The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-14 00:00:00

rg -1 11 EA TR g-ROYAL, HAYMARK.ET. Les'we, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. The Leclercqs, &c. After which, a new and original comedy, A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone, etc. And SIMPSON AND CO. Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe ; Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Henrietta Linley (2d appearance.) Commence at 7. OVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE LADY OF . LYONS. Mr. G. Melville, Miss Heath, &c. After which, THRICE MARRIED. To conclnde with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER, M. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, &c. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Last Nights of the Winter Season. THIS EVENING the Butletta of T lAT RASCAL, JACK. Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE OF NOTRI' DAME. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford , Mr. John Ronse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comte Extravaganza, CRYSTA BELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing viz VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE , AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Rouelean% D. Fisher, 13111ington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesique Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FitOM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, IL Kell'', Laidlaw, and E. Thorne. Doors open at hall past 0--Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Sci: - - R 0 YA L ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN tinder the 3lanagement of 'Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. 'MIS EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa Vyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. Henry Haigh, H. Corti, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle. Followed by Mendelssohn's Operetta, THE SON AND S I RANGER. Misses Thirlwall and Leffler ; Messrs. St. Albyn, H. Corri, Lyall, and Horneastle. - Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!!! Westminster-road. Proprietor .. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, IL CORSARO, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de cided success which charactise 4 the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and C, W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer In the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THU DA.Y.—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m. To-MOUROW.-Morning, 4h. 10m.—Afternoon, 4h. 24m. TM& WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 14, 1661. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49 —highest since noon yesterday. 30 —lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.29. WIND —Westerly—light ; with fine weather. It was two points below freezing during the night. 4-ew, .?,oe 4 .‘" 4 •-. 9e 1 , • • LIE • ‘ 1••-1•, •l••v, 0 • " a• _ - . 4re r t e ? ' _ \ THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1861 Once more the present House of Commons has shown its hostility to Reform of the Representa tion, let it come in what shape it may. Whether presented by Whigs or by Tories—whether in a comprehensive measure, or in a partial one— whether to extend the suffrage, or to give freedom to the voting, so that it be but a measure tending towards a more accurate representation of the people at large, it must be refused a hearing, or kicked out on a second reading, or " the previous question" must be carried. We all remember a political personage, before whom a great reformer pleaded for " Righteousness, Temperance, and Judgment to come," and who, finding Reform, of the kind pressed upon him, an awkward thing to argue against, moved the "previous question " "Go thy way this time, when I have a conve nient season I will send for thee." It was impossible not to recall his celebrated answer, when the House resolved by a majority of 28, not fewer than 468 members being present, that " this question should NOT be NOW put." Of the " righteousness and temperance" of what was proposed to it, there could be no doubt ; of the "judgment to c'me" there might be some difference of opinion ; but, as it seems, the Anti- Reformers in both Houses think it time enough to give in when the judgment has come. Let it but come, in the form of an ungovernable Ireland, or a Birmingham bull-ring, or a famine, and then, away go Catholic disabilities, or rotten boroughs, or Corn-laws. Nothing too corrupt or sacred not to be thrown away before a judgment come. We have no doubt that Bishops themselves would be pitched out of the House, as so many JONAHS, if the sea of popular indignation did but run high enough. For ourselves, as our readers are aware, we have had no great hope of advantage to the cause of real representation from the £lO franchise in counties. Mr. DISRAELI asks,—is it not a notorious fact that the constituency represented by 150 county members in this House is infinitely more numerous than the constituency represented by more than 300 boroughs ? We answer, yes —and no. Yes, if you refer to the registered electors ; no, if you refer to the real electors. Deduct the agricultural boroughs, which in reality send county members, and the number of members returned by counties and by real boroughs would be perhaps about equal, Bat turn to the county constituencies, and we may confidently ask Mr. DISRAELI whether another thing is not " notorious" —whether it is not notorious that some thirty or forty thousand great landlords elect the members for the counties ? Why, only so recently as the election for South Wilts, the liberal candidate who withdrew never dreamed of talking about the poor unlucky e:ectors; he urged the state of feeling amongst the " large landholders," as the instifying reason for his withdrawal. It is the absolute dependence of the counties on the landlords which makes us practically indiffe gfent to the £lO vote in counties. We think it fair and right that the householder paying that rent in counties should have a vote ; we are certain that the class in counties must be superior in social position to the same class in towns, but we cannot refuse to see that Mr. LOCICE KING'S measure would not give them a vote ; it would merely entrust them with one for the landlord's use. There might be in many cases a considerable number of independent persons enfranchised by the bill, but, take the country through, we have not the shadow of a doubt that the dependent voters created by it would be fi v e to one compared with th ose who were inde pendent. Our p osition, therefore, is that we sh ou ld have voted for the bill, as being a measure formally right, though practically useless. We should vote for any extension of the suffrage which could be offered to the present house ; but we should at the same time protest against its standing in the place of the essential reform of enfranchising the vote at the polling-booth. That is the key of Representative I Reform; and Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr. BAINES will gain little for the people by their bills, both