The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

ROYAL O:.'ERA, DRIIRY•LANE. Les3ee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. Will be performed NORMA, in which Madame Arga. Mlle Mag ner, Signor Armandi, Mr Hamilton Braham, will appear. To conende with a Grand FRENCH BALLET, supported by MdLe. paimyra, M4lle. Paolo, N. Friant, &c. Prices of admission :—To thetwogalleries, 6d.; second circle o f bolesiiid pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; sta L% 4s. ; private boxes to , admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, ons guinea. Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under tho management of Mr. Butkatone. THIS EVENING. Will he performed BERTA ; tor, The Gnome of Hartzberg. After which, ONLY A HALFPENNY. To conclude with the new Extravaganza, called THE NEW HAYMARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST REET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES BEAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. To cciclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mn.s C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. • THEATRE ROYAL ADELNIL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be presented JANET PRIDE. Characters by Messrs. R. Webster, C. Selby, Garden, Keeley, and Paul Bedford; Madame Celeste and Miss t. Keeley. After which, BETTY MARTIN. To conclude with rm. TELL YOUR WIFE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, 'Will be performed STILL WATERS MIST DEEP. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. viro • --ng, Danvers, Miss Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort. To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, .iiss Julia St. George, &c. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, Will be performed LA SONNAMBULA. Characters by Signor Veld, Mr. F. Paget, lull Miss R. Isaacs. After which, SALLY SMART. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Ceoke. Attraction of the first magnitude ! New gorgeous Spectacle ! THIS EVENING. Sixth time, a magnificent Chivalric Spectacle byJ. H. SrocQuiliin, Esq.. called, ENGLAND and FRANCE in the DAYS of CHIVALRY, or, the Brothers in Arms. Grand Tourney in the Field of the Cloth of Gold! tfter which, a novel Series of SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of other amusing entertainments. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, lir. W. Cooke, Jun. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tax DA °ruing 46 min.after 2 j Evening 6min. aft. 3 To-lcaantr —Morning 27 min.after 3 j Evening 50min. aft. 3 SITE VriaTHEß.—Sus OPTICS, June 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD. 57 highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, up to 301.1, now 30.06. WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, with fine warm sunshiny weather, but cloudy. ~„~~T~l t t _ y N ~ ~y _^ Al , ll/, ~'v J~ LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1855. On Monday evening the House of Commons will have to arrive at an important decision—im portant alike to the honour and welfare of the country, and to the reputation of the Noble Lords and Right Honourable and Honourable Gentlemen who may take part in the discussion or subsequent division. Three distinct issues are placed before them, between which they will have to determine. There are three several claimants for their suffrages, and the matter is materially simplified by the fact that the questions are alto gether divested of a party character, that the result cannot affect the existence of the Ministry, or lead to the dissolution so ranch dreaded by those who do not feel perfectly easy at the pros pect of meeting their constituents, and submitting to the stringent inquiries as to their past conduct that may possibly be instituted. If ever there was an opportunity for recording the unbiassed opinions of the popular represen tives it will be afforded on• Monday. We do not, of course, venture to affirm that sinister influences may not be brought into operation that attempts may not be made to procure converts to the " Coburg-Germanism," so strongly and so generally condemned by the people. But there will benoshadowof excuse foratrucklingvote. Any man who gives one against the motion of Mr. LOWE must be prepared to don the Musco vite colours—to announce his pro-Russian predi lections as fully as if he had joined the Manches ter party, and made speeches at the meetings of the Peace Society. The real contest will be between the proposi tions of Sir FRANCIS BARING and Mr. LOWE. Some plausible speeches may be made in favour of Sir WM. HEITHCOTE'S amendment. The Peelites, though few in numbers, have " a forty barrister power" of talk, nor are their new allies of the Manchester school by any means deficient in what is popularly termed "the gift of gab !" We shall, of course, have Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT—possibly Mr. GLAD STONE may again put in his word—and Sir W/.1. HEATHCOTE, the proposer of the amendment. Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, and some of the most efficient orators of the party will also speak. Messrs. MILNER GIB SON, BRIGHT, and COBDEN, as well as some of the minor luminaries of the Peace-at-any- Price party will not give silent votes. But, al though there will be many speakers, there will be but few voters, and should a division be taken, as we trust there may be, there will be but a scanty minority on the side of the members for the once chivalrous University of Oxford. We are anxious for the division that it may be fully known who may be trusted. " Foenum, habet in cornu" will be proclaimed respecting every voter for Sir WILLIAM HEATHCOIE and his party. But, unless a compromise be effected there will be a sharp contest between Sir F. BARING and Mr. LowE. The Right Honourable Baronet wishes to leave every thing in the hands of Mi nisters, still to pursue the same course that has already led to so many disastrous results. He seems to think that we should even yet wait for Austria—should continue the solemn mockery of negotiation, and wilfully close our eyes to the duplicity, treachery, and faithlessness of our soi-disant Ally. "Do not in terfere with the Executive" is the convenient creed of Si r F. BARING, and it scarcely neces sary to say how energetically the doctrine will be supported by all the "waiters on PROVIDENCE,' and all the Mi n i sterial toadies. "We must make every allowance for the difficulties of the position of the young EMPEROR r' " Must avoid precipi tating matters, lest Austria, should cas t h er we i g h t i n to the adverse scale r , Such ar e th e arguments which will be advanced b y those Who desire t o afford that selfish and truckling Powe r a l oophole by which she m a y wri gg le out of her engagem en t s, and evade the performance of her express p romises. It is, however, by no means a dignified policy, nor do we believe th at it has even expediency jto recommend it. We are thoroughly convinced that nothing can produce an honourable or permanent peace save the appearance of the most inflexible resolution on the part of the Western Powers. It is that stern simplicity of language, that unequi vocal abnegation of diplomatic slang that b rin g s of our transatlantic brethren to so speedy a conelll4 • o u. They invariably " call MI THE SUN, LONDON, SATITEtbAY EVENING, JUNE 2. 18.5 THE CHANNEL MAILS AND THE WEL- THER IN THE CHANNEL. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant there has never been such a continuance of bad weather and a succession of gales of wind as have prevailed during the last four months in the English Channel, and scarcely any weather has been worse than during the last ten days. In consequence the French and English mail service between Dover and Calais has been altogether deranged, and until yesterday morning nothing like any regularity has occurred for several days. In many in stances the mail-packets have been from 10 to 14 hours under steam waiting in the Calais roads to land or em bark the mails. They have gone over to Calais from Dover, and a boat has put off to them, but the French mail agent has not deemed it prudent to risk the bags, and under these circumstances the steamers have waited in harbour, when they have got in, un til there was sufficient water for them to come out. On Thursday the wind blew very roughly from almost all points of the compass, varying from north-east in the morning to south-west at night, accompanied by violent squalls, with showers of hail and rain. Yesterday morning the new mail-packet Queen get over to Dover in excellent time, and with the usual skill of her director was placed alongside the famous Admiralty Pier, and the passengers walked on shore. The Belgian Govern ment steam-packet from Ostend arrived some two hours before ; but she not venturing to make use of the safe Admiralty Pier, dropped her mails into the harbour boat and bore up for the Downs with her passengers. The weather has been so rough that sometimes the mail only has been got off into C dais Roads, and the mail company have used another of their steamers to bring over their passengers. A change to seasonable weather is much prayed for on the coasts. STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, June I.