeyance by the terrors of the fusil- lade, the knout, and Siberia—it was not enough that the industry of the people was taxed to the utmost to strengthen in effect their oppressors in their tyranny : there was another bitter drop, the bitterest of all, left in store for her—her brave Poles must be compelled to fight for Russia ! Perhaps in the whole history of oppression there is nothing more revolting than this. To suffer under ordinary tyranny has something redeeming in it ; but to be compelled to fight for your tyrant, to strengthen the chains by which you are en thralled, is to be made to participate in your own degradation and ruin. And yet to this has poor Poland had to submit. In pursuance of a policy positively diabolical in its ingenuity, the country has from the commencement of the War been drained of its able-bodied men, who have been incorporated with Russian regiments and pushed forward to the various scenes of conflict. Did any show a symptom of dissatisfaction ? A file of men, with powder and ball, and his demon strations were over ! Russia has felt from the first that Poland was the weak spot of the empire ; hence a vast force has been concentrated in it, and the fighting population have been made away with as we have described. " Order "isto " reign at Warsaw," and the work still goes on. Though NICHO LAS be dead, the CZAR lives, grasping, insatiate, remorseless. Nay, under ALEXANDER, it acquires fresh atrocity. The levies, we now gather from a late telegraphic despatch, are becoming nocturnal. The unfortunate Poles, we believe, of every class, are dragged at the dead of night from the bosom of their wives and families, to fight the battles of their oppressor. In vain is their resistance—in vain are their protestations—their fate is sealed; they must march or die. And so run out the sands of Poland—so dwindle away the most effec tual means of bridling and restraining Russia offered to Europe ! Blind statesmen—cunningAus- tria. Order must soon roign in Warsaw, and that with a vengeance! POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY OP ESSEX, HERTS, KENT, MIDDLE4SEX, SURREY, AND SUSSEX. KELLY AND CO. Commercial and professional men, and others, having business transactions or connections of any sort with the above counties, will readily appre ciate the v a lue of a work o f thi s ki n d, having the information required brought up to the latest date, and that information, so tar as we can discover, at once accurate and clearly and concisely con veyed. The last edition of the Directory was pub lished in 1851, and since that period the changes which have taken place, owing mainly to the faci lities of railway communication, have been very great, so great, indeed, as to rend©r the appearance of the present edition peculiarly welcome. Some idea of the increase of population may be obtained from the fact that, notwithstanding many of the suburban districts, such as Clapham, Brixton, Camberwell, Kentish Town, Daleton, Kingsland, tisc., have been tranferred to the London Directory, the present edition of the six home counties con tains 200 pages more than the last. The general arrangements remain as before, but the Index has been considerably enlarged, references being given to places much more minute than were previously mentioned. The external Index is formed by means of coloured edges, boldly lettered, a mode so universally approved of by all who use the Lon don work ; and the number of subdivisions being smaller, the Messrs. Kelly have been enabled to adopt a simpler form. The Directory for each county is accompanied by a valuable and compre hensive map, showing, among other things, the respective railway routes ; and of the entire work we may say it is admirably got up, and reflects the greatest credit on its authors for their zeal and conscientiousness. A GENTLEMAN SENTENCED TO THE TREADMILL.— The Cork Examiner states that Mr. Grice Smith, of Castle Widenharn, a gentlena2n of high position and large fortune, has been committed to gaol for a month, and sentenced, to hard labour on the treadmill, for having one night torn down the gates of several gentlemen and wrenched off the kuoolierv. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCIE 19, 1855. BERLIN, MARCH 18TH. A Doctrinal levy of recruits was made through otit Poland on the night of the 13th inst. The proximate cause of the death cf the Em peror Nicholas was the receipt of the telegraphic despatch announcing the defeat of the Russians at Eupatoi ia. A second meeting of the Conference took place yesterday. The first protocol was confirmed. It contains the interpretation of the four points as a ~~ general basis for negotiation. VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING. evacuation of Bessarabia without a contest. GENOA, SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 18. