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THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Propletcr, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the comedy of P MIL PRY. Principal chs ratters by Messrs. C. Ser y and Wright ; Mhos M. Keeley, Airs. L. Murray, and MI s Wool2;ar. To be followed by THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS. To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direct'on of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE LiTTLE DEMON. To be fol!owed by a CONCERT. After which, ICING QUEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THREE. To conclude with SALLY SMART. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THrs EVENING. • THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE I liter which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE. Co conclude with the Ballet of KATE KEARNEY. Mr. William Cooke announce• 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 giganti.: portibie platform ; followed by a new and brilliant series of Scenic Acts in the Arena, invented and directed by Mr. William Cooke. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. d tme MUSE. The Directors of the Roy al Italian Orera feel the greatest grail cation in having it in their power to announce that that u.ost etstin visited artiste, Mute. Giulia Gris', will nail app ar, for a shor peri.al, on the stage of the Lyric Drama. The Directora that circumstances had arisen to prevent Mine. Grist retiring to h residence at Florence, as contemplated a the termination f he: late engagement in the United States of America, and, moreover, that she would most probably reside in England the greater portion of the present year, naturally sought to induce her once mor to join the corps of the Royal Italian Opera, and were in tin hope of being able to have announced their success in the pro spectns 0, their season arrangemeats. The Directors were, how ever, unable to prevail on Mere. Grist to enter into the engagement and immediately made propositions to another distinguished artist to undertake the repertoire which Madame Grist has so ton: and so honourably filled. The Directors not having succeede , to these negotiations, again applied ty Mme. Grist to postpone ft a short period her final retirement from the stage. Under they circumstances, alme Grist, with her accustomed kindness, con sented to lend the Directors her invaluable assistance, and they ar now, therefore, enabled to announce that she will sing. during at engagement of ten nights, the principal characters of her repertoire. well-knowe TO-MORROW, Thnrsday, May 24, will be performed (for the firs . time this season) Donizetti's opera LA. FAVORITA. Leonora Inez Mdlle. Bellini. Baldassare Don Gas aro .................. Signor Sold!. Alfonso .................... Signor Grazlani (His first appearance in that c haracter.in nor Eng Mari land ); and sae• o Fernando •• •••'•" (His third appearance this season). Mr. Costa. Conductor Commence at Eight.—Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be had at the Box-office of the theatre, and of the principal musieseßers and librarians. THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. L esse e, Mr. E. T. Smith.—The ORE IT DERBY DAY Bet MasetrE, May 23 —Arr. Smith announces to the nobility, gentry, and public this Grand Fete, on a scale of magnitude and expense never before attempted. A superb Salon de Dann of 409 feet in length embellished and decorated with illuminated bowers, variegated lamps. and novel devices. Enlarged orchestra, well-ap ,ointed Mas tern of the Ceremonies. all the new dances, music, &c., forming a coop d'ceil of attraction and splendour without parallel. Ticket.. 108. 6d. each, to be obtained at the principal mnslcsellers' and libra rians' ; and at the theatre. Mr. John Nathan, of Castle-street, Lelcester-square, is appointer; sole Costum'er, of whom m as k s, dresses, and tickets may be ob tained. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVE NLNG. Will he performed THE SCAPE GOAT. Molly Magge, Miss F Chaplin. To be followed by THE ACTRESS OF P %DOA. Characters b 3 Messrs. Howe, W. Farren, Rogers, E. Villiers, Sec. ; 11183 Reynolds Miss Cushman, &c. After which, a new Extravaganza, called THE NEW HAY MARKET SPRING SLEETING, 1855. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CaARITA KEAN. THIS EVENING. • Will be performed LIVING TOO FAST. To be followed by FAULT AND MARGUERITE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, D. Fisher, Raymoni, Cathcart, an , Baker ; Mrs. Winstan'ey, Misses C. Leciercq, Daly, and K. Terry. To conclude with the popular Romance, in two acts, entitle . THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO; or, King, Queen, and Knave. