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110 R AlwAtc:J,Firuag . T Y vi 'S cRE THEATRE. Mine. ROSAT.—LE CORSAIRE. The Last Night but Three of the Subscription. TO-MORROW (Tuesday, July 22), will be revived Rossini's opera (first time these 18 years), TANCIZEDI. _ TAncredi, Ridlie. Johanna Wagner (her first appearance in that character) ; Amenaide, :Tine. Jenny Rtur ; Isaura, Berti ; Argirio, Signor 'Reicliardt ; Rugger°, Sign.,r Jacopi; Orbazzano, Signor Bouclic„ To conclude with the highly succe: - 4iful new Ballet, stititiod LE CORSAIRE. With new Scenery, Dresses, and Decoration!. Conrad, Signor Ronzani; Seyd, M. Danty ; Ynssna", M. Vonafra ; Birbanto, M. Vandris ; Sultnea, Mdlle. Clara ; Gel flare, Mdlle. Rosa; Dilarc, Mane. Lizereux ; Medora, Madame Rosati. The Opera will co►xmenc3 at Half-past Seven o'clock. Applications for bores, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-otlice of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TiMkTRE ROYAL, DItURY-LNNE. UMW, Mr. F.. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. Tillg EVENING, IL TIZOVATOIZE. (Last time.) Actcr whivh A GRXND CONCERT. To conAutle wits A BALLET DIV:MTIASEMENT. TM:ITR% ROYAL, lIANSIIIIII.ET. Under tike Management of Mr. Buckstonl. THIS EVENING. TWELFTH NIG ft T. After which The Spanish Dancers. Followed by A COMICAL COUNTESS. To conzhide with THE DOCTOR IN LOVE. 'ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. LAWN =1 Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigai. THIS EVESIVG DELICATE GROUND. After which. M E D E A. To conclude with A F.4SCINITING 11.0 Y AL PRINCE:44*A 'r a FIAT RE, OXFORD-STREET. Il d ieder the Menagernent of Mr. CEABLES KEAN. TIII- 4 EVENIS:), MUSIC II IT/I CHARMS. After 'millet, T.IE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL TIIEKTRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, 'Madame Celeste. TATS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK, After which, TUZ CIISTONfi OF THE COUNTRY. Follow6l by MEDEA. To cone wle with THE FLY ENG DUTC LIMAN. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Kr. Win. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Revival of the great military spectacle, THE RATTLE OF THE ALMA, in honour of the return of the (limas. 'Warlike effnts— the stage and ring combined—Mr. W. Cooke's stud of horses, 84c. , After which, The EQUESTRIAN PERFORMINCES in the ARENA, &c., ',rids other eutertaiaments. To conclude with a Melange of High Art. Box-office open from Eleven tld Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Went. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Twig DAY—Morn. U min. aft. 4 —Evening 43 min. aft. 4 'l':r.lloltuotv—Morn. r,6 min. aft. 4—Evening buiu.l3 aft. 5 THE WEATITER-suN OFFICE, JULY 20. TUERNOIIETER, IN THIC SHADE. 75 -highest !fillet, noon yesterday. 65 -lowest this morning and during the night 63 -this day at noon. Ft ARM( trzn-30.05. WIND, North-westerly. Light, with dull weather. Rain in the afternoon, with the wind from N.E. Even. leg fine. JULY 21. 70—highest since noon yesterday. GO —lowest this morning and during the night. 71 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-3U*O9. WIND, W.lT.W.—Light, with fine weather. epi-4. 1 )) 4 t - LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1856. There is an ominous silent) respecting the affairs of Spain that renders it more than pro bable that the movement is of a more serious character than tha despotic Powers would wish to be believed. It is true that we are told that " tranquillity has been restored at Barcelona," and that " the National Guard has been defeated and dissolved." But these statements come from Paris, not from Spain ! It is therefore manifest that the telegraphs are no longer within the power of those acting in the name and under the direction of the QUEEN, and who have joined in the reactionary conspiracy against constitutional government and liberal institutions in the Spanish peninsula. The scheme for a coup cretat has been steadily carried out. O'DONNELL is the present instru ment ; but he may ere long feel that he has been only a tool in the hands of others, who will cast him aside without hesitation when lie has served their turn. It is greatly to be apprehended that the Duke of Vieronet—the man whose name was a tower of strength to the Constitutional party— has fallen into the hands of the conspirators, and that he is for the time being in durance. Pro gress and reform, of which ESPARTERO was the representative, is too greatly dreaded in certain quarters to permit his Government to be regarded with favour. His ireiluence might be used in the hour of danger to prop up the tottering throne ; but the moment the emergency has passed away, tha', it was pos sible to do without him, all his former services were forgotten, and he would be readily offered as the earliest victim on the reactionary altar. The first step taken on the nomination of the new Ministry was most significant. It was a proclamation placing the whole of Spain under martial law. This was not founded on any outbreak or insurrectionary demonstration. It_ was published at the same tini 3 as the nomina tion of the new Cabinet, and was ready cut and dry in the hands of the author of the plot at the time, that he pretended to be acting with good faith towards the colleagues whom he hail male up kis mind to deceive and betray. It may in (toed be regarded as the official declaration of the Ministerial policy—the evidence of the palpable intention to subslante despotism for freedom, and the authority of the st rong h an d f or t h at o f law and justice. But will the Spanish nation submit to this ini quitous attempt ? General GUERAEA, the tried and faithful friend of ESPARTERO, is at Saragossa with a large body of troops, and We hear nothing from Saragossa. There is a strong liberal party in other quarters, and we believe that a protracted contest must take place before the freedom so highly prized is tamely surrendered. Meanwhile, NAIIVAEZ has hastened to the frontier, like a bird .of ill omen, ready to turn the crisis to his own Purposes, as on a former memorable occasion. There are other significant movements. Two French regiments have been despatched to Bay onne, by the orders of Louis NAPOLEON, and it is more than hinted that peculiar facilities have been granted to the members of the Spanish reactionary party, now or lately resident in France, to return to their own country. This would seem to show that the French Government has not been altogether ignorant or indifferent to the progress of events. We would, however, emphati ca ll y protest against any foreign interferenc e . H a d such a thing been attempted in France the Em- , peror might not have succeeded to his present position, and the precedent may be made use of in a manter by no means auspicious to his own interests, or the continuance of the dynasty he has so earnestly endeavoured to perpetuate. The question now rests between Queen ISABELLA and her people, and none bat the legitimate parties can be suffered to participate in the s. intim of the great problem. In nine cases out of ten popular instinct is ike the first decisions of conscience—right, far more generally right than the elaborate decisions of cabinets and diplomatists. There is a great ndeal of coyness just now amongst our Par Eamo- ;ary orators on the Intervention question ; none iko openly to say, " force if nothing else will do •" or at least to say it in SD firm a tone as to blue the nerves of the Foreign Secretary and his Premier. They hope, and hope, and hope, for the twentieth time, that moderate counsels will prevail—that Imperial Majesties and Royal Ma-) esties will learn wisdom from the very polite wisdom of other majesties and their servants " Representations" are the artillery with which royalties play their game, while Austrian regi- ments are pouring down the Alps and inundating half Italy, and while, as