The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY•LANZ. Lessee, MN E. T. Smith. THIS FrENTNO, USED UP. 10 c Ando with EMT DIDDLE , DIDDLE i er. Harlequin King Nonsense and the seven Ages of Man. THEATRE ROYAL, TI,S,YNIARKET. 17n - Xer the Management of Ur. Bnetstose. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by A LOVER BY PROXY. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. ROYAL. PRINCESS'S TrIEITRE, OXre7qo-3TariET. Under the Management of Mr. CII4ILIN MEAL THI3 EVENING, A GAME OF ROMPS. • After which. THE FIRST PRINTER. To conclude with OARLEVIN AND THE MAID AND Tar: MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradlia and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. nadequtn, Mr. Cornitck ; Clown, Mr. llaline ; panlo Pantaloon, Mr. ; and Colomhine, Sits; Caroline Adams. • • , TrJEATRE ROYAL ADELPFIT. Proptiotor,'Mr. E. Web.stor.—Directreas, Madame Celeste. TTITS ItITENT}TtI. BETSY BAKER. To be followed by TIIAT BLESSED BABY. To conclude with • JACK AND THE DE AY,' ST UK; or, T ln iarlequta and Mother Goole at 'dome A.ga. n which Messrs. J. Bland. P. Redford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will appear. ROYAL OLYNIPIC THEATRE. Lessee and lianaTer, `Sr. Alfred Wigan. • • THIS EYRNING, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will he produced a Now and dsubly-moral, though exceasivitly old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRIgCESS; 0-, the Three Glass Distaire. In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston, and Miss Maskell will appenr. ROYAL SITItREY TEIGATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswtek. THIS EVENING JASPER LA.7+.I'GTON; or, I Dael to the Death. Followed by BROTHER 808. To conclude with PARIS IN 1792. ABTLErB KOVAL ANIPIIITHE &THE. Loam and Manarer, lir. Win. Cooke. VIES EVENING, oi.• El! , • (The Last Week before Easter), THE ARAB OF THE nrgEwr ANn TITS FATTIIFITL STEED. The horse, whose wonderful performance has been the universal topic of conversation. trainol by Mr William Cooke. After which, the EQUESTRIAN SCENES ;n the CIRCLE. Also, the miraculous and incredible ascent of the Elephant from the ring' to ttui stage. Ta'emclude with a screamln; Farce, called MR. AND MR WIIITE. litot•ofllee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.. Equestrian Director. Sir. W. Cooke, inn. EMM A. STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN. Prnonnced by the unanimous voice of the press, and by increasing patronage, to be the gmtest artistica' triumph of the day. ' Evenings at 8, and on Saturdays at three precisely. • Stalls Chairs, 35. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; sack Seats, Is. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. EMMA STANLEY'S BENEFIT. FRTT) 1Y Evening next, the 14th instant, Miss Emma Stanley's Benefit. On 4 kTriRDAY, the Ihth, a Day Performance (the last of her first brilliant semon). • The Second Season of the faghlon 4ble and popular Lyric Entertain rnent,THE.,SEVFl N AGES OF WOMAN, will commence on MON DAY,the 24th Instant, at SAINT MARTINI HALL, Long-acre. Nn performance daring P3.93101 1 k Week, E. Stanley being engaged for four nights at Saller's Wells Theatre. #ICITT WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. • Tim DAY—Morn. is rain. aft. 6—Evening 42 min. aft. 6 11,$-Moßnolie—Morn. 7 min. aft. 7—Evoning 3G min. aft. 7 THE TirEXTFIER—Stnr OFFICE', MONK 13. THEF.MOMETER, IX TAE SHADE. 44 -higheit since noon ye/ter:tray. 37 —lowest this morning and during the night. 41 —this dAy at noon. BAROMETER, 30 - 09—rising again. .Wlico, E.—Fresh, with hitter, bright, clear, frosty weather. ~~~ +~, ~z~ ~~~►~.. ~; ~~; ~.,~ :,..,A,9NDO,T, THURSDAY, Mx CH 13, 185 G, r • has been definitively settled that Prussia shall be admitted to the Conferences !" This startling intelligence has arrived almost simul ta:neously from Berlin and from Paris, and there Seeing to be too great reason to FBAlt that it may be authentic. We have never entertained ranch I .lope, of satisfactory results from the pending negotiations. The preliminaries did not afford reasonable ground for auspicious anticipations. But any favourable expectations must be com pletely shattered by the foregoing announcement ! GerManism has again triumphed, and we must once mere witness the forfeiture by the pen of what has been gained by the sword. What claims can Prussia, the Muscovite satel lite, • put forward for such a privilege ? From the very commencement of the Eastern difficulty she has deliberately and carefully avoided the position which she once held as one of the " Great Powers." She has refused to consider questions of European interest, looking only to matters in which Germany was concerned, and by a spurious and pretended neutrality ac quired large profits for herself at the expense of every magnanimous and honourable principle. Had Prussia acted fairly, peace would long since have been proclaimed. It was her tacit conniv ance that encouraged the CZAR, and occasioned and protracted the War ; and the admission of her representative to the salon of Count WALBWSKI will be merely giving an additional vote to Russia, so that it may evade its just responsibilities and escape with comparative impunity from the con sequences of its atrocious guilt. The policy of " Clicquot" has succeeded. "The Angel of Peace" has triumphed ! And why ? Because, by the provisions of the Royal Marriage Act, it is important to find an eligible (!) German applicant for the hand of the Princess Royal ! The interests of our children and their offspring are to be sacrificed to multiply the alliances of the fortunate house of Coburg—to forge an additional link in the dynastic chain, and strengthen the prospects of a Thuringian kingdom being created out of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, A heavy price has been paid for the anticipated a ggrandisement, and, as in many former instances, JOHN BULL is the victim, - - The Prince Consort leads a very happy life. He is not oppressed by the burdens that paralyse the energies of many patres familiantm. The Income Tax presses lightly on the accumulations of hie handsome annuity and numerous and lucrative sinecures. The model farmer and " ranger," w h o feeds his cattle at the expense of the nation, mi g h t well be contented with the unalloyed " spoon " that has fallen to his lot. Let him pull the wires of the puppet at the Horse Guards, and virtually control the military affairs of the nation ! Surely that might satisfy his " kw/able (!) ambition," as it is termed, without any necessity for inter ference in foreign affairs, or the sacrifice of British interests to German idols. A specious pretext has been discovered for an ill-omened visit. Uncle LEOPOLD is to attend at the confirmation of the future Queen of Prussia, and to instil his notions into quarters where the seed may produce very deleterious fruit. Ho has also a very good thing to fall back on, in the shape of a Royal Palace and 50,0001. per annum, and it might be prudent on his part to abstain from intrigues that may lead to the forfeiture of such unequivocal advantage. It is said that a, " word to the wise" is always sufficient. We THE SU t,ON DON, THURSDAY , EVEN IN 0, MARCH 13, 1856, despots overreach itself, and the short-sighted policy of humanitarians ends in greater sufferings than those it seeks to avert. If the whole brood of perjured despots, upheld at present by each other's standing armies, die quietly in their beds for fifty years longer, it will be evidence of a future state of retribution enough to convince the most sceptical. There must be a place somewhere