The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

THE 3TRE ROYAL, DRURY.LAIgE - Les ea, ^dr. E. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA.. EVENINGI will be produced PRA. DIA.VOLO. To coiElude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. TIELITRE ROYAL, TIA.TMARKET. the Management of Mr. Bnckatone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by AL GAMBIT:3I' 7 O; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. II which PEREA. NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, GRIMSHAIV, 1 33GiTIAT, AND BRiDSRAW. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. IMAL PRII.TeitSS'S 'THEATRE. OX TORO-STREET. Under the 11mm:erne/it of {r. Claim Es SEAN. TIII4 EVENING, THE VICTOR VA".TQUISIIED. To conclude with TIIE WINTER'S TALE. Prtnalpal charactera by Ur. and Mrs. C. Kean. ROYAL THE ILTRE ADELPIH. Proprietor and Manager, air. B. Webster. Directres% Madame Co lost.. ring EVEN - MG. LIKE AND UNLIKE. Messrs. B. Webster. Wrizbt, P. Tla l ford. C. Selby, Garden; Madame Celzste, Miss Wyndham. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with TIOW's YOTIII..I3NCLE ? .ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lame and Manner. Mr. Alfred Wigan. TYM EVENING STILL w.A.Ty.lts - Rug DEEP. Followed by CA.TCTIING A AI?:RILAID. ROY V, SU itEY TIIEATRE. Lassoes, 3fes9n. Sbepherl an Creavrick. TTIF. EVENING, EOW WE LIVE IN TIIE WC:111,00F LONDON. After whieb. S YOUVCI I.N. To conelode with 'TILE TWO POLTg. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A NIP lITHFATRE. Lessee ,nd V:11.;ler. Cooke. There will be produced, on Whit-Mondav, a New and Grand .Equestrian Speetael?, with many other novelties. - THIS EVENING (ts Last Week), . Lord Byron's 3.I.,V.EPPA and the WILD HORSE. After which, LES JETIX A MUDE ArIATTUE, or Equestrian Acts in the Arena. _ To conclude with ENGLAND'S .HATIVEFIT 110MT' , , ani NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE (itslast week). Box-office open fr )m Eleven till Fonr. State Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian. Director, Mr. W. Coke, fIICxA WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. Twig Doi-.-31nrn. 51 min., aft. 4—Evrming 13 min. aft. 5 TI-UoTtwx—Horn. 35 min. an. 5 —Evenimg 1 min. aft. 6 TaE WEA.TITER—SUN OFFICE, MAT 9. THERIIOII7.,TER, IN THE SHADE. 51 —highest since noon yeztorda,y. 46 —',owogt this morning and durizg the night. M --this day at noon. BAROMETER. 30'23. WIND, N.N.E, to N.E.—Light, with dull, cloudy .w3ather. .., i.I ~ f ..,., 4. t it7 4 . ,_ ; ,,.... ) ,, :7-7H-:,... ~..,',..::,--';,,, THE SUN, LONDON, 'FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1856, . LONDON, FRIDAY, BIA.Y 9, 1856. THE NEW LOAN OF FIVE MILL lONS, ~s-- The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just issued a notice for a New Loan. It is, however, for a much smaller amount than had been antici pated. Five millions only are required, and that sum is to be - rised in 3/. per Cent. Annuities, in which term the biddings are to be made. The following' are the conditions proposed : "Downing-eree, Thursday Evening, 3la.y 8, 1856. " Gentlemen,—l request that you will make it known in the usual manner that her Majesty's Government propose to contract on Monday, the 19th of May, 1856, for a.loan of 5.000,0001. ster ling, to 'he raised in Consolidated 31. p©r Cent. Annuities. "For every 1001. subscribed in money, the contractors will receive 31. per Cent. Consolidated Annuities. The biddiugs to be made in such Annuities. " The interest on the 3/. per Cent. Consoli dated Annuities will commence from the sth of January, 1856. "The days of payment, and the proportions of the contributions to be paid, will be as follows : "On Thursday, May 22, 1856, ,a deposit of 101. per cent. "On Thursday, June 12, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. " On Saturday, Juno 28, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. "Ou Thursday, July 24, 1856, a payment of 201. per cent. "On Thursday, August 28, 1856, a payment of 101. per eetit. " On Thursday, September 18, 1856, a pay ment of 201. par cent. "For each instalment after the deposit a proportional amount of stock will be created for the contributors. The stock for the deposit will be created at the same time with that which will be duo on the payment of the last instalment. " No discount wi!l be allowed for prompt pay ment. " Scrip receipts will be issued by the Bank in the usual manner. " The biddings to be made at the Treasury on Monday morning, the 10th inst., at 10 o'clock. The biddings to be for the entire sum. " Lord Palmerston and I will be ready to re ceive, at a preliminary meeting at the Treasury, at 1 o'clock on Tuesday next, the 13th instant, any gentlemen who may be desirous of obtaining further information on the subject. " I am, Gentlemen, " Your obedient servant, " G. C. LEWIS. 44 The Governor and Deputy -Governor of tne Bank of En gi and." From this it will be seen that the instalments are to be spread over a p er i od of nearly four months—viz., from the 22d. of May to the 18th of September, while the interest commence, from'. the sth of January This is equiva lent to a bonus of 11. 12& 6d. per cent., or divi dends, for an av,trage period. of six months and ahalf.: There will be a preliminary meeting at the Trea sury on Tuesday next, at which any gentlemen desirous of obtaining further information may at tend. There can be but little doubt that the new stock will be readily taken, especially as it is for an amount so much less than had been antici-. pated. We fear, however, that it augurs badly in another rescect—that it proves that the Chancellor of the r/ X 4 chequer does not con template affording any relief during the present session to the over burdened tax payers- He has carefully avoided making an y provision for the debt to the Bank of Eng land—and setting that important item aside it is manifest that 5 ,000,000/. will not be sufficient t o " wind up " the War, bring back our troops, and provide for the supplementary expenses that must be liberally disdiarged. It is impgasiple that, Nder tlp circumstances, he can 1 ptpose New imposts,\but it is almost equally certain that he will over but little relief from the new burdens which he has created. The Income Tax will still remain in all its oppressive inequality, until April, 1858, at is. 4d. in the pound, or nearly 7 per cent. on the earnings of the industrious middle class. The increased Malt Tax will still vex the " thirsty souls," while the exorbitant Spirits Duties will stimulate the demoralising trade in illicit alcohol. Nor will any triumph be given to Teetotallers. To them the duties on Tea, Coffee, and sugar, on " the cup that cheers without inebriating," and " the corn of the tropics," will prove that the Financial Minister intends 01 to give in his adhesion to the Maine liquor law. Men of all parties will do well to consider the subject before the financial statement - is brought forward, so as to be prepared to hit " the right nail on the head," at the only moment which, according to red-tapists, will neither be too early nor too late for moving amendments in the finan cial policy of Ministers. Mr. DISRAELI will have opportunity of taking a glorious revenge. It was on this