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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURT-LA3E Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. tHIS EVENING will be produced IL TROVATORE. To conclude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Backstons. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. EL GAMBIT3INO; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In which PEREA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear: After which, GRIMSHAVir, BAG3HAW, AND BRADSHAW. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Caast.Es KEEN. THIS EVENING, THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with THE WINTER'S TALE. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING STILL WATEKS RUN DEEP. Followed by CATCHING A MERMAID. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING. HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON. Followed by SARAH'S YOUNG MAN. To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. There will be produced, on Whit-Monday, a New and Grind. Equestrian Spectacle, with many other novelties. THIS EVENING (its Last Week), Lord Byron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE. After which, LES JEITX A BRIDE ABATTUE, or Equestrian Acts ix She Arena. To conclude with ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIONAL STEEN - a. CHASE (its last week). Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. TSIB DAY—Morn. 55 min. aft. 3—Evening 17 min. aft. 4 T 1-110auow—Morn. 38 min. aft. 4 —Evening 0 min. aft.. 5 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 6. THICIMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 95—falling. WIND, E.S.E. to S.E.—Light, with heavy clouds, in a eating rain. f{ t ç. Jr~ f .~,~; r. ffium LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1856. The Addresses have been duly proposed in bot h Houses , . That in the Lords has been carriei 1, not without remonstrance, but without a division The Earl of MALMESBURY spoke boldly and um )- quivocally. He adduced abundant reasons b o show that the terms obtained could not b deemed satisfactory by the People. He there - fere truly declared that the expressions "joy an d satisfaction" were by no means warranted. Be I while he showed an inclination to move an amendment, he carefully abstained from so doint, so that no opportunity was afforded his brothel r Peers of recording their votes against the fulsome "toadyism" to which they were madeparties. Tli e House accepted the "joy and satisfaction" with edifying humility expressed an unanimous opinion that Peace was re-established on con - ditions honourable to her MAJESTY'S Crown, ant I fully accomplished the great object for which the War was undertaken ! An abundance of " the mysterious condiment, well-known as German Paste," or what Captain MAILEXAT termed " doodle," was patiently swallowed. Lord DERIVZ also made a manly speech, but he moved no amendment. He especially protested against the unnecessary, uncalled for, and unconstitutiona alteration in the maritime code of England, and which, as he truly declared, has gone counter t‘o the declaration of every Statesman at every period of our history, and whieh abrogates the principle fcrr the maintenance of which we have stood again at foreign combinations, and resisted foreign invit t- tions to the conclusions of treaties, and which we have stood by as the sheet anchor of our Naval Power. This act was " done in the dark, without the knowledge of Parliament." The Minister sent and trusted by the country to conduct nego tiations for restoring peace on certain bases known to the country took advantage of his position to make an important alteration in the maritime law of England, " without our having the least idea that such, our birthright, was given away." The matter cannot rest here. Indignant protests are not sufficient against conduct which should be the subject of an impeachment, and which requires exemplary punishment for the wanton betrayal of our most cherished rights. But although we cannot greatly congratulate ourselves on the proceedings in the Lords, they were far better than those that have hitherto taken place in the Commons. The speeches of Lords MALMESBURY and DERBY, though leading to no practical results, might at least be regarded las honest protests, proceeding from two of the re cognised leaders of a great party—the former Nol , le Lord having filled the office of Foreign Secretary, and the latter of First Lord of the Treasury. But in the Commons there was no man of high position or standing who thought it necessary to give expression to his views or feelings. Lord JOHN MANNERS, cc w ho did not oppose the reception of the Ad.- dress, although he objected to some of its terms," certainly held office, but it was in a subordinate capacity, as Chief Commissioner of W oo d s and Forests—nor can it be quite forgotten that h e i s brother to the Marquis of GRANBY, who has let slip no single opportunity for arraying himself o n the side of Russia. While Lord CLAUDE HAMIL TON is merely step-son to the Earl of ABERDEEN —the " dear and excellent friend of forty years' standing" to the original aggressor—the Minister whose culpable apathy and indifference per mitted the nation " to drift into the War," which might have been averted by any decided demon protest. The N o bl e L o rd stration or energetic certainly struck the Government on a very tender spot. He explained the gross desertion of the brave Circassians, and moved the omission of the word "joy," so wholly unwarranted, and to sub- stitnte " to a great extent the objects of the War," for the declaration that they had been fully accomplished ! Trifling as it was, even this was something ; but what must be the condition of the House of Commons when we are obliged to rest our hopes on such a diluted and milk-and-water propo sition. The speech of the Earl of CLA.RENDON—the successful (!) negotiator—however, showed that it was not th roug h any mistake that th e brave Circassians were surrendered to the tender mercy of the AUTOCRAT. He tried to show that they had "no great claim to the consideration of Eng land," and therefore they have wilfully and de liberately been abandoned to their fate. As "we had obtained no military successes on the Circas sian coasts, we could impose no terms on Russia." Is this an argument befitting an English States man ? Might we not, at least, have stipulated that the dismantled forts should not be recon structed ? that Russia should make no fur ther onslaught on the Citadel of Asia Minor. If SCHA3fYL had been comparatively inactive within the last two years, it was because he had no reason to repose confidence in the Allies. They sought not his assistance, tendered no pledges to obtain his aid. Had proper means been taken the prophet chief would have proved an invaluable auxiliary. But he is now condemned and abandoned to his fate because he did not of his own accord array himself under our banners. This disgraceful abandonment of the Circassian tribes will be one of the blackest among the many dark spots on the British escutcheon in connection with the recent War. But it is not in Parliament merely that this de plorable " toadyism " to the powers that be is manifested. We find it also in but too many of the public journals. We rejoice to say that there are many of our contemporaries who have remained "faithful to the last," and who well merit the confidence of the People. But