for such incarnations of the attributes appropriate to perdition. PnOVIDENCE appears, however, to deem it necessary to vindicate its present equally with its future reign. Hence our hope that the handiwork of Vienna and Paris negotiations may be shattered before the eyes whick witnessed its construction. The monthly Report of the National Sunday League, adopted on Friday last, and given in another column, is deserving of thoughtful con sideration by all who are iutererted. in the libera tion of the working classes from the Judaical trammels which, alike unwarranted by Revelation and reason, deprive them of the means of much innocent enjoyment and intellectual cultivation by closing the doors of a number of our nationa' institutions on the only day on which they have an opportunity to visit them. The principal lessons to be learned from the Report are the necessity of greater and more com bined effort on the part of the 'masses, and the nature of the opposition with which they have to contend, which is shown to be of the most un- scrupulous sort. Wherever public meetings have been convened by the League, their success, it will be seen, has been complete ; and wherever the Sabbatarian party have been confronted at public meetings on the subject on anything like fair terms It has been subjected to defeat. Thus at Bermondsey ; CALDwEn's Assembly Rooms, Dean-street, Soho ; and at the Philpott-street Institution, Commercial-road East, where the League held important meetings, they carried all before them. So at Newcastle, Leicester, New port, and other places in the provinces. Oa the other hand, the Sabbatarians were de feated at their own meetings in Kentish-town, Chelsea, Bermondsey, Islington, Farringdon-hall, City, Hackney, and the Borough. While at Dover, Huddersfield, and Durham, where the in telligent working classes spontaneously encountered them, resolutions were carried by large majorities in favour of the objects of the League. A con vincing proof of what success might be achieved throughout the country, if ordinary pains were taken to give expression to the wishes of the po pulation. As a set-off against these facts, the Sabbatarian party point to the small number of petitions in favour of the opening of the British MUSOIMI and National Gallery, and the comparatively few signatures attached to them, contrasting these with the multitudinous petitions and signatures against it. The fallaciousness of their conclusions on this head is, however, sufficiently obvious, even at the first blush. He would indeed be bold who would undertake to say that Rot more than 18,548 individuals are to be found throughout the kingdom favourable to the objects of the League, while the small number of meetings to promote them palpably testifies to the want of organisation. On the other hand, when the agencies put in ope ration, and the means employed to get up meet ings and obtain signatures against the motion of Sir JOSHUA WALUSLEY are taken into account, all surprise must cease at the success of the Sab batarian party. It was no:c against a spontaneous, but an organised movelftent—not against fair ar gument, but misrepresentation—the League had to contend. Clerical gentlemen in London, who carry about w;.'ch them the consciences and the in telligence of, the respective religious organisations to which they bolong—at least in such matters— took counsel together, and having concocted a tissue of misrepresentations, despatched secret in structions to their tools throughout the country, and straightway from every pulpit denunciations were fulminated against the sons of perdition who dared to menace the sanctity of the Sabbath, while from every platform where a public meeting could be packed, arose the cry that the working man's day of rest was in danger, and if he did not bestir himself he would shortly have to work on a Sunday as well as on the other days of the week. This, however, was not all. Not content with obtaining a host of signatures by false pre tences and intimidation, the children of the Sun day schools were invited to record their deliberate opinions on the motion ; and, in some instances, there is reason to apprehend, where the result was unsatisfactory, the fabrication as well as duplica tion of signatures was resorted to. A triumph, however signal, obtained by such means, can only herald an ignominious defeat. Lot but the ope rations of the League be extended, and the nature of the objects they have in view be brought fairly be fore the people, and the tyranny of the Sabbatarian party, we are persuaded, will speedily be overpast. Already the interest excited by the poorness of their case, the means adopted to promote it, and the signal majority they obtained, is leading the general public to inquire more deeply into the subject, and. to the result of that inquiry, if pro perly directed, the friends of the League have every reason to look forward with the utmost confidence. It requires no extraordinary for.- sight to recognise in the signal triumph of Sab batarianism this session the elements of as signal a defeat in a succeeding one. Evermore beaten in argument the weight of numbers will not much longer servo it. the exchange wan effected, the of lontiltig, as I thought, rathat ruefully- after his departed cravaclie, and Aotnewhat contemptuously at the shabby but characteristic stick and thong he had received for it. The signal thus giVoli the *hip trade soon ac quired ghat activity. Probably some of the officers present were ready enough to give a tole rably good whip for a bad Cossack one, as a souvenir of - the day's proceedings and of the commencement of the armistice. It had been expected that vi , dettes would be placed, and that very little freedom of intercourse would be allowed beyond the bridge of Traktir, and people at first thought themselves fortunate in getting over the bridge and having a good view of the Cossacks and a chat with some stray Russian officer. Presently, however, as the morning, which had previously been cold and raw, advanced, and the sun shone bright and warm, and the dry, grassy, and shrub-grown plain of the Tchernaya looked tempting for a canter, officers began to get restless, and to move away rom the bridge across a small stream or ditch, and up a strip of level ground leading to a sort of monu ment, a square pedestal of rough stones sur mounted by a d •varf pillar, of no particular order of architecture, and concerning whose origin and object the Russians, of whom inquiry was made, could say nothing. Some more Sardinian and French officers had by this time come down, but, besides those engaged in the conference and attached to General Windham's Staff, Ido not think there were a dozen English officers on the ground. The general disposition of all seemed to be to move outwards in the direction of the Rus- sian lines. People did not know how far they might go, and accordingly felt their way, cantering across a bit of level ground, and up a hill, and then pausing to look about them and reconnoitre the country and see whether there was any sign of ob stacles to further progress. The soil was of a lighter and more sandy nature than it generally is found to be within our lines ; in some places it was rather thickly sprinkled with bushes, saplings, and tall weeds. Several brace of red-legged partridges were sprung, some of them so near our horses' feet that a hunting-whip would have reached them. As the morning advanced the field grew larger. A. French General was there with his Staff and seve ral French Hussar officers. Numbers of Sardinians came, but the English were detained in camp by a muster