—The Whitsuntide holidays have, as usual, very much thinned the attendance on 'Change since Tuesday, and cut off each day in the middle. Of necessity, therefore, business has been inter fered with in a considerable degree, and very few words will suffice to give our readers an idea of what has been going on. As the Liverpool cotton market has continued to harden in price, until the quotations for Americans stand at id. per lb. higher now, at the close of the week, than they did on Friday the 25th ult. A strong impetus in the same direction has been daily imparted to the Manchester market for yarns and goods. It may be stated generally that spinners have raised their terms in a ratio commensurate with the advance in the raw material. NOTTINGHAM,Xay 31.—Whitsun week, as usual, has been more devoted to holiday making than to business, consequently there has been a limited trade both in hosiery and lace. The great speculation going on in cotton will have a tendency to cause prices for that arti cle to be enhanced in this Market. LEICESTER, May 31.—Employment is on the increase, though less than usual at this season for several years past. The American orders are on the most limited scale, and we do not hear of any fresh Government con tracts being given out. things by their right names," and evince a clear determination not to be bamboozled or hum bugged. In place of bandying compliments, or declaring their chief object to be to preserve the honour (!) of their adversary intact, they speak their minds clearly, and insist on ample redress for every wrong, and they obtain it. When the usual arts are found unavailing, they are speedily dropped, and the real point in dispute is fully and completely investigated. Now, Mr. LOWE points out that " the means of coming to agreement were exhausted," and if that be affirmed the Conferences must be wholly closed, at least until reopened on very different bases. Austria will then have to return a final answer respecting her intentions. It is admitted even by Lord JOHN RUSSELL that she will not declare war against Russia, unless the recent successes in the Crimea and the Sea of Azoff may have changed her mind. Let her, then, be placed in the same category as Prussia, and no further time be wasted in striving to fix the double-dealing and fickle Power. When once the Conferences are formally closed, when every door is shut, we shall have more decided advances. Our true peace-makers are the men arrayed before Sebasto pol, at Kertcb, and Eupatoria. On their efforts will depend an honourable and lasting adjust ment, or a continued and petty warfare—serious so far as the losses of men and money which it will entail on the country, but ridiculous in every other respect. The vote of Monday evening will also exercise no trifling influence. The true friends of peace will be those who vote with Mr. LOWE, and express their determination to support the honour of the country at any sacrifice. We fear, however, that there may be a com promise, that some modification of the terms may be adopted that will strip the amendment of its real value. Such a result should be especially deprecated, and every means adopted to have the motion carried in its integrity, without emascula tion or dilution. The question of Administrative Reform has fairly laid hold. of the public mind. Neither the state of parties, conflicting and full of excitement as that is, nor the more stirring and absorbing interest of the War, with its adventures and suc cesses, drives it from recollection. On all - occa sions where mooting the question is becoming, whether in private or public, it comes in for its share of remark as the vital question of the day. That this should be the case, however satisfac tory, is by no means surprising. The disasters in the Crimea, and the abuses that occasioned them at home, were not merely of a magnitude so great as peremptorily to challenge reform ; they were patent also to the whole world ! Wherever the particulars of the mighty struggle were pc.rused, there it was notorious that the na tion, which of all others deemed itself facile princeps in commercial matters, had displayed in the conduct of the War an imbecility of management that would disgrace the lowest. The national pride, iu short, has been deeply wounded by the exposure, as well as the national heart outraged by the mismanagement, with its appal ling results. Merchants, traders, lawyers, and others whose business is conducted systematically, and with the most direct application of their energies to the main objee, of it, and who feel conscious that in this respect they are equal, if not superior, to the best of any corresponding class • elsewhere, feel a sort of personal concern in having abuses remedied which have slandered and de graded them in foreign estimation. So be it. We don't quarrel with the fact ; we are quite content it should be, so—quite content that pride should lend its powerful stimulus to the discharge of an incumbent duty. Indeed it is to this feeling we are about to appeal, and in aid, too, of that very reform of which we have been speaking. To express and to urge on all fitting occasions one's views on the subject is a task which there is no great difficulty in discharging. The case is so glaring that few have the hardihood to attempt to meet it. There is little or no sacrifice required here. But with out sacrifice the vindication of the mercantile classes will fail of success—we shall not have the Administrative Reform demanded. Among other sacrifices, that of ceasing to importune members of Parliament for places and favours, which they can only obtain by dancing attendance on Minis ters and the loss of their independence, should at once be made. So long as members have favours to ask of Ministers, Ministers will have an undue control over members, and a sterling Administra tive Reform need not be expected. Ministers will not kill the golden goose ; and while the eggs, so to speak, are asked for, they will take care to have a quid pro quo. Every favour asked of Ministers is to a certain extent a betrayal of the independent portion of a constituency ; and he who asks his representative to obtain such favour has no right to grumble if that representa tive at the same time takes care of himself by giving a convenient vote. While this practice goes on corruption will flourish, and inefficient men will find their way into the minor places at least in the public offices. Surely the pride that so exigently, yet not too exigently, requires the vindication of the commercial character of the nation, will put a stop to it, and a speedy one. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which was attended by the whole of the Ministers with the exception of Earl Granville, who was prevented joining his colleagues by indisposition. Mr. Booker, M.P., is suffering from ill-health. Mr. Oswald is alarmingly ill at Paris, where Lady L. Johnstone Oswald is gone to join him. MONUMENT TO THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. —lt is in contemplation to erect a statue to the late Marquis of Londonderry in the square of Newtownards. It will be remembered that the idea of paying such a mark of enduring respect to the memory of the noble and gallant marquis originated with Lord Dungannon, and we understand the tenantry on the estates have very liberally subscribed towards the object. OPENING OF THE NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE MAR KET.