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRFL Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVE:L.IANO, Will be performed STILL W UTERI RIJN DEEP. Characters by Me.srs. A. Wigaa, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Mist Maskell and Mrs. Melfort. To be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza. called THE YELLO`• DWIRF D THE KING OF IHE GOLD MINES. ~~ ~ :~ ` HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau Di —Morninc St caln.s.ftof 6 I Fvoniig b7min. art. 6 Toodaanow -Morning 27 cain.after 7 Ev nin e ; 0 min. aft. 8 TUE WYA.THER..—Sus Orson, lisp. /3. THNP.HOHITZA, IN THZ eILIDI. a—hi g hest since noon yesterday. y7—lowest this morning and during the night. Z—this day, at noon. BAROMETER ,29'87—falling. WIND, S.W.—Light, with very fine, sunshiny weather the Derby Day. ~ 33 h ~~ y;ir.` §un, 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. He 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 the 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 night ll , )nourabl e 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 depend not merely the fate of the Cabinet, but the honour and wel fare the United Kingdom ; aye more , the freedom of the world from Cossack domination. Under th e t v he elder ee _Drorn,io, the ABERDEEN Govern ment,Had. theel of the State " drifted into war.'' slightest thdegree of vigour or energy been exhibited wh en first c hints were thrown out as to the divi s i on of , i :he si c k man ' s " as sets—had the earlier aggressie been promptly and de- cidedly repelled—had we not continued and ccontinued "waiting for Austria," truckling to s howing that we still suffered the goodship to rema in under the control and management of I inefficient p ilots, we should altogether have I esc aped, or long since terminated. the serious evils already sustained. The People now clearly understand the price paid fo r a Coalitio n Ministry. - They also perceive the more formidable peril no w impending—that the State play " drift into an ignominious peace "—that a hollow and illusory truce may be p a tched up, fatal , in the first in tal'ee, to our faithful Ally ; in the next, to the prestige and influence nay more , the security , of the Unit e d Kingdom, ' a • for the temporary benefit of Coburg-Germanism, _ _ . Mr. DISRAELI cannot now avoid the conflict Which he has provoked-i-eannot recall the gage THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1855 which he has cast down. His challenge has been oJepted ; the combat must take place a l'outrance. de would be for ever dishonoured and held "nidering"—it is a good old Saxon phrase—if he now cries craven. We shall not, however, so far wrong him as to suppose that he will now aold back or evade the obligations he has volun arily assumed. To-morrow or Friday, then, the vitally impor ant question will be decided. We cannot doubt -he result. There must be a new Ministry. The Family Party must surrender to more competent lands the power they have so grossly abused. Ne must have a firm Government, whose t‘ say ings and doings" will alike bear investigation, and ,vlio will not permit Great Britain to be any -)nger bamboozled. Our Imperial Ally only requires unflinching resolution on the part of the English 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 Englishman 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 tre now merged in the one grand point— ill considerations are of minor weight. That there will be a hard fight is certain. Ministers will 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 , link with Mr. M. GinsoN and his associates ,hat England should submit to any insult, should patiently witness any injustice, provided there be io interference with "trade." Sir F. BARING las already given notice of an amendment almost tantamount to the dropped resolution of the Right don. Member for Manchester, although couched In less decisive terms. No one can, however, be .aken in by the phraseology. Vague language ,vill not now answer, and the amendment will, we hope and believe, ba rejected by a decided najority. The moment for action has arrived, tnd England indeed expects that every true warted citizen will faithfully discharge his duty. The prophecy of that eminently popular his ,,orian, Sir A. AusoN, last evening, at the Anni versary of the Literary Fund, is likely to meet with but little scepticism throughout the country, I tnd will go far ultimately to dissipate what there rnay 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, after a careful examination of historical parallels and facts, felt justified in don ning the mantle of the prophet, anddeclaring 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 ARCIIIBALD 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 Shan 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 gall Ant 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 also aid in conferring on barbarians the blessings of 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 