the, Leviathan, who, if it suited its purposes, would have hurled its heaviest thunders against those who sacrificed the honour and interests of the country, has thought fit, once more, to exhibit its chameleon-like properties, and to sot the ex ample of tergiversation. The Treaty is now "satisfactoryand honourable"—(honourable, GOD save the mark o—all its old protests are forgotten. It has again jumped into the Aberdeenite policy, which it maintained while it was possible to do so. It would almost seem as if the spirit of Sir PERTINAX MCSYCHOPHANT regulated its leading articles, and that its sole object was to show the ease with which it could " boo, and boo, and boo," before those whom it supposes to have obtained a prolonged tenure of office. From Parliament and the dependent, toadying Press, we appeal to the national feeling. We believe the Peace has not merely been accepted without enthusiasm, but with intense disgust and indignation. We look for more independent Re presentatives, who will not shrink from avowing their real sentiments, who will not strive to curry favour with the prevailing influences at the ex pense of every honourable feeling. We believe that seeds have been sown that will produce fruit in due season, which will be by no means satis factory to the adherents of Germanism. The schoolmaster—we are told—is abroad, just now, in the streets of London, ink-horn in hand, abcut to re-christen some of our public thorough fares ! The Commissioners recently empowered to set on foot as many improvements as possible in the general re-organisation of our metropolis indicate—in other words—an intention to name all over again certain " damnably iterated " lanes, rows, courts, streets, roads, places, squares, villas, terraces ! Localities, north, south, east, and west, bearing the very same titles, again and again repeated, in a manner the most frightfully tauto logical. Good luck, say we, go with the Com missioners in this their very laudable undertak ing We look to them for a vast deal in the way of general improvement, but for not one alteration more desirable than the identical change here indicated. We sadly want them, of course, among other things to sweep away that abominable " Middle-row," which is to Holborn at once its greatest eyesore and its most grievous obstruction. We want them more especially to tumble down and can away as so much rubbish those filthy and dilapidated tenements packed together between St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement Danes—the principal blot upon the Strand—the notorious abomination of Holy well street ! The infamous street where the frouziest old garments dangle in the Jew clothes-shops, where the dirtiest old volumes in all the wide world litter the squalid bookstalls, where the obscenest prints that prurient imaginations can devise out rage public decency by daylight and by gaslight, glaring through the foul window-panes upon every luckless passer-by ! We want the Commissioners to do away as quickly as possible with each hor rible nuisance in turn—sweeping away from the surface of the earth both Holywell-street, Strand, and Middle-row, Holborn. We want them to open a carriage way into St. James's-park through Spring-gardens, and another into the Chem-park from the western extremity of Pall-mall. We want them to get somebody's statue put upon th• vacant pedestal in Trafalgar-square —the statue, by the way, of somebody a little more respectable than the " Royal Snob" whose effigy straddles one of Chantrey's horses in the angle formed be tween Morley's Hotel and the National Gallery. We want the Commissioners to do this, that, and the other, here, there, and everywhere. But nothing perhaps do we want them to do more than the very thing they are said to meditate adven. turing upon at last, namely, the task of rechris• toning a variety of our London thoroughfares. " What a wonderful man the Postman is !" exclaims the Song of the Day, the song whistled by every gamin, ground upon every barrel-organ, thrummed upon every piano-forte. And a won derful person indeed that man-of-letters in the red coat assuredly is—and in no respect more wonderful than in the fact of his conveying the correspondence of SUITH, BROWN, and JONES to their right destination in spite of the bewildering monotony of the same iterated and reiterated ' superscriptions. A task of sufficient difficulty, it must be allowed, to puzzle any one but a Post man, when it is remembered that there are in London as many as twenty-six " Alfred" streets, &c.—twenty-nine called " William"—forty-two called " John"—and forty-eight called " Charles." We are so immensely loyal again that we must needs go and call thirty-eight different roads, squares, places, &c., by the name of " Albert," and curiously enough exactly the same number (38) "Victoria." We are such miserable snobs, too, in theway of Court sycophancy in the abstract, that we must needs designate no less than twenty six by the title of " Regent"—as many as eighty one short ‘' of aQtleen," and actually n i ne ty-ei g ht (t wo round hundred) " King." A. 9 if we had found one unvarying standard of magnitude, we had calld peorsriitvievdelyallr2eaGdy at the millennium, " Little." itundnjuat thoughasaand we Time were henceforth to be no more, and every thinggunkatof the a writers l43o it fo o u f r and everybodywheadddersui perpetual youth, streets "New." Not having the smallest. fear of the ghost of Mr. O'CONNELL before our eyes, w e have called fifty-eight of our streets after th e " *U n i on : , We don't at this moment exactly know how many rows of houses are 'entitled " Belle-Vue" which can only just manage to see. over the way !—or how many godless lar les and alleys are called " Church"-street and "C [lapel"- street !—or how many with nothing greoner in front of them than the area railings are i;ermed "Park" -place, "Park"-villas, gi park"- to trace !, THE SUNS LONDON, TUESDAY EV But—there they are, right and left, hither and thither, as plentiful as blackberries. Can't we find some better names for our Lon don streets than these few very absurd ones, re peated over and over again, until we contrive to render ourselves as tedious in the end as we were ridiculous in the beginning ? Surely. A hint as to what kind of names might be chosen in lieu of the exceedingly preposterous ones we have already employed usque ad nauseam may be taken even now—as it chances—here and there, from some few of our existing street-corners. Have we not already some of our great victories celebrated in " Waterloo Bridge," and "Trafalgar Square," and "Copenhagen Fields ?" Have we not, even as it is, mementoes already of some few among our great poets in —" Byron Street'' and "Spencer Street," in Bhakspere's Walk" and " Milton Ter race ?" At one spot we have called a square grate fully after " Nelson." At many others we have christened:street, road, square, row, place, mews, wharf, chambers, and terrace with the name of " Wellington." We have commemorated eminent men of letters in " Johnson's Court " and in "Addison Villas"—eminent statesmen in "Peel Place" and " Walpole Street "—eminent versi fyers in " Cowper Street" and " Cowley Street" — eminent philosophers in " Newton Road " and "Verulam Buildings." Have we not other heroes, other bards, other glories who might in a similarly graceful manner be thus commemorated ? Enough —verbum sap.