budget—far better than any since sub mitted to the country—that the DERBY Adminis tration were expelled from office. He may now produce " a Roland for an Oliver," that scattered his forces, and sent his colleagues to enjoy the sweets of private life, unalloyed by the cares and vexations of official labour. A question was last night brought under the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, on which persons of all shades and varieties of poli tical opinion could cordially and unanimously agree. Whatever differences might exist on other points, there could be none as to the zeal and effi ciency displayed by the great body of those en gaged in the different branches of her MAJESTY'S service. Whatever doubts might exist respecting the skill or activity of the commanders, whether by land or by water, there could be no difficulty as to the unflinching valour and patient endurance of the officers and men under their control and direction. Whatever they had to do, they accom plished, so far as it was practicable. Mr. DISRAELI truly remarked of the Army, that " there was hardly any variety of warfare which had not been proved during their course. There was the pitched battle—the protracted siege—the heights triumphantly gained—the heights defended with success. Throughout these campaigns, so numerous were the traits of individual heroism, such were the wonderful effects produced by the determination of the soldiers, that were we to search the most glorious annals of past wars, we should scarcely be able to find a match for the ochievements of our contemporaries." This beautiful and truthful tribute to the de voted gallantry of the men well merited the en thusiastic cheers which it elicited from all sides of the House. Officers and men had faithfully discharged the important duties confided to their charge. Whether their efforts were required at the moment of emergency, when their brethren were falling thickly on every side, and each man felt that his own fate might be the same the next minute, or whether they were suffering the most fearful privations, their conduct was still exemplary. They passed through every ordeal without stain or impeachment, and by their achievements in the field and in the trench, for dash or for patience, probably a more formidable test, have never been surpassed, if they have been equalled, by the most distinguished of their predecessors. The British soldier has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting, and an unexcep tionable witness, one whose name has become a household word in every English mouth, hap added her indisputable testimony in their favour. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the heroine par excellence of the War, says :—" I have never been able to join in the popular cry about the recklessness, - ensuality, and helplessness of the soldier. I should say (and, perhaps, few have seen more of the manufacturing and agricultural classes of England than I have before I came out here) that I have never seen so teachable and helpful a class as the army generally. Give them opportunity promptly and securely to send money hone, and they will use it. Give them schools and lectures, and they will come to them. Give them books and games of amusements, and they will leave ofl drinking. Give them work, and they will do it. Give them suffering, and they will bear it. I would rather have to do with the army than with any other class I have ever attempted to serve, and when I compare them with . . . . I am struck with the soldier's superiority as a moral, and even an intellectual, being." To add anything to this would be merely " gilding reined gold," would weaken the case we desire to support--would lesson the claims of that noble army, whose " devoted gallantry in the field—whose unflinching courage in the hour of battle, and, above all, whose patient heroism in the midst of disease and famine, and privations of every description—keeping alive, under all diffi culties and discouragements, not only the strictest discipline, but the most fearless valour and un hesitating devotion to duty—reflect more credit on them than any army ever gained before." Nor so far as the occasion allowed did our gal lant tars less distinguish themselves. They ex hibited, whenever an opportunity offered, the highest qualities of British seamen. The Union Jack, under their eharge, maintained its proud pre-eminence, anti passed through the ordeal untarnished by a single blemish. The militia also well and truly performed their duty: It was not merely that they supplied more than 33,000 volunteers to the lino, and thus fed its exhausted ranks, but wherever their services were required there they were willing to go. Not only were ten regiments employed on foreign service, but thirty-seven more tendered their aid, as they would have done in the Crimea itself, if occasion required, and they were per mitted to have exhibited their zeal and gallantry in the face of the enemy under arduous circum stances. If we have not alluded more particu larly to the Marines, the Naval Brigade, and others engaged in the contest, it is not from want of due appreciation. There cannot be a higher tribute of praise than that they well and faith fully discharged their respective duties, and that Will b e accorded to each and all, not merely by the v o t es of both Homes of Parliament, but by the co r di al and unanimous concurrence of the entire People; by all, from the Peer to the Pea sant, kern the millionnaire to the humble opera tive who earns his daily bread by his daily labour. The parties chiefly affected by tho oversights of Lord CLARENDON are alre a d y astir. Repudiated Circassia and threatened Belgium have both spoken. In the Belgian Chambers the excite =tent was very considerhble. In reply to questi ons, the Foreign Minister stated , that he had not y e t received official information of the language adopted by the Plenipotentiaries at. Paris respecting the Press of his country, but that "when that com munication did take place the answer would be toady; and would be communicated to all Govern ments, firmly maintaining the rights of an inde pendent and constitutional country." He also stated that no Power bad ever asked for any alte ration of the Belgian laws relating to the Press. There was immense cheering and enthusiasm at hearing these announcements. It is to be hoped that the manifest unpopularity of Count WA LEWSKf S audacious language, and of the Pretocol so unhappily signed by Lord CLARENDON, will deter the Count and his Master from attempting in France to make laws for Belgium. It is impossible to repress astonishment at the principal parties implicated. That Austria and Prussia should be ready for any attack on real liberty creates no surprise, but that Louis NAPOLEON should imagine England would allow her own greatest institution to be suppressed, where it exists in any other country by external coercion, is truly surprising. If the French think a NAPOLEON on the Throne a consolation for a gagged Press, let him remember that Belgium has no such indemnification. A COBURG and a free Press may be a fair compromise, but a COBURG and a Press under the laws of France would be unendurable. We must do LEOPOLD, however, the