The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-03 00:00:00

ER MAJESTY'S THEATR.E. Mad! le. PICCOLOM IN I. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. THIS EVENING (THURiDAY), July 3, will be per formed Donizetti's Opera, LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO. - Marie, Mialle. Piccolomini ; La Ilarchesa, Madle. florgaro ; Tonio, Signor Calzolari ; Ortensio, Sig. Baillou ; and Sergente Sulpizio, Sig. Belletti. Between the acts of the Opera a Grand Pas do Deux by Mdile. Katrine and M. Moutplaisir. To conclude with a Divertissement entitled LA MANOLA. MaLtmo A Bellon, Mesdlles. Katrine Rosa, Lizereux, Clara, and Pierron, M. Venefra and M. Vandris. Madame Rosati has arrived. The new Ballet, Le Corsaire, is in active preparation, and Will be produced forthwith. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TIMATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. N. T. Smith, ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING; will be prodaced DER FREISCHUTZ. To con Slade with THE FAIRY'3 HAusr. THEATRE ROYAL. H ATIIARKY,T. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstotte. TUB EVENING, SINGLE LIFE. after which PEREA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear i a new Ballet, called THE CAPTIVES. Followed by MA. 111:TGEIES AT 11011 E. To con:Jude with SHOCKING EVENTS• ROYAL PRINCESS'S fGEATRE. OK ;'OIID-STREET. Under the Management of gr. Ca &REES KEAN. THIS EVENING, A PIUS 'E FOR AN HOUR. After whin, 'VIE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL THE gait& ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. LIRE AND UNLIKE. After which, THE CUSTMES OF THE COUNTRY. Followed by TIIE IRISH LIO4. Ftlr,tr, TaEATRE Lessee and Slanazer, :ti r. Alfred Wigan. TIII•! , EVENING A F ISCINATING INDIVIDUAL. After which, RETRIBUTION. To . ..onclude win A CONJUG LESSON. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIP"ATRE. Lessee And Manaler, Ar. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Romantic Equestrian spectacle, THE HORSE OF TIIE CAVERN, or the Mmitted Brigands of the Abruzzi, Introducing Mr. W. Cooka's wonderfully trained horses. After which, A select variety of SIENES in the CIRCLE. The laughahle exhibition of Degarai's troupe of Doge and Monkeys. The extraor dinary performance of the German. Brothers. To eoneluue with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ; or Honour to the Tirave. Box-oilice open fr Yrt Eev n tit Fo if. tie Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. 'V. Co rice. jun. RIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRUIGE. MIS DAT—Morn: 19 win. aft. 2 —l7vening 42 win. aft. 2 1 , 1-4ouliow—Morn. 4 win. aft. 3—Evening 27 Fain. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JULY 3. THER:IOIISTEB, IN TEM SELIDIC. 6R -highest sine noon yesterday. 55 -lowest this morning and during tho night. 64 -this day at noon. BARONET/EFL-30.2). WIND, N.N.E.---Fresh, with fine cold weather, com paratively, but heavy clouds, threatening rain or a thun derstorm. , Y 7-7, 4 . , i1174Z: : v,fr Ci,37 *7, 4 ,523/11,, LONDON, TEIURSDAY, JULY 3,185 e. Everything really seems to be of a piece in regard to the mismanagement of the British army. Thirty thousand men are sent forth at the commence ment of hostilities with colours flying, and drums beating, and trumpets sounding, and a rabble of good honest stay-at-homes shoutingat their heels, as regiment after regiment march through the principal streets of London on th ,, ir way to the central railway terminus from which they are to fly on the wings of steam to the port of South ampton. Then, the authorities aro entirely under the impression that not a single shot is going to be fired in anger. Now when the conflict has been actually gone through, when peace has come at the end of two years' carnage, and when the small number of survivors are corning home to us at last to repose after the toils and anguish of the fearful ordeal they have had to undergo in Camp and Hospital —the tables are suddenly turned with a vengeance ! Thirty thousand go forth in glory, when no glory has yet been won, when it is quite proltlematical whether any glory coot be won ! And three thousand—having woo the glory, or having at least liApe,d to win the glory—three thousand- gallant fellows bearing upon their breasts, emblazoned in silver, the heroic names of " Alma," and " iukerniana," and " Sebasto pol" —are brought back, absolutely an if they Were in disgrace ! It actually app!ars to be decided that the Guards having left London in 1854 by the Waterloo Station are to reenter it in 1850 by the station at Vauxhall. Going forth on the very vague chance —(as " the p)wers that then were" blindly imagined)—going forth ou the very v tgue chance of possibly, by some rare acoident, being afford e d the opportunity of "reaping laurels," as " cut ting the throats of our fellow -men" is poe tically termed—the Guards are shonte 1 at all along the Strand and across Waterloo bridge : as though they were a crowd of Heroes, instead of (as they then actually were) as a crowd of mere military adventurers ! earning back with medals, and clasps, and ribbons, and scars, and empty sleeves, and wooden legs, and all the other ghastly or glittering . badges of ilonour--coming back bronzed and wounded from the war, they are now—with a perfectly monstrous inconsistency —expect e d, as it were, to sneak into the capital of their native land by a side-entrance, as though they were afraid of being hooted, and reviled, and pelted with addled eggs and brickbats. Really, the ab surdity of all this preposterous bungling at Head- Quarters, from the beginning to the end of the chapter, positively, as the saying is, " beggars, description." Everything in it so far, in deed, as we have said, is exactly of a pi ece . The return of the Guards to Lon don by the Vauxhall Si;ation, conducting all sorts of back slums, ia them ignominiously by stead of gloriously and ostentatiouslythrough some few* at least of the principal thoroughltre3, is really and truly just of a piece with the serving out of the green coffee to the p worn-out, thirsty, weary, sometimes almos', fainting, veto xans, coming back to camp from the trenches !I Tt i 3 of a piece with th e planks for the building of huts, piled up among the mournful litter at Balaklava, without the thought of a baron - let or the notion of an ounce of nails ! It is of a piece with the careful preservation of immense stores of boots and regimentals "some where," at the very time when our unfortunate soldiers were standing up to their ancles in half melted ice and mud, bare-footed and in rags ! Yes— and again again we say—everything is literally of a piece in regard to the mismanagement of affairs in or, as it should be more properly the organisation, called, the continued disorganisation, of the British Army. IS it Faitivel,y too late, to repair this last egregious blunder about the re entrance of the Guards into the metropolis ? Cannot the absurdity be prevented in time, the huge and obvious absurdity cif bringing thew back again into L3ndon cove7,:tly by the side entrance of that station at Valr,zhall ? The law for Lord PAIJAERSTON'S opponent' seems to be the same as the law of the road— If they go to the left they are sure to go right, If they go to the right they go wrong. When they take up sucks left-handed subjects as repealing the Maynooth Endowment Act, or sec tarianising the National system of Education it, Ireland, they can get majorities, but when they are so unquestionably in the right as they were on Mr. WHITESIDE'S and Mr. MOORE'S motions they are defeated two to one. Probably on no two subjects that have been earnestly debated in this House of Commons has the sense of the country been morn against Mi nisters than on the questions of Kars and Mr. CRAMPTON. It