The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

THEA TR-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Leselee, hir. 3. B. Backstone. THIS EVENINO, the performances will eommenao with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Buckstene, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, .Sze. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama Cooto ot THE MILT. LER AND HIS MEN. mmence at OYAL PRINCES S'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harrill. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leelercq. • Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feehter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, ,tc. ; Misses Elswortlay, and R. Leclercq. E W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reprcdaction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census" every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (Is2d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicanit, D. Fisher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicanit, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALT. CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, (First produced in England at this Establishment) , With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any her Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-s-tiston, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. ;Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. T H E X F 0 R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a -Piston—Grand Selectilns (oi the most complete scale) Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, (tc., and other vocal and from i ns trumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misse s St uar t, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervoc, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 38m.—Afternoon, 7h. Bm. To-MORROW.-Morning, 7h. 38m.—Afternoon, Bh. 16m. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, MAY 17, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 74—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BABO3IETER-30.17—a range of 22 degrees between yesterday and to- day. WlND—North-Easterly—fresh; with dull cold weather. The great Party Fight—like Madame GRISI's "positively last appearance"—is again and yet again postponed It is to come on after the Whitsuntide Holidays. The second reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill last evening without a divi sion is consequently to be regarded only as a " put off," not in any way as an acquittal—so at least we are given to understand by the whole tone and manner of the right hon. gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. The Conservative Party, Mr. DISRAELI tells Ministers quite distinctly, do not regard themselves as in any respect committed to the acceptance of the Budget as a whole. They only delay thek onslaught upon it now that it is before them as a substantive measure. They con sented to the first reading, simply, because that was a purely customary proceeding. After a good deal of discussion, many angry words, and the expenditure of much sarcasm, and of yet more argument, they have decided, as from the first the probabilities were they would decide, upon not •coming to a vote upon the second reading—but rather upon quietly allowing that stage also to be passed without the two great opposing factions coming to a collision, and so deciding that the whole Whitsuntide recess shall be overleaped by Another Postponement. Thus in point of fact it actually was last night that the matter was eventually settled for the time being. Occasionally the House, at that apparently formidable and possibly momen tous sitting, was so " thin " yesterday that it almost at moments ran the risk of a "count out." The circumstance we are here alluding to is not with out its significance. It is because we feel it has been so, that we thus pointedly direct attention to it. These discussions upon the Budget have long since come to be looked upon as little better than so much waste of time for inasmuch as the questions involved in that Budget have either been already decided upon division, or have been thoroughly "ventilated," to use the cant phrase, in the debates that have since taken place upon the whole bearing and character of the Bill now before the lower House of Parliament. The continuous putting off, and putting off again and yet again of any definite amendment by the Opposition —tells a tale plainly enough to be un derstood without the utterance of one syllable of explanation. It shows, as clearly as anything can show it, that the Opposition are still nothing less than bewildered as to the point upon which they shall eventually take exception to the financial policy of the Government. As the right honourable gentleman the Leader •of the Opposition himself acknowledges in respect to the matter of the Income Tax, that, to all intents and pur poses, has been settled definitively for the current year by the mutual consent of the Ministerialists and the Opposition. There was a struggle after wards upon the question as to whether the ls. sd. per lb. duty upon tea should be maintained or diminished by the lopping off of the odd fivepence but that matter also was definitively arranged for another twelvemonth by a clear majority of Eighteen, or at any rate (if Mr. STEUART'S vote is not to be counted) of Seventeen, in an unusually large house—a clear majority of Seventeen or Eighteen upon the side of her MAJESTY'S Government. Virtually that vote was regarded as the settlement not only of the Tea a nd Sugar Duties directly, but indirectly also of the question as to the abandonment henceforth and for ever of the branded Duty upon Paper, the last impost among that particularly odious class of im posts long known in this country under the generic title of the Taxes upon Knowledge. The opposition of The Opposition to the project for the remission of those paper duties altogether and summarily, proves, however, after all, to be so intense and resolute of its kind that it is in consequence even now—not abandoned ! It is scotched, not killed. If die it must this session, it is determined at any rate to die hard. And then to add to the entangle. ment yet again of the whole complex question of the Budget as a matter of dispute between the occupants of the Treasury Bench and the occupants of the benches of the Opposition, there comes the yet more delicate and important and vital question growing. out of it—the constitu tional question as to the line of demarcation between the powers and prerogatives of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. Then again, in regard to the Constitutional Ques tion as in regard to the prior question affecting the Paper Duties, there are visible and appreciable) tokens of disunion, of a, lack at:any 4 ;9 er,A, ^ , •-• ' - 774 CT •)10S ( Yr ‘ )17" 1 • . THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1881. rate of unanimity upon the side