justice of acknowledging that we do not remember his evincing any personal hostility to the freedom of the Press. Probably he lived long enough in England to know that it is a practical convenience under a constitutional Government.. It is a ready means for any Government to ascertain the popular tendencies, and to adapt legislation to them before they be come unmanageable. But what shall we say of an exiled Pole becoming the instrument of enslav ing a free country ? and what of our own Pleni- potentiary, first asserting in his country's name the impossibility of England's uniting in an at tempt to fetter the Press of another country, yet signing Count WALEWSKI'S assertion that the "Plenipotentiaries condemned loudly the ex cesses in which the Belgian newspapers indulge with impunity, by recognising the necessity of reme dying the inconveniences which are so greatly Abused in Belgium !" How c , uld his Lordship commit this country to Count WA LEWSKI'S sum mary after his own truly English remarks ? As suredly, many things were said and done of which the Protocols tell us nothing. All England would renounce the French alliance at once rather than gee the Peace of Paris employed to put down the freedom of the Press. As we have already stated, we thick that some solemn and official declaration should go forth from this country to Belgium and Europe, that England will tolerate no interference with the Press of Belgium. Indeed Mr. GLADSTONE ;bowed at length on Thursday night that the Attempt was wholly needless. No further check but that of censorship can be introduced. Already the law of Belgium requires the Government of the country to prosecute, on behalf of any com plaining foreign potentate, while in this country, if LOUIS NAPOLEON thinks himself aggrieved, he himself must prosecute. The sore point probably is, that the case there, as here, must go before a jury ; and the Emperor of FRANCE remembers how his uncle, in the case of PELTIER, gained a verdict, but suffered infinitely more from the speech of counsel than he could have done from An obscure writer. Louts NAPOLEON does not wish to become the theme of a Belgian blAc• The Circassians, now it is too late, are also moving. They probably hal till quite recently no idea of what was going on at Paris. Seeing the forts which alone prevented their intercourse with the sea destroyed, they in their simplicity thought the powers which had caused their de struction would take good care they should never be re-established. They supposed their commerce vith Turkey and with all Europe perfectly secure for the future. Too late, however, they learned that Rassia would probably be permitted to cut them ,ff as before from the sea which washes the feet of their mountains, and by which alone they can obtain not only such common articles of commerce Ls they wish, but the supplies of warlike stores which are their chief necessity for maintain ing their freedom. We read, therefore, without urprise that their chiefs in hundreds flocked down ro Anapa, on the news of Peace, drew up an ad tress to our QUEEN, asking the recognition of the 'ndependnace of their country, and sent a depu tation of twelve of their number with it to Con stantinople. We trust that something decisive will be done. It seems clear that the Circassians have never renounced their own independence, squally clear that Turkey could never renounce it for them—the SULTAN having no authority over them but that of the religious chief of ISLAM. Unless our Government can take some efficient step at once, Russia with her wonted craft will accomplish her ends, while we are merely venting our indignation. Her troops are already moving to the Caucasus, and her probable intention is to overwhelm finally the free mountaineers, and to compensate herself in Circassia for her losses else where. Was this result connived at by the Pleni potentiaries? Was it a part of the policy of not humbling Russia ? The War is over. The War that cost some hundred and twenty millions of money ; and the only good thing it has accomplished is the libera tion of FROST, JONES, and Co., and the revocation of the sentence sf exile on SMITH O'BRIEN ! Is this worthy of our character as an economical people Is it in accordance with the principle so triumphantly vindicated at the Naval Review, when Members of Parliameat were victualled for the day's holiday excursion at seven-and-sixpence a head ? Were FROST, JONES, and Co. the only real patriots after all ? And now that patriotism can do the ruling caste no harm, is it thought politic to show a due appreciation of the virtue of patriotism in the liberation of their parsons We are accustomed to speak of patriotism as a priceless jewel. Could'nt we in this case have had more of it for the money ? A hundred and twenty millions ! Divide the sum by four, and the reader will find that gives thirty millions a-piece for FROST, JONES, and Cu. ! Never, surely, hung orient pearl so costly on the neck of beauty. Item—FaosT- 1 Welch icicle-diamond we should say-30,000,0001. Ratherstaggering to light on this in the national accounts ! JONES 30,000,000/. ! Of the five million JONES' in existence was not a jewel of equal value, a jewel quite as spotless and quite as wor th y of admiration, to be had at a somewhat lower figure —for a million say, or for a QUEEN'S shilling ? Item—Smira O'BRIEN, an Emerald of the first water, 30,000,0001. Surely a high figure for a splinter of " the . gem of the say." In the language of fast men—" Isn't this going it rayther ?" Don't let us be misunderstood ; we don't in the least complain of the revocation of the sentence of exile on these men. Nothing of the sort. They ought to have been pardoned before. Their power for evil has long been gone, and whatever they may have respectively deserved it would have accorded better with the majesty lof the country and its Sovereign to have set them free, the Welsh rioters at least, years ago, and &mu O'BRIEN the moment he stood out in such holloAmble relief to his ungentlemanly associates . in treason- and pialfairawat. What we complain of is, that for so frightful an expenditure we should only have so paltry a return 1 And yet we are going into the money market to-day to beg or borrow five millions to keep ou r credit afloat I—and that, too, with some two hun dred gun-boats all ready for action, but of no use 11010— r the War is acltch'(l— the Peace is b3tch'd ! SIGNS OF THE TIMES. While the German Jagers—the mercenary cut throats of Vaterland—are creating disturbances at Plymouth, the authorities of the good city of Exeter are intimating in a rather marked manner their patriotic disgust at the Peace of Paris. As sembled in 4101110 U to decide as to what really after all should or should not be done upon the day ordered to be set aside for Rejoicings, with squibs, crackers, pop-gun-shows, fireworks, and all sorts of absurd illuminations and trans parencies, the Mayor and Corporation of the city of Exeter resolved without one dissentient upon letting the day pass without taking any notice whatever of it ! For the ♦ery sufficient reason that the Treaty recently signed contains nothing at all in any way satisfactory to true born and right-minded Englishmen. Bravo ! say we to the Exeterites. May their bold and manly decisions exact an honourable emulation elsewhere in all parts of the United Kingdom. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, MAT 8. The Moniteur announces that M. de Morn, has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor of Russia. General Ney left yesterday for St. Petersburg. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. If the Empress's health, which is still delicate, permit, the baptism of the imperial prince will take place on the 14th June, the anniversary of battle of Marengo and of Friedland. Political arrests have lately taken place in the department of the Loire. Arms and revolutionary papers have been seized. The enemies of the exist ing Government are again active. The following telegraphic despatches have been received to-day :-- "TURIN, May 7, Evening. —The disoussion on the in terpellations to the Government has been continued to day. M. Mamiani delivered a brilliant speech in fa ♦our of the Government. Count de Cavour read the note which had been delivered to the allied Powers on the affairs of Italy, and added that the Cabinet of Turin persisted in its policy towards the Court of Rome. The deputies of the Right and Left offered their support to the Government, it circumstances should require it. The Chamber adopted an order of the day approving of the conduct of Count de Cavour." " MADRID, May 7.—The Gazette publishes the statutes of the Spanish Bank. The capital is to be 120,000,000 of rr.alci. with liberty to increase it to 200,000,000. T. greatest tranquillity prevails throughout the kingdurn: BOURSE, May B.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 75 —f. —e. 3 per Cents 74 90 75 40 New Loan 75 Bank Shares 3,950 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,815 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 97 Spanish Threes...— — Pied.montese (5) 93 Some Debt 4l THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (SECOND NOTICE.) Everything considered, we do most dispassion- ately believe the most remarkable picture in this year's Exhibition of the Paintings of the Royal Academy to be, curiously enough, No. 413—a blank in the Catalogue ! It is the production, we understand, of a young artist named Burton. Evidently a man of genius—a poet in his way, already a perfect master of colour, a►nd a most keen observer of Nature. The incident por trayed by the artist in this very notable maiden picture is but dimly indicated by the title gene rally reputed in the gallery to belong to it, namely, that simply of " The Wounded Cavalier." How powerfully the tragic interest of the scene is revealed at one glance to the spectator's imagina tion ! flow wonderfully the whole story is told by the painting itself without any need whatever of extraneous aid in the way of its elucidation The sylvan seclusion of the spot which has become the arena of so many wild and contending pas sions—how admirably that is intimated by every (even the minutest) accessory ! The furious Past and the sorrowful Future—how clearly, how distinctly, how marvellously, those are laid bare to any one's apprehension by that one agonising glimpse of the Present, which, by a masterly sense on the part of the painter at once of the pathetic and of the com plete, has been selected by him as the moment of representation ! Everything is, upon the instant, comprehensible through that single glance among the green leaves into the woodland. The be holder understands it all, in a manner, instinc tively. Understands, from the playing cards lit tered among the underwood, how the knightly gamblers have rushed forth desperately and sud denly into the adjoining coppice to fight out their wine-heated quarrel at once and to the Death. Understands from the tumbled-down stones of the boundary-wall how the victor has fled from the duel-ground, leaving his antagonist bleeding and groaning upon the green sward. Understands from the broken blade of the wounded man's sword sticking in the bark of the tree in the fore ground—the trunk of which tree, by the way, separates the picture (though not, as might be reasonably conjectured, inartistically) into two nearly equal divisions—understands, we say, from this broken sword• blade sticking in the bark of the gnarled tree in the foreground how the wounded cavalier had aimed a. last desperate blow at his opponent, and how with the hilt still clutched in his grasp of anguish, giddy with loss of blood, sick with pain, and dizzy with passion, he had staggered round to the other side of the fatal tree and had there fallen for dead among the trampled fern and brushwood. The observer understands all this, the picture tells it to him plainly : it tells him more—it tells him how the wounded cavalier must have lain some time bleeding upon the ground —j udging from the cobweb spun by the spider from the sword's point to the tree's trunk, and afterwards powdered with the liquid diamonds of the dew glittering all along the mazes of its fairy cordage ! More, even, than all this the piloting reveals to the gaze of the spectator. It tells him how the LAdye-love of the Gallant, wandering with her puritan Tutor through adjacent copse and meadow, had abruptly come, quite accidentally, upon the pale and bloodstained form of her betrothed. It shows us the beautiful maiden looking with an guish upon the face of her beloved, as she sup ports his head upon her arm so tenderly. It half discloses to us at the back of the splin tered tree, already mentioned as occupying so conspicuous a place in the composition, the gaunt figure of the round-head-school- man with his red-edged parchment-covered quarto under his arm, with no hair at all to speak of, with a broad-brimmed, sugar-loafed hat, and lan tern jaws, and the sourest and grimliestexpres- sion imaginable, and a skinny hand nervously clutched behind his back in the intensity of his suppressed emotions—!ooking on from the back ground. The loveliest little gorgeous dragon.- butterfly—(exquisite type of the " soul," just trembling upon tho lips of the expiring , ca.valier) —lit the while upon tho fatal sword•blade, snapped from the haft by the tree, and spun upon with its delicate meshes by the spider ! Alto gether it is a wonderful picture---a work of art, so true to nature, so replete with tragic interest, so abounding with manly pathos, rather than with sentimental affectation, so complete in itself as a story, so various in its contrasting characteristics of quaintness, and beauty, and passion, and repose, that we do not hesitate to speak of it as, everything considered, about the most remarkable picture in this year's Collection. It stands forth—even by the side of paintings from the easels of Hunt and Millais—as incontestibly one of the most note worthy pleas yet put forward of late years, in deprecation of the wrath of those authoritative judges of art who are most inimical to the old new school of the modern-ancients called, for want of a better title, the Pre-Raphaelites. Henceforth we shall look for great things from Mr. Burton. The public, or we are much mis taken, will do no less, when they have rendered themselves familiar with the merits of this very curious production, No. 413—" The Wounded Cavalier." Let