—Yesterday forenoon a deputation from the corpo ration of the City of London, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. H. L. Taylor, and the City Remembrancer, Mr. Tyrrell, waited, by appointment, upon 'Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of in viting his Royal Highness to participate in the inaugural ceremony for the opening of the market, on Wednesday the 13th of June. His Royal Highness accepted the invitation. Mr. Taylor then laid before the Prince an isometric view of the new market-place, which has been prepared under the direction of Mr. Bunning, the City Architect, and in which his Royal Highness manifested great interest. At the inauguration his Royal Highness will enter at the north-western gate, after which the procestion will pass along the quadrangle of the market place (which of itQelf contains 15 acres), and then visit the cattle-lairs, the pig and calf market-places, the abat toirs, the dead-meat market, and the banking-houses, thence to the marquee where a dejeuner will be served. THE RIOT ON SOUTH SHIELDS RACECOURSE.—The in quest on the body of Thomas Campbell, the man killed in the affray with the police at Sonth Shields on Wed nesday morning, was opened in the board-room of the union workhouse in that town on Thursday ; and, after taking the evidence of Mr. Buglass, the superintendent of police, the mayor, and the police-surgeon, Mr. Cow ard, the coroner adjourned the inquiry for a week. An other of the rioters, a man named Phinn, is in a dying at Durha'rn state, and two others are very ill. The policemen who i ff h r e e re w i o s u n n o d t d onu a z r h e a n r g o e w o consideredout of danger, and on Thursday ounec afternoon 213 of the rioters, who were badly on Thursday were . conveyed by train to the prison infirmary predetermined by interfered an: guard of armed policemen. tha t from the evidence given at the inquest an ti attack upon the police had been Irishmen, and, had not the towns peopleupon the rioters, the dealt out summary punishment a small bo roug h pol i ce would have been overwhelm e d and some them prob a bl y mur d ere d . The weapons taken fror were of a deadly character. e Irishmen a ft er th e riot HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. The Queen gave last evening a (second) State Ball at Buckingham Palace. About 1,900 invitations were issued, and included the Royal family, the whole of the Diplomatic Corps, and a very numerous party of the nobility and gentry. The whole suite of State saloons were opened for this reception, and the Throne-ipom was prepared for danc ing, as well as the Ball-room, by having an orchestra erected, and a haut pas for the Queen and Royal family. The Picture Gallery and the other rooms were very tastefully decorated with rare and beautiful shrubs and plants in flower, arid were brilliantly lit with magnificent crystal lustres filled with waxlights, and also with or-mole chandeliers. A party of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the Grand Hall, under k. command of Major Phibbs, the Egon in waiting. Sir George Oulton, the Ensign of the corps, attended. A Guard of Himonr of the Foot Guards was on duty in front of the palace, with the band of the regiment. The company began to arrive at the palace soon after 9 o'clock, and assembled in the Picture Gallery. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were attended by Lady Suffield and Major Home Purves. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz was attended by Lady Caro line Cust and Baron Luhe. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was at tended by his Equerries in waiting. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh was at tended by Sir J. Login. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Royal family, accompanied by her Serene High ness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain and other officers of the Royal household from the White Draw ing-room to the Ball-room. The Queen wore a dress of white tulle over white silk, trimmed with bunches of lilac and white lilacs, with green leaves and rosettes of green satin riband orna mented with diamonds. Her Majesty's head-dres3 was composed of lilacs, to correspond pith the dress and diamonds. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a white glace silk dress, trimmed with point lace, with three deep flounces of point lace, each flounce trimmed with feather fringe. The stomacher ornamented with emeralds and diamonds. The necklace diamonds. Her Royal Highness wore a diamond tiara and white flowers. The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a dress of white tulle over a rich white glace silk petticoat, trimmed with bunches of grapes and green and gold crape leaves, the body trimmed to match and ornamented with emeralds and diamonds. The necklace pearls and diamonds. Her Royal Highness's head-dress was formed of bunches of grapes with green and gold leaves and diamond ornaments. The Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe wore a white satin dress covered with tulle and trimmed with red roses. Her Serene Highness wore a garland of red roses. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince and the Royal circle were followed by the general company into the Ball-room, where the Queen opened the ball with his Excellency Count Persigny, the French Am bassador. Quadrille bands were stationed in the Ball.room and the Throne-room, and performed a selection of the newest dances, including " The Imperial Guards" (galop) ; " The Highlanders" (quadrille) ; the "Review" (galop); the " Garde Imperials" (quadrille) ; the " Lily of the Valley" (waltz) ; and the "Fountain" (polka). Refreshments were served to her Majesty's guests in one of the principal State apartments during the evening, and the supper was served in the Stite dinner-room, the gold plate which decorated the tables being relieved by a choice assortment of flowering plants. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince, and the Royal Family were conducted to supper by the great officers of the household. - Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Cold stream Guards, has arrived at the Crimea as successor to Major• General Caninghame. The amount raised for the various objects of the Free Church of Scotland for the year ending March 31, 1855, was 308,0501. 9s. Bd. A private letter from Bucharest, of May 19, says that the Hospodar Stirbey has for some days exhibited symp toms of mental alienation, which occasions great anxiety, insanity being hereditary in his family. THE IRISH BEN4PEL—Chief Baron Pigott has arrived in Dublin, and it is stated that his health has been mate rially improved by his visit to the genial climate of the south of Spain. The Marquis Sebastiano Tanari, of Bologna, who bad been arrested at Turin at the request of the French Government, was escorted on the 28th to the frontiers of Switzerland with the whole of his family, after under going an imprisonment of seven days. The vast estates of Sir John Henry Keane, situate in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, have come into the market, and will be put up for sale in the month of November next before the Court in Henrietta street. Letters from Athens come down to May 26. On the evening of the 25th it was said that M. Mavrocordato was likely to resign, in consequence of the complaints made by the Western Powers of the insnrnciency of the means taken by him to repress the brig Inds. • All the campaign furniture of the - Emperor, which had been seat to Constantinople when his Majesty's visit to the Crimea was in contemplation, was brought back to France by the last packet. CE EKE ENGLAND V. S BEBE r. —This match was commenced at the Oval yesterday (Friday) ; the su'e joined score will show tie result. No play took place on Thur-day, owing to rain. Score—Surrey, Ist in nings, 68 ; England, Ist it nhigs, 148. GOLD IN ALGER] A. —2,111. Dumas and Pelonze, the well-known chemists, have been directed by the Aca demy of Sciences to analyse a specimen of gold ore lately transmitted by Marshal Vaillant, when announcing to the academy, as already stated, the news of the discovery of a gold mine in Algeria. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, the 31st of May, 1055 :—George Meaden, Shillingeton, near Blandford, Dorset ; Thomas Brickenden Blandford, Army ; Samuel Atkinson Richards ; Henry Gibbons, Wolverhampton ; John T. M. Syr/lot:a, Trevalga, Cornwall ; Henry Harris, Park street, Grosvenor-square. REGISTRATION OF COLONIAL SHIPS. —The Gazette of last night contains a copy of a letter which the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council (Board of Trade) have addressed to the Commissioners of Customs, recom mending them to continue for a time the system of re gistering colonial ships de ssovo in this country, as prac tised before the Merchant Shipping Act came into ope ration. The commissioners have issued an order in conformity with this recommendation. THE GREAT GLOBE.—The following is a list of dis tinguished visitors ,who have recently visited the Great Globe, Leicester-square Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Manchester, their Serene Highnesses the Prince V,etor and. Princess Hohenlohe and suite, Prince Napoleon, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord and Lady Walsingha.rn, Lord Waldagrave and family, Earl Fitzwilliam and family, the Countess of Sandwich and family, the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter and family, the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry and family, Lady Constance Grosvenor and party, Lady Rolle and party, Lady Laury, General Outram, Colonel Tennant, Colonel Stevens, Sir C. Morgan, Colonel Joliffe, Colonel Merrick, Major Elliott, Sir Felix Edgar and family. LETTERS FOR ADYDOS.—The following notice to the public and instructions to all postmasters have been is sued, by command of the Postmaster-General :—" Gene ral Post-office, June, 1855. In order to prevent as far as possible the delay of letters and newspapers for invalid officers and soldiers in the British Hospital at Abydos, which would result from such letters, &c., being sent to the head-quarters of the army, a separate bag will in future be made up in London for the correspondence referred to, and letters and newspapers will be forwarded in this bag, if they are plainly addressed to `The British Hospital, Abydos, Dardanelles ; and if the postage upon them is duly paid in advance, according to the following scale :—Weighing under I oz., 3d. ; a oz., and under 1 oz., 6d. ; exceeding A oz., and not exceeding 1 oz., Is. ; exceeding 1 oz., and not exceeding 2 oz., is. 2d. ; exceed ing 2 oz., and not exceeding 3 oz., is. 4d. ; exceeding 3 oz., and not exceeding 31 oz., is. 6d. The regular mails for the British Hospital at Abydos, intended to be for warded through France, and by French packet, via Marseilles, will be made up in London every Monday evening ; but supplementary mails will be made up on the morning of the following day, containing such correspondence as may bested or received in London in time for the day mail to France.—ROWLAND HILL, Se cretary. CRIMINAL JusmeE BILL.—A bill, brought down from p by ns a es s t e n lec d t ina co in m is m n it e t x e p e e o n f se th an e d ll d o e u l a s e y i o n f t C h o e m a n s n , the Lords on the 20th o f M arc h, an d recen tl y amen d e d is p tr r a o - - tion of criminal justice in certain cases. For example— in cases of petty larceny, where the property stolen is not above ss. in value, the parties accused may be sum marily convicted by the justices of the peace at petty sessions and committed to prison for three months, un less the accused object, or there appear to be reasons for thinking that the charge is fit to be made the subject of prosecution by indictment. The justices must ask the accused whether he consents to the charge being sum marily determined. Persons charged with larceny or embezzlement, or attempting to obtain property by false pretences, may plead guilty before justices in petty ses sions and be sentenced forthwith. The justices are to warn the accused that he is not obliged to plead. Justices may order restitution of property and pay ment of expenses. The petty sessions under this act are to be an open court, and held for the petty ses sional division. Every conviction under this act will have the same effect as one on indictment, save that it will not be attended with any forfeiture. Any metro politan p o lice magistrate.or stipendiary magistrate may act alone, and do all acts by this act authorised to be done by justices of the peace in petty sessions. This act is not to affect the Juvenile Offenders Act (10th and 11th of Victoria, chap. 82, and 13th and 14th of Vic toria, chap. 37). Compensation is provided for clerks of the peace and others "whose fees may b e ser i ous l y diminished by the operation and effect of this act." Portions of two very old acts, the 12th of Richard 11., chap. 10, and the 14th of Richard 11., chap. 12, pro viding payment for justices of the peace and their clerks in each county, as wages by the day for the time of their services, to be payable by the sheriff, are repealed. The act is not to extend to Scotland. LATEST NEWS. AUSTRIAN PROPOSITIONS. We (Times) have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Vienna : VIENNA, SATURDAY MORNING. The French reply to the Austrian propositions has been received, but not the English. France still insists on the limitation of the Russian fleet. The following telegraphic despatches were re ceived in Paris yesterday : VIENNA, JUNE 1. According to accounts from Constantinople of the 24th, 45,000 French, 20,000 English, 10,000 Piedmontese, and 25,000 Turks are preparing to attack the Russians on the side of Inkerman. Independently of the Austrian circular of the 17th ult., relative to the despatch addressed from St. Petersburg to M. de Glinka, there also, it is said, exists another circular from the Cabinet of Vienna, in which Austria speaks of the attempts made by Russia to cause divisions in Germany. The Austrian circular of the 17th May states that the despatch received by M. de Glinka is not, according to the declaration of that diplomatist .himself, to be communicated to the Diet. A report is, however, current here that Russia wished the despatch in question should be com municated to the Diet, and that that had been already done. MADRID, MAY 31. The Cortes have voted, by a majority of 124 to 40, the authorisation demanded by the Govern ment to suspend the constitutional guarantees. 25 of the rebels have been seized at Dierense, and 25 others have made their submission at Caspe. Reports have been in circulation of a Mini sterial crisis, but they are without foundation. FRAN CE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The occurrences which have lately taken place at Kertch, Yenikaleh, and the Sea of Azoff, have filled with consternation and dismay the Russians and Russian party here, in Brussels, and no doubt elsewhere, and some have been heard to declare that the peninsula of the Crimea may now be said to belong to the Allies. A garrison of 6,000 Turks has been left at Yenikaleh, and the fortresses on the Danube bear recent testimony as to how the Ottomans can fight behind any sort of walls. The Russians express their astonishment that the Cn mean fortresses were not better fortified against at tack. _ _ _ General Pelissier has asked the Government to send him out cavalry without delay, and he also requires that Chasseurs d'Afrique shall be sent. At the battle of the Alma Marshal St. Arnaud was heard to express his regret that he had not his chasseurs with him. 800 horses for artillery are also going out, and will be embarked . on board clippers. The Emperor yesterday visited the Exhibition Palace, and after making several purchases went through the building of the Panorama and the adjoining gallery. On leaving the latter, his Ma jesty was hailed with enthusiastic acclamations by a number of workmen and others who had assem bled. _ The Emperor has decided that new colours shall be delivered to the National Guards of the Seine in place of those the.y now carry. • The Lord Mayor of London is expected to arrive in Paris to-morrow or Monday, and is to alight at the Hotel de Ville. A grand Municipal Banquet will be given in the long , Yallery of the Hotel de Ville on Thursday next, in honour of the visit of his lordship, and of the other members of the Cor poration of London, who have been deputed to visit Paris. Some days later a ball will be given in honour of the King of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto, and the Municipal Commission of Fetes has decided that on that occasion the invitations will be more particularly addressed to the foreigners of distinction now in Paris. _ _ _ General Count de Monet, who was wounded be fore the Malekhoff Tower, and who arrived at Mar seilles on the 28th, as already announced by tele graph, is in good bodily health, but in consequence of , his wounds he has not yet recovered the use of his arms and hands. , A letter received by a commercial house at Mar seilles announces that the Emperor of Rnssia, had made on different points of the Sea of Azoff con siderable purchases of corn, amounting to 500,000 tchwerts (975,000 hectolitres) for the supply of his empire. The possession of the Sea of Azoff by the allies will deprive the Char of this supply, which will be more necessary for him, as the harvest in the Crimea this season will be but small. BOURSE, JUNE I.