should have been easy in both cases to have secured a triumph. Admitting to ths full, and being glad to admit the cordial suppler? which General WILLIAMS received from Lord CLARENDON, his letters putting fresh life and en thusiasm into th© unaided garrison, it was yet beyond dispute that the Cabinet allowed Kars to fall, and converted the most splendid military feat of English Generalship which the War pro duced into a defeat—and, worse than that, into a convenient loophole for the Russianisers at th€ Paris Conference. If South Sebastopol is to bt henceforth an invincible fort ; if Nicelaieff is to send forth a " Mosquito fleet" -of gun-boats, and mortar-boats, and floating-batteries, more formid able than the fleet which rots iu the harbour of Sebastopol ; if the Circassian forts are to be re built, and the East coast of the Black Sea to la again closed to European trade ;—all this we ow( to the starvation by the Allies of the garrison of Kars ; a circumstance which could not have oc curred had Lord PALMERSTON willed otherwise. Nevertheless, just as a series of small defeats had shaken his position in Parliament, he gains an almost unparalleled Parliamentary victory out of this military disgrace. Russia triumph:. at Kars, and Lord PALMERSTON triumph at Westminster, by a majority of 127. Two months run on, his Lordship who hat, triumphed were he should not, is again beater several times where he should not have been ; but again an egregious blunder comes to hi: rescue. The Conservatives see their opportunity and put Mr. BAILLIE forward ; but whether warned ,by experience that a great public wrot4 must, for Lord PALMERSTON, became a great Parliamentary right, or being disunited in their prospective plans, they withdrew Mr. BAILLIE' motion. Mr. H. G. MOORE, being an independeu Member, determines to try the value of that hust ings boast in the House. Lord PALMERSTON will give him no battle day, so he forces Ministers to a battle ; but all to give Lord PALMERSTON another victory—indeed two—for on the motior for the adjournment on the first night's debate he cleverly took a division, which showed a larg, majority on that question fur Ministers, then made a merit of necessity, and con ceded an adjournment to the Member for Manchester, to gain a final triumph the. next night of 194 ? Never assuredly was a diplomatic business brought to a much More humbling result than the CLARENDOS Manes- dispute. Where MARCY was in the wrong he was allowed to wriggle himself into the right, and where L)rd CLARENDON was in the right, he or Mr. CRAmpTON managed to get into the wrong ; and, as a finale, we receive back our dis honoured Ministers and Consuls, while the Ame rican Minister remains here with all the honours, minus that of taking his attaches with their black stocks in the presence of the QUEEN. When an unpopular peace was in progress, and after it was concluded, all the talk was that Lord PALMERSTON was soon to b© cashiered, and— somebody—to step in—somebody who had not been turned out in 185-2 ; perhaps the Noble Lord who on that occasion, to please Prince ALBERT and Austria, had turned him out. Bu hero his Lordship is, rubbing on and joking with his DERBY Parliament— making them, like Sir ROBERT PEEL, if they will pass wrong resolutions, put them right again in a few days— &ipping every now and then and seeming to go back, but recovering lost ground again by a - tre mendous leap, and looking about him more coufidently than ever. And where are his oppo nents ? Oa what question can they raise a cry ? R.digious gentlemen as they all are, they have tried the "Protestant" dodge, but the Protestants do not rely on them ; and unless something un foreseen occurs, why may not his Lordship get through another session, and even dissolve Par liament at his own tine ? Indee I it must b 3 confessed that the political temper of the day is just the one for Lord PALMERSTON. There is no active earnest party of any kind. The Voluntaries seem to be the only one which is advocating any great new principle, but though they have made themselves a working party in the House, a Premier can afford to c ijole them with Church-Rates Amendments while it serves his purpose, and then to give them Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS'S cold shoulder without fear of consequences. Church Reform may be coquetted with pleasantly while in the hands of the Marquis of BLANDFORD. Law Reform will never be a Cabinet-ousting question, although one of the most important of all practical objects. Finance— wall—when in„, the nation thinks all Chancellors are very :ouch alike. Administrative Reform has lost its terrors since the War ; and, as to Parlia mentary Reform, the country is asleep, and when it is the .Elouse of Commons is sure not to disturb its slumbers. Apathy, the breaking up of great parties, and the absence of great questions —we may add 12,000,0001. per annum of gold from Australia—all seem favourable to the reign of the lucky Premier, the continuance of little ' defeats and great victories, and of peddling measures. What is a pound ? Such was the question which Sir .ROBERT PEEL addressed to the interested or apathetic Members of the House of Commons, and by means whereof he succeeded in carry ing the iniquitous Bulk Charter :Act of 1844. There would have been no great difficulty in returning an answer if any really independent member directed his mind to the task. But, unfortunately, many of those who understo3d the subject were men of ample means, whose wealth would be • greatly increased by the appreciation in the value of the money which the bill was intended to produce. Others were fettered by party trammels, while a still larger proportion were profound!y ignorant on the subject. The interrogatory, therefore, re mained unanswered in the House of Commons, although it has been fully and satisfactorily responded to by Currency Reformers, who have not been enabled to express their opinions in Parliament. A pound, then, is not merely 123 grains of yellow metal, as implied by Sir ROZEL.T PEEL. It iS Something that pososscs a purchas ing power a command over a certain quantity of the necessaries and ' comforts ,f life. It is essentially a measure and represen tative of value in other things—and there is no ;renter necessity that it should itself possess in trinsic value than that the yard of the draper, )r the weights of the cornfa,ctor should be made ,f the precious metals. It was resorted to in ,rder to avoid the barbarous system of barter, tnd it has been continued for a long series of ages, , vithout any effort at improvement. During the )rotracted war, in which England was engaged luring the close of the last and beginning of the nesent century it was found incapable of dis ,iharging its appointed functions. Our fathers vere therefore compelled to resort to a more ex i)ansive agent. By an inconvertible paper cur rency they were enabled to develope the natural resources of the country, and to maintain a strug le unparalleled in the history of the world. The t'athers of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord OVERSTONE tcquired enormous fortunes by means of " worth less rags," without which their sons would not :lave had the opportunity of expressing their views in the Senate, and kicking down the ladder co which they owed their elevation. But after the V. inconvertible notes had io completely fufilled their duty they were deliberately cast aside. The bUllionist theory was propounded. It was said that unless paper noney or " promises to pay" were convertible on lemand, there could be no uniformity of value— that the nation required a stable currency, in which its business could be always transacted with safety and security. With this view the loctoring commenced, and how has it succeeded ? Have there not been far greater