—let us hope that this suggestion may not be altogether lost upon the Commis sioners ! Then, some other of our great men gone may say with SHAKSPERE'S Hal— " . . . . Then shall our names, Familiar in their mouths as household words, — Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Glouce3ter, Be in their `crowded streets' freshly remembered." On Friday night the Chancellor of the Ex chequer carried the second reading of his bill to levy the English duty on French fire insurances by a large majority-133 against 31. Indeed it was manifestly impossible to leave the matter in its present state. While English offices have to pay 3s. 2d. per cent. on every insurance they effect, and ls. 2d. for each policy stamp besides, Free Trade itself requires that the French offices should not enjoy a protective immunity from the tax. Such a state of the law must speedily trans fer to France every fire insurance in the kingdom. The English offices themselves would become mere agencies of French companies. No other bill than the Government one was before the House, which was therefore compelled to give it a second read ing in default of some better proposal. We believe, however, as we have before stated, that the bill will be evaded. The Parliamentary debates have extensively advertised the French• offices. It is now generally known that insurance an be effected at half price, and an immense amount of them will certainly be done abroad. To large insurers the saving will be an object, and insurers for smaller amounts like as well to save five or fifty shillings as their richer neigh bours to save five or fifty pounds. It will soon be discovered that it is not necessary to be able to learn to write French, in order to correspond with a French office ; and any man who can de scribe his property fairly in his mother tongue will be able to get a policy direct from La France, and from other French offices too. Sir CORNE WALL LEWIS knows how patriotic we are, but he must not tempt even our virtue by the irritation of an absurdly exorbitant duty. As to our more venal fellow-citizens he may be sure that they will not, if they can help it, pay double Income Tax and two hundred per cent, fire insuranca daty, if they can help it. The worthy Chancellor wants us, indeed, to try how his bill will work—he is pretty confident that he can stop contraband ex ercise of prudence in guarding against risk from fire. A little while ago, however, he was quite as confident that no one would trust a French office, and that no legislation was needed. He finds now that insurers have more faith in French honesty than he imagined. Our Government be tievos in the honour of our " great ally," and our middle classes have about the same faith in the great middle class of France. Every French office will have English correspondents, who will not as agents " negotiate " insurances, but who instruct persons how to act for themselves, and TEE COURT. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Aldermen Kennedy and Rose, accompanied by the City Remem brancer, had an audience of the Queen yesterday after noon, at Buckingham Palace, to learn ber Majesty's pleasure respecting the Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, on the subject of the peace. The Sheriffs were presented to her Majesty by Sir George Grey, G.C.8., Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Queen was graciously pleased to appoint Thurs day next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the reception, at Buckingham Palace, of the Address from the Corpo ration. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Byron, lord in waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, groom in waiting. The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the fore. noon, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred. The Priacess of Salerno, the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville, visited her Majesty in the afternoon. Prince Leopold visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence in the evening. In attendance were the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Byron, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Captain Du Plat. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lord James Mur• ray and Lady Fanny Howard, honoured the Princess's Theatre with her presence last evening. The Governor of the Bank of England and the De• puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation, consisting of Mr. W. P. Price, M.P. (Gloucester), Mr. C. Baillie, M.P. (Monmouth), and Col. Tynte, M.P. (Bridgewater), had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday, at the Board of Trade. _ Meetings of the Oxfori University Commission were held at No. 17, Great Queen -street, Westminster, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last. Present—The Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Hon. E. Twisleton, the Dean of Wells, and Sir J. Awdry. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, Deputy Chairman, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Sir A. Spearman had also an interview with the right hon. baronet. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Tasmania, West Aus tralia, Vancouver's Island, Hong Kong, and Ceylon. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. A depUtation, introduced by the Right Hon. Sir B. Hall and Viscount Ebrington, and consisting of Mr. F. T. Streeten, churchwarden of St. Pancras ; and Mr. W. D. Cooper, Mr. Orr, Mr. Thurston, Mr. Stubbs, the Rev. R. Littler, and Major-General Pemberton, directors of the poor of the parish ; Messrs. Cook, their solicitors ; and Mr. Hibbard, their clerk, had an inter view with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, on the subject of the bills relating to the amendment of the Poor Law, the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers, and the public vaccination. RUMOURED VISIT OV TIE QUEEN OF ENGLAND TO BERLIN—BERLIN, Monday.—There is some talk here of an intended vi it of Queen Victoria to Berlin. It is said that Prince Frederick William will carry a pressing in vitation to her Majesty to be present at the marriage of the Princess Louisa with the Prince Regent of Baden in September next. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland gave a dinner, on Saturday last, at their mansion in St. James's-square, to Lady Chas. Somerset and Miss Somerset, Col. and Lady Louisa Meyrick, Mr. and Mrs. Hungerford, Gen. Sir R. and Lady Clarges, Mrs. Lane Fox, Lord G. Pau let, Sir W. Cotton, Mr. Coore, Mr. Sussex Milbanke, Mr. H. Milbanke, Al-. SI iney, &c. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington left town, yesterday, for Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess of Lisburne entertained a select party, at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent. Lord Stanley of Alderley will give a ball on Thurs day, the 22d inst. Sir Robert and Lady Gerard have arrived at the Clarendon, from Garsword Park, Lancashire. The Rev. A. Peyton has left the same establishment for Dodding ton Rectory, near Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. The Countess Dowager of Glasgow and Miss Catherine Sinclair have arrived from Edinburgh, at 18, Chesham place. Mdlle. Cruvelli (Baroness Vigier) is at present at Naples with her husband, where they purpose passing the summer. