The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-17 00:00:00

T HEA TR'S...ROYAL, ,HAYMARKET. I,eglee, Mr. J. B. Bui.,kgtime. THIS EYENIN(4, the rerinrrr.nn , s ~,: rrv7rte :rfth .A - DITTcF, TN 1)IITIri;1;11.k:S. Airs : Stirling, Miss F, 11,41u0n, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Backstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Aro. After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effects, and all the original music by the late Si r Henry Bishop, the melodrama of , MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Last Week of the Season. Tills EVENLNG, THE SECRET. Atter which, a new original Comic drama, written by Sarni. Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ; or, Possession Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester, Rouse, Medlin; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, Sm. To conclude with HANDY ANDY. Handy Andy, Mr. John Drew. YAL PR INCE S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Mess C. Leclercq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechtet Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &c. Mans Heath, klsworthy, and R. Leelercq. NEW TH7ATRE-ROYAL, A DELPHI. — Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr, B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE PRESTIDIGITAri Olt. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, D. Fisher, ,tc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss J. Simms, Acc. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. 1,. Toole, Ebunae, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss gate Kelly, Miss E. , 'horne, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, THE FOOL OF TEE FAUILY. Mr. Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Julia Daly. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!! Westminster-road. Proprtetor .. • • ....C. Morton. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, I C, (This opera has never been produced in this or any other country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de rided success which charactise the most popular works of this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ; together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI MENTO, by Donizetti, Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss Tyrrell, Mn IL Herbert, Signor Tivoli, 11. Drummond, and C, W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A. B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and the Brothers Conrad. John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Establishment. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, sh. 54m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. To -MORRO W. -Morning, Gh. 48m.—Afternoon, ih. 2 tra. TILE WEATHER. -SUN OFFICE, APRIL 17, 1561. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 39 —lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BARomETER-30.36, falling. WlND—South-Easterly—light ; with fine weather. S2J ' 11? - 4 , INII . I , L ; :L Wei T 7 THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1881. President LINCOLN is not all concession. Sur rounded by hundreds, we may say thousands of place-hunters, he can dare to remind Americans of one of their favourite Presidents, the determined JACKSON. He has just shown them, on an other wise small matter, how he would probably have dealt with the Secession gentry had he been in BUCHANAN'S place ; and we have no doubt the same style of thing would, then, have been as suc cessful as Jacksonism was with Carolina in the days of nullification. The story, and it is attested by many witnesses, is, that a dele gation from California, a State which re mains with decision in the Union, came to him to complain that he was so much influenced in his appointments for that State by Senator BAKER. A paper was read reflecting severely on Mr. BAKER, and on his motives in his recommendations. The PRESIDENT heard all ; he then informed the delegation that he did not enter into personal controversies ; that he did not credit the aspersions on Mr. BAKER, whom he had known for five-and-twenty years ; and, to conclude the matter, he calmly destroyed the document and threw the scraps into the fire, with an admonition on some neglected proprieties, which caused the delegation to withdraw with no intention of renewing the in- terview. Mr. SEWARD'S policy seems, however, to be that which inspires the measures of the Administration, and his is the very reverse of the JACKSON policy. It will probably prevail, as it would be long ere the North could collect its strength for war, and there is a great part of the States considerable repug nance to civil bloodshed. On the other hand, there is some danger of the inaction of the Government alienating its more energetic supporters ; Connec ticut, which last time threw its whole strength into the Republican cause, has at a recent elec tion lost at least two, to the Democrats, out of four, which is attributed entirely to dissatisfaction at the want of firmness, as they term it, of the Government. The PRESI DENT, for instance, is 'willing to support an equit able Fugitive Slave Law—hut the North asks, if 'we are to be made to respect the laws, why is the South to go on openly defying them ? If we of the North," they say, " can be constitutionally coerced into the catching of runaway negroes, why should not the Secessionists be constitutionally coerced into the minding of the laws ? That's the question to which we are not likely to receive any answer." The North is becoming less and less disposed to ow to Southern terms—it sees that the South prefers separation. " What can be done," asks the Boston correspondent of the Morning Post," with men who have no desire for peace ? The Seces sionists daily proclaim their intention never to consent to a re-construction, while in the North public sentiment is becoming less and less inclined to submit to any terms that would be accept able even to the border States. What would be the use of making an arrangement, men ask of themselves and of one another, when any dissatisfied or defeated party would only have to say it would not submit to this or that law, for the Government to come to an end. At this moment the ls.w s of the nation are of no more consequence in 12 or 15 States, including the seceded States, than they are in the Fejee group. Any attempt to enforc e those laws in Virginia would be as unsuc cessful as it would be if made in Georgia." I , The writer is ashamed of the position of the North ; lays the fault of the existing state of things on the timidity of the Administration, and thinks the people will cease to respect it through suspi cion of cowardice. "Just so long (he says) as there bhall be no attempt made to enforce the laws in the Southern States that have not formally seceded, just so lon g w ill peace be there maintained, but no lon ge ,.. Our Position i s a s i ngu l arly disgraceful one, = g e . bein g a sort of Lower Empire, which has " e do wn the all at once, and w ith ou t h av i ng known Prc ' ee " of decay. We are not t o h ave what