of them good in themselves, unless they protect the voters:whom they propose to create, together with all those who now vote at the dictation of their superiors or their purchasers. _ _ We are sorry to say that we cannot regard the vote of last night as a Government defeat; not withstanding the speeches of two leaders in the Government, and the general vote of the Govern ment on the right side, it would be foolish to affect a belief that the Government wished the Bill to be read a second time. No one doubts that they are heartily glad to get rid of it for the session, though Mr. KING is quite at liberty to propose, on the first day he can get, that " the bill be now read a second time." LordPALKERsTox is very much obliged to the Tories for mustering in strength enough to do the work he dared not do, but which, as the speech of Sir G. C. LEWIS especially showed, he really wished done. Lord JOHN had more dispo sition to acaept some reduction of the county fran chise, but even he made no effort to enforce it; and the Church Rate division, in which the Go vernment made but very moderate exertions, showed that if Government had been at all in earnest, it could easily have commanded a sufficient majority to read the Bill a second time, and to send it into committee. The Tory " whip " was vigorous and successful ; the absent Liberals gave them their majority. It was a curious little episse of the debate, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL went out of his way to attack an irrelevant part of Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill —for which Mr. DISRAELI did not fail to repay him amply. Lord JOHN said, in the close of his speech, that there was one sufficient reason for rejecting hi 3 opponent's Bill—that it would en able a landlord in Northumberland to create " faggot votes" in numbers in a small borough in Cornwall so as to swamp the real constituency there. And this was unquestionably true, although all who, like overselves, were desirous that the Bill should go into committee never dreamed of allowing the clauses relating to that subject to remain as they were. It may even be doubted whether Mr. DISRAELI himself was fully aware of the frauds which might be practised under them. Mr. DISRAELI'S Roland for the Oliver was uncommonly good : " The noble lord has to-night, in a spirit of curious reve lation, explained to us the cause of that conduot which a couple of years ago astonished, and I think in some de gree annoyed the country. We now know the reason why the noble lord then thought it his duty to oppose the mea sure of the late Government. Taking out of a measure which included several hundred details one connected with the borough franchise, the noble lord held it up to public odium and said, " Because faggot votes could by this machi ne'', have been created in a borough on the estate of a nobleman in a distant county, this is the reason why I thought it my duty to oppose the measure brought forward by the late Government." Well, but if that were the chief reason, why did you not mention it in the resolutions which you then asked the house to approve ? Extraordinary re serve I extreme delicacy of reticence, that, in the possession of this secret, feeling himself justified in taking the course which certainly astonished Parliament at the time, the noble lord did not feel himself justified in communicating to the house the sufficient reason for his conduct ! Why, sir, it is too late in the day to invent these shadows to per plex public opinion." Fairly, too, did the hon. member conclude with the remark that, though not successful with his own measure, " he was at least as proud of having been the organ of bringing it before Parliament, as the noble lord can be of having obtained office under the conditions he did ; and of the political and con stitutional franchises which in consequence he has been enabled to bestow on his countrymen. Sir MORTON PETO appears to concur with Mr. Punch in the matter of our Navy Estimates. The old, typical, salt-water JACK, who, in the current week's cartoon, is addressing the whole British nation as symbolised in the form of that world• famous Stout Gentleman in the topboots JACK, who is there addressing JOHN so very respectfully, cap in hand, with a scrape of his foot, and a pull at his forelock, reminds the Stout Gentleman, most impressively, that it ain't the fighting chaps, but the thinking chap, along of whom we have ever lastingly to haul. so much shot out of the locker Sir MORTON PETO thinks pretty much the same if we may judge from that notice of motion he has down on the papers of the House this evening under the head " Admiralty :" it is the twelfth on the list and runs in the words following—" That before proposing No. 3 vote of the Navy Estimates, the Secretary to the Admiralty make the following return for the guidance of the committee : the num ber of departments in the Admiralty at Somerset House and Whitehall ; the number of persons em ployed in each department, and their designations ; the number of rooms occupied by each department ; the number of rooms occupied for records; the number of rooms occupied by messengers ; the num ber of messengers employed; and the amount of the yearly disbursement for messengers." Having examined which extremely suggestive notification, the reader may be asked not inappropriately if he recalls to mind that wonderful puzzle of a sum familiar to the majority of schoolboys—that amazing little calculation about the nails in a horse shoe, and the solitary farthing upon the first of those nails doubled and quadrupled in rapid multipli cation ? That little enigmatic nut to crack, with all the gloss of ripeness upon it, may be found origi nally in Mr. DAY'S delightful boy's book of " Sand ford and Merton." And the story when looked back to will be found really and truly as applicable as any apologue can well be, to the astounding redup lication of clerks and messengers, and all that abun dant small fry of subs and supernumeraries—helping directly to double and quadruple the most ridiculous little items imaginable up to that stupendous total required now annually for the expenses of our maritime department, an aggregate making, a 3 we all know, an amount over £12,000,000 Happily the returns moved for by Sir MORTON PETO will come in aid, to however slight a degree, of the comprehensive investigation about to be com menced by Admiral DUNCOMBE'S Select Committee. We may eventually be enabled thereby to understand more clearly how applicable to some of the outer as well as to some of the inner offices of the great omnipresent department of Circumlocution is that charming laughter-moving tag to one of the minor scenes in GOLDSMITH'S hilarious comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer :" "DIGGORY (to Servant)—What be you going to do ?