parade, and many also had been misin formed that the meeting of the Generals was not to take place until 12 or 1. By this time we were getting far on towards the Russian lines and bat teries, when the field began to spread out, some taking to the right, and getting very near to a COE• sack vidette, who seemed rather puzzled to account for the presence of so many strange horsemen with in musket shot of his post, and who, after once or twice beginning to circle in signal fan enemy's approach, received a reinforcement in the shape of another Cossack, who rode down the hill as if to warn the intruders off forbidden ground. An other party of gallopers went close up to the battery known as No. 49, and held communion with some videttes, with whom they smoked an amicable cigarette, until a Russian officer came up and politely informed them in French that his orders were to allow no one to come any further, and that he hoped they would retire, which they of course did. More to the left, a numerous body of horsemen, followed by a straggling array of Zouaves, Chasseurs, Bersagheri, and other in fantry soldiers, who had made their way to the ground, rode up to the ridge just - below the spur of the hill to tho south-east of Inkernian. Hero they were very near the Russian pickets, and, within particularly convenient shot of various bat teries, had these thought proper to open, and there most of them paused, for to go further really looked like abusing the good-nature of the enemy, who thus allowed us to profit by the conference to enjoy a ride further into the Russian territory than any one has been since this camp was formed, and to take a near view of their positions and defences. Only half-a-dozen adventurous and inqusitive spirits pushed ahead, and seemed as if they intended charging a Russian battery, and the videttes began to move uneasily about in this direction also, when up came a Sardinian Staff officer at full speed, his blue plume streaming in the wind, and gave chase to the forward gentlemen, shouting to them toreturn. They, seeing themselves thus cut off in the rear, and perhaps to avoid a rebuke, made a retrograde flank movement, escaped their pursuer, and rejoined the main body ; and, as orders were now given that no one should go further, a return towards the bridge became pretty general. The horses, long accustomed to sink to the fetloch in horrid. Balaklavan and Sebastopolian mire, seemed to en joy the change to the firm, springy turf beyond the Tchernaya ; more partridges were sprung, to the immense tantalisation of some there present, who would have given a month's pay for a day's shooting over such ground; some 'hares were also started, and one of them was vigorously pursued by a subaltern of a sporting turn, whose baggage pony, however, was soon left far in the rear by puss's active bounds. On reaching the bridge a halt was again called round the group of Cossacks, and all eyes were fixed on the two neat blue and white-striped tents, with awnings over their en trances. Some of the generals were standing out• side, and it was evident the conference was draw ing to a close. A short delay ensued, which I per ceived that the Cossack corporal availed himself of to exchange his Sardinian whip for a much better French one, the receiver of the former doubtless imagining he had secured a genuine Russian article. Then cocked hats and feathers were seen moving among the horses near the tents ; or derlies and escorts mounted ; the Cossacks did the same, and presently English, French, Sardinian, and Russian Generals and Staff rode over the bridge and between a double line formed by the spectators. General Tirnoieff, a soldierly-looking man of agree able physiognomy, rode:first, and smilingly returned the salutes with which he was received. General Windham was close beside him, a little in rear. There was an escort of French Chasseurs-a-Cheval and a small one of the 11th Hussars, and the, big horses and tall well-fed men of the latter strikingly contrasted with the puny, although hardy steeds, and with the meagre frames of the Cossacks, who seemed to regard them with some wonderment, while the Hussars glanced at them as if they thought that one squadron of theirs would have an easy bargain of half a dozen sotnias of such antago nists. The cortege proceeded a short distance into the plain, and then the allied portion of it took leave of " nos amis les ennemis," and retraced their steps to the bridge. They had passed over it, and the crowd of spectators was following, when they were met by a throng of officers from the English camp, coming down to see the fun, which, unfortunately, was over. Nevertheless, they were pressing forward across the bridge, and would doubtless, had they been allowed, have ridden up to the Bilboquet battery, or across to Mackenzie's Farm, for it is an axiom out here that nothing will stop an English infantry officer, mounted on his favourite baggager ; but a French staff captain, seeing what was likely to ensue ordered the sentries to allow no one to cross the bridge. As WO rude up the ravine between the two mamelons which witnessed such sharp fighting on the 17th of August last we met scores more of English officers coming down, only to be turned back. There were still a great number of the allied officers and soldiers scattered over the valley, but doubtless they will all have returned to our lines without annoyance, judging from the indulgence and courtesy shown throughout the morning by theßussians to ramblers somewhat beyond bounds. The General officers who met to-cloy were—Gene ral Thnoieft, Chief of the Staff of the .4:th Corps of the Russian army, which is in front, and furnishes the advanced posts ; Generals de Martircprey and Windham and Colonel Count Petitti, Chiefs Of the Staffs of the French, English, and Sardinian armieSe The three latter were deputed by their Generals-in- Chief to present the proposals of armistice which these had discussed and decided upon. Their mis sion extended no further, and General Timoieff, not being authorised to accept those proposals, without referring them to his Gene ral-in-Chief, merely took a copy of them, which he will trans mit to General Luders, who is said to be now close at hand. It is probable, therefore, that there will be another interview for the definitive arrange ment of the terms. Altogether there were a good number of Russian officers at and near Traktir-bridge to-day. Some of them were strolling by twos and threes in the fields at a short distance beyond, and when these were descried there was usually a register charge down upon them by the allied officers, eager to make their acquaintance. Their manner was generally grave and rather reserved, but they cos - versed readily, and all had the tone and appear ance of well-bred men. Some of them were very young. There was one youth of 18, who named to us the regiment of Hussars in which he was an officer, and seemed knowing about horses, pointing out the English ones from among the French, Italians, and Arabs that stood around. All—ca valry as well as infantry, and the General an his Staff—wore the long uniform great-coat of a d soli of brown and grey mixture, and seemed to have no other insignia of rank than the different colours and lace of the shoulder strap. There was also a difference of fineness in the cloth of their coats from that of the soldiers, but this at a very short distance was not apparent. The Staff wore white kid gloves, and I noticed some of them with smart patent leather boots--elegances rarely seen in our part of the Crimea. To return to yesterday's explosions :—The White Buildings