a French officer tells us, the cannon of Naples are pointed at the city ! Properly enough, for the enemies of the modern TIBERIUS are his own subjects, and enemies they must be to the monster who has incarcerated POERIO and half killed him with chains, after a trial to which those of JEFFRIES were justice itself ; and who is now by threats, by suborna tion, by perjury, and by bribery, seeking to in carcerate scores of victims mere, not for crimes even against such laws as Naples has, but for the dark suspicions of himself or his myrmidons. This Royal nuisance has dared to defy the mo dest suggestions of France and Eagland, and with reason enough to bid Austria, who, we are told, read him a lecture on judicial decency " to sweep before her own door." The reason for this inso lence cannot well be doubted. He is quite sure that the Western Allies will not invade his tryranuy with other troops than sheets of fool scap ; and he therefore has little scruple in letting them know how much ho cares for what they scribble upon it. Very different would be his re plies if he had to turn his cannon seaward, and saw the muzzles opposite of some of the broadsides which we reviewed the other day at Portsmouth. Now while Secretaries and Kings are playing out this paper game, we fancy the people of thi s country have a shrewd suspicion that they could very soon settle the business—could make Aus tria, and Naples too, as meek as lambs, and wheel the Neapolitan cannon either round to the sea, or off the batteries altogether. They re member how Lords JOHN RUSSELL and PALMER STON behaved in 1830, and in 1849 ; that by diplomatic silence or courtesy they winked at the incorporation, the laceration rather and devouring, of Poland by NICHOLAS ; and at his trampling Hungary again under the feet of Austria. They knew that firmness then would have saved us the cost and the horrors of the recent War. At the same time our Ministers also connived at the in tervention of Austria in the Legations of Modena and Tuscany, and at that of the French in Rome. This connivance at intervention by others, this international cowardice, is now avenged on us by all we have just paid and suffered; the people now understand that connivance at tyrants' intervention is a most costly and cruel thing to ourselves, as well as to the oppressed. Sooner or later English blood and money must be squandered to rectify the mischief. Oh ! but intervention is a delicate matter ! Would you have us go to war again? By all means if necessary, but necessary it will never be if we be only decided in time. The curse of the whole business is, the vile policy which treats peoples as ciphers, and Royalties only as realities. With the Whig doctrine on their lips, that Go• vernment is to be for the good of the governed, not of the governors, our Whig practice has always been to let the Governments run their course ; and when the people, finding the Govern ment to have deprived them of almost all the good which civilised freemen care about, have but resisted, to fold their arms while Russia, Austria, or France have re-established anEmperor, a Pope, or a Duke or two, at the point of the bayonet. Austria insolently proclaims her determination to intervene at the demands of any tottering des pot, and to save him from making good laws and ruling by them. What is the proper counter part to this ? A proclamation by England that she too will intervene, but at the call of the people, if any despot intervene at the call of another. It is England's part to say, "we sympathise with oppressed peoples ; we know you sympathise with their oppressors, when the latter have made the evils of revolution more tolerable than longer submission, we insist, and will support our decision if you compel us by force, that the oppressor and oppressed still fight it out between:them. We should like to fight for the people, but we shall abstain from doing it if you renounce your odious claim to fight for any incarnation in a modeinform of the old CALIGULAS, DOMITIANS, and HE LIOGAIIALUSES. If Neapoli tans, for instance—resist King Bost BA—hands off! or we visit Naples, Trieste, and Ancona ; and take Sicily under our naval care and into our hands entirely. And as to the Middle and North of Italy if you do quit, after your seven years' inflictions, we too shall intervene somewhere." Now wo are confident that decision to this pur p )rt would settle the business. BOMB A. dare not go on if Austria were kept behind the Po at her peril, and the Legations and Duchies would soon sqeare matters with their rulers, if the brave fighters with unarmed citizens, the bullies of Vienna were Ought to keep at home. We de mand no intervention, but we demand it in behalf of peoples as well as of despots ! We must re verse the ignominious Whig and Tory policy which has disgraced us since the Treaty of Vienne, and let the incurables know that Holy Allianc, counsels shall override those of England no longer. We shall be asked by what test are we to distin guish the call of a people for succour ; a govern ment we know ;—how we can tell the wish of a people but by their governments? Now, will any sane man pretend that we did not know the wishes of Hungarians, Romans, Neapolitans, Sicilians, and numerous Germans in 1848.9 ? Why, we knew aem by the very concessions which they extorted from their tyrants, as well as we know what oar ancestors wanted from the perjured STUARTh*. We turned them out by a foreign intervention sought by the people. Had WILLIAM M. been a red-tapist of course he could not have ventured to intervene. There is one infallible teat, howbver, of unendurable mis rule, and that is revttlution. In no country of Europe now could agitators get up an insurrec tion against a really - beneficial rule. Revolution is always a proof that ithe thousands who prefer their daily business to everything would rather jeopardise it than liv. aon beneath the yoke. All revolutions convict Government they wou ld subvert of having fits t subverted the rights of the people for whose sal ,:ce they should govern. How long, then, 'is t; he wretched Holy Alliance, Cobur g , C ourt, an d . del ;pot p l an o f non-interven tion for people, .and _prompt intervention for THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUL=Y 21•_1856; tyrants, to last ? England now takes a deeper interest in foreign policy than she has done for years. When will she see her rulers guided by her masculine and free instinct, and warning the crowned magnates of the continent that she will no longer endure intervention against their sub jects ? We may be sure that su.cli a determina tion on the part of England, one so plainly reasonable and just, would be the precursor, not of revolution, but of improvement in the behaviour of Autocrats from the Atlantic to the:very borders of Russia herself. After a patient and searching investigation, he jury have convicted WILLIAM DOVE of the wilful murder of his wife. The prisoner had every possible advantage that any man placed in his unfortunate position could desire. His de fence was conducted by counsel of the highest rank in the profession, and the ability displayed was worthy of the well-established reputation of those eminent gentlemen. There was manifestly no want of funds to meet the necessary expenses, and every witness, who by any possibility could testify in favour of the view chiefly relied on, was brought forward without regard to the heavy outlay. The perfect fair play accorded to the most atrocious criminals is a portion of the British Constitution of which Englishmen may well be proud. No man is entrapped into de clarations, to be subsequently used against him self. The more atrocious tke charge, in fact, the greater the facilities given to the prisoner to show that he is not guilty of that which must be, to a certain extent established, before he can even be oalled on for a defence. As to the facts, that Mrs. DovE died from