—Servant —Nothing. DICGORY—Then I'll come and help you." Only—when the committee, in the course of their inquiry, and the House afterwards through the medium of their report (aided as that report may be by such opportune returns as those Sir MORTON PETO is about to move for this evening),, shall have come thoroughly to appreciate the ludicrous and wasteful superabundance of all these superfluous subordinates and supernu meraries, we do hope and trust that, how ever ruthlessly, there will be a clean sweep made through the slumbrous and Gvercrowded chambers of the Admiralty. The time is fast arriving when we must have cleared away at last the chief Part of those immemorial incrustations THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, lB6l. formed by the parasitical genus of the " TITE BARNACLES" upon the battered hull of the good ship Britannia. She is going into dock now for repairs. Let those repairs, so often talked of as necessary,' now that they are likely to be made at all, be made as promptly as may be and as thoroughly. The Committee of Supply has barely begun to make way throughtheNaval Estimates, estimates to the tune of a little more than £12,000,000, when the Army Estimates follow suit to a yet larger amount — namely, to the aggregate expenditure of very nearly twelve million and a half ; otherwise—to the exact sum as the total required for " effective services"—Xl2,493,943. Remembering that so far as actual facts go in Europe, as to the alternative of War or Peace, we are still in a year of profound tranquillity—poor Farmer BULL may whistle with dismay while dragging out of one breeches pocket twelve million sterling for his red-coats, and out of the other breeches pocket twelve million sterling for his blue-jackets—having thus certainly to pay the piper, year after year, with a vengeance. Nor is this by any means the worst of it, in regard to the extent of our yearly military expenditure. In specifying this sum of twelve millions and a half, it will be seen that we have spoken of it as the total set apart as necessary for " effective purposes :" the whole round sum of the Navy Estimates in their entirety being more than fourteen millions and a half, viz., £14,606,751. Out of these fourteen millions six hundred and odd there will be required for effective purposes the following : Land Forces, pay and allowances .. £4,780,000 Ditto, miscellaneous charges Volunteer Corps 133,276 Departments of the Secretary of State for 'War, and of the General Commanding-in-Chief Manufacturing establishments, military store keepers, barrack masters, lodging money, 201,833 rents, &c. Wages of artificers, labourers, &c 860,447 Clothing and necessaries 525,416 Provisions, forage, fuel and light, barrack fur niture, bedding, &c. Warlike stores for land and sea service 2,200,581 Fortifications 158,185 Civil buildings Barrack& 690,159 Educational and scientific branches making a total 0f—£12,493,943. This for effective purposes ! The rest of the fourteen millions and odd being dribbled away in half-pay, pensions, super annuation allowances, and so forth. Altogether in the total expenditure there is a decrease upon 1861- 1862 as compared with 1860-1861 of £185,795. So also, by a few hundred, is there observable upon the current year as compared with its predecessor, a diminution in the aggregate number of men which the House will be asked to vote now in committee of supply—the aggregate being still, however, but very little short of £150,000, or just £146,044 altogether. These items in the accounts may be better considered in detail when the Under Secretary of State for the War Department has in due course made his statement in committee of supply upon bringing before the House the Army Estimates in their completeness. As it is, we content ourselves here with this casual glance at the totals, doubtful yet as to the advisability or the feasibi lity of any bolder measures of retrenchment under existing circumstances. Her Majesty visits the Adelphi this evening, it being the third time she will have honoured this favourite place of amusement this season. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Mar quis of Lorn have returned from Trentham, where they have been staying for the last ten days with the Duchess of Sutherland and family circle. We learn from a return to Parliament that the amount of duty received in the year ending Dec. 31 last for stamps on foreign bills of exchange, under the Act. 17 and 18 Vic., cap. 83, as extended by the 23d Vic., cap. 15, where above £4,000, was 4245,601 14s. 9d. It is confirmed that arrangements have been con cluded at Paris whereby the whole of the large amount of outstanding Constantinople bills drawn on M. Mires on account of the Turkish Loan will be provided for. Nothing was wanting but the signature of the Turkish Minister. This is very satisfactory intelligence. The fears of the stockholders have been realised by the announcement, made to-day, that the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada are not able to meet the in terest due the 15th inst. on the stock of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Company, which is leased by the Grand Trunk. THE BLACK PRINCE.—This vessel, which took the ground near Garvel Point on Sunday, on her way down to Greenock, floated off about eleven o'clock. She was towed into Victoria harbour, Greenock. She has not sus tained any injury. It is confidently expected that she will be equipped and ready for sea within four months.—Glas. gow Herald. THE DISTRICT TELEGRAPII.—An analysis of the messages sent prove that telegraphic communications of a domestic character are steadily on the increase. 'When we remember that commercial London lives out of town we can understand that the heads of the households would have many occasions to communicate with their homes. Thus, a very common message is for forgotten keys, or some " worse half," mindful of the black looks that await a hus band who brings home a friend to " pot luck," sends word of the coming of company. It is very common to order places at the opera, or at theatres, by telegraph ; and doc tors, now and then, when taken suddenly ill, send round to their patients to know if they will be wanted, franking the return message.—Once a Week. ' THE ROAD MURDER —ALLEGED CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.—We have received information from a quarter which is entitled to respect, to the effect that the murder at Road House has been confessed by Miss Con stance Kent, who, it is said, states that she drowned the child, and afterwards cut its throat, and opened the shutters of the house to avert suspicion from herself. The report adds that Miss Constance Kent has shown unmistakeable evidence of derangement, and is now in confinement— Western Morning Nfles. RECENT LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.