The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Le6seee, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON. 'Followed by THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. riTO conclude with TUFFLEHAUSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. E. Stirling. Engagement of Miss FITZPATRICK. of the Theatres Royal Drury- lane, and Cevant-Garden, for Six Nights only. MONDAY and TUESDAY, April 14th and 15th, will be performed LOVE CHASE Constance, Miss Fitzpatrick. Messrs. Belford, Lewis Ball, Saunders, Carter, Langton, Misses Anderton, Turner, and Mars. To conclude with THE IT LUSTED INN. Messrs. Lewis Ball, Saunders, Bedford, Misses Morrell, and Mars. On Wednesday, THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. Widow Chperly, Miss Fitzpatrick. kIiTLF; ; Y'S ROYA.I. AMPEIITiIgATRIC Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENINCI, The Performances will embrace that startling novelty, a Real English Steeplechase, with all its exciting incidents. The Entertainments will e mmenee with THE ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. After Which, the EQITEATRIAN WONDERS OF THE ARENA, Trampoline, Gymnastics, &c. To conclude with a Drame introducing EVOL AND'S HARVEST HOME ani NATIONAL SrEEPLECHISE, with a noble Stud of Horses, trained by Mr. Will , s,m Cooke. Boa-office open from EleTen till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Kr. W. Cooke, inn. EMMA. STANLEY'S " SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." • The . Mentzer respectfully announces the TWO LAST MORN ]\O PERFORMANCES of this most popular and amusing Enter tainment, Wednesday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 19th, at half.past two. Evening performances as asual, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 4 9'clock. Admission—Back Seats, Is. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Stalls, 3s. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tula DAY—Morn. 23 min. aft. 9—Evening 12 min. aft. 10 TA-Nfoßßosv—Morn. 55 min. aft.lo —Evening 30 min. aft.ll THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 14. TIIRRMONETRR, IN MIX SEIADIE. 6G—highest since noon yesterday. st—lowest this morning and during the night. 57 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29138. WIND, N.—Fresh and cold, with rather dull weather, Yesterday was a very beautiful warm spring day. • q t rt k,,t) § 1144 , 41/0 LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1856. A preposterous rumour, to the effect that we were to have public rejoicings in Hyde-park and elsewhere upon her MAJESTY'S Birth-day in honour of the Peace, has already elicited an official con tradietion. Germinating on Friday, it was nipped in the bud on Saturday ! It was so short-lived as to.have not the smallest pretensions even to the dignity of a nine-days' wonder ! It was a little gad-fly brag of - the race of the ephemeridm 1 The statement was circumstantial enough, too, for that matter. It began with the announcement .of a review of troops to the number of more than 12,000 men in Hyde- park, in the presence of her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness. It eves particularised several of the regiments expected to be then and there marshalled before the SOVEREIGN. It spoke, among other things, of the 3d Dragoons, and of the 11th Hussars, and of the 17th Lancers, of household infantry and cavalry, of field and horse artillery, of veterans ,who had borne the brunt of Alma and Inkertnan, of gallant fellows who had gone through the terrible ordeal of the Trenches, and of others who had been fortunate enough AO- participate in some measure in the final capture '(as far as it went) of Sebastopol. The poor. little yobs-moy c h e of this idle s who had set the game rumour a-foot went so far even as to add a few more particulars, to the foregoing by way of making the whole affair more pleasantly not to say ridieulously, circumstantial, ' . with this amiable According to. the addenda indulged in view to particularity, the morrow of the Birth day 'was rstill to find Hyde -park the arena of some excitement, consequent upon its b e in g rendered the scene of various games and amu se . ments, the evening being crowned with a gr an d pyrotechnic display simultaneously with a general The whole paragraph glared upon the town on- Friday like the veriest Vauxhall transparency. On Saturday, however, as Jack would have it, the glim was doused with a vengeance. It was no better, after all, than an exploded firework—a swinging skeleton of charred laths and blackened brown-paper, reeking with smoke and smelling of gunpowder. Scarcely had :the more credulous swallowed it, illumina , tions and reviews, " and all manner of games"— including even a fair, and we don't know what all —than it Proved to -be nothing more nor less than a deliberate fi ain ,” what Brother JONATHAN calls a " barn," no doubt from the circumstances of its being the means by which the majority are at all times the most effectually bamboozled ! And so ends the cock and-bull story of a series of public 64 Rejoicings' . upon her MAJESTY'S Birth-day, in honour of the Hocus-pocu4 Pacification _ 811 ( 1 4st:11y conjured up out of the Paris Conferences. Rejoicings ! In the name of fortune we should like to know for what ? For a Peace which is the source of such very natural exul tation to the Russians ? as those who run may read if they list in the Imperial Manifesto issued on the Ist of April by the Czar ALEXANDER. For the ignominious termination by France and England of a War, all the perils and expenses of which the German Powers have adroitly contrived to evade, to the end that their diplomatic representatives may be admitted at last upon a footing of equality with the rest of the Plenipotentiaries gathered together in the sanctum sanctorum of the Parisian Conferences ? Rejoicings I In the name of common sense, we repeat, for - what ? For Austria's having all along retained—for her still retaining up to this present moment inclusively—undisputed posses sion of the Danubian Principalities For Prussia's having made money " galore," through her sinister monopoly of the Russian markets while the two years' struggle lasted— at the close of which profitable interval the Cabi net of Berlin is rewarded for its selfishness and pusillanimity by an invitation to take part, through the person of its ambassador, in the pre liminary arrangements for the Premature Pacifi cation, as well as immediately afterwards by the prospect of a dynastic alliance, to be effected by means of an union cunningly arranged between the heir of King CLICQUOT and the Princess Royal of England ? 1 Rejoicings, ye Gods !-=- - -rejoicings for what I` For millions upon millions sterling spent for no purpose whatever ? For hundreds, and thousands, and tens of thousands, of brave fellowsperishing on the shores of .the Black Sea to no end at all that any one ' can discover beyond that of adorning the Tale of this deplorable Conflict, and pointing the Moral of our most criminal Mismanagement ? Rejoic ings —can they be---:for the bones of those struck down by pestilence at Scutari ? For the ashes of those dying in the trenches- through privation? For the dust of the gallant veterans killed, in vain as far as the glory of the West is concerned, among the hills and valleys, among the rivers and ravines of the inhospitable Chersonesus ? Rejoicings !