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 18. manic territories on the side of France. for believing it so—Russia relinquishes the protectorate of the Principalities. This is cer- tainly a great point gained. Russia will no longer have a right to dabble in the affairs of " the sick man," and one fertile source for colourable aggression is placed for ever beyond her reach. The questions as to the Powers in whom the future protectorate shall vest is one which re- mains open for future discussion. The news of this peaceful and favourable opening of the Con ferences has of course strongly stimulated the hope of peace, and the success of the Vienna Con ference in adjusting the present unhappy differ ences is more than ever regarded as probable. THE DANUBE. Although the blockade of the mouths of the Danube by the allied squadrons has been raised, it would appear that the navigation on that river is not yet re-established. The Russian authorities will not permit any vessel, even those belonging to Austria, to descend the river. One exception alone is made in favour of the vessels belong to the house of Gopiwitch, of Trieste. TURKEY. The Journal de Constantinople of the Pith inst. says that Riza Pacha, the Minister of War, had given orders for the immediate freight of ten Turk ish sailing vessels, to be despatched to Eupatoria with winter clothing, and munitions and supplies of every kind. Some steamers were also engaged for the same service and the conveyance of troops. It may not be generally known that Selim Pacha, the commander of the Egyptians at the combat of Eupatoria, on which occasion he was killed, was the Mameluke who escaped from the massacre at Cairo, by jumping his horse over the parapet, when Mehemet Ali, in 1811, ordered the indiscriminate destruction of all the members of that celebrated body who were then assembled in the town. Sethi), who was an exceedingly young man at the time, seeing no other chance of escape, mounted his horse and forced him to spring from the lofty wall of that town into the empty space. The animal was killed by the fall, but the rider escaped, though not with out very grave contusions. Mehemet-Ali, astonished alike at the young man's resolution and good for tune, ordered him to he spared, and in a short time he perfectly recovered. He owed his subsequent military career to the kindness of Colonel Selves. FRANCE. The Moniteur of yesterday (Sunday) contains a despatch from "Vice-Admiral Bruat, announcing that the Fulton, sent upon an expedition to Kertch, had reconnoitred Anapa and Kaffa. The Leopard, which accompanied the Fulton, dis covered a Russian column on the causeway near Kertch, by the late Kuban, and dispersed them by shot and shell. They also made themselves ac quainted with the strength of the enemy's artillery, four 24-pounders and two iron mortars. The cold during the voyage was excessive. They landed in the night of the 23d or 24th, when the gun-boats of the Leopard drove back a corps of Russian infantry marching upon Taura. The ships (the Fulton and Leopard) then landed their crews, and destroyed the artillery posted there ; this consisted of ten 24- pounders, cast in 1850 and 1851, the biscuit stores were burned, and a large number of waggons and gun-carriages were carried off or destroyed. The Emperor on Saturday witnessed the opera tion of establishing a camp in the Champ de Mars by some squadrons of the Guides of the Imperial Guard. The tents were first put up and then taken down with great rapidity, the object being apparently to see in what time the operation could be effected. Marshal Baraguay dllilliers and General Gues- Willer, appointed to the command of the Ist and 2d corps of the army of the North, will establish their head -quarters, the former at Boulogne, and the latter at St. Omer. They left Paris on Saturday. The Moniteur publishes a letter from Jassy, an nouncing that the electric telegraph was opened between that town and Czernowitz on the 26th of February. Captain Merle, aide-de-camp to the Emperor and prefect of the Palace, has arrived in Paris from the Crimea. General de Ponteves arrived at Toulon on the 15th froni Rome. The ourrier de Marseille, of the 16th, says "The Glasgow steamer, belonging to the Scotch The four poillts will be discussed seriatim. Yesterday s the first point, which relates to the Principalities, formed the subject for deliberation. The discussion was adjourned. The progress is most favourable, and nothing can be more conciliatory than the spirit evinced by Prince Gortschakoff and M. de Titoff. Austria kolds unflinchingly to the views of the Western Powers. Accounts from qzernowitz, of the 16th, state that Russian preparations indicate an eventual Princ© Gortschakoff has left for the Crimea, to take the supreme command. A separate treaty