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The Board met this morning for the purpose of agreeing to a congratu latory address to her Majesty upon the restoration of peace ! The Austrians are forming a large camp of operation at Somme. It was expected that the English Govern ment might be called upon by that of Piedmont to send a squadron to the Gulf of Spezia. The relations be tween Piedmont and Austria are anything but pacific. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE "PRECIOUS PEACE."— Although a close holiday was ordered when the mis management in the Crimea induced the Government to decide upon a day of fasting and humiliation, it is under stood they do not contemplate any similar step for the day of rejoicing. The Moniteur has announced that M. Charles Baudin, who hag filled for up wards of five years the post of prin cipal secretary to the French Embassy in this country, is appointed to the first secretaryship of the French an ba3sv at St. Petersburg ; and we understand that M. Baudin will leave London in the course of the week to prcweed as Charge d'Affaires to Russia. THE TRIAL Of W. PALMER.—At present no altera tion has been ma le in the day appointed by the Court of Queen's Bench for the trial of the prisoner—namely Wednesday, the 14th of May ; but it is said that an application will be made to postpone the case to the Monday following, when the whole of the ordinary business will have been disposed of. FISHERY HARBOURS IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.—It appears that between January, 1846, and the 14th of April, 1856, 72,2001. was advanced on public account for building, adding to, or otherwise improving and maintaining fishery harbours in Ireland, and a sum of 33,5001. for the same works in the sister kingdom of Scotland. THE MAILS.—LivERPooL, May 3.—The British and North American mail stearn.ship Asia sailed hence to day for New York, with 87 passengers and a large cargo, besides the usual mail. The Black Ball liner Lieitning will sail from the Mersey o❑ Tuesday for Melbourne, with about 400 passengers and the bi monthly mails. Tie COAL MARKET. —The following is a statement of increase in coal importation to 3sth April this year : —To seaborne coals, imported from Jan. 1 to April 30, 1856, 3,718 ships, 1,075,301 tons, being an increase of 114 ships, 105,073 tons, on like period of past year. Railway coals, from Jan. 1 to April 30, 1856, 420,509 tons, being an increase of 111,318 tons on like period of the past year. TESTAMENTARY AND MATRIMONIAL JURISDICTION. — The testamentary and matrimonial jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical and other courts is aboli , -hed by a bill of Sir F. Kelly, Lord Stanley, and Mr. Butt, and vested in a court to be called " Her Majest)'e New Court." Tke judge will be a bairister of 15 years' standing, or an advocate of the Arches' Court of 10 years' standing. The amount of his salary is not yet determined. Due provision is made for the details and firm of procedure in the new court. The remains of the Hon. Mrs. Crewe, whose demise, after a lengthened illness, we announced a few days since, were removed yesterday from Loakes' Hill for in terment in the Kenaal-green Cemetery. They were attended by Mr. Randolph Crewe (son of the deceased), Lord Carington (brother of the lamented lady), Lord Colville, Lord Gardner, Sir W. W. Wynn, Mr. Leveson Somerset, Mr. Martin T. Smith, M.P., CA. Brownrigg, Mr. Peter Hood, Mr. James Beadel, Mr. William Rose, and Mr. J. Gallant]. BLACKGUARD CONDUCT N A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—& young man named James Stanley, carrying on business as a chemist at 17, Newman-street, was charged by Mr. James Johnson Brown, a staff-surgeon in her Majesty's service, residing at 11, Clarge's-street, Piccadilly, with using abusive and insulting language in a Greenwich railway carriage, and with smoking, to the annoyance of the other passengers. The charge was fully proved, and he was fined 203. for smoking in a railway carriage, or 10 days' imprisonment ; 403. fine, or 14 days' im prisonment, for using insulting and abusive language in the public street. THE NEW GOVERNOR 01 THE WINDWARD ISLANDS. —We are glad to perceive that the measures of Mr. Hincks, whose appointment to the government of the Windward Islands so creditably distinguished the brief rule at the Colonial.office of the late Sir W. Molesworth, are giving great satisfaction to the inhabitants, and fully realising the expectations that were raised by the con. ciliatory disposition, firmness of temper, and enlightened views which he displayed during his successful adminis tration of the affairs of Canada. Mr. Hincks has inaugu rated his government by giving a separate Le g i s l a ti ve Council and Legislative Assembly to the island of St. Vincent, and rejecting the plan of his predecessor, Sir W. Colebrook, for the union of the islands under his Government, measures which have given unqualified satisfaction throughout the Windward group, the inhabit ants being of the opinion expressed by Mr. Hincks, that, except as regards common political and educational in. stitutions, a uniform system of secondary punishments, and the establishment of a circuit court of appeal, there is nothing in which the islards would benefit by union. BRITISH INDIA.—An interesting paper relating to the external commerce of British India has just been printed, by Colonel Sykes, the Chairman of the East India Com pany. The excess of exports over imports is constant, owing to the gradual improvement in the producing powers of the country and the small wants and hoarding habits of the natives in their present low stage of civilisation. The average excess of ex ports for the last five years has been nominally 7,965,0001., but, as the bullion annually taken is put down at 3,799,000/., all beyond the latter sum may possibly arise merely from the discrepancies of official valuations. With regard to the uninterrupted absorption of bullion, Colonel Sykes mentions that within the present century India has received above 100,000,000/. which has never subsequently left the country. He adds that, during the 19 years ending 1853.4, the sum of 42,000,0001. has been coined in the Indian mints, and that old coins have been called in or paid in to the value of more than 20,000,000/., making a total coinage of 62,250,000/, IN MAY 6, 1856 , LATEST NE WS. no enactment can reach such transactions. We have not the least doubt in the world that we could obtain an immense amount of insurance for a French office without rendering ourselves amen able to such a law as Sir C. LEWIS proposes. If he will not, however, repeal the duty, the only course worth trying is to reduce it to one shilling at least. Mr. HADFIELD has, we are glad ;0 see, given notice of an amendment in commi tee to that effect. Mr. HADFIELD ought to be vigorously supported. The Lancashire Company seat a deputation to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, which urged the abolition of the duty; a deputation from the Unity, we believe, did the same ; and the British Empire Fire-office sent petitions, from its members and others, with some 17,000 signatures attached. If other fire offices would act with equal spirit the end would be readily accomplished. The duty would, of course, be laid on farming stock as on other pro perty, now that protection was abolished, and this, with the large increase of insurances, would go far towards raising the duty to its present amount. A whole staff of officials also might be got rid of at Somerset House, by taking the duty, as in the case of railway companies, on the total amounts insured each year, instead of requiring minute accounts of every little policy. As rea sonably might every railway ticket be taken to Somerset House. There is yet time for both offices and indivi duals to petition. We respectfully suggest that it should be done. Sir C. LEwLs is known to waver. A considerable number of the members have expressed themselves strongly in favour of a reduction of the duty to one shilling ; the ma jority would gladly vote for it ; letters from con- stituents to members and petitions would enable them to do it with confidence. From what we have ascertained, we believe that a very little effort, on the part of the community, would attain the desired result. It is calculated, fairly, that the injury to the revenue would be small, perhaps a, quarter of a million ; while the reduction would enable persons to insure much more largely at the same cost, and induce thousands o insure who will not pay the exorbitant duty a addition to the office premium. WRECKS.