The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. radar the management of Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENING. Will be nresented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters by Mr. Eackstone and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new Ballet, in which the Spanish Dancers Irill appear, entitled THE EVE.'N'ING FESTIVAL. After which. a new Extravaganza. called THE NEW HAY.. afA.RIEET SPRING MEETING, 18 b 5. To ocrolude with THE GALICIAN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Caw as KW. THIS EVENING, Will be performed LIVING TOO FAST, To be followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Principal characters by Mows. C. Kean, D. Fisher, Raymond, Cathcart, and Baker ; Mrs. Winstan'ey, Misses C. Lectereq, Daly, and K. Terry. To conclude with (2nd time) a Romance, in two acts, entitled THE MULETEER OF TOLLDO ; or, King, Queen, and Knave. TELEATRE ROYAL ADFILPFIL Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Drama entitled TEE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. To conclude with A NEW EDITION OF TUE FAIRY TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE, Illustrations. with name ous highly-coloured ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager , MT. A. Wigan. THE A EVENING. 11 be performed a Comedietta, called LA Coo W FOR L %DIES. Characters by Me-srs. A. Wan. G. Vining, H. per, Danvers, sad Miss Cast et n. After which, KILL Olt CURE. Characters by Messrs. Robson, Emery, and F. Vining; Mrs. A. ,cligln and Miss Bromley. To be followed by tee airy Extravaganza. called ThE YELLOW - DWARF AD TUE K F ING OF ,lIE GOL ASTLE ROYA T. AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Second time. an entirely new and original Spectacle-drama of har "wing interest, by Mr. :Season Lte, called, nit FIELD AGAINoT THE FAVOURITE ; After which, a Series of Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented by Mr. William Cooke. To condole with RETURNED FROM THE BALTIC ; or, Jack .&-hore. A new Military Act Drop, painted by Fenton, Ills been added to the Embellishments. uos.-olike open, from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Weet. Acting manaosr, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestritta Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction or Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIi EVENING, Will be performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Cha racters by Messrs J. Ha!ford, Rogerson, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re becca Isaac, Miss Reanrnont, and Uiss Somers. After which. KING QLTEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS TEIRrE, To which will be added a Balla Divertissement. HIGH WATER AT LONDON HRIDOX T as DAT —zio ormuF 55 min-after 6 I Ev. ning 30 min. al 7 To- loart , m—liornia, 14 :ntn.after 8 I Evening 7 min. aft. 9 second Sinope maitsacre to add to the sanguinary laurels of the Muscovite. The third course propounded is, that Russia should engage to reduce her naval force in the Black Sea within certain specified limits ; while France and England should be permitted to keep up a. fleet of equal strength. Now, the efficacy of such a step would entirely depend on the good faith of Russia. The Bear who submitted to the paring of his claws well knew that they would grow again during his winter's slumber, and that he could again carry on his depredations with unimpaired vigour. Many splendid speci- mens of naval architecture might grow up at Nicolaieff without anything being heard of their progress, until they sheltered in the well-protected bay, prepared for any enterprise. Promises so closely allied to pie-crusts, and so likely to meet a similar fate, cannot then be accepted as a satis factory settlement. Wherever we look, whatso ever we consider, we are the more confirmed in our original opinion, that the demolition of Sebas topol is imperatively required, and that by no other means can we obtain that which our Minis ters are so fond of talking of—an honourable and permanent peace. Man - morn PASHA, the Vizir of Yanina, several years ago, after sipping coffee, and smoking tobacco, and quaffing sherbet with the Hon. ROBERT CURZON, was left by that amusing traveller, sitting cross-legged on his red-cloth divan "in great wonderment at the English Government paying large sums of money for the transportation of criminals, when cutting off their heads would have been so much more economical and expeditious !" Everybody who has read (and who has not ?) that most delightful book, the " Visits to the Monasteries of the Levant "—a worthy companion volume to KINGSLAKE'S " Eiithen," and WARBURTON'S " Crescent and the Cross "—will remember, doubtless, the incident here alluded to, related, as it is, after a fashion the most comical, by one whose almost every word proves him to be evidently gifted as a humorist. "Incurring any expense," says the son of Lord SCARSDALE, when relating the circumstance with all his twinkling appreciation of the ludicrous " Incurring any expense to keep rogues and vaga bonds in prison, or to send them away from our own country to be the plague of other lands, appeared to him [the Vizir of Yanina] to be an extraordinary act of folly ; and that thieves should be fed, and clothed, and lodged, while poor and honest people were left to starve, he considered to be contrary to common sense and justice." Ob serve ! however, this is not all. Mark ! what fol lows. Listen to the oomment pronounced upon that opinion of MAHMOUD PASHA, pronounced with an air so deliciously serio-comic, by the "celebrated Milordos Inglaisis" who records it—as he afterwards reports of himself to the awe-in spired Monks of Mount Athos, the " great ally of the Sultan's and of all the captains of all the men-of-war that come down the Archipelago !" Mr. Cußzox adds, in reference to the views entertained in the matter of Prison Discipline, by the long-nosed Turk left by him squatting upon the red-cloth divan, pipe in mouth, and be wildered beyond the power of language to relate, at our preposterous system of criminal legislation— " I laughed at the time at what I thought the curious opinions of the Vizir of Yanina ; I have since come to the conclusion that there was some sense in his notions of criminal jurisprudence." And so that droll memorial of an Anglo-Oriental talk about the best way of dealing with rascality ternstalood,a- We wonder very much how the Vizir of Yanina would have looked from either side of that long nose of his, if there could have been tumbled down before him in his hall of audience, one after another, those weighty blue-books which have since appeared, year after year, in the form of Reports upon Convict Management, by Lieut.