will be concluded between Sardinia and the Porte, and all the diplomatic difficulties which retarded the embarkation of the Piedmontese contingent will be thus removed. The expedition, commanded by General La Marmora, will proceed on the 12th April. The committee of the Volksthing has presented to that assembly a bill impeaching the late Minis try for exceeding the budget. The King is convalescent, and no more bulle tins will be issued. The Prussian Government has abandoned the intention to propose, at the Frankfort Diet, to arm the federal fortresses which guard the Ger- The Russian flotilla of row boats at Riga was being completed by the enrolment of volunteers, and was to be ready for service by the 13th. General de Berg has returned from Helsingfors from his journey of inspection in the north of Finland. lie has caused new batteries to be constructed on different parts of the coast, and has strengthened those already existing. The battalions of Finland recently formed will shortly be completely equipped. Intelligence reached Paris during the course of yesterday afternoon that the first of the Four Points had been discussed on Saturday, and that' the .interpretation of the Weston]. Powers had been accepted by the Russian envoys. If this be true—and there is every reason Steam Navigation Company, which has been chartered by' the French Government fur six months, at the rate of 155 © a month, has taken on board 400 tons of cannon-balls, and will also receiv e a battery of artillery, 270 artillery of the Imperial Guard, 4 officers, and 270 horses. The City of Man chester, belonging to a Liverpool Company, has been also taken up for six months, at the rate of 175,000 fr. a-month, and will take on board four officers and 314 artillerymen of the Imperial Guard, and 314 horses. Both these vessels will probably leave at the beginning of next week for Kamiesh. Ti. Scotch Company has another steamer now in the Black Sea under charter to the French Government until May next, which period will be extended for six months longer. The Clyde steam-packet left this morning for Constanti nople. This vessel, which is to touch at different ports in the Levant, had on board 200 men belonging to the engineers, and 40 passengers, among w h om were several English fficers. The Provence screw steamer also left this morning for the Crimea, with a cargo of presents for the army. She also has on board 32 artillery horses' The Nicolai English steamer arrived here this morning to take on board a cargo for the same destination. The weather, which had for several days become much colder, is now again mild. To-day is a perfect spring day." BOURSE, MARCH 17.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents. (xd) 94 70 94f. 75c. 3 per Cents 69 93 70f. 100. Credit Mobilier 775 Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 94 Spanish Threes Piedmontese B5 50 Home Debt COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MARCH 17. Prince Ernest of Leiningen left Osborne for Ports- Mouth yesterday. The Queen and Prince and the Royal children walked and drove out yesterday. MAR CH 18. The Queen and Prince and Prince of Leiningen drove out yesterday afternoon. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. The Ministrrs pre soot were Viscount Palfmrston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panwure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Si r Willi am Molesworth, and Vis coun t Canning. The Council sat four hours. A deputation from the Rusholme Local Board of Health and from the Guardians of the Poor of the Charl ton Union had an interview on Saturday with Sir B. hall, President of the General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mr. Cor nelius Randall, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and a member of the Local Board ; Mr. Lawton, Sur veyor to the Local Board ; and Mr. Burdett, Solicitor, Clerk to the Guardians and to the Local Board. The Committee on Education of the Lords of the Privy Council had a meeting on Saturday at the Coun cil-office. Present—The Lord President, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Canning, Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on Saturday from the Governors of"AuStralia and New Zealand. The - specie arrivals of The week have amounted to nearly 800,0001., all in gold, The exports have been insignificant. The Oliver Lang bad left Sydney for Liverpool, and is expected to bring gold. The Arnon, from Launcee ton for London, has 1,422 ounces and 16,000 sovereigns, making a total of 21,7001. The Argo screw steamer, which arrived yesterday , from Australia, has already been taken up by the Eng lish Government for the conveyance of cavalry. She is of 1,850 tons burden and 300-horse power, and the con tract is for six months. The Natal, of 680 tons and 100- horse power, also belonging to the General Screw Com pany, has been chartered for a similar period by the French Government. The latter vessel has sailed, and the Argo is expected to be ready in 10 days. The accounts from Adelaide, South Australia, reach to the 2d of January. The successful resumption of mining operations was indicated by increased shipments 10f copper ore. Burra Burra shares were quoted 1561. 