the effects of strychnine ; that it was administered by the hand of her husband, the man who had vowed solemnly to love and cherish her ; and that it was so administered with the deliberate intention of causing her death,—they were established be yond the possibility of doubt. There could be no con flicting opinions of medical men as to the cause of death ; for the fatal drug was so clearly detected by a number of different tests, that the learned counsel for the defendant could not venture to argue against the assumption. The only suggestion was that it might have been aceldentally adminis tered on the last occasion when the act was con summated, and that, on all the previous times, when precisely similar symptoms were manifested, they arose from hysteria. This sug gestion, ingenious as it was, could not persuade an intelligent jury. The manner in which the prisoner obtained possession of the poison, and his entire conduct during what was well termed the fatal week, placed the entiro matter beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt ; and if the matter remained in that state, the jury could have had no alternative but to return the verdict that would consign WILLIAM DOVE to an igno minious death on the scaffold. Accordingly we find the chief efforts for the defence directed towards proving that the pri soner was not a responsible being—that he was, in fact, subject to delusions which would render l i him not accountable for his actions. For this purpose a number of witnesses tracing his career from childhood were produced, who clearly showed that he was a wicked and mischievous child, delighting in acts of cruelty, and dull and stupid in his intellectual faculties. Bat if these facts could be taken as a justification there would be no protection for society. The usual practise of attempting to show that the party had maintained a good character should be set aside, and the available defence would be that he had always been incor rigible, and proceeded from bad to worse in the course of an atrocious career. The throwing of oil of vitriol or other corrosive substances on cows or cats, for which he ought to have received severe punishment at the time, could not be held to justify the subsequent pDisoning of his wife, under circumstances of the most atrocious and dia bolical cruelty. Had he been severely chastised at first, be might not haveindiilged his malignant pas sions to such an extent as to have involved him in the awful position in which ho is now placed, and it is possible if juries had on every occasion displayed inflexible firmness poor Mrs. DovE might now have been alive and well. The object of penal law is not the punishment of the guilty, but the protection and security of the innocent. It is not vengeance on DovE that is required, but such an example as will show others who have a strong impulse to crime that they cannot carry their malevolent desires into execution with impunity. Persons of that temperament are peculiarly sensi tive to consequences falling on themselves, and DovE's acquittal on the score of insanity might cause the murders of many innocent persons, and the necessity of similar trials in other parts of the country. LATEST NEWS.) THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. MARSEILLES, SUNDAY EVENING. The Spanish steamer Balear, which left Barce- Lona yesterday, has brought the intelligence that the rising which took place to the cry of " Long live Espartero " has been suppressed. The barricades were carried. The Government pardoned the insurgents. The ships Suffren and Toulon sailed for Barce lona yesterday. The 37th Regiment left last evening for the Spanish frontier. The Messages de Bayonne of Sunday states that Espartero is watching Madrid (garde a vile Madrid). At Barcelona, on the 19th, tranquil lity is said to have been re-established, and the militia disarmed and dissolved. There has been a movement at Janquera. A junta has been formed at Saragossa, of which General Falcon is President. All Aragon has pronounced against O'Donnell Gurrea commands the insurrection. The Cortes is assembling at Saragossa. Eighty , five deputies have already arrived. The Simois arrived at Marseilles on Saturday from Constantinoplu, with advices of the 10th nst. Balaklava was to be given up to the Russians on the 12th. The Himalaya hail arrived at Constantinople M 10 days from England. Admiral Lyons arrived at Constantinople on Strictly speaking, the Cortes were not prorogued. The new Ministry, immediately after its forma- lion, sent to the Queen the folloi . ving address : " Madam, —The Ministry presided over by the Duke de he Vittoria having been dissolved in consequence of d.fferencee which have broken out in it, and the direc tion of public affairs having been confided to the respon sible Ministers who have now the honour to submit the present statement to your Majesty, the first duty of the Cabinet was to consider with calmness and im partiality the situation in which the nation is placed in consequence of the fatal and complicated con currence of innumerable causes, past and recent, which places it in a situation more serious and more perilous than it has been reduced to during the present century. To the excitement of passions, the shock of interests, and the struggles of parties which accompany and follow the appearance of all political revolutions, are added, Madam, since the triumph of the movement of July, 1854, the absence of systematic political and almi ni,trative legislation, the renewal and the change of all the public functionaries, the accumulation of questioes of great importance, either on account of their social and religious aspect, the dynastic war recommenced in the province of Arragon, the epidemy, scarcity, and continued disturbance of public order in every part of the monarchy. In order to complete this sad picture, Madam, the late insurrections of an eminently social character, which have affected the peaceable pro vinces in the centre of the Peninsula, have spread like a plague into other provinces on the coast and in the interior. It was in vain Madam (and this is a sad avowal to make)—it was in vain that the Constituent Cortes, in their intelligent foresight, and the Cabinet which have retired, with zeal and patriotism endeavoured to check the increase and spread of these evils and of those disorders. Neither the pre sence, the authority, the co-operation of the Parliament, nor the use of the power which, to the last moment of its existence remained with the late Ministry, nor the state of siege maintained or established on the great territorial zones, nor the action of military justice ap plied to the imperious law of necessity, have been able hitherto to re-establish political and social discipline, preserve public peace, and consolidate material order for any length of time. " This crisis, Madam, evidently demands a change of system in the Government of the State ; it requires a policy of union and conciliation between all men and towards all the parties which exist in the constitutional monarchy ; it calls for a just and efficient repression of all the elements which agitate in the depths or work on the surface of society ; it required, in short, Madam the concentration and the firm unity of the public power, exercising simultaneously its action on all parties with prudence, but with vigour, in order that that action might restore its lost spring to the principle of authority, to the laws their respect, to the citizens the guarantee of their most sacred rights, to the people moral order, and to the monarchy internal peace. "It was in no other manner that, under circumstances incomparably less imperious and difficult, it was possible, Madam, both in Spain and abroad, to save society from dissolution, and nationalities from ruin. "The Government, Madam, encourages the firm hope that, thanks to the means hich it proposes to your Majesty, and to others