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SIXTH lOIVISION OF PROFITS. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, an d GENERAL lJ LAVE AS SOCIETY. 99, Great Rassell.street, Bloomsbury, London. SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who assure on the Participating Scale before June 10th. i 6, will be entitle d to share of the SIXTH BONUS. which declared is e January following. Proposals should be forwarded to the °Mao before June Ist next. The Thirty-fret Annual Report Unit issued) eau be obtained of the Soeletes Agents. or of GEO. 11. PINCRARD, Resident Secretary. TEEZATRE ROYAL. DRURYZANN. :Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smitb; THIS:FvENING, NOT A 'SAD JUDGE. 1 0 conclude with HrDDLE DIDDLE s or, Harlequin Ring Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. TISEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Time ihe Management of Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by TUE LITTLE TREAVBE. . Afler which, SEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled ran BUTTERFLYM BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or, Uariequin and the Genius of the Spring. BOY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. under to xiinagement of Mr. MULLIN KUL • THIS EVENING, ICING TIVNEY THE EIGHTH. Queen leathartna, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. After which, lIIAR ♦ND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the airy Paradlsa and Hanky Panky,tke Eaohanter. Hariequtn, Mr. Cormaek ; Clown. Mr. Malian ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Mid Columbine, Mlas Caroline Adams. • • 'ROYAL LYCEVM THEATRE. FLEXPLORE'3 BENEFIT. • Ira (=sequence of the destruction of Covent Garden Theatre, Kr. YDEXI/012tE begs to inform his patron—the Pabllc—that his Benefit lOU. take place at the above Theatre en WEDNES DAY, March 12,4 W that cards of admission, price Is., 24., 3a., 4i., ald Ns., max Lelia! at G 6, Hercales-Bnildinv, Lambeth. THUM ROYAL A.DELPRI. Voitiator, Xt. B. Wobstar.—Dtreetmss, Madame Colo* THIS EVEDTING, BETSY BARER. To Le fbllowed by TRAT BLESSED BABY. To conclude with - - I ACE Oa THIS lIELN STALK; or, Ilariegnia aad Ilothet Goose at Home Agaia. la whfCla Magin. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madan Celeste, WU Wyndition, and Mu E. Arden will ap.)ear. ROYAL OLYI[PR3 THEATRE. ~X.opee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING. STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be prolocel a New and denbly-moral, though et lively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled Mr; DISCREET PRIgIF: ; e-, the Three Glass Distaffs. In whiCh Messrs. Emery. F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Marston, and KW Maskell will appe ar. ROYAL SU3REY THRATRE. Themes, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresveck. THIS EYHNING JASPER LANGTON; or. Duel to the Death. Followed by BROTHER 808. To conolude with PARIS IN 1792. ASYLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITEIEATRIL Lamm and Manazer, Mr. Wm. Cooke. TUTS EVENING, (the Last Week before Easter), THR ARAR OF THF. DESERT AND MS FAITHFUL STEED. The honie. , whose won.lernil performance has been the universal topic of co nversation , tralne i by Mr William Cooke. . • After.vititei, the EQUESTRIAN SCENES in the CIRCLE. A l s o, the mfrMitieut and incredible ascent of the Elephant from the ring to theritigel; • T 'Aniitirde wilh a screaming Farce, called MR. AND MII3. WHITE. Bos-ollioe open from Moves till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.- Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun. ,EMMA. STANLEY'S BENEFIT. • Fain tY Evening next, the 14th instant, Miss Emma Stanley's Yienefit„.. On 1.4AV1R.D4.Y . ,' the 15th, a Day Performance (the last of her brat NitilafitNieascria}.' ThePPOdonitSetigon ot the fashionable and popular Lyric Entertain ment,THE, OFSENt AGRA OF WOMAN, will commence on MON DAY. the 24th instant, at. SAINT NIA itTlN's H XLL, Long-acre. Stallact;airs, 39, ; Coutrq 'sate, : Back Seats. Is. Noperformanie during'. Passloa Week, Miss E. Stanley being engageidAv taut hlglito at Ss:tiler's Wells Theatre. MAR : YTATEU. AT LONDON BILTDGE. TairstrATi-t-Mdert.'37 min. aft. 4-Evening 1G min. sit. TnAloitgew—)Xora. 31 min. aft. 5 -Evening 55 min. aft., 5 "fiIEIrEA.THER7SwN OPTION, MARCH 11. . VIIRRIIOHECTAIR, IN TEM SIIA.DR. Tn .higbest since noon yestoritay. 42 -lowest this morning and dnrng the night. 4t —this flay at noon. f • Timmy Err% 3014. Virtern, E. to E.S.E.--Fresh, with bittor cold, dul weather.. ) - • - u , 14 , • - • 4 'kV , , LONDON, TUESDAY; MACH 11, 1858. The Counties and Boroughs Police Bill last night received its second reading in the House of Commons, by a large majority. Concessions were made by the Home Secretary, which remove some, although by no means all, of the grave objections to the measure. The changes are in the sth and 6th clauses. Iu the former, the Right Honour able. Gentle Man has pledged himself to give up the power of making regulations for the employ ment of the police jointly with the local magis tracy—or, in other words, of engaging them in any transactions that might be considered suitable for the occupation of their spare time. Wu need not say to how great an extent this privilege might lee carried. It would, practically, vest the whole control and management of the local con stabulary in the Crown, and would in a very shOrt time effect the great object of centralisa tion. The straightforward and manly opposi tion of the municipal bodies has, however, prevailed, and, thanks to their strenuous exertions, the obnoxious clause is, or rather will be, so modified as to remove the greater portion of its sting, and render it comparatively innocu ous. The town councils will now be allowed to determine exclusively the extra duties of the police. There will be no divided authority—no power to send down orders which must be obeyed without any reference to the legitimate authorities. We shall not have the police engaged in serving processes, or perhaps acting as deputies to the sheriff-officers--a course which was some time singe attempted in one of the easteru counties, and attracted the attention and unmitigated re probation of the Lord Chief-Justice of the Com mon Pleas.* The sixth clause originally authorised the Home Secretary to make rules for the pay, clothing, accoutrements, & e ., of th• local constabulary. This had also, and we think judiciously, been o bj ec t e d to. It was not RO much its real opera tion, as the appearance that was complained of, inasmuch as it, in a matter apparently trivial, inflicts a heavy blow on the principle of self government, SO dear to ever:, English heart. The precedent might easily be extended, and carried to a very formidable point. This has also'been waived, and the obnoxious clause is t o be omitted in committee. The proposal to m a k e the bill compulsory in counties is also withdrawn, eo that much of the tints is removed by the emasculation of the measure. There can be little doubt of the end and object with which it was framed. It was to substitute management of the Home Secretary for that the magistracy—an introduction of the sharp end, of the wedge that would speedily produce extraordinary results. The cautious vigilance of the municipal authorities, however, defeated the chief provisions of this " Trinity-House" bill-- the introduction, or rather the enlargement, of the Coburg-Germanic system that has for some time past been aimed at. Eng- lishmen, ho wever, have no desire to see the ' wise enactine nts of the truly great ALFRED changed. Like their forefathers at Runnymede, they are pre pared to al iit7 e by their time-honoured Constitu tion, and to resist with all their energies every encroachment I. Let the Crown enjoy all its legi timate prerogatives. We do not seek to impair its power or a uthority, but, and particularly, while the Germanip influence is so prevalent, we cannot consent to it a undue extension. Evils may possibly arise far worse than those which are to be counter acted. Collilsions have taken place—and are still possible—and regarding the people as the undoubted source of legitimate authority, and the prerogatilves of the Crown solely exercised for their benefit, we cannot consent to the enlarge ment of the farmer at the expense of the popular rights and privileges. These views may