establi'diments. The appointments of the com missioners are decidedly exceptionable. The first Commissioner, Mr. JOHN' LEFEVRE, is a very estitn 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 Poor-law Com missioners, and at a time when great firmness in the assertion of principle was needed he quitted the post for ono 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 ROMILLY, 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 : " Since writing the above I have had an opportunity of considering the report of Sir Stafford Northcote aad 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 flag 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 a 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 ia the higher social position, and tl.at 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, ho we% er, the vid : d o r i t e r of i some danger that the moment these proportions are ra sed the contrary will take place. " It may also be true that the idle and useless are medied hy oaungbmen,' if not commonly,' olten pro vided can easily be public office,' and this may perhaps be re efarnination, eataMibiel an educatthecivposed arrangement, and young men competition, may be secured.' But the idle and selves with the ordi excluled by a proper system of ex ed on rules which will work them recoune t , ) open w eary run of mankind, without basing and to a new and expen sive board." The truth of thesek)et thati ents is impugned, in cluding the assumption the majority of the public ocathe composition of gels is really aris tocratical. We cite, however, the short and complete reply of Mr. JOHN MILL " Another objection is, that if appointments are give! to talent, the public offices will be filled with low peo ple, without the breeding or the feelings of gentlemen. If, as this objection supposes, the suns of gentlemen cannot be expected to 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 he vith 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 and opportunities so vastly supe r:or, the youth of the higher clasces have not honour enough, or energy enough, of 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 au 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 NORTIICOTE, 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 MILNES, 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, 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 time in apprising—not the House of Commons, not the Government—but the General and Local Administrative Reform Associations that this motion goes to the very he Id of their subject. The plan of dca iag with the offices departmen tally, and adopting their arrangement's 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, officars 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 further rebuke or of making an 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 h.ids 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 corn 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 with most men tlu justice to the State, a greater security is taken against undue 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 under practidal considera tion, as giving the most fair and able summary , that has yet appeared of 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 also thoroughly just Prime Minister—a man, who, though sitting at the centre of affairs, knew thoroughly and inti m:a:ly, by personal familiarity, every individualof all the millions composing the empire; knew his faculties, his ac quirement, his failings ;and also wag resolved and able to act with strict impartiality—there would be no difficulty. The problem of the right man in the right place would be solved at once ; it would be a mere question of coach hire. Such a mode of solution being purely ideal, how ever, we must be content with the best possible approxi mation we can make to it. Now what is that approxi- !nation ? The present plan of leaving the nominations ! universally in the bawls -f Government i riot it. Were Government ever so willing to be just, it cannot select the best men, because it is not omniscient. If ever so impartial, it could only select the best men within its ran ;e of viion ; and these might be fix from being the best men attainable. Government might act fairly in nominating a young man living in Duke-street, St. James's, to a vacant post ; and yet at that very mo ment there might be a superior young man who would have taken the office living in the High-street of Is;ing ton, or in the wilds of Cumberland or Perthshire. Ob viously, in short, if we are really to act on the principle of selecting the rn at fit, an opportunity must be given to all who think themselves fit to come forward. In other words, instead of leaving Government to selec,`, the fittest of those cas tally presented to them, there ought to he a public notification to the