—CLOSING Pram. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4t, per Cents 94 10 —c. 3 per Cents 7O 30 . 70 50 Credit Mobilier B9l 25 Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes — Piedinontese BB Home Debt 3l/ RAILWAYS—POR CASH. ' fr. c. fr. Orleans 1220 Lyons - 1195 -- Western 7OO -- Itouen Cette 6BO Strasburg . Mediterran c - Northern RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 22d ult., states that a great many changes have recently taken place in the upper ranks of the army— old or sick generals being replaced by younger men. The letter adds that the general who is to command in chief against the Austrians, in the event of the latter taking part in the war, has not yet been nominated ; but that the plan of defence has been drawn up, and that it has been determined to employ principally against the Austrians the heavy cavalry, the guard, and the grenadiers. A letter of Odessa of the 16th ult., in the Post Anipt Gazette, says :—" The report that the Allies intend to effect a landing at this place is gaining ground every day. It is said General Luders has received notice of it from Sebastopol, and increased activity is shown in the construction of works of defence ; all the batteries of the fort are completed. The Emperor and the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas are expected in the governments of the south, and it is hoped that they will arrive in the course of the present month. The new Governor, General Strogonoff, is daily expected. The divi sion of General Usakoff, and the third division of Light Cavalry have arrived at Perekop. Earth works are being raised at the entrance of the deep canal which extends ,from Siwasch to the Sea of Azoff, but which has little or no water in it. Three of the allied steamers are in sight of the port." AUSTRIA. The Danube, of Vienna of the 25th ult., says : " A despatch arrived yesterday from Constantino ple which induced Prince Gortschakoff to renew negotiations with the representatives of the five powers. The Prince waited on Count Bubb 'with whom he remained in conference for an hour. In the course of the afterpoon Baron de Bourqueney and the Ea r l o f Westmoreland were sent for by the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and they re mained with hi m f or t wo hours. Important de spatches were also received yesterday from Paris and London, but in consequence of the time re quired for deciphering them, they were not delivered to the Cabinet of Vienna until this morning." AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR. The following circular despatch has been sent by the Austrian Government io its Representatives in Germany, relative to the Russian despatch ad dressed to M. de Glinka, with a view to obtain the neutrality of Germany, by the offer to maintain the interpretation given by the Vienna Conferences to the first two points or guarantees : " VIENNA, MAY 17. "The Minister of his Majesty the Emperor of ia Russia to the German Diet, M. de Glinka, has communicated to tseda to the members of the Germanic Diet Count Nes lr e od ' despatch, of which copy is annexed, and which contains th e assurance that, even in caseoff,the the peace negotiations at Vienna should be broken Emperor of Russia will consider himself bound by the arrangements made at the Conferences relative tcu the future position of the Danubian Principalities and the regulation of the free navigation of the Danube res long as the German Courts maintain a neutral attitud e. "In reply to a question put by M. de Rechberg as to whether he bad positive irmtructions to present that de spatch to the president of the Diet to be afterwards i treated officially, M. de Glinka replied that he was not charged to make that communication, and that be be lieved he responded to the intentions of his Court by con fining himself to making the communication he had to make to the individual members of the Confe-deration. "In a sitting of the Committee on Military Affairs, Count Rechberg confidentially communicated to the mem bers of the committee the substance of his conversation with the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and the majority shared his opinion that the declaration of the .Cabinet of St. Petersburg'ehould be made, not to the President and by him to the Diet, but simply by the Russian Legation to the individual envoys to the Diet serarately. • Conse quently the step taken by the Court of Russia has not been the subject of the negotiations (deliberations ?) of the Federal Assembly. " The most natural considerations, in fact, appear to us to oppose its being discussed in the critical circum stances of the moment. Austria must certainly be the least disposed to disavow the value of the agreement obtained at the Vienna Conferences relative to the two points in question. It was on the .advice of Austria that the Diet accepted the said two points ; by commu nication of the protocoli of the Conferences - our allies are enabled to appreciate our efforts to obtain that result ; and it is not without a feeling of satisfac tion that we behold the German Governments receive the declaration that Russia is ready to maintain the re sult of the said negotiations so as to place the interests of Germany out of question. " However, the four bases of the peace negotiations form, for those who participated in them, an inseparable whole, which the German Confederation has also recog nised in its ensemble as a bases proper to establish right and peace in - Europe ; and it is only when we shall have arrived at the termination of the crisis which, to our re gret, has for the present interrupted the pacific course of the negotiations, that Austria will be in a position to appreciate what the interests of Europe and of Ger many may then demand, and to express herself in that respect fully and frankly towards her confederates. " We entertain the hope that the offer of the Imperial Court of Russia will have found the members of the German Confederation more and more strengthened in their confidence in our line of action. Therefore do we think that we may rely upon it that they have no in tention of making resolutions or propositions the con sequences of which might be detrimental to Austria, or which, at least, might increase the difficulties which already so numerously hamper our mission in the actual decisive situation of affairs. "You are requested to communicate this despatch to the Government to which you have the honour of being accredited. (Signed) "COUNT BUOL." TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 23.—The ministry of Ali Pacha is said to have no chance of duration, and the possibility of Reschid Pacha being recalled is spoken of. The allied armies receive continual re inforcements, and the Russians also receive them in enormous numbers. Wooden barracks are being constructed at the camp 9f Maslak, for winter quar ters, in place of the Turkish tents. It is said that the Porte will confide to English generals the com mand of a corps of 14,000 Rayahs, but it appears that the Ministers are not agreed on this point. THE BALTIC. KIEL, May 28. Her Majesty's ship Volcano, 3, Master-Com. Dyer, now fitted up as a floating factory to repair any damage to the steam machinery of the Baltic fleet, arrived here yesterday, in company with the gun-boat Badger, 3, Mate W. H. Cumming, screw tender to the Hogue blockship. HAMBURG, May 29. Letters from Helsingfors of the 16th instant, mention the arrival of some English ships of war two days before, off the Graohara beacon, close to Sweaborg ; but it appears they only tame to re connoitre, as in the evening they disappeared again. On the 16th instant three hostile ships of war were telegraphed to the Governor of Abo as being in sight off Korpo. The troops turned out, and measures were taken to repel a landing, but the cruisers had disappeared, and the garrison