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

POST -OFFICE PARLIAMENTARY and POSTAL DIREC fORY, 1856, Now Publishing, price Is. Kelly, and Co., 19, 20, and 21, Old Boswell-court, St. Clement's, Strand ; and all booksellers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- it is respectfully announced that her MAJESTY'S THEATRE will RE-OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest have been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used t 4 make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. The prospectus will shortly be issued. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLYRY-LANE, Lessee. Mr. & T. Smith. THIS EVENING, IL TROVATORE. o conclude with TdE DITGHTER OF TILE REGIMENT. THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENT/TO, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL G.IIIIIU3INO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. Welch PEREA. NEN& and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with A DA-TIGHTER TO MARRY. ROTAS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. ender the Management of Mr. CaAnsa Es An. THIS FVENING, HENRY VIII. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsel, Mr. O. Kean. After which. THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. TILICATRIC ROYAL ADELTIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celesta THIS EVENING, TARTUEFE. To conclude with JACK AND THE BE 4.14( STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which Magus. d. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celesta, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will appesr. ROYAL OLYWPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and detibly-moral, thongh ercee l vely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled Tif 1.1 I)1:4 ,- :R}P.Er PRI , TCESSI ; o•, the Three Glass Distaffs. 1.1 which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Miss Marston an .t Miss Maskell will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Croswiek. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON. Followed by TUFFLEHAITSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with THE COBBLER ANL, TAILOR. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Glorious Impress of public approbation THIS EVENING, The most extraordinari and exciting exhibition that ever was represented—an English Steeplechase, with all its incidents, from the starting to the winning post. The performances commence with THE ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The acting horse, trained by Mr. William Cooke. Double Tight Rope, the Misses Duey. SCENES in the CIRCLE, and the Postman's Knock. Drama Eqnestre. with E NOG A.ND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIONAL ENGLISH STEEPLECHASE. Boa-office open Prom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cookf, jun. ROYAL M.A.RYLEBON'E THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. Great success of the new management and pieces, scenery, Sec. THIS EVENING (Friday, April 4, 1856). the new drama of LOST, £30,000, supported by Messrs. Stuart, Stirling, Belford, Miss Anlerton, Morell, &c. After which, BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Lewis Ball, of the Theatre Royal, Sadler's Wells. To conclude with a grand Ballet Divertiseraent, by Mr. Harvey, entitled, THE DUMB POiTILLION. The inimitable Charles Mathews hat been engaged for 3 nights Only, and will appear on Monday, April 7th, 1856. EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." Second Season. . This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unalmons approbation of -1 ALL TUE LONDON JOURNALS As the greatest artistical triumph of the day. It constitutes an Opera Comedy, arid Vaudevffle. With a host of characters in Correct Cos tames ; aid Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES sever attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Tharsdays, an I Fridays, at 8. Morning performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-past two, precisely. .41dmission--Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, is. SAINT MAR riN'S Fi ALL, Long-acre. HIGH WA.TEB, AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dia—Morn. 3 rain. aft. I—Evening 2d min. aft. 1 To-Monnow—Morn. 43 min. aft. I—Evening 5 min. aft. 2 THE WEATHER—Sim OFFICE, APRIL 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58 —highest since noon yesterday. 52 —l3 - west this morning and during the night. 5,1 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'76. WIND, variable and light, from W.S.W. to W.N.W., with fine sunshiny weather and April showers occasionally. It rained for 8 or 10 hours from yesterday noon till night. / ,•4 v.~ ~'l~ -• •••-+ §l4i*t . r" .-4 1 . )V4) • LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1856. It has for some time been notorious that a mar riage had been arranged between Prince FREDE RICK, eldest son of the Crown Prince, and conse quently heir presumptive to the Throne of Prussia, and the Princess Royal of England. The tender age of the Royal victim at present is little more than fifteen years, and the very equivocal position occupied by Prussia towards England during the progress of the War did not prevent the arrangements for this very unwise and im politic alliance from being entered into, although the formal application has been withheld until the patching-up of the Treaty of Peace, in order to avoid the energetic remonstrances that might otherwise be offered in both Houses of Parliament, and the natural feeling of indignation that would be excited throughout the length and breadth of the land. There is, however, but too much reason to fear that the unfortunate marriage, on which the Prince Consort is said to have set his heart for the promotion of German, not of Eng lish, interests, may be regarded as one of the ca - uses that has led to the humiliating and injuri ous peace in which England has been made a party, and that the possible prospect of Great Britain being annexed to Prussia is the sole reward for the lives of our myriads of gallant soldiers, and the expen diture of tens of millions of capital uselessly and improvidently sacrificed. Whether the British people will regard it as a satisfactory equivalent is another question. We Should rather think not, and that the voice of public opinion will make itself heard in the inmost recesses of Downing street, and even in Buckingham Palace it se lf. No time has been lost in putting f orward a CI feeler" on the subject. In the Economist o r Sunday last, the very day on which the Treaty Was signed at - Paris, it was stated the Prince " had formally . asked and obtained the sanction of the KING (of Prussia) to his requesting the hand of the Princess Royal," with a suggestion that " the publicity of the proceeding is supposed t) imply a knowledge that the English Court will approve of the union proposed." There need tot be much doubt on this part of the case, for it, is, unfortunately, but too notorious that the matter had been arranged at Balmoral list sum mer, at th e time of the visit of the Prince, which was so strongly commented on by the English journals, and that it had bean on the lapis for five years previously, before, the young Princes had attained the Mature age of tcn years. The opinion of the British_Parliatnent will, however, probably be asked, although the announcement will not be made until after the proposal has been duly accepted, and then the information will probably be accompanied by a modest request be that a suitable appanage may provided at the expense of the nation, to gild the bridal couch of the illustrimis victim, and to render the marriage Ini#e.