- Colonel JEBB, the laborious and energetic Sur veyor-General of the Prisons of England. How his Highness would have glowered over those elaborate arrays of statistics ! How he would have puffed, amazedly, cver his eternal chibouk as lie turned the leaves of those Parlia mentary records of what has been done in all this long lapse of time in the way at once of punish- I ment and reclamation ! Since the period in which Mr. Curtzox wrote that most charming volume which has won for him a high and lasting reputation among the travelled contributors to our popular literature, much has been actually accomplished of what was then only vaguely hoped for, in the development of the great scheme of Penal Discipline which ap peared so ridiculous in the eyes of the Vizir of Yanina. A variety of costly experiments have, during the interval between then and now, won for us a whole world' of experience. So that already the changes effected seem to us in the retrospect but little short of the miraculous. Insomuch so, that among other marvels we have already made provision within the limits of the United Kingdom for the housing and disciplining of from 9,000 to 10,000 convicts altogether. There being, as we have recently taken occasion to explain, in Eng land and Scotland alone, cells scattered here and there for the accommodation of nearly 3,000 prisoners doomed to undergo the proba tionary punishment of separate confinement. While upwards of 4,000 others are capa ble of being safely and" usefully grouped to gether upon some of our great public works, as at Dartmoor, or Portland, or Portsmouth. Beyond which, the time has even now arrived when we may look back, as upon an evil already virtually dead and gone, upon the monstrous system of wholesale transportation to remote penal settle ments. If the long-nosed Vizir marvelled so much over the folly of spending hundreds and thousands of pounds sterlingon our criminal popu lation, what would he have thought, toe may be allowed to wonder in turn, if he had learnt, as any one may learn, from Colonel Jzsn's last Re port to the Home Secretary (p. 96, Appendix), that the total value of convict labour at the Wool wich-hulks, at Portland, and at Portsmouth, may be estimated for the year, last past, at just 13,9 ° 01. An item in the statistics about ' Convict Discipline which we should have reilzisirhed of much to Yanina, if have commended to the Vizir only that he might have his neat pinch dropped it, with tihof tobacco, into pipe--to have smoked it, thereupon, at his leisure, the bowl of his everlastingpi c p ontemplatively ! In another part of our impression will be fount a letter of remonstrance from a body of men who certainly have reasonable ground for complaint. In the debate s on the mismanagement of the War, in February last, Lord PALMERSTON remarked that there was great truth and force in the obser vation of Mr. NEwDEG,ITE, in answer to the charge that the disasters of the army were to be attri buted to th e great number of gentlemen who were officers in it. The Hon. Memb er, in his opinion, had made the mos t triumphant answer by showing that where the system had broken down, " where evil had arisen from wan t of capacity; o f entrgy, of intelligence, or of accurate and zealous per formance of duty, it was not that the gentry, not that the aristocracy, not that the noblemen in the army were at fault, but persons be longing to other classes of the community." It was the medical department, the commissariat department, and the transport depa,rtment, which were not officered by the aristocraoy where the system had broken down and the main cause of the sufferings complained of were to be traced. Dexterous as Lord PALMERSTON is in debate, and devoted to the interests of the aristocracy, he was hardly so happy as usual in his remarks in this instance, and certainly cannot feel surprised that the officers of the commissariat department have addressed an expostulatory letter on the subject of his speech, through their chief, to the Minister of War. The obvious, if not legi timate inference, that in his Lordship's opinion they were not gentlemen, was sufficiently galling, but to be charged with being " wanting in capa city, energy, intelligence, and in the accurate and zealous performance of duty" by one in his Lord ship's position was not to be endured in silence. In stating their complaint, they allude to the impropriety of the charge at the present time, intimate that it is not for them to point out the cause of failure, hint at the disadvantages under which they labour, and challenge from Lord PAN MULE a just appreciation of their services. With an appeal of this sort, couched in manly and be coming terms, every Englishman will sympathise, and though we think they have exaggerated Lord PALMERSTON'S meaning in respect to their relative gentility, the sentiment that, " while they conduct themselves honourably, it matters little with what families they are connected," will meet with gene ral approval. As to the grave charge, unjust and ungenerous as it is, it is not necessary for tliem to disturb themselves further about it. The country is pretty well satisfied as to the cause of the disasters of its army. It knows that without proper heads departments cannot go right, and that it is not in Red-tapism to carry on efficiently a mighty war. Knowing this, not even Lord PaLmEnsroN • can persuade it to find the cause elsewhere. His efforts can only drive the nail nearer home. TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRPII, 10, 1855 VISIT OF TIIE EMPEROR OF TILE FRENCH TO THE QUEEN. COURT OF COXIMON COUNCIL. yesterday a special Court, which was numerously at tended, was held for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken by the Corporation fur the pur pose of testifying their respect for the Emperor of the French on his approaching visit to her Majesty. The discussion was conducted with closed doors. The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to amid enthusiastic cheering : " That it be referred to a committee now to be appointed ,o make the requisite arrangements for the presentation of :he address in the Guildhall. "That a committee be now appointed, consisting of the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen now present, and one com moner from each ward. _ _ " That an entertainment suitable to the dignity of this city be provided on the occasion at the Guildhall, at which Ma Imperial Majesty the Emperor and the Empress of the French be requested to honour this city with their pre sence. " That the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer, do wait upon his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, and humbly request him, ieo the name of this Court, that he and the Empress will vouchsafe to honour them with their Royal presence at an entertainment in the Guildhall of this city, on the occasion of the presentation of the address. " That it be referred to the said committee to take the proper measures for conducting the entertainment, for fitting up the Guildhall, and to report from time to time to this Court, if necessary." A committee, composed of the Lord Mayor, the Al- dermen present, and a commoner from each ward, was immediately formed, and they retired at once to an ad joining room, and commenced their labours, The Court then adjourned. TBE WEATHER.—Aux OPVCD, April. 10. TaZILMONETZE, IN THE SHADE. 57 — l :,ighest since noon yesterday. _ 4t —iowest this mornin g a nd d ur i n g the night. 52 —this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 46—5ti1l falling. 17 "" ) , N. W• Blowing fresh, with fine sunshiny weather. A shower of ruin in the morning. ''••• r i! LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1855. The rumours respecting the mode in which the " Third Point" is to be carried into practical operation are assuming greater consistency and verisimilitude. ViiIiDUS propositions have been earnestly canvassed, by which it was asserted the great desideratum could be achieved. We confess, however, that the only tangible solution of the doubtful problem is that offered by the demoli tion of Sebastopol, and the other Russian fortifi cations in the Euxine, together with the with drawal of the whole, or by far the greater por tion, of her navy from these waters. Anything else that has been suggested seems pregnant with future evils, and utterly inconsistent with the permanent and lasting peace which it should be the great object of the assembled diplomatists to secure. The best of these suggestions is that which would totally exclude everything appertaining to war from the illauk sea, ana it. merely into a commercial lake, rendering it a mare clauston in the widest signification of the phrase. This course, which it is said was supported by the French Government, would, of