—During the month of April 157 vessels were wrecked. In the month of January the number wa.s 26.5 ; in February, 174 ; and in March, 145 ; making a total in the past four months of 741 vessels. The well-known Spanish General, Prim, was married in Paris on Saturday morning, at the Madeleine, to Mdlle. Gonzales, of Aguero, a young lady of Mexican birth, who brings to the general a dowry of 7,000,000 f. REPRESENTATION OF LANCASTER. - The Lancaste Guardian states that Mr. Robert Baynes Armstrong has expressed his intention of appealing to the suffrages of the electors at the first opportunity. Mr. Armstrong, who comes forward on the liberal interest, will be op- Pcsed, as has been already intimated, by Mr. Robert Gladstone, of Manchester. A.liadjourned meeting of the creditors of John Mac kenve and Co., Belfast, was held on Thursday, when a s'atement was presented, showing liabilities amounting to 87,4421., and assets amounting to 21,4031., and a dividend of 4s. 6d. in the pound was proposed and adopted by the meeting; INSURRECTION AT MECCA. Accounts from Constantinople, to the 24th ult., have been received by the Meander. An insurrection has broken out at Mecca. The Scherif, who had been dismissed from his post, refused to give it up, alleging the infidelity of the Sultan as his excuse. He is supported in his resistance by 50,000 armed Arabs, who, it is said, refuse entrance into the city to the pilgrims under pretence that the Ottoman empire is defiled. The Journal de eonstantinople only speaks of disturbances at Naplous, but it announces that the most energetic measures have been adopted against all perturbators. The Circassian deputation, which had arrived at Constantinople, is composed of 200 persons. TURIN, MAY 5. The official journal publishes an ordinance charging the Count de Cavour with the interim Administration of Foreign Affairs. Count de Cavour has deposited in the bureau of the Chambers some important documents on the affairs of Italy. To-morrow there will be in- terpellations ton this subject. BERLIN, MONDAY. The Dowager Empress of Russia is at present too unwell to undertake the projected journey to Germany. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EvE.wirta. The Emperor yesterday received Mehemmed- Djemil-Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, who de livered to his Majesty a letter of congratulation from the Sultan on the occasion of the birth of the Prince Imperial. The Moniteur publishes the folloing report ad dressed to the Emperor by the Minister of War on a reduction of the army : " Sire—Conformably to the orders of your Majesty, the soldiers of the class of 1848 have received their defi nitive discharge. On the other hand, the incorporation of the young soldiers of the class of 1848 is now almost completed. In this state of things, the moment ap pears to have arrived for making a reduction in the effective strength of the army. Your Majesty has al ready ordered the removal into the reserve of the sol diers of the army of the East belonging to the class of 1849 • I have now th e h onour o f propos i ng t h e exten sion-of that measure to all the soldiers of that class, the number of whom is about 52,000 ; namely, at borne, 27,468 ; in the East, 19,365 ; Algeria, 4,578 ; Ita.ly, 589. The expense would be thus essentially lessened, and the army still retain a sufficient effective strength. If your Majesty assents to this measure, I beg you to give your approbation to this report. " VAILLANT. " Approved. "NAPOLEON." The official journal also contains the follovring report from the same Minister : "Sire—Your Majostv, in giving your approbation. to the report which I hr,d the honour to submit on the 20th December last, decided, in principle, on the creation of four new regiments of cavalry of the Imperial Guar d ; but from a fear of causing a disastrous perturbation, in the cavalry of the line, several regiments of which were then in the East, your Majesty decided that the forum tion of these four new regiments should be postponed, and that when the moment should have arrived for p ro ceeding with their organisation, one regiment of African Chasseurs and one of Hussars should be disbanded, in order to diminish tbe expense which will result from the organisation of the cadres. Circumstances now pert nit the realisation of your Majesty's intentions. The or ganisation of the four regiments of cavalry of the Guard is in course of exe , rution, and by an Imperial decree of the sth April last the 4th rogirnent of African Chasswars was disbanded. It now remains to complete the mea sure, and to proceed to the disbanding of a regiment of Hussars. Such is the object of the decree which I have the honour to submit to your Majesty's sanction. " VAILLANT." This report is followed by a decree disbanding the 9th Regiment of Hussars. The officers will be placed in non activite, to be replaced immedi ately, or as soon as possible, either in the newly formed regiments of the Cavalry of the Guard or in others. The officers disbanded will be indem nified for the expense of their new equipments, with the exception of those who, at their own re quest, may be admitted into the Imperial Guard. It having been decided by the Emperor that the diplomatic agent at Vienna should occupy the rank of Ambassador, P.Q. de Bourqueney gets that step ; and, as a matter of course, M. Hubner, the Aus trian Minister at this Court, obtains the same ad vantage. A goo d deal is said of the valuable snuff boxes that have been presented to some of the diplomatists engElged in the late Conferences ; that which has fallen to the lot of M. de Bour queney is descril)ed as truly magnificent. As to whether this diplomatist takes snuff or not, no reference is ma.d.e to the point even in the most pungent passag , ,es of the protocols ; in any case, however, he is jdustified in saying, as he regard s hi s gift, puelle bonne prise! As for orders and stars distributed on the occasion, we are in a perfect galaxy of them. Nothing like treaties, confer ences, and protocols to win honours—Sic itur ad astra. The annual service for the repose of the soul of Napoleon I. was celebrated to-day in the chapel of the Tuileries by - the Bishop of Arras. The Emperor and the Court were present. BOURSE, APT s.—Tho following are the last quotations : Cash. fr. s. 4i per Cents ..„ 93 75 3 per Cents ... 75 Now Loan .. 75 40 Bank Shares .3, 950 Roman Credit M0bi1i er ......1,782 50 Austrian Belgian Fives ..... ... 