— During the heavy gales which have occurred within the last 10 weeks the life boats of the National Life-boat Institution have been the means of saving the crews of the following wrecked vessels : —Five men from the brigantine Nugget, of Bideford ; 6 men from the brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham ; 6 men from the schooner Prospect, of Berwick; 4 men from a Whitburn fishing boat ; 8 men from the brig A rethusa, of myth ; 8 men from the schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoe ; 2 men from the flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris ; 5 men from the schooner William. of Morecambe ; 8 men from the brig Providence, of Shields ; 8 men from the brig Mayflower, of Newcastle ; 4 men from the smack Gipsy, of Newry ; 4 man from the schooner Margaret Ann, of Preston; 8 men from the brig Nlw Draper, of Whitehaven ; 5 men from the schooner William, of Liverpool; 3 men from the lugger Nimrod, of Castletown ; 4 men from the schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood ; 3 men from the sloop Thomas and Anne, of Dundee ; 19 men from the barque Guyana, of Glasgow; 39 men from the brig Roman Empress, of Sun derland ; 2 men from the brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide ; 8 men from the schooner Voador du Vouga, of Viana ; 11 men from the French brig La Jeune Marie Therese; 4 men from the schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater ; 17 men from the ship Danube, of Belfast, making a total of 162 persons saved from shipwreck. In addition to this number 210 lives wore saved by the institution's life boats during the past year—giving altogether a grand total of 372 shipwrecked persons saved through the direct instrumentality of the Life boat Institution from an inevitable and appalling death during the past fourteen months. Since the beginning of the year the institution has expended on life-boat establish ments and their crews nearly £3,500, and it now earnestly appeals to the public for help to assist it to carry on its im portant` and national work. MASTERS AND OPERATIVES.— Mr. Mackinnon has again introduced a bill for establishing equitable coun - oils of conciliation to settle differences between masters and operatives. It proposes that the councils should consist o" an equal number of masters and workmen, elected annually by their own order, in any place where persons choose ' e pat the act in force, besides a chairman, a person ur - connected with trade, chosen by the council. Tie councils, obtaining a license from the Crown, are to have power to hear and determine disputes between masters and workmen submitted to them by both parties, and their award is to be final and conclu.ive, and not subject to review or challenge by any court or authority whatsoever. But the Act is not to authorise the councils to establish a future rate of wages ; nor is it to extend to do mestic servants or servants in husbandry. No lawyers are to be allowed to attend on any healing before the councils. There is already an Act of George IV. in force upon this subject, but the proceeding commences before the magi strates, and has the appearance of a criminal proceeding, audit is otherwise objectionable and unsatisfactory. LATEST NEWS. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. SURRENDER OF MESSINA. MESSINA, MARCH 13, 7.10 The citadel has surrendered to the army and fleet. The troops will leave for Naples by Frosinone early in April. There was an encounter a few days since between the French 71st Regiment of- the Line and 700 Papal Zouaves. A French Colonel was killed, and 43 men wounded. How the affair ended has not transpired. Romano has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. The Municipal elections will take place on the 24th. NAPLES, MARCH 12, EVENING. The Citadel of Messina capitulated yesterday evening. The conditions of the capitulation are not ye known. Civitella del Tronto will not be able to hold on much longer. Liberio Romano has tendered his resignation as Director of the Affairs of the Interior. Prince Carignan has given orders that the Neapo litan officers who are staying in the Roman States shall be allowed to return to Naples. The Italian army is to be divided into six corps d'armee; the fourth corps, under the command of General Cialdini, will proceed to Bologna. TURIN, MARCH 13, EVENING. Count Cavour to-day announced the surrender of the citadel of Messina to the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber passed by acclamation a vote of thanks to the land and sea forces. The project of law respecting the assumption of the title " Kingdom of Italy," has been favourably received. TURIN, MARCH 13. The citadel of Messina surrendered to the Sar , dinian troops this day. PARIS, MARCH 13. The Moniteur has the following paragraph : " The good offices of the Emperor's Government have been successful in preventing further effusion of blood, and preserving the town of Messina from the dangers with which it was threatened from an impending conflict. The Sardinian Government has consented to extend the terms of the capitula tion of Gaeta, with a few slight modifications, to the garrisons of the citadel of Messina and of Civitella del Tronto ; and a steamer has been des patched with an order of Sing Francis 11. to Gene ral Fergola to accept those conditions. A flag of truce has been seat with the same view to Civitella del Tronto." NAPLES, MARCIE 9. The sick and wounded brought from Gaeta have communicated typhus fever among the hospitals and in the city itself. Troops have been sent to Lecce. BERNE, MARCH 13. The Sardinian Government has lodged a com plaint with the Federal Council against Bishop Marilley, on account of the pastoral letter issued by him during Lent having contained some dis respectful expressions respecting King Victor Emmanuel. The Government of the Canton Fribourg, before which this complaint had been referred, as the only competent tribunal, has rejected it. BERLIN, MARCH 13. In to day's sitting of the Upper House the pro ject of law relating to marriage was discussed. The clause rendering the civil ceremony necessary for the validity of marriages was rejected by 124 against 44 votes. The proposal that the civil ceremony should be optional was likewise rejected, by 122 against 45 votes. At the request of the Minister of Justice, the further discussion of the project of law was ad journed. FIUME, MARCH 13. The municipality of Fiume has resolved upon sending an address to the Emperor, praying for the reincorporation of Fiume with Hungary. The municipality has likevciie determined not to send any deputies to the Croatian Diet, and to sus pend the payment of the additional taxes. , CHINA, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIA. SHANGHAI, JAN. 24. Pekin is quiet. 'rite troops at Tien-tsin are healthy. The treaty is working satisfactorily. The rebels have been defeated by the Impe rialists at Ehsien, and Sangholinsen has been de feated at Shantang. In Japan affairs are peaceful. The Prussian Embassy his concluded a treaty with Japan. CANTON, FEB. 1. Lord Elgin has left for Manilla. The English Admiral and Sir Hope Grant have arrived here. The American ship Hesperus has been destroyed by fire. Kowloong has been formally transferred to the British. Trade is depressed. SINGAPORE, FEB. 7. The Java cable has been lost. The French have been victorious at Saigon. The French transport Wesir has been wrecked. Everything is quiet. NEW ZEALAND, JAN. 24. The war continues. Several paha have been taken by General Pratt, and these advantages have been actively fol lowed up. The Boanerges has arrived with troops. MELBOURNE, JAN. 26. The following are the departures of gold ships : The Result, with ........ 29,335 ounces. The Alliance, with ........ 31,513 „ The Lightning, with ...... 