ever o f sati. „ e 0 W hile Italy b ' e ' o ° o ti n there is i n biti ng as we di e. roes a n a ti on, and the Poles show that they are still a p , and Hunga r y i s pre as much bound for peo le paring for a grand struggle, we are, to all seem i ng , destruction as • would be a m an who should get into the cur rent of Ni feet from the Falls. If we at agara not 50 ° to know reclemr tion, it must be as sudden and as unaccountable in its origin as our humiliation." It turns out, as we expected, that the Govern at Washington does deeply feel the conduct of Spain in relying on its weakness for impunity, is its filibustering attack on St. Domingo, and is likely to get into a vigorous diplomatic war at least, with Spain, over the business. The merchants, too, of New York itself, are already showing that they ' know how to take oirantnge of the facilities offercd them for evading the Morrill Tariff (the Immoral Tariff they dill it) by the lowered duties of the South. They have contrived, it would seem, not only to send goods, as was expected, up the Mis sissippi, and so smuggle them into the North, but to have them consigned to the South, pay the low duties there, and then deal with them as goods which were shipped from one part of the Union to another ! Protection is indeed caught in its own net. The Lord Chancellor litst evening, upon moving the second reading of the Bankruptcy and Insol vency Bill, gave a masterly resume of the whole history of that portion of our jurisprudence. Be ginning with an admirably lucid explanation of the relative position eccupied in regard to each other by debtor and creditor according to the action of the Common Law of England, Lord CAMP BELL reminded the house that by the Common Law of England no distinction whatever was drawn between trader and non-trader, between bankrupt and insolvent. He recalled to recollection the fact that according to the operation of the Common Law no remedy at all, no reparation or compensation of any kind was afforded to the creditor until—having brought his action—he had duly received judgment. Then, but then only, upon having obtained that judgment, he might levy execution against the lands and tenements, against the goods and chattels, against the very person of the creditor—bat nothing of all this could he do until he had regularly and pro forma received his judgment. As to the debtor himself the Lord Chancellor explained to the house how, having had an action brought against him, who having been arrested and imprisoned, he might, under the ruthless regime of the old Common Law of England —like the man in the Gespel, "until he had paid the uttermost farthing that was due from him to his creditor"—be subjected to the appalling penalty of perpetual imprisonment ! Having ex pounded all this in regard to the dire action of eld of the Common Law of England in all cases of bankruptcy and insolvency, Lord CAMPBELL traced out in rapid sequence the several modifica tions and mitigations of the laws relating to Bank ruptcy from the Act 34th HENRY VIII., down to the 13th VICTORIA. According to that first-men tioned-Act of Parliament, traders were, for the first time, rendered liable to be made bankrupt, supposing that, having obtained the goods of others, they made away with the property, or fled the country, or concealed themselves. Even then, however, under that Act of Parliament, the debtor upon having been arrested and incarcerated, upon having had the whole of his property confiscated and distributed among his creditors, still remained cruelly liable for the debts he might have contracted and not yet satis fied. Even after the 13th ELIZABETH, when the law of Bankruptcy was somewhat further amended, the debtor retained that frightful liability to his creditors—a liability clinging to him like the taint of some inerradicable leprosy—the creditor (in no way satisfied with the seizure of the entire amount of' his debtor's property) still possessing the right of subjecting the body of the doomed debtor to the woeful penalty of perpetual imprisonment. . It was only, in fact, as recently as the 4th ANNE that the law in this particular became somewhat more merciful. Then for the first time was it enacted that, supposing it to have been clearly proven that the debtor had fairly and honestly surrendered to his creditors the whole of his pro perty, without any reservation whatever, after that property of his had been duly delivered up for distribution amongst his creditors, his body should be released from incarceration, and he should then be discharged in full from any liabilities for debts of any kind theretofore contracted. The protection thus afforded to him by the Act 4th ANNE, against any action for all byegone debts whatsoever, being afforded to him in the shape of what was termed a certificate of conformity. Although long after wards, more than a whole century afterwards, by the 6th GEORGE IV. the Bankruptcy Law was consolidated by a Bill which was ripened into a comprehensive enactment under the auspices of Lord HENLEY, that act was to all intents and purposes nothing more than an act of consolidation. This state of things being left still in a plight so lamentable, both in its chaotic uncertainty and in its reckless extravagance of expenditure in arranging the contest between debtor and creditor, that—but we will let Lord CAMPBELL speak here for himself ; " In the first place," he remarked, 4 . there was a patentee of bankruptcy, who received for doing nothing about £B,OOO a year from the property that ought to have been distributed among the creditors. There was no harm in the Bankruptcy Court being self-supporting ; he thought the estate of the bankrupt ought to contribute to the expense of the bankruptcy, but this patenteeship was an enormous abuse. But there were other sinecures with regard to the judicial system by which the law was administered. Strange to say, in the London district there were 70 judges, who went by the name of the Septuagint. There was no qualifi cation required from them; there were 70 of them, to each of whom a commission was assigned." In regard to this monstrous absurdity of the Septuagint, our present Lord High Chan cellor indulged the House of Peers last evening with the subjoined amusing little autobiographic revelation—an anecdote that we trust may not be overlooked by the future continuator of his own literary masterpiece, the SMOLLETT to his HUME as Historian of England's Lord High Chan cellors. " He, himself," Lord CAMPBELL acknow ledged to the House yesterday, " was a candidate to become one of the Septuagint the moment he was called to the bar, and he had the promise from the then Lord Chhncellor that he should be appointed, not from any merit that he could boast of, but because his father had been at school and college - with the then Lord Chancellor. k so happened that before a vacancy arose All the Talents were turned out, and he wa s one of the Septuagint." Yet, monstrous though the whole system was as it then stood in the Lon don district under the incubus of the bankruptcy law as then