fluctuations in ~ricer, and in the value of all descriptions of pro perty, greater derangement of trade, thin at any former period when there were unlimited issues of baper money ? When has there been wilder -peculation, or more terrible depression ? The difficulties commenced in 1816, when prepara- . ions were male for a return to cash payments, and from that time there have been periodical panics, increasing in intensity with the steps taken co avoid them. The gold has been lying idle in %he Bank cellars, of no greater utility than an equal weight of rubbish, while the people hate been enduring the greatest privations. Silver vas rejected corn could not be purchased, athough a famine was impending, and all from he stringency of the unwise and impolitic enact nents that have been unequivocally condemned ny every disinterested and unprejudiced witness. .4.11 we ask is a fair and impartial inquiry into die operation of the law, an investigation similar to that of the. Lords' Committee -in 1848. Let the People exert themselves, and they must obtain 'hat greatest of all benefits, a circulating medium )qual to the wants and exigencies of the country.' It were well fist. France if there wore a few more men in it, bold, able, and honest enough to clay the part of public censor like Count MONTA LEMBERT. The letter of this distinguished noble man to that Imperial tool, the COMA DE UORNY, the President of the Corps Legislatif, on the subject of the Imperial concession to the ORLEANS Family, we are sure Will be read with satisfaction ,n our columns this day, by every one in whom .a 'blind partiality has not extinguished the sense of justice. With an inexorable logic the right ninded Count pursues the Imperial spoliator, and strips his conduct towards the ORLEANS Family if every vestige of justice or reason. If the incient rules of the Monarchy—he argues—so strangely invokel by NAPOLEON 111., were of 3ufficient force to warrant the appropriation of he ORLEANS property as the property of the State, whe:t valid warrant can there be for de ,:oiling the Sato of any part of it, or of course my equivalent for it ? The law the Corps Logislatif were called upon to vote could ifford no such warrant, or else the property was wrongfully confiscated ; on the other hand, this " ancient right" was not applicable to the Royalty created by the Charter in 1830 ; and in his case why is a part only of the ORLEANS pro eerty to be restored to the family, and to the female branch only ? Urging with like force the unan swerable query—Why, if the property ought to be restored, was it not proposed to be paid in kind ? Why not give back the property itself instead of an equivalent at the expense of the Ax-payers ? These are h trd nuts for NA POLEON to crack (of the Corps Legislatif we iay nothing, the great majority being merely poppets, governed by the Imperial hand), and vitt add to the growing unpleasantness of his po sition. The fact is, there never was a more un scrupulous and unwarrantable act committed than the spoliai.ion of the ORLEANS Family, and this lame attempt at restitution must be regarded, we ire afraid, rather as an act of selfish policy than the result of conscientious qualms or sentiments of pity. NAPOLEON, treading on a soil labour. ing with conspiracy, looks forward to a possible event, and is to all appearance preparing for a contingency in which the interests of himself and family may be concerned. Whether his aim is likely to prove successful or not, we will not undertake to say ; but this much is certain—his " concession" will have the effect of drawing universal attention to what we must be permitted to deicribe as, perhaps, the, most flagrant and heartless act of robbery that was ever committed by the ruler of a great civilised. people. Thus do foul acts return "to plague the inventors" and perpetrators. Cayenne will hence forth become, if it is not already, a word of terror to others than revolUtionists. We recommend a perusal of the entire letter, for which not a few in France will be abundantly grateful. THE ENTRY OF THE GUARDS INTO LONDON. We can positively state that, up to the present time, no dafinit3 arrangements have been made for the entry of the Guards into London. The final arrangements cannot be completed until' the Scots Fusilier Guards shall have arrived at Aldershot. We published, yesterday, a telegraphic announcement that they were in the Channel, but they have not yet ar rived at Portsmouth. The ships conveying the brigade le't ' Gibraltar on the 24th ult., but up to the time of our going to press t his afternoon they had not arrived at Portsmouth. It is expected that about two days after their arri val at that port will be the period fixed for their re-entry. THE SUN, LONDON, THEJWSDAY EVEiiNti, JULY 3, 1856 NEIV ZEALAND. PLYMOUTH, JULY 2. The William and Jane, Captain Hunter, which left Canterbury, New Zealand, on the 27th of March, is off this port, bound to London. She bas on Loar3 1,100 bales of wool, being the first cargo from ,Canterbu r y. The General Assembly was to meet on the 31 of May. The Provincial Council was sitting at Canter bury, where the new settlement is progressing most favourably ; the wheat crops and all the cereals had been gathered, and were most abundant ; the crops of potatoes bad failed in consequence of the heavy rains. Flour, BOG. per ton ; beef, sd. par lb. ; and mut ton, 4d. to sd. per lb., wholesale. The Bishop of Exeter ha; instituted the Rev. H. Martin M.A., to th e R ectory of Combe Teiguton, De;calise; patron; Mr. W. Logs, M.P. n :v .._{ LATEST NE WS. St PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. An imperial ukase has been addressed to the Minister of Finance authorising the definitive emission of two series of State Treasury bonds for six millions of silver roubles, the interest com mencing on the Ist of July. BERLIN, JUNE 29. Count de Hatzfeld, Prussian minister at Paris, has informed the Prussian government that his Majesty Napoleon HI. has invited the Emperor of Austria to an interview at the Chateau of Aren emberg. The invitation has been accepted.• FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor arrived at Plombieres at 5 o'clock last evening. By Imperial decrees, M. Fonld, Minister of State, is charged ad interim with the administra tion of the department of Finance during the ab sence of M. Magne ; and Marshal Vaillant, Mini ster of War, with that of Public Instruction dur ing the absence of M. Fortoul. At the closing of the Session of the Corps Legis latif, yesterday, it was announced that the bill for the Repeal of Prohibitory Customs Duties was de ferred to a future occasion. The measure for consolidating decrees relative to Custom Duties into laws has also-been postponed. Intelligence from the French Antilles has been received by the Atrato steamer arrived at South ampton. The latest date from Martinique is to the 13th June, but the news from that colony does not offer any very great interest. The Wye steamer, belonging to the iutercolonial service, went ashore on the night of the '3d, about five miles from Basse-Terre, when coming from Stint Thomas. This • disaster was oc casioned by an error of the captain, who mis took for the harbour lights some torches lit up by crab catchers on the coast. In consequence he put in towards land too soon, and shortly after went aground. The Grondeur for two days made every effort to get the Wye off, but without suc cess. The opinion of the coasting pilots of ()nada loupe was that the Wye could not be saved. She is an iron• boat, and is, it appears, much injured in the keel. All her cargo, however, has been got out safely and. landed. The health of the colonies is described as Satisfactory. BOURSE, July 2.