-a9eeptable to the good " C r /iv/not." We trust, however, that the representatives of the British peopl e may exhibit some appearance of, firmness and independence in the transaction. Although they may not be able to put a stop to the marriage, they may at least button their pockets tightly, and declare that not a single shilling shall be granted to forward a match, of which every person, not affected by the sinister and unconstitutional influence that per vades every department of the State, must totally and entirely disapprove. We have, indeed, but little reason to approve 1 1 of marriages of the female members of our Royal family with the petty Princes of Germany. But bad as they are, they would be far better than that of a Princess, who personally, or whose chil dren, might become entitled to the Throne of these realms. It is by no means a far-fetched suppo sition to imagine that, at no very distant period, the thrones of Great Britain and Prussia might become united, and that we should be governed by a Prussian Viceroy, or, under the most favour able circumstances, by a Sovereign, who, like the First GEORGE, did not understand our language, and who was not actuated by a single feeling in common with those whom he was called on to rule. It is a very different matter to give the Prin cesses of nations placed under the S3,lique law in marriage to the Sovereigns of first-rate States. No claim to the Crown can, under such circum stances, be put forward by the Consort. It would, however, be very different in the present in stance ; and we merely ask what would be the result of the union of the Crowns of Great Britain and Prussia ? A calm and deliberate considera tion of the inevitable consequences that must fol low such an untoward event will be quite suffi cient to convince every disinterested and unpre judiced person of the vital importance of the transaction, and of the urgent necessity of oppos ing, while there is yet time, the inauspicious marriage. It is said that the circle from which a choice can be made is limited iu the extreme—that it has for the most part been limited to the petty Protestant Princes of Germany. But why ? Because, forsooth—marriage with a subject is as sumed to be out of the question ! This is a mere petitio principii, a literal begging of the question. It is the absurd and ridiculous prejudice that the Divine ichor which circulates in the veins of Princes could not be commingled with the puddle of the lower classes, even of the most ancient members of our nobility. It was this delusion that destroyed the happiness of the brothers and sisters and children of GEORGE 111., that has rendered the legitimate descendants of GEORGE 11. so limited in number. We trust that it may not be persisted in, and that the happiness—per haps the morality of—another fine family may not be sacrificed to the same most unfortunate pre , judice. The thanks of the public are due to the Earl of ALBEMARLE for his motion in the House of Lords last evening. Anything more revolting than the act of atrocious cruelty to which he drew attention it would be difficult to conceive, unless it be the fact that it was part of a system in vogue under British rule. Only fancy fourteen poor, lank, and feeble Indian weavers dragged, at eight o'clock in the morning, before a petty Go vernment collector of taxes, for arrears ; and, in default of payment, subjected to torture, and such torture ! First, the spinal column bent inward ; next, a native executioner and a 121 b. weight suspended from their necks, and compelled to stand in this constricted position for twelve mortal hours ! Human nature sickens at the thought ! How far, however, are the dimensions of this atrocity from being revealed. On their heads began to pour the fierce rays of a vertical sun. Thirst, as a matter of course, assailed them. " Water ! water !" was their cry ! Water was refused them. Brighter still shone the sun, and their whitened lips vainly strove to give utterance to their prayer. Still no water. Their drooping spirits sought refuge in unconsci ousness from the burden of their tortured frames. Even that boon to suffering humanity was denied them. A second executioner was at the side of each to aid his colleague in pinching to renewed consciousness the tortured frame. And this from eight in the morning until eight at night ! Even then a disgusting indignity must be thrown in to increase the nausea with which they regarded the refreshment offered them. The infliction was diabolical, but it served the collector's turn. The wives of the poor victims had no money wherewith to discharge the pitiful amounts of taxation owing ; but, like most Eastern and some Western women, they had ornaments, dear to them almost as life; and so, when they knew to what sufferings their husbands had been exposed, they tore those ornaments off to save them from further outrage, and the claims of the Indian Government were satisfied, but only fer a time. Even in India, however, there is a public opinion, and the col lector's master, Mr. SHITBRICK, an Englishman, collector and magistrate for the district, was com pelled to entertain a complaint against him. The Indian monster was sentenced—to what does the reader think ? some severe punishment doubtless —to pay a fine of—tea shillings ! That was all. Let it be remembered India is a long way off ; and if Government must have its taxes, whether the people can pay them or not, it won't answer for the collector of a district to be too severe on a servant whose chief fault, in his eyes, is over zeal ! Now, it will not do for the Indian Go vernment to say that this was merely au arbitrary stretch of authority by a reckless official. This is only one instance out of many, and they know it. Nor will it do for them to say they have done their best to discountenance such a system, but have no power to extirpate it. They have not done their best ; and the proof is, though theft attention has long been called to it, it still prevails—and they have the power to put a stop to it—such power being notoriously vested in the Legislative Council at Calcutta. With what face do they depose the worthless tyrant of Oude for his crimes, and suffer atrocities like these to be committed by native officials in their employ ? O r how can they look for a perpetuation of their P*er at the hands of the British public, when they suffer deeds like these to be perpetrated, revolting to every feeling of the British heait, and disgraceful t o the long l national fame. Look for it, however, they will like other -and the wrongs of Indi like thos m e of other a pro vinces, will go unredressed so misdemeanants, nt as the people forget that the honour and f glory. • the country are, or ought to be, in their keeping. FRENCH CIVILISATION. Punch, has been seized in Paris for the first time for several mouths. Its offence was the picture representing the Emperor standing by the cradle of his infant, while a figure of Liberty says, "Please may Ibe godmother 1" The Sun was seized on Tuesday, in consequence of its appearing with a black border as a token of mourning for the peace, which it considers disastrous and dis graceful' for England. The Daily News and Morning Advertiser were also seized. We understand that the rectory of St. George's, Bloomsbury, vacant by the elevation of the Hon. and Rev.: H. M. Villiers to the mot Carlisle, has been given to the Rev. E. Bayley, vicar of Woburn, Beds. MUNIFICENT DONATION. - The Grocers' Company yesterdv presented to the Royal Free Hospital a dona tion of 100/., in addition to former donations amounting to 1551. The bankruptcy of Sir Robert Price has been super seded. The creditors have agreed to a proposition to pay a composition of ss. in the pound. The Moniteur of yesterday, in an account of the grand review of the previous day, records conspicuously that the Emperor only wore one foreign decoration, that of the Order of the Garter. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE ROBERT DIM SON.—We are sorry to hoar of the death of the Right Hon. George R. Dawson, deputy-chairman of the Board of Castoms, which has just taken place' after a painful illness. A testimonial of plate, subscribed by Sir Joseph Pax ton and season ticket-holders of the Crystal Palace, has been given to Mr. Henry Schallehn, in acknowledgment - if his original formation and management of the Crystal Palace Band. • ASSAULTING A REPOBTER.—At the Norwich assizes yesterday, Richard Ferrier, sen., an I Richard Ferrier, jun., were charged with unlawfully assaulting John Williams De Cans, a newspaper reporter. The case was settled by an apology. Sr. MARK'S HOSPITAL.—The annual festival o St. Mark's Hospital, in the City-road, was celebrated yes terday evening by an elegant entertainment at the Al bion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. A subscription of 7001. was afterwards announced. Emil Devrient, who appeared for two successive seasons, a few years ago, with the Germany Company, at the St. James's Theatre, in London, is about to retire finally from the stage, which he has, first as a singer and they as an actor, adorned for six-and-thirty years. The principal item of news from Ceylon here is the visit of his Exoellency Sir H. Ward to the northeastern provinces. Sir Henry had been received with great en tkusisEm at Trincomalee, and bad visited the Cut cherry, Fort Osnalaurg, and the dockyard. The French army will, it is said, return from the Crimea in bodies of 20,000 with corresponding materiel. About six months will be occupied in the evacuation. It will begin in May, and last over October. A despatek has been received from Marshal Pelissier, which an nounces an improvement in the health of the army. CITY OF LONDON SCHOOLS.