10s,, and the rates for money ranged from 10 to 20 per cent., according to the security. The Victoria had sailed for London with 30,000 sovereigns, in addition to a general cargo of wool and copper ore. Six or seven vessels were loading wool for this port, and two or three others were expected to follow. The Maidstone Journal dates that the gentleman who has been requested to stand on the Tory interest for the county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the regretted retirement of Sir E. Filmer, is Sir Walt er Riddell, B ar t., recorder for the borough SMaidstone. Sir Walter has consented to become a candidate. ROYAL MEDAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.-.- The Queen has, by a letter from the Hon. Colonel Phipps to Earl de Grey, approved and sanctionel the award of her Majesty's gold medal to M. Hittorff, architect,tof Paris.—The Builder. HANOVER-SQUARE Roosts. —The fourth of the after noon vocal concerts, dedicated 'to the illustration of the music of Sir Henry Bishop, which took place on Satur day, at the Hanover-square Rooms, was exceedingly well attended—occasioning the public announcement that another series would he commenced after Easter. The selection comprised Several of the compositions which had been performed at:ithe former meetings ; and there were no less than four encores. The pieces were rendered with the greatest possible taste by Mr. Francis, Mr. Benson, Mr. Land, Alr. Lawler, Mr. Buckland, and the Cathedral boys, and no vocalism of the concerted class was ever more sweetly and delicately executed. We observe that a concert, on a large scale, is to be given by Mr. Mitchell, on the 27th instant, at Exeter Hall, when the vocal force will extend to 200 voices, and certain of Sir Henry Bish o p' s most popular tenor ballads be sung by Mr. Sims Reeves. THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The following full storekeepers are about to proceed on foreign service :—Mr. W. H. G. Johnstone, deputy storekeeper, Fort St. George, N. 8., to Ceylon ; Mr. John Drew, deputy storekeeper on half-pay, to Sierra Leone ; Mr. J. C. Rowland ; Ordnance clerk, Pail-mall, to Hong Kong. An Ordnance establishment is being formed in the Bosphorus. Mr. E. F. Sandys has been appointed temporary clerk in the Audit-office, Somerset-house, vice Irving, appointed to the Admiralty. Messrs. M. Hume and E. D. IVladdy have been appointed first clerks, and Messrs. F. Drake, W. Walter, and R. G. Harwood, have been appointed third clam clerks, in the Charitable Trust Commission. The appointment of third class clerk in the Circulation Department of the General Post-office is vacant, caused by the death of Mr. Daniel Dixon, in the gift of the Postmaster-General.— Ci v il Service Gazette. THE FUNERAL CORTEGE OF TEE LATE CZAR.—The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 10th publishes a sup plement of twelve pages, setting forth the ceremonial approved of by the Emperor Alexander, for the funeral cortege on the occasion of the removal of the body of the late Emperor Nicholas from the Winter Palace to the Cathedral Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In some respects the regulations are not unlike those adopted at the funeral at St. Paul's of the late Duke of Wellington. First is an extraordinary dis play of banners and military ; and then representatives of the Court, the civil Government, and various 'cor porations and philanthropic societies. Chanters from the convent of St, Alexander Nevaky and those of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Casan, followed by a long train of clergy, holding lighted tapers in their hands, and two pictures of saints, and lastly the confessor of the late Emperor—immediately precede the funeral car The Emperor Alexander follows, and at stated distances other members of the Imperial family. We observe mentioned as in the first part of the procession the saddle-horse of his late Majesty, richly caparisoned, and led by two superior officers in uniform and in deep mourning. FRENCH ASSISTANCE TO BRITISH WRECKS.