administered by the ruinous and do. nothing, and wholly incompetent Septuagint—th e matter was actually "much worse," Lord CAMPBELL tells us, with regard to the country districts. In the London districts, it is true that a very considerable part of the estates of the bankrupts came to be consumed in mere litigation before one pass ing thought apparently was vouchsafed to the un fortunate creditors--but in the country, according to Lord CAMPBELL, in the country the estate of the bankrupt was like a stranded vessel, like some ill- fated derelict, fallen upon, battoned upon, and clean devoured by Cornish Wreckers. " The com- missioners there," said Lord CAMPBELL (there, in those country districts), " were appointed by the solicitors ; and the solicitor having appointed the commissioner, the commissioner taxed the bill of the solicitor. The abuses that took place were almost incredible. Ho had been informed by a gen tleman at the bar who had sat upon a country com mission of bankruptcy, that on one occasion, after they 4, 3. met, they amused themselves in a THE SUN, LONDON, WEI)NESDAY EVENING; APRIL 17, 1861; curious way, by turning out a bagged fux, and all at the expense of the bankrupt's estate." Those same examplary commissioners con tinued down to the time of that Giant Destroyer of so many legal abuses, Lord BROUGHAM. No sooner had Lord BROUGHAM exchanged his stuff gown for the scarlet and ermine robes of the Lord High Chancellor than away went swarms and swarms of these despicable sinecures, and among them away went these charming old-fashioned now almost for gotten bankruptcy commissionerahips. Six commis sioners alone of A very different class alto gether being reserved in London for perma nent employment as a veritable, practicable Court of Bankruptcy. Other commissioners being at the same time allotted, in the country districts, to chief towns in the provinces, such as Leeds, and Manchester, and Birmingham. Then, too—still all this, while thanks to the Master Law Reformer of his age, Lord BROUGHAM —came, in lieu of the old jobbing assignees, selected (absurdly) from among the creditors, and even then without sub jection to any control whatever—then, in lieu of these, thanks to Lord BROUGHAM, came the official assignees ! Eventually, in 1849, the whole of the vari ous statutes from the time of King HENRY VIII. to the time of Queen VICTORIA were consolidated into one comprehensive, but still, as it has turned out, wholely insufficient act of Parliament. From the insufficiency of that measure of relief has come at length the remarkable bill of Sir RICHARD BETHELL, now rapidly advancing through Par liament on its way towards enrolment upon the statute book of the realm. Thanks, in a very great measure, we cannot but think, to the masterly argument of the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney- General's Bankruptcy Bill was read a second time last night without any attempt at obstruction or amendment being adventured upon prior to its consideration in committee. The eloquence of Prince NAPOLEON in the speech in the Senate, which so much surpassed all pre vious expectation—has brought down on him some unpleasant consequences. He went out of his way to compare personally the NAPOLEONS and the BOURBONS—of course not sparing laudation for the one and sarcastic censure for fhe other. Little was said about it at the time. Its grossly bad taste and want of dignity was felt by all. A dynasty of modern men only, comparative upstarts, who felt that as such the old Royal families and aristocracy of Europe regarded them, could alone be guilty of showing any consciousness that they needed self praise. Think only of a Prince Royal of the family of Hanover expatiating on the merits of the GUELPHS, and the demerits of the STUARTS, had the latter any representatives living to assert their legitimate title to the Crown. Our English Senate would assuredly blush at such an exhibition. And should the STUARTS have condescended to a reply, although this would have been thought undig nified, yet as the response to an attack, it would have been thought less so than the speech of the Royal Orator Laureate. In the latter position is the Duke D'AUMALE. We may feel that silence on the part of the BOUR BONS would have been the most dignified reply to vain laudations of his own family, and ungenerous attacks on the absent by a lucky member of the BONAPARTE family. Still we all sympathise with the attacked man, who having wherewith to sting ' his unhandsome accuser, gives way to his temper, L and dips his pen in gall. Better not to do it; a higher position that of despising attacks which all right minded men condemn as unfair and even mean. Still, we all of us have tempers which sometimes make us forget that our reputation can take care of itself. The opening sentences themselves, in which the NAPOLEONS are challenged to let the defence be as public and free as the accusation, are as gall ing, we should say, as the more personal invectives. Fair-play for the accused is one of an Englishman's most deeply-seated feelings—and there is not, pro bably, throughout the pamphlet an appeal which will be more felt here than this : . " Whilst the head of your dynasty—l am using his own words—was expiating at Ham by a six years' imprisonment his rash attempts against the laws of his country, he en joyed, without restriction, the rights of a citizen, and freely criticised in the newspapers the regular Government which he had been trying to overthrow by force. " My situation is very different, and I claim no such pri vileges. Exiled from my country, without having trans gressed any of its laws, without having committed any crime to deserve my fate, I am known in France solely as having been brought up under her flag, and as having faithfully served her up to the day when I was violently driven from her shores. But has that exile deprived me of the most natural, of the most sacred rights, that of de fending my family, publicly insulted, and defending at the same time the part of France ? That insulting attack, which a Government so strong—and which inspires you with so much confidence—has endorsed, propagated, posted upon every wall, can my reply follow it, and be published, in conformity with the laws, in my native soil? I will try the experiment; if it should fail, if, in spite of the most common notions of justice and honour, you stifle m 3 voice in France, raised for so just a cause, it will at least have some echo in Europe, and in every country will reach the heart of all honourable men." This appeal was, of course, unsuccessful. The writer well knew it would be so. The pamphlet was published in the afternoon, and by 5 p.m. not a copy was to be had. The police had had their 1 orders promptly enough ; but curiosity is as active as the police, and secured, it is said, thousands of copies before the pamphlet was answered by seizure. The writer's object, however, was at tained; all Europe will read it, and we may sup pose that even in Paris it must be impossible to prevent surreptitious circulation. Every French man