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. t per Cents 93 50 —f. —a. 3per Cents 7l 60 72 20 New Loan 7l 50 Bank Shares 4,050 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,567 50 Austrian . 91 Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes.,.... Piedmontese(s). 93 Homo Debt .......« RAILWAYIf-POB CARL fr. c. fr. c Orleans .......«..: :1,395 . . .... 957 KO Jorthern ... l,l iO Strasburg Lyons Nlediterranoan — Gran , l Central - Lyons Genova ~.... 800 Teste ...... 680 rette „..—............ . 760 A.U.Striau Com.. TURKEY. Mr. Meredith, ,an English engineer, has com pleted his survey for a railway line from Adria nople to COnstantinople. M. Gilbert Desvoisins will resume the direction of. the consulate at Odessa. M. Thouvenel is getting up a subscription in favour of the sufferers by the inundations. The Ottoman Government has caused two robbers to be executed ; but Roumelia and Tbessaly are still . overrun with brigands. A. letter from Constantinople, in the Semaphore of Marseilles contains the following on the j ourne y of Reschid F : acha to Alexandria :- " The actual ministry at Constantinople fears Reschid Paeha ; it considers that all its embarrassments, and •they are not 'few, proceed from hips ; whilst Resebid Paella confines himself to pitying : the 'administration and sighing for his country. TWenty, times he might have returned to the head of affairs, but as be does not ap prove of the policy of ministers, he dees not wish to asso -elate himself with them; and he remains at a distance; so much so, that in order to prove to those who consider him as an enemy • of the ministers and •as envious of their position, he had determined to take a amid; journey, arid thus relieve the ministers of the shadow which 'alarmed them. The idea was not unskilful. When present, he was accused of obstructing the ministers, whilst, when absent, the weakness of minis• tens -would appear in full daylight. Meanwhile, the Viceroy of Egypt wished to give marriage totes, and to celebrate his accession to power. He seat numerous in-, vitation.s to Europe, awl also to Constantinople ; one of the letters,was to R ischid Pacha, between whom and Said Pacha a cmlness existed. llesreplied , that he would consider; a second and more pressing invitation folio ;bred, and he accepted. He acquainted the Sultan with his deterininasion, and obtained his Majesty's, insect. The Ministry speedily beard of the proposed step, and, uttered A. cry of alarm. It regected that Said Panda who was on ba l terms with the cairnacan of the Grand ViZr and with Fuad Pacha, might, With the aid of Reschil compast its ruin, and it was more alar.ned at the proposed absence of Reschid Paella thin it could possibly be at his presence. The Minist4rs held a council, and fitially hinted to the Sultan that this journey might perhaps conceal certain improper projects. The Sultan, who is good, but very -weak, ended by believing the su;gestions of Mehemet and Fuad Pach. The day of d parture drew near, and Reschid Pacha visited the Sultan to take leave. The Sultan gave him to understand that this journey was not,agree. able to bias, but he did not withdraw his authorisation, and Reschid Pacha departed. Thee are the simple facts of. the case. L cannot be doubted that the Sultan, more than ever discontented with his ministers, would have preferred that Rescind Pacha should remdin here, for his presence may become necessary from one moment t another ; bit it is exactly that perplexed state of affairs which inspires, Reschid with the desire of absent ing himself for the present from power." RUSSIA. The lavalide publishea the letter with which the Emperor accompanied the order of St Andrew that he conferred on the Minister-President, Baron yen Mantauffel, during his late visit here. It rune thus— " Your zeal in the service of our faithful ally and friend his njesty the King of Prussia, entitles you to our sincerest respect. A 4 a proof of the same, also of our acknowledgment of our constant endeavour's to btre.wthen the friendly relations existing b3tween Russia and Prussia, we nominate you a Koigtit of the Order of S Atvirew. " Conveying to you herewith the insignia of, that Order, " We remain, your well affietioned, " ALEXANDER. Potsdam, Tune 2, 1856." ITALY. Letters from Turin of the 28th ult. state that the legal obstacles to the promulgation of an am nesty iu favour of 10 or 11 individuals implicated in the insurrection at Genoa in 1349 had been ra moved ; that there was consequently no objection to the realisation of the generous intentions of the King, and that the decree of amnesty would shortly appear. Ou the 29th the body of Massimo Daneri, first Secretary at the Ministry of. Foreign Affairs ' was found lying outside the gat e o f S urt . M . Daneri had shot himself with a pistol. He was only 42 years of age. Disastrous operations on the Bourse were the cause of his death. The Opiwione has the following, dated-Milan ) the 27th : " The Austrians are adopting great military precau tions. The c-Jrps of occupation in the Duchy of Parma is to be increased. to 10,000 men. The troops of the garrison of Piacenza have left their barracks rsnd re moved to the citadel. Others shortly ixp , :cted will of cup) , the barracks. M un i t i ons o f war an d provisions constantly arrive at Piacenza and Parma. Half a bat- talion entered Piacenza by night, not to alarm the in habitants. Four thousand Austrians are marching from Cremona to Piacenza." The investigation of the case of the persons ar rested at Florence, for puticipation in a conspiracy to murder M. Baldasseroni, was still proceeding on the 26th. AMERICA. . . : . LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.: The screw steam-ship Indian, Captain Jones, be longing to the . Mont rea l O cean St eam N av igation Company, arrived in the Mersey this forenoon from Montreal and Quebec, after a rapid run from the latter port often days seven hours, including 12 , hours detention in the ice, which she fell in within. lat. 52-N. long. 54 W., on the 24th ult. . She left Quebec at 9.30 a.m. on the 21st ult., and same day passed the Great Britain from London for Montreal off Hare Jsland ; 233, in lat. 49 54 N., lon. 59 35 W.; exchanged signals with the Anglo-Saxon of the same line, hence to Quebec ; and abreast of Tory Island spoke the barque Nile, of Glasgow, bound to Batavia. Her respective days' running were„ 287, 247, 246, 146, 246, 244, 267, 259, 252, 224, and 249 miles. She had on board 133 passengers, 76 of whom oc cupied saloon berths, amongst whom were the Bishop of Ottawa and the Right Rev. Dr. MT°. nougb, and a small quantity of specie, about 4191.- Di Emma Jane, Glassin' and Alexander, from Live t 001, had arrived at Quebec. . . _, jilt ) z l*AtFcioljou,ro4s aro quite delighted 4t-the. r-tgularity with which the steamers of this line ‘ , xecute their contract, and suggest that, instead of iii-monthly, the steamers should start weekly, and Chat the present allowance of 20,0001. should be in creased. [to 100,0001. for that purpose. They state that the rapid communication has already com menced to have an effect`upon their local commerce. Auch excitement prevailed in the Legislature at the passing of Mr. Cayley's resolutions in aid of the Gfand Trunk Railway of Canada. In proposing them Mr. Cayley showed that the whole of the works 'remaining to be completed on the Ist of April amounted, under agreement, to 316,0001., tnd would be finished in a few weeks. The cost of the work completed was 7,862,4001., or 1,184,7641. more than the estimated cost. The funds in the company's hands were—B shares, 1,300,0001. ; and B bonds, 400,0001. worth 85 per cent. The company had been obliged to lay out their money on auxiliary roads, which had reduced the funds available to pay contractors. The con tractors had offered to give up their contract, upon payment for work done, at a valuation. All the funds of the