—Are we to hear of rejoicings for a Peace sneaking into existence out of a Diplomatic Palaver ! Instead of a Peace dictated by the conquering power upon the historic field of some supreme and ever-memorable victory ! Never—we undertake to aver thus explicitly what the annals of the world everywhere demonstrate beyond the possibility of contradiction—never has a great international permanent Peace been accom plished otherwise than in the way we have here last mentioned. A Peace to be secure even for a few years, must be aPeace so obtained—a Peace won by the edge of the sword—a Peace the fruit of some de cisive triumph—a Peace the result of a grand and crowning Battle, a Waterloo, or an Austerlitz. Effect a Peace, or what you call a Peace, by a few scratches of a Pen—(no matter whether you carve it out of the quill of an Eagle or pf a Goose !) and at best it will only be an unsafe Truce conse quent upon an uncertain Compromise ! And surely we have no such crowning vic tory to boast of—no great battle won, upon the morrow of which we could dictate, not "arrange," but dictate, terms of peace to an . enemy effectually vanquished. In this way, indeed, we cannot even now exult over the complete and final capture of Sebastopol— the huge Northern Forts being still resolutely retained in the possession of the stubborn and unyielding Muscovites ! While as to the other scenes of conflict illustrating the prowess of the combatants during this last two years' struggle, we cannot by any means boast of them as in any essential particular in any way decisive. The Alma was glorious, no doubt, but it was so far from being a consummation that it was lite rallyonly a commenceteient. Inkerman ?—Well, we all know that was a Surprise—splendidly repulsed beyond all question—but still a Surprise. Bala 'Maya ?-that again was worse than a Surprise ; it was a Blunder—but a Blunder glorified into the Heroic by a valour of unparalleled magni ficence. Traktir:bridge or The Tchernaya—which ever it may be called—it was merely a brilliant episode. And as for the Redan—well, the failure at the Redan was just redeemed, fortunately, by the success at the Malakhoff ! At any rate, nowhere throughout all this terrible conflict of two years in the Crimea, nowhere is there discoverable for France . and_England, for Turkey and Sardinia, for Europe, for Christen dom—nowhere is there discoverable what has already - been here mentioned as the only sure basis for the building up upon it, of anything at all pretending to the gran deur and solidity of a Permanent Pacifi cation. Matchless feats of aims there have been during this War both for France and for England, and let us add too for Turkey—but not one decisive victory, not one victory that could be taken as the foundation for a lasting Peace. And therefore it is that we cannot Rejoice. Re joice ! Remembering all that has been squandered • in blood and treasures upon this deplorable be cause wholly futileand bootless struggle with a law less aggressor—rather than cause for rejoicing we can only discover in this most destructive War, and in this most despicable Peace—reason for bitter and profound lamentation ! ' While the attention of the Congress at Paris is directed to the Italian question it is more than - hinted that Austria meditates an armed occupation of Parma, in the immediate vicinity of Piedmont., Stich an act could only be regarded as a direct menace against our magnanimous and faithful ally the King of SARDINIA, that it is, in fact, in tended to avenge the disgrace which his prompti tude and fidelity to his engagements cast upon Austrian procrastination and duplicity. If this be so, and the statement possesses a vraisembtance that entitles it to consideration, it will be impos sible for France and England to abstain from affording the direct and tangible assistance to King VICTOR EMMANUEL to which he has pre eminently entitled himself ; and it may be found, as we stated on Saturday, that complications will arise to which the Eastern difficulty was compara tively a trifle. It is manife2t that Austria is by no means satis fied with the existing state of affairs—that - she had calculated' en retaining her hold on the Danubian ages for hersel a f il t d ha PrinCip a liti es, and was by no l great y . result, and it is positi ve l y deavouring to carry oat h er a t cq sh u e iring considerable advan had not fairly earned, means entitled to. She has, however, be et disappointed at the asserted th a t s h e i s en objects by isolated mo vements no less dangerous to the tr anqu illi ty of Europe than the passage of the Pruth by the Muscovite troops. She may possibly calculate on the extraordinary deference hitherto displayed on every occasion, and which she had done so little to merit, or the prevalence of that unfortunate spirit of Germanism to which we have so fre quently alluded. She may -suppose that Coburg and Belgium being made safe that she has nothing to fear from that England which has been so virulently abused by her journalists and her military men. But in these matters she may possibly reckon without her host. It is not easy to excite the English people ; but when their ilv. dignation has been thoroughly aroused it does not speedily or easily subside, and in such case no secret or unconstitutional influence, however great, could guard her against its natural consequences. The time may not be far distant when the feelings and wishes of the various constituencies may be more fully and fairly represented in Par liament than at present. A general election is "looming in the future," and we believe that when the inspiring cry of " England for the English, and not for the Germans," has been proclaimed from the hustings—when candi dates must speak out boldly and intelligibly, in order to have the slightest chance of election— the results will be such as to convince the uncon stitutional intermeddlers that they must sink back into their legitimate positions, and abstain from interference, highly prejudicial to the safety, honour, and welfare of our SOTEREIGN and her dominions, and very dangerous to themselves, and to those whom they fancy they can shield from the natural consequences of their own misconduct. Nothing is more objectionable to the English People, nothing should be more so to the FrenCh EMPEROR than foreign interference in the internal affairs of an independent State. Had it been attempted in France Louis NAPOLEON might have held a situation very different indeed from that which he now occupies. If the present Congress be anything better than a conspiracy of crowned heads against popular liberties, such armed intervention should be expressly and unequivocally prohibited, and every nation should be allowed to arrange its domestic affairs and all relating to its internal government, with out the presence of foreign troops striving to con trol and smother the voice of public opinion. Now military occupation is the favourite specific of Austria, she fancies that it is the panacea for every disease, and that as she was enabled to rivet the chains on the gallant Magyars by the assistance of Cossack hordes, without which they would speedily have shaken off the detested yoke, she may in like manner crush liberty in every neighbouring state. We have already seen that she regards Italy as completely her own, its nominal Princes as her mere satraps—We witnessed last year,the course adopted in Tuscany, which completely ignored the claim of the so-called Grand Duke to any ves tige of independence. A similar