28,844 „ The Southampton, with .. 21,544 „ CALCUTTA, FEB. 8. The famine continues in the North-West pro- vinces. GALLE, FEB. 17. Sir W. Denison has left Ceylon for Madras. POLAND. WARSAW, MARCH 13. General Alayendmff has arrived here, the bearer of the Emperor's reply to the address of the Polish citizens. A separate Council of State has been granted by the Emperor to the Kingdom of Poland, of which Zamoisky has been appointed President. The Municipality of Warsaw has been confirmed in its functions. All official acts are to be executed in the name of the Emperor as King of Poland. POSEN, MARCH 14. Before the arrival of the reply of the Emperor of Russia to the address of the Poles, a telegram had already been received at Warsaw stating that the Emperor was favourably disposed towards the Poles. All the Polish officials had resolved to tender their resignations en masse should the Emperor's reply have proved unfavourable. Militia guards, composed of the citizens, have also been formed in the provinces. Tranquility prevails everywhere. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Patrie of this evening says :—" It is not true that Prince Napoleon is about to proceed to Italy." Another gunboat, built by M. Normand of Havre, for the Russian Government, left that port yester day, in tow of an English steamer for England, where she is to be fitted out. BOURSE, March 13,—The market still continues inanimate but firm. Threes, for the Account, opened at 68f 5c., and after having been for a time at 68f 15c, are now at 68f 10c. The Railway Share Market is in the same position as the Rente. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents ... 95 90 Credit Fonder 930 Do end month.... 95 80 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 10 1 Roman Bank Shares'.. 2890 1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 657 50 Spanish Threes 471 Do. Account 655 ' Home Debt - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1425 .. 1423 75 Northern New ditto 895 .. 895 Lyons and Mediterranean 950 947 50 Geneva 3BO Southern Western Eastern Sardinian A llatriau Lowbard 473 75 .. 473 75 AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, WEDNESDAY. The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian, Captain M'Master, from Portland on the 2d inst., has arrived and landed all mails except those for Liverpool. She brings twenty-two cabin and seventeen steerage passengers. She passed the Glasgow. The Fulton and Saxonia had sailed for Europe with 10,000 dols. in specie. The election in North Carolina had gone in favour of Union by a small majority. General Twigg had been struck off the army-roll as a coward and a traitor. It was thought probable that the Fulton would call at St. John's for a telegraphic summary of the inaugural message of President Lincoln. COMMERCIAL . NEW YORK, March 2.—The Stock Market is active, but heavy. Illinois, 712 ; Erie, 321-; York, 78. Cotton heavy. Other markets unchanged. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening. The United States steamer Falton, Capt. %Votton, with New York advices to the 2d inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 68 passengers, and 4,915 dols, for France. In the House the report of the committee of 33 on the crisis was taken up. The clause providing for the admission of New Mexico into the Union, with or without slavery as her people may elect, was laid on the table by a vote of 114 to 71. The amendment to the act for the rendition of fugitive slaves was passed. The amendment to the act for the rendition of fugitives from justice, was rejected by a vote of 162 to 47. The selection of Governor Chase was regarded as a triumph of the Radical Republicans over the Seward Conservatives. Private intelligence says that the condition of affairs is exceedingly grave, and that the speeches of Lincoln have caused general dissatisfaction, as indicating a vacillating policy. Money continued active among brokers. Bor rowers paid 7 per cent. In paper little was doing, owing to the scarcity of first-class names. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 14. The United States steamer Fulton, Capt. Wilton, arrived off Cowes this evening on her way to Havre, with New York dates of the 2d inst. She brings 68 passengers, 4,915 dols. in specie, and 11,981 bushels of wheat for France. Despatches from Washington state that the fol lowing is a list, of Cabinet officers of the in-coming Administration, which has been virtually adopted as a compromise between the contesting sections, factions, and cliques of the Republican party : Secretary of State—W. H. Seward, New York. Secretary of Treasury—Salmon P. Chase, Ohio. Secretary of War—Simon Cameron, Pennsyl vania. Secretary of Navy—Montgomery Blair, Indiana. Secretary of Interior—Caleb B. Smith, Indiana. Postmaster- General—GideonWilles, Connecticut Attorney-General—Edward Bates, Mobile. The selection of Governor Chase to a place in the Cabinet is regarded as a triumph of the Radical Republicans over the Seward Conservatives. It is reported from Washington, that among the first acts of the Lincoln Administration will be the reinforcement of Fort Sumter, and an attempt to collect the revenue at the Gulf ports. Should this report be verified we shall soon witness the inau guration of civil war. Major Anderson, who is in daily communication with the War Department, writes that the bat teries and other works of the South Carolinians are nearly completed, and that unless the Southern Congress interpose, he expects Fort Sumter will be attacked immediately after the 4th inst. It appears that there is a large party in South Carolina who ignore the Southern Congress, particularly as re gards military operations in Charleston harbour, while the Governor and the Conservatives gene rally are disposed to abide by the directions of the authorities of the Confederate States. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia, Captain Elhers, from New York on the 2d inst., has arrived. She brings 127 passengers, of whom 104 are for Hamburg, and 523 dols. in specie for the same city. News anticipated. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Cleopatra has arrived with the mails and 2,180 ounces in golddust, and £3,867 in specie. FERNANDO P0.,--The Spaniards are continuing to effect considerable improvements on the island by building barracks, hospitals, and making roads. At Malimba, a few miles distant from Fernando Po, there have been at times English factories established, but the natives have frequently seized the agents, put them in irons, carried them into the interior, and divided the goods in the fac tories between them. Her Majesty's ship Ranger, therefore, with the acting British Consul on board, visited the place, to endeavour to come to some treaty with the natives, to prevent the recurrence of these barbarities, which they succeeded in doing. CAMEROONS.—Trade entirely stopped. River healthy. OLD CALABAR.—Trade dull. River unhealthy. BONNY.