of the Oppositio n It is now known, from what Sir W. HEATIXCOTE was permitted by the ex-Home Secretary (under Lord DERBY'S regime) to say, that Mr. WALPOLE —no mean authority in the general estimation of the House, one whose opinions are listened to with deference by all parties in that House, indis criminately—it is now known that that right hon. gentleman thinks not with the mass of his col leagues and supporters upon the side of the Oppo sition, in respect to the constitutional question that has been raised in this matter of the Financial policy of her MAJESTY'S Government. Others there may be, others there probably are, upon that front bench of the Opposition who coincide in those calm and dispassionate opinions of Lord DERBY'S ex-Home Secretary. But, at eny rate, there is Mr. WALPOLE, who is now known not to think in this matter of the Constitutional difficulty with the mass of the Opposition. The fact that such is his view in that particular is now as visibly before the house and the country as the kindred fact upon the other particular, the question of the Paper Duties and their remission in perference to the diminution of the tax upon tea—that an ex-Ministe rial colleague of Mr. WALPOLE'S, namely, no other than the right hon. baronet the ex-Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord DERBY'S Govern ment, paired upon the occasion of the last decisive division in favour of the policy advocated in this matter by the existing Administration. So that upon the Constitutional Question and upon the Question of the Paper Duties Abolition—there is no prospect whatever of unanimity-of-antagonism on the side of the Opposition. That is their bewil derment. Thence comes their hesitation as to when and where they will for once and for all have at the financial policy of the Government. That they are determined to " have at" it, in some way or another, was quite clearly avowed last night by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. But it is not to be even now—imme diately. The holidays of Whitsuntide come to himself and to the more eager among his followers as another opportune breathing time, as another welcome in terval for serious reflection and for earnest premedi tation, What will come of it all after the Whit suntide recess has passed over, depends still very much, we cannot but think, upon the Chapter of Accidents. On Monday week the bill (last night read a second time) will be brought into Committee for consideration, there in that Com mittee of the whole House, clause by clause. Whe ther the Great Party Fight that is yet to " comeoff " is to be taken upon one of its details or upon the Budget scheme as a whole, we doubt very much if even Mr. DISRAELI himself could form a very shrewd conjecture. Cela de pend Yes, upon the before mentioned Chapter of Accidents ! All that we know now, all that the House and the country, all that the Government and the Opposition know at this moment upon the matter, is that it will in another ten or twelve days " come off" definitively, that Great Party Fight upon the financial policy of the Government. And our only consolation under the irritating remem brance of all these past delays, our only consolation at the present moment in this matter, is the know ledge of the fact that that long-threatened Great Party Battle must come off, if it is to come off at all, immediately after the close of this recess of Whitsuntide, A German writer in a letter to a contemporary has given a picture of the politics of the minor Princes of that singularly divided country, which will be new to the generality of Englishmen. Unversed as we all are here in the obscure proceedings of these petty Courts and Governments, and having little or no inducement to make a study of them, we can neither confirm nor deny his statements — we can only consider their probability in the light of more generally known facts. Since the days of LOLA MONTES,WhO knows anything about Bavaria? and if a paragraph appears in our foreign intelli gence relating to Wurtemberg or Bavaria, or Hanover, probably not one reader in a hundred, when he sees the heading, thinks of mastering its contents. We remember how all the little Monarchs flew up in a hurry and flutter to watch Louis NAPOLEON and the King of PRUSSIA, when the former invited himself to meet the latter. They were then doubtless alarmed with the apprehension of being sold in their absence. Now, according to our informant, they are plotting to sell them selves, and all that is called Germany too, to a French protectorate, and the consummation of their scheme is a German Heptarchy ! " The ideal of statesmen (!) in Dresden, Munich, Stnttgardt, Hanover, and Darmstadt—says our in fcrmant—is a Heptarchy—the division of Germany into seven kingdoms. The house of HAPSBURG would, under this arrangement, obtain an Austro- German kingdom out of the ruins of the empire. The Prussian eagle would be shorn of its wings and deprived of its foreign feathers, so that nothing would remain to the house of Hohenzollern but a throne of small dimensions, incapable of casting a shadow over the rest.. By the side of these quon dam great States the Napoleonic kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, and Hanover, the ancient Guelphic domains, would take a splendid rank as states enlarged and rounded by the ab sorption of their little neighbours, such as Olden burg, Thuringia, and Baden. The seventh kingdom would be formed of the three Hesses, Nassau, Waldeck, and such strigs of territory as can be torn in this direction from Prussia." The above-mentioned minor kingdoms live, we are told, in daily fear of Prussia. Her policy has been so mysterious that they know not what to make of it. They only know that to them it seems to threaten absorption or mediatisation. They believe that France is as much as ever set upon the left bank of the Rhine, that Prussia would not object to parting with her share of it, if compensated from other parts of Germany, and they are disposed therefore rather to make a good bargain for them selves with France, than to leave Prussia to steal a march in that direction upon them. NAPOLEON I. formed a Confederation of the Rhine, by which he gave to these Princes, what they chiefly covet, absolutism at home. They had only to maintain a few soldiers, and he secured them against their subjects and constitutions. Why should not NAPOLEON 111. be ready to confe r a like favour on them ? Independent they cannot be— small for that ; absolute they ma they are too be, if the half million of French bayonets are held ready to guarantee to the monarchs of the new Reptarchy what they certainly do for their own Sovereign. Strange as the conduct of Prussia has been, it is quite certain that a large proportion of the Lib eral Germans, especially of those who desire the unity of Germany, see no feasible road to it but that of a Prussian Hegemony, Austria, no one can trust-- and to Englishmen, Prussia, with her sham Cham