course, involve the demolition of Sebastopol, together with all other fortifications in its vicinity, and the exclu sion of armed vessels of any nation. The only objection thereto is the universality of its charac ter, and that it would also imply the demolition of the Turkish fortifications and fleet, as well as those of her assailant. Now, in the first place, Turkey has done nothing to warrant any such de mand. She has committed no act of aggression on any of her neighbours ; on the contrary, she spared no exertion to obtain an honourable peace. She did not for a considerable time even treat the invasion and occupation of her territories as a casus belli, but tried negotiation and mediation until it was too clearly manifest that both were futile. Besides, the Turkish fortifications are of a purely defensive character, while the Russian are as entirely the reverse. The Ottoman forts are requisite for the protection of the capital, the most vital spot in the nation, while the Russian are only useful as " standing menaces " against her neighbours. It would, indeed, be absurd to de mand that the teeth of the lamb should be ex tracted as well as those of the wolf. Not only might the former rely on its antecedents, and plead its invariable peaceful character, but it might also show the utter impossibility of turning the tables on its quondam assailant, or making an onslaught on the lupine family, even though the bead of the house had been deprived of its for- 1 midable fangs, and its claws had been closely clipped. Besides, the armies of Russia would still remain in formidable proximity to Constan tinople, for which there would be no real security if Varna and the other impedimenta to Russian, aye, or Austrian progress, were removed. There is a wide difference between offensive and defen sive weapons, w hich should not be lost sight o f b y the diplomatists assembled at Vienna. Another suggestion, but one wholly impracti cable, is that which proposes that Russia should maintain her forts and fleet intact, while France and England should be at liberty—. if they thought proper to bear the enor mous outlay---t° maintain an equivalent naval f ore'';) and to construct equally impregnable forti ficati,, . 118 Pt the Turkish terri tor y . Incidental to reoolitaon wa s the modest proposition that the 11 / 4 4 P la'e rua and Dardanelles should be thrown open t o ti li vessels of war sa ili n g under the Rus sian:" well as the French , English or even the Turkish flags, SO that, fit by her aggression, in fa ' et,ll - ussia would pro in obtainin the coveted op portunity of fre e access to the M g editerranean, and what would be almost tantem nable naval station on its sho:e ll s . ilt to It s an needle s s inPreB.- to say that such a result could not f ra m p o i m et e e n ly t be sanctioned—a result wh• °- or a 1 would CO annihilate the indep en d ence of the place it at the mercy of it s unscru P orte, and Plll°lls °l 3 Pressor whenever it seemed desirable to consummate its long-continued course of persecution. 33esidz as we have recently stated, supposingthat Western Powers were willing to sustain the e no ,_ mous and ruinous Outlay, there could be no s urety during the interval while the new fortification s were in course of construction. " Rome was not built in a day." For a quarter of a century the workmen were never idle at Sebasto pol. We have all seen how easily Bomarsund was captured, in consequence of the non-completion of the place, when another year might have changed it into a Baltic Sebastopol, and rendered it completely impregnable. We do not want a. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. Mr. Wyl/1, geographer to the Queen, has just issued the sixth edition of his map of " The Envi rons of Sebastopol, with the Batteries and Ap proaches." The fact of the map having gone through so many editions speaks loudly for its merits, and the impression thus conveyed is amply warranted. The positions of the Allied armies are laid down in it in distinctive colours from drawings made on the spot, and information received from Brigadier-General Torrens, Mr. Rochefort, and English and French officers. They are, therefore, readily traced, and their accuracy may be confi dently relied on. The public is greatly indebted to Mr. Wyld for bringing out this well-executed map, which is at once apropos, comprehensive, accurate, and minute. Even the spot where the wreck of the Prince occurred is marked, and a useful little map of Eupatoria, with the late attack, is given. COUNT DE BRIEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,,—ln Saturday's Sun I find the following observations : "Belgium herself, not contented with the ominous neutrality she has so long observed, is deslatching new emissaries to the Court of St. Petersburg. We learn by a letter from St. Petersburg, of the 24th ult., that `Count de Briey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of the Belgians, had, on the previous day, presented his new credentials to the Em peror Alexander.' This is the unkindest cut of all. Well may England exclaim `et-tic Brute,' when she sees the Sovereign who owes everything to her—who was taken from petty lodgings to espouse the presumptive heiress to the British Throne—who has so long been the well paid of the United Kingdom, and whose ..epnew is the consort of our dearlv-loved Sovereign, pay ing such marked comp imant-i to Russia, sending an En voy Extraordinary and Mini-ter Plenipotentiary, possi bly to negotiate respecting ' the kingdom of Thuringia,' should he induce England to waive her just demands. These are matters that should not be regarded lightly." Now, Count de Briey, so far from being a new "emissary," has been resident at St. Petersburg, in the same capacity, for just two years ; and the " new credentials" were simply the usual diploma tic formality upon the accession of a new sove reign.--Yours, &c., J. WRIGHTSON. AN UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES.—The vacant Under-Secretaryship of the Colonial Department, which necessarily remained open until the bill for regu lating the number of Secretaries of State and Under- Sec;•etaries became law, has been confided to Mr. John M.P. for Carlow. Mr. Ball is now in Ireland, but returns on Thursday to assume the duties of his new office. THE BALTIC FLEET.—A letter from Elsinore of the 3d inst. says :—" Four steam-frigates of the flying squa dron arrived and anchored in the roads on the Ist inst., at noon, but were obliged to return in the afternoon, some with loss of anchor and chain. Five sail—namely, the Arrogant, Lk, Tartar, Archer, and Desperate— came in again yesterday, and, the Swedish side of the Sound being clear of ice, they proceeded up to Lands crona. Four of the above squadron have arrived in the Belt." The Military Gazette states that the expeditionary corps is to remain pro tempore at Constantinople, with the French Imperial Guard. This is to be the army of reserve of the Allies. The Gazette considers the destina tion assigned to the Piedmontese contingent as a proof of deference and esteem on the part of Napoleon 111. for the Sardinian army. General Marrnora is about to establish his head quarters at Genoa, from whence the embarkation of the Piedmontese contingent will proceed as rapidly as possible. It is said in literary circles in Paris that M. Th. Gautier is to leave the Pressc, and to become theatrical critic for the .MoniteuP, and that his late post on the Prase will be filled by M. Nestor Roquelan, ex-director of the Opera. Letters from Athens contain deplorable accounts of the progress of brigandage in various parts of Greece. To such an extent has it proceeded that some foreign influence of a detestable character is suspected to be at work. At Weimar, counterfeit autographs of Schiller have been made use of in a most audacious manner. The heirs of the poet are amongst the dupes. It seems that the fraud has for its principal author a bootmaker, who, now that the affair is in the hands of the law, doubtless wishes that he had profited by the saying ne sutor, &a. For the second time, the clergy of the convent of St. Sergius, near Moscow (which passes for one of the richest convents in Russia), have presented a sum of money to the Emperor for the purpose of carrying on the war, their gift on this occasion amounting to nearly a million francs. THE MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, April 9.