97 Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s)...... 93 florae Debt End of Month. — f. —O. 75 85 91 90 45 41f :RAILWAYS—YOB CASH. " ft. c. fr. e. Orleans ..... 1,400 Western 930 Northern ,....1,125 Strasburg 1,125 Lyons.: Kediterranean ......1,700 Grand Central Lyons Geneva ...... 8 .!0 - Testa Cette BlO Austrian Corn. 950 SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult, contains the following singular paragraph :—" In consequence of what some foreign journals have recently pub lished on the affairs of Spain, it appears that a high personage has had a conference with the Queen, and that her Majesty declared that she would sooner lose hex crown and the hope of seeing her daughter reign than suffer any foreign nation to intervene in o•ur affairs." The same journal denies that there was any truth in a report that was cur rent that a regiment of hussars is to be raised for the eiclusive siirsice of the Queen; the Government, it says, has no intention of conferring any special privilege on as iy corps, and in consequence all the regiments will continue to do duty in turn near the Queen's persori. All the other papers contain ac counts of Espa rtero's reception in the provinces ; everywhere he is represented to have been received with extraordinary enthusiasm. A committee of the Cortes had approved of the commercial treaty between Spaii i and Naples which was recently concluded. TH:g BASHI-BAZOUKS. A letter from Damascus of the 12th April, pub lished in the A ugsbury Gazette, says :—" I suppose you have heard that the corps of Bashi-Bazouks formed by Ragland in Mesopotamia and in the neighbourhood of Damascus, which was in garri son at St. Joan d'Acre, under the command of Col. Bruce, lately deserted nearly in a b dy ; of 1,200 men only 46 remained with the colonel. The remainder wit hdrew to Kerve, three leagues from here, and addressed to Mahmoud Pacha a message in writing, in which they sot forth that they would no longer remain in the service of England under the flag of the cross. The Turkish and English authorities, after having concerted with the British Consul, Colonel Wood, despatched Colonel Wal pole to the deserters, in order to bring them to order, either by menaces or promises, as they would speedily form thems e lv es i n t o b an d s o f brigands. The colonel succeeded in effecting the return of 350, who are to be embarked at Beyrout, under a . promise of not b e i ng sent t o I n di a . Th e new bath of the Sultan h as been published, but not executed. In a trial between Turks and Christians, the Cadi refused to- ad m it th e t es ti mony o f the Christians, as being con t rary t o Di v i ne r i g ht. Wanick Pacha has neverthelei;s conferred the title of Aga, Effendi, and even of 13..3y, on several Christian chiefs." GERMANY. A letter from Dresden of the 29th ult. says :-- " Owing to the absence at Vienna of the Minister of France, Baron Forth Rouen, the performance of a T e Deun i for the birth of the Prince Imperial could not take place until to-day. The ceremony was attended by the members of the diplomatic body, the Ministers, the grand dignitaries of the Court, and other personages of distinction. In the evening Baron Forth Rouen gave a grand banquet, and when it was concluded Baron de Beust, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said Gen tlemen, I propose to you to drink to the health and future prosperity of the august child whose birth, like the rainbow which we often see ap pear towards the end of a shower as the pre cursor of a clear and splendid horizon, has been everywhere saluted with a cry of joy and de light. Yes, gentlemen, let us not fear to say it—this new pledge of the constant prosperity of the reign of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon has been received and accepted by all Europe as a boon of Divine Providence ; and let us not forget either that we are now called on to offer to the same Providence thanksgivings for having restored to us the peace which was so ardently desired, and of which so large and distinguished a share belongs to the elevated wisdom of the Sovereign who reigns over France. Long live the Prince Imperial ! Long live the august imperial family of France !' Baron Forth Rouen in eloqudnt terms thanked the Minister for his speech, and afterwards proposed the health of his Majesty Kin g John, at the same time begging the Mi n i s t er t o transmit to the King the expression of his profound gratitude for the numerous testimonies of sympathy which the court of Saxony has given him on the occasion of the brith of the Prince Imperial." GREECE. ATurss, April 23.—The journal the Minerva published yesterday the speech of Lord Palmerston concerning the deplorable state of Greece, and at the same time it published several fresh acts of brigandage. The Court of Athens was greatly annoyed by these revelations. Orders were given immediately to the aide-de-camp, M. Han, and Prince Morouzi (whose brother was the chief of the Greek legion in the Russian service) to burn that paper, which orders were executed in the Military Casino of Athens, to the great indignation of the public. About this time the French admiral M. Le Comte Boue de Wilmaus, from the repeated information of increased brigandage in the pro vinces, despatched troops to occupy various posi tions between Thebes and Athens, for the purposes of public security. This act led to so much irrita tion on the part of the Camarilla, that the Govern ment was ordered to send in to Mr. Wyse and M. Mercier, the Ambassadors of England and France, a protest against the Anglo-French occupation in Greece. The arguments used in this significant note are, that the occupation is no longer necessary after the establishment of peace. The Queen and the Russian party, and, it may be, the Austrians also, desire the retirement of the French and English forces before the elections take place for the new Chambers, by which means the Camarilla, being more free from foreign in fluence, hope to possess a Government ready to for ward the interests of Russia, and avail themselves of any eventualities which might be turned into hostility towards Turkey. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, May 6.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ; mo derate breeze. The Glengarry, from Jamaica to London, out 50 days, was spoken by the Albatross, arrived at Crookhaven from Melbourne. PLYMOUTH, May s.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Cape of Good Hope (s. tpt. 229), from London, for the Black Sea. Sailed—Antagonist, for Batavia. PORTSMOUTH, .May s.—Wind S.S.W. —Sailed—Jura (s. tpt.), for Woolwich; H.M.S.'s Vesuvius, Porcupine, Hecla, and Lizard, the eastward. FALMOUTH, May 15.—Wind E., strong—Arrived—Queen Victoria, from Callao and Mauriti us. BELFAST, May s.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Mornirg Star, from New Orleans. JBRSEY, May 4.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Centurion, for Pernambuco. CARDIFF, May s.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—E. T. L. for New York. OFF SClLLY.—Pantaloon, from Baenos Ayres, for An werp ; Cambrian, Jamaica. NEWPORT, May s.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Sutlej, from London, for Hong Kong ; Golden Rule, from London, for Callao, &c. CUX . HAVEN, May 3.