—Another of these horrible cannibal feasts so degrading to Africa has again occurred in this river during the stay of the mail, and under the very eyes of the white men. The victims in this instance were some unoffending negroes, cap- tured from a neighbouring tribe. Their heads were cut off and publicly exhibited in the front of the Fee-jee house (i e., place of worship) in the centre of the town. Trade improving. The river very sickly. CAPE COAST.—The trade on the Gold Coast eon tinues active, English and American goods being in good demand. Plenty of palm oil, gum, and guinea grains, to be had at. fair prices. Great numbers of slaves .:eing shipped along the Slave Coast for the West Indies. CAPE PALMAS.—From this place I am sorry to report the total loss of the ship Roderick Dhu, 1,093 tons regivter, which left Liverpool on the 2d of January with a valuable cargo, bound to Old Calabar; she struck on a sunken rook, about•sevett miles below Cape Palmas, on the Bth of February. Some 3,000 natives put off from the shore in their canoes, and plundered everything that was to be had from the wreck; the captain, officers, and men only escaping with their lives. BATHURST, RIVER GAMBIA.—A war has broken out in this river between the English and the Mandingoes. The British force comprises the Ist and 2d West India Regiments, River Gambia Artillery, 600 volunteers, a land transport corps 240 strong, and a few French artillerymen. The fleet was composed of her Majesty's ship Arrogant, Commodore Edmonstone ; her Majesty's ship Fal con, Commander Heneage ; her Majesty's ship Torch, Commander Smith ; her Majesty's ship Dover, and a host of small craft, the large steam transport Avon being used for the conveyance of troops. The expeditionary force, having proceeded some distance up the river and landed, marched upon the town of Saba on the 21st of February, which place they found to be strongly stockaded, and defended by 3,000 of the enemy, composed of infantry and cavalry. After some very hard fighting the English succeeded in taking the town. The enemy lost 200 killed and 300 wounded. The British casualties were as follows :—Mr. Hamilton, mate of her Majesty's ship Arrogant,, shot dead, having received three balls in his heart ; two sailors and two marines of the same vessel were also killed ; Lieut. Harford, her Majesty's ship Arrogant, and Lieut. Martin, her Majesty's ship Torch, were wounded; Lieut. Bourke, Ist West India Regiment, severely wounded; Ensign N. Clare Garsia, Ist West India Regiment, was wounded in both legs when entering the stockade with the blue-jackets. His horse was also shot under him. Lieut. Eyre, 2d West India Regiment, wounded ; also one sergeant and six privates of the the Ist and 2d West India Regiments. Twelve prisoners were taken, and two of the King's sons were killed in the town, A three days' armistice had been concluded. ~~~ SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Benin—The Zanzibar, the Benin, the Jason, the Seid Medschid, the Lynch, the steamer Fidelity, and the Cherokee sailed for Liverpool February 6. Fernando Po—Her Majesty's ships Ranger and Wrangler; the Blanche, the Belle, the Lydia Francis, and the James Hay ; the Mary Hamilton and the Grace Longstaff, both arrived January 31. Cameroons—The Commerce, the Montezuma, the Ellen, and the Moselle. Old Calabar—The Araminta, the Gartsherry, the Mosquito, the Oneida, the Clangregor, the Tayley, the Paramatta, the Dorothy, and the King's Eye steamer. Bonny—The Elizabeth, the Ellen Grant, the Albro, the Ellerslie, the Earl of Derby, the St. Andrew, the Valleyfield, the Mary, the Flora M'lvor,:the Sobrion, and the Mississippi. The Royal Arch and the Sunshine have sailed for Liverpool. Accra—Her Majesty's ship Bloodhound. Lagos—Her Majesty's ship Brune, and the Richard and William. Cape Coast Castle—The Corporation and the Victory. Cape Palmas—The, Royal Mail steamship Athe nian arrived, and sailed February 16. Sierra Leone—Her Majesty's ship Industry. Bathurst—Her Majesty's ships Arrogant, Torch, Falcon, Dover, and transport steamer Avon. Madeira—The Royal Mail steamship Armenian arrived, and sailed March 3. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MARcH 13. COUNTY FRANCHISE BLLL. Order for Second Reading read : Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " Tb at the Bill be now read a second time:" —Whereupon Previous Question put, " That that Ques tion be now put. The house divided—Ayes, 220; Noes, 248. AYE s —220. Acton, Sir J. Ewart, J. C. Milnes, R. M. Adair, H. E. Fenwick, Henry Mitchell, T. A. Adam,W. P. Ferguson, R. Moffat, George Adeane, H. J. Fermoy, Lord 3 loncreiff, J. Agnew, Sir A. Foley, J. H. Morris, D. Al'cock, T. Foley, Hon. H. W. Norris, J. T. Angerstein, W. Foljambe, F. J. S. North, F. Anson, Capt. Forster, Charles Ogilvy, Sir J. Antrobus, E. Forster, W. E. Onslow, Guildford Atherton, W. Foster, W. 0. Osborne, Bernal Ay^+ ,, n, A. S. Fortescue, Hon. D. Paget, C. Bagwell, J. Fox, W. J. Palme rs t on , Vi so t . Bailey, C. Freeland, H. W. Paxton, Sir J. Baines, E. French, Fitzstephen Pease, H. Baring, Sir F. Gavin, Major Peel, F. Barnes, Thomas Gibson, T. M. Peto, Sir M. Bass, M. T. Gifford, Earl of Pilkington, James Baxter, W. D. Gilpi n . C. Pinney, Wm. Bailey, Thomas Gladstone, vv. m. Pritchard, John Beale, Samuel Glyn, G. C. Puller, C..IV. Beamish, F. B. Glyn, G. G. Raynham, Viscount Berkeley, H. Goldsmid, Sir F. Ricardo, .1. L. Berkeley, F. Gower, F. L. Ricardo, O. Bethell, Sir R. Graham, Sir J. R. G. Rich, 11. Biddulph,;(2ol. R.M• Greenall, G. Roebuck, J. A. Biggs, John Greene, Capt. J. Roupell, W. Black, Adam Gregson, S. Russell, Lord J. Blake, J. A. Grenfell, C. P. Russell, A. J. E. Bonham-Carter, J. Grey, Rt. Hu. Sir G. Russell, Sir. Wm. Bouverie, E. P. Gurdon, B. - St. Aubyn, J. Bouverie, P. P. Gurney, John H. Salomons,Alderman Brady, John Gurney, Samuel Scholefie,d, W. Brand, H. B. Hadfield, Geo. Scrope, G. P. Bright, J. Hanbury, R., jun. Seymour, Sir M. Briscoe, J. I. Handley, John Seymour, Digby Bristow, A. Hankey, Thomson Shafto, R. D. Bruce, H. A. Hanmer, Sir J. Shelley, Sir J. V. Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Sheridan, H. B. Buller, J. W. Headlam, Thos. E Smith, J. B. Bury, Viscount Heneage, G. Somerville, Sir W. Butler, C. S. Henley, Lord Staepoole, W. Butt, Isaac Howard, Hon. C. Staniland, M. Buxton, C. Humberstone, P. S. Stansfeld, J. Caird, James Hutt, W. Steel, John Calthorpe, F. H. Ingham, R. Thompson, IL S. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Jackson, W. Thornhill, W. P. Carnegie, Hon. C. James, Edwin Tite, Wm. Childers, H. C. E. Jervoise, Sir J. Tollemache, lion.F. Churchill, Lord A. Kershaw, J. Tomline, G. Clay, James Kinglake, A. W. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Clifford, C. C. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Turner, J. A. Clifford, 11. M. Kinnaird, Hon. A. . Verney, Sir Harry Clive, George Knatchbull-Hugess Villiers, Rt. lion. e. Cobbett, J. M. Langston, J. H. Vivian, H. H. Coke, W. C. Lanigan, J. Vyner, Reginald Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Lawson, W. Warner, Edward Coning - ,ham, Wm. Layard, A. H. Watkins, J. L. V. Craufurd, E. H. J Leatham, E. Wemyss, J. Crawford, R. W. Lee, W. Western, T. S. Crossley, Frank Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Westhead, B. Dalglish, Robert Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Wh a ll ey, G. H. Davey, R. Lindsay, W. S. Whitbread, S. Davie, Col. F. Lysley, W. White, Jas. Dent, John Dent M'Cann, J. Wickham, H. W. Dillwyn, Lewis L. McEvoy, E. Williams, W. Dodson, John G. Mackinnon,W.