oompany were required to finish the work from Statford to St. Thomas, and, therefore, he pro Position was made to allow them to issue preferential bonds. He concludes by urging the necessity of completing the road, with a view to the best interests of the province. The resolutions were carried by 'a majority of 6. The "Toronto Colonist says :—" It is quite im posslble to predict whether the scheme for aid will be finally sanctioned or not, -as almost every day opens some new phase of parties in the house, and 2 to 3 votes will turn the scale." In the Legislative Assembly at Toronto, on th e 19th ult„ a resolutionappropriating 4,000,000 acres of land for the construction of a railway from Que bec to the Lake Huron Railway, was adopted by a majority of 23. A bill was also passed (same day) to make better provision for education in Lower Canada and. one to render-the mayor of Quebec elective by the people. The investigation into the causes of the explosio n on the Grand Trunk Railway, at Liongeuil, and the inquest on the bodies, had not terminated when the Indian left Quebec. The, number of cases prov ing fatal amounted to 36, and the lives of many others were despaired of. A terrific fire raged on the sth and 6th ult., by which 60 houses were destroyed, and more than one-half of the grain in the neighbourhood ren dered useless The Hon. J. C. Morrison, the Rec eiver-General, had been returned to the Legislature for the town and .county of Niagara by a majority of 174, which was considered a triumph to the Government. :Our dates from New York, by this arrival, are to the 20th ult,, being three days later. It was rumoured that Lord Elgin would be sent to Washington as Plenipotentiary, to arrange matters. President Pierce had signed the bill appropriating 1,330,000 acres of land for railroad purposes in the state of Ohio. The America arrived hence, at Boston, on the 20th ult. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 10, 6 P.M. The money market continues eaqy, atid accommoda tion freely aff irded at 5 per cent. on cal:. Stocks were firmer, but unchanged in value. Exchange—On London, steady at 109 to ' s r-, Breadstuff—Flour has improved 5 to 10 cents. Com mon to State sweet $5 to $5 50c. ; extra ditto, $5 75c., to $6 ; common to good, $5 50c. to $6 30c, ; Canadian sold at $5 40c. to $8 per bushel. Wheat was also 2't.' 3 cents high-r. , at $1 37ic. for Milwaukie Club, and $1• 40c. to $1 55c. for white' Indiana. Indian corn un changed, with a moderate bu-dnees doing. Oats steady. Provi-dons—Pork was heavy. with sales of 5,000 bar res, at $l9 'for mess and $l6 25c. to $l6 37c, for prime. Ash )4 firm, with moderate Freights steaiy, and rates ungitiree: THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have re'36ived C tpe of Good Hopa p , ,p - Irs to the 24th of April inclusive. It will be seen.that serious disturbances are agAin apprehended from the Kars . . (Front the Cape Town llfail of April 24.) In the Couuqil, yesterday, two messages were re ceived from his Excellency the Governor, one .tra,-s -matting copies of correspondence which had taken place between the President of the Free State and Moshe-h, Great Chief of the Basutos, with regard to the boundary line. The President of the Free State in a letter to the Governor expressed his fears that a bloody war was impending between the Free State and the Basutos. He expresa-d his belief that a great combination was being formed loctween the great Kaffir chiefs against the Europeans. ? : The President also stated that he was about to expel a slumber of Zulus, who had squatted on the farms of inhabitants of the state, who were becom ing very troublesome by their thefts, and who threat ened to cut off all communication with Natal. The Governor informed the Council that on - receiving this information, and on account of the alarming rumours which-had reached him from the frontiers of this colony, he had sent to, Mauritius, requesting the immediate assistance of one :regiment of her -Majesty's - troops, having failed to obtain: enrolled pensioners. from England. The ' second message transmitted a bill for rendering more effective the services of such military pensioners receiving pensions from the colony as shall be called out to assist in preserving the pubac. , peace. Messrs. .Godlonton, Cock, and Wo hal also received very alarming intelli;ence fronA ihoifrontier. Ur. Wood bad been informed that a meeting of natives' of various tribes was to take place in Basutoland. - LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(this Day.) LONDON, July 3.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.W. ; light breezo, and fine clear weather. The Herons, Monte, sailed from Liverpool on the Gth March fur Konigsberg; Adams, from Bombay, Ist Dec., last for London; City. of Montreal, from Liverpool, 2.1 April, for Quebec, the latter was spoken on the 2 tth April in lat. 45 long. 47, and have not since been heard of. PORTIOL•infI,J-nly2.--Virind S.B. to S.S W. Sailed— Brandon (s.s. tpt.), for Woolwich ; Alister (s.s. tpt.), for Hull. _ . . PLYMOUTH, July 2,--Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Severn (tpt. 191), from Gibraltar and Balaklava ; Adonis, Bergen. Off the port— William _and Jane, from Now Zealand. Famtoura, July 2, 7 -Wind E.—Arrived—Gefion, from Porto Rico ; Leon, Havana. Sw.g.NSEI, July 2.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Uttion, for St. Thomas. NEWPORT, July 2.—Wind E.—Arrived—Danube, from Bristol, for Sailed—Utility, for Monte Video; Neptune, Bahia. CORK, July 1.- Arrived— Gesina Wilhelmina, from Ibrad. CARDIFF, 2.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Hippogriffe, for San Francisco. _ GALWAY. —Arrived—Engineer, from St. John's, N.B. ELSINORE, June 30.—The Eleonora, of Sund.wall, got in contact in the roadsted yesterday with the Eliza nett', of Shields, from Memel to L on d on ; th e l a tt er re ceived trifling damage to bows and bowsprit; both vessels wilt, however, procee.l. Upwards of 250 vessels, bound wp.tward, are windhound in the roads. Wind to-day N.N.W. and N.W., very strong. ST. PETERSBURG,`J uly 2.—(Per Electric Telepraph.)— The R )bert Peel, from Terschelling, for Narva, the Sick() van der West and the Laballi, from Liverpool, for Narva, are on shore near Narva. (FEB IcLEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, from TliAPT Arun d el ndel ; a 0 Wednesdayeer .Swansea,; Morning. Arrived—Ludy 3 , Medway, steam transport, from Portsmouth. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived. —Kate Swanton, from New Orleans; Margaret, steamer, Havre ; Clarissa Bird, New Orleans ; Wigton- Sf. John's, N.B. • Casilda, Bremer'-haven. Off.—Sophia Wilmington. . . Sailed—Annie, for Bilboa ; Carmels, Trieste ; Aeron Lass and Lively Lass, Havre; Theodore, Marseilles ; Alert, Tromsoe ; Waldemar, Iceland • Haavest, Ria Janeiro ; Almora, Melbourne; Maria &tilde, Manilla ; Geo. Washington, Boston; Escort, Calcutta; Defence, Melbourne. -'- QuEENSTOWN, June 30. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Fidget from Cass ibianca ; Arabia, Crimea ; Aln, Piraeus ;, Gray Von Btandonberg, Dantzio Tabu rio+o, Galatz. DUBLIN', Jane 30. Arrived—Henri Vergeland, from Ancona ; Eclipse, Santander. • KINGSTON, July 2. Wind E.N.E. Arrived.—Vestal, from the West Coaat. (RN:: Sp/MARINI ANIi BRITISH TELEGRAPH.). - GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.55 a.m. Wind E. ; tide, quarter flood ; Arrived, Jnly2.—iSara.hfrouri Dram ; Curlew, Dunkirk; Favourite, Brugess;' Spec:lllles, Christiana; Cordova, Riga ; Sophia, Aalborg ; Friends Ronigsbeirg. Sailed—St. Hellier for Siena Leone ; Sultana, Sydney ; Chieftan, Madras; Blackwell, Port Phillip. - - DEAL, Thursday, a.m.9. 41: Wind N.E., 1110 aerate.; 'fine. Passed.