—Her Ma jesty's Consul at Boulogne has addressed a letter to the Earl of Clarendon, relative to the services rendered by Generals de Courtigis and Borelli, and their troops, to British vessels recently wrecked near that port. Four British trading vessels were stranded between the 25th and 20th ult., in consequence of the dense fog. For tunately no lives were lost. Generals de Couittgis and Borelli, in command of the camps of Equihan and Am bleteuse, furnished the soldiers required by the marine department as working parties, with officers, to assist in saving the cargoes; and most effectually it was done. One of the ships, the Mangosteen, of London, of 383 tons burthen, from India, with a very rich cargo, derived very great benefit from the military, 300 in number, in making a road over the rocks, so as to enable carts to get to the wreck, which was most expeditiously executed, and a very considerable portion of her cargo was safely lauded, which otherwise could not have been effected previous to the ship's breaking up. RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. e. Orleans ........, ...... 1210 Lyons .. . 1047 50 Western 652 50 Rouen Cette Mediterranean 952 50 Havre 562 50 Northern RUSSIA. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated Satur- I day night, the 17th inst., says :-- "A Russian circular despatch has been issued to Russian representatives abroad. It states that the mission of the new Emperor is to shield the integrity of Russia, but especially to restore peace to his empiee and to the world. "The instructions to the Russian represent Ives at Vienna have been renewed in this sense." The same despatch says :-- "An important political Conference will be held at Dresden during the visit of the King of Prussia to that • capital. M. de Manteuffel leaves for Dresden this even ng." A letter froth Frankfort, 14th, in the Indepen dance of Brussels, says : "Letters which have been just received from St. Pe tersburg give some details of the reception given by the new Emperor to the Corps Diplomatique who carne to offer their compliments of condolence on the death of his father. This ceremony took place on the 7th. The Emperor advanced towards them, and in a loud and emphatic voice expressed how much he was affected by the marks of sympathy which he met with on all sides for the loss which had just fallen on Russia. He afterwards said that, on ascending the throne, he was animated by the same sentiments as the Emperor Ni ' cholas, his father, and the Emperor Alexander, his uncle. He added that the views of the Emperor Ni cholas were not always well understood, and that his policy, which was one of Conservatism, had been lat terly misapprehended. If,' he said, 'the Holy Alliance no longer exists, I hope that the principles on which it reposed, may still prevail and serve as a bond between the different States. lam disposed, for my part, to re store peace to Europe, if honourable conditions are offered to Russia ; but if any which are not so are at tempted to be forced on her, I will rather perish than accept them.' After these words, his Majesty, succes sively addressing Count Esterhazy and M. de Werther, the Austrian and Prussian Ministers, alluded in a very feeling manner to-the name of th e Emperor Nicholas having been given for ever to the sth Regiment of Aus trian Cuirassiers, and to the affection which the King of Prussia had always evinced towards the deceased Em peror. Such is the substance of the expressions of his Ma jesty, which, you may comprehend, I cannot give you textually. The ideas of the new Emperor are the same as those which suggested the manifesto published to the na tion a few hours after the death of the Emperor Nicholas. There may be seen in the speech addressed to the Corps Diplomatique, as in the other document, a firmness not excluding moderation. These letters also contain some details of the ceremony of taking the oath of fidelity to the new Emperor, by the great bodies of the State and by the members of the imperial family, princes and prin cesses. This ceremony took place on the same day as the death of the Emperor Nicholas. Alexander 11. was in tears ; he successively embraced all the members of : the Imperial family present, and particularly pressed to his heart with the deepest emotion his brother, the Grand Duke Constantine. A priest opened the ceremony by a speech, in which, in very pathetic words, he called to mind the high destiny of the illustrious deceased. Scarcely had h e • conc l u d e d , when the Emperor threw , himself into his arms, sobbing aloud." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, March 13.