will, of course, be only the more eager to read what the NAPOLEONS use such exertions to keep from him; and the satire will be the more enjoyed because it is forbidden. What is unanswered will be held to be unanswerable. And doubtless the greater part of the present charges, philippics, and inuendoes against the NAPOLEONS are unanswer able ; NAPOLEONS—for, as the Duke observes, there are no BONAPARTES now. There is abundance of clever personality in the pamphlet, perhaps none more:telling than that in which he replies to the attack on the BOURBONS for their scandalous divisions. He points to the long period throughout which the BOURBONS had fur• fished a numerous list of princes ; and does not claim for ten centuries of a large house, immunity from the vices of humanity, and then remarks : "If your family had for ten centuries occupied the first throne in the worll, borne on various occasions five or six other crowns —if, during a long career, the public and pri- Tato life of all its members had belonged to history, and appeared to us of stainless purity—if it numbered as maw great kings, as many captains, as many warriors slain in the battle-field, as the Royal House of France (histori cally that is its right name even now), then, perhaps, you might be entitled to show so much severity. For, pray remark, you can no longer judge princely families with the austerity of a Republican philosopher. You now enjoy a number of privileges that deprive you of that advantage. You became one fine morning senator, grand cross, lieute nant-general, prince of the blood, not through your merit, which was then unknown, but by right of your birth —and your point of view must naturally have changed with your exaltation." rutting enough, too, must be the reminiscences of Prince NAPOLEON'S movements on the day of the coup d'etat : " You speak in magnificent terms of the coup d'etat of the 2d o' Deoenaber. On that day, however, you wore not to be found among the group of the faithful who hastened to the Elysee boldly to devote themselves to the fortunes of the new Yuts. A ,r, ,f eif!it rto ty -, fund au.oilg the representatives of the nation who protested at the mairie of the tenth arrondissement and elsewhere against the overthrow of the laws of their country. Where were you then ? No one would have discovered it, bad not same of those resolute men who in that hour of anguish were deliberating whether it was not their duty to go and fight behind barricades, remembered that you sud.. dully made your appearance amongst them, though you had vanished when at a later hour, the day being won, the police rushed in to seize them in the conqueror's name." There is much in the pamphlet, written from the merely party position of the Prince, with which Englishmen will have no sympathy at all. Pity for FRANCIS 11. and for LAMORICIERE, zeal fol. the temporal power of the POPE, and attacks on the Piedmontese Government, will with us seem small recommendations of the BOURBONS. Did we not know that it was but party pity it would add to the accumulated evidence of the unteachableness of the race. It is all, however, of much the same quality with the new-born zeal for church rates and the Church of a great English Tory leader at home; a purely political zeal in its origin, and which would die away immediately if it ceased to find fuel in political convenience and advantage. Frenchmen, as well as Englishmen, are quite aware of this. Neither parties come out of this quarrel with advantage. The NAPOLEONS, not " BONAPARTES," were so foolish as to begin it—they must suffer the taunts or laughter of those who read it—and the discredit of being able to reply only by a too late suppression. The BOURBONS have the discredit of descending to a war of personal and family accu sations. The NAPOLEONS, however, have the solid advantage. The power, the success, the honour of beating by fair means and foul—that is all theirs. LATEST NE S. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. TURIN, TUESDAY EVENING. It is believed that)the:discussion of Garibaldi's project of law relative to the national armament will commence on Thursday next, The project of law in reference to the new title of Government Acts was discussed to-day in the Chamber of Deputies without any remarkable in cident. The discussion will be continued to-morrow. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The second voting in the Istrian Diet for the election of. Deputies to the Reichsrath took place yesterday. The number of votes given not being sufficient to elect any representative, the Diet was prorogued. ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. A resolution of the Imperial Council, dated 11th inst., and published to-day, permits the merchants of Kiachta to trade unlimitedly with China, either by barter or by payments in gild or silver. The same resolution also permits, from April, 1862, the importation of merchandise by sea from Canton into Russia and Poland. THORN, APRIL 16, EVENING. The negotiations with Count Zamoyski and M Lewinski have, up to the present, remained without result. M. Wielopolski will shortly proceed to St. Petersburg, the Emperor wishing to have a personal conference with him on the state of things in Poland. News from the provinces indicates the existence of an irritable feeling among the peasants against the noblemen. Rumours are current of a bloody conflict having taken place at Lublin. PARIS, APRIL 16. The Patrie of this evening says it is asserted that the Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit the different provinces of Austria in the beginning of May. The Presse states that the number of persons killed and wounded in the recent disturbances at Kiew was 150. TURIN, APRIL 16. The Cpinione of to-day says :—" The assemblies of the Councillors of the communes of Venice, Verona, and Vicenza, for the purpose of electing Deputies to the Council of the Empire at Vienna, have led to no result, as there was not the number of Councillors present prescribed by law. At Padua not one Councillor appeared. The Com munal Council of Udine has appointed as Deputies three citizens who are at present prisoners in the fortress of Olmutz. The health of Garibaldi has improved. NAPLES, APRIL 12. Forty persons coming from Rome have been arrested. A depot of arms and very important papers relative to a conspiracy have been discovered. VIENNA, APRIL 16. The Galician Diet has been opened. An address expressive of loyalty to the Emperor was voted by acclamation. Neither Dalmatia nor Fiume has sent any re presentatives to the Croatian Diet An immense crowd of people is assembled in St. Stephen's-square. The palace of the Archbishop is occupied by a strong body of soldiers. Numerous mounted patrols and gendarmes are traversing the streets. The people are very quiet. The patrols maintain a calm and watchful attitude. BRESLAU, APRIL 16. Letters from Warsaw state that in every district petitions are being signed expressing gratitude towards and confidence in Count Zamoyski, formerly President of the Agricultural Society, recently dis