—The Mary, of Bremen, from New castle to Bremerhaven, foundered near Heligoland, after being in contact with the Cecrops, from Batavia to Ham burg ; crew saved by the latter. LIVERPOOL, May 6. —A telegraphic message from Wa terford states that the American barque Lucy Ring, from Monte Video, has arrived at Passage with her cargo on fire. Surveyors recommended immediate scuttling, at which men wore at work, as she could not otherwise be discharged. ST. PETERSBURG, May I.—The ice drift in the Neva has commenced. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning Wind S.E. Arrived —Sister, from Mobile. Sailed—Ellen Austin, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, ALty 4, Wind S.E, Arrived—De Battesta, from Cassabianca.; Bertha Hen. drica, Ibrail; Exodus and Mindanao, Callao; Peri, Tar sus; Heldina, Mangan ; Virtu, Trieste; Maria Teresa, Marseilles ; Marys, Bal tim ore. Off.—Telegraph, from Callao, for London. WATERFORD, May 4. • • Wind S.S.E. -- Arrived—Congress, from Moulmein. Sailed—Lavinia, for St. John's, N.B. (BY SUBMARINE AN II BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.10 a.m. Wind N.E.; tide, one emd a half hours' flood; weather fine. Sailed—Thomazen, for Riga ; Lady Gray, Syra. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Wind Easterly, light. Anchored— Island, from Barbadoes for London ; Su perior, from Cadiz for London. Passod--Vesu v i us with four mortar-vessels in tow; an , her Majesty' s ship Porcupine, with three mortar-boats in tow—both for Sheerness. Passed on the sth.—K: de, from London for Liverpool ; Guatemala, from London for Pugwash. Report of ship Load Auckland.—Left Nov. 15, and St. Helena, Feb. 14. Had &La weeks' easterly wind, mostly strong gales. Sptke March 18, British barque Derwent, from London to Jamaica, :all well ' • March 27, lat. 26.3 N., long. 40.41 W., th e B r iti s h brig Corgress, out 164 days, from Moulmein for Mary port, all well ; March 20, lat. 28.23 N., 39.11 W., Hamburg vessel Grassebrook, from Islay tc7llam burg, 91: days out. MAME"' NEWS.—(This Day,) HAY lITARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow busy, 3l 15s to 5 /15s ; clover do. 4/ 15s to 6/ 10s ; and strt4w, 1/ 6s to 1/ u s per load A moderate demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow 'hay, 31 188 to 5/ 15s; clover do.. 4/ 15s to 6' 108 ; and str aw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL. Meado , r9 hay, 3/ 14s to 5/ 12s ; clover do., 41 15s to 6/ 128 ; and a traw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lls per load. A moderato supply and a sl vggish demand. COL 0 NIAL. TEA.—The market has e.chibited a rather heavy appear ance, but in middling congwa a fair amount of business has been done for home consumption ; young hyson, good com mon to fine, 10d to is 6d ; common congou, 83d per lb. SUGAR.—The sales have been of a limited character, holders demanding high tags s. Previous prices have been readily obtained for most df.'s criptions. Several large pub lic sales are announced. Th e refined market rules dull, the demand for home consu.n option being very limited. COFFEE.—FuII rates have been realised for both native and plantation Ceylon, part,i cularly the finer sorts, which are much wanted. There ha s also been a good demand for Mocha, at fully previous rat a. RICE.—The demand has been extremely limited, and previous prices have barely h oen sustained. Rum.—The market rules fi rm, but business generally is inactive. Bengal sold for 2s ld per proof gallon. TALLOW.—The market is ai ;ain inactive, and prices have declined to P.Y.C., spot, 45 s,, and last threw months. TALBOT'S DIVORCE.—Ho u se of Leirds, Monday.—Mr. Sergeant Wrangham having concluded his address, Mr. Sergeant Byles proceeded t ) sum up the whole case, on behalf of the petitioner, and. their lordships adjourned. THE PROPOSED MEMORIA L CHURCH AT CONSTANTI NOPLE.—A meeting of the t.* ading inhabitants of Liver pool and the district was held at the Town-hall on Friday, the mayor (Mr. John Ste, v an) presiding, at which it was unanimously resolved to give the inhabitants of Liverpool an opportunity r,f contributing towards the erection and endowment of a church at Constantinople to the memory of our galia n t countrymen who fought and died in the late war. THE IRISH SPIRIT TRAWL' —A bill introduced by Mr. Brady, Mr. H. Berkeley, :it d Mr. P. O'Brien, repeals parts of the acts 3d and 4th Villiam IV., c. 68, 6th and 7th William IV., c. 38, Bth a nd 9th Victoria, c. 64, and 17th and 18th Victoria, 3, 89 . Retailers of beer, cider, spirits, and wine are prohi ai tea to open or keep open their houses at any time b,el:;ween 12 p.m. and 5 a.m on week days, or before 2 p.m. or after 11 p.m. on Sundays, or before 5 a.m. c m the morning following Sunday. VALUATIONS IN IRELAND.— -It appears that in 26 of the Irish counties the tenemei it valuation has been com pleted under the a c t. I n 7t b e valuation is in progress, and in 7it has not yet cowls, :need. The apparent (is-: crepancy of th ese n um b ers (th -s being only 32 "counties proper in Ireland) is explain e d by the fact that there are several ` ° counties of cities." Th e t ene ment valuation of the counties, the valuation e f which is not yet com menced, may probably be 11 nished in two years from the receipt of the revised Or dnance maps. DEATH OF THE WIDOW OF EIENRY BELL:—On Thurs day last, the let of May, MI .s. Bell, widow of Henry Bell, the man who first/Iproof lied a vessel by steam in British waters, died at the . .a i,ths Hotel, Helen s h urg b , on the Clyd e , a t th e a d vance d age of 86. She had sur vived her celebrated hushan d for upwards of 25 years, Bell having died on the 14th of November, 1830 , having been bo rn i n th e coun ty of Linlithgow in 1767 . M r Bell's life was not a prosper , ris one, and befor e hi s d eat h his only real dependence ws a an annuity of 501. per an num, granted by the Clyde's .rutees, which was not only continued to his w,idow, bu increased to 1001. The closing days of the old lad r , therefore, were peaceful and comfortable. She bad been connected with the Baths Hotel, at Helensburg b, fcr thing period of 49 ears. LVIONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, and prices of American and Surat were rather higher. All other kinds were without change. The sales were 1,000 to 10,000 bales, comprising 120 Pernam and Maranham, 6id. to 7d.; 500 Egyptian, 6;, 3 d. to 84d; and 1,500 Surat, 41d. to sd. per lb. The Liverpool Share Market was quiet, and prices were a shade better than on Saturday. The following information upon the Liverpool timber trade is from Mr. Edward Chaloner's circular : " The arrivals during last month from British America consisted of three vessels, 3,872 tons, against five vessels, 6,167 tons, in the month of April last year. The auction sales of mahogany on the 25th instant ex hausted the stock of all kinds in this market in first hands. Of City St. Domingo—The cargo per James 'Hunt, sold at an average of 18 7.32 d per foot, the logs ranging at from 811 to 6s ld, averaging 16id, and the curls at from 14d to 6s Bd, averaging 22 1-32 d per foot. Of St. Domingo—The cargo per Streoneshalh averaged 10d per foot, the logs ranging at from 7d to 5s sd, and the curls at from 9d to 160 per foot; and the cargo per Reaper, to arrive, chiefly small size, at an average of 8 9-32 d per foot, the logs ranging at from 7d to 98, and the curls at from 131-d to 14d per foot. Of Honduras The cargo per Romance, from Belize, averaged 8 29-32 d per foot, the logs ranging at from 54c1 to 18dy and the curls at from 6id to 121 d per foot, averaging respectivelyB27-32d and 101-32 d per foot. Of La Guayrs, 22 logs and curls, per Magician, at from 5d to lld per foot. From St. John, several cargoes spruce have been sold from the , yard at about 81. 