—A telegraphic despatch, of . the 10th inst., from St. Petersburg, announces the arrival of Prince Charles of Prussia, who was sent by our court to congratulate the new Czar on his accession to the throne. He was accompanied by the Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg ' Schwerin. The Emperor Alexander and his bro ther, the Grand Duke Constantine, both dressed in the Prussia% uniform, received their relatives on the platform of the railroad terminus. When the King of Prussia received the tele graphic news of the death of his brother-in-law he immediately sent back, as an answer, the following words from the Apocalypse, addressed to his siste r the Empress : " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." This is probably the first time that the telegraph has been used—in Russia, at least —to convey scraps of Scripture. Accounts from Stockholm state that a naval con scription has been ordered for the whole of the Aland Islands. Ever since these islands were ceded. by Sweden to Russia the inhabitants have been ex empted from personal servitude, which, at their request, was converted into an annual money pay ment. This hitherto unprecedented measure may therefore be considered another practical proof of the scarcity of men in the Russian army and navy. GREECE. Accounts from the Piraeus, of th© 3d, via Mar seilles, announce that M. Mavrocordato has ten dered his resignation, which it is said has been ac cepted by King Otho. It is to be hoped, for the sake of Greece, that these statements, and especi ally the last, will not be confirmed. Turkish troops have been concentrated at Monastir. Austria is said to have announced that she will interfere to put down any insurrectional movement in Greece. SPAIN. MADRID, 15th.—The proposition for a mixed Senate was rejected yesterday in the Cortes by a majority of 136 to 69. A Spanish frigate, supposed to have been formerly a Russian vessel, has been captured by French steamers in the waters of Cadiz. The Opinione of Turin states that a new pro clamation of MazEini is being circulated at Genoa, It is addressed to the Piedmontese army, and re• commends it, though in obscure language, to be• tray its duty. The Gazette de Chambery states that General La Marmora, on receiving the visit of the officers of the garrison stationed in that town, during a stay of a few hours which he made there on his way to Turin, stated it as Lis belief that the Pied montese troops would sot out for the Crimea about the 10th of April. The Trieste Gazette states that on the 10th the flags on the Greek vessels in that port appeared half-mast high, as a mark of mourning on the occa sion of a funeral service being performed in the Greek church for the Emperor Nicholas. In addi tion to the Russian Vice-Consul at Trieste, a great number of Greek subjects wore present. A Varna correspondent of the Oesle rre i c hi sc h e Zeitung, writing on the Gth inst., says that Omer Pacha's army at Eupatoria will eventually be 56,000 strong. Turkish troops continue to be transported thither from Varna. There are 9,000 men at Schumla. The go vernor o f t h at place is now busy in routing out the numerous robber bands infesting the neighbouring country. A re serve force is to be established at Varna, and some French engineers are planning a fortified camp, which is to he constructed on the heights corn manding the Devia, Lake. The Fremden Blatt learns that the Piednaontese corps is to be sent to Asia Minor, to assist in th e defence of A na t o li a. It will be landed at Trobi zond, and will occupy Erzermn. The King of Sardinia will inspect the expeditionary troops at Alessandria, and afterwards go to Spezia. One thousand mules are being purchased to be sent to the Crimea. It is said that his Majesty will accom pany the Emperor Napoleon to the Crimea. We learn from Belgrade that 250 Turkish artillerymen have left there for Rustchuk. Their ultimate destination is understood to be the Crimea. Speaking of the condition of the Russian armies in the Crimea, the Militarisehe Zeitung says that Bakshi-Sergi now resembles an enormous lazaretto. Thousands and thousands of sick and wounded soldiers are quartered in the town. The grand highway from Perekop to Bakshi-Serai is covered with ammunition waggons on their way to Sebas topol. The numb er o f Russian troops in the penin sula is calculated at 170,000 mon. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, Sr' This day the Oliver Lang, Captain 3 ,1 1 13 1 ,7; Royal Mail Packet ship, of the Black Bau arrived in the river from Sydney, in 7 6 daY s ' her cargo and the quan tity o f go ld brought by off, were unknown at the time this despatch came THE MEDI TERRANEAIN• . There have been f ew arr i va ls of transports si.oig MALTA, 51A- 011 1 0 0 my last, and none of troops. Some officers to) P ryt f J their corps or th e i r s hi ps have reached, an ceeded to their destination. h t ha g Yesterday the s t eams hi p T e l eg raph, t- a b a r been for some ti me expecte d , came into the hour, and to-day she will proceed to the °M e , She)aas on board Assistant Staff-Surgeon 1 ) ._,e 5 q 01 12 engineers, 1 superintendent and two su m ' with 64 carters. trt ived lso The Alice, w ith ra il way mater i a l, a— yesterday. re b "l Major-Gene ra l Si mpson, w h o arrived mef, the Peninsula r an d O r i ental Company's a7d Tagus on Sat ur d ay l as t , h