blown up were formerly barracks, and form the north and west sides of a - square, whose third side is merely a wall. Within this square (to which the forth side it wantipg) were buildings of ' trust that th is rather significant hint will not be misapplied to 3 the parvenu Monarch. Hitherto • the country has yielded an implicit reliance to tl le PALMRESTON Government. Lord CLARENDON has especially obtained the confidence which he ha s well merited. The nature of the influences by which they are assailed are now perceptible. Lot them be stedfastly resisted, and the parties who do so, and sustain the popu lar cause in the almost inevitable struggle, will be energetic ally supported. Never, perhaps, in the national history has there occurred a more glorious opportunity for the achievement of im perishable fume by a patriotic statesman. Let it not be wasted or misapplied, and a monument more enduring than either brass or marble may be acquired. The difficulties are great, but the honour will be proportionate. The watchword may be "England for the English, and for no others." We are not as yet reduced to the con dition of seeking a "King LOG " or a " King STORK," but can make a reasonable attempt at self-government without German aid." Joviality, selfishness, and short-sighted hu manity are equally liable to throw overboard care 'or the future. The first, like HORACE or BURNS, is too merry to think of it ; selfishness deliberately absorbs itself in present gains ; while: well meaning benevolence relieves present sorrow, un willing to weigh the natural results of its conduct upon after years. All these influences may just now combine to perpetrate a gross iniquity at the Peace Conferences. Selfishness in the shape of political expediency, and benevolence regarding only the horrors of war, are likely to condone the most infernal of all European crimes, and to sow the seeds of the most bloody revolutions for the next half century. If ever Sovereign or people did a damnable deed, it was that of the ambitious harlot CATHE RINE, carried on by the hypocrite ALEXANDER, and completed by the demon NICHOLAS—the deed which first parted, then wholly acquired, and then denationalised Poland. We have written somewhat strongly before, but it arouses every 'eeling of attachment to national existence and Ilre do not pretend, like Mr. COBDEN, to prophecy. PROVIDENCE has not revealod its plans to us ; but it will be no more than the usual course of things if the selfish policy of liberties to know that the murderers of Poland are now engaged in burying their victim, and that the witnesses of the murder and feeble pro testers against it are now aiding at the funeral. Hitherto, if wo may prolong the most obvious of figures, the body of that noble nation has lain unburied ; indeed it has been deeply wounded rather than dead ; capable of restoration to life if England and France were but united and resolute ; there it lay, the reproach of despots bad enough for anything, who did the deed— and the reproach of the two great stations who only faintly cried murder, but who have acted as yet the part of the Priest and the Levito. Instead of pouring oil and wine into the wounds, Lord CLAB.ENDON and M. VV - ALEWSKI—a Pole, too, he—are probably aiding Counts ORLOFF and BUOL to shovel the earth on the half-dead body, and to aggravate the cruelties of the past by consigning political helplessness to a living grave. As far as despots can insure anything, the in terment of Poland, with nothing but the tomb stone of history to tell us of its existence, will now be completed. It is possible, indeed, not improbable, that nothing will be said about it— nothing, at least, in the formal s; ttings. But silence itself in such a matter is deliberate ac tion. The object of the Conference is a peace "in the interests of Europe," or comprising pro visions in her interest. If Poland be not men tioned, it can only moan that she no longer exists to have any European interests, or that it is not for the interest of Europe that she should have an existence. It means, in truth, both. Even the former, scarcely audible, protests of the Allies against the devilry of Russia in that unhappy country will be nullified by the Conference of all the powers concerned in the spoliation with the two great ones who objected. If Russia lose the coasts of the Black Sea, and be barred off from Waranger Bsy, she will gain, by the peace of Paris and Kars, eternal indemnity for her Polish villanies. History will record that at Paris, 1856, Poland breathed her last. Till the year when the Western Powers Lad brought Russia to their feet—when she was not, as at Vienna, a conqueror among conquerors, but a vanquished suppliant for mercy, Poland was not indisputably Russian. But then, and when " a lasting Euro pean peace" was the object, one admitted element of the peace is that the vanquished thief should retain his prey! It will, in fact, be a peace of despots, not of nations—an agreement to hold each other as harmless as they can. Every nation concerned is earnestly desirous that Poland should be free. Turkey wishes it as the best guarantee against the treachery and insolence both of Austria and Rus sia, and even Austria herself would be secured on her Russian frontier. France and England wish it, from early, long, and deep sympathy with the oppressed, and hatred of the oppressor. Sardinia nobly shares in the feelings of her Allies. But not only is the Russian Cent, as arch-despot Of Europe, to be tenderly dealt with by brother despots, but the base, perjured vermin who infest central Europe are the sworn and intermarried satraps of Russia, and yet can dominate in the Courts of the great nations at war with her. Why, oven now we are told that, in spite of the national detestation of Prussia, a scion of the shabby HOLIENZOLLERNS is to renew, and far a much longer period, his visit to the Princess- Royal ! We trust and believe it to be a scandal. Repeal rather the wicked Marriage Act of that German tyrant, GEORGE the Third, and let not our national interests be wedded to the meanest and most deeply-perjured of Royal ties, that of Austria not excepted. Whence this ignominious courting of Germany ? Even the powerful mind which now vales France sought an Empress first in Germany. Austria forbade the banns. Is it the happy domestic results, or is it the interests of absolute power, which leads LOUIS NAPOLEON to he so over gracious with the power which denied him a German wife. To all ap pearance he is as much cajoled by Germany as if ho had married a COBURG. Be all this as it may, it is chiefly German despotism, self-esteem, and malignity, to which Poland owes it that she is now to be lost for ever. Let not, however, our peace-makers be too con fident in an unrighteous compromise for the sake of present ease. It was a stipulation of this sort which plunged Germany into the cruel thirty years' war. It was the miserable subterfuge of tolerating slavery under a feigned name in the American deed of independence which has in flicted its greatest degradation on their Republic, and which threatens it with civil war. An evasion of political expediency in the hope that slavery would die out, has resulted in branding all the Free States with a fugitive-slave law, in filling the Southern States with a slavery unheard of for brutality and atrocity, and in a f eu d which shakes " the Union" of the wicked to its centre. LATEST NEWS. • iVIENNA, WEDNESD A Y ETEN It liar been definitively settled that Prussia shall be admitted to the 'conferences. BERLIN, 3.d.A.Ren 12. Prussia has been invited, in the name of the Congress, and