17s 6d per standard, and from the quay one at 81. 15s, one said to be at about Si. 1 99 9 one to arrive at 81. 17s 6d, and a small parcel of 91. per standard ; by auction, first quality pine at 151. 15 4 , second quality at 91. 12s 63 to 121., third quality at 81. 10s to 81. 153, and fourth quality at 81. 12s 6d per stan dard. From St. Stephen's, a cargo yarded at Bt. 12s 6.1 per standard ; from Bathurst, a cargo at 81. 108 for spruce, 101. for second quality, and Si. for third quality yellow." The public sales of colonial wool commence to morrow evening, and as the manufacturers both here and on the Continent are generally without stocks a considerable attendance of buyers 29 expected. The high prices now ruling for cotton as well as wool are exercising a powerful influence upon the state of the markets in the textile manufacturing districts, where business is, in some cases, alleged to be the " reverse of remunerative." There appears to be a general expectation that higher quotations, at least for wool, will prevail, and there is likely to be great competition at the auctions, at which about 40,000 bales will be offered. Advices from Martinique to the 11th April have come to hand, stating that the arrivals and depar' tures of vessels during that month were above the average, and a brisk trade was doing in sugar• Notwithstanding- an advance in prices of 2fs. per 54 kilos. on rates of the present month, the demand was animated after the arrival of the packet report ing favourably upon the European markets. Fo r good qualities the prices paid ranged from 26f. to 28f. per 50 kilos., and for ordinary sorts, 23f. to 2 5 L Other articles of export ruled as follows ;—Coffset not in request, and prices nominal ; cocoa in de mand at 90c. per kilo. ; tafia steady at 50f. per hectolitre, and campeche 48f. per 500 kilos. In imported merchandise the market was almost glutted, chiefly from Marseilles, which had caused a sensible fall in the prices of the different articles of consumption, especiallyin flour. Alarge quantity Of French flour which had arrived was found to b° caked, and was sold by public auction at a consi derable reduction, which assisted in lowering the price ; while the small stock of American flour on hand has to submit to the low rates of French. By a decree of the 26th April the duties to be levied on imported cocoa into France are as fol lows :-75f. per 100 kilos. in foreign ships, and 65f. per do. in French vessels. Another decree of the same date Axes the duty on imported iron pipes of all diameters at 30f. per 100 kilos. There is great demand at present in this article in France, and prices are advancing upon English pig and bar iron. The recent advance in the English,Stock Market is fully maintained, and the tendency of prices is upwards, but there is very little speculation, and the real purchases are limited. Consols are 92k to 93, for money, 93 to for the Bth inst., and 93i for June, being firm. The New 3 per Cents. have brought 921 g, and the Reduced Annuities 914 to '92. Bank Stock has been 2101 to 211 k, and India Stock 229. The June Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 3s. discount, and the India Bonds 3s. dis. The Foreign Securities are generally at enhanced quotations. Turkish 6 per Cants, are to 4 per cent. higher, viz., 98 to 931, and the Guaranteed 4 per Cents, are 1011 to /—being also firmer. Spanish 3 per Cents. are marked 45. Spanish New Deferred, 241 ; the Passive, 71 ; and the Certifi cates, 5/ Spanish Bonds rule steady at 95 Mexican at 221 ; Chiliau 6 per Cents, at 1041 ; and. Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 99 to 99/. Dutch 6 per Cents. are 93 to 94. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :--Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 74 ; Meld' can, 221 ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; Ditto 3 per C e nts., 54 6 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Rus lian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 94 6 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 44i- 5 ; Ditto De ferred, 24/ 5; Ditto Certificates, 5.1 ; Ditto Pas' sive, 7 The Railway Share Market is also firmer, but the dealings are not of an extensive character. Great Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, are at advanced prices. The French and Belgian lines are rather higher, and the Cana dian are well maintained. Banking and miscellaneous shares are generally steady. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (Prom th.e Officsal List. ) Eosin.. done. 'lank Stock per t; -,,t. Red'iced Anquition... 3 per Cant: Consols Annuities 93 I} 21 V t.y 3 Der Cent. Annnitiss .921 1 New 2. per Cent. Annuities 753 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3 3-16 i radix Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Comois i'or Account Exchequer Bilif.i, .lid. March. June. :!1.0011 ...... ~.. ... .V,500 — Small Ditto Bonds, 185 S, 33 per Cent. 971 Si PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONI4 O'CLOCK. 3razilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 911 9 Ditto Small "hilian Bonds, 6 per C_ at lOl3 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account d •rd Minn Bowls, 5 per Cant. 8 c ..., ,0 Rovds, 3 per Clent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account itto Passive !ip .rtsli Committee Cert. of Coup. int fun 5l 1 i'nrki,.l, Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account 9B 1 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account lOll Dividends on the above .PV , 1.01. In London. Dutch Exchange, 23 per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Money .. 923 93 Ditto Account (June) . 934 1 KENSINGTON GARDENS AND REGENT'S PARK.—The official statement sent to us shows that on Sunday last 65,545 persons entered Kensington Gardens, and 81,807 entered the enclosure of the Regent's Park, making a total of 147,352 persons. WORTH GOING FOR.—The Nation announces that Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy, the late proprietor of that paper, is to receive a present of 10,0001. in Australia, for the purpose of giving him a qualification to enter the Leo.Wature. _ . POSTAL COMMUNICATION MITE AUSTRALIA. —The Hon. Mr. Dunn, from Van Diemen's Land, and the Hon. Mr. Furlong, from Melbourne, have arrived in London for the purpose of entering into arrangements for the imme diate fmnation of a steam postal communication with Australia. ANOTHER AMATEUR PANTOMIME.—The gentlemen who had the honour of peiforming their amateur pan• tomime before her Majesty last season, at Drury-lane Theatre, intend giving another performance on the 2d of June at the Lyceum. "William Tell" will this tine furnish the plot of the pantomime. THE MARQUIS OF DALHOI7SIE.—The following is an extract from the Malta Times of the 22d ult. :—" The Right Hon. the Marquis of Dalhousie took his departure trom this island on Sunday afternoon last, on board her Majesty's steam frigate Tribune, for England, via Gib rA ar. The noble marquis was assisted on board in a chair by Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, the vessel manning yards in complement to his lordship:: '77'n St. St. 25 20 20 50 21 10 20,E 100- 12 50 Al st. all 100 100 31 1., all 16 1100 20 5 20 18 X 25 25 100 20! 100 20 20 10 20 20 100 100 100 20 20 all 14 all 14