—The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Great Western, Captain Bevis, left this afternoon with the usual monthly mails for Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, Rio Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, St. Vincent's, Teneriffe, Madeira, and Lisbon. She has on ho-rd 64 passengers, among whom are C•nnmander Thiirnburn, Captain Stout, and Cheva lier Gondini. On freight the Great Western takes 14,3591. in specie, 16,542/. value in jewellery, and a full general cargo. The Plata, Captain Weller, with the next West Indi a an d P ac ifi c mails, and the Solent, Cap tain JelEcho, with the Brazilian and River Plate mails, may be expected on or about Sunday next. The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, Ca.pt. Christian, will leave on the 11th inst. with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. The Ma drid, Captain Cook, with the homeward portion of these n - Ails, is expected about the 14th inst. The United States' mail steam-ship St. Louis, Captain Wotton, will leave Southampton ea route for Havre, with French and English mails on Wedne , day. A. private letter from Sirnpheropol, published in the Vienna Prene, and dated March 8, mentions, amongst other matters, that the city is almost entirely converted into a place d'armes ; none but soldiers are to be seen. The high prices of provisions are quite beyond the means of the civil officials, who can only afford to purchase pro visions absolutely indispensable. The churches are thronged with suppliants, who pray fervently for peace. "I saw a young woman from Sebastopol," continues the writer, " who bad been kneeling all th e morn i ng, praying God to end the war quickly. In the meanti me th reaten i ng ; in the horizon. Our ene m i es in with fresh force. Th e inhabi tants the and Kertch are anxious about are yi n g g a tohne thein tants of Theodos;a t c,l m " d d c s arr fate of their property. But we hope that the will of the malignant proposals of the resist all the Emperor will European cabinet. THE NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF VESSELS.—Yester day, a return ordered by the House of Lords was printed the year ended the sth January last, number and tonnage of vessels. Ih built and of the there were 1,34 3 registered in the several ports of the British empire, and the tonnage was 320,869. Onthe t h e 31st December last several ports there were 35,900 vessels belonging to ,vhich was of the United Kingdom, the tonnage of 5,043,270, and the number of inoc employed iu vav isg the came was 206,491. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 9. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningtn, walked in the Home Park this ruorr_ing. The four elder members of the R.)yal Family rode on horseback. The younger Royal children took their ac customed exercise. A. deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon James Stuart Wortley, M.P., Recorder of London, Mr. Alderman Sidney, and Mr. Alderman Wire, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Hume office. THE WEATHER IN THS BALTIC. SWLNEMUNDE, April 6.—The bay is fillei with ice by the late prevailing northerly winds. Much ice is coming down the river. Weather very mild. Wind N.N.E. ROSTOCK, April 6.—The weather has been fine since the 29th of March. The river and roadsteads are free, but large banks of ice are still to be seen drifting at sea. STRALSUND, April 7.—A thaw, with rain, set in a few days since, and which still continues. Toe ice in the harbour and roadstead has become very weak, and the reopening of the navigation is eitpecl'ei in a few days. The ice at sea was in full movement ycst.-rday, and had nearly all "Len driven asse.y by the S.E. and E. winds. The Earl of Harlwicke, who left London for Paris with the Earl of Malinesbury, ten days since, will return to town to-day. The Duke and Duchess de Brabant were to leave Alexandria en the 26th ult. for Jaffa, whence, after visiting Jerusalem, they were to return to Europe. His Excellency the Lord-LieuteLant of Ireland left town this mozniog for Dublin, accompanied by his pri vate chaplain, the Rev. Walter Cryke ; his private secre tary, Major Ponsonby; the Hon. Miss Lascelles; and Mr. Chas. Win. Grenfell, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Grentell. Upon arriving this evening at Holyhead, his Excellency ad:if suite will pass the night there, crossing over to the Irish coast by special boat to-morrow inoreleg. His Ex cellency will enter tee Irish capital in state at half-past two the same day (Wednesday). The King of the Belgians received on Friday, at a private audience, Y. A. Barret, the French minister at Brussels, previousl• to the hon. gentleman's departure for Paris, where he is to spend the Easter holidays. " The name of the Rev. Dr. Stanford is removed from the list of the Vice-regal Chaplains, some person having communicated to Lord Carlisle that the rev. gentleman had been dismissed as Chaplain to the North Dublin workhouse for prcselytising tendencies. The Governor-General of India has raised the salary of Dr. O'Shaughnessy, the superintendent of electric telegraphs in Indit, to 3,6001. per annum. The doctor has been informed that the increase has been given, not only in acknowletment of his valuable services, but be ' cause, had he rereiiined at the Mint, his salary would have been higher than that which he has hitherto re ceived as superintendent of electric telegraphs. ON DIT.— We Inderstand that the lovely and accom plished daughter cf a neighbouring baronet is shortly to be led to the hymeneal altar by a gentleman of immense wealth, now a resident of France. The lady alluded to is possessed of a very large fortune in her own right.— Munster Nam CARDINAL WlSEMAN.—Letters from Naples state that Cardinal Wiseman is to be appointed Librarian of the Vatican, in the place of Cardinal Mai. EARL OF SEFTON V. HOPWOOD.—LIVERPOOL, Mon day.—the further examination of witnesses occupied the court the whole day, and the court was again adjourned. DRURY LANE. —This theatre was to have re-opened last night with a new operatic company, but a bill was posted at the doors, annnlincing the postponement of the performances until another evening. The season of the R )val Italian Opera commences on Thursday with Rossini's op:ra Le Comte Ory. The fol lowing are advertised to appear :—Mdlle. Bosio, Mdlle. Didi6e, Marx, M. Zelger, Signori Tagliafico, Gard .ni, and Mei. An important addition hag heeu made to the company in the person of Madame Ruders dorff. We learn that a magnificent antique statue, in red marble, was purchased for the British Museum, at the late sale of M. Collot's collection at Paris. Ex-King Jerome attempted to become its purchaser, in order that he might present it to the Museum of the Louvre. M. Collet was formerly Director of the Paris Mint. Commercial letters from St. Petersburg, dated the 31st ult., state that business in produce was at a stand still. The price of tallow was nominally 117 on the spot, and 117.104, for delivery in AUVISi. The ex change on London was quoted 364 to 9-16 d. From the last accounts from the Peninsula the screw steamer Natal was high up on the beach. There was a great deal of water in her, but this was owing to the sea beating over her. Two commanders of vessels had started frouf Cadiz to survey her. She is only 680 tons burden. The Emigration Commissioners have chartered the Algiers to sail from Birkenhead to Adelaide on the 10th of May, the Cairngorm to sail from Plymouth for Port. land Bay on the 17th of May, and the Eliza to sail from Plymouth for Sydney on the 24th of May. The following are the new directors of the General Screw Company, viz.:—N. R. Ackworth, E.3q., P. Currie, Esq., Henry Farndell, Esq., Joshua Lockwood, Esq., J. S. Margetson, Esq., C. Morrison, Esq., yid ward Warner, Esq., M.P., Captain H. Shuttleworth, and Colonel Underwood. BRAZIL.