which it has not now pointed out, owing to the haste in which it submits this state ment to the high consideration of your Majesty, it will be able promptly to attain the object to which its exer tions tend, and in which are summed up the most sacred, the most imperious, and the most vital of the duties of a constituted power. " When it shall have attained it with the invincible support of public opinion, energetically pronounced in its favour, it will hasten to fulfil another duty not less imperious—that of reestablishing normal order and sub mitting its conduct to the judgment of the Cortes, re ligiously practising in the administration of the State and in its relations with the Parliament the principles of respect for the law and love of liberty which have the objects of the worship of your present advisers dur ing their whole existence. " Animated by these sentiments, and founding our conduct on these reasons, we have the honour respect. fully to submit for your Majesty's approbation the fol lowing decree, and subscrioe ourselves with the greatest respect your Majesty's most devoted servants. " LEOPOLD O'DONNELL, " NICOMEDES PASTOR DIAZ, " MANUEL CANTERO, "ANTONIO DE LOS RIOS Y Roses, "JOSE MANUEL DE COLLADO.” The above document, when published, was fol lowed by the following Royal decree : " Considering the extraordinary circumstances in which the monarchy is placed, and, in conformity with what has been proposed to me by my Council of Mini sters, I decree as follows : " Art. 1. All the provinces of the Peninsula and the adjacent islands are declared in a state of siege. " Art. 2. The Captains General of Provinces will re sume, and exercise during the state of siege, the extra ordinary powers which in such a state are attributed to them by the general regulations of the army, and the laws and provisions in vigour. Art. 3. The Government will render an account to the Cortes of the use and application of those extraord nary powers. "THE QUEEN. (Countersigned) "ANTONIO DE LOS . RIOS Y ROSAS, Minister of the Interior." The Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the re signation which the Duke de la Vittoria had sent to the Queen, in addition to his intimation, viva voce to her Majesty to that effect. It is :thus couched:— “ Madam,—The shattered state of my health does not permit me to any longer perform the functions of President of your Council of Ministers. Will your Ma jesty deign to relieve me of that position, and I shall be grateful for it as the greatest favour your Majesty can confer on me ? May the Almighty guard during long years the important life of your Majesty ! I have the honour to be, Madam, your Majesty's most devoted servant, 4 ‘ BALDOMERO ESPAIITEIIO.” The Madrid Gazette of the 14th brings official details of the Ai inisterial crisis and the names of the new Ministers. It states that at a Cabinet Council, held after O'Donnell and Esoosura had given in their resignations, the difficulty that had arisen was discussed at great length, and that at a second Council, held at the Palace, Espartero expressed his opinion that it was best both those Ministers should remain or both retire. This was found impossible, and Espartero then declared his intention of resign ing, and his colleagues went with him. The Queen, says the Government organ, thrice advised and asked him to remain and to settle the difficulty as might best be decided by the Council, but he per sisted in relinquishing office, and her Majesty then accepted the resignation of all the Ministry except O'Donnell, to whom the formation of a now Go vernment was entrusted. The following are the names : President of the Council—O'Donnell. Foreign Affairs—Pastor Diaz. Financa—Cantero. Public Works—Collado. Interior—Rios Rosas. Grace and Justice—Luzuriaga. Marine—Pedro Bayarri. A supplement to the Gazette contains the decrees of nomination ; also two others, by which Rios Rosas is appointed temporarily to fulfil the duties of the Minister of Grace and Justice in the absence of Luzuriaga, and O'Donnell those of the Minister of Marine in the absence of Don Pedro Bayarri. The Gazette also contains the decree putting Spain under martial law. TURKISH LIGHT-LIOUSES. The following official notice to navigators has been issued by the Ottoman Government . FENER BAKCLIE. The light white and stationary. On the point of Fener Bakehts, on the coast of Asia, south of Scutari. 1 :49.t. 40 deg. 58 min. 0 see. N., lon. 2G deg. 41 min, 45 sec. E. Visible at 12 miles. THE BOSPHORUS. LIGHT-110USIG OF ROUMELIA. The light white and stationary, upon the ancient tower (now restored) of Roumelia, at the entrance of the Black Sea, on the European coast. Lat. 41 deg. 14 min. 10 sec. N., lop. 26 deg. 46 min. 45 se:. E. litigA above the sea, 58 metres. Visib!e at 18 mile 3. The light was established on the let of June, 1856. LIGIITHOUSIC OP ANATOLIA. The light stationary, varie , l try lia,shes (oue red flash followed by two white). These flashes succeed each other every two minutes ; they are preceded arid followed, not by a total eclipse, but by a short diminution of the light. The light is on the ancient tower (now restore 1) d Ana`olia, at the entrance of the Black Sea, on the coast of Aqia Lat. 41 deg. 13 min. N., lon. 2G deg. 49 min. E. lleigto; ab 'ye the Fel, 7G metre . Vi‘iole at 20 mileß. This light was established on the Ist June, 1850. PROVISIONAL LIG-lIT OF GALL[I'OL[. Ou the tower nearest to the town. _ Lat. 40 deg. 24 min. 30 sec. N., lon. 24 deg. 10 tri.n 19 see. E. Height above the sex, 30 metres. This light, visible at an average distance of ten miles, will very shortly be nplaced by a light of the second order, revolving. It has been in operation since the Ist of June, 1856. BLACK. SEA. PROVISIONAL LIGHT ON THE ISLE OF SERPENTS. Lat. 45 deg. 15 min. 31 sec. N., lon. 27 deg. 50 min. 15 sec. E. Height above the sea, GO metres. This light, with a range of ten miles, is within an ate of the horizon of 200 deg►. from the west to thu east-northeast, passing by the south (magnetic). It will shortly be replaced by a revolving light of the seco:nl order. Tile present one was placed on the sth of June, 185 G. LORD TIARDINGV.—The paralysis under which his lordship is now suffering attacked the whole of his let% tide, and ho has, therefore, become perfectly helpless having lost his right forearm. He is quite Feasibly, and even cheerful, under the affliction.— United Service Gazette. The Ministerial whitebait dinner, preliminary to the enl of the session, was held at the Trafalgar, Greenwich, on Saturday evening. The Observer of yestarday states that Saturday, the 26th instant, is fixed for the prorogation of Parliament. RETURN OF TROOPS FROM THE CRIMEA.—WI r De- Partmeut, July 21.—The following vessels passed flirt Thisplimus on passage to England on the 15th, 17th, 18,h, and 20th instant :—Clyde, 400 men of Lan 1 Trans. port Corps and Army Works Corps, 60 men D Troop Elorse Artillery ; Himalaya, Ist and 3d Regiments of British German Legion ; Cumberland, British Swiss Legion from Smyrna ; H.M.S. Dragon, ono company of Royal Sappers and Miners. the 10th inst. The ships Vengeur, Duquesne, Jean-Bart, and Tourville, the frigate Mogador, the corvettes Gorgone and Loire, and the English steamer New York, have arrived at Marseilles with troops from the Crimea. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur of to-day contains a senatus co sultum relating to the Regency of the Empire. It has three chapters and 25 articles. By the first article the Imperial infant is a minor till 18 years of age. By the second, the Empress is Regent during his minority, unless she contracts a second marriage, in which case she forfeits her Regency and the guardianship of the infant Emperor. By the second chapter a Council of Regency is ap pointed. It is composed of French princes, to be named by the Emperor ; and in default of such nomination, of the two French princes most nearly allied in blood to the throne. By chapter three the administration of the Crown revenues during the minority is provided for. BOURSE, July D.