movement to wards Parma now appears to be in contemplation. The question arises, and it is truly moment ous, is the attempt about to be made with the sanction and connivance of the Congress, or of any and which of its members ? or is it merely by Aus tria, in the hope of bullying the other members, and by a step so decided getting rid of the very distasteful topics that h a ve been introduced by the Sardinian Plenipotentiary, with, as it is as serted, the full assent and unvalified approval of Louis NAPOLEON ? We should earnestly hope that the latter may be the correct solution of the all-important problem. A short time since we should not have had the slightest hesitation on the point, or imagined for a moment that the Monarch who owed his exalted position to the suffrages of his people would for a moment tolerate the inter ference of other Sovereigns with the most sacred and inalienable privileges of a free community, viz., that of selecting the form of Government suited to their wants and wishes, and best calcu lated to develope the national . prosperity. Unfor tunately, however, there have been too many recent symptoms of undue weight being attached to dynastic considerations, and a desire to strengthen a throne founded on the popular will by the aid of despotic rulers. There are too fre quent allusions to "the Union so happily re-esta blished between Sovereigns," and far too few to the friendly and cordial feelings between the Peoples. We therefore anxiously look forward to some 'de cided demonstration that may dispel the mystery, and enable us once more to place implicit reliance on 'the Imperial Ruler of the French. Should that demonstration be in the right direction, as we fervently pray may be the case, he should abstain from any objectionable proceedings himself, and not strive to prop up any foreign power by the aid of French bayonets. He should be enabled to come into court with clean hands, and carefully remove the beam from his own eye before he endeavours to purify the vision of others. Italy cannot always be coerced —the quondam Mistress of the World cannot for ever be kept in a state of thraldom. A libera tor may arise—the oppressed nationalities may put forth their mighty, although dormant, strength, and woe to those who endeavour to resist the torrent, and render the contest one of the most formidable that has ever occurred—a War to the knife between the conflicting principles of liberty and of despotism, of civilisation and of blind and degrading barbarism. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has been used to defeats, but we question whether in his long Parliamentary eareer he has sustained one so signal as that which .erminated. the Education debate. In a house of 418 members it was decided, by a majority of 260 against 158, that the first of his long string of resolutions should not even be put to the com mittee ; for such was the meaning of the vote, that " the Chairman do now leave the chair." Such a minority has no parallel with those in which the Noble Lord so frequently found him self in his younger days. When fighting for liberal principles in a House composed of the nominees of rotten boroughs, and country squires, the smallness of his minority was then but the measure of his superiority to their Tory ignorance and prejudice. On Friday night his small mino rity did but measure his own retrogression from the English principles of self-government to those of German bureaucracy. The two leading orators of the debate, Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSTONI9, convicted him, to the satisfaction of even Conservatives themselves, of trenching most dangerously upon the dearest privileges and rights of Englishmen. Vain were the attempts of foes and friends, as well as his own, to rescue him from utter defeat. First he threw away all the more offensive resolu tions, retaining only those which appointed the regiment of sub-inspectors, and gave power to form school districts. Hereupon Mr. HENLEY compassionately offered to withdraw his motion, and to allow the comparatively harmless first re solution to pass. This resolution, it will be re membered, only asserted that it was " expedient to extend, revise, and consolidate the minutes of the Committee of Privy Counsel on Education ;" Mr. H. admitted that there was neither much harm nor much good in this. Just before the decisive vote Laird PALMERSTON also came to the rescue of his old Whig colleague, but came in vain—the House would vote upon Mr. HENLEY'S resolution, and refused to endorse even the proposition designed in honour of the Privy Council. It rightly judged that it was also designed as the basis of all the subsequent mischief. It was either useless, for the committee is increasing its operations rapidly enough in all conscience, or it was mischievous by meaning more than it said. The Parliamentary grants for the committee began with 10,0001., and now have reached 451,0001. a-year, all disbursici,„ be it observed, irresponsibly by the class who used our money to such good purpose in the Crimea - ; THEATRE ROYAi., DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Snfth, THIS EVE )TI S GI, IL TROVA TORE. 1 o c. triode with TETE ENCHANTED GARDEN. THEATRE ROYAL, HIYMARKET. ITzlor the Management of Mr. Buckskins. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. After which, LEND lIE FIVE SIIILLINGIS To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL PRI.NcESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHAzaze Eime. THIS EVENING, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. • To be followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. Goose at Home Again. ROYAL OLYWPIC THEATRE. Lessee and ManaTer, Mr. Alfred Wigan. TEM EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEE?. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - GRAND N AVAL REVIEW at SPITHEAD, on WEDNESDAY, 23d April, 1856. —Arrangements have been made for two of the Com pany's splendid Steamers to leave Folkestone for Spithead at 10 o'clock on Tuesday evening, the 22d April, returning from Spithead after the Review on Wednesday. 23d April. Fares (rail and boat) to Spithead and back from London and any of the South-Eastern stailway Company's principal steamers, 425. As the acco nmodation will necessarily he limited, an early appli cation for tickets N requested. Every possible comfort will be pro- vide/ on beard. Tickets can be had at the Company's Oflices, 40, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, and 147, Cheapside, and at the London bridge Terminus. C. W. EBORALL, Manager. April 14, 1856. SOUTH-W E STERN RA ILW AY.—The VAUXHALL sTATION will be again °PEI.= for Passim- - ger Trails TO-MORROW MORNING (Tuesday). By ordor. - • Railway Offices, Waterloo St a tion, 14th Aprll, 1856. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- It Is respectfully announced ths.t her MAJESTY'S THE ATRE Will RE , OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest hive been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used to make the arrangements worchy of the eeeaaiou. - The prospectus will shortly be issued. Followed by Rt GAUBIBINO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. Ttf Which PEREA NENA and theSpanlsh Dancers rill appear. THE..4.TRE ROYAL ADELPHL Probriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madams Celeste. THIS EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. Messrs. B. Brebiter, - Wright, P. Bedford. C. Selby, Garden ; Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. To conclude with JACK AND THE BE AN STALK ; or, Harlequin and Mother After which will be produced a New and d , subly-moral, though xcesslvely old, Melodramatic Fairy* Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRI NICESS ; or, the Three Glass Distaffs. Ii which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston, and Miss Masked will appear. z,BE SUN, LONDON,_ MONDAY EvENJNO.,. APRIL 14,_1856c the winter before last. The result was an over whelming defeat. There was hardly one of the resolutions which was not the subject of deservedly hostile criticism, but the grand points of attack were the compul sory rating and attendance, and the religious teaehing. What, evidently stung his Lordship more than anything else was the evident leaning of Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSTONE to voluntaryism. He taunted Sir JAMES as he did Lord STANLEY in the Church-Rate debate, with the logical bearing of their argu ments, if carried out, against all religious State Establishments. His Latter-Day Saint ship seems specially concerned to upheld what bishops and statesmen now begin somewhat to tremble for. Church Rates and the Crown, he thinks, must stand or fall together ; yet even Tory speakers repeated the argument which was employed frequently in the debate—that an edu cation rate, with religious teaching in the schools, would increase the intolerable contests by which Church Rates are so injuriously distinguished, and with even greater bitterness, this rate being a new infliction., Sir JAMES and Mr. GLADSTONE both avowed their concurrence with Mr. MILNER GIBSON in his position—that "a compulsory rate and secular education must go together." They both also strongly asserted their opinion that such a rate would be the "death-warrant of voluntary education." ~~ A somewhat careful attention to this long de bate inclines us decidedly to agree with the two statesmen we have just referred to. We have had occasions enough of difference with them, but in this debate they appear to have been inspired afresh by the spirit ofFree Trade. They reasoned not as special pleaders, in which character they have appeared so much of late, but with the freshness of cleared up doubts and decided conviction. Of late both have been in opposition to the better instincts of the country, but now they were the advocates of that personal freedom, and those self governing arrangements which are so dear and so natural to Englishmen. Lord JOHN was spread ing a continental—a German net for the nation, they were tearing it to pieces before the eyes of those whom it was designed ultimately to enfold. The evidence adduced to prove that the nation was advancing rapidly to as high a state of edu cation as that of any country was quite conclu sive. It is needless to weary our readers with statistics, but partisans only, we think, can now refuse to acknowledge that voluntary education is doing its work with such extraordinary rapidity, that it were madness in a Statesman to hazard in terference with it. What the Council of Educa tion are now doing is the utmost limit to which Government aid can be carried without endanger ing spontaneous exertions. Indeel, authentic evi dence is adduced of its having already induced wealthy subscribers to lessen their subscriptions. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON asserted that the " ques tion to be decided was whether England should be educated or not." We beg to differ entirely from the worthy member—it was not " whether" but " how." All agree in the desirableness of 'universal education ; but the majority, we be lieve, of thinking persons, are becoming aware, that education can no more be healthily forced than trade and commerce. An artificial unifor- , mity of school attendance and lesson-learning might be attained by taking a lesson from Prussia or Austria, but an Englishman who cannot read a word is generally a nobler fellow than the duly trained German. He has a courage, an indivi duality, and above all a self-reliance and hatred of Government interference with his freedom, which raises him fax above the ignoble races drilled by the schoolmasters and police of despots. Contrast the English peasant and the German bauer duriug the Russian War, and who does not feel proud of even the illiterate part of his counttymen. One fundamental objection to Lord Joules whole scheme is that it must end in universal compulsion of parents to educate their children, and that Englishmen will not be compelled by Lord JOHN, or by any of their Lordships. It proposes at once to enforce on agricultural employers of labour, as on manufacturers, the education of their children. One is, of course, as equitable as the other ; but Lord SHAFTESBURY worked his philan thropy through the hatred of landlords to manu facturers, and the latter were thus made to edu cate their children. There certainly ought, on the same grounds, to be inspectors entering farm houses, and country gentlemen's seats and model farms, examining all the children employed in connection with agriculture ; but, as Mr. GLAD STONE observes, one qualification for such inspectors ought certainly to be "robustness," and even then the vicinity of the pump and the horsepond would have to be carefully avoided. To all compulsory pro jects, except as applied to some devoted class, one answer is sufficient--" We were born in England, not in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha." There are coinci dences, certainly, which have no casual connec tion, but it is a singular fact that from the time the Whig Ministry introduced his Royal Highness to her MAJESTY, Lord J. RUSSELL has declined more and more from the liberal measures of his earlier days. Whether it was that he took fright at his own Reform Bill, or that he had reached the Conservative age, or that the Bishops seduced him, or that German Courts impregnated his policy with their own, it is not easy to say. Per haps all these causes co-operated. Certain it is that the Lord J. RUSSELL of the Test and Cor poration Acts is now behind Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord STANLEY, and frequently be hind more extreme Conservatives. His Royal Highness Prince Albert will, it is said, pay a short visit to Paris in the course of the summer. The object of the Prince Consort's visit will be to represent her Majesty at the baptism of the Imperial infant son of the Emperor and Empress of France. The Cunard steamer Persia was announced yesterday with 117,0001. from New York, and is stated to have performed the passage in 9 days, 12 hours, and 7 minutes, being six hours less than'the fastest ever made. The following hoax appears in La Palma, a Cadiz paper :—" Most people will, doubtless, be surprised at learning that the celebrated English Minister, Lord Pal merston, contemplates retiring into private life, and fixing his future residence at San Lucar-de-Thrrameda. We learn on,good authority that a negociation is going OD for the purchase of a magnificent property, on which the opulent lord intends settling with his family, and where he hopes to spend the last days of his agitated and cele brated existence amid the perfume of orange groves and under the shade of gigantic olive trees." CABINET CouNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, th e Earl of Harrowby, Sir ' G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labou chere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood,,the Right Hon. R. V. Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat four hours. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.— An account of the public income and expenditure for the year ended the 31st ult. gives the total receipts at 65,704,4901., and the total disbursements at 88,428,3451., leaving a defi ciency, or excess of expenditure, amounting to the enor mousesuin of 22,722,8541. Of the receipts the sum of 21,788,7701. accrued from Customs, 16,636.6691. from Excise, 6,894.307/. from stamps, 2,953,6261. from taxes, 14,814,7561. from the income tax, 1,171,696/ 4 from the Post-office, 281,515/. from Crown lands, 527,3771. from sale of old stores, 472,0291. from miscel, laneous receipts, and 98,471/. from unclaimed dividends: Of the expenditure, 28,112,8241. went towards the in terest and management of the public debt, 1,723,4191. to the charges on the consolidated fund, and 5 8,592,1001. to the supply services, including 17,395,059/. for the army, 19,654,5851. for the navy, 10,411,5431. for the Ordnance, 4,200,0001. for the vote of credit. (add itional expenses, war with Russia), and 6,930,912/. for "mi ll .. cellaneous civil services." The balance in the Exchequer oA tho,3lst Mar.;l4 1856, amounted to 5,600,6214 LATEST NEWS. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We Lave received the following telegraphic message from Trieste : TRIESTE, MONDAY. The steamer Australia arrived this morning from Alexandria in 114 hours. The Indian Mail left Alexandria on the 9th inst., with dates from Calcutta, to the 10th, and Bombay the 19th of March. Oude was quite tranquil. Trade dull. Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. 2id. Lord Dalhousie arrived at Suez on the 2d, and left Alexandria by the Caradoe on the 7th inst. It is confidently expected that the ratification, by the Sultan, of the treaty of the 30th of March, will be forwarded from Constantinople by the packet, which will sail on the 16th inst., and may therefore be looked for at Paris about the 26th or 27th. • HAMBURG, APRIL 13. The last of the English men-of-war passed the Belt yesterday. Austria has agreed to evacuate the Danubian Principalities within a short period from the rati fication of the treaty of peace. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur contains the following :--" Last evening the Emperor gave a banquet to the mem bers of the Congress in the Hall of Marshals at the Tuileries. All the Members of the Congress had been in vited, together with the Foreign Ministers, the Cardinals, the Ministers of the Emperor, the Marshals, the Presidents of the great bodies, the high Officers of the Crown, the Ambas sador of France at London, the Governor of the Invalides, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, the Grand Referendary of the Senate, the Senators, Deputies High Functionaries of the State, and the chief Civil and Military Officers of the Emperor's household. The Emperor had on his right his EXcellency Lord Clarendon, and on his left his Excellency Count Buol. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon sat facing the Emperor. He had on his right his Ex cellency Count Orloff, and on his left his Highness Ali Pacha. Towards the end of the dinner his Imperial Ma jesty pronounced with a firm and emphatic voice the following. words : "I, propose a toast to the union so happily re established between the sovereigns. May it be lasting ; and it will be so if it reposes always on right and justice, and on the true and legitimate interests of the peoples." These words were received with unanimous cries of " Long live the Emperor 1" Alter the banquet the Emperor passed into the saloon before the Hall of the Throne, and the as sembly remained until ten o'clock. During the banquet the band of the Guides and the choirs of the Conservatory performed alter nately some pieces of instrumental and vocal music. The following circular has been addressed by the Minister of War to the Generals commanding the military divisions and sub-divisions : " PARIS, April 1, 1856. General,—l invite you to take mea , ures to prevent the departure of the officers and soldiers belonging to the Airily of the East who are now in France. At the ex piration of their leave of absence you will order them to join the depots of their respective corps, or grant them a prolongation of their leave, which will enable them to await, in their families, the return to France or to Al geria of their corps. (Signed) " The Minister of War, VAILLANT." Boußsz, April 12.—The following were the last quotations _ Cash. fr. a. End of Month. ti per Cents 93 —f. —c. . per Cents 73 30 • 73 90 New Loan 73 70 Bank Shares 3,723• Roman Credit Mobilier 1,750 Au s t r i an Belgian Five 5......., -- Spanish Threes,..,„ Piedmord.ev (5)...... 93 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS -40s CABE. _ fr. c. fr. c Orietn. (ad) 1,385 Western.... .... . (ad) 895 Nortbern ......... 1,015 Strasburg 1,035 Lyons..' . 1,315 -- New Ditto BBO hieditorranean 1,725 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BlO Take . . • 720 Catto RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg journals of the sth inst. publish the following official notification of the Minister of Finance :—" The treaty signed at Paris on the 18th (30th) of March re-establishes between Russia on the one hand, and France, Great Britain, Sardinia, and Turkey on the other, the relations of peace which had been interrupted, by war. Our commercial relations with the said Powers who were at war with us being, consequent upon this event, equally re-established on the ancient footing, their ships of commerce will, henceforth, again be freely admitted into our ports in like manner as vessels under the Russian commercial flag will, as heretofore, be freely admitted into the ports of the said Powers. The Minister of Finance makes the ' above officially known t o commerce. " The official journal adds :—" On the 23d of March (4th of April), the Emperor deigned to authorise from that day the free exportation from the Empire to foreign countries of every species of grain, according to the reguatiens previously esta blished." FINLAND. A correspondence in the Pays states that the Czar lately declared publicly to the president of the Senate of Helsingfors that it was his intention shortly to convoke the General Assemby of Fin land. In the treaty signed at Frederiksham in 1809, by which Finland was definitively annexed to Russia, it was declared that this province should continue to enjoy its old constitution, and that a general assembly should be held, as of right every five years, for the purpose of consi dering , such' questions of general interest as it might be for the benefit of the country to bring under the notice of the Emperor. Notwith standing the positive stipulations of this conven tion, the national assembly has never been con voked but once, and that was so long ago as 1811. The Finnish provinces have been in many respects better treated other parts of the Russian empire, but the Czars have hitherto steadily refused to convoke the national assembly. THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, April 12.—We learn from Kiel that the linperieuse, Euryalus, and Pylades, screw frigates, with the Harrier corvette, and two other small vessels, have left this port on their return to England. The Stockholm Aftonbladet of the 6th mentions that from letters received from the frontiers of Finland the Finnish peasantry were suffering much from the great pressure felt in consequence of the vast number of troops quartered upon them. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated April 12, announces th a t G enera l Zabala Minis ter for Foreign Affairs, had arrived at Valencia, at half-past one o'clock en the same day. Public tranquillity had not again been disturbed, and it was thought that General Zabala would have inflict exemplary punishment in some cases in order to prevent a repetition of the disorders. The disturbance was more serious than has been stated, and the hesitating manner in which General Villa longa is said to have repressed it at the cora- Meneement gave encouragement to the insurgents. It is believed that Carlist agency has had some thing to do with the outbreak, and not Carlist agency alone. I have not heard of disturbance in any other town. By news from Malta, of the 9th, we learn there had , been great disturbances at Doniah. The Christians had claimed the Sultan's protection. General Williams is to be entrusted with the survey and regulation of the Asiatic frontier. France has proposed a treaty of commerce with Siam. The Hereditary Prince, Ferdinand, of Denmark, uncle of the reigning monarch, has taken the oath of fidelity to the Constitution of the country, before the Council of State. No decision has yet been come to on the proposi tion of the 11 Holsteiner Deputies, although two days 6f violexit discussion have taken place in the Supreme Council of the kingdom. AMERICA. 'LIST ERPOOL, SATURDAY. By the arrival of the United States mail steam ship Ericsson, Captain Lowber, and. the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Persia, Capt. C. H. E. Juelkins, we have received our files and advices to the 2d inst. The Ericsson sailed front New York on the 29th ult., and brought eight passengers, but no specie. The'Persia brought 217 passengers, and $584,642 in specie. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain G. Eldridge, arrived at New York at noon on the 2d inst. The Persia passed the Asia, hence for New York, on the 3d inst. These vessels bring no news of the missing steamer Pacific. The Emeu, screw steamer, arrived at. Boston on the 20th, and at New York on the 286 h ult. An arrival at Provincetown reports that the Cunard steamer Curlew, from Halifax for Bermuda, ran ashore on the North Breaker, off the latter port, at four o'clock on the morning of the 18th ult., and sunk in three minutes. The crew saved their lives, but the mails were lost. The screw steamer Arctic arrived at New York, on the 29th ult., after a cruise of 49 days, in search of vessels in distress. She experienced a succession of heavy gales, but met with no vessels requiring assistance. The ship Caravan arrived at New York from Liverpool, brought 456 passengers, all bound to locate among the Mormons. There was one wed ding, three births, and two deaths during the voyage. FrOm California we have advices per Illinois to the sth ult., and 1,261,272 dols. in specie. The in telligence is unimportant. The Indians were con tinuing their depredations in tha northern section of the State. The trial of A. A. Cohen—Adams and Co.'s receiver—was going on in San Francisco, and some missing account books, which the prosecution reqUired, had been fished up from the * bottom of the bay. The gold deposits in the San Francisco Mint during the months of January and February were 234,556 ounces, and the coinage during the same time amounted to $2,405,654, which is an increase over the coinage during the corresponding period in 1855 of $839,025. Rumours of a new filibustering expedition, to be directed against the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, were afloat in San Francisco. An active business has been done in staple articles, but money continues tight, which caused some considerable running about among the merchants on steamer day. In the Oregon and Washington territories the Indians had been comparatively quiet, but fears were entertained of fresh outbreaks. The people of Oregon had become very much excited against General Wool for the course he had pursued, and the Legislature had adopted a memorial asking for his immediate removal. By way of Francisco we learn that the ship Ade line, of Boston, from Valparaiso for San Blas, Mexico, sprung a leak, and put into Tres Marias Islands in distress, on the 20th December. Having lost a boat in the surf, she was boarded by a Mexi can war schooner, and her commander, Captain Wood, made prisoner. The vessel, with her crew, were subsequently brought into San Bias, where they lay until' January 20, and was in the mean time robbed of her cargo. The B r iti s h f r i ga t e :President,it is stated, looked on, but did not in terfere. From Costa. Rica we learn that the people ex pected General Walker would invade the territory and seize upon Punta Arenas, which he hoped to destroy. British, French, and Americau aid are invoked against him by the Panama papers. By way of New Orleans we have news from Vera Cruz to the 22d ult. The Government forces had blockaded Peubla. Tamariz had proposed a surrender, but Comonfort would not accept the terms offered. An Acapulco correspondent, under date of March 10, states that General Comonfort had 11,500 men and 80 pieces •of artillery with him when he left for Puebla. The forces at Tamariz do not amount to more than 3,000 men. Uraga and his officers were to be sent to Acapulco for safe keeping. Ge neral Alvarez is livinc , quietly at his ranche, a short distance from that place. -COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The money market at New York was active in consequence of the calling in of loans by brokers. The supply, however, was abundant at 7 per cent. on call. A moderate business was transacted in stocks, and the market generally was firm. Exchange on London, 109 g to 1091 ; Paris, 5.181 to COTTON.—The market was active with sales of 5,000 bales, chiefly in transitu, based upon mid dling Uplands, at about 101 c. FREIGHTS.—There was more corn offering for Liverpool, and about 70,000 bushels were engaged chiefly at Bd. and Bid., in bulk and bags, and 7,000 do. by a British vessel was engaged at 74d. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 13, The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato, Capt. Woolley, arrived this afternoon at four o'clock, from the West Indies, with the usual mails in charge of Lieut. Hay, Admiralty agent. On her homeward voyage the Atrato experienced westerly winds, and for three days strong winds from N.W., with much sea. The latest dates brought by the Atrato are : Nassau, March 15 ; Grey Town, 21 ; Santa Martha, 23 ; Colon, Demerara, Trinidad, and Grenada, 25 ; Carthagena, Jamaica, and Barbadoes, 27 ; Jacmel, 28 ; Antigua, St. Kitt's, Nevis,' and Montserrat, 29 ; Porto Rico, 30 ; and St. Thomas, 31, six p.m. She brings 86 passengers, amongst whom are the following : From Jamaica.—Lieutenant Swinburne, R.N., H.M.S. Daring ; Lieut. Murphy and Dr. Thomp son, and wife, Ist West India Regiment ; Mr. Jos. Francis, Mr. Anderson, Mrs. Sanguinetti, Mrs. Bridge, and the Rev. G. and Mrs. Millsome. From Barbadoes.