bers and Conservative KING, seems almost as un worthy of reliance. Still she demands the estab lishment of its lawful Constitution in Hesse Cassel —blusters about Schleswig and Holstein—and has been the prime mover and agent in the Zoliverein, , which all looks the right way. To Prussia the Liberals seem constrained to look for want of a better centre of union. Whither shall the Princes look for the preservation of absolute power ? When the fall of NAPOLEON I. brolo up the TEM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVrNITG, MAY' 17, 1861. Confederation of the Rhine, the Holy Alliance substituted its own patronage of petty despotism, and the Diet was its agent. " The Congress of Vienna," our writer says, "substituted the Germanic Confederation for the Confederation of the Rhine. The protector of this new confederation was the Holy Alliance, a club of princes. The latter endeavoured to preserve the pleasant privileges they had enjoyed under the old system; and the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg only joined the new association on condition that they should preserve their entire sovereignty. For 39 years the Diet of Frankfort performed its task of reaction. The aspirations of Germany towards unity and liberty, those wishes for which it had spent its blood and treasure, were rigidly stifled. The Diet helped the governments against the legislatures and the press ; against professors, students, and the working classes, and earned thereby a cordial and genuine hatred." The shock of 1848, and the breaking-up of the Holy Alliance, have caused the Diet to lose ground, and the means of strengthening it in the interests of despotism obviously diminish from year to year. The demands of the people for a union of States, not a union of Princes, become louder, while Austria and Prussia fail to co-operate in any such way as can at tain the latter object. They do not care to resist foreign domination under the leadership of Prus sia, since they would be certain to add, practically, their crowns to the many others which the Prus sian monarch has already appropriated. They look, therefore, with hope to the Austrian Empire becoming, for the better part of it, a kingdom of Hungary; and through the patronage of France, to whom Bavaria and Hesse will surrender their possessions on the left banks of the Rhine, they will add to their domains, in compensation, those of all the princes yet smaller than them selves. Thus will they complete their new Hep tarchy of absolute monarchs, with NAPOLEON 111. as their suzerain lord. We cannot go further into the details of this curious conspiracy, if conspiracy there be. It is probably the gossip of German coffee-houses, and perhaps of higher circles. There may be truth in it. The Liberals of Germany have, doubtless, rea son enough to dread the designs of their princes; their princes must be very uneasy between the demands of their people, and the spectacle they are now witnessing in Italy. The example of VICTOR EMMANUEL must seem, to them, very suggestive to the KING of Prussia; they also know that NAPO LEON 111., on the part of France desires Federation, not strong kingdoms for neighbours; and who, they may well say, so likely therefore to stand by us ? It would certainly be a singular turn of the political wheel which should bring the petty despots who hurried up to Baden-Baden, fearing lest Prussia should purchase them at the hands of France, now to sell themselves and per haps Prussia too, to her, to secure the privilege of a French Protectorate and of Federal German Despotism. NAPOLEON is however wary. He has been warned once. He has seen the unlooked for result of his Italian intervention, and he may well hesitate before by an imprudent move he hazards the undersigned creation of a united Ger many, Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam. bridge and the Princess Mary honoured General and Lady Alice Peel by their company at dinner on Wednesday evening, in Park-place, St. James's. The duchess and princess were attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Purves. A select party had the honour to join the circle, and a small and distinguished company assembled after dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough enter tained a large party at dinner last evening, at the family residence in St. James's-square. The duchess afterwards received a select party. The Duke and Doch... of Roxburghe, accom panied by the Marquis of Bowmont and Lady Charlotte Lanes her, have arrived at the Clarendon for the season. The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are shortly expected to arrive from Egypt. The noble earl's health has greatly improved. FIRE AT GREENWICH.—This morning an ex tensive conflagration broke out on the premises of the Thames Soap Mills, causing the destruction of a vast amount of property. Several hours elapsed before the flames were extinguished. LONGEVITY.—Died, at Tomnakeist, near Balla ter, on Wednesday, Ist inst., Charles Sandison, in the 103 d year of his age. His grandfather, his father, and himself, were all born at Tomnakeist, and their united ages amounted to 272 years. His cousin, Alexander Sandison, born at the same farm, died on 7th September, 1843, aged 101.—Aberdeen Journal. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.--The Government emigration vessel Hotspur, of 1,670 tons, Capt. B. Stacey, belonging to Mr. George Seymour, of London, which sailed from Plymouth on Dec. 3, arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, on Feb. 24, with 31 married couples, 175 single men, 134 single women, 36 boys age from 1 to 12 years, 22 girls between the same ages, 1 male and 3 female infants, making a total of 433 souls, equal to 400 statute adults, under charge of Surgeon-Superintendent D. B. North. One birth and 10 deaths (2 adult females and 8 children) occurred during the voyage. THE SULINA BANK.—NOTICE TO MARINERS.-- The following notice announcing the removal of the above bank, and reporting an improvement in the depth of water on the bar, has been received from the Board of Trade : " The bank off the Sulina mouth of the Danube mentioned in the caution published April last having been removed, the said caution is hereby cancelled. As the Sulina banks are of a shifting character, mariners are advised not to ap proach within a mile of the entry without having a bar pilot on board, and their attention is called to articles 23 and 24 of the Pilotage Regulations, published by the European Commission of the Danube, which oblige the pilot to meet vessels at a mile and half from the entry. Notice is hereby further given that the works executed by the above-mentioned commissioners at the mouth of the Sulina have deepened and straightened the entry and that a depth of from 12 to 16 feet may be expected during the present year, according to the season. The depth is daily published on the lighthouse, in figures legible on board of vessels in the roadsteads." FREEHOLD LAND IN SURREY AND MIDDLESEX. —The Putney Manor estate was offered for allotment at the office of the Conservative Land Society yesterday. This building property adjoins the mansion and estate of Roe hampton-park, East Surrey, formerly the seat of the Earl of Bessborough. The land now on sale, with frontages to Roehamjton and Ponsonby-road, Is dividel into 30 lots; one of which, designed for an inn, was selected with a very early right of choice. On the same occasion the sale of 111 building plots at Kentish .town was commenced. The land is situated on a slope gradually rising from the north western suburb towards Highgate, commanding extensive views. A costly system of drainage has been made under the superintendence of the Board of Works. THE CASE OF THE RET. MR. BON WELL.