—The following were the last quotations Cash. tr. a. 1i per Cents 93 40 3 per Cents 7O 95 New Loan 7O ta) Bank Shares 4,125 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,510 Austrian End of Month. —f. —c. 71 • Belgian Five 5..,...., Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s) . 95 Home Debt RAILWAYS-SOB CASH. fr. c. fr. a. Orleans 1,400 Western... Northern 1,065 Strasbneg Lyons... ......1,435 New Ditto hiediterranean 1,830 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BlO Tests Cette SPAIN. We are only gradually arriving at the knowledge of the incidents which really preceded the fall of the Espartero Ministry, and which led to the out break which followed in Madrid. Owing to the interruption of communication, as is usual in such cases, and the difficulty of obtaining information, it is possible that some errors have been committed which it is useful to rectify. It appears that the words spoken by M. Escosura in the Cortes with reference to the right of insur rection were not solely the cause of the course fol lowed by General O'Donnell. Information from Madrid, dated the 14th, proceeding from a good source, states that it had been complained for some time past that the Carlist journals of Madrid and the provinces, and those of the reactionary party generally, had assumed a violence towards the Government which threatened to endanger public tranquillity again, as they had already in part led to the outrages in Castille and Leon. The subject had occupied the attention of the Go vernment, and two days previous to the fall of the Cabinet the question was discussed whether it had not become absolutely necessary to adopt certain measures of restriction. The proposi tion in favour of these restrictions was at once strongly opposed by no less a person than General O'Donnell. This excited surprise among his col leagues. Had General O'Donnell been a man of a tolerant character—had he ever felt or seriously manifested any great regard for political or indivi dual liberty—if he were a man likely to accept the advantages of publicity for the great bene fits which in the long run it confers on society— had he over held any other opinion than that sociei y should b 3 coerced like an army in war time —his opposition to restriction would surprise no one. Be this as it may, O'Donnell opposed the measure. The Ministers had discussed Escosura's proposition for two days, and it was adopted by all of them, with the single exception of O'Don nell, who, on the evening of the 14th, made a pro position in turn—namely, that Escosura should be ejected from the Cabinet. Having expressed him self thus, he abruptly snatched up his hat, went home, and, feigning illness, betook himself to bed. The other Ministers, anticipating that the moment for executing the project which it was evident O'Donnell and his friends had been long concocting had arrived, con sulted together some time, and Espartero, by their advice, followed by O'Donnell, persuaded him to leave his bed, and succeeded in bringing him back to the Council-room. It may be observed that the official residences of the two Ministers aro close to each other. O'Donnell once more made his appearance, bat it was to demand still more vehemently than before the expulsion of his col league. The question was put to the vote, and O'Donnell's proposition was unanimously rejected, as unfounded and uncalled for. In circumstances of great emergency like the present it is the prac tice in Spain, when constitutionally governed, to call in the President and Vice-President of the Chambers to aid with their counsel the Govern ment and the Sovereign. General Infante, the President, was summoned, with his Vice-President, to attend the council. The matter was once more discussed, and, after everything f or and against was advanced, they again put it to the vote, when the President of the Cortes, though believed to be a friend of O'Donnell, and the Vice-President gave their decision against him. In the meantime Escosura placed his resignation in the hands of Espartero as President of th e Council. Espartero asked if General O'Donnell was ready to do the same, as announced. The latter sulkily replied that he should hand it him self to the Queen. Espartero thereupon suggested that the Ministers should go together to the Pa lace and hold a council, with her Majesty presid ing in person. This passed on the night of the 13th. The Ministers proceeded to the Palace at 1 o'clock, and remained in council till 4 in the g morning. Contrary to the opinion of all her Mini sters, exceptin , of course, O'Donnell, the Queen decided that Escosura should quit the Cabinet, and that she would not accept O'Donnell's resignation. Eipartero, who was determined that Escosura should not be sacrificed alone, but that O'Donnell should also retire, informed the Queen that in such case he himself and the whole of his colleagues would also resign. The Queen said a few words expressive of regret, but accepted the collective resignations, and on the spot named O'Donnell President of the Council, with power to form a now Cabinet. Such is the correct version of what took place so far as the fall of the Cabinet is con cerned. All this took place at 4 o'clock in the morning. O'Donnell at once took precautions to maintain by force what he had done, and before 11 o'clock the same morning he had under arms a body of 14,000 men and 60 pieces of artillery in Madrid and around the walls of Madrid. At half-past 5 o'clock in the eve ling the mom- bers of the Cortes who were still in Madrid assem bled to express their opinion on the new Ministry. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The Asia has arrived, with advices from Now York to the 9th, and specie to the amount of 1,000,625 dollars, and 2201. English silver. In the Senate, on the 9th, the Committee on Ter ritories reported the house bill for the admission of Kansas, with an amendment striking out the preamble and all after the enacting clause, and sub stituting therefore the Slave State Kansas Bill, re cently passed by the Senate. After some little op position, the amendment was adopted. The House took up the bills providing for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi, of St. Mary's River, and St. Clare Flats, which passed the Senate on Tuesday over the veto of the President. At an early stage of the proceedings the previous question was moved, and tho Mississippi Bill passed by a vote of 143 to 55. The other bills were afterwards passed by votes equally de cisive. Colonel Fremont accepts the nomination for the Presidency in the following letter : "Gentlemen—You call me to a high responsibility I.y placing me in the van of a great movement ot the people of the United States, who, withou t regard to past difference 1, are uniting in a common effort to bring back the action of the Federal Government to the principles of Wash ington and Jefferson. Comprehending the magnitude of the trust which they have declared themselves wil ling to place in my hands, and deeply sensible of the honour which their unreserved confidence in this threat ening position of the public affairs implies, I feel that I eanuot better respond than by a sincere declaration that, in the event of my election to the Presidency, I should enter upon the execution of its duties with a single-hearted determination to promote the good of the old country, and to direct solely to this end all the power of the Government, irrespective of party issues and regardless of sectional strifes. The declara tion of niinciples embodied in the resolutions of your Convention expresses the sentiments in whicli I have been educated, and which have been ripened into con- viction by personal observation and experience. With this declaration and avowal I think it neces sary to