for reasons of European interest, to send representatives to the Paris conferences, and she will accept the invitation. Prince Gortsobakoff goes to St. Petersburg, to take part in the deliberations relative to the diplo matic; attitude to be assumed by Russia after the conclusion of peace. M. do Titoff, the Russian ambassador at Stud• gardt, has been summoned to St. Petersburg for the same purpose. The Military Tribunal has been charged with the examination into the duel of M. de Hinckeldy. M. de Rochow, who had been arrested, has been set at liberty on giving bail for his appearance if required. MADRID, MARCH 11. The Cortes yesterday adopted the first six articles of the municipal bill. The discussion on the budget of receipts will commence to-morrow. The Gazette publishes the newly reformed tariff% THE ARMISTICE IN THE CRIMEA. CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FEB. 28. This morning brought us news of the conclusion of an armistice. The Russians had it first, by tele graph from St. Petersburg. At 8 a.m. a boat, bear ing a flag of truce, put off from the north side, and was met half-way across the harbour by one from the French. The Russians brought a communica tion of the armistice from Gen. Luders, and the mail from Constantinople, which arrived early to day, brought its confirmation to the allies. To morrow morning at 10 o'clock there is to be a meeting of the Russian and allied officers at Trak tir-bridge, to arrange the details of the truce. It is believed that this will amount to very little more than a cessation of fire, and that a line of demarca tion will be drawn midway between the advanced posts, which will limit walks, rides, shooting par ties, Asc. People hero seem generally well pleased that the suspension of arms is to be only until the 31st of March. Previously to that date little could be done in the way of military operations. Mean while, and as if to celebrate the armistice, the so called White Buildings were blown up this after noon. It became known in the course of the morn ing that the exploision was fixed for half-past 3 ; and that the brig in the Dockyard Creek was also to be blown up, by way of experiment, and for the particular gratification of Mr. Deane, " the infer nal diver." So, soon after 3 o'clock, spectators be gan to assemble at the Redan, in front of Picket house-hill, on Catlicart'a-hill, and in other commanding positions. There was not a very strong muster at any of these places, for we are rather bias() in the matter of explo sions ; and, although the clay was bright and sunny, the ground was very heavy with mud and snow, and the cold too sharp to be pleasant. There was a certain amount of snowballing among the pedestrians, which, doubtless, contributed to keep up a supply of caloric, and one or two base attacks were made upon unfortunate equestrians who, not having snow within their reach, or a supply of ready-made snowballs in their pockets, had no choice but to charge their assailants or re sort to ignominious flight. The majority of the horsemen sat ruefully awaiting the blow up ; a canter for warmth would have been desirable, but the ground was most unfavourable—deep and spread with a sheet of snow, concealing holes. Half-an-hour passed ; feet were very cold, noses very blue, fingers hardly felt the reins, grumbling was heard :—" It is nearly 4 o'clock ; why the deuce doesn't it go off ?" Patience is, I fear, not a very common virtue in the Crimean army. An impromptu " shave," suggested by the circum stances of the moment, was passed about. " Pelissier is coming ; 'they wait for him." Now, it so happened that Pelissier was not coming. The armistice gives him something to do and think of, and, moreover, he came a few days ago, it having been notified to him that the White Buildings were then to blow up, which they did not. So he no longer put his faith in the unpunctual engineers of perfidious Albion, but stayed away. Some French Ind other foreign officers came ; some of them were in the Redan, and others, who came from the French head-quarters, were on the slope in front of Picket-house-hill, just over the ravine, waiting patiently and confidingly. Another half-hour passed. A quarter-past four, and no explosion. Strong language began to be used ; wishes were uttered whose fulfilment would certainly not be desired by the engineers, at whose door, rightly or wrongly, the delay was laid. The third half-hour had not quite elapsed when a report spread that the explosion w; a put off. Ac cording to some accounts, it would occur in an hour and a half ; according to others, to-morrow, while a third party talked of next week; and there was a general movement campwards. A few Ar tillery officers still stuck to the Redan ; Picket house-hill was quickly cleared, except of ono or two obstinate expectauts, and Cathcart's was aban doned by many ; when, behold ! just at a quarter to 5, when few of the weary who had departed could have reached their quarters, and some could have been but a hundred or two yards on the wrong side of the hill-crests, out gushed a small puff of white smoke from the White Buildings, then a big puff of black smoke ; there was a slight explosion, a *grumbling roar ; stones were hurled into the air and pitched high above the eastern wall into the docks, and then, after a silence which seemed to last nearly a minute, came a series of pops and puffs as the mines went off in rapid succession, and an immense volume of smoke arose, not in dense sluggish masses slowly surging up, as at the explo sion of Fort Nicholas, but in a thinner cloud, which rose so high that the summit of the murky column was visible over Picket-house-hill to persons some way down the Woronzoff-road, where it passes through the Light Division camp. When the smoke cleared off the damage did riot appear so great as was expected. The walls of the build ings still stood, except the north-east corner. Doubtless the inside had suffered, and, indeed, there were appearances indicating thatmuch damage had been done. Later, at about a quarter to 6, when it was supposed that all was over, and every body had abandoned the points of observation, another series of explosions was heard. Of these I have not yet ascertained the result. After the explosion of the buildings Fort Constantine sent a solitary shell into the French side, so I suppose the armistice is not considered to be perfect until after to-morrow's conference. FEBRUARY 29. There was a lively and novel scene at 10 o'clock this morning at Traktir-bridge. At its further end the white flag was hoisted, and just beyond it were halted some five-and-twenty Cossacks, who had escorted thither the Russian General Timoieff and his staff. The generals, who had met to arrange the details Of the armistice, occupied two tents, pitched on a strip of green sward in the rear of the bridge. At a few minutes past 10 General Barnard and some staff officers rode down through the ravine between the two hills on whi3h the battle of the Tchernaya was chiefly fought, and crossed to the other side of the river. There were, perhaps, half a-dozen other English officers, about as many French, and a much larger number of Sardinians. All these went over the bridge, and a sort of frater nisation ensued between them and some Russian officers—that is to say, there was a good deal of civility, and some ill-treatment of the French and German languages; but, as to carrying on much con versation with our Muscovite friends, it was not an easy matter, for there seemed a mutual embarrass ment as to what subject to pitch upon. Horses were a natural theme, and the Russians