—Mr. H. Loneg, R.N., surgeon, H.M.S Vestal. , From St. Vincent—J. Beresford, Esq." and servant. From Demerara. Messrs. Brenner, Horn, Stuber, Brice, Wilson, &c. From St.' Thomas—Signor Corvaia, Venezuelan Minis ter to France and Holland, and Messrs. Bushby, Grogan, Hjardamaal, Knight, Sze. -The Atrato brings on freight $211,848 in silver and $433,240 in gold dust and gold in bars, 198 serous of cochineal, 5 serons of indigo, jewellery to the value of 771., 11 barrels of bees'-wax, 423 bales of bark, 27 cases of plants, 6 bales of tobacco, 11 cases of succades, and 1 bale of sarsaparilla. STATIONS OF H.M. SHIPS.--At Grey Town, H.M.S. Hermes and Eurydice; at Barbadoes, Mariner and Vestal ; at St. Thomas, Medea ; at Jamaica, Imaum, Arachne, and Daring ; at Ha vanua station, Powerful; Arab, Espiegla, Buzzard, and en route from Jamaica, Termagant and Argus. En route to Bermuda L ßoscawen. STATIONS OF THE COMPANY'S SHIPS.—The Te viot, Capt. Moir, St. Thomas, refitting •, the Der went, Capt. Reeks, St. Thomas • the Dee, Capt. Woolcott, Spanish Main ; the Clyde, Capt. Parker, Gulf of Mexico ; the Conway, Capt. Lewis, St. Thomas ; the Eagle, Capt. Hole, Barbadoes; the Solent, Capt. Jellicoe, St. Thomas ; the Wye, Capt. Leeds, St. Thomas, refitting. JAMAICA. We have received advices from this island to the 26th ult. There is but little intelligence to com municate. The island is generally healthy, and business brisk. Mining intelligence is favourable. Exchange on London is quoted at 90 days per cent. prem. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. ;30 days, 1 per cent. Intelligence had been received of the destruction of the American steamer Osprey, by fire, near the Palisadoes, on the 25th ult., belonging to the New Grenada Canal and Steam Navigation Company, then lying off the wharf of Messrs. Fink() and Co. BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 12. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Tay, Captain George Bridges, with the usual Brazilian and River Plate mails, in charge of Lieut. Bolton, R.N., arrived this morning at nine o'clock. The Tay, during the voyage homewards, expe rienced very strong N.B. trades from the Line to Tenerife. The Tay brings diamonds, 61,5601. ; and on I freight, 1021 barrels tapioca, five cases plants, 78 packages samples, 95 serons ipecacuanha, &c. The Tay brings mails from the following places with their respective dates affixed :—Buenos Ayres, March 3d ; Monte Video, 6th ; Rio de Janeiro, 16th; Bahia, 20th; Pernambuco, 22d; St. Vincent, :31st; Teneriffe, April 4th; Madeira, sth; Lisbon, 8 th . `The Tay brings 94 passengers to Southampton, and landed 16 at Lisbon. Amongst them are : Madame Charton (prima donna of the Italian Opera at Rio, after concluding an engagement of two years) - ; Captain La Picarde, Imperial French navy ; Lieut. St. John, late flag-lieutenant to Admiral Johnson, H.M.S. Indefatigable ; and Lady Gilbert, from Madeira. w mcK ,—The British ship Canada was reported at Lisbon as being seen by the Madrid dismasted. SHn's OBSERVED OR SPOKEN WlTEL—March 27, Royal Mail Shipping Packet Company's vessel the Avon, bound to Rio; 30, Portuguese screw-steamer the Donna Maria Segunda, out 20 days, for Rio. •• H.M. AND OTHER ►qslPs.—At Rio, the Express, - - Madagascar, Rifleman, and Spy; American, Sayan' nab; French, Capricieuse, and Thisbe. At Babido H.B.M. sloop Siren. H.B.M. sorew-steama Trident had sailed a few days previous from Per nambuco. At Lisbon, H.B.M. Blenheim. IRELAND. -~--- DUDLIN, SATURDAY EVENIVO. MR. JUSTICE KEOGH. Tho Right Hon. William Keogh has been swell in before the Lord Chancellor as one of her 31 3 " jesty's Justices for the Court of Common Pleas , Mr. Keogh is one of the youngest judges by sow° years who has ever sat on the judicial bench i° Ireland. He was born in the year 1817. M t :: Richard M'Kevin, solicitor, has been appointed lug registrar. THE MYSTERIES OF ROOKWOOD-HOUSE. Under this head one of the Dublin papers ftlF . nishes the following sketch of some of the mat ) incidents in the eventful life of the late Salt Kelly. It may be mentioned here that all kind' of rumours have been current since yesterday re' specting the testamentary disposition of the pro" perty of the ill-fated woman ; but as some of the stories carried with them an air of almost startling improbability, there would be no use in making further reference to them, especially as the roe' facts must be known before the lapse of n 2 3 01 days:— " Mrs. Sarah Kelly, a lady of great wealth, residial on her estates in Galway, went out, to walk in h er , grounds on Tuesday last, accompanied her nephew', two persons, respectably dressed as females, in bleat bonnets and veils, walked up to her, desired the nephew ; Cr move out of the way, and shot her dead through the bead' The assassins then escaped. Such is all that the world knows of a murder, dark, hideous, and mysterious as 04 which the chambers of Stamboul, the quays of Venice , or the midnight streets of Paris could reveal. 1311 . t1 strange and mysterious a s h as b een the d eat h o f tine lady, it is only when viewed in connection with her past life that it is se en i n it s true li g h t ; that death so a wful , so unparallel e d i n it s c i rcumstance, closed a life o f al' most fabulous incident and change ; it terminated * career such as no novelist has ever dreamed of pa' traying. Sarah Kelly was born at Broadstairs, * watering place on the coast of Kent, where her fath er kept an inn. At thi s i nn, abou t 50 years ago , A * young Irishman, na me d M ere d yt h , t h e h eir o f a h a some estate and a b arone t cy , was sojourning. rt beauty of the innkeeper's (laughter attracted the notice of young Meredyth, and he devoted himself but too successfully to the task of h er conques t . Mi ss Birc h —for that was her name, fled with her admirer to the Land of the West,' where she in due time presented him with a too convincing token of attachment. Lo!' has been said to fly at sight of humeri ties ;' ra this case his light wings spread for sant of them . Meredyth, the betrayer, abandoned his victim and h er infant, under circumstances of desertion so beardess as to induce a Dublin jury subsequently to award * I sum of 3,000/. as damages in an action brought agald e , him for her seduction. The trial took place about 1814 and elicited the forensic art and eloquence of some of the most distinguished advocates of the time. Over the nel_: succeeding chapters of Mi ss Bi rc h' s lif e we d es i re t o par , with as little detail as p oss ibl e ; s h e l e d t h e lif e o f ad' venture and difficulty, of e rror an d s h ame, into wil lo • her previous mi s f or t une an d h er b eauty had, el might almost say, driven her. Mr. Edmund Kelp' gentleman, of Merrion-square, an elderly widower, land agent, solicitor, miliionnaire, became acqualdr, i• with her ; she gave up h er city l i fe, and became 'id housekeeper ; subsequently, it appears, his wife, e ‘ ll .. mistress of Rook woo d-h ouse, county of Galway. k`; Kelly had a daughter by his first wife, but she had do appeared. He had, however, relations who expected t * , divide at his dec ease th e enormous wealth, estimate d at 300,0001. to 500,0001., of which he was the possessor; Miss Birch was not as yet k nown, or, at any rate, de., ecognised as Mrs. Kelly. She was, however, moat 0 01 duous in her attentions to the old man, who every dal, grew more weak, more eccentr i c, an d , it i s said, Izer imbecile. Strang e s t or i es were to ld of h i s last day` ; how the idea haua led him that he should die of bulle t. ; how his watchful mi s t ress , w if e, nurse, or gaoler—w hi ch soever she was—had hi s b e d room h ung round