revert to only two of the subjects embraced in these resolutions, and to those only, because events have surroune.ed them w;th grave and critical circum stances, and given them especial importance. concur in the views of the Convention, depreca tin g the foreign policy t 3 which it adverts. The assump tion that we have the right to take from another na tion its domains because we want them is an aban doum2nt of the honest character which our country has acquired ; to provoke hostilities by unjust as sumptions would be to sacrifice the peace and cha racter of the country, when all its interests might be more certainly secured, and its objects attained by just and healing counsels, involving no lose of reputation. International embarrassments . are !mainly the results of a secret diplomacy, winch aims to keep from the knowledge of the people the opera tions of the Government. This system is inconsistent with the character of our institutions, and is itself yield ing gradually to a more enlightened public opinion and to the power of a free press, which, by its broad dissemi nation of political intelligence, secures in advance to the side of justice the judgment of the civilised world. An honest, firm, and open policy in our foreign relations would command the united support of the nation, whose deliberate opinions it would necessarily reflect. Nothing is clearer in the history of our institutions than the design of the nation in asserting its own indepen dence and freedom, to avoid giving countenance to the ex tension of slavery. The influence of the small but com pact and powerful class of men interested in slavery, who command one section of the country, and wield a vast political control as a consequence in the other, is now di rected to turn back this impulse of the revolution and re verse its principles. The extension of slavery across the continent is the object of the power which now rules the Government, and trom this spirit has sprung those kindle 1 wrongs in Kansas so truly portrayed in one of your resolu tions, which prove that the elements of the most arbi trary Governments have not been vanquished by the just theory of our own. It would be out of place here to pledge myself to any particular policy that has been sug gested to terminate the sectional controversy engendered by political animosities, operating on a powerful class banded together by a common interest. A practical re medy is the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State. The South should, in my judgment earnestly desire such consummation. It would indicate its good faith, it would correct the mistake of the repeal, and the North, having practically the benefit of the agreement between the two sections, would be satisfied and good feeling be restored. The measure is perfectly consistent with the honour of the South and vital to its interests. That fatal act which gave birth to this purely sectional strife, originating in the scheme to take from free labour the country secured to it by a solemn covenant, cannot be too soon disarmed of its pernicious force. The only genial region of the middle latitudes loft to the emi grants of the Northern States for homes cannot be con quered from the free labourers, who have long con sidered it as set apart for them in our inheritance, without provoking a desperate struggle. Whatever may be the persistence of the particular class, which seems ready to harazd everything for the success of the unjust scheme it has partially effected, I firmly believe that the great part of the nation which throbs with patriotism of the free men of both sections will have power to overcome it. They will look to the rights secured to them by the constitution of the Union as their best safeguard from the oppression of the class which, by a monopoly of the soil and of save labour to till it, might in time reduce them to the extremity of labouring upon the same terms as the slaves. The great body of non-slaveholding free men, including those of the South, upon wose welfare slavery is an oppression, will discover that the power of the general Government over the public lands may be be neficially exerted to advance their interests and secure their independence. Knowing this, their suffrages will not be wanting to maintain that authority in the Union a hick is absolutely essential to the maintenances of their own li berties', and which has more than once indicated the purpose of disposing of the public lands in such a way as would make every settler upon them a freeholder. If the people entrust to the Adminis tration of the Government, the laws of Congress in relation to the territories wiil be faithfully exe cuted ; all its authority will be exerted in aid of the national will to re-establish the peace of the country on the just principles which have heretofore received the sanctfon of the Federal Governments of the States, and of the people of both sections. Such a policy would leave no element to that sectional party which seeks its ag grandizement by appropriating the new territories to capital in the form of slavery, but would inevitably result in the triumph of free labour, the natural capital which coestitut - is the real wealth of this great country,and cre ates that intelligent power in the masses alone to be res tml on as the bulwark of free institueions. Trusting that I have a heart capable of comprehending our whole country with its varied interests, and confident that pa triotism exists in all parts of the Union. I accept the nomination of your Convention, in the hope that I may be enabled to serve usefully its cause, which I consider the cause of constitutional freedom. " Very respectfully your obedient servant, "New-York, July 8, 1356." "J. C. FREMONT. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, has been sen tenced to pay a fine of 300 dollars for the assault on Mr. Sumner. The sales of cotton on the Bth were confined to about 500 bales. Flour and wheat were firm. Ex-President Vau Buren has written a long let tor in support of Mr. Buchanan, which it was supposed would influence the election. The New York papers express great satisfaction at the settlement of the Enlistment Question. They say that Englaud was better prepared for war than America. _ _ _ The Kovstan (Canada) Whig states that the feud existing between the two bodies of Orangemen in Canada—a feud that has long been a reproach to the Protestant faith—exists no longer. The two Grand Lodges met recently, under their respective Grand Masters, and came to an amicable arrange ment. A large meeting was held at the Merchants' Ex change, Philadelphia, to reciprocate the pacific feelings manifested towards the United States in England. The yellow fever is raging in Cuba, and is fatal to strangers. The dates from the city of Mexico are to the 19th, and from Vera Cruz to the 22d. A letter from Kiel, of the 15th, says The trial for high treason against M. Scheele, the di recting Minister at Copenhagen of the affairs of the two Duchies of Holstein ancrtiauenbour,,, ,, , has been again put off to the 18th August next. This delay has taken place at the demand of Bargen, the Consul of the Minister, who, it is said, will also appear in person before the court. • This great affair, which is here considered as a national cause, continues to occupy public attention in the highest degree in the German Duchies." MUSIC HALL, SURREY GARDENS. The inauguration festival terminated on Saturday with a miscellaneous concert of great and varied attrac tions which brought nearly 8,000 people to the gardens. The beautiful weather that prevailed throughout the evening enhanced the liveliness of the scene, and per haps more genuine enjoyment was never experienced by a large mixed crowd. The music hall was filled in every part, and many hundreds were compelled to listen to the performances outside. Amid all this, however, the greatest decorum prevailed, and it was remarked by an