—Yesterday a meeting was held at the London Tavern to adopt measures to pre vent the falling off in the revenue of the above schools. A subscription list was opened, and it was resolved that a clergyman and some laymen should canvass the city fur support. A deputation, to lay before the Government the great frauds of the hay trade, had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right Hon. Robt. Lowe yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation con sisted of Messrs. Rathbone, Argent, Hasker, Rogers, Wilson, Boyer, M'lstamara, Willing, Hudson, Hayman, Hartley, Hawes, and Reddin. FINE ARTS.—To show that the announcement of peace may, even at this early period, have had a favourable influence on the fine art trade, we may notice that, at a sale of the engravings, drawings, &c., of Messrs. Her ring and Remington, which took place this week by Messrs. Southgate and Barrett, a copy in water colours, by Lewis Haghe, of David Robert's grand picture of the " Destruction of Jerusalem," was sold for 2001. ; and the stock and lithographic stones of the same work realised 7001., while the other lots in the same sale brought good prices. COLLISION ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—An acci dent, which might have been of a more serious nature, occurred on Monday evening on the Caledonian Rail way. The mnil express train from London on arriving at theVotherwell viaduct bridge, about 12 miles from G:asgo w, came in direct collision with a goods train, causing both engines to be considerably damaged, and also several of the waggons and carriages, and causing many contusions and shocks to the passengers by coming in contact with each other ; but fortunately no limbs were broken or lives lost. THE PROPOSED METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.— Yesterday a deputation waited on the Hon. Mr. Cowper, President of the Board of Health, and urged upon the hon, gentleman the desirability of the site of Sm:thfield being appropriated to the dead-meat market. Mr. Cow per listened attentively to the arguments of the deputa tion, which consisted of Mr. Venables, Mr. Butler, Mr. Bonsor, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Mr. Firmin, Mr. King, and Mr. Potter, all extensive meat salesmen in Newgacel market, and promised the subject due consideration. THE MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, April 3.—The British and North American mail steam-ship Africa will take her departure hence for New York on Saturday, when let t-rs and papers will be received at the Post office at 8 a.m., with late fee at 9 a.m., and at the landing-stage at 10 a.m. The Australian mail sailing-sh'p James Baines will sail from Liverpool for Melbourne on Sun day, the letter-box closing at 8 a.m. ; but letters and papers will be received with late fee until 9 a.m., and at the landing-stage at 10 a.m. THE REPRESENTATION OF CHIPPENHAM.—Nfr. John Noeld, brother of the late representative for Chippen ham, having declined to come forward, Mr. Robert Perry Nisbet, of Southbroom-house, near Devizes, has offered himself as a candidate. dr. Nisbet has long been a resident in the county, and some few years ago he served, with much credit to himself, the office of High Sheriff. His political opinions are Conservative. As yet no other candidate has appeared. FIRE AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER'S. —Yesterday morning, shortly before four o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. John Madden's, the Three Compasses Tavern, White Hart•street, Drury-lane. The inmates were aroused by a strong smell of fire, and on proceeding down stairs discovered the bar-parlour in flames. An warm was instantly raised, when the fire-engines from Caandos-street, Holborn, and King-street were shortly on the spot, and with a good supply of water got to work, but the bar and bar-parlour were burnt out. Cause unknown. Insured in the Sun. HIGHLAND ROADS AND BRIDGES.—From the 42c1 re port, just issued, it appears that the amount of charge in 1855 under the act for maintaining and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges made in Scotland for the pur pose of military communication, &c., was 14,2771., and the amount of discharge 13,1631., leaving a balance in the commissioners' hands of 1,1131. Since the disastrous season of 1848-49 the works under the charge of the com missioners have enjoyed a remarkable immunity from heavy casualties, and the last season was unmarked by any injury to the works beyond the ordinary wear and tear until the sth of February last, when a storm, lasting two days, on the western shore of Argyleshire, did serious damage to the roads on Loch Fynne. CAUTION TO MARINERS.—SUNSEN ROCK.—A letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Smyrna contains a copy of a deposition of Captain Boyle, of the Falcon steamer, of London, which sank on the 17th of February in 10 fathoms of water, .near port Katone, on the west side of the island of Mytelene, after touching upon a rock not laid down in Admiralty charts. The rock is visible above water to the eastward of Cape Vourgas. The agent states that in the course of the last year four eessele, French and Austrian, were lost near the same, the masters of which speak of rocks not laid down in their charts. He states further that it is not safe for vessels to enter Port Colonna, by the old charts and sailing directions. It is supposed that the violent earth quakes which took place in Mytelene, and particularly on the west side of the island, some two years since, are the cause of the appearance of these rocks. The Falcon, it i; said, is still standing with her masts up, and her topmast head just above water. REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.—A bill leas been introduced by Sir Stafford Ncrthcote and Mr. Liddell to amend the mode of committing criminal and vagrant children to reformatory and industrial school , . It enact., that "it shall not be necessary for any court, proceeding under the act 17 and 18 Vic., cap. 86, to name the particular school to which any youthful offender is to be sent at the time of passing sentence upon him," but that such court may- make an order with the name of the school left in blank, to be filled up with in one month after sentence has been passed ; this ar- rangement, however, must not lengthen the detention of any offender in any prison beyond the time specified in the original sentence. Orders may be amended within a month, so as to substitute one reformatory for another, to which the culprit will then be transferred. Young persons must not be sent to any schools to which their parents, on religious grounds, object. The power of the Secretary of State to order removals, &c., is not dimin ished by this act. The expenses of removal are to be de frayed by treasurers of counties and cities (under the act already recited), and, under the act 17 and 18 of Vic., cap. 74, by the parochial boards of parishes. The Trea sury will pay for removals ordered by the Secretary of State. THE Ray. G. C. GORHAM AND HIS PARISHIONERS.— The Rev. G. C. Gorham, rector of Brampford near Exeter, whose controversy with the Bishop of Exe ter is so well knowc, has had a violent rupture with a large number of his parishioners, the result of which is that they have commenced proceedings against the rev. gentleman for " brawling in church." It appears that seine of the principal farmers in the parish objected to a certain inscription on the organ which has recently been erected in the chnreh, and this was inserted in a notice convening a parish meeting as one of the subjects for consideration. Mr. Gorham objected to sign the notice in the shape presented to him, and the 'churchwarden, Mr. Carter, juo., affixed it to the church door without his signature. Oa Sunday morning, previous to com mencing Divine service, the rev. gentleman went to Mr. Carter's pew, and, as it is alleged, asked him how he dared to put up the notice without his signature, and peremptorily ordered him to take it down and bring it to him in the vestry. For this conduct Mr. Carter, en couraged by a large number of his parishioners, has in sttuted proceedings against the rev. gentleman for " brawling." THE SADLEIR PERPLEXITY—MR. WAIILET'S Ex- PlteeTlONS.