solved: M. Lewizski having been called to assume the functions of Minister of the Interior for Poland, has made his acceptance of this office dependent on the fulfilment of three conditions, viz.: That Count Zamoyski should be appointed President of the Council of State, that the troops should be withdrawn into the citadel and barracks, and, finally, that citizens should be again allowed to do duty as constables. The women of Warsaw refuse to discontinue wear ing mourning, and are organising a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Czenstochowa. The Russian authorities having left Lublin, au thority is exercised by the municipality under the presidency of the bishop of the city. General Chruleff is marching upon Lublin. BERLIN, APRIL 16. Disturbances have broken out in Kiew, the capital of the Ukraine, in consequence of a funeral service for the victims of Warsaw. A bloody conflict took place between the inha bitants and the Russian troops. There were many killed and wounded. LEMBERG, APRIL 15, EVENING. The Galician Diet has been opened. It demands the self-government of this part of Poland. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. BOURSE, April 16.—The market has been more buoyant, and prices have obtained a slight im provement, without, however, any considerable amelioration as regards the amount of business. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 70c. Rail way shares firm. The following were the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 95 40 I Credit Fancier 925 Do, end month.... 95 45 ; Belgian 4 . 1, — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 751 Roman Bank Shares .. 2880 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 655 I Spanish Threes 47i Do. Account 657 50 I Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1331 25 .. 1330 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 947 60 .. 947 50 Geneva 390 387 50 Southern 537 50 .. 638 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 368 75 .. 368 75 Austrian Lombard 460 .. 468 75 ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. There can be no doubt that the " Isle of St. Tropez" is a melancholy drama, and that the admirable acting of Mr. Wigan is not calculated tc raise the spirits. In fact, the high finish and wonderful at:ention to detail which mark his personation of the principal character produce impressions the more painful in propart;on to their depth. At present, however, no visitor to this theatre has any occasion to be afraid that he will be sent home in a melancholy mood. A farce called " The Pacha of Pimlico," which was produced on Monday evening, is broad enough to counteract the effect of any tragedy, however deep, and is an antidote powerful enough to neutralise the effects of any poison, however deleterious. To find that the mysteries of a harem are transferred to a second-floor back in Pimlico, and that a tobacconist and his assistant figure in the most absurd of Turkish costumes, whilst a milliner's apprentice becomes a Georgian slave, and a bag of rabbit-skins does duty for the fatal sack of the East, is t) indicate a sufficient amount of alsurdity, which, controlled as it is by Mr. Maddison Morton dramatic ex. perience, and interpreted by Miss Julia St. Casse and Messrs. C.Young, and Belmore, cannot fail to be productive of a tremendous amount of laughter. In short, the parody upon Eastern customs that forms the basis of the piece, which bears unquestionable marks of a Frenci origin, is a capital subject and is capitally treated. The marriage of Miss Victoria Russell, second daughter of the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., with Mr. M. Villiers, son of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham, being announced to take place yesterday at Peter sham Church, Surrey, the church was crowded at an early hour with spectators. The bride, who was accompanied by her father, was attired in a dress of whits glace silk, with two deep Brussels lace flounces. Her headdress consisted of a wreath of white roses, white lilies, myrtle, and orange flowers, ancra large square veil of Brussels lace. A. valuable necklace of pearls and diamonds completed the costume. At the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party re paired to Pembroke-lodge, Richmond, the seat of Lord John Russell, where a dejeuner was given. The newly married couple afterwards left town on their tour. Last week we noticed the performance of Herr Decker Schenk and his company of Swiss female singers at St. James's-hall, recommending them warmly to the attention of our musical readers. This entertainment con tinues to be given daily, with greater and greater success ; and no wonder, for there is a charming freshness about these mountain melodies of Switzerland and the Tyrol, delightful to the ear and suggestive to the imagination. PLYMOUTH', April 16.—The ship Tubal Cain, Captain Charles H. Clarke, 564 tons register, belonging to Bath, U.S, laden with wool, 137 days from Adelaide, having met strong contrary winds in the Channel, and being short of provisions, has put into the Sound, bound to London. Off the Land's End on the 11th she spoke the English barque Malay, Captain Peers, 105 days from Ade laide. AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—PLYMOUTIr, Tuesday.— The ship Kooria Mooria, Captain Adams, from Melbourne Jan. 1, which put into the Sound en Saturday with gold dust for London, left again this morning. Tho wind con tinues to blow strongly from the eastward, and with her buoyant cargo of wool the Koeria Mooria cannot make much progress up the Channel against it. But for the compart.tive shortness of the nights and the increasing moonlight the troopships from China and India now out side the port would be compelled to take refuge in the Sound. TYNEMOUTH, Tuesday Afternoon.—Mr. Otway, brother-in-law of Lord Clarence Paget, is the Liberal can didate. His friends have commenced to canvass for him, and he will be down in the borough to .morrow. Mr. It. Hodgson and the Conservative party are busily engaged canvassing to-day, and that gentleman will address a meet ing of the electors to-night. There is every prospect of a warm contobt. It is not likely that Mr. Lambert will stand. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. —The following are the names of the gentlemen who passed the major examination, ikpril 16, as ph armaceut i ca l che mists :—Henry C. Birch, Rich mon d ; Willi am C orn i s h, Brighton;over; \v il berm Grindley, Elliott, Newcastle; Stanley Fowler, D Chester; Thomas H. Thist wick, Harr oga t e; and Robert T owers, Ul vers t on. THE INDIAN FAMINE RELI EF F UND .