official, when the assembly was about dis persing, that, although so many thousands had passed so many hours in the gardens during five consecutiv e days, not a single plant had been injured, not a flower had been plucked from the parterres. The concert was composed of such a mass of hete rogenecus materials that a brief general description must suffice. There were two symphonies iu the pro gramme—Mozart's in E flat and Beethoven's in C minor—together with two of Weber's overtures, " Euryanthe and Jubilee." It was gratifying to find such attention and such applause bestowed upon the orchestral music. The noble symphony of Beethoven has become to the majority of music -lovers "familiar as a household word.' The instrumental solos were many and excellent. The most classical of these were the concert stuck of Web sr, which brilli an t an d diffi cult piece was played with admirable effect by Miss Arabel'a Goddard (Mr. Lober directing the orchestra), and elicited the same consideration and applause as the sym phonies. The others were a violin fantasia, by Signor Bazzini ; a solo on the " piano-harmonium," by Madame Dreyfus ; a violoncello fantasia, by Signor Bottesini, the most accomplished living master of that unwieldy and unmanageable instrunienteand whose performance). have been among the remarkable features of the mis cellaneous concerts. Th e "star" of the evening, so far as the vocal music is concerned, was Alboni, who sang three times, and ea ch time with increased success. Alboni's first per formance was with Madame Cara Novello, in the duet from " Tancredi,"—" Lasciarni non t'ascolto,"—which the audience redemanded, but the singers with good taste declined to repeat. Her next was the splendie scenc; of Arsace, " In si barbara"—an example of pure I ta li an vocalisation alike incomparable for expression and bearisea. Her third and last was the Tyra/emu r em " Setif (In questa semplice"), which she never gave with more heartinese and genuine simplic:t of s tyl e . This fairly enchanted the audience, and sail encore was insisted on with such unanimity that, in spite of her better judgmeet, Alboni o u'd do nothing else than come forward and sing again. Ma , 'a,nr- Clara Novello, who, besides th duet was put dews for Macfarren's "Captive of Agineourt," delighted the vast crowd by her magnificent soprano eoics, ann maintained her right to he considered the bast of English female singers, divi(tinee the honours of the evening with the great and popular It dian. Miss Dolby gained well-merited applause in Belle's graceful set. t in g of Longfellow's poem, "The green trees whis pered," which she san t perfection. Another furors was created by the wonderful execution of Madame Gassier in "Una voce," which she embellis'eed a piacere and with profusion. In answer to the meets Madame Gassier indulged her hearers (who were nothing loth) with the eternal valse of Venzanc. To conclude, there was also a variety of singing by Madame Belden- , dorff, Herr Rokitansky (who has a fine bass voice), and others. Among the rest was noted as a perform ance of promise Beethoven's "In questa temba •s. cure," by a young debutante—Miss Kate Ranoe. The names of the other singers (which is all we can find room for) were Madlles. Beyer Zerr, Jessie Rolls, and AI Gassier—the last one of the best barytones now "in the market." To the chorus were allotted the "Tramp. tramp, o'er moss and to I," by Bishop • the madrigal "Down in aflowery vale," which was enchored; and "Tie Heavens are telling," from the Creation. In addition ti the symphony,M.Jullien directed his marchesymphonique entitled "La Pais," for two orchestras and double choir (enlivened by an army of harps), which was received with immense favour. The bulk of the labour, however, fell upon Mr. Loder and Signor Ifottesini, who displayed their accustomed ability. Mr. Spark, trom Leeds, and Townshend Smith, cathedral organist, from Here ford, undertook the choral pieces ; so that there were enough of conductors and to spare. Thus ended a series of performances the success of which has far surpassed anticipation. The first !! Phil ling audience" ;o be admitted this evening. • TUE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have published a statement in answer to the one made in the House of Commons, by Mr. Wilson, the Secretary to the Treasury,relative to the Australian mail contract. Mr. Wilson stated that one reason why the contract was given to the Glasgow company, was because that company en gaged to commence the service immediately, whereas the Oriental company could not begin it until their ships were discharged from the trans port service, and had been refitted. The directors assert that while the Glasgow company will not commence carrying the Australian mall, via India, before February next, they (the directors) could have commenced carrying it before that period, and they offered to run three powerful steamers from Galle to Melbourne, at a fortnight's notice, so that a postal communication between Southampton and Australia could have been opened at once. Mr.' Wilson, likewise, stated that another reason why the Australian contract was given to the Glasgow company, was because they offered to con vey the Australian mail between England and Australia, 'whereas the Peninsular and Oriental Company offered" only to convey it between Suez and Melbourne. The directors of the latter corn- pany assert that the reason why they offered only to convey it that distance was because the terms of the Government tenders specified only between Suez and Melbourne. The directors admit that they would not engage to convey the Australian mails if cumulative penalties were enforced upon a non-fulfilment of the contract, "from whatever cause arising, and in no case to he relinquished," because in the event of the mail packet striking on an unknown and sunken rock, or being destroyed by lightning, they would be mulcted in the cumu- _ lative penalties. The sum which the Glasgow company have engaged to convey the Australian mails for is about 7,7001. per voyage, which extends to a distance of nearly 13,000 miles ; and according to a table of the cumulative penalties which the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have published, the Glasgow company's mail packets must be behind time 17 days each voyage before the above-named sum will be forfeited. AUXILIARY SCREW STEAMERS FOR A USTRALIA. (From the Liverpool Albion, of this clay_) SUCCESSFUL VOYAGE OF THE ROYAL 1 CHARTER. Before the Royal Charter left this port we took consi- ' derable interest in the preparations which were being made by the Australian Screw Steam-ship Company to shorten the voyage between England and the gold-pro ducing land at the Antipodes, and to establish something like regularity and certainty in the communication be tween the two. The principle adopted in the construc tion of the Royal Charter was pronounced, by those in whose opinion we place reliance, to be exactly that best suited to the peculiarities attendant upon the voyage, comprising, as she does, the advantages of a first-class sailing clipper for a fair wind, with the option of using the screw when canvas would be of little or no use, We ventured on that occasion to express a belief that she would make the run to Melbourne under 60 days ; and she has accomplished it in 59, leaving margin sufficient to justify the confidence we entertained of her success, and to warrant the , expectation that she will yet do it in still less time. For it should be borne in mind that all the vessels which went out about the same time as hers self made long voyages, having met with severe weather and contrary winds. The Kent, the crack London clip per, left six hours before the Royal Charter, and bets were freely made in the metropolis, and even in Liver pool, that she would arrive out as soon as the auxiliar screw-steamer. She was 71 days out, and was therefore beaten by the Iloyal