expressed much admiration,of some of those present, and were probably rather astonished at their good condition. But the great object of curiosity to us was the fur capped Cossacks, around whom the allied officers assembled, examining their arms and equipments and entering into conversation, which, in most cases, was carried on by signs. They were slen der, wiry men,—ugly enough, most of them— mounted on small, rough, active horses, and carrying, besides sword and carbine, flagless lances, whose long black poles terminated in a small but very sharp pointed steel head. They seemed well pleased to cultivate the acquaintance of theil enemies, 'and also had evidently an eye to the main chance. One of the first things I saw was a Cossack corporal proposing a barter to a Sardinian officer. The latter bad a tolerably good riding whip, for which the astute child of the Don insisted on swapping a shabby sort of instrument of torture, of which his pony is doubtless rejoiced to be rid. The Sardihian hesitated, the Cossack persisted i and VIE CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. The confirmation of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal will take place in her Majesty's Private Chapel, in Windsor Castle, upon Thursday, the 20th inst. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, who is god father to her Royal Highness, the members of the Royal family, and a select circle, have been invited to be pre sent at the ceremony, which will be performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a distinguished party to dinner last evening, at ker resi dence at St. James's Palaoe. TUE EARL AND COUNTESS OP DERBY'S DINNER.—Y,£. terday evening the Earl and Countess of Derby enter tained a select circle of friends at dinner at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley will leave tiven en Saturday next for Knowsley Hall, where they will remain until after tke Easter holidays. The Countess of Galloway, who has been suffering from indifferent health, is, we are happy to say, much better, and hopes are entertained of ker early restoration to health. The Governors of the Dreadnought Hospital ship have appointed as their physician, Dr. Robt. Barnes, M.D., who is candidate also for the appointment of Health Officer of the Shoreditch District Board. Small amounts of gold coin continue to be remitted from Paris, and the rate of exchange is very firm. At Hamburg there is a renewed pressure for money, and the rate of discount has again advanced to 5 per cent. THE MONET MARIEET.—The East India Company lent 300,0001. yesterday upon stock at 5 per cent., and the demand for money in the Stock Exchange was conse quently much mitigated. At the Bank of England, likewise, although the applications were numerous, there was an absence of any serious pressure. In the discount market generally there was no particular alteration. This day, in consequence of 2,000,0001. being due on the new loan; an extraordinary demand was anticipated. TYPHUS AT CONSTANTINOTLE.—About 10,000 patients are in the different hospitals around Constantinople, a fifth of whom are suffering from typhus fever. The Russian garrivin in Kars does not consist of more than two battalions, with six pieces of cannon in the citadel. Ali wai tranquil there at the beginning of It ie month. minor importance—among them one surmounted by a clock-tower. The intention was, as I under stand, to blow up the buildings, but to leave the outer walls standing, so as to mask the operations of any workmen or fatigue parties that might afterwards be employed inside. The buildings being very extensive, a large number of mines were prepared, but it appears that the snow-water fil tered in and damped some of the charges. I have not heard the cause of the delay in the first explo sion, but the interval between the two arose from accidents having happened to the fuses. Parts of the inner wall of the building still remain. Some of the buildings in the centre of the square have been overthrown ; among others, the clock-tower, which yesterday morning was a conspicuous object, was levelled with the dust by one of the second series of explosions. As far as the explosions took place, I believe their result to have been satisfac tory ; but there is by no means that clean sweep and total downfall of the whole of the buildings which was anticipated, and which we now learn was, for the reason above assigned, never intended. Mr. Deane's experiment with the brig failed ; the reason why has yet to bo ascertained. It is said that Mr. Deane attributes his occasional failures to the state of the wires, which have -been patched and joined, and are no huger to be implicitly relied upon. Ile appears to be indefatigable iu his en deavours to overcome difficulties and perfect his apparatus. During the first four weeks that money-orders have been issued in the Crimea more than 7,0001. has been transmitted to England. But for the facility afforded by the Post-office there can be no doubt that by far the larger part of this consider able sum would have been squandered here in vicious indulgence, instead of contributing to the comfort of many a humble home. Credit is certainly due to the Post-office officials in the East and in England, by whom, as I understand, the innova tion was first proposed, with the certainty of its occasioning - them much additional labour and re sponsibility. One can but regret that the plan was not adopted at the commencement of the war, for it assuredly would have greatly diminished drunk enness, and have had a beneficial effect upon the army. It is to be observed that hitherto the de mand for ordbrs has progressively increased, and as yet show no symptoms of slackening. 7,0001. in four weeks is at the rate of about 90,0001. a-year ; and, as the money received is paid to the Commis sariat, it would have been so much less to remit from England for the wants of the army, and the greater part of it would have been rescued from the sutlers and Greek venders of abominable spirits, who, up to - a month ago, have benefitted by the soldiers' superfluous cash. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY ETENING. The following is the last bulletin issued relative to Prince Jerome :- 12th, 8 a.m.—A. rather marked alleviation in the principal symptoms has set in. By a decree in the Iti oniteur, Mme. Bizot, widow of General Bizot, of the Engineers, who was mor tally wounded before Sebastopol, and Mine. de Brancion widow of the colonel of the 50th Regi ment of the line, who was killed at that place, have been named to he functions of sub-gouvernantes of the imperial children of France. The M o niteur publishes a decree promoting Ge neral Maneque and Chef d'Esoadron Robinet of the Imperial Guard, to the rank of officers in the Legion of Honour, and 54 officers and non-commis sioned officers in the same force to that of knight. Another decree confers the military medal on 237 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Im perial Guard. A letter from Paris of the 10th, in the Indepcn dance of Brussels, under the signature of " Y," who has generally been found well-informed on the subject of the congress, states that everything is going on in the most satisfactory manner, and that peace is likely to be announced at a more early period than is generally imagined. The letter adds : " I will not repeat to you—what every person knows—that Count Orloff speaks with admiration of the Emperor Napoleon. In conversing a day or two ago of the state of affairs with an eminent personage belonging to the French Government, the count said to him—' The greatest regret of my life, now that I know the Emperor Napoleon, is that my deceased master, the Emperor Nicholas, bad not }teen acquainted with him also. If he had only seen him for one half hour, not only would there have been no war, but a friendly inter course would have been established between the two sovereigns, for the Emperor Napoleon has precisely the qualities which would have exercised an influence over the mind of the Emperor Nicholas."' _ _ BOURSE, March 12.