whole country, that such and such men are wanted, and that the fittest of those who present themselves will be selected. The answer to such a summons clears away one portion of the duty, for, when the summons has been answered, there is no doubt 39 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, in reality, a work of the examination of evi dence. To all intents and purposes the man of whose fitness the surest 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. Considering the moral influences at work, how ever, to incapacitate Ministers, or even the heads of de partments for the impartial discharge of this duty, and considering also that, in the proposed circumstances, the work of examination would in itself be a)husiness of large dimensions requiring time and care, it is certainly better, if, indeed, it is not absolutely necessary, that, in the majority of cases, the work should be deputed to a board expressly charged with this class of duties." " The plan of appointment 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 approbation. 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 morals and of 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 improvements ; 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 nolarising influence which divides British society into the two fac tions of Whigs and Tories, and, penetrating into the thoughts and characters of individuals, obliges Gem un consciously to make the distinction between Whiggism and Toryism an a priori law of their lives and firm of their entire mental activity, would be sensibly dimin ished ; Whiggism and Toryism would assume more nearly their true limits as inductive expressions of facts ; and in lieu of the alternative of Whiggism or ToryiAn as an ever-pre , :ent form of thought, theta would be subAi tuted, 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. NA.PIER 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 rejection at Woolwich of advanced mathematical students, whose merits for' the Engineerfng department were proved upon competitive examinations at the University, and to the appointment of others, not for merit, but for patronage. This crmpl'int was met by the bold avowal by Mr. MONSELL that merit was not recognised by the Board of Orclnan3e. " 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 on individual rights, pissed 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 it is there that patronage hag 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 Irithroan 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 End resolution as that of the Saxon. To these causes it is owing that our country men are exposed to the charge of wanting sell reliance. Tam convinced that the occa,ion for this reproach would cease if patient labour and steadiness of conduct were better encouraged, as they would be if the plan of throw ing public appointments open to competitioe were car ried into execution. If the Irishman saw that the path to fortune was open to merit only ; that, on the one hand, no hindrances arose from political or religious dis qua'ifications ; 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 Pat liarnent to do something for biro, he would try to do something for himself by a course of self-denying diligence. "The Irishman sometimes suspects that, owing to his remoteness 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 Scotch men, as such, and with out regard to their qualificat'ons, 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 will 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 with 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, upon s ed t e h n r y o i u n g g h tlt linoeatlruconstituencies)must beto calledps ord nance,as and abolish patronage, in rea l i t y , 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 views enunciated by the calculated_ oeroaiftorrye : ne writer in the North British Review, and by Dr. GRAVES—of a native Indian, Clutterhuchy, coming to the competithin, laboriously prepared, and ob taining the second place out of more than twenty e ni r:.er no] competitors.confidence ietnhe emSijutlicl millions our re a n ienf e s event t afne w dj aoswn3enttoo. It were to be hoped that the example might be repeated in the tests for merit by the coming competitive examinations for writerships. Justice for Great Britain in our own Home Government inust_ nuw bu -sought by Administrative Reform Associations. We are g]ad to see that the reso lutions and petitions adopted at the Gloucester meeting 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 fok lowing day, and the Guard 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 Kutaiah. Forty-five battalions were still incomplete. Mustapha had called in reinforcements from Mingrelia and extended the fortifications. Reschid 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, date]. Hamburg, 22d of May, in the Independence Belge, 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, TUESDAY, 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 the galleries. FRANCE. The following officers have been promoted 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 de-Camp to the Emperor, and now on a mission at Constantinople. BOITRSt, MAY 22.