not be suited to Germ an or Muscovite feelings ; but we address ourselves to English auditors—to those who have firmly stood by their franchises, and whose forefathers have freely shed their heart's blood in resistirg any approximation to despotism. The approaches may be cautiously and secretly made, but every outwork is worth defending to the last ; and whether the attack be put forward in the shape of a summary conviction or a ponce bill, in whatever way the interests of centrali s Ltion are to be promoted, the same jealousy must still be exhibited that rendered our Constitution what it is. The creation of a life Peerage may be a very trifling matter, as well as the prescribing of rules for the pay and accoutrements of the local police, or the power of indicating their extra duties. But they are all movements in the wrong direction, which should be closely watched, and care taken that they should not in any way be constituted into precedents that may impair or disturb the well-established safeguards of the liberties and privileges of the United Kingdom and its inhabitants. From what occurred last night, notwithstanding the large majority, we be lieve that the measure under notice will be so purified as to prevent any considerable danger in the event of its ultimately receiving the legisla tive sanction. It is announced in a little semi-official para graph now going the rounds of the public journals that the miserable pittance of 251. per annnra, recently bestowed upon the late Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN, has actually been continued—these are the literal words of the paragraph—" to his un fortunate widow." Unfortunate, indeed, the poor lady must iu truth appear in the eyes of any sane observer possessed of the smallest modicum of sensibility. But unfortunate in a very different sense, we suspect, from that implied by the com miserative phrase of the Treasury penny-a-liner. Unfortunate beyond the common human cala mity indicated by her widow's-Weeds. Un fortunate in being the witness of the petty insult offered directly to her (since then departed) husband while lying prostrate upon his death-bed—and now posthumously reiterated in directly by its renewal to herself as the relict of that poor dead man-of-letters ! The insult of a beggarly pension of 251. .. a-year —a pension al ready analysed in these columns as one securing to its recipient the munificent alms of just ls. and 4id. a day 1 What tends very considerably to enhance the poignancy of this insult, (levelled gratuitously, and, as it appears to us in the instance immediately re ferred to, most wantonly and most cruelly, against the aggregated interests of Literature), is the fact that, ,at the very time when a pauper-dole of 251. a-year is awarded in the first instance to Mr. JOSETEC HAYDN, and, in the second, to his " unfortunate widow"—as a tribute to scholar ship, mark that !, as a tribute to scholarship—it is mooted as a grievance among military men that the widow of a Brigadier-G:Aeral recently deceased should become entitled to a pension from the State of merely from 2001 to 3001. p r annum, instead of ene the champions of her cause are sticklers for, namely, a pension of actually from 4001. to 5001. sterling ! For the relict of a scholar, a beggarly pittance of 251. a-year is deemed something munificent—for the widow of an officer, one of 2501. per annum is considered something deplorably inadequate. Ali, well ! it is not to-day we have to learn how marvellously better Captain SWORD fares among us than his luckless half-brother Captain PEN. The one clad in scarlet and gold—the other oecF. sionally out-at-elbows, sometimes may be even nowadays as in the times when Grub-street bed not yet foreshadowed the Row, hid away in a garret, trembling at the possible advent of a milk score. The contrast is still at intervals some thing deplorable—that presented, we mean, by the diametrically opposite estimate of the scholar and . of the soldier, formed by our very enlir. l , itaied rulers and our very civilised Governolent. Mi nisterial " swells" who appear to have as wholesome a horror of Dldre authors as that enter tained by the aristocratic BYRON against— Fellows In fooldeap uniform turned up with ink." For theA, 13UCEPIIA.LUS might lie up in clover and fatten through old age into an honoured grave—PEGASUS starving the while ignobly in the parish pound, thence to be carted away in good time to the knacker's yard for cat's-meat. Good old AUSTIN CAXTON, for them, might famish upon a wretched 251. a year over the growing folios of his " History of Human Error "—Captain Ho- LIND simultaneously twirling his moustache at his club window in Pall-mall, with his plump cob round the corner somewhere at livery, and his keen sword hung up over his easy chair at home, red with rust in an obsolete scabbard. Honour still, say we, to the warrior, whether in life or in death, respect and sympathy and solace still bo the lot of his weeping relict, when the rewards of his long services have come at last in due season to be his only posthumously. But something bettor than insult let us accord in GOD'S name to the scholar, and the scholar's widow. Some fitter recompenco to the Soldier of Thought than the alms thrown to a beggar in the kennel, than the handful of coppers doled out grudgingly as a Maundy offering to some pitiful typo of parochial mend icancy. ANOTHER JOSEPH Ant—A man named West, about sixty years of age, who described himself as a commer cial af , ent, was brought before Mr. A:Beckett, at the Southwark Police-court, charged with fraudulently ob taining sums of money from several persons by repre senting himself as an officer of the Court of Chancery. He was remanded for a week. THE GOLD ROBBERY.—John Hall, charged with hay ing received a large quantity of the gold dust stolen in its transit from London to the continent, was placed at the bar of the Mansion-house yesterday, and again re• manded till Saturday. . There is no probability of M. Manteuffel visiting Paris et present, as stated by Borne journals. The posi- Con of Prussia in regard to the Western Powers remains as it was. ATTIIIiPTED BURGLARY.—Henry Halfpenny was yes terday charged at Guildhall with burglariously attempt ing to enter the premises of Messrs. Martindale, ware housemen in Aldermanbury. He was remanded. CAIIBBLIAB UNTVERSITY, March 10.—The two gold medals given annually by his Royal Highness the Chan cellor to the two commencing bachelors of arts who, having obtained senior optimes at leart, show themselves the greatest proficients in classical learning, have been adjudged to E, L. Brown, Trinity College, and T. B. Rowe, St. John's College. ~IINISTLas' MONEY (IRELAND).--Mr. Fagan and Mr. Beamish have brought in a bill to amend the act 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap. 11, with a view to the total abolition of the tax thereby iropoenl in lied of " Mi nit•tere' Mousy " in Ireland., THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA VENIN'6, MARCH It, 1886. kness's state since the mo rn i ng . Th e i mprovement I continues." "9th, 7 p.m.—The indications furnished by the stethoscope are favourable. The improvement con tinues." • This morning the following bulletin was issued at the Palais Royal : "10th, 8 a.m.—His Imperial Highness has not passed so good a night as the preceding one, his canak having proved troublesome. There is not, however, any fever." A decree in the Moniteur confirms the nomina tion to the ranks of Knights of the Legion of Honour of MM. Aubry, Duval, and Teghem, in spectors and director of the telegraph in the Crimea, which had been provisionally made by Marshal Pelissier. • M. Barbaroux, Councillor of State, has been named member of the Consultative Committee of the Colonies, in the room of the Marquis de Fleury, appointed to other functions. )3ounitx, March 10.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. s. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 75 —f. —e. per Cents 7l 60 72 10 New Loan 72 10 Bank Shares 3,480 Roman .. Credit Mobilier 1,550 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ 96i— Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s) • Home Debt BAILWAYS-Mt CA.M. fr. C. fr. 0. Orleans "sm." ...... 1,275 Western... 