returned to their quarters. ME➢ZEL, May 26. When the Driver, Commander Gardiner, was sent in to Baltish Port, to serve the vessels lying there with the official notice of the blockade, she found among others an American barque called the Sammy Appleton, of Boston, U.S., a fine craft of about 900 tons register, whom she also served with a warning to clear out within six days. A day or two afterwards the Driver, being out cruising, fell in with this very same American, and an officer of the Driver was sent on board to examine the ship's papers. They were found perfeCtly in order, whereupon the officer demanded to see the bills of lading. The American captain objected to this, and began to make difficulties which excited the suspicion of the British officer ; so he insisted on their production, which was at length complied with, and from which it appeared that the Sammy Appleton had just landed at Baltish Port 50,000 rifles and 10,000 revolvers, besides about 800 cwt. of cotton, as the ostensible park of the cargo. " Oh, ho, you have been landingrifles have you, my friend ?" quoth the lieutenant. " I\Tow, we'll just search your hold :" and taking the carpenter of the Driver with him, as is usual in such cases, he proceeded to examine and ransack the hold of the American ship, but without finding anything suspicious. " You may thank your stars, my man," said the lieutenant to the skipper, when the search was con cluded, '" that I found no arms on board your ves sel, for. had there been one single rifle more than the number of hands on board, you would have been nabbed, as sure as my name is --." " Ah, I calculate I was too wide awake for you Britishers this time," said the Yankee, chuckling with delight ; " and I reckon I'm on the safe side of the hedge now." Nothing could be done, and the Driver's boat shoved off. I may add that the Sammy Appleton entered the Sound on the 15th March, and arrived at Baltish Port on the 12th of April. It was her Majesty's sloop Geyser, 6, Commander ROderick Dew, which captured the greater part of the prizes off Riga, and the way she did it was as follows :—They had heard from one of the vessels they had boarded that several merchant ships were lying half-loaded outside the bar of Riga, and com pleting their cargoes by means of some steamers plying between the vessels and the shore. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the Geyser, accompanied by another steamer—l believe the Archer—stood in towards the land, where they arrived at daybreak,, and under cover of the morn ing fog, and by keeping close to the shore, came upon them suddenly, with three . small steam-tugs alongside, in the act of discharging, and thus caught them in flagrante delicto. The steamers attempted to tow the merchant vessels inside the bar, but the Geyser seeing this move fired a ball from one of her bowchasers at the steam-tugs, which immediately caused thein to throw off the sailing ships, and take to their heels. The Geyser then steamed leisurely up, captured them all (about six in number), and towed them away. Prize crews were afterwards put in, and they were navigated for Elsinore, en route for England. KONIGSBERG, May 26. A case has just come to my knowledge from which it appears that the Rus sian authorities are not apt to relax the rigour of their despotic vigilance 'in favour of their " dear friends the Prussians." A young man has just returned here, after an absence of six years, having made an involuntary journey to that happy country Siberia, where the inhabitants live for six months for their own pleasure under ground, and prisoners are doomed to work in' the mines from one end of the year to the other without seeing the light of day. It appears from his statement that this young man was a clerk in a commercial house at Thorn, in Prus sian Poland, and in the year 1848 made the acquaint ance of Count Ferdinand Tursky, of Cracow, who was compromised in the disorders of that year, and induced by him to cross the'frontiers, where he was arrested by the Russian authorities, and, being without a passport, was suspected of being a spy and participator in the revolutionary movement, and sent with a caravan of other prisoners to Si beria. On his arrival there he wasTurced to serve as a common soldier for three years, at the end of which his condition was improved by being em ployed in the military hospital of Irkuktzk as a sort of assistant or nurse. In consequence of some trifling breach of the rules; he was, however, after a few months dismissed from this situation, and sent back to his regiment, which was soon after marched to a little fortress in Asia, the name of which he never could ascertain. Here he took an opportunity to desert, but was arrested in the. provitce of Tomsk, and condemned to penal ser vitude in the mines. It was not before the begin ning of 1853 that he had an opportunity_of taking a step to regain his liberty. The Adjutant-General of the Emperor, Lieutenant-Generol Annenkoff, happening to pass through Kainsk on an official tour of inspection of the troops, the young man succeeded in giving him a written petition, setting forth his unhappy position, and laying great stress on the fact of his being a native of Prussia. The general made inquiries about him, and ordered him eventually to be set at liberty. On the 2d of May last year he commenced his pilgrimage homewards, and following the great military road through Tobolsk, Casan, Vladimir, Minsk, Moscow, Wilna, and Kownow, arrivedat Tanroggen on Easter-day, having been nearly a whole yea: on his journey, and performed the distance of 7,000 wersts (above a thousand miles) entirely on foot. WOOLLEN TRADE. (Prom the Manchester Guardicin of this day.) LEEDS, June I.—There was a very lively market last Saturday in both the Cloth-halls. Heavy goods were in active demand, in which, as well as in nearly all other descriptions that are adapted for the approaching season, a considerable business was done. There was also a fair attendance of buyers in the market on Tuesday, and the transactions were quite of an average character. HIIDDZESFIELD, May 29.—The market continues to wear much the same aspect as for some time back. BRADFORD, Thursday.—Wool--There is still a very meagre supply of combing wools, and the prices sought in the country are too high for the rates current here. Yarns—There is a disposition to demand higher rates. Pieces—The present prices for cotton and worsted yarns is such that old prices cannot any longer be submitted to, and the manufacturers are seeking an advance. HALIFAX, May 26.—We have more activity in the market generally. Yarns are slightly enhanced in value, and there seems a disposition to buoyancy in the wool trade. The stock of fleece wool is very low yet, which is enabling sellers to get rather higher rates for what they have to offer, particularly in the superfine descrip tions of combing. Dawn ewes scarce and looking up. All kinds of short wool very firm. HAMBURG, MAY 3L—The Warsaw Official Gazette mentions, among the killed, on the side of the Russians, in the affair of the 22d of May, Major-General Alder berg, Commander of the 2d brigade of the 9th division of infantry. A letter received by a commercial house of Marseilles announces that the Russian Government had purchased, on different points of the Sea of Azoff, 500,000 chetwerts, or 650,000 horse-loads of wheat for the supply of its army. The possession of that sea by the Allied forces will consequently deprive the Czar of those provisions, the want of which will be the more severely -felt as the crops in the Crimea are likely to prove this year a com plete failure. The }lon. J. Stanley, of the Grenadier Guards, son of Lord Stanley of Alderley, is about to proceed imme diately to the Crimea, to join the third battalion of his regiment. CRYSTAL PALACE, JUNE 1 (ONE SHILLING DAY). — Admissions ore payment, 3,235; ditto, by season tickets 515; total visitors, 3,303. A letter from Lorient states that the second floating battery Foudroyante was to be launched in a few days. The floating battery Lave will seen be ready to put to sea; she is 51 yards in length and 15 in breadth; her armament consists of 16 50-pounders, worked by elite gunners ; she will Lo mounted by a crew of 200 men, and carry besides 200 marines ; her screw propeller is of 220-hone power. The weight of these floating batteries, when armed, will be about 1,400 tons—their iron sheet ing alone weip:its nearly 400 tons. AN EXTRAOI tDINARY PERSON. —Last summer a pare eraph appear( d in this paper, noticing the an nual visit of Mr. John Watkin of Darlington, to Newcastle, during the hottest part of the season, when, although the old gentleman had attained his 85th year, he walked the whole distance, being 33 miles, in one day, and we saw him the next morning quite fresh, sifter a good night's rest. This was a feat which, perhaps, not one in ten thousand could have accomplie:hed at the same advanced age. To-day, however, we b.a,ve to record a still more extraordinary piece of con duct in the same individual. An ad vertisement ft om Mr. Watkin is inserted in another column, annei unclog to the creditors of his non, who failed as a drat ier in Newcastle nineteen years ago, that if they, or th( :ir representatives, will send in their ac ccunts, he will , on their being found correct, discharge them in full !