--The appeal of the Rev. Mr. Bonwell against the decision and sentence of the Court of Arches had been set down for hearing before the Lords of the Privy Council. Owing however, to the heavy legal expenses incurred by the rev. gentleman during the protracted proceedings arising out of, the zalleged liaison with Miss Yorath, and the charge of immorality consequent thereupon, he is stated to be so im poverished, that though he has, to save expense of counsel and attorney, conducted his case in person, he finds that he cannot comply with the rule of the court, which requires him to incur the enormous expense of a transcript of the notes of the hearing and judgment, and drawing up the case, and then printing and furnishing sixty copies to the Registry Office, forty of which are sent to the Privy Coun cil. In default of these copies being delivered the case can not be heard, and when called on will be struck cut, and entitle the bishop to ask it being dismissed, which will fol low as of course. THE ILKESTON MURDER—COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER.—The inquiry before the magistrates was con cluded on Tuesday, when several important witnesses were examined, and as most of them were comparatively strangers to the prisoner, before the re-examination he was paraded with half-a -dozen others in the yard ; and he was in stantly identified by all the witnesses successively, except one, who was sbort -sighted. When asked if he had any questions to put to one of the witnesses, the prisoner jumped u p, and in a a rapid manner said, " I want to put one ques tion to all the gentlemen present. lam not responsible for the words I have said; I have been in an unsound state of t i s o in n e o e f l D st ra o w f ingaysO I went to Nottingham with the me money, a n d go i ng off with it to i li n l , i ‘. ll en d Fra 1 ce ut ' You can please you rse l ves whether you b e li e ve, me I wanted to list for a soldi er. " Th e prisoner was n , comn tilted to take his trial at the next assizes for the wilful mu r de T of his father, and was shortly after removed, say ing, " _ I have God ill wy Lent, sad I shall face it through) sink or tiwim," I.4 r t A., NEWS. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from New York on the 4th, has arrived off Cowes. She brings 364 passengers for England and France. On the morning of the 7th she hove to for nine hours to repair her feeder pipe. She was also detained three hours outside the Needles by fog. She experienced throughout the voyage wet weather and dense fogs. On the 12th she spoke the British barque Devon, bound west ; and on the 15th inst. the American Ann E. Thompson, bound east. Her news has been anticipated. PARIS, MAY 17. The French Academy of Science has decided, by 18 votes, to propose to the Government that the biennial prize, founded by the Emperor, should be conferred on M. Thiers for his Ristory of the Empire. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, MAY 15. The Masailia and Delta, with the above mail, left this evening for Marseilles and Southampton re- spectively. The latter may be expected to arrive about the 24th inst. FLORENCE, MAY 16. The Nazione of to-day publishes letters from Rome, asserting that the French gendarmes had seized two boxes containing coins which had been struck in Rome with the effigy of Francis 11. They were directed to the Neapolitan provinces. The same journal asserts that General Goyon lodged a complaint with Francis 11., who denied any participation in the affair. The enlistment of soldiers for the Bourbon ser vice, and the vexatious interference 'of the police, continue at Rome. NAPLES, MAY 16. At the banquet given by the National Guard to the army yesterday, 'Signor Toppulli proposed the health of the King of Italy, and of the army, which was drunk with general enthusiasm. The Chevalier di Nigra and Signor Durando replied to the toast. Much regret is expressed at the approaching de parture of the Chevalier di Nigra. FRANKFORT-ON-THE•MAINE, MAY 16. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet the repre sentative of Gotha urged the Diet to come to a decision on the proposal of Hesse Darmstadt to suppress the National Association (National Verein .) In the same sitting the representative of Austria made a vague declaration with reference to the pro posal of Prussia, respecting the command-in-chief of the Federal army. PESTH, MAY 16. The propositions of M. Deak with reference to the Address were discussed to-day in the Lower House of the Diet. M. Tisda said that an understanding with Austria was impossible, and that he did not wish the adop tion of any Address until the rights of the country had been restored. He requested the house to pass a resolution giving a greater extension to the pro position of M. Deak. Some deputies spoke in favour of, and others against the adoption of the Address. LISBON, MAY 16. It is said that the Council of State has proposed to the King to create fifteen new ministerial peers in order to overcome the opposition peers. MM. Cabral and Avila are among the persons recommended for peerages. FRANCE. The withdrawal of the bill which was before the Legislative Body relative to the exportation of rags for making paper may be thus explained :—On the 20th June, 1860, the Government presented a bill having for object to replace the complete prohibi tion of the export of rags by a duty of 12f. per 100 kilos. The committee proposed to the Council of State an amendment raising the duty to 30f. On the day before the close of the session the Council of State sent back a counter amendment which added 6f. to the original duty proposed, making it 18f. This bill was included among those of which the committee had to complete the examination. But the treaty of commerce concluded on the Ist inst. between Belgium and France having substi tuted for the prohibition a reciprocal duty of 12f. per 100 kilos., with the exeeption of woollen rags, which remain exempt, the bill presented on the 20th June, 1860, became without object. It has, therefore been withdrawn by Imperial decree, as already stated. The discussion in the Senate, and more particu larly the speeeh of M. Billault, are