—Th e d ona - Rliao ions forwarded yesterday to the Mansion-house towards this fund amounted to £2,920 odd, making the total sum raised there, down to last night, £46,093, exclusive of the money subscribed in Liverpool, Dublin, Edinburgh, Man chester, and several other of the principal cities and towns. The amount received yesterday was considerably swelled by sums which had been collected in churches and chapels on Sunday last and by contributions from provincial towns. Birmingham, through- Mr. Ryland, the mayor, sent £5OO (a second instalment) ; Bath, £500; the corpora tion of Ncwcastle-upnn-Tyro, £100; Kendal, by Mr. W. H. Wakefield, the mayor, £lOO (a first contribution) ; Walsall, £5O; and £lO6 odd was col lected on Sunday at Trinity Church, Tulse-hill. Lord Stanley has also sent £2O. On Sunday last collections were made in nearly all the churches and chapels in Liverpool and the neighbourhood, and down to yesterday afternoon the sum subscribed there amounted to £B,OOO. The next mail for Bombay will leave to-morrow (Thursday), by which all sums received up to that time will be despatched to Sir George Clerk, the Governor of that Presidency. THE FIRE AND Loss OF TEN LIVES IN DUBLIN. —An inquest was held on Monday on the bodies of the ten persons who lost their lives at a fire in - Patrick-street, Dublin, as repoitod in our columns yesterday. The jury expressed an opinion that the fire was caused by the intemperate habits of Michael Barker and his wife, two of the inmates of the house, who escaped from a fate similar tp that of the deceased. They were accordingly taken into custody. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT ROCHDALE.—On Monday John Warburton, the man who is suspected of having caused the death of Ellen Garside, by drowning in the Rochdale canal at Lock-bridge, on or about the let of April, Was again brought up at the Rochdale Police Court. Mr. Superintendent Pickering applied a second time for a remand, and again stated that he, besides being able to prove an improper connection between the parties, in the neighbourhood of Manchester, under the assumed name of Roberts, could also prove that while the deceased was at Manchester, Warburton several times came to Rochdale to console the husband for his loss, adding that he was very greatly surprised at deceased's conduct, for he never thought she would do such a thing as leave home. The remand was granted without opposition until to-day, when it is expected that the case will be gone into. MURDER OF A - CHILD BY TWO BOYS, NEAR STOCKPORT.—On Friday last, the dead and naked body of a child, about two and a half years old, named Geo. Bur gess, was found in a brook near Hcmpshaw-lane, Stock port. The deceased was the son of a person named Ralph Burgess, residing in Higher Hillgr,te, Stockport. The body presented a pitiful appearance, the whole of the back and arms being a mass of bruises, apparently inflicted with a stick. An inquest was opened on the body on Saturey, when several witnesses were called, who deposed to having seen the deceased in company with two boysin the vicinity of the place where the body was found,whilst one of them stated she saw one of the young wretches beating it with a stick. The medical gentlemen who had made apost mortem examination stated that the cause of death was suffocation from drown ing, and that the injuries on the back must have been inflicted with a stick shortly before death. Two lads, named Barrett and Bradley, each stated to be only eight year of age, were taken into custody on Saturday night, and they have confessed to committing the murder; but until the adjourned inquest is held, the circumstances under whie4 tile crime was perpetrated will tact be made Public. BULGARIA. The Patriarch of the Greek Church has just pub lished au encyclical letter, containing some impor tant concessions to the Bulgarians—granting them, in fact, reforms which, given some months ago, might have averted the renunciation of his authority. It says : " 1. Priests of Bulgarian origin, duty qualified, and possessing the qualifications prescribed by the canons of the Church, shall be ordained Archbishops and Bishops in purely Bulgarian dioceses. "2. If the Christians of a diocese purely Bul garian, unanimously demand for their pastor an individual possessing the requisite qualifications' and by his antecedents favourably known to the High Church, their wish shall be accorded. " 3. Theological colleges for the education of the Bulgarian clergy shall be established in purelyßul gain dioceses. The Christians of the dioceses where these institutions are established, will be called upon to provide the neccEsary funds for their mainterinuce; the Bulgari9ns and members of the orthodox Church in orthodox dioceses contributing also thereto. The course of studies will be set forth in. a programme furnished by the High Church. " 4. The surveillance over these institutions shall be entrusted to the Archbishop of the diocese, and to a fixed council, composed of the clergy and laity, possessing a sufficient knowledge of theologi cal subjects. "5. In all the Bulgarian colleges, the principal studies shall be those of language and philology, in conformity with the principles of our holy religion, and our duties towards the Imperial Government. " 6. The Archbishop and the Council shall oc cupy themselves with the details of the service of the schools, the election of the professors, and of any infringements of the regulations. " 7. Two Bulgarian Archbishops shall take part, as formerly, every two years in the Holy Synod, in the election of the cEcumenical Patriarch. " 8. Bulgarian youths shall be received as for merly, in the theological school of Halki, to pursue their studies. "9. The powers of the Archbishops and Bishops of Bulgaria, shall be regulated by a spec i a l d ecree. _ _ _ _ _ " 10. Bulgarian noblemen resident in Constan tinople shall be received as members of the communal assembly, and other national institu- tions. " 11. An institution for secular instruction shall be instituted within the circumscription of the Bulgarian Church at Constantinople, for the edu cation of the Bulgarian youth. It shall be directed by a council of native noblemen under the surveil lance of the High Church. " 12. Patriarchal letters, and other ecclesiastical communications, addressed to purely Bulgarian dioceses, shall be written in the Bulgarian lang u a ge . _ _ _ _ " 13. The High Church will endeavour as an invariable rule to hear favourably the petitions which may be addressed to it, and to give a favourable reply to matters which may be brought under its notice on the part of the Bulgarians. " 14. The High Church will hasten, if the cir cumstances of the case should so demand, eccle siastical inquiries into the conduct of Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, and Professors, and will as an invariable rule reform the abuses, and correct the imperfections whieh shall be pointed cut." THE BRAZIL r. LISBON, APRIL 15. The Messageries Imperiales Company's steamer Navarre arrived here at 12.30 p.m. today, with 62,000 f. in specie, and diamonds to the value of 98,000 f. The Navarre arrived at Pernambuco on the 31st of March. At Rio on the 25th of March exchange on Lon don was quoted 26 to 261 ; on Paris, 362 to 368. Coffee, good first, was quoted 6,000 reis to 6,100 reis. Shipments since departure of last mail, 84,000 bags, including 21,100 for the Channel. Stock, 50,000 bags. At Bahia exchange on London was quoted 261. ' Cotton, 8,000 reis