- -Newcastle Courant. SUPPLY or SPIRITS TO THE NAVY.—A. Parliamen tary paper, pciblished yesterday, gives the contracts en tered into for the supply of the Royal navy with spirits from Aug., 1053, to May, 1855. The description of spirit was ram,, principally from the West Indies, vary ing in price fro in 2s. 04d. to 3s. 11d. per gallon. The quantities contracted for this year have been as follows : —in January, 67,307 gallons; in February, 113,311 gallons , • in IX. arch 95,066 gallons • in April, 115,527 -4 • gallons ; and i n May, 134,232 gallons. It would have been well if is t this return the grand totals of each month and ye: r had been cast out by the persons ap pointed to con ipile it. PUPIL TreeclHEßS.—Yesterday a return was made in a Parliamentary paper relative to pupil teachers ap prenticed tirade r the minutes of the Council of Educa tion. From '1846, the first operation, to December last, 12,274 ev ere apprenticed. On the 31st December there were 7,.596 serving under apprenticeships. The number who I .ad terminated their apprenticeship at the end of last ye ar was 3,369. There are now in training colleges 1,01"1. There are now engaged as assistant teachers or in charge of schools, 1,439 ; and of 694 not engaged, 33 lad emigrated, 515 in other occupations than teaching, and 146 returned as unknown or unoc cupied (pri nci pally females married or living at home); added to which 32 were seeking employment, 29 inva lided teachers, 47 dead, and 111 inquiries unanswered. LEEDS CHAMBER or COMMERCE. THE BELGIAN TARIFF.—•T6 e Earl of Clarendon has replied, through Mr. Baines, M.P., to the memorial presented by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the dif ferential duties levied on British manufactured goods imported lint o Belgium, and states that the attention of Government is directed to the question. He informs the chamber t hat a project of law for the alteration of the tariff was submitted to the chamber by the late Belgian ministry, be it was withdrawn by the present cabinet, who have u nder their consideration the question of a revision ofe the tariff, and that the British minister at Brussels i s lasing his best efforts to obtain a remedy of the grieva.nc!e of which the Leeds Chamber of Commerce justly corm lain. The council of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce have further steps in contemplation on this question, ve Bich is of great importance to this district. Tie' VIL SERVICE.—Audit Office : Mr. Henry Glover, Ter inporary Clerk, has been appointed Assistant Examinee, vice Sterling, resigned ; Mr. Henry Madgin has been appointed Assistant Examiner, vice Fraser, resigned ;..Mr. Edward Boor has been appointed Tempo rary Cler lc, vice Denton, appointed to the Admiralty ; Mr. Those :Hurst has been appointed Temporary Clerk, vice Wroth , appointed to the Solicitor's Department of the Inland Revenue. Ordnance Department: Mr. James Ala: ston has been promoted to be a Senior Clerk of the :Viz .st Class, vice Durrant, superannuated ; Mr. H. L. Hearsum has been promoted to be Senior Clerk of th e Second Class. vice Maxton • Mr. H. B on d has been promoted: to be Junio r Clerk of the First Class, vim .Hearsum. The following gentlemen have been removed fr em the Ordnance Department, Pall-mall, to the War- ofl ice, in consequence of the Artillery and Enei neer corps having been placed under the Commander-in- Chief, viz. :---Messrs. James Maxton, First Class Senior Clerk ; S. Bennett, W. A. C oc kb urn, A. Brandon, Second Chess Senior Clerks ; A. Keen, F. T. Woodgate, W. W. Vessey, E. H. Burnidge, First Class Tuniers ; A. G. Hastings, W. B, Fitzpatrick, J. 0. Neil], Second Class Juniors. Customs —Mr. D. Evans has been appointed Clerk in the Tea Department in London ; Mr. Louis Harris has been appointed Extra Clerk in. London ; Mr. R. Noblett has been appointed Clerk in. the East and West India Docks in London; Mr. G. G. Reid has been appointed Clerk at Dublin. A Cierkship is vacant in the Accountant and Comptrol ler General's Office of the Inland Revenue, Stamps and Taxes Department Somerset-house, caused by the death of Alfred Coppin Byers. The appointment of police magistrate at Sydney is vaoaut, c aused by the death of Mr. Charles Witideyer.—Civil Service acceette. SPAIN. It was reported at Madrid on the morning of the 28th May, that the Carlist partisan, Batanero, ha,d suddenly made his appearance in the provineq of Soria, at the head of 200 infantry and a few horse, well armed and equipped. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have ar rived. The Gazette contains a proclamation from the Constitutional Aicade of Madrid, exhorting thef inhabitants not to be misled by the " enem ies ° public repose, who neglect no means to create e citement an d produce conflicts in order to cause it things, to be b e lieved that it is impossible to govern ac cording to liberal principles. ' sm o gngst other visitation of the cholera had been made the Pr e : it appears from the proclamtio that the text for spreading the most absurd and malignant reports against the authorities and the medical body. a new: The Gazette says that the military rities of Aragon were in pursuit of the Carlist ba.nd in . that province ; that twelve of the soldiers and a non-commissioned officer who had revolted at Str llgOssa had made their submission; and that a Car list chief named Rollo, bad been killed near the Ebro, in Lower Aragon. The Queen bad give'', ! grand banquet to the ministers. In consequence (4°,7. state of public affairs, the Duke and Duchess de Mont, pensier hadabandoned their idea of visiting Italy. letter says: —" The clergy appear to be at the b; _ torn of the insurrectional movements which /20,1! taken place in different parts of Spain. 0103 Y three bishos are it is known, devoted to the ca? of Queen Isabella, and the others have directedii their clergy to try to influence sergeants, threeg.A. telegraphic their family relafions, to join the Inovement• Do, elegraphic despatch says that a large sum do e , h l , destined for the insurgents had been seized in '- mountains of Soria." _____..... DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES -.."------ TO THE EDITOR OF 110 SI:N• +pro -n;gsen.- Sru,—Can any one believe, on reading the '-'''".bly M b the r a r u r s il a amount h i troduc ' e'ci 3 to lessen the delay in marriages by licen se 411 Bill, now reprinted, which was osensi _na If the bil o l who have charge less cu latt, could not h of the bill, Messrs. Cheethanl au r o e • have obtained their wishes ill a noisflcathrreifeedesa,stht printed,the quasi Liberal irtenT, 1, i ACI‘ every nissente.9 n d o i t i mnn o t_mh n . esa tkavy t re o ri all liala gael longts h ois c hat t aof u r v o tde u aa b tkvo l ei e top h obl he nt obtain 2 aien a sffibtyr the D I ei o t now n sortinOtet or :r e e cco u oe a l ibi ; De ' oi i ct i o . lie a.dci her . the roinoilli a t ogf the ief er ch o a r p t e r l u d s o te o e r of the place of worship; 911 ' te , he i g t h h i e s marriage is to take place by certifigaioarcled to have name and that of his intended bride P and it t is v t e o ry be a yb h s o ou p ur e rd d ofob that the more frees this ; The relief required is of a different na ture 1 iheral members will take care that the bill is n ot pasg eu ll• form. servant, A BEGISO eulightenedAvin it, --------- A CASE OF " ROUTINe __----41. ------ pq nted her. A tall weather-beaten countrywoman Pr —e t police' self before Mr. D'Eyncourt, at the wor ship stan ces :,..