remarked on in the following terms by the Constitutionnel :—" The :wo sittings which the noble Assembly has devoted o this great question will rank amongst the most memorable of representative Government. The Marquis de La Rochejaquelein produced a great impression by a very earnest and eloquent speech. The noble speaker rendered complete justice to the policy of the Emperor's Government; but he in sisted that this policy, SO national and so Chris tian-like, would be unmistakably affirmed, and would receive additional force from a solemn vote referring the petitions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The effect of this speech was completed by a powerful attaek on Turkey by M. de Sculcy, and at the end of the sit ting the Senate appeared impatient to declare its sentiments by an energetic manifestation in favour of the Christians of the East. As to M. Billault's speech, we require lime for a calm perusal of the Minister's admirable language before we can ade quately express our admiration of it. For the pre: sent we can only antounee the impression made and the result obtained After so clear and noble a statement of French policy, the Senate was unani mous in its applause Its patriotism has given the illustrious orator the noblest triumph he could de sire ; as, after hearing him, all dissensions ceased." The Siecle, on the same subject, expresses itself in these terms :—" I results from the speech of the hon. minister that, I France evacuates Syria, it is because she is there as the mandatory of Europe, and that Europe reluires the sacrifice from her. When so freed from her mandate, she will recover all her individual lilerty, and then, being no longer bound by rigorous stpulations, she can intervene at her own day and hoe, and in the manner she thinks proper, and will be perhaps in a more favourable position for settlinr the diffic.ullies of the great question still remai ing in suspense. We do not, however, completel' abandon Syria. Our fleet will cruise off Beyrout zong with the English fleet." The L'ebats pays a just tribute to the zeal and humanity which hale characterised the discussion. One thing, it obseres, is now clear to the public, that the evacuation)f the French troops is irrevo cably fixed for his 5 ; and the debate will have this great result—t , verve as a warning to the Porte of the immense resosibility it assumes in under taking to defend by% own forces the Christians in Syria. At the same ime our contemporary directs attention to the fm that the last accounts from Constantinople are oa gloomy character, and gi'e but an unsatisfactory impression of the po the Turkish Government to fulfil its promises BOURSE, May 16.-1 he market has been rather inanimate, but prices have generally been pretty well maintained, at about yesterday's rates. For the Account, Threes are now at 69f 50c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations : zit per per Cents ... 96 451 Credit E oncier 990 Do. end mcnth.... 96 35 Belgian 4z.. 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 551 Roman Bank Shares 2900 ! Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 710 Spanish Threes 5O Do. Account 712 501 Rome Debt - -er of -- that both bishops—Hilarion and Aksensentio3 will be removed to their places of exile after Easter, and that they have in the meantime given bail to the Synod that they shall be forthcoming when called on for that purpose. We have the best reason to believe that the latter of these state ments is without foundation, as is the yet more malicious fabrication that the bishop's defenders arc receiving a daily bribe of five piastres for their ser vices. The cause which needs the help of such fictions must indeed be in extr•emis." RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1362 50 .. 1363 75 Northern 985 .. 986 25 New ditto 895 .. 897 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 937 50 .. 937 50 Geneva 437 50 .. 438 75 Southern 575 .. 577 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon , bard TURKEY. Constantinople letters and journals to the Bth have arrived. The financial situation had not in any way improved, and £23,000 of protested bills, endorsed by the Minister of Finance, and sent to cover the dividend due on the loan of 1858, had been returned from London. Thus, the Turkish Government became one of the first victims of the recent enormous rise in the exchange, occasioned by its own disastrous financial policy. These bills thus returned were purchased by the Treasury with bills on Mires, which were duly paid on maturity. The fol?owing summary of events is from the _Levant Herald :—"Halim Pasha, brother of the Viceroy of Egypt, is daily expected from Alexandria. The object of his visit will have reference to the succes sion, to which he aspires.—Mr. Williams, the now ex-American Minister, will, we learn, in a few days leave direct for the United States, via Havre or Liverpool.—During the week a month's salary was piid to the Government employes of the capital, leaving eight months' pay still in arrear. Last week a party of French surveyors, well provided with in struments, started from Pera for Asia Minor, on the ostensible mission to examine and map old Roman roads, for a ' History of Clusar,' on which the Em peror Napoleon is engaged. The expedition is at the expense of his Majesty, and is likely to have useful results.—The commission from the Council of Public Works which is to survey the Aidin line on behalf of the Porte will leave for Smyrna by the French steamer of to-morrow. It consists of Major Gordon, R.E., M. Ritter, and Hakky Effendi, of the Treasury. After surveying the rival routes by Saladin and Ephesus, the commission will pro ceed to Samos to inspect and report on the site of a proposed new harbour for the island, and thence to Mytelene—or rather to Airvali on the opposite mainland—on a similar errand. A local celebrity, a miser named Matcovitch, died in Pera during the week, and the searches consequent on his death have far exceeded in result the liveliest anticipations of his heirs. Large sums of hard cash have been discovered in nearly every part of his house. In an old box, and in separate parcels of rags stowed away in corners, more than 1,500,000 p. have been found in eld coins. Besides this valuable treasure, the deceased has left exten sive house and other property—the whole compen sating well to his family for the economic restric tions to which he had subjected them for many years. The (Gregorian) Easter just past witnessed the exercise of a permission to the Greek clergy on the part of the Porte, which has not, we believe, been granted since the conquest of Constantinople. Leave to parade the host in public procession has long been enjoyed and practised by resident Roman Catho lic, but Sunday last was the first occasion on which a similar privilege was extended to tree Greeks since the days of Mehemet 11. On that day, accordingly, a procession of the clergy of the latter