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 75 93f. 70c. 3 per Cents 6B 90 68 85 Credit Mobilier 792 50 Roman Credit Foncier 530 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes — Piedmontese B5 50 Home Debt 32 RAILWAYS—FOB CASH. fr. C. ft. Orleans llB5 Lyons ..... 1155 Western 667 50 Rouen ' 1042 50 Gate 640 Strasburg Mediterranean . lO9O 50 Havre 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 evtry 1,000. The Public Treasury is using the most strenuous efforts to collect the sums necessary 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 natne for 25,000 silver roubles." We have received the St. Petersburg journals of the 15th of May. The Invalicle Busse publishes the following report from Prince Gortschakoff, 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 obstinacy. Having taken by assallt the lodgment in front of Bag. tien No. 5, he has approached his works up to the for tifications of the place; however, the new batteries erect ed by and which strengthen in an important manner the defence of the point attacked—the immediate repair during the night of the damage done by the enemy in the day—the precision of the fire of our artillery, which on the 23cl and 24th of April (sth and 6th 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 19th 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 against Bastions 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 Gortscba koff adds the following details of the march of mili tary operations : "On the 13th (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 wag 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), having driven back a detachment of the enemy, which had left tire trenches to storm our 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 entonnoir. "On the 19th of April (Ist of May), at 10.30 p.m , the enemy, having assembled nearly 10,G00 men, left the trenches, p rece d e d b y a b out 600 volunteers, and with hurrahs thre w themselves upon the lodgments in advance of Bastion 5. Despite a heavy fire of musketry, and a charge with the bayonet by two battalions of the Ouglitch Chas seurs, the enemy occupied the lodgments, and then ad vanced against the Schwartz redoubt, but were stopped by a heavy fire of grape. At daybreak the enemy returned to the trenches, leaving onlya few volunteers and riflemen in the lodgments they had 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 had placed in the trenches evacuated by us on the 19th of April (let of May), we made a strong reconnaissance at 6 p.m. ; 180 volunteers, supported by a battalion of the Kolyvan Chasseurs, and by a battalion of the \Vladimir regiment, 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 (Ist and 2d of May) consisted in one superior officer, nine subaltern officers, and 283 men killed; two superior officers, 13 subalterns, and 540 men woundel. "On the 21st of April (3d of May) a movement was Visible in the enemy'a fleet, At Q a,m, different vessels approached Bala ; troupe wero erob ,, rl•7ed an,] horses put on bo-rd two of the vu:i eis. At Nix ie the evening all the steamers got up their steittn, and about seven the vessels with the troops embarked stood out to sea in a west north-werly directioe. "In the night between the 213 t and 22d of April (3d and 4th of May) the enemy made no further at•empts against Bastions 4 and 5. On our ride, we constructed four new batteries on that space ; the ramp ate of the old works were strengthened, and on some points heightened ; the mioing works were actively continued ; nowhere could we hear the enemy at work in the mines. "OA the 23d of April (sth of May), at 1 p.m., some w&l-directed shells blew up two powder tragazii,es in the French 8-gun battery, established opposite Bastion 5; the fire of the battery was si - !eneed. " In the night between the 23.1 and 24th of April (sth and 6th. of May) we made two succes , ,ful little sorties in front of Bastion 3. We took an En.,;!i:ll officer and three men prisoners. " On the 24th of April (6th of May), at 8.30 a.m., the fire of a battery near ba , tion 4 caused a violent explo• sionjn the enemy's battery, the commotion it created was very great ; et me 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 Isiprii (30th of April to the Gth of May) our loss was much less than during the first days of the bom bardment, but we have to deplore the loss of some very distinguished officers ; among others, the gallant Ensign Pissareff, of the Tobolsk Infantry ; Major Bischoff, of the Ouglitch Chasseurs ; Captain Pilenko, of the Vblhynian regiment, killed ; and among the wounded, Captain Prince Schirinsky-Schikhma toff, of the navy ; Lieutenant Lissitsyne, of the navy ; Captain Sarytcheff, of the navy ; Captain Vornitsky, of the navy ; Ensigns Toumanovitch and Axenoff, of the Kolyvan Chasseurs ; Lieut. Ste panoff, of the Vladimir 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 of importance has occurred on other points of the peninsula." ODESSA. A letter from Odessa of the 7tb, in the Danube of Vienna, says :—" The Governor-General ad interim, has received orders to make arrangements for sending into the government of Charkow 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 sent there. In consequence he has been obliged to take measures for providing accommo dation for 3,000 patients." THE BALTIC FLEET. OFF NARGEN ISLAND, MAY 15. The Imperieuse 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 Duke of Wel lington, the Royal George, the Ceesar, the Nile, the James Watt, the Exmouth, the Majestic, the Cressy the Hogue, the Colossus, the It the Euryalus, the Amphion, the Esk, the Merlin, the Driver, the Firefly, the Lightning, and the nigicienne, 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 1 am happy to say 10 to 15 prizes have already been made, chietly by the Archer and the Geyser, off Riga. The state of health on board, I am sorry to say, is very bad. We have all sorts of illness in the ship, and amongst others small-pox—feur officers and 12 men infected by it; Le ides G 1 to 70 the list for other things. At Revel the people are all on the alerf - . Thirty thousand men are quartered in the town. Tile 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 of war here. The fleet or at least the greaterportion of the division lost yearstationedatSveaborg has effected aj unction with the one at Cronstadt, evidently after our departuro 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 laud 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 mizentopmast, and her own bow sprit and cutwater—each so much damaged as to be compelled to go home. The St. Petersburg Gazette announces that an order from the Military Governor of St. 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 ing 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 March. 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 Woolooinoolco, from Sydney, from which place she Sailed on the 25t h of Febt wary with a cargo of wool, ore, and traussi i : , ped-brandy; also the Great Biitain, from Liverpool for the East Indies. South of the Line she spoke the Hindustan, with guano, from C.dlao for Cork ; north of the Line the schooner Orwell, last from Rio Grande for Falmouth. The Star of the East, Captain Robinson, 93 thys from Shanghai, for London, was off Plymouth this morning. NOTICES OF MOTION. THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAIL-MR. DISRAELI. The following are the precise terms of the Lotice 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 cannot adjourn for the recess without expressing its dissatisfaction with the ambiguous langmfge and uncertain conduct of her Majesty's Governinent in re 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 continuo to give every support to her Ma jesty in the prosecution of the war, until her Majesty shall, iu conjunction with her allies, obtain for this country a safe and honourable peace." AMENDMENT.-SIR FRANCIS BARING. "That this house having seen with regret that the Con ferences of Vienna have not led to a termination of hostili ties, feels it to boa duty to declare that it will continue to give every support to her Majesty in the prosecution of the war, until her Majesty sh a ll, i n con j unc ti on 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. We now publish in, extelso the highly important end valuable one 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 perfect knowledge, not only of a railway from th e ve r y 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 to his other eminent qualities unwearied industry and application. Under his ma nagement the receipts of what has been looked upon as the least profitable porlion of the Grand Trunk system have nearly doubled in two years, and they bid fair, eventually, to equal those of the more favoured portiens of the line. A Newcastle paper says :—The new gun invented by our townsman, Nv. G. Armstrong, Esq., has been tried several times lately, and the experiments have been eminently sucees-ful. 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 " O." SMITH'S LIBRARY.