—Day Spiing,--for: Port - lend Bay; Alipore and Eveline, Cape of Good- Rope; Fernandez 1., Lisbon ; Belle of the West, Callao—all from London; THE AUSTRIANS IN THE PRINOIPALITIES.—The Paris correspondent of the Times (Stootid E lition) in his letter dated yesterdaii i , says on the'authority of a, private tele graphic ilefspitcb, ',that -orders haie been sent from Vienna to Count Coionini to , suspend the evacuation — for what period is not stated. The Paris papers •Of Saturday contain a report of a singular .nqtionbrought by a M. Goupy against the Cre dit Mobili6:ldi losses sustained by him on the Bourse, ()tying, as it was alleged, to speculative operations and misrepiesentat4ins on the part of that company. The Court non-suited the plaintiff on the ground that he him self vvalrei speculator, -and that the company had not In any way violatiai their stathtes. The' Advi c ite Impo - however, in summing up, made "some strong obser vations on the mania for gambling, and on the stimulus it has received Irom tbe Creeit Mobilier. He :liked if that establishine6t cOUld look upon the prevailing fever rind the prospeo.t, of Ats ultimate consequences without self-reproach; And intimated an opinion that, with these things in mind, the: company ; notwithstanding their great apparent' success, should forbear to boast ware- . gairedly of their operations. NAPOLEON THE GREAT AT BASSANO. PAINTED BY T. J. BARKER. For a long time past this exquisite engraving has been about the - most picturesque and conspicuous object in the windows of the printsellers. " Na poleon the G'reat rebuking his Officers at Bassano" —engraved upon a grand scale and in the highest style of art by Charles G. Lewis, from the original painting by T. J. Barker, a masterpiece now in the possession of J. Garle Browne, of Leicester. By this time every body knows it surely by heart— this noble picture of a most noble incident. The celebrated incident of the young Republican Com mander-in-Chief, General Napoleon Bonaparte, corning one evening about sundown upon a most affecting group upon the battle-field—the dead body of a soldier over which his faithful hound . piteously howled forth its lamentations. ." There,- geintlemen"--exclainied the youthful hero, direct ing the attention of his staff to the occurrence— " that dog teaches us a lesson of humanity I" In portraying the whole scene the artist has revealed, we cannot but think, a really uncommon amount of genius as an historical painter. The lovely lands Cape forming the background is not more : true to the reality than the reedy - foreground where 'Napoleon's war-horse plashes among the Water-flags and bullrushes. The entire composition of the picture, moreover, demonstrates, in a very remarkable manner, the artistic capacity of the mind from which this beautiful work of art has happily' ~ emanated. Although the dog with his snout' raised iu the air, and his forepaws extended over the corpse of his master, is the central figure in the picture—oiving it th e familiar advantage too of the old, and charming, and favourite pyramidal appearance—the most notable part of the produc tion is, of course (as it ought to be), the mounted form:of Napoleon the Great, pointing to the inci dent delineated, and uttering to the officers of his staff hisfamous words of rebuke and admonition. As tor. the authenticity of the anecdote itself, of that; 'we believe, there can be no reasonable doubt whatever. It has been related again and again, by historian after historian, and biographer after biographer. The only question at all about it, left in a manner undecided, even' now appears to us to be the precise date and the actual locality at which the incident really occurred as already related. The mos gene rally received notion on the subject is the one which ; has been here adopted by Mr. Barker, namely, that fixieg upon the Bth of September, 1796, as the. time, and the batttle-field of Bassano as the place of the occurrence so often recounted, and.here at length so touchingly commemorated. Acoording to the narrative written by Laurent de l'ArdeChe,.and illustrated by the pencil of Horace Vernet, the "date" was, on the contrary, nearly four years later on, namely, the 14th of June, lboo, the " scene " being that of a much more famous battle-field, that of the great historic vic tory won upon the plains of Marengo. Napoleon being nearly thirty-one at the last-mentioned period, and scarcely twenty-seveh at the epoch selected by Mr. Barker, namely, that of his earlier triumph at Bassano. It should b e remem b ere d, moreover, in regard to this victory of Bassano, that . it was but the ninth of those marvellous suc cesses which were so soon to b e mu ltipli e d innum ber and magnitude beyond the limits of very ready calculation.. Gen. Bonaparte then a young hero of twenty-six, already renowned by reason of his Capture,of Toulon (19th Dec., 1793) and by his Defeat of the Sections (sth Oct., 1795) had opened on the 9th of. April, 1796, the first, and, perhaps, all thingS,COnsiddred, the greatest of. his Italian campaigns (wonderful though the succeeding cam paignS were in their general character)—winning on theattit'nfApril the battle of Montenotte, on the the 14th ehatof:Millessimo, on the 15th that of Dego, and on the 21st that of Mondovi ; passing like a whiclwind on the 10th of May over the bridge of Lodi ; . strikiti,c,r down the Austrian ban ners on the 3d of August at Lonado, and on the sth at C astigliorie ; defeating the veteran Wurm ser on the 4th of September at Roveredo, and on the Bth (as alreaPy observed) at B assano . Here the vivid brush of oar emaient English artist has de picted him—as Napoleon appeared then, very dif ferentjndeed from the Napoleon of after-times thin, sallow, his hair hanging in elf-locks down hiS shoulders,lexactly as his features have been pre served to us in marble by the master hand of An tonio Canova. Napoleon the Great it is we have before us in Mr. Barker's noble painting—but Na poleon as a General, not as an Emperor. Napoleon somewhat as he appeared for the first time before the future arch-Chancellor of his Empire, Duke and Prince of Cambaceres. And that ? Listen how Cambacerea describes him as he appeared then at their first interview—" A little, thin, sallow complexioned man ; his ill-arranged hair hanging down in earls called opeilles de chien, in fashion at that time ; very badly dressed—his boots too short, his coat too long, his cravat horridly wrinkled, his hat bearingevidence ofloug service." Yet, continues the Arch-Chancellor' of the Hereafter, " Disfigured as be was by these shabby habiliments, I could not help remarking his white and beautifully-formed hands, and his mouth, which was inconceivably hand some, especially when animated by either a good natured or satirical smile. Arid then his eyes ! . . . What eyes they were !as brilliant as those of the lion or the eagle, at once genle, firm, penetrating, and , confiding • . . . expressive of sublime genius and magnanimity. He had altogether the air of a sovereign in the garb of a beggar, or perhaps, I may say, he looked like Jupiter when he visited Baucis and Philemon. . . . Superiority of intellect was marked in every look and gesture : his appearance, in short, produced upon me an immediate and irresistible fascination. I was under a spell. I felt that I was in the presence of a man who commanded my respect and admiration. Such, at least, is the im pression he produced on me at first sight. Citi zen !' said my visitor, lam General Napoleon Bonaparte.' " And Mr. Barker has, in this noble picture of the incident of the Dog on the battle field of Bassano portrayed for us in feature, if not in gadh, the young General Napoleon Bona parte; as depicted in marble by the chisel of Ca nova, and as described to Baron Laugon by the voice of Cambaceres. And Mr. Lewis also, in his turn, has, with a most adroit and ingenious graver, admirably represented .in black and white what the brush of the;painter has so glowingly deline ated in the historical original, at present in the possession ,of Mr. Garle Browne, of Leicester. Al together, we in no way surprised to observe that the engravipg is formally dedicated by the latter gentleman to "Those who pay homage to Intel lect''—for is it not the portraiture of a great man by an artist of extraordinary ability ?