—The following were the last quotations : End of Month. —f. —e. 73 40 _ Cub. tr. e. li per Cents P3 50 3 per Cents 72 80 New Loan 72 75 Bank Shares 3,450 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,585 Austrian Belgian Fives .. 961 Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s)...... 9J 50 Home Debt RAH:WATS-108 CAW. fr. C. fr. c. Orleans ... 1,278 75 Western B7B 75 Northern .. 987 50 Strasburg Lyons ...... 1,255 New Ditto 822 50 kletliterranoan 1,550 Grand Central 655 Lyons Geneva 765 Tests Cette TURKEY. The accounts from Constantinople state that in consequence of several of the French medical men in that city being ill, the Euglish surgeens have offered to replace them, the English hospitals in the Turkish capital being relatively less numerously filled. The Turkish government, in consequence of the wants of the allied armies, have limited the export of corn to the southern ports of the Empire. EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the 22d ult., in the Constitutionnel, says :—" The Viceroy of Egypt is desirous, at the same time that he opens the Isthmus of Suez - to the peaceful operations of all nations, of solving the great problem of African geography—that of the sources of the Nile. He has manifested his intention to confide the command of a new expedition to Count d'Escayrac de Lau tore, member of the Central Commission of the Geographical Society, a man well known for his travels in the interior of Africa, and for his works on that part of the world. This expedition will take place under the most favourable condi tions. It will, moreover, have in its favour the experience of the preceding ones under Selim-Ca. pitan, and in which MM. d'Arnaud, Sa,hatier, Werne, and Thibaut took part. Halim Pacha, brother of the Viceroy, who has requested to have the general government of the Soudan, with a de sire to open to science these distant countries and to promote their civilisation, will powerfully con tribute to secure the success of the enterprise." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 3d, in the _Mats, says :—" Mournful accounts are constantly arriving from the Crimea, where epidemic diseases appear to be committing as many ravages as ever. Typhus fever has recently carried off many young men who are serving as volunteers in the Crimea, and who were not well prepared for supporting the fatigues which they have had to encounter. A great number of medical men, many of them foreigners, have also fallen victims to this malady. , It is said that the ranks of the army have been so thinned by disease that, even should peace be con cluded, it will be necessary to keep all the militia, in order to fill up the blanks, so as to keep the army even on a peace footing. Different deliberations bave recently taken place on the subject of affairs in A s i a , but they have not led to any result. However i mpor t ai ;t the taking of Kars may be, it is not the the Russian army has been compelled less true tha. to retire on its Awn territory, whilst the army of Omer Pacha still occupies a part of Miegrelia, and in.strong positions, Although it is decimated by disease. The question to be decided is, whether, in the event of peace not. being concluded, the Russians shall attack Omer Pacha or return on Kars. If the latter, they would advance with an enemy's army on their flank." THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, March. 11.—The flying squadron has proceeded on to the further part of the Baltic, and probably may extend itsvisit to the Gulf of Finland if not prevented by the ice, large quantities of which are floating about at a considerable distance from the coast, thereby rendering any passage for the vessels extremely dangerous. We read in the Independance Beige, under date Hamburg, 9th inst.:—" According to letters re ceived this morning from Kiel, it appears that the English Government has resolved to reinforce by several ships of the line the blockading squad ron, limited at first to two frigates and four corvettes. These letters state that several liners, which are to be under Commodore Wat son's orders, are daily expected at Kiel, and that the frigate Euryalus has been directed to await in that part the arrival of those reinforcements. The naval force assembled at the Danish island of Moen will accordingly only consist of four corvettes or dered there from Elsinore, and the 50-gun frigate Imperieuse, on board of which the Commander of the squadron has hoistedhis flag. The English Com modore, as well as all the naval officers, wbo went ashore during their recent visit to Kiel, publicly ma nifested their displeasure at the prospect of theconclu sion of pea,ce. They openly avowed their anxiety for the continuation of the yfa.; and a third campaign, which, they say, would not prove so fruitless as the two first. They declare that, by means of her new and immense armaments, England, with her navy alone, would to-day be able to destroy Sweaborg, Cronstradt, and all the other fortresses of Russia in the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland. I do not pre sume to, qu , stion the probability of the success of the English fleet in those Russian waters, but if we are to believe the numerous persons who daily arrive at Hamburg from the Baltic provinces, all the for' tresses.' have been placed, since the departure of the Allied squadrons, in a truly formidable state of defence. All the points along the coast suscep tible of being attacked and serving as landing places, have been fortified and provided with such means of resistance that, in order to attack them with success, the assailants must bo prepared to suffer immense losses in men and materiel," SPAIN. MADRID, March B.—The adjourned bidding for the Madrid and Saragossa Railway contract took place to-day in the great hall of the Ministry of Public Works, which was quite filled, more than 700 persons being present, including the first capi talists of Madrid. On the 25th ult. the offers sent in were four, besides the original offer of the Great ~ Central of France, and they were read to-day as f •• 1. Senor Mathew and other capitalists offered to take the contract at 20 reals per kilometre under the proposal of the Great Central. " 2. The Duke of Savillano and others 30 reels under the same. " 3. The Credit Mobilier 2,500 realm under. " 4. Senor Salamanca and others 30,000 reels under.' At the bidding to-day the point turned on whether the parties who had previously sent in offers would take the contract on lower terms than Senor Sala manca ; and that gentleman having come to an understanding with the Great Central while the Credit Mobilier and other competitors thought proper not to depart from their original offers, the result was, that the Great Central, having sent in a written proposal to make the line at one real less per kilometre than what Senor Salamanca proposed, and no other proposition being mad• during the half-hour allowed for receiving or b etre ing the same, the construction of the line was ad-, judged amidst applause by Senor Lujan, -Minis ter of Public Works, to the Great Central Railway Company of France, of which Count Morn)? is President, with a