as b een detain s t h o Malta, the French s t eamer b oun d upvrard s ° or following d a y having no room. The maj or- the ral left this morning for his destination by Telegraph. THE PENINSULAR ge.140, SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY AN II IOI • By the Penin su l ar an d Oriental Company 's° fro. ship Iberia, Captain Christian, we have date s ,. ti nt - Gibraltar to the 9th, C a di z 10th, Lisbon Ui ,,,. lsltie* Vigo 14th inst. The Iberia had no corarnu ill . , s ;inea with Oporto. She brings on freight spew n i o ps, at 17,3221., 336 b oxes o f oranges, 162 beams and a general cargo. Abe' On the 14th the Iberia spoke H.M. steame r h * ron steering to the southward, and on the 100 screw line-of-battle s hip s t eer i ng wes t. - 4 - be n tl iblek sail of merchant ve sse l s were at anc hor at `' . 0 , 0 . illti tar, detained by foul winds. A steam" til f be a great ac qu i s iti on i n t h e S tra its, a n i t' . m " # Ol4 generally find ample and remunera tive or/WM - it - 0 0 The Lisbon exchan ges a t th ree mon ths are q s od by this paeket :—London, 54i, l i tt l e doing 0; bills scarce ; Pa r i s , 525 to 423 ; Amster d l er Hamburg, 48i ; and Genoa, 523 ; all nonliu u id) to cept Paris. Portuguese 3 per Cent. Stock , 391; Bank of Portugal Shares, 100 to 9 °7 0 60 dis. per share of 500 milreis, ex div., whic h the course of payment for 1854, in stocks a nd cie equal to 5 per cent. in metal. Bank of o tts Shares 10 to 11 per cent. pm.; Lisbon B 2i per cent. dis. Th nix'''. 'Si ....lore was no political news of iraporz enu tiel Lisbon. Seve ra l secre t sess i ons o f the jjArfOre had taken place, but the subjects disensw" only of local interest. THE UNITED STATES' LIVERPOOL, Me" — hs ti if The United St a t es ma il steamer B a ltic, Oa rived with a d v i ces f rom N ew York t• t he 7th and 1,137,360 dols. specie on freight. d D i P l6' The Senate had struck out of the Civil an ,•, i e matic Appropriation Bill that portion relto_l_ had tatire; tbs the tariff. The House of Represen agreed to the addition of four regimen army. The House had also agreed to the p ro ° pr ir amendment to the Civil and Diplomatic APP by tion Bill, striking out the Tariff Bill there/re , a vote of 79 against 66. (I*r/oos cr Private advi ces f rom S an J uan d e Sud ragua) of th e 21 s t u l t., state that t h e Cheinc artl party in an engagement w i th the C a stillian o r a had been vict or i ous , an d were com i ng down,' ol ol Juan. Th e y d eman d e d of the Americ an L' s in the most outrageous manner to give u P bare soner who was n o t i n his house or under his bore French, En g li s h, an d Amer i can res idents w isr , had placed themselves under the protection Priest, the American Consul, who it is repot! s wi ll since been arrested. Further particulaniteri. doubtless shortly reach us explaining the ° Y . :, the Senor from Havannah to the 25th 3ta ntene e ` b Senor Estrampes and Mr. Felix had been " he latte r tO the former to death by the garotte, and thing ten years to th e c h a i n gang i n A f r i c a. t e ve g an ish. wore a gloomy a s p ec t a t H avanna h, end ed. T h. " meat and disarmi ng o f C reo l es cont-"r. Garcia were three Briti s h s hi ps o f war inP ° .„ o inted Monroe and Cond e d e Carnigo has' Deen, Gan' oak respectively t o th e Military and Civil " i so ak ship of liavannah. The block a d e recently P go t upon liarannah by the Captain-General Se against mer c h an t vesse l s, b ut relates only to e`"-oet, ships. The inhabitants were regaining confide u diy and beginning to think that the ostentatious ete plays for the def ence o f th e i s l and were l i tt l e O w than a sham. Among the latest acts was th • pressment of seamen in the island. B AI By an arrival at New Orleans we have later from the Rio Grande. There were Filibuster enf r . prises against Mexico, and it was reported thas,,E7o ties at Brownsvill e and Monterey had raised a t ro sum of money to fit ou t an expedition und e r command of Caravajal. ors' Later advice s from Honduras mention tu e ka valence of rumours of Filibuster expeditions n ito the United States for the invasion of the g ° 7 9 ,' tO country, and of th e d es i gn of Genera l Carraedat, subdue and annex th e St a t e o f H onduras to mala. ,al o° Another demo ns t ra ti on on Greytown apprehended. The reports had caused an nu excitement among the Hondurians. The Washington correspondent of the NW, e d Herald state s th a t t h e President ha d reeefitos' friendly aut ograp h f rom the late Emperor o' sia, communicating intelligence received fr;?, a itea, secret agents of an organisation against the ‘i ati of States by England and France. Both fle,T - e ler Congress had adjourned. At the municipal 000 tions the " Know-nothings" had been w e successful. f , lifer The Star of th e W es t h a d arrived with tile 1 00 nian mails, and nearly $700,000. Lynch la i n . 