Charter by 12 days. The gratifying result of the Royal Charter's voyage justifies the boast that Liverpool continues to have the credit of diminish* ing the distance between the old country and her valu able colony, and that the private enterprise of her mer chants, which, combined with her natural advantages all a port, has made her what she is, will enable her vessels always to outrun those proceeding from other ports. The log of the Royal Charter shows that she sailed ors the 17th of February, and crossed' the equator in 17 days, having made in that time 3,219 knots, or 189 per day. She passed the Cape of Good Hope on the 38th day, ti distance of 4,632 knots from the equator, making 220 k knots per day ; and from the Cape to Melbourne was 2 1 days in running 5,469 knots, or 260 per day. The total distar ci being 13,320 knot., and the average 2251 knots per day, or 10} miles per hour. Writing to the owners, from Melbourne, on the 25th April, Captain Boyce says :—" The Royal Charter arrived in Hobson's Bay on the 16th instant, making the passage in fifty-nine days ; all the passengers highly delighted with the ship and their kind treatment ; 1 113 sickness nor any other unpleasant occurrence during the voyage. Outside the Heads I delivered to Cants J. Gilmore, steamer Telegraph, the Sydney mails, which were landed in sixty-one days, he making the passage in forty-six hours. At the same time I put the mails for Van Diemen's Land on hoard the Fenella steamer ; he also landed them in 61 days, which has caused quite a sensation throughout the Colo nies. All our saloon cabins are taken ; a great marl families in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Van Die tnea's Land are disappointed in getting one. Amongst our homeward passengers are Dr. Scoresby and Lieuts. Jansen and Chimmo, who were highly pleased and as tonished to see how we manage affairs and drive along. Their accounts and writings about the ship will be very interesting to the world ; and I have felt very proud to have so many scientific gentlemen on hoard, to whom r have rendered every assistance in my power, The Royal Charter, with a few alterations, may be made the most perfect ship afloat ; perhaps she is the finest Sea' boat ever built ; has beans enough to bear any quantity of canvas, and is easy in rolling. Tho engines are in splendid order, and work beautifully. Yon will see our consumption of coal is very small, very little more than 200 tons. The connecting, disconnecting, lowering, and raising the screw has become quite a siu,ple affair to set a few minutes suffice for it." From private sources we are not surprised to learn that Captain Boyce has won golden opinions from all , the passengers, Rho have born e t es ti mony t o his ur I remitting care and attention to their comfort and cow' ceaience ; while the scientific men have been loud ist their praise of his skill, and close attention day and night to the sailing of the ship. They have presented • him with addresses, plate, &c. They had what Dr* i Scoresby p ronounces to have been a cyclone on the 6 t h instant. Captain T a yl or an d other nautical men de' clam that they never saw it blow so hard in their lives, but the ship scudded through it all beautifully with her two lower topsails and a reefed foresail. Dr. Scoresby has been able to pursue his observations on the compael and magnetic influence in the southern hemisphere almost uninterruptedly.(although his health has not been good), and is in great spirits, his theoretical specula: - Lions before leaving England having been verified almost to the letter. _ Ina letter to the owners, Dr. Scoresby speaks in the highest terms of the performance of th e s hip. He says' —"lt may be noted as something remarkable in nautical history, that in 29 days we passed through the tropics!, that in 40 days (note ithstanding unusuallylight and shot' trades) we had made a distance of above 8,000 miles, or 200 per day, and that at the conclusio n o f the fifty-eight h day we were within 330. miles of Melbourne. In Ong, part of our voyage, in a period of 12 days consecutive l :4 . the Royal Charter made 3,522 miles, or 292 miles P° l day. The qualities of the vessel were proved by encoull' tering the transit of an Indian Ocean cyclone, whilst scudding before it, and are of the highest order. }lel euoyancy, liveliness, ease of action in the crossest and most tremendous seas, are as astonishing as admirable- The adjusted compasses performed remarkably well, a: a did not change so much as usual, owing to their centre' position, and other favourable airangements. The compass aloft performed admirably throughout, proving a correct and safe guide under all eircuinstauces, and on all courses. The pivots never failed, and were net required to be changed ; and the intinaatiune of the compass, though wantina bold tranisneent pare! to be viewed from the deck, could - be consulted eatiefactouly in any gale, or in any sea. Nothing more, I am pm fectly satisfied, is necessary for safe compass guidance in iron ships. Congratulating you, and the Liverpool and Australian Navigation Company, on this first *eat ~ u ccess of their plan and enterprise, and trusting that, under the Divine blessing, the return voyage may be propitious and satisfactory," &c. Dr. Scoresby has also written a gratifying letter, ern bodying the above facts, to the Compass Commit•oe, is Liverpool. Speaking of the Royal Charter, he says " You will have learnt from other sources some parti culars of the successful and splendid passage, under the blessing of Divine Providence, of the Roy al Chartlr to qer outward destination of Port Philip or Melbourne. rue performance and behaviour of the ship were truly admirable; but I am decidedly of opinion that her lull capabilities have as yet by no means been brought out. tier qualities as sea boat,' and her model in respeot of naval architecture, are, I think, perfect, or at all events as perfect as anything yet produced." Expressing a hope that the enterprise of Messrs. • Gibbs, Bright, and Co., who have done so much to de; velope the 'advantages of the screw as an auxiliary wi ll prove eminently successful, and that tae Australia" Steam Navigation Company will receive that suppor t in Liverpool to which it has proved its claim, we take [nave for the pres en t o f th e R oya l Ch ar t er , w hi c h Will as doubt rmive general attention in a few days, whCk she makes her appearance in the Mersey. AUSTRALIA. -- PLYMOUTH, Sunday Night. —The Joshua arrived off Falnicuth, last evening, Irons Syd: uey; saled April P. She landed neatly two tons or ,nails and newspapers. Amount of gold brought not known. Her news has been anticipated by thriller irrivals. --- SAll4Ol` CROWN LANDS.—The Crown has given n otice ~ f the sale of the manor of Epworth, and it will be ae well if they sell off all lands and prop,rty they cannot manage.—Building News. LORD WI NSLEYDALL—We have reason to belie that the que lion so long pending as to the ambigua' 0 position of Lord Wensleydale will be immediately soh ed the conversion of the life peerage which that eminent awyer now holds into an hereditary peerage. -under dl the circumstances of the case wo cannot but expros )ur satisfaction at this termination of the dispute : our ;urpriLe is only that so simple a solution of the ditliou'lY -should not have been thought of at an earlier period in tho Bening—Time, ~.:= .. ~ --~ tweet first c to 41( and e Iu th rise i from are sE chase Thi s 1 Nutt, fineril of A n viola 'Dent quenc about; As the hop e d ne a t w of E ng duce t PGrE are fin . r ., l3ll qYal -Lief err AYrers, 13Uteh Prin e i t turday for e i 2p burg ex div tank F 3 3 per New hdia F , titt )qsot eausol E t 4;1 P ate liueuo Chiliat kexic t Di tt Turk Ditt Venez Ditt tt For Gen r.-i~: ~~ M TI tame last —5 0 flaw Ban Dutch Diti Pertly POI « 1 PRA( Place elm% prop, 5, GI in thl quos to a Th e atbo i entit prixo 1V 41 Prii (fro and ate'