—From Brazil there are accounts of great discoveries in the province of Maranham, between Maranham and Para ; but the probability is they have been much exaggerated, to serve the put poses of a com pany which is said to have been got up to work them with a nominal capital of 100,0001. AGRA AND UNITED SERVICE BANIT..—At the half yeaely meeting of this company, held at Calcutta on the 14th of February, the profits for the six months were stated at 43,4301., which, after providing for a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum, as well as for a loss of 6,116/. sustained at the Madras branch, left 5,5641. to be carried to the reserve fund, which is intended to be increased from 100,0001. to 150,000/. The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the week have comprised only three vessels—two to Hobart Town, of an aggre gate burden of 870 tons, and one to Moreton Bay, of 914 tons. Their total capacity was 1,784 tons. The rates of freight exhibit no alteration. SOUTH AUERICA.—The accounts from South America by the present New York steamer are of a few days later date than those previously received, but they con tain nothing of importance. With regard to Mexican affairs, ditt partisans of the insurgent leader Alvarez at Acapulco affirm, under date the 6th of March, that he is gaining great successes, and that before long he will enter the city of Mexico in triumph. In Peruvian affairs there had been no further change. From Equa dor it is stated that very rich silver mines have been dis covered at a placed called B.rbemLa. The English steamers Colombo and Clyde, of Glas gow, have just embarked at Marseilles 1,200 voltigeurs of the Guard for Constantinople, amidst the most en thusiastic cheers of the thousands of persons who had assembled on the quays to witness their departure. Three other English steamers, chartered by the French Government, are now taking on board wooden barracks for the army of the East at that port, and will also carry out a number of horses. The France steam packet has just left for Constantinople, having on board a large quantity of military stores, 100 mules, 100 soldiers of the waegon train, and 13 gendarmes. Sin E BULNVER LYTTON'3 MEDAL.—We understand that Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's gold medal, for the best essay, by any student of the University of Edinburgh matriculated in 1853-54 or 1354-55, "On the influence of the mind over the body in cau-ing and curing morbid and anomalous conditions," has just been adjudged by the Senatus Acadewicus. The successful competitor is John Glen, M.A., student of medicine, son, we believe, of the late Rev. Dr. Glen. for many years missionary in Persia. Another of the essays was also declared of great merit, but the author's name is unknown, the sealed note containing it not having been opened. Dr. Mandt, the physician who attended the Czar Nicholas in his last illness, has published a circumstantial account of the closing scenes of the monarch's life. "At ten minutes past three," says the doctor, " lie asked me after I had mentioned the name of his father confessor, `Must I then die ?' I answered, Yes, sire.' Not a muscle of his face moved, not the least quickening of pulsation. How,' said he, ' can you find the courage thus to doom me to death ; to tell me so to my face ?' ` First,' said I, by so doing, I fulfil a promise made to you a year and a half ago ; the moment of which you then spoke to me, alas ! has come ; moreover, I thus fuifil a duty to the Emperor. You have several hours to live ; you are in full possession of your f iee tte ee , an ,i can direct them at your will—at least I believe so. Lastly, sire, I love you, and this is not the moment to conceal the truth, which I am sure you can bear to hear. His couutenalice became serene, and he stretched out his saying, thwak you r Such was the Emperor." LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, APRIL 10. The Clyde, which left Constantinople on the 29th of March, has arrived. Despatches for the Government left at 11 p.m. BALAKLAVA, MARCH 27. There was an armistice on the 24th for two hours, for burying the dead. The Russians buried 400 men. Colonel Kelly is a prisoner at Sebastopol, slightly wounded. Captain Montague is a prisoner, and is not wounded. There were false alarms on Saturday and Mon day, 24th and 26th March. It is hoped that the fire will open this week. VIENNA, MONDAY. Aall Pasha and General Burgoyne arrived here yesterday. • The ninth Conference was held to-day. M. Drouyn del'Huys was present. The Russian envoys have not, as yet received their instructions from St. Petersburg. We learn from a reliable source that the Bri tish Envoy to the Vienna Congress is not likely to leave Vienna before the 20th, as the definitive answer of the Czar to the points contained in Prince Gortschakoff's despatch is not expected till that day. THE BALTIC FLEET. NYBORG, MONDAY, NOON. The Irnperieuse, Euralyus, and Conflict have just anchored here, and are going to coal. The remaining ships of the advanced squadron are at a Landscrona. FRANCE. (FROM U rJR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Paris journals, according to their usual cus tom of taking a holiday on the occasion of Easter Sunday, S have all refrained from appearing this morning. The Hon. J. Y. Mason, the American Minister at the French Court, has just left Paris for Nice, for the benefit of his health. A private telegraphic despatch from Vienna, of this day's date, was received this afternoon, and states as follows : " The Russian Plenipotentiary has received his full power—the conditions demanded by M. Drouyn de l'Huys are accepted by Russia—peace is .secured. I leave for Paris." This despatch is said to proceed from the agent of a house in. Paris largely interested in Bourse transactions, and it is not yet confirmed by official intelligence. A rumour is again afloat about the attack and capture of the tower of Malalhoff by the Allied Armies. The Pays pretends to publish the instructions given by the Ottoman Porte to Ali Pasha on the Four Points. The Debats leaves the responsibility of them to the Pays. Respecting the third point, the instructions, as given in the Pays, are : "The third point is relative to the revision of the Treaty of the 13th of July, 1841, with the view better to connect the existence of the Ottoman Empira to the ba lance of power in Europe, and to limit the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea. The Sublime Porte, thankful for the proofs of sincere friendship which the Great Powers purpose giving it on this occasion, approves of the material means by which those Powers desire, in fact, to limit the preponderance of Russia. But it must at the same time guard against a revision of the treaty of 1841 in, a manner susceptible of becoming an infringe ment upon its rights of sovereignty on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, or on any point of its territory where the safety of the empire might be