communion passed, with the host exalted high at their head, through the main street of Pera. On arriving opposite the chief police station at Galata-Serai, the party halted whilst the bishop delivered aloud a short prayer for the well-being of the Sultan, Trh;ol-, IT,Qtily responded to by the. " of the attendant crowd. The historical novelty of the incident makes it worth recording. Seve ral arrivals of Tartar immigrants took place during the week, the new comers being landed at Haider Pasha, behind Scutari. Of these new subjects of the Porte experience has now fully proved that the Crimean Tartars are by far the best colonists, being industrious and frugal, whilst the Nogais are idle and improvident to a degree which augurs most unhopefuily for their value as settlers in their new territory. The press of the capital is about to be increased by the addition of a new Arabic weekly journal, to be called the Dievaib, and be edited by Ahmed Faris Effendi, who was employed for many years in London in connection with Arabic literature. The Banshee goes to-day to the Dardanelles to receive and con vey to the capital Lord Dufferin, who is hourly expected from Syria, whence he comes in a cor vette specially placed at his disposal. The foreign consuls in Bosnia have been appointed to act as dele gates for their respective Governments at the head quarters of Omer Pasha, and immediately after the arrival of the new Commander-in -Chief at his post, will, in conjunction with him, publish a proclama tion to the insurgent population, conceding nearly all the reforms which had been at first demanded by them from the Government. The best conse quences are expected to result from this conciliatory measure. A Silistria correspondent states that the vizierial prohibition against the export of grain from that pashalic is practically a dead-letter, the traffic outwards having hardly at all diminished. A telegram from Smyrna reports the death of Mgr. Mussabini, the Roman Catholic archbishop." The same journal ccntains the following account of an incident which might have turned out tragi cally :—" An uproarious scene occurred at the resi dence of the Bulgarian bishop Hilarion, in the Fanar, on Thursday last, of which we are enabled to give the following authentic details. The bishop had been absent at Buyukdere for six weeks, in consequence of indisposition, but on the approach of the season of Easter he returned to the Fanar, arriving there on the forenoon of Thursday, when the Bulgarians flocked in hundreds to welcome him. Later in the day a karakoulal (employe. arrived from the Prirfo:aocompanied by the noted Bulgarian Hadji Nicoli, and informed the bishop that they were the bearers of a firman ordering him into immediate exile at Kutayiah. The pre late at once expressed his readiness to obey the Imperial rescript, but the crowd outside, on being apprised of the order, loudly declared that they would not permit him to move. He was, they said, bishop of their community, and if he had acted culpably, it was for them, and as their spi ritual chief. The people then became greatly ex cited, and expressed their determination to sacri fice their lives rather than to give him up. In vain the bishop besought them to be calm, and equally in vain did Hadji Nicoli—who is most unpopular amongst the community—attempt to address them. He was at first overwhelmed with abuse, and at length with blows, from which he was with difficulty rescued by the bishop. Seeing matters in this state, the karakoulah deemed it prudent to beat his retreat back to the Porte. The people, however, still crowded round the episcopal dwelling, and in the evening, when the Minister of Police himself repaired to the spot o execute what his subordinate had failed in, he, 00, apparently considered moderation the best policy, and, after an interview with the Bishop, retired without his prisoner. On the following day, Friday, as the Sultan was proceeding to mosque, a petition, signed by 5,000 Bulgarians, was presented to his Majesty, praying him to deliver the signers and the community whose senti- !rents they expressed from the ecclesiastical op- pression of the orthodox authorities. A few hours afterwards an imperial order was received, assuring to the petitioners full liberty and protection during the exercise of their Easter devotion. Bishop Hilarion accordingly officiated in his usual church on Sunday. As the Sultan's order, however, was only verbal, the people have continued to guard the bishop's house and remain resolved to prevent hio deportation. A local print §tqte4 THE NAP The Duncan, 101, screw, Mr. W. G. Barr engi neer, made ber second experimental trial on Wed nesday in Stokes Bay, the propeller being a two bladed one, with the blades of the common Admi ralty form, and affixed to the boss on Messrs Mauds lay and Field's system. The vibration and lateral motion of the ship were considerably greater than on her first trial. Letters received from Shanghai state that deser tions have taken place from among the crews of her Majesty's ships at that port. From the Janus gunboat, Lieut.-Commander Davidson, five of the seamen were known to have deserted expressly to join the Taepings, taking with them a revolver each. The Western Division of the Channel fleet, which has been lately lying at Portland, hove in sight off the east end of the Isle of Wight at 3 30 p.m. yesterday. The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W. H. Stewart, C. 8., in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth, has been examined, her bottom found to be in excellent condition, and the caulking as firm as could be desired. Her copper is exceedingly foul. The Prince Regent, 90, converting from a sailing two-decker to a screw, at Portsmouth, is ordered to be undocked on the 27th inst., and removed into the steam basin, where she will be immediately fitted with her machinery. ' The following are the principal dimensions of the Helicon, 1 gun paddle despatch boat, ordered to be constructed forthwith at Portsmouth dock yard :—Length between perpendiculars, 200 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 200 ft. 1.,1 in.; breadth extreme, 28 ft. 2 in. ; ditto for tonnage, 28 ft.; ditto moulded, 27 ft. 2 in. ; depth in hold, 14 ft. 6 in.; burden tons, 834 53-94 ; horse-power (nominal) 250. Each vessel of this class will have for arma ment one of Sir W. Armstrong's naval pattern 70- pounders, the gun with which it is said to be the intention of the authorities to supersede the present 100-pounder on board ship, so soon as a sufficient number have been manufactured for the purpose. It will be seen by the dimensions of the Helicon that vessels of her class and description are destined in any future naval war in which this country may be engaged to play even a more important part in relation to our steam fleets than did the fast frigate to the sailing fleets of Nelson and Col lingwood. Messrs. Napier and Sons, of Govan, the builders of the