- court yesterday, under the following cirouni°t'eof york' The complainant stated that she was a natt ° „ t own' shire, 9cl the mother of a numerous fUTI ]iI Y o'is to up sons, the whole of whom had devoted 007 T hree the service of their country in the army an d e l 'pris ed of them had enlisted in a foot regiment, whic e of 00 a portion of the army in the Crimes, where on raven ia action, one of them at the battle of was now serving, but his wo brothers WI fa the the Alro 3 er , the other at Inkerman. Her fourth was g e .,-, ° %blia , 1° Royal Artillery, at present in garrison at v. wo t oo under orders to sail for Sebastopol. ger Me„epaci6r2 cruising on board one cfher Majesty's frigates ilr,el. obieti and her sixth had belonged to the crew of the lib 5 , ' . SOO after the arrival of the sad tidings had fallen into the hands of the Russians at Or o o f be gg a q to th e , 011 0 r ed 7 gallant sons at the seat of war, which wawa' ',pc cl e3 i , the intelligence that her son in the Tiger wa s ': 9 r,,t ti .- she was advised to • memorialise the authorittihee ariear t o o f p u a p y w a a n rci d s p o r f it l e Navy Pay-office, with the view of obtaining lice't°ed, l a tter w e° ber W it° money, sol., to vh amounting,ich the as she ° o title , and a communication was kindly forwarded for b she that object by i. ' l a igh l° •00 the minister of the Pri g ' - el resided, in reply to which a printed fora of allf o be rei turned properly filled up, according was transmitted, with instructions that it wag tioos , i c e to dire ; the P ° t authenticated under the hands of a justice od docoaeac, and the district clergyman. The requi re c lis? °si 7 was completed without loss of time and, afty her e of the tittle property she possesse2d to deirf°ooo 01: penses, she travelled to London, a distance 0 ' l3 pr ee° o in the hope of an immediate settlement. -1513° 0 7a 5 g il be ing herself at the office in Somerset -house, sh° ss iblY 0 , to understand that her application could 0 ... mi . 13 ; 3 a sth i , entertained until she was furnished with the of e lf° t; rity of the rest of her children in support 01 _poor t. On representing that it was entirely out of "' o re se` i o f obtain such a voucher, as her surviving s°9„ s u s Of, tered about in her Majesty's service in o,.rai-d De g the world, she was informed that the regan , tial s • — it was absolutely imperative, and ha he l i` a 11 0 11 - . necessarily be disallowed unless she onli A I.'- b The poor woman added, that, having e p nue-ibpe f ' 4 g er supply of money, and disposed o( ex h: v lll° sb °E) fi A extra clothing for the mean.? of her sutbsisterc,h r co -° now wholly destitute, and ventured to sublu it ::o ll° , l 1 to the magistrate. Mr. D'Eyncourt said the P" , 3 1 3is e ` : the bereaved woman was deserving' of great On rtb er i tion, but he regretted that be had no mea snob'e'-usi°i,,- ing the object of bet' application. The applii)o.,ooo ' the magistrate for his attention, and left the - evident m despond!y ..... __ L __ . _ .__________ ,........ ni f 0 SHIP CANAL ACROSS THE IS TO SUEZ. considerationslihe tli° Din es , o f (ib nst it u: t i t o a n e n h e i n i go tof y t e h s e t e r p d r aoYi red c oat $, Suez in the point of view of commerce:3°lld ciliii° tio4. he lt e4 s n a b y i s is . to Suez would shorten by : 13 — men ' t of a maritime ea' nfa o lio rd ios s' froothi A l d er t a le n a d s r t il the traverse to be made for hrt:alfol'7,4:gbothereilliffe; this fp S oi e rt a ta syit.s,..aavnlTte might 'foa l according to the position of the ports of „(i`r,. stilt? , or ta t s i litl m xatk e ye for the navigation woola:toe, vesselspo aprotni weaklyt a he m h a niruintaidnns in), :1 1 06:30 : 0 : i i ;tel l L l re i s i sc r Te ll blivee ( I s: until now for ships of large dimension', 19 ,00 4. 1 ,,,t0 i° numerous equipage, and armed at a great e ,l ie ir eP - t beir will, nottxithstanding, continue to tal0;10 of r ole the'navigation with India, and it is i° f e oesi de f the admission that the Suez canal is to he °,attiog,°,, of depth. Far from being prejudiced by the os sihnog isthmus they would gain thereby th i e o f Di til?P' making two voyages instead of one, e u . i . o iti, the profits of their owners." the P" 00 itE European and be :Founded on these considerations in of 0 11 the article proceeds with an enurnerso_ les s 1, 00 advantages which would result more ~,,L -5 rolfi_ b ich tt d ho o ue r n ee : canal, and of the commercial develoPol._diosB tDe pie wi e , s ac D , known susce event.bl American S ues of little lan:i:toenoortirsnoticf)hoaetarhstseitoairol elfrnyApa point a n ni c l t y aoo. f t f l l e i vai ,xl p quh l t so o e c r il a. e s t : u :;, :fb i n j a :s o3. ll s a i b ie jei cti u sster r , j otif opposition has been experience", l of perhaps be apprehended :--be r ° l bY" Fenian t ,te ic i "The prejudices which assign to d, sage-woe o oindeenattihnittrhtihsebusiness paernei,eags osfePP°seistirio°4aeti opponent the i prepoeber dill compromise her naval and n orcomw erci3 t he ° Dl eji"e ' in the Indian seas. But.neither o ne 03 the o iLl P t p,l be menaced. A hostile fleet, sailing ig uei , wo yo ,tel ) ;, o ranean and traversing the Istbarus °l id h i, Oe'r so pP, , cede the arrival of that which shri,°°' wo rda t he r h ' e r from England at the same time. - 1 - 111 gags i° e aci "es that England, for a difference of some ,urope,,,,eog,ro sage of ships of war, would deprivel'oBe aia,proeubs ,owri Indian poisessions of the in sop which the transit by the Isthmus tenable tli(l9of 3 Vr" them. This supposition is not teo ~,e ' llea ~e i , 0) . ,, 0 , those placed by the British nation at the by s'ejs I ' 6o l do not allow themselves to be lotion: Bin , e t t or t' 0 able considerations ; that which is r? iit i; el tbO to i, meat before Sebastopol proves sufacrdee, al 3 di o go' places, like Gibraltar, Malta, ante A v ,l O -1 . 11 tgo army so fine and numerous as th .ii - e _ls , b lether .„*. cannot be reduced or defeated in sow I ,' f ie re le te s iF,,, seebe a i n v a er d y v a p n o e o e r policythe des which na t ie n s heti: f v eo 1 . 4 ill r p ' cl a a b i c T e o 3 a s i t l it i6 meet which it would be necessarY t _ nce of, to , c i jo for example, to attack with any ereferreavogla°oll fortifications and troops we have joe'irod 131 ' re d! tiv ,e s the commercial preponderance acquei,„„e_,„„ sio. the Indian Seas why should it lo!_ ``oath te , 5 tb.,,er not English shipping participate .11 dira o ., l :: t 00000. assured to other countries by th: I n dia Sv''f'ci the, oi tance to be traversed for reaching _ .e o dreA4 pe:00. cial marine will the British flag hr_otnelerolf t bs , t A i 0 petition of on such a route ? Ththis o,,,ltxtioe_lc• England consists not butmnoposln, tratqhir P c r 4est levelling all the barriers formerly rsatosf p 4 mercial intercourse, in multilNY, e ' c i for ia o Pi,' tion of the marine and production 0 1 ° 1 foreign concurrence. %0 s g T he cil ll 6 -ro,,rANTS-I'°- Ici d °P e tv be ct ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, .....---- _ e sole) Be e ' f o ra' gical Society received yesterdaysisoswir to r , or - a e d f d riv itc lit• of the large Flolotheorra f . •Cu..,c,..ure dredg ed 3 ia hi s „,fiti cil) ; from Sheeand, whence tney vvr-a-Hir.„ t here. 3 , o•P re ilieS by Mr. McAndrew, who is c irsriv6d ix , trio toreet i These singular animals have a wee daYe at iat; i,oo t : be of gre,theel of nev er bee ° sthey 1.19 notwithstanding Lerwick, antdhactantinioeyt failertee cost 0 rodeo, naturaiist, as they have n:bit vibiehteo- iee°,l3.,tio di don before. The sing glari - -- f , v o Jiv 4 t ee, tins rid of their head and intestines,_ at h o er a ttei: o :o < 6 has rendered their transpObrite' that o°otsi% or 1: 1 , ip t " dulty, and it is q uite poss i —L a e being a l tso . cl fol. . 1 " • sev er oo not be.equally success „„ a ce tbe _, y r.- o p, e_peer.sr.our`oiliccsi titioeife General Baron Dubreton,ii:ci at r 1 0 .re, 1, Commander of St. Lotus , ° The gene 1 pal l • We c a i cimuean;iluimn.all they are di3tributed to S. f the r co o' 27th, at the age of 88 yF ll l_,. war s o aod for t heul' distinguished part iu all tuu are barg e fS‘ A s i of his compa,ign.. Alt` self rsi 1 the 3,p it awfhteoritnhelBvli2cd;fe, onfded, 1130100 to orokevoatire;i, I I ) . g, ton, finding him said to at ~,,. dinner ~, ;,- Zalt'e-'de nioi Tookovo... - co. ;f Salafr i ' c ' e '; the : j ' e ral the P e3 t to G e .00% 1 ,