876 Northern Mons .....,1,243 75 N ew Ditt o Bl7 50 diterranean 1,450 Grand Central 650 -- Lyons Geneva 755 Tests Cette 760 Austrian C0rn....... 910 AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain W. J. C. Lang, has arrived. Her mail bags were landed this evening at nine o'clock, and the vessel herself is etpeeted at midnight. She left Boston on the 27th ult., and Halifax on the 29th, with the usual mails from British North America. (She has been detained some hours at the Bar for want of water.) Besides the mails, she has brought 45 passengers, but no specie. The Royal Mail stoam•ship America, from hence ou the 16th of Feb., was passed going into Halifax ou the 29th ; at one p.m., on the 9th inst., passed the Persia 37 west of Frastnel Light. The steam-ships Arctic and Alabama have re turned, after cruising in search of the Pacific, bringing no tidings of her. They could not proceed northward of Cape Race, owing to immense fields of ice. The Atlantic and Asia arrived at New York on Feb. 24. In the United States Senate, on the 25th of Feb., Mr. Mason, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling for all correspondence that had passed re• specting the English Government enlistment diffi culty. Al the National Presidential Convention held at Philadelphia, only two names, those of George Law and Millard Fillmore, are yet announced. The 124th anniversary of Washington's birthday was celebrated with great eclat at New York on the 22d Feb. California advices to Feb. 25, per Daniel Web ster, at New Orleans, reports half a million dollars en route. There is no important news. Havanna dates to Feb. 17 omtain nothing new. Accounts from Gonaves, Hayti, state that Soulouque bad dis banded his army, and that an invasion of Dominica was abandoned. Accounts from Mexico state that the revolt of Ham y Tamirez would prove a failure. The new tariff went into operation Jan. 1. Money at New York was exceedingly abundant. Its value on call was 6to 7 per cent. There was a good demand for first-class paper, which was scarce. The stock market was irregular under the influence of the Asia's news, with tendency downwards. _ The cotton market was unsettled on account of the foreign advices. Breadstuffs were dull, and the demand chiefly for home consumption, and prices rather lower. There was a fair demand for provisions. Freights to Eugland were tolerably active at steady rates. Ex:Amp on London unchanged, 108 f to 109,E ; Paris, 5.221. The United States steamer Washington arrived at Cowes on her way to Bremen yesterday. She left New York on the 23d ult. According to the New York Herald emigration to Nicaragua has become a passion with young Americans of family and position. The Senate had ordered the printing of 10,000 maps of Central America, copies of those prepared by the Coast Survey, all the maps of that region now in use being of British origin. In Kansas a pro-slavery movement is afoot to procure southern emigrants to aid in combating abolitionists. The Herald of Freedom, published at Lawrence, gives an account of the preparations making there for the civil war expected on or about March 4. It says : " Generals Robinson and Lana have adopted prinau tionary measures, and organised a regiment, and plar'ed the several forts in charge of suitable persons, and these are being guarded night and day to prevent a surprise. In the meantime munitions of war are being collected, and will be held in readiness for instant service. We understand that an attack is also expected at Topeka, and that our friends there are also preparing for defence. The friends of freedom in the East may be prepared at any time to hear of the blow being struck. When the war shall be opened again in Kansas it will be under different auspices than on former occasions ; -it will be a struggle in earnest, and we appeal to our friends in the North and Esst to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice to our rescue. They may rest assured that the people of Kansas will stand upon the right, and that they will die before they will surren der." J•'AEL~t LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 8.37 A.. M. The Euphrate has arrived, with advices from Constantinople of the 3d, and from the Crimea of the Ist inst. The despatches leave at 9 a.m. The White Works at Sebastopol were blown up on the 28th of February. General Timoieff, Martimprey, Windham, and Colonel Pettiti, met yesterday at Traktir-bridge. The three latter presented conditions for an armistice agreed upon by the Commanders-in- Chief. General Timoieff transmitted them to General Luders. The health of the troops is excellent. The bad weather is over. BERLIN, MONDAY EVENING. A rumour is current that M. de Manteuffel is on the point of starting for Paris. The New Prussian Gazette announces, bit with out guaranteeing the statement, that Prince Peter of Oldenburg has been named Governor of the Russian provinces of the Baltic. The President of Police, Herr Von Hinckelday, was this morning shot in a duel by Herr Von Rochow, whom he had felt obliged to challenge. COBLENTZ, MARCH 9. The statement that Russian vessels of war have quitted Sweaborg is formally contradicted by b, despatch from St. Petersburg in reply to one from Berlin. HAMBURG, MARCIE 9. A commercial crisis has taken place in Norway. It is asserted at our Exchange that in the city of Bergen alone twenty-two commercial houses have stopped payment. MARSEILLES, MARCH 9. The Austrian frigate Radetaki had arrived at Constantinople, bringing au Austrian Colonel with propositions relative to the Principalities. The Patriarchs have been convoked by the Dewan and ordered to carry the late reforms into immediate execution. The Minister of Finance has made an appeal to the merchants to terminate the present crisis. Omer Pasha is expected at Constantinople, to give an account of his conduct. The Sultan has decorated M. Cibrario, the Sardinian Minister, and Admiral Albini, with the order of . Medjidie. The Allies continue building hut-barracks on both b mks of Constantinople. The English are sur veying ground for the formation of a camp in Asia. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. GRIND MILITARY REVIEW. CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Feb. 26.—The review of a large portion of the British infantry, which bad been expected for some weeks past, but which had been postponed on 'account of unfavourable weather, took place on the 24th inst., and offered a magni ficent sight to a vast concourse of Prenchand Sar dinian officers and Soldiers, and perhaps among other spectators to not a few Russians. The site chosen for the parade and inspection was the brow of a hill behind the Guards' camp, and must have been plainly visible from the Mackenzie heights. All the six divisions of the army were represented on the occasion, but many of the troops of each must have been absent on duty and in camp. Only one brigade of the Highland Division was present, the othr being required to guard th e position beyond Damara, in conjunction with our allies. The regi ments at Balaklava were not required to attend. Without these, however, there could not have been less than 25,000 men on the ground, all in the most effective condition of health and strength. The Commander of the Forces, Sir Wm. Codrington, arrived about 1 o'clock, with a large staff, and was received by the divisions in line. The troops sub sequenth marched past in half distance celumn, each division being headed by its general and staff. Each brigade, in like manner, was preceded by its brigadier-general and staff, who, after saluting, wheeled round and fell out to swell the brilliant cor tege which surrounded the Commander of the Forces. The bands of the several regiments forming each brigade were massed together, and played under one leader, while the brigade was marching past. This combination produced a flue and powerful eff and prevented the confusion of sour ' would have arisen from the band r' which ing battalion playing its 0, 41 each succeed pearance of the troops - march. The ap favourable as could they moved past was as • ..ell be imagined, and the whole scene was rein'. ..exably brilliant and exciting. The vigorous fr _times, healthy countenances, and elastic tread ",:r - the soldiers, could not fail to strike the at fr.ation as the gay uniforms attracted the eyes of the spectators. The officers and men of the French and Sardinian armies who were present evidently looked on with admiration. The Guards brigade, and the Highlanders