Black. Prince, have commenced a smaller armour-plated ship, 280 feet in length, 56 feet in breadth of beam, of 4,080 tons burden, and of 800- horse power. The contract has been taken at £4l 10s. per ton, an advance of £4 10s. per ton on the price paid for the Black Prince, the augmentation arising from the fact that the new vessel will be plated entirely round from below the water-line upwards. The stem will be ram-shaped, formed inwards at the top ; and the plates employed will be 4 inches thick, and of the' beat description of iron. The Iris, 20, late the flag-ship of Commodore IV. Loring, C. 8., which is daily expected to arrive from Australia, is ordered to be paid off at Chatham. The Rattlesnake, 22, screw ccrvette, 400 horse power, building under the first shed at Chatham, is ordered to be launched on the 29th of July. The shipwrights are busily engaged preparing the launching-ways. In the naval promotions in our Military and Naval Intelligence yesterday, Lieut. F. Harvey's name was misprinted " Hardy." The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty - -Commander E. Lacy to the Castor, for service with the Royal Naval Reserve in the minima, vice Gardner, promoted; Com mander W. H. Anderson, to the Flying Fish, vice Hope, promoted; Richard C. Dyer, master addi tional, to the Asia, for the Euryalus ; Robert H. Armit and Adolphus H. Barnard, midshipmen, to the Driver ; John Henry Trelwing, Robt. Wemvss, Wm. Wootton, Thomas Feilowes Simmons, Henry Brown, and W. R. Fabian have been promoted to the rank of chief engineers; W. 'Wotton, chief engi neer to the Cumberland, for the Leander; T. F. Simmons, chief engineer, to the Gorgon ; Henry H. Henri, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Spiteful ; Richard Holman, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Alecto ; W. C. Archbold, third-class assist.-engi neer, to the Desperate ; and A. G. Young, assistant paymaster, to the Aboukir. TILE ARMY. The IC troop of Royal Horse Artillery, now sta ioned at Dorchester barracks, were inspected by Major-General Lord William Paulet, C. 8., on Tues day last, when they performed a number of evolu tions and fired several rounds of blank cartridge on the Fordington Downs. The Alfred troopship, Captain Pope, was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and disembarked the division of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regiment from on board, under the com mand of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Addison, alongside the dockyard, whence they marched into garrison quarters in Portsmouth. The York troopship, with a division of the 87th (Royal Irish) Fusiliers on board from China, took on board provisions at Spithead yesterday, and at 7 p.m. had her blue peter flying at the fore, being ordered to Dublin, where the regiment will be quartered. At Spithead yesterday arrived the Adelaide screw transport having on board the remainder of the 2d (Queen's Royals) and other detachments from China. The Khersonese screw transport from China also arrived, bringing the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Acorn and detachments of the 44th and 98th Regiments and invalids. A third arrival of the same date was the Herald, sailing frigate, Captain Denham, from the Pacific. The East Indianian Salamanca, 1,000 tons, Capt. Livesey, belonging to Messrs. Duncan Dunbar and Sons, London, which arrived in the Thames, at Gravesend, on Tuesday afternoon, with British and East India troops on board, disembarked her military invalids at Government quay, Gravesend, yesterday morning, under the direction of the staff officers connected with the in valid department at Chatham. She took these troops on board at Calcutta on the 22d of January last, and left the Hooghly the following day. The only placed touched at was the Cape of Good Hope, which was reached on the 7th of March, the vessel remaining there one week. during which time a quantity of merchandise was shipped on board, in cluding a quantity of copper ore and a number of bales of cotton brought from the interior of Africa. The troops, who belonged to various regiments, numbered 168 men of all ranks, 15 women, and 24 children. During the voyage four deaths took place on board, the whole from diseases contracted prior to embarcation. A melancholy incident oc curred on board during the passage when the ves sel was near the Cape of Good hope. Cornet T.E. Elrington, 2d Dragoon Guards, who was suffering from aberration of intellect, caused by exposure to the sun in India, and was returning to England on leave, succeeded in breaking away from the atten dants who had him in charge, and precipitated him self into the sea. Every effort was made to rescue the unfortunate officer, but s ithout effect. Cornet Elrington had only been in the service about two years. COOLIE EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered two vessels yesterday afternoon, the 16th inst., viz., the Prince Consort, of 1,235 tons, be longing to Messrs. James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, and the Utopia, of 90 tons, belonging to Mr. Chas. Mozley, of Liverpool, for the conveyance of Indian emigrants from Calcutta to British Guiana at £l2 17s. 3d. par statute adult, the former vessel to be ready for the reception of passengers on Nov. 1, and the latter on Dec. 1. The two ships sailed ft9lA this comtry f9r Nclimirae i 4 Nara, Int, STAL PALACE. The park and gardens are now in the most luxu riant condition. The heavy rains of last week, fol lowed by the warmth and sunshine of the past few days, have had an astonishing effect upon the coun try generally. The thousands of tulips in the ter race gardens, the valley of rhododendrons, and ether American flowering plants, are all in full bloom while the yellow gorse and spring flowers around the margins of the lakes present a scene of sur passing beauty. With the return of fine weather the attractions of the Crystal Palace, ordinary as well as extraor dinary, commence with renewed vigour. At the third opera concert this day, Titiens and Giuglini, Madame Miolan-Carvalho, Signor Delle Sedie, and Herr Formes will sing, and a young Neapolitan violinist of remarkable ability, Signor Sarrasate, will make his first appearance before an English public- The great flower show of the season will be held on the following day, to-morrow (the 18th). The entries of the choicest description of plants, which require longer time than ordinary to place in posi tion, are se much more numerous than usual, that it has been found necessary to notify to the exhi bitors that the doors of the palace will be open for the reception of flowers at the very early hour of three in the morning. To the public the palace will be opened at 12 o'clock as usual. Military and other bands will be in attendance up to 7 o'clock in the evening, and there is no doubt that the display of company in the great transept and naves of the palace will rival, if not outdo the most brilliant of the