1 0 prevailing to an extent hitherto unknown; the State. As many as 20 men had been hunt li ed mob since th e I s t o f J anuary. A new Bel" tole to be formed, cons i s ti ng at f i rst of ten States' o f tbe to be comp r i se d w i t hi n the present limits °f state of Calif orn i a ; three in O re gon tew two in Washington territory • and two o western portions of Utah and New Mexico. tuts siderable quantities of gold have been found h c er e. „, Kern River Mines. People were flocking t "eP The official documents relating to the Offi ce Conference are published. England and, r esal s come in for considerable denunciation. The re' of the Conference was the following decisiw specting Cuba : u , for " After we shall have offered a price for C ° is " tr beyond its present value, and this shall have I , e t ioe, fused, it will then be time to consider the nue':,. oar Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, endaen s be internal peace, and the existence of our c'l e Union." And then they add-- , Th . t astit i "Should thi s quest i on b e answered in the a.-- then by eve r y l aw, h uman and divine we shell be o SP" titled in wr e sti ng i t f rom Spain if wee shall pegs" - g power." b ° The Now Yo r k t ra d e generally was quieviaoge' stock market rema i ns w i thout any material C A " f ere Money was a b un d ant, and the rates quote,. apex. from 6 to 8 per cent, on prime 60 to 90 days In exchange the business had not been t oo owing to the scarcity of bills. The closia 6. l2P were on Lond on 9f t o 91 ; on France 5.15 t, per Flour had ag a i n a d vance d 25c. to 312"• barrel, and wheat sc. to 10c. Cotton, with a good demand, was firm. Provisions were without change. Scotch pig iron continues dull at $3O to 43 2 ill large and small parcels. in Freights easier. The supply of tonnage .° excess of the demand. - - - LIVERPOOL E LECTIO N. —Th e R a di ca l s, d is apr° ln t sac' n • 0 0 their appli ca ti on t o M r. Brocklebank have 0,1 las T OE .Pb ceeded in getti ng ou t a candidate in th'e person of ot isis Christopher Ewarr, E sq ., w h o at l ast gene ral e l F g oid was defeated alo ng w ith M r. Cardwell. He 11110 his address. Lott,LIVERPOOL, Saturday. —Th e B r i t i s h an d North / A O, rican royal m a il steam - s hi p Asia, Capta i n E. 11 " an d sailed from the Mersey this forenoon for Bostoe Halifax, with the usual mails for the United State British poss ess i ons i n N orth America, 121 pa,! s ,, ev D eo and a full ca rgo o f merchandise on freight. netober.S screw stea m - s hi p C, ty of Baltimore, Captain d pbr Leitch (built at Dumbarton, for the Liverpool a the ladelphia St ea - u Company) arrived to-day f r°°3 o d iA Clyde. She a new and beautiful screw-vessel , °, to to be fitted up f or th e conveyance o f F renc h troop s the rimea. AR C T-UNION OF LONDON.—Thi s s ociety ba s ,, and issued a large plate, entitled "The Water Par ty,' both a volume of the illustrations of " Child e Harald , „ t itled of which every memb er o f th e current year is to. "The Water Party "is engraved by '' a sse s; ' A.R.A., from a pi c t ure by Claude, in the P sion of A. E. Chalon, E sq . It is a very e l eg ant OVii, aition, and displays a scene of great animation an d g o A ce o It has been eng rave d with considerable care, but gate to want tho,e delicately- ex p resse d atmospheri3 O e s iot• which constit u t e the peculiar charm of Claude s I ?, no t ?rigs. These lx, , auties, however, are very difficult, if impossible, ret tin in a'copy consisting simply Q . ;„ A ro mil whit e . Th e ill us t rat i ons o f " Child e Har° l " w ood 30 in number, and are very finely engraved in.„,_;oo from original drawings made expressly for the Ai of London. They consist of compositions of h 8 of landscape:3, and views, all from the pencils of artiste reputation. Such carts of the poem . as have . r !I g o to the plates are given. This serie4 of tllustrittlQ" an elegant and pleasing volume. 14 0 *;`l-1 DOMAL NI ) cottoneawtjitho,oi 101011 7 IR 1,00 0 IL On spe i!,lo o nhain a *prat at per lb. t rees clo se d tivilligh Wheat tail"Y 44 r 1 L1.7 A: a d 4 C : n . r a p o c . ra a e ; n si ald Y e Pp e andon... Fecai n mgli a P 16— ... 1 11 7 1 and . 611 . 1; 1% 6 7 4 and Bezi Yand E n thL i _ Meditern ber, Shoff. ' a l • " 44 Orl ******* .74118 t!it::: ................ At t , 4 FUNDS 1 t ,itii ( Nom t i k i pl*niele An ~361 . ,;e5, Expire ,1,'.4d: ea . rE t ExPi L tor i ce •L o l u Oti 0 • • Olzi ..... ~ ....... 14, wis 1858, Ikgo 1101 3: 43 , 5 per g o r cent. kk i Ilde, 5 NI :: kg: 44 , 3 per C, to t 11(1 , 6 per p i the Aceoun 1 141 11 10 M clenci s on the kSit, cl : 4i per I "Re 2i pe , b et Cent: Cu O q bil l i a ° lB ..... 'o. 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