(Rye) Winnington, Sir T. Douglas, Sir C. Maguire, J. F. Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C. Duff, M. E. Marjoribanks, D. C. Woods, Henry Dunbar. Sir Win. Martin, P. W. Wy Id, James Duncombe, T. S. Martin,J. Wyvill, M. Dunlop, A. Massey, W. N. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Matheson, A. Ellice, E., jun. Mildmay, H. Enfield, Viscount Miller, William King, Ilon:"L. Ewart, William Mills, T. Russell, Hastings TELLERS. NOES-248. Adderley, C. B. Greaves, Edward Mure, David Arbuthnott, Gen.ll. Gregory, W. H. Murray, William Archdall, Capt.M.E. Gray, William Naas, itt. Hn. Lord Astell, J. H. Grey deWilton,Lord Newdegate, C. N. Baillie, 11. J. Grogan, Sir Edward Newport, Visot. Ball, E. Haliburton, Justice Nicol, William Baring, A. H. Hamilton, Lorkl C. Noel, G. J. Baring, H. B. Hamilton, Viscount North, Col. Barrow, W. H. Hanbury, Captain Northcote, Sir S. H Barttelot, Major Harcourt, G. G. V. Packe, C. W. Bathurst, F. H. Hardy, Gathorne Puke, G. H. Beach, W. W. Hardy, J. Pakington, Sir J. S Beaumont, W. B. Hartopp, E. B. Palk, L. Beaumont,Somerset Hassard, 31. D. Papillon, P. 0. Bective, Earl of Heathcote, Sir W. Parker, Major W. Beecroft, G. S. Heatheote, G. H. Patten, J. W. Bentinck, G. W. P. Henley, J. Paull, H. Bentinck, G.C. Hennessy, J. P. Peacocke, G. M. Benyon, R. Henniker, Lord Peel, Sir R. Beresford, B. Hervey, Lord A Peel, Gen. Bernard, Thos. T. Heygate, Sir F. Pennant, Col. Blackburn, P. Hill, Lord E. Philipps, J. Ir. Bond, J. W. Hill, lion. It. Potts, George Botfield, Beriah Holford, R. S. Pugh, D. (Carmar.) Bramston, T. W. Holmesdale, Lord Quinn, Peter Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hood, Sir A. Renton, G. W. J. Brooks, It. Hope, G. W. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bruce, C. L. C. Hopwood, J. T. Rogers, John J. Burghley, Lord Horsfall, T. B. Rolt, J. Cairns, Sir H., Hotham, Gen. Lord Rowley, Hon. R. T. Cartwright, Col. H. Howes, Edward Salt, Thomas Cave, S. - Hume, W. Sclater-Booth, G Cayley, E. S. Hunt, G. W. Selwyn, C. J. Cecil, Lord R. Ingestre, Viscount Seymer, H. K Clive, H. G. W. Jermyn, Earl Shirley, E. P. Cobbold, John C. Johnstone, J. J. H. Smith, Abel - Cochrane, A. D. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smith, S. G. Codrington, Sir W. Jones, D. Smyth, Col. Cole, lion. H. A. Kekewich, S. Smollett, P. Collins, T., jun. Kelly, Sir P. Somerset, Col. E. Conolly, Thomas Kennard, R. Somes, Joseph Corry, H. L. Kerrison, Sir E. Spooner, R. Cross, It. A. King, J. K. Stanhope, J. B. Cubitt, George Knatchbull, W Stanhope, Lord Curzon, Viscount Knightley, R. Stanley, Lord Dalkeith, Earl of Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W Steuart, A. Darner, L. S. W. D. Knox, Major W. S Stewart, Sir 31. R. Deedes, Wm. Lacon, Sir E. Stuart, Col. Dickson, Col. Leader, N. Stracey, Sir 11. Disraeli, Benjamin Lefroy, A. Sturt, H. G. Duncombe, A. Legh, G. C. Sturt, Capt. C. N. Duncombe, W. E. Legh, W. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Dunne, Col. Lennox, Lora G. G. Taylor, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. Lennox, Lord H. G. Thynne, Lord E. Dutton, Hon. R. H. Leslie, C. P. Thymic, Lord H. East, Sir J. B. Leslie, W. Tollemache, J. H. Edwards, Major H. Liddell, Hon. H. G. l ,u 'o p r t r o e n u , s, Egerton, Sir P. Lindsay, Colonel Trefusis, lion. C. H. Egerton, A. F. Lockhart, A. E. Trollope, Sir John e l l d , P. Robert 11.111vvv, Valetort, oliciiinnigibtaitniiie;,netsi:ssidi :CB: rene.. L :.;(l,lriv o y:i..t r v.. d u. N B. j . Egerton, E. C. L L o o n n g g fi , Generalß Egerton, W. Etch° Lord Lovaine, Lord Vance, John Elphinstone, Sir J Lowther, Col. 11. C. Vandeleur, Col. Estcourt, S. Lowther, Captain Vansittart, Wm. Farquhar, Sir 31. Lyall, G. Verner, Sir Wm. Farrer, James Lygon, Hon. F. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Fellowes, Edward Macdonogh, F. Walker, James R Fergusson, Sir J. Mackie, J. Walpple, S. H. Filiner, Sir E. Mainwaring, T. Walsh, Sir J. B. Fitzgerald, W. S. Malcolm, J. W. Watlington, J. W. Forester, Col. G. C. Matins, It., Forster, Sir G. Manners, Lord J. Franklyn, G. W. Maxwell, Col. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Miles, Sir W. Galway, Viscount Miller, T. Gard, It. S. 313 3 1 r o o il ti n ls t t :a o gli . le L ry or , d sir ß. G. I l l'l v i ,lN: Y y yrnn, Garnett, W. J. Col. George, John Getty, S. G. Gilpin, Colonel 331r o o r o d d a y ;in C t . , A Sir G. NYloryrnkne,e,HloVn..WE.. B. Gladstone, Capt, 300Nrb,any Morgan,ra, Major, C . 0. S. Gordon, C. W. 31 TELLERS. G Rt.lln. J. Smith, A.14.1 - ustus Graham,or' j e. R. I; 0. - ordWm. Mundy, William Du Cane, Chas. According to SQt expectaticni the iiext West sttamer is likely to bring a to gal of £500,000 in silver in consequence of alp the arrival at P anama o f h er M a j es ty' s 414de s from the West Coast of Africa. RAILWAY _INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held in Glasgow on Tuesday, Mr. P. Blackburn, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, and said it must be satisfactory to the shareholders to see the steady increase of the receipts half-year after half-year. If they could only keep down the capital account, which had always a tendency to increase, he hoped their dividend would continue to increase. With regard to the expenditure on the plant, he was afraid there was no possibility of decreasing it, while the mineral traffic in creased. He thought the opposition to the Amalgamation Bill was a mistake, that it would be beneficial to the shareholders and the pub lic. He complained of the opposition of the corporations of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and expressed his willingness to meet them in a fair and liberal manner, but they did not appear to understand, and said they would oppose the Amal gamation Bill on principle. Mr. DUNLOP seconded the motion. A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Comrie, Mr. A. Paton, Mr. M‘Gavin, and other share holders took part ; in the course of which the report was adopted, and the dividend, at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum, was declared. WEST HARTLEPOOL. The annual report of the directors of this com pany stated that the revenue for the year 1860 amounted to £220,344, which, added to £3,796 brought from the preceding account, made £224,140 for the year, as compared with £200,022 for the year 1859, being an increase of £24,118; charging the working expenditure with £103,063, and taxa tion and way-leaves £4,434, a surplus remained of £116,642. After deducting £31,386 for interest on preferential capital, and £43,400 for interest on loans, there remained a balance of £41,855, out of which a dividend on the consolidated stock at the rate of 5 per cent. was recommended and subse quently declared, leaving a balance of £3,168. The amount expended on capital account was £2,654,603, leaving a balance of £31,476 in favour of the company. The progress of the traffic had been very