in their picturesque costume, only the kilted regiment being present, especially attracted notice ; and the Light Division, which marched past with trailed arms as light troops, together with the two battalions of the Rifle Brigade, while the rest carried their arms with bayonets fixed, came in for its share of attention. Marshal Pelissier was present in his carriage, and seemed to examine each regiment as it went by with scrutinising closeness. There were also several French general officers on the field ; among others General ETinasse, who bad only arrived a few days before in the Crimea, and a very large body of other officers, both on horseback and foot, who ma nifested great interest in the proceedings. The Sardinian officers attended numerously, though not appearing very conspicuous among the crowd of French and others who formed the lines of spec tators. After the divisions had marched past the first time General Coctrington took up a position lower down, and the troops again marched past, in the same order as before, but in quarter dis tance column. General Sir Colin Campell was on the ground. The weather was, on the whole, very favourable for the review. The atmosphere was clear and dry, and, although the sky was overcast with clouds, the sun broke out from time to time with great bril liancy. The wind .came from the north, but was at no time high, and the cold was agreeably tem pered by the sun's warmth. AUSTRIA. Accounts from Vienna of the 6th, in the Post Ampt Gazette, state :—" The reports sent lately by Count Buol say, we arc assured, that it is doubtful if the treaty of peace can be signed this month, but that the conclusion of peace appears certain. It is stated that it will be impossible to regulate the Bessarabian frontier without despatching a com mission to the spot. In fact, the topographical details at hand are very incomplete, and the pro jected frontier of ehotym to the Lake Sasik is neither marked by a stream of water nor a moun tain chair. France, it is said, has already fixed on her commissioner, who will be General Letang— Austria, England, and Russia are on the point of naming theirs. Sardinia will not be represented in this commission." A letter from Vienna, in the Borsen Gazette, says : " It is certain that the ordonnances respecting a new reduction of our army are prepared, but will not yet be made public. The intelligence is con firmed that M. de Fonton will be named ambassa dor at Constantinople, in the event of peace." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Congress has held the seventh sitting to-day. The Emperor gave an audience yesterday to Mgr. Sacconi, the Papal Nuncio, who delivered to his Majesty a letter from the Pope. Baron _Mander stro►n, the Swedish Minister, also delivered letters from the King and Queen of Sweden. The following bulletins have been published in the Monitelir on the subject of the illness of Prince Jerome " pal, 3 a.m.—His Ituperi al Highness has passed a good nil4t, and his state is satisfactory." " 9th, Jaeou,—No change in hie Imperial High- RUSSIA, , " We persist," says Le Nord, "in believing that the negotiations are nearly - at an end ; France and. Russia sincerely desire peace ; Turkey and Pied mont are not opposed to it ; the subtleties of Austria and the obstinacy of England may somewhat re tard, but will tot prevent it." We read in. the Gazette de Silesie—" It will be remembered that the noblesse of Silesia lately pre sented an address to the Emperor Alexander 11., thankirlg him for the readiness he had manifested to effect a peace. Each of the signers of this docu- Latent has reeeived a copy of the following letter : " I thank you, gentlemen, for the sentiments and kind wishes that you express to mein your address, not only in your own name, but in that of all Prussians in whose hearts the Christian and pacific spirit of their Royal Master is dear and sacred. I, too, desire the speedy restoration and the permanent assurance of peace, and trust that the God of Grace will hear the prayers that I and others who think and feel with me put up to Him. I beg all of you, gentlemen, whose honoured names I have with sincere pleasure read at the foot of the address, to receive the assurance of my special esteem. "ALEXANDER. "St. Petersburg, Feb. 4, 1856." A Government journal contains an invitation to contractors to bid for the carriage of several mil lions of poods (1 pood equals 401b5.) of copper, ircea, lead, tin, and other raw produce, from the Siberian mines on the Don, the Wolga, and the Dnieper to Nieolaieff, " for the use of the superin tendent of the Black Sea fleet." The preparations making everywhere for a fresh campaign aro car ried on with a degree of energy and spirit hitherto unknown in Russia. Our readers will doubtless not have forgotten a very remarkable letter of admonition, issued by the Grand Duke Constantine, as High Admiral, to the various officials connected with the administration of the Marine, in which the necessity of sincerity and a love of truth in their connections with the Go vernment were inculcated. Some further particulars will doubtless be interesting. The letter is addressed to Vice-Admiral von Wrangel, and is dated. Nov. 25 (Dec. 7), 1855. After alluding to the Circum stances of difficulty in which Russia found herself at the time, and pointing out the causes that had led to them, the Grand Duke proceeds : " The immense variety of forms with us paralyses the elasticity of administrative action, and serves as a cloak of impunity for the official lie so common with us. Cast a glance At the annual reports and accounts, and you will find that everywhere the gr ea t es t possible amount of work has been executed, in every direction progress has been made, everywhere have the prescribed works advanced, if not with excessive haste, yet at least in due relation to the exigencies of the case. " But when you come to look closer at the actual state of things, to examine into them, to dimt them of all false colouring, to separate what really is from what only appears to be, to distinguish the true from the false, or the only half true, and there will seldom any positive ' and beneficial result be left. On the surface speciousness ; beneath it, corruption. Among the products of our official phraseology the truth finds no place ; it is concealed and stifled under the diction, and where is the official reader that knows how to ex tract it "I beg your Excellency to communicate these truth ful words to all the bureaux and all the employes of the Ministry of Marine, front whom we have to expect at the beginning of the new year their annual reports of what has talon place in the past, and re peat to them that in the aforesaid reports I do not look for encomiums, but the truth, and above all, a frank statement that goes to the pith of the matter, both as regards what may be inadequate in any branch of the administration, and of the errors that may have been committed in it. Tell them further, that all the reports in which I shall have to read between the lines I shall most certainly return. I request your excellency to communicate copies of this letter to all the bureaux and afore-mentioned employes. "CONSTANTIN, High Admiral." THE BALTIC. A private letter from Kiel, of the 6th inst., Says :-- "It wa s genPl•ally of war h;t: • believed here that the English ship. Eery arrived would remain some time in our pul h the great disappointment of our provision , ..oldors, who, for the last two years, have derived con siderable profits from that trade, Commodore Watson gave orders to-day to weigh anchor to all the ships of his squadron in consequence of directions received in the morning from the Admiralty. Those ships were for some days ready to put to sea, having all taken in a fresh supply of coal. We have also heard that the corn manders of the other ships, stationed at Elsinore, had likewise reeeived sailing orders, and that the entire squadro r is to rendezvous on some central point of the Baltic, to resume the blockade of the Russian harbours, interrupted on the approach of winter. Ac cording to my information, the squadron of Carnmodore Watson is to take up its station, pro tempora, at the island of Bornhelm." We read in the Indepeudance Beige, under date Hamburg, 7th inst. : " Our navigators are of opinion that the English ships of war which left Kiel yesterday, fur the Baltic, may, without any serious obstacle, advance as far as the Swedish island of Gothland, and wait the breaking up of the ice at Wisby. The English possess on that small island large depots of coal, and the merchants of Wisby, who rendered the allies so many services during the two last campaigns, will not allow the squadron of Commodore Watson to want for provisions. This en trance for the third time of the English fleet into the Baltic, with the avowed intention of blockading the Russian ports, alarms our merchants, whe anticipate the suspension of their commercial relations in that sea. Those apprehensions are also very general in the Meck lenburg harbours, and in the city of Lubeck, which are situate nearer the Russian territory." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 6th says :—" Prince Federick William, only son of the Prince of Prussia, and heir presumptive to the crown, will pay a new visit to England in May next, and it will be of some duration. It is thought that the projects of alliance between our royal family and that of Eng land, whioh were formed a long timo ago, will be realised on this occasion." • DENMARK. A letter from Copenhagen of the 3d says : " Every one will remember the motive which led the Government to dismiss Prince Ferdinand, the uncle of the King and the heir-presumptive to the Crown, from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Danish troops. That motive was the refusal of the Prince to affix his signature and to take the oath to the general constitution of all parts of the monarchy. Article sof that constitution imposes on the Sovereign, before ho ascends the throne, the obligation of taking an oath to maintain and to faithfully execute the fundamental law of the king dom. The Prince Royal founded his refusal on the constitutive laws of our ancient monarchy ; and the Ministry, on its side, insisted on the dismissal of the Prince, to which the ing was compelled to consent. This was at first followed by a misunderstanding be tween the King and his uncle, but at the time of the visit of General Canrobort, the two august re latives were reconciled ; and now, thanks to the intervention of the King, a recent decision of the Government has led to a definitive understanding between his privy councillors and his uncle, Prince Ferdinand. It is iu consequence of the King's exertions that the decision has been come to to re lease the Prince Royal front the oath in question." SPAIN. MADRID, March S.—The Grand Central Com pany has to-day obtained the concession of the railway from Madrid to Saragossa, with a grant from the Government of 55,000 f. per kilometre (five-eighths of a mile.) The same company, con jointly with the house of Rothschild, has purchased from M. de Salamanca the railway from Alicant to Madrid. These two railways will form one line from the south to the north of Spain. The Go vernment has presented fresh customs tariffs, which are favourable to Catalonian manufactures. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Monday March 10.—Admissions on payment, 942 ; ditto by Sea sun tioliots, 24 Total yiaiOre l 1,144. ~-= Ci;iNk LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LorrpoN, March 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ; fresh breeze and cloudy. FALMOUTH, March 10.—Wind N.B.—Arrived—Dnarto, from Oporto. Sailed—Theodere Diil, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, March 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived.— P , mtidn, from Pandba. Sailed—Fidget, for Gibraltar; Blackburn, Calcutta ; Henrietta and Rebecca, St. Thomas ; Cesna, Cuba; Three Sisters, Marseilles. CLYDE, March 10.—Arrived—Horatio, from Matanzas; Alan Ker, New Orleans ; Swift, St. Michael's. Sailed — Three Bells, for Melbourne ; Priam, Batavia and Singa pore ; Isabella Ker, Demerara ; Marmion, Trinidad ; Corra Linn, New York. SHIELDS, March 10.—Wind N. Arrived. Emilie, from Drontheim. Sailed—Cairo and Lidskolf, for Con stantinople; Richard Reynolds, Carthagena ; Edward Bilton, Barcelona ; Shakspeare, St. Domingo ; Dawson, Malta ; Pelissier, Messina ; Lindisfarne, Constantinople ; Liba, Malta ; Penelopa and Wilberforce_,_Carthagena. LOWESTOFT, March 10.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived — Admiral Napier, from London, for Thurso, with loss of jib-boom, &c., and anchor and chain, having been in con tact with the Gratitude, of Whitby. PORTSMOUTH, March 10.—Wind W. to N.—Arrived— Sarah, from Waterfor d ; I[elvoetian Pisco, Cowes ; Impe rial (s, tpt.), Deptford. Sailed—Harlingen (s. tpt,), for Southampton. (PER ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived.—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ; La Pottle, Cherbourg • Elizabeth, Cardiff. Sailed.—Despatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Express, steamer, Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. _ . Find S. Arrived.—Stetson, from New Orleans ; Perseverance, Charleston. Sailed.—Conquest, for Halifax. QUEENSTOWN, March 9. Arrived.—Norman Morrison, from Manilla; Bella Por tena, Maz•rgan ; Maria, Christiansaud. BY SUBMARINE AND sGITIMEI TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.5 a.m. Wiwi E. ; tide, Fix hours' ebb, cloudy. Arrived, March 11.—Geo. Sverden, from Bergen ; 03- prey and Waterwitch, St. Michael's ; Pear anti Urania, Antwerp ; Jantina,, Groningen ; Helene, Greetaiel. DEAL, Tuesday, 10 a.m. _ . Wind E.S.E., moderate. Anchored.—Archer, from Calcutta., f,,r London-107 day pagan.). Passed.—Morse, from China, for London ; Melancthon, from Newcastle, for .klen ; Vice-Admiral Lucas, from London, for Constantinople. DEATH ET A CRICKET BALL.—On Seurday Henry Simpson, aged nice years, .on of Mr. Joseph Snapson, impector of ways, wits on Parker'+•piece, looking on at a game at cricket, when he was struck on the right ear by a ball from the I.at of Mr. Flemington, of Pembroke College, with such force as to produce insensibility. He was conveyed borne, and every care bestowed upon him, but be died on Tuesday morning. A jury has since re turned a verdict of accidental death.—Cambridge lode. rendent. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.-Our papers by this mail are to the 20th of Nov. The Council was still in session. The chief topic of interest in their proceedings wne an at tempt to raise the salary of the Governor from 2,0001. per annum to 4,0001., with 1,5001. for contingencies, but the house refused to go into committee thereon. A com mittee has been appointed, at a public meeting►, to watch over the progress of the New Constitution Bill. The electric telegraph, between the port and the city of Adelaide, was i❑ course of erection. and a prospectus of a railway from Adelaide to Glenelg has been published. The new arrangement for the collection of the cu,toms duties on the Murray came into operation on the Ist of Nov., aid had given general satisfaction. A Select Committee of the Council has been appointed to inquire into the expediency of appointing an ageat in England in place of Mr. Barnard, the Agent-General—some members of /be Council being of opinion that such sup plies as the Government might, front time to time, re quire, could be best procured by tenders in the cJlony. The prospects of the forthcoming harvest were abun dant, but breadstuffs ruled high.—Amstralian and New Zealand Gazelle. Liz BURNOPFIELD URDRR.