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley, at an inquiry held at Camden Town, alluded with a smile to the ex traordinary reports respecting the alleged deception practised on the public by Mr. Sadleir, observing, " The man who invented the story could not have known that I knew Mr. Sadleir—l might say personally—for several years that he occupied a seat in Parliament ; and as to the rumours which have got about respecting a change in the features of the 'deceased at the period the body w a s viewed by the jury, the surmise s a re quite erroneous, as there was not the least chan g e in the fea tures of the d e c e ased, the unfortunate man being appa rently in a countenance, and saw not the slightest c han g e in it. quiet sleep. I examined most c autiousl y the Indeed, I was so minute as to open the lips and look at the teeth ; I likewise opened the eyelids, and lastly , I turned the h a i r o ff t h e forehead, remarking, as I did so, that the deceased was remarkably free from baldness. It is, therefore, a very ridiculous and foolish rumour which has got abroad, and one that there cannot be the slightest foundatio n for, even taking into consideration the fact of my being myself so intimately acquainted with the deceased's appearance, and then my examining his countenance so closely, it puts aside all such foolish surmises." LATEST NEWS. STETTIN, APRIL 2. The Emperor Alexander and the Grand Dukes Constantine, Nicholas, and Michael, arrived at Fredericksham in the morning of the 22d. After having inspected the troops, the Corps of Cadets, and the batteries, the imperial party left for Helsingfors, where they arrived on the 23d, and inspected troops and the fortifications, and visited the hospitals and the churches. TURIN, APRIL 3. The Bureaus of the Ministry of War are ac tively engaged in arranging the measures relative to the return of the Sardinian army at present in the Crimea. Vessels are preparing to sail from Genoa for he purpose of bringing back the troops. COPENHAGEN, Antir, 3. The Supreme Council has adopted, and read a first time, the proposal of the Holstein Deputies, fer submitting the general constitution to a spe cial assembly of the Diet. A squadron of American ships of war is ordered to cruise on the coast of Spain, pending the Anglo- American dispute. FRANCE. PARIS,THURSDAYEVENING.. Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador, had the honour of being received by the Emperor yester day, and delivered to his Majesty the reply of his Sovereign to the notification of the birth of the Prince Imperial. Count Buol Schauenstein, Aus trian Plenipotentiary at the Congress, was also re ceived by the Emperor, to deliver a similar reply, as well as a private and autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria. Baron de Manderstrom, the Swedish Minister, was afterwards honoured with an audience, to present an autograph letter from his sovereign, and one from the Prince Royal of Sweden. The Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels states that two regiments of marines, three large vessels armed en flute, and some light vessels and gun-boats are now at Toulon ready to start for a purpose connected with the expedition to Madagascar. The Pays, alluding to the sitting of the Congress on Wednesday (in which, notwithstanding the an nouncement of their departure in several journals, Lord Clarendon and M. Manteuffel took part), says it has reason to think that none of the matters re maining to be discussed will give occasion to any new protocol or additional treaty. "In a word," the Pays says, " the treaty of March 30 is as com plete in tenour as in form, and will:require no new or supplemental signature on account of any of the points with which the Congress is at this moment occupied." The Debuts contains a long article on the pro ceedings of the Congress up to the date of signing the Treaty of Peace : " Of all the points on which the Conference bad to pro • nounce itself, that which has excited the greatest difficul ties and will continue so to do is the new political Consti tution of the Danubian Principalities. The future of these provinces occupies the attention of all the nations of Europe. The interests of all the neighbouring or distant States may not be the same, but they are equally pressing. We believe too that the question of the Principalities gave rise in the heart of the Congress to long and very animated debates. It appears that a number of systems were proposed more or less irreconcileable with the fundamental rule established from the commencement, which decreed that no breach of the rights of the Sultan or of the integrity of the Ottoman empire should be permitted. If we are to believe certain reports which have obtained sufficient credit not to be disdained, some members of the Con ference had wished to unite these two principalities into one independent State, to be proclaimed neuti al, and to be entrusted to the rule of a prince chosen from among the reigning houses of Germany or Italy. This combi nation implied a division of Turkey, and was contrary to the object of the war. The Conference consequently rejected it." The next statement of the Debats is that— "The Conference has decided that no portion of the Turkish territory is to be occupied by the Allied armies under any pretext whaterer, and that those armies will evacuate the points on which they are established imme diately atter the ratification of the treaty. According to this, when the treaty of the 30th March shall have ac quired, by the ratification of the Sovereigns, the cer tain character which it does not possess at present, the armies of France, England, and Sardinia will aban don the Crimea and Constantinople, and return to. their country, while the Austrian armies will quit the Danubian Principalities. Some foreign journals have. stated to the contrary, but we believe them to be badly informed on the subject. Their error may be in any case easily explained. The Allied Powers, anti cipating a continuation of the war and its development on a larger scale, have accumulated immense supplies in the Crimea and around Constantinople. It will take a long period to transport the immense materiel again into the stores of England, France, and Sar dinia, and the year 1856 will probably not suffice. It is evident that the materiel must remain guarded by the allied troops in those distant countries until its re moval has Leen effected. It is, perhaps, this indispensable act which has been taken for a temporary occupation of the Turkish territory by the allied armies." The Debats next describes the regulation of the fourth point, which refers to the Christian subjects of the Porte : • '• Abdul Medjid bas acted spontaneously, and in virtue of his own authority; the immunities now enjoyed by the Christian subjects of the Porte are the concessions of their Sovereign ; the new rights of the Christians only repose on acts of internal administration, which do not bind the Sultan nor (above all) his successors. Some members of the Conference conceived doubts with re spect to the stability of the Imperial decrees, and de sired to annex them to the treaty of peace, or to embody them in that treaty. This gave rise to a de bate, in which the Sovereignty of the Sultan and the dignity of his crown appeared to come in contact with the most respected rights of the Christians. It is assured that the Congress has adopted a medium course. The decrees of the Sultan will remain as they are ; they will be neither annexed to nor embodied in the treaty, but an article of the treaty will allude to these new acts and to the new concessions of the Sultan in terms which will result in the engagement of the Sultan not to disavow his arts, and in a guarantee to the Christians by all the contracting powers." The Debats next alludes to the proposals ad vanced by M. de Cavour in the Congress " Necessary reforms in Italy were spoken of in the Congress, and it was asked if it were not wiser and more politic to give satisfaction, which might be limited, freely to nations, than to be exposed to revelutionary move ments which are daily becoming more diMcult to re strain. It is assured that these grave questions have been debated in the Congres3, and that it has proposed to revert to them." The following passage characterises the part taken by Lord Clarendon in the proceedings of the Congress "Lord Clarendon, who took a grand part in the dis cussions of the Conference, and who is justly considered as one of the principal authors of the treaty, had already traced out its programme in a speech which he pro nounced before the House of Lords on the 31st January, in reply to the address proposed in answer to the Queen's speech. Matters have passed as desired by the Minister of the Queen of England. The Em peror Alexander, who, in accepting the conditions proposed by Austria, had resigned himself to a pain ful sacrifice of the amour-propre of Russia, has adhered honourably to the letter and spirit of the conditions. He gathers to-day the fruits of this conduct, full of honour and ability ; not only has he rendered the conclusion of a peace easy, but he has allowed the Allied Powers to subscribe to conditions which give to Europe the gua rantees of security it required without wounding the honour and dignity of Russia. The Congress met yesterday at 2 o'clock at the Hotel of Foreign Affairs for the settlement of dif ferent minor points. It is expected that a month will be taken up in this work. The Plenipotenti aries are not to leave Paris before the exchange of the ratifications. BOURSE, April 3.