compromised." *Letters from Toulon state that the number of troops embarked at that port for the East since the 25th of February amounts to 14,717 men, and the vessels of all kinds employed to transport them to 21. The Charlemagne alone took 1,20 G. Majors Stanley and Brett have just passed through Paris on their way to the Crimea. These officers belong to the Bombay Army and have seen 17 years' rough service in India. Major Stanley, who is well known for his gallant conduct in India, was formerly on the staff of the late Sir C. Napier, and served for some time as assistant political agent under Colonel Outram in Scinde, and has just relinquished a lucrative appointment on the Scinde frontier to take the command of a regiment of cavalry in the Crimea. A detachment of twelve firework makers under the direction of M. Melva, formerly a pupil of the Polytechnic School, who has so long devoted him self to the study of the pyrotechnic art, has just em barked •at Lyons on board one of the Rhone steamers for Marseilles, on their way to the Crimea. These workmen, who are all remarkable for their superior ability in their art, have been specially engaged to' keep in order and repair the vast quan tity o bombs, shells, and other incendiary articles sent out to the army of occupation. Although civil workmen, they are to be placed under mili tary orders. Mme. Dounay de Gasteau, sister of M. Von de Weyer, the Belgian Minister at London, died sud denly three days back at her residence at St. Josseten Noode. The Northern Railway Company have just pur chased from Baron de Rothschild three pieces of ground in the upper part of the Faubourg Poisson niere for the sum of 1,748,600 f. BOURSE, AP AL 9.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 69 SO 69f. 90c. Credit Mobilier BO7 50 Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian Belgian Fives 951 Spanieh Threes 313 Piodmontese B5 75 Rome Debt RAILWAYS-'IOII CASH. fr. c. fr. c Orleans Western 660 Rouen Cate 630 Strasburg . Mediterranean 987 50 Havre 560 Northern ...... ...... 870 Cherburg RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, of March 31, in the Bcersenhalle of Hamburg, says :—" The Em peror Alexander has the intention to visit Finland, it is said, and in particular Helsingfors, with his brother Nicholas, before the commencement of ope rations in the Baltic. The militia of St. Peters burg are to assemble shortly, under the command of Prince Schakowski, when the Emperor will pass them in review. To-day an ordonnance has been published concerning the beard of the soldiers. The Emperor has deigned to order, Ist, that the soldiers who mount guard on week days shall not be required to dye either their hair or whiskers ; and 2dly, on Sundays and feast-days they must mount guard with their hair and whiskers waxed and dressed." The Hamburg News contains a letter from War saw, which states that on April Ist the appeal of the Holy Synod, relative to the formation of the militia throughout the Russian empire, was read from the pulpits in all the churches of that city. At the cathedral, in order to impart more solemnity to the act, the governor and principal functionaries, civil and military, ware present. The Military Gazette of Vienna contains a letter from Sebastopol, which states that General Osten- Sacken, on the 18th March, published an order of the day enjoining all females to quit the town at once. The Grand Duke Nicholas, taking into con sideration that a great number of these women possess nothing in the world, has been pleased to accord from his privy purse 100 roubles to each woman having a family to enable her to remove, and from 20 to 50 roubles to each unmarried female, according as the case might seem to require (the rouble is a little over 4f.) It was supposed that this order was given in anticipation of active hos being on the point of being resumed. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the Ist, in the Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, states that several contracts for the Austrian army have been provi sionally adjourned. A large camp is to be formed in the course of the spring in the neighbourhood of Cracow, where the whole army of Gallicia, num bering 120,000 men, is to be concentrated, and the Emperor will proceed there to inspect it in person. Alexander 11. of Mis , ia has 4 pre , ented the regi wellt A.iii4;l;al; Lcitling name, with the uniform of colonel of that regiment worn by the late Emperor Nicholas. The Imperial ordonnance for the annual recruit ment of the army is usually issued ma the spring. This year, it is said, the order. will not appear until it be known what may be the course rendered by the result of the conferences, the last year's levy, by which the army was placed on the war footing, having already borno upon the class of 1855. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived in due course. The Gazette contains a royal ordin ance which enacts that, from the Ist May next, foreign letters shall pay a uniform postage of four reals (one franc) for a weight of four adarmes (the adarme is the 16th part of an ounce), and of four reels additional for every two adarmes or fraction of one above that weight. The decree, however, enacts that as regards France and Portugal-, with which there are special postal conventions, the postage of a letter of four adarmes shall remain as at present, namely, two reals for the former and one real for the latter. The decree further pro vides that from May 1 the prepayment of letters for Italy shall cease to be obligatory. The Diarie says : " It is stated that Andres Villalon, lieutenant of en gineers, and Ramon Fernandez de Cordova, lieutenant of artillery, have been authorised by the Emperor of the French to proceed to the editlea, where they are to be considered as French officers in active service, and are tl be allowed horses and rations like them. Letters of introduction are to be given to them fur the General anrobert, and to the generals commanding the artillery and the engineers." Accounts from Cuba have been received at Madrid. They state that Colonels Cortazar and Saiz have been invested with the command of important di visions • that the English steamer the Medea, had conveyed a column of Spanish troops, destined to operate in a certain part of the island ; that three squadrons of yeomanry cavalry, and two of mi litia, were about to be called into active service ; that four battalions of infantry volunteers and two squadrons of volunteer cavalry had been organised; and that, in a word, every preparation had been made for resisting an attaok of filibusteros from the United States. HANOVER. A letter from Hanover of the sth, in the Cologne Gazette, says : " The report of the Committee of the Diet on - the ii ternal affairs of Germany, and which has proposed to invest the . old nobility with its ancient rights for the composition of our First Chamber; and of which they had been deprived by the revolution of 1848, has caused the greatest agitation throughout the country. The in habitants, who considered that the privileges of the nobles had been for ever abolished, are quite in a state of conbternation at the present revival. In every part of the country petitions are being prepared and signed, praying his Majesty to convoke as soon as possible the • two Chambers having the, confluence of the country, and which may be able to avert the evils with which the country 'may be threatener! if the conclusions of the Committee of the Diet in favour of the old privileges of the nobility should be again introduced into klanover. The pb,tition of the burgomasters and the "municipal' council of the capital has already been presented to the King, and wi'l be followed by others. All of ,them de-. wand the mainte.nance