—this, glo rious picture of Napoleon tbo Groat teaching a lesson of humanity to the future Marshals of his Empire, the Paladins of a later and greater Charlemagne. COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT ON THE IW. pEKTAL CONCESSION TO THE ORLEANS FAMILY. Count de Montalembert has addressed the fol lowing letter to Count de Morny, the President of the Corps Legislatif " Moniient lb President.—Being detained 120 leagues from Paris, by imperative family dut es, which obliged me to ask forleave of absence from the Corps Legisla tif, I feel the deepest regret that I cannot take part in the coming debate on the bill relative to the grant of 60,000 f. rente to the Princesses of the house of Orleans or their heirs. "But I apprehend that my forced absence does not deprive me of the right to express my opinion upon this bill, and conformably with divers precedents which you will readily find ii the annals of the assemblies where we have sat together, I have the honour to address my self to lyou, Monsieur le President; to request you to make known tat opinion to my colleagues. "I repudiate with the utmost strength (~f conviction both the provisions-: . of the bill and the reas , ns for it which are given in the exposé des motifs signed by MM. Boinvilliers and Godelle. During the twenty years and upwards that I have sat in the deliberative assemblies of my country, I can call to mind no instance of any mea sure so enthely incompatible with every rule of public and private right as this bill is. "I will - not stop to speak_ of the implied sanction which the bill gives to the decrees of January 22, and March 2i__lBs2,_whic k stripped the House of Orleans of its secular patrimonY. • The Corps Legislatif has already, on three successive occasions, heard my protest against those acts. But, taking the fait accompli as the point of departure, this much must be plain to every man's understanding :--If the law .which settled the civil list •of King Louis Philippe, and if so many sul , sequent laws which, even under the republic, sanctioned the dota tion made td his children, were all insufficient to over ride thwe ancient rules of the monarchy, so strangely in voked under the reign of Napoleon 111., most assuredly the law which we are now called upon to vote can have no greater virtue. Prendee et donner ne vaut. If you haVe the - right to take you cannot have the right to give. [Of ,caurse M. de Montalembert is speaking of governments 'dealing with public property.] Of two things—one, either it was, as the expose says, 'in con formity with the ancient public law of France,' that the patrimony of the Hors of Orleans was brought back' to the domain of the state ; and then, by virtue of what right is the State now to be partially despoiled of it ? Or, this ancient right' was not applicable to th,.. royalty created by the charter in 1830 ; and then, why is a part only of the Orleaes property to be restored to the family and fo the female branol only ? "If the property which the Duke of Orleans before • he ascended the throne settled upon his children does not belong to them, why should a present be made to them, at the expense of the tax-payer ? But if it d )es belong to them, or even if the, question is doubtful, on what principle is it to be restored :to some of the heirs, and act Co the others ? '‘‘ How, iu proem of our civil law , and the equality of paVition which it prescribes, can any one dare to r , cognise the right of the daughters, at the same time that they strip the sons, and thus create a species of Saliquo law for the benefit of confiscation? "And if the domains in questian really belong to those to whom it is now proposed to pay the value of . them, why are they not restt:red in kind 7 Whence is de rived the right to substitute'renter' for real property? What private individual would accept such an exchange? And where do ,e get this figure of 200,000 f. routes each ? What surveys, what contracts, what adjudica tions, served as the basis of the valuation of the lands and property of which the administration of the domains ; to ik forc:ble possession ? "blur: over, how can it be said that the 'matrimonial conventions' between the princesses, daughters of Louis Philippe, have an international character which bind France, while it is at the same time denied that thAt same character exists in regard to the conventions made' be- tween the eons of the king and the foreign princesses • when they married ? " Are not the patrimonial fortunes of the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aumile. and the Duke de Montpensier to be considered as one of the conditions which induced the marriage' (to use tha expression of the expose) to the princesses, who left their own country to enter into a foreign family,' and . who are also deprived of the advantages resulting from the donation of August 7 which their children were to inherit ? " Finally, if we are to concur with the expoat in re garding Vie decrees of 1852 as regular and de Unitive, how can a French assembly be asked to inseril)e upon the ledgtr of the public debt rentes which would be,. intact, gratuitous pensions in favour of y mug foreign princes, who never did, and probably never do, anything for France, while all reparation and all indemnikr is re fused to princes essentially French, who, from the siege of Antwerp to the capture of Abd-el.Kader, neverniissed an opportunity to serve and do honour to' the national flag, who at the head of our armies set an example of every military and civic virtue, and who, since the most undeserved exile has closed the doors of France against them, have never, by any enterprise, any act, any word, troubled the public peace er attempted to cause division and bloodshed in the country. " For all these reasons, and for many others, I should vote a thousand times over against the bill presented on the 22d of June. If there be in the world princes so abject, so forgetful of the honour of their blood, ,as to accept benefits so conferred, I will not be one of the legislators to inflict _this humiliation upon them,. In thus actin I obey no party nor personal °onside... rations. It, which God forbid, Princes of the house . of Bourbon could be induced to act in such a man- • ner towards Princes of the Napoleon dynasty, I should entertain the same sentiments and hold the same lan guage, for I am one of those who serve justic', and not fortune. " I beg you, Monsieur le President, to be so good as t...) read this letter to the Corps Legislotif, and to take care that mention is made of it in the official re port of the sittings. 4 ' COMTE DE MONTALEMIURT." HER MAJESTY'S STATE COIVCERT. (From th'eCourt Newsman) Her Majesty lait night gave a state concert at Buck ingbana Palace, and for the fait time in the new ball and concert-room, a spacious orchestra, rising from the floor to the organ gallery, having been built for the orchestra. ), A party of near 500 were invited, comprising the Royal Family, the Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, and Charg6 d'Affaires, and a large party of the nobility. The Ye ►men of the Guard were on duty in the Palace, under the command of Captain Macdonald the Exon in Writing. A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards was on duty, ' with the band of the regiment, in front of the Palace. The R yal Family alighted at the garden entrance, and were conducted to the Queen. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con. sort, with he Princage Royal, accompanied by his Ma- jesty the Knig of the Belgians, their Royal Highnesses the Princes Charlotte of Belgium, the Count of Flan- der4, the Duchess of Kent, Prince 04car of Sweden, the- Duchess of Cambridge, and the Pr incess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, entered the ball and concert room about ten o'clock. The Queen wore a dress of white silk, with three • flounces brocaded in roses and gold, trimmed with gold • blonde. The jewels worn by hsr Majesty on her heed con , isted of 0p , 1,1s and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a dress of white brocaded silk, triierne l with blonde. Her.- • •• Royal Highness's head•dress was formed of gold blonde, with ornaments of amethysts and diamonds and ostrich, feathers. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of white glace silk, with three skirts, richly em- broidered with white 'eagles and chenille, each skirt edged with chenille fringe. The necklace and stomacher of diamonds and emeralds. Her Royal Highness wore,a tiara of pearls' and motids with blue feathers. The Princees Mary of Cambri.lge wore a double skirt white tulle dress, with reversed bnuillonnes from top to bottom„ . over a rich glace white silk petticoat, trimmed with bows and loops of pink ribbon ; the body orna mented with blonde and' pink bows, each bow having a diamond star in the centre. The necklace was diamonds.' Toe Princess wore round her head a wreath of pink and white muss rosebuds, with diamond stars intermingled. The Princess Royal wore a dress of white crepe Jesse over a petticoat of white silk, trimmed with bows of satin ribbon. The head dress was composed of pink roses. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Sather- ' land, Mistress of the Robes ; the Countess of Gains- . borough, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Fiora Macdonald and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Maids of Honour ; Lady Charlotte Copley, Bedchamber Woman in Wait ing ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lori Chamberlain ; a.cl °tilt r Officers of State and Gentlemen of the Royal Household. The Kif,g of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, th• 1 Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Oscar of Sweden; the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, were attended by their respec- tive suites. The general cmnpany followed hor Majesty and the Royal circle into the ball and concert room. The gen." tletnen appeared in full dress, and the members of orders of knighthood wore their respective insignia. Directly after the entrance of the Queen the concert commenced. Th 3 orchestra of nearly 120 performers comprised her Majesty's private band, with several of the leading in strumentalists from the Philharmonic Society, the Royal Ita'ian Opera, and her Majesty's Theatre. The chorus of 60 voices was selected from the Royal Italian Opera, the ladies of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Sacred Harmonic Society. The orchestra was conductei by Mr. Andersen, direc tor of her MajeAty's private band, Mr. W. G. Cusins, organist of her Majesty's Private Chapel, presiding at the organ. HAY AARKET THEATRE. MR. BUCKSTONE'S ADDRESS. Any night or every night at the Haymarket, the pub lie give ample testimony of the estimation in which they hold the talented and enterprising lessee ; but it one wished to behold him in all his glory, surrounded by trove of friends and overwhelmed continuously with plaudits and bouquets, one must go on the night of big annual benefit, and having arrived betimes in order to procure a seat, be will see an amount and cordiality of welcome such as is seldom accorded to actor or manager. Mr. Backstone treated his audience yesterday evening to a varied and strongly-cast entertainment. Shale-, epere's " Twelfth Night" was drawn from the theatrical repertoire after a rest of eight years for the occasion, fol lowed by a new Spanish ballet and a dramatic sketcb, in r which Mr. Buckstone and Miss Fane were most suc ce.t.sful in amusing the audience. But benefit nights are not occasions for criticism, and the public will no doubt be interested in bearing what Mr. Buckstone has to say for himself, which will be found in the subjoined ad dress, delivered by him with "due emphasis and discre tion," and amid thunder s of applause : "Ladies and Gentlemen,—lt is now three years since I had the honour of addressing you, on the occasion of my benefit, in July, 1853 when this theatre closed for three months, in order to make certain alterations and repair,. I then promised a new and enlarged stage, the elevation of the scenery, a thorough re-decoration, and, for the first time here, a Christmas pantomime. All these promises I have fulfilled ; v hile the introduction of a pantomime has for three year's been most successful, and which, when Christmas comes again, I shall continue to present, in our usual poetic and fanciful manner, aided by the masterly painting brush of Mr. Wm. Callcott. lam happy, ladies and gentlemen, to tell you that in adhering to the old pnr „poses and character of the Haymarket Theatre, as the house for English comedy and farce, I have met with so much encouragement, by chiefly keeping to that class of dramatic entertainment, that will still continue to form a principal source of attraction here ; though in making this statement, being myself a comedian, you will probably be reminded of the old story in the spelling-book, of a town in danger of being besieged, when in order to resist the assaults of the enemy, a certain shoemaker assured the in habitants there was nothing like leather.' Now this is - decidedly my opinion as to what ought to be acted at the Haymarket Theatre—for comedy is a shoe of the stoutest leather hero, and one that I hope will never wear out. I have certainly added the Spanish ballet, but that may be called the toe and heel of my shoe ; and when the toes and heels of Perea Nena and her company are displayed, I am sure they are more likely to wear out the stage than your patronage and admiration. " It is a common custom to make use of common phrases, and whether such phrases may convey the truth or not, we sometimes employ them so often that they at least wear the semblance of truth. 9. common phrase of the day is to refer to the decline of the drama. Whatever may be its decline elsewhere, I am proud and happy to say that it is not recognised here, which may be proved by the fact that when this theatre opened, in October, 1853, after the alte rations I have alluded to were made, it has continued open and without any other interruption than Christmas-day, Ash Wednesday, and Passion Week, up to this evening, for 815 consecutive nights. Ido not know whether this has been accomplished by any other London management; I only know that it has never before occurred in this theatre; and, as I still intend to go on, it is calculated that some time in February next we shall have completed continuous performances of 1,000 nights, and, life and health permit ting, we do not intend to stop there. I have plenty of meterialand novelty of every description to present to you, and hope for a long time to come to be enabled to welcome and amuse you. under this tinee-hononred and most legiti mate roof; and, while thanking you for_the brilliant at• tendance of" this evening, I shall not - say, on behalf of my. self and the ladies and gentlemen of the company, I bid you farewell till October or November next -I shall only, ,-•• ladies and gentlemen, bid you farewell' till - 7 o'clock to rorrow (Thursday) °Yobs. ' • _ yeas pro' The tleti busi /her ,Th the ti direct been Per C 1. 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