the young artist, guided by the instincts of his own genius, so develope that ge nius wisely, and direct it sagaciously, as not to end simply where he has begun, and so to dis appoint the popular expectations. Another very notable production in the school of the pre-Raphaelites for the present season is, of course, No. 398, " The Scapegoat," by W. H. Hunt—an extraordinary picture, suggested by the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus. A painting con veying to the mind an astonishing sense of deso lation. Par away, illuminated by the gorgeous:, sunset dyes of Palestine, are the mountain peaks of Edon]. The immediate scene itself represents in the foreground (as the catalogue tells us) the margin of the salt-encrusted shal lows of the Dead Sea, at Oosdoom. The solitary figure in this region of solitude, of awful and utter solitude, is, as the title of the piece in dicates, " The Scapegoat"—otherwise the Em missary goat, what the Hebrews called Azazei, and the Greeks arorottratog, and the Latins Gaper Emissarius. The Goat laden with the sins of the people, and sent forth by the high-priest to be devoured by wild beasts in the wilderness. In other words, the type of the Redeemer ! Mr. Hunt has comprehended with a poet's comprehension the pa thos of this strange spectacle of solemn and dread ful abandonment. The vastness and barrenness of the surrounding waste, and the wild and troubled expression shining out of the eyes of the Scapegoat, an expression half-supplicative, half-despairing are " points " in this singular painting which are rendered with surprising vividness. Yet the ge neral effect of the painting is so strangely gro tesque that many of those who involuntary pause before it, arrested by its secret power and startled by its chromatic splendour, smile upon this undoubted ebullition of genius almost —he it plainly said at once—with the smile of derision. The recognised Chief among our youthful and gifted band of Pre-Raphaelites, facile princeps by reason not only of a daring priority in point of time, but by right also of un questioned pre-eminence, both in regard to innate abilities and in referen - ,e to their mi. , nute, and exquisite, and laborious cultivation _John Everett Millais—appears during the past twelve months to have been more than ordi narily industrious, and in oue or two instances more than usually successful. What cannot fail to loud a peculiar charm to his five remarkable contributions to this year's Exhibition, is the cir cumstance that in each of those five paintings the young artist has depicted with a most loving and appreciative pencil the multiform and manifold graces of little children. No. 293, " Portrait "of a Gentleman," is capital—just the very urchin who would look up with a face full of latent fun hidden by a. varnish of sudden gravity —a boy sage caught feasting bis sense of the ridiculous over a scrap-book of cariea'Aires ! No. 586, "The Blind Girl"—a limning painfully true to reality —is a portraiture which at once assunies to itself among the work Stored up is our gaZeriefi of art a place kindred to that occupied by the pathetic shade of Nydia in the records of imaginative literature. No. 553, " L'Enfant du Regiment," we have already spoken of, as a very exquisiteproduction—exquisite beyond all man ner of doubt, whether viewed in reference to the subject itself, or in regard to the method of its treatment. As to the subject—that is told in two minutes. It simply consists of a chi d lying (anyhow) sound asleep upon an old knightly monument, carved in stone, with the re cumbent figure of the mailed dead—may be the effigy of some grand old B tyard among the Crusaders—the slumbering figure of the child half covered by a regimental coat of blue and scarlet, the colours of which oontrast exquisitely with the stony hue of the crumbling old ceno taph. No. 448, " Autumn Leaves"—perhaps one of the finest pictures of its kind yet exhibited by Millais—represents a group of children and maidens busy piling up and burning in the waste corner of some weedy, flowery, fruitful " plea sa un ea," towards the close o f the yellow leaf-dropping month of September—a gorgeous heap of fallen foliage, ruddy, green, brown, golden, purple, ver million ! Lookiug, at the picture, you can almost hear the rustle of the moving footsteps, you can almost smell the fragrance of the scented smoke —you can hardly fancy it is, after all, merely so much paint and canvass, it looks so wondrously like a cluster of living girls and a pile of dying leaves : not the image of the two, but the very girls and leaves themselves. No. 200, " Peace Concluded, 1856"—the largest and the most ela borate of all these five pictures—is (we can have little doubt of that) in some respects the most clever of the five, and yet altogether beyond all question decidedly the most unsatisfactory. The pane arrangement of the picture is—upon the very face :of it—preposterous. Papa, with a very coarse sandy moustache, and ha bited in a dressing gown the texture of which resembles sacking, sprawls at full length upon a particularly narrow sofa—at the extremest edge of which, Mamma is somehow (in a very Acrobatty or W. H. Paycey manner) sit ting. upon ,nothing at all—for we can't for an instant suppose she is sitting upon Papa's unseen waistcoat, like the comeliest Daymare in a browu velvet boddice and skirt ! Trotty and Toddles, children both wonderfully child-like in look and gesture stand by : one of them having ingeniously hauled out of the Noah's ark in the' corner such effigies of a Lion and a sear as would have puzzled M. Buffon very much indeed could he have seen them. The lid of the said Noah's ark we take, by the way, to be one of the most glaring among Mr. Millais' affectations —you can all but smell that dealy painty smell familiar to those who know what it is to handle the toys of children. The grease in Papa's hair, again, is another of these affectations—it ought to have been brushed into it with the best un bleached ' bristles purchasable at Truefits or Gilling water's—not left to cake there en masse under the pressure of Papa's recently doffed silk ventilator, or possibly that of his lately unbuckled helmet. For we are left to conjecture, somehow, that this same youthful, sandy, pomaturned, sprawling paterfamilias has just come hack from the wars to repose at home —a circumstance which can alone account for his shaking Mamma's hand with one of his, and with the other holding at arm's length a damp copy of the Times newspaper. Another of these pre-Raphaelites, R. Hannah, to wit, reveals to us in No. 230, " Master Isaac Newton, in the autumn of 1665, sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe." The greenest of apples (how it ever came to drop off the bough no one can possibly imagine) lying upon the most me tallic coloured of greenswards—and the cosiest, ripest, mellowest of fruits sticking up aloft on one of the branches, as though it never intended to fall even through all the snows, and frosts, and rain, and wind, and hail of the most pitiless of on-coming Winters. So much, this year, for the more conspicuous among the pre-Raphaelites--a school steadily rising in note and influence even in spite of Mr. Ruskin's exaggerated adulation now of Mr. Hol man Hunt, and now of Mr. Everett Millais—dhe Prophet and the High-Priesr, of this old-new Religion of the Painter's Art. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) RAILWAYS-nu CASH. fr. c. fr. c Orleans Northern .... 1,125 Strasburg .. .1,002 50 Lyons ....1,465 New Ditto ...... ... 920 Mediterranean 1,700 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Bl,O Tosto Cette TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 28. The Circassian deputation, which arrived sotto time ago, bearing an a.ddtess to the Sultan, the Emperor of the French, and the Queen of Eng land, presented au Thursday last their address to the Kaimakan of the Grand Vizier, in three copies. According to the Journal de Constantinople their address is as follows : "To NIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE SULTAN, &C. "Prayers addresled to God for the Life and Prosperity of the Sultan. "Although you are at all times our Padishah, our light, the source of our prosperity and our refuge, yet Ilse invasion of the cursed Ru. 7 , sian has thrown us under his tyrannical dominion, and has caused us great evils. Nevertheles, in the same way as when the sun sets it is certain that he will rise again, thus we have neither been seduced by his persuasions and intrigues, nor cor rupted by his gold, although we have had much to suffer lr his tyruany. We have never ceased to oppose to his toroes our lives, our goods, and our children, and, by the aid of God, we have been fighting up to this day, as everybody knows. Thaults to God, the light of the Imperial Sun, for which we wished so much, has at last spread its r►ys over all Mussulmans, and especially over the Circassians. May God the Almighty, in consideration of our holy Prophet, preserve your Imperial Majesty from all evils of this world, and give you a complete victory over your enemies. "An old proverb says, One must always keep up old customs.' According to those of our country, accord ing t our imperishable laws, after having taken an oath befo.e God, we set to work, 29 or 30 years ago, your servant Zanzadi Mehtued Bay, having chosen from 12 Circassian tribes 12 delegates, provided with letters of credence, he sent them to your Imperial Porte to de clare that the Padishah, our only light, and the only cauei of our prosperity, being our only Sovereign Lord, we w:1 never separate from him. " Since that time, always faithful to the true religion and to the State, we have waited, when we saw arrive at Anapa an employe charged with a mission in Circas-iia, and provided with your imperial firman. Your sove reignty was established in Circassia, and we rejoiced, and our cbildrea sang hymns to demand frora Heaven the prolongation of the life of our Padishah and his triumph over his enemies, and we swore before the Almighty that we would never up to the day of judg ment recognise any other master. " When this war broke out where our Padishah has fought with his two allies againe; the Russian, your undersigned servants have also fought, as far as it was in their power, under the orders of Sefer Pasha ; but as rumours of peace have arrived, arid that there is no question of Circassia, this petition, drawn up by the d.fferent Circassian tribes, declaring that we will never separate from our Padistah, has been entrusted to 350 C rcassian deputies, et 113.1 n, among those tribes, and according to the maxim that everything returns to its source, we have turned toward you, and we beg your Majesty, kissing the dust of yon r feet, to order that we may be placed for ever undo tlt-; majestic shade of your Imperial Throne." DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRE TARY ON STREET OAB FUNERALS. Yesterday, a deputation from the vestry of Sti Marylebone, accompanied by Lord Ebrington, M.P., waited upon Sir G. Grey, at the Home-office, on the sub ject of street cab funerals, and the conveyance of pa tients in the public vehicles to the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals. The deputation consisted of Mr. Wm. Field, church warden, and Mr. Nicholay, churchwarden elect of Marylehone ; Mr. Guy, Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr. D'lffanger, jun., and Mr. Raesell, with Dr. Thomson,. medical officer of health ; and Mr. Greenwell, vestry clerk. Mr. Guy referred to the daily increasing practice of cab funerals of children to the metropelitan cemeteries, and to the practice of conveying patients having small- pox or typhus fever to the hospitals, aed contended that the increase of those diseases in the higher locelitiee was attributable to that cause. Of 24,731 deaths of children under five years registered by the registrar -general to have taken place during twelve months, 8,567 dieil of zymotic diseases, 143 of small pox, and 478 o f ty p h us. He offered FOlllB suggestions for remedying the evil, the principal points being, that the proptierors or drivers of ells who use them for children's funerals should be fined 101. in each case • that fever and small pox hoe pitals should be compelled to provide vehicles to send for patients when applied to, and that some of the am bulance vehicles used in the Crimea should be placed by the Government at the disposal of such hospitals. Mr. Jacob Bell, Dr. Russell, Mr. Nicholay, and Dr. Thomson confirmed Mr. Guy's view as to the danger to the public from the practice. • Sir G. GREY expressed his concurrence with the deputation, and the importance of dealing with it in a sanitary point of view; but said it was a difficult fellation, and persons might also get into a railway carriage which had brought a person with !ever from a long distance and catch it. He would, however, put himself into communication with the Commis sioners of Metropolitan Police, and maturely consider the subject with a view to the application of some remedy for the evil. The deputation then retired, STEANt BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND AFRICA.--Direct steam communication is about to be established between Liverpool and the West Coast of Africa, and the Liver' pool African Association have petitioned Government to allow a portion of the African maihi to be sent from Liverpool. - CORN EXCHANGE. The present week's arrivals of English wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, have been very moderate, and the show of samples here to-day was limited. For most kinds we had a steady demand, at prices fully equal to those realised on Monday. The imports of foreign wheat are under 6,000 quarters. That grain changed hands to a moderate extent, on former terms. In barley and malt very little was doing, at Monday's currency. The supplies were moderate. The show of oats was good, and the oat trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in value. Beans and peas were unaltered in price. The &sr trade was steady. ' ARRIVALS THIS WISE. I I ' Wheat. Barley. I Malt. I Oats. ', v'' nr. I &ngllsh .. 