satisfactory. In the year 1854 the income of the company amounted to £129,732 ; in 1855, to £145,092; in 1856, to £164,136 ; in 1857, to £176,733; in 1858, to £178,497; in 1859, to £200,022 ; and in 1860, to £224,140. PORTPATRICK. This line was opened for public traffic from Castle Douglas to Stranraer on Tuesday. It is a single line having works for a double line, the length being 53 miles. The formal opening took place on Monday by the directors and a large body of the share.. holders passing over the line from Stranraer to Castle Douglas, and back to Newton-Stewart, where the event was celebrated by a public dinner, at which Lord Dalrymple presided. CALCUTTA AND SOUTH-EASTERN. An extraordinary meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, Gresham.house, Mr. J. Borradaile in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the object of the meet ing was to authorise the directors to raise addi tional capital to the extent of £50,000. The in creased cost of labour and of the bridges, together with the operation of the double duty on materials imported for the construction of the railway, had. rendered more capital requisite. He concluded by moving a formal resolution, authorising the directors to borrow on debentures any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole £50,090, the rate of interest not to exceed 5 per cent. per annum, and the debentures to be convertible into 10,000 shares of £5 each, any time after the expi ration of 12 months from the date of issue. Mr. MARSHMAN seconded the motion. After some suggestion from Mr. ADAMS and Mr. HARTRIDGE, the resolution was unanimously adopted, and also other formal resolutions, autho rising the conversion of the debentures into shares of the company as and when required by the holders. MADRAS. The traffic receipts on the open portion of the south-west line of this railway for the half year ending the 31st of December last amounted to £36,849 on 137 miles, against £31,835 on 96 miles in the same period of the previous year. It appears the directors have received accounts of the opening of a further section of 70 miles of this line, westward from Tripatoor, on the Ist of last month, making the entire length now open 207 miles, from Madras to Salem. ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The traffic receipts on this line for the third week in February amounted to 79,053 dols., show ing an increase of 23,046 dols. over the correspond ing week in 1860. The cash receipts of the land office from the Ist to the 26th of February were 43,000 dols., and the sales of land for the same period amounted to 100,173 dols., as against 18,660 dols for the corresponding period of last year. THE FRENCH LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS. PARIS, MARCH 13. The debate on the address was continued today in the Corps Legislatif. M. Keller examined all the phases of the Em peror's Italian policy. He criticised the course followed by France, and warmly defended the temporal power of the Pope. He considered that the Government not only appeared to renounce all its former engagements, but, in consideration of 'the attacks made against the Pope, its condescend once seemed to be assured to the spoilers, and its rigours to those wbo had been despoiled. Nothing, he said, justified such conduct. It is not before Piedmont that France has moved backwards. Behind Piedmont there is an astute power of whom Sardinia is the tool. This power is the revolution, supported by England, personified in the person of Orsini [prolonged agitation and very loud murmurs in the house]. M. Keller also recalled the mani festations of the army and of the great bodies of State, who, at the time of the attempt against the life of the Emperor, desired that the guilty parties should be reached who were preparing all those machinations under the shelter of the hospitality of England. " Such," he continued, "is the pro gramme of the revolution patronized by England, and which has found its realization. It is this revolution which, holding bombs in one hand and daggers in the other, would establish at the doors of France a State of 25 millions of inhabitants, having Rome for its capital. In such a state of things, when we ask what the Government intends to do, it gives no answer." M. Billault—The Government will give an answer. M. Keller then maintained that a struggle was going on between the Catholic faith and the revo lutionary faith as in 1848. " France," he said, " was frankly revolutionary in 1793 ; frankly a conqueror under the First Empire; and finally frankly conservative in 1848. But as regards yourselves, are you revolutionists P are you conser vatives ? or will you remain spectators simply of the combat ? Say what you are! You have re nounced combating against revolution in the hope that it would content itself with the concession which you would impose upon the Catholics. Yon wished to obtain pardon from revolution, forgetting that it never forgives, and from the Church, which is resigned to everything except, however, to ap prove the acts of those who despoil and deceive her. Turin, as well as Rome, has replied, 'No mutual concessions.' Instead of choosing between Rome and Piedmont, you remain at Rome with the Pope, and allow Piedmont to reach it step by step. It is time to arrest yourselves on the fatal slope along which the enemies of France and of the dynasty are pushing you. The time has arrived to break the silence which so powerfully encourages the Italian revolutionists, and to return to the policy of Villafranca. It is time to look revolution in the face, and to say to it, Thou shalt go no further.' 'the opinion which I express is that of a man de voted to his country, and to his Government, and who is guided by his conscience. M. Billault—The Government wished to await the discussion of the paragraph of the Address, but the increasing violence of the attacks—(outcries and interruptions). M. Billault (after this inter ruption) complained of the violent attacks against the Government, and protested against the allega tion that the Government drew back from fear of the assassin's dagger. He could not have believed it possible that such words should have been tittered, and desired that the Chamber should reassume tranquillity. He then explained the nature of the Italian question, which he said " comprehended other interests than those of the Papacy?' He de monstrated that the influence of Austria had been destroyed in Italy, and continued—" The Govern ment of the Emperor, being itself founded on the popular will, could not repress the same in other countries. The Great Powers have done nothing for the Pope. The Emperor has alone protected him. The Government wishes to reserve the other explanations until the discussion of the other para graphs of the Address." The general debate on the Address then closed. telegram from Lisbon states that, owing to the bad prospect of the grain crops from excessive rain, the Ministry contemplate introducing a measure for the perma nent admission of wheat at a fixed duty of Ss. Supposing the harvest this year to be disastrous, a free importation will probably be allowed fora limited period,