of the present mode- of election,' and the abolition fo; ever of all privileges to the nobles.' The Wanderer of 7 . l :,:nna of the sth says : " The Consuls General of France and Eng!anci, who have returned to Buchare.: t after a prolonged absence, hoisted their flags on the 25th ult., and thus indicated in official style that tt;e diplomatic. relations between those powers and th.,o Govern ment of Wallachia were re-established." LORD PALMERSTON AND THE COMMIS- SARIAT SERVICE. The following is a copy of the letter of remon sti ance forwarded by the Commissariat officers serv ing in the Crimea to Commissary-General Filder, C. 8., for the purpose of being transmitted by the last mail to Lord Panmure, the Minister for War • Balaklava, March 17. _ _ Sir,—lt is with great reluctance that we have decided upon the course of addressing you these remarks, with a request that you will lay them before his Lordship the Secretary for War ; but we feel that it is due to the department to which' we belong and to ourselves indivi dually to notice the following reflections cast upon the commissariat officers by Lord Palmerston in bis speech in the Ho use of Commons on the 19th of February, viz " And I must say that there was great truth and great force in the observations which fell from the hon. mem ber for North Warwickshire, in answer to the attacks which have been made upon the aristocracy, along with whom I suppose we must include the gentry of this country, for I believe the term aristocracy' inctudes the two. In reply to the charges that our army has not been successful, as it ought to have been, in consequence of the great number of gentlemen who are offiCers in it, I think the hon. member made the moat triumphant answer, by showing that where your system has broken down—that where evil has arisen from want of capacity, of energy, of intelligence, or of accurate and zealous per formance of duty—it was not that the gentry, not that the aristocracy, not that the noblemen in the army were at fault, but persons belonging to other classes of the community. It is the medical department, the commis sariat department, and the transport department, which nobody contends are filled with the sons of the aristo cracy or the gentry—it is there that your system has broken down, it is,there that the service has failed, and that it is`that has been the main pause of the suffering of which we are all complaining." We can .hardly imagine that Lord Palmerston could have meant that the officers of the commissariat do not belong to the class of society called "gentlemen ;" but the expressions made use of by his lordship certainly convey that meaning ; and it is plainly stated that the officers of the commissariat have been "wanting in capa city, energy, intelligence, and in the accurate and zeal ous performance of duty." As these expressions emanate not from a quarter which might be treated with indiffe rence, but from a Minister of the Crown, cognisant, it may be presumed, of the merits of the question who thus prejudges it, before any decision by the commission of inquiry now pending is arrived at, their effect upon the public mind cannot but be as injurious to the department as they are offensive to the individuals of whom they are composed. It is not for us to point out the causes of the failures in the various arra'ngeulents connected with the cam raign, but we trust that his Lordship, the Minister for War, under whose orders we have the honour of being placed, will afford us the protection to which we con ceive we are fairly entitled, that he will not withhold from us a just appreciation of our rnosVstrenuous endea vours to perform our arduous and responsible duties, and that he will afford us an opportunity of proving that we have not been " wanting in capacity, energy, intelligence, or zeal." We have enjoyed none of the advantages consequent upon war with respect to promotion, &c.; which have been so liberally extended to every other branch of the army. Our services and our exertions have not been re cognised in any public manner, and we cannot feel other wise than greatly aggrieved that we should be thus held up to the public as having been "the main cause of the evils tvhich have arisen." We are invidiously designated as not belonging to the class of society usually termed " gentlemen,"but as be longing to other classes of the community. While we conduct ourselves honourably it matters little with what families we are connected ; but we contend that the officers of the commissariat, as a body, do belong to the class termed " gentry," and that we are as well educated, as well informed, and as honourable and upright in every respect as any other body of officers in the army. Our duties are of a most responsible nature, and there are no officers in the service in whom such an amount of trust is placed, which should surely entitle us to be classed in the highest ranks of the public service. If we have not acquitted ourselves to the satisfaction of our superiors, we invite inquiry into our conduct ; but as we are confident that we have at least exerted ourselves to the utmost, we most respectfully beg that his lordship will not disregard the honour of, or refuse to do justice to, a department under his control, and de pendent upon him for official support. If we have expressed ourselves with freedom, we trust that his lordship will make due allowance ;or our feel ings under what we conceive a most unjust and un founded: imputation, and we beg to assure his lordship that we shalt continue to perform our duties conscien tiously, and that no endeavours will bd . spared by us to uphold the character of the department, and our indivi dual reputation, at the high standard to which, we t rust, his lordship will not fail to admit they have attained. We have, &c. G. ADAMS, D.C.G. H. J.BROWNRIG G, D. A.C. G. W. H. DRAKE, D.C.G. f. MURRAY, D.A.C.G.. L. ROUTH, A.C.G. J. MARSH, D.A.C.G. F. S. CARPENTER, A.C.G. R. Bootx, D.A.C.G. W. S. ARCHER, A.C.G. A. CLERK, C.C. E. J. M. MAHON, A.C.G. J. BAILEY, D.A.C.G. M. W. DARLING, A.C.G.L. W. .SUTHELAND,D.A.C.G. A. F. COOKESLEY, D. A.C.G. J. D. WILLAN, A.C.G. F. C. COLQUHOUN, D.A.C.G. J. P. LUNDY, A.C.G. G. R. PRIMROSE, D.A.C.G. W. T. POWER, A.C.G. J. B. BARLEE, D.A.C.G. R. CUMMING, A.C.G. A. L. BAYNES, C.C. G. J. WEBB, D. A.C.G. W. U. GREEN, C.C. H. BARTLETT, D.A.C.G. A.. PETRIE, C.C. G. S. BLANE, D.A.C.G. A. CHAPLIN, C.C. C. B. SMITH, D.A.C.G. H. C. LEWIS, C.C. .T. B. THOMPSON, D.A.C.G. W. F. G. SDRVANTES, C.C. J. 11. SALE, D.A.C.G. J. MANNING, C.C. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes an Imperial de creeconceding to the Great Central Company—first, the section of the Clermont-Ferraud and Montauban Railway, extending from Lempdes to the river Lot; second, the two sections of the Bordeaux and Lyons line, comprised, the one between St. Etienne and the Clermont Ferraud and Montauban road, and the other between the latter and Perigucnx ; and, third, the Limoges and Agen Railway. The duration of the conces sion is fixed at 99 years from the date stipulated for the completion of the works. The Government is to allow the company a subvention of 76,000,000 E, payable in 18 half yearly in , t;,lrn fr, Tn the lso of J n., 1857, to the Ist of .1 , u v. .1 c'l3 an (0 2,009 r E lie con siroct.on of a branch on Rcdez. Four other branches are conceded to the company, on Cabers, Villeneuve d'Agen, Bergerac, and Tillie, which are to be constructed according to the clauses of the law of the 11th June, 1812. op , k n ice 147 " r ib, 11 NEWIVIARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ,F;LECTRIO TELEGRAPIP) NEWMARXET HANDICAP. Hercules Dr. O'Toole Freckle Thirteen ran. ' Hercules objected to for crossing. 