1,370 420 3,230 ', 1,510 Irish .... —• 1 660 I I 850 brls N'oreign i , 5,930 3,320 i -- 1 16,8 10 1 1 1 4 3 0 As I i METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts in to-day's market was good, both as to number and quality. All breeds sold slowly, at barely Monday's quotations. With sheep we were heavily supplied, and the mutton trade was in a depressed state, at a fall in prices of 44 per 8113 s. The lamb trade was heavy, at 2 , 1 per Mlbs less money• The supply of lambs was good, and ;MO came to hand from the Isle of Wight. Calves, the supply of which was good, moved off heavily, at barely stationary prices In pigs scarely any business was doing. Much cows were dull, at from 141. to 191.105. each, including their small calf. • Per 81bs to sink the offale. _ s. d. s. d. t d. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 61PrimeSouthdown 5 0 5 4 Second quality.... 3 8 3 10 ( Large ors°. calves 4 2 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 8 Prime Scots, die. 4 6 4 Marge hogs 3 4 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 8 4 61Small porkers ... 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...4 2 4 6,Suckling calves.. 22 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wiled. 4 8 410 ')uarter old pigs.2l 0 27 Lamb, 5s 6d to 6s ad. TOTAL SUPPLY. I FOILIGN SUPPLY oasts .......... 1,103 _2O Sheep and iambi ...• .... 8,900 1 Sheep • 280 97 Flo 300 Pigs_ NENITGA.TE AND We bad a very slow tr drooping. LEA.DENTIALL. de, and prices were rather Per 81bs by s. d. s. d. e. d. K. d Beef, Inferior 210 3 0 Mitten Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do. prime large.. 3 8 t 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 I 6 Da , do. 5ma11....4 2 4 4 Veal 3 10 5 0 Pirk, large 3 2 3 10 Pork, small 4 0 4 8 Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d, the carcase, BOROUGH HOP. Our market continues to be well fiupPlied with all kinds of hops, in which about an average business is doing, above quotations. This week's imports are 79 bales from Hom bre. Mid and East Kent poskets, N 5s to 61 6s per cwt Weald otKents, 3/ to 51 ss. ; Sussex, 21 16s to 41 15s. COLONIAL. market has ruled exceedingly dull. Common eongou realised 80 to Oil per lb. SUGAR.—The demand has been active, and shipping and home dealers have been buyers to a considerable extent at an average advance of 6:1 per cwt. West India low mid to fine 40a to 445, Mauritius brown 37s 6d to 38s 6d, good and fine biown 393 to 404 6(.1, yellow 433 to i4s, superior yellow 45s 6d to 46d, white 48s per cwt, Bengal goon to fine yellow 12s 61 to 435, Havannah white 378 Od per cwt. The refined market has been firm, and full rates were rea lised—grocery lumps 53s to 56s per cwt. COFFEE. --This article has been in good demand, and plantation and native Ceylon have brought high rates. Plantation low mid. to small greyish to good mid. bold colory, 58s to 65s ; fine to fine ord. 59s to 60s 6d ; native low to good ord., 50s to 53s 611; St. Domingo, 51s per cwt. CC COA.—There have been but few parcels offered, although a good demand has existed at full prices. RICE. —The market has been steady. Bengal realised 9s 6d to Ils, and good white 12s per cwt. Rosl.—There has been a very quiet market for this article. Small parcels of good Demerara brought 2s 5d per proof gallon. SPICES are rather cheaper. Pepper, Malabar declined is 4d per cwt., fine grey an.l brown sold for 4 i ld to sd. Penang mid e ar thy brown 5 , 1, and damaged 44d to 5d per lb. Pimento mist coarse stalky 4g tto W. good fair even bright 4td per lb. Cloves—Zanzibar, good bold 4id to 4P,it per lb. SALTPETRE—The market has been inactive. British re fined realised Ss 6(1 to 3is per cwt. f. o. b. COCHINEAL—The market ruled heavy, although prices generally have been well supported. Honduras blacks, cis to 4s 6d ; Teneriffe silvers, 3s 8d to 3s 10d ; and blacks, 3s Oct to 4s per lb. TALLOW —But little business has been done in this article, but prices rule steady. P.Y.C. spot, 45s 3d, and last three months, 45s 6d per cwt. At the meeting of the Victoria (London) Dock Com pany, held yesterday, it was stated that the terms for the tease of the business of the dock with Messrs. Peto, Bette, and Vias , ey bad been, agreed up on f or a t erm o f 21 year~, at an interest of 5 per cent. on the capital of 700,0004. with 6 per cent, iuter ee t f or an additio nal cap it a l o f 200,0002, TEE T''BACCO DUTY. The very high duties laid upon tobacco by seve ral nations ot Europe —many hundred per ceat. of its cost price here—and the monopoly in the sale of it for the purpose of extracting a heavy tax from the consumers, maintained by other nations, have for many years been an occasion of loud com plaints on the part of our tobacco growers. They entertain the idea that these very heavy taxes levied upon the consumption of tobacco greatly curtail the use of the article, and that if it could be had throughout Europe at American prices, its consumption would be very greatly extended. There are many articles as to which this doctrine would be applicable. A diminution of one-half in the price of cotton, sugar, or flour would, no doubt, lead to a very extended consumption of those articles ; and, on the other hand, the imposition of a duty by which their cost to the consumers would be doubled or quadrupled, would greatly diminish their consumption. But tobacco seems to be an article to which this rule does not apply, ex cept to a limited extent, and it is for that very rea son that the Governments of Europe have been able to tax it so highly. Chewers and smokers will have their indulgence regardless of the expense, which, after all, with all the taxation levied upon this fragrant weed, does not pass a limit beyond the means of most labouring men—the article being produced at a very moderate price, and the quan tity being quite limited to which the most invete rate smoker or chewer is able to consume. Some statistical inquiries on the subject lately laid before Congress tend to confirm this view of the case. From these documents it appears that here, in the United. States, where tobacco juice is so vigorously squirted in all possible directions, and where it is almost impossible, at least in any public place, to escape the puffing of tobacco smoke in your face, the consumption of the article does not exceed two pounds ten ounces to each inhabi tant. Hence it is apparent that under the most favourable circumstances its use will always be kept within pretty narrow limits. The people of Europe, exclusive of Russia, notwithstanding the heavy duties bywhich the article is burdened, consume now about two-thirds of that amount. It appears also, from the same documents, that although the growing of tobacco is prohibited in Great Britain and some other European countries, yet that the total of the European crop somewhat exceeds the total crop of the United States, whence it is reason able to conclude that an increase in the consumption would not redound exclusively to the benefit of our American growers. The attempt persevered in for so many years and so constantly repeated, to induce the Governments of Europe to alter their policy on this subject, seems to us little better than childish. Can those Governments be expected to abandon a source of revenue at once so lucrative and so unexceptionable, merely to gratify the American tobacco growers ? If tobacco had about it any nourishing or even stimu lating quality, the Governments ot Europe might be supposed to have some inducement for desiring its use extended. But as it is merely a narcotic, of which both the moral and physical effects upon those who use it are of a very dubious character, Governments have rather au interest in diminish ing its use than in extending it, except so far as use that may be a source of revenue. Indeed th• interests of cleanliness and decency, let alone those of health, would seem to afford abundant reasons why any civilised Government should reject with disdain our diplomatic efforts on behalf of free to bacco. In fact, we are strongly inclined to believe that more than one of our foreign envoys has afforded in his own personal habits more than a counterbalance to all his political and economical arguments.