—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 rowArkable, were sold, LA JP' INTfLTEI A,T,T ( TIIIS DAY). _ COU RT OF , CHANCERY. The Lord Chancellor sat in th e Old gall, Lincoln's. Inn, to day for the purpose of h earing app his but no - ca'e clilir:g for a special report came before his lords hi p during the whole morning. (Bef-,re the Lord :4 *Justice of Appeal.) ' ON THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY V. REDDISII THE BRITISH ASSURANCE COMPANY. The i d . -y. The ease came before the court u this m-riiing, and occupied their lordships the Whole arguments in this part heard appeal ware resumea !; , 3 jw3cfmeot o f the Vice-Chancellor Wood dismissing the plaintiff.' bill without costs. In the year 1847 tb , °±lnl'a,,y called the Architects', Civil Engineers', so: Company Builders', and General Fire and Life Insuranc ; oinpany was formed, and in the following year the defendant Reddish was appointed, with a sala l l for se ven of 1,0001. a year,mana,er, of the companY years, that afterwards the name of that conapani /11 : 5 up appeal frail altered to that of the British Insurance Compaq. 411 July, 1852, another company was formed, 'which was od the. called the Lancashire Insurance Compaq) latter company p urc hased the business of the British s. Assurance Company, upon the understanding that they _hoffuld be liable for the contracts of that court y` he-v orences arising between the plaintiffd and Belatterddls p nil connection with the companY en d gave u current of 1852, the company paying him his salary for quarter only. Reddish afterwards was AP' and consider. pointed manager of another companb lo g that, instead of being entitled only t° the current quarter's salary, he had, under the Ar i r neol nal agreement, in 1848, a clear claim upon the caing, The for the whole, he brought an action to recover it. . 1 : 11 company then filed the present bill, and applied for.; at the .0 injunction to restrain the proceedings in that l etz° i Upon the hearing the Vice-Chancellor Wood disinhe e t the bill without costs, and f r om that decision the. P rSell appeal was brought. ,(Before Vice-Chancellor Stuart.) 01. M'INTOSH V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY CO weTer e The further arguments in this important case slimed this morning and occupied the Court the Who le , the Co.sr; ( l ily. The arguments have already occupied days, and appear likely not to come to u se cabolti'l° eo fur at least a week more. The sum in disp betwese the plaintiff and the railway company, one °l „, ;n b :of contractors he was, exceeds a quarter of a 2 33 " -- money. Nothing of the least interest ea,me before either Via' Chancellor Kindersley, or Wood, or the Rolls Court' Justice C C O ro ll m ß pt T on O; (Sittings QUEEN'S BENCTI. to, in Banco, before Lord Chief-Justice COaPlift, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Erle, ta l Sir F. Kell RE should not be Y stru y ok — o o f ff th t i h s * 016 e,cAro,ulc:lrltAs:otTfoOtllshiNleoELcratu:oo: Li0.,..4.• against an attorneyaplied to their lordships for r be rule calling on him to answer the matters con ta med it ) preferment, vas only an affidavit made by the Rev. Edward Tboraleit Pi s p - ,tual curate of Church Hage, in Kent, wt, heildes el money was yanl , mnting to between 8001. and 9001., w bic i P to desirous of investing. He was recounnend.eaveit the attorney in question, who advised him not to geel°ll the money the funds on account of the amount cf . in interest they yielded, but t1311 0 3ort" (the attorney) . could place it out on a satisfaetorl . , ip , , rage that possessed of 9 ' til°ll3, be couldmakwould yield 5 per cent inttrest, provi.tleu„, sessed posed make the amount up - 0 1,000/. The securi.tb9oP; to o t f ho the at v to a r lu n e ey of wort: by l the attorney wa,p a freehold d' lelliljg V l' w,oio:llt,,waonodtialnerinmteermeshterwshiocfh litilisefbaroorirleyWite: :rote; stating ,4.., hold land ' was these matters were mganaoed, informed bi f tbe hli,:ioOri/oraTe leiee, osiptibi ceib:..:o. de r e ' securities, s or r i eady to advance the money' es his rceivtioi, in big P°:to OP m ties, which he wished to keep The who i on f ey was accordingly paid over to ldthe ii t tbea ruled the applicant he cou 11° tbef have : . the deed', because it was necessall too w should be further looked at. Repeated aPPlic:ool and subterfuge, male for the deeds', which were Met 131,3.1 f elr d subterfuge, hut the rev tlenian ultinla"ood tamed one deed. It now turned*geu out that the °Obi° was eb placed in the hands of a erson e°2l„ifebeing da freehold,tor to the attorney, and the hP e, inateau °"1001., was a ' ous r e thae tt leasehold, not worth In° , o ff, * ll _, and with the land had been some tit*, Previ° . Derr at the time of the Tr di 0 1 advance of the money , a— %pit it , gaged, and the deed handed over to the alWartgoide:t one made u p for the purpose of satisfying the ililtideiibit of the r g entleman for his security. I t W 39 e obit of money was not now aettlaily in the oto of the attorney, from whom no satisfactory OP could Os be obtained, sta ted 1/1 .1 Lord Campbellsaid d bail idll enough ba rra"" ~e 0 learned counsel to entitle him to a rule. _,,ii ny would be sufficient, in the first instance, to uP t fo e the attorney to answer the matters contain b 0 affidavit, after which the Court Would 101011 . deal with him. Rule granted accordingly. o; ON C°l4°ll 3 DOWELL V. THE GENERAL STEAM 14 ° 1- 4VrICI rz 0364. 