flowers. In Whitsun week the special attractions for visi tors are very numerous. The well-known Christy Minstrels, the Schweizer Sanger (a band of female Swiss singers, in the picturesque costumes of their cantons), balloon ascents, large and well appointed gymnasiums and swings in the grounds, cricket, archery, rifle shooting, quoits, velocipedes, boating on the lakes, &c., all offer an abundant choice of out-door amusements. THE CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST A MINING AGANT AT LB i•'DS. Mr. Paul Rabey, jun., mining agent, Leeds, me Mr. Timothy Smith, his clerk, underwent an exami nation on Wednesday, after one or two previous adjournments, on a charge of conspiring together to defraud Mr. Matthew Outhwaite, of Leeds, of £lOO, and of obtaining money by false pretences from the said Mr. Outhwaite. Mr. Barret appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Simpson for the de fence. The evidence showed that Mr. Rabey is a - man well known as a mining agent, and Smith, though ostensibly acting as his clerk, has been. copartner with him in different mining share transactions, and a joint originator with hies of one or more mining schemes. Mr. Outh waite became acquainted with Rabey in March last, and has had several transactions with him in mining shares, which resulted in a net loss to the prosecutor of about £647. The allegation against the prisoners was, substantially, that they had paid the prosecutor an imaginary profit on one or two of the earlier transactions, in order to in luce him to speculate still further, and to buy shares at a fictitious value. In March Rabey induced him to join in buying 2,000 shares in the South Wheal Levine Mine in Cornwall, at 6s. 6d. per share, representing that it was a mine in working order and it would pay well, and it afterwards turned out that only preliminary nego tiations had been entered into for working the mine (which was an old one), and all that has yet been done is to employ two men to clear the adit. The " cost-book" of the company working the mine represented that there were 6,000 shares, but the only parties who had signed it were the two prisoners, Rabey having subscribed for 2,500 shares, and Smith for 500. The magistrates corn. mitted the prisoners for trial at the next Yorkshire assizes on the charge, but they were again re manded for examination on some further charges of a similar character which have been preferred against them by other parties, Ytblcrday morning the prisoners were further charged With conspiring together to defraud Francis Hunt :if a bill of exchange for £lOO, paid on behalf of 100 East Releath Mining Company's shares, by representing that £1 per share had been paid up, whilst the books proved that there had been only one call of ls. The evidence went to show that Rabey had represented the mine as a good specula tion, and with reference to the 100 shares had said that there was nearly £1 on the whole paid upon them. It was contended that there was no fraud in this representation, and if fraud, no conspiracy, and the bench, after conferring together, decided to discharge Smith, but to send Rabey for trial at the assizes on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences. Bail was accepted. RAILWAY CO.II3.IITTZES, Yesterday the case of the Mid-Devon and Corn wall Railway was opened by Mr. Phinn, Q.C., in opposition to the competing case of the Devon Central, which was closed. The evidence of Mr. Fowler, C.E., on the gauge question occupied the day. He deposed that both the broad and narrow gauge were extending, and that the latter was only a little less economical than the former. En gineering and general evidence was proceeded with in the committee on the Eastern Counties and on the Cork Railways. The Bishop's Castle Railway Bill still occupies Lord Monteagle's committee, and , . the bill of the Haddersfield Gas Company was passed in another committee. Lord Redesdale, in his committee, disposed of the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway, Brighton, Rick&ld, and Tonbridge Railway, and other bills. THE HOLYHEAD AND GREAT NORTH ROAD.-A committee of the House of Commons has just com menced its sittings on this subject, its object being to "relieve" certain trusts on the for merly well-known Great North or Holyhead Road of old "coach" times reminiscence. This road, it will be remembered, just as the railway came in to supersede it, had attained the highest pitch of macadamised perfectibility, but has of late years become a comparatively deserted high way and in debt, the legislature, while granting compensation for interference with vested interests in other cases, having apparently conceded no compensation in this. The consequence is that the total debt now due on account of loans to th e various districts of the Holyhead Railway from the Consolidated Fund and Exchequer Loan Commis sioners amounts to about £65,000 ; the sum due from the Highgate Archway -road being about £13,000; St. Albans and Barnet, £13,000 ; Hock liffe and Stratford, £10,000; Stratford and Dun church, £16,000, the monies being granted under acts of Geo. IV. and Wm. IV. The bill provides for the repayment of the loans by instalments, and proposes, should the trustees of any road fail in making them, that the commissioners shall enter on possession of all the toll-gates and repay them selves. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LEA BRIDGE STATION OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILwAv.--Yestarday Mr. Serjeant Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, on the body of Jacobus Everett, who came to his death from an accident sustained at the Lea-bridge station of the Eastern Counties Railway. It appeared from the evidence that on the night of Sunday last the deceased and a friend, named George Hinkdon, were at the above sta tion, and while in the aet of descending the steps leading to the platform, when about nine steps from the bottom, the deceased was seized with dizziness and fell headfore most on to the platform below. He was immediatelypicked up, and after being washed was put into a train corning to London, and on its arrival he was at once ponveyed to the hospital. He was quite insensible when he was received there, and on being attended and examined by Mr. Smith, the house surgeon, it was found that he had a fracture of the skull at the back part, with a rupture of a blood-vessel and some minor injuries. Ho lingered till Monday morn ing at half-past seven, when ho expired, the injuries he received being the cause of death. Verdict- 4 4 Accidental death." IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN, &c.—The following quantities were imported into Hull last week : Whet' t, 5,047 qrs.; barley, 5,804 q rs . ; oa t s, 520 qrs.; b eans , 1,611 qrs.; peas, 2,080 qrs. ; linseed, 1,130 qrs. During the same week £5l 10s. 6d. was paid at Hull on 2,748 cwt, of fereigu wheat flour imported into that pert. in Ce ar an Eft / a ic e Az