to 7,200 rein; sugars, whites, 2,300 reis to 2,600 reis ; browns, 2,100 reis to 2,200 reis per arroba. Exchange on London at Pernambuco was quoted 26i. Sugar was quoted 2,400 rein per arroba. THE DUC D'AUMALE'S PAMPHLET. The following passage from the " Lettro sur l'Histoire do France,' by the Duc D'Aumale, refers to the request which the late Prince Jerome, when in Paris in 1847, with his son Prince Napoleon, addressed to Louis Philippe for a pension and a peerage : " Yes ! I can understand your anger when you think of the revolution of February. Had that re volution broken out but a few months later, it would have found your father in the Chamber of Peers, and provided with a handsome endowment with reversion to yourself. Have you by chance for gotten the steps taken by King Jerome and your self, and their success, in 1817—the favour accorded to you to return to France, whence the law had banished you ; and the kind reception you met with at St. Cloud? Why, among the ushers who now crowd the antechambers of the Emperor 3 ou might recognise the very men who introduced you to the private room of Louis Philippe when you went to thank him for his goodness to you and to solicit new favours. Open the Army List, look at the names of the generals on the retired list. You will find there the name of the aide-de-camp of that same king who was charged in 1830 with receiv ing in Paris Queen Hortense and her son, now your Emperor. The King had certainly violated the law by permitting your aunt to return to France, and, what is worse, had done so without the know- ledge of his Ministers. I believe it is the only un constitutional act he can be reproached with. But there are a few details which are worth mention- ing. The day after the King of the French gave audience to Queen Hortense a Cabinet Council was held. What news, gentlemen ?' said the King as e took his seat, 'Very serious news, Sire,' answered Marshal Soult ; I know for certain, from the re ports of the gendarmerie, that the Duchess of St. Leu (Queen Hortense, mother of the Emperor Napoleon III.) and her son have passed through the South of France.' The King smiled. Sire,' said M. Casimir Perier, can complete the information which the Marshal has just given you. Not only has Queen Hortense passed through the South of France, but she is now in Paris, and your Majesty received her yesterday.' You are so, well in formed, my dear Minister,' said the King, ' that you do not allow me time to tell you any thing.' But I, Sire, have something more to tell you. Did not the Duchess of St. Leu present ex cuses in the name of her son, who was obliged to keep his room in consequence of indisposition ? ' ' She did.' Well, then, Sire, do not feel uneasy about him ;he is not ill. At the very moment your Majesty was receiving the mother the son was holding a conference with the chief leaders of the Republican party, and seeking with them the best means of overthrowing your throne. Louis Philippe took no account of this information ; but, the intrigues continuing, the Minister, who was a little more independent than those who now explain so clearly to the Chambers theinten tions of your cousin, took upon himself to p u t an end to the visit to Paris of Queen Hortense and her son. As I write, the wrongs you have suffered from the House of Orleans crowd on my memory. There is one of the maxims of your Government, an essential maxim, which Louis Philippe was too good natured to have applied. Should Legitimists,' you said, or exalted Repub licans, attempt with 1,000 or 1,500 men a descent on our coasts we should well and beautifully shoot them.' Now, it so happens that, under the Govern ment of July, there was an incursion at Strasburg and there was a descent at Boulogne, but there was no one shot. A grave fault, no doubt. Well, then, the Orleanists are incorrigible ; and had they to begin again I verily believe they would be as cle ment as ever. But, as for the Bonapartes, when the question is one of shooting, they certainly keep their word ; and, Prince, of all the promises that you and yours have made, or could make, that is the only one on the execution of which I should count.'" THE 73RIGH7ON PRESENTATION TO GAEIBALDT. The following communications relating to the watch lately sent from Brighton to General Gari baldi, purchased by the penny subscriptions of 17,000 persons, have been received : To Mr. W. Coningham, M.P. April 11, 1861. Be pleased to express my feelings of great grati tude to the English workmen—to which good and laborious class I am proud to belong—for the valu able gift which they have transmitted to me through you. I knew that the hour of Italian nationality was marked on the dial-plate of time. But observing that in my own country many deni e d thi s , b ecause the couniels of the foreigner, and dast ar dly f ears , would have it so, it is a great comfort to me to find that hour indicated by the watch that the people of Brighton have given to me. With the greatest re gard, I subscribe myself, yours, and ever yours, (Signed) G. GARIBALDI. To William Coningham, 'Turin, April 11, 1861. My dear have but a moment to say that the General almost wept with emotion when I told him that " 17,000 people" had sent him the watch, saying, " It is too good for me, and too much kind ness on their part." He hopes you will excuse his not writing the whole letter himself, as he is ill in bed, but it was written word for word at his dicta tion, and is signed by him,—Very truly your most obedient servant, (Signed) Wm, Dz &RAN, Capt, MARILEBONE ELECTION. THE NOMINATION.—Tuffs DAY. The nomination of candidates for the vacant seat in Parliament for Marylebone took place this day, at the hustings erected in Portland-place: Since the resignation of Mr. Edwin James became publicly known, the con'est in the borough for the honour has been very strong, no less than five candi dates having issued their addresses, and stated their determination of going to the poll. At eleven o'clock the Returning Officer having made his appearance in front of the hustings, h e was received with loud cheering from the crowd, which was not so large as usually is the case on such occasions. The precept having been read, The RETURNING OFFICER told the electors they were met there that day to elect a fit and proper person to represent them in the Commons House of Parliament, and in order that they might be enabled to judge of the respective qualifications of the gen tlemen who offered themselves it was necessary they should preserve silence and give each a fair hearing. He had no doubt the ob ject of each elector was to select a good man for Marylebone, and he must say, on the present occa sion, they had plenty to choose from. (Cheers and laughter.) As Mr. Lewis had been first in the field he should call upon that gentleman's supporters to proceed with the business of the day. (Cheers.) Mr. PETER GRAHAM then came forward to nominate Harvey Lewis, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent Marylebone in Parliament. (Cheers.) He had been first it the field, and having had the