501. PLATE (FOR 2-YR-OLD). Coroner ~ Loey..,. Seven ran. RIDDLESWORTH STAKES. Chalice.. Hazel .. Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Treacherous filly Bessie SUBSCRIPTION PLATE S 4h erz Top Sawyer ....... ARRIVED—CIaret. LATEST BETTING. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 7to 2 agst Quince. 7to 4 agst Crown Pigeon (offered). sto 1 agst Dr. O'Toole (taken). 9to 1 agst Benhams (taken). 16 to 1 agst Freckle (offers to take). COLUMN STAKES. Even on Habena. sto 2 agst Rambling Katie. 6to 1 agst Bonnie Morn. THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. '4 6to 4 agst St. Hubert. 25 to 1 agst Noisy. GREAT 'NORTHERN HANDICAP. 3to 1 agst Vandal. 6to 1 agst Neville. 12 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon. 20 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken). 30 to 1 agst Atherstone (taken). CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Scythian. 20 to 1 agst Mortimer. 20 to 1 agst Amy. 30 to 1 agst Bright Phoebus. 100 to 1 agst Nancy. DERBY. 7to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken). -.8 to 1 ag4 De Clare. 18 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles. 2000 to 25 agst Kingstown. NEWTON RACES., (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) • HURDLE RACE. Sailor Battle Three ran. CAVALRY CUP. Tweezer Le•Belward -- • 2 ...... Four ran. STEEPLECHASE. Trout ... 1 Odiham . . 2 Nine ran. CLEZINAL COURT.-(TIIIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Frederick Kemp, 21, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, and stealing some silver spoons an d othe r articles, and also to having been , before convicted 0f felony. From inquiries made by the Court, it app e ared O at the prisoner had been five times summarily convicted by a magistrate, and sentenced to different periods of prisonment, and he had also been in cudtody u pon 9 ` charge of assault and robbery in the public streets. The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that in SO tilw cases where a prisoner pleaded guilty, it might be cop" sidered that he was actuated by a feeling of remorse fo his offences ; but, in the present instance, he was afraid that this was not the ground for that course being taken' and that the prisoner felt that the case was so etol against him that he had no chance of escape, and hoped , by pleading guilty, to avoid any inquiry into his Pas" career. .It was c:ear he was a very bad offender, and 1 1 therefore felt it his duty to order him to be kept in pe p s servitude for four years. • NEW COURT. The Common Sergeant sat in this Court trying P r '' soners for passing bad money. The cases, of which tber°l ate 30, possess no feature of public , interest, and 111 i occupy the Court the entire day. MARKBP ATE,W,S-( . TBIS DAY,;, • HAY MARKETS. et SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 41 18s Od ; C lo9 d ditto, 31 Os to 5/ 15s ; and straw, 1/ 3s to 11 9s per 1 " -- A moderate supply and a sluggish trade: lofe i CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 21 17s to 51 Os ; ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 153 ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 103 per P' Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. et WHITEMIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 15s to 4/ 18s; . 11 ,,,c1. ditto, 3/ 3s to 6/ Os; and straw, 11 3s to 1/ 9s per . 11 / - Trade dull. „ COLONIAL. 09, SUGAR.—There are not many public sales in prog i lt , and they are chiefly Mauritius. A cargo of brown : 1- a ea nambuco has been sold at 18s 9d, for Hambu rg . Meb" - jo , has been sold at IGs 6d for a cargo of Cuba MuscoOdia There were landed last week at the East and West Po , Docks 31 trcs ; there were taken f or home o ie sumptiou 960 hhds, 22 tres. GO bras; and the s toe to k 8,416 hhds, 743 trcs, and 1,313 brls. Mauritius crls ci to lised is worth about 34s to 41s Gd, and brown 24s 6 296 66. COFFEE.—St. Domingo, two cargoes, of about 140' bags together, sold at 45s 61, f or th e Mediterranean. 6 6 8• bags a si tive Ceylon is at 46s 6d t o 47 s Gd, an d, Pl an t a ti o n 0" 70a to 78s. Mocha fine to finest 73s to 86s. COTTON.—FuII rate are obtained for'Surat• 13* Rin.—The market i s quiet. Low Bengal is .at and good at 14s, fine 15s per cwt.• 01/ 4 Rum.—At the abo ve - name d d oc k s l as t wee k, 262 1 3 3 hhds were landed, there were taken for Home u se )" puns, 16 hhds, and there were exported 195 puns , hhds. The stock is 690 nth: and 8,109 puns. hal ° COCHINEAL.—The consumption is large and prices been firm. be e° TALLOW.—The market during the past week has quiet; the business chiefly confined to purchasers o 'o ll portation. The demand for the Continent continues it ,(l' for tallow on the spot and forward delivery ; our ocal, c ing prices are-47s 96 to 48s for new on th e s p o t ; 0 P ) 46s Gd ; May, 4Ss ; June, 48s 3d; Oct. 1, D e c. norniii4 e rf 49s to 6d ; town tallow, 465, nett cash ; Australian 0 ' 47s 61 r 0; TEA.—The last ndvices from China, to the 13th N e ary, although they bespeak increased diffictilties t asi:ll°' commercial relations with Canton are concerne d, "':„.„ 1 8i • appear to have any effect upon the t ra d e here, wile , rfo ° ing from the shipments that have taken place fron jo ref Chow and from Shanghai, add e d t o w hi c h a s t o ok c ar amounting to 59,355,000 lb s ., canno t b e li eve in arqtaO° city at least for some tim e t o come. Th e B oar d a di p returns show the followin g resu lt f or t wo mon ths 00 ,,, sth March, 1351, and 1855, for the United Kingdom ' • 1854. 1855_, ‘ . 00. Home Consumption 6,756,0001 b 5. 9,913,Uvu Export 659,000 , 984,00 0 40 bi • The delivery in London, for the m on th' ending 3lst-a 1 , 'Ofr is 5,153,000 lbs. da rs Under the influence of large supplies the Market et, e t the last three weeks has maintai ne d a n a spect °, 1 7,0 Y; depression, and we have to quot e a d ec li ne i n m ost d e p t tions ; commen Congous have been sold to some e%. te 9d but buyers have been found for all offered at thlso js. leaving orders on hand unexecut e d : Si nc hune 00 0 „id to a id, and Ning-Chows Id t o 2d l ower : Kaiso* r o on the other hand continu e th e i r ra t es . S ce nted t e cof e ' s hardly saleable at the ext reme ra t es o f l as t m onth', o ri mon country Greens are in l a r g e exce ss , a nd thong.:ao l i are low, are very Mifficult of sale ; good and fine I t ipf kinds are on the other hand in demand, and the a t deficient. The curr e nt prices are gici CONGOU.—Ordinary to good ordinary, gd to is s e. to ls ; rather blackish leaf, is ld t° o 2 0 10 blackish leaf, is 3d to is 10d; P e k oe ki n d, is 10,1 }d to SOUCHONG.—Good ordinary 'to hut m iddling, " 2,1 middling to good middling, is Gd to 2s 3d. FLOWERY PEKOE.—is 46 to 3s 4d. 64 1: CAPER.-Is 2 o l o ORANGE scented, is 16 t o i s 6d. to -10 ORANGE PEKOE.-18 id to is 4d) scented, is Sd ,to TWANKAY.—Good ordi nar y t o b u t middling , , middling to Hyson kin 3, is 16 to ls'/A. 1 , • HYSON SKlN.—Ordin ar y t o goo d ordinary, 5 to lie but middling to good middling, is 2d to is 3d- oall HYSON.—Good ordinary, is 6,1 to is 7d ; but rp o. , to is 8 , 1 to is 106 ; middli ng t o goo d m iddli ng , 2s t ° YOUNG ITYSON.-9d to 23 ; Canton kin d ' ls 2d. +. IMPERIAL-1s 3d to 2s ;_ Canton kind, 10Ad to t lO 1 o GUNPOWDER.—Ie 56 to 3s Gd; Canton kind, . . . „ r t f( f o o iIocITESTER.- -In the event of a new — l O O , - 0 1 . born* f,r we hear it i , 'Oar' i % fa ja I ft t 1,,r ~ard .fill Q.C., as a candidate. (woo; lod c BOSTON, March 28.—An English barque , ~„ra ° _ waterlogged, and abandoned, the two last letr;ooto name being TT, of London, was Rea on the 13 0 b 7" la, 33, and 9 boug. I;j4 r b itt ell, z , bib If ' f r . A: oi l , P ' 4 1 °1 tom e t , coii iii a i AN Vvi b:ltt: Vi N o t o "tai rtx f or 1: 11 , 4 q 1) 1,1;„