4 4 ir w rel i ga ll ri b nt e tho r e ecollected that the action Was This long-litigated case came on for 11—ti o br °- 1; orig i° !bob 01111 0 by the plaintiff, owner of the Harewood collier,"00 1, le .t ; t /v h i e an N se or L th i g h s t e , a in the VcComesitrigS the Trident steamer, on her voyage to Pen 404'01 perty of defendants, owing, as was alleged by 60 ° bp the negligence of the defendants. At tbe jot, 11 several special questions were left to tbetajotift answered certain of them in favour of tbe Po epte,7o others that of the defendants, and aver dict to t ,O ,; for the plaintiff. There had since then been ~. coil ° li p , of the case, and the present application to the s od , to set the verdict for the plaintiff aside, all 0 o fto case back for another trial. The arguments had not concluded when press. ._..________----------"--"'"""'"n'.'"''____------;d 0.1") 'Vivir.tioCclio:lluisit:p;l .:' LLOYD'S SIIIPPING--(110-L'i off' t 0 ___-.-----_ . d o P LONDON, May 23.—Wind •nd weather t his . ~,,g S.W. ; light breeze, and finea.tveati.or,„. Ar ril o pag ia ; eVY a ; PORTSMOUTH, May 2.2.—Win,1, ", • Wit; ,:itor_l-1 and Ettiala, from La Gus rs, for lIIIMDOrg. sa ou'- ,op• C l' i L y z ar tf , C lC .t o d r i ' z v , ic f ,h, r C (g o • petrnaYhuatnt,ti'eakf"rri; r)uP.C--4 c't (*)°11 h Mr (s.), ft 0111 Dublin, and left f. r Loot °t ' • of Jutl ft- ,, ' 00 fr g PLY Irouni, Ma Z2.—Arrived—l‘faia ice wp , Sydney, N.S.W. ; y Cape Ilt,rn was Re° fro v3 .... ,CO 9 , rounded it on the 27th of M.,rch Arrivsauft I_,°' FALMOUTH, May 22.—Wind, *variable. ,ncl ~,, -0 06, , cord, from Figdera ; Online (s•), Lonari, ortlyopiet fromi i i.l : io , : a i ond:lE;ee:s t o.m it u t ar h yne of ; Mpraiyn,eoAolefxaysv•darliess., Ocaulootts; q of ; s a J¢ °6 " 22.—Wind, F.N.E. ,fi lle g. . Labradors. 'lec V SWANSEA, May 22.—Wind, E•N'' th' b a d Moore, for Coquimbo. for s' r gl ee LEurft, May 22.—Sailed — Che shire, CORK, May 21.—Sailed—Glanmuro, for J 3 ‘ r oiaP (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPOs“,..., 30 LIVERPOOL, Wedne ('-' Isfs Wind, S.W. nab' Care Aniveci—Young Mechanic, from SO° bort Sailed—Elizabeth, for St. Thomas, ° v ~ ,,,i, Malta ; Prima Donna, BaLkla c :.. rjEsss,. P r!l ii t i gti,o6,o ' va. AV 14.010911 , Wind, _B.S.E. Arrived—Dart, from Havre. ~ o Vir., < 101 ti 'Wind, S. lioa' Arrive=d—Luna, from Honduras; i Cli o ' dri ; Grande ; Request, H avre ; Embla, A.e St. John's, N.B. a I i d; --__. ,ralt.tl;;-it P." (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH II - '1 v, ;',. 00' ,44 ' GRAVESEND, Vieeloo 7tber, both' 0. Wind, S.W. ; tide, three hour's ebb ; sve liso Arrived—Orion, from Dantzic ; 31 ' 111 ton; Investigator, Tutocorin Sailed—Bertha, for Memel . . osy, Ord ors, 10. 4 ."is Wind, W.S.W. ; fresh. DEAL, Wed° Op, for sitir , Passed —Johann, —ohFaantnin,yfOro.niFießlrde,mfreonna:Wilrfo ric ; V ge° . Hamburgh, for Cadiz ; Holywood,qBl;b:loT4fl°f. j'af°: 1,„ with ; Lord W. Bentinck Callao, for 1 4° _ . ;., Carthagena, for NewcL51 1 L.,..,,,......" * " • p i t r.) , M ARKET NR Pt 7.,,--i T 1: 16 ----.P----- „ i f_ ,igiO ; 11 1 CORN EXCUA-Num— s rlcet " ttellfoli The show of English wheat in to-clefs Dim tbe d : ral , I Borate, and chiefly the refuse of 1,100d1',. 01 k ie . . d e. once of buyers was limited the demand . °,_ 0 priel o cro,°:i ges t o notie on the 1 0 00.7 inactive, yet we have no char Foreign wheat, the supply of which wa s In 1,0 1 /,,i . rrona' l e for oi ° '! sold slowly, at barely last week's el; fa ir ca l hot ,as cargoes very little was doing. We ba o S .„ w ere t glo , 4 and malt at full quotations. The sere le ;ed rij° o l P slsil'' ', 4 , , Berate. There was a slow sale for oal i s s , v alue were offering on lower terms. 1 0 t peas, and flour, no change ARRIVALS 011 0 swaft't ow, 1 : ....., b 1 81t. i i i 80 n 1 Barley. ' 4 ,0 , 4 :60 0 I0 6v" 1,510 3,8 30, 11° took place. —3.4 00 0. 44 Wheat. 1,590 English .. Irish •• .. I — Foreign .. 26,460 I 9—,040 ) --- ' —__-- We have a good demand for all kinds. ,?etodenci. value of Sussex qualities llas an upwartt t , BOBOIIGIi 110 r. ~ mpg, And till ..............-- • 101 Beef, 3s 2d to 4Ws 214:1I;TrnEtCitiftoAuF::6,1,..toss4006jte' 40 5s 2d to Gs 6d ; veal, 3s 8d to 43 l ' oa ; Or . '" per Sibs. by the earoase did last,. gave a lady a ---------------- „ Tijaroviio, A Pnizs, If the crossing-sweeper her dres,4 will call aPteNnnoY. Whb!)' crotoiffe will hv Landsoruely rewarded fvr his gratitude, to,r,szej3e,,p jigurgav--cl9,squpc,-1 ,_ Th e witt v , _ . The The 110 t b at 11°r.tid I ti of th L alre Th e Th e 1 . f