—SINGULAN D REIM. In reference to this case, we have to place on record a circumstance of a very remarkable and even affecting nature, which, however it may be accounted for or dis believed, is nevertheless perfectly true. Mr. Stirling's parents, who, it will be remembered, reside near Dum barton, on the Clyde, having been in Durham. during the assizes, attending the court for the purpose of hearing the trial of the alleged murderers of their son, and the statement which we subjoin is from Mr. Stirling himself. On the night of the let of November, the day on which the murder was committed, Mrs. Stirling had a remark able, and what she termed a fearful dream. She dreamt that some persons were about the house intending to break into it. In a short time a man, with a dark com plexion and dark dress looked in upon her at the win dow, presented a gun, and discharged it at her. At this juncture, she awoke in great alarm and trepidation ; and since then, the dream—most strongly impressed upon her mind, by the fact of her son's murder, intelligence of which would not reach her until 6 or 7 days later than the dream—has ever been vivid in her recollection. Mrs. Stirling accompanied her husband to Durham, for the purpose, as we have said, of being present at the trial. She expressed a great desire to see the two men accused of the murder ; and, for that purpose, visited the prison on Wednesday. Several men were walking in the yard at the time, including Cain, Rayne, a turnkey, and three or four others. Immediately on perceiving Rayne, with out being told the names of any of the men, she recog nised in him the features of the man whom she saw in her dream fire through the window at her, pointed him out, and burst into tears. Mrs. Stirling still expresses her positive conviction with respect to Rayne. The cir cumstances we have mentioned may appear strange, but, we may repeat, they are perfectly correct. They bring vividly to mind the Red Barn murder, in which Corder, the murderer, was brought to jir;tice through a remarkable dream of the mother of the murdered young woman , . In the present case the dream is no lea re markable, though it citanot have a similar eff:ct. LI T.EUM THEATRE. MR. E. P. lIINGSTON'S BENEFIT. This evening there will be something worth witnessing at the Lyceum. Mr. E. P. Ilingston, the popular and respected secretary to Professor Anderson, and la , t treasurer of Covent•garden Theatre, also the author of the celebrated Green Bonnet bill, which attracted so much attention at the time, takes his benefit. The well-known oourtesy of the excellent benef►ciaire ought to insure a bumper. But to make assurance doubly sure, he has put forward a truly attractive bill of fare. After the celebrated judgment scene from the " Merchant of Venice," in which he will have the valuable aid of Mr. Stuart and Mrs. Stammers. Mr. Leigh Murray will appear in " His First Champagne." The next attraction will be a grand vocal and instru mental concert, by Madame Caradori, Miss Lucy Escott, Miss Emma Stanley, Madame Marietta, Mr. Henry Haigh, Herr Jonghmans, and many other justly cele brated artistes. "Monsieur Jacques," with Benjamin Barnett as the hero. "Box and Cox"—Box being r-- presented by Mr. Hingston, and - his co-lodger by a Downed, although anonymous, performer. "L'Atelier de Canova," in which Harry Boleno will give his cele brated imitations. S gnor Silvani, and the inimitable. F,exnaore, and Madlle. Auriol in the "Ballet of Beauty." It would be difficult to find a better selection of enter tainments. Mr. Hingston has afforded additional evi dence of the tact and judgment for which he is so pre eminently distinguished. We earnestly commend the performance to the notice of all who have an evening and a few shillings to spare. We venture to predict that they will not regret the outlay. Mrt. FLEXMORE'S BENEFIT. To-morrow evening the inimitable Flexinore, the Prince of Clowns, takes his benefit at this convenient theatre. We need scarcely say that he offers an admir able selection to his kind friends and patrons who have so often and so liberally responded to his call. The lovers of the Terpsichorean art will have a rich treat pro vided for their delectation in the Spanish Dancers, and the comic scenes of the Grand Pantomime of (unfortu nately) the late Covent-garden Theatre, La Petite Leon, who astounded the juveniles at the morning per formances, will again be produced from the inexhaustible pocket. There will also be an admirable concert The Great Wizard has kindly volunteered his ser vices, and will appear as William, in " Black Eyed Susan," the heroine being enacted by Miss Murray. With all these attractions, and Mr. Leigh Murray in his " First Champagne," the most inordinate craving for gratification will be satisfied. To all who wish for full value for their time and money, such as they cannot easily obtain, we earnestly commend the programme of the genuine clown, on whom the mantle of Grimaldi has descended with double pow Or. The recent destruc tion of Covent-garden will add to the interest that must be felt in all who have been sufferers by that deplorable and almost national calamity. THE APPROACHING IMPERIAL BIRTH, We read in a French medical journal, the Gazette llebdoluadairc de illecleeine ct de Chirurgie : " Public curiosity is alive to know if the Empress will or will not be subjected to the action of chloroform during her accouchement. We believe no decision has yet been taken upon this delicate matter, and that all will depend upon the circumstances of the delivery. We wish we could answer another question of far more importance—will the Empress give birth to a son or a daughter 1 We declare ourselves unable to give an opinion on a subject upin which no serious scientific fact can be invoked. Bet may he laid upon it, but reasonable conjectures are iinpossible. " We are nut awar4, however, that many people be lieve themselves much batter informed than we upon this point, and that the pretence of foretelling the sex of an infant is often 'set tip in circles where medical studies are unknown. It is doubtless because we are situated in different circi.smstances that we speak with more reserve. If, however, we were compelled to offer an opinion, we should say very modestly that the chances at least are equal, and that if a very slight dif ference exists, it is in fivour of the birth of a son, since, as regards numbers, more boys are born into the world than girls. In a few days the question will he decided by Providence. Let us patiently await that sovereign decision." It is expected that an official intinvition of the birth of an heir to the throne of France being received by the British Or)vernment a general royal saints will lie ordered to be fired by the fleet (with slips dressed and yards manned) at Portsmon h and elsewhere. We understand that the Surrey Gardens Company has obtained her Majesty's patronage, aed the cowl any bas, consequently, been re , ,:istered as "The Royal Surrey Gardens Company ;" the contractors for the music hall are Messrs. Scott and Cornwall, end Mr. Forrest, many years landscape gardener to the late Duke of Northumberland (and from whese design the magnificent conservatory at Sion House was erected), is superintending the garden improvements. The eaten sive buildings and alterations are progressing rapidly. and the committee are certain of being able to avail themselves of the coming season. Fox CLUB. —The second meeting of the Fox Club this season took place on Saturday evening., at Brooks's. Present—ne Marquis To wnshe Mr. J. H. Langston, M.P., Mr. John Cotes, Mr. E. A. Sanford, the Earl of Go-ford, Col. R. A. Shaft() Adair, M.P., the Hon. Ha. milton H. Duncan, Mr. Frederick Dundas, M.P., Lord Sudeley, Mr. H. F. Stephenson, Viscount Milton, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Col. Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, Bart., M.P., the Hon. Charles Clements, Lord Saye and Sele, the Hen. George Byng, M.P., Viscount Ebringt , m, M.P., Col. Lonedale Boldere, Sir G. R. Philips, B a rt., Field-Marshal the Earl of Strafford, the Hon. T. C. H. Tracy, Lord Charles Fox Russell, M.P., Col. Robert Ferguson, M.P., end Mr. Ed ward Ellice, jun., M.P. TOE CANADA.—LIVERPOOL, March 10. —The greatest anxiety continut i to pervade all ranks in reference to the late of the United States mail steam ship Pacific ; and as soon as the Canada, British and North American royal mail steam-ship, sins telegraphed by the semaphore as off the port, Mr. Court, the secre tary to the Underwriters' Association, caused a commu nication to be made—" Can the Canada tell whether the Pacific has arrived out ?" This plain-enough ques tion was seemingly not understood by those on board the Canada, and to the mortification of Mr. Court, he received for answer, " Off Point Lynes, at 3 o'clock ;" evidently meaning the Canada herself. _ _ _ THE - MAILS. -- SOUTHAMPTON, March 10. The Royal Mail steam ship Avon, Capt. Revett, sailed this afternoon for Lisbon, Madeira, Teneriffe, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, taking out 74 passengers, among whom are the Hon. R. Marshain and M. Le Baron de Ment zinger ; 77,640/. specie, 4,2321. jewellery, and a ful genial cargo. The Plata, Capt. Weller, with the next West India and Pacific mails, is expected about the 15th inst. The Magdalena, Capt. Abbott, is preparing to convey the outward West India and Pacific mails on Monday next. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Capt. Bradshaw. with the mails from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, is eispected about the 14th iust. The outward Peninsular mails of the 17th inst. will be conveyed by the Sultan, Capt. Cook. The United States' mail steam-ship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will leave on Wednesday, the 12th inst., with the French and English mails, passengers, and cargo, for New York. GENERAL - SCREW STEAM COUPANY. — This Coinpany have intimated to their shareholders that the Board of Trade are prepared to recommend the grant of the sup. plemental charter requisite to authorise. the proposed re turn of 31. per share of the capital, upon condition of an audit being previously taken, and that immediately upon the completion of this audit the repayment will be effected. A circular has been issued by the manager of the General Screw Company to the shareholders of that undertaking, stating that while the company consider themselves by their present policy precluded from en tering into new engagements, such as would be involved in tendering for bhe contract now invited for an Au , - tralian mail service, several members of the hoard have determined to make an offer for it. They consider that they have ascertained the best route, and that the voyage to and from Australia direct, without touching at any intermediate port, may he made in a shorter time than has ever yet been accomplished by any line. Should the contract be obtained, it will be proposed to raise a capital of 500,0001. EICURSIoN TICKETS.—On Saturday in the Southwark County Court, an action was brought agaiust the South- Western Railway Company by Mr. Mogg, a gentleman residing in Albion-street, Hyde-park, to recover the sum of Si. under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff stated that, on the 15th of August hie, he took a first class ticket at the Waterloo Station by the Southampton Railway throughout to Paris, yid Southampton and Havre, for which he paid the advertised price (281.), his intention being to witness the reception by the Emperor of the Queen of England. When the train arrived at Southampton there was no conveyance provided by the company to take him to the steam-boat, and he was obliged to pay for the omnibus himself. When be got on board the vessel, he found it so crowded that there was no bed for him, and though the steward offered him a mattress on the fluor, he could not lie in such a place, and went on deck, where he stayed all night in one ut the boats. This gave him a severe illness, and compel. led him, when arriving at Havre, to stay two days at the hotel there before he could proceed to Paris. On the French side of the water he was also obliged to pay for the conveyance of himself and luggage to the railway station. For these various disbursements, want of ac commodation, trouble and annoyance he had been put to, he brought the action to recover Si., which he was justly entitled to ; his hotel expenses at Havre amounted to 11. His Honour said that the case was one of vast importance to the public. He thought the railway company were bound to take the passengers throughout to Paris, ac cording to their contract, and there should be no outlay on the part of the passengers for travelling expenses be yond the 283. Whether every passenger was entitled to a bed he could not say, but certainly every one was en titled to proper shelter ; and, under all the circum stances, he should give a verdiet for the plaintiff for the WhaiV amount claiond. WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TWO-YEAR OLD STAKES. 1 Nine ran. Apathy ... 501. HANDICAP PLATE. Sir R. Trenchard Rudstone Roving Betsy Six ran. Sir Row'and Trenchard objected to. There is a complete stagnation in trade in Braila and Galatz. The captains of the vessels have offered to re duce their prices to 15-. 'per quarter for English ports, and leTs. 6,1. for continental places, but the dealers are resolved to hold back their corn for a time. The depth of water on the bar of the Oultna is now 10i English feet. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th February, in the ffaticrzal Gazette of Berlin, says :—" The Russian embassy at Teheran has done nothing to withdraw Persia from her neutrality towards Turkey. But it has received orders to see that Persia does not suffer from the attempts of Dost Mahomed.” A letter from Copenhagen, in the liantburg Correspon dent, states : —"The Supreme Council has decided to day on the establishment of a journal to give short-hand reports of the proceedings, and the admission of the pub. lic to the sitting. The speeches will be reported in the language in which they are delivered." PRUSSIA AND RIISSIA.—The Bourse Gazette of Berlin, o the 29th ult., says :—"An important proposition has just been presented to the Chamber of Deputies, ema nating from M. Gruner and thirty other members, and .s to the following effect The Chamber of Deputies expresses to the Government its hope that it will use every effort lo have proper alention paid to the legiti mate complaints which have been raised for many years past, particularly in the eastern provinces, against the charges resulting from the Russian prohibitive system and from the closing of the Russian frontiers, and t) , bring about a state of things hater suited the neces sities of the commerce of the two countries.' • According to the Caucasus, all the Turkish prisoners, consisting of 14 superior officers and 800 privates, left Tiflis on Kb. 4, under the escort of Sub-Lieut. Chom ftzki, with a detachment of the Tenga Regiment of In fantry : their mute was taken for Novo-Tscherkask. Gen. Williams had at that date recovered from his ill ness, and was preparing to set out for Russia, MILITARY SAVINGS' BANGS.---An account pubiebed yesterday shows that the total amount of the fund for ' Military Savings' Banks, up to the date of this account (Feb. 23), irresnective of dividends received after the Bth of January, 111511, is 172,1471. The amount of sums withdrawn by depositors during the year 1853 was 83,4621., against 72,8401. received, plus 5,398/. interest, and plus 146,2871., the amount of balance due by the public at the end of March, 1853, which was 146,2871. The amount of balance due I y the'public on the 31st of March, 1354, amounted to 148,059/ , the number of de- . 4 poi Roes then being 10,314. ASSAULTS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN.—A. return of convictions and sentences in 1354 and 1855, under the act 16th and 17th of Victoria, chap. 30, for the better prevention and punishment of aggravated assaults on women and children, has been published by order of the Hhuse of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Dillwyn, M.P. It appears that at Bow-street 41 ruffians were convicted of such cowardly outrages, all of whom (save one) were committed to prison for periods varying from three weeks to six months ; the exceptional one was fined 16/. At Clerken well Poliee-office there were 134 convic tions ; at Greenwich and Woolwich, 66 ; at Hammer- smith, 45 ; it Lambeth, 30 ; at Marlborough-street, 70 ; at Marylebone-office, 40 ; at Southwark, 49 ; at the Thames Police-court, 118 ; at Westminster, 48 ; and at Worship-street, 209. These convictions took place in 1854 and 1855. Tee offences are not precisely defined, except at Hammersmith, where 27 persons were con victed of assaulting their wives, 1 person of assaulting his sister, 3 of assaulting children, and 14 of assaulting strangers. e J ENEINS" IN THE UNITED STATES.