—The following were the clos ing quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 73 10 73 65 New Loan 73 co Bank Shares 3,550 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,085 Austrian Belgian Fives — Piedmontcse (5). 9 74— B fro a m ni e sh D Th ebt roe ... 8 ...... 4Ci RAILWAys--7 - oli CASH. .. - _ _ tr. c. fr. C Orleans Northern ....... .... 1,020 Strasburg lOOO Lyons.. - ... 1,295 New Ditto B4O Mediterranean ...... Grand Central Lyons Geneva .... 810 Teste Cette 760 Austrian Com.. ..... 925 TURKEY. Accounts have been received from Constantino ple to the 25th ult. Seven different proposals for forming banks have been submitted to the Porte by different capitalists. The Moldavian deputa tion which had come to Constantinople to oppose the measure adopted by the hospodar for the en franchisement of the gipsy tribes have left Con stantinople without obtaining any results. A fresh shook of earthquake has been felt at Broussa. A Te /hum was sung at the French embassy on the 23d on the occasion of the birth of the Prince Im perial. The dealers at Balaklava have decided on raising the price of their merchandise 20 per cent. The European Anerchants established in the Crimea are waiting for the conclusion of peace to convey their merchandise to Odessa and the Principalities. The thermometer at Sebastopl had fallen as low as 17 degrees below zero (nearly at zero of Fahrenheit), so that the troops remained shut up in their quarters. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 25th, in the Emancipation, of Brussels, says :—"The coronation will not take place before the month of August, on account of - the extensive preparations which are re quired. The 31st is mentioned as the day. The health of the Empress-Mother requiring a visit to some of the baths of Germany, it is possible that she will not be present. Tha ceremony will I9e performed with the greatest pomp. The costumes worn on the occasion will resemble as closely as possible the ancient ones of Russia. The armorial bearings to be displayed on the occasion have been all submitted to the examination of persons expe rienced in heraldry. Eighteen carriages, richly gilt, have been ordered for the grand cortege. A letter from Cronstadt of the 21st, in the Moniteur de la Flotte, says :—" A piece of news which has produced 'a great sensation here, is an order ,to get ready a squadron composed of five vesseli of_war, all steamers, to be prepared to put out to sea in the middle of May, namely, a screw frigate, two screw-corvettes, and two smaller ves sels. Admiral Lutke is to take the command of this force, and the idea is that these vessels are to serve for a voyage bf the Emperor and one of his brothers to the southern parts of Europe. The frigate and the two corvettes are all new and uncommonly fine vessels, and rapid in their rate of going. A signi ficant fact in connection with this matter is that instructions have been sent to engage pilots well acquainted with the coasts of England and France." SPAIN. MADRID, April 2.—Government has bestowed the order of the Golden Fleece on the Imperial Prince of France ; a high functionary is to carry the insignia to Paris. The rumour of Gen. Concha having been removed from the government of Cuba is unfounded. Tranquillity is general. The adjudication of -the railroad from Xeres to Seville has been postponed in consequence of doubts on the legality of some of the biddings. The Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult. contains an account of the disturbances at Badajoz. It appears that on the 23d some of the inhabitants and Na tional Guard began quarrelling and fighting in a wine-shop, and that, cries of help being raised, a corporal and four men from the nearest guard. house were sent to re-establish order ; the soldiers were attacked and two of them wounded ; a large body of soldiers who were sent were repulsed, and then a detachment of 40 men was marched against the rioters, who were immediately dispersed'', and had two of their ringleaders arrested. The cap tain-general and other authorities hurried to the spot, but no further attempt at disturbance was made. GREECE. ATHENS, - March 22.—The Court and Govern ment of Athens are alarmed at the representations which the Envoys of England and France have lately made, and public feeling is somewhat excited. The First Secretary of the ussian Embassy, M. de Neclondoff, has been sent to Germany and St. Petersburg on a special mission. M. Bondouri, whom Admiral Dundas once designated in his de spatch as a spy of the Queen of Greece, is to viait London and Paris to plead, it is said, the royal cause. /11. Tricoupi, the Greek Ambassador at London, and M. Rogue, Secretary of Legation at Paris (who published the celebrated letter of Gene ral Kallergi), have been changed by the Cabinet of Athens to afford every assistance to this gentleman. All this is very significant, and..worth watching. LITERATURE. Gleanings afe3r " Grand Tour"-ists. Bosworth and Harrison. The author of these pleasant, if somewhat diffuse, pages is sot one of those people who wherever they travel find everything barren and cannot get up a sensation. On good terms with himself and party, and determined to make the best of what came across him, we find him pursuing his way up the length of Italy, " chasing, as it were," to use his own language, "the summer with its succession of fruits and flowers before us, from the strawberries of a sunny March at Naples, until we found them at the edge,of the yet unthawed snows of June on the Upper Grisons;" making, in truth, "a progress in the sun in all its stages," save (shall we say) where he comes in contact with what is offensive to good Protestant eyes, when a little obscuration comes over him, without, however, materially affecting.hiS .good temper and inclination towards epigram, versification, and innocent fun. Visiting Naples, of course he pays a visit to Vesuvius, and when there has by no means, as a matter of course, " a momentary glimpse of the actual bottom." It is thus described :—" For a few seconds there was a complete cessation of vapour and I could discern a dark, profound deepening at the bottom to a dull red heat, over which a lighter flame seemed to flicker. I called all to look, but as I spoke it was gone 1" The stones of Paestum suggest the inquiry, " Why has not Ruskin been here ?" On that curse of Italy, malaria we have some sensible remarks. His mode of dealing with it could do no harm, and in all probability would be effectual. It is "to open up the outfall drainage ou the west coast of Italy," for which a few regi ments of " navvies," under scientific direction, would suffice. Of its effects on childr©n exposed to its influence we have this description :—" As we looked on their sea-green faces, swollen bellies, and spindled limbs, we received so forcible a proof of the poisonous nature of the air they lived in and we were inhaling, that we determined to loiter no longer in this pestilential region." Arrived at Naples, the " Campo Santo Di Poveri" gives our author an opportunity to exercise his descriptive: powers, which he does with effect, while in the hydra of lazzaronisin and the towering situation of St. Elme, which commands every street in the town, he discovers how it was the King of the Two Sicilies regained his absolute ascendancy over the revolted people of his capital. The " notabilia" of St. Peter's, at Rome, are graphically produced, and in a visit to the Vatican by t orc hli g ht, an d more especially Ad Catacumbas," the author gathers the materials for the most interesting por tion of his work. Some of the inscriptions on the tombs of the early disciples of the