honour of his friendship for many years, he knew him to be a man of integrity, and one:whom they might safely trust to represent them in Parliament. (Cheers.) He was for reform and economy, and altogether he looked upon him as the best man that could be selected. (Cheers.) Mr. COLLINS seconded the nomination of Mr. Lewis, as he felt convinced he was a thorough and sincere reformer. (Cheers.) A Conservative can didate had come forward at the last moment, but the object was plain enough. Sir Robert Carden thought he should get into Parliament by the divi sion in the Liberal ranks, but he thought he would find himself mistaken. He thought Sir Robert might have been content with the honour of having been a Lord Mayor, and not have come forward only when he saw there was a diversity of opinion in the Liberal ranks. (Cries of "We won't have him?' " How about the orange girls.") Then, with respect to Mr. Cooke, why, he was clearly the nominee of the Times newspaper. That journal had carefully given the whole of Mr. Cooke's speech, while not a single sentence of any other had been published by them. To the honour of the other daily journals they had not acted in such an unfair manner. (Hisses and uproar.) He thought the electors would agree with him that it was an attempt to hand the borough of Marylebone over to the limes newspaper; and therefore, he hoped, they would support Mr. Lewis in preference to any other candidate. (Cheers.) Mr. WYLD, M.P., nominated Mr. George Win grove Cooke—(cheers, and uproar)—because he knew him to be a tried friend and constant re former. (Cheers.) He denied that he was the nominee of the Times. (Cries of "He is.") His friend, Mr. Cooke, at the present time had not the slightest influence over that journal, and it was a mere electioneering' dodge to say he had. He thought the electors of Marylebone would do well to send him to Parliament, and he confidently ex pected to see him to-morrow at the head of the poll. (Cheers.) Mr. Ross seconded the nomination of Mr. Cooke. Mr. M. STEVENSON nominated Mr. Henry Marsh man. He was a man of intelligence and progress, and one who would be an honour to any place that sent him to Parliament. Mr. BENHAM briefly seconded the nomina Lion of Mr. Marshman. Sir JOHN HAMILTON, in coming forward to nomi nate Sir Walter Robert Carden, was received with the most discordant sounds. He said the electors of Marylebone had plenty of candidates for their favours on the present occasion, but there was only one first-rate article amongst them. (Laughter, hisses and cheers.) His friend Sir Walter Robert Carden—[A. Voice—Take him back—we don't want him)—was a man well worthy of their support. (No, no, and hisses.) He was one who would support their interests to the utmost of his ability in Parliament--(a cry, " How about the oranges")—and he most cordially recommended him as the best man amongst the lot that now were candidates for their votes. (Confusion,) He would fill the high position of their representative with honour to himself and credit to the borough. (Cries of no, he won't.) Mr. PENNY seconded the nomination of Sir R. Carden. Mr. JABEZ INWARDS nominated Mr. Harper Twelvetreees—(cheers)—and he advised the electors to secure the services of that gentleman. He was not, it was true, of the nobility, but what was better, he was a man who had risen from the people, and one who was fully con versant with their wants. (Cheers, and algal of "No starch wanted.") Mr. Twelvetrees was a thorough-going Liberal—(cries of " Soap")—•he was one whose vote might be relied upon as always being on the right side, and one who, if elected, would fearlessly do his duty to those who sent him to Parliament. (Cries of " Gammon.") Mr. HATTERSLEY having seconded the nomina tion of Mr. Twelvetrees, The Returning Officer asked if there was any other candidate to propose, a question that evoked loud laughter. No other having been mentioned he called upon the respective candidates to address the electors. Mr. LEWIS, on coming forward, was received with loud cheers. He said it would be a pride to represent Marylebone in Parliament, and he felt that, as he had been the first in the field to fight the battle of Liberalism, he should be successful in the end. (Cheers.) His principles were well known. He was in favour of vote by ballot, s large extension of the suffrage, the abolition of church rates, law reform, and free trade, and strongly opposed to the income-tax, which he thought was most unfairly levied upon the professional and working man. (Cheers.) Mr. WINGROVE COOKE said his great wish was to reduce taxation and to further every proposition. for the reform of the House of Commons. He had made himself familiar with the wants of thepeople, and he trusted they would confer upon him the high honour of representing St. Marylebone in Parliament. If that trust was confided to him he would jealously guard it, and when his constituents thought he had forfeited that trust, he should not hesitate to place his seat at their disposal. (Cheers.) Mr. MARSHMAN said he was a reformer in the strictest sense of the word, an d every pr i nc i p l e he had put forth in his address he would most strenu ously support. If he was sent to Parliament they might rely upon it he would act in a spirit of inde pendence, as befitted the representative of so large and important a borough as Marylebone. (Cheers.) Sir W. It. CARDEN was received with cheers , hisses, and loud cries of " Oranges, oranges." li e slid he stood before them that day as a Conserva tive—(hisses)---and from the promises of support he had been honoured with, he did not doubt that bo should be elected their representative. (Cheer! and hisses.) His principles were well known and he defied any one to say ho had ever varied in the advocacy of those views. He placed his set' vices at their disposal, and if they accepted then; he would, to the best of his ability, advocate and guard their interests in the House of Commons. d Mr. HARPER TWELVETREES s a id h e was , it true, a man sprung from the people, and that being the case he thought he knew how to represent them - in Parliament. He had made hi s p o litical pr', ll _ ciples widely known, and if th e y me t with tr approval of the electors of Marylebone, and he returned to the House of Commons, he would fulfi l them to the very letter. A show of hands was then taken, which the returning officer declared to be in favour of Mr. Lewis. A poll having been demanded, Arr. Tamplin an nounced it would be taken to-morrow, commencing at eight o'clock in the morning, and finally closing at four in the afternoon. Mr. TWELVETREES announced that he should not divide tho Liberal interest, and would not there- fore go to the poll. A vote of thanks to the returning officer terra" ,ngtted the Eirmedinge. -.. itt, Peai is sc to tl The bills cf. exhi dam lndi Way an it day supp rubl Ittdi~ Bills Ve Secu 6 p e sat ; ditto Most the / Nort shire Nort Tt Gre a Prat In room to 1 1 Jo have than lo s ., Shat Dii Dit Colas( Bub Russ Dii Tu r k Dii Frew Duce quit' heal late I ilar a] relic Xn Irisi ror4