—The formal re- , port of a recent ball it, New York contains the following passages of fashionable fudge from the pen of some Ame rican disciple of Jenkins In one corner of the room ' sat the lovely and accomplished Meer D., who attracted the attention of all beholders, and won the hearts of -, many of the brave men around her. Mrs. G. had many admirers. Her conversation was charming, and it needed ' an introduction alone to become her worshipper. The youthful and coquettish Miss W., dressed in the most expensive manner, exceeded in brilliancy the diamonds which were clustered around her lovely neck. A ring of admirers listened eaverly to every word which fell from the lips of one of Eve's most charming daughters. Then there was the admirable Mrs. S., who occupied a very prominent position in the beau monde several years ago, and still, retaining many of her personal as well as mental attractions, formed a very agreeable acquaint ance for gentlemen not over fond of the Terpsichorean art. Miss M. promenaded the room with all the grace and elegance of a countess, and would, had it not been for her betrothal to the talented Mr. W., have bad a host of ardent suitors. How unfortunate it is to be en- . gaged when seeking for pleasure in a ball-room l The belie of the evening, however, was the eharming Miss T., before whom all :towed in homage. Lucky wee the gentleman who succeeded in inviting Miss T. to dance. Many were they who craved the favour, but few were rewarded. If this lady is not the cause of a serious duel before the end of the next week we are much mis taken, for the favoured few she permitted to attend her were the envy of all the beaux in the room. Miss T. w a s dressed in the most costly style." After this, surely ' the English Jenkins must hide his head. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND.-- The first annual report of the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland 'eat published yester day. It comprises a few pages of statistical tables, whence it is ascertained that the population of Scotland amounted in 1851 to 2,888,742 ; the total number of births registered in the year Hie amounted to 03,498 — viz , 47,872 births of males, and 45,626 of females. The marriages amounted in number to 19,639, of which the larger number were sclenrnised in .Tune (9 311), November (2,003), and December (2,979). In July the number was only 1,814 ; in August, 1,260 ; in Septem ber, 1,112 ; in March, 1,118 ; and in May (the prover- , bially unlucky month for marrying), only 1,018. The total number of deaths in 1555 was 62,154—viz., 30,759 of males, and 31,395 of females, so that Scotland last year acquired a net increase of population amounting to 31.344. The largest umber of deaths occurred in the month of February (generally the most unhealthy o ne in the year), when they ,mounted to 7,227, against 5.977 in January, 6,481 in 14.17erch, about 5,300 in April and May, 4,627 in June, 4,430 in July, 4,461 in August, 4,047 in September. 4,388 in October, 4,378 in Novem ber. arid 5.403 in December. THE CATASTROPHE AT COVENT-GARDEN.—A theatrical masquerade is a saturnalia of all the fast and the loose people abcut town. It is an assemblage of all the scamps, the blackguards, and the harlets who eau beg, borrow, or steal the admission money. We will not say that a man of a better sort may not be found among them, because we all know curiosity will draw some people anywhere and everywhere ; but we mean to say that no worthless subject of either sex will willingly be absent from a public masquerade. It is the revelry, or we Anted rather say devilry, in which they above all bad things delight. And had the accitlent at Covent earden happened two hours earlier, when the house was full, lA-mien would now be bereft of all the flower of its profligacy and harlotry, evevy family deploring the un timely loss of its scamp, fond r.; others weeping for their precious scapegraces, the detective police suddenly re duced to a sinecure, its occupation gone. A little ear' her and Tartarus would have been anticipated. As it was, 200 of this worshipful company were, as the phrase goes for such occasions, " keeping it up" at five o'clock, when Mr. Anderson perceiving the gaiety to flag (which. being interpreted, signifies that the drunkenness cal . dead was predominating over riot), gave the signal for the finale of "God save the Queen," for the strange compliment is paid to her Majesty of considering the loyal anthem the appropriate termination of orgies as revolting to good taste as to ail sobriety and modesty. While the fuddled or drunken creatures were listening to the sounds preluding their return to their dens a nd stews, down came the fire, raining upon them as if from Heaven, and a rout like that of Conine' crew ensued. They were only 200, the last, the very dregs of the congregated vice and folly of the night ; but, few as they were, their escape was difficult, partly from th e condition of their besotted senses, partly from the intense selfishness proper to their worthlessness, which made each for himself or herself, without the slightest care or thought for another. And so they struggled forth, affronting the light of day with their debauched figura and unseemly mummeries. They looked like the devils belonging to the scene of devastation, and doubtless they were little better than they looked.—Eseeminer. EXECUTION OF TRA17•111111 DT SO3EIRFATEIHIEI Two CEN• TURIES AGO.—Apropos to the placing of heads on Teilr , ple-bar, as detailed by Mr. P. Cunningham, we cite the folio wing legal document, issued by the sheriffof Somerset shire to the high constable of Bath, in 1685 :—" Seiner setsbire ; Edward Hobbs, Esq., sberreife of ye militia aforesaid, to the constables and ()tilers, his Majesty's officers of the o:ttie and borough of Batb, greeting.- - ; Whereas, I have received a warrant under the bane and seal of the Right Hon. Lord Jeffreys for the execu ting of several retells within your said eittie. These are therefore to will and require ye*, immediately on sigh t hereof, to erect a gallows in the most public place of your said cittie, to hang the said traytors on, and that you provide halters to hang them with, a sufficient nu mber. of faggots to borne the bowells of four traytors, and a furnace or cauldron to boil their heads and quer: tt re, and salt to boil therewith, half a busbell to es"' tray ter, and tarr to tarr them with, and a sufficient num; ter of spears and poles to fix and plias) their beads sin; quarters ; and that you when the owners of o (en to be ready e ith a dray and wayne, sad the FS sewer oxen at the time hereafter mentioned for (Welt* tion, and you yourselves, together with a guard of fortes able men, at the least, be present on Wednesday more' big next, by ti4ht of the clock, to be aiding and a ssistil to me or my deputie, to see the said rebeles exeeete - Given wider my seal of office this 16th day of Nov 6ll l her, A. I. Jacobi Seeun( 1-1635. EDWARD 1101513.11 f. _ 1. 7 ..0 are alsoe to provide an axe and a cle tver for t" quartering the said rebelbe" The steam gun-boat Angler, commene on the 4th . 4 - December at the Devonport Dockyard, was launch_ed:d". Saturday. Her engines are all complete arid n tt e, 2 d The sister gun-beat, Ant, will be launched about theeeto in t., if her engines should be reit iy. The gen' 4 , Decoy and Wrangler, in Harnoaze, 'will be place' dock to-marrow to be ooppered. ~'" MON] C 0 The Liverp quietly, yet iii Price s of all ki estimated at 7 taken riatnan o d n Mai Gtd. to Rd. 1 )000 Surat, 4 arnouut of bus bet, but price day. The comme sidered favoui evinced to obi Europe, still tinned to ope h lereantile aft Wall -street ai The Banks di: of trade wet ,eekly retort I mportant clv l arger by 1,34 15 7,138 dolla the imports c 1 , 2 93,029 dol Commercia feeling of un( f ancy wares, ° rob z 6, dered the sec °4 th e other el sewhere are c an and Eng] Ithich will k( t hree months h aveff not yi ," 4 elcwardne& h ave been 0 1 the provi f aeturers of f : 111 Y emplol T hose of eempletel: a difficults in h ad been de( v aimetl. Ge cf trad e h as tcpp are ntl y a 4, 1 th e same Ward to the r esult of the Meanwhile, i World shows 4 `rourable r Telegraph 44 Yiees hay an nouncing h ouses the "uses had E " I\ Totwithst 4 4 active spf P ails in Eng telligenee of to exercise * Th i 'illy of the their accou Z li neecl f " I , , as been k n uLlic Secu t erms, and i il v een realise ( a 4 : 4 it procur t u L 'ut G per Exch 14 g Con so l s vlz, oli 1 , , a 41 hee recede Pr OXiino th T he NOW S C ents, are I ltler Bills 1 1 Prem. ror For( market. abcl b• 0 . Yen 2 1. Sard 0 1. Gr th e • - Deferr 101 1, and Tbe folk gtocki ditto 3 po 101 103 ; I ;' 3 l' . Cents, e asaire, In Rail 411 1 2 .0 dam v eaker. have been 'ave rule Canada Shar es re ItITIPI Cont Per cent. und . ,jltl.l4it 120 Is_ Ditto e lleqttet x;tetw q , 1:10fii gate] , Ditto 13 Ditto, PRI Brazilian P.l9n.ior Ditt o- Gren a d a Ditto I r ernvian Ditto ) mirdiniar 8 Pan Ditto 1 Ditto . Ditto 1 , ' ' 'lrkiot Ditto . Ditto Ditto 17 1tnezue Ditto Eeigian Dlttch 1 Ditto gitil 4/ 8, Trade Cuy 4Z g i 4 ram W . " ".i 4 Tr/td, R 0 blark I%aßt4 A Th e ) d am c oner 41 . 1 1;a1 nee rai r hav(. at 7 L~,