—New York Tribune. LOCAL DUES UPON SHIPPING. The committee met yesterday in room No. 11; Mr• Lowe in the chair. Mr. Heeling, Mayor cfSalford, said the question of the town dues of Liverpool sad attracted great attention in Salford for several years past, and the general opinion was that the Corporation of Liverpool bad no right t• levy such a tax. They claimed to exact the dues, but di,elaimed any obligation to make a return for them, and witness believed that at common law no such right as that which was asserted by the corporation of Liverpool could exist, and he was not aware of any precedent for such an impost. The only limit to these dues was in the discretion of the corporation. By Mr. Headlam—The reason why no objections bad been made to the imposition of these dues until the last few years was that the subject, had not before been in quired into so fully, and the injustice of that tax was not so clearly understood ; directly this was ascertained en deavours were made to bring the matter before the Go vernment and Parliament. . By the Chairman—He was clearly of opinion that it was a case for the intervention of Parlianient. Witness was about to explain the operation of the Municipal Corporation Act, when Sir J. Duckworth moved that the room be cleared. The committee hating remained, in consultation for an hour, the parties were readmitted, and, in answer to a question from the chairman, witness said he thought, if the question of the legality of the dues bad been raised at the time of the passing of the Municipal Act, some clause would have been inserted to protect the public interests. By Mr. Headlam—lf the original grant were produced some obligation would be found to attach to the collec tion of these dues. By Mr. Watson—To establish the legality of the fin position of the dues under a grant from the Crown, he considered it necessary that such dues should be proved to be the same as those originally levied, or, in other words, to prove continuity and similarity ; and this could not be e:tablished. He could not refer to any document to prove that the dues were clothed with any trust, but his reading of the law was, that there must b• some duty performed in return for the power to levy dues. By Mr. Horsfall—He still maintained that the dues were levied arbitrarily and without limit, notwithstand ing the publication of the tariff, because such tariff was varied from time to time, and many articles were not mentioned in the tariff at all. By Mr. Headlarn—He denied the right of the Crown to grant dues upon property not in its possession at tbe time, or upon articles which were not imported at the period when the grant was made. By the Chairman—All prescription implied a grant, and no grant could be made of dues upon articles nn• known at the t•me being. Mr. Newland, of Liverpool, general merchant, said his attention had been directed to the Liverpool town dues. He complained especially of the tax upon salt, which amounted to 5 per cent, on the cost of the ex' ported article. This was a very injurious impost on trade, and prevented its expansion. The trade in salt bad been increasing of late years, and was subject to large compe tition from works on the Mediterranean, Cadiz, Lisbon, St. Übe's, and other places. He objected generally to the levying of town dues on articles of import and export, and believed it would be greatly to the advan- tage of Liverpool if some compensation were made to it and the town dues altogether abolished. This would remove a serious grievance, and it would also be an additional benefit if the distinction at present existing between freemen and ❑on freemen were done away. Wit- ness was not prepared to suggest the mode of compen sation, but thought that, as the corporation had a title to these dues, which had been recognised by act of Par liament; Government should make some compensation to the tows. The dues were decidedly an encumbrance to trade, and their removal would afford great facilities to the trade of Liverpool. He objected to tbe Weaver dues, which were double the amount of the town dues, and on such an article as salt the tax was most oppressive. The amount of the town dues he paid for salt in the last year was 2501., and 1001. for other articles. By Mr. Duncan—He had exported 10,000 tons of salt during the past year, upon which, had be been a freeman, he should have saved the town dies of 6d. a ton. Mr. Heron, town-clerk of Manchester, was recalled, and put in returns of the poor and other rates in the townships of Manchester from the years 1851 to 1855, and stated that a sum of upwards of 541,41001. had been expended by the corporation within the city, and which sum had been repaid by single proprietors within the last 20 years. No other witnesses being in attendance, the committee adjourned until Thursday, May 22. CANCER HOSPITAL. Since the establishment of this Institution, which was founded in 1851, having an hospital in West Brom)). ton for ii.lsi,tients, with dispen,ary for out-patients and Secretary's office in Cannon-row, Westminster, the ravages of this fearful disease have become more gene rally known, and the necessity for giving it special attend' Lion rendered apparent. It accordingly has been deemed s.dvisable to extend as much as possible the sphere of its usefulness ; and, in order more effectually to carry out its operations, the business of the office in London' and that of the dispensary are now conducted beneath one roof, in very eligible premises, centrally situate in Pic cadilly, cppnsite to Bond-street, instead of Cannon-row as heretofore. The support given to this benevolent in,titution has shown it to be progressing in public estimation. We understand that, as this hospital becomes more known, so the demands upon its resources are consider - ably increasing. These facts no doubt will be appre ciated by the benevolent, on whom this valuable inst► - tution is entirely dependent for support.—Secretary's office, and for out-patients, 167, Piccadilly. Post-office orders to be made payable to Mr. William James Cockerill, at the Post•ofce, Piccadilly. HALF HOLIDAYS IN THE LAW COURTS ON SATURDAYS. —A notice was read yesterday, at the rising of the Court of Queen's Bench, which intimated that, for the future, no business would be transacted after 2 o'clock on Saturdays. A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.— It is said that her Majesty's Government are about to brieg before Parliament a specia l act, providing that the 29th inst. be observed as a pubiio holiday. 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