Christian faith, which he describes, are irresistibly affect ing from the truly Christian spirit they reveal,.full of inspired hope and child-like, but well-grounded faith. Of the consolidation of the Italian States he expresses little hope, yet here and there we have indications that the old Roman spirit is not extinct even in quarters where its existence would not be looked for. . A curious story is told in con nection with the visit of the late Czar Nicholas to Rome, when it would appear on one occasion none but scruples of violating the Pope's safeguard stood between him and the vengeance of a Polish soldier, who had fled from the persecution of his faith in White Russia to the service of Pio Nono. Of this Pontiff we have a brief glimpse, the result of which is at least confirmatory of his sincerity. The author's love of Pasquinage leads him into an adventure of rather an exciting description. The catastrophe of the story is sufficiently appalling and instructive, shOwing, as it 'does, how the "red arm'' of private vengeance still holds its own in Rome. Bologna, Vetnci, the Passes to Chiavenna, and Splughen, and the Righi, by morning and evening, each furnishes matter for pleasing description and comment— the " GlAninga" as a whole, let us say in conclu sion, constituting a welcome store of information and entertainment even to those who have appro priated the hariest of the " Grand Tourists." THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—The estimates for the National gallery - will be - laid before the House of Com mons this evening. We trust that hon, members will take care to see . that the abuses in this establishment are thoroughly,gone into before the votes are granted. How THE . - PEACE HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN SARDINIA. —We learn from accounts which arrived in town last night from Sardinia, that the intelligence of the signing of the Treaty of Peace has been received in that country with the deepest disappointment and disgatiwfaction. The Government and the inhabitants equally feel that the peace which has been concluded is one which is not honourable to the Allies, and that it will not assure the future tranquillity of Europe. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At a special general meeting of this society held this week in Regent street, Sir P. Egerton, M.P., in the chair, on the motion of Earl Grey, seconded by Mr. Evelyn Denison, M.P., it was resolved unanimously :—" That the council be authorised to terminate the tenaney of the Garden at Chiswick as' soon as the lease will permit, and that the property therein be sold, unless such a sum as the coun cil may require for maintaining the garden shall have been subscribed before the let of May. The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Orien tal steamer Peta'amount to 417,1441., of which 102,559/, is gold, for . Alexandria, Ceylon, Calcutta, Singapore, and Hong 'Kong ; and 884,585/. silver, for Bombay, Madras,' Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai. IREL AN D. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. THE - NEW LAW APPOINTMENTS. announcethent of the vacancies in the boroughs of Athlone and Ennis reached Dublin this morning, and thus put an end to a world of specu lation as to the successor of Judge Torrens in the Court of Common Pleas. It is believed that no opposition will be offered to the re-election of the new Attorney-General, whose popularity with his constituents is something beyond the crmmon. Of course it is not yet known who will be the candi date for Athlone—probably that most restless of seat-seekers, Mr. John Reynolds, ex-member for the city of Dublin. A Newry paper gives the following account of the la/Own:keno of Mr. Justice Torreus " On Easter Sunday the venerable Judge Torrens at tended Divine worship at the cathedral at Derry, and there partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He afterwards was overcome with faintness, and was carried out by the Mayor and others. He, however, rallied soon after, and was able to attend to his judicial functions on Monday morning, and finished the business of the assizes. His Lordship then proceeded to his re sidence, near Tobermore. On Wednesday he wrote his reply to the address of the grand jury, and was so well on Friday that he shaved himself and dressed. On Saturday he again took unwell, and expired calmly that evening." THE SADLEIR FRAUDS. The extraordinary diclosures partially made in the evidence given by Messrs. Kennedy and Mor rogh before the Master in Chancery have, if it were possible, added to the surprise created by the con clusion of the career of the giant swindler, the extent of whose frauds, great as they were, is even yet imperfectly known. A few days more may, probably, further enlighten the public with respect to John Sadlair's transactions in the Encumbered Estates Court, as the documents promised to be produced by the solicitors , above• named cannot fail to afford full information upon this chapter of the suicide's history. The Freeman's Journal, commenting upon the revelations of Tuesday last, observes : " It appears from the examination of Messrs. Morrogh and Kennedy, before Master Murphy, that the hope in which the depositors indulged was delusive, and that not one single perch of the land purchased by Mr. Sadleir with their money has been in any way charged with the sums so Advanced, The London and County Bank has got no less than 20 assignments of Irish property pur chased by Mr. John Sadleir, no doubt, mostly by the moneys advanced by his brother, Mr. James Sadleir, out of the coffers of the Tipperary Bank ; but. so far as we can gather from the facts elicited at the Master's office, on Tuesday, the shareholders of the Tipperary Bank have received no security of any kind against the lands' purchased in the Irish court, and are shut nut from all claim on them by the London and County Bank. Those who frequented the Encumbered Estates Court on'auction days, or who perused the lists of pur chasers will remember that at a very great sale the came of Sadleir appeared as the purchaser of the prime lots. The vast sums so invested in his came excited sur prise at the time. Those only, however, who were in the secret knew that it was a vast scheme, in Which specula tion and fraud were so commingled that even now it is difficult, with the aid of all the light thrown on these events by the subsequent diseosuree, to say where one began and where the other ended. In every case it would a;ipeai that the Tipperary Beak supplied the funds. Mr. Norris's name was to be used in a transaction of over 10,0001., the mysterious character of which has yet to be unravelled, and the Tipperary Bank supplied the cash. The mortgage affords no clue to this fact—the deed dis closes :no trust on the face of it ; it is yet uncertais whether the moitgage was bona fide to Mr. Norris indi vidually or to Mr. Norris in trust for the bank, but Mr. Morrogh gives the creditors of the bank the benefit of his memory and impressions, and both concur in show ing that the money came from the coffers of the bank. We must admit that the purchases made by Mr. James Sadleir seem to require as much explanation as those made by his late brother, and that gentleman will have, in defence of his own reputatian, to disclose with great minuteness the circumstances which caused him to have the property legally vested in that other party, at a time when no pecuniary transactions with the ficti tious buyer and no family arrangements seem to have required that concealment. The cause of the conceal ment is involved in mystery. The facts already known to the public suggest but one explanation—that the money wtih which the property was purchased was the money of the bank, not Mr. Sadleir's, and that for some as yet unexplained motive he was desirous not to ap pear to have had such command of capital. Mr. John Sadleir's plunder of the Tipperary Bank amounted to tOO,OOO/. There are other two hundred thousands unac counted for. The Glengall mortgage, if Mr. Morrogh'e impressions be correct, accounts for 10,0001. The Kin connell estate seems at present to account for 12 or 16 other thousands'; but it is hardly pessible to believe, if this Kinconnell property was really purchased with the money of the bank, that the manager who attempted to conceal the fact of his having purchased that property and who, when the °bank was more than insolvent, fabricated and circulated a report, representing the profits' on the year as 9 per cent., has not effected some other concealments, the disclosing