w i t h ea t' ables of every description, stories of a deathbed marrisif e r s of a deathbed will ; b u t h ow much of all this was tram and how much f able can never be satisfactorily &see r. tained. Mr. Kelly died ; Miss Birch claimed the reel nition of her positi on as hi s w id ow, and produce d a 911,1 entitling her to a ll th e property, real and persona l r w: the late owner of Rookwosd•house. His nearest 0 1* tive, an elderly maid en l a d y name d T hewles, den i e d the validity of the will ; her m eans were s li g ht , but her claim was strong—at l eas t so thought her friends, 9 / 9s advanced her the money sufficient to prosecute her suit at law. The action must be fresh in the I.r collection of our readers, so we do not ncei to e: t its curious details. Miss The ales had a vend ; in her favour. M rs . K e ll y appea l e d from the e s Court of Delegat es , b u t now o ff ers o f money fieel plentifully upon Miss Thewles ; offers of matriniot came also ; she accented one that of her confidential sod cttor. lie KAI not as successful for his wife as be been for his client; the verdict in favour of Miss Thew", was totally set asid e by t h e l ate Chancellor Blackball" in an able judgment upon Miss Kelly's application for l e Court of Review. Mrs. Kelly DON set out to enjoy b e t wealth ; she resid e d i n M err i on - square. One day a Puv_n• woman with two little children by the hand pulled tb, bell, and hu m bly as k e d t h e powdered and gold- l a ce d footman to bear his mi s t ress a no t e ; t h ere was no awes. She called a g ai n an d o ft en , an d as often tur n ed wearily and dejectedly away. It was the daughter e t a the late Edmund Kelly, w h o was begging a mo rsel t e e all her father's wealr.h. What a history -w ashers! had been brought up with the fondest parental care; "- had been placed at a first-rate boarding -school in Cliftede in England, where no less than 3001. a-year.was f ol* her. When her father married secindly she we° I "; moved to an inf er i or sc h ool at Bath, and her allowa n ce gradually reduced. After many trials and vicissitud e ; chiefly caused by fa '.e inicrmation as to her father s death, she was at length abandoned, with two children; by a profli gate v ill a i n, who had married her under a, pretenc e of b e i ng b ar f ather ' s agent. She contrive d to eke out a livelihood for herself and children as agoverne until she agai n marr i e d a M r. Morton. She had hea rd of her father's death, and of his extraordinary will, 011 of Miss Thewl es ' s ac ti on, an d she came across tl ire; land, to see if Mrs. Kelly would not help her io sordi way. Mre s Kelly had a confidential solicitor, 1 3 DT I h e Birch ; she called him h er nep h ew ; others said a was a nearer relativ e s till. Thi s M r. G eorge B i rc h toe t the applicant that his aunt would do nothing for her, bu that he would do something; he made vile proposals Is her—and worse. H er h us b an d , M r. M orton, brougslid. 9 an action for assault, a n d o bt a i ne d d amages 200 1 , an d costs, against Mr. Birch. "The wealth of Edmund Kelly seemed to rest nev e / as if it were fated to be the prolific source of strife o 'l 4 contention, a curse and not a bl ess i ng. Mrs. 10'14 drove up in great h as t e one d ay t o a police office in t he city, and applied fo r a warran t aga i nst her nepberil George Birch, who bad a b scon d e d with 200,0001. ! was arrested on board the steamer, leaving England fo r the continent, but on b e i ng b roug ht b ac k not on l y a te his trial, but challenged a prosecution —none was presee_ a " we believe ; matters were settled. The last appeared 7 of Mrs Kelly in the law courts was as defebdant, sue by the police sergeant who arrested Mr. Birch, for the reward of 5001. which, it was alleged,. she had offered' Since then she has resided principally on her e states T Galway, where s h e h as b een t h us b ar b arously ass ool. nated. The attempt to divert the public from the ti" scent, by the idea of the murder being of an agrarl s nature, has been a sign a l f a il u r e . 811, save a f e w pe , sons who could not b e ex p ec t e d to f orego on any posse' ble occasion a war•ho w l aga i ns t th e I r i s h peasantry , r e' cognise in this my s t er i ous mur d er a fi nale to this lilt extraordinary history, connected with and spring.'" from circumstances in her career and position, far differ' ent from what the assassins inteade 1 to suggest." THE TIPPERARY BANK. A notification from the Master in Chancery int mates that he will proceed on Monday, the 28w inst., to settle the list of contributories to the Tir perary Bank. After such lists shall' have been settled, the Master further intimates that no pet" son affected thereby will be allowed to - dispute the same without the leave of the Court of Chance* THE CONTEST FOR ATHLONE. At 11 o'clock to-day the Hon. Captain Handcock was 11 ahead of Mr. Ennis, and two hours later the Derbyite maintained th e fi rs t p l ace , a l t h o ug h ! his majority was lesse ne d b y one vote. At tha: hour the numb ers s t oo d th us :— H an d cock 80 Ennis, 70. If the estimate be correct of the tots available constituency being not more than 160, there would remain but 10 more votes to decide th• contest—if, indeed, it be not already decided . 10 ,favour of Captain Handcock, who, o f 'course, will be mainly indebted for his return t o th e suppor t o the 30 Roman Catholics who seceded from the Liberal camp. No later account has been receives up to post hour. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRITION.—The following persons of rank have recently visited this gallery to wit" ness Miss P. Horton'e popu:ar entertainment. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Dake and Duchess 0' Montrose, Lord B roug h am, t h e E ar l of &afield, Lord Macdonald, 'Lady G. Lennox, Lady Mary and Mills Saurin, the Earl of Caithness, Lady Dufferin, Sir Jag. Fergusson Lady T or rene, Lady C rau f ur d , L a d y M a o' nag hten, Sir John and Lady Campbell, Lady Langdale, Sir W. Davidson, Sir A. Burton, Sir R. Anstruther, Sir G. Bro o k e , Sir Macdonald, th e H on . R . B ur k e , Sir C. Fox, Lady Williams, Sir J. Harding, Lady Lopee Lady Young, the Hon. Mr. Vereker, Sir R. Gunning, the Hon. Col. Bruce, Sir H. Fairfax, Lady Maxwel/o Sir D. Kinloch, Lady Lyell, Sir C. Parsley, Mr. &hole' field, M.P., Sir G. Armyta,ge, &c., &c. ACCIDENT AT TRH LYCEUM THEATRE.—On Saturday as some of the workmen, who were engaged at this theatre preparing for the opera season under Mr. Gye, were fixing their ladders at the end of their day's work, the whole of the stone , coping and balustrades fell into the street with a loud crash. A man named Porter was/ standing at the time on the summit of the ooping to which be was about to make fast with a rope the upper part of the ladder. Fortunately he fell backward on the roof instead of into the street, and his fellow-workmen seeing one of his legs banging over the parapet, ascended the ladder, and brought him down happily more fright• ened than injured. The flag stones of the pavement below were split by the weight of the fall, but no one was injured. The stone work which fell' was composed of Bath stone, which is of a very brittle description. from from was pea was of $ SISE same Fi in th Jam the $2,41 that was 1 B 3 from anno wall, the ; • . Defe] Passi Th k ,~,: BRIT Bank 3 par 3 per Now', Long Dit taclia Cola( E c, Equ Di 3xi lard i Turk Tren Ault TS