subvention by the Spanish Go- vernment of 209,999 reals per kilometre. The same Company has purchased of Senor Salamanca the Madrid and Almauza Line, with its continua- , tion to Alicante, for the sum of 1.25,000 f. per kilo metre of the works executed. PRUSSIAN AND BELGIAN SUPPLIES OF WAR MATERIAL. A. letter from Berlin, evidently with a leaning towards Prussia, says : " In the summer of 1854 Prussia forbade the transit of arms and ammunition through her territory ; this did not tonch England at all, to whom the sea was open, but it cut off from Russia the Belgian markets. Subsequently it was found that to evade the prohibition of transit, the Russians imported Liege firearms, &c., into Prussia in the name of a Prussian subject, paying the import duty, and then exported them again as Prussian property, paying the export duty. In March of last year this prohibition was extended to all contraband of war not being of Zollve rein origin ; and this has been the means of stopping large quantities, both from entering Prussia at the Belgian frontier, or from quitting it at the Russian frontier. Various instances of this I have already had occasion to report to you at different times. This would not, how ever, prevent the Russian Government from following our mown example of obtaining supplies from Prussian or Zoll• verein manufacturers ; not only large quantities of poled er n above 70,0001 b. in one parcel, but also large quantities of carbines, revolvers, and cavalry sabres, have been supplied from this country, the latter from the manufactories at Solingen. It has, moreover, been done openly and with the cognisance of the Governments ; in the case of the powder, our Government supplied the saltpetre, and ',he permission of its importation ' for purposes of the Confede ration' as was officially notified to Sir Alexander Mallet, at Frankfort." THE NATION4L GALLERY.—THE PAOLO YEBOIVE•sE PURCHASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having just returned from the Continent, with' a vivid impression of the works of Paolo Veronese, in Italy, and in the Louvre, I write to protest against the lamentable want of judgment shown in the purchase of the picture which has recently been hung in the Na tional Gallery, as a production of that master. Even - were it granted that this picture ever was by Paolo Veronese, it certainly would have but little claim to be received as such now ; for besides that its entire surface has been greatly damaged by over-cleaning, there is scarcely any portion of it that has not been stippled up, or re-painted. So coarsely, indeed, and by so incompe tent a hand has the repainting been executed, that very little acquaintance with pictures is necessary to detect it. . But, sir, there is strong evidence that the "Adoration of the Magi" is not by Paolo Veronese, but merely an in. ferior school picture. That evidence is the absence of the best characteristics of the artist. Ido not forget that we are discessing a master of the decline of the Venetian school, not one who flourished in the meridian grandeur of the Tuscan, the Lombard, or the Roman. Yet no one will deny to Paolo Veronese a certain magnificence of composition, considerable power of drawing, harmony and brilliancy of colouring, and a, striking proficiency in perspective. In vain we look for such (policies in the meanly desiened, feebly drawn, discordant and slatey-looking canvas just imported ; its Patagonian proportioned figures on the middle plane Threatening to push the dwarf-like objects on the fore ground headlong upon the spectator. Who will recog nise in such a production the mind that conceived and the hand - that executed the pictures in the Church of St. Sebastian, and in the Pisani and Dege'e Palaces in Ve nice, the "Marriage of Cano," or even the "Consecration of St. Nicholas," which faces it! Damaged as the last named work wa■ by the " cleaning" of 1853, it never theless still bears the stamp of the master. And now a d about coat. I am not cue to grudge a liberal price for a well-pre• served, genuine, and favourable specimen of any master worthy of a place in the national collection. The price, however, of the late acquisition would be excessive, even had it been an undoubted Paolo Veronese. It is well known to all who are conversant with tke market value of pictures, that Paolo Veronese is a master -whoa* works, whether from their being frequently met with, or from their holding comparatively only a subordinate rank in art, are obtainable at moderate prices. To be• stow 1,9771., besides "travelling and incidental ex penses," upon such a work as the "authorised" Paolo Veronese, the "Adoration of the Magi," is a culpable expenditure of public money. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, • F. Y. HURLSTONE. 9, Chester-street, Belgrave-square. LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. Flexmore, the celebrated pantomimist, took a be fit at this theatre last night. The performances cam:- prised melodrama, farce, ballet, concert, and pantomime The first piece was " Black-eyed Susan ;" the character of William being filed by Professor Anderson, whose recent misfortune at Covent-garden does not appear to have diminished, but rather increased, his popularity with the audiences of this theatre, the scene of long and deserved success. His performance of the warm-hearted British sailor was a piece of genuine acting, that elicited the warmest sympathies of the audience. The minor characters were well filled, and we may especially notice Miss Murray's charming performance of Black-eyed Susan. Mr. Shalders (Doggras*), Mr. Harry Pearson (Gnatbrain), and Mr. Hudspeth (Jacob Twig) fully sus tained their reputation. Miss Lewis personated Dolly Mayflower with admirable success ; nor must we forget Mr. Flexinore's Hornpipe, which was veal-Oily encored. At the close of the piece, Professor Anderson and Miss Murray were called before the curtain. The farce of His First Champagne followed. The ballet of the Spanish Dancers afforded an opportunity to Mademoiselle Auriol and Mr. Flexmora of exhibiting their terpsichorean abilities in the execution of some of the most rapid and graceful of the national dances of Spain. A miscellane ous concert (the musical arrangements of which reflect great credit on the able management of Mr. lianoway, A.M.) was pucceeded by a selection from the comic s cenes of the Covent-garden pantomime, Ts Belle Al. liance, the drolleries and burlesque acting of which con. eluded the amusements of the evening. Flexosore's ex traordinary phenomenon, " La Petite Leon," obtained a double encore in the pas M'Gregor ; a high but well merited compliment to the very juvenile performer. The bowie was well filled, and we trust, upon the whole, satisfactory alike to the beneficiaire and the audience. ASTLEY'SAMPIIITHEAT.RE. The extraordinary feats of the performing elephants still continue to attract immense audiences at this world•renowned place of amusement. We hear that great preparations are being made for Easter. Mr. W. Cooke intends this year to eclipse all his former pro ductions. Miss STANLEY.---This lady has announced her benefit to come off on Friday evening, when the successful lyric entertainment, "The Seven Ages of Woman," will be repeated, being the last performance but one of this sea son—the last being a day performance on Saturday. Mss Stanley produces "The Seven Ages of Woman" at Sadler's-wells Theatre during Passion Week, and re turns to St. Martin's-ball on Easter Monday to com mence a second season, no doubt to be as successful as the first. 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