of which will lessen the calamity which his management of the bank has brought on b 0 many innocent victims. We may be wrong in ouresareoises ' but no person can have read she proceed ings on Tuesday List without feeling that we are at least justified in believing that, so far as the ruin of the Tip perary - its . perary Ban concerued, Mr. Jas. Sadleir was more guilty than even John Sadleir, and he is the party to whom the shareholders and the depositors principally owe the calamitous condition to which they have been reduced. The London and County Bank have obtained from Mr. John Sadleir 20 assignments. Mr. Jas Sadleir, who acted on behalf of the Tipperary Bank, and who advanced to his brother over 200, 0001. of the moneys of that bank, does not appear to have obtained even the semblance of a security for these advances, and unless the 'Kinconnell estate affair be satisfactorily ex plained the shareholders and depositors will be disposed to conchide.that their money was concealed behind the name of the law, and that arrangements were deaberately made for gliding quietly into the enjoyment of that estate by a process which it will be the duty of the offi cial manager to ascertain and to expose, but which at present we do not desire to characterize." NOW OR NEVER ! The 9th of April is not far off ; and, albeit ne cessarily for the last time, awl at the eleventh hour, we venture upon giving the Proprietors of East India Stock one final reminder as to the duty, which is owing alike to themselves and the inte rests they represent, at this important crisis. We were the first openly to avow and make public;the doctrine, that in proclaiming a house-list, and in combining to assure the re-election of the out going five directors as one man, the parties so com bining did in fact conspire to nullify the law of the land. This view of the case (a view that must na turally have occurred to many of the electors at the very outact) now stands confirmed by an overt act on the part of Government—namely, the non reappointment of a ministerial nominee, who va cates the Direction at the expiration of his allotted term. In an advertisement which appeared in the Times of Saturday last, "A Proprietor" (one evidently a man of mark amongst his fellows) expresses his sen timents in the following terms :—" 1 have carefully canvassed the respective merits of the candidates, and have come to the conclusion (at which I trust the proprietors generally will also arrive) that we ought to elect one of the new candidates, Mr. Morris, upon this ground alone--that there is not a single Madras Civil Servant in the direction." The ground assigned (in addition of course to Mr. M.'s admitted qualifications for office) is quite un exceptionable ; yet, strong as it may appear, it is haldly so conclusive as the reason urged by us in the Indian News of the 3d ult. Vote for Morris, because, with your aid, he has the best chance of success ! This is the one practical reason, that should outweigh all others. Fur were reasons plenty as blackberries, it is very certain that there is, or should be; one only all-important object in con stant view of every independent proprietor at this moment ; and that object is—to win, if possible, the battle that must come off on the 9th inst. Mr.. Morris is perfectly awake to the nature of his chan'ces, whether of successor defeat. He tells his friends plainly that it is in their power to re turn him, if they are his friends in earnest. If they do but support him ill the spirit of friendship, he is safe to succeed._ But those who pretend to desTie Mr. Morris's success, and then proceed to ensure his defeat by_frittering away votes upon mem b erfi crof the Coalition, could hardly insult their ostensibly favoured candidate more grossly, even by spitting in his face ! We do not mean to state that Mr. Morris has expressed himself quite so strongly in his last published address. But we most advisedly express our own opinion in the strongest terms available ; hoping that some who yet vacillate, may be thereby induced to pause and refloot ere they commit an act of self-stultifica tion. Promises made to the Coalition (as many no doubt have been made) under studiously fostered misconceptions, are in all honour null and void. It is a sacred duty to break up the House-clique ; and " Now. or Never !" is the word. We should be only too glad to believe that there was room for the success of two outsiders ; but this is scarcely to be hoped. And, such being the case, we do most sincerely hope that all the popular candidates who have no absolute expectation of being returned, will withdraw from the contest ere the day of bal lot arrive: By adopting this generous course they would reap golden opinions amongst the unfettered portion of the proprietary ; they might still be partakers in an honourable victory, even on the present occasion_; and they would retain the chance of being able to fight for their own hands success fully, at some future opportunity.—lndian Netml TLIE WINE DUTIES BEDUUTION. A. numerous and influential deputation waited upon Viscount Palmerston at his residence in Piccadilly, yes terday, by appointment, on this subject. Amongst the gentlemen present were—Mr. Benjamin Oliveira, M.P., Mr. John Macgregor, M.P., Mr. A. J. Otway, M.P., Mr. William Scholefield, M.P., Mr. W. H. G. Langton, M.P. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Wm. White (pre. sident), Henry Buxton, Charles Hackney, and Benjamin Bamford (secretary), from the Anglo-French Free Trade Association of the Staffordshire Potteries, also attended. Mr. OLIVEIRA, M.P., who introduced the deputation, referred to the various steps that had been taken upon the question within the last few years. In 1852 a com mittee of the House of Commons was appointed to In vestigate the whole subject, as affecting revenue, moral and social considerations, and international results. That committee sat for seven Weeks, and collected a vast amount of valuable information, proving, first, that the existing duty was far too high, and prohibited the in troduction to this country of many excellent wines; that a lower duty would promote a vastly increased consump tion, and in a very short time produce a much augmented revenue. That the experiment of introducing the use of wines amongst the humbler classes by retail was emi nently successful, and drunkenness from the excessive use of spirits consequently diminished ; that a dimiuu tion of the import duty upon foreign wines would sti- mulate the commercial relations between Great Britain and the wine-growing countries of Europe, and lead to more intimate and extended transactions to the obvious advantage of all parties concerned ; and that a reciprocal lowering of the tariff in those:countries would be the ulti mate, and not distant, r esu lt. H av i ng f orme d t h ese conclusions, he brought the question under the conside ration of the House of Commons early in 1853, when Mr. Gladstone, while admitting many of his arguments, still thought the time inopportune, as he was effecting many reductions in other atid up.re prtasing matters. The motion was then withdrawn, aed again brought forward early in the session of 1854, with a large amount of fresh information, but the apprelmisioes then enter tained that war with Russia was inevitable, induced hint not to debate the question. During last session he placed a notice on the jourtals of the house, immediately that the meeting of the Conferences at Vienna gave borne hope of peace, and on vi-iting the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the 20th March, he made use of the folio wieg expressions :—" He (the Chancellor of the Xxchequer) hoped that Mr. Oliveira's anticipations of the result of the Vienna Conferences would be realised, and then the question of the reduction of the wine duties would be a subject for discussion." Upon a subse quent occasion, Mr. Gladstone, speaking in the House of Commons, used the following words Un doubtedly there are some duties in our tariff which partake in a limited degree of the principle Of protection, but the hon. gentleman gave my ri g ht hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad advice when, , instead of selecting the articles best able to bear addi tional duties be entirely declined to discriminate, and recommended my right hon. friend to take the wine duty,- which is already the scandal of our tariff, and prohibits nine-tenths of the wine of Europe." Towards the cud of last session he (Mr. Oliveira) had a conversation with his lordship upon the subject of his motion, when his lordship admitted that it was one quite worthy of dis cussion. A treaty of peace having now been signed at Paris, it appeared that the period was particularlyfavours able to its consideration. From the close alliance which the war had brought between France and Great Britain, and the advances which the French Emperor had already made in the principles of free trade, there was no doubt that in both countries the prosecution of every measure tending to strengthen that alliance would meet with • universal approval. His convictions as to the policy and wisdom of an early settlement of the question were fortified and strengthened by the proofs he had that under the present duty there was no perceptible increase of revenue, that the public was imposed upon by the substitution of adulterated wines at an extravagant charge, and an important commercial interest was kept in a state of suspense. His object in placing these facts before him was, for the purpose of ascertaining how far he, as the head of the Government, might think the sub- jcct worthy of hie support, and whether there might not , be interests of sufficient magnitude involves . ' in the quell' tion to render it desirable to deal with it as a necessary auxiliary to the Peace Conference in the extension of the commercial and international transactions of the Euro' pean Powers. The objects of the deputation. were also strongly urged by Mr. Ashworth, of Manchester, Alderman Copeland,' the Mayors of Leeds and Bradford, Mr. Hadfield, and several other gentlemen. Lord PaLmiRSTON, in reply, said that there was no reason to impress on him the general principles on which they sought for the reduction of the duties in question. c - mvinced as he was of the advantages of the trade. Indeed, every man who had turned his attention to the matter felt that duties ought only to be levied for the purposes of revenue, and not in any degree for the pro' tection of particular branches of trade ; but, while they levied duties for the purposes of revenue, they should take care that they did not do so in such a manner as to cripple the industry of the country. Ile would add, tom that most town who reflected on the;subj.ct, know that commercial treaties, as far as they regulated national tariffs, were frequently evaded. There bad been fro' queutly an understanding between England and nonti• nental countries that where they thought that We charged too high a duty on some one of their product-, we undertook to lower it on c3ndition of their rtTeivini in return some of our products at a lower duty than . hitherto. Such arrangements had never worked well, as there were always local prtjniicea to 1 0 * terfere with them. The question of aduiteration wee not a new one, for it had been notorious for a 1 0 4 time. His own grandfather, the Earl of Pembroke, used to tell his own guests that he could on l l give them the assurance of his wine merchant with re spect to the purity of his champagne, claret, and other wines, but that for the port he could himself answer, se he was the person who made it. He (Lord Palmerstoul bad the receipt still in his possession, but he had to sal that he should be very reluctant to try it. It was w well known fact that there was never a good champagne year i❑ France but there-was also-a good apple harvest in Normandy. The question whether the duties were too high, orwitrongly put on, bad engaged the attention of Mr. Gladstone, and it was that gentleman's opinion that there were a great many difficulties in the wa y of their making an ad valorent duty, while that at present ►evied did not on an average amount to more than 2 5 per cent., or about is. per bottle ; and that could take, little effect on the consumer. It could scarcely inter• fee with the importation of the cheap wines, as it would only raise their price from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6i. a bott'.e• Now, suppose they were to reduce it one half, 61, was so small in proportion to 55. or 6.4. a bottle paid for the wine., or to the 2s. 6d. a bottle paid for the cheap ones, that there would be a very small increase in the con' sumption wbile the revenue would be very much re' duced ; while as there was no such thing as a vacuum, it was evident that even that partial increase in the Col sumption of wine would displaca some other beverage at present in use, and from which considerable revenue was derived. The deputation having thanked his lordship for the attention with which he had listened to the exgositios of their views, retired. COWES, ISLE OF WlGffT.-April 3. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LAUNCH OF ANOTHER STEAM GUN-BOAT.—Tile core, of 232 tons, was launched from Messrs. White's shipyard this morning. They have several others in a very forward state. TAE ROYAL REVlEW.—Sixteen ships of the line, WI gun-boats, and a number of other ships are already as' gambled inside the Wight. The number is daily in' creasing, and, in another ten days, one of the most powerful fleets ever seen will be assembled in these waters. NORTHWOOD CEMETERY.—It having been found ins' possible to get the chapels erected by the Ist of may next, the day fixed fur closing the burial ground at West Cowes, application was made to th e P r i v y C oun cil to extend the thee to the let of September, which bag been done. The ground has been drained to a depth of eight feet; the roads and paths are nearly complete, $J is the boundary wall. The ground is four-aud-a half acres in extent, the population about 6,000. NEWPORT. DESTRUCTION OF THE "MILITARY Arats."—A fire WAS discovered in this building on Sunday morning, soon after two a.m. The fire bell was rang, awl the fire engines were soon in full play, there being a plentiful supply of water ; but the firs was not gut under till the building was destroyed. LAMBETH PARISH AND SIR B. HALL'S BILL.--A nu• meroua meeting of the ratepayers of Lambeth was, held at the vestry. hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. Church w arden Stratton in the chair, to express an ,opinion upon the bill brought in by the Attorney-General to explain certain clauses of the Metropolitan Local Management Act The two members for the-borough, Messrs. Wilkinson and Williams, and Mr. Murrough, M.P. for Bfidport, were present. The chairman, in explaining the object of the meeting, said that no one could have imagined that when the Liberal Sir 13. Hall brought in his Local Management Bill he had a secret design of depriving the ratepayers of their privilege of electing church- wardens and everseers. Mr. Giles moved a resolution expressive of the indignation of the meeting at the ato tempt on the part of the reformed House of Commons to take away their authority in the common law ves tries to elect churchwardens, overseers, and other parochial officers, contrary to the express stipulation given by Sir B. Hall when his bill was passed. Mr. Murrough proposed an addition to the resolution, " That if the Attorney-General proceeds with the Metropolis Local Management Amendment Bill the members of this borough be requested to use their utmost endeavours to get a clause inserted for preserve ing to the ratepayers of the metropolitan parishes all the duties, powers, and privileges which before the passing of the act bad been performed and exercised by them in vestry, relative to the election of church wardens and overseers for the poor, or the manage [cent and relief of the poor, and the administration 0 their property applicable to the relie :the poor. Several gentlemen having given their opinions upon the subject,, the original resolution proposed by Mr. Giles was carried unanimously amid great cheering. The rider proposed by Mr. Murrogh was also carried as a substantive motion. Liter addresses from Mr. Wilkin- son and Mr. Williams, a committee was appointed to prepare a petition to the House of Commons founded on he resolution. MOI CON! Trade a( brisk, Rift 'which is di In Arnerie out o f „ cu conaiderab at Mfrs. 50 Were go ld . z Tapioc a ws 'white • qua Sugar, 62f. b rought 2f, team Burin ,393,82 9 f, 605,894 f. against 6,9 Year, • The Fai, Qtocks ( "156 Po per Cell gParlieh 3 6 i_; ditto E The firmer the Aberdeen, and Seotti the Foreig bre and m 10 8 , hi ghe Rankin alb area are 21, hi gher, 108, Nto„ rc Ditto 4 , Conso Ditto 4( LOWno I , l o tr4i Ptym o 'tank s 4141 0 1 zlth raj, brs P i rit of Lyrj 4 4ve n. tr otto r , "eV r 410:Y4 Arrive